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Zhao Han picked up the few pages of the manuscript, but it was about planting rice, and there were many farm tools with pictures and texts.

After a rough reading, Zhao Han commented: "It's ridiculous. There are early rice and late rice in rice cultivation. You only recorded early rice. For late rice, you can use Panjaponica to sow. Your data collection is not complete."

"Ok?"

Song Yingxing used to look generous, but it wasn't until he found his manuscripts and materials that he became a little scared, for fear that the rebels would burn his manuscripts.

Unexpectedly, the rebels actually discussed rice planting techniques with him. Song Yingxing frowned and said, "Is there really a way to grow late rice?"

"Where are you from?" Zhao Han asked.

Song Yingxing replied, "Fengxin County, Nanchang Prefecture."

"As far as I know, farmers in northeastern Jiangxi have already planted late rice, and southern Jiangxi has also begun to plant late rice." Zhao Han said clearly, but the information actually came from the grain merchant.

Regardless of the other party's status as a traitor, Song Yingxing asked curiously, "Can you grow late rice with only Japonica rice?"

"No," Zhao Han corrected, "I asked people to try planting late rice in Luling County, but the harvest was not very good. After careful calculation, it should be due to insufficient heat. Crops can grow well without water and heat. If you go to the south, the heat will be stronger throughout the year, and I heard that in some places in Guangdong, rice can be grown two to three times a year."

"Two to three seasons?" Song Yingxing was shocked.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "For many things, we should not only know what is happening, but also why. For example, if you want to harvest a few more seasons of this kind of rice, you must be in the south. It can be seen that the reason is the heat of the sun."

Song Yingxing said: "If there is a chance, I will go to Guangdong to see."

Zhao Han squatted down and continued to rummage, and finally found the materials for making weapons.There are bows, arrows, gunpowder, guns, etc., but unfortunately no trebuchet was found.

"Why is there no catapult?" Zhao Han asked.

Song Yingxing replied: "I haven't seen it before. It is the warship of the Daming Navy. They either use artillery or crossbows. Who knows how to use catapults?"

Well, Catapults are out.

It was almost time for dinner, so Zhao Han dragged Song Yingxing to dinner, so that he could keep an eye on the materials in the box.

Song Yingxing followed in a daze, all he could think about was the wooden box.Even if Zhao Han lets him go, this guy won't leave. Inside the box is his painstaking efforts collected for 20 years.

There is wine and meat.

Today the whole army has meat to eat. After all, they have marched hard for many days, and they need to replenish their bodies.

There is no need to rob, take the money from the county magistrate, and run to the butchers in the city to buy it. The butchers dare not not sell it.

"Bring the wine, I want to entertain Mr. Song." Zhao Han shouted.

Mr. Song didn't speak, just sat down and looked at Zhao Han, wanting to get back his manuscript and materials.

Zhao Han smiled and said, "Mr. Song is eating."

Song Yingxing said: "I have a long-term follower, and I lost it when I was running for my life."

Zhao Han immediately ordered his subordinates: "Put up notices throughout the city, saying that Mr. Song is my guest, and ask Mr. Song's entourage to come to the county government immediately."

"This... this cannot be done." Song Yingxing stood up in shock. Once the notice was posted, wouldn't it be that he had been a thief?

"Make it, make it." Zhao Han laughed.

Song Yingxing had no choice but to sit down angrily.

Soon, the good wine hidden by the county magistrate was brought to the dinner table.

Zhao Han poured wine for Song Yingxing himself, and asked, "Do you know the principle of leverage?"

Song Yingxing didn't accept the wine glass handed by Zhao Han, but picked up chopsticks to eat. He was really hungry, chewing his food and said, "I haven't heard of it."

Zhao Han turned a wine glass upside down, put his fingers on the table as a fulcrum, and lifted the wine glass with chopsticks: "This is the principle of leverage. From my finger to the wine glass, the distance from the chopsticks is the resistance arm. From my finger to the hair The point of force is the power arm."

Song Yingxing immediately said with contempt: "It's very messy, this is the principle of specimens!"

"Specimen?" Zhao Han didn't understand.

Song Yingxing pointed casually: "The front part is the book, and the back part is the standard."

Well, from Mozi’s time, the resistance arm of the lever is called “Ben” and the power arm of the lever is called “Biao”.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "Mr. Song, I have a discovery. The strength I use multiplied by the length of the mark is equal to the length of the weight multiplied by the body. I named it the principle of leverage."

Song Yingxing was immediately attracted by these words, and wanted to go home immediately to verify.

He has already thought about the content of the verification test, and he can just use a large scale.

