Shan County and Yutai, near Xuzhou, received enough relief, which was not to give grain and money in vain, but to recruit people to dig ditches, build manors, and then convert them into wages, so that most people in the two counties would have work to do and not freeze and starve.

Especially in the place near the canal in Guting Town, the wharf was rebuilt, and the warehouse was covered, and the knowledgeable people went to see it, saying that it was the appearance of a new wine mill to be built here, which was a double benefit, Guting Town already had a grain inflow, and it was a small market with the canal boat trade, and it was very advantageous to build a wine shop here.

Because of the construction of these projects, a large number of local workers and farmers were hired, and after the disaster, Yutai and Shanxian counties not only did not wither, but appeared to be a bit prosperous, and the two counties all knew that they did not have to pay the Liao salary this year, and this mood was also different.

But in this catastrophe season, traffic is cut off everywhere, and there is a know of what the outside looks like, not to mention that Yutai and Shanxian have not suffered seriously, and suddenly there is a message that these two counties are entrenched in strongmen, and the disaster victims are like cattle and horses, and they are arrested and sold and eat and drink blood.

After the Shandong earthquake in February, there were not many Shandong displaced people in Xuzhou, but there were a lot of people from Henan, and the victims wanted to move, and they also needed food.

After the consumption of winter, the beginning of February was about to help the time when there was no interruption, and then caught up with the earthquake, the only little inventory was buried under the ruins, and the snow was worse, and the road was also a disaster area in the earthquake area, and it was difficult to get supplies on the road, not to mention that there were wolves and tigers on the road, and there were inhumane horse bandits.

The only chance of life is in the local area, either to collect the inventory of the victims, or to loot the villagers, or to attack the government and local big households in a group to see if they can grab something

And on the Henan side, it is the normal persecution of Liao, and if you can't pay the imperial grain, you can only sell the land, and the vassal prince's mansion and the county prince's mansion take the opportunity to annex it, and those who can be kept as tenant serfs are burned incense in their previous lives, and those who can't stay can only come to Xuzhou to seek a way to survive.

In February, Yunshan Xing in Henan, Shandong and Nanzhili's Fengyang Mansion, Huai'an Mansion to buy land, Henan is okay, Shandong and Fengyang Mansion and Huai'an Mansion, the land price is very cheap, you are not a nobleman, this acre of land is not an industry, but a life talisman, you do not have the identity and power to avoid taxes, the government officials and servants want to urge countless money from this acre of land, how to bear it, everyone knows this routine, who dares to sell, the price is naturally very cheap, many people even abandon the ancestral field, went out to beg to escape the famine, and didn't even want to sell.

Relying on these cheap land, Zhao Ziying has established a manor, and the people in the grange are all displaced people from all over the country, the official face of the people, no one dares to collect the taxes and conscription of the Zhao family grange without opening their eyes, for the people of Limin, this field is a rope that is tightened more and more tightly around the neck, but for Zhao Jin, it is a good land for life.

By the second half of February, the chaos in Shandong had intensified, the local government and the powerful households were almost unable to sustain themselves, the victims of the disaster were gathering more and more to make trouble, and the battles with the officials and regiments were becoming more and more fierce, and they did not care about their own lives at all.

The reason is very simple, in addition to the despair of famine and hunger, the imperial court issued an order on February 14 that Beizhili would be tired for many years, so that it would not be sent to increase its dispatch, and that there would be a division to train the township soldiers, and that the refugees from Liaodong would return to the interior, and the grain should be relieved to reclaim the wasteland.

Beizhili, who did not make a disaster, was exempted from various additional commissions and salaries, and when it encountered a catastrophe, Shandong, which has been burdened with a heavy burden, could not reduce or reduce taxes, and the imperial court didn't care whether we lived or died, so why should we care, let's make trouble

"This approach can not be said to be wrong, Beizhili Gongwei Jingshi, if the Beizhili provinces are unstable, Jingshi will naturally have disasters, appeasing the people of Beizhili is good for Jingshi, and Liaozhen has completely collapsed, a large number of Liaozhen people poured into the Guannei, and chose to settle in Beizhili, there must be all kinds of rights and wrongs, if you use Liao's salary to chase and force, it will definitely make a big fuss. As for this Shandong place, who cares if it is far away. ”

When he said this, Zhao Jin was in the weapons workshop of Zhao Ziying, and the newcomer gambler Lao Mai may not have much ability, but it made Louie's master and servant and blacksmiths work harder.

This time, Zhao was invited to come to the workshop because he had made progress in manufacturing artillery, and this time he wanted to show his merit with Zhao Jin.

