First of all, Lai Tongxin, a staff general stationed in Xinpingbao, reported that the border was unstable, and there were signs of abnormal movement in the north, and then the general soldier Ma Chengen reported that there was a small-scale conflict in Deshengbao, and the military household Zhang Han and other soldiers killed many people, made military achievements, and asked for praise.

This is just a trivial matter, the imperial court will never refute the face of the chief soldier, and this matter has also been approved by Yanghe Bingbeidao, and there are governors and governors above, and the imperial court will not have much trouble in this little matter.

Liao affairs are becoming more and more tense, the results of the DPRK and China will not be satisfactory, Xiong Tingbi was only appointed as the Dali Temple Cheng and Henan Provincial Imperial History, to comfort Liaodong, not the new strategy, the name is not right, the DPRK is still arguing, the most important thing is that Wanli has not yet made up his mind to use Xiong Tingbi, in this matter, Wanli has been hesitating, Fang Congzhe and others thought that Xiong Tingbi must be called the emperor, they thought wrong.

For several months, the court could not decide on a new candidate for the economic strategy, so Yang Hao had to be asked to stay in the post of economic strategy, and Liaodong was still a mess, which was the most important matter, and the border troubles that occurred in Datong were not enough to make the court pay attention.

Since the beginning of June, there have been a number of bandits with a scale of more than 1,000 people, Lai Tongxin, a general, has the responsibility to suppress bandits, and has sent troops to suppress them many times, and then there are too many bandits, and they can't be suppressed, and the bandits in Daliang Mountain have begun to threaten the safety of various official roads.

Of course, this series of things are Zhang Han's arrangement, he wants to build his own army, the name is very important, an ordinary businessman, the establishment of a dart line to recruit hundreds of dart masters is already the limit, if the fanfare of the dart division training, in the eyes of people with a heart, even if Zhang Han's relationship network is very strong, it is a troublesome thing, with the name, now many things can be done openly, and do better.

"Is there really a bandit?"

In the ancestral hall of Lijiazhuang, Zhang Han looked at the embarrassed Wen Zhonghan and the others, and frowned.

asked Wen Zhonghan and others to pretend to be bandits and rob caravans on several official roads, which was arranged by Zhang Han, but these people were beaten very badly by the real bandits, but fortunately, there were no dead people.

He also knows that there are bandits in Daliang Mountain, but since the Zhou brothers were killed, the bandits did not dare to fight the idea of the official road, they are all robbing the mountain villages, robbing the people in the south of Ulzhou, there are many mountains in the entire Jinxi Mountains, the famous Han Gaozu was trapped in the southeast direction, and there are many mountains such as Jiutai Mountain, Shitiling, Xiaowutai and so on to the south, from these mountains to the middle of Xinpingbao is the plain area, a large area of mountains makes Shanxi people dare to fight, there are many businessmen who go out of their homes to do business, Of course, there are many bandits and robbers who stay in the mountains to rob their homes.

"The point is that there are too many displaced people."

Sun Jingting interjected on the side, and there was a gloom between his eyebrows.

On the fourth day of Zhang Han's return, Sun Jingting rushed over from Lingqiu, the friendship between the two was fought on the grassland, although they hadn't seen each other for a long time, they still had a deep relationship with each other, Sun Jingting's literary talent and martial arts were very good, Zhang Han also felt that he was very effective by his side, and this time he decided to keep him by his side and discuss things at any time.

Sun Jingting continued: "I came all the way from Lingqiu, at least 100,000 people were displaced by the earthquake last year, and now the government has no relief, nor has it been exempted, the people have no food and clothing, they can only wander around with the whole family, and the bold ones run to the mountains to be bandits, and the current number of bandits, ten times ago, even if Wenlan did not deliberately arrange it, it is inevitable that bandits will be troubled." ”

Last year, there were many earthquakes in Shanxi, which was very serious, but the imperial court was too busy to take care of itself, and did not pay attention to it at all, Zhang Han saw a lot of beggars and displaced people in Xinpingbao, Yanghe and Datong, and Taiyuan must have more, Ulzhou and Lingqiu and other places were very badly affected, and it was not surprising that there were many displaced people.

Zhang Han said to Wen Zhonghan: "Even I don't know about the accident, don't blame you, retreat." ”

Wen Zhonghan stood up and said with a fierce face: "If the proprietor agrees, we only need to send two hundred dart masters into the mountain, and we can kill at least one or two thousand bandits, so that they can know how powerful we are." ”

Zhang Han said softly: "I don't need it for the time being, I will ask Liang Xing to pay more attention to it, just protect the official road, you still wait for my order, and ask you to do something." ”

"Yes." Wen Zhonghan replied simply this time, he saw that Zhang Han really didn't mean to blame, and walked out quite happily.

Zhang Han also got up and said to Sun Jingting: "Xiaozheng, let's go see the waterwheel." ”

Sun Jingting smiled: "This is a good thing, I have already seen it in advance, but it does not prevent me from watching it a few more times." ”

There is a meandering river in the north of Lijiazhuang, this river is called Xiaoyang River by people, it is a tributary of Xiyang River and Yanghe River, it is only dozens of miles long in total, and Lijiazhuang has one-third of the acres of land on the riverside of this river.