In fact, "Mozi" has revealed the principle of leverage and also explained the problem of proportion, but the description is very rough and no clear formula has been formed.

The two stopped talking, and each buried their heads in eating.

Filling his stomach, Zhao Han didn't move around, but asked someone to carry the box.

Zhao Han carefully flipped through the manuscripts, suddenly laughed, and read an article aloud: "Governance is extreme thinking about chaos, chaos is extreme thinking about governance, the number of multiplication and division in this world is also... The invasion of the Northwest, the spread of the Central Plains, only the city walls remain, and Villages, towns and cities are burnt to ashes, I don’t know how many. Living people die by bandits today, and soldiers tomorrow... At a time when political chaos is desperate for governance, things in the world can still be done, so don’t be discouraged by the number of multiplication and division. "

Song Yingxing sat on the bench, turned around and looked at the scenery outside the house, wondering what was going on in his mind.

Zhao Han smiled happily: "Mr. Song, your article seems to be self-inspiring and you want to save the country. But except for the last sentence, the whole article is about changing the dynasty."

"Nonsense," Song Yingxing firmly denied, "In this troubled time, it is time for the scholars of my generation to rise up."

Zhao Han nodded and said: "Scholars should rise up, and I am also a scholar, so I stand up and work hard, with the intention of rebuilding the world!"

"You are rebelling!"

Song Yingxing suddenly came to his senses and asked, "Who the hell are you?"

"Luling Zhao Yan, have you heard of it?" Zhao Han asked with a smile.

Song Yingxing was startled and said: "You are that thief Zhao, why did you come to Fenyi?"

Zhao Han didn't answer, but continued to read Song Yingxing's manuscript, and laughed even happier when he saw "The Discussion of Mincai".

Song Yingxing's "Min Cai Yi", the main content is——

Daming has been reduced to this point, but it is just the words "the people are exhausted".

Wealth does not only refer to silver, but all department stores in the world are wealth.There is a lot of wealth in Ming Dynasty, but it is only gathered in the hands of a few people.The people were so exploited that they couldn't survive, so the court couldn't collect taxes.The more distressed the finances, the more they must be expropriated, leading to a vicious circle.Not only that, but the thieves and bandits in the world couldn't survive, so they rebelled one after another.

Song Yingxing directly used the word "exploitation" in the article.

There are also articles such as "Tuntian Discussion", "Reminders Discussion", "Military Salary Discussion", "Military Training Discussion" and other articles, all pointing directly to the core problems of the court, but they did not give correct countermeasures.

In other words, it is impossible to give countermeasures, because Daming's roots are already rotten.

Zhao Han commented: "They are all good articles, sir is a great talent, it's a pity that Emperor Chongzhen can't use them."

"It's because I didn't pass the Jinshi exam, otherwise I will do something." Song Yingxing actually knew it in his heart, but he had to be tough in front of the rebels.

Zhao Han asked: "How do you compare with Mr. Li Mengan?"

Song Yingxing thought for a while and said, "Mr. Meng An, I am a talent for managing the world and benefiting the country."

Zhao Han said with a smile, "This talented man who helped the country was demoted by the emperor and returned to his hometown, and now he is working for me."

"You will force him with your wealth and life!" Song Yingxing sneered.

Zhao Han shook his head and said: "From the beginning to the end, I have never forced Mr. Meng An. When he took refuge in me, none of his tribe was under my rule. He took the initiative to serve me after watching me govern. If you talk too much, you I won’t believe it either, follow me back in a few days and have a look.”

After reading Song Yingxing's article, Zhao Han didn't want to talk about any more reasons, because the other party understood all these reasons.

Between the lines, what Zhao Han read was only despair, even the taste of broken jars.

Song Yingxing was arranged to live in the county government office, and his servants came to meet him soon.

"How is the city?" Song Yingxing asked.

The house slave replied: "These rebels are very good. They did not kill or set fire, but maintained law and order. Inside and outside the county, it is better than before. Those who committed crimes were scared and hid."

Song Yingxing was stunned and suddenly didn't know what to say.

He is very clear about the current situation of Ming Dynasty, and the "World Games" was written very strangely.The whole article is implicitly expressing the view of the end of the dynasty. At the end, there is a sudden sentence, saying that although it is in troubled times, scholars should not be depressed and should cheer up to save the situation.

It's just self-deception.

What can Song Yingxing do?

Although he came from a wealthy family, even the money for his elder brother to buy an official position was obtained through patchwork.And his elder brother, who only served as the county magistrate for two years, brought back a lot of money to the family.

Song Yingxing was able to go to Fenyi County to teach, and the official money he paid for this also included the money embezzled by his brother!

