Chapter 548 Liaodong Tape Measure

The first assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty is the pinnacle of life, whether it is fame or profit, it can be achieved double.

Zhou Yanru is a member of the Donglin Party, and his ascension to the throne is naturally beneficial to the Donglin Party, but the problem is that he also wants to sit on that chair! knocked down Wen Tiren and asked Zhou Yanru to go up, when will it be his turn to pay someone!

Zhou Yanru received the help of Huayang Club and was ready to take advantage of the situation to bring down the Wen Pavilion, Qian Qianyi sat with Zhou Yanru on the front foot to discuss the collapse of the cabinet, and he sold Zhou Yanru on the back foot.

changed hands and cooperated with Wen Tiren, preparing to snipe Zhou Yanru into the cabinet again.

Wen Tiren is not a member of the Donglin Party, his relationship with the Donglin Party has always been delicate, on the one hand, the Donglin Party has been suppressed, but on the other hand, the Donglin Party has a lot of dependence and cooperation, it can only be said that he and the Donglin Party are really a pair of good friends who love and kill each other.

learned from Qian Qianyi that after Zhou Yanru, a good friend, conspired, Wen Tiren didn't even have the strength to be angry, and took the secret report and smiled bitterly: "Fall into the cabinet, fall into the cabinet, and fall into the cabinet again!" These hypocrites really regard the downfall of the cabinet as a universal golden pill that can cure all diseases, and they really think that if they change someone to sit on the old man's chair, they will be able to deal with the surname Quan? ”

His current situation is quite bad, he is simply not human inside and out. On the surface, his cabinet was the most successful since Zhang Juzheng, first curbing the flood of rogues and stabilizing the situation, and then Guangning won a great victory, killing and capturing as many as 50,000 enemies, which was the first achievement since the Liao Incident;

With the power of this great victory, the Ming army annihilated the 500,000 rogues who were blocked in the Yiluo River valley and flowed into Zhending Mansion with the momentum of the autumn wind sweeping the leaves, and the rebellion that plagued the Ming Dynasty for twenty or thirty years was finally put down.

This great feat, even compared with the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, is not much inferior, and he, the first assistant, deserves to go down in history.

However, what made him extremely embarrassed was that none of these exploits seemed to have anything to do with him, the battle of Guangning was fought by Quan Xu and Lu Xiangsheng, and the pacification of the Liukou was also arranged by Tianxiongjun and Lu Xiangsheng, and he had nothing to do.

Due to the rapid expansion of Quanxu's power, and the cabinet has never been able to come up with an effective way to contain it, the Wenchen group is very dissatisfied with him, the first assistant, and if this continues, the military generals will turn the sky upside down.

In Wenchen's opinion, what are you doing as a shoufu to eat!? And the side effects of the Wenchen Group's long-term unscrupulous suppression and bullying of military generals are becoming increasingly apparent, what will you bastards do except cause trouble for us?

The Manchu forces became more and more dissatisfied with him, and when a cabinet chief assistant reached this point, he could be regarded as a complete failure.

Faced with this situation, Wen Renti had a headache.

"Accept it, what should the old man do now?"

Although he successfully prevented Qian Qianyi from entering the cabinet, it does not mean that Qian Qianyi is incapable. Wen Tiren asked Qian Qianyi for advice, not that he didn't have a real way, but by starting up, giving Qian Qianyi a step of relaxation, and the two sides could become friends.

This is the damn political struggle, there is no right or wrong, there is no right and wrong, only interests.

Qian Qianyi said with a smile: "The gang of shafters in Huayang Society don't conspire with each other, Donglin Party, it's no longer the original, why not ......"

In fact, the relationship between Qian Qianyi and Huayang Club is also a cooperative relationship, he is an opposition party person, and he is not afraid of Huayang Club at all, Huayang Society's methods are okay to deal with ordinary people, but not to deal with Quan Xu, and not to deal with Qian Qianyi.

Quan Xu is Huayang Club can't kill if he wants to, and Qian Qianyi is Huayang Club doesn't dare to kill, because killing him, the consequences are quite serious, Qian Qianyi is not alone, there are many people behind him, and the counterattack is quite fierce, Huayang Club can't help but consider the consequences.

Wen Tiren instantly understood Qian Qianyi's thoughts, Quan Xu's struggle with him, to put it bluntly, is just ideology, Daming does not have a martial arts cabinet, and Quan Xu, who was born as a martial artist, has no chance to enter the cabinet.

In other words, Quan Xu actually poses the least threat to Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Zhou Yanru used to be Chongzhen's confidant and former first assistant, once he enters the cabinet, then replacing him is the most likely.

Since the Donglin Party and Huayang Society didn't let him have a good time, that one used his strength to fight, and with the power of Quan Xu, he arrested Huayang Society and Donglin Party and put him to death.

As long as Quan Xu announced the officials in the Liaodong Industrial and Commercial Times, Wen Tiren ordered the Criminal Department and Dali Temple to jointly investigate.

Of course, one check is accurate, and for half a month, the three Donglin Party bigwigs fell from power, and the end was unanimous, and they wiped out their families.

Part of the family property was confiscated, part of it was greedy for ink, and part of it was divided, which can be said to be a great joy.

A fleet of ships from the Republic of the Venetian city-state arrived in Liaodong, this time with not only three hundred and fifty-one Shire horses, but also a tall and sturdy horse.

