After the autumn harvest, we must concentrate our efforts on digging canals, repairing water cellars, reservoirs, and digging water wells.

In short, during the Little Ice River period, we cannot rely on the weather for our living. We must manage small river basins and store the water source flowing from the Yanshan Mountains.

The north is most likely to encounter drought. As long as you can store water, invest financial resources, and work hard to drill wells, you can ensure grain production.

There is no shortage of groundwater, no shortage of coal, no shortage of limestone, slag, mass production of cement, and doing everything possible to build water conservancy facilities is the top priority.

In the later years, the total amount of irrigated land in several counties in northern Zhangjiakou was as high as one million mu of mu, and the agriculture and animal husbandry were developed.

Huang Yi didn't expect to get so much water irrigation land, so he could only choose a basin with good conditions. He tried to spend one or two years to cultivate 100,000 mu, which was one tenth of that of later generations.

The yield per mu in this year is incomparable to later generations. The irrigated land in the north that can be regarded as fertile fields is only ripe. If you can harvest more than 200 kilograms of wheat, it is a bumper harvest.

Fortunately, the sweet potatoes, potato seedlings and seeds purchased from Xu Guangqi’s Tianjin Experimental Field play a role, and the yield per mu can reach 800 to 900 kilograms.

Dry the sweet potatoes and process the potatoes into full potato powder with high nutritional value, potato starch, and make sweet potatoes and potatoes into vermicelli and vermicelli, which can be preserved for a long time.

Huang Yi knows how to process fans and vermicelli.

The working people in the base area are not lacking in wisdom and are willing to put in their efforts. They work for five or six hours a day without complaints.

Instruct them to process vermicelli and vermicelli, teach them to use sweet potatoes and potatoes to make wine, so that the benefits of growing sweet potatoes and potatoes are higher than those of growing wheat, millet and sorghum. Relatively high-yield crops can be promoted.

Anyway, the fields in the base area must be rotated. In the future, the planting area of ​​high-yield potatoes and sweet potatoes accounts for one-fifth of the total fields. Crude is planted in mountains and corners.

With these relatively higher yields, more than 200,000 mu of farmland can feed more than 100,000 people.

There will be refugees from the Xuanda organization and Liao people will arrive every once in a while. In addition to the more than 1,000 rescued Han people brought back by Huang Yi himself, by the end of this year, the total population of the base area should be more than 30,000.

Even if it doubles next year, it will only be 60,000 to 70,000.

The grain produced by the base area can not only meet the needs of filling your stomach, but also accumulate tens of thousands of stones of surplus grain.

With surplus grain, we can accept more refugees, Liao people, and refugees, and we can reclaim more fields, dig out more coal, iron ore, and mine more stones...

The base area naturally entered a virtuous cycle. With more population, hunger was eliminated, physical fitness improved, more military resources were added, and the army was more combat-capable.

With the base area being supported by ever-increasing force, the territory is of course getting bigger and bigger, and there will definitely be more and more land available for cultivation!

This is the benefit of being based on a vast mouth.

The later period of the feudal dynasty was accompanied by polarization and serious land annexation.

How easy is land reform?

The Han people regarded land as their lifeline, no matter how rich or poor they were.

If you want to overthrow the feudal landlords and divide the land in the Ming Dynasty, you can only think about it in your dream.

The outside of the mouth is completely different. Huang Yi's strength is growing, and this year he can enclose the land within one or two hundred miles of the area.

If you like someone, you can cultivate wherever you want. There is no need to look at people's faces or pay taxes to anyone.

Next, Huang Yi is definitely not satisfied with not having to pay taxes. He wants to set up a tax-collecting government, and tax collection will be collected from the civilians and for military use!

The best treatment in the base area is the soldiers.

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It takes a lot of money and food to maintain a strong army.

It certainly won’t work without tax support!

Whether the future can develop healthily depends on whether the foundation is solid, so a solid city is needed.

Now that all single walls on all sides of the city have been repaired, the defense is much stronger than the Muzhai Wall that cannot withstand the fire attack.

The Nancheng Gate Tower is under construction and can be completed before frost comes.

Huang Yi did not build an official office or a mansion, but still lived and worked in the North City Gate Building.

After the Nancheng Gate Tower is built, it can add two or three thousand square meters of office buildings. Without paying attention to the show, the place is barely enough.

Houses and collective dormitories are under construction in full swing. Based on the basic principle of hard work, the house cannot be spacious, but it must be kept warm.

It is necessary to ensure that no one lives in the house, tents, and yurts after winter.

The auditorium that can accommodate 700 or 800 people to hold meetings, study and watch performances is basically completed. The grain warehouse has completed five silos, and five are under construction. There is no pressure to store 50,000 stones of grain during the autumn harvest.

After the spring is started, silos must be built. The base area must implement grain reserves, and the grain storage must be maintained at least one year in the future.

The monthly output of Lumi gun and bird gun has increased to more than 70 last month. Qi Dashan and Lan Jinkui stated that this month's output will definitely exceed 100 shots, and it will reach a monthly output of 120 shots by the end of the year.

The flintlock rifle was called a self-produced gun during this period. The base has been developing and trial-producing, and the person in charge is Qi Xiaoshan.

However, the ignition rate of the test samples is too low, and it cannot be achieved even in 50% of the time, so it cannot be mass-produced and put into the army.

Find out the problem and make continuous improvements in progress. Huang Yi’s requirement is that the rate of inflammatory disease shall not be less than 80%.

Qi Xiaoshan has been able to write five or six hundred words, can understand the drawings drawn by Huang Yi, and is also learning to draw.

He often fired flintlock rifles with Wang Baishan, Zhang Shi, Zhao Yong, Li Wanquan and others, and continued to shoot a certain part after being scrapped and replaced with improved ones until the barrel was scrapped.

He, Zhao Yong, Wang Baishan and others all think that flintlock guns are more convenient and practical than colloid guns, and are looking for the disadvantages of having a fire rate of less than half, hoping to make products with a fire rate of more than 80% as soon as possible.

They all saw and tried the unique Minnie gun and were amazed at the ignition wheel.

Of course, Qi Xiaoshan, Lan Jinkui and others hope to imitate this kind of fire-firing device.

Not only blacksmiths, carpenters gathered their ideas, but also jewelers who could process jade also participated. Unfortunately, they only made a good example, and only once or twice could shoot Mars.

This fire rate is lower than that of the flint-locking flint-strike fire device, so I gave up.

Under Huang Yi's personal guidance, two pairs of molds for casting cannons have been completed, namely three-pound runners and six-pound cannons.

The reason why they didn't start casting cannons was because Liu Han, Qi Dashan and others were unsure, and everyone was waiting for Huang Yi to come back and make a final decision.

After Huang Yi checked the mold he designed and reusable according to the information on his mobile phone, he found no obvious errors.

This mold is composed of eighteen steel modules, with the inner wall quartz sand. After using it once, continue to quartz sand before the second use.

He asked Liu Han, Lan Jinkui and others to boldly try to use hollow models, introduce cooling water into it, and solidify the iron cannon barrel from the inside to the outside. Don't worry about failure. If it doesn't work once, it will be twice, three times...
Chapter completed!