Sister Fang frowned, she didn't expect her father to persuade her to go back again, and responded softly: "Don't say it, I'll be heard later, Dad, why did you say such a thing again?" ”

"Do you see how deep and wide the foundation they are digging?" Uncle Sun Jiu said softly. Based on the depth and width of the foundation alone, he had already roughly guessed what kind of wall Wei Bao was going to build.

Sister Fang said strangely: "What's wrong?" People have money, and what kind of walls they like to build are all up to them, and this is not a violation of the king's law, right? ”

"Silly boy, he's building a city! If this city wall is built, I am afraid that it will be even more majestic than Shanhaiguan! Even if you want to make a big village by yourself, there is no need to make such a long and complete city wall, right? It's so big! Uncle Sun Jiu said softly.

Sister Fang nodded thoughtfully, looking at Wei Bao, who was talking to the craftsman in front of her, her eyes were full of excitement, she didn't expect Wei Bao's plan to be so grand.

Originally, Wei Bao wanted to make such a big Zhuangzi, and Sister Fang already felt that Wei Bao's spirit was big enough, but she didn't expect Wei Bao to make such a long and tall city wall.

"What's worse than the walls of Shanhaiguan? If someone has money, it is good to be happy. Sister Fang said disapprerovingly: "Is there any one of the laws of the Ming Dynasty that no one is allowed to build the wall?" ”

Uncle Sun Jiu looked back and forth, didn't say anything, secretly thinking that he couldn't persuade his daughter to leave, what he didn't say was that building a wall didn't violate the law of Daming, but the ghost knew what Wei Bao was going to build such a big city? Do you want to divide one side and confront the imperial court?

Originally, Uncle Sun Jiu was enthusiastic about Wei Bao's business, and he hadn't gone to school yet, so he felt that Wei Bao didn't suit his heart, but now he noticed that Wei Bao seemed to have the ambition to be a hero in opera, and his impression of Wei Bao was even worse.

Dominance is different from rebellion, if other places in the Ming Dynasty build city walls like this, it will definitely not work, but in Liaoxi and Liaodong, this is nothing.

Because many large families have similar estates, but they are not as ambitious as Wei Bao, and they want to get such a large piece of land.

People usually dominate one mile, but Wei Bao wants to connect the four miles together.

In the land of Liaoxi and Liaodong, the idea of dominance and secession is very common, because it belongs to the border towns and important places, plus the people are fierce, and they are adjacent to the Jiannu and Mongols, and many large households have private arms. In wartime, military households were summoned to form armies to assist border armies against the enemy, and the private armed forces of these large households were also the main body.

This is the most striking feature of the warlordization of border towns in the late Ming Dynasty.

Uncle Sun Jiu could understand Wei Bao's thoughts, and after Uncle Sun Jiu reminded him in a roundabout way, Sister Fang also saw it, but Wei Bao's idea of secession was deducted points in Uncle Sun Jiu, but it was a plus point in Sister Fang'er, and she felt that Wei Bao had ideas and courage, although her appearance was not very manly, but she was a little heroic inside.

There is no girl who does not love heroes. Heroes don't necessarily have to be like Xiang Yu to pull out the mountains and cover the world, sweeping thousands of armies like a sweep.

Wei Bao took more than 2,500 people, 100 people as a team, and a brigade divided into blocks, and began to dig the foundation tunnels for the construction of the city wall.

It was not until noon that he walked out of more than ten miles.

And they drank water and ate dry food in the wilderness.

"How long is it?" Sister Fang went to Wei Bao's side and asked.

Wei Bao took the map and pointed it to Sister Fang, which showed the city wall line drawn by Wei Bao with blue lines in advance: "It's almost two hundred miles, and now it's only a small section in the west. ”

Sister Fang was taken aback, secretly thinking that Wei Bao's appetite was even bigger than her father estimated! He whispered, "Do you really want to build such a long wall?" Aren't you afraid of being criticized? ”

"It's okay, at first it's just a foundation, and then bricks are built to the height of two people, called anti-theft, what do others say? In the future, I want to get the emperor's imperial plaque, and let the emperor give me this piece, and then build the city wall as a whole. Wei Bao replied.

