Yang Peng eats with everyone every day. Zhao Jinxi has a hobby of cooking by himself, so that Yang Peng can eat better. Yang Peng has no objection to this. Yang Peng's workload is also too heavy, so there is no
From time to time, Zhao Jinxi also cooks some meat to supplement Yang Peng. Yang Peng often goes to the mountains to hunt some game to improve the food. Now there are nearly 5,000 people here in Yang Peng. It's no wonder
Yang Peng and the others can at least have enough to eat here, three meals a day. The workload here is also very heavy. Zhao Jinxi is already a female gentleman at this time. The children here are calling Zhao Jinxi sir. Zhao Jinxi never thinks of himself.
And on this day as a female teacher, I laugh non-stop every day and my face looks much better.
The blacksmith shop started to produce a large number of agricultural tools. Yang Peng arranged for 2,000 people to open up wasteland. Zhang Yan bought nearly 1,000 cattle and 5,000 sheep from Yingzhou. Zhang Yan now has a good relationship with a Khitan head of a hundred households.
, because Zhang Yan knew that it would be difficult to move forward without military connections in the Khitan territory. Yang Peng also said to him, "The Khitan people will help them save the money first. When it comes to capturing Yingzhou, the silver will still be ours. Let's talk about it later."
Also, it has nothing to do with them buying iron ore, as there is no way to make steel, so just spend money with confidence."
Zhang Yan knew about this powerful relationship. A few days later, he bought a hundred sheep at the market, and also had food. He took his men to the Khitan military camp and said, "Condolences to the Khitan army. The hundred households were extremely happy." He took Zhang Yan in
In 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 to them." The hundred households were extremely happy, but they didn't.
Thinking of Zhang Yan's generosity, it was the first time for the hundred households to take so much money. He immediately became brothers with Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan said to him, "When you have nothing to do, you can also help to collect those beggars. Zhang Yan is willing to give money to a beggar."
Two taels of silver will do, regardless of gender. Even beggars from Mozhou and Youzhou will do."
Zhang Yan told him, "My family is in the south and the textile workshops need a lot of people. These beggars just need to give them food. Besides, it is a life-saving grace. They will not ask for money." Zhang Yan also ordered not to beat them.
Zhang Yan was responsible for all the money for food on the road. This made the official of Baihu very happy. This was a source of wealth. Zhang Yan said to him, "Don't rob other people's children. If your father knows about it, he will definitely not be there."
Let yourself stay here in Yingzhou." The hundred households said, "Brother Zhang, don't worry, you will definitely not do this." Zhang Yan immediately gave 500 taels of silver to the hundred households, this time about the iron ore.
Zhang Yan didn't mention it, because Zhang Yan was still very careful and was afraid that others would become suspicious. In this way, nearly a thousand beggars and some refugees were sent to him in just one month. Zhang Yan was also very generous and directly gave more than 2,000 taels of silver. As mentioned above
Zhang Yan didn't mention the 500 taels of silver at all, and the hundred households were also very happy.
During this time, Yang Peng was also working on cement. He didn’t know why he knew so much about it. General cement: The cement usually used in general civil construction projects. General cement mainly refers to the six major categories of cement, namely silicate.
Cement, ordinary Portland cement, slag Portland cement, pozzolanic Portland cement, fly ash Portland cement and composite Portland cement. The production process of Portland cement is representative in cement production
, uses limestone and clay as the main raw materials, which are crushed, batched, and ground into raw materials, which are then fed into the cement kiln to calcine clinker, and then an appropriate amount of gypsum is added to the clinker (sometimes mixed with mixed materials or additives)
It is ground into fine pieces. Cement production depends on the raw material preparation method, and can be divided into two types: dry method (including semi-dry method) and wet method (including semi-wet method). Dry method production. The raw materials are dried and ground at the same time.
Or the method is to dry and grind the raw meal powder first and then feed it into the dry kiln for calcining the clinker. However, there is also a method of adding an appropriate amount of water to the raw meal powder to make raw meal balls and sending them to the Liboer kiln for calcining the clinker.
