Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 163 0162: Li Lu goes out; explains matters
The backyard of the county government office.

At this time, Li Lu was talking about something with his nephew.

When the gang members saw Cheng Zongyang coming, they immediately shouted "Master Cheng".

Immediately, the uncle and nephew who were talking turned their heads and looked towards the entrance.

Seeing Cheng Zongyang coming, the two of them immediately walked over.

"Lord Cheng." Li Xian bowed and greeted him respectfully.

"You're welcome." Cheng Zongyang nodded slightly, then looked at Li Lu: "Brother, have you found everyone?"

Li Lu smiled: "That's right."

As he spoke, he nodded to his nephew, who immediately went to make arrangements.

After Li Lu arranged for Cheng Zongyang to sit in the main hall, he got to the point:
"According to your request, we have found 37 people. They have all built houses before. There are so many people in the county, and if they each bring a group of people, it should be enough to meet the requirements for building a village. But, Brother Cheng, how are you going to build this village?"

Upon hearing this, Cheng Zongyang took out the design drawing that he had prepared in the future, spread it on the table, and said:
"I've already designed the layout."

Li Lu immediately looked at the drawings on the table.

Cheng Zongyang pointed at the drawing and explained it bit by bit.

"The area of ​​the village is certainly not small. It includes houses for living. The houses will be placed on both sides of the surrounding area, which can be used as walls and can also be lived in.

Going further in, there will be warehouses and cellars for storing resources; there is also a training ground for training warriors.

This is a reconnaissance tower. From a high place, you can see people coming from the entrance or exit..."

Cheng Zongyang pointed out every building to Li Lu, explained its purpose, and told him the purpose of this layout.

Even the function of underground passages for escape and even hiding is described.

The more Li Lu listened, the weirder his expression became.

After finally listening to it, he digested it for a while before asking tentatively:
"Brother Cheng, why does your building look more like a military camp? It's actually built with bricks? Isn't this too conspicuous?"

Cheng Zongyang smiled and said, "You can think so. If we want to resist the forces that will enter the county in the future, our forces must train no less than 30 warriors of the first rank in these four months.

Therefore, you need to get more medicinal herbs back, the sooner the better.

It doesn’t matter whether it’s bricks or rammed earth blocks, what matters is that it’s strong and durable.”

"Brother, since we are going to build it, let's build it all at once while there are more people. Otherwise, it will be difficult to organize people later. As long as the place is there and our power is there, we are not afraid of others coming to seize this place."

"Okay!" Li Lu nodded without hesitation and said, "I will leave tomorrow. I will gather a group of people tonight."

"Uncle, Lord Cheng, everyone is here." At this time, Li Xian also walked in and reported.

The two of them walked out immediately.

Li Lu said to Cheng Zongyang: "Time is urgent, so I will go and arrange the personnel and supplies for the outbound trip. You can take care of the arrangements for these people."

Cheng Zongyang nodded.

After Li Lu left with his nephew, Cheng Zongyang showed the design drawings to the construction workers and explained them to them.

When they all felt that it was not a problem, Cheng Zongyang said:

"In order to speed up the process, I will not use bricks, but rammed earth blocks directly. However, there is a requirement that the outer wall should be built in two layers, and the inner wall only needs one layer. All construction resources can be obtained from the surrounding area. Is this a problem?"

When everyone heard this, they all shook their heads and said:
"This is not a problem."

"OK."

"no problem."

"..."

Seeing the sparse responses, Cheng Zongyang continued:
"First of all, as long as you can bring people and build it according to my design before the grain is harvested, you people in charge will get an extra portion of food every day."

Now, they were much more motivated and responded again with assurances.

Cheng Zongyang shook his head slightly: "Secondly, when you start construction, if you have children, you can give priority to joining the village for training, and then you will have the opportunity to become a warrior!
When the crops are harvested, your children can become members of the village guard team, and the benefits are very good."

Suddenly, the looks of these thirty-odd people changed!

Become a warrior!
This is an opportunity to change the fate of your family!

Just like a scholar passing the imperial examination, it is also an opportunity to change the destiny of his family!
"Don't worry, sir. As long as we allocate enough manpower, we will definitely build the entire village before the grain harvest!!"

"..."

One by one, they became extremely excited! As if they would miss the opportunity if they were slow to agree.

Cheng Zongyang knew very well where to motivate them.

Talk about money to the poor and talk about feelings to the rich.

It is extremely difficult to cross the class barrier, and now there is an opportunity for change, they will not miss it even if they die.

