(The fourth update, ask for a monthly pass!) ）

The thirteenth day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Datang Xiantong is the most unpredictable time of the spring cold of the year, and in two days, it will be the most lively Shangyuan Festival in Datang at this time.

Li Jing sent Zhang Shouqian to take a team of family members to Dengzhou Port to pick up people for three days in a row, and the Ninghai that could carry 800 people at a time ran ten times in a row, and only after the last day did Lin Wu bring all the soldiers and family members to Shamen Island.

By the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, all the soldiers and their families who had been relocated to Salmon Island had arrived. As of the last count, this batch of new arrivals plus the first batch of arrivals, Shamen Town under Li Jing now has three capital and six teams of soldiers, counting 300 soldiers, and another 12 officers, a total of 422. Li Jing's family team is one and two teams, with one hundred family members and forty officers, one hundred and four. Lin Wei, Lin Wu, and Wang Chong each have a team of family members, a total of four hundred and two. In fact, the officers have no family members for the time being, and there are a total of 960 soldiers and family members.

In addition, there are also three capitals and six teams of auxiliaries, with a total of 300 soldiers and 12 auxiliary officers, a total of 422. The remaining logistics troops set up five capital and ten teams, with 500 logistics troops and 200 logistics officers, a total of 700. A total of 1,120 auxiliaries and logistical troops were killed.

The number of soldiers, family members, auxiliary soldiers, and logistics soldiers added up to 2,180 at once, far exceeding the scale of 1,200 when they were in Wangli Village.

The sudden expansion is mainly what Li Jing meant. After arriving on Salmon Island, he had a new understanding of the new situation.

The large number of people who moved to Salmon Island this time even exceeded Li Jing's expectations. The original recruitment of 1,200 soldiers, plus nearly 100 craftsmen, each of them had more than four or five families, and the average family of each soldier was about five. All the people who have relocated to Salmon Island, the last count, the number of people has exceeded 6,000.

Of the 6,000 population, nearly half of them are men over the age of 16 and under 60, or 2,933. Virtuous young women also accounted for about one-third, reaching 1,860. In addition, there are more than 500 elderly people over 60 years old. The rest are under the age of sixteen. There are more than 800 young children and girls over the age of eight, and more than 200 children and girls under the age of eight.

So many people exceeded Li Jing's expectations, many of them were in the army, followed by a whole family of brothers and sisters with their whole families. When people came, it was impossible for Li Jing to drive them back. And with so many people, Li Jing's field on the island has basically been distributed to the officers' families, and the remaining half has to be kept as a reward. So many people. Li Jing can't all be raised for nothing.

In the end, he simply selected a group of sturdy men from them, and expanded the number of troops on the island, directly expanding the original army of 1,200 to 2,180. However, the newly expanded ones were basically incorporated into the logistics team and auxiliary team, and did not affect the original establishment and combat effectiveness. Basically. Li Jing incorporated all young men over the age of 20 into the team.

A large number of men have been added to the army, while there are still thousands of women and children. Although these people can't be soldiers, Li Jing doesn't plan to let them be idle. With the full support of Li Jing, Li Hui'er's quilt workshop was the first to reopen and expand its scale. At one time, the clothing workshop recruited 500 skilled women from among the soldiers' families, and a quarter of them were employed at once.

For the rest, Li Jing recruited all the craftsmen and began to resume work in several fortified workshops. Among them, several workshops such as blacksmiths and carpenters began to recruit some teenagers as apprentices.

Take advantage of the lack of rain at this time. Li Jing was ready to start using these sufficient manpower to start planning for the construction of the city.

These days. Zhang Hong, Sun Deyan, Du Zhongwu, Cui Zhiyuan and others frequently traveled back and forth between Dengzhou and Shamen Island, recruiting all kinds of craftsmen and experienced city builders. Until now. Li Jing's town general mansion has dozens of craftsmen of all kinds.

These people are all experienced craftsmen, and now that the times are sluggish, even experienced craftsmen are not easy to live. Li Jing invited them to go out to build the city, and the conditions offered were quite good. According to the seniority of these craftsmen, Shamen Town directly divided them into six grades, with ten years of service as the first level. Even the lowest-level sixth-level craftsmen have a daily wage of 400 Wen, and each level rises by 100 Wen, and the highest seven or eight first-class craftsmen are paid 1,000 Wen per day. In addition, room and board are all-inclusive, and according to the level, the craftsmen also have additional dishes.

Four hundred wen a day to one thousand wen a day, this treatment is not high, those craftsmen are happy, sighing for the New Year's luck.