The method, called semi-dry method, is still a type of dry production. 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 old masters, cement was finally produced after fifteen days. Yang Peng built a stone bench with cement. In the next two days, he called Zhang Xiang and Zhao Jinxi over. Yang Peng asked Zhang Xiang to pick up the hammer.
He said, "Smash it hard and see what happens." Zhang Xiang picked up the hammer and smashed it 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 do it."
What do you think about using this to build a city?"
Zhang Xiang said, "No matter how powerful the army is, it cannot capture such a city unless all the people here are dead." Yang Peng said, "I plan to start building the city when there are more than 20,000 people here. Now we will develop it first."
At this stage, you have to investigate northward. You must not let the Khitans know that there are so many people here. Ask your brothers to investigate fifty miles forward. If you find any spies, kill them all and do not recognize them. Do not show kindness.
Just arrest the people from the Song Dynasty, and move their whole families here if they are farmers," Zhao Jinxi said, "Yes, if the Khitan people know now and don't send a large force to encircle us, we will be in trouble. Zhang Xiang
You must pay attention to this." Zhang Xiang said, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, I will definitely pay attention to it."
Zhao Jinxi stamped his feet and said, "Who are you calling sister-in-law? Don't scream nonsense." At this time, he was extremely happy in his heart. He wished that Zhang Xiang could keep calling him like this and walk away with a blush. Yang Peng didn't object at this time.
Peng said, "The main thing for us now is how to deal with the Khitan cavalry. If we fight head-on, we will definitely not be the Khitan's opponents. I will study how to deal with the Khitan cavalry during this period.
Thanks a lot."
When Yang Peng returned to his home, the brothers were really good. They built themselves a courtyard, a small garden at the back, and a study. The tables and chairs were all designed according to Yang Peng's drawings.
The study took a long time to think before he started drawing and designing a flintlock gun. Now Yang Peng's steel is no longer far ahead of the Song Dynasty. Yang Peng's exquisite hands finally removed the clockwork steel wheel.
Instead, he clamped a piece of flint on the jaw of the hammer. He also set up an anvil next to the fire hole. If he needed to shoot, he would pull the trigger, and under the action of the spring, he would hit the flint hard against the fire door.
On the top, sparks appear and ignite the gunpowder. This firing mechanism is called a percussion flintlock machine, and a firearm equipped with a percussion flintlock mechanism is called a percussion flintlock gun. The advantages of percussion flintlock guns are self-evident.
Metaphorically, it greatly simplifies the shooting process, improves the firing rate and shooting accuracy, is easy to use, and has low cost, making it convenient for mass production. The basic structure of a flintlock gun is like a musket, that is, the flint on the hammer is struck to generate sparks.
Ignite gunpowder. The average caliber of a flintlock gun is about 13.7 mm. Since the breech-loading musket has not been invented yet, this placed high demands on the ammunition loading technology at that time. According to the previous loading method, when loading projectiles,
It is necessary to place the projectile into the bore, use a wooden hammer to hit the projectile stick, and push the bullet into the bore. This is very time-consuming and means a waste of life on the battlefield.
In this way, after a month of hard work at his own home, Yang Peng finally made his first flintlock gun. Yang Peng was extremely happy. This is the best weapon to deal with the Khitan cavalry. If they fight against the Khitan army on the battlefield,
, that's a one-to-one price, which Yang Peng can't afford. Besides, he doesn't have that many horses. Even if he has so many horses, he can't afford to raise them here.
Yang Peng came to the military camp with a flintlock gun and called Zhang Xiang, Cheng Shijie, and Zhan Jin to come over. "Brother, what's the matter? Do you already have a way to deal with the Khitan cavalry?" Yang Peng said, "I just rely on him to deal with the Khitan."
"The cavalry," Zhang Xiang and the others didn't know what Yang Peng was holding, but they were all Yang Peng's die-hard loyalists and had never doubted Yang Peng's words. Yang Peng had someone make a target and asked Zhan Jinguo to put it on
One hundred and fifty meters away. Yang Peng took aim with the gun and pulled the trigger. He heard a "bang" sound and the target in front of him punched a hole. Cheng Shijie let out a wow, and said, "Brother, this is too powerful. That's it."
