The Ming Dynasty was the last Han dynasty in China, and there were a total of 16 emperors in the 276 years of its existence, and these 16 emperors had different personalities, such as Taizu Zhu Chongba, Chengzu Zhu Di, such as the struggle and pioneering type, such as Renzong Zhu Zhanji's hard work, like the leisurely hedonistic type of Wanli who did not go to court for 30 years, and of course, there are also the most difficult "pit filling shape" like Chongzhen.

It is said that people die and debts are not rotten, and the father's debts and sons come to pay them, it may be that the blessing was enjoyed by the previous emperor, Chongzhen is here to pay off the debt, when he has not yet ascended the throne, for fear of being poisoned by Wei Zhongxian and others, he did not dare to touch the food in the palace for three days, only dared to secretly eat the food he brought, for fear that the little life would cry out before he ascended the throne, and finally became a high emperor, but as soon as he ascended the throne, he encountered the climate of the Xiaoice River raging, there were riots inside, and there were Houjin Tiger Eyes and Delays, and the leaky house happened to rain overnight, and he did not live a comfortable day.

No, the rebellion in Shaanxi has not subsided, the peasant uprising in Shanxi is in full swing, and it is difficult to suppress the momentum, Kong Youde of Dengzhou, Shandong is reversed, this Mao Wenlong's old general, captured Dengzhou in a fit of anger, and sent troops to besiege Laizhou, and cast a shadow on the stormy Ming Dynasty, and the Houjin Iron Cavalry, who was full of plunder, and deliberately provoked, the drought in Shaanxi and other places was severe, and the red land was thousands of miles, but in June, the Yellow River broke in Mengjin, flooded a large area of fields and crops, and killed and injured countless military and civilian merchants. The people migrated, begging for food everywhere, and had no way out, but gathered together and rebelled.

Henan has also become a pot of porridge.

There is also a happy land in the troubled times, Sichuan, which is known as the country of abundance, has experienced the turmoil of the mud, the political situation is generally calm, although there are also small bandits, but it is difficult to become an atmosphere, at least Jiangyou and Guangyuan, which are related to Lu Haoshan, are calm, not only there is no turmoil, but also ushered in a rare harvest in the turmoil.

This is thanks to the large waterwheel designed by Lu Haoshan. Pumping water from low places to high places to irrigate the land, this was originally Lu Haoshan's work mode in order to improve the secret workshop, using water power to drive hammering iron used to make guns, and pumping water to the fields of military households by the way in order to cover people's eyes, Zhao Min saw the benefits of this waterwheel, and pestered Lu Haoshan to build a few for Zhaojia Village.

This is the Xiaoice period. Although Sichuan is said to be the country of abundance, but the drought is only a little lighter than other places, not that there is not, those lands have a great demand for water, and there are many rivers in Sichuan, such as the Luo River, Jialing River, Tuo River, Fu River, Wujiang River, Jinsha River, etc., and there are more tributaries, and Lu Haoshan's waterwheel can effectively pump up the water in the river, especially in those places where the water level is low. There were many people who came to the door, so Lu Haoshan simply organized the craftsmen of the health center to set up a team specially responsible for building waterwheels.

It is erected where it is needed, and it doesn't matter if the water is not in a hurry. Design for you to pull with livestock, don't be afraid if you don't have livestock, design manual for you, anyway, these are pediatrics for Lu Haoshan. Of course, these are not for nothing, and they all have to be paid. Lu Haoshan doesn't want anything else, as long as the grain, he only charges a little cost in the name of it, but he collects the grain first and then works, so as not to pull the skin later.

This was liked by the people, for whom they would be less exploited by the merchants again.

