"The sewage in the city is directly discharged into the Songhua River, and the sewer is dug down one foot and five feet according to what you said, and the cement is paved, leaving eight feet high and six feet ......wide."

Riding into Jilin City, Yishiha has been talking about what he is busy with at the moment.

It's already early June, so the canals of 30,000 acres of farmland outside the city have begun to finish, and the next thing to do is to lay roads and sewers in the city.

The two exchanged while riding horses, followed by twelve guards.

In the city, even the children who were running around would greet Zhu Gaoxu and Yishaha in their own way, some made waves, some waved their hands, and some shouted "Your Highness" and "Lord Yi".

When they heard these words, they both smiled, and then they also pointed to some houses and said:

"There are one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven dwellings in the city, and two hundred and seventy-three are dilapidated, among which the broken and leaky houses have been arranged for the soldiers to repair at their leisure, and they should be repaired before the winter, and the fireplace you mentioned has also been added."

"In addition, the city has also expanded four private squares that can accommodate 5,000 people, and it is expected that two will be completed around October, and the remaining two can also be completed first."

"After the autumn harvest, everyone will cut down the forests in the west to make firewood, not only will they have heating objects, but they will also better reclaim the land next year."

"According to what you said, every household can stock up on 5,000 catties of dry firewood before winter......

Yizha said, but he couldn't help but sigh: "That is, in a place like Jilin City, you don't have to worry about firewood, if these firewood can be transported to Jiangnan to sell, even if it is sold for 30 wen per load, it will still make money." ”

Jiangnan lacks firewood, which they all know, not only Jiangnan, but even later they went all the way north to basically not see patches of forests, which can be seen how green Jiangnan and the Central Plains are.

Zhu Gaoxu also asked Fu Youde, and Fu Youde also said that since he could remember, he had only seen patches of forests in Songpan, west of the Xiangjiang River, and Liaodong.

Fu Youde is also a figure who has traveled all over the Ming Dynasty, as he said, Zhu Gaoxu admires the future generations.

In the future, the greening of the pass, no matter which province you look at, I am afraid it will be the best time in a thousand years.

Thinking of the problem of greening and heating, Zhu Gaoxu also looked at the courtyards of the houses with stone adobe and endless construction techniques:

"In the coming year, there will be more cement production, and when the time comes, the people in the city will rebuild the houses and yards, and arrange the fire walls and fire paths."

"Your Highness is wise......" Yisha smiled at Zhu Gaoxu when he heard this, and the guards behind him were also smiling.

It is already a very good government to build a house with the money and effort of the guard, not to mention that he is ready to arrange a fire wall and a fire path like his own highness, which in the south is something that only the rich squires can enjoy.

Saying this, Zhu Gaoxu also asked about the learning of the soldiers and children: "How are the soldiers and children of the academy learning now?" ”

"Not bad" Yizha nodded and said, "They are already literate, but the children's school is faster, and they have begun to teach arithmetic." ”

"It's just Your Highness, I'm afraid Jilin City won't need so many scholars, right?"

"So many people have become scholars, what will happen to the work in the future in the future?"

Yisha's words made the guards behind him raise their hearts to their throats, but Zhu Gaoxu smiled:

"Who says a scholar can't work? What's more, the children of Jilin City can read, but it does not mean that the whole world can read. ”

"When the fields are almost reclaimed and we can be self-sufficient, then it will be time to ask Grandpa for immigration."

"Today's Jilin City, the foundation is still too thin...... Zhu Gaoxu said as he and Yizha came to a special place.

He rolled over and dismounted, and in front of him was a two-acre field enclosed with cement, in which rice was sown.

The rice in the field was enclosed by a hollow concrete wall two feet above the ground, and a five-foot-high shed was erected on top, which was made of dry grass to make a sparse straw hut that could be flooded by sunlight.

These two acres of land are the experimental fields that Zhu Gaoxu painstakingly managed, and the hollow cement wall is the water channel used to discharge water and keep warm in the future.

Not surprisingly, in winter, Zhu Gaoxu would also have people follow the example of the palace greenhouses of the Yuan Dynasty to spread warm horse manure in the fields to keep them warm.

This experimental field is a greenhouse field where Zhu Gaoxu plans to "raise seedlings first and then plant seedlings" next year.