The nemesis of the cavalry, Guaiguai, is incredible. The cavalry is like a living target. As long as we have someone to attack the Khitans, it will be no problem."
Zhao Jinxi also said, "Brother is still awesome. It's incredible how many weapons like this can be made. It seems that we are one step closer to the Sixteenth State of Yanyun, haha. Now it seems that the Khitan dog is still so arrogant, haha." Zhao Jinxi bared his teeth and claws.
Said. It seems that Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures were captured in a few days. Cheng Shijie said, "It has nothing to do with you being so powerful. Now you are sir, and the war belongs to us. Just watch us fight the Khitans."
, Haha." Zhao Jinxi stepped forward and kicked him, saying, "This has nothing to do with me, so it has nothing to do with me. Well, when we invite sir here, our female soldiers can also go to the battlefield. We are no worse than you, okay?
Um."
Yang Peng said, "Brother, you first organize a team of a thousand people and start training. Now use wood to make a gun for aiming practice. You must not miss the training. Just practice for an hour every day. When we make the gun
Everyone is conducting live ammunition exercises, and we are looking for two hundred of the most loyal and reliable people to go to the weapons workshop. The people here must have families, so they will not betray us. "I will be there in a few days.
Let's see how to make table salt somewhere on the beach. The current salt is too unpalatable. What's more, we are spending money now and haven't started making money yet, but we have to wait until we build the city to make money. We can't take risks.
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Zhang Xiang said, "Brother, don't worry. Just leave this to me. How about we transport seawater for experiments first? Then, let's see what happens with the sun salt." Yang Peng said, "We might as well organize twenty people to transport it first."
When the seawater comes in, we first build a pond with cement. After seeing it, we say, OK, big brother, you go and make the arrangements. I will arrange for someone to build the pond and we will start transporting the seawater over in three days. How about that?" Zhang Xiang said, "No problem, just leave it like that.
Okay, I’ll arrange someone for you right away.”
Zhang Yan saw that he didn't have much money, so he said to Ma Ming, "I want to kill him. I want to find a few big companies to grab the money. I can't ask my elder brother to bring the money over. Ma Ming, take a look at which company has the most money these days."
For money, we just stole his vote and said, as long as you do it well, you won't find it. If you arrange for someone to build a cellar, you must not be able to see the flaw yourself. Then we will definitely come to inspect it, because we
If you are not a Khitan person, please tell these 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 very generous. He gives five taels of silver to the soldiers guarding the gate when entering and exiting the city. It is the same no matter what time. In the past, he had to check, but now the soldiers at the gate of Zhang Yan
He said hello to Zhang Yan and then let him go directly. Those soldiers were also from poor families in Khitan. What Zhang Yan gave them at one time was almost a month's salary. In one month, they made a year's worth of money with Zhang Yan. That one was making things difficult for Zhang Yan.
The soldiers didn't agree either.
A few days later, Ma Ming said to Zhang Yan, "The Khitan man in front of us is named Ye Qian Xia Ou. This man is extremely bad. His family also has a lot of money. At least he has nearly two hundred thousand taels of silver. He also has a nursing home."
There are just three of them. I don’t know how many of us Song Dynasty people were killed by this guy. He is really bad. Otherwise, we will kill him. Then we drove the carriage to the south of the city and left a mark. Our carriage unloaded the goods in the backyard.
, and transport them to the cellar." Zhang Yan said, "Put a few stones in the carriages so that they have weight, so that there are traces. You must pay attention to the details. It is not easy for us to develop here now.
The first time must not be exposed, so we will start taking action in three days," Ma Ming said. "I will pay attention to it these two days, and I must not let anyone see it at night. I will check the route to make sure it is foolproof.
That’s all.”
Ma Ming has been walking back and forth on this road in the past few days, always paying attention to the movement on the street. At night, Ma Ming still checks the pedestrians on the road and their patterns. Zhang Yan noticed the carriage and checked it several times before he felt relieved.