In fact, the quality of European war horses has not been very good, and when the Mongols went west, European knights found that the quality of their war horses was far inferior to that of the Mongols.

Fortunately, in the Crusades, a large number of excellent Arab war horse breeds were transported back to Europe, crossed with European native horse breeds, and after hundreds of years of breeding, they finally came out of the blue and had the best war horses in the world.

No, the European war horses in the horse farm are unusually tall and strong, with oily manes, loud neighing, and quite hot tempers, which make Quan Xu's eyes shine.

He personally picked a gray war horse and rode it, galloped on it, and only dismounted after he was too addicted, patting the body of the war horse that seemed to have just moved and shouting: "Good horse, good horse!" This endurance and explosiveness are more than enough to chase down the six legs of the Jiannu cavalry! ”

Helena looked at Quan Xu with a happy face, and said with a smile: "You are right, this is the best war horse in Europe, these horses come from Poland, and they are crossed with Mongolian war horses and Polish horses to breed excellent horse breeds, these war horses can carry a weight of more than 200 catties and quickly carry out a thousand-mile maneuver, and they can immediately charge after a little rest, which is a rare horse." ”

"Bragging, not drafting!"

Quan Xu stared at Helena and said, "I admit that this kind of horse has a good charging speed, faster than the Mongolian horse, and slightly better endurance, but it is far less than the Mongolian horse!" ”

Helena pointed to the horses and said, "You can try! ”

"I don't have to try to know!"

Quan Xu sneered: "Carrying two hundred catties and maneuvering? That's at least half of it! But this horse is really good, with it, the impact of our lancers will become more powerful, and even the first wave of charges will give the enemy a devastating blow! ”

Quan Xu looked at the horses in the horse farm, the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he became, and pointed to Yuan Zongdi beside him and said, "Go over and pick one!" ”

"Master Xie!"

Yuan Zongdi ran to the racecourse excitedly, he did not choose this kind of Polish horse, but the kind of tall Shire horse.

"You have a fart for choosing a Shire horse, this kind of horse is too slow to be used as a war horse, and one horse eats more than four horses!"

Yuan Zongdi retorted: "Then you don't understand, this kind of horse is used to plough the land, and one horse can be faster than six horses!" ”

This means that the ruler is short, and the inch is long.

If the Sharma is a war horse, it cannot pursue the enemy because of its lack of speed, but it is used to plough the land or pull the cart, and the effect is just right.

Helena stepped onto a red horse and asked defiantly towards Quan Xu, "Compare one?" ”

The red horse looked very excited, and Helena's chest rose and fell sharply under the beating, which was called a magnificent wave.

Just as Jeon Wook was about to answer, a carriage quickly stopped on the side of the road in the racecourse, and a man with a long beard and flowing came down from the carriage.

It is Sun Yuanhua, the manager of the current steam engine project and the current head of the tape measure department of the Liaodong Research Institute. The steam engine can solve some of the transportation problems, but to solve the agricultural problems in Liaodong, mechanization is also needed.

That is, the internal combustion engine, although the Liaodong Research Institute will not design, Quanxu has set up a tape measure department, which can be imitated, and now Liaodong has produced a horse-pushed grain harvester, which works on the same principle as the creeper harvester in later generations.

The difference is that the kinetic energy is mainly based on the thrust of the horse, relying on the wheel to drive the chain, driving the knife in front to complete the wheat harvesting work, like harvesting wheat with a sickle, an acre of land for an adult takes about a day, even if a diligent person, at most it is one and a half to two acres of land.

However, a horse-driven harvester, one person and one horse, can harvest eight to ten acres of land a day, which greatly reduces the autumn harvest time and improves the harvesting efficiency.

At the same time, the utilization of animal power in Liaodong has reached its peak and achieved the extreme, because the peasants are landlords who own one or two hundred acres of land or even three or four hundred acres of land, and in their hands, they can buy machinery and represent manpower.

Now there have been four birch ploughs pulled by two horses in Liaodong, as well as threshers driven by animal power, as well as animal power corn seeders, alfalfa grass animal power harvesters, which have been widely used.

Unfortunately, no matter how high the utilization rate of animal power is, it is very limited, and intensive breeding is required, which makes the agricultural production in eastern Liaodong basically in a saturated state.

Moreover, agricultural production occupies a lot of manpower, and Liaodong urgently needs machinery to change this environment.

After the craftsmen of Liaodong saw the creeper, after researching and understanding the working principle of the harvester, they casually launched the horse-pushed grain harvester, which made Quan Xu see hope, he could use the ready-made technology of later generations to start the research of internal combustion engines when Liaodong had just entered the steam age.

"Master Hou!"

"You're just in time, horses here, come and pick one!"

Sun Yuanhua's eyes seemed to be as excited as if he hadn't seen a horse: "Master Hou, the bicycle you said, we have already made it!" ”

"What?"

Quan Xu rode a horse: "Go over and have a look!" ”

Bicycles, which should be the first imitation machinery in Liaodong Tape Measure, once the bicycle appears, it can solve people's daily travel problems.

Now Liaodong has more than 2 million horses, almost one of the three people.

In particular, there are as many as two or three hundred thousand horses in Jinzhou City, which can produce almost two or three million catties of manure in one day, and it takes five or six hundred carriages to clean up this manure alone.