The farm is now Zhu Hongsan's base camp, and he used 200 taels of silver to buy five houses and more than 100 acres of land around it. The land is average, but Zhu Hongsan mainly likes the flat terrain of this place, and there is a small river on the side. Fifteen miles away from the county seat. Not far and not close.

Originally, there were still a few families in this place, but after Zhu Hongsan came, he gradually bought their land. Now this place can be said to be Zhu Hongsan's independent kingdom. After three years of construction, it has become a village with more than 100 houses and nearly 300 people. Of course, the owner of this village is Zhu Hongsan.

In the middle of the village are three rows of brick houses, with a total of 15 rooms. In the large courtyard in front is a seven-meter-high blast furnace. This is the pillar of Zhu Hongsan's main economy, the ironworks. Although its production capacity is only 200 tons per furnace, it may be that a town-run steel mill in later generations has more production capacity than it. But in the Ming Dynasty, it was already the most advanced steelmaking blast furnace in East Asia.

Behind this large house are three rows of sheds, each 100 meters long and 10 meters wide. This is the place of the Iron Ox, the blacksmith shop in the village. It's a bit of a scorn shop to say it's a blacksmith shop, because it's the one that occupies the most workers. All of Zhu Hongsan's steel products are produced in these sheds.

At the back is a large warehouse, filled with all kinds of raw materials and finished goods waiting to be sold. This makes up a large part of the village. The others are where the workers' families live.

To the east of the village, against the river, there are also three houses. It's been built, no one lives in it, and no one comes in or out. This is Zhu Hongsan's gunpowder workshop. Due to the lack of a gunpowder master, this is in a semi-idle state. Only Zhu Hongsan came to go around when he was fine.

To the west of the village is a small independent courtyard with three courtyards and eighteen rooms. This is the house of the owner Zhu Hongsan, the eldest lady Ma Xiaofang, and the second lady Ma Ruyan live here.

200 meters outside the campus is a large playground, which can accommodate more than 2,000 people. On the edge of the playground is a row of dormitories with bright windows, which are the residences of non-commissioned officers and students.

Now Zhu Hongsan is looking at the group of children in front of him on the playground. Now they are no longer children. After half a year, coupled with good nutrition and high-intensity exercise, they already have the height and strong physique of adults. Now they are said to be a qualified soldier.

Today, Zhu Hongsan is going to explain the spear formation to them, and now each person has a long stick in his hand, but he is not equipped with a spear head. Zhu Hongsan looked at them and said, "Today I will teach you the spear formation, and in the long future, the spear formation will be our main armed force. ”

Zhu Hongsan asked them to stand in a tight formation in three rows, each with a wooden stick sticking out from the front, at a ninety-degree angle to his body. Then Zhu Hongsan said: "I shouted one, took a step forward, shouted two and stabbed a shot." Got it? ”

"I understand the sir"

"Good, One"

Seeing that everyone took a step, Zhu Hongsan went down and corrected a few non-commissioned officers and students with small steps. Then shouted: "Two"

Everyone stabbed forward with all the force. Zhu Hongsan corrected several people with wrong postures.

"One, two, one, two。。。。。。"

Zhu Hongsan slowly shouted again and again, and stepped forward to correct it when he saw something wrong.

When she was training, the maid at home was still looking for Zhu Hongsan, and shouted on the edge of the playground: "Master, Madame asked you to go back, the county order is here." ”

Zhu Hongsan said to Zhu Hongyi on the side: "Big brother, you continue to train them here, you have to be slow in the early stage, and see if they are proficient and use a normal number of degrees." ”

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he left with Yahuan.

Home is not far from the playground, and I will be back home in a while. Seeing Feng Ziyong sitting in the living room, Ma Xiaofang was accompanying him to say this.

Zhu Hongsan discussed with Ma Xiaofang that it was better not to talk to the Ma family about Ma Ruyan now, for fear that the family would not be able to accept it. I'll talk about it later when I have a chance. So Ma Ruyan didn't come out to meet the guests.

Zhu Hongsan entered the room and said with a smile: "How is the second cousin doing these days?" Communicate with your wind and snow, and life is not satisfied. ”

Ma Xiaofang stood up and said, "I don't listen to you stinky men talking about these topics, you can talk about it yourself." After saying that, he turned around and went out.

Feng Ziyong waited for Ma Xiaofang to go out, then stood up and pointed at Zhu Hongsan and said, "You did the matter of Guojiazhuang?" ”

"yes, why don't I get you a lot of money?"

Feng Ziyong's whole body trembled, and he scolded: "Zhu Hongsan, you are too ruthless, you killed more than fifty mouthfuls?" ”

Zhu Hongsan was a little unhappy when he heard it, and said: "Feng Daxian Ling, I will work hard for you, and you will blame me if you don't say a word of reward." What if you don't kill at that time? Do you want to send your wind and snow back again? Are you willing? ”

Zhu Hongsan's words were speechless, and it took a long time to relax. calmed down for a moment, and then asked: "I saw that the Guo family was a big pit that was blown up by the Heaven-Shaking Thunder, and the Heaven-Shaking Thunder was also made by you?" ”

"That's right, for your ups and downs, this time I'll lose a lot. The earth-shattering thunder made in a year was used. By the way, didn't you promise to send me a gunpowder master and a weaponsmith? What about people? ”

"That thing will say, how did you get the gunpowder formula?"

"Hehe, you don't have to worry about this, there's someone above me."