"The emperor gave you a plaque? Is it possible to give you such a large piece of land? Sister Fang was puzzled by Wei Bao's idea and felt that it was too whimsical.

Wei Bao said with a smile: "Everything is man-made, there may definitely be, if it can't be done, just if I contribute to the people of these four for free, build a wall, at least it can play a good role in promoting public security, right?" ”

Sister Fang nodded, although she couldn't understand Wei Bao's thoughts very much, she admired Wei Bao's courage in doing things.

"Anyway, you can make money, so just toss it." Sister Fang covered her mouth and smiled: "In the future, if you can't let the emperor give you this piece as you said, you will regret it." ”

Wei Bao smiled slightly, if it weren't for Sister Fang asking and others asking, he wouldn't have said his true thoughts: "Don't tell anyone about my thoughts, I will only say it if you ask." ”

"So good to me?" Sister Fang turned her pink face slightly, and looked at Wei Bao with beautiful eyes.

Wei Bao smiled: "You just saw it?" ”

"I didn't see it, there are three big beauties around you, and the Miss Zhao I saw with you in Shanhaiguan last time is Tianxiang and the country, you seem to be very good to them?" Sister Fang smiled.

Wei Bao's face was hot, and he said cheekily: "The five of you are all very good, but the four of them are not as good as you." ”

Sister Fang was overjoyed, although she didn't like Wei Bao to be so attentive, she really wanted five? But hearing that Wei Bao put himself first, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, forced himself to laugh, and didn't say anything.

"What? Don't you believe it? "Wei Bao is a person who loves one, although he has put Zhao Jinfeng first in his heart, but seeing that Sister Fang is beside him, especially looking at Sister Fang'er's pair of trembling plump and moving breasts, Zhao Jinfeng has long been temporarily left behind. I almost didn't immediately ask Sister Fang to 'help each other'.

"Are you bold?" Sister Fang looked back and forth, and saw that no one was looking at her and Wei Bao, so she quickly stretched out her foot and stepped on the pointed tip of Wei Bao's leather boots, stepping on Wei Bao's toes: "Do you dare to talk fanny?" ”

Wei Bao sighed, gasped, and smiled even more, never thought that Sister Fang would be so bold and dare to take the initiative to tease herself?

Sister Fang made such an action, her own heart was also tight, Fang's heart was beating wildly, she didn't expect that she would be like this, and was about to pull her foot back, Wei Bao had already grasped Sister Fang'er's slender and soft calf.

"What are you doing, let go, others will see it." Sister Fang's face was flushed, and she was so frightened that she whispered urgently. wanted to escape, but was firmly clamped by Wei Bao's hand, and the eyes of the two touched together, and Wei Bao's eyes became more and more hot.

"Tell you to be horizontal again." Wei Bao smiled and said softly, he was not afraid of being seen at all.

"I'm angry if I do this again." Sister Fang'er blushed and heartbeat, half coquettish, half stern.

Wei Bao smiled: "Call brother Caisong." ”

"I'm older than you." Sister Fang almost fainted in anger, and she regretted that she had made a joke with Wei Bao just now, but now she seems to have put herself in it.

"The female junior holds the gold brick." Wei Bao smiled: "Hurry up and call, don't let go if you don't call." ”

Sister Fang lowered her head with a blushing face, and a thin mist appeared in her beautiful eyes.

Wei Bao sweated, won't he cry? Didn't you find me like this first? But I hurriedly let go.

Sister Fang pouted, turned her back to Wei Bao.

In fact, Sister Fang and Wei Bao are making small moves here, Wang Qiuya and Fan Xiaolin have seen it, and even Li Chengnei and Uncle Sun Jiu have seen it.

Uncle Sun Jiu almost went crazy, he never thought that his daughter and Wei Bao were 'already like that'? But they didn't come to 'bother'.

"I'll leave later." Sister Fang said softly.

