The late Ming Dynasty in the living room

Chapter 94 Juma Riverside
Now the Juma River is starting to get lively.

First, Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three sides, built a large warehouse here, and there was an endless stream of young people coming to roll rice grains every day.

There is also a garrison camp here, with Sun Chuanting's own 300 governor-general's pacesetters, and 1800 officers and soldiers seconded from Maoshan Guard, Zijin Pass, and various inspection departments.

A total of 2100 people are stationed here. (Anyway, Baoding Governor Yang Wenyue is happy to "help" Sun Chuanting.)
These days, food is more expensive than money. People are going crazy looking at the mountains of rice piled up in the warehouse. It won't work unless more officers and soldiers are sent to guard it.

In addition to them, a large number of blacksmiths, carpenters and county residents came now.

The blacksmith was busy building a stove.

The carpenter was busy building a water truck.

County residents transferred from the road construction site were busy building waterwheels.

Building a waterwheel platform is actually similar to building a road. It means clearing an open space along the river, leveling it, and then compacting it firmly.

Finally, lay a smooth layer of green bricks.

"Evil ghost" Yuan Dafa also mingled among the county residents.

Although he is an official craftsman, he is not a carpenter or a blacksmith. Old Liu said that he has not yet been assigned the task of grinding gunpowder.

But he couldn't be idle either, he had to find something to do for himself.

Yuan Dafa took the initiative to take on the most laborious job. He was tamping the ground with a big wooden hammer, and he was covered in sweat from exhaustion.

Yuan Dafa was somewhat despised in the camp, but among the county residents, he was the most envied.

What's wrong with looking ugly?
He is half a New City native, and he and his whole family are living a good life inside the iron wall.

Someone asked Yuan Dafa: "Brother Yuan, I heard that you watched Journey to the West last night. Did you hire a shadow puppet troupe from the county?"

Yuan Dafa only focused on working and ignored him.

Many people smacked their lips, regretting that they were temporary workers and could not enjoy all the good benefits in the camp.

Some people also talked about the last time they watched a shadow puppet show, which showed Monkey Monkey causing havoc in the Heavenly Palace (most shadow puppet plays choose this plot). They discussed it in a lively manner and thought it was very exciting.

Yuan Dafa listened to all the words and sneered in his heart: "What is a shadow puppet show? Is it worthy of being compared with the master's magic weapon? What we are watching is the real Journey to the West!"

Yuan Dafa ignored them, and their discussion was naturally boring. After a while, the topic turned back to the waterwheel platform.

They were not blind, so of course they knew that there was not much water left in the Juma River, and the large areas of sand and gravel at the bottom of the river had dried up.

When the time comes they set up a water wheel on the shore, and there is no way the page will touch the water.

"My boss will ask Madam Pan to make it rain, right? Just like last time, a rain made the river full of water."

"It can't rain every day. It won't work in such heavy rain."

"I think Madam Pan can take a basin and pour water into the river."

"That's nonsense. How big of a basin do we have to get and how much water does it cost? The water in the sky is extraordinary. Can it be poured into the mortal world every day..."

They had come up with a lot of hypotheses over the past two days, only to be quickly shot down by the other person.

Doesn’t Yuan Dafa live inside the iron wall? He should know more, right?

So someone asked Yuan Dafa: "Brother Yuan, do you know what the boss said?"

The boss didn't say anything, but Yuan Dafa asked Lao Liu.

Yuan Dafa took out Lao Liu's original words and said in a low voice: "Don't ask around, the boss has his own solution."

In fact, he felt a little irritable when he heard these people discussing this.

These county residents were purely out of curiosity, and whether Yuan Dafa and the other official craftsmen could stay in the camp in the future depended on these waterwheels.

Really, if these waterwheels don't start turning in the end and the boss wants them to go back... then it's really better to just die.

Yuan Dafa also believed that his boss and Madam Pan had a solution, but he couldn't figure it out in his head, so he couldn't help but worry.

Just when he was feeling agitated, he saw a horse team coming from a distance, with a brand-new carriage surrounded in the middle.Sitting on the horse were the Gao brothers, Lan Gouzi, and Lao Liu, who was smiling broadly in front.

The carriage stopped, and a young man came out holding a little girl.

This is the boss coming.

Axiu learned that Fang Yu was going to the river to "see" in the afternoon, and she had to come with him.

In order to avoid that sad place, Fang Yu made them take a long detour, so they wasted some time.

Fang Yu put Axiu down and let her have fun on her own.

Then I followed Lao Liu to see the blacksmith workshop under construction.

The Juma River is also 4 kilometers away from the nearest north gate. Instead of moving iron materials, rough gun barrels, rough weapons, etc., it is better to build a weapons base by the river.

So now not only are the furnaces being built here, there are also three groups of county residents added yesterday to build a blacksmith workshop, a (musket) assembly workshop, and two storage warehouses (blanket material storage warehouse, weapons storage warehouse).

The specific process is to produce a matchlock gun as an example: the blacksmith workshop forges a rough barrel - the water truck turns around - returns to the blacksmith workshop for fine correction - sends it to the assembly workshop - is included in the weapons reserve storehouse.

Fang Yuzheng was watching all the way. After a while, General Luo Shangwen, who was staying at the garrison camp, hurried over.

This Luo Shangwen was Sun Chuanting's number one confidant, but Sun Chuanting did not take him to Yizhou.

In addition to letting him be responsible for the defense of the grain depot, another task is to curry favor with Fang Shenzi, and of these two tasks, I am afraid the latter one is more important.

You see, his grain warehouse is by the Juma River, but patrols from the garrison camp appear outside the iron wall one after another.

The sophomores and seniors in high school were very angry about this matter, and nothing else. They had always wanted to add more personnel to the security team.

The reason for increasing the number of personnel is that the outer city is too large and the existing manpower is "seriously insufficient."

However, now that the garrison battalion has quietly taken away the patrol mission of the outer city, what better reason can they come up with?
After Luo Shangwen said his good words, he began to report on the progress of Sun Chuanting's recruitment. (Fang Yu didn’t ask)

Then Fang Yu heard the high school sophomore outside scolding: "What a little brat! Just wait and see if I don't skin you!"

Fang Yu apologized to Luo Shangwen and hurriedly left the workshop.

Seeing that the second grader was furious by the river, he had already taken off one shoe, and the other shoe was half-taken off but he couldn't pull it off no matter how hard he pulled it.

"Ye mother!"

He cursed angrily and pulled out the knife with a bang, trying to cut off the shoe.

Axiu next to her was still fine, but her clothes were hit with a small piece of wet mud.

Fang Yu glared at the sophomore.

Looking at the river again, there was a man with his trousers rolled up and a small basket on his back standing on the river bed, looking at a loss.

Behind him, there was a child with a face full of mud squatting half in the water. He was not afraid, but stared at the sophomore and A Xiu with his eyes.

Apparently this piece of river mud was thrown over by him.

At this time, the senior high school students also came over, and Luo Shangwen was followed by more than a dozen officers and soldiers.

Nearly 30 people suddenly stood by the river. There were people in uniforms and big-brimmed hats, and there were officers and soldiers from the imperial court, not the beggar soldiers in the guard station. (Sun Chuanting’s governor-general’s pacesetter)

The man's face turned pale, knowing that the little girl must come from a great family.

If these people were to become really domineering, the consequences of killing him and his son would be similar to killing a chicken.

What should he do?

He pulled his son up, and the "slap" was Da Guangzi.

Then he pushed him to the ground and spanked him with "snap, snap, snap": "I'll let you fuck, I'll let you fuck, and I'll beat you to death!"

(End of this chapter)