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The new Shamen town will be the crown fortress, with a circumference of 1,200 paces, nearly two miles. The new city is square, with 300 steps on each side. Open four gates, four gates plus four urn cities, dig a deep and three zhang wide moat outside the city. The construction cost of the new castle was estimated at 50,000 yuan, 8,000 stone of grain, 3,000 laborers, and the construction period was one year.

However, Li Jing can't come up with so much money now, but he still insists on building the crown fortress in Xincheng.

"But it's hard for a good woman to cook without rice!" When the old craftsman heard that Li Jing insisted on repairing the crown fortress, but he could only come up with 10,000 yuan and 3,000 stone of grain, he couldn't help laughing. How can there be such a good thing in the world, the city will be repaired, but the money will not be available.

Li Jing smiled, stopped a few craftsmen who wanted to pick and choose, and said: "Actually, things haven't come to that point, I calculated, if we plan well and save some, it's actually okay." ”

"Then the general will tell us to come out in four, five or six, we want to see the general's ability." When several old men saw Li Jing speaking kindly, they couldn't help but rely on the old and sell the old at this time.

Li Jing's plan is very simple, since the money is not enough, then the first stage is to build only four city walls. The four walls of the city are also the most expensive because they have to be built into crown faces. Even if Li Jing only repaired four walls, the cost would be 30,000 yuan.

"The east and south walls were demolished, and the masonry materials could continue to be used. The east and south sides were rebuilt according to the requirements of the fortress walls, while the west and north sides were not completely demolished, but only the crown walls were rebuilt on the basis of the original walls, so that the cost and construction period should be much saved. ”

Only the four city walls were repaired first, and even the urn city, corner tower, city gate tower, arrow tower, and moat were not repaired first. Moreover, the reconstruction and expansion plan in the city is also left for the second and third phases. As long as the key city walls are built, in fact, the defensive power of the fortress will also be there. Safety first, and the rest can be slowly figured out.

On the worker side, Li Jing also thought about it, he had ready-made people, so why bother recruiting workers. The more than 300 strong men in the labor camp will be able to work on the construction site immediately after a month. Although the dozens of soldiers broke their legs, it would take some time to recuperate. But at most two months, I will be able to work in the fields. What's more, Li Jing now has two or three thousand young and strong women, boys and girls. These people have no work now, there are too few fields, and the workshop is not yet that large, so it is just right for them to get them all to help build the city. It's not that Li Jing doesn't give them wages, but he definitely has to save a lot. Even when it is critical. I can still make an IOU for a while or something.

Li Jing's decision was discussed and passed at the first military officer meeting in Shamen Town, which was not so much a discussion as a briefing. Li Jing said that the current security situation is urgent, and the military generals and civil servants below have no objection at all. Now that everyone has brought their families to this island, who doesn't want to make their hometown safer.

After unanimous agreement. Full-scale construction of the castle began immediately. First of all, the foundations of the new walls were drawn outside the original castle on the east and south sides, and then the original two walls were demolished while the foundations were excavated. The new city was much larger than the original, and was as big as the original three. In addition to the preservation of the buildings in the original castle, the newly expanded area in the southeast is the two large ones in the original castle.

In the new urban area in the southeast, a neat tofu-like residential area was first demarcated. The area is divided into nine squares by tic-tac-toe streets. The south side is reserved for residential areas. It is divided into nine squares and four main streets. And on the opposite side of the residential square. To the northeast, there is a preset office area, where the general's office and other staff offices in Shamen Town will be built, and the grain depot, armory and other warehouses will be set up in this area. This area also reserves a lot of open space, which is specially designed for the construction of several special venues such as the school, the square field, the martial arts field, the stage, and the Dragon King Hall of the East China Sea.

To the northwest near the old city is the newly zoned Buddhist temple, Taoist temple, and the new market area for shops and trade. In the future, after the construction of the new city, the original old castle area will be completely transformed into a workshop area. At that time, the southeast was a residential area, the northeast was an office area, the northwest was a city area, and the south was a workshop area, and life and work were completely separated. Each workshop should also be equipped with a workshop wall and a door.

This planning can be said to be very good, if the new city is built, it will be able to fully accommodate all the people under Li Jing to live in the city. At the groundbreaking ceremony, Li Jing made a public promise to the thousands of soldiers and their families that all the soldiers who participated in the construction of the city would be able to enjoy one of the nine residential settlements in the city after the new city was built.

As soon as this sentence came out, the enthusiasm of the soldiers and their families who had just moved over and were still living in the nests that had been dug out of the ground were all temporarily dug up. More than 6,000 people, a family of all ages went into battle, and Qi Qi said that he didn't need wages at all, just took care of the food. Everyone doesn't care about the hard work, they just hope to build a new city as soon as possible and share a house of their own.

