My life skills in Daming Liver

Su Ze's [Water Conservancy] skill has reached Lv10, but before Su Ze added water conservancy skills to use water energy, there are currently two passive skills:

[Blue Passive - Bind to the Canglong as a loom: build a water-powered mechanical device, water conservancy skills +2. 】

[Purple Passive——Hydraulic Workshop: When constructing hydraulic power facilities, water conservancy skills +3, corresponding engineering skills +3]

Su Ze naturally supported Hu Zongxian's proposal to build water conservancy.

Of course he knew that Hu Zongxian might not have good intentions from An, but Su Ze believed that if Hu Zongxian was given the task of the Zhejiang water conservancy project, then Hu Zongxian would definitely complete it without compromise.

This is enough!

Moreover, the development of agriculture was originally the development task set by Su Ze.

When people marveled at the British Industrial Revolution in the 18th century, few people noticed the agricultural revolution that broke out before the Industrial Revolution in Britain.

The rapid development of British agriculture in the early eighteenth century liberated more people from the land.

The growth of agricultural technology includes a series of scientific and technological developments such as agricultural breeding, planting technology, water conservancy irrigation, pest control and fertilization, and finally made the yield per mu of farmland in the UK much higher than that of European countries.

Only on the premise of satisfying enough to eat first, can a vigorous industrial revolution break out!

Su Ze also understands this truth. In this era, Daming's water conservancy facilities are very old, and floods occur frequently in various places, and production is often reduced due to floods and droughts.

Su Ze took the hydrological map sent by Hu Zongxian and studied it carefully for a while.

In fact, Su Ze is willing to control the water because he still has a trick.

The largest amount of work for water control lies in excavation, but Su Ze possesses a super magic weapon that the Ming court does not have—dynamite.

After the invention of dynamite, the speed at which humans transform nature has been greatly accelerated, which is why the Dynamite Award has become the highest award in the scientific community.

Dynamite is to ergonomics as much as it is to weaponry.

With this, Su Ze can use the construction of water conservancy projects to test the effect of explosives, and at the same time use explosives to save people's resources, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

During the dinner, Su Ze and Hu Zongxian had a great time as the host and guest. After the two talked about the water conservancy projects in Zhejiang, Hu Zongxian and Xu Wei were also taken aback.

Xu Wei was originally from Zhejiang, and naturally knew the geography of Zhejiang's mountains and rivers like the palm of his hand.

Hu Zongxian was fighting against the Japanese in Zhejiang. During this period, he specially made up lessons, and he also prepared lessons on the flood situation in Zhejiang.

But in front of Su Ze's Lv10 [Water Conservancy] skill, both of them are not enough.

When it came to professional knowledge, Su Ze talked eloquently, and the two of them were taken aback.

Then Su Ze took out the hydrological map presented by Hu Zongxian, readjusted his plan, proposed a more time-saving and labor-saving construction plan, and proposed a "step-by-step" plan to gradually solve the Jiangnan Canal and Qiantang River flooding problem.

Hu Zongxian was horrified. He didn't expect Su Ze to be so knowledgeable. His plan was indeed much better than his own, and it saved a lot of time and effort.

It's just that if the repairs are really carried out according to Su Ze's plan, wouldn't it be a failure to delay Su Ze's plan by building water conservancy projects by oneself?

But if it is really done according to Su Ze's method, then the people of Zhejiang will be really blessed.

Hu Zongxian was troubled and uneasy.

Su Ze was very calm. After the banquet, Su Ze immediately said to Hu Zongxian:

"Mr. Hu, since you proposed this plan, it has a beginning and an end. I invite you to preside over the Zhejiang Water Conservancy Project!"

Hu Zongxian was about to resign, but Su Ze shook his hand and said:

"The people in Zhejiang are suffering too much. With Mr. Hu here, they will be able to live a good life!"

Hu Zongxian thought for a while, and finally agreed.

