More than 2,000 iron-smelting craftsmen fell into the hands of Yang Feng in this way. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

When he proclaimed as emperor that all these artisans were henceforth included in the civil register, they all bowed to their holy lord Mingjun with gratefulness, and then without the escort of the soldiers, they happily led the whole family away with him. As for those blast furnaces in Baiyezhuang, this one was all destroyed, Yang Feng didn't want to expand in a short time, and these things had to be cheap to stay, so they were all destroyed, so with his order, this was originally the largest steel plant in the Ming Dynasty quickly turned into ruins, leaving only the corpses of the Qing army whose heads were cut off all over the ground.

"Your Majesty, what do you do with us?"

Tian Jianxiu asked cautiously.

"You guys? Don't worry, I won't let you fight with your old brothers, you people should know how to farm, right? ”

Yang Feng asked.

"Your Majesty, if it weren't for the lack of food, we would all be honest croppers."

Tian Jianxiu said with a wry smile.

"Then go to Ningyuan, I will continue to pay you in three years, and then you will reclaim the land there, and by the way, teach those Tan people to farm, in short, you can go to the land reclamation casually, and all the reclaimed land will belong to you and be exempt from land endowment, and the government will provide you with seeds and livestock, but if the Tartars invade the south, you will also be requisitioned when needed, as for you, I will reward you as a Jinyi guard commander, you go to Wang Chengen, and he will command it in the future!"

Yang Feng said.

He won't use these people.

He will definitely fight Li Zicheng in the future, if these people are in the army, who knows what will happen? Just let them go to Ningyuan to be militiamen! They have a special identity, and if they are arranged in other places, it is easy to be discriminated against by the common people, and then there may be accidents, but the area around Ningyuan is inhabited by those Tan people, and they will not have this kind of problem if they are a wanderer and a pariah. As for Tian Jianxiu, it's not bad to follow Wang Chengen as a dog, Lao Wang won't treat him badly, Zheng Chenggong won't be too bad for him if he fights side by side, he is also a smart person, otherwise he wouldn't have fought side by side with Jinyiwei in the first place.

Tian Jianxiu didn't say anything, this was the best ending he could think of.

Yang Feng quickly left Baiyezhuang with these people and went south to Fengrun, and then returned directly to Shanhaiguan, and then began his steel plan.

He personally led this group of craftsmen to build small coke ovens in Xiluo City, Shanhaiguan, new iron-smelting blast furnaces, and even built hydraulic blowers relying on Shihe, and at the same time, according to his vision, several iron mines in the area of Qian'an Luanzhou were found, and then announced the opening of these iron mines as the emperor, anyone can go over to mine, of course, the mined iron ore must be crushed and sold to him.

As for coal, it's simpler.

Bidding and procurement is enough, and there is private mining in Kailuan Coal Mine at this time, and he only needs to pay for it.

Of course, this is a big project, but it can not be completed in a short time, in fact, Yang Feng expects that he can smelt the iron out within half a year, although Xiao Qian can provide all kinds of drawings, but the problem is that she does not have these small original version of the equipment drawings, she can provide a full set of drawings of modern giant blast furnaces, but can not provide a small earth-made blast furnace with a capacity of only two tons and no power equipment, nor will there be a variety of high-performance materials.

Well, it's like Qian Xuesen can build a missile, but let him go to the ancient times to pick up the toilet soil and make gunpowder to make flowers, he also has to overcome many difficulties.

Now Yang Feng is the same.

During this period, Xiaoqian sent him dozens of tons of hybrid corn seeds, and then, like those potatoes, took advantage of the time to sow seeds for those righteous people who followed him from beginning to end, in fact, his potatoes had already emerged at this time, and this fresh crop could be seen everywhere north of Shanhaiguan, including the soybean seeds he had made before. The enthusiasm of the common people in farming in these years is far from what he can imagine, the lack of cultivated cattle in the reclamation are directly on the people, and even many women are cattle and horses, in fact, not only these two, in just over a month, most of the places in this area have been vibrant, full of all kinds of crops that are thriving.

As a result, the corn had to be planted on some land that was not very good.

This land, together with the 300,000 righteous people living on the land, plus the 100,000 untouchables just recruited, this is Yang Feng's basic plate, these people are really loyal to him, because they are righteous people who are still loyal to the emperor in times of crisis, so the emperor promised that they and their descendants will never have to pay the field tax, as for the people of the new Guangfu District, they can't enjoy such treatment for the time being.

It is reasonable and legal for him to exempt the righteous people from the land endowment, and other feudal emperors will do the same under the circumstances at that time, but if he is even exempted from the Guangfu District, then the gentry in Jiangnan will not do it in the first place, just collecting taxes from the gentry in the Guangfu District will already require him to change a first assistant, if he even does this kind of apostasy, then I don't know how many people will come to him for trouble.

You exempted the land from the Guangfu District, and let us pay for all the finances of the imperial court?

