Beiyang new warlord

Land is really the most precious resource these days. As soon as this news was released, Baima Mountain City became lively immediately. Even Tian Tao and Zhao Cheng’s soldiers all came here in ox carts from all the way to Yizhou, and there were long queues. , the entire Yizhou can read no more than three digits. Facing the soldiers pointing fingers and throwing money over like money, a dozen orderlies who can read are in a panic. The land deed was given out, and the silver was put into the box. These years, the price of an acre of land was as high as 3000 taels. In order to buy land, some military families took out the book of marrying a daughter-in-law and the book of the coffin. Baimachuan was sold for more than 40 taels, and this time Mao Jue handed out a bounty of more than 20 taels, not to mention that they would come, and there was an extra [-] taels of silver.

This time it really brought about a wave of economic development in Tieyi Town. With the land, I thought about building a house, and I had to buy more furniture. I sold a lot of scattered bricks, tiles and cement. The whole Baima River seemed to be transformed into A large construction site was built.

But the money was spent, and these soldiers returned to the barracks with peace of mind. With a sense of hunger for wealth, they fiercely devoted themselves to training. Mao Jue's Iron Rebel Army regained calm again.

Close to the foot of Baima Mountain City, leaning on the edge of a valley, a small stream flows out from the mountain. The most amazing thing is that a white mist rises from the valley. Not far to the west is the Changbai Mountains. Geological movement Frequently, here is a volcanic hot spring.

In the early spring of May, all the trees sprouted new buds, but the birds did not dare to sing loudly, and a group of uninvited guests unceremoniously broke into their homeland where they have multiplied for hundreds of years.

"I paved this area with cement, and here, here, the pond was cemented in the yard, and iron pipes were buried in a hurry to bring in the hot spring!"

Mao Jue is planning for a rainy day. If you want to make money, you have to spend money. The poor Iron Rebels have not waited until the next battle. Their war bonuses have already been targeted by Mao Jue. He wants to build a military club in this valley. To drain a group of energetic soldiers with money and energy, they are determined not to take them out.

The craftsmen I found this time are also foreman-level figures drawn from the cement factory and various castles. I thought Mao Jue was going to repair his private house, and he was concentrating on each of them. Foremen, you must know that in Tieyi, the only ones who can compare with the treatment of the pro-corps are their foreman-level skilled workers. The more apprentices they can drive, the higher the salary. They don't want to lose their jobs.

Mao Jue gestured so blindly that he didn't even know what he was gesticulating, but the foremen listened to him as "the right way" and "politely" invited the general to drink tea. After a break, the stonemason and the carpenter discussed He drew the blueprint by himself.

A group of foremen were there back and forth planning how to build the house, but Mao Jue had nothing to do for a while. Rome was not built in a day. Even if he was in a hurry, the house could not be built on the ground. Can plan well, and then wait slowly.

Not only is this place going to be a construction site, but looking down, on the Baimachuan Plain of Xiamapingchuan, there are also civilian men pushing carts and carrying burdens back and forth. There is only about [-] mu of land here, and in the original Tuntian Manor, they probably managed more than [-] mu of land, but everything is for their own home. A new house was built on the land, and the big logs felled from the mountains were transported down the main road of Mao Jue. The carpenter polished them and made them into frames. The rise is much faster, and now more than half of the walls of more than a dozen villages have been erected, and some of them have already begun to smear lime mud, which is a bit like a well-off village in later generations.

However, the only thing that worries Mao Jue is the land. There are only small pieces of land between the densely packed villages. Although Baimachuan is big enough, the land to the east can still withstand expansion once or twice, but what will happen after that?Land merger is an almost irreversible trend.

However, Mao Jue has almost no room for expansion. Behind him is Li's North Korea, and he can't beat him. In front of him is Houjin, so he can't beat him for the time being. Lushun can think of a way, but he is not the master of Dongjiang, so he can't control it. It's too far away!

"How to get some land"

While thinking and meditating, there was a loud noise from the bottom. Where there are people, there is oppression. This is the evil nature of human beings that cannot be changed. In Ming Dynasty, landlords oppressed tenant farmers, tenant slaves, and Houjin enslaved Han people. Americans who claim to be democratic and free It was also built by stepping on the bones of Indians and enslaving black people, and then wiped off the blood splattered on the face, and condemned other countries for racial discrimination with a sanctimonious appearance.

In Uiju, it was Naxie who took back Uiju at first, and the soldiers and horses of the Tungkaido who were captured after the collapse were replaced by a new batch of soldiers and horses. , defeated the coalition forces of Kuroda Nabeshima's family, and captured more than 2000 people. The next day, the local rich and wealthy businessmen in Nagasaki sent them to their door. With the ship, Mao Jue brought back a total of more than 1000 captives.