The eight first-class craftsmen who were paid every day were all white-bearded old men, one by one. But the experience and qualifications are also old, and a casual opening is that he has presided over the repair of a certain city and a certain fort, and his qualifications are completely able to preside over the construction of Shamen Town alone. However, Li Jing is very much looking forward to Xincheng, this is his base camp, he has thrown all his efforts on this island, and he will never allow any mistakes to occur again.

This time, eight old craftsmen were found at once, just to be on the safe side.

In the past two days, the eight craftsmen have inspected the island many times, and they all proposed to expand and build a new city on the basis of the old city. Building a small city with a circumference of about a mile is a familiar thing for them, and if it weren't for the money, such a thing would be directly handed over to their apprentices to preside over. All eight of them handed in their plans for the layout of the new city today, and in general, the new city was a square, mainly defensive castle, about 300 steps on each side, and 1,200 steps in circumference, which was much larger than the old city now.

The city is also divided into barracks area, ground area, and family residential area, as well as a commercial urban area. Then some public facilities, such as the East China Sea Dragon King Temple, Wusheng Temple, Confucian Temple, Haotian God Temple, Buddhist Temple, Taoist Temple, etc.

The most important thing is the city wall, the city wall of the new city will be three feet high, open four gates in the south, east and west, and each add an urn city. Outside the city, a moat was to be dug up. And there will be arrow towers and towers built on the city. In short, in the design of this new city, several craftsmen have chosen the most expensive and defensive solution.

For the ideas of these craftsmen, Li Jing is very much in favor. Repair the new city, one is that the original old city is too dilapidated and too narrow, and the second is that the defense is not high, basically not fortified, the city wall is not more than one person high, the urn city, the moat is also not there, the city is too narrow, the layout is not very reasonable. However, since it is necessary to spend a lot of money to build a new city, Li Jing plans to repair the best one.

Li Jing put forward some suggestions, mainly in two aspects: in the city, the streets should be widened, at least one zhang wide. In addition, several public facilities such as schools, bathhouses, wells, theaters, and public toilets had to be built, and in particular, a smooth sewage drainage channel in the city had to be built. These are mainly in the area of hygiene, with the aim of preventing diseases such as plague due to poor sanitation.

As for the city wall, Li Jing meant to build the city wall into a prismatic wall.

A group of white-bearded craftsmen looked at the drawing that Li Jing took out, looked at it for a long time, stared at the castle with the same amount of crown as many faces, and exclaimed: "General, if it is built according to this drawing, the defense power will indeed be improved a lot, especially the archers and crossbow beds basically have no attack dead ends." But such a fortress, has the general calculated his cost? The old man only roughly calculated, this cost is at least three times more than the cost of ordinary city walls, and the construction period will be more than doubled. ”

The drawings that Li Jing took out were exactly a fortress map, and it was also a crown castle drawing. The fortress is a product of the evolution of castles for defense. The essence of this is to change the fortress from a convex polygon to a concave polygon, so that no matter what point is attacked, the attacking team will be exposed to more than one bastion surface, usually 2-3, and the defender can use crossfire to perform multiple strikes.

A Crown Fort can hold out for at least a month in a one-on-seven defensive outreach. This is the terrifying defense of the fortress, compared to the boxy city wall, he is not only strong in defense, but also stronger in defense and counterattack. To try to bulldoze such a fortress, the cost of the enemy is terrible.

But in the same way, super defense also represents a super high price.

According to the calculation of several craftsmen's heads, such as the original three-zhang and three-high city wall, each step is at least ten times long. The original plan was to build 1,200 steps, which would cost 12,000 guan, and four additional Weng cities had to be built, each of which was at least 2,000 guan. The moat, as well as the arrow tower and the gate tower, add up to a thousand. In addition, the newly planned and well-planned several square areas in the city, as well as the newly excavated ditches, wells, toilets, schools, bathhouses, theaters, Taoist temples, Buddhist temples, etc., all add up to at least 30,000 yuan, not including the newly built houses.

30,000 guan is only the money for materials and other expenses, and the wages of the workers and the food consumption of the craftsmen are not counted.

And now if Li Jing insists on building the Crown Fort, then the cost of accounting will be at least 50,000 yuan, and the construction period will have to be doubled.

50,000 yuan, Li Jing did have 50,000 yuan a few days ago, but he has already paid 40,000 yuan for equipment, and now he has less than 20,000 yuan in his hands. In addition, there is only more than 10,000 stone of grain left, which is worth 50,000 yuan, but Li Jing will not use this batch of grain if he kills him.

This money is like running water, why is there a shortage of money everywhere?

However, after thinking about it left and right, Li Jing still planned to build this crown fort. It's not that he is extravagant, it's really that Shamen Island is semi-surrounded by the three big islands of Daxie, and he just offended Feng Zhang, and now Feng Ming is still in his labor camp, and if he doesn't build his hometown firmly, Li Jing really has no sense of security. (To be continued.) )