The outside is heavily guarded, with forts, forts, and arrow towers. There are unique scenery in the Lijia City village, which is as solid as a sacred place. The pavilions, towers, corridors and corridors are winding and secluded. The garden cleverly combines the characteristics of the north and the south, which is both grand and spectacular in the north and beauty of the south. It can be said that this is a garden built by Li Sancai when he was alive.

It is said that this garden consumed 300 taels of silver, while the annual fiscal revenue of the Chongzhen Dynasty was less than 4 million taels of silver. Not to mention Li Sancai, who served as the governor of the grain transport for 20 years, even Chen Yan, who had only served as the Minister of Revenue for three years and the chief minister of the cabinet for several months, had a family property that exceeded the annual fiscal revenue of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

When Li Sancai was alive, as the leader of the Donglin Party, he continued to fight with Wanli, who was dispatched to monitor the mining and taxation supervision. He once submitted more than a hundred memorials to condemn Wanli for collecting labor tax, mining and commercial taxes. The merchants and private merchants behind the court bosses were responding to the whole time.

"Your Majesty cannot compete with the people for profit!" This is a common sentence in which Li Sancai's righteous words and righteousness and Wanli argues with reason. The so-called people he calls is of course a group of vested interests, including himself.

How rich is the Li family? It is said that when Li Sancai was alive, the family had more than 6 million taels of cash in just cash, and after the construction of this garden, it could leave more than 6 million taels of silver for future generations. After Li Sancai died, his two sons, one was the boss of the chamber of commerce on the canal and the other was the salt merchant in Huai'an. Let's imagine it yourself.

Now the Li family's cash bank will only have more and less cash than before. No one knows how much cash bank is. The cash bank is only part of the Li family's property, as well as fields, shops, salt fields, fleets, workshops, etc., which are truly wealthy enough to rival a country.

"Master, the big thing is wrong. There are so many thieves outside, and there are tens of thousands of people!" An old servant ran into the flower hall panting and reported to the head of the family Li Jiaguo.

Li Jiaguo, who is over 60 years old, is Li Sancai's eldest son and the leader of the chamber of commerce on the canal. The canal from Linqing, Shandong to the capital was controlled by him. His younger brother Li Jiabin, a salt merchant in Huai'an and the leader of the chamber of commerce in the southern section of the canal, controlled by this section of the canal from Linqing to Yangzhou. It can be said that except for the canal from Nanjing to Hangzhou, the canal north of the Yangtze River was controlled by the Li family.

"Hmph! Why are you afraid of me? Do you really think that I, Li Jiajia, are vegetarian?" Li Jiaguo sneered disdainfully.

Since the Jin Jurchens invaded and robbed in the second year of Chongzhen, the frightened Li family spent a huge amount of money to build this sturdy castle outside the Li family garden. In the second year of Chongzhen, the Li family, who had received the news in advance, fled into the capital, but the garden that could not be taken away was looted by the Later Jin army and set a fire before leaving. The Jurchens invasion caused the Li family to lose more than 2 million taels of silver. The current garden was rebuilt on the original ruins.

The Li family spent more than three million taels of silver to rebuild the garden and build the city. With this hard turtle shell, the Jurchens invaded several times and did not dare to chew on this hard bone again.

The Li family has more than a thousand well-equipped servants, most of whom are archers, gunners and bird gunners, and fifty close-killers with high martial arts skills. In addition, there are more than 3,000 tenants who fled from outside in the city, and can also participate in the defense of the city. If the ordinary thief army wants to attack the Li family, it can be said that they cannot be captured at all. Before they get close to the village wall, a large area will be shot to death by projectile arrows. When the village wall is close to the village wall, they will have to fill the moat. When filling the moat, I don’t know how many lives will be filled in. Well, after filling a section of the moat, I have to get close to the city wall and start siege attacking the city. At this time, the tenants who assist the city guarding will be useful, pouring gold juice from the top of the city, smashing tinned oil tanks, throwing down ash bottle, and smashing the rolling wood stones. The siege people pay a heavy price to climb up the platform. After climbing onto the platform, there is a city wall on it...

Li Jiaguo walked up to the city and saw that three hundred steps away from the city, the huge thief army had already formed a neat formation. Among the thief soldiers, there was a man wearing a big red flying fish suit holding a tin tube in his hand and shouting to the city: "Li Jiaguo, three days ago, we were here to borrow grain, but you were silently rejected us! Now, thousands of Japanese households had no choice but to bring people to borrow grain! If you know someone, please hand over one thousand stones of grain and one million taels of silver. We will give up the attack!"

