Chenggu, which is a county seat in the east of Hanzhong Prefecture, where Zhu Changhao and Liu Zheng first took a look at the three large manor plantations here.

Here in Chenggu, there are three large estates for planting, one is located on the Han River, and two are located on the Zhenshui River in Chenggu County.

Here, Zhu Changhao saw that cotton and corn were indeed planted on the river beach, and sweet potatoes were almost all planted on the edge of the mountains and forests on the southern slope.

According to the contract signed with the royal government, this plantation was to grow at least 2,000 acres of corn, but now, that is, 1,000 acres, cotton is planted in other places on the river beach.

Zhu Changhao, in accordance with the relevant compensation agreement that did not plant according to the requirements of the palace, was given a silver dollar per acre of land. This manor mainly paid the royal palace 1,000 silver dollars.

It is to pay 1,000 silver dollars to the Ruiwang Mansion, and the owner of the manor also thinks that it is worth it, after all, they can earn an extra 500 taels of silver from the cotton, why not do it!

Looking at the crops growing in the cotton field, corn field, and sweet potato field, Zhu Changhao suddenly thought that if there was a man and a woman in the farmer in the manor owner, in the corn field, they couldn't see each other, okay, Zhu Changhao admitted that he was vulgar.

In addition to looking at corn, sweet potatoes, and cotton, Zhu Changhao, who was a little speechless, went to see those rape, as well as paddy fields.

The rape has basically been cut, and many farmers' houses are full of rapeseed straw.

In the paddy field, new seedlings have been planted, but this year's water is a little small, although the water is released day and night, but in the paddy field, the water surface is still only that thin layer.

Zhu Changhao immediately called the people from the Agricultural Affairs Bureau and asked them to build a waterwheel for irrigation of the surrounding farmland, whether it is a farmer or a large manor.

Especially now that the weather is hot, corn and cotton are in the growing season, and the daily evaporation is so large, if there is not enough water, not only will the cotton yield be reduced, then the corn may not be harvested, that is, the rice in the farmer's field, because of the lack of water, even the sprouts and seedlings can not grow.

Therefore, Zhu Changhao immediately went to Bailiping Village in Chenggu County, and asked the guards to immediately send a royal order to the political cabinet, "In the prefectures and counties of the 3,000 miles of the Han River, the Agricultural Affairs Bureau under the jurisdiction of the Inspection Department should immediately do a good job in summer farmland water supply, as well as flood-fighting farming, and build farmland irrigation water distribution ditches, waterwheels, etc." ”

That's basically the case, Zhu Changhao hopes that when he inspects the later prefectures and counties, he can see the local agricultural bureau make a difference.

Later, when he inspected Yangxian County and Shiquan County, Zhu Changhao was in Yangxian County and found that there were seven iron and steel workshops and a copper smelting workshop, which were just east of the county capital of Yangxian County, and there were five miles of land, all of which were earthen kilns for firing ceramics.

Zhu Changhao's field investigation found that the minerals here in Yangxian County, as well as the water level difference ratio, are still very large, and the water resources are quite rich.

When Zhu Changhao finished reading the copper mines in Youshui Village and Baliguan, he immediately asked people to find the subordinates of the Ministry of Engineering of the palace, and the copper mines here were taken over by the palace in the future. After all, in the military production under the jurisdiction of the Ruiwang Mansion, copper is needed in many production links.

The industrial resources of Yangxian County, Zhu Changhao and Liu Zheng made a preliminary estimate, and it has exceeded three million silver dollars in asset income.

Later, Zhu Changhao also organized all the porcelain kiln households into a group, and the porcelain and pottery produced could be transported overseas by guò waterway, or go north to the grassland, and eventually earn back the foreign money.

From Baishizhuang to Balongzhuang in Yangxian County, in this five-mile-long concentrated area, Zhu Changhao united the kilns who produced porcelain, just for specialization and scale.

According to the proportion of the joint-stock system, unified production requirements, under the notarization of the local inspection department, it took three days for these kiln farmers to complete the formation of the kiln factory, and then in the 3,000-meter kiln factory, when the fireworks rose from the high chimney, Zhu Changhao knew that the rising fireworks would become the gold and silver money of the Gentiles in the future.

It is that the planting industry of the big manor in Yangxian County is a bit small, only one of 5,000 acres. However, instead of planting cotton, they planted more sweet potatoes, after all, this manor is mostly mountainous. Sweet potatoes are a thing, and I like places that are good for water. The corn is only about 1,000 acres, because in the past two years, there have been fewer and fewer farmers farming in the local area, and many people have gone to work in the surrounding steel workshops and mines.

Most of the laborers on the wharf are locals, and many people feel that the farmland is not guaranteed, and they have to rely on God to eat.

But Zhu Changhao disagreed, this year you feel that farming is not guaranteed, but agriculture is not taxed, if this autumn, the palace buys these corn and sweet potatoes at a premium, then the farmers who did not like to farm at that time, you will probably regret that your intestines are green.

In Ziyang County, Hanyin County, Zhu Changhao visited everywhere, and took Ankang Prefecture as a highlight of this investigation.