, Ma Ming also practiced it once.
On the night of the third day, Zhang Yan began to take action. Six people, wearing black clothes and covering their faces, armed with hand crossbows and bayonets, rushed towards Master Yeli's home. Ma Ming led one person from Yeli's house to the south of the city.
When he arrived at the place, he immediately put down the stone and drove the carriage to the door of Master Yeyi's house. At this time, Zhang Yan had successfully entered Yeyi's house, parked both carriages in the yard, closed them and left one
While observing, he and Ma Ming began to move the money. Unexpectedly, this guy was really rich, with almost more than 200,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of gold. At this time, Zhang Yan was extremely happy. Facing
Ma Ming and others said, "Move it quickly and take away the calligraphy and paintings as well. These are all things from the Song Dynasty."
Zhang Yan and Ma Ming carefully checked whether there were any flaws left behind. After checking once, they opened the courtyard door and rushed back. When they arrived at the shop, they immediately moved the silver and gold to the cellar. They checked several times when they came out.
Go back to sleep. In the morning, Zhang Yan started to open the shop. Zhang Yan went to the cellar to check before going to the front to start doing business.
At about nine o'clock in the morning, Yingzhou began to be filled with soldiers. Zhang Yan took the householder and asked, "What's the matter with the general? What happened? Why are there so many soldiers on the street?" the householder said.
"Master Yeqi was killed by others and his money was robbed. I don't know how Fei Yanzi got in." "Ah. Fei Yanzi did it and killed Master Yeqi. These people are too bad."
, it seems that we need to pay attention, general, when you patrol at night, you should be more diligent when you come to our place. Give one hundred and two silver to that hundred households, and you must instruct your soldiers to come to our place often, thank you!"
That Baihu was thinking, this guy is really afraid of death. It's okay. You just need to pay him. I don't patrol by myself. I just ask the soldiers to come here often. This is also an explanation. In Yingzhou, this boss is responsible for us.
The soldiers are the best.
Zhang Yan also breathed a sigh of relief. He said to himself that you, Fei Yanzi, are too famous in Yingzhou. When something happened, it was you Fei Yanzi who made us worry for so long. Hey, I don’t know what Fei Yanzi will do this time.
Fei Yanzi is definitely the one who takes the blame. Sorry, we don’t know how you became famous, haha.
Yang Peng didn't know that Zhang Yan was causing trouble in Yingzhou, and Yang Peng's thoughts were all about flintlock guns. Yang Peng made ten hydraulic turning machines at once, and made molds for flintlock gun parts, and
Polishing tools and flintlock guns are also considered normal production.
Now there are nearly 20,000 people here in Yang Peng. Even if there are more children, there must be nearly a thousand children, most of them are orphans. This is the war. No matter who wins in the end, the people will suffer. Hey, it is really sad.
Wherever the Qin and Han dynasties traveled, thousands of palaces and palaces were made of earth. When they prospered, the people suffered. When they died, the people suffered! No survivors were cut off, and the corpses supported each other. Men's heads were hung beside the horses, and women were carried behind the horses. This doesn't make sense at all.
Wrong, in the end it was the common people and those women who were hurt the most.
Yang Peng has opened up nearly 10,000 acres of farmland here, as well as nearly 1,000 acres of vegetable land, which are also planted with vegetables and nearly 10,000 acres of wheat. Yang Peng has made many bobbin trucks. He installed them on
On the edge of the flowing river, because there is a ground trough dug, the rapid flow introduced into the ground trough drives the wooden impeller to rotate continuously, lifting the water in the ground trough to a high place through the bamboo tube, and then pours it into the sky trough and flows into the farmland. This kind of
The ancient water-powered automatic trolley car, among the lush mountain slips and streams in my hometown, formed pictures of ancient pastoral spring scenery, which was an outstanding invention of the ancient Chinese people.
The bamboo tube plays the role of an impeller: it withstands the impulse of water (provided by the kinetic energy (speed) of the water), and the energy obtained causes the tube car to rotate. It also overcomes the frictional resistance of the tube vehicle and the reaction moment of the lifted water on the tube vehicle.
