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 cart workshop. It was not fast enough to cast the dragon tail cart with only five craftsmen, so Yang Peng also found people from nearby prefectures and counties.
Thirty copper blacksmiths who were good at casting bronze bells were recruited, and they worked with the gunsmiths to cast dragon-tail carts. Thirty-five people could produce seven dragon-tail carts a day.
The three small rivers that the irrigation system relies on have different depths: in some places, the rivers are not deep, and a single auxiliary truck can be used to lift the river water into the irrigation canal; in other places, the river channels are relatively deep, and two auxiliary trucks are required to pump the water.
To water. After calculation, the 90,000 acres of dry land requires more than 800 auxiliary trucks. Yang Peng needs to prepare 800 auxiliary trucks before spring wheat planting in February, and the daily output of seven is barely enough.
Of course, Yang Peng's water tanker was not built in vain. Yang Peng planned to charge 30% of the land rent for the land rent, but the grain Yang Peng had to pay for the land rent was still being sold. The money for building the water tanker could be recovered in half a year. Another thing
On the other hand, Yang Peng began to organize refugees to build irrigation canals. The irrigation canal designed by Yang Peng was 1.5 meters wide at the top and half a meter wide at the bottom. The cross-section was an equilateral trapezoid. The bottom of the irrigation canal was higher than the ground, so farmers only needed to open it.
The canal can divert water from the canal for irrigation. The part of the canal close to the river is higher than the ground, and the side away from the river is relatively low, so that the water will flow farther away.
Each canal irrigates 200 acres of dry land. There are 450 canals in total, and each canal is about 900 meters long. The canals are made of rammed earth. There are no other materials and only the refugees need to work hard to build them.
.To do physical work, you need to eat enough. Yang Peng stopped the porridge shed and began to provide these refugees with enough white rice. These poor people were cultivating new fields for Yang Peng, and they could not starve.
When the poor people saw that the city lord was willing to take them in and provide them with enough rice, they were all very grateful to Yang Peng. After that, the poor people heard one after another that after the city lord opened up new fields, he would give them to every adult and strong man.
The woman has twenty acres of dry land and is even more excited. If there is water for irrigation these days, winter wheat can be harvested at one stone per year. A family of two adults can harvest forty stones per year from forty acres of dry land. Listen.
He said that the general would only collect 30% of the land rent in the future to pay back the grain, and that the land rent included the rice grains turned in for farming. In that case, the rice and flour that could be taken into his home in one year would be twenty-eight shi.
If there are five people in the family, they can eat up to thirteen or four kilo of rice and noodles in a year. In that case, they can still have fourteen kilo of food left in exchange for silver. Fourteen kilo of rice and flour can be exchanged for twenty-eight taels of silver. In addition to having enough food,
There are still more than 20 taels of silver to spend a year. What a good day it is? Every household has more than 20 taels of pocket money every month? Is this a good day for the people of the Song Dynasty? Is this a day in this war-torn year?
Compared with the early Song Dynasty, cultivated land was more tense in the Great Song Dynasty: on the one hand, the population increased, on the other hand, water conservancy facilities declined, farmland decreased, and the per capita planting area of the people was very limited. These poor people used to grow their own crops or rent less.
Poor fields, living a life of hunger and hunger every year when there is a shortage of crops. When did you ever think that you could live a life with more than two taels of pocket money every month?
I wouldn’t dare to dream about it. Of course, the financial situation in the land of the tenant farmer will be tight in the first year. Now that the first year has passed the winter wheat sowing time, only spring wheat can be planted, and the yield per mu is estimated to be only seven bushels. But.
The Lord of the City has said that he will only collect 15% of the land rent in the first year. In this way, a family can earn more than 20 shi of food by farming 40 acres of dry land. In addition to having enough food, they can also earn 10 shi of more food, discounted by 20 shi.
Two silver coins.
Twenty taels of silver is enough for the poor to have decent food, clothing, housing and transportation. The family can make new clothes every quarter, buy some oil for cooking, and even eat meat every now and then. Everyone knows
His life was good, he was saved from the Khitan soldiers by the city lord of Dagou, and now it seemed that good days were coming.
Thinking of those brothers and sisters who were killed by the Khitans, they were really worthless. These irrigation canals were built for the fields that the poor people farmed on their own. The poor people thought of this and worked even harder when building the canals, for fear of losing some layer of soil.
The water leaked because it was not tamped down properly. Everyone worked together to make the entire canal project progress quickly and well.
