More than two thousand iron smelting craftsmen fell into Yang Feng's hands.

When he announced as the emperor that all these craftsmen were listed as nationality from then on, these people were grateful to their holy lords and wise kings, and then without the escort of the soldiers, he happily led the whole family with him. As for the blast furnaces in Baiyezhuang, all of them were destroyed. Yang Feng did not want to expand in a short period of time. If these things remained, Dorgon would simply destroy them all. With his order, the largest steel factory in the Ming Dynasty quickly turned into ruins, leaving only the Qing army's corpses with heads cut off.

"Your Majesty, how do you deal with us?"

Ta Mixiu asked cautiously.

"Don't worry, I won't let you fight with your old brothers. You guys should all know how to farm, right?"

Yang Feng asked.

"Your Majesty, if we were not able to eat, we were all honest farmers."

Ta Jianxiu said with a wry smile.

"Then go to Ningyuan. I will continue to pay you money within three years. Then you will reclaim land and farm there, and teach the gangsters to farm. In short, you will reclaim land and you will be free of land tax. The government will provide you with seeds and livestock. But if the Tatars invade the south, you will also accept recruitment when needed. As for you, I will reward you as the commander of the Jinyiwei. Go find Wang Cheng'en and be under his command in the future!"

Yang Feng said.

He won't use these people.

He will definitely fight Li Zicheng in the future. If these people were in the army, who would know what would happen? Let them go to Ningyuan to be a militia! Their identities are special. If they were arranged in other places, they would easily be discriminated against by the people. Then there would be conflicts. However, the Ningyuan area is home to those gangsters, and they would not have such problems. As for Tian Jianxiu, it would be good to be a traitor with Wang Chengen. Lao Wang would not treat him badly. Zheng Chenggong fought side by side with him and would not be too bad for him. He was also a smart person, otherwise he would not have fought side by side with the Jinyiwei.

Tian Jianxiu didn't say anything, this was the best ending he could think of.

Yang Feng and these people quickly left Baiyezhuang and headed south to Fengrun, then returned directly to Shanhaiguan, and then began his steel plan.

He personally led this group of craftsmen to build small coke ovens, new iron smelting blast furnaces in Xiluo City, Shanhaiguan, and even built hydraulic blowers based on Shihe. At the same time, according to his vision, several iron ores in Qian'an Luanzhou area were found, and then announced the opening of these iron ores as emperors. Anyone can go over to mine. Of course, the mined iron ore must be crushed and sold to him. Iron smelting has been the official business these days, so you have already made the emperor's mining favor. Do you still want to smelify iron yourself and are you planning to rebel?

As for coal, it's simpler.

Just bidding and purchasing. Kailuan Coal Mine was originally privately mined at this time, so as long as he paid for it, someone would supply it.

Of course, this is a big project and it cannot be completed in a short time. In fact, Yang Feng expects that it would be great if he could smel out the iron within half a year. Although Xiaoqian can provide various drawings, the problem is that she does not have these small original versions of equipment drawings. She can provide a complete set of drawings for modern giant blast furnaces, but she cannot provide a small blast furnace with a capacity of only two tons and no power equipment, and there will be no soil-made blast furnace with various high-performance materials added.

Well, it's like Qian Xuesen could build missiles, but he had to overcome many difficulties when he let him run to ancient times to pick up toilet soil, soak the nitrogen and make gunpowder to make flowers.

Yang Feng is the same now.

During this period, Xiaoqian gave him dozens of tons of hybrid corn seeds, and then like those potatoes, she took advantage of the time to sow the righteous people who followed him from beginning to end. In fact, his potatoes had already emerged at this time, and this fresh crop could be seen everywhere north of Shanhaiguan, including the soybean seeds he had made before. These days, the enthusiasm of the people in farming is far beyond his imagination. The lack of oxen cultivation in the land was directly raised, and many women even acted as cattle and horses. In fact, not only these two, but in just over a month, most places in this area were full of vitality and were full of various crops growing vigorously.

As a result, these corns had to be planted on some not-so-good lands.

This land, together with the 300,000 righteous people who lived on the land, and the 100,000 untouchables just attracted, is Yang Feng's basic foundation. These people are truly loyal to him, because they are righteous people who are still loyal to the emperor in times of crisis, so what the emperor promised at the time that they and their descendants would never have to pay land taxes. As for the people in Xinguangfu District, they cannot enjoy such treatment for the time being.

He exempted the land tax from the righteous people from being reasonable and legal. If other feudal emperors would do this under the circumstances at that time, but if he had even exempted the people from the Guangfu District, the gentry in Jiangnan would not do it first. He would have to change the chief minister just by collecting taxes from the gentry in Guangfu District. If he had even done such a rebellious thing, then I wonder how many people would have come to him for trouble.

