Shanxi Town, Guilan Bingbeidao West Road, Bietou Pass.

Bitou Pass is only separated from the Mongolian tribe by the Yellow River. Outside the pass are Fengzhou Beach, Guihua City, Bansheng, and two outpost tribes in Shunyi and East-West. Bitou Pass is located in the terrain of the West and West. Bitou Pass is important and is collectively known as the Wai San Pass with Ningwu Pass and Yanmen Pass.

Regarding the construction of Tucheng in the 23rd year of Hongwu, the second year of Wanli, the brick bag was 0,318 steps on Friday, three feet high, and one garrison was first established, and one deputy general and a thousand-household guard station were established. The Tongzhi of Baodezhou and Benda were supervised to collect money and grain, and then a member of the magistrate of the management of grain was added. In the 21st year of Jiajing, the deputy general was changed to Zhenningwu, and the general of Laoyingbao was changed to be stationed in Benguan. In the third year of Longqing, the Gulan Army was moved to be stationed here.

Pianguan was once a must-pass place for the Mongols to invade. At the beginning of Longqing, our chief led his troops from the Biankou Duskin Kiln, passing through Kelan and Lan County, and seizing stones to capture Fen, which shocked the entire Jin Dynasty. However, after the Longqing peace talks, the area had not been under war for many years.

Now in the Pianguan area, there are many private markets with Mongolians, including Western merchants and Mongolian merchants. There are endless traders. There are many large and small buildings such as shops, temples, buildings, and residential courtyards in the city are lined up and arranged in an orderly manner.

There is now a co-master Yang Xihe, the West Road grain management team, and the imperial envoy ordered the deputy envoy of the Gulan Army Preparation Office, Gao Qi, and the imperial envoy was the deputy general of the West Road. The imperial envoy was the only general of the West Road, Li Li.

In the city of Bietou Pass, soldiers were prepared for official residences.

"It's true..." After hearing the words of two confidants, the imperial envoy ordered the deputy envoy of the Gulan Bing Preparatory Censor Gao Qi and Gao Qi to fall into deep thought.

After hearing the situation of Wuzhai Fort, Gao Qi was moved by his two confidants. However, if he wanted to start, he realized that it was not as simple as he imagined. Gao Qi was nominally the deputy envoy of Shanxi Censor and the military officer of Kelan West Road. He was in the fourth rank of official position, and he was in control of one general, one guerrilla, five garrison, four garrison, and nine defense. But the power he really possessed was only more than one hundred servants in his hands, and the other military power was actually in the hands of the generals of each military fort.

For Wuzhai Fort, he had limited power and means. Although he was restrained, he was in different systems. One army and another army could not use the tried and tested method of food cuts. It was also troublesome to move defense, because according to the Ming Dynasty, if there was no war, if an army of more than a thousand people were moved, he would have to ask the Ministry of War to move defense without authorization and be punished for rebellion. Although Gao Qi was a military officer, he did not dare to do such a thing.

Moreover, in the past few hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, I have never heard of the military households who moved the defense of the garrison stations stationed in one place for generations. The only way to move the defense is to let the Wuzhai Fort become the battalion soldiers. However, this is also difficult. The recruitment of the battalion soldiers of the Ming Dynasty is in the hands of the Ministry of War. Those who have no orders to recruit soldiers without authorization will be punished for rebellion.

According to the Ming army system, the model soldiers in the hands of the general, the surprise soldiers in the hands of the deputy general, the reinforcements in the hands of the general, and the raiders in the shortstops can be regarded as camp soldiers, also known as combat soldiers. In addition to the general's command of the two Ye camp soldiers and the strange raid three camps in the town, the other tens of thousands of people are all military households and soldiers in the garrison. Apart from the war, the soldiers in the garrison have remained unmoved for hundreds of years.

It is not easy to make Wuzhai Fort a battalion soldier. Once they become battalion soldiers, they have to pay food and pay, weapons, clothes and quilts, and the expenses are huge, and the Ministry of Revenue will not agree. Although Wuzhai Fort had recruited some civilian households to supplement the soldiers of Wuzhai Fort, they all joined Wuzhai Fort's military households and were considered as a normal substitute for the Qing Gou in the bathroom.

