After finishing the land survey, Yang Peng began to promote the construction of the irrigation system. On the one hand, Yang Peng began to expand the scale of the dragon tail car workshop. It was not enough to rely on five craftsmen to cast the dragon tail car, so Yang Peng found thirty copper blacksmiths from nearby states and counties who could cast copper bells, and cast the dragon tail car with the gunsmiths. Thirty-five people can produce seven dragon tail cars a day.

The three small rivers on which the irrigation system depends vary in depth: in some places the rivers are not deep, and the water can be lifted into the irrigation canals with a dragon tail car; In some places, the river is deeper, and it takes two dragon tail trucks to relay to pump water. In total, 90,000 acres of dry land requires more than 800 dragon tail cars. Yang Peng had to prepare 800 dragon tail cars before the spring wheat sowing in February, and seven per day was barely enough.

Of course, Yang Peng's waterwheel was not built for nothing, Yang Peng was ready to charge 30% of the land rent for the tenant land, but Yang Peng still had to give money to sell the grain of this land rent, and the money for these waterwheels could be recovered in half a year. On the other hand, Yang Peng began to organize refugees to build irrigation canals. The irrigation canal designed by Yang Peng is 1.5 meters wide at the top and half a meter wide at the bottom, and the profile is an equilateral trapezoid. The bottom of the irrigation canal is higher than the ground, so that farmers only need to open the canal to divert water from the canal for irrigation. The canal is higher off the ground near the river and lower away from the river, so that the water flows farther away.

Each canal irrigates 200 acres of dry land, with a total of 450 canals, each of which is about 900 meters long. The canal was made of rammed earth, and there were no other materials, so only the displaced people needed to work hard to build it. Yang Peng stopped the porridge shack and began to supply the refugees with white rice, which they could not starve to cultivate new fields for Yang Peng.

When the poor people saw that the city lord was willing to take them in and provide them with rice, they were very grateful to Yang Peng one by one. After that, the poor people heard that after the lord of the city reclaimed the new fields, he would give each adult and strong girl twenty acres of dry land, and they were even more excited. In this year, if there is a water source for irrigation, the dry field can be planted with winter wheat with one stone of harvest in a year, and a family of two adults planting 40 acres of dry land can have a harvest of 40 stone a year. I heard that the general will only collect 30% of the land rent and return the grain money in the future, and this land rent includes the tuntian rice grains handed over, and the rice and noodles that can be collected into his house in that year will be 28 stones.

If there are five people in the family, you can eat a maximum of thirteen or four stone of rice and noodles for a year with an open stomach, and then you can still exchange the remaining fourteen stones of grain for silver. Fourteen stone rice noodles can be exchanged for twenty-eight taels of silver. In addition to having enough to eat, there are more than 20 taels of silver a year, what a good day is this? Every month every household has more than two taels of pocket money? This is a good day for the people of the Great Song Dynasty? This is the day of this chaotic year?

Compared with the early Song Dynasty, arable land was more scarce: on the one hand, the population increased, on the other hand, the water conservancy facilities were decaying, the farmland was reduced, and the per capita planting area of the people was very limited. These poor people used to grow their own fields or tenant land with pitiful rent, and lived a hungry and full life, and they had to go hungry every year when they were not harvested, when did they ever think that they could live a life with more than two taels of pocket money a month?

I can't even dream of it. Of course, the tenant lord of the city was more financially tight in the first year, and now that the first year has passed the time of winter wheat sowing, he can only plant spring wheat, and the yield per mu is estimated to be only seven buckets. But the lord of the city said that in the first year, only one and a half of the land rent would be collected, so that a family could earn more than 20 stone of grain for planting 40 acres of dry land, and in addition to eating a full meal, they could also get an extra 10 stone of grain, which was converted into 20 taels of silver.

Twenty taels of silver is enough to make the poor people have decent food, clothing, shelter and transportation. The family can make new clothes every quarter, buy some oil to stir-fry and eat, and even eat meat every once in a while. Everyone said that their lives were good, and they were saved from the Khitan soldiers by the city lord of Dagou, and now they see that a better day is coming.

Thinking of those brothers and sisters who were killed by the Khitan, it is really not worth it. These irrigation canals were built for the poor to cultivate their own fields. When the poor thought of this layer, they worked harder to build the canal, for fear that one layer of soil would not be tamped and leaked. Everyone worked together to make the entire canal project progress fast and well.