Just like in the past, there are many ways for ordinary people to cross the class, but they are all extremely difficult. Only studying is the cheapest and simplest way compared to other ways.

Therefore, in order to motivate these people, it is necessary to involve the future interests of their family and their descendants!
In this world, warriors and scholars are the only two chances.

But for common people, in a dynasty with a recommendation system, the aristocratic families controlled the path to advancement, and it was almost impossible for ordinary people to change their destiny through studying.

Then, martial arts becomes the only way.

Cheng Zongyang said slowly: "Whether you recommend your own children or relatives' children, everyone will have a training quota. This is what I promised you! By the way."

Cheng Zongyang added:
"I will find someone to work with you. If you need any related craftsmen, someone will find them for you. You can also recommend your friends. There will also be a quota for joining the training, and an extra portion of the daily food ration.

I don't look at the process, I only look at the results. I'll give you the drawings, it doesn't need to be extremely detailed and accurate.

As for the underground passage, I will find someone else to take charge. Once you find someone, gather at the third shed on the farmland outside the city at noon tomorrow."

"Yes, my lord!"

Everyone responded excitedly at the same time.

After asking them to go back, Cheng Zongyang did not stay in the county government office and turned back to his residence.

He also had other things to deal with.

Li Dafu, who is over 50 years old, has no elderly parents and children to support. He is a craftsman with 30 years of experience as a bricklayer. He fled here due to famine and finally became a refugee who was unwilling to leave and stayed.

Later, there was unrest in the county, which gave them the opportunity to settle down in Yufeng County.

Although they were hungry every day, fortunately each family could still get two steamed buns weighing one or two taels, which they would bring back and cook together with soup, and they could barely get by.

Li Dafu hurried home, feeling extremely excited at this moment. After waiting for so long, the opportunity finally came.

He didn't know anything about farming, he just followed the farmer's instructions. But today, the master wanted to build a village, and the abilities of these craftsmen could be brought into play.

To him, this is not important. What is important is that the fate of his family may change because of this.

In the south of the city, in a small house.

Li Dafu returned to the small residential house and shouted loudly as soon as he entered the door:
"Mother, hurry..." "Can you please speak a little more quietly? Your grandson has just fallen asleep." A woman with gray hair and an old and thin face limped out of the room.

She glared at her husband with some dissatisfaction and said, "You are so loud as soon as you get home. What do you want to do? Sanwa has just fallen asleep, otherwise he will wake up and cry about being hungry again!"

Li Dafu smiled and said, "Good days are coming. Just now the adults asked us to..."

Li Dafu briefly explained the matter. Facing his wife's incredulous gaze, he chuckled and said, "Later, I'll let Sanwaer learn martial arts. What do you think? When he becomes a martial artist, our family will be able to live a good life!"

The woman nodded repeatedly: "Good news, good news. Your Excellency is so kind! Wait for Mingshi to come and tell him about it."

As she was talking, she saw her husband preparing to go out again, so she couldn't help asking, "Where are you going?"

"I'll go find Dalin. He's a carpenter and we need him to build the house. His family is similar to ours. We all fled here together. We need to give him a hand."

The woman nodded in agreement and said, "Of course. If it weren't for Dalin, our last grandson would be gone."

So Li Dafu left in a hurry again.

The situation was almost the same. After the construction workers returned, they all started to take action.

Some started to recruit people to do favors; some discussed at home which child to send to learn martial arts.

For a time, bricklayers pulled carpenters, carpenters pulled masons, masons pulled painters, and later even some bamboo craftsmen were pulled in.

One person pulled another, and soon a huge house-building team was formed!

That night, many people suffered from insomnia due to being too excited and agitated.

But Cheng Zongyang did practice for a whole night, and his progress in the breath-holding technique increased by 5 points.

Early in the morning, Cheng Zongyang was awakened by the housekeeper.

It’s nothing, Li Lu is here.

I'm here to say goodbye.

He personally led a hundred relatively strong gang members with their weapons and prepared to go to the nearby town to check the situation and see if they could search for medicinal herbs or some hidden food that no one had discovered.

"Brother Cheng, I have already made an agreement with the four gang members. You can arrange for them to do things at any time."

Cheng Zongyang nodded slightly, then thought for a moment and said, "Take the bird with you. If there is any emergency, you can use it to send a letter back."

Li Lu was stunned, thought about it, and did not refuse.

If he encounters a crisis that he cannot solve, he can still call on Cheng Zongyang as a helper.