According to Zhu Gaoxu's experience in his previous life, one acre of machine-transplanted rice field can be planted with 40 to 50 acres of fields, one mu of seedling fields can be transplanted manually to plant 10 acres of fields, and 60 acres of fields can be thrown with seedlings.

Therefore, there is no difference between today's two acres of rice and rice outside the city, and they are all experiments on how long Jiangnan rice can survive after sowing in Jilin.

Only in March next year will Zhu Gaoxu use these two acres of experimental fields to raise seedlings.

Once the seedlings are successfully raised, these two acres of experimental fields can throw at least 100 acres of rice fields.

Of course, Zhu Gaoxu doesn't care about this 100 acres of rice field, what he cares about is whether the seedlings can be successfully raised.

As long as it can be successful, hundreds of acres of seedling fields such as this can be built in Jilin City.

Anyway, after next year, every household will have fire walls and fire tunnels, and it is not particularly difficult for thousands of households to protect hundreds of acres of seedling fields with water vapor from heating.

As long as hundreds of acres of seedling fields are thrown, tens of thousands of acres of rice fields can be thrown.

Today's grain production in Jilin City, Zhu Gaoxu inquired, and he is in his early eighties.

Coupled with the increase in production brought about by the soil and chemical fertilizer in the manure pond and the new construction of the canal this year, I am afraid that it can reach 90 catties or 100 catties.

As long as it can reach 100 catties, the original 3,000 mu of cultivated land can harvest 2,000 stone of grain, which is nearly 20% more than the original yield, and can feed 50 more people.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu was in a much happier mood, and he always believed that the most valuable knowledge he brought from later generations was not arquebuses and flintlock pistols, but the corresponding part of the agricultural knowledge.

In this agrarian society, if he can increase agricultural production by 10%, he can make the world feed millions more people.

"How many acres of wasteland can be reclaimed before the autumn harvest?" Zhu Gaoxu squatted in the rice field to look at the rice up close, and at the same time asked without raising his head.

Hearing this, Yisha also said with a smile on his face: "With so much more animal power, according to the estimation of the people below, each family can reclaim at least seven acres of land before the autumn harvest." ”

It was not easy to cultivate wasteland in the agricultural era, but it was much easier if there were enough livestock.

According to the calculation of seven acres of wasteland cultivated by each household, plus the original more than 3,000 acres of land, the amount of cultivated land in Jilin City before the autumn harvest this year may be close to 20,000 mu, if the autumn harvest has not yet entered the winter, then the efforts of more than half a month may reach 20,000 mu.

"Twenty thousand acres ......," Zhu Gaoxu muttered the number.

He asked the people in the city that because of the animal power, the quality of the wasteland they reclaimed this time was about the same as that of the two years of reclamation.

That is to say, after next year, this batch of cultivated land will basically reach the quality of the land that has been cultivated for three years, and the output will be about 70 catties.

If Jilin City can provide enough farm fertilizer, coupled with the drought and flood of the canal, the output may reach 80 catties.

In other words, the autumn harvest in the coming year can produce a minimum of 9,000 or even 10,000 stone of grain, which can be increased from the original situation of 3,000 mu to feed more than 300 people to 20,000 mu to feed more than 1,500 people.

The arable land has nearly increased sevenfold, and the number of people fed has increased fivefold, and in the year after that, it will reach the same level as the old land, and can feed the same seven times as many people.

This series of calculated data made the smile on Zhu Gaoxu's face unstoppable, and he also raised his head and said to Yisha:

"If these two acres of experimental fields can be successfully raised in the coming year, then we will be able to plant rice in Jilin."

"I looked at the history books, when the Bohai Kingdom was in the Tang Dynasty, the Bohai Kingdom planted rice in this area, and the yield per mu was at least one stone, and more could reach one and a half stones."

"We don't have to be too greedy, even if we can produce one stone, we can feed 3,000 people."

"Really?" Yisha squatted down in surprise, not daring to imagine what kind of scene it was.

"Of course" Zhu Gaoxu saw his appearance, and after answering, he couldn't help but pour cold water and said: "But we can't pin our hopes on rice, we mainly have to open up the wasteland." ”

"Before the winter of this year, many tribes are estimated to not be able to raise too many livestock, but if they want to sell cattle and horses, we will buy them all, plus buy another batch after the beginning of spring next year, and next year every household should be able to have a ploughing ox or pull a horse."

