Chapter 088: The Whole City's Ordnance
The high-level leaders of Wuliang Mountain personally went out, and naturally they gained a lot of money. In contrast, the fact that Wulai became bald is less noticeable.
The gold and silver jewels brought back from outside were valued at no less than 300,000 silver dollars, which, together with the original in the treasury, exceeded the amount stated by the white men. At that time, if you can't get a flying boat, the money you have spent all your efforts to get will not be in vain, and it can ensure the lives of thousands of people after they go out.
The people who inquired about the information also brought back good news, the number of monsters entrenched in the Danhua Mansion in the south was forty percent less than before, and with the blessing of the chariot array, the original daunting raging demon tide was not to be worried. Fuyaozi also set an optimal bridge location near Danhua Mansion, which only needs a span of more than 300 zhang.
After some discussions, the high-level leaders decided on a detailed plan and immediately began to implement it. There were more than 4,500 inhabitants of the city, 3,600 able-bodied men over 12 years old and under 60 years of age, and they had been divided into 300 squads of 12 men each, and they would be the main force of the chariots. The remaining 900 were the young, the old, and the disabled, and they were also grouped into groups of three.
A team of fifteen people, led by a captain. There are 100 commanders for every 10 teams, and 1,000 commanders for every six centurions, for a total of five commanders, who are directly served by real people.
Once the system is established, all the people are soldiers, and all the people are workers. The defense of the city was no longer the responsibility of fixed personnel, but the commanders sent a number of squads to take turns on duty, and the rest of them practiced the art of carrying heavy marches and short-handed stabbing for one hour each morning and evening to prepare for the possible long journey, which was supervised by Longji Zhenren and Yan Yongzhen Zhenren.
Outside of training, the 300 squads had their own division of labor, some sawing wood, some building weapons, some preparing dry food, boots and other marching supplies, and some were arranged to make ropes for building bridges. As for the creation tools, Fu Yaozi and the others had already considered it, and they collected as many as they had when they went out before.
Such a big deal was naturally seen by the eight white people, but Fu Yaozi had long ordered that no one should disclose the plan to them, only saying that the things that were made were made to increase the safety of going out to grow and transport grain.
Rope production is also a big project, the bridge is used in two load-bearing cables and two support cables, the length should be more than a kilometer, in order to ensure the strength, its diameter should reach at least two inches, such a rope has thousands of pounds of weight, four is more than 10,000 pounds, not to mention to do so much to connect the fixed short cable, just the collection of raw hemp does not know how much work it takes.
Each team was assigned a lot of work, and those who failed to meet the deadline were punished, and the captains naturally urged the team members to do their best under pressure, so it was almost impossible to see fishing in troubled waters. However, what has played the greatest role in mobilizing the enthusiasm of the people is the merit system that has not been introduced.
Merit is linked to money. With the hope of getting out of the Jedi, the money that was once regarded as dung has regained its value, and the high-level of the Infinite Sword Sect has become the big treasurer, ordering thousands of people to work willingly.
"Labor" is everyone's business, do a day's work to record a day's wages, even the half-sized child who is responsible for boiling water, running errands around to bring water to adults to drink, will also be recorded for him. Of course, the more skillful you are, the more you can make, the more you will get every day. For the likes of squad leaders and centurions, the wage is the average of the people under his command multiplied by a certain percentage.
"Gong" refers to the ability of each person to exert his or her talents in any aspect, to provide solutions to common problems, and to contribute to the collective cause, regardless of what is within the scope of his or her duties. For example, no one can master the skill of turning wood into a wheel, and if he can't make a wheel, he can't walk a chariot, and some people have found a way through unremitting attempts and taught it to everyone, that is, there is merit, and there will be a corresponding reward according to the size of the meritorious service.
Of course, there are rewards and punishments, and there is no detailed list of the mistakes that people in the city are prone to make, and they are listed one by one as the regulations attached to the merit system to restrain people's behavior. If there is a mistake, it can be cited according to the canon and punished, and the punishment method is mainly to deduct wages.
No one will get along with money, and now there is no idler in Fangcheng, one by one shirtless and bareback in the hot summer, and they are in full swing. When people have something to do, where will they make trouble, they all want to finish this time and start a new life with the real money in hand. There is hope in the days, and the atmosphere in Fangcheng has changed a lot compared to before, and even the prejudices between the local faction and the foreign faction seem to have been put down.
Fuyaozi carefully calculated that it would be more than enough to pay for the manufacture of a few hundred cars, a bridge, and other materials with the money available. If those white people really brought the flying boat, the things they made would be in vain, and this process would be used to maintain order in Fangcheng, and then people's wages would be equivalent to buying a flying ticket for themselves.
Flying out of the Jedi is the best choice, and everything Xingshi is doing now is just second-hand preparations, just in case. Driving in a demon cave and crossing a bridge over an abyss, there are too many variables.
According to the requirements, it was originally necessary to evenly select people of different ages to form a team, but the situation of several teenagers who studied magic was more special, so they did not break them up, and directly merged into a team, the team number 296. Among them, Su Qi Jingli was treated as two people, because the chariot of twelve people could not allow three shoulders to walk side by side.
In this way, if Huang Yun is liquidated, there will be eleven people, and they will be asked to pull one more person in by themselves to fill up the staff. Due to the late formation of the squad, the only people left for them to choose from were the Weavers.
The weaving mill has always been a place where the father doesn't care about the mother. Fortunately, the more than 200 disabled people are fine, and the high-level of Wuliang Mountain wants to use them to flaunt their benevolence and righteousness to consolidate their rule, and they will not be left alone no matter what, at least on the surface, they will take good care of them. And the dozens of caregivers seemed to be completely ignored, they didn't call them when the semicolon was ordered, and then they joined the team on their own, and not many teams were willing to accept them.
Among those people, Yu Man saw a familiar face, which was Wu Yingcai, the former head of the poultry farm. On the day of the poultry garden to take chickens, this old Wu still had the intention of protecting Yu Man who was slapped by Yan Yongzhen, but the development of things was unexpected, there was no fart of beating people and being beaten, but those who made peace were severely punished, which is strange and pitiful. So Yu Man recruited Uncle Wu in, and the others had no opinion, so the 296th squad gathered twelve cart men.
The 296th squad participates in the work like other squads, and if they don't work, they don't get paid. No one knows what will happen after they go out, whether there is a big pot of rice to eat, and it is better to save some money on them. However, because they had to learn magic, and Longi knew that they were all in good shape, he allowed them to spend their morning and evening exercises to go to the white teacher.
Zhang Jiabao became a carpenter specializing in playing wire saw blades, and after a few days of work, he became familiar with the skills of using the saw, and he could have about 80 copper inscriptions a day. In his spare time, whenever he has free time, he practices the methods taught by his master and Avril, and never sleeps more than three hours a day.
Everyone has something to be busy with, the summer is getting more and more prosperous, the breath of life exuded by all things is getting more and more prosperous, and Fangcheng has gradually had the scene of "living and working in peace and contentment". However, there is one person who is out of step with everything around him, and that is Huang Yunqing.
Fang Cheng has long been not paying attention to mourning and filial piety, and sending the deceased to the earth for peace, it can be regarded as a courtesy, and then the living can do whatever they want. But Huang Yunqing always locked himself at home, neither came to report to the magic teacher, nor did he go to work with the 296 team. If someone hadn't noticed that she hadn't left the house for many days and had sent some food over, she might have starved to death.
Longji Zhenren inquired about this matter and asked the 296 team to pull people along. In order to fulfill the previous agreement with the rest of the team, Zhang Jiabao had no choice but to go to Huang Yunqing.