The next day, Yang Chao went to see the Xiashui Camp Wharf.

The area around the new Ekou area is becoming more and more prosperous.

At this time, there are ships coming in and out of the wharves from time to time, loading and unloading, and the workers are extremely busy.

In order to facilitate the operation of the wharf, Yang Chao made a batch of wooden frames that can be rotated, with a pulley group at the tail end, first hoisting the goods, and then rotating the wooden frame, and the goods can be directly hoisted to the wharf platform through the central shaft, saving the workers the hard work of carrying up and down.

It can be said that Yang Chao's facilities are much stronger than the government's Longjiangguan wharf, excellent wharf berth conditions, coupled with the convenience of loading and unloading, and after opening the three shipping escorts of crossing the river, canal and Songjiang short, medium and long, Yang Chao's wharf naturally attracted more and more businessmen, and now the Longjiangguan wharf is deserted, and the officials of the banknote pass have complained to Yang Chao more than once, either let Yang Chao close the wharf, or let them enter the Shuiying wharf to collect taxes.

But Yang Chao vetoed, let these people come to their own wharf to collect taxes, it is estimated that the taxes handed over to the imperial court will not be much, they themselves are fat, Yang Chao simply played to the imperial court, according to the standard of Longjiang Pass, Yang Chao directly gave the imperial court 20,000 taels of silver every year, which was considered to have bought out the tax of Longjiang Pass.

This made those banknote customs officials grit their teeth with hatred, and these moths lived on this, but now they obviously can't afford to offend Yang Chao, so they can only secretly hate and find other places to make a living, and the Longjiangguan wharf is considered to be wasted.

The more prosperous the wharf, the more businessmen will be attracted, but there is not much vacant land on the wharf, and the polder built by Yang Chao is only ten zhang away from the river, and the land available for use is just like this, and Yang Chao is not very willing to give up these lands to merchants, but as a wharf for his own use.

Then it is necessary to expand to the land behind the polder, and the land behind the polder is actually Huang Chong's family.

This piece of land is more than 1,000 acres. It has been opened by the royal family for two years and has begun to grow food.

Who would have thought that agricultural land would be occupied by commerce as soon as it was opened.

Of course, Yang Chao won't rob it. He came to Huang Chong to discuss and expressed his willingness to pay for the purchase. He also did not let Huang Chong suffer a loss, and was willing to buy it at the market price of buying fertile land, or replace it with other wasteland, such as exchanging 3,000 acres of wasteland under Lion Rock in the east of Daying for 1,000 acres of the Huang family.

After thinking about it for a few days and going to the bottom of the Lion Rock to see it, Huang Chong decided to exchange land for land.

Yang Chao's polder embankment was built from the mouth of the new river to the foot of the Lion Rock, so there is no need to worry about flooding, in fact, it cannot be regarded as a complete wasteland. It has been planted with pasture grass for a year, Huang Chong thought after reading it, basically you can grow grain directly, although the yield will not be high, but there are 3,000 mu is definitely much more than his own 1,000 mu.

Even if he planted grass and sold it to Yang Chao, he could earn one or two taels of silver per acre of land, and it was not a problem to earn a few thousand taels a year from three thousand mu of land, so Huang Chong did not have much reluctance to let this land out of the river estuary, and more importantly, Yang Chao promised that the land under the Lion Rock would give him the title deed. And the land in Xinjiangkou does not have a title deed, and there is no insurance without a title deed, and Yang Chao can plant here. In case Yang Chao is not here, he will be snatched away.

So the land exchange is actually very happy for Huang Chong.

After Huang Chong's land was given up, Yang Chao was the first to give up an acre of land to the shopkeeper Mao and let him build a warehouse here.

The Mao's warehouse has already been built, the geographical location is very good, not to mention the close to the wharf, the area is also large enough, with the recovery of Yang Chao shipping, he has also made a lot of money.

At this time, the shopkeeper of the Mao family was next to it. There are other buildings under construction, in addition to the warehouses built by other merchants. There is also Yang Chao's industry.

Yang Chao didn't want to build a warehouse, his warehouses were all in the best locations on the docks. He didn't need to build a polder, he wanted to build an exchange.

After seeing the immeasurable hall in Linggu Temple, Yang Chao planned to build a stone building by himself, not requiring the Western cathedral, the combination of Chinese and Western is very good, the exterior can use the skills such as dougong to make the cornice, but the supporting structure inside, Yang Chao intends to use the stone arch structure.

Stone structures are safer than wooden structure buildings, and the stone monuments that have survived in later generations are much more than wooden monuments is proof, it is not that stone buildings are stronger than wood, and the solidity of wood is actually beyond people's imagination, if no one breaks it, it is not a problem to preserve it for thousands of years, and the reason why wooden buildings are difficult to preserve is mainly due to poor fire prevention effect, and palaces have been destroyed by fire in all dynasties, not to mention ordinary dwellings.

