Late Tang

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month in the 15th year of Xiantong in the Tang Dynasty, it is the time when the coldest spring of the year is most expected. In two days, it will be the most lively Shangyuan Festival in the Tang Dynasty.

Li Jing sent Zhang Shouqian to take a team of family members to Dengzhou Port to pick up people for three days in a row. The Ninghai, which can carry 800 people at a time, ran ten times in a row, and finally brought the soldiers and family members brought by Lin Wu to the port. All received on Salmonella Island.

By the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, all the soldiers and family members who had relocated to Salmonella Island had arrived.As of the final statistics, with the addition of the new arrivals and the first batch, Li Jing's Shamen Town now has three soldiers and six teams, with three hundred soldiers and one hundred and twelve officers, making a total of four hundred and two.Li Jing's guard team is one and two, with one hundred guards, forty officers, and one hundred and four together.Lin Wei, Lin Wu, and Wang Zhong each have a team of servants, totaling four hundred and two.In fact, the officers have no servants for the time being, and there are a total of 960 soldiers and servants in the town.

In addition, the auxiliary soldiers also set up three capitals and six teams, with three hundred soldiers and one hundred and two auxiliary officers, making a total of four hundred and two.The remaining logistics troops set up five capitals and ten teams, five hundred logistics soldiers, two hundred logistics officers, and seven hundred together.There are a total of 120 and [-] auxiliary soldiers and logistics soldiers.

Adding up the soldiers, servants, auxiliary soldiers, and logistics soldiers, there were 180 soldiers at once, far exceeding the [-] people in Wangli Village.

The sudden expansion was mainly Li Jing's intention.After arriving on Salmonella Island, he had some new insights into the new situation.

The population that moved to Salmonella Island this time was so large that it even exceeded Li Jing's expectations.The originally recruited [-] soldiers, plus nearly [-] craftsmen, each of them has a family of more than four or five people, and the average family of each soldier has about five people.All the people who moved to Salmonella Island, the last count, the number of people has exceeded the [-] mark.

Among the 6000 people, men over the age of 16 and under 930 accounted for nearly half, 860 three.Young and strong young women also accounted for about one-third, reaching 16.In addition, there are more than 800 elderly people over 200, and there are more than [-] teenagers and girls under the age of [-] and over [-] years old, and about [-] children and girls under the age of [-].

There were so many people beyond Li Jing's expectations, many of them were members of the army, followed by a whole family of brothers, and several of them brought the whole family with them.When people came, it was impossible for Li Jing to drive them back.And with so many people, the land on the island, Li Jing, has basically been distributed to the officers' families, and the remaining half will be reserved for rewards.With so many people, it is impossible for Li Jing to support them all for nothing.

In the end, they simply selected a group of strong men from among them, and expanded the number of troops on the island. The original 200 troops were directly expanded to 180.However, these new expansions are basically incorporated into the logistics team and auxiliary troops, and have not affected the original organization and combat effectiveness.Basically, Li Jing incorporated young and strong men over the age of 20 into the team.

A large number of men have been added to the army, but there are still thousands of women and children.Although these people can't serve as soldiers, Li Jing doesn't intend to let them idle.With the full support of Li Jing, Li Huier's quilt workshop was the first to reopen and expand its scale.The quilt workshop recruited a full [-] female red-skilled women from the soldiers' families at one time, and a quarter of the women had jobs all at once.

For the rest, Li Jing recruited all the craftsmen and started to resume work in several castle inner workshops.Among them, several workshops such as the blacksmith workshop and the carpenter workshop have begun to recruit some young people as apprentices to start work.

Taking advantage of the lack of rain at this time, Li Jing is ready to use these sufficient manpower to start the city building plan.

These days, Zhang Hong, Sun Deyan, Du Zhongwu, Cui Zhiyuan and others are frequently traveling between Dengzhou and Salmonella Island, recruiting various craftsmen and experienced city builders.Up to now, there are dozens of craftsmen of various kinds in Li Jing's town general's mansion.

These people are all experienced craftsmen. In this year's downturn, even experienced craftsmen are not easy to live in.Li Jing invited them to build the city, and the conditions offered were quite good.In Shamen Town, these craftsmen are directly divided into six grades according to their working years, with ten years of service as the first grade.Even the lowest sixth-level craftsmen have a daily wage of [-] Wen, and each level increases by [-] Wen, and the highest seven or eight first-class craftsmen earn [-] Wen a day.In addition, board and lodging are all included, and craftsmen also have additional dishes according to their grades.

From [-] Wen a day to [-] Wen a day, this salary is not bad. Those craftsmen are all beaming with joy, secretly sighing that the new year will bring great luck.

