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But when spring comes, the rain is soaked, people are pressed, the ruts are deep, and the mud is filled, which is really disgusting.

At this time, the road back to the village is like this, fortunately, back to the village, the streets are paved with bluestone slabs, gravel, and pebbles, and the rain is washed away, and it is as clean as washing.

Walking on this kind of road makes people feel happy.

When Yang He returned to Xin'anzhuang, everyone was overjoyed to see each other, and they were even more happy to see Yang He's official uniform.

Now, everything is justified, and the name of righteousness is still extraordinary at this time.

Minister Yang, Qi Youxin, Yan Dezheng and others hurriedly came out to greet them, after Yang He drew up Chongzhen's fifteen-year plan, everyone was so busy that there was no time at all, especially the managers of the halls, they were even more busy.

Everyone flocked to Yang He and returned to the public room of the theater, Yang He sat on his wolfskin chair and exhaled happily.

This side is still simple, and it can't be compared with his official residence in Suining City, but he just feels comfortable and comfortable.

Minister Yang made tea, and he still used the pottery teapot given to him by Hu Yiyi, and this teapot was used to it, so Yang He has been using it.

It doesn't matter if he enjoys it, it's better, he won't refuse, he won't be hypocritical, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't.

This is a state of mind, I have seen wealth, I have seen prosperity, and I am calm and calm.

Yang He and his henchmen sat down and drank tea easily, talking about Suining City, especially the banquet that day.

Everyone heard about this matter faintly, and they were very interested, but they didn't take it to heart, even the commander of the guard of the third grade said that he would kill him, and beating the son of a mere official of the fifth grade really didn't stir up any waves in everyone's hearts.

After following Yang Xianggong for a long time, everyone's mentality has been tempered, and there is a taste of lawlessness.

Only Minister Yang regretted that he also wanted to taste the taste of beating the son of a high-ranking official of Zhengwupin, and he scolded: "That provocative species dares to be disrespectful to Xianggong, he should be beaten to death." ”

He couldn't help but ask Chen Qiuao, who was standing silently on the side: "Old Chen, when you slapped that boy surnamed Huang, were you happy?" ”

Chen Qiuao had a smile on his face: "It's very refreshing." ”

Everyone laughed, especially Qi Youxin, and Minister Yang laughed the loudest.

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To get back to the point, everyone talked about the things in the village during this time, and in the public house, there were these people at the level of the general manager, Minister Yang, Qi Youxin, Yan Dezheng, Han Daxia, and Zhang Chugong.

After the New Year, Minister Yang was eighteen years old, and he has matured a lot in all aspects, but his straightforwardness and loyalty remain unchanged, and he is still Yang He's most trusted scholar.

Qi Youxin is more shrewd and rational, in terms of the world, he knows more than everyone, as one of the three major councilors of the council hall, he actually has the right to ask about anything in the six halls, but he maintains a sense of proportion and guards the affairs of the office in charge.

Yan Dezheng is still so cautious, he is submissive in front of Yang He, and he tends to obey orders step by step, but he has been in Zhuangzhong for a long time, and he has been in charge of many things, and he has a little calmness and bearing.

Yang He can see that he actually cares more about everything in the village than anyone else, but because of his personality and background, he has too many concerns, but he seems to be hesitant and indecisive many times, unlike other subordinates, basically barefoot people are not afraid to wear shoes.

Zhang Chugong sat on the chair, his waist was straight, he really stood like a pine, sat like a clock, walked like the wind, and lay like a bow, still maintaining a steady and self-disciplined style in the army.

The three brothers actually wanted to stay in the army, no matter how busy they were, they would find time to practice with everyone, but in the current situation, Yang He could only let them take charge of civil affairs.

Han Daxia scratched his head, holding a planning book in his hand, and there were words in his mouth from time to time, he wore a lazy scarf, and his hair was messy like a chicken nest, but it was the result of too serious and hard work.

Too rigid and serious, a lot of things are piled up, but it makes him anxious, unlike Minister Yang, who has learned enough about him Yang He, many things let his subordinates do, just catch a summary, at this time he sits on the chair very leisurely, and makes tea from time to time.

Overall, these chief managers and henchmen have exercised a lot, and they are also the embodiment of power, even if a person is ordinary and in a high position, he will exercise some temperament and bearing, after all, the height is different from the information mastery.

Qi Youxin reported that because dozens of literate people had been recruited in various villages, after the assessment of the official affairs hall, the intelligence office checked that there was no problem, and according to their ability, they were assigned to each hall and each office to make a secretary, and now the civil affairs hall is basically operational.