For everyone in the Zhao Ziying system, the Zhao Jin they know is always very calm, moving forward calmly at his own pace, and not moved by foreign objects, but there is an exception, that is, this firearm, what is related to firearms and cannons, Zhao Jin will always be interested.

Many people think that they have found the step to the body, and all kinds of inexplicable designs have been sent, at this time, the literati are also good at talking about military firearms, but there is no shortage of words and graphics, and many things are known to be nonsense at a glance, for example, they can shoot lead iron projectiles, and they can fire, and there is an iron umbrella in front of them, and finally they can be picked up as iron rods, but such heavy things, how to carry, how to load, then no one mentioned.

There is also the design of the kind of pipa, saying that as long as you play, you can fire in a row, saying that it is magical, in fact, it is also ridiculous, such a structure is too delicate, when the first fire, the gunpowder ignition will destroy all the machines, and the second one cannot be played at all.

These two are quite reliable, and there are more other strange things, similar things elsewhere, Zhao Jin will not pay attention to them at all, but he will personally check this one, and he will find a craftsman to come over to discuss.

Not everyone is a liar, and one person got Zhao Jin's reward, which was five hundred taels of silver, which was a fortune that allowed the family to live a good life for a lifetime

It was a blacksmith of the Xu family who got this windfall, and his method was also very simple, that is, to make an iron frame, fix a number of fire guns on the shelf, load the ammunition in advance, and ignite the fire when firing, so that the device can shoot multiple lead shots at the same time.

The blacksmith who designed this was very thoughtful, and he improved and strengthened the cart, put the iron frame on the cart, and dragged it with oxen and horses, which was much more convenient.

Moreover, the cart can hold heavier things, and the iron frame that holds multiple firearms can also be layered to make it more powerful when firing.

In the eyes of everyone, such a firearm is nothing, and such an improvement is not uncommon, but it is just a dozen or dozens of firearms tied together, child's play is very, such a Ming to Jin Ye, even if Jin Ye does not laugh, he will feel ashamed, when the blacksmith trusteeship was handed over, he was also ridiculed by the steward, saying that we are the slaves of the eldest lady, and our own family should not lose the face of our own family.

No one expected that after this set of things was handed over, it was actually used by the master, and he directly rewarded the silver, which was not enough, and he called over to ask for an interview, and he really had a complete face.

This blacksmith is an orphan adopted by the Xu family since childhood, and with the surname Xu of the Xu family, he is the first son of the Xu family.

Everyone was dumbfounded for such and such rewards, but then they were all dumbfounded, Jin Ye actually let this Yu Shan be the deputy head of the workshop, what is this? All of a sudden, he went from having a son at home to becoming a master.

People who knew about this thought that Zhao Jin was buying horse bones in Qianjin, but then the things designed by Yu Shan began to be manufactured, and everyone realized that Zhao Jin really valued the value of this thing.

In the end, there are several kinds of products, one is designed by the blacksmith, there are one layer, there are also multiple layers, one layer can be moved by manpower push and pull, and the multi-layer one needs to use cattle and horses, which are assembled with multiple firearms, and there is a layer of firearms with a larger caliber, a layer of six to eight guns, shooting about four taels of iron bullets, this thing is already similar to a small cannon.

Blacksmith Yu Shan was also arranged to manufacture artillery with a few foreigners, and his improvement and reinforcement of the cart this time was of great significance to the manufacture of artillery and artillery carts.

For the blacksmith Yu Shan to join the research, the foreigner Louis didn't feel anything, but for the reward of the blacksmith Yu Shan, he and that old wheat beat their chests.

"Honorable lord, we can also build this organ, and if you mentioned it earlier, we should take this bounty."

"He didn't make it like you made it." Zhao Jin replied briefly.

In the West of the same era, there was indeed something similar, which fixed a number of firearms together and ignited them, causing instantaneous dense firepower, but it was not widely used, first because of its bulkiness, and secondly, because of its limited range, such a "pipe organ" was not much stronger than the same number of soldiers shooting with firearms, and it was even worse than artillery.

The blacksmith Yu Shan made this kind of thing, in Daming actually has something similar, but that is to use a wooden box grid to shoot rockets, instead of a collection of fire guns to shoot, that is called "a swarm of bees", everyone directly called this "a nest of fire", but it is also very vivid.

However, this breakthrough in artillery manufacturing is also due to the fact that with this improved and reinforced cart in Yushan, after several people summed it up, they directly took the structure of the cart and used it as a gun carriage for artillery.

Zhao Ziying's firearms workshop is in a grange, which was originally the Zhuangzi of Yunshan Temple, which is far away from Hejiazhuang.

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