At this time, Yang Feng, but it is indeed they are raising, whether it is the food or silver sent from the south, it is his financial support, and the food and clothing of his army of more than 100,000 people are all transported from Jiangnan, at least before the new crops are promoted and harvested, before his business develops, he still has to control the speed of advancing on the road of the faint king, after all, he is still very weak now, if he provokes the gentry in Jiangnan and pinchs his money and grain supply, let alone expand outward, even he can't hold the eastern Hebei Guangfu District.

An army of more than 100,000 can't do without money and food.

He can't expect Taizu to reward and feed an army of more than 100,000, even if one person has a pound of grain a day, it will take two Steyrs, Xiaoqian doesn't have such a strong teleportation ability, and she has to rest for half a month to send a hundred tons of soybeans to recover! Let her find a few tons of copper, she has been looking for half a month, and she still hasn't gotten a mobile phone meeting!

And at this time, the latest news from the south also kept coming.

Long Wu in Song Quan and Feng Yuanyang, plus Lu Jiude who hurried back in a hurry to support, successfully took over the burden of the prison country, originally Qian Qianyi also wanted to do some small behind-the-scenes actions, but Lu Jiude and Han Zanzhou, the two eunuch giants, were there, and Shi Kefa couldn't support him, so his series of small actions behind the scenes were all in vain, and he himself was so angry that he went back to his hometown, as for Ma Shiying, the head of Fengyang, although he was more interested in King Fu, Lu Jiu stopped Huang Degong and others, and he could only accept it in the end.

However, Zuo Liangyu's attitude is unclear.

This guy hooks up with Donglin very deeply, but no matter who controls Nanjing, his situation of dominating one side in Wuchang will not change, so he will not have any substantive actions, not only him, the pattern of Jiangbei Domain has basically formed, Gao Jie is in Xuzhou, Liu Zeqing has retreated to Huai'an, Liu Liangzuo is in Fengyang, and Huang Degong is in Chuzhou, all of them are warlords who support the army and respect themselves, in fact, the gentry in Jiangnan don't care about this, they just need these people to stand in front, anyway, there is the Yangtze River moat!

As long as it can't affect their singing and dancing, it's okay, and Li Zicheng hasn't gone south yet!

Of course, Yang Feng didn't bother to care about these, he did everything he could, they tossed whatever they wanted, anyway, he got everything he wanted.

Lu Jiude and Han Zanzhou soon sent over a large number of people he named, including Song Yingxing, and there was basically no shortage of people on his list except for Li Dingguo, and they also sent him 200,000 taels of silver, which was the first income from the sale of mirrors and artificial gems for him, which were said to be extremely popular among the southern gentry. Therefore, His Majesty the Emperor felt that this kind of business that pits his subjects is completely worth doing, so he not only sent another batch of this, but also added silver stainless steel tableware, outrageously beautiful man-made fiber fabrics, and a large bag of artificially cultured pearls, and even a few mechanical alarm clocks that Xiaoqian didn't know how to find, in short, he was ready to treat the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang as fat sheep.

This can be regarded as an outlet for the original owner of his skin.

Thinking about the 200,000 taels of life-saving money that Chongzhen begged his grandfather to ask for from his grandmother, he looked at the 200,000 taels of silver in front of him, and felt the sad and indignant cry of Chongzhen that seemed to come out of the depths of his soul......

"Your Majesty, if this new-style bird gun can be distributed to the whole army, my Ming Zhongxing is just around the corner."

Song Yingxing's words pulled him back to reality.

Yang Feng sighed in his heart, and then took a Ming version of the brown bass from Song Shangshu's hand.

He still underestimated the wisdom of the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty at this time, because of the people who obtained the civil registration and were full of enthusiasm, after having the steel to make the spring, they easily made him a sample gun of the brown bass, although the cost was very high, but the gun itself had no problems.

He looked at the hammer that had been clipped to the flint, and then stretched out his hand to the side, Wen Shilang hurriedly handed over a paper bag, His Majesty the Emperor personally bit open the paper bag, poured the gunpowder inside into the medicine pool, and covered the open medicine cover, and then he erected the barrel of the gun, poured the remaining gunpowder in the paper bag from the muzzle, and stuffed the empty paper bag into it. Then he took the projectile wrapped in deerskin from Wen Sheng's hand and stuffed it into the muzzle, took out the pestle below and smashed it a few times, then raised the gun again, pulled the hammer to the ready state, aimed at the target eighty meters away and pulled the trigger. The moment the hammer fell, the powder cover automatically opened, and the flint struck the spark in the medicine pool and ignited the gunpowder, and the gunpowder ignited the gunpowder in the chamber through the medicine channel on one side, and with the sound of a gunshot, in the fire sprayed from the muzzle, the round lead bullet whistled out of the bull's-eye, penetrated the cotton armor hanging on it, and then penetrated the wooden board.

"Reward!"

With his super eyesight, looking at the bullet holes that appeared on the target, Yang Feng took a deep breath and said.

The four brocade guards carried a box and walked up to the craftsmen who were already stupid, opened the lid of the box and poured the whole two thousand taels of silver directly in front of them.