Wei Bao couldn't help but say: "Don't go, it's hard to come and play once, play for a few more days, right?" Anyway, Shopkeeper Sun has no reason to stop you now. ”

"No, you have so much to do." Sister Fang still said softly.

"No matter how many things are not as important as you, besides, I can let Xiaolin accompany you, don't go." Wei Bao wanted to shake Sister Fang'er's hand, glanced at Uncle Sun Jiu, and held back.

"If I don't leave, my father will be here, didn't you say that you will go to Shanhaiguan to study for a while, and you will also participate in the scientific examination? Not planning to go now? Sister Fang asked.

"Go, when this side is running normally, I'll go, and Shanhaiguan still has the Liaoxi branch of my Tiandi firm." Wei Bao said: "I also need to take care of it." Besides, if I don't get someone to come back, won't my father be looked down upon? ”

"Well, you still remember to take the imperial examination, let's talk about it when you get to Shanhaiguan, I'll go." Sister Fang stood up.

Wei Bao saw that Sister Fang seemed to have made up her mind, and she didn't force her to stay: "Then I'll send one to you." ”

"No, you're busy." Sister Fang said and left, her mood was very complicated, she liked to be with Wei Bao, but she felt that it was too much to cheat a little more. I can't tell whether I treat Wei Bao as a younger brother or as a man.

Sister Fang came to Uncle Sun Jiu'er, "Dad, let's go back to Shanhaiguan." ”

Uncle Sun Jiu looked at Sister Fang very strangely, just now he saw that his daughter and Wei Bao were having a good time, how could he say that he would leave? And seeing that her daughter's eyes were a little red, she was even more distressed: "What's wrong?" ”

"It's nothing, go back, you've been following here, I'm not comfortable playing, and you're also worried about the sale of Shanhailou, which makes everyone uncomfortable." Sister Fang has returned to her usual mature rationality.

"Otherwise, I'll go back, and you can play for two days if you want!" Uncle Sun Jiu gritted his teeth and said, thinking that his daughter was unhappy because he was inseparable from Wei Bao, he didn't like Wei Bao and didn't like Wei Bao, in fact, if Sister Fang was determined to be Wei Bao, he would no longer insist on any conditions for taking the exam, he just had a hard mouth, and he actually had no way to take his daughter in his heart.

"Go back. Wei Gongzi and Xiaolin are very busy, and after a while, Wei Gongzi has to go to Shanhaiguan to study, and there are many times to meet. Sister Fang said as she walked.

Uncle Sun Jiu snorted, he was very happy about this result, his daughter had more contact with Wei Bao in Shanhaiguan, and his opinion was not very big, but he didn't want his daughter to come to Wei Bao's house.

Wei Bao didn't say anything, and silently stayed by Sister Fang'er's side.

Fan Xiaolin found out that Sister Fang was leaving, so she hurriedly came over, took Sister Fang's hand and said, "Sister Fang, what's wrong?" Didn't you say that you should play for two more days? After Fan Xiaolin finished speaking, she said to Uncle Sun Jiu: "Shopkeeper Sun, let Sister Fang play here for two more days, right?" I'll take care of Sister Fang. Fan Xiaolin thought that it was because of Uncle Sun Jiu's pressure that Sister Fang left.

"I promised to let her play here, I'll go back to Shanhaiguan first, it's what she wants to leave now." Uncle Sun Jiu argued.

Fan Xiaolin looked at Sister Fang strangely.

Sister Fang said with a smile: "My father said so, as long as I leave his side, he will be like losing his soul, I'd better go back first, and besides, Wei Gongzi will go to Shanhaiguan to study in a while, you will also go, right?" There will still be many opportunities to meet at that time. ”

Fan Xiaolin saw that Sister Fang had made up her mind, oh, and looked at Wei Bao.

Wei Bao said: "Xiaolin, don't pester Sister Fang, when I'm busy for a while, I really want to go to Shanhaiguan." ”

"Okay." Fan Xiaolin smiled, and then took Sister Fang'er's hand, looking reluctant.

