In the end, Han Dezhu just bought the minimum and necessary hardened floor, one-story wooden house without any decoration, and no window glass. After all, flat glass is still very expensive now. They used double-layer windows, each floor
The windows were covered with paper inside and out.
The window paper doesn't keep you warm, but there is a fireplace. That one burns very hot.
You can save a lot of money by building your own stilt-style warehouse on the cement floor and putting corn and wheat in it. If you have many children, they will use wooden beds with bunk beds. Drawing the curtains can also ensure privacy.
Han Dezhu has already found out that these wooden houses are made of standard wooden components. They can be dismantled and expanded at will. If there is decay and damage, just replace the components. A house can be lived in by future generations, as long as you are willing
Maintain it.
If you really need to expand the house in the future, you can spend money to expand the hardened floor, buy more wooden components, renovate and expand the house. It is also possible to add an attic with a herringbone internal space on the roof. Add another floor.
, it is also possible to turn it into a second floor for the main body and a third floor for the roof attic.
I didn’t even buy a stone mill. I heard that a big windmill was going to be built in the village. It would grind rice and flour for everyone for free. Just get a small hand-operated stone mill at home.
The cement hardened area was small and it cost only a small amount of money. He saved most of the loan and prepared steel to spend on the cutting edge.
The ground hardened quickly, and the cement dried completely in two days. After another three days, the wooden house was built. The family happily moved in. Everything went as fast as a dream.
On the day of check-in, the merchant's carriage team brought furniture, pots and pans, clothes, bedding, and farm tools. People from the rice and vegetable shops also sent food and dried vegetables for half a year. After all, they will be there next year.
The land can only be planted in spring. The harvest will have to wait until next autumn. After all, we can only grow food for one season here.
If you plant wheat and corn, after harvesting the crops, you still have time to plant another crop of Chinese cabbage, radish, carrots, mustard and other autumn vegetables.
Potatoes and other vegetables can be grown in their own vegetable garden. I heard that the new seeds provided by Yang Mansion, Chinese cabbage weighs more than ten kilograms each, and it is still growing despite the frost.
From now on, in autumn, the harvested grains and vegetables will be stored. Those that are not easy to preserve will be dried and pickled into city pickles. They will last all winter. I heard that the Yang family is still promoting Sichuan's pickling technology and Northeastern pickling.
Sauerkraut technology.
These pickles can ensure vitamin intake in winter, and you can eat vegetables all winter long.
The family settled down and had just had lunch. In the afternoon, the salesman came again.
This time, their jaws dropped. This group of people was even more powerful, and they were good at weapons. Moreover, some of the things were compulsorily required by the government, so you couldn't buy them without buying them.
"Mr. Han, in the military service book, you are the only strong man among the ten members of your family. Therefore, according to the "Yang Mansion Reserve Interim Regulations" issued by the Yang Mansion Military Command Office in Xincheng, you must purchase a set of half-body chainmail armor.
A pewter pole hook sickle gun, a waist knife that can be turned into a simple sword, a crossbow arm ratchet-strung steel crossbow, and a hundred crossbow arrows."
"The money can be deducted from the loan, so you can't buy it. You can freely buy other weapons according to your needs. For example, this kind of long-barreled, fire-portal gun with a butt. The government does not prohibit the use of it by the common people. You
You can take a look.”
As they spoke, these salesmen took out several types of long-barreled muskets with bayonets from the carriage.
Because the Ming Dynasty did not prohibit people from possessing flintlock guns, Xinghe Light Firearms Company developed this kind of musket, which is almost the same style as a flintlock rifle except that it does not have a flintlock machine gun.
The only difference is that the flintlock bolt has been transformed into a backward medicine tank with a windproof cover.
In fact, this kind of gun is a modification of the standard flintlock rifle. Now that the flintlock rifle is about to be phased out, the troops have begun to replace it with full-metal bullets and rifles with magazines.
The control of these weapons has been relaxed. After all, the people of Yang Fan live in newly developed wilderness areas and need to have the ability to defend themselves.
In these places, wild beasts are rampant, and there are many savages and ethnic minorities. They can't live without weapons. Xinghe Light Weapons Company is a business of the Yang family, and the big boss also has performance appraisals.