In the Ankang Zhizhou Mansion, Zhu Changhao led Liu Zheng, as well as three hundred personal guards, accompanied by Zhizhou Wang Zairen, and carefully looked at the eighteen large manor plantations outside.

To tell the truth, because of the stimulation of the textile industry, there are more or less signs of cotton planting in these eighteen estates, but as long as it does not exceed the planting area of the estate, the general punishment is one silver dollar per acre.

If it is exceeded, it is three silver dollars per acre. Such a punishment is equivalent to a year of vain labor for this manor.

In addition to the plantation, Zhu Changhao also took a look at those craftsmen who made lacquer, cinnabar, etc., of course, there are many steel workshops, in the Hongliu River area under the Phoenix Mountain, are all iron-smelting workshops, because the Phoenix Mountain by the Hongliu River, that is an iron mine.

The hematite above was all cast into iron ingots under the hydraulic crushing, grinding and smelting of the Hongliu River, and they were all transported to Xiangyang.

Now Ankang, standing on the top of the mountain at night, you can see several steel workshops, textile workshops, the furnace is illuminating the world, and the lights are bright.

In less than half a year, Zhu Changhao only gave them policy support and corresponding capital support, but he didn't expect that these workshops were like bamboo shoots after the rain, lined with border land.

Ankang is such a state capital, and now there is a kind of industrialization atmosphere, I have to say that the three major industries proposed by Zhu Changhao have been verified and expanded.

In Ankang Prefecture, Zhu Changhao came down to discuss with Liu Zheng and Wang Zairen of Zhizhou, and the output value of each workshop this year was not less than 10 million silver dollars.

Next, Zhen'an, Xunyang, Shangnan, Baihe, Yunxi, Zhushan, Yunxian, and finally in Shiyan.

Zhu Changhao specifically take a look at the layout of this place, this Shiyan as a middle section of Ankang and Xiangyang, from Shiyan here, you can see the growth characteristics of the future Daming industry.

Shiyan is on the impact plain formed by the Blocked River and the Han River and the Danjiang River that flow through Zhushan County.

The current Shiyan belongs to the rule of Yunyang Mansion, which is the west gate of Huguang. It's just that when Zhu Changhao was inspecting Zhushan County, he found that the local government and Haoqiang were actually mining the silver mine in Yindonggou in Zhushan County without permission, and he was immediately angry at the local inspection department, but later heard that the inspection department of Zhushan County was only established in May this year, and he was a little relieved.

The inspection department of Zhushan County planned to find out the situation here before he wanted to report it to Hanzhong, but he didn't expect that Lord Rui was coming.

Zhu Changhao led the three hundred guards, and it took half a month in Zhushan County to settle the local iron smelting, digging gold and silver mines, and the government.

That night, Zheng Sanqiu, the local magistrate, did not inform Zhu Changhao that on the night when the bandits entered the city, the four city gates of Zhushan County were not closed.

Fortunately, the place where Zhu Changhao lived at that time was in a courtyard house of the royal business.

The bandits of more than 200 people entered the county town in the dark and immediately launched an attack on the Wangfu business, but fortunately, the personal guards at that time were a combination of light and dark sentinels, and crossfire fired directly.

In the alleys on both sides in front of the royal business, there were fifty guards on both sides, burning . Bullets, as well as thunderbolts, and cowhide canisters (grenades) blocked both ends of the roadway.

Zhu Changhao planned to let the bandits of more than 200 people go tonight and never return. In fact, if it is placed in normal times, Zhu Changhao will only punish the evil, but now, if the vested interest groups in Zhushan County are to be stripped of interests and regrouped, then they must know the determination of Lord Rui, determination is sometimes manifested with blood, Zhu Changhao wants to annihilate some bandits, just to show his determination.

It's just that later, they didn't all kill them immediately, but used the method of pulling out the gourd and bringing out the vines to investigate, and some of the big gold and silver mines in Zhushan County, even the county magistrate Zheng Sanqiu were also inside.

Zhu Changhao was furious this time, and on the fourth day, it took two days to detain all these powerful and evil officials to the land and water wharf on the edge of the river to be supervised and beheaded.

When the twenty-eight heads were strung on the two lamp posts with ropes like sugar gourds, many people who still wanted to have ideas about Yindonggou and iron smelting finally died down.

Because of the execution at the land and water dock, the scene of Zhu Changhao in Zhushan County was also spread by the businessmen present at the time.

After this incident, Zhu Changhao asked the inspection departments in various places to recruit according to the method of local people Ding Bi and one out of a hundred.

It is necessary to ensure that the patrol department is strong, special or chaotic county government boundaries, and the recruitment of members of the inspection department can reach 1 out of 50.

Zhu Changhao believes that the inspection departments in various places will be recruited at a ratio of one out of fifty, don't ask the inspection divisions why they do this, because the most important thing in the palace's annual assessment of the inspection department is related to the scale.

In July, the water level of the Han River rose slightly under the moisture of several light rains, and Zhu Changhao also received news from Song Yingxing from the Jiahan Canal excavation site, in the past 40 days, the canal has been dug 33/3 of the whole way.