"When the time comes, it will be easier to open up the wasteland, if we can open up 20,000 or 30,000 acres of land in the coming year, then even if the rice seedlings fail, we can feed four or five thousand people."

"After a year or two, Jilin City will be able to be self-sufficient, and ask the imperial grandfather for some immigration."

Zhu Gaoxu said this, and Yishaha and the guards behind them couldn't help but look forward to it.

Without too many words, Zhu Gaoxu inspected the rice fields, and the months of study in Jilin City had made him a qualified farmer.

After making sure that there was nothing wrong with the rice, he took them to the armory in the city.

The armory workshop is located in the northeast corner of Jilin City, less than 200 steps away from the Bohai Palace, the whole workshop is surrounded by two zhang high, five feet thick rammed earth wall, 100 steps from east to west, north and south, covering an area of 36 acres.

The soldiers stationed here adopt a shift system, each class has a general flag, three shifts a day, and they take turns to go to the academy in the morning, noon, and afternoon to study.

There is only one door in the armory, so when you enter the workshop, you can see the whole room.

Due to the shortage of craftsmen of all kinds, less than 10 acres of the 36 acres of the armory workshop have buildings.

When Zhu Gaoxu and the others arrived, Lin Su was communicating with an official in the craftsman's workshop.

"What are you talking about?"

"Your Highness......"

Zhu Gaoxu appeared in front of the two with Yishaha, and after the two of them made a fuss, Lin Su also said:

"I'm talking to Su Yimu about the Ming Armor and the Dark Armor."

"Counting the Ming armor in the city and the six hundred sets of Ming armor tablets this time, we will probably be able to gather 1,500 sets of Ming armor next month, and the Ming armor of the brothers will be enough by then."

"Winter is coming, so I discussed with Su Yanmu to start building dark armor in August, and there is still a shortage of five hundred and ninety-four sets, and we will prepare to build eight hundred sets at the end, and keep more than two hundred sets for backup."

Since reading the book, Lin Su has also begun to speak in a crepe, and Zhu Gaoxu has become accustomed to this.

After listening to Lin Su's words, he led everyone to the courtyard where the armor was made, where fifty healthy women skillfully connected the armor pieces with stumbling armor.

"At this speed, how many sets of armor can be connected in tandem every day?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at Su Yanmu and asked, and he also answered truthfully:

"As long as there are enough armor pieces, five people can make a set in tandem a day, and here you can wear ten sets of armor every day, which is actually about the same speed as creating armor pieces."

Hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu didn't say much, but walked out of here to the place where the weapon was made.

Because weapons are easy to be damaged, the courtyard where weapons are made is extraordinarily wide, and twenty blacksmiths hammer out spear heads and short knives and hammers here.

"The spear in the city is too light, you ask the blacksmith to give me a fifteen-pound zhangliu iron gun, and a three-foot-six-inch ten-pound iron hammer."

"This ......" Su Yan looked at Lin Su next to him in surprise, but Lin Su smiled and said: "Fight, Your Highness has great strength, you can carry me as a weapon with your bare hands." ”

Zhu Gaoxu's innate divine power is not a secret among the old brothers of the hundred households, after all, when he was guarding him, he could watch him practice martial arts every day with a stone table of one hundred and fifty catties.

This was still last year, and now that a year has passed, Zhu Gaoxu is getting taller and taller, and the strength at hand is more difficult to figure out.

Only those who have seen it with their own eyes will believe that Zhu Gaoxu's weapon can make fifteen catties.

As far as Zhu Gaoxu himself can't help but sigh that his body is a god to eat, especially after he comes, the strength of this body is probably even more terrifying than the strength of his predecessor in history.

The predecessor Zhu Gaoxu was forty-six years old and could still lift a 300-kilogram vat with his hands tied, and now Zhu Gaoxu doesn't dare to hold it up, but the martial arts training stone used to practice martial arts is already 200 kilograms.

A fifteen-pound long-handled weapon is just right for him, and so is a ten-pound one-handed soldier.

Although it doesn't seem to be scary to say that the book is dozens of pounds at every turn, but on the real battlefield, a ten-pound short soldier is an elite foot soldier wearing heavy armor, and his liver trembles when he sees it.

Su Yanmu greeted according to Zhu Gaoxu's words, but several blacksmiths who didn't want to be greeted were also suspicious, until they knew that this weapon was used by the King of Bohai.