These people who can write and calculate are added to the village, which also makes more teachers to teach, so that Minister Yang, Yan Dezheng, Zhang Songtao and others, who were originally part-time teachers in the village, are more relaxed and have more energy to focus on their own work.

Then, during this period of time, the government affairs hall recruited all the manpower for the household affairs hall and the public works hall, and recruited a total of 1,000 people from the cultivation team, the road work team, the water conservancy team, and the camp team.

It's just that the displaced people have come recently, and although it is said that the men are added to all kinds of work teams, and the women are sewn and washed, but the sudden increase in these people is afraid that the budget will be exceeded.

According to the one-year plan agreed on the fourth day of the first lunar month, the 10,000 stone grain and 100,000 taels of silver in the inventory actually have budget uses, and the question of where the money and grain come from for these people who exceed it is a problem.

At present, there may be an income of several thousand stone sorghums in the village, except for the summer time, there is no other income for the time being.

There is also a question of how many displaced people will come in the future.

So when it comes to this, Qi Youxin and others are a little worried.

Of course, the worries are limited, and everyone has confidence in Yang He, thinking that Yang Xianggong will definitely find a way to solve it.

Just like on the way to escape, there is nothing, slowly accumulate grain, rice and silver, there is always food and drink, after arriving at Xin'anzhuang, silver grain and rice, is tens of thousands of taels, thousands of stones seized. So I care about the problem of money and food, but Yang He's subordinates actually don't care about it.

When the sky fell, there was a tall man on top of it, and this tall man was Yang Xianggong.

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According to the agreement on that day, Minister Yang, Han Daxia, Zhang Chugong and others also drew up their own plans for the hall, and after this period of busy work, they all came up with the charter statement.

They handed it over to Yang He for a closer look, and now the military affairs hall is generally complete, divided into five offices: the military selection room, the quartermaster station, the operation and preparation office, the planning office, and the secretary office, and the deputy general manager Luo Xianjue is also the director of the planning office, the deputy general manager Yang Qian is also the director of the military selection room, and the grenadier team captain Cui Lu is also the director of the department.

There is also Zhang Chuxun as the head of the quartermaster station, and Hu Zhiyi as the head of the garrison station.

Looking at this planning book, Yang He smiled slightly, he knew that Han Daxia and Luo Xianjue could write braille now, but they were all written crookedly, and they couldn't bear to read it.

Yang He opened it and looked at it, and there were various plans for the recruitment, training, and assessment of officers and non-commissioned officers in the Military Affairs Hall for one year, and then there were budgets for all kinds of food, military uniforms, and equipment.

According to the 3,000 people set by Yang He, Chongzhen's weapons and equipment for 15 years, and the food and salary of the sergeants, will cost about 60,000 taels of silver and 10,000 stones of grain and rice.

Yang He sighed, military spending is too big, but this is a necessary expenditure.

He looked at it, he now has an excellent memory, and he can never forget it, and when he flips through it, he can remember the entire content of the document.

The overall plan is still quite naïve in Yang He's opinion, many places are absurd and nonsensical, full of romance imagination, Yang He is noncommittal, he knows that Han Daxia and others have used their strength to eat, and they have to be slowly improved in all aspects.

Anyway, his planning office still has to examine it carefully, and he will talk about it later, he looks at the output of weapons in the middle, and by now in the first month, the output of Xin'an Gong is another 100 strokes, plus 120 Xin'an guns made in Layue, a total of 220 strokes of standard Xin'an Gun.

The two hundred guns can already be equipped with the standard breech guns, and then the remaining one hundred and twenty breech guns can be trained and equipped.

Although the current population of Xin'anzhuang is not large, it is his foundation, and the women, children, old and weak inside must also be armed.

The blacksmiths in Shonai also began to divide into firearms workshops and armory workshops.

Niu Jining's father and son have been transferred to the armory, the father and son are considered to have family skills, especially good at making swords, and Yu Youtie's two apprentices Tiedun Iron Hammer, Zhang Chugong and Zhang Zhujing went together, ready to start making iron armor.

It doesn't affect the Xin'an gun system very much, and the monthly output of 100 rods is still there, because Li Tiannan's younger brother Li Tianxi and sister Li Zhuniang are all ideal candidates for the shaker after the assessment, and they have all been treated as intermediate technicians.