After sending Xu Nan away, Yang Peng secretly said that the situation was not good, and when he returned to Tianjing New Town, he checked the material inventory again.

He found Zheng Hui and asked, "Has saltpeter gunpowder been replenished recently?" Zheng Hui replied: "Originally, there was enough inventory in the library for more than half a year. At the end of last month, a batch of merchants from Cangzhou entered, and now the inventory is enough for the Tiger Ben Regiment and the Pioneer Regiment for a year! ”

Yang Peng nodded, and asked again, "How long is there enough food?" "There are 145,000 stones of rice and 21,000 stones of rice and flour, enough for the people in the city to eat for two years!" With food and gunpowder, Yang Peng was not afraid of Luo Zhen's trouble, and he felt at ease. It's really not good, and a war can support it for a year. As for these sick and weak brigades in Cangzhou, Yang Peng can occupy the entire territory of Cangzhou in three months.

In this chaotic year, there are soldiers in hand, and there is nothing to be afraid of. Luo Zhen really deceived people too much, and forced Yang Peng to let go. On November 13, two days after sending Xu Nan off to Beijing, Luo Zhen brought people to Tianjing New Town. Luo Zhen held a flag and waved a flag, and led fifty horseback riders into Tianjing New Town, frightening the people on both sides of the road to avoid it. After entering the city, Luo Zhendong looked west, and felt more and more that Fanjiazhuang was rich and coveted.

A staff member beside Luo Zhending pointed to the people of Tianjing New Town and said: "Your Excellency, you see, the people of Tianjing New Town have no patches on their clothes, which means that they make new clothes every quarter. The teahouse restaurant is full of people, which means that they have a balance in addition to daily food, clothing, housing and transportation! is so rich, we can know the abundance of monthly money given by Yang Peng, and the high profit of Yang Peng's industry! If you take these properties, it will not be difficult to enter the governor! ”

Luo Zhen very much agreed with the words of this staff member, but he snorted and did not speak. Luo Zhen led a large group of men and horses to ride all the way to Yang Peng's official hall, and asked the servants and Yang Peng's soldiers in front of the official hall to shout: "General soldier check!" Let your master come out and lead the way! ”

The soldier didn't know what to do, so he hurried in to report. Yang Peng got the report, and secretly said that this Luo Zhen was really anxious, Xu Nan had only been gone for two days before he started, how short of money is this? What he said in front of Xu Nan, he forgot it all in just two days? Yang Peng was not in a hurry to go out to see Luo Zhen, but gathered the soldiers in the official hall to prevent accidents.

Luo Zhen waited at the door for a long time and didn't wait for Yang Peng to come out, very puzzled. After arranging the soldiers, Yang Peng changed into his official uniform and went out to see Luo Zhen with dozens of soldiers. Luo Zhen was already waiting impatiently outside, and when he saw Yang Peng turn his eyes sideways, he scolded: "Yang Peng, you actually made this official wait for a quarter of an hour, what a big shelf!" ”

Yang Peng said lightly: "Adults are also people, so what about waiting?" "You..." Luo Zhen ate a turtle and wanted to have a seizure, but he was choked by Yang Peng's tough attitude and couldn't have a seizure. He flicked the sleeves of his official uniform and was about to walk into the official hall, but was stopped by Yang Peng's soldiers. Luo Zhen looked surprised, and asked sharply: "Yang Peng, don't you let this official enter the door?" Yang Peng said lightly: "The big one came with so many people, and the momentum was violent, and I didn't expect anything good." If you have anything to say, just say it here. ”

Luo Zhen was stunned when he heard this, looked Yang Peng up and down again, as if he had never seen him, and said loudly: "Do you know what the crime of neglecting the peak should be?" Li Zhi waved his hand and said, "It's also a sin to persecute subordinates, don't you know?" Luo Zhen pulled his face down and said loudly: "Yang Peng, you're not going to hand over the glass secret recipe, are you?" ”

Yang Peng said: "The secret recipe is a family heirloom, and there is no reason to hand it over!" Luo Zhen sneered and said loudly: "Then don't blame the official for using force to search your Tianjing New City!" Yang Peng snorted and said loudly: "This is in the jurisdiction of this official, and this official is not allowed to search!" Luo Zhen laughed out loud and said, "You can't do this matter!" ”

He had already inquired about the location of the glass workshop, and at this time he threw down Yang Peng and walked towards the workshop area in the south of the city with his people. Yang Peng saw that Luo Zhending was going to use force, so he immediately sent people to the workshop area and notified the 100 soldiers of the Elite Regiment guarding the workshop area to take action to defend against the enemy. When Luo Zhen arrived outside the glass workshop, he was already waiting for a hundred soldiers of the Election Regiment with loaded bullets and bayonets. Those soldiers are all veterans of the Xuanfeng Regiment, they have experienced two major battles, their eyes are resolute and their movements are fierce, plus they are well-equipped, and they have a murderous aura on their bodies, which is not comparable to the fifty shrimp soldiers and crabs brought by Luo Zhending.

