Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 171

In April, it finally calmed down, fewer relatives came to the door, and the officialdom gradually returned to calm. Those who should be promoted will be promoted, and those who should get rich will be given out.

The candidates for Yang Chao's personal army team have also been finalized, and a large number of capable veterans have been drawn from each team. All of them have seen blood, but they have no interest in commanding. Chao prefers to promote those people as officers.

Had a good talk with Zhao Kang, although his uncle gave Yang Chao a headache, but Yang Chao found out that it was not Zhao Kang who asked his father to go to Yang's house to intercede.

Yang Chao and Zhao Kang have been together for so long, and they grew up together, knowing that this cousin is sometimes very strong.

Yang Chao ignored him for half a year last year, but this kid just didn't say a word, he should concentrate on training, and he didn't even complain.

It’s just that during the training, I wounded several soldiers, and I was beaten with military sticks several times, but I still went my own way, not remembering to eat but not beating, but because I was too eager to make meritorious service.

But in the eight rounds, Wang Pu and many men always took the first and second places. The other teams almost gave up trying to compete with these two, but Zhao Kang never gave up, although he did not give up in the end. He failed to catch up with the records of these two men, but the skills of his soldiers are already second only to those of many men and Wang Pu.

Yang Chao originally wanted to sharpen Zhao Kang's temperament and make him more stable. He didn't ask him how capable he was. The reason why he was the first to find him was because he was his cousin and he would not betray him. To reuse his.

After grinding for such a long time, this kid didn't get depressed, so Yang Chao couldn't help but feel satisfied. Yang Chao originally planned to comfort him when he couldn't hold on anymore, and then continue grinding. At home, I never said that Zhao Kang complained, but I was not satisfied with Zhao Kang being the leader of the team and Wang Pu and the others being the flag.

"Kang'er, I still lack a captain for my personal army team, so you can be the captain of my personal army, tentatively appointed as the banner commander!"

Zhao Kang was speechless when he heard it. He held his breath for more than half a year, trained hard, and tried hard to find Jiang Bandits. Isn't it just for promotion. Now that he has been promoted, he is a little at a loss, as if he has lost his strength generally.

But he was still very happy, and immediately thanked him: "Thank you, it was promoted by an adult."

Yang Chao laughed and said, "It's okay to call me cousin when there is no one else."

After tempering his temper, Yang Chao doesn't have to stick to it anymore.

Although it is not good to use family affection to win over subordinates, Yang Chao has done a good job compared to others who replaced soldiers with servants. After all, he has to take into account the reality of the Ming Dynasty.

What I want is peace of mind, and I hope that in times of crisis on the battlefield, I will not be betrayed, betrayed, or abandoned by my subordinates.

"Here is a list, you use the list to pick people. Forget it, you go to Lu Mo and let him pick out these soldiers with you!"

Yang Chao said.

In this list, all of them had fought against Jiang bandits last year and had seen blood, but because of their limited abilities, Yang Chao didn't plan to promote them as officers, so he was drawn into his own army as elite soldiers.

Zhao Kang took the list, but he basically didn't know the words on it. Hearing his cousin's slightly disappointed tone, Zhao Kang suddenly gritted his teeth.

"Cousin, I will definitely learn to read well this year!"

Yang Chao didn't expect Zhao Kang to make such a statement, he was stunned for a while and encouraged him: "Okay, have backbone! As long as you can read and write, I will be the first to mention you and let you be the boss!"

Construction is still underway in the barracks these days, and the location of the construction is the pigpens vacated by Chen Kuan. These houses need to be repaired for bathhouses.

As early as last year, Yang Chao told the craftsman about his request to build a bathhouse, and he was the same craftsman who built a barracks for himself and a house for his family.

Because Yang Chao was quite satisfied with the quality of the two cooperations, especially his own house, the workmanship was not compromised, so he won Yang Chao's credit, and he was found this time.

It's just that Jiangtou has never been a bathhouse, so he spent a month in the Wengtang years ago.

There is an urn hall near Baoen Temple in the south of the city. It is a bathhouse of more than 200 years. It is said that it was built by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang for the laborers who built the city wall.

A large iron pot is buried under the bathing pool in the Weng Hall, and a fire can be made under the iron pot to heat the whole pool of water.The house is built on top of the pool with a semicircular roof, like a large upside-down urn. The hot air in the pool rises and all gathers in the room to keep the temperature. The water vapor evaporated to the roof flows down along the roof wall and does not drip on people.

