From July to September, the flood waves are very comfortable, the summer on the plateau is sunny but not very hot, as soon as the sun sets, a small cool breeze immediately appears, and you have to cover yourself with a thin blanket at night, which is very comfortable.

The construction of Liangzhou City is also very smooth, this kind of clinker made of limestone and clay is combined with iron-making slag milled into fine powder, the adhesion and strength are still good.

With its addition, the gravel hewn down from Wusheling Ridge, although the shape is very irregular, can still be built into a wall at a very fast speed, and then reinforced with iron bars at intervals, which cannot be said to be indestructible, but it is really difficult to destroy with the current siege methods.

It is not easy to dig tunnels, because there is a two-meter-deep foundation under the city wall, and if you brave the attack on the city to dig a tunnel more than two meters deep, I am afraid that you will have to use a shield machine.

Moreover, the new Liangzhou City is not only a slab-like city wall, with arrow towers and prominent corner platforms built at the four corners, and horse faces every 100 meters. Siege crossbows were set on the horses' faces, all within effective range of each other, forming crossfire.

The moat has not been excavated for the time being, and Hong Tao is not in a hurry to dig it. Whether such a city wall has a moat or not is almost the same, as long as the iron gate on the outside of the city gate is dropped, it is difficult to destroy both the city wall and the city gate, even if there is black powder, it is a little troublesome, there is no place to plug it.

The city gates of the outer city were reduced to four, and only the west gate and the south gate were usually opened, and the city was still empty, and only a few caravans that were determined to come to Liangzhou for development were building their own shops and warehouses, among which there was the Wang family, and it was the largest.

I have to say that these maritime merchants still have a very far-sighted vision, and they are not fooled if they have dates or not. If this trend continues, the future Wang family will inevitably go hand in hand by sea and land, and the future is immeasurable.

At present, the city wall is not yet completed, and it is being raised day by day, and it is estimated that it will be about the same in another month. Its height is three zhang and five feet, that is, thirty-five square feet, which is converted to 1,120 centimeters in the metric system.

In fact, it can be built higher, but there are four zhang of Kaifeng City first, and no matter how high it is, it is against the system. Don't look at the Liangzhou city wall, which is only more than one meter shorter than Kaifeng, but its structure is more than twice as small.

The foundation of Kaifeng Outer City is five feet wide and nine feet, which is larger than the height, because the building materials at this time can only be firm if the foundation is made wider and the top gradually shrinks to form a trapezoid.

But with lime, the slope can be reduced, and the foundation of Liangzhou City is only three feet and five feet wide, but the top is two feet and three feet wide, and it looks almost straight up and down

In this way, it can not only save a lot of stone and lime, but also greatly save labor and speed up construction. That is, the lime output cannot keep up, otherwise Hong Tao can use a part of the stone plus a large amount of lime and steel bars, and use wooden formwork to shorten the construction period to less than three months.

Just imagine, when the new army came across a strategic point on the way west, the enemy had just prepared food and grass and gathered troops, and ran all the way to the place to take a look, dumbfounded.

There is a fortified city here, there is no need to be as big as Liangzhou, it only needs to be a quarter of the size, enough for the sparsely populated nomads to drink a pot.

If it is changed to build a smaller walled fort, it is estimated that a string can be built in two months, and the large-scale construction corps Hong Tao alone can squeeze the nomads' activity area smaller and smaller, and eventually lock them up for life.

The matter of building a city does not need Hong Tao's too much attention, the new army was originally a box soldier, and what they are best at is not actually fighting, but building houses, digging rivers, repairing canals, and cultivating wasteland.

Just after the promulgation of the reclamation order, the first to respond was not the Wang family, nor the residents of Huangzhou, but the soldiers of the New Army. As soon as they heard that they could get 200 acres of land of their own, and that there was no mortgage, they were eager to immediately throw away their armor and steel crossbows, replace them with hoes, and start farming.

Of course, Hong Tao will definitely not abandon his martial arts, and the new army has changed to pioneers, who will fight for himself. But what should the soldiers of the Forces nouvelles not be prohibited from obtaining their own land reasonably and legally? It's easy, and then sign the agreement.

