The gate of the embankment was opened, and the river water roared down the rock dam like a wild horse roaring and rushing down the water dam, running through the water trough, and then the water flowed through the stone trough, driving the huge water wheel blades in the trough, and then it turned "jiyajiyajiyajiyajiya".

The water flowed, and the splashed streams splashed from time to time. The wheel blades rotated with the wheel shaft, causing the five bronze gears on the shaft to rotate.

Then there are corresponding bronze gears opposite the five bronze gears. Next to each gear, there are bearings and crank connecting rods, all of which are made of bronze. This is a very wear-resistant and excellent material, which is more wear-resistant than steel.

The gears rotate with bearings, and the crank connecting rod on the top is connected to the hammer on the top, knocking down and knocking.

Yang He silently calculated that the method of controlling the water flow through the dam gate without a transmission is indeed feasible. After repeated tests, the hydraulic forging hammer is now basically stable at a speed of 200 beats per minute.

After debugging for a while, all craftsmen can get familiar with it. Basically, the construction will be officially started from June.

Judging from the amount of water in the embankment, the water stored for one night can almost drive five hydraulic forging hammers to work throughout the day.

Behind Yang He was Bao Tianfu, Chen Qiuao, Zhang Chuxun and others. Looking at this magical instrument, everyone was amazed, even Bao Tianfu's eyes were full of incredible.

This is also the result of their hard work for several months. From March to the end of May, Bao Tianfu and others cast various bronze parts, carefully polished and debugged them, and now they are finally going to be done.

Thinking about the fact that most of this magical instrument was completed in their hands, it was enough to brag about the world and be glorious for a lifetime.

Even if it costs too much, I am afraid that only Prince Yang, the entire Ming Dynasty, would be willing to spend money like this.

Bao Tianfu knew that the better bronze prices on the market now cost 16 or 7 taels per 100 kilograms. How much does it take to use the bronze material on this side?

Zhang Chuxun looked left and right, and then looked at the equally fast hitting of each hydraulic hammer. He would never be tired, and the excitement could not be concealed in his eyes.

He sighed: "If I am a craftsman in Xin'anzhuang, if I use fine iron directly, one person can make two gun barrel embryos every day. One person can make two pairs of iron armor every month. But if I use this hydraulic hammer, I am afraid that one hammer will be as much as seven or eight times the amount of manpower."

Yang He smiled: "This is the most basic."

He looked at the hydraulic hammers that were constantly hitting, and his eyes were also fascinated. The power of machinery was unimaginable to humans, and even hydraulic power was the same.

His Xin'an Village now has a monthly production capacity of 300,000 guns and 400 pairs of iron armor, but after using a hydraulic hammer, it can increase by six or seven times, seven or eight times, or even ten times later.

Of course, because there are only five hydraulic forging hammers, it needs to be arranged reasonably, and he has a decision to make one hammer head slightly smaller, mainly forging the gun barrel.

If the two of them cooperate and use fine iron directly, they can probably make fifteen gun barrel embryos a day and four hundred and fifty a month.

It's enough at present, after all, there are too many, so he can't even get into the drilling machine.

He currently has five drilling machines, working nine hours a day, drilling three drilling machines per bed, and fifteen lathes five lathes, just right.

He doesn't use a hydraulic drilling machine. Drilling is more related to good steel and good cooling oil. If the power is sufficient, the drill bit will not work.

There are 30 blacksmiths in his firearm. Except for twelve people, they can make iron plates of gun barrels, various parts, hammer and copper bolts, etc., and reserve more.

The other four hydraulic forging hammers are larger, so we focus on making iron armor.

According to the efficiency of hydraulic forging hammers, fifteen pairs of armor can be made per hammer per month, and four hydraulic hammers can be made of sixty pairs per month.

However, Yang He now mainly wants to launch soldiers' armor, with only helmets and breastplate. Some people have neck protection, and it is estimated that the amount of iron used is one-third of the armor on the whole body.

Another integrated Western-style plate-armor hydraulic forging hammer is not easy to make and requires stamping. However, if the hammer is strong and strong, you can make large armor pieces. Many of them are big, even larger than palms, and can save half the effort than small armor pieces.

With four hydraulic hammers, it is estimated that they can also beat three hundred pairs of soldiers' armor in one month.

It is enough at present. After all, although he will expand his army in the second half of the year, he only plans to add four totals, with about 3,000 soldiers and 1,000 soldiers from the entire army, and 1,000 soldiers from the civil war, and 1,000 soldiers from the killer team.

Compared to the cost of nearly thirty taels of armor for a whole body, the cost of this armor is only eight taels and nine taels, which can equip soldiers in large quantities.