Gao Qi thought to himself: "I will discuss this matter with General Li Shen first, and then send my confidant to Ningwu Pass to hear what the General's thoughts are."

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Wuzhai Fort, by the Qinglian River.

Amid the "creaking" sound, the stone mills and stone mills at the hydropower mill by the river were making busy sounds under the impact of the river.

This hydraulic mill is very large and is called Huang Laifu Hydraulic Mill. There is a greenhouse covered with thatch. On the edge of the greenhouse, along the stone riverside, and next to the wooden railings of the greenhouse, there are also a row of wooden chairs for people to rest. Facing the river, you can also see the ferry not far away, and look at the Huang Laifu Water Truck not far away. At this time, there are boats coming and going on the river, and it is busy.

There are many stone mills and stone mills in the mill. Although they have been built for a short time, the business is very good, with people coming and going, and it is very lively. Businessmen often come with trucks of grain to remove wheat from shells or grind rice into flour.

Some military women from Wuzhai Fort also came here to remove shells and grind noodles, or came here to buy rice directly. Affected by this, several rice shops were also built next to the hydraulic mill.

As early as a while ago, after the harvest of Wuzhai Fort, Huang Laifu noticed the problem of wheat shelling and grinding. It turned out that most military households still used the original method of chunji shelling and manpower rice raising, as well as animal power milling methods. Although the merchants in Wuzhai Fort also built several livestock rice milling shops in the fort, the efficiency was still too low.

In view of this, Huang Laifu drew the drawings of the Chunmi water truck, a rotary fan truck, and a water mill based on the information in his computer. He ordered Wuzhaibao Minqifang to make these items. Finally, he invested hundreds of taels of silver with Qu Yuanrui to build this hydraulic mill.

At this time, the mill was filled with people and a hilarious sound. In addition to most of the rice shops in the fort, there were also many young girls from Wuzhai Fortresses, and the young wives were busy here, coming and going, and some were children playing here. Some were specially for the fun. After all, this hydraulic mill was also a new thing. Like the Huang Laifu water truck, it attracted many people to watch curiously.

I saw that under the water flow, the big grinding stone kept rotating. It didn't take long to crush a bag of wheat, which aroused everyone's praise: "It's so fast." Compared to the previous human power or animal power, this speed is really incomparable.

After the wheat was crushed, the workers in the mill, as well as the big girls and young wives, took out some clean brooms, carefully swept the bran and rice together, packed them in a dustpan, and then fanned the rice next to the cart on the side.

Soon, when the bran rice was put into the grain bucket of the cart, the rotating handle was shaken, and the rice automatically fell into the pocket of one exit, and the bran was fanned out from another exit. It didn't take long. When the women and workers in the mill were covered in fine powder, the bran rice in the dustpan was fanned, which made everyone admire: "It's so fast. I used to be able to compare with the manual labor force of the rice method..."

With this kind of chariot, the separation of chaff of the residents of Wuzhai Fort greatly reduced. This chariot that appeared in northern China during the Han Dynasty, was later lost and only existed in southern China, and was used until the 21st century. Now, it is still in use in some remote mountainous areas of China. Due to Huang Laifu, it has a new style in Wuzhai Fort.

At this point, if you still need to process flour, you can go to the hydraulic stone mill next to the side to grind the wheat into flour. The speed is also very fast. It doesn’t take long to grind a bag of wheat, and the flour you grind is of good quality.

Because it is convenient and fast and the processing fee is not high, this hydraulic mill has been booming since its construction. In addition to the limited number of rice mills in the fort, most of the Wuzhai Fort grain merchants transport their grain to the Huanglaifu Hydraulic Mill by the Qinglian River. After paying some processing fees, they can easily get rice and flour. The military households of Wuzhai Fort also transport their grain to the Huanglaifu Hydraulic Mill, or come here directly to buy rice and flour. Anyway, the fort is not far from here, and it takes only a few minutes to walk to arrive.

