Late Tang

The new town of Salmonella will be the Crown Bastion, with a planned circumference of 3000 paces, nearly two miles.The new city is square, with three hundred paces on each side.Open four gates, add four urns to the four gates, and dig a moat one foot deep and three feet wide outside the city.The cost of building the new castle is estimated at [-] guan, [-] stones of grain, [-] labors, and a construction period of one year.

However, Li Jing can't afford so much money now, but he still insists on building a crown bastion in Xincheng.

"But it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice!" The old craftsman couldn't help laughing when he heard that Li Jing insisted on building the crown bastion, but he could only spend [-] guan and [-] shi for grain.How can there be such a good thing in the world, the city needs to be repaired, but the money can't be paid.

Li Jing smiled, stopped a few craftsmen who wanted to give up, and said: "Actually, things haven't reached that point yet. I'll figure it out. If we plan well and save some money, it's still possible. .”

"Then the general will tell us four, five, six, and we want to see what the general is capable of." Seeing that Li Jing spoke in a friendly manner, the old men couldn't help feeling a bit cynical at this time.

Li Jing's plan is very simple. Since there is not enough money, the first stage is to build only four walls.The four walls are also the most expensive because they need to be built into crown facets.Even if Li Jing only repaired four walls, the cost would be [-] guan.

"The east and south walls were demolished, and the masonry materials can still be used. The east and south sides were rebuilt according to the requirements of the bastion wall, while the west and north sides were not completely demolished, but only on the basis of the original city walls. The facet reconstruction of the crown should save a lot of cost and construction period.”

Only the four sides of the city wall will be built first, and all the urn city, turrets, gate towers, arrow towers, and moats will not be repaired first.Moreover, the reconstruction and expansion plan in the city is also reserved for the second and third phases.As long as the Guanjian city wall is built, the defense of the bastion will actually be there.Safety first, the rest can be slowly figured out.

Li Jing also thought about the workers. He has ready-made people, so why bother to recruit workers.The more than 300 strong men in the labor camp will be able to go to the construction site immediately after another month of support. Although the dozens of garrison soldiers need some time to recuperate after their broken legs are reattached, they will be able to work in the field after a maximum of two months. alive.What's more, Li Jing now has two to three thousand young women, boys and girls.These people have no work now, there are too few fields, and the workshop has not yet reached that scale, so it is just right to get them to the construction site to help build the city.It's not that Li Jing doesn't give them wages, but he must save a lot.Even at the critical moment, you can still make an IOU and temporarily owe something.

Li Jing's decision was discussed and approved at the first military officer meeting in Shamen Town. It was not so much a discussion, but a notification.When Li Jing talked about the current security situation and urgent needs, the generals and bureaucrats below had no objection at all.Now everyone brings their families to this island, who doesn't want to make their hometown safer.

After unanimous agreement, the formal construction of the city began immediately.First, outside the original city on the east and south sides, a new city wall foundation was drawn, and then the two original city walls began to be demolished while organizing people to excavate the wall foundation.The new city is much larger than the original one, as big as the original three.The buildings inside the original castle are preserved, and the newly expanded one in the southeast is the two big ones in the original castle.

In the new urban area in the southeast, the neat tofu block-like residential area Lifang was first drawn out, and the residential area was divided into nine squares with the well-shaped streets.The south side is reserved for residential quarters, divided into nine squares and four streets.On the opposite side of the residential area, to the northeast, is the pre-set office area, where the general's mansion and other staff offices in Shamen Town will be built, and warehouses such as grain depots and armories will be set up in this area.There are also many open spaces reserved in this area, which are specially used for the construction of several special venues such as schools, squares, martial arts arenas, theaters, and the East China Sea Dragon King Hall in the future.

The area in the northwest close to the old city is the newly-planned Buddhist temple, Taoist temple, and the new commercial market area.After the new city is planned to be built in the future, the original old castle area will be completely transformed into a workshop area.At that time, the southeast was the residential district, the northeast was the office district, the northwest was the Shifang district, and the south and south were the workshop districts. Living and working were completely separated.Each workshop also needs to add workshop walls and workshop gates.

This planning can be said to be very good. If the new city is built, it will be able to accommodate all of Li Jing's men to live in the city.At the foundation laying ceremony of the city, Li Jing made a public promise to the thousands of soldiers and their families attending the meeting that all the soldiers who participated in the city building would enjoy one of the nine residential quarters in the city after the new city was built.

As soon as this sentence came out, it completely ignited the enthusiasm of the soldiers and their families who had just moved here and were all living in the temporarily dug out nests. More than 6000 people and a family of young and old joined the battle. Qiqi said that no wages are needed at all, and all he needs to do is take care of the meals.Everyone doesn't care about hard work, they just hope that the new city can be built as soon as possible, and they can get a house of their own.

