Yang Peng eats with everyone every day, Zhao Jinxi has a love affair is to cook by himself, so that Yang Peng will eat better, this Yang Peng did not object, Yang Peng's workload is also too large, there is no way, from time to time Zhao Jinxi also makes a little meat for Yang Peng to make up for it, Yang Peng also often goes to the mountains to hunt some game to improve the food, now Yang Peng has nearly 5,000 people here, it is no wonder that Yang Peng them, at least they can eat a full meal here, three meals a day, the workload here is also very large, Zhao Jinxi was already a female gentleman at this time, and the children here were calling Zhao Jinxi Mr., Zhao Jinxi never thought that he would still be a female gentleman on this day, he kept laughing every day, and his face looked a lot better.

The blacksmith shop began to produce a large number of agricultural tools, Yang Peng arranged for two thousand people to go to the wasteland, and Zhang Yan bought nearly 1,000 cattle and 5,000 sheep in Yingzhou. Zhang Yan now has a good relationship with a hundred heads of Khitan households, because Zhang Yan knows that it is difficult to move an inch without a military relationship in the Khitan territory, Yang Peng is also talking to him, "This silver is the Khitan people to help them save it first, and when it comes to taking Yingzhou, the silver is still ours, and we still have to buy iron ore with them, it doesn't matter, there is no way to make steel, just spend money boldly and rest assured." ”

Zhang Yan knew that this was a powerful relationship, and after a few days, he bought a hundred sheep and grain in the bazaar, and brought his men to the Khitan military camp and said, "Condolences to the Khitan army, that hundred households are very happy." Bringing Zhang Yan into the tent, Zhang Yan took out 700 taels of silver and said, "General, these 500 taels of silver are for you, and the other 200 taels of silver are for the Khitan brothers outside, please help distribute them among them." The hundred households were so happy, I didn't expect Zhang Yan to be so generous, the hundred households took so much silver for the first time, and immediately called Zhang Yan brothers, Zhang Yan said to him, "When you have nothing to do, you can also help collect those beggars, a beggar Zhang Yan is willing to give two or two silver, regardless of men and women." Even beggars in Mozhou and Youzhou can be. ”

Zhang Yan said to him, "My family needs a lot of people for the textile workshop in the south, these beggars just need to eat, and if it is a life-saving grace, they will not want silver," Zhang Yan also ordered not to beat them, and Zhang Yan was responsible for all the money to eat on the road, which made the hundred household officials happy, this is the source of wealth, Zhang Yan and he said, "You must not rob other people's children, so that if your father knows, he will not let himself stay here in Yingzhou." That Baihu said: "Brother Zhang, you will definitely not do this, you can rest assured, right?" Zhang Yan immediately took out 500 taels of silver to the hundred households, this time Zhang Yan did not mention the iron ore matter, because Zhang Yan was still very careful, for fear that people would be suspicious, so he sent nearly 1,000 beggars and some refugees in a month, and Zhang Yan was also very generous and gave more than 2,000 taels of silver directly. Zhang Yan didn't mention the 500 taels of silver in front of him at all, and the hundred households were also very happy.

Yang Peng was also studying cement during this time, and Yang Peng didn't know why he knew so much directly, general cement: cement usually used in general civil engineering and construction projects. General cement mainly refers to the six types of cement, namely Portland cement, ordinary Portland cement, slag Portland cement, porosyl Portland cement, fly ash Portland cement and composite Portland cement. The production process of Portland cement is representative in cement production, which is made of limestone and clay as the main raw materials, which is made into raw meal by crushing, batching and grinding, and then fed into the cement kiln to calcine the mature material, and then the clinker is added to the appropriate amount of gypsum (sometimes mixed with mixed materials or admixtures) and ground finely. Cement production can be divided into dry (including semi-dry) and wet (including semi-wet) according to the different raw meal preparation methods. Dry production. The raw materials are dried and ground at the same time, or dried and ground into raw meal powder and then fed into the dry kiln to calcine the mature material. However, there is also a method of adding an appropriate amount of water to the raw meal to make raw meal balls and sending it to the Libo kiln to calcine the mature material, which is called the semi-dry method, which is still one of the dry productions. Yang Peng built two cement kilns, and arranged for 500 people to work in the cement workshop.