With no loss of strength, it is not surprising that Zhu Gaoxu's tall and burly appearance uses such a weapon.

The blacksmiths went to build weapons according to Su Yimu's words, and Zhu Gaoxu then took Yishiha and Lin Su out of the armory workshop and came to the street.

On the streets of Jilin City, hundreds of healthy women can be seen digging in the afternoon to build the sewers according to Zhu Gaoxu's standard according to the requirements of the stonemasons.

Although the production of cement was not high, the demand for cement was reduced to a minimum because the stonemasons of the Ming Dynasty had the technology of stone masonry.

This kind of stone masonry technology Zhu Gaoxu has only seen in the Bai villages in Dali, Lijiang and other places in later generations, but he does not want this technology to be a popular technology in the Ming Dynasty.

Come to think of it, it may be that the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty brought it to Yunnan, and then carried it forward in Dali, Lijiang and other places.

"This year's sewers and cement roads will be paved for eight miles, and next year we will continue to pave other vacant land in the city one after another, and build houses by the way, which is enough for six or seven thousand households to live in this city, and they all have to be used.

Zhu Gaoxu explained to Yishaha, and Yishaha also wrote down what he said.

After explaining these things, Zhu Gaoxu took them out of the city and went up to the fortress mountain behind Jilin City.

Fortress Hill and Taoyuan Mountain are each other's horns with Jilin City, and the military forts and artillery on the top of the mountain can greatly contain the enemy troops who come to attack.

Since the mountain is basically made of gray-brown soil and granite, it is impossible to enter the fort by digging tunnels.

This mountain is more than 30 zhang higher than Jilin City, less than two miles away from Jilin City, the slope on the south side of the mountain is the main, the north side is steep and difficult to climb, so if you want to attack the military fort on the top of the mountain, you have to go around a circle to attack.

However, it is not completely without its drawbacks, due to structural problems, the fort cannot dig wells, so it can only store fresh water on a regular monthly basis.

When Zhu Gaoxu and Yishiha came to the military fort, there was only a small group of small flags stationed here, and like the soldiers in the armory, they changed shifts to study and be on duty.

The area of the military fort is not large, 20 steps from east, west, north and south, covering an area of 1 acre and 4 points.

The fort is two zhang high, one zhang eight feet wide, there are 36 battlements, four arrow towers, and four Hongwu iron cannons.

In addition, there is a warehouse and a reservoir, which can store 300 stone of grain and 5,000 catties of water.

If it really starts, the food in it is okay, but the water can only last a hundred people for a month.

However, Zhu Gaoxu didn't care, he didn't think that anyone in the northeast could attack Jilin City.

As long as Xiyangha in the north is not blind or deaf, I am afraid that he already knows the news that his 600 soldiers have entered Jilin City.

Xiyangha did not dare to invade, then Jilin City would have no opponents, and naturally there would be no need for the two military forts of Fort Mountain and Taoyuan Mountain.

It's just that Xiyang Ha doesn't come to invade, but Zhu Gaoxu has to find a way to get back.

Walking to an arrow tower, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Lin Su and Yishiha who were following up, and while looking at Jilin City and Songhua River in the north, he asked: "Have you found out the good news on the way north?" ”

As soon as he said this, Lin Su looked at Yishiha, and Yishiha lived up to expectations and said:

"From Jilin City all the way to the north, Commander Fu personally led the team to find a trail, all the way north for seven hundred and twenty-three miles to reach the Buyan Mountain where Xiyang Ha is located."

"Commander Fu asked people to disguise themselves to go to Xiyang Ha's department, which was a stone fort in the pre-Jin period, Xiyang Ha himself and his generals and their relatives lived in the fort, and the rest of the troops built a two-zhang high wooden fence and lived in the wooden fence city next to the stone fort."

"That wooden fence is two feet high and five feet thick, and it is difficult to break through unless you bring a Hongwu iron cannon."

"There are more people in Xiyang than we expected, I'm afraid it is close to 20,000 people, including no less than 7,000 men......

Before he finished talking about the situation in Xiyang Habu, Zhu Gaoxu already had a solemn face.

"Fortunately, there are only 2,000 sets of leather armor in his department, and 300 sets of iron armor obtained from Uliangha."

