Datang: What's wrong with my fief being a billion points larger?

Chapter 49 Difficulties Begin to Emerge

After the arrangements were made, everyone started to take action. Ning Chun began to gather the people and negotiate the layout of the city with Wang Xuance. Then he began to coordinate supplies, because Li Yuanji had arranged for the soldiers to start cutting wood first.

Li Yuanji arrived at the camp and saw that Xie Shufang and Su Dingfang were starting to organize people. He himself was idle for a while. Then, looking at the captives who didn't know what to do in the camp, Li Yuanji immediately called Yang Shu.

"Yang Shu, you are also the chief of the cave tribe and are very familiar with them. You will be responsible for leading these people in the future. Now you go and arrange for them to accompany Ding Fang and prepare to cut down trees.

I will leave these people to you. You must lead them well, especially make sure no one causes trouble. You must make it clear how you will treat them. They only need to work for five years, and then I will let them go. If anyone causes trouble, just kill them directly.

You can decide the details. We will need their participation in the subsequent work.”

Yang Shu was dumbfounded when he heard this. Originally, he had only a few people under his command, but now there were more than 20,000 people here. He had never seen so many people before. Now Li Yuanji asked him to lead them directly. It was impossible for Yang Shu to say that he was not nervous.

But Li Yuanji didn't give him the chance to refuse. He had already said everything. What could Yang Shu do? He could only agree.

"Your Majesty, I, your humble servant, will do my best to lead these people and get them started."

Li Yuanji looked at Yang Shu with a serious expression.

"Yang Shu, I will tell you again, it's not about trying your best, it's about leading well. If there are any difficulties that you can't solve, come to me or find someone else. You have seen how Xie Shufang and others led the army in the army, just follow their example.

If it really doesn't work, go ask Xie Shufang, Wang Xuance and the others. I will give you one day and will not assign you any tasks today. Starting tomorrow, you must start working normally. Go down."

Li Yuanji was helpless. He could only do this now. Yang Shu was also a teasing person. Since he was also a teasing person, it should be easier to manage him. This time he gave Yang Shu such a chance. If Yang Shu still couldn't catch him, he would have no choice but to stop caring about this person in the future.

Although there are indeed difficulties, he has been given the opportunity. Whether he can adapt in this short period of time and gradually do well is up to Yang Shu himself. All he wants is the result.

Half an hour later, Su Dingfang was ready with 5,000 men.

"My king, the five thousand men are ready. They have all taken off their armor and put away their weapons. But my king, do you have any tools for felling trees? The army does not have enough tools. Only thirty-eight men have axes."

Li Yuanji was stunned when he heard Su Dingfang's words, and then he remembered that axes were not regular supplies in the army. They were all used to chop firewood. Now if he wanted to chop trees, what could he use without axes?

After a moment, Li Yuanji looked at Su Dingfang.

"Send someone to Ning Chun now and ask him to take out all the axes. Then, temporarily requisition the ones that the people have at home and send more people."

Su Dingfang immediately went down to start making arrangements. After a while, Ning Chun came directly to Li Yuanji, which surprised Li Yuanji.

"Dahe."

“Your Majesty, there are not many axes for felling trees in the government office or in the homes of the common people. There are only seventy-two axes. We brought all of them here. The rest are gone.

Even if they were to forge it, there are only thirteen blacksmiths here, and what they forge is not strong, and the most important thing is that there is not much iron here, so they can't forge much."

As soon as Ning Chun came in, he explained the situation to Li Yuanji. This made Li Yuanji very uncomfortable. Now, if he wanted to cut wood, he had to do it slowly. Especially due to the shortage of iron, it was difficult to forge anything.

There was indeed iron among the supplies he prepared, but the quantity was limited, and he was behind the old man. He couldn't just wait there forever, right?
Li Yuanji pondered for a moment, then looked at Ning Chun. "Okay, I know about this matter. I will make it clear later, but now, wait a moment."

Li Yuanji turned around, found a brush and ink and began to paint. What Li Yuanji painted was a saw. Of course, it was not an electric saw, but a saw specially used for logging, with handles on both ends that could be pulled. He also drew a small saw for cutting small pieces of wood.

After finishing the painting, Li Yuanji handed it to Ning Chun.

“These two are saws. The big one is used for felling wood and cutting tree trunks, and the small one is used for cutting small wood monsters.

Go and have the blacksmith forge these two saws now. As for iron, find all the iron you can find and have the blacksmith start making as many as he can. Once it’s done, have it delivered to us immediately.”

Ning Chun took the blueprint and looked at it for a few seconds. Although he was surprised, he immediately went down to prepare. Although he didn't know how Li Yuanji came, it was a good thing that he could deal with the current problem.

Li Yuanji frowned alone. The difficulties here were gradually beginning to emerge. They were just some small objects, but now they had become stumbling blocks.

Li Yuanji then called Su Dingfang and set off with two thousand men. Among these two thousand men, fifteen hundred were there to guard against wild beasts. After all, they were the old Lin clan, and they were afraid that some ferocious beasts would suddenly jump out.

When they arrived at the forest, the man holding the axe immediately started to act, while the others prepared wooden carts and ropes, waiting to load the wood after chopping down the trees.

The axes in the army were not big, and the ones that Ning Chun collected were badly damaged, and many of them were even cracked.

Li Yuanji was very worried when he saw the progress. For a moment, he wanted to use weapons to chop down the trees, but after thinking about it, he gave up. It was not for any other reason, but because weapons were more troublesome to make, and he would be heartbroken if they were really damaged.

Li Yuanji also found an axe and started chopping, and Su Dingfang followed him.

It took nearly half an hour to finally cut down one tree. The people behind immediately came up and started to remove the branches and cut it into two pieces. After another half an hour, the people in charge of pulling the wood came forward and carried the wood to the open space.

Two hours passed, and only more than eighty trees were chopped down. Li Yuanji immediately came to the front of the car and asked people to start loading the car.

"Load all of these and transport them back first."

The wood was not loaded too much onto the cart, otherwise the horses and mules would not be able to pull the load.

After it was transported to the city with great difficulty, Li Yuanji immediately asked Ning Chun to call over a dozen carpenters to start working.

Although he is not building a palace now, he must build the house. After all, the sooner he completes it, the sooner the task can be refreshed.

While cutting the wood, Li Yuanji had already asked people to start building the house. Both sides started working together to save time.

Fortunately, there were many people, and after an hour, at least the basic framework was built. However, Li Yuanji could not wait, so he asked people to start building a small house first, preparing to complete the task first.

While the others were still busy, Ning Chun spent an hour communicating with the people of Haikang before he made things clear. Then he looked at the sky and asked people to prepare to cook. The supplies in the camp were also gradually being consumed.

(End of this chapter)