After the unremitting efforts of Yang Peng and those masters finally produced cement after fifteen days, Yang Peng built a stone bench with cement, and called Zhang Xiang and Zhao Jinxi to come over two days, Yang Peng asked Zhang Xiang to pick up the hammer, and said, "Smash it hard, see how it is," Zhang Xiang picked up the hammer and smashed it down with all his strength, the tiger's mouth cracked, Zhao Jinxi said, "Why is it so hard, I really didn't expect it." Yang Peng said, "I'm going to use this to build a city, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Xiang said, "No matter how powerful the army is in such a city, it can't be conquered, unless all the people here are dead," Yang Peng said, "I plan to wait for us to start building a city when we have more than 20,000 people here, now is the stage of development, you have to go north to investigate, you must not let the Khitan people know that we have a lot of people here, tell the brothers to reconnoiter forward to fifty miles, if you find that the spies are all killed, don't admit it, don't have a good heart, the people of the Great Song Dynasty will arrest it and say, If it's a farmer's, move all their families over," Zhao Jinxi said, "Yes, if we let the Khitans know now, if we don't send a large army to encircle and suppress us, we will be miserable at that time." Zhang Xiang, you must pay attention to this," Zhang Xiang said, "Sister-in-law, you can rest assured, I will definitely pay attention." ”

Zhao Jinxi stomped his feet and said, "Who do you call sister-in-law, don't scream," his heart was already happy at this time, and he wished that Zhang Xiang would keep screaming like this, and he would leave with a red face. Yang Peng did not object at this time, Yang Peng said, "Now our main thing is how to deal with the Khitan cavalry, if we fight head-on, we must not be the opponent of the Khitans, I will study how to deal with the Khitan cavalry during this time, this time will be hard for you." ”

Yang Peng returned to his home, the brothers were really good, built a courtyard for themselves, and built a small garden behind it, as well as a study, those tables and chairs were designed according to Yang Peng's drawings, Yang Peng thought about it for a long time in the study before he began to draw, design the flintlock pistol, and now Yang Peng's steel here does not know how much ahead of the Great Song Dynasty, Yang Peng's delicate hands, and finally removed the windwork steel wheel that originated from the clock, and instead clamped a piece of flint on the jaws of the hammer. He also had an anvil on the side of the fire hole, and if he needed to shoot, he pulled the trigger, and under the action of the spring, the flint hit the side of the fire door heavily, and sparks appeared, igniting the gunpowder. This firing mechanism is called a percussive flintlock machine, and a firearm equipped with an impingement flintlock mechanism is called a percussive flintlock pistol. The advantages of the percussive flintlock pistol are self-evident, it greatly simplifies the firing process, improves the rate of fire and accuracy of shooting, is easy to use, and has a lower cost, which facilitates mass production. The basic structure of a flintlock pistol is similar to that of a flintlock, that is, it uses the flint on the hammer to strike to produce sparks and ignite gunpowder. The average caliber of the flintlock pistol is about 13.7 mm, because the reloading musket has not yet been invented, so this has made high requirements for the ammunition loading technology at that time, according to the previous loading method, when loading the projectile, the projectile needs to be put into the muzzle, and the cartridge is sent with a wooden hammer, and the gun is pushed into the chamber, which is very time-consuming, and on the battlefield, it means a waste of life.

In this way, after a month of hard work by Yang Peng in his own home, he finally made his first flintlock pistol. Yang Peng was so happy, this is the best weapon to deal with the Khitan cavalry, if he fights hard with the Khitan army on the battlefield, it will be a one-to-one price, Yang Peng can't afford to consume it, and he doesn't have so many horses. Even if there are so many horses, I can't afford to raise them here.