Those eight first-class craftsmen with consistent wages every day are all old men with white beards, and they are older than each other.But the experience and qualifications are also old. Just open your mouth and you have presided over the repair of a certain fort in a certain village in a certain city. The qualifications are completely capable of presiding over the construction of a Shamen town.However, Li Jing is very much looking forward to the new city. This is his base camp. He has thrown all his heart and soul into this island, and he will never allow any mistakes to happen again.

This time, eight old craftsmen were recruited all at once, just to be on the safe side.

The eight craftsmen have visited Salmonella Island many times in the past two days, and finally proposed to expand and build a new city on the basis of the old city.Building a small city with a circumference of about one mile is something they are familiar with. If it is not for the sake of money, such a thing can be directly handed over to their apprentices.All eight people submitted their layout drawings of the new city today. Generally speaking, the new city is a square, defensive castle with about [-] steps on each side and a circumference of [-] steps, which is older than the current castle. The city is much bigger.

The city is also divided into squares, divided into military barracks, difang, and family residential areas, as well as a commercial urban area.Then there are some public facilities, such as Donghai Dragon King Temple, Wusheng Temple, Confucian Temple, Haotian God Temple, Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, etc.

The most important thing is the city wall. The city wall of the new city will be three feet high, with four gates in the southeast, northwest, and an additional urn city.Outside the city, a moat will also be dug.Arrow towers and towers will also be built on the city.In short, for the design of this new city, several craftsmen all chose the most expensive plan, which is also the plan with the highest defense.

For the ideas of these craftsmen, Li Jing quite agrees.To build a new city, firstly, the original old city is too dilapidated and narrow, and secondly, the defense is not high, basically undefended, the city walls are not taller than a person, there are no urns and moats, and the city is too narrow after all. , the layout is not reasonable.But since it was going to cost a lot of money to build a new city, Li Jing planned to build the best one.

Li Jing made some suggestions, mainly in two aspects. In terms of the city, the streets should be widened, at least one foot wide.In addition, several public facilities such as schools, bathhouses, wells, theaters, and public toilets had to be built, and in particular, a smooth urban sewage drainage channel had to be built.These are mainly to strengthen sanitation, the purpose is to prevent plague and other diseases due to poor sanitation.

As for the city wall, Li Jing meant to build the city wall into a prismatic wall.

A group of white-bearded craftsmen looked at the blueprint that Li Jing took out for a long time, staring at the fortress with as many faces as a crown and said in surprise: "General, if you build according to this blueprint, the defense will indeed increase. Many, especially archers and crossbow beds basically have no dead ends. But has the general calculated the cost of such a fortress? The old man only made a rough calculation, and the cost is at least three times higher than that of ordinary city walls, and In terms of construction period, the time will also be extended by more than double.”

The drawing that Li Jing took out was a drawing of the bastion, and it was also a drawing of the Crown Fort.Bastion, the product of the evolution of castles in later generations for defense.Its essence is to change the fortress from a convex polygon to a concave polygon. This improvement makes the attacker exposed to more than one bastion surface, usually 2-3, regardless of any point of the attack on the castle. The defender can Use crossfire for multiple strikes.

A Crown Fort can last at least a month in a one-to-seven defensive and offensive comparison.This is the terrifying defensive power of the bastion. Compared with the square city wall, it not only has stronger defensive ability, but also stronger defensive and counterattack ability.To bulldoze such a fortress, the price paid by the enemy is tragic.

But at the same time, super strong defense power also represents a super high cost.

According to the calculations of a few craftsmen, as originally planned for the three-foot-three-high city wall, every step of repair would cost at least ten guan.It was originally planned to build [-] steps, and it cost [-] guan. In addition, four Wengcheng had to be repaired, each of which cost at least [-] guan.The moat, as well as the arrow tower and gate tower, add up to a thousand.In addition, the newly regulated squares in the city, as well as the newly dug ditches, wells, toilets, schools, bathhouses, theaters, Taoist temples, Buddhist temples, etc., all add up to at least [-] guan. Does not include newly built houses, etc.

The [-] guan is just the materials and other money for accounting, and the wages of the workers and the food consumption of the craftsmen are not included in the calculation.

But now if Li Jing insisted on building the Crown Fort, the calculated cost would be at least [-] guan, and the construction period would have to be doubled.

Fifty thousand guan, Li Jing did have 1 guan a few days ago, but he has already paid [-] guan for equipment, and now he has less than [-] guan.In addition, there are only more than [-] shi of grain left, which is worth [-] guan, but Li Jing will not use this batch of grain even if he is killed.

This money is used like running water, why is there a shortage of money everywhere?

But after thinking about it, Li Jing still planned to build the Crown Fort.It's not that he is extravagant, it's that Salmon Island is half surrounded by the three big islands of Daxie Village, and he offended Feng Zhang, and now Feng Ming is still in his labor camp, not building his hometown a little stronger , Li Jing really felt insecure.

(To be continued)