Seeing the soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment blocking the way, the family next to Luo Zhen shouted loudly: "Get out of the way, the adults are searching for Dongnu Xizuo, who dares to stop it?" The soldiers of the Elector Regiment did not get out of the way, and remained outside the workshop area. Seeing that Yang Peng's soldiers were not afraid of him, Luo Zhen's face turned red with anger, and he personally shouted: "Everyone who knows each other will get out of the way of me, and it is a capital crime to collide with the official's war horse!" The soldiers of the Election Regiment glanced at Luo Zhen, still blocking the road, only holding their rifles straight.

The soldiers of the Xuanfeng Regiment were originally Yang Peng's diehards, not the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty. They took Yang Peng's private monthly money, not the military salary of the Great Song Dynasty, and they only listened to Yang Peng's orders. What's more, Yang Peng usually pays attention to educating the Election Troupe, and always makes the Election Regiment understand that their existence is to defend their homeland, not to charge into battle for the Great Song Dynasty, so the name of the Great Song Dynasty General can't suppress them.

The generals want to rob the property of the lord of the city, and if the property of the lord of the castle is robbed, there will be no money to pay the soldiers monthly money, and the good days that everyone envy the soldiers will lose. The soldiers all understand this truth, where will Luo Zhen be released? Seeing Luo Zhen's arrogance, the commander of the company commanding the front regiment shouted: "Defend your homeland!" A hundred soldiers raised their bayonets and shouted: "Wow! The company commander shouted again: "Defend your homeland!" A hundred people shouted again, "Oh! The neat momentum and the murderous aura of the rest of the war frightened the people and horses on Luo Zhen's side for a while. Although the family Ding brought by Luo Zhen this year is also a veteran who has been honed for many years, he has never seen blood on the battlefield at all, and his momentum is not at all comparable to the iron and blood of the Xuanfeng Regiment. As soon as the 100 soldiers of the selected forward regiment shouted, Luo Zhen's men and horses were so frightened that they took a few steps back and stopped when they were ten meters away.

The formation of Luo Zhen and his party suddenly became chaotic and embarrassed. Luo Zhending wanted to forcibly search, but was stopped by Yang Peng's soldiers and couldn't enter the glass workshop, so he was not embarrassed. He looked left and right with a red face for a while, and was sulking there, but saw Yang Peng who came leisurely on horseback. Yang Peng, you immediately disband your soldiers.

How can they dissolve the private property of the subordinate officials? Luo Zhen scolded loudly: "Yang Peng, this official received a report from someone, saying that you harbored Khitan fine works and led people to search your glass workshop!" You led troops to obstruct your own officials, did you want to rebel? Yang Peng said coldly: "Don't you know that even if it is a porcelain-burning one, its secret recipe will never be leaked?" Not to mention fired glass? You are a general who is not good to stay in Cangzhou City, covet my property, and lead your family to rob other people's secret recipes, is it forcing people to rebel? ”

Luo Zhen seized the loophole in Yang Peng's words, laughed and said: "Okay! Yang Peng, you said it yourself, are you going to do the opposite? Yang Peng shouted: "I don't have the final say on the official, not you." Besides, we are not in the hands of Da Song here. ”

Luo Zhen said loudly: "Okay! Yang Peng, you have a private Khitan work, and if you disobey the inspection of this official, you are anti-minded. This officer will go back and mobilize troops to bring you to justice! If you dare to resist, you are a rebel! Yang Peng was enraged by Luo Zhen's unreasonable trouble, and scolded loudly: "Luo Zhen, don't deceive people too much!" Even if you transfer all the soldiers and horses from the entire Cangzhou, I won't be afraid of you! Luo Zhen snorted coldly and shouted loudly: "Let's go back and transfer troops!" So he withdrew from the road from which he came with fifty horsemen and went to the city of Cangzhou.