There is also an unexpected joy, perhaps born in a blacksmith family, Yu Scissors, the granddaughter of Yu Blacksmith, is quite talented in quenching, Yang He naturally has no taboo about whether to use women, and Yu Scissors also gets the treatment of intermediate technicians.

The production of weapons generally satisfied Yang He, but when he turned over one place, he still frowned.

Pointing to the equipment column, Yang He said: "Old Han, the weapons of the horse team, in addition to cold soldiers, should also consider firearms. Their armor, the iron armor is too heavy, but they can use cotton armor, and these plans must be reflected. Also, in the fourth year of junior high school, I said that the annual output of Xin'an Gong should reach 2,000 rods, and the iron armor should reach 500 pairs, and your plan here is only 1,300 rods, and 210 pairs of iron armor, how did you do it? ”

Han Daxia hurriedly ran over to look, and he said seriously: "Xianggong, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, there are only a few blacksmiths in the village, they want to make guns, and they have to make iron armor, how can it be high?" The yield you are talking about is unrealistic. And there is a horse team, that is, ten members of the sentry team, either with knives or bows and arrows, how can anyone immediately use firearms, trying to attract thieves? ”

Yang He leaned back on the wolfskin chair and looked at the serious middle-aged man in front of him, he was speechless, Han Daxia's temper was a little better than Lian Fang's, but it was just as unbearable, talking to his boss like this, no wonder he couldn't be the official of the small boss before.

Qi Youxin kept glancing at Han Daxia, coughing like a convulsive, he knew that Lao Han's temper had a natural shortcoming in some aspects, but he spoke like this......

Minister Yang said angrily: "Old Han, how did you talk to Xianggong, are you looking for a fight?" ”

Han Daxia still stiffened his neck and said, "Is it wrong for my subordinates to say it, it's just unrealistic...... Also, when Xianggong went to Suining, he said that he would recruit three blacksmiths over there, where did they go? Without a blacksmith, how can subordinates do things? According to the situation in the village, a careful calculation can achieve such an output...... Xianggong, I want to advise you on this point, be down-to-earth! ”

Yang He took a sip of tea from the teacup, and before going to Suining, he found out that there were three blacksmiths over there, and he wanted to recruit them, but when he went to the county office, he learned that these three blacksmiths were only on paper, and people didn't know where to go for a long time.

During this time, although there were craftsmen in the village to vote, there were no blacksmiths, especially blacksmiths with the ability to make armor and firearms.

In this era, there were always few blacksmiths and their status was high, that is, in the serfdom system of the Western Middle Ages, blacksmiths, especially armor masters, were high-class commoners who could sit on an equal footing with priests, and were very respected.

It is not easy to recruit a blacksmith, but without a blacksmith, the weapons and equipment in his village will be a problem.

Now together with Zhang Zhugong's brothers, he has only five blacksmiths in Xin'anzhuang, Yu blacksmith and his son Yu Youtie, two apprentices, and his granddaughter. Blacksmith Li and his son Li Yougang, blacksmith Niu Jinting and his son Niu Xiaozhuan, and finally Li Tiannan brothers and sisters fifteen people.

These people's skills are high and low, Zhang Zhugong and others still have many duties and miscellaneous affairs, to make guns, to make armor, really too busy.

He looked at Han Daxia, the hair in the lazy towel was like a chicken nest, and he was still looking at himself with his neck crossed, and he waved his hand speechlessly: "Take precautions, and have a broad vision...... Alas, if you count it, on the craftsman side, I will naturally find a way. ”

He raised his voice: "It's an order!" ”

Han Daxia reflexively said: "The subordinates obey the order." ”

Yang He helped his forehead, this guy is still very resolute in carrying out orders, but he has such a temper, his former boss was afraid that he would not be able to wait for the order, so he was angry and drove him away.

Zhang Chugong said at this time: "Xianggong, there is a shortage of blacksmiths, and it is indeed difficult for Zhuangzi to develop." Not to mention that iron armor is not easy to make, it is cotton armor, which is as time-consuming to manufacture. ”

Yang He sighed, yes, the excellent scale armor has strong protection, but it is not easy to fight, there are officials in the Song Dynasty, saying that the iron armor of the foot archers will be built for a period of three hundred days a year, two days and one pair, a total of one hundred and fifty pairs will be built, and 18,000 leather blacksmiths will be used, and the money will be more than 5,200 yuan.

At this time, one person labors for one day, which is called one work, and in three hundred days to build one hundred and fifty pairs of iron armor, and with eighteen thousand labors, that is, sixty leather blacksmiths.