After three years of service, each recruit of the new army will receive a piece of cultivated land, starting with 50 acres. If the soldier has served for five years and has not died, and has not made any military exploits, he can choose to retire, and the cultivated land is 100 acres at this time. The nature of this 100 acres of land is completely different from that of the pioneers, because this kind of land is completely exempt from taxation, and there is no tax to pay until death.

Generally speaking, a soldier of the New Army will not fail to achieve an inch of merit after serving for five years, because the casualty rate of the New Army is very low, and the winning rate is very high. As the merit increases, so does the cultivated land.

However, the maximum can only reach 500 acres, and it is not possible to pick good land at will, and the good and bad mix will be assigned by the local New Army resettlement department. The location is not limited to Liangzhou, maybe it is Ganzhou, maybe it is Guazhou or some other place.

Anyway, every time the new army occupied a piece of land that did not belong to the Great Song Dynasty, it would reserve a part of the soldiers to reclaim the wasteland. This is the reward for joining the new army and obeying the command to go into battle to kill the enemy.

Any property and land in the world look so pale compared to each other, and it is precisely through this means that Hong Tao wants to firmly control the new army in his own hands, and no one can afford to replace him, including Emperor Shenzong.

This has the added advantage of achieving relative security in the occupied areas at a very small cost. Although these soldiers of the new army have retired, the combat skills they have cultivated over the years will not disappear because of the change of status.

If there is an enemy attack or a rebellion by the locals, as long as the scale is not too large, they can spontaneously organize other pioneers to resist together, and they will resist very strongly. It is much more effective than the local group training and archers currently conducted by the Northern Song Dynasty court, after all, these people are veterans who have been on the battlefield with real knives and guns and are like murderers.

In this way, it is equivalent to hiding the troops from the people, and all that is required for Hong Tao or the Great Song government is not to oppress them excessively, and by the way, to distribute a part of the enemy equipment captured in each battle to the pioneers. Those things were not only useless for the new army, but also a burden.

Everything has side effects, but are there any side effects? Absolutely, and in some ways it's huge. According to the habitual thinking of the Northern Song court, hiding troops from the people was the most dangerous, and they would rather be bullied by foreign countries than have any rebel forces inside.

Once the imperial court forces these veterans to retreat because of something, they are likely to choose to fight by force in order to keep their homeland. Once this matter is reacted to by the Great Song Dynasty, it must be paid more attention than the Western Xia people to Kaifeng City, and the outcome will be endless.

Is it possible to avoid or lessen this side effect? At present, neither Hong Tao nor the Northern Song Dynasty court can do this, and some changes must be made to ensure that these people have the right to defend their own safety, and this right must be divided from the Northern Song court.

Yes, it's a point and not a grab. Hong Tao grabbed it once in his previous life, and the effect was not satisfactory. If you are used to grabbing things, the next time you encounter a problem, the first thing that comes to mind is not negotiation and compromise, but the use of force. Even if it was his father standing opposite, he would rush forward without hesitation.

In this life, Hong Tao plans to change it, don't fight with martial arts, the difficulty must be a bit big, but it's worth trying. In fact, he is not willing to do things that are too difficult, they are all seven stars in the same palace, so they can be regarded as half-immortal bodies, and then rely on their fists to solve problems like others.

Summer in the highlands is pleasant, but in autumn it is a little uncomfortable. When I woke up in the morning, the temperature was less than 10 degrees, and people were very reluctant to leave the warm bed.

At noon, the sun was scorching, the temperature was approaching 20 degrees, and I had to take off my thick clothes if I couldn't wear them. When the sun sets in the west, you have to put on a few more pieces and even more.

Why do the Tibetan herdsmen wear a thick leather jacket all year round? Sometimes I put it on, sometimes I take it off halfway. It's not that they don't know hot and cold, but it's precisely to adapt to this climate.

Wear it all when it's cold, take off one sleeve when it's hot, or simply wrap your upper body around your waist and wear it whenever it's cold, eliminating the trouble of going back and forth to change clothes, because there is not so much space on horseback.