Great Ming National Teacher

Chapter 18

With the warmth of spring and the blossoming of flowers, Li Yunya recruited craftsmen and began to build according to the blueprint agreed last year.

First of all, at the northwest corner of the military academy, a deep water well was drilled. Li Yunya asked the craftsmen to make two large pulley blocks out of cast iron, and a large iron pillar of five thousand catties was hoisted with steel wire ropes. Twenty men drove the cattle to drag it. He kept lifting and lowering it, digging through the ground vigorously, until it hit the underground water layer.

After the well is opened, cement pipes are placed downwards, and then a nine-story tower is built on the spot. The upper three floors are connected together to form a huge pool with cement. The well pipes directly lead to the top floor. The water is drawn up by manpower, fills the pool, and then is led to various places through water pipes to be used as tap water.

Last winter, the craftsmen of the cement factory and steel factory improved the ratio of cement and the quality of steelmaking, and built several ash kilns and iron furnaces, increasing the output dozens of times and improving the quality. Well, throughout the winter, Li Yunya made them work day and night, saving up piles of cement and steel bars.

With these two magic weapons, it is absolutely not a problem to build a small building with several floors. The craftsmen first use thick steel bars to build the skeleton, then use thin steel bars to interweave the network, and finally fill it with red bricks and pour in cement. The building speed is very fast. The quality is good, and the ten-foot-high building is pulled up from the ground. Even the craftsmen themselves are amazed at the speed and results of this construction.

A new dormitory building will be built on the west side of the camp, with 1000 rooms on each floor and one building on five floors. The current 2000 people only need one building to fit in. There is a small square flowing out of the front of the dormitory building. Build a bigger restaurant, still with three floors, but with a much larger area than before. After it is fully opened, it can accommodate [-] people dining at the same time.

Li Yunya also invited the garden master from the Ministry of Industry to build a Fengyuan Palace on the high hill. It is actually a big courtyard with only one courtyard. For receiving guests, the upper two floors are where Li Yunya lives, and they are also connected to running water. There are ceramic toilets in the bathroom, and the sewer leads to the biogas digester in the southwest corner.

There are high walls, glazed tiles and cinnabar walls on the outside of Fengyuan Palace, and fruit trees are planted around it. Outside the front door, 33 steps were built with white marble. He was named Fengyuan Zhenjun by the emperor. Override.

Below the steps is the school grounds. Li Yunya ordered people to level the high places and raise the low places with compound soil, and then build a city wall around the outermost part of the camp to enclose the whole camp. He recruited craftsmen who were good at building cities and some veterans The city walls in all parts of the country were modeled in order to be built. For example, the city walls in the northeast were modeled after the ones in Liaodong, and the southeast corners were modeled after those in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It looks nondescript, but Li Yunya's purpose of doing this is to let the soldiers practice siege and defense here in the future, regardless of whether it is beautiful or not.

Ten miles to the west of the military academy, Li Yunya planned an industrial park, the most important of which was the steelmaking plant, which was divided into the largest area and built the most workshops, followed by a cement plant, a coal plant, a red brick plant, a ceramics plant, Armament factories, paper mills, printing factories, etc., some have been able to produce stably, and some are just small workshops. Li Yunya planned in advance, built factories and warehouses, separated by brick walls, and appointed factory directors, accountants, Cashiers, etc., set tasks for craftsmen to complete as soon as possible.

Both military training and scientific research and development are extremely expensive. Although Li Yunya has dug 240 million taels of silver from Wei Gonggong successively, but it is spent like running water. Sooner or later, there will be a day when Zhu Youjian finds Wei Gonggong If he is killed, he will have no place to ask for money. When those famous scholar-bureaucrats and bureaucrats come to power, not only will they not give themselves money, but they will also have to jump high and swear against him. Li Yunya can imagine that the impeachment attack requests legal execution of his memorial. You have to pile up a hill in front of Zhu Youjian.

In order to find a way to make money, Li Yunya set up a soap factory and a toothpaste factory. According to his little chemistry knowledge in junior high school, he knew that soap is made of caustic soda and fat, and there are ready-made soaps in his space. Come to the relevant craftsmen, tell them the ideas and principles of the big problem, and then spend money to let them study.

After the completion of the military academy, Li Yunya went to the Beijing camp again for dignitaries. This time, he picked more than 4000 people and brought them back. They were mixed with the original 1000 people, and every ten companies were formed into a regiment, a total of five regiments, one veteran with four Get a new recruit and let them train with the old and the new.

There were more than 200 people left over, and Li Yunya picked them out. They were not suitable for serving as soldiers. They were old-fashioned and serious. They were sent to various factories as factory managers. To contact sharecroppers everywhere.

Eunuch Wei gave [-] mu of land, and Li Yunya recruited all the tenants and re-drafted the contract. It turns out that Eunuch Wei is a landlord, so naturally he does not need to pay taxes to the court, but now Li Yunya still does not need to pay taxes.

Li Yunya broke up the land and redistributed it according to the population. This caused dissatisfaction among many tenants, especially those big renters, who were usually related to the manager of Wei Zhongxian's family. Li Yunya's land, Li Yunya would rather leave the land idle, anyway, he doesn't have to pay taxes, and when he finds out that Li Yunya only charges one-third of the land rent per mu, these people will regret their intestines, and change to other landlords. Half of the land rent is common, and some people charge [-] to [-] percent, but they don't charge one-third.