Wang Qiuya also came over to inquire and see her off.

Wei Bao, together with Fan Xiaolin and Wang Qiuya, kept sending Sister Fang and Uncle Sun Jiu's carriage out of two miles, and Sister Fang and Uncle Sun Jiu repeatedly asked them to go back, but Wei Bao did not send them again.

"Xiaobao, you were so bold just now, Shopkeeper Sun was next to you, you are still like this, no wonder Sister Fang was scared." Fan Xiaolin glanced at Wei Bao with beautiful eyes, and saw that Wei Bao looked reluctant.

"Where am I bold? Sister Fang is looking for me first, okay? Wei Bao smiled aggrievedly.

"I saw it, it was Sister Fang who made trouble with Xiaobao first." Wang Qiuya smiled: "However, she is a girl, you can't make trouble with her in the opposite direction." Are you Sister Fang like us maids? What's your desire? ”

Wei Bao Great Khan: "Where did I treat you as maids?" Is the conscience of heaven and earth good? ”

Fan Xiaolin and Wang Qiuya glanced at each other with a tacit understanding and giggled together.

Wei Bao and the second daughter were laughing happily on the edge of the construction site, Zhao Kehu and Zhao Liquan, who were secretly observing from a distance, and a large group of Li Zheng and the first leaders in the other three were not so happy.

"Big brother, what are they doing here? Is Wei Bao crazy? What are you going to do? Want to circle all four of us? Zhao Liquan said strangely.

"That's right, he's preparing for a high wall, he's digging the foundation! More than 2,000 people, digging all the way through, just want to build a high wall on the four of us! It's about isolating us from the world! "Dongbai Tali is Bai Pengfu.

"This Wei Bao is so ambitious? He also wants to build reservoirs, river embankments, seawalls, diversion canals, drainage canals, roads, and high walls on the periphery, he really wants to connect the four of us into one, and wants to be the largest landlord in western Liaoning! Xinque Lili Zheng Qin Kangshun affirmed.

"He dreamed! He has so much silver? Let's just say that I build a high wall, even if the wall he built is one zhang high, how many square bricks will it cost to build such a long distance? If you don't say anything, you have to get two or three hundred thousand taels of silver, right? Does he have so much silver? "Houmafang is doing his best.

"Do you really want to get out the reservoirs, the river embankments, the seawalls, the aqueducts, the drainage canals, the roads, and so on in the four places? He is all a pretense, and he really has one purpose, which is to build his current high wall, to connect the four of us into a large area, and completely cut off from the outside world! He wants to dominate our piece! Zhao Kehu said angrily, "This kid is really ambitious!" Although it was very expensive to build the wall, it did not need to be completed immediately, the foundation was laid, and when there was a little silver, a little more was built. ”

"Then if he can build it, we can tear it down! If a high wall were built over such a long distance, he wouldn't be able to send people to guard it all day long, right? Zhao Liquan said with a glare.

"Don't make another incident." Zhao Kehu heard Zhao Liquan say this, and hurriedly raised his hand to stop it: "Wait a minute, we don't have a boulder here, he has two or three thousand people, even if he has more silver, he doesn't have ten years of effort, don't even think about building a wall!" If we rashly cause an incident and be caught by him, Wei Bao will inevitably take the opportunity to make trouble, and he is now looking forward to us going to work with him, so that he will fall into his trap. He built his wall, and he can't stop us from going out anyway, right? ”

Bai Pengfu in Dongbai Tower, Qin Kangshun in Xinqueli, Hou Lixing in Houmafang, and the four captains heard Zhao Kehu say this, and they all agreed with Zhao Kehu's statement, and said that they were not in a hurry for such a big project as Wei Bao, and they should not easily conflict with Wei Bao. They were also frightened by Wei Bao's formation of so many people today, and now they know that Wei Bao has secretly developed so many people.

"If Wei Bao just builds a wall and doesn't follow what he said before, he doesn't build reservoirs, river embankments, seawalls, diversion canals, drainage canals, and roads, we will keep scolding, saying that he is not trustworthy and is a liar, so that he and his subordinates will not be able to raise their heads." Zhao Liquan nodded.