The next day, the appointment of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion came out, and Hu Zongxian took office as the Deputy Governor of the Southeast Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the governor of Zhejiang, and specialized in Zhejiang water conservancy.

Su Ze openly recruited talents who understand water conservancy engineering in Fuzhou, and asked them to go to Zhejiang to assist Hu Zongxian in water control.

Su Ze took Hu Zongxian to meet the military and political officials in Fuzhou again. Hu Zongxian sighed in his heart, he was completely involved.

Huizhou Prefecture.

Zhang Juzheng looked at the bulletin urgently sent by the Nanjing Ministry of War, and his blood pressure rose again:

"Jiujiang was captured by the bandits so soon? Did Zeng Guangtai, the prefect of Jiujiang, surrender to the enemy!?"

After reading the newspaper, Liu Shiyan was also silent.

"Zhang Butang, could it be the false news of the bandit army? Jiujiang City is tall, with the defense of the water wall outside the city, even if Zeng Guangtai doesn't know soldiers, he won't fall so soon?"

Liu Shiyan was still lucky, but Zhang Juzheng was already desperate.

Zhang Juzheng shook his head and said: "The newspaper news of the bandit army is always accurate. Last time, the news about the imperial court's arrest of Tan Lun went faster than the Imperial Court's Jin Yiwei. This kind of military news will be spread soon. It is impossible for the bandit army to be on such a matter lie."

After Liu Shiyan thought about it, he seemed to be right. With the fall of Jiujiang, the waterway of the Yangtze River would soon be congested. Within a few days, the news would spread to Anqing, Nanjing and other places downstream. There was no need to create fake news.

Liu Shiyan felt a great sense of frustration, and he said to Zhang Juzheng: "Butang, since the bandit army has captured Jiujiang, can we still fight the battle in Huizhou Prefecture?"

Zhang Juzheng and Liu Shiyan went out of Huizhou to support Jiangxi, but they were stopped in Jingdezhen by Lin Deyang's new Zhejiang army.

In order to break through Lin Deyang's blockade, Liu Shiyan attacked many times, but was thwarted by Lin Deyang.

And after fighting for so long, Liu Shiyan finally understood that Lin Deyang was simply using him to train soldiers!

Every time Liu Shiyan feinted or a small group broke through, Lin Deyang sent up undertrained recruits, so these battles sometimes had unexpected results.

But once Liu Shiyan used his main force to break through, Lin Deyang would definitely bring his elite to block, and every time Liu Shiyan's troops could be firmly stuck on the edge of Huizhou Mansion.

Liu Shiyan felt insulted, but if he couldn't beat him, he couldn't beat him.

Now that Jiujiang has fallen, Zhang Juzheng's strategy of breaking through to support Jiangxi on the west front can be said to have completely failed. Liu Shiyan looked at Zhang Juzheng and asked him about his next strategic direction.

Zhang Juzheng looked at the map and said, "Go to Anqing!"

Anqing?

Zhang Juzheng said:

"Sincerely, based on your experience in fighting Su thieves, what are the characteristics of Su thieves fighting?"

A few words popped up in Liu Shiyan's mind, "advanced equipment" and "strict military discipline", but what do these have to do with Zhang Juzheng's strategy?

Zhang Juzheng asked himself and answered, "If I want to sum it up, Su Ze's strategy for using troops is the four words 'Fenglin Volcano'."

Liu Shiyan's art of war is very good. He immediately knew that what Zhang Juzheng was talking about was an allusion in "Sun Tzu's Art of War". He said: "It's as fast as the wind, as slow as the forest, invades and loots like fire, doesn't move like a mountain, doesn't know like cloud, moves like thunder."

Zhang Juzheng nodded and said: "The thief Su is ambitious, and he started training troops very early to prepare for rebellion."

"But at that time, the Su thief was training the army in the name of the anti-Japanese regiment. It was impossible to recruit too many people, so Su Ze was best at using elite soldiers."