Those landlords and squires also like, for them, the rice grain is more, the yellow and white things are the most important to them, it can be said that they are all happy, Lu Haoshan designed the waterwheel, exquisite, scientific, high efficiency, at the beginning of the good quality, very popular, in Sichuan can be said to be prosperous, in the end the king of Shu also sent someone to find Lu Haoshan to order a hundred waterwheels to his Huangzhuang pumping, so that Lu Haoshan is speechless is that the rich king of Shu, the price of the country before and after several times to negotiate, and later he also paid with old grain.

Sure enough, it's stingy.

However, this does not hurt Lu Haoshan to earn a lot of money, not only the fields of the guard to get a bumper harvest, to help others set up waterwheels, the original more than ten people to the end of a large number of military households to join, the development of a team of more than 200 people, divided into several batches to go to the field to catch grain, materials are prepared, Lu Haoshan's people are responsible for the construction, the big waterwheel 30 stone grain, the medium waterwheel 20 stone grain, the small one also needs 10 stone grain, a few months to build more than 400 waterwheels, just the king of Shu Wang Zhuang earned 2,700 stone grain, this is the result of discounts, earned a total of tens of thousands of stone of grain for Lu Haoshan, which woke Lu Haoshan up with a smile.

And this business is still coming.

In terms of tea, Hao Lin'an, Liu Liu, Ke Tianfei and others under Shaanxi Shenyikui revolted again, turning Shaanxi into a pot of porridge, so that the local tea and horse division did nothing, cheapened the Zhao family, and bought in Shaanxi, no one else could compete with him, it was very simple, Lu Haoshan guarded the door to Sichuan, others just thought about it, in Sichuan, there was Han Wendeng as a backer, and he also got acquainted with a lot of real power people at the birthday banquet, so that the acquisition work was very smooth, and he suppressed competitors here, The inaction of the officials who bribed the Tea and Horse Division over there, coupled with the cooperation of Cai Zhongjin of Zitianguan and Sha'er Ke Wanhu Pubu, the Zhao family, with the help of Lu Haoshan, accounted for most of the tea and horse trade, and made a lot of money like a pig cage in water, and as soon as the tea and horse trade ended, more than half of Lu Haoshan's 3,000 subordinates had been replaced with horses for training.

Transformed by infantry cavalry.

There are also gratifying progress in science and technology, after blast furnace ironmaking, the quality of iron has been qualitatively improved, after nearly half a year of hard work, Lu Haoshan set up a secret workshop can not only repair all kinds of muskets, make their own gunpowder, but also create the first high-quality bird gun.

That's right, it's still a bird's gun, although Lu Haoshan has relevant drawings and the principle is explained clearly, but there are too many technical details involved, and every detail is a difficulty, which needs to be overcome one by one, although some progress has been made, but there is still a lot of distance from the present world, fortunately, Lu Haoshan is not in a hurry, and comforts Xu Xiang from time to time, so that he can overcome it patiently, not afraid of failure, and not afraid of waste.

Rich, capricious.

Either you don't do it, or you have to do it well, and when the era of thermal weapons comes, those rotten old forces will fall devastated.

Of course, Lu Haoshan is not without deeds, training troops, making money, and developing new weapons are all correct, in addition to trying to maintain and expand his original human network, he also secretly sent people around to buy grain, transported to a safe place to store it, all of them are prosperous times to collect gold in troubled times, and when encountering this disaster Xiaoice for many years, food is more expensive than gold.

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, this is a year of many disasters and difficulties, this is a year of political turmoil, but for Lu Haoshan, it is a very meaningful year, because it is also this year, Lu Haoshan has his own territory and manpower, improves the construction of the army and establishes the line of development, and his strength has been greatly improved.

Although Lu Haoshan said that he wanted to make meritorious service and exchange military merit for a bigger position, and if he had a bigger position, he would have more power to speak, but there had been no movement in the imperial court, and when Lu Haoshan estimated that this year could be passed peacefully, he did not expect that something happened in Han Wendeng's mansion, so that Lu Haoshan had to rush back to Guangyuan without even drinking the longevity wine. (To be continued......)

PS: This chapter is a bit difficult to write