When Li Jing saw this, he was also happy to have this good thing. However, some of them have their own families working in the workshop, and some of them have their own land, so they can't all come to work on the construction site. In order to show fairness, Li Jing simply asked Zhang Hong to divide all the old and young into work teams, and then sent some people to divide and accept these work teams, and give them a score, which was recorded as the work score of each person in each team.

Everyone's daily work is recorded, Li Jing said that in the future, each new house will not need money to buy, but use a certain amount of work to mark the price, and everyone will use their own work to subscribe to the new house, without paying. However, if there is too little work, you can only choose the worst, and you have to pay to subsidize the insufficient work.

For a time, the immigrants of Salmon Island, both men and women, were holding hoes, dustpans and baskets, and worked hard to dig and pick up soil. Even the children are sensible and helpful.

Looking at these immigrants who are so enthusiastic that they get up before dawn every day and are reluctant to go back when it gets dark, Zhang Hong has to sigh several times a day. In his opinion, Li Jing's labor division system is really amazing, so that the thousands of workers who repair the city do not have to pay half an extra salary at all, which saves a lot of money, and the workers can work so hard without supervision, which is really rare. Do the math, in fact, these workers built the city, and the houses in the city were also built when the time came, and in the end, in addition to the daily food, only one house was allocated to each family. In other words, the workers built their own houses, and also built the public facilities of the new city, such as the city walls.

Li Jing smiled: "You underestimate a people's desire for their homeland too much, no matter how hard it is, if they can have a house of their own, they are willing to endure any hardship." Besides, don't think that I have taken advantage of everyone, I am in such a hurry to build a new city, in fact, it is not for me alone. With Xincheng, everyone can live and work in peace and contentment. Everyone has contributed to the effort, and we have also contributed the capital. Although sand and gravel and soil do not cost money, it is not enough to repair the city. Every day, a boatload of bricks and ashlars were brought in, all of which were bought with real money. ”

In addition to buying masonry, there is also a lot of wood that is needed. Moreover, although the inner city has to be scheduled for the second phase of the project for the time being, the matter of drilling wells cannot be delayed. Nearly 10,000 people on the island came here, and the original wells were not enough, considering that there would be greater development in the future, Li Jing began to concentrate on digging wells in the city from now on.

The city was built, wells were drilled, workshops were started, and land was reclaimed, except for a few wharves that were still prosperous, the island, which had been barren, began to be noisy and lively.

The lively construction of the city in the middle of Salmon Island, but the surrounding business districts of the four piers, Beitou Village and Shanqian Village, seem to be unheard of, and there is not even a single person who came to congratulate and watch. Sun Deyan reminded: "On Shamen Island, in addition to the Tianjie of Phoenix Wharf, the other three wharves also gather a wharf town each, plus Shanqian Village and Beitou Village, there are six gathering points with a population of more than 30,000 people. But for so many days, there was not even a single person who came to welcome the general to take office, which actually shows a problem. Everyone knows that the general talked about the conflict between the general and Feng Liu Liu that day, and now seeing that the general is detaining those people, they are all watching, wanting to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and watch the tearing between the general and Feng Zhang and Wang Jin. ”

"Although those people are also on Salmon Island, they all feel that they are detached, and they are watching our play. Anyway, no matter who wins the battle between us and Feng Zhang and Wang Jin, according to convention, they can't move half of them. ”

Li Jing didn't know about this, he had been in office for so many days, and there were so many businesses in the vicinity, but none of them came to welcome. Li Jing estimated that these people must have seen themselves fighting with Feng Zhang, and they had already set themselves as the defeated side, since they felt that he would be defeated by Feng Zhang and leave sooner or later, then they didn't even bother to maintain the etiquette on the surface.

This was a feeling of being extremely despised by others, and Li Jing felt a wave of anger in his heart. But instead, he suppressed the anger himself. Those merchants on the island despise him so much, so don't Feng Zhang and Wang Jinhui also have such an attitude. If that's the case, that's a good thing for him. To be despised means that the enemy will lose his guard against himself.

"If you mean you want me to let Feng Ming go, then don't say anything more. Just because I didn't kill him now doesn't mean I'm going to let him go. I'm just not going to kill them for the time being, and when I'm on my feet, they're going to sacrifice the flag for me. The day the new city is built is the time of death of those people. Whoever dares to despise and offend me will bear their price. Li Jing glanced at Sun Deyan coldly, this person's mind is very clear, although he has a lot of drunk. But it's a little too conservative and negative.

"Vice General Lin, you inform the troops, tomorrow, all the soldiers and family members will no longer participate in the construction of the city, and starting tomorrow, they will resume training."

The fortification of the city can only be used as a defense, and Li Jing does not want to be able to stand behind the castle. He must train his own soldiers and horses, and have the ability to retreat and defend, and advance and attack. (To be continued.) )