Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 492
In the north of Xinzheng County, on the shore of Xuanyuan Lake, Longwen Yayuan.

This is a new courtyard built by Gao’s Liufang the year before last. It can be seen from the word “Longwen” that it was built in the name of Gao Yushi, but in fact Gao Yushi has not returned to his hometown in recent years. In fact, this other courtyard was built by the highly pragmatic mother Zhang.

King Xiang once said that riches and honor do not return home, like brocade clothes walking at night.But Gao Yushi was different from King Xiang. He didn't feel much about returning rich and honored to his hometown, but he couldn't help his mother, thinking that it was just another courtyard anyway, and it was built as soon as it was built, so there was no need to make his mother unhappy about this.

However, accidents always come very suddenly. Originally, Gao Yushi thought that Xinzheng was only a county town, and this other courtyard was outside the county town. Even though it was a suburb, it shouldn't cost a lot of money.Who knew that although the land price in Xinzheng was cheap, the construction cost of this other courtyard was very expensive. It took a total of 17 taels of silver to complete the construction, and Gao Wushi who received the reimbursement was stunned.

There is no mistake!In history, Zhang Juzheng built a house in his hometown when he ruled the world. It is said that the repair is more magnificent than the palace, but it only cost 30 million taels. My mother spent 17 to build a separate courtyard?Did I build a separate courtyard, or did I renovate Xinzheng County?Did the cheap mother get tricked?
He is the eldest son, and Mrs. Zhang will depend on him for food and clothing from now on, so she will definitely not be greedy for his money, but Mrs. Zhang comes from a wealthy family. Pragmatically, I have always kept this matter in my heart, and I plan to take a good look at it when I come back. How did it cost 17 taels to repair a certain courtyard.

But when he saw this other courtyard with his own eyes, he was convinced—this garden only cost 17 yuan?

This Longwen Yayuan covers a huge area of ​​more than 300 mu, which is equivalent to a little more than two square kilometers in later generations. It is much more to include the Xuanyuan Lake Wetland Park in Xinzheng City in later generations.

To put it simply, this "other courtyard" is not much smaller than the Summer Palace built by Empress Dowager Cixi (the Summer Palace is about 4400 acres). Of course, the Summer Palace is the capital, with expensive land and labor, and it has to support a lot of corrupt officials. Poltergeist, all kinds of materials do not seek the best but the most expensive, this is not comparable.

However, this Longwen Yayuan, which is nominally owned by Gao Shishi, is not a joke. It is not comparable to the atmosphere, wealth and nature, and the Summer Palace, but there are two points. Gao Shishi can tell at a glance that it is stronger than the Summer Palace.

This Longwen Yayuan is called Bieyuan, and the name is very elegant, but it is actually more like a fortress - this place is surrounded by water on three sides, and only the north is land.According to his mother, Mrs. Zhang, thick concrete walls were built on three sides of Huanshui, using the standard for building a fort during the construction of Jinghua Infrastructure and Border Army under the name of Gao Yushi. The horizontal and vertical walls inside are all steel bars, and the thickness of the entire wall is ten Six feet, that is, more than five meters wide in later generations!

The front wall on the land is even more exaggerated, reaching a thickness of twenty feet, rounded up to almost seven meters wide, and the city wall can run horses!
The height of the wall is also unambiguous at all. It is unified to four feet, which is more than 13 meters in later generations, and is about the same height as the city wall of the current capital.Although this is not against the rules, but... is it necessary?
The city walls of the capital of the Ming Dynasty were not the tallest and thickest, and the overall city defenses were not the strongest. Needless to say, the city of Datong, which Gao Yushi visited, was stronger than Beijing.At the beginning, when I said that the army was suppressing the country, the people in Datong city were not worried about the loss of Datong at all, and there was also a reason for this.

Gao Wushi looked at his own Longwen Yayuan, and was really a little confused: Shouldn't my other courtyard be a place for studying and retirement? What's the point of building it to be as defensive as Bianzhen Xiongguan?Could it be that my mother thinks that I'm going to rebel and fix up my hometown in advance?