Feng Ziyong was taken aback, thinking to himself, could it be from the hands of the officials and soldiers? Busy said: "Did you get it from the hands of the official army?" Have you cleaned up your tails? ”

Zhu Hongsan gave Feng Ziyong a reassuring look and said, "Don't worry, it's absolutely safe." ”

Feng Zi must be sure in his heart that he is still an official of the Ming Dynasty after all, and it is really difficult to track it down.

Feng Ziyong continued: "Everyone who came here this time has brought you, there is only one gunpowder master, and the whole family is here." Gunpowder is too tightly controlled. There were five blacksmiths, and sixteen other craftsmen. I just handed over to Ma Youfu in front. ”

After Feng Ziyong finished speaking, he took out an official document from his cuff and said: "Because of this Guo family's big case, Huguang is the whole province, because the White Lotus Sect is becoming more and more rampant, Huguang counties can form a militia group by local squires, this is the approval of your Majiazhuang." You can form a militia of five hundred. ”

Zhu Hongsan pouted and said, "Didn't you say a thousand people?" ”

"I sent the approval document, and I also checked the number of people, what are you worried about?"

"Ah, that's not enough to raise two thousand."

"There are too many for me to hide, a thousand at most."

Zhu Hongsan nodded, today the non-commissioned officers and students began training, and it will be much worse in half a month, and then they will start recruiting.

Feng Ziyong then asked, "Didn't you see Ruyan in Guojiazhuang?" ”

Zhu Hongsan shook his head: "No, I saw you." ”

Feng Ziyong sighed and said, "Maybe I burned to death in the fire, how should I explain to my eldest brother." ”

Zhu Hongsan thought to himself: I didn't burn to death, but I passed out once last night.

Feng Ziyong was in a very bad mood, stood up and said, "I'm going back, I have something to do to find me." ”

Zhu Hongsan saw Feng Ziyong like this, and he felt a little unhappy. After all, Feng Daxian Ling had true feelings for the Ma family, and he felt a little guilty in his heart for deceiving him.

Just thinking about it, it was said that someone was visiting. Zhu Hongsan went out to see that it was a fat man, followed by a young man in his twenties, who looked shrewd and capable.

Qian Fatzi saw Zhu Hongsan come out and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Big brother, this is my brother I told you, Qian Wanli." ”

Qian Wanli, a good name, Qian is 10,000 miles long. Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to the front to meet Ma Youfu." ”

The three of them came to the front to find Ma Youfu, Zhu Hongsan said: "Old Ma, now that the business is bigger, I see that you are a little too busy, this is Qian Wanli, the eldest brother of the fat man, and he has also been the shopkeeper for many years, let him help you." You are in charge of the affairs of the north, and Qian Wanli is in charge of the affairs of the south of Zhili. The two of you discussed. ”

Ma Youfu understood in his heart that this was Zhu Hongsan's person who was afraid of his own dictatorship and got to share his own power. There is no way, the young lady is his wife, and when the second young master leaves, he let himself cooperate with Zhu Hongsan unconditionally, what can he do as a house slave of the Ma family.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Ma Youfu and led Qian Wanli to introduce the situation. He dragged the fat man back to his house. He Qian Fat Man said: "Old Qian, how much money can you make in that little shop, come and do it with me, you will earn tens of thousands of taels of silver when you come down to the north, which is enough for you to earn for ten years." ”

The fat man nodded and said, "Big brother, I also know that this is profitable, but now the north is too chaotic, like my family's small caravan to go to the north and let people swallow it." It's a good idea to do it with big brother. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "You hand over your caravan to Qian Wanli, and I will let him run the road of Nanzhili, so that there will be less danger." ”

Qian Fatzi nodded and said, "Big brother, then I will invest 20,000 taels of silver, how much will I share?" ”。

Zhu Hongsan said: "It's quite rich, 20,000 taels plus people you pay, you account for half of it." ”

In fact, half of Zhu Hongsan has made a lot of money, iron ore and coal are extremely cheap materials, and they have been processed into 100 refined steel, which is really faster than grabbing money, or how to say that science and technology are the primary productive forces.

Seeing that the big matter was discussed, Qian Fatzi asked mysteriously, "Big brother, didn't you say that you don't like courtesans?" I can see that one in the room. ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Don't talk nonsense, you kid. ”

Qian Fatzi said: "Don't worry, eldest brother, I will never let my sister-in-law know." ”

Zhu Hongsan smiled bitterly, what the hell is this, the key is that Feng Ziyong can't justify himself.

Seeing Zhu Hongsan smiling bitterly, the fat man gave a reassuring look. said: "Sister-in-law is too powerful. There's a new place in the city, I don't know if my eldest brother wants to go? ”

"What place? Mother and daughter again? ”

Qian Fatzi smiled lewdly: "It's a hundred times more fun than mother and daughter, if the eldest brother wants to go, the younger brother will lead you to be happy." ”

Zhu Hongsan struggled fiercely in his heart and asked, "This time it won't be detained like last time, right?" ”

"Big brother, don't worry, now as the eldest brother, the black and white in the county town dares not to give face, don't worry."

Zhu Hongsan touched his chin and said, "Okay, let's go." ”

When he went out, he was about to call Zhu Hongyi, but when he thought that he was training non-commissioned officers, and Qian Fatzi was right, after those two incidents, the underworld in the city saw that he had taken a detour, so it should be fine. Thinking of this, he didn't call Zhu Hongyi, and the fat man and Qian rode on horses and went to the city happily.