The speed of sixty skilled leather blacksmiths is two days of a pair of iron armor, which shows the slow production of armor at this time.

Of course, Song armor has always been heavy, there are a total of 1,825 pieces of armor in the infantry armor, with a total weight of 29 kilograms, the pikeman's armor is heavier than 35 kilograms, and the archers also have 33 kilograms.

The general's armor is only about 1,000 pieces, and the soldier's is less than 1,000 pieces, and the Song Dynasty still uses leather as the lining, and the Ming Dynasty uses Nabu, which is somewhat easier and lighter.

But it is still not easy to make armor, to forge, to quench, are beaten piece by piece, pure manual work, in order to wear a fit, most of the armor must have a certain arc.

Then the nail piece is completed, the lacquer surface is painted and dried, the file is drilled, and the double-layer thick cloth and velvet rope are worn into a pair.

The only advantage of Xin'anzhuang is to directly use fine iron, save a lot of effort, change to other places, and directly issue "100 catties of good Fujian iron", these are pig iron, to use cast iron softening to forge mature iron, and then wrought iron forged into fine iron, so that the craftsmen work very hard.

But even so, there are six people in the armory workshop, and it is difficult to say how many pairs can be completed in a month if they only make armor.

The same is true for cotton armor, if you want to have protection, you must forge many parts of the inlaid nail piece, the same fatigue, and soak the sun-dried cotton with a hammer, which is also a process.

The most important thing is that there is still a shortage of blacksmiths.

Yang He thought of using water conservancy, but the gear set is not simple, so it is not a simple job to let the hydraulic forging hammer be driven by the water flow, convert the circular motion of the water wheel into the linear motion of the connecting rod through the crank, and control various frequency adjustments.

This involves a series of mechanics, and Yang He just doesn't have any mechanics right now.

Thinking about the blacksmiths that Pizhou and Suining can recruit, they still have to let the rough waves help them find a way.

At present, there are few soldiers in armor against thieves and bandits, and they can barely cope with it.

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Minister Yang and Zhang Chugong also submitted the plan, Yang He looked at the plan of the household hall, and saw that the font was strong and powerful, quite a lot of style, and couldn't help but praise it secretly.

He recognized Minister Yang's handwriting, which was obviously not written by him, and he also knew that although he was the head of the household affairs hall, he was more busy with the affairs of the army, but this font did not match Yan Dezheng's handwriting.

In his heart, several department heads of the household hall floated in his mind, and they were all incompatible.

Minister Yang said happily: "Xianggong, this document is a subordinate and Mr. Yan strategized, Zeng Shuban drafted, this person is quite talented in his chest, I admire Lao Yang." ”

He has always been keen on finding and recommending talents for his young master, and when he found one at this time, he recommended it very happily.

In fact, although he is young, but the overall situation is very strong, and he is literate, in the future Yang He intends to transfer him to the planning office, at the moment only Zhang Songtao helps, so that Yang He is quite tired, but for the sake of cultivating his own scholars, Minister Yang still has to experience at the grassroots level first.

Yang Daodao: "Zeng Shuban...... The inspection department that saved Zeng Yuzhi? ”

In his heart, a scribe wearing a green shirt and a scarf on his head, gentle and elegant, standing with a smile, every time he saw it in the inspection department, there was a clear spring in the department.

In fact, he also knew that on the bright side, Inspector Deng was in charge of Xin'anji, but Zeng Yuzhi was basically busy with things, and he still had the spare strength to help in the village.

He looked at it for a while, the internal planning was well organized, and all kinds of budgets were very clear, which generally reflected the meaning of his Yang River, especially focusing on water conservancy and fertilizer, hitting the nail on the head, pointing to the core, thinking that this person is a talent.

He didn't say anything, and finally picked up the plan submitted by Zhang Zhugong, the font was like a dog, obviously written by Zhang Zhugong himself.

However, although the words are ugly, they are clear, serious and careful, and the words are like their people.

Several project plans, such as the construction of a large brick kiln, a lime kiln, a quarry, the location of the manpower materials have been calculated, as well as the ditch and culvert on the side of Jiaoshanzhuang, all kinds of budget data are also listed very clearly, obviously have their own sensitivity to numbers.

However, it is also written in the planning book that because of the bluestone problem, when the road engineering team starts construction, it will be gradual and gradual, first complete the roadbed drainage ditch, compacted with rammed earth, and then paved with gravel, after the bluestone material is complete, and then paved with bluestone slabs, so that the road surface becomes a bluestone slab road.