"The castrated dog cannot be extorted, but it actually hooked up with the thief! If you want to fight, you will be beaten. I will accompany you to the end!" Li Jiaguo sneered, turned around and shouted, "Fire the cannon! Kill the castrated dog to death for me!"

The gunner on the city wall lit a França aircraft, and only heard a "boom" roar. A tongue of flame spewed out of the muzzle, and white smoke rose up. A cannonball weighing one pound was flying towards the direction where Zhao Peng was at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Zhao Peng, holding an iron trumpet, quickly turned around and ran back. The Jinyiwei beside him also ran back. The surrounding Shunjun fled in a panic, and the formation scattered.

"Hahaha! With this little ability, I dare to challenge me!" Li Jiaguo laughed.

However, the accuracy of the Franco cannon was not satisfactory when it was three hundred steps away. The shells flew over and didn't know where they flew, and even no one was injured.

What happened next made Li Jiaguo no longer laugh. The Shunjun and refugees under the city started civil engineering operations. They dug trenches and extended little by little towards the direction of Li Jiachengzhai. The excavated soil was hit in a basket and transported backwards, and piled up three hundred steps away from the city wall, as if they were building a dirt city.

"Master, the thief seems to be digging a trench and approaching the city wall to fill the moat!" a head of a guard guard judged.

Li Jiaguo yelled: "Order the fire and bombard the trenches, don't let the thieves approach the moat!"

There was a sound of thunder-rolling cannons at the top of the city. Twelve 300 kilograms and five 500 kilograms of 500 kilograms of flaming tongues, and the shells hit the trench like hail.

However, the artillery accuracy of these days is extremely poor. It has no accuracy at all when dealing with target shootings more than 200 steps away. Moreover, the trench is only three feet wide and more than four feet deep. The soldiers of the refugees, Heshun Army, hid in the trench and dug forward. No artillery shells flying from the city were hit, and none of them could hit the narrow trench.

Behind the pile of earth three hundred steps away, Zhao Peng directed the Shun Army soldiers to carry the cannons, unload the red barbarian cannons from the ox cart, and put them on the pile of earth. Two short-barrel cannons converted into mortars were placed behind the pile of earth, aiming the muzzle at the Lijiachengzhai. Wang Xin also brought the craftsmen over here. He directed the apprentices to work busy behind the pile of earth, piled up the furnace chamber and chimney with bricks, and then placed the furnace galls brought from the capital in the stove. Several small stoves were set up on the edge of the blast furnace, and the forging tables were also set up.

"Brother, what are you doing?" Hao Yaoqi asked curiously, "Want to build weapons here?"

Zhao Peng smiled and said, "Brother Hao is not anxious, I will know later."

Wang Xin directed the craftsmen to set up a simple blast furnace. With the order of "adding materials to make fire", the apprentices poured the pig iron blocks into the blast furnace and lit the fire. Several small furnaces beside the blast furnace also lit the fire. The craftsmen put the iron blocks into the furnace and burned them red, then took them out and placed them on the forging table, waving the iron hammer to hit "ping-ping-pong".

Some people have already measured the inner diameter of the short-barrel gun, and craftsmen are building iron molds based on the inner diameter of the short-barrel gun. Soon, two sets of iron molds were built. Wang Xin asked someone to apply wet mud in the two hemispherical iron molds and then combine the two hemispherical iron. Some people opened the discharge port of the hot blast furnace, and the hot iron flowed into the mold along the groove.

After cooling, open both sides of the mold and a huge spherical iron egg was cast. Then the craftsmen cleaned the hardened mud in the iron mold, then smeared the wet mud into the iron mold, and cast the second iron egg.

While casting short-barrel cannon shells, the craftsmen who just made the mold were not idle either. They were busy creating gun heads and goose feather knives on site, and some were even creating armor parts.

The trench in front was continuing to dig and advance, slowly advancing to about a hundred steps away from the city wall, the red cannons on the mound behind and the mortars behind the mound have been set up, just waiting for loading and firing.

Zhao Peng personally loaded gunpowder and adjusted the angle of the muzzle. Then the apprentices put the wooden board into the barrel, stuffed the shell into the barrel, and then pushed the shell to the bottom with the push rod. After compacting it, they inserted a medicine twist into the fire door.

"Fire the cannon!" Zhao Peng shouted, "Smash the turtle shell, and the Grand View Garden is inside! Brothers can enter the Grand View Garden and have fun!"

"Grand View Garden? What?" Hao Yaoqi asked in confusion.
Chapter completed!