But although the equipment is good, it just costs money like flowing water.

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With this feeling, Yang He returned to the No. 1 courtyard of Xin'anzhuang and came to his study.

This place is elegant and bright, the furniture is full of yellow rosewood, tables and chairs, calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, rows of bookcases, and large maps hanging on the wall.

There is also a door that leads to the back garden, where there are willows, plums, and rockery ponds. When you are worried, Yanghe will also take a walk in the back garden, but mainly there is a playground for younger brothers and sisters.

After defeating Zhang Xianzhong and others on the sixth day of the fifth month, the news of the victory spread again, which caused a huge sensation. Soon Yang He returned to Xin'anzhuang and was buried in various affairs these days.

But such busy days are coming to an end, because he has received a lawsuit from General Lian of Pizhou and will soon go to Pizhou to take office.

At the same time, Shi Kefa, the governor of the canal transportation, was in Suqian during this period, and seemed to have become very interested in him. He has sent someone to meet him in Suqian County. Yang He plans to set off tomorrow and go to Suqian to meet Shi Kefa.

"Spend money is like flowing water." Yang He sighed in his heart at this time.

He couldn't help but sit down and took out paper and pen to calculate.

Speaking of which, from the end of last year to now, he has gained a lot. Regardless of the rewards, he has harvested a total of 500,000 taels of silver and 18,000 stones of grain and beans. Recently, he has harvested sorghum, about 7,000 stones, and a total of 25,000 stones of rice, wheat, sorghum, beans.

There were also eighty cannons and more than a thousand horses and mules.

The harvest was great, but unfortunately the expenditure was even greater. At present, the population he directly under was only 10,000, but the grain and rice he was borne a year was 28,000 shi, and the salary of the soldiers of Zhuangmin was 60,000 taels.

He also spent 30,000 taels of clothes and bedding for the soldiers of Zhuangmin, and 30,000 taels of water conservancy construction for fifteen directly affiliated villages. Because half of the people in Xin'an Township directly affiliated villages have no house to live in, they now live in reed houses, and in the future, they will have to spend 50,000 taels of house construction.

Based on the three thousand soldiers, the cost of 2,000 Xin'an guns was 20,000 taels, and the cost of 20,000 taels of armor was required for soldiers and soldiers, and the generals and soldiers had 15,000 taels of armor.

The road construction has been spent on 8,000 taels because it is more than planned earlier.

There are also big heads, more than a thousand mules and horses. Whether it is four-quarters of essence, six-quarters of hay, or six-quarters of essence, four-quarters of hay during the time of leisure, four-quarters of hay during the war, the average ration for a horse is three times that of a person. Seven or eight-quarters of hay a day cannot be missing.

More than a thousand horses and mules consume 8,500 stones of food a year, and 2.8 million kilograms of hay.

As for other fragmentary expenses, if 10,000 people directly under the bank, they need more than a thousand taels of silver in a year, they are omitted.

Yang He sighed in his heart, not to mention that the money is half gone, but his current population of 10,000 directly belongs to more than 1,000 horses and mules, and his people and horses consume 36,000 stones a year. At present, there is not enough food to eat, so he still needs to continue to buy it.

This is also the reason why Yang He not only set up a grain store system to provide a minimum guarantee for the disaster year for affiliated villages, but also let them die on their own.

All kinds of expenses are too much, and he can't afford it. Especially for various water conservancy, the investment cost is astronomical.

It is also because he only set up farm farms and farms without dividing the fields. The water conservancy foundation in various places was too poor. Later generations of households were responsible for increasing grain production. That was because various water conservancy constructions had laid a solid foundation, otherwise they would have to drink the northwest wind.

The land of this era is private, but it is so weak that whenever a flood or drought occurs, the people will lose no harvest.

Fortunately, these affiliated farmers rely on their direct affiliated farmers, raise pigs and grow vegetables around supply and demand, establish a tertiary industry, and have public security protection. They can harvest some grain in the year and barely survive.

Yang He calculated and calculated that if he expanded in the future, two townships would be set up for every 10,000 people, and the houses would not be built, and weapons and armor were not counted as food and drink. The wages of each villager would also be 28,000 shi and 60,000 taels of silver each year.

Back then, the villager had to spend 30,000 taels on clothes and bedding, and the water conservancy construction that the second township should have probably also cost 30,000 to 40,000 taels, especially in some places with poor soil and soil.

I couldn't help but shake my head, the burden was too heavy.

He got up and walked to the big map. This was a map he drew based on the satellite map of later generations. The water, soil, mountains and rivers he drew at this time. Every time he had to make a decision, he knew what he wanted to look at the map.