"Yes." Zhao Kehu agreed: "As long as you don't easily do anything with Wei Bao's people, it's okay to scold, let's take advantage of the reason and scold!" ”

"Yes, yes, scold them to death."

"Let's see how Wei Bao can make a fuss."

"He's all false, and by the time his walls aren't half reached, we'll have figured out a way to kill him!"

"Kill him!"

A group of Li Zheng and Captain A are all energetic, and they are talking enthusiastically. In fact, most of them no longer have the idea of clashing head-on with Wei Bao, and Wei Bao's mere fact that there are so many people under his command is enough to shock them. In this era, whoever has more labor force will have a hard waist, especially in the countryside. As long as the peasants can survive, they will grit their teeth and give birth to sons, and the more sons they have, the more the family will be able to straighten their waists and behave as people, which is the truth.

The crowd cursed for a while, and then dispersed.

Wei Bao was busy until dusk, and then he was ready to go back.

"After exploring all the sections of the city wall and assigning the task of laying the foundation, it will take at least two days, and it will be handed over to the three stunned brothers." Wei Bao was stunned and said to Luo San: "I won't come tomorrow, you and a few stonemasons will do it according to my drawings and then combine the situation on the ground." ”

Luo San nodded stunned and said, "Don't worry, son, I'll leave these things to me." When will Big Head and Chunshi come back? There are more and more things. ”

"There are a lot of things, isn't it that a group of people in the establishment have already been selected? These can do anything, you and Xiaolin discuss promotion. The key to being an official is to employ people, not to do everything yourself. Wei Bao said: "Fan Datou and Liu Chunshi, it will take at least a few months to come back, and we will have to wait for the situation of the outside business to stabilize and establish a sales team, and a few months will be fast." ”

"Brother Sanzi, don't worry, if there's anything, I'll help you do it together." Fan Xiaolin said.

Luo San was stunned and agreed: "Yes, childe." But you don't have to dig the foundation, right? Isn't it possible to get some people to get the stone first? If there is no stone, what will be used to lay the foundation when the time comes? We don't even have bricks. ”

Wei Bao smiled: "It's up to me to figure out how to do this, don't you remember what I said this morning?" The brick thing, wrapped up in me! ”

Wei Bao wouldn't be stupid enough to let people dig large square bricks, really make it the same as building the Great Wall, and not be said to be dead? And the Great Wall is because ancient craftsmanship can't keep up.

Wei Bao, a modern person, naturally knows what the commonly used bricks should look like.

The first industrial step he had to do was to get the steam engine out!

There is a simple steam engine for people to visit on the Zhenyuan ship, which is also the most mature product in the middle of the twentieth century, before the steam engine officially withdrew from the stage of history!

Wei Bao's task now is to lead people to imitate! As long as there is a steam engine, it is possible to dig wells, mine, and build high-temperature furnaces, which greatly improves the quality of bricks.

To build a wall, you must use bricks to get a pile of big stones, let alone 20 years, 40 years may not be able to build such a magnificent city wall with a length of 200 miles, not to mention that there are a lot of reservoirs, river embankments, seawalls, diversion canals, drainage canals, and road construction projects in four miles, and the internal works cannot be delayed, otherwise it will be spring soon, and when the spring flood comes, a large area of abandoned land that has just been tormented by earthquakes and droughts will have to endure more severe torture.

A steam engine is a reciprocating power machine that converts the energy of steam into mechanical work. The advent of the steam engine caused the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century. Until the beginning of the 20th century, it remained the most important prime mover in the world, and only later gradually gave way to the internal combustion engine and steam turbine.

Webbo will not upgrade industrial engines to use internal combustion engines and steam turbines all at once.

If he can imitate a steam engine, he is already very satisfied. Wei Bao felt that with the level of industrial technology in the Ming Dynasty, it should be able to be built.