They simply took the edge off and directly removed the flintlock bolt from the standard flintlock rifle and replaced it with an outdated medicine tank. It became a fire portal gun.
The length of this gun is 1.5 meters, and the bayonet is 1.85 meters. It can be used as a short spear. To fire, you need to drag the gun with one hand, hold the butt of the gun against the shoulder, and light it with a blown torch with the other hand.
.You can also poke the fire stick directly into the medicine pool.
The range and performance are slightly lower than that of a flintlock gun. After all, the powder tank and ignition hole will leak some gunpowder gas.
However, fire guns are not a must-purchase item. This depends on the farmer’s own needs.
If the village is close to a mountainous area, it needs to be purchased to prevent wild boars from harming crops, or to fight against prairie wolves that come to attack sheepfolds in the middle of the night. There are also black bears and tigers in some places, and it is really impossible without firearms.
In some places where there are many wild beasts, Yang Fan even forces adult women to be equipped with double-barreled flintlock muskets. Even when they go out to poop, pee, or work in the fields, they also have hand muskets hanging around their waists.
When encountering attacks from wild beasts, savages, or ethnic minorities, just draw your gun and shoot them.
Yang Fan is not afraid that weapons everywhere will lead to chaos in public security. Because his grassroots organization is tight and under control at all levels, as long as there is a complete gun management system, there will be no major problems.
The big beautiful problem is actually not the proliferation of guns, but the problem of legal injustice, the excessive gap between the rich and the poor, and the inequality of different races and ethnic groups. That’s why some people use guns to resist.
Han Dezhu was tempted, that man didn't like guns.
The salesman saw that he was tempted and decided to add fuel to the fire.
"Master Han, you must have been bullied by the gentry and gangsters in northern Shaanxi. The reason why they dare to bully you is because you don't have a gun. If you buy this rifle, if anyone dares to bully you again, just use the gun to do it.
Kill him!"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This sentence made Han Dezhu's blood boil, yes, that's the truth.
If ordinary people had weapons, they would never dare to bully people like this. Those who are barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. If you don't let me live, I will kill you with a gun!
"Thirty taels in total, right? I also have a bayonet, a cleaning rod, an oil can, a gun cleaning cloth, an oilcloth and a cowhide holster, and three hundred rounds of silk fixed steel core bullets. I bought it."
"Okay, Mr. Han is so happy. I will give you ten sixty-two-weight steel spear heads. There are ten people in your family. Find ten bamboo poles and they will be ten red tassel spears. If each person has one, the whole family will be a gang. That's right.
It’s completely safe.”
Han Deshu smiled bitterly. He and his wife were only twenty-five years old. The eldest son was ten years old. The youngest twin daughters were still breastfeeding. The only ones who could use the red tassel gun were the ten-year-old eldest son and the eight-year-old second son.
I heard that every family in the village has a strong man who participates in military training during the off-season.
The village chief serves as the reserve hundred-household officer and is responsible for commanding. The Baojia chief serves as the small flag and general flag officer and leads the team.
Even children must form a children's league. Children above the age of eight and under thirteen not only have to go to school, but also have a red tassel gun, and they also have to practice formation and running exercises.
If other people's children have a red tassel gun, but my own son does not, and follows the team with a bare wooden stick, the child will feel inferior.
After all, it was agreed when the land was divided that they would not have to pay rent or perform corvee labor. They could use the land of the Yang family for free for generations.
However, they must attach military obligations. The Yang family is their lord. They must be loyal to the master family. Otherwise, the land will be taken back, the household registration will be cancelled, the debts will be paid off immediately, and the people will be driven away.
For those of them who have struggled out of the sea of suffering and enjoyed such good treatment, this is like a bolt from the blue. People have seen the light and can no longer endure the darkness.
Letting them go back to the past would be more uncomfortable than killing them.
They all know deeply that there is no free lunch in this world. Only hard work will pay off. They have enjoyed the good treatment of the Yang family, but they have to pay the price of going to the battlefield.
But they don't care. Human life is worthless in this era. As long as there are descendants to pass on, they don't care whether they die on the battlefield.