But where does the money come from? But it made Zhang Buyun confused, he had been coming to the Zhao family for several months, but the Zhao family spent money like running water.

What makes Zhang Buyun remember the most is the cost of the Zhao family when he fought the thieves.

At that time, Zhang Buyun almost died in the army of thieves, and later learned that the Zhao family was a victory piled up by silver, and after returning to Zhaojia Village, he sent 110,000 silver to him.

110,000 taels of silver, plus the cost of tuntian, buying land, ploughing cattle, farm tools, and rations, if added up, it is definitely a terrifying number.

A few days ago, he made 8,000 taels of silver from Gaojiazhai, but compared to the total amount, it was still a drop in the bucket.

Where did the money come from? Zhang Buyun was very puzzled. However, Zhang Buyun is now one of the thirty tun chiefs under the Zhao family, and his status in the Zhao family has not been able to touch the core things.

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The Zhao family opened a porridge shed in Huangxian and Zhaoyuan, and gave porridge to those homeless people every time, and at the same time recruited homeless people to go to Zhaojiabao in the place where the porridge shack was located.

The news of the soup soup in Huangxian and Zhaoyuan soon spread, and those homeless people who usually had no food began to pour into these two places in large numbers.

At first, the county magistrates of Huangxian and Zhaoyuan were shocked, and then they were relieved to see that the Zhao family was gathering the displaced people, as long as these hungry people did not make trouble under the rule, it was best for the Zhao family to take away these unstable factors.

In less than half a month, the number of migrants in Zhaojiapu increased by thousands, and these people did not settle in the hoard, but let them work and work for relief.

If the three tunji want to build forts, it is naturally indispensable to use some manpower. These free laborers who take care of the food can save the cost of building forts.

After reaching this number, Zhao Yan put the plan to build a fort on his desk.

In the construction of Zhaojia Fort, Pingkou Fort, and Anmin Fort, the forts built are for the fortress, which is a kind of fortress that can resist the attack of primary artillery.

The bastion is a type of ancient fortress, the essence of which is to change the fortress from a convex polygon to a concave polygon, so that no matter what point is attacked in the castle, the attacking team will expose the attacking team to more than one bastion surface (usually 2-3), and the defender can use crossfire to perform multiple strikes.

Prior to the Gunpowder Age, fort walls were usually built tall and reinforced with stone or brick, with towers or horse faces for additional firepower. If anything, some particularly fortified cities have more than one wall.

However, the fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD, with its well-developed city defense system, heralded a new phase in the city's offensive and defensive warfare. The next brief period was the golden age of the attacking side, with fortress after fortress succumbing to the might of the cannons. However, if there is a spear, there must be a shield, but in half a century, a new type of city defense system, the fortress, has appeared on the stage of history.

The fortress was still okay to deal with the Manchu artillery, and after Kong Youde's rebellion, Kong Youde, who was weak, surrendered to the Manchus and brought Hongyi cannons to the Manchus.

These Hongyi cannons were sold by the Portuguese, and the Portuguese brought the technology to cast Hongyi cannons, and the artillery of Kong Youde's troops received artillery training from the Portuguese, which greatly improved the Manchu Qing's ability to attack fortifications.

No matter how the nomads develop, their ability to attack fortifications is very backward. But artillery has changed that.

Just in case, Zhao Yan decided to build three fortresses in Laowo to defend, so as not to be destroyed by the enemies he might encounter in the future.

At the same time, he will teach the fortress building technique, and if he wants to occupy any place in the future, he will build a fortress.

First of all, a cement plant, a brick factory, a quarry, and the quarry in turn needed a gunpowder factory.

The brick factory does not need any technical surname, what is needed is manpower, and there is no need for Zhao Yan to be technical, as long as there are manpower.

The cement factory and the gunpowder factory needed Zhao Yan to teach, and there was no cement in this era. The process of the gunpowder factory is more complicated, although the gunpowder produced by the gunpowder factory in the Ming Dynasty has been infinitely close to the peak of black powder, but the problem is that Zhao Yan has no talent in his hands, and he also needs to teach him by hand.

At the same time, the most important thing at present is to train the army, and the muskets must be prepared as soon as possible. After all, the longbowmen could not develop in a few years, and they had to use muskets as their main weapons.