Yizha said that it was on the armor, and this news also relieved Lin Su, who had been holding his breath next to him.

Seven thousand men and two thousand leather armor, three hundred iron armor Although it is a huge force in the northeast region, it is not enough to fight against the Ming army with 1,500 sets of iron armor.

"Let's step up our training." Zhu Gaoxu looked at Lin Su, and Lin Su nodded and replied when he saw this:

"Your Highness, rest assured, although the brothers below read and wrote, their training did not fall behind...... Hehe. ”

As he spoke, Lin Su laughed, not only him, but also Yishiha.

The two of them didn't need to explain much about the training of the army at all, because their Royal Highness was soaked in the barracks every day.

For example, teach new pawns how to assassinate with guns, and how to train them to walk in unison and assassinate in unison......

These things were all training completed under Zhu Gaoxu's close attention, and the reason why he worked so hard was to cultivate an army with a sense of honor and conviction.

From giving their families equal land distribution, to high military salaries, teaching them to read and write, and finally Zhu Gaoxu even personally participated in military training.

He also actively participated in some gun-holding games in the army, and it is not even too much to say that the 1,527 people in the army, except for the 200 brothers who went south with Zhang Chun, the remaining 1,327 people were basically knocked down by Zhu Gaoxu no less than ten times in the gun-holding game.

Zhu Gaoxu himself pays so much attention to the soldiers, why do they need to explain.

Looking at the smiles of the two, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help laughing.

He was about to speak, but he didn't want an official to come to the staircase of the arrow tower, and he hurriedly waved when he met Zhu Gaoxu's eyes:

"Your Highness, there are two small heads of the Jurchen tribe of the East China Sea in the east who want to come and buy and sell furs with us, you see......"

"East?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at Yishu suspiciously: "Isn't the east side fully entrusted to Shanchu Castle to be responsible?" ”

"The slave doesn't know ...... either" Yisha's smile retracted, and he was a little embarrassed on his face.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't mean to blame him for this, after all, the Jurchens in the East China Sea lived in the mountains, and information was not as easy to obtain as the Haixi Jurchens.

"Where are those two?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at the official, and the official said without thinking: "It's just outside the fort." ”

"Let's go, go out and meet them." Zhu Gaoxu was not ready to meet the guests in the castle, so he greeted them and followed.

His actions like this will definitely lose the face of the county king in the pass, but no one in Jilin City can control him.

Yisha and Lin Su have long been accustomed to it, and it is precisely because of this that they dare to get close to Zhu Gaoxu and chat about family life like friends.

The four of them got down from the arrow tower and walked out of the fortress mountain fort, and then they saw two Jurchens wearing sackcloth and animal skins, with braided hair hanging down their shoulders, and less than five feet in length.

Beside them stood a Ming soldier in armor, but this soldier was a man brought by Yisha.

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu was coming, he hurriedly made a gesture, and at the same time called the two heads next to him to salute in Jurchen words.

The two leaders looked at Zhu Gaoxu with a surprised look on their faces, and they hurriedly made a fuss.

Perhaps they had never seen someone as tall as Zhu Gaoxu, and the soldiers at the gate of the military fort also brought horses for Zhu Gaoxu to sit down.

Zhu Gaoxu sat down after walking in front of them, but he was still as tall as the two Jurchens when he sat down.

Before the Qing Dynasty, the height of the Han people was among the best in the world, and although the Jurchens were not short, they were still worse than the Han average.

The Jurchens of the East China Sea lived in the mountains, and although they had meat to eat, grain was scarce and could only be obtained by selling furs or looting.

"Your Highness, they are the Udiha people in the east who are suspicious of the real department, because they have plundered the good out of the fort, so the head of the good out of the fort really does not want to buy their furs, so they can only find us."

The soldiers introduced Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaoxu also looked at Yishu when he heard this.

Yisha lowered his head and whispered in his ear that he was a real Vuldiha savage, and at this time, the two leaders also reported their names to each other.

"Your Highness, they are the heads of the Suspicious Ministry, Fudaha and Gordosuke, and they are here to trade with you on behalf of the Suspicious Division."

Yishaha relayed the words of the two, but Zhu Gaoxu was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then looked at the two people with strange eyes.

"Aren't these two guys the ruthless people who slaughtered the sixth ancestor and the fifth uncle of Nurhachi......"

(End of chapter)