Chapter 245 The ninth day of October in the second year of Chongzhen, the haze.Jeon Wook stood in the attic of Quang Ninh Gate, looking at the blue sky.The current history is no longer the history he is familiar with, yes, this point Quan Xu has been aware of since he saved Mao Wenlong.Yuan Chonghuan's death was actually an accident, which was really not Quan Xu's intention.Faintly, there was crying and noise in the streets.Quanxu's courtyard is located in Caojia Lane of Guangningmen, at least 100 meters away from Guangningmen Street, and at such a distance, the cry can still be heard, obviously, the chaos on the street is not small.The capital of the Ming Dynasty was not the first time that the enemy soldiers were in the city, but this time, the enemy army was still more than 400 miles away, and the Jingshi actually began to have a crowd fleeing.In particular, Zhao Zhao, the general of Pingliao and Shanhaiguan, led the sect to ask for help from Zunhua, and the news of his unfortunate death came, and the imperial court did not hide it, which caused great panic among the people.For ordinary people, the information available is often varied and varied.Even if Jiannu had already Hongshankou, Daankou and Longjingguan, he did not go all the way south, nor did he go west, but he was only attacking Zunhua.No further news has yet to come, and most people still can't understand exactly what it means, and some are willing to leave, and more are people who can't make the decision to flee with their families in a short period of time, waiting for the development of the situation with trepidation."
Master, Miss Helena asks to see you!"
Shen Liangcai smiled bitterly.Quan Xu wanted to be quiet alone, but Hai Nana pestered him and had no choice, as long as he passed it on his behalf."
Let her come!""
Quan Gongzi, I'm here to do a business with you!"
Quan Xu smiled and said, "You don't have the capital, what business do I do with you?"
”"Come with me and have a look!"
Jeon Wook followed Helena to the yard where she lived, only to see a carriage parked in the yard, different from ordinary carriages, this carriage had just been built in a prototype, unpainted, the difference was that it was a four-wheeled carriage.Helena patted the carriage excitedly and smiled, "Haven't you seen it?"
Is this a four-wheeled carriage with a longer, wider body, beautiful?
I designed it myself!
”"You designed it?"
Helena smirked and said, "There are four wheeled carts, which can carry more people and goods, even in our Venice city-state republic, such carriages are rare!"
”"It's rare, aren't you just a city-state of more than a hundred small islands?
What is the use of horse-drawn carriages there?
”In fact, four-wheeled carriages also existed in ancient China, but they could not be flexibly turned, four narrow iron hoops and wooden wheels were mounted on the frame, pulled by three or four oxen, and the steering problem was solved by the strength of four oxen to pull hard.To be exact, it is to solve the steering problem by rutting, the wheels press the road surface very deep two ditches, and the wheels roll in the ditches.Compared to a two-wheeled carriage, a four-wheeled carriage can be made longer, larger, with more stuff, and more stable, but the steering system is more complicated and not very easy to do.In ancient China, except for the Qin Dynasty, other dynasties did not build large-scale galloping roads to the whole country, and four-wheeled carriages have not been promoted.In the ancient Roman era, due to the very developed transportation facilities in Rome, the avenues were flat, and the four-wheeled carriage was very prosperous, but with the decline and demise of ancient Rome, those transportation facilities were abandoned, and the four-wheeled carriage also disappeared, and it was not until the European Renaissance that it reappeared.China has always been very short of horses, horse-drawn carriages are generally a benefit only for the aristocracy, the common people have a donkey cart to sit on, even if the common people have a donkey cart to sit on, the four-wheeled carriage that cannot be turned will have no market in China, as for transportation, you can make do with a wheelbarrow.Looking at Jeon Xu's uncommon appearance, Helena was a little disappointed.Since she came ashore in Tongzhou, she found that Daming did not have a four-wheeled carriage, so she used the wood and craftsmen of Quanxu Mansion to build a four-wheeled carriage.The European-style four-wheeled carriage, said to be four-wheeled, is actually two two-wheeled carriages assembled together, and the steering device is actually not a secret in the Ming Dynasty.Just like two grinding discs, one yin and one yang, there is no lubrication in the middle, and it all depends on the hard grinding of the shaft sleeve, although it can be steered, it is more laborious, and it is not flexible.If the bushing rusts, then the problem is serious.Helena blinked her big eyes: "Quan Gongzi, let's partner to open a carriage factory, I will provide technology, you will contribute capital, and we will divide the account fifty-fifty?"
”"You're so beautiful!""
Thanks for the compliment!"
Helena was very proud."
Then don't think so pretty!"
Quan Xu is so anxious now that he doesn't have the heart to mix these with Helena.Seeing that Jeon Wook was a little sullen, Helena stomped her feet in anger.However, Quan Xu was in a hurry to summon Quan Gan and Chen Ying, and now he thought of a solution to the problem.In the evening, Chen Ying and Quan Gan came to the Dongnuan Pavilion.Quan Xu looked at the two of them: "The matter is urgent, long story short!"