The next day, Luo Zhen really led his troops to attack. In the name of refusing to search Yang Peng's private Khitan fine work, Luo Zhen led 2,000 soldiers and 400 family members in the general barracks to Tianjing New City to kill. This posture made the officials of the entire Cangzhou stunned, and secretly said that this Luo Zhen was really ruthless. In this way, the army pressed the border, Yang Peng's resistance was a rebellion, and if he did not resist, the glass workshop, the soap workshop, etc., could not be saved.

The entire Cangzhou is looking forward to it, and I don't know how Yang Peng will deal with such a situation. Various military attachés were sent out to Tianjing New City at night to observe the progress of the situation. For a time, the sentinels in front of Tianjing New City gathered. When Luo Zhen was twenty miles outside Tianjing New City, Yang Peng's scouts reported the information that Luo Zhen had attacked. Yang Peng paced back and forth in the general's mansion to make a final decision. Luo Zhen's soldiers and horses are nothing, and Yang Peng is confident that sending a thousand people can defeat him. But what Yang Peng was worried about was that Luo Zhen said that he attacked the government and was a rebellion.

Attacking the soldiers and horses of the government can be big or small. But if he doesn't face Luo Zhen, all his secret recipes in Tianjing New City will be stolen by Luo Zhen. After that, someone can produce the same soap, glass, and cheap fine cloth as himself, and his income will plummet. The soldiers of the Elective Regiment and the Broken Regiment can no longer afford to raise themselves, and all the capital they need to get ahead in this era will fall into the hands of the people.

Since then, he has been a city lord who has done nothing, and he may be dragged off the horse by other military attaches at any time because he can't be a man. I don't know how many people are envious and jealous. The so-called Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, and it is almost inevitable that he will be attacked. Yang Peng didn't want to finish like this. Yang Peng was thinking about it, when another group of scouts ran back from the field and said loudly: "My lord! The general's soldiers and horses have attacked ten miles away! ”

Finally, Yang Peng made up his mind. This day will come sooner or later, and sooner or later he will have to rely on his strength to fight the enemy. Yang Peng could not always bribe high-ranking officials to suppress pretenders. Xu Nan's private morality is excellent, but other superiors may not be, sooner or later, someone will be his own. Pifu is not guilty, even if he finds a killer to assassinate a pretender and is not discovered, there will be a second or third pretender, Yang Peng has no ability to assassinate all enemies. As a reborn, playing assassination is not Yang Peng's forte.

Yang Peng's strength is the strong flintlock rifle in his hand, which is Yang Peng's strength. If you don't rely on your own strength to declare the world, and if you don't rely on your strength to get through today's hurdle, Yang Peng's rise will be a mirror. And said a thousand things and ten thousand, it's not that Luo Zhen said that he was against him, he was considered a rebel. Even if he defeats Luo Zhen's generals, it is still up to the officials to judge whether they rebel or not. For such a strong army like himself, the emperor is willing to force himself to rebel? Yang Peng judged that even if he killed the soldiers and officials of the generals, he would not punish himself.

Now that the Great Song Dynasty is embattled, there is too much scarcity of good generals with strength and loyalty. Even Gao Huaide, the sea thief who killed countless officials and soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty, was not properly appeased in the end, and Qingyun was on the move. Yang Peng killed the Khitan nobleman Ye Hongguang, his merits are remarkable, his self-confidence is more valuable than Gao Huaide, and he will not be easily beaten as a "thief" by the emperor!

Yang Peng made up his mind, changed into a flying fish suit, wore a jade belt around his waist, put on a cloak and walked out of the official hall, and shouted loudly: "The selection of the front regiment will follow me out of the city to meet the enemy!" The herald rushed to the barracks and passed Yang Peng's order. The two thousand veterans obeyed the order without hesitation and followed Yang Peng out of Tianjing New Town. Eight, six, and four miles from the enemy. Zhan Jinguo rode beside Yang Peng, looked at the flying fish suit on Yang Peng's body, and said, "My lord! That Luo Zhen framed us for rebellion! Yang Peng asked: "If I rebel, are you afraid?" ”

Zhan Jinguo's face turned pale, gritted his teeth and said: "I'm not afraid, even if the adult is a thief, I will follow the adult!" Cheng Shijie rode to the side and said excitedly: "If you become a generalissimo on your own, you will be a general for me!" Zhou Dayong said lightly: "No matter what the city lord does, Zhou Dayong will follow!" Seeing that his subordinates were loyal and reliable, Yang Peng laughed.