Faced with his son's puzzled face, Mrs. Zhang smiled and said, "Don't look at Wei Niang like that, Wei Niang made a decision based on your words."

"My words?" Gao Wushi was at a loss: "What did I say?"

Mrs. Zhang raised her brows: "Didn't you say that in the next few years, there will be more and more natural disasters in the northern provinces, which may eventually lead to a large number of refugees, and may even cause turmoil? That's why my mother hurried to get rid of these other people." The courtyard is like a fortress, if one day in the future Xinzheng Gao takes refuge in this other courtyard, he will always be able to avoid a lot of losses."

"This..." Gao Wushi was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile, "Mother is really planning for a rainy day."

"That's natural." Mrs. Zhang said with some pride: "Why do you think a mother would give up Gao Laozhuang's ancestral business and come here? I asked Gao Yu and those guys who were trained under Qi Shaobao, and they all felt that if they were in Xinzheng Baowu is the best place in this area, surrounded by water on three sides, easy to defend and difficult to attack! There is no navy or navy here in Shuangji River. If there is a police, as long as you guard the north side, you will be safe!"

Mrs. Zhang smiled and said: "Your mine protection team and factory protection team are really good. Our family only has a few factories and mines in Xinzheng and Yuzhou. If all the mine protection teams and factory protection teams are gathered, there will be 2000 people. There are many people, it is more than enough to defend this fort."

That is, I have more than 2000 people. If it is placed in a border town, it can almost serve as the core backbone of an army of [-] to [-]!Isn't it impenetrable to defend a dock?

But mother, what's the use of you just guarding a Wubaoding? What about my industries in Xinzheng and Yuzhou?
That is an industrial group jointly operated by coal and iron—although it is at the level of handicraft industry, it can't stand the scale. If it is lost, it can produce more than 4 catties of refined steel and more than [-] catties of high-quality wrought iron a month. In this era, only my own three Kaiping factories can stabilize one end of it!You are a serious enemy!
But fortunately, several factories and mines here in Henan are not responsible for the production of firearms. The products related to the military industry are mainly wrought iron sheets, which are generally used to make armor, so they are not offensive at all.If the three major factories in Kaiping are lost, then the fun will be really great-the two high-profile products of Longqing Type [-] musket and Bingzi Type [-] tiger squat gun are produced there.

Different from the naming method of firearms, the artillery series launched under the name of Gao Yushi are named after the chronology of the heavenly stems and earthly branches. For example, the "Bingzi Yi-style Tiger Crouching Cannon" was finalized and produced in the fourth year of Wanli.The fourth year of Wanli is the year of Bingzi, and this gun has not yet been modified, so it is called Bingzi [-] type. If it is changed in the future, it may be Bingzi [-] type, Bingzi [-] type, and so on.

This tiger crouching gun was designed and manufactured according to the requirements of Qi Jiguang, the chief soldier of Ji Town, combined with the experimental data of Qi Jiguang in Ji Town, and then made some improvements, and added a new type of gun mount that was highly pragmatic and creative. .

The tiger squatting gun is a small and medium-sized artillery, which is generally used in field battles with the army. It is a kind of artillery that Qi Jiguang likes very much.

The power of the Bingzi Yi type gun is not obvious, but because the iron smelting technology of the three major factories in Kaiping is relatively reliable, the weight has dropped a bit, and the stability and durability have been significantly improved. In addition, the new The gun mounts, the accuracy of the shelling has also been improved to a certain extent, which is more in line with Qi Jiguang's requirements. It has been purchased by Ji Town, and the first batch of purchases is [-].

However, it may not be very meaningful to tell Zhang about these things, especially when several of his brothers are staying in his hometown in Xinzheng. It's not too late to recover.

However, Gao Pragmatically thought about it and felt that Zhang's worry was justified. He had better make arrangements for these possible accidents first, otherwise the loss of money for factories and mines would be small, and the loss of skilled workers would be huge. Can't afford to hurt.

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