In order to recruit Zhu Zhiyu, Lin Chunhong did not hesitate to put down his work and accompanied Zhu Zhiyu to inspect his own acre of three-point land.

The first stop for Lin Chunhong and Zhu Zhiyu to inspect was Changping Treasure in Bailizhou.

Changping Warehouse is located near Liuxiang Wharf in Bailizhou. It covers an area of ​​100 acres, with a total storage of more than 200,000 stones of grain! Each warehouse is built on a high platform, with various fire-fighting objects placed next to it, and a team of people holding swords and guns can be seen patrolling everywhere.

Looking around, warehouses are endless and spectacular.

Zhu Zhiyu was so surprised that he couldn't stop talking, staring at Chang Pingcang with sharp eyes in a daze. He couldn't figure out the task that could not be completed by one state or one prefecture, but Lin Chunhong actually completed it.

Zhu Zhiyu sighed: "Whenever the Shaanxi prefectures can establish grain storage of this scale, how can the civil unrest be so uncontrollable? Even if it is a severe drought for three years, what can I do to me?"

After saying that, the group opened a Changping warehouse, and all the grains were stored. Zhu Zhiyu couldn't help but insert them into the grains with his hands. The food was quite dry, which shows that the grains entered the warehouse were carefully dried.

Lin Chunhong explained with a smile: "This Changping Warehouse was planned to be built in the first year of Chongzhen. It took five years to reach this scale. When the autumn grain matures this year, the grain storage can reach 300,000 stones!"

Zhu Zhiyu smacked his lips and said in surprise: "There are food shortages in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, where does the food from the History come from?"

"I bought it, take advantage of the cheap Yingui Valley and buy it with the silver!" Lin Chunhong said casually, "Sir may not believe it. These grains were purchased in Zhijiang!"

This sentence surprised Zhu Zhiyu even more: "How is it possible? Zhijiang Dingkou is only 60,000 yuan! How can there be so much excess food?"

"Some, just the land rented from King Hui, I purchased more than 30,000 stone of grain this year..." Then, Lin Chunhong explained to Zhu Zhiyu in detail the policy of renting land from King Hui.

Finally, Lin Chunhong said: "Now, every household basically has elderly, women and children, fiddling with the land at hand. The land is enough, and the yield is certainly increased."

Zhu Zhiyu became more and more happy the more he heard it. He couldn't help but exclaim: "It is a good way to benefit the people and also benefit yourself. It is very suitable for the promotion of the court. However, this requires a lot of silver. How can the court now have so much silver!"

"If the imperial court cannot do things, it is far away from the world, and it is impossible to say that it must do some meager strength. Students have been engaged in that cheap business for many years and have accumulated some money on hand, so they can store more food."

Lin Chunhong's words were somewhat displeased with Zhu Zhiyu. Zhu Zhiyu asked: "To be honest, what is the intention of storing so much food? Is it also learning from the bad businessman and exploiting the common people?"

Lin Chunhong smiled mysteriously and said, "Sir, don't worry, please look at a few more places with the students, and the students' purpose will be clear!"

Immediately afterwards, Lin Chunhong and his group went to the shipyard to inspect the production of the Sanmai River ship.

Zhu Zhiyu grew up in Songjiang Prefecture and saw countless sea boats, even many five-masted sailboats. As for the shipbuilding workshop, he had also visited the scene. The bustling scene of the shipyard did not surprise him. The shipbuilding workshop in Ningbo Prefecture was only better than that. The only thing surprised him was that various giant trees were piled up like mountains, and these giant trees had been specially treated, which was particularly suitable for shipbuilding.

Zhang Zhao explained next to him: "Mr. Zhu doesn't need to be surprised. Dianshi started with logging, so it's not surprising that there are more ships stored."

Zhu Zhiyu shook his head and sighed: "The timber in the shipyard in Jiangnan is very short of timber, so it is a waste to build a river boat with these pillars."

Lin Chunhong smiled bitterly and said, "This is impossible. If a student can build a shipbuilding workshop by the sea, he will definitely turn the entire ocean upside down. How can he allow Zheng Yiguan to despise the court?"