He was in the middle of the game, he could see clearly, and he couldn't do anything.

Alas, let's not talk about political affairs, let's indulge in side paths.

The next morning, Song Yingxing took the initiative to visit Zhao Han, wanting to get a steelyard to verify the principle of leverage.

The guard guarding the county government said: "Mr. Song will stay for a few days, the general town is not in the county government right now."

Song Yingxing asked in surprise: "He sent troops to Yuanzhou Mansion?"

Chapter 146 [Night Detour]

There is no military plan, it is set in stone!

After arriving in Fenyi County, Zhao Han obtained more detailed information.

The core elite of Zhifu Tian Younian comes from the official kiln craftsmen of Binjiang Town.Now that the Chinese New Year is about to come, the soldiers must go home, and they can get twice the result with half the effort if they go straight there.

When Zhu Yuanzhang built Nanjing City, the inner layer of bricks was white, all produced in Binjiang Town.

This kind of white city bricks are all fired from kaolin, also known as "white mud bricks" and "white tiles", which are stronger than ordinary blue city bricks.Yuan Zhou, who supervised the manufacture of this brick, judged Sui Yun, and was greatly appreciated by Zhu Yuanzhang. He was promoted from the sixth rank to the inspector of the third rank.

There is an official kiln in Binjiang Town, which was messed up by the officials. A few years ago, the kiln workers made trouble, and the prefect Tian Younian personally recruited and settled it.

He recruited five hundred kiln workers as soldiers, wiped out the bandits in Wugong Mountain, and went to wipe out the rebels in Pingxiang County.Hearing that there were giant bandits in Luling County in the south, he immediately expanded the army of the township warriors, and now there are [-] troops.

Those five hundred kiln workers are elite soldiers who have been trained for two years!

On the night of seeing Song Yingxing, Zhao Han led the troops to set off and handed over the task of defending the city to Fei Ruhe.

Due to the excessive movement of the conscripted ships, Zhao Han led his troops across the Wannian Bridge and marched along the south bank of the Yuan River at night.After rushing forty miles overnight, they arrived at Binjiang Town in the early morning and launched an attack without rest.

The residents of the town didn't even react, and they saw three thousand soldiers passing through the town, rushing towards the kiln workers' settlement west of the town.

"Surrender without killing!"

Every ten people formed a small team, scattered and rushed into various houses, and then escorted the kiln worker's family out.

……

Xiong Yaozu's ancestors have been kiln workers for generations, and their household registration belongs to the craftsman's registration.The official kilns have long since failed, and they all work for private kilns for a living. Although life is hard, they can still live on.

Just five years ago, the prefect at that time had a sudden convulsion and said that he wanted to build an additional circle of the prefecture.

The kiln-burning households like Xiong Yao were conscripted to serve, and they brought their own dry food to the government to burn city bricks.

According to the rules, although servants do not receive wages, the government must distribute rations.The rations were also deducted by the officials, and the kiln workers couldn't survive, so they simply killed the officials (kiln supervisors) and rebelled.

After going on like this for half a year, the magistrate was promoted with money, and the new magistrate Tian Younian took office.

For Tian Zhifu, Xiong Yao admired him very much, he dared to come to surrender alone, and in the end he only killed two leading rebels.

Xiong Yao was recruited by the magistrate as a villager, and he was paid two buckets of food every month.Moreover, he exercises every five days. He is very close to Fucheng. Taking into account the round-trip time, he can work on his own for three days to make money.

The prefect of Tian is very good at training soldiers. He said that the monthly salary is two dollars, and he has never deducted it.Going to Pingxiang County to suppress bandits, there is still money to be paid, Xiong Yao even hopes to fight every day.

This year's life is much easier, and the family has bought new year's goods.

On the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Xiong Yao has been exhausted for a year and wants to sleep in this year.

Suddenly, he heard a noise coming from outside, and before he could put on his clothes, a group of soldiers rushed in.

"Surrender without killing!"

His wife, children, and children were all arrested. Xiong Yao just put on his pants, and he didn't dare to resist at all, fearing for the lives of the whole family.

Taken to the open space outside to gather, Xiong Yao found that many people had been arrested, women, children and old people stood together, while young and strong were asked to stand on the other side.

what's the situation?

No one knows what's going on, they're all waiting for the Chinese New Year, it's just so confused.

"Soldiers stand up, don't force me to interrogate!"

Xiong Yao looked left and right, saw that everyone was hesitating, and then looked at his wife and children, who were being pointed at with a spear.

In desperation, someone stood up, and Xiong Yao followed suit.

Zhao Han said, "Count the number of people."

The flag commander quickly counted and quickly reported: "General town, a total of 436 people!"