Yang Peng came to the barracks with a flintlock pistol and called Zhang Xiang, Cheng Shijie, and Zhan Jinguo to come over. "What's the matter with the eldest brother, do you already have a way to deal with the Khitan cavalry?" Yang Peng said, "It's up to him to deal with the Khitan cavalry," Zhang Xiang and they didn't know what Yang Peng was taking, but they were all Yang Peng's diehards, and they never doubted Yang Peng's words, Yang Peng asked someone to make a target, and asked Zhan Jin Guo to put it at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters. Yang Peng picked up the gun and took aim, pulled the trigger, and heard a "bang", and the target in front of him made a hole. Cheng Shijie sighed, and said, "Big brother, this is too powerful, that is the nemesis of the cavalry, obedient, amazing, the cavalry is simply a live target, as long as we have someone to fight the Khitans, it is simply not a problem." ”

Zhao Jinxi also said, "It's still a big brother, how many weapons like this can be made, it's incredible, it seems that we are one step closer to Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, haha." Now I see that the Khitan dog is still so arrogant, haha" Zhao Jinxi said with his teeth and claws. It seems that within a few days, Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures will take it, yes. Cheng Shijie said, "It's not about you to be so powerful, now you are already a gentleman, the war is ours, you just watch us fight the Khitans, haha" Zhao Jinxi stepped forward and said, "So it has nothing to do with me, so it has nothing to do with me, well, wait until you come here, please Mr. We female soldiers can go to the battlefield like us, and we are not worse than you at all, okay." ”

Yang Peng said, "Big brother, you first organize a team of 1,000 people, start training, now use wood to make a gun for aiming practice, and the exercise must not be left behind, just practice for an hour every day, and when we make the gun, everyone is practicing live ammunition, and there is also to find two hundred of the most loyal and reliable people to go to the weapon workshop, the people here must have a family, so that they will not betray us," in a few days I will go to the beach to see how to make salt, the current salt is too unpalatable, Also, we are spending money now, and we haven't started to make money yet, but we have to wait until we build the city, and we can't take any risks. "

Zhang Xiang said: "Big brother, don't you worry? Leave it to me here, or let's bring seawater over for experiments first, and then let's see how the salt goes. Yang Peng said, "It's okay to organize twenty people to transport seawater first, let's build a pool with cement first, and look at it in the sun, saying, okay, big brother, you go and arrange, I'll arrange someone to build a pond, and then let's start transporting seawater over in three days, how about it?" Zhang Xiang said, "There is no problem to do this, I will arrange someone to talk about it." ”

Zhang Yan saw that he didn't have much money, so he said to Ma Ming, "I want to do him a vote, find a few big families to grab the silver, and I can't ask the eldest brother to bring the silver over, Ma Ming, you see which one is the richest these days, we will rob him of a vote, as long as you do it well, you won't find it, you arrange someone to make a cellar, you must not see the flaws yourself, and you will definitely come to check it when the time comes, because we are not Khitans, call a few brothers not to forget to exercise during this time." ”

Zhang Yan can be said to be very famous in Yingzhou now, because Zhang Yan is also too generous, in and out of the city gate to the soldiers who guard the door five taels of silver, no matter what time it is, it used to be checked, now Zhang Yan at the door of those soldiers greeted Zhang Yan, and then directly released, those soldiers are also poor people in Khitan, Zhang Yan gave them almost a month's salary, a month they earn a year's money here Zhang Yan, and those soldiers who are embarrassed by Zhang Yan do not agree.

Within a few days, Ma Ming said to Zhang Yan, "In front of us, a Khitan man named Ye Yu Xia Ou, this person is so bad that he wants to die, and his family also has a lot of money, at least nearly 200,000 taels of silver, and the nursing home is three. Then we took the carriage and left a mark in the direction of the south of the city. Our wagons were unloaded in the backyard and transported close to the cellar. Zhang Yan said, "Those two carriages are loaded with a little stone so that there is weight, so that there are traces to come out, we must pay attention to the details, we have developed here to the present is not easy, this time we must not be exposed, so that we will start to act after three days," Ma Ming said, "I have been paying attention to it for the past two days, and at night I must not let people look at it." I'm checking the route to make sure it's safe. ”

Ma Ming has been walking back and forth on this road for the past few days, paying attention to the movement on the street, and at night Ma Ming still checks the pedestrians on the road and the rules. Zhang Yan noticed the carriage and checked it several times before he was relieved that Ma Ming had also practiced once.