Yang He nodded, at this time, the clay, lime, fine sand, and gravel are all easy to say, and the most difficult thing is the bluestone slab.

At this time, the stone is measured in zhang, with a width and a depth of one foot, and a zhang long as "one zhang", to obtain a bluestone slab, it is certain to find a good mountain, and then the stonemason slowly chisels a crack in the rock with an iron drill, embeds the jute in the joint, and then pours tung oil to ignite and burn.

When the rock is hot and red, it is suddenly poured with cold water, and the rock cracks due to thermal expansion and contraction.

Then use an iron drill to pry open and remove the cracked rock, and then carve it, it can be formed into a whole block, and there are specifications of bluestone sheets.

It is not possible to use gunpowder, because the obtained stone will not form a shape, and it can only be used as crushed stone.

So at this time it is not easy to obtain bluestone slabs, build thirty miles of bluestone slabs, as well as Xin'anji, the road to the wharf, the bluestone slabs in this huge demand, most of them must be purchased from the outside, this land and water transportation, when the materials can arrive Qi is difficult to say.

It should indeed be gradual, slowly.

Everyone also discussed some things, such as education, now there are more literate people in Zhuangzhong, the children's studies should be paid attention to, Liukou does not know when the time will come, the north bank is no problem across the Yellow River, but as the general manager of Suining Lian, Yang He naturally has the obligation to defend Suining City.

Yang He decided to personally grasp the training of the soldiers and pulled them out into the field to practice a few times.

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After the discussion, Minister Yang and the others strode downstairs, all in a hurry, looking excited.

Novel planning, unique system, building their own homes, and a fresh and fiery atmosphere have aroused the greatest enthusiasm of everyone.

Looking at their backs, Yang He smiled slightly, this group is full of vitality, and the rise of Xin'anzhuang is inevitable.

A series of measures and huge investment also mean that Yang He will have a foundation in this area.

Looking around, there is only coal and iron in this vicinity, the transportation is relatively convenient, and various forces are also weak, so he can only put his foundation here.

It's just that after the foundation is laid, it means guarding, guarding one's own inheritance, and resisting all greedy prying eyes from the outside world.

He was not afraid of anything else, except for the great change in the first year of Hongguang.

In that great change, the Qing army marched in unison and went south to destroy the Hongguang court of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

In the middle of the road, for the Duoduo Department, led the crowd out of Tongguan, east to the city of Guide, and then along the Huai River straight to Sizhou, Yangzhou, intending to smash the southern capital, their main opponent in history, is Shi Kefa, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, Huang Degong Ming Army.

Then there was the West Road, the British Prince Azig Division, followed Li Zicheng's subordinates to Dengzhou, entered the lake Guangxiangyang, Jingzhou, Wuchang, until the Jiujiang area, their goal, in addition to defeating Li Zicheng's troops, but also to take advantage of the situation to solve the Ming army of Zuo Liangyu's department, and finally join forces with Duoduo.

Finally, the East Road, led by Zhunta and Abatai who were stationed in Shandong, went south to Xuzhou, and then advanced along the canal by land and water, directly taking Suqian, Huai'an, Xinghua, Tongzhou and other places, and their target was mainly the Ming army of Liu Zeqing in history.

Historically, the Qing army went down in three ways, except for Huang Degong, who bravely took the lead, the rest were all vulnerable, either defeated or surrendered.

If he takes root in Pizhou, Huai'an and other places, his direct opponents are Zhun Ta, Abatai and others.

At that time, will he be able to stop Abatai and the others?

Even in the second road of the remnant can have its own deeds?

Yang He pondered, he pushed open the window, and a chill hit him.

Outside the window, it was raining again.

……

On the twenty-fifth day of the first month, Yang He suddenly received a letter from Pizhou, and after opening it, he couldn't help but say: "This yellow boy has a good father." ”

He couldn't put it down, and said to the people around him: "Look at this writing, this line, this handwriting, this wording, it is worth collecting." ”

Minister Yang said: "What, this yellow boy ran away?" Is his dad instigated? ”

Yang He shook his head and said with a smile: "It can't be called cowardice, this is called being reasonable, knowing how to advance and retreat, not leaking, and hiding needles in the cotton." Cast it with a peach, repay it with a li, minister, this river affairs Tongzhi is a character, worthy of befriending. ”

At the end of the first month, Uncle Huang and his entourage, who Yang He was looking forward to, came to escort a huge cargo merchant ship.

accompanied by the ninth master Qian Zhongyong, his daughter Qian Sanniang and others.