When Dong Ce came, Zhang Han was writing in the house-

Although there was a fire in the house, and there were two fires, the walls were leaky, and it was still as cold as an ice cellar. Zhang Han sat at the table upright, writing uprightly. It was cold, but his hands were steady and he didn't tremble in the slightest. The words written are Yan Ti, which already has a bit of charm. However, Dong Ce felt that he should not be as well written as his own willow style.

Seeing Dong Ce enter the door, Zhang Han was very surprised, quickly got up, stepped aside, and bowed: "Your Excellency is here, and it is shining." If you miss the distance, please forgive your sins. ”

"You're really fluffy here, it's too simple." Dong Ce looked around and sighed: "There will be a lot of houses built in the city, leaving you a yard?" It's too cold in winter here, and if you live for a long time, I'm afraid you'll hurt yourself. ”

"Thank you, thank you, for your understanding." Zhang Han shook his head again and said with a smile: "It's just that although this place is simple, it is quiet, and I have been used to living here." I really don't want to change it again. ”

Dong Ce stretched out his hand and nodded at him: "I expected you to say this a long time ago, and I won't force you." That's it, it's okay not to move, I know, you can't afford to renovate. Then find a few people and decorate the inside for you, add some wood, and keep the wind and rain out. How? ”

Zhang Han didn't want to say anything more, so he quickly thanked him.

Dong Ce pointed to Ji Changyun and Song Heilang behind him, and said, "This is Ji Changyun Ji Dane, and the black guy is his long-term follower." Dane is also a talented person, you are all scholars, so you should be closer. ”

Ji Changyun stepped forward and saluted: "I have seen my predecessors in my later life. ”

Although I don't know where Ji Changyun came from, since it was Dong Ce who brought him personally, Zhang Han was also very polite, and quickly helped him up, and said with a smile: "It's very polite to be so polite, there is a way to learn in no order, and the master is the teacher." We scholars, no matter how old you are, maybe you are still ahead of me. ”

The two of them exchanged pleasantries.

Dong Ce said with a smile: "From today onwards, Dane is going to be an errand in our fort, and now there is no place to live, so how about getting together with you?" ”

Zhang Han was stunned for a moment, and said happily: "This is very good, I can talk to Dane at night." ”

Dong Ce nodded and smiled: "Then entrust him to you." ”

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Back in the house, Red Sleeves and the eldest girl and the second girl saw the master come back, and they were naturally overjoyed.

After taking a breath and resting for half an hour, Dong Ce went to the workshop with the bag of money.

When you go out of the house, you can see the construction site in front of you.

Compared with the last time Dong Ce came back, it has changed here.

The ground has been leveled, although it is not as smooth as a mirror, but the big potholes are gone, they have been filled in or bulldozed, and there are only some small bumps and bumps on the ground. On the left and right sides of the open space in front of Dong Ce's mansion, there are two rows of houses, with a total of four rows on the left and right. These four rows of houses are all built of bricks and tiles, almost no adobe, very tall and sturdy, with blue bricks and green tiles, and the bottom two feet of the wall are surrounded by stones. There are also two steps below, indicating that the foundation is also very high.

Each row of houses is about 40 meters long from north to south and 8 meters wide from east to west, and is divided into 10 rooms. Each room is eight meters long, four meters wide, and has an area of thirty-two square meters, and this one is the residence of twelve people in a mandarin duck array. Thirty-two square meters, twelve people, even down to each person is very limited. But this is a barracks, where is there so much exquisiteness? It's already good to have a three-foot cone. You don't see the Beipiao family who rented a house in the emperor's capital in later generations, and they all lived in bunks in the basement, and I am afraid that they don't even have this little living space.

Each room is independent, with separate doors and windows, and is not connected to each other.

These four rows of barracks, forty large rooms, are enough to accommodate 480 soldiers, which is almost the largest number of troops that Dong Ce can support and equip himself.

Of course, only at this stage.

Behind the two rows of barracks, in the area between the inner city walls, there is still an open space that can be rebuilt in the future.

Li Gui and a bunch of other people were busy there, Dong Ce didn't go over to look, the barracks had basically been completed, and now they were going to the door, going to the windows, cleaning the inside, checking the solidity of the kang and so on. He believed that no one dared to disobey his orders in this matter. Do your best to do it, where is the reason for what went wrong? When the time comes, it will be inspected and accepted directly after completion.

The workshop is still lively.

In the entire Rock Castle, the blacksmiths and carpenters of the workshop are considered to be a group of people with a fairly high status, of course, relative to the common people.

They were able to live in the city, and their food was much better than that of the common people, and they were given more rice and noodles, and from time to time they were given some pork and salted fish. And their wives and children don't have to work every day, they just need to clean up at home and bask in the sun.

