Back at a hot construction site, Ji Xinyu, who had relaxed, began to arrange for someone to clean up the roots of the tree after the development, and paved it with stones and piled it up into a roadbed. It was too hard to dig the roots, and it was already two days after I was done.

The road finally led to the other side of the woods, and Ji Xinyu could finally enter the woods to see the situation. Entering the woods, Ji Xinyu first asked a few guards to take a few local villagers to make some bamboo rafts, let people explore the way downstream from the river, to see where it leads, Ji Xinyu led people around this open space, except for a few trees in the middle, all other places are weeds, and the water's edge is reeds.

Liu Qin jumped around and looked into the distance, looked up at Ji Xinyu and said, "Young master, this place is really not small, will we live here in the future?" ”

"Yes, I will take root here in the future, and see what Ji Yushan, the old fox, can say." Ji Xinyu replied.

Ji Xinyu thought about it and looked at the surrounding terrain again, and decided to use fire to clear the clearing. In order to avoid too much fire, Ji Xinyu specially cut off the grass on the edge of the forest by four or five zhang, as for the other three sides, there are rivers all there, so it doesn't matter.

After the wind ignited the withered grass, Ji Xinyu watched from a distance as the line of fire slowly advanced forward, and the entire area of about three square kilometers of land burned, which was really spectacular.

The fire burned all afternoon, and the billowing smoke attracted many people from the surrounding villages to come and see the excitement. Ji Xinyu asked people not to stop him, and took the opportunity to build a notice board at the intersection and put up a notice, to the effect that people were needed here to help clear the wasteland, and three days later began to recruit a large number of laborers, with a monthly salary of two taels of silver for three meals and so on.

It was already night after the burning of the wasteland, and everyone rested separately, waiting for the embers of the burning to be completely extinguished. Ji Xinyu began to discuss with Aiden how to plan, he planned to extend the road in the middle of the current woods all the way to the east of the river, divide the open space into two halves, and then open a road from the east of the two mountains to run through the north and south. At the foot of the mountain, a piece of land was set aside as a mining site, and several iron-making and coal-washing workshops were built next to the mining site, and other workshops were established outside to form a workshop area.

A settlement will be built on the south side of the intersection, and a courtyard will not be too complicated for the time being, and it will be mainly resettled. According to the experience of Ji Xinyu's previous life, the specific style was decided to build a two-story courtyard. Aiden told Ji Xinyu that this land is nine miles long along the riverbank, and a layer of farmland along the river can open up 200 acres of land, and there is no need to think of any other way to irrigate.

Ji Xinyu nodded, thinking about drawing a picture, asking the craftsmen to start work according to the drawing, and asked Liuqin outside the door to bring paper and pencils, and was about to start painting by himself, Aiden spoke: "Xiao Yu, my current function is to draw drawings according to your plan, you don't need to draw by yourself." ”

Ji Xinyu was stunned, right! At the time, I did say that there was such a function, but I didn't pay attention to it at the time, so I asked, "Then how do you draw?" You come out to paint? ”

Aiden said coldly: "Now I can't go out, I just need to get the paper and ink into the space to draw." ”

According to what Aiden said, Ji Xinyu prepared the paper and ink, and a stack of drawings came out after a while, looking at the exquisite drawings, they all caught up with the printers in the previous life...... Even the paper was put together to form a large sheet.

"Aiden, you can really draw it so quickly...... Awesome is awesome, but you use meters and kilometers of units, this is the measurement method of my previous life, and now the size is used here, and three feet is one meter, you should change it. Ji Xinyu said with a smile and Aiden.

Aiden is still relatively mechanical, and he didn't bring the size measurement standards of this era into it, but the modification was also very fast, and the drawings came out again after a while, Ji Xinyu called He Xingwang, gave him the drawings, and asked him to hand them over to the craftsmen of the palace.

The next day, Ji Xinyu called Song Xing and asked him to summon the blacksmiths, carpenters, and stonemasons sent by the Shu Wangfu Gongzheng. The blacksmith leader is called Niu Gu, the carpenter leader is named Lin Yuan, and the stonemason leader is Li Hongzhuang.