Therefore, Yang Chao planned to introduce stone buildings into the Ming Dynasty, and the descendants of the province could not see a few intact historical relics after hundreds of years.

In fact, it is not so difficult, although the structure of the Hall of Immeasurable is not as complex as that of Western cathedrals, the basic form is already there.

And there is no shortage of craftsmen in China to process stone arch coupons, and the stone arch bridge is actually applied to this skill, and the Zhaozhou Bridge was built a thousand years ago.

Yang Chao personally sketched the drawings and made a lot of reference to the design of the Wuliang Palace, but instead of using the super thick walls of the Wuliang Palace, he used flying buttresses to balance the thrust of the arch on the outer wall.

He handed over the drawings to the head of the white craftsman, and asked him to recruit a large number of stonemasons, as well as a few craftsmen who had built stone arch bridges, and let them explore and build them on their own.

The head of the white craftsman is very worried, because Yang Chao's requirements are too high, his building is divided into three floors, the first floor is ten zhang high, the craftsman can indeed build a stone arch, but the arch of the stone arch bridge is ten zhang high?

After a long discussion with the craftsmen, they said that they could try it, isn't it just to increase the arch of the stone arch bridge, and build the scaffolding higher.

So they began to build, and now the foundation has been built, digging five feet deep, digging to the dense bottom layer, and then filling in a large number of stones, lime, etc., the foundation is very solid, and they have begun to build a load-bearing wall with huge stones.

The white craftsman was very cautious, and at the suggestion of Yang Chao, he first made a clay mold, but he felt uneasy, and made a stone mold by hand, a small one-person high house, but every position was the same as on the drawings, so that the white craftsman had confidence in his heart.

As for the construction, it is not difficult, the only difference with the arch bridge is not to build on the shore, first build two load-bearing walls, then build a round arch scaffolding, install stones on the scaffolding, and finally form a complete arch coupon, and then remove the scaffolding. The arch does not collapse, but under its own weight, it turns gravity into downward and unexpected thrust.

The head of the white craftsman spares no expense. More than 30 experienced stonemasons were employed, and there were thousands of people. But the construction speed is not very fast, everyone is groping, according to the estimation of the white craftsman, by this time next year, Yang Chao will probably be able to build the first floor.

This is already very fast, compared to the hundreds of years of Western churches, Yang Chao does not feel slow even if it is built for three years, but the white craftsman is planning to end in two years. According to his budget, he can make money at the end of two years, and if he doesn't get it in three years, he will lose money.

After looking at the exchange site, Bai Jiangtou took Yang Chao to the edge of the Yangtze River, and at this time, some construction was also being done on both sides of the polders on the Yangtze River.

On the inner side, about three zhang away from the polder, there is already a huge circular foundation with a radius of ten zhang.

What Yang Chao planned to build was a circular tower twenty zhang high, and the lower ten zhang were basically solid, leaving only a pillar center with a diameter of one zhang in the middle. The upper ten zhang is almost hollow, and the walls become thinner and thinner the higher you go, forming an inverted pyramid-like space.

Well, actually, it's a water tower. The volume is roughly converted to 100,000 cubic abbots, enough to supply the daily water of the barracks and docks in the future, and the construction of pools in the nearby farmland can also ensure irrigation water.

If there is a water tower, it is natural to have water lifting facilities.

On the other side of the polder, a large waterwheel is being built.

In fact, the reason why this water tower was built was because of the problem of wasteland development, Yang Chao saw some people in the Yangtze River a few days ago with buckets of water, and then lifted a one-zhang high polder. Buckets of laborious buckets were poured into the paddy fields, and this was the most industrious group of people who first opened a few acres of paddy fields. They can't wait to grow food.

So Yang Chao wanted to build a batch of water conservancy facilities for them.

To lift water, either build irrigation canals. Either build water lifting facilities, irrigation canals, needless to say, the river bank is always higher than the river water, the Yangtze River is not the Yellow River, not the hanging river can not use the water level to irrigate, so the water lifting facilities are the most feasible.

The waterwheel is a very mature water-lifting facility, and there are many small rivers in the south, but the problem is that those small rivers are fast and easy to transform, and the big families in the countryside even build embankments to tighten the river and speed up the flow rate, so that the waterwheel can turn up.

Although the water of the Yangtze River is large, it is obvious that the flow speed cannot be too fast, otherwise the riverbank will not be able to stand it, and it is rare to see waterwheels on the side of this kind of big river, because it cannot be brought up at all.

If you want a slow flow rate to drive a waterwheel, you have to build a large enough scraper, and to build a large scraper, you have to build a large enough waterwheel.

Fortunately, Yang Chao effectively imitated the object, there is a similar large waterwheel on the Yellow River, in the Lanzhou River section of the row, later called the Yellow River waterwheel, or Lanzhou waterwheel, is to use the huge waterwheel to use the water of the river with a slightly slower flow rate.