After sending Xu Nan away, Yang Peng secretly said that the situation was not good, so he checked the material inventory again when he returned to Tianjing New City.
He found Zheng Hui and asked: "Has the saltpeter gunpowder been replenished recently?" Zheng Hui replied: "There is enough stock in the library for more than half a year. At the end of last month, I asked a merchant in Cangzhou to buy a batch.
, the inventory now is enough for the Tiger Regiment and the Pioneer Regiment for a year!"
Yang Peng nodded and asked: "How long will the food last?" "The food contains 145,000 shi of rice and 21,000 shi of rice and flour, which is enough to feed the people in the city for two years!" With food and gunpowder,
, Yang Peng is no longer afraid of Luo Zhen's attack, and feels at ease. If it is not possible, a battle can last for a year. With these sick soldiers and weak troops in Cangzhou, Yang Peng can occupy the entire territory of Cangzhou in three months.
In these turbulent years, there is nothing to be afraid of if you have soldiers. Luo Zhen really bullied people too much and forced Yang Peng to risk his life. On November 13, two days after sending Xu Nan off to Beijing,
, Luo Zhen took people to Tianjing New City. Holding flags and flags, Luo Zhen led fifty horsemen and Ding Hao into Tianjing New City, scaring the people on both sides of the road to avoid them. After entering the city, Luo Zhen
When Zhendong looked around, he felt more and more that Fanjiazhuang was rich and coveted it.
An aide next to Luo Zhending pointed at the people in Tianjing New City and said: "Look, sir, the people in Tianjing New City have no patches on their clothes, which means they make new clothes every quarter. The teahouses and restaurants are full of people, which means they do more than just daily work.
There is still money left over besides basic necessities, food, housing and transportation! Being so wealthy shows how generous the monthly payment given by Yang Peng is and how high the profits from Yang Peng’s industries are! If your Excellency takes over these industries, it will not be difficult for you to become the governor!”
Luo Zhen fully recognized the words of this staff member, but he snorted and said nothing. Luo Zhen led a large group of people on horseback to Yang Peng's official hall, and asked the servants and Yang Peng soldiers in front of the official hall to shout loudly: "General Soldier
Check! Ask your master to come out and lead the way!"
The soldiers didn't know what was going on and hurried in to report. Yang Peng got the report and secretly said that Luo Zhen was really anxious. Xu Nan had only left for two days and he took action. How short of money was he? What he said confidently in front of Xu Nan,
It had only been two days and he had forgotten everything? Yang Peng was not in a hurry to go out to see Luo Zhen. Instead, he gathered the soldiers in the official hall to prevent accidents.
Luo Zhen waited at the door for a long time but did not wait for Yang Peng to come out. He was very confused. 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 outside.
I got impatient and saw Yang Peng squinting his eyes and scolding: "Yang Peng, you actually made me wait for a quarter of an hour. What a big show of arrogance!"
Yang Peng said lightly: "Adults are humans too, so what if we wait?" "You..." Luo Zhen ate a turtle and wanted to have an attack, but was choked by Yang Peng's tough attitude and couldn't get up. He shook it off
Wearing the sleeves of his official uniform, he was about to walk into the official hall, but was stopped by Yang Peng's soldiers. Luo Zhen looked surprised and asked sternly: "Yang Peng, won't you let me in?" Yang Peng said lightly.
: "I brought so many people here with great momentum. I don't expect anything good to happen. If you have anything to say, just say it here."
Luo Zhen was stunned when he heard this. He looked Yang Peng up and down again, as if he had never seen him before, and said loudly: "Do you know what the crime is for neglecting the peak?" Li Zhi waved his hand and said: "Forcing subordinates is also a crime, sir.
Do you know?" Luo Zhen pulled his face down and said loudly: "Yang Peng, you are not going to hand over the secret recipe for glass, are you?"
Yang Peng said: "The secret recipe is a family inheritance. It is passed down from son to daughter, so there is no reason to hand it over!" Luo Zhen sneered and said loudly: "Then don't blame me for using force to search your Tianjing New City.
The whole city!" Yang Peng snorted and said loudly: "This is under my jurisdiction, and I am not allowed to search!" Luo Zhen laughed loudly and said, "This is not your fault!"
He had already inquired about the location of the glass workshop. At this time, he left Yang Peng and led his troops towards the workshop area in the south of the city. Seeing that Luo Zhen was determined to use force, Yang Peng immediately sent someone to rush to the workshop area and notify the guards of the workshop.