Fields near rivers can be dug to divert water, and the price of paddy fields is at least three times that of dry fields.

However, there are droughts every year, and there is little rain from spring to autumn, and in winter, there is heavy snow to form snow disasters, and this ghost weather has long caused people to complain.

The water flow is insufficient, the aqueduct is difficult to lead to water, and the large water conservancy must be coordinated by the government, at least the squires and large households join forces, the northern region rarely has the spirit of cooperation like the southern gentry, to the end of Wanli at this time, the water conservancy channels in various places are badly damaged, not much useful, the acres of fields by the river can only be carried by the people with manpower, so the yield per mu is much higher than that of dry fields.

People walked on the dry ridges by the roadside, and the hems of their robes gradually became dirty and dirty.

But no one cares, Sun Jingting and Zhang Han whispered, he has been talking about the situation in Lingqiu, Lingqiu is quite stable, Zhang Han's and Yusheng Iron Yard are dominant, Dongshan will rank second, Li Dayong and others followed, because there is a guild to coordinate production and pricing, everyone's profits are good, mainly because the iron production rate has increased, the use of charcoal has decreased, and the joint pricing power of each family has made the original big iron merchants have been curbed, and the money earned by each iron farm has increased a lot.

Sun Jingting and Zhang Han whispered about Yu Niang.

"Yu Niang's mind can't be hidden, she is sad every day, my aunt is not happy, no matter how smooth things are in the iron field, my uncle can't be happy." Sun Jingting whispered: "The embarrassing part is either that everyone can't look at you, or they all look at you in Chinese." But your family has a ready-made candidate waiting, and my Sun family can't rush to give Yu Niang to you as a concubine...... Everybody is not happy about it. ”

Zhang Han said embarrassedly: "I really blame me for this......"

"Actually, I don't blame you......" Sun Jingting chuckled, he was already a little crazy, which would be even more deviant and said: "The love between men and women is out of nature, you look at how many examples of male and female love in the Book of Poetry, that is, we have seen the harm of Song Confucianism, and this matter is too serious." ”

"To be honest, I haven't thought too much about it now," Zhang Han said in a deep voice...... "Now I have a lot of things to do here, there are too many things to do, and I want to do a lot of big things in my heart, and I can really only let go of my children's personal feelings first." ”

"Wen Lan, you are still a clean person." Sun Jingting said with some appreciation: "I heard that Lao Li found several beautiful women to sleep with you, but you refused, and he is really a person who plans to do great things." ”

Zhang Han had to smile bitterly when he heard it, what kind of goods did Li Xiangfu find, there are some postures, but there is no rough temperament, and he is also on such a woman, so it can only be said that he is obsessed with lust.

After walking for a while, you can see the big waterwheel.

It is about three zhang high, nearly ten meters high, and the shape that Zhang Han saw in later books.

He came here from Xinpingbao mainly to see this thing.

Chang Jin also copied the chiming bell in Xinpingbao, Zhang Han also told him the idea of the pocket watch, and the idea of a telescope, these things are not only a novelty, the most important thing is practical, especially in the future when fighting a war are particularly useful good things, it is estimated that Chang Jin will be busy for a while. Recently, Chang Jin has been the busiest with this waterwheel, and this time he specially asked Zhang Han to come along.

The water flow is not urgent, the green river flows slowly, the water flows into the bucket constantly, and then the bucket is behind the wooden scraper, the fixed scraper is the spoke, the whole waterwheel is like a large spoke, the water flow hits the wheel blade, the waterwheel keeps rotating, and then the water is filled with the bucket, and then the bucket is lifted to the highest place, and the water is automatically poured into the wooden tank after turning to the headspace, and the water flows into the farmland without stopping.

"This watermill is just a small waterwheel." Chang Jinyou just waded up from the river, the corners of the robe lifted up the old high, the legs were full of sludge, he didn't care, patted the water stains and sludge on his hands, and said to Zhang Han: "This big waterwheel is divided into bicycles, double cars, many kinds of cars, the diameter of the high spokes is more than five zhang, we are a bicycle, or a small car, this is a trial product, it also cost one or two thousand silver, mainly at the beginning of the bad grasp of the size of the spokes, scrapped several, with the current finished product, give me two thousand silver, can be made into a real big waterwheel." ”

Zhang Han stepped forward and touched the waterwheel, the water droplets kept dripping from above, dripping his hair and face wet, a thin layer of moss had grown on the waterwheel, and the water kept pouring down from the bucket above, flowing from the high wooden trough to the canal, and then irrigating the surrounding fields.

Zhang Han asked, "How many acres of land can this car water?" ”

Li Xiangfu stepped forward and replied: "If you can water about 300 acres, no matter how much the effect is, it will not be good." ”

"What if it's one of those water wheels that are about twice as big?"

"500 acres for a single car, 800 acres for a double car."

"Good, good." Zhang Han praised again and again, and said to Chang Jin: "Uncle has helped me a lot." ”

Chang Jin was a little embarrassed and said, "Brother Han, I just want to do this, I don't have too much to think about." And I'll do the math, after a few cars, your land can be fully irrigated, but it costs nearly 10,000 silver, and the grain you buy is tens of thousands of stones, and your field rent will take 20 years to pay back the capital, right? ”