Because of the booming business, some merchants in Wuzhaibao were attracted by the attention of some merchants in Wuzhaibao. They tried to see Huang Laifu and Qu Yuanrui whether they would allow them to build a hydraulic mill by the Qinglian River. However, for the purpose of monopoly, Huang Laifu has not approved other people to build such a water wheel mill in Wuzhaibao. However, they can jointly invest with Huang Laifu and make the water wheel mill bigger and bigger.

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In Huang Laifu Hydraulic Mill, there are the most stone mills, because in addition to using stone mills to grind the surface, Huang Laifu also uses stone mills to press oil, or in the future to tinker with wool, crush leather, etc.

At this time, not far from Huang Laifu Hydraulic Mill, there was also a greenhouse with a long row of stone mills inside. These stone mills were specially used to squeeze the soybeans and rapeseed from the Wuzhaibao harvest this time.

This year, Wuzhaibao has a bumper harvest, and soybeans and various rapeseeds have been harvested, so the processing of various types of vegetable oil and the production of beans have begun one after another. In order to squeeze oil, Huang Laifu built a large oil pressing workshop next to the big hydraulic mill, which is specially used to make various oils in Wuzhaibao.

According to Huang Laifu's prior arrangement, Huang Laifu will produce the raw materials, territory and part of the funds. Qu Yuanrui will join hands with some merchants to provide funds, management personnel, recruit employees, etc., be responsible for future sales, and start building various workshops and factories. Of course, among the dividends at the end of the year, although Huang Laifu and other officers contribute the least money, the dividends are the largest.

Similarly, for the purpose of monopoly and maximum profit margin, there can only be one Wuzhaibao oil press workshop, called Dawuzhaibao oil press workshop. However, various merchants can jointly invest with Huang Laifu and Quyuanrui, and make the Dawuzhaibao oil press workshop bigger and bigger, forming agricultural product planting, raw material purchase and processing, and finally the finished product sales one-stop, reducing many unnecessary losses and maximizing profit margins.

There is also an oil pressing workshop in Annai Fortress, Yufeng, which is opened by a military household in Wuzhai Fort. It is just a short and old bungalow, using some simple techniques, such as using a stone mill filled with iron, a few large pots and some grass to make oil. Now that the oil pressing workshop has been closed, the owner has devoted himself to various farms in Wuzhai Fort.

After the harvest of Wuzhaibao, the rapeseed in the fields was harvested and dried, and the oil pressing workshop of Dawuzhaibao was also opened. Since the former Wuzhaibao military households had already been attracted by various farms, the employees recruited are all refugees from various prefectures and counties to Wuzhaibao.

When the oil press workshop recruited employees, it was said that refugees flocked in. The monthly salary of a few silver dollars was very attractive. Finally, some workers and some masters with oil pressing experience were recruited.

When the door of the workshop opened on this day, it became a place that Wuzhai Fort also attracted attention.

The snatching tube is guided by the master first, and it is first fried in a few large woks. This requires strength. The workers work hard, and the master controls the heat. When the frying is almost the same, the master will order people to pour rapeseed into the trough of the stone mill or stone mill. In the past, it was crushed with cows, but now it is water.

After the rapeseed is crushed, it is taken to the pot to steam. The masters need to observe the heat themselves. Once the heat arrives, they used to wrap a thick layer of iron covers to squeeze wood against the head. Some strong men held the wood and hit it manually, but now they are pushed with water, which saves much more effort. However, the impact of the pestle rod is still very loud.

As the impact of the iron sleeve of the sieve, the oil cake began to flow, slowly squeezed out the oil, and the more it flowed, the fragrance of oil spread in the workshop. After several rounds, the oil output began to decrease and finally slowly dried. This ended the work.

After the oil is released, the workers collect one and transport it to the warehouse for storage. The shareholders of the Dawuzhaibao oil pressing workshop either provide food for military and civilians in Wuzhaibao or transport it to various places for sale. Every day, people come and go, and there are endless vehicles and horses to transport oil, forming a busy scene. (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in to www.qidian.com. There are more chapters, support the author and support genuine reading!) (To be continued)
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