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Chapter 19 explores Li Yuan's attitude

Perhaps because Chen Ying's semantics were not clear, Ge Tong took out the planning model and sent it to Chen Ying, Chen Ying was still a little reluctant to build this manor into a steel workshop.

Looking at the lifelike model, the future Chenjiazhuang Ming Hall, wings, elegant houses, pavilions, pavilions, small bridges...... It is surrounded by deep ditches and high walls, and the internal houses are adjacent, and the four corners are built with the central tower tower.

Ge Tong was not very literate and eloquent, but his craftsmanship was good, and he was not only proficient in machinery and smelting, but also in woodworking. With only his hands and poor tools, he actually created a three-foot square model.

In Ge Tong's plan for Chen Ying, the future of Chenjiazhuang will be centered on Chen's Ming Hall, separating eight courtyards and twenty-four small courtyards on both sides, and in front of Ming Hall is a Yong Road, with a width of 12 steps and a length of about 168 steps, on this straight Yong Road, it will pass through the inner four and outer four or eight courtyard walls, and the courtyard walls around are as high as four zhang high, in fact, they have been out of the scope of the courtyard wall, and the blue brick wall outside the courtyard wall is about three feet six inches thick, forming a dock fort-style building.

There are even plans to build a ditch to connect Bashui and enter the Wei River from Bashui, forming a water transportation system from Chenjiazhuang to the outside world. This artificial ditch not only undertakes the water transportation of Chenjiawu Fort in the future, but also acts as a moat.

At this time, looking at this model of Chenjiazhuang, Chen Ying was full of emotion. What Ge Tong took out was not an ordinary village, but a dock fort.

Dock Fort, also known as Dock Wall, is a kind of civil defensive building, which was formed during the reign of Wang Mang Tianfeng, when there was a great hunger in the north and social turmoil. In order to protect themselves, the families of the rich built the walls of the dock forts. After the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty had ordered the destruction of the dock fort, but the ban could not be stopped, because the people in the northwest often suffered from the Qiang troubles, and the people automatically organized self-defense forces. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Wubao was stationed with a large number of troops and family soldiers, and became a haven for old officials and guests.

Because the construction of such a dock fort, the cost is quite large, generally more than ten times more expensive than the ordinary house, once the peaceful years, it will slowly decrease, but in the Wuhu Rebellion period, some Han people were forced to leave their hometowns, clothes moved south, and some Han people did not want to stay away from their homeland, but during the Wuhu period, Zhuhu slaughtered Han people like pigs and sheep, and the dock forts that had gradually become extinct rose up in the Central Plains. For example, when Fu Jian captured the annexation of the state, he had more than 100 dock forts surrendered and more than 200,000 people.

Ge Tong lived in Shuozhou, since the end of the Sui Dynasty, Shuozhou often faced the invasion of the Turks, Shuozhou Han landlords and heroes, in order to protect themselves, built a dock fort-style building complex, such a dock fort, in fact, is a small city, when attacked by the Turks, you can build a fort to protect yourself.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, this kind of dock fort formed a local regimental training, but in the era of thermal weapons, this kind of dock fort complex gradually disappeared from the Chinese building system.

As a general, looking at this model with a radius of no more than three feet, Chen Ying subconsciously put his position on the attacking side, and finally reluctantly found that a dock fort like this, if there is enough food and equipment, three or five hundred guards, can at least deal with the attack of the enemy below the scale of five thousand, and can be held at the minimum cost. If you want to break through such a fortress, there is no other way than to fill it with human lives. Just to fill a ditch fifty paces wide and two zhang deep is a huge project, and under the suppression of the arrow tower with eight arrows as high as six zhang, the work of filling the trench will be a bloody road.

Chen Ying didn't want to put his life in the hands of others. As soon as he could, he thought of building this Chenjiazhuang, no, Chenjiabao at all costs, at least to protect himself, his family, and future generations in the future.

However, to complete such a huge complex of buildings, the difficulty is no less than the construction of a small city on the ground, the cost of money and food, will be an astronomical amount, to build a city, the government can come forward to levy labor, conscription of the people to bring their own dry food to serve, then the main expenses, nothing more than bricks and wood, the cost is much lower.

However, Chen Ying wants to build such a dock fort, not only need to bear the cost of recruitment, but also bear the workers' accommodation, wages, and a large number of building materials, especially in the era when there is no steel bar and cement, the building adhesive is made of glutinous rice juice, but there is no glutinous rice in Guanzhong, it needs to be transported from Jiangnan, a stone of glutinous rice in Jiangnan is less than 50 yuan, but when it is transported to Guanzhong, it has been more than three times higher than the grid, so Chen Ying's construction cost will be more than three times higher than that of the official building.

However, Chen Ying really didn't want to waste such a good idea of Ge Tong. So Chen Ying tried to ask: "Deputy Governor Ge, do you estimate how much manpower and how much grain will be needed to build this dock fort?" How much time does it take? ”

Ge Tong thought for a while and said: "Back to Grandpa, the little old man has made a rough calculation, it is necessary to use 500 people to dig the ditch, and 200 people to transport the excavated soil to the dock fort to burn bricks and fill the mud wall, and build a house, in fact, it doesn't take too many people to build a house, roughly 200 people are enough, and a hundred carpenters ...... build the house."

"So it takes at least a thousand?"

"Almost, a thousand people will work for two years!"

Chen Ying silently calculated in his heart that two-thirds of the 1,000 people were small workers and one-third were big workers. Small workers are easy to solve, one person has 12 yuan a day plus three liters of grain, plus salt, oil, vegetables, and meat, and it almost costs about 30 yuan, which can basically be sent away. The key is that craftsmen, especially skilled craftsmen, their prices are not low, some family craftsmen worship, for example, you can get three to twelve times, Chen Ying naturally invites not famous craftsmen, to the monthly calculation of skilled craftsmen three times, only one salary. More than 300 craftsmen, plus 6 or 700 small workers, will cost more than 30,000 yuan.

This has to be added to the cost of stone, wood, lacquer, hemp rope, and coal for burning bricks and tiles, and 50,000 guan can't be sustained at all, and if you can't get it right, it will cost 100,000 kan, and maybe even more.

Chen Ying himself has money, a lot of money, but it is really a drop in the bucket compared to building a century-old foundation and a dock fort that has been passed down through the ages.

Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "Deputy Governor Ge, you go and get busy first, prepare according to this model first, and I'll figure out a way to deal with the money!" ”

Chen Ying sat on the soft couch and stared at the model in front of him in a daze.

Chen Ying's question is not only about money, but also about whether Li Yuan will be more afraid of him. Anyway, this dock fort is still very far from being built, and even if you want to see the clues, it will be at least three or five months later. Chen Ying thought about it and decided to wait for Li Xiuning to return to Chang'an, and let Li Xiuning go to explore Li Yuan's bottom.

In front of Chen Ying, Li Yuan was finally a hurdle that could not be bypassed, and if Li Yuan did not agree, this dock fort would not be built at all. If you forcibly build it, you can only spend money in vain in the end, and Chen Yingcai will not do such a big wrong.