One hundred soldiers from the Selective Front Regiment in the district took action to defend the enemy. When Luo Zhen arrived outside the glass workshop, what was waiting for him was already a hundred soldiers from the Selective Regiment with bullets loaded and bayonets arrayed. Those soldiers were all from the Selective Regiment.
He is a veteran who has experienced two wars. His eyes are determined and his actions are ruthless. In addition, he is well-equipped and has a murderous aura about him. Not even the fifty soldiers and generals brought by Luo Zhending can compare.
Seeing the soldiers of the Selection Corps blocking the way, the servant next to Luo Zhen shouted loudly: "Get out of the way, my lord, I'm searching Dong Nu Xizuo. Who dares to stop me?" The soldiers of the Selection Corps did not get out of the way and still stood guard outside the workshop area. See you.
Yang Peng's soldiers were not afraid of him. Luo Zhen was so angry that his face turned red and he shouted in person: "Anyone who knows how to move, get out of my way. It is a death penalty to collide with my horse!" The soldiers of the selection group looked at Luo Zhen.
At a glance, he was still blocked on the road, holding his rifle straight.
The soldiers of the Selection Corps were originally Yang Peng's die-hard loyalists, not soldiers of the Song Dynasty. They received Yang Peng's personal monthly money, not the military salary of the Song Dynasty. They had always only listened to Yang Peng's orders. What's more, Yang Peng usually paid attention to
Educate the vanguard selection team and always make them understand that they exist to defend their homeland, not to fight for the Song Dynasty, so the title of general of the Song Dynasty cannot suppress them.
The general is going to rob the city lord's property. If the city lord's property is taken away, he will have no money to pay the soldiers monthly, and the good life that everyone envies the soldiers will be lost. The soldiers all understand this truth, how can they let Luo Zhen go? See you.
Luo Zhen was so arrogant that the company commander commanding the troops of the Selected Frontier Regiment shouted loudly: "Defend your homeland!" One hundred soldiers raised their bayonets and shouted: "Ouch!" The company commander shouted again: "Defend your homeland!" One hundred soldiers raised their bayonets and shouted: "Hey!"
The man shouted again: "Ouch!" The neat momentum and the murderous intent of the rest of the battle scared the troops on Luo Zhen's side. Although the servants Luo Zhen brought this year were also veterans who had been training for many years, they had never been on the battlefield.
They had seen blood on the battlefield, and their aura was nothing compared to the iron-blooded soldiers of the Selected Frontier Regiment. When one hundred soldiers of the Selected Frontier Regiment shouted, Luo Zhen's men were so frightened that they took a few steps back and stopped ten meters away.
The formation of Luo Zhen and his entourage suddenly fell into chaos and was in a state of confusion. Luo Zhen was determined to search by force, but Yang Peng's soldiers blocked him from entering the glass workshop. He was so embarrassed. He looked around for a while with a red face, and was sulking there, but
I saw Yang Peng coming on horseback leisurely. Yang Peng, please dismiss your soldiers immediately.
How can they be disbanded when they are protecting the private property of lower officials?" Luo Zhen cursed loudly: "Yang Peng, I received a report from someone saying that you were harboring Khitan craftsmen, and led people to search your glass workshop! You led troops to obstruct me, is it?
Do you want to rebel?" Yang Peng said coldly: "Don't you know that even if you are a porcelain maker, your secret recipe will never be leaked? How about making glass? You, a general officer, can't stay in Cangzhou City properly.
, coveting my property, leading servants to steal other people’s secret recipes, is this forcing people to rebel?"
Luo Zhen caught the loophole in Yang Peng's words, laughed and said: "Okay! Yang Peng, you said it yourself, are you going to rebel?" Yang Peng shouted loudly: "I don't think it's the officials who have the final say.
It's not up to you. Besides, it's not something Song Dynasty can control here."
Luo Zhen said loudly: "Okay! Yang Peng, if you hide the fine Khitan works secretly and disobey my inspection, you are rebellious. I will go back and mobilize troops to bring you to justice! If you dare to resist,
It is undoubtedly a rebellion!" Yang Peng was angered by Luo Zhen's unreasonable troubles and cursed loudly: "Luo Zhen, don't bully others too much! Even if you call all the soldiers and horses in Cangzhou, I will not be afraid of you!" Luo Zhen
He snorted coldly and shouted loudly: "Let's go back and mobilize our troops!" Then he took fifty horsemen and servants and retreated the way they came, heading for Cangzhou City.