He took a pencil and wrote it on it, pondering in his heart that the place on the north bank of Suining was set up as Xin'an Township, with a capital of Xin'an Village, about 300 square kilometers. He now has about 20,000 people under his jurisdiction, and 14 affiliated villages and fifteen directly affiliated villages.

This place has been saturated, and if he wants to recruit hungry people, he must place it elsewhere.

From Xin'an Township to the north is the boundary between Xuzhou and Pizhou. Because bandits are rampant, the junction is sparsely populated. This place goes north to the edge of Bulaohe Mountain, and it has an area of ​​about 400 square kilometers to operate.

Then go west from Xin'an Township, cross the Baima River, and all the way to Lulianghong and other places. Then along the banks of the Baima River, there is about 200 square kilometers of ground to operate.

Although there is Xuzhou there, it is close to the Yellow River and there are many hills in the territory. There are no people living there now, just because there are many bandits.

Then go from the north to the Bulaohe River, from the north to the edge of the canal, and from the west to the edge of Weishan Lake, about 600 square kilometers is Xuzhou Tongshan.

There are treasures underground here, with 2 billion tons of coal reserves, 100 million tons of iron ore reserves, 1.2 billion tons of clay reserves, 2.5 billion tons of limestone reserves, and dozens of minerals such as marble, refractory clay, dolomite, quartz sand.

However, because the less iron ore on the surface and the submerged water of Weishan Lake, there was no mining and smelting industry here during the Wanli period.

At this time, the war was in chaos and even quieter and there was no people. The only Liguo Post Station was destroyed when Li Qingshan rebelled.

At that time, Yanghe attacked the Tongshan bandits and did not encounter a single village. Now, there are only bandits on each hill.

Yanghe plans to occupy these three places with a total of 1,200 square kilometers, and will set up six townships in the future.

It also has the east bank of Pizhou Canal, to the border of Shandong in the north and to the border of Luoma Lake in the south, and to the border of Luoma Lake in the south. It is nearly a thousand square kilometers. It is also vast and sparsely populated, with few towns inhabited by people.

At this time, Pizhou was not small, but the population was not large. At that time, there were only 47 miles of households, which was 4,700, and a large majority of them lived in Pizhou City. The number of households was not as many as Ganyu County, and there were 56 miles of households there.

Although the population is multiplied and the Yu Canal is opened, Pizhou is much more prosperous than before, especially the foreign population, but it is mainly concentrated on the west bank of the canal, and from the Yu River to the Zhi River.

Yanghe planned to occupy that place in the future and set up six more villages.

In this way, he planned to set up twelve townships in Pizhou, one township and one thousand households, and the twelve townships were county-level units, which was 12,000 households, with a population of about 60,000.

It is planned that the twelve townships have a total arable land area of ​​600,000 mu, and the later Pizhou has an arable land area of ​​1.76 million mu. This place is still empty, but Yang He believes it is enough.

If these fields are managed, they only need to produce one stone per mu. After deducting 60,000 people's annual food consumption is about 170,000 stone, and various expenses are still quite surplus.

If the production efficiency is improved, he will gain a lot if he produces one stone and five dou of a mu.

If he produces two stones per mu and reaches a harvest of 370 kilograms, he will become rich.

The population of 60,000 is still directly affiliated with the village population, but it can be as good as the arm, and there are at least 12,000 young and strong households, all of which are rural soldiers.

If you can control ten county-level units, you will have 100,000 township soldiers. Even if you cannot draw all the troops in the war, even if you draw one of the three Dings, there will be 30,000 people. You can use them in key battles to let your opponents see what a sea of ​​people is.

What does it mean to use one batch and two batches?

Of course, the layout is planned like this, and there is still a long way to go to achieve the goal.

Especially his system has a very large investment in the early stage and a heavy burden, so he will not build a house in the future. Each household will be given one acre of base land and will be exempted from deed taxes.

However, Yang He believes that even so, his farmland is still very attractive. After all, he can eat and wear a lot. And according to their wages, he can basically build a house in five years, and it is still from a courtyard house.

If Zhuangzi has good benefits, it doesn't even take five years.

The exemption of deed tax can also greatly reduce their burden.

At this time, the property was not expensive. In the countryside or in some prefectures and counties, the basic houses were only fifty taels of silver. In the Wanli period, residents of a prefecture and county in Fengyang Prefecture bought a house and went in and out of a large house, covering an area of ​​five acres, with three buildings and twenty-eight bungalows, all of which cost 106 taels of silver.
To be continued...