But where did this money come from? It confused Zhang Buyun. He had been to the Zhao family for several months, but the Zhao family spent money like flowing water.

What Zhang Buyun remembers most is the cost of the Zhao family when he fought against the bandits.

At that time, Zhang Buyun almost died in the bandit army. Later, he learned that the Zhao family had won the victory by making money. After returning to Zhaojia Village, he sent 110,000 yuan in silver.

If 110,000 taels of silver were added to the cost of farming, buying land, plowing oxen, farm tools, and food, it would be a terrifying number.

I made 8,000 taels of silver from Gaojiazhai on the previous days, but compared with the total amount, it was still a drop in the bucket.

Where did this money come from? Zhang Buyun was puzzled. However, Zhang Buyun is now one of the thirty village chiefs under the Zhao family, and his status in the Zhao family is still unable to reach the core things.

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The Zhao family opened a porridge shed in Huang County, Zhaoyuan each time, and each time they gave porridge to those refugees. At the same time, they recruited refugees to Zhaojiabao at the place where the porridge shed was located.

News of someone serving porridge in Huangxian and Zhaoyuan spread quickly, and those refugees who were unable to eat in the country began to rush towards the two places in large quantities.

At first, the county magistrates in Huangxian and Zhaoyuan were shocked. Then, they saw that the Zhao family was gathering refugees, and then they breathed a sigh of relief. As long as these hungry people were not causing trouble under their rule, it would be best if the Zhao family could take away these unstable factors.

Every day, refugees come to Zhaojiabao. In less than half a month, the number of immigrants in Zhaojiabao increased by thousands. These people did not settle down to hoard land, but asked them to work and use labor for relief.

If you want to build a fort in the three clusters, you will naturally have to use some manpower. These free labor forces that only manage food can save the cost of building a fort.

After the number of refugees reached this number, Zhao Yan put the plan to build a fort on the desk.

The three forts of Zhaojia Fort, Pingko Fort and Anmin Fort were built respectively. The fortresses built were made as prisms, which were a fortress that could withstand the attack of primary artillery.

A prismatic bastion is a type of ancient fortress. Its essence is to turn a city block from a convex polygon into a concave polygon. This improvement makes it possible that no matter how you attack the castle, the attacking party will expose the attacking party to more than one bastion surface (usually 2-3). The defense party can use cross firepower to perform multiple strikes.

Before the gunpowder era, the fortress walls were usually tall and reinforced with stone or bricks. Towers or horse faces were also set up to obtain additional firepower output. If anything, some particularly solid cities had more than one wall.

However, the fall of Constantinople, which had a perfect city defense system in 1453 AD, declared a new stage in the city's offensive and defensive war. In the next short period was the golden age of the attacking side, one fortress after another surrendered to the power of cannons. However, there must be a spear, and there must be a shield. In just half a century, a new type of city defense system - the lever, came to the stage of history.

It is still possible to deal with the artillery of the Qing Dynasty. After Kong Youde's rebellion, Kong Youde, who was powerless, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and brought the red barbarian cannons to the Qing Dynasty.

These red cannons were sold by the Portuguese, and the Portuguese brought the technology to cast red cannons. At the same time, the artillery of the Kong Youde troops received the Portuguese artillery training, which greatly improved the Qing Dynasty's attack ability.

No matter how the nomadic people develop, their ability to attack is very backward. But the cannon has changed this phenomenon.

Just in case, Zhao Yan decided to build three bastions in Laogu to prevent the enemy from being killed by future enemies.

At the same time, teach the technology of building a prism. If you want to occupy some place in the future, build a prism.

First, we need to build a cement factory, a brick factory, a quarry, and the quarry needs a gunpowder factory.

The brick factory does not need any technical name, it is manpower, and Zhao Yan does not need to be fucked by it in terms of technology, as long as there is someone to do it.

The cement factory and gunpowder factory needed Zhao Yan to teach. There was no cement in this era. The process of gunpowder factories was relatively complicated. Although the gunpowder produced by gunpowder factories in the Ming Dynasty was infinitely close to the peak of black gunpowder, the problem was that Zhao Yan had no talent at his hands and needed him to teach him step by step.

At the same time, the most important thing at present is to train the army and prepare the muskets as soon as possible. After all, longbow soldiers cannot develop in just a few years, and they must use muskets as their main weapon.