The next day, Luo Zhen actually led his troops to attack. In the name of refusing to search Yang Peng's private collection of Khitan masterpieces, Luo Zhen led two thousand regular soldiers and four hundred servants in the general barracks to attack Tianjing New City.
.This posture made the entire Cangzhou officials dumbfounded, secretly thinking that Luo Zhen was really ruthless. With such soldiers pressing down on the situation, Yang Peng's resistance would be a rebellion. If he did not resist, the glass workshop, soap workshop, etc. would not be saved.
The entire Cangzhou was waiting eagerly, wondering how Yang Peng would deal with such a situation. Various military attachés sent out night guards to Tianjing New City to observe the progress of the situation. For a time, sentries and cavalry gathered in front of Tianjing New City. Luo Zhen rushed outside Tianjing New City.
At twenty miles, Yang Peng's scouts reported the intelligence of Luo Zhen's attack to Yang Peng. Yang Peng paced back and forth in the general's mansion, making the final decision. Luo Zhen's troops were nothing, and Yang Peng confidently sent a group of troops to attack.
A thousand men could defeat him. But Yang Peng was worried that Luo Zhen said that he was rebelling by attacking the government.
Attacking the government's troops is a big or small matter. But if you don't fight against Luo Zhen, all the secret recipes you have in Tianjing New City will be stolen by Luo Zhen. Then someone will be able to produce the same soap, glass and cheap products as you.
If you don't have enough fine cloth, your income will plummet. If you can no longer afford to support the soldiers of the Selection Regiment and the Polu Regiment, all the capital you need to get ahead in this era will fall into the hands of others.
From then on, he would be a mediocre city lord, and he might be dragged down by other military officers at any time because he didn't know how to behave. I don't know how many people were envious and jealous. It is said that anything good in the forest will be destroyed by the wind, and it is almost inevitable to be criticized. Yang Peng didn't
I am willing to finish playing like this. While Yang Peng was thinking, another group of scouts ran back from the wild and said loudly: "Sir! The general's soldiers and horses have attacked ten miles away!"
Finally, Yang Peng made up his mind. Sooner or later, this day will come. Sooner or later, he will have to rely on his strength to go head-to-head with the enemy. Yang Peng cannot always rely on bribing senior officials to suppress the coveted person. Xu Nan has a strong personal ethics, but other high-ranking people may not, sooner or later.
Someone is going to challenge him. He is not guilty of the crime. Even if he recruits a killer and assassinates a coveted person without being discovered, there will be a second and third coveted person. Yang Peng does not have the ability to assassinate all enemies.
As a reborn person, assassination is not Yang Peng's forte.
Yang Peng's strength is the powerful flintlock rifle in his hand. This is Yang Peng's strength. If he does not rely on his own strength to declare the world, and does not rely on strength to get through today's level, Yang Peng's rise will be like a mirror.
And to be fair, if Luo Zhen said he was rebelling, he would be considered a rebel. Even if he defeated Luo Zhen's generals, it would still be up to the officials to judge whether he was rebelling. For a team like his that has repeatedly made military exploits
To strengthen the army, the emperor was willing to force him to rebel? Yang Peng judged that even if he killed the soldiers and officers who participated in the general, he would not be punished in any way.
Nowadays, the Song Dynasty is besieged on all sides, and good generals with strength and loyalty are too scarce. Even the great pirate Gao Huaide, who killed countless officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty, was not properly appeased in the end. Yang Peng killed the Khitan nobles.
Qian Hongguang, with outstanding achievements and self-confidence, is more valuable than Gao Huaide, and will not be easily labeled as a "rebel" by the emperor!
Yang Peng made up his mind, put on his Feiyu uniform, a jade belt around his waist, put on his cloak and walked out of the official hall, shouting: "Follow me out of the city to meet the enemy!" The messenger rushed to the military camp and conveyed Yang Peng's order.
Down. Two thousand veterans obeyed the order without hesitation and followed Yang Peng out of Tianjing New City. They were eight miles away, six miles away, and four miles away from the enemy. Zhan Jinguo rode beside Yang Peng and looked at Yang Peng's body.
Feiyu took the suit and said: "Sir! Then Luo Zhen framed us for rebellion!" Yang Peng asked: "If I rebel, are you afraid?"
Zhan Jinguo's face turned pale and he gritted his teeth and said, "I'm not afraid. Even if you become a thief, I will follow you!" Cheng Shijie rode aside and said excitedly: "If you become a marshal on your own, you will make me a general."