Xuanyingwei secretly recruited some peripheral members and spread the news, saying that the Houjin army had been killed, and everywhere they passed, all the food was robbed, the houses were burned down, and all the women and men were robbed, pay attention, you must not be exposed, as long as the momentum is built, retreat immediately, and don't leave the horse's feet!
”"No problem!"
Quan Gan nodded and said, "Hurry up and do it immediately!"
”"Good!"
Quan Xu looked at Chen Ying and said: "You are recruiting people here, buying food and cloth in the surrounding towns, hiring a large number of people, and the wages can be a little higher, so that their horses and materials can be transported to the Daimyo's Mansion, no, Da Nidian!"
”Da Nidian is the Baiyangdian Lake of later generations, which belongs to the junction of Anzhou, Xin'an and Gaoyang, which is jointly owned, and the area is much larger than that of later generations.Although he has little interest in the development of Baiyangdian, he can attract some people and save them from military disasters under the stimulation of high salaries.As for how much money to spend, Quanxu doesn't have to worry at all, Quan's Bank has more than 600,000 taels of silver in the Bank of Beijing, which can fully bear the upfront expenses."
I'm going to build another family fort in Da Ni Lake, of course, Big Ni Lake doesn't have such a big island, I heard that the largest island there is three or four hundred acres, you can build a family fort according to a small island!"
Chen Ying frowned: "Master Quan, the weather is so cold now, and the construction is not convenient, why don't you wait until the beginning of spring next year?"
”"Note that the recruitment is not placed in Jingshi, but in the surrounding areas, such as Liangxiang and Gu'an!"
Liangxiang and Gu'an were slaughtered by Huang Taiji and others, and there were almost no survivors.Rumors and Jeon Wook's recruitment, let's go as much as you can.Of course, Quanxu is not a loss.Baiyangdian Houjin is not entered, even if you enter Quanxu, you are not afraid, although Baiyangdian will freeze in winter, but the dense reeds, as long as Houjin dares to lead the army to attack, a fire can burn over.Not to mention.With Quan's order, the people who remembered the name of the firm began to move.In a village in Liangxiang, several young men came to the entrance of the village, holding a horn rolled into iron sheets, and shouted: "Recruitment of workers, our construction site is going to recruit 100 pulp and 100 brick movers, three meals a day, dry, two dishes and one soup, fat meat to eat at night, wages are paid once a day, 30 yuan a day, who is interested?"
”A man in his thirties timidly asked, "Not lying?"
”"We can sign the deed, if you don't give money, you can go to the yamen to sue us!""
By the way, recruit thirty servants, responsible for washing, washing and mending, three meals a day, twenty-five yuan a day!"
In the cold winter of October, there was nothing to do at home, and many people expressed great interest.Chen Ying asked the yamen for five hundred taels of silver to buy an uninhabited island.As the first recruits began to arrive and the construction site began, the first thing to do was to build a flood control levee, which was a big project.Anyway, when he met Quan Xu, who was stupid and had little money, hundreds of craftsmen began to work.Materials, tools, stones, and food are in place one after another.Shacks where workers lived temporarily began to be erected.The craftsmen soon discovered a strange phenomenon, some workers brought a few of their own henchmen, that is, children of a few years old, with them to eat.The man in charge of distributing the food also pretended not to see it, and when the child came to eat, he would also give the food, and the meal would be enough.The cunning of the peasants was brought into full play here, and many workers also sent letters to bring their children and wives over to eat.These men are like blind men, who have been pretending not to see, and thousands of workers are eating, and a third of them are children and women.The steward told Jeon Wook about this problem.Quan Xu smiled: "They can only eat a few dollars, let them eat casually!"
”In fact, the child used to eat and was also Quanxu's childcare, the purpose was to attract everyone to the past, and now I can't see it, as long as two or three months later, after the surrounding area of Jingshi has been ravaged by Houjin, these people will be grateful to Quanxu.Whether it is food or cloth, including all kinds of materials, these purchased grains and cloths are like business inputs, and they will become the irons of Quanxu in the future.After all, the common people are unpretentious.At this time, Baiyangdian Lake was like a huge whirlpool, devouring the manpower and materials of the surrounding towns in Beijing.On 13 October, there were more than 2,000 people on the construction site, and in fact, more than 3,000 people participated in the transportation along the way.It's not that no one noticed Quan Xu's movements, but it just felt that Quan Xu was simply crazy.Some people also wondered, could it be that the head of the shopkeeper of Quan Ji was caught by the door?
On October 14, the city of Zunhua fell, and the governor Wang Yuanya died.When the news reached Beijing, the capital was suddenly in chaos, and the officials and people fled one after another, but the imperial court ordered that only men were allowed to go out of the city and not to bring their families.