On the night of the third day, Zhang Yan began to move, and six people dressed in black clothes, covered their faces, and carried crossbows and bayonets, and rushed to the direction of the old man's house, and Ma Ming took one person from the house of the young man to the south of the city, and when he reached the place, he immediately put down the stone, and drove the carriage to the door of the old man's house. At this time, Zhang Yan had successfully entered Ye Yan's house, parked the two carriages in the yard, closed them and left one person to observe where, he and Ma Ming began to move the silver, I didn't expect this guy to be really rich, the silver was almost more than 200,000 taels, and there were 10,000 taels of gold, at this time Zhang Yan was very happy. said to Ma Ming and the others, "Hurry up and move, and take away those calligraphy and paintings, here are all things from the Great Song Dynasty." ”

Zhang Yan and Ma Ming carefully checked whether there were any flaws left, and only after checking it did they open the courtyard door, rushed back, and immediately moved the silver and gold to the cellar when they arrived at the shop, and checked it several times when they came out before going back to sleep. In the morning, Zhang Yan began to open the shop, and Zhang Yan went to the cellar to check again before going to the front to start business.

By about nine o'clock in the morning, Yingzhou began to be full of soldiers. Zhang Yan pulled the hundred households and asked, "What's wrong with the general, what's wrong, why are so many soldiers on the street," the hundred households said, "Master Ye Yu killed people, and robbed the silver, and I don't know how Feiyanzi got in," "Ah." Feiyanzi did it, and killed Master Ye, these people are too bad, it seems that we have to pay attention, general, you should come to us diligently when you patrol at night Take out one hundred taels of silver to the hundred households, and you must order your soldiers to come to us often, thank you! ”

That Baihu was thinking, this guy is really afraid of death, it's okay anyway, you just give money, it's not that I patrol myself, so I ask the soldiers to come here often, this is also an explanation, in Yingzhou, this boss is the best for our soldiers.

Zhang Yan also breathed a sigh of relief, and said in his heart that your Feiyanzi is too famous in Yingzhou, as soon as something happens, it was you Feiyanzi who did it, and we have been worried for so long, hey, I don't know how Feiyanzi is, this time the black pot Feiyanzi is back, I'm sorry, we don't know how you are famous, haha.

Yang Peng didn't know that Zhang Yan was doing wind and rain in Yingzhou, and Yang Peng's mind was on the flintlock pistol. Yang Peng made ten hydraulic rotary lathes at once, molds for flintlock pistol parts, and grinding tools, and flintlock pistols were also considered to be in normal production.

Now Yang Peng has nearly 20,000 people here, that is, there must be more than 1,000 children, most of them are orphans, the war is like this, no matter who wins in the end, it is the common people who suffer. Hey, it's really, sad that the Qin and Han dynasties, the palace and thousands of rooms have been made of soil. Xing, the people are bitter. Death, the people suffer! Cut off and leave no traces, and the corpses resist each other. The horse hangs the man's head on the side of the horse, and the horse carries the woman behind. This is not wrong at all, and it is the common people and those women who are most hurt in the future.

Yang Peng has opened up nearly 10,000 acres of farmland here, as well as nearly 1,000 acres of vegetable fields, all planted with vegetables, and nearly 10,000 acres of wheat. It is installed on the edge of a river with flowing water, because there is a trench, and the rapid current introduced into the trench pushes the wooden impeller to rotate constantly, lifting the water in the trough to a high place through the bamboo tube, and pouring it into the gutter and flowing into the farmland. This kind of ancient cylinder car that relies on hydraulic automatics constitutes an ancient pastoral spring picture among the lush mountains and streams in his hometown, which is an outstanding invention of the ancient Chinese people.