Mining and smelting, paving roads and bridges were officially handed over to them, and those responsible for custody were those Korean soldiers who had been liberated from the status of miners and had been incorporated into the Tieyi Army. family!

Wearing a chain and carrying a big log in the front is the Nagasaki "Watermelon" who fooled Mao Jue. Not to mention that he hasn't lost weight since he hasn't seen him for half a month. The 1.4-meter Japanese warriors are either carrying cement bags or carrying bricks, adding bricks and tiles to the construction of the Great Celestialism of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing these people, a flash of light suddenly flashed in Mao Jue's head

Chapter 157. Three-dimensional development

The old Confucius said, the dead are like husbands, and they never give up day and night! Under Mao Jue's "brutal" rule, Tieyi Town ushered in another autumn harvest in July, with the last warmth of midsummer, The wind-blown spring corn lighted heavily on the old man's thick beard, and the sweet potato seedlings also proliferated into a large green patch.

Because Mao Jue opened the border market privately and traded with Houjin, the villagers in Tieyi did not need manpower to plan potatoes. The bullocks brought back from the exchange of a few cigarettes were specially built with a blunt plow that was much wider. The villagers plowed out a deep furrow, and the villagers who followed directly picked up the potatoes into the baskets, harvesting an acre of land more than twice as fast as before.

After the Jin conquered Chahar, the connection with Mongolia was greatly strengthened, which led to a large-scale flow of Mongolian horses, cattle and sheep into Liaodong. The Jurchens in the border market exchanged these for cigarettes, silk, and tea, and the cattle in Tieshan followed suit. Mao Jue now has more than 4000 cattle and more than 3000 horses. If it is pulled to the grassland, it will at least be a small fortune.

Horses are not needed at all. If you cross the sea to fight the Japanese, the ships with [-] cavalry will be enough. If you fight in the North Korea of ​​the Lee family, the land is so mountainous that the cavalry cannot be deployed. These horses Maojue are planning to enter the autumn capital. It would be even better if it could be pulled to Shandong to sell, and it would be even better if it could be pulled further to the south of the Yangtze River. As for the cattle, they can basically stay. Not to mention the brute force of cattle, the burden of mining and transportation in the mountains is more than that of horses. It's good to just keep the meat and kill it.

As for the law of the Ming Dynasty prohibiting the slaughter of cattle?Sorry, any county magistrate can't see it, just come and arrest it!

The CCTV 7 of the later generations is not in vain, and Mao Jue’s animal husbandry system is also very three-dimensional. The cattle are raised on the mountain circle, and they usually eat grass, and only replenish hay in winter. There is also a pig farm underneath, and the pigs are raised on the second floor. The upper floor of the small building and the lower part of the pigsty are made into a cage shape with steel bars produced by the Tieshan Mine. The pig manure falls directly on the first floor, and then the chickens are raised on the first floor. The eggs laid supplemented the nearby soldiers, and the protein greatly enhanced the physique of the boys.

Looking back, if the fermented pig manure is used to fertilize the field, the next year's field production will increase a lot, and then the dried sweet potato stalks and the remaining distiller's grains after corn wine are used to feed the pigs and cattle, and more than half of the feed is solved.

Mao Jue's next goal is to let the residents of Tieyi have meat for every meal!

"Fatty, come here!"

Su Yi came from a poor background, and the happiest thing she had when she was a child was killing pigs during the Chinese New Year. She didn't think it was dirty at all, and hopped around holding a big sweet potato on the pigsty to greet her. As for Adelaine, she couldn't do it. From the moment she came in, she covered her small mouth and nose with her small hands in a very ladylike manner, and the French lady's big-brimmed hat with a feather was also pulled down low, following behind Mao Jue silently.

It is estimated that if this girl is asked to shovel pig manure once, she will go crazy.

Compared with the fat pig in front of him, Mao Jue was more interested in the downstairs. Opposite the pig farm was the cowshed. A cow was brought in innocently. Niu Yao, and then a Tuhu man with a mustache and messy hair showed a wretched smile, bent down and hey hey hey hey hey hey, he did something "forgive it" to the poor cow.

The wailing of the cow and the panting of the man echoed each other. After a long while, Bai Shengsheng, a thick and thick bucket was brought out.

"Go! Go down and have a look!"