If you have exempted the land tax in the revival area, let us pay the entire finance of the court?

At this time, Yang Feng was indeed being raised. Whether the food and silver sent from the south were his financial support, his tens of thousands of troops were all transported from Jiangnan. At least before the new crops were promoted and harvested, and before his business developed, he had to control the speed of moving forward on the road to a fool. After all, he was still very weak now. If the gentry in Jiangnan was angry and pinched his money and grain supply, he would not even be able to defend even the Rise of Jidong.

It’s not okay if more than 100,000 troops have no money and food.

He could not expect Taizu to reward him to support more than 100,000 troops. Even if one person has a pound of grain per day, he still needs two Steyrs. Xiaoqian does not have such strong teleportation ability. She has to rest for half a month before she can recover! She asked her to find a few tons of copper and she has not yet gotten off her phone after half a month!

And at this moment the latest news from the south continued to come.

With the support of Song Quan and Feng Yuanyang, and Lu Jiude who rushed back, Longwu successfully took over the burden of the state-controlled state. Originally, Qian Qianyi wanted to do some behind-the-scenes small moves, but Lu Jiude and Han Zanzhou, the two eunuch giants, were standing there, and Shi Kefa was unable to help him, so all the small moves behind him were useless. He himself was so angry that he returned to his hometown. As for the Fengyang general manager Ma Shiying, although he was more interested in King Fu, Lu Jiude stopped Huang Degong and others, and he could only accept it in the end.

However, Zuo Liangyu's attitude is unknown.

This guy has a deep relationship with Donglin, but no matter who controls Nanjing, the situation of his dominance in Wuchang will not change, so he will not have any substantial actions. Not only him, the pattern of the Jiangbei vassal states has basically been formed. Gao Jie is in Xuzhou, Liu Ze is retreating to Huai'an, Liu Liangzuo is in Fengyang, and Huang Degong is in Chuzhou. They are all warlords with self-respecting troops. In fact, the gentry in Jiangnan doesn't care about this. They just need these people to stand in front. Anyway, there is still a natural trench in the Yangtze River!

As long as they cannot affect their singing and dancing, it’s fine. Besides, Li Zicheng hasn’t gone south yet!

Of course, Yang Feng was too lazy to care about these things. He did everything he could. He could do whatever he could. He got everything he wanted anyway.

Lu Jiude and Han Zanzhou quickly sent a large number of talents he called for, including Song Yingxing. In addition to Li Dingguo, there was basically no shortage of others on his list. In addition, he also sent him 200,000 taels of silver. This was the first income for them to sell mirrors and artificial gems for him. It is said that these things are very popular among the gentry in the south. Therefore, His Majesty the Emperor felt that this kind of business that deceived his subjects was completely worth doing, so he not only sent a batch of these, but also added silver-shiny stainless steel tableware, outrageously beautiful artificial fiber fabric, a large bag of artificial pearls, and even a few mechanical alarm clocks that Xiaoqian didn't know how to find. In short, he was preparing to treat the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang as fat sheep.

This can be considered as giving his original owner the skin a vent.

Thinking about the 200,000 taels of life-saving money Chongzhen asked his grandfather for his grandmother. He looked at the 200,000 taels of silver in front of him and felt that Chongzhen's cry of grief and anger seemed to be coming from deep in his soul...

"Your Majesty, if this new bird gun can be rated to all soldiers of the army, our Ming Dynasty's revival is just around the corner."

Song Yingxing's words brought him back to reality.

Yang Feng sighed in his heart, and then took over a Ming version of the brown bess from Shangshu Song.

He still underestimated the wisdom of the Ming craftsmen at this time. The craftsmen who were enthusiastic about gaining nationality easily made a brown bass gun for him after they had the steel to make springs. Although the cost was very high, the gun itself had no problem.

He looked at the hammer with flint on it, then stretched out his hand to the side. Minister Wen quickly handed over a paper bag. His Majesty the Emperor bit the paper bag himself, poured the gunpowder inside the medicine pool, and covered the open medicine cover. Then he raised the barrel and poured the remaining gunpowder in the paper bag from the muzzle, and stuffed the empty paper bag in. Then he took the projectile wrapped in deer skin from Wen Sheng and stuffed it into the muzzle, pulling out the pestle below into the muzzle.

After pounding a few times, he raised the gun again, pulled the hammer to the ready state, aimed at the target eighty meters away and pulled the trigger. The medicine cover automatically opened as soon as the hammer fell. The flint hit the pot and ignited the gunpowder. The gunpowder ignited the gunpowder through the medicine channel on one side. With a bang, a round lead bullet roared out of the center of the bullseye in the fire, penetrated the cotton armor hanging on it and penetrated the wooden board.

"reward!"

With his super vision and looking at the bullet holes appearing on the target, Yang Feng took a deep breath and said.
Chapter completed!