"The two provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang, Fujian has many mountains but few fields, and Zhejiang is also suffering from wars. Even if Su Song is added, Su Ze can't raise a large army, so although the bandit army is good, the number is not large."

Liu Shiyan nodded again and again. Zhang Juzheng's analysis was correct. The army under Su Ze's command was like this. With a small number of people and good equipment, they were often able to fight several times their own army.

Zhang Juzheng said again: "Fineness is the advantage of Su Ze's army, but it is also a disadvantage."

"When the Soviet bandits launched, they could quickly capture Fujian and Zhejiang with their elite soldiers, but after I stopped them in Zhenjiang, they did not continue to attack Nanjing and Yangzhou. This is because Su Ze had too few elite soldiers, because there were not enough forces to control Nanjing."

Liu Shiyan also nodded, Zhang Juzheng's analysis was fine.

Zhang Juzheng said: "We are the same now. Although the Jingdezhen army on the opposite side is strong and blocked us from going to Jiangxi, but because they are not enough in number, they cannot enter Huizhou Prefecture."

Liu Shiyan nodded again, and he asked, "Butang, what does this have to do with Fenglin Huoshan?"

Zhang Juzheng said: "It does matter, because there are only elites, so Su Ze relies heavily on communication lines in combat."

"The reason why Fujian and Zhejiang were able to take down Fujian and Zhejiang in one fell swoop was because of the coastlines of Fujian and Zhejiang. The Su thieves were originally from the seaside military guards, and they trained sailors in Fuzhou, so they were able to quickly deploy elite soldiers to important cities along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang, thereby quickly Control two provinces."

"The same is true for Suzhou Mansion and Songjiang Mansion. Both of these two mansions are near the sea, and they also have the anti-Japanese corps left behind by Su Ze as a nail."

Zhang Juzheng added: "The same is true for the Jiangxi battle. The Su thieves also relied on the mobility of the ships to attack the cities along Poyang Lake."

"So the thief's style is Fenglinhuo, in fact, the most important thing is the four words 'as fast as the wind'!"

"Jiujiang was breached, and Huguang's grain transportation was cut off. I am more worried that Su Ze will use the mobility of the Yangtze River to harass important cities in the upper and lower reaches, and even threaten Nanjing."

Liu Shiyan broke out in a cold sweat, as expected Zhang Juzheng was thinking too far.

Su Ze is good at shipbuilding, and now controls Jiujiang, an important city on the Yangtze River. If the Ming army does not respond as soon as possible, Su Ze can completely harass the surrounding cities along the Yangtze River waterway.

Wuchang in the middle and upper reaches, Nanjing in the lower reaches, these are all on the Yangtze River route!

Liu Shiyan still hesitated and said: "Zhang Butang, if we go to Anqing, what about Huizhou Prefecture?"

Zhang Juzheng said: "Anqing is also an important town on the Yangtze River. It is in the territory of Nanzhili. If the rebel army really attacks Huizhou Prefecture, we can go south to support at any time."

"As I said just now, Su Ze pays great attention to mobility when using troops. Huizhou Prefecture has many mountains and rivers, and the roads are not easy to walk. He will not choose to attack from here."

"If Uncle Chengyi is still not at ease, just send someone to destroy the road from Huizhou Prefecture to Jiangxi, and then leave some troops to defend, and the rest will follow me to Anqing!"

After Zhang Juzheng analyzed it like this, Liu Shiyan could only nod his head.

According to Zhang Juzheng's instructions, he destroyed roads and burned bridges, and then left a small number of troops to lead the army to Anqing.

Just when Zhang Juzheng led his troops to "transfer" to Anqing.

Songjiang Mansion.

Xu's mansion.

The second son of the Xu family, Xu Kun, the second son of the court elder Xu Jie, is receiving the newly appointed Songjiang prefect Shen Shixing.