And after I heard that he was promoted to a first-class craftsman, he was also paid a salary of silver every month - but it was a fine silver for white flowers. And after being promoted to a first-level craftsman, you can go up again, and the higher you rise, the more silver you will receive every month. God, where do we ordinary people go to find this good thing? Isn't it all day long that they are just striking iron, sawing wood, or whatever, and it's nothing remarkable.

The workshop is now managed by Zhou Bo, so Dong Ce went this time, accompanied by him, and Wang Tong took Dong Yongzhen and another family member as guards. After these few very good performances, Dong Ce now attaches great importance to Dong Yongzhen, and often uses him as a guard, which is really the number one hitter. Of course, Bai Zhongqi's long-term entourage is indispensable, speaking of which, Dong Ce and he haven't seen each other for a few days, so they have said a few words.

The scale of the workshop became larger and larger, and it was expanded to each side by three or five feet, adding several workshops. The family courtyard of the workshop at the back has also been expanded. This piece is relatively well-preserved in the original city, and it should be a small barracks, all built of stone, very strong, although it is now a lot of dilapidated, but the foundation is still there, and it can be inhabited with a little renovation.

Dong Ce's workshop team was sixteen at the beginning, eleven blacksmiths, two plasterers, and three carpenters, all of whom were recruited from Ninglubao.

The two plasterers are the best to mix, and most of them have participated in the pier castles west of Xi'an Fort, and now they have been greatly used. They participated in the design of the entire rock fort, and now they are leading people to build all kinds of things, and they already belong to the people, and Li Gui and others are very polite to them.

The carpenters were in an awkward position at first, they had little work to do, and they were idle there all day, and many people said behind their backs that they were idle meals. But then, when the Rock Fort was overhauled and rebuilt, wood was needed everywhere, and they immediately became very busy, some of them followed the construction team around, and some of them stayed in the workshop to work all day and build all kinds of utensils.

The gossip immediately disappeared.

Later, Li Gui saw that there were not enough carpenters, so he suggested that Dong Ce recruit, so he recruited seven more people through Zhao Dahui's connections, and now there are enough ten people.

As for the blacksmith, they are always recruited. Dong Ce has spoken, as long as Zhao General Assembly sends someone over, he will immediately pay the money. Especially the blacksmith who can make firearms, the price is not a problem, even if he spends a lot of money to buy it directly from the guard, he will immediately make up for the silver. One counts as one, and in addition to money, there are also favors.

The favor of a promising young military general is extremely precious to a businessman with a little power like Zhao Dahui, and he naturally spares no effort. You can make money and sell favors, why not? Besides, after the news of the good treatment of Rock Fort spread, many blacksmiths rushed to come - Dong Ce was a little sad when he heard it, being able to manage the whole family to eat well was considered a good treatment, Daming is in this world!

At the beginning, there were eleven people, all of whom had been armed, three of whom had fought with armor leaves and one with firearms. Later, Zhao sent five more blacksmiths, one of whom had beaten a torch and one had beaten a nail leaf. For this reason, Dong Ce took out another twenty taels of silver. After that, seventeen more came, and it was not until three days ago that a family had just moved in, and that family was an ancestral craft. A large family of eight, the old man, two sons, and the fifteen-year-old grandson, are all blacksmiths. It is even rumored that the second daughter-in-law with a big waist and a round waist is a good hand at picking up a hammer.

The workshop under Dong Ce's command has grown step by step from scratch, and now there are almost fifty people, and weapons such as firecrackers and spears can be produced by themselves, which can be regarded as beginning to take shape.

However, Dong Ce was not satisfied with the status quo, and when he thought of the blacksmith shop that stretched for dozens of miles outside Shenyang, the capital of Jiannu, and there was no end in sight, and he didn't know how many weapons and armor could be produced in a year, his heart was full of fever.

The eldest lord came to inspect the workshop, for all craftsmen, it is a great thing, many craftsmen have not seen Dong Ce, Zhou Bo let people spread it early, and when it arrived, a cadre of people was already lined up outside in a few rows, to greet and wait. They are all flat-headed ordinary people, with shallow eyelids, they have never seen such a big official in their lives, and when they saw Dong Ce coming, they knelt on the ground one after another, saying everything, and it was a mess. Zhou Bo was a little embarrassed, and glared at Du Jianhe, Zhao Tiean, and the heads of those workshops.

Dong Ce didn't think it was a pestle, and asked everyone to get up with a smile, and pulled a few people to talk to his son. Dong Ce went to the carpenter's side first, not because he paid attention to it, on the contrary, because he didn't pay attention to it—because he planned to spend the rest of the time on the blacksmith's side. The carpenter's side is also divided into sections, and each carpenter has his own small area with his own utensils. They were clearly at work, and the floor was littered with logs, sawn planks, shaped or half-formed utensils.

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