In April, it finally slowly calmed down, fewer relatives came to the door, and the officialdom slowly returned to calm.

Yang Chao's pro-soldier team candidates have also been decided, and a large number of capable veterans have been drawn from various teams, all of whom have seen blood, but have little interest in command, and are reckless men with simple minds and well-developed limbs, and those who have a little brain, Yang Chao is more willing to promote those people to be officers.

had a good talk with Zhao Kang, although his uncle gave Yang Chao a headache, but Yang Chao found that it was not Zhao Kang who asked his father to go to Yang's house to intercede.

Yang Chao has been with Zhao Kang for so long, and he grew up together since childhood, and he knows that this cousin is still very strong sometimes.

Last year, Yang Chao cooled him for half a year, but this kid just didn't say a word, he should be training and burying himself in training, and he didn't complain.

It's just that when I was training, I was very good, I wounded several soldiers, and I was beaten with a military stick several times, but I still went my own way, not remembering what I ate or not remembering, but I was too eager to make meritorious contributions.

But among the eight generals, it is always Wang Pu and many men who take the first and second, and the other teams are almost giving up to compete with these two people, but Zhao Kang has not given up, although in the end he has not been able to catch up with the records of these two people, but the skills of the soldiers under him are already second only to many men and Wang Pu's soldiers.

Yang Chao just wanted to sharpen Zhao Kang's temperament and make him more stable, and he didn't ask him to have much ability, the reason why he was the first to find him was because he was his cousin, and he would not betray himself, so sooner or later he would have to reuse him.

After grinding for so long, this kid was not depressed, and couldn't help but make Yang Chao feel satisfied, originally Yang Chao planned to comfort him when he couldn't hold on. And then continue to grind, who would have thought that he would have been silent all the time, when his uncle came to the house. I didn't say that Zhao Kang complained, but he was positive to Zhao Kang. And Wang Pu is not satisfied.

"Kang'er, my pro-soldier team still lacks a captain, you can be the captain of my pro-soldiers, tentatively designated as the flag commander!"

Zhao Kang was speechless when he heard this, he held his breath for more than half a year, worked hard to train the army, and tried to find Jiang bandits, isn't it just for promotion. Now that I'm promoted, I'm a little overwhelmed, as if I've lost my strength.

But he was still very happy, and immediately thanked him: "Thank you, it was promoted by adults." ”

Yang Chao smiled: "It's okay to call cousin when no one is around. ”

If the temperament is sharpened, Yang Chao will not have to be stubborn.

Although it is not good to use family affection to envelop his subordinates, compared to others replacing soldiers with family members, Yang Chao has done a good job, after all, he has to take into account the reality of the Ming Dynasty.

All I want is a peace of mind, a moment of hope for a dangerous time on the battlefield. You will not be betrayed by your men, you will not be betrayed, you will not be abandoned.

"Here's a list. You take the list and pick people. Forget it, you go to Lu Mo and ask him to pick out these soldiers with you! ”

Yang Chao said.

In this list, all of them fought with the Jiang bandits last year and had seen blood, but because of their limited abilities, Yang Chao did not plan to promote them to officers, so they were drawn into his own personal army as elite soldiers.

Zhao Kang took the list, and he basically didn't know the words on it. Hearing his cousin's slightly disappointed tone, Zhao Kang suddenly gritted his teeth.

"Cousin. I'm going to be good at literacy this year! ”

Yang Chao didn't expect Zhao Kang to have such a statement, so he was stunned for a moment and encouraged: "Okay." Have a backbone! As long as you are literate, I will be the first to mention you and let you be the boss! ”

Construction is still underway in the barracks these days, and the location of the construction is the place where Chen Kuan vacated a few pigsties, and these rooms are to be repaired with bathhouses.

As early as last year, Yang Chao told the craftsman about the request to repair the bathhouse, and he was still the craftsman who built the barracks for himself and built a house for his own family.

Because Yang Chao was quite satisfied with the quality of the two cooperations, especially his own house, the materials were not discounted, so he won Yang Chao's credit, and this time he still found him.

It's just that the craftsman has never made a bathhouse, so he soaked in the urn hall for a month a year ago.

There is an urn hall near Bao'en Temple in the south of the city, which is a bathhouse for more than 200 years, which is said to have been built by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang for the laborers who built the city wall.

A large iron pot is buried under the bath in the urn hall, and people can heat the whole pool of water by burning a fire under the iron pot. The pool is built on the house, the roof is semicircular, like an inverted urn, the heat in the pool rises, all gathered in the room, can maintain the temperature, the water vapor evaporated to the roof flows down along the roof wall, will not drip on the person.