Seeing this, Li Jing was happy to have such a good thing.However, some family members work in the workshop, and some have their own land, so not all of them can come to the construction site to work.In order to show fairness, Li Jing simply asked Zhang Hong to divide all the old and young into work teams, and then sent some people to divide the work, check and accept these work teams, and score them, recording the work points of each team and each person.

Everyone's daily work points are recorded. Li Jing said that in the future, every new house will not be bought with money, but will be priced with a certain amount of work points. Everyone will use their work points to subscribe for a new house without paying money.However, those with more work points can give priority to choosing a house. If the work points are too few, they can only choose the worst one, and they have to use money to subsidize the insufficient work points.

For a while, the immigrants on Salmonella Island, both men and women, were digging the soil with hoes, dustpans and baskets.Even the children are sensible to help.

Looking at these immigrants who are so enthusiastic, they wake up before dawn every day, and are reluctant to go back after dark, Zhang Hong sighs several times every day.In his opinion, Li Jing's work point system is really amazing. In this way, the thousands of workers in Xiucheng don't have to pay extra wages at all, which saves a lot of money, and the workers don't need to be supervised. It is really rare to be able to work so hard.After doing the math, these workers actually built the city and built the houses in the city. In the end, except for the daily food, only one family was allocated a house.In other words, the workers built their own houses, and they also built the city walls and other public facilities of the new city together.

Li Jing smiled: "You underestimate a common people's desire for their own home. No matter how hard it is, if they can have a house of their own, they are willing to suffer any kind of hardship. Besides, don't think that I take it Everyone is so cheap. I am so eager to build a new city. In fact, it is not for me alone. With the new city, everyone can live in peace and contentment. Everyone contributes, and we also pay for it. Sand, gravel and mud are free. , but sand, gravel and mud are not enough to build a city. The bricks and ashlars that are brought in by boat every day are all bought with real money."

In addition to buying masonry, there is also a large amount of timber that is needed.Moreover, although the inner city has to be placed in the second phase of the project for the time being, the drilling of wells cannot be delayed.Nearly [-] people on the island have arrived here, and the original few wells are not enough. Considering that there will be greater development in the future, Li Jing will concentrate on drilling wells in the city from now on.

Building the city, digging wells, starting workshops, and land reclamation, except for a few docks on Salmonella Island that are still bustling, the island that has been deserted has become noisy and lively.

The bustling construction of the city in the central part of Salmonella Island seemed to be unheard of in the surrounding commercial areas of the four piers, Beitou Village and Shanqian Village, and there was not even a single person who came to congratulate and watch.Sun Deyan reminded: "In addition to the Paradise Street of Phoenix Wharf on Shamen Island, each of the other three wharves also gathers a wharf town. In addition to Shanqian Village and Beitou Village, there are six gathering points with a population of more than [-] people. But after so many days, no one came to welcome the general to take office. This actually shows a problem. Everyone knows the conflict between the general and Feng Liu and Liu Qi that day, and now the general is detaining those people. Wait and see, I want to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and watch the battle between the general and Feng Zhang and Wang Jin."

"Although those people are also on Salmon Island, they all feel that their identities are detached. They are watching our drama. Anyway, no matter who wins the battle between us and Feng Zhang and Wang Jin, according to the usual practice, we can't move them half a point. of."

Why didn't Li Jing know this? He has been in office for so many days, and there are so many businesses in the vicinity, but none of them came to express his welcome.Li Jing reckoned that these people must have seen him fighting Feng Zhang, and they had already decided that he would be the one to lose. Since they thought he would be defeated by Feng Zhang sooner or later, they didn't even care about the superficial courtesy. Too lazy to maintain it.

This is a feeling of being extremely underestimated, and Li Jing felt a burst of anger in his heart.But instead, he suppressed the anger himself.Those merchants on the island looked down on him so much, so Feng Zhang and Wang Jinhui also had the same attitude.If so, it would be a good thing for him.Being underestimated means that the enemy will lose their vigilance.

"If you mean that you want me to let Feng Ming go, then don't say any more. I haven't killed those people now, but it doesn't mean I'm going to let him go. I just don't kill them for the time being. When I stand Keep your feet on the ground, and these people will sacrifice the flag for me. The day the new city is built, those people will die. Anyone who dares to despise me and offend me will have to pay their price." Li Jing glanced coldly Sun Deyan, this man is very clear-headed, although he often gets drunk.But it is a bit too conservative and negative.

"Vice General Lin, please inform the troops. Tomorrow, all soldiers and servants will no longer participate in the fortification. Starting tomorrow, they will resume training."

Fortification can only be used as a defense, and Li Jing doesn't want to be able to stand behind the castle.He must train his own soldiers and horses, with the ability to retreat and defend, and advance and attack.

(To be continued)