). When turned at a certain angle, the bamboo tube originally immersed in the water (already filled with water) will be lifted out of the water. At this time, because the mouth of the bamboo tube is higher than the bottom of the tube (this means that the mouth of the bamboo tube should face the tube truck
(due to the forward direction), there will be some water in the bamboo tube.
When the bamboo tube passes the top of the tube truck (when the bamboo tube starts to pour water), the position of the tube mouth begins to lower relative to the bottom of the tube, and the water in the bamboo tube will pour into the sink. You can adjust the position of the sink so that the sink can receive more water.
Too much water. When you find that the drum truck rotates too slowly or cannot lift the water, you need to install some wooden boards or bamboo boards on the drum truck so that the drum truck can obtain more energy (kinetic energy) from the water. You can also put the drum
The car is immersed deeper in the water to obtain energy (this method is used, because the angle between the position of the bamboo tube when it comes out of the water and the axis of the tube car is larger, and the height difference between the mouth and the bottom of the tube is also larger, which can make the bamboo tube store more water.
).
When the speed of the water flow is low, the bamboo tube must also be relatively small. Otherwise, the energy the tube car obtains from the water is limited and is not enough to overcome the reaction moment (or potential energy) of the lifted water on the tube vehicle. This goes back and forth, and the cycle
Lifting water. The efficiency of the drum cart itself is very low, but it does not need to be powered.
This barrel cart is also used to prepare for the future drying of salt at the beach. After these few days of preparation work, the salt has been dried out. After the sea salt was dried, Yang Peng processed it. Zhang Xiang and others were shocked.
Even the emperor of the Song Dynasty could not eat such good salt. It was extremely salty without any impurities. Yang Peng arranged for fifty people to produce sea salt. When the time came, he would first sell it to Cangzhou. This was a big source of income, even if he wanted to sell it, he would have to pay for it.
We can wait until the city is built, but that's definitely not possible now.
Yang Peng also asked those who farm to pay attention to fertilization. Nowadays, ordinary people farm entirely in the face of God. During droughts, they carry water manually. They have never thought of using drum trucks for irrigation. Yang Peng also bought rice somewhere in the south.
Seeds, Yang Peng is ready to raise seedlings in May, and Yang Peng wants to plant rice in the north. Can it be done? Let’s plant it first and see what the harvest is like. Yang Peng doesn’t know what will happen. Fortunately, it’s all plains here.
With nearly hundreds of thousands of acres of land planted with soybeans, broad beans, and sorghum, Yang Peng is thinking that next year he will no longer have to buy food from other places.
Zhang Yan now has money, so he took a hundred sheep and bought two pigs from Cangzhou to the Khitan military camp when he was free today. When the soldiers saw Zhang Yan coming, they were extremely happy because Zhang Yan
When Yan came over, they wanted to improve the food. The Baihu officer personally went to the gate of the military camp to greet him. Zhang Yan raised his fists and said to Baihu, "Hello, General, I'm here to see you again. Please don't take it off." The Baihu thought, I
Why should I be offended? I wish you could come here every day. Among all the rich men in Yingzhou, only Zhang Yan does this.
He asked, "General, have you caught that flying swallow?" Baihuguan said, "It's so easy to catch. They all have strong martial arts skills and can fly over walls. We are definitely no match. This problem can only be left to Shangguan," Zhang Yan said
"That's right, don't take risks. Life is nothing if you die. It's not worth it. It's not your own money. There's no need to take risks. Haha." Then he pulled the Baihu official aside and said, "
A friend of mine wants to buy iron ore with you at a price that I think is pretty good, what do you think? If you want to make a small fortune, if you are willing, you can spend a thousand taels of silver on it first. If it doesn't work, don't take the risk."
When the Baihu official heard that there was such a good thing, he immediately said to Zhang Yan, "No problem, I will help you handle it in the afternoon." Zhang Yan went outside and took out a thousand taels of silver and gave it to the Baihu official and said, "Thank you, General."
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What happened after all? Let’s look at the breakdown next time.