On the way back, Ding Bi came to Ziren's side with a puzzled face and asked, "Young master, what the fat man picked just now was a piece of white jade, which is worth a few hundred taels of silver, which is much more expensive than the black jade in your hand, and we have suffered a big loss now." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Seeing that Ding Bi didn't know the preciousness of this thing, Ziren explained with a smile: "Let you increase your knowledge today, this black and white two pieces are the same jade species, which is Hetian jade, which is known as one of the four famous jades in China along with Hubei turquoise, Henan Nanyang jade, and Liaoning Xiuyan jade." The piece in my hand is called Moyu, which is a precious variety of Hetian jade, and it is very rare in the market because of its scarcity of production, so it is not as famous as white jade.

Like this jade, the whole body is pure black, the jade is delicate and there is no mixed color, and the carving is exquisite. If you take it to the pawnshop, you can exchange it for at least a thousand taels of silver, and it has the effect of activating the meridians and moistening the lungs with you. This Hu Yukun has jade in his name but doesn't know this thing, and he thinks that he has reduced his cheapness, which is really ridiculous. ”

"If you want to say like you, this Hu Yukun also has a Kun character, so wouldn't his kung fu in bed be very good." In Ma Shinan's family, a soldier named Ma Dayan answered, and everyone burst into laughter after listening to it.

This Ma Dayan's real name is Ma Danai, he was born with a thief's eyebrows and rat eyes, and his family is a butcher. It is said that because of his stubborn nature when he was a child, he accidentally tripped while playing in the yard, and sat on the pig-killing hook and cut his cheek open, so he got the nickname Ma Dayan. On weekdays, he told some marginal jokes, Ziren had long been used to it along the way, and he didn't blame it much.

Ziren and his entourage talked and laughed, and returned to Changning Fort in a few days. In the past few days since Ziren left, the reward for the previous battle has also been lowered. Ding Shoucheng (Ziren's pseudonym) accumulated merit to Dongning Wei Zhenfu (from the fifth grade), and actually awarded the position of the battalion soldier to continue to guard Changning Fort, and there was a reward of 300 taels of silver. Ding Bi, Wang Mingqiang, and Zhou Daqi have also been promoted to 100 households because of their successes, and the rest of the generals have also been rewarded.

Hao Jie allocated a pension of money and grain, a number of cattle as promised, and exempted Changning Fort from taxes for one year. In addition, 40 military households were allocated, and on average, each household had two able-bodied men between the ages of 16 and 40, plus 10 households of "military craftsmen."

The Ming Dynasty followed the artisan household system of the Mengyuan Dynasty, dividing the households into three categories: civil, military, and craftsman. Among them, all the craftsmen are handicraftsmen, and there are also many people in the military who serve in the ordnance bureaus under the jurisdiction of the various capitals, called military craftsmen. In terms of status, these military craftsmen who have been assigned to the special household register are as inferior as the artisan households, and they must be inherited from generation to generation, and in order to facilitate the resettlement, they are not allowed to separate the households, and it is extremely difficult to break away from the original household registration.

The military craftsman and the craftsman are divided into shift craftsmen and resident craftsmen, and those who work on weekdays without remuneration are also subject to the layers of exploitation of the workers and the heads, resulting in the serious escape of the military craftsmen and craftsmen, and in desperation, the Ming Dynasty had to formulate the law of silver for service. From the forty-first year of Jiajing, shift craftsmen were allowed to hire workers in silver, and those who were affiliated with craftsmen could freely engage in industry and commerce, and their personal restraints were greatly weakened, but the resident craftsmen still had to work on a monthly basis. Ding Shoutie's family was born as a shift warmaker in his early years.

With the addition of the Dingkou obtained a few days ago, the number of men under Ziren's command increased to more than 250 people, and there were more than 20 craftsmen.

The circumference of Changning Fort is two miles and forty steps, and the Ming system is three hundred and sixty steps for one mile (one step and one meter five), a total of seven hundred and sixty steps, and one hundred and nine steps on each side. Ziren is one hundred and ninety steps outside the south gate, parallel to the new city wall of equal length, the two sides and the east and west two city walls together, after the seal of the whole Changning Fort in the shape of "day".

