September 12 of the seventh year of Chongzhen. Among them, there were 110 men, 75 adults, and 35 young men. One hundred and twenty women, eighty-four women over thirteen years old, and thirty-six young girls under thirteen years old.

These people, Wang Dou, instructed Zhong Rong to register them one by one, and issued two copies of the first and second copies, some of whom turned out to be refugees, and also signed military household posts for them, and recorded their names in the yellow book of military registration, and their families have been military households in Jingbian Fort for generations.

Jingbian Fort now has a total of 55 military households, with more than 200 mouths, all of which are real numbers, and among the several tun forts in Shunxiang Fort, it can be regarded as a relatively large scale. For the time being, these people are living in a nest built on the west side of Jingbiandun, and for a time this side has formed a village and town.

With the recruitment of the population, the construction of Jingbian Fort is also imminent.

On the thirteenth, Han Chao and Qi Tianliang were ordered by Wang Dou to go to Dongjiazhuang and Shunxiang Fort to recruit some mud and water civil carpenters to come and negotiate the construction of the fort.

In the evening of the same day, the two Koreans returned, bringing back seven or eight ragged craftsmen. Qi Tianliang had already negotiated with them, and in terms of wages, in addition to daily food and lodging, he needed to give one cent of silver every day, and Wang Dou agreed to them.

When these craftsmen saw Wang Dou agree, they were all overjoyed, and the food for this winter finally had a whereabouts.

These people are all generations of craftsmen, and they have participated in the construction of many castles and the construction and planning of Jingbian Fort, in fact, they are familiar with the road. After a few days of walking around Jingbian Pier, they quickly came up with a plan of the castle, including the division of the streets, the location of the wells, the location of the temples and the locations of the houses, as well as the future fort wall, the fort gate, the battlements on the fort wall, the firing port and other defensive facilities.

In terms of site selection, their opinions are also in line with Wang Dou, and they all decided to build a fortress along the south direction of Jingbian pier, first, so that the defense is more reliable, and secondly, the Jingbian pier was originally built on a raised hillock, and the terrain is from high to low, which is conducive to the drainage of the castle to prevent the trouble of rain and waterlogging in the future.

The drawings are good, the location is not a problem, the key is the cost of building the castle.

According to Lu Xiangsheng's calculations, in the Ming Dynasty, it cost 200 taels of silver to build a fire pier, 600 taels of silver to build a tower, and more than 700 taels of silver and more than 600 stones of grain to build a small castle with a circumference of more than one mile. In this world, there is a lack of entertainment, what entertainment can there be except to visit the temple and watch the play? I think that when I am young in the future, I can go to the stage to watch the play, which is the greatest enjoyment.

This is the general pattern of Jingbian Fort, and it is time to start work. Wang Dou gave an order, and all the residents of Jingbian Fort, except for children, all men and women went into battle together, and everyone must build their homes diligently.

For a time, the residents of Jingbian Fort, both men and women, were holding hoes, dustpans, and baskets, and just went to the periphery of the fort to dig and pick up soil. Even the children are sensible and helpful.

However, the construction of fort walls and barracks can be rammed with loess, and the soil can be taken on the spot, which does not require any material money, only needs to spend some food and labor, and some money is unavoidable.

For example, the foundation of the house in the city and the foundation of the city wall need stones, and these stones also require the stone to be hard and not easy to weather, and bluestone is the best. In particular, the foundation of the masonry city wall needs to be five feet deep and four feet wide.

There are also wells, this is the first priority to build a fort, dozens of households can not all go to the river to fetch water to drink, a small fort needs at least three wells of water, the underground water sources in Baoan Prefecture are abundant, so the well can generally be drilled to more than 20 zhang to produce water, and the water quality is mostly clear and sweet, I heard that some places in Shanxi and Shaanxi need to drill wells up to thirty or forty zhang deep, or even fifty or sixty zhang to see water.

However, even if the well is only more than 20 zhang deep, in order to avoid collapse, it is also necessary to use bricks and stones to repair, so the amount of stone used in the deep well is also a lot.

The land around Jingbian Fort is empty, there is nowhere to quarry, you can only go to Luanzhuang or the mountains around Shunxiang Fort to quarry, in fact, Luanzhuang is closer to Jingbian Fort, but it is under the jurisdiction of Wubao, and Shunxiang Fort is different from the thousand households, you can only go to the surrounding mountains of Shunxiang Fort to quarry.

The stone quarry there is far away from Jingbianbao Road, and the cost of mining and transportation must be very large, and in addition to the stone, the construction of the roof beams of the barracks and warehouses in various places also requires wood, which is also a great expense.

Wang Dou sent more than 20 men to let the Han Dynasty lead them to the mountains of Shunxiang Fort to quarry stones, and in order to facilitate the transportation of stones, he also went to Shunxiang Fort to hire several mules, horses and ox carts.

After the well was built, the soldiers and civilians of Dongjiazhuang nearby heard about it, and some people came to watch, and they were all envious after watching.

In addition to this well, through the daily efforts of more than 100 adult men and women in Jingbian Fort these days, several barracks, warehouses, and forage yards in the fort have gradually become large-scale, although they are simple, but at least they can shelter from the wind and rain. Everyone moved out of the nest one after another and lived in the barracks, and this winter, it was finally not too cold.

The foundations of the city wall outside are still being built, and the Jingbian Fort is still dirty, and the streets that have been carved out are still full of dirt, and there are stones, wood, and all kinds of garbage everywhere, but there is finally a rudimentary form of a castle.

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Old White Cow:

Thank you for your support.

Another return to the Tang Dynasty book friends: the silver price of rice, flour, cattle and other silver in Chapter 23 is based on the real historical materials of the late Ming Dynasty, note: In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the price of rice in Neihuang County, Henan Province was 700 Wen per bucket, the price of beans was 400 Wen per bucket, the price of pork was 250 Wen per catty, the price of a big cow was 7,000 Wen, and the price of a calf was 4,000 Wen. In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the heavy rain in Jiaxing Mansion in Zhejiang Province became a disaster, the price of rice rose to 6 taels and 1 stone, and the price of pigs rose to 7 taels and 1 mouth, which was equivalent to the price of cattle.

In addition, in the Ming generation, it was a big crime to slaughter a cultivated cattle, and even if there were sick cattle or dying cattle in the family, they had to report to the government for approval before slaughtering. No one buys ploughing cattle to eat, and it really doesn't matter how much a cow weighs more than a stone of rice.

Back to the day - pay attention to book friends: In the north of the Ming Dynasty at that time, one acre of land to pay taxes and grain two buckets has been very taxed, at that time the yield of wheat per mu was only seven or eight buckets, and the good fertile land was only more than one stone of grain. I asked the protagonist to levy two buckets of grain per mu in the future, and said that readers would blame the protagonist for being too ruthless, but I didn't expect you to be more ruthless than me.

Huihe Book Friend: Please refer to Chapter 3 of this book for this question.