"The court has many disasters and difficulties, and these matters are divided into rush and slow down. The current court's focus is on the bandits and Jiannu. It is a matter of no effort to recruit peace. When you are freed up, let these pirates be arrogant?" Zhu Zhiyu is very concerned about the court and is thinking about the court's strategy on weekdays, so he said this.

As he was speaking, a long cry came: "Open the weir and release the water..."

Everyone was attracted and turned to the place where the sound came. It turned out that a three-masted sailboat had been built and was about to sail from the dock to the Yangtze River.

"Wow..." The huge sound of water flowing came, and the rushing Yangtze River poured into the dock, and in a blink of an eye it held the giant boat and floated on the water.

Under the influence of the water flow, the giant boat is getting taller and taller, and its figure is becoming more and more majestic. You need to raise your head to see its full picture.

The shouts kept coming, mixed with the strange accents of foreigners. After a burst of scolding and yelling, two ropes as thick as arms were pulled from the hull to the sides of the shore. A group of workers grabbed the ropes and waited for orders.

"It's coming into the river..." As the order was issued, "Hey...hey..." The low trumpet came, and the strong men were carrying ropes and pulling the giant boat into the Yangtze River.

Zhang Zhaoxi said: "Boss Zhu's sailboat in Jingzhou has been built, haha, 180,000 taels of silver have been obtained..."

Zhu Zhiyu said in surprise: "180,000 taels of silver per ship? How many such sailboats can be built here in a year?"

Lin Chunhong stretched out his two palms and smiled: "Ten ships! At present, the workshop is still expanding. Please see there. Two shipyards are under construction. At present, we have eighteen ships on orders, and only from Jingzhou, there are nine ships!"

Zhu Zhiyu has a court in his heart, and he always keeps worrying about the country and the people: "It's so pitiful, it's a pity that the court has difficulty even taking out 100,000 taels of silver. Unexpectedly, only Huguang, merchants have such strength..."

Lin Chunhong said: "Sir, we also pay taxes when building ships. We have thirty taxes, and the court also gets 6,000 taels of silver for one ship. Like Zheng Yiguan, he does not pay a penny of taxes to the court, but also charges 3,000 taels of tolls from passing ships?"

Zhu Zhiyu nodded and said, "No wonder Dianshi has money to buy grain, and shipbuilding is indeed a huge profit!"

Lin Chunhong shook his head and said, "The income from shipbuilding is only a small part, and the big head is still in the warehouse. The sir will know it after a few days."

What Lin Chunhong didn't know was that the Hui merchants had a very sensitive sense of smell. After hearing the memorial of Emperor Chongzhen stayed in the Central and Southern Zhili, a crazy battle to buy three-masted sailboats was triggered, which directly led to the insufficient supply of Lin Chunhong's sailboats. This is a later story, and I won't mention it for the time being.

A rumbling sound of cannons attracted Zhu Zhiyu and his party to the martial arts talk field again, allowing Zhu Zhiyu to see the training of the archers, which was one of Lin Chunhong's plans.

The archers are now conducting autumn training, and the entire martial arts ceremony is in full swing, and there are shouts of killing everywhere!

Zhu Zhiyu, who had never heard of the sound of a battle formation, was so scared that his face looked like a dirt. He pointed at Lin Chunhong and stuttered, "Why... why... why... to raise... to raise... to private soldiers?"

Lin Chunhong said slowly, "Have you never heard the emperor's will? 'Encourage the villagers to block the imperial guards'. Although the bandits are currently concentrated in Shanxi and Shaanxi, it is difficult to protect them from spreading to Henan and Huguang. Students are preparing for war and preparing for the future. Besides, Wu Gan in the past few years would openly attack Dangyang County?"

Zhu Zhiyu widened his eyes and couldn't say a word.

Lin Chunhong continued: "The disasters in the Ming Dynasty are frequent, and the court loses one's attention. The students are not talented, and they also have the ambition to support the people. Taking advantage of the extra effort now, they can train a archer who dares to fight and is good at fighting, which is also considered to be the court's responsibility!"

Lin Chunhong's rhetoric did not convince Zhu Zhiyu, and his idea of ​​loyalty to the rule and serving the country was deeply rooted. Five thousand archers and artillery fire were also carried, and Lin Chunhong provided food, grass and weapons. Is this still the imperial army?