In terms of firearms, craftsmen like Zhou Blacksmith, who were born in craftsmen, could build firearms, but the muskets they made did not meet Zhao Yan's requirements, and Zhao Yan even needed to teach them.

Zhao Yan only has 40,000 taels left, and the money in his hand is already a little nervous. Therefore, he has to put money on his desk. The project that can make money in his hand is naturally glass.

Glass can not only make mirrors, but also make many glassware and artworks. There are also telescopes needed for military aspects. The glass craftsman also needs Zhao Yan to teach him step by step, and then let them study it themselves.

As the saying goes, before the troops move, Zhao Yan first builds a glass factory. Now he has enough manpower to control the craftsmen who make glass and prevent them from escaping.

Even if the treatment of glass craftsmen is generous, it is inevitable that some craftsmen will escape.

Because the profits of glass mirrors are crazy, naturally some people are willing to use wealth to poach the enemy, and not many people will resist such temptation.

The Italians were poached by the French, which ended the era when Italy monopolized glass mirrors. This incident happened a few years ago.

Italians have leaked the manufacturing technology of mirrors in recent times.

In order to prevent leakage of manufacturing technology, Zhao Yan planned to build a small fort beside the small fort in Zhaojia Village, and another large fort surrounded the small fort in Zhaojia Village and the small fort specially used for glass production beside it.

This small castle will be a world of reading power, and no outsiders will be close to each other, and no insiders will be released. The glass craftsman will live in it, and the Zhao family will provide them with good food and clothing, but they cannot take a step forward from the small castle, and will also arrange strict guards.

Zhao Yan did not intend to monopolize glass products for too long. The times always need to develop, and these ordinary technologies must be made public. Perhaps in ten years, they can restore freedom.

It seems to be very expensive, but the treatment of the glass factory is crazy. It doesn’t matter to them that they are not allowed to go out for ten years.

Because they can't even eat enough.

Zhao Yan recruited hundreds of young and strong people from the refugees and then began to teach them how to make glass, most of whom were responsible for making glassware and handicrafts.

These all require technology. Italians make lifelike glass products because they have enough time to accumulate and research. Zhao Yan only knows technology, but it is impossible to let him make glass crafts. He only knows some glass cups and glass bowls, and it is a relatively ugly one.

Therefore, they have to study these slowly, and their treatment will be improved through craftsmanship. The lowest apprenticeship is five taels of silver per month. If you have to spend money, ask someone to go out and buy what they need.

The glass mirrors are separated from the glass craftsmen. They only need to hold the finished glass and plaster silver. There is an advantage after separation, that is, the glass-making people don’t know how to make mirrors, and the mirror-making people don’t know how to make glass.

The manufacturing technology of glass in the West is not a secret, but it is a secret in the East.

The caravan also needs to be formed. Only with the caravan can the mirrors and glass products be sold. Zhao Quan is responsible for this and has recruited several experienced shopkeepers.

As the Zhao family's old servant, Zhao Quan now has a heavy burden on his shoulders. He is almost responsible for the overall situation, recruiting refugees and managing the military farm.

Zhao Yan planned to let Zhao Quan be responsible for the business, and to find someone to be responsible for the military farming and recruiting refugees. Therefore, Zhao Quan was observing the abilities of each village chief.

The most active garrison leader is Zhang Buyun. Zhang Buyun could see that if he wanted to enter the core of the Zhao family, he had to rely on his strength to speak, so he was very active in garrison.

But Zhang Buyun is not the strongest capable, and the strongest management ability is a treasury chief named Tang Zhengze. Tang Zhengze was a child born in a peasant family. Because he had no money to study, he worked as a housekeeper in the landlord's house and was very skilled in farming. He handled oxen, farm tools, housing, water conservancy, and farming in an orderly manner.

However, Tang Zhengze does not have the knowledge of Zhang Buyun. Although Zhang Buyun is active, he handles many issues in the military farming process more awkward.

Both of them have their own expertise.

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After the glass factory was completed, a batch of glass mirrors were created. Zhao Quan stopped the caravan and escorted two servants to Jinan City again.

This time, in addition to transporting back the grain left in Jinan City, the main task is to connect with the merchants from the Shandong Gang to give the glass mirror a stable sales channel.

Zhao Yan led his men to start the construction of the National People's Congress, and was so busy that he couldn't get enough time to build the factories.

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Chapter completed!