There is a big waterwheel of the Yellow River on the Yellow River, and there can't be a big waterwheel of the Yangtze River on the Yangtze River, so Yang Chao invited craftsmen to build it.

The difference is that Yang Chao wants to challenge the technical difficulty, the Yellow River waterwheel was built in the Ming Dynasty and can reach a diameter of ten zhang, while Yang Chao wants to build a waterwheel with a radius of ten zhang.

For this reason, the spokes of the waterwheel are all made of good wood to build the mast, the wood of ten zhang is very scarce, a wood needs hundreds of taels of silver, and such a large waterwheel, the spokes needed are obviously not one or two, the Lanzhou waterwheel needs sixteen pairs of spokes to support, Yang Chao's waterwheel is larger, thirty-two pairs of spokes are prepared, sixty-four spokes, this batch of wood alone needs to cost nearly 10,000 taels of silver, and this waterwheel was finally built, it must be more than 10,000 taels.

And that's not even counting the construction of water towers, and subsequent ditches and pools.

But the effect is obvious, a large waterwheel in Lanzhou can irrigate seven or eight hundred acres of land, Yangchao's waterwheel is larger, the Yangtze River water is more abundant, and there is also a water tower pool mediation, according to the expectation that this waterwheel can irrigate 10,000 acres of land, the cost of 10,000 taels of silver is not too high.

Although the waterwheel is also being built in exploration, it is much faster than the exchange, after all, wood processing is much easier than stone, and it is expected that the waterwheel will be erected in the spring next year, and the water tower will probably be built.

After seeing the construction site, Yang Chao went to the farmhouse on the wasteland again.

Now this is no longer the emperor, the green grass is verdant, it is like a prairie, except for a few lands planted with grain, the vast majority of places are still planted with grass, every year an acre of grass sold to Yang Chao can earn a tael of silver, even if it grows grain, it is estimated that there is not much yield on this barren sandy land.

Since it is a grassland, it cannot be called a wasteland, and besides, there are now eight villages built on it, large and small, and the people from the same guardhouse, or the people from the adjacent guards, or the people who are related to each other, have gathered spontaneously.

In the past, they first built shacks, and then enclosed land around them, occupying their share of land, and after more than a year of development, new houses have been built one by one, and the rows of brick houses are very beautiful, and the only difference from ordinary villages is probably that there is a serious lack of trees here.

Yang Chao brought more than a dozen personal soldiers to visit these people, and they were all very happy, and they all wanted to leave Yang Chao to eat at their house.

Although there were more than a dozen people, the people were very generous to buy wine and meat to entertain them.

In fact, these people are not poor anymore, and those who can move here to settle down are the families of the group of soldiers who followed Yang Chao to Shanghai Prefecture in the north, and this group of soldiers is now the lowest team, even if they are soldiers who stay in many male elite barracks, they are all first-class soldiers who have seen blood, and the salary is exactly the same as that of the team, at least three taels of silver a month, and dozens of taels of silver a year are not worried about spending at all.

Not to mention that they went to Haizhou with Yang Chao, and each of them brought back hundreds of taels of property to their families.

It's just that their family members are farmers in the end, and they are only down-to-earth when they see the land, so they moved here one by one from the guard, and they don't have to be bullied by the officers of the guard station with Yang Chao's protection, so they are very grateful to Yang Chao in their hearts.

Their good treatment also made the soldiers who quietly slipped away and did not go to Haizhou with Yang Chao regretted it, especially their family members complained about them very much, and they regretted that they had fooled their son to escape from the battle.

Yang Chao went to an officer's house, the family's surname was Zhang, and their son was called Zhang Erba, who had now risen to the rank of general, with 400 people under his command.

Although his son has a good military salary and there is no shortage of food and clothing at home, the Zhang family is very diligent and still wants to see that food can be fetched early on their own land.

Lao Zhang, with his other two sons, a daughter and his wife, cultivated ten acres of paddy fields and filled them with water through wooden barrels.

Yang Chao chose the Zhang family as a guest, which made the old couple of the Zhang family very happy, let the son sell wine and meat, and let the daughter catch the duck in the backyard and kill it.

Seeing the twelve-year-old girl with a ponytail jumping the chickens and dogs of the ducks, Yang Chao felt full of life, but Lao Zhang apologized and said rude.

At this time, the little girl drove an old duck to the outside of the yard, and the old Zhang family was the outermost family in the village, and a few sheets outside the door of the house were his family's paddy fields.

Lao Zhang hurriedly chased out and shouted: "Niuzi chase quickly, don't let the duck eat the ears of rice!" ”

Ducks eat rice?

Yang Chao's heart moved, he remembered that it seemed that ducks could be raised in the rice field, and it was said that ducks don't eat rice seedlings!

This can be said to the old Zhang family, raising ducks in rice fields can fertilize the field, loosen the soil, and get dozens of ducks white. (To be continued)

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