"What? Thief Su, oh no, the governor wants to order winter clothes from our Xu family?"

Xu Kun wondered if he drank too much yesterday, or if he hadn't woken up from a dream.

Shen Shixing put down the teacup and said, "Of course, who doesn't know that the Xu family in Songjiang Prefecture is the leader in cotton spinning in Songjiang Prefecture. This time our army will order 20,000 winter clothes. Besides the Xu family, who else can take over?"

Xu Kun was praised by Shen Shixing, with a smug smile on his face.

Although Mr. Xu failed in the exam and is not a good person, he is very talented in business.

After the publication of "Tiangong Kaiwu", Xu Kun broke his wrist, smashed the old spinning machine in his home workshop, and immediately spent huge sums of money to hire talents and manufacture new looms. Although he suffered a small loss for a while, he finally succeeded in making use of Xu's family With great advantages, it seized the technological opportunity and became the leader of Songjiang's textile industry again.

Relying on the reduction of the cost of technological development, Xu Kun made another big profit through the winter clothes business of the Ming Frontier Army.

And this Mr. Xu did not rest on his laurels. After investing capital in spinning and weaving, he opened a winter clothes workshop, recruiting workers to make ready-made clothes.

This is also the way Xu Kun thought of making money after he took over the business of winter clothes from the Ming army.

Naturally, military uniforms cannot be tailor-made, so frontier winter clothes only need to be made in one size fits all.

Xu Kun soon discovered the benefits of making one-size-fits-all clothes.

There is no need for tailor-made, the cutting of fabrics can be carried out at the same time, and the sewing of each part can also be handed over to a special person, using the "streamlined production" mentioned in "Tiangong Kaiwu".

The Xu family's ready-to-wear store also quickly launched its brands in Suzhou and Songjiang.

Xu Kun didn't even bother to farm anymore. He converted a lot of his land into workshops.

Just when everything was thriving, Su Ze's army occupied Songjiang Mansion, and Xu Kun was going to pack up and run away that day.

But he couldn't let go of his huge family business, so Xu Kun hid in Songjiang City, but found that there was no change in the city.

Su Ze didn't liquidate anyone in Songjiang Mansion, nor did he come specifically to trouble the Xu family.

Next, Xu Kun did not resist the two orders issued by Su Ze, rent reduction and interest rate reduction and equalization of corvée. Anyway, he, Xu Kun, did not rely on this little land rent to live on, and just reduced rent and interest rates.

As for the corvee, it would be nice to spend some money to be exempted from the service.

Afterwards, Su Ze's decree prohibiting raising domestic slaves was even supported by Xu Kun!

Because of the domestic slavery in the south of the Yangtze River, the Xu family's workshop often cannot recruit workers.

Xu Kun directly took the lead and burned the deeds of all the slaves of the Xu family. Sure enough, the Xu family's workshop immediately recruited workers.

The prefect of Songjiang also sent Xu Kun a plaque "House of Accumulated Goodness" in recognition of his response to the decree of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

During this period, Xu Kun's father, Xu Jie, wrote many times, asking Xu Kun to deal with Songjiang's family business and immediately go north to the capital.

But Xu Kun didn't want to leave.

He is the second son, and his elder brother Xu Fan has become the servant of the Ministry of Industry by relying on his father's shade. No matter how favored the Xu family is, Xu Kun went to the capital to be just an idle second young master.

Staying in Songjiang Mansion, inspecting workshops and handling properties every day gave Xu Kun a great sense of satisfaction.

How could Xu Kun be willing to give away such a huge property?

And if Su Ze liquidated Xu's family, he would have already liquidated it.

But Xu Kun still didn't expect that Shen Shixing would come to order the army's winter clothes from Xu's family.

A crazy question popped up in Xu Kun's mind:

When the frontier army goes south, when both sides meet each other in the Xu family's winter clothes, whose winter clothes are warmer?