The bamboo tube acts as an impeller: it bears the impulse of the water (provided by the kinetic energy (velocity) of the water), and the energy obtained makes the drum car spin. And overcome the frictional resistance of the drum car, as well as the reaction moment of the lifted water to the drum car). When turned at a certain angle, the bamboo tube (which was filled with water) that had been submerged in the water will leave the water and be lifted. At this time, because the mouth of the bamboo tube is higher than the bottom of the tube (which is why the mouth of the tube is going in the direction of the tube car), some water will be stored in the bamboo tube.

When the bamboo tube crosses the top of the cylinder (at which point the bamboo tube begins to pour water), the position of the cylinder mouth begins to lower relative to the bottom of the cylinder, and the water in the bamboo tube will be poured into the sink. You can adjust the position of the sink so that it can receive more water. When you find that the drum is spinning too slowly, or you can't lift the water, you need to install some wooden or bamboo planks on the drum so that the drum can get more energy (kinetic energy) from the water. You can also immerse the tube in water a little deeper to gain energy (this way, because the angle between the position of the bamboo tube and the axis of the cylinder is larger, and the height difference between the mouth and the bottom of the tube is also larger, so that more water can be stored in the bamboo tube).

When the speed of the water flow is low, the bamboo tube should also be relatively small, otherwise, the energy obtained by the tube from the water is limited, which is not enough to overcome the reaction moment (or: potential energy) of the lifted water to the tube car. And so on, and the water is lifted in a circular way. The cart itself is inefficient, but it does not need to be powered.

This cylinder car is also prepared for the future when drying salt on the beach, after a few days of preparation, the salt has also been dried, and Yang Peng has processed the sea salt after it is dried. Zhang Xiang and them were scared, even the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty couldn't eat such good salt, it was so salty that there was no impurity, Yang Peng arranged for fifty people to produce sea salt, and when the time came, it would be sold in Cangzhou first, this is a big entry, even if it is to be sold, it will be said until the city is built, and it will definitely not work now.

Yang Peng also asked those who farm a little to pay attention to fertilization, now the common people farming is completely to see God's face, drought is to manually carry water, never thought of using a cylinder car irrigation, Yang Peng also in the south where to buy rice seeds, to May Yang Peng ready to raise seedlings, Yang Peng wants to plant rice in the north, okay or not, plant first to see how the harvest is? Yang Peng didn't know what would happen, but fortunately, it was all plains, and there were almost hundreds of thousands of acres of land here, and with soybeans, broad beans, and sorghum, Yang Peng thought that he would start to buy food in other places next year.

Zhang Yan now has money in his hand, and today he happened to be free with a hundred sheep, and where to buy two pigs in Cangzhou to come to the Khitan barracks, those soldiers saw Zhang Yan coming over, everyone was very happy, because Zhang Yan came over and they had to improve the food, the hundred household officials personally went to the door of the barracks to greet them, Zhang Yan hugged his fists and said to the hundred households, "Hello general, I'll come to see everyone again, please don't be surprised," that hundred households thought, where do I still have to be strange, I wish you came every day. There are so many rich masters in Yingzhou, and only Zhang Yan does this.

He asked, "General, did you catch that flying swallow?" The hundred household officials said, "That's so easy to catch, all of them are strong in martial arts, flying eaves and walking walls, we are definitely not opponents, this problem can only be handed over to Shangguan to do," Zhang Yan said, "That's too, don't take risks, life is a death and nothing, it's not worth it, it's not your own money, there's no need to take risks, really." Haha" then pulled the hundred-household official aside and said, "A friend of mine wants to buy iron ore with you, and I think the price is very good, how about it?" If you want to make a small fortune, if you want, take a thousand taels of silver to make a little bit, and if not, don't risk it. ”

As soon as the hundred households heard that there was such a good thing, they immediately said to Zhang Yan, "No problem, I'll help you do it in the afternoon," Zhang Yan went outside and took out a thousand taels of silver and gave it to the hundred household officials and said, "Thank you, general." ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.