Three miles, two miles, and one mile away from Luo Zhen's soldiers and horses, I could already see the billowing smoke and dust raised by the military horses of the general barracks in front. Yang Peng secretly said that Luo Zhen was looking for death, and shouted loudly: "The selection of the front regiment is loaded, ready to fight!" Li Zhi looked over through the telescope and saw that Luo Zhen's Chinese army flag was far behind the soldiers in the general barracks, and it was obvious that Luo Zhen was very afraid of being killed by Li Zhi's cannons. The commander is so timid, what combat effectiveness does such a unit have?

At a distance of four hundred, three hundred, two hundred meters, the soldiers of the general barracks did not know that they had entered the range of the selection regiment. One of Luo Zhen's staff jumped out on horseback and shouted loudly between the two armies: "Yang Peng can think clearly, the soldiers and horses against the generals are a rebellion!" That's the work of the Nine Clans! ”

Yang Peng scolded loudly: "If I rebel, the official family will kill me or not, the first one to die is Luo Zhen who forced me to rebel!" And you instigating and agitating staff! When the staff member heard Yang Peng's words, he looked at the flying fish suit on Li Zhi's body, and his face turned pale all of a sudden. Yang Peng's strength for repeated military exploits is here, and the official family also knows it, so he has a flying fish suit and a jade belt. It was said that if you rebel, you will kill the head and punish the nine clans, it was in the early Song Dynasty, according to the current situation of the Song Dynasty, even if Yang Peng really rebelled, most of the officials wanted to appease. But if the powerful Yang Peng is forced to reverse, Luo Zhen, the chief soldier, will definitely not be able to escape the wrath of the officials. Luo Zhen did what Cangzhou people saw in their eyes, he was just a worthless ordinary military attache in the eyes of the official family, and he was sending himself to a dead end by engaging in such a big battle.

Luo Zhen thought that Yang Peng would definitely not dare to rebel, so he forced him so hard. I didn't expect Yang Peng to be so tough, he was really not even afraid of rebellion, Luo Zhen was shooting himself in the foot. The staff member stopped talking, and rode his horse to flee behind. Yang Peng didn't let him go, and shouted loudly: "Kill him!" The ten soldiers of the Election Regiment beside Yang Peng opened fire, and the staff member suddenly had blood splattered everywhere, was beaten into a hornet's nest, and fell off the horse. When the general's soldiers saw Yang Peng's side firing, they were all shocked. They shouted loudly: "Tianjing New City has killed people!" ”

"Tianjing New City has rebelled!" "Yang Peng is reversed!" Yang Peng was irritated by these soldiers who were fighting for the tiger in the general's camp, so he let the selection regiment continue to press forward. Only a hundred meters away from Luo Zhen's soldiers and horses, Yang Peng shouted loudly: "Shoot!" The horn of the Chinese army sounded, and the six hundred and twenty-five soldiers in the first row raised their muskets and fired bullets at the enemy troops a hundred meters away.

With a crackling sound, smoke erupted, and six hundred and twenty-five bullets were fired at the trembling general barracks. The distance was very close, and the bullets hit nearly five hundred soldiers at once, and the front row of Luo Zhen's army fell like thatch blown by a strong wind. The sound of falling to the ground merged into one piece, and then there was a scream, and the wounded soldier who had been hit in the hands and feet rolled on the ground, wailing bitterly. Blood splattered from the wounds everywhere, staining the soldiers who were lucky not to be hit red.

"The soldiers of Tianjing New City have killed someone!" "Run!" "Run!" With just one round of shooting, Luo Zhen's general camp collapsed. The battalion recruited by Luo Zhen is all new recruits, where is the combat effectiveness? Moreover, Luo Zhen seriously drank the blood of the soldiers and ate empty salaries, and the sergeants had no intention of repaying him at all, and he immediately collapsed as soon as he started a tough battle.

And Luo Zhen ran faster than the soldiers, and before the rout in front of him caught up with him, he had already turned his horse's head in the back row and fled to Cangzhou City. Looking at the battalion that had lost its armor and abandoned its banners, Zhou Dayong licked his lips and asked, "My lord, do you want to hunt them down?" Yang Peng shook his head and said lightly: "Don't chase anymore!" Return to Tianjing New Town. ”

If you want to know what happens next, let's see the next breakdown.