Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 238 It's Like God's Help

Chapter 242

Another young man immediately took up the conversation and said: "Yes, I can't stop eating meat every day, and I can eat enough food. I didn't dare to think about such a day before. It's just that. In the past, the rich man Zhang in our county had hundreds of acres of fertile land. , the richest in the whole county, although white flour steamed buns are available all year round, but we can’t eat a few meals of meat a month, aren’t we richer than Zhang Dahu?”

The words of the young civilian husband made the surrounding civilian husbands burst into laughter.

"In the past, when we served in corvée, we had to provide our own food. You see, we are also serving in the service now. Not only do we have enough food, but we also have wages. In these three months, the income is higher than that of farming for a year."

Ran Ming visited many civilian husbands and found that they were very satisfied with this job.

In Ran Ming's view, there should be no incidents of abuse of civilian husbands in order to meet the deadline.Ran Ming was even more surprised that after lunch, the peasants started working, but instead of going up the city wall, they entered the city. Now there are nine streets in the city, just like Anmin County, with shops and houses on both sides of the street. It consists of five districts, including residential areas, government office areas, troop areas, and commercial areas, as well as the Jiaodong King's Palace built on the basis of the original mainland.

Now most of the main buildings have been built, most of them are on the roof, and the progress is relatively fast, and the floor and walls are being painted.

At this moment, Ran Ming felt a feeling of being spied on from behind, turned his head, and saw Wang Meng said with a smile: "Oh, Your Highness, what are you doing, you are actually playing private visits in disguise!"

Ran Ming is like a child who steals candy and was discovered by an adult.

Embarrassed, "I'm just curious, I want to see how the construction progress of this new city is going!"

With Wang Meng's resourcefulness, he naturally thought of Ran Ming's concerns, and immediately said with a smile: "Your Highness, please!"

Under the leadership of Wang Meng, Ran Ming entered the wooden frame. Ran Ming was dumbfounded, and pointed at the city wall that had been built. At this time, there were not only enemy towers, archery towers, but also fixed return guns used to defend the city. It was incredible. .He said: "How is this possible? I have never seen where you brought the bluestone and stone materials. I thought you would use rammed earth and glutinous rice soup to build the city. If all stone materials are used, the city will cost tens of thousands of yuan. That's a lot." Stones cannot be transported in, so there is no reason why we can’t hear the wind? And the moat is fifteen feet wide. How can it be dug? This is simply not a project that can be completed in more than one month, let alone five thousand people. Even if I give you 10 people, you can build such a city in one month! ”

Wang Meng showed an inscrutable expression, and said calmly: "It's actually very simple, this city wall has been repaired a long time ago!"

"Fixed? How is it possible?"

"This is what His Highness told Meng!"

Ran Ming asked strangely: "When did Gu say that the capital city should be built in Buqi? How can you not predict the prophet? Could it be that you are a god?"

Wang Meng said: "Of course I can't predict the future. It's just that if you think a little more and watch more, you will naturally be able to perceive His Highness' intentions. First, His Highness initially built a shipyard in Liaocheng. Ming Jiefei and his son recruited all the shipbuilders, as well as a large amount of old shipbuilding wood, and transported them to different places. In Buqi, not only the base of His Royal Highness's shipyard, but also a building that can accommodate hundreds of ships. The wharf of the big ship, it can be seen that its position in His Highness's heart is very important."

Ran Ming nodded.

"Secondly, all of His Highness's core industries, except for the arsenal located in Paomaling, Licheng, are almost all built around Buqi City. Cannery, salt drying factory, paper mill, winery, these core industries are surrounded by countless industries. The intention is self-evident!" Wang Meng went on to laugh and said: "The third is that after His Royal Highness won the Guanggu City of Qingzhou, he only made simple repairs to the city wall and got the residence of Duankan, the former King of Qi, but His Highness did not. The meaning of settling down. In Guanggu City, His Highness did not open a new industry, which is not in line with the purpose of where His Highness goes and where the industry develops! Fourth, after His Highness got the Buqi City, he often praised it. Chang said: "If a country wants to be rich and strong, it cannot ignore the ocean.Wealth comes from the sea, and danger also comes from the sea." From this, it can be seen that His Highness attaches great importance to the ocean, coupled with his unique status, it is the most important thing His Highness controls!"

Ran Ming couldn't help laughing when he heard Wang Meng's explanation: "This ancient sage's ability to figure out people's hearts is really not bragging!"

Ran Ming asked curiously: "Even so, why didn't Gu find any difference in Buqi City? I have been to Buqi before and didn't find anything wrong?"

Wang Meng didn't answer Ran Ming's words, but pointed to the moat: "Have you understood, Your Highness?"

Ran Ming said: "You mean, you originally buried the materials for the city in the moat?"