Dang Dang!" Zhou Dayong said calmly: "No matter what the city lord does, Zhou Dayong will follow him!" Seeing that his subordinates were loyal and reliable, Yang Peng laughed heartily.
Three miles away, two miles away, and one mile away from Luo Zhen's troops, he could already see the billowing smoke and dust raised by the general barracks' troops. Yang Peng secretly thought that Luo Zhen was looking for death, and shouted loudly: "The selected vanguard regiment is loaded and ready to fight!" Li Zhi
Looking through the telescope, he saw Luo Zhen's Chinese army flag far behind the soldiers in the general barracks. Obviously Luo Zhen was very afraid of being killed by Li Zhi's artillery fire. The commander was so timid. What combat effectiveness did such an army have?
The distances were four hundred meters, three hundred meters, and two hundred meters. The soldiers in the general barracks did not know that they had entered the shooting range of the vanguard selection group. One of Luo Zhen's staff jumped out on horseback and shouted loudly between the two armies: "Yang Peng
But think clearly, the soldiers and horses fighting against the general are rebelling! That is the act of killing the nine tribes!"
Yang Peng cursed loudly: "If I rebel, the officials will kill me or not. The first person to die is Luo Zhen who forced me to rebel! And you aides who encourage and advocate!" The aide heard that Yang Peng
Then, looking at the flying fish suit on Li Zhi, his face suddenly turned pale. Yang Peng had repeatedly made military exploits and his strength was here, and the officials knew about it, so he had his flying fish suit and jade belt. If he said he rebelled, he would behead him, so he would kill the nine tribes.
It was in the early Song Dynasty. According to the current situation in the Song Dynasty, even if Yang Peng really rebelled, the officials would probably appease him. But if Yang Peng, who was powerful, was forced to rebel, Luo Zhen, the commander-in-chief, would definitely not be able to escape the wrath of the officials.
.What Luo Zhen did was seen by the people of Cangzhou. In the eyes of the officials, he was just a worthless ordinary military attaché. Engaging in such a big battle would bring him to a dead end.
Luo Zhen thought that Yang Peng would not dare to rebel, so he forced him so hard. He did not expect that Yang Peng was so tough and was really not even afraid of rebellion. Luo Zhen shot himself in the foot. The aide stopped talking and started riding.
He wanted to flee to the back. Yang Peng did not let him go, shouting: "Beat him to death!" Ten soldiers from the Selection Regiment beside Yang Peng opened fire. Blood splattered on the staff member's body, and he was beaten into a hornet's nest.
, fell off the horse. When the general's soldiers saw Yang Peng opening fire, they were all shocked. They shouted loudly: "Tianjing New City has killed people!"
"Tianjing New City has rebelled!" "Yang Peng has rebelled!" Yang Peng was annoyed with the scheming soldiers in the general camp and asked the vanguard group to continue to press forward. They were only a hundred meters away from Luo Zhen's troops, and Yang Peng
Shouting loudly: "Shoot!" the Chinese army's horn sounded, and the 625 soldiers in the first row raised their muskets and fired bullets at the enemy a hundred meters away.
With a crackling sound, smoke spewed out, and 625 rounds of bullets were fired at the shivering general barracks. The distance was very close, and the bullets hit nearly 500 soldiers at once, including the front row of Luo Zhen's army.
It fell down like thatch blown by the strong wind. The sound of falling to the ground merged into one, and then screams were heard. The wounded soldiers who were hit in the hands and feet were rolling on the ground, wailing miserably. Blood spattered from the wounds.
The flowers sprayed everywhere, turning the soldiers who were lucky enough not to be hit red.
"Tianjing New City soldiers have killed people!" "Run away!" "Escape quickly!" With just one round of shooting, Luo Zhen's general camp collapsed. The battalion recruited by Luo Zhen was all new soldiers, how could it have combat effectiveness? Moreover, Luo Zhen
Zhen Zhen seriously drank the soldiers' blood and emptied their pay, and the sergeants had no intention of repaying him. They collapsed as soon as a tough battle started.
Luo Zhen ran faster than the soldiers. Before the defeated soldiers in front could catch up with him, he had already turned his horse's head in the back row and fled towards Cangzhou City. Looking at the camp with its helmets and flags thrown all over the ground,
Zhou Dayong licked his lips and asked: "Sir, do you want to chase them?" Yang Peng shook his head and said lightly: "No more chasing! Go back to Tianjing New City."
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.