In addition, he has gathered many skilled craftsmen near the capital and around Yongping Mansion, as well as outside Shanhaiguan under his command, if such technical software cannot be imitated, Daming's industrial capacity really does not have imitation steam engines.

A steam engine requires a boiler that boils water to produce high-pressure steam, which can use wood, coal, oil or gas, or even combustible garbage as a heat source. Steam expansion pushes workmanship.

Boilers can definitely be made, and outside the bathhouse where Wei Bao bathed was a boiler specializing in boiling water, although it was not large, it had already shown that the craftsman technology could make boilers.

Wei Bao still admires the craftsmen of this era very much, he has studied engineering in modern times, and he has also gone to the factory for internship, and he can be regarded as half a science and engineering man, but he doesn't want to say that he makes a boiler, that is, let him make a bunch of screws and nuts independently, he can't ask himself.

In the original history.

In 1679, French physicist Denis Barpen built the first working model of a steam engine after observing steam escaping his pressure cooker.

In 1698, Thomas Seville and in 1712 Thomas Newcomen built the early industrial steam engine, and both contributed to the development of the steam engine.

In 1807, Robert Fulton was the first to successfully use a steam engine to drive a steamer. Using scientific theories, Watt gradually discovered the problem with this steam engine.

From 1765 to 1790, he made a series of inventions, such as a separate condenser, an insulation layer outside the cylinder, oil-lubricated pistons, planetary gears, parallel motion linkage mechanisms, centrifugal governors, throttle valves, pressure gauges, etc., which increased the efficiency of the steam engine to more than three times that of the original Newcogate door machine, and finally invented the industrial steam engine.

It's 1624, and if Wei Bao can imitate the most mature model of the steam engine now, it is equivalent to advancing the application of the steam engine by 200 years! Technically, it's about 350 years earlier!

Because until the sixties of the 20th century, the steam engine on the steam train made by Huaguo was only a technical level with the steam engine that Wei Bao now has on hand.

When I returned to Wei Bao's A from the construction site, it was already night.

Wei's mother Huang Ying was distressed to death: "Xiaobao, what is there to let the people below do, you have been eating outside all day?" Eat some dry food at noon? ”

Wei Bao smiled: "Twenty days ago, our family just wanted to eat dry food and couldn't eat it." ”

"Did you say that? Hurry up and eat, if you have something to do in the future, don't rush to the front by yourself, you won't have the time to eat too much. Huang Ying patted Wei Bao's back, and said to Fan Xiaolin: "Xiaolin, you too, you and Qiu Ya are following Xiaobao, you don't know that he will come back for dinner at noon?" If he doesn't come back, it's good for people to come back and bring food, right? ”

Fan Xiaolin and Wang Qiuya blushed, in fact, when the two of them were eating at noon, they brought it up to Wei Bao, but Wei Bao refused to let them.

"Mother, okay, okay, you go and rest quickly." Wei Bao smiled: "I didn't let them toss back and forth at noon, I'm not so squeamish." You're here to delay me from eating, and you're delaying me from doing things, and then I'll be late and unable to sleep. ”

Huang Ying heard Wei Bao say this, so she muttered and left accompanied by Xu Rui.

While eating, Wei Bao turned back to Lin Wenbiao and said, "Have you kneaded the people in your hands into shapes?" Is the personnel list stable? "Wei Bao refers to the person who let Lin Wenbiao secretly develop the Statistics Bureau, which is Wei Bao's agent force.

Lin Wenbiao said softly: "The list has come out, and I have to look at it again, more than a dozen people are selected from the escort team, and the other dozen or so people are selected from the first batch of people brought back from outside the customs by Gongzi, all of them are very reliable." ”

Wei Bao nodded, secretly thinking that Lin Wenbiao was useless as a person from the old forest, and asked, "Why didn't you develop the people of the old forest?" ”

"I'm too close to me, I'm afraid it's not at my mercy." Lin Wenbiao explained: "To do these things, the main consideration is loyalty to the son, which is the first priority. ”

Wei Bao nodded and said, "Okay!" ”

He's going to let these thirty or so people carry out a big mission tonight!