Adelaine was really pardoned, the little leather boots walked in front of Mao Jue while walking, Su Yi was a lot slower, a little bit reluctant to throw the sweet potatoes out, and took a picture amidst a group of fat pigs scrambling for food Clap your hands.

Regarding the impression of milk, Mao Jue always bought it in packs and boxes in the supermarket. The freshly squeezed milk really made him a little unbearable, and he was finally liberated in front of him, so he went to the hillside with joy. The slipping cow is not the black and white, lazy cow in memory, but the most common buffalo in Asia. The ancestors of the cow are still grazing in the Netherlands.

Mao Jue had considered introducing the breed, but the risk of transporting cattle back from the other side of the world was too great, and there might be a pile of cattle bones left on the way. The picture was so beautiful that Mao Jue gave up the idea.

"Starting tomorrow, you must drink a glass of milk for breakfast!"

Pointing at the big wooden barrel, Mao Jue solemnly announced, who knew that before the words fell, Su Yi's face was already pale and she shook her head violently, the freshly brewed milk was very fishy, ​​I thought It's disgusting to think about, let alone drink.

As for Adelaine, she turned her head away in disgust.

"I don't want to drink such inferior food!"

"Food for inferior people?"

Mao Jue opened his eyes in surprise. In his impression, eating pastries and drinking milk tea in the back garden, this is the life they flaunted by Westerners, right?Westerners who put milk in all dishes actually say that this is the food of the inferior people?

Despite the unanimous objections of the two girls, the milk was still placed on Mrs. Mao's table the next day.

Except for milk, Mao Jue's breakfast is not a rich one. One fried egg per person, one bowl of porridge, three sea fish to share, and pickled sweet potato stems and small pickles. Thanks to Adelaine, from Jiangnan brought peppers, and he ate kimchi and platycodon grandiflorum accompanied by red chili oil before Lee's Chosun in the south.

The two girls looked at each other, neither of them mentioned the problem of milk, they tacitly launched a finishing attack on the porridge first, and then dragged the fried eggs into the plate without Mao Jue's urging, even if Adelaina's habit is slow and noble The girl who eats in the way, this time also broke the record to solve the battle in 3 minutes.

"The servant girl has gone to clean up the dishes!"

"The concubine still has some debts that I don't understand!"

Keeping their heads down, the two girls just put down their bowls and chopsticks and ran away.

"Hey~ Husband and wife are originally birds in the same forest, and they fly separately when the disaster is imminent! It seems that no one understands my Mao! No matter!"

After slipping away for less than five steps, Su Yi's little feet froze there, with a bitter expression on his face, Mao Jue had the feeling of loneliness that poet Li Taibai once drank alone with the moon, picking up the milk cup as if he was drinking strong wine , took a deep sip.

Knowing that Mao Jue was acting, but Su Yi's biggest weakness was that she would never reject Mao Jue no matter what, her face was depressed for a long time, the girl had no choice but to sneak back obediently, picked up the milk cup, and took a drink After taking a small sip, her big watery eyes suddenly brightened a lot, without Mao Jue's urging, the girl picked up the cup and gurgled all over, and licked her small mouth unsatisfied.

This made Adelaine, who was shaking her head at the door, shrink back again. This girl is realistic enough. Even if Mao Jue came to cry for Qin Ting for three days and three nights, if she thought it was bad, this girl would not know common sense. , but she also has a weakness common to all women, curiosity killed the cat!

Like a kitten, she looked around the cup for a second and then sniffed it. Then Adelena closed her eyes and picked up the celadon cup to take a sip, then returned it with her mouth aftertaste.

"Add tea! And cane sugar!"

"sharp!"

Mao Jue also had to give a thumbs up, this girl is really tricky, cooking is a disaster, but the taste is gourmet level, nothing can escape her tongue.

Now that the two beautiful girls from Tieyi Town have passed the milk, it should not be too difficult for Mao Jue to promote milk in Tieyi. This is a key point in his development plan. It is not true that future generations will say that a glass of milk strengthens a nation It’s just called white. These days, the Japanese are as short as goblins. However, after the defeat of World War II, the country learned from the painful experience and forced the popularization of school milk. In Mao Jue’s generation, the average height of the Japanese even surpassed that of Chinese people. If he said it, It is impossible to believe Wen Meng and those bastards who laughed out loud.

The only concern is that the sugar for the milk tea here is robbed of cane sugar from the Dutch business house. Now he still has more than 1 boxes. No sugar is produced in the north, and the sweetness is considered a rare taste in the whole ancient China. If this batch There are only two ways to drink up, either to grab it, or to find a way to contact the Dutch or Portuguese to obtain trade. The former is too unstable, and the latter may be a try.