Zhu Zhiyu was hit too much and murmured: "Kuangfu inside the body...Kuangfu inside the body..."

Lin Chunhong felt as if he had lost his soul when he saw Zhu Zhiyu, and did not disturb him. Indeed, most scholars in this era had inexplicable trust and loyalty to the court.

The archers are now conducting a junior cavalry confrontation drill!

Lin Chunhong selected the best among the five thousand archers, selected more than 100 archers with good equestrian skills to perform reconnaissance and battlefield blocking tasks. If necessary, he should also give full play to the advantages of the cavalry to support the front battlefield.

All equipment is given priority for cavalry. Horses are high-quality Hetao horses purchased at high prices, with two horses per person. The entire Bangtai Group has less than 100 sets of plate armor, and each person has two sabers made of steel. The sharpness of this horse sword is as good as the Japanese sword, which is worthless. They also hold steel crossbows made of fine steel! The range of this steel crossbow exceeds 180 steps, which is better than ordinary step bows. Moreover, due to the crossbow structure, its accuracy is far greater than that of bows and arrows, but its firing speed is lower than that of bows and arrows.

What's more, they also have a coach with rich practical experience: Zhou Wang! Zhou Wang has followed Li Chengliang for many years and has been entangled with the Mongols, and has particularly rich cavalry combat experience.

Another task for cavalry is to act as imaginary enemies in training and enhance the ability of infantry to fight cavalry!

Now, the cavalry are fully armed and ready to fight, staring at the robes opposite.

The cavalry has a variety of tactics, and Zhou Wang has to explain in detail for three days, so he may not be able to finish it. However, the number of cavalry more than 100 now is too small, and the combat skills are still unfamiliar, so he can only use them to make the infantry adapt to the atmosphere of the battlefield.

Zhou Wang was prominent and was at the forefront of the team. He was wearing plate armor and an iron helmet. The iron helmet was also tied with a bunch of red tassels, which looked extremely majestic. He raised his saber and shouted: "Strike!"

More than a hundred tall horses accelerated slowly, maintaining their array, and rushed towards Wei Yuexiang's infantry formation.

The speed was getting faster and faster, and the whole earth was trembling, causing the dust to spread all over the world, flooding more than one hundred people and horses. The momentum of more than one hundred horses running was indeed different, and it deeply shocked the mud legs.

As he looked closer and closer, the archers in the infantry phalanx were nervous, and Wei Yuexiang even stared at his eyes and calculated the distance.

But several archers finally couldn't stand the oppression of the battlefield and hurriedly released the bow and arrow in their hands. Wei Yuexiang saw the weak arrows thrown in front of the cavalry, and fire almost emerged from his eyes.

As he approached, the cavalry immediately entered the range of the bow and arrow! Wei Yuexiang's breathing became more and more urgent, and his heart almost jumped out of his chest. He was about to shoot, but he saw the cavalry split into two teams in an instant and whistled to both sides.

After the drill was over, Wei Yuexiang shouted: "Drag the bastard who shot arrows in advance!"

Several archers were immediately dragged out, and the leather armor on their bodies was stripped off. The military stick fell on their butts without mercy. There was a lot of wailing on the martial arts field...

Zhu Zhiyu looked at all this silently, not knowing whether it was joy or sorrow, and his sharp eyes also dimmed.

Lin Chunhong said from the side: "Sir, I have watched the archer drill today. Let's go to the military armor workshop tomorrow?"

Zhu Zhiyu gritted his teeth and said, "Look, go and see, you must see clearly!"

The Bingjia Workshop moved from Datian Fort to Bamutan, Bailizhou, where there was a giant water truck that had been built!

Along the way, Zhu Zhiyu kept asking about the archers' things. Lin Chunhong said everything, without any reservation: "... Ten archers are one brigades, five brigades are one brigades, five brigades are one brigades, five brigades are one brigades, five brigades are one brigades, and there is currently three brigades, and there is also a brigades, which is the artillery, which is specialized in the operation of artillery. There are also a cavalry battalion, but there are only more than one hundred people in the cavalry battalion..."