Because there is only one south gate in the fort, in case it is inconvenient to enter and exit by the siege, Ziren opened a new north gate on the north wall. In order to facilitate defense, outside the north and south gates, each expands a three-step square urn city, and is equipped with defensive facilities such as arrow towers, gates, and pheasant moats. The gates of the city were all open on the west side, not in the same straight line as the gate they were protecting, to prevent attacks by siege rams and other weapons.

Every seventy paces (the distance of the bird's gun breaking through the heavy armor) a rectangular pier protruding from the outside of the city wall, which is called the horse face because of its long and narrow appearance, and is characterized by the ability to attack the enemy under the city from three sides from top to bottom. In addition, at the corner of the city wall, the square solid pier platform that protrudes is flat, and the corner tower is built on it for defensive purposes.

When the bottom of the city wall is built, the bottom is leveled with a stone first, and then it is carried out in the way of wrapping bricks on both sides and filling in the center, and the gaps in the city bricks are filled with loess, hydrated lime, sand, and glutinous rice to make mud joints. I had the experience of building a hollow enemy platform last time, and this time I invited craftsmen to guide me, so I ignored it.

Ziren mobilized almost all the soldiers and civilians in the fort for this reason, and after half a month of busyness, he had to buy and sell materials, and he had to be responsible for the three meals a day of the workers, plus he had to appease the new subordinates, and the tomb robbery and the silver obtained from the previous war were exhausted.

The piece of ink jade that he got before, because he was contaminated with corpse gas in the coffin for a long time, could not be sold at a high price for a while, Ziren was ready to put it on the plate next to him for a few years before making a move, fortunately, there were still 100 taels of gold left, and the Ming Dynasty now had a comparison price of gold and silver around 1 to 6, in exchange for 600 taels of silver, Ziren took out half of it for the expansion of the army.

In order not to affect the great cause of Tuntian, the cavalry team of ten people was not expanded, but only expanded the infantry team to fifty people, twelve people for one team, two teams for one flag, and the two flags were Zhou Daqi and Ding Bi. The rotation training system is adopted, and each flag can be expanded to four teams of 100 people in wartime.

There were no changes to the blade, except for the replacement of the rifle with an iron nail three-eyed gun on the firearm. In order to facilitate the power of the bird gun, the bird gun is uniformly operated by the young soldiers of Lei Tiedan's team, and after this period of practice, almost all the teenagers can be proficient in it.

Now that the agricultural tools in the fort are basically completed, Ziren asked the craftsmen to remake ordnance and gunpowder. In terms of gunpowder materials, Ziren built a lot of latrines in the fort, and selected a few disabled soldiers to patrol the fort every day, and collected a certain amount of nitrate. Sulfur and charcoal can be produced locally in Liaodong, and they can be purchased with silver.

Considering the cold weather in Liaodong, the iron armor is easy to become brittle at minus twenty or thirty degrees, and the cost is expensive, and the cost of a pair of fine armor is around ten taels of silver. Ziren began to have craftsmen make cotton armor, which was transformed from cloth face armor and lined with iron sheets and fixed with copper nails. Because it is easy to make and low price, it is convenient for mass production.

When manufacturing, take seven catties of cotton, put it in the jacket with a cloth, sew it tightly with thick threads, take it out and spread it flat after soaking it in water, use it to be solid with your feet not fat and swollen, and finally dry the thin cotton sheets. A plurality of these cotton sheets are embellished into a very thick and solid cotton cloth, and there is a nail between the two layers of cotton cloth, which is fixed with copper nails inside and outside. The cotton armor has a certain defensive ability against the enemy's bow, and the climate of Liaodong is cold, and the cotton armor also has the effect of cold protection. When facing the enemy, a few heart guards are added, and the front can also resist knives and guns.

Due to the small number of craftsmen in the fort who can make three-eyed guns, Ziren had to go to the blacksmith shop to give instructions. One day, when Riren was sweating like rain, he suddenly heard a burst of beating and scolding from the school field, and Ziren didn't know what happened and hurriedly dared to check.

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