This bathroom has been used from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the 21st century, the design is very reasonable, Yang Chao believes that it is borrowed from the structure of the hammam, the Yuan Dynasty Mongols in Central Asia, Europe had captured many craftsmen, I dare not say whether it was those craftsmen, brought this style of skills to China.

Yang Chao pointed out to the craftsman that he wanted to build an urn hall in the barracks, and the craftsman had to take a bath for many days, just to find out the structure of the urn.

In addition to the bathhouse, there is also a small piece of construction on the playground.

The playground is also different from what it used to be, with a big shed in the middle.

The skeleton of the wooden planks is inlaid with pieces of bright tile boards.

These Ming tile boards are still used in the Liu family's workshop.

Because Liu Dongjia has the cheapest price, Yang Chao is happy to use it, of course, Liu Dongjia is not cheap because of the relationship, but because the cost is really low.

Because the Liu family workshop made window tile glass for Yang Chao, it made a lot of molds as big as large windows, and it was very easy to make flat Ming tile boards, and it was poured and pressed.

Therefore, they dare to offer a low price.

Now the greenhouse in the barracks is made of a bright tile board as big as the window of the Jinhai Tower, and the bright tile board can be inlaid on the window and can be inlaid on the greenhouse.

In order to build this shed, Yang Chao invested 2,000 taels of silver, and this was just a greenhouse the size of one acre.

An acre of land is tiled down to have more than 2,000 Ming tile boards, and Liu Dongjia offered one or two silver for one such Ming tile board, so as long as the investment is the price of Ming tile boards, as for the wooden frame and carpenter, the total is less than ten taels of silver.

This investment made Li Fu uneasy, and he always felt that he would not be able to make back his capital no matter what.

Fortunately, Yang Chao comforted him, lost Yang Chao's, and earned everyone's accounts.

Even so, Li Fu was still very unsteady, when the snow had not disappeared, he cultivated seedlings in his house, and burned more than 2,000 catties of charcoal for this purpose, spending nearly ten taels of silver, spending money is still a trivial matter, and he was almost poisoned because of this, and had a headache for several days.

But the effort is always rewarded, and finally some cress and greens have grown seedlings and planted in the greenhouse.

After about a month or two, the vegetables can be delivered, half a month to a month earlier than the vegetables of other vegetable farmers, and they should be able to sell at a good price. In this year, the weather is cold and the winter is long, so you may not be able to eat fresh vegetables in spring, and the large-scale listing of vegetables is even more in summer, so the rich people who are tired of eating cellar cabbage and pickled radishes are probably willing to spend a little money and eat fresh vegetables in advance.

Watching Li Fu and his family carry water from the river, water the vegetable seedlings, and carefully check if there are any insects, as always.

Yang Chao did not regret leaving their family here to continue to grow vegetables, and I have to say that watching the Li family serve this land as an ancestor every day made Yang Chao feel some compassion, so he did not ruthlessly take away their family's land, and was willing to leave a piece of green in the middle of the playground.

took the initiative to find Li Fu and told him that when the food was served, he was willing to underwrite, and the price was ten times the usual price.

One mu of vegetables and ten acres of grain, the income of vegetable land is higher, Yang Chao is willing to multiply it tenfold, then the profit can be called a huge profit.

In the past, one acre of vegetable land could make Li Fu earn three or five taels of silver, which was ten times more than thirty or fifty taels.

Li Fu calculated, all the vegetables in this shed were sold, and there would be about fifty taels of silver.

Relative to the investment of two thousand taels, fifty taels of silver is really not enough, no wonder greenhouse vegetables will not be promoted until the 21st century, it is estimated that the main reason is the cost problem.

Fifty taels of silver, go out for labor, etc., there are more than forty taels, the profit is very high, but the cost is too high, and it is not cost-effective to grow vegetables.

But it's not cost-effective to grow vegetables, is it cost-effective to plant others? Such as melons and fruits, such as flowers!

Yang Chao said his thoughts, and Li Fu said that he could think about it, but it was going to be tested in autumn, just in time for the New Year, after all, during the New Year, prices are the best.

Yang Chao is a Qinglou business, and he knows some of the market, knowing that at the most expensive time, a flower can sometimes be sold for one or two silver, and an acre of land to plant flowers, how can you plant hundreds or thousands, sell at a good price, and collect the cost in a year, so that the cost of raising flowers is higher. (To be continued)