After hearing this, Zhu Zhiyu ignored it and just asked: "The ches camp du licheng camp, it seems to be quite large, where do artillery and gunpowder come from?"

Lin Chunhong smiled and said, "I bought some of the artillery with Francs. There are also some tiger squat cannons, and we made the gunpowder ourselves."

Zhu Zhiyu was silent for a while and said, "The garrison has become corrupt from the root, how can I rely on it? Now they rely on the generals to recruit soldiers themselves. I am afraid that the disaster will reappear."

Lin Chunhong said: "Wei Wu once said, 'If there is no one in the world, I don't know how many people will proclaim emperors or kings.' Without Cao Cao, the Han Dynasty at that time would have fallen apart, and the people would suffer only."

Zhu Zhiyu turned his head and stared at Lin Chunhong, his sharp eyes that made everyone secretly startled.

Lin Chunhong continued: "The world is the world of the people of the world, not the world of one family! Saving this person in trouble and bringing peace for all times is our responsibility. Benevolence is his responsibility, and he will die..."

Lin Chunhong's words frightened Li Chongde on the side. He stared at Zhu Zhiyu nervously, fearing that Zhu Zhiyu would be furious.

Unexpectedly, Zhu Zhiyu shook his head, nodded again, sighed, and remained silent as he looked at the rolling eastward river.

Ten miles away from Bamutan, a tall and spectacular water wheel stood in front of everyone. When Zhu Zhiyu saw it, he asked in surprise: "What is that? How can he stand upright in the river?"

Li Chongde said proudly: "That is the water truck, which uses the water flow of the Yangtze River to discharge floods into the river. The entire Bangtai exhausted all the efforts of all the craftsmen, spent nearly 100,000 taels of silver, and took a year to build it. A water truck, a long dike, and seized nearly 200,000 acres of fertile land from God!"

"Wow..." Zhu Zhiyu grabbed the reins of his mount, jumped down from the horse, pulled away the grass, and checked the soil color of the embankment.

Everyone jumped off the horse and looked at Zhu Zhiyu.

Lin Chunhong smiled and said, "It was just completed in the first half of this year. In the summer, I experienced a huge flood. Fortunately, my brothers were serious about their work and the embankment withstood the test."

Zhu Zhiyu clapped his hands and removed the sand from his hands. He finally showed a smile on his face: "The story of dictionary can be recorded in history and can be admired by future generations!"

Lin Chunhong said modestly: "Where do you think it's costing nearly 450,000 taels of silver to build a dam and build a water truck. It was spread to each acre of land, which was about three taels. The students just thought the business was worth it and did it just now."

Zhu Zhiyu laughed and said, "Haha, doing good to eliminate evil is to investigate things, it is beneficial to the people, and what is wrong with oneself? Public benefits must be discussed, and private interests must be taken into account. If everyone in the world can bring peace to the public and private sectors, it will not become a flower in the mirror and a moon in the water! The construction of a large embankment and a water truck is also considered a great good!"

Lin Chunhong was overjoyed, grabbed Zhu Zhiyu's arm tightly, and said, "It is great to let the people make profits. It is even more good to eliminate bandits and expel foreign captives. If we can open up peace for all generations, we can be a saint! Is it intentional for sir?"

Zhu Zhiyu smiled and said, "But first look at the water truck, is it a waste of money or not..."

...

About half an hour later, everyone finally arrived next to the waterwheel and looked at the towering waterwheel and talked about it.

The water wheel was eight feet tall, and the main structure was composed of six oaks of four feet long, with dense wooden boards fixed around it. These wooden boards were specially treated oak and were particularly resistant to soaking. The six oaks were surrounded by countless high-quality wood to form a supporting structure, and they were all firmly nailed with rivets. The zhongyang of the water wheel was a cast iron that was one foot thick, and the cast iron rod was mounted on a solid iron base. The connection between the cast iron rod and the iron base was even added to reduce friction.

At this time, the water wheel was slowly rotating under the influence of the Yangtze River, making a harsh creaking sound, making people unable to help but cover their ears. The casting rod was also slowly rotating under the influence of the water wheel, and the side close to the land was relatively long and stretched into a wooden box.
To be continued...