It is very appropriate to use the word "ever-changing" to describe Qinwangzhuang. Zhu Youzhen has only been away for a few days, and not only the magnificent city wall has begun to take shape, but various buildings in the city have also sprung up like mushrooms after a rain under the planning.

Since the walls were divided into two sections, the inner city was built close to the original outer moat. And within the original inner moat, it has become a city within a city, which has the flavor of a royal city. Most of the core buildings of Qinwangzhuang, including the Qinwangfu, the medical center, the primary school, the money village, the strategic reserve, etc., are distributed here. Of course, there is still a large area of vacant land left here for the establishment of other important departments in the future.

Between the two moats, there are ordinary people's dwellings and the Qinwangzhuang canteen. There is not much space reserved here, and Zhu Youzhen mainly intends to build some commercial facilities here, such as post stations, inns, tea shops, restaurants, and various shops.

With these facilities, on the one hand, Qinwangzhuang can become a fully functional and truly city, which can meet the various needs of the people's life; On the other hand, if residents spend here, their salaries can quickly flow back to Zhu Youzhen.

This can be regarded as a simple way to stimulate domestic demand, because Zhu Youzhen came from his previous life and studied economics, so he naturally understands the simple truth that "domestic demand is the fundamental driving force for economic growth."

Outside the inner city wall and inside the outer city wall is the outer city, which is also the newly opened up area of this city construction. Important facilities such as brick factories, arsenals, militia camps, septic tanks, etc., are located here. Of course, there used to be some farmland here, but all of it was bought by Zhu Youzhen at a high price, and then the land was leveled to prepare for the construction of new facilities.

In Zhu Youzhen's vision, in addition to building more houses and accommodating more foreign population, the outer city is mainly improving its defensive function at this stage. In the event of a strong enemy attacking, you can temporarily abandon the outer city and retreat into the inner city to hold on, while engaging in street battles with the enemy in the outer city.

Therefore, when the outer city was still relatively empty, Zhu Youzhen asked the workers to build a lot of strong fortifications here. For example, a small fortress made of bluestone, which is as high as a zhangxu, has no doors on all sides, and only has four small windows at the top, and the interior is connected to other fortresses through tunnels.

Once the enemy army enters the city, the birdmen and archers can hide in the fortified fortress and shoot condescendingly. If the enemy army wants to take the fortress, it will have to take a lot of effort. If the fortress can't be defended, we can slip through the tunnel. And if the enemy dares to go into the tunnels to pursue, the tunnels can trap them underground.

Of course, in addition to these permanent fortifications, there are also many deer barricades and barbed wire on the ground, which can also be used to delay the enemy's attack. If the enemy attacks, it will take a lot of effort just to clean up these things, and the bird gunners can take this opportunity to carry out ** target shooting exercises in a good way.

And the city wall, which played a decisive role in the defense of the city, was the place where Zhu Youzhen spent the most thought. In his conception, the main force defending the city must be artillery. Although the artillery technology is not very mature now, and he only has two captured Franc cannons, he must adhere to the general direction of replacing cold weapons with hot weapons.

In the previous battles of Zunhua and Ningyuan, once the enemy was close to the city wall, due to the angle, the artillery could not exert its power, and it had to temporarily dig holes in the city wall. In view of this, this time Zhu Youzhen specially reserved a lot of artillery positions on the city wall, and made a stone gate for activities here. When the stone door is opened, the cannon can be fired immediately; And when the stone gate was closed, the enemy still could not rush in.

Of course, no matter what kind of building it is, Zhu Youzhen can only provide a general idea, and the specific design and construction still rely on Sun Chuanting and his skilled craftsmen, as well as thousands of workers.

But seeing that it was about to come to the mangzhong solar term, the workers were actually still farmers, and they always had to go home to harvest, so Zhu Youzhen had to give them a seven-day long vacation. Therefore, most of the buildings are now in a state of semi-shutdown, and only the "temporary workers" from Xi'an are still busy. However, after all, their working hours are short, and they still lack some skills, mainly doing some work that only requires hard work, such as transporting bricks and taking soil.

Zhu Youzhen was also helpless in this regard. For thousands of years, farmers have been firmly bound to the land, and the vast majority of all food and clothing comes from their own production. If you can't produce it, you have to make do with it, and this is the so-called small-scale peasant economy, or natural economy.

In the West, it was not until the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the mid-eighteenth century that the small-scale peasant economy was gradually replaced by a commodity economy. In China, it lasted until the 20th century, which is also the fundamental reason why China seriously lagged behind the world's advanced countries in modern times.

Although Zhu Youzhen tried his best to change this situation and had already made great efforts to build a contingent of workers, only by carrying out a fundamental reform of the agricultural ownership system and mode of production could this contingent of workers completely get rid of the identity of peasant households. And this reform, Zhu Youzhen wants to wait until after the harvest to carry out at the same time.

However, when everyone arrived at the south gate of the outer city, Rui'er, who had returned to Qinwangzhuang to recuperate from her injuries, had already received the news. The visit of two princess-level figures is the first time in the short history of Qin Wangzhuang. Therefore, Rui'er also attached great importance to it, and led all the members of the Qin Wangfu and the entire regiment of the militia to line up to greet them.

When everyone saw each other, they were booing and asking for warmth. Especially Qi Meifeng, Bao Yulian and Qiu Linna, they have formed a deep friendship in one vicious battle after another, and they even hugged their heads and cried when they met, and they couldn't tell their past feelings. Knowing that Bao Yulian was pregnant, Qi Meifeng was even more surprised, and couldn't help gently caressing Bao Yulian's slightly bulging lower abdomen, but a trace of jealousy surged in her heart!

Bao Yulian naturally understood her thoughts, and whispered to her with a smile: "Does Sister Meifeng like children very much?" Why don't you give birth to one too! ”

Qi Meifeng's face turned red when she heard this, and she couldn't help but use her fingers to gently scrape Bao Yulian's noodles, and shouted repeatedly: "No shame, no shame!" ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled bitterly when he saw this, thinking that three women are in one play, and now the beauties around him are getting together more and more, how to get along in the future, I'm afraid it will be a big headache!

After entering the city, Zhu Youzhen first took everyone to visit the whole city, and he also took the opportunity to check the progress of the project. After that, there was a simple and warm dinner in the big canteen, there was no wine on the table, and there was no delicacies from the mountains and seas, and everyone ate exactly the same as the workers.

Everyone else knows Zhu Youzhen's habits, but Zhu Cunqi and Li Zhenyan admire him even more. As a royal family, they have seen more princes, but none of them are as frugal and diligent as Zhu Youzhen!

After the meal was over, Zhu Youzhen let everyone go to the inner mansion of King Qin's mansion for a crucial meeting!