Li Yunya opened up a few acres of land behind his Fengyuan Palace, and hired special farmers to plant the things he specially designated.

Among the many parcels that Li Yunya brought over, three of them contained seeds, one vanilla flower seed, and two special vegetable seeds.There are three kinds of corn seeds in it, which are strawberry corn, pineapple corn, and multicolored corn. There are detailed instructions, saying that these are fruit corns, which can be eaten directly after they grow, and taste very good.

Best of all, these are not cross-breeding, but heirloom seeds that can be kept for future generations, which means they produce seeds that can be replanted next year!

In addition to corn, there are red-skinned potatoes, fruity sweet potatoes, purple-skinned peanuts, cherry tomatoes, giant strawberries, thumb watermelons, white jade melons, ice vegetables from Africa, okra from the West, strange-shaped snake melons, chopped Melon, the rare green tower cauliflower, pearl zucchini and so on, etc., as a rural person, Li Yunya had never heard of any of them in the past.

He classified these seeds separately, took two farmers, and planted these seeds one by one according to the solar terms. Although there were many types, there was only a small bag of each, dozens of seeds were more, and only five seeds were less. A few acres of land is enough to plant.

While he was busy with these things, Zhu Youjian was not idle. In April, he finally made a move on Wei Zhongxian, pulled out the eunuchs from the court one by one, and removed Wei Zhongxian's East Factory The position of admiral, at this time, he has established a firm foothold, Wei Zhongxian has nothing to do with him, he can only sue his old man and return to his hometown, halfway on the way, Zhu Youjian sent someone to arrest him, Wei Zhongxian knew that the end was approaching, so he drank for half a night Afterwards, hanged himself.

After Wei Zhongxian's death, all the resentment that Zhu Youjian had suppressed for a long time by the old eunuch burst out, ordered his body to be slaughtered, and Ke Shi was arrested, beaten to death with sticks, and all Wei Zhongxian's ancestral halls in the world were demolished. party.

In the past few years, Wei Zhongxian covered the sky with one hand, and those who have been able to hang out in the court to this day are more or less related to Wei Gonggong. Even Yuan Chonghuan taught him new words. For a while, everyone felt insecure and wrote articles cursing Wei Zhongxian, I want to separate myself from him.

But the relationship of some people is unclear. For example, Wei Zhongxian's most important counselors and minions at that time were called five tigers, five biaos, ten dogs, ten children, forty grandsons, etc. Seeing that disaster was imminent, They all looked for ways to survive.

Cui Chengxiu was the first to find the Southern Suburb Military Academy. When he saw Li Yunya, he knelt down with a plop, expressing his willingness to offer 200 million taels of silver to beg Li Yunya to save his life. Afterwards, only 240 million taels were obtained from Wei Zhongxian, and Cui Chengxiu gave 200 million taels at the opening.

Li Yunya showed a greedy look, and proposed that the money was too little, and he had to take 500 million taels.

Cui Chengxiu begged bitterly, and finally set a price of 310 to 500 taels. Li Yunya gave up when he saw that he could not get any more money out. After Cui Chengxiu returned to the mansion, he immediately sent someone to bring the silver over, and ten carriages were transported back and forth. After many trips, Li Yunya wrote a letter to Zhu Youjian with his own hand after receiving the money. The letter paper was pink scented couple's letter paper, and the pen he used was a signature pen. He was the only one with this thing in the world. Yes, without marking, Zhu Youjian knew it was written by him.

After the letter was written, Li Yunya called his guard captain Li Xiaohai to send it to the palace, and it was in Zhu Youjian's hands that day, with the words "I received 300 million taels of silver from Cui Chengxiu", just such a simple sentence.

After Zhu Youjian saw it, he was furious: "Sure enough, all the eunuchs are moths of the country, and even Cui Chengxiu can get 300 million taels!" I almost gritted my teeth in anger.

The next day, all the memorials for the impeachment of Cui Chengxiu were kept unpublished, and those who impeached other eunuch members were approved by Zhu Youjian.

On the third day, Zhu Youjian decreed that Cui Chengxiu was removed from his post as Minister of the Ministry of War and allowed him to retire and return home.

The people in the eunuch party suddenly became excited. Even Cui Chengxiu, Wei Zhongxian's hard-core confidant, could be pardoned, and he would not be executed without ransacking his home. He was just dismissed. The demons in the southern suburbs really have some strength, and now for them, saving their lives is the number one priority. one!So they begged Li Yunya one after another.

Li Yunya does not reject anyone who comes, but the asking price is quite high. The five tigers and the five bullies all have to be more than 300 million taels, but they are also tigers and tigers. They have different positions with Wei Zhongxian, and most of their family backgrounds are not as good as Cui Chengxiu. Wealthy, Li Yunya slashes, collects money one by one and receives soft hands. If you don’t have money, you can give it to land. If you don’t have land, you can give it to real estate. If you don’t have real estate, you can also give it to antique calligraphy and painting... Anyway, if he doesn't want it, it will fall into the hands of those corrupt officials in the future.

In the end, he received a total of more than 2000 million taels of silver from the eunuchs! More than 100 million acres of land, more than 30 manors, piles of various jade calligraphy and paintings, and other messy things, he took more than a dozen famous horses alone!

Every time he received money from someone, Li Yunya wrote a letter to Zhu Youjian. Zhu Youjian checked the amount of money and decided the crime. Some ransacked their homes and some did not. life.