Wang Meng said: "This is not a stone material. When His Royal Highness instructed Ma Ying to make the Magong crossbow, he told him that the various parts of the Magong crossbow can be disassembled and built in sections. In this way, as long as there are enough spare parts, you can Assemble a large number of horse crossbows at the fastest speed. So Meng was thinking at the time, why not build a military fortress in Jiaodong Bay when the opportunity arises. In this way, relying on the Xianbei prisoners of war, the original less than a thousand The people of the city moved away, and a new city was built here! After the foundation of the city wall was laid, it was covered with a layer of fine sand half a foot thick to hide people's eyes and ears. The gantry crane (artificial pulley block) invented by His Highness It can easily lift things weighing [-] jin, so Meng asked people to build the city wall into three structures of [-] jin, [-] jin, and [-] jin, and buried them in the moat. People dug up the moat, took out parts from it, hoisted it up with a gantry crane, and bonded it with cement, copper and iron. In this way, it only took seven days to complete the main body of the city wall, and began to build enemy towers, horse faces, and Arrow Tower."

When Ran Ming heard this, he was immediately moved.Wang Meng can be regarded as painstaking.Although it was easy to say, Ran Ming also knew that Wang Meng must have paid unimaginable hardships for ordinary people.

In the fourth year of Yongxing, on June 29, Buqi New City was officially put into use.

It took 42 days from the beginning of construction on the seventh day of May until it was put into use.A circumference of eighteen miles, the city wall is three feet two feet high and two feet wide. There are two inner and outer urns outside the entire city, rising from the ground.

Under the sunshine, this extraordinary city emits a glimmer of bluestone, tall yet majestic, spectacular yet exquisite!

There are four city gates, 36 archery towers, and 28 enemy towers.

The ten-foot-wide moat emits rippling scales.

In the city is the Jiaodong Palace with an area of ​​more than 200 million square meters. The entire palace city is divided into two palace gates, the north and the south, with 190 rooms.

Most of the entire Buqi City and the King's Palace in Jiaodong are based on bluestones weighing [-] kilograms of bluestone, and the largest stone weighs [-] kilograms.

The news spread quickly, and the entire Jiaodong Kingdom couldn't help but turn pale with shock. Ordinary people were better off, they didn't understand the price of such a city, but the leaders of the gentry and different tribes were all shocked when they heard the news.

How could it be possible to build such a strong city in 42 days.

Even if you build an ordinary house, you can't build it in half a year!
Many gentry patriarchs and tribal leaders got the news, and immediately sent their confidantes to Buqicheng to find out the truth.

The news obtained is consistent with the rumors and is accurate.

This time, the people in Jiaodong Kingdom who originally planned to have strange thoughts were horrified. This city is definitely not something that manpower can do, it must be the help of gods and men!
Countless people from Jiaodong Kingdom arrived at Buqi New City by coincidence, set up an altar on the bank of the moat outside the city, and kowtowed to Buqi City.They worshiped devoutly!

Ran Ming didn't believe that this fast-rising city had such a big effect.But just for this point, Ran Ming treated Wang Meng with admiration.

City of Miracles, this is another name for Buqicheng!
As the new city was put into use, Ran Ming found that the eyes of the people around him had changed. Looking at Ran Ming was as devout as looking at a god!
Ran Zhi, the crown prince of the Eastern Palace of the Kingdom of Wei, is now punished by Ran Min in the Youzu Palace for three months. The so-called Youzu is confinement, which is a type of confinement.In addition, Ran Min also punished Ran Zhi for copying the "Book of Filial Piety" a hundred times.

The "Book of Filial Piety" does not have too many words, and the full text has a total of 790 words.If it is a ballpoint pen or a fountain pen, it can be copied in four to ten minutes at most, but with a writing brush, this is not a small amount of labor!

Of course, the most important thing is a hundred times, which needs to be copied almost every day.

Ran Zhi is writing hard on the paper: "Love and respect in life, mourning in death, the foundation of life and people is exhausted, the righteousness of life and death is prepared, and the matter of filial piety is over."

Suddenly, a confidant took Ran Ming to build a city of eighteen li in 42 days.

Ran Zhi asked back: "The news is true!"

"Don't dare to lie to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince! The villain has sent people to confirm again and again, the information is accurate!"

"How is it possible, how is it possible!" The pen in Ran Zhi's hand fell on the paper, and the ink stained a large area of ​​the "Book of Filial Piety" that had been copied.

Ran Zhi secretly sighed in his heart: "Could it be that this lonely brother is really destined by fate? Otherwise, how could he build such a city in such a short period of time! The largest stone in it is more than [-] catties, how can people lift such a heavy stone?" stones."

Thinking of this, Prince Ran Zhi couldn't help trembling with fear.

Immediately, Ran Zhi regained the clarity in his head, "Even if you have divine help, what can you do? You are about to become Wei's ambassador to Jin Dynasty and go to the Eastern Jin Dynasty! The Eastern Jin Dynasty is not a place where you can make trouble. Besides, there is no future... "

Ran Zhi thought of this, and a charming smile appeared on his face: "Change the lantern at the door at night and replace it with a pink one. I think the pink lantern is pleasing to the eye!"

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)