This bathroom has been used from the early Ming Dynasty to the 21st century. The design is very reasonable. Yang Chao believes that it borrowed from the structure of the Turkish bath. The Mongolians in the Yuan Dynasty captured many artisans in Central Asia and Europe. This style of craftsmanship was brought to China.

Yang Chao told Jiangtou that he wanted to build an urn hall in the barracks, so Jiangtou had to soak in the bath for many days, just to find out the structure of the urn hall.

In addition to the bathhouse, there is also a small piece of construction on the playground.

The playground is also different from the past, with a big shed in the middle.

The wooden frame is inlaid with pieces of Mingwa boards.

These tiles are still made by the Liu family workshop.

Because Liu Dong's offer is the cheapest, Yang Chao is happy to use it. Of course, Liu Dong's is not cheap because of the relationship, but because the cost is really low.

Liu's workshop made many molds the size of large windows because it made window tiles for Yang Chao. It is very easy to make flat tiles, just pouring and pressing.

So they dare to offer a low price.

The large sheds in the military camp now use exposed tile panels as large as the windows of the Jinchai Building. If the exposed tile panels can be inlaid on the windows, they can also be inlaid on the greenhouses.

In order to build this shed, Yang Chao invested 2000 taels of silver, but this was nothing more than building a shed the size of an acre of land.

There are more than 2000 Mingwa boards for one mu of land. Liu Dong’s family asks for one tael of silver for one such Mingwa board. Therefore, as long as the investment is the price of Ming tile boards, as for wooden shelves and carpenters, the total is less than ten taels. silver.

This investment made Li Fu uneasy. He always felt that he would not be able to make back his capital no matter what.

Fortunately, Yang Chao had comforted him, the loss was Yang Chao's, and everyone got two or two points.

Even so, Li Fu was still very uneasy. When the snow was still there, he cultivated seedlings in his house. For this, he burned more than 2000 catties of charcoal and spent nearly ten taels of silver. Spending money is still a trivial matter. He was almost poisoned and had a headache for several days.

But hard work always pays off. Finally, some cress and green vegetables sprouted and were planted in the greenhouse.

After about one or two months, the vegetables will be available, half a month to a month earlier than other vegetable farmers, and should be able to sell for a good price.The weather is cold and the winter is long this year, so you may not be able to eat fresh vegetables in spring, and vegetables will be on the market on a large scale until summer. Therefore, rich people who are tired of eating cabbage and pickled radishes in the cellar are probably willing to spend a little and buy them in advance. Teeth fighting festival, eating fresh vegetables.

Watching Li Fu bring his family, fetching water from the river, watering the vegetable seedlings, carefully watching for insects, as always.

Yang Chao didn't regret leaving their family here to continue growing vegetables at all. He had to say that watching Li's family take care of this land like their ancestors every day made Yang Chao feel a little compassion, so he didn't have the heart to kill them. The family's land was collected, so they were willing to leave a piece of green in the middle of the playground.

He took the initiative to find Li Fu and told him that he was willing to underwrite the sale when the food was served, and the price was ten times the usual price.

One mu of vegetables and ten mu of grain, the profit from the vegetable field would have been higher, but if Yang Chao was willing to double it, the profit would be called a huge profit.

In the past, an acre of vegetable land could earn Li Fu three to five taels of silver, and ten times that would be three to fifty taels.

Li Fu calculated that if he sold all the vegetables in the shed, he would get about 50 taels of silver.

Compared with an investment of 2000 taels, 50 taels of silver is really not enough. No wonder greenhouse vegetables will not be popularized until the 21st century. It is estimated that the main reason is cost.

50 taels of silver, going out to do labor, etc., there are more than 40 taels, the profit is very high, but the cost is too high, and it is not cost-effective to grow vegetables.

But growing vegetables is not cost-effective, is it cost-effective to grow other things?Such as melons and fruits, such as flowers!
Yang Chao expressed his thoughts, and Li Fu said that he could think about it, but the experiment will be in autumn, just in time for the Chinese New Year, after all, the prices are the best during the Chinese New Year.

Yang Chao runs a brothel, so he understands the market more or less. He knows that at the most expensive time, a flower can sometimes be sold for a tael of silver. If you grow flowers on an acre of land, you can grow hundreds or even thousands of them. With a good price, the cost will be recovered in one year. In this way, the cost of growing flowers is more affordable.

(End of this chapter)