Afterwards, Li Lu led his men and headed towards the South Gate first.

That direction leads to Furong Town, which is the closest town to the county seat.

Due to the invasion by foreign forces, many local families were unable to take some things with them when they fled, and it is possible that a lot of supplies were left behind.

This trip was to try to see if we could collect them. Of course, they were mainly food and medicinal materials. The rest of the sundries were not needed, as there were plenty in the county.

There were also three doctors on this trip, and identification of medicinal materials was something that could only be handled by them. Ordinary people like Li Lu had no idea what medicinal materials looked like.

After watching them leave, Cheng Zongyang asked Manager Zhang to call Zhao Laoqi and four other gang leaders.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Xian, Zhao Laoqi and four others came together.

Zhao Laoqi was carrying some things in his hand. He entered the yard and handed the bag to Zhang Chuqi, saying with a smile:
"Manager Zhang, this is the tea you asked me to find. It was found from some families.

I don’t know if it’s good or not, please let the adults try it, if it doesn’t taste good, I will go find some more.”

Zhang Chuqi clasped his fists and smiled: "Thank you, Boss Zhao."

"Oh, you are too polite. We are all working for you. If there is anything, just let someone come and inform you. Then we will go find you first."

"Just follow me." Manager Zhang smiled, handed the things in his hand to the maid not far away, and instructed: "Take this tea and make five cups of tea and send them to the main hall."

"Yes, Steward." The thin and weak maid, who was no more than fourteen or fifteen years old, responded respectfully and left.

Zhang Chuqi took Zhao Laoqi and others to the main hall in the backyard.

"Young Master, the four gang leaders have arrived." Zhang Chuqi reported at the door.

"Ah."

Cheng Zongyang put down the Book of Heaven and Man in his hand and looked at Zhao Laoqi, Li Xian, Chen Eryun and Xiao Bing who came in.

Zhang Chuqi was waiting outside.

"Your Highness, I am honored to meet you." The four of them bowed respectfully. They were all confused. They didn't know why they were called here at the same time.

Cheng Zongyang nodded slightly, glanced at them, and without further ado, got to the point:
"I asked you four to come here because I need you to handle something."

"The construction of the village. Brother Li has already told you about this, so I won't elaborate on it.

This afternoon, a group of skilled craftsmen will gather at the third shed on the farmland. Please maintain order.

They were the main force in building the village, so they got a bigger share of the food. The rest remained the same, after all, the land had been cultivated, and the follow-up was just weeding and watering, which did not require too many people, so it could be left to the farmers.

The rest of the manpower will be assigned to those skilled craftsmen, and they must work together to build the village within four months."

After hearing what was said, the four of them digested it for a while, then agreed after understanding its meaning.

They thought that with so many people, it would not be difficult to build a village within four months.

Cheng Zongyang continued, "Also, find seven or eight people who are in good health, work harder, bring dry food and water, and go to Qingfeng County in the north. Find out the situation there. Mainly the power situation and food situation there, and then come back to report."

Upon hearing this, Li Xian cupped his hands and said, "Sir, the situation in Qingfeng County may be more difficult than ours."

Li Xian's words immediately attracted the attention of the others.

Upon hearing this, Cheng Zongyang guessed the situation, changed his sitting position, and asked, "Are there any of your men from Qingfeng County?"

He also brought back some people from Qingfeng County to the village. They had also fled there, but they just didn't know about the situation in Qingfeng County.

Li Xian nodded and responded, "Yes, I have basically asked refugees from various places. I have also done some research. Some people are not clear, but some people still have some understanding.

Nowadays, our county does not restrict outsiders from entering. I have asked people from Qingfeng County, and the extent of plundering by foreigners there is no less than ours. In fact, many family members have been killed. "

After listening to it, Cheng Zongyang understood it after a little thought.

Due to the two county lords Chang Younian and Luo Dingran, all the existing family forces in Yufeng County were eliminated.

After the arrival of foreigners, we avoided the need to be cleaned out.

But Qingfeng County is different, which leads to a different situation from Yufeng County.

But if you think about it carefully, the war between Luo Dingran and Wang Tianfeng was also related to his zero-yuan purchase.

At this time, Chen Eryun also reminded: "Sir, the distance from here to Qingfeng County is not short. If you walk back and forth, it will take nearly a month."

Zhao Laoqi didn't say anything because he was not from Xiangyang.

The only thing I have a preliminary understanding of is Yufeng County, not to mention Qingfeng County which takes ten days or half a month to reach.

(End of this chapter)