In terms of firearms, craftsmen like Zhou Blacksmith can make them, but the muskets they make cannot meet Zhao Yan's requirements, and they need Zhao Yan to teach.

Zhao Yan only had 40,000 taels left in his hand, and the silver in his hand was already a little nervous. Therefore, making money should also be put on the desk, and the project that can make money at present is naturally glass.

Glass can not only make mirrors, but also make many glassware and works of art. There are also telescopes needed for military purposes, and the glasssmiths also have to be taught by Zhao Yan, and then let them study it themselves.

The so-called soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, and Zhao Yan first built a glass factory. Now there are enough men to control the glass-making craftsmen and prevent them from escaping.

Even if the glassmaker is well treated, it is inevitable that some craftsmen will run away.

Because the profits of glass mirrors are crazy, naturally some people are willing to take out their wealth to dig into the corners, and not many people will resist such a temptation.

It was the French who dug the corners of the wall, which put an end to the Italian monopoly on glass mirrors, which happened a few years ago.

The Italians, who have leaked the technology of making mirrors in recent times.

In order to prevent the leakage of manufacturing technology, Zhao Yan planned to build a small fort next to the small fort in Zhaojia Village, and then build a big fort to surround the small fort in Zhaojia Village and the small fort specially used for the production of glass on the side.

This small castle will be used as a world of reading, where outsiders are not close and insiders are not out. The glazier will live inside, and the Zhao family will provide them with good food and clothing, but they will not be able to step out of the small castle, and at the same time, they will be placed under strict guards.

Zhao Yan did not intend to monopolize glass products for too long, the times must always develop, these ordinary technologies must always be made public, maybe ten years later, they can regain their freedom.

It seems to be a big price, but the treatment of the glass factory is crazy, and it doesn't matter to them what they are not allowed to go out for ten years.

Because they don't even have enough to eat.

Zhao Yan recruited hundreds of young men from among the displaced people, and then began to teach them how to make glass, most of whom were responsible for making glassware and handicrafts.

These are all technology required, Italians make lifelike glass products, that's because they have enough time to accumulate and research, Zhao Yan only knows technology, but to let him make glass crafts, that's impossible, he will only make some glasses, glass bowls, and it's more ugly.

Therefore, these must be studied slowly, and their treatment will also be improved by craftsmanship, and the lowest apprenticeship is five taels of silver per month, and if it costs money, ask someone to go out and buy what they need.

The glass mirrors were made separately from the glaziers, who only had to hold the finished glass and plate it with silver. There is an advantage after separation, that is, the glass-maker does not know how to make a mirror, and the mirror-maker does not know how to make glass.

The technology of making glass in the West is not a secret, but it is a secret in the East.

The caravan is also about to be formed, and only with the caravan can the mirrors and glass products be sold, and Zhao Quan is in charge of this, and several experienced shopkeepers have been recruited.

Zhao Quan, as the old servant of the Zhao family, now has a heavy burden on his shoulders. is almost coordinating the overall situation, and he is responsible for recruiting displaced people and managing tuntian.

Zhao Yan planned to let Zhao Quan be in charge of the business part, and Tuntian and recruit the displaced people to find someone else to be in charge. So Zhao Quan was observing the abilities of each tun chief.

Among them, the most active tun chief is Zhang Buyun, Zhang Buyun can see that if he wants to enter the core of the Zhao family, he must rely on his strength to speak, so he is very active in Tuntian.

But Zhang Buyun is not the most capable, the strongest management ability is a tun chief named Tang Zhengze, Tang Zhengze is a child, born in a peasant family, because there is no money to study, so he has been a housekeeper in the landlord's house, and he is simply handy in Tuntian, ploughing cattle, farm tools, housing, water conservancy, and farming are handled in an orderly manner.

It's just that Tang Zhengze doesn't have Zhang Buyun's knowledge, although Zhang Buyun is positive, many things on Tuntian are handled more jerky.

The two of them have their own expertise.

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After the completion of the glass factory, a batch of glass mirrors was made, and Zhao Quan stopped the caravan, plus two Wu family members escorted him, and went to Jinan City again.

This time I went to Jinan City, in addition to transporting back the grain left in Jinan City, the main task was to connect with the merchants of the Shandong Gang, so that the glass mirror had a stable sales channel.

Zhao Yan led people to start leading people to engage in construction, and he was so busy with the construction of various factories that he couldn't touch the ground.

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