Ji Xinyu asked them to cooperate in building a few rows of simple houses in the open space at the intersection outside the woods, instead of camping tents for temporary settlement, and posted a notice to call 20 stonemasons, carpenters, and blacksmiths from nearby villages and towns, and the craftsmen were paid two or five dollars a month, and if they contributed, they were rewarded.

The distance from the junction to the woods is also 50 meters, and the length is also more than 1,200 meters. It is very suitable to build a temporary resettlement site here, the terrain is flat, close to the intersection, there is a Rulin Village opposite, there are several villages and towns in the north and south of Rulin Village, and the largest Lingshan Town is only ten miles away from here, which is a large town with five or six thousand households around.

The villagers of Rulin Village are still very motivated, and 20 laborers have been hired in their village, some of the surplus labor force is working in the city, and some need to take care of the fields, so there is not much left. I heard that there were still craftsmen here, so I was so happy that there were only two craftsmen in the village, and I immediately came to sign up with the guy who was eating. Knowing that there are twenty craftsmen of all kinds, I hurriedly asked people to notify the craftsmen who are familiar with each other to come here, for fear that there will be no quota if they come late, two or five per month, including three meals, even if the rich families in Qiongzhou City can't give so much, at most one or two or eight dollars, not including food and housing, and they have to carry dry food every day when they go to the city to work.

Before the evening, the 60 craftsmen recruited had arrived, and the craftsmen who came later were not hired and were still asking if they wanted people, Ji Xinyu asked people to register their names, addresses, specialties and other information, and promised to let people notify them when needed, which persuaded them to leave.

The simple wooden huts built on both sides of the intersection were also quickly built, and they were barely enough to be used as a temporary resettlement point for everyone in the palace, and He Xingwang also arranged for Ji Xinyu to build a temporary three-entry courtyard near the woods.

Simply asked about the level of their respective craftsmen, and found that there is not much difference between stonemasons and carpenters, and they can basically meet the current needs, but they can't do it if the structure is too complicated, fortunately, Ji Xinyu doesn't want to build a mansion like the palace now, but the place where he lives doesn't have to be so complicated, so these people can also be used.

Ji Xinyu arranged for them to be led by the craftsmen of the palace to find a place to burn bricks and lay the foundation to start participating in the infrastructure construction, and set aside a part to participate in the construction of the limestone mine next to the limestone mine, and some of the stonemasons and carpenters were arranged by Ji Xinyu to go to the foot of the mountain to start building an iron-making workshop, a coal washing workshop and a coking site.

The level of blacksmiths is a little uneven, and there are six blacksmiths who are military households in the nearby Hainan Wei and Zengjiadong capitals, and can make some complex components, and can also make firecrackers. The other fourteen were just ordinary objects made for farmers and wealthy people in the city, and they had never made firearms, and they didn't even know the structure, so they could only make some agricultural supplies such as sickles, spatulas, kitchen knives, and iron pots, and if anything, military supplies were only ordinary broadswords and spears.

Ji Xinyu divided the blacksmiths into two groups, one was the blacksmith group, that is, fourteen ordinary blacksmiths. The other part is the warsmith group, composed of six warsmiths and three blacksmiths brought by the Shu Palace, led by Niu Gu to participate in the follow-up Ji Xinyu's plan.

After arranging these, Ji Xinyu asked some stonemasons and carpenters to do a good job in the infrastructure of the limestone mine first, and the twenty laborers and some guards of Rulin Village began to lay the two main roads in the north and south.

Looking at the busy crowd, Ji Xinyu asked Aiden in his mind: "Aiden, do we need a name here?" It's easy to be called by others, so it's easy to find. ”

"Names are still better at humans, I'm not very good at it, please ask the master to choose his own name." Aiden was rarely humble.

"Don't call me master, this river has been tested downstream by the villagers, and it is connected to Nanyue Creek, and we are surrounded by streams, so we will call it Nanxi City, right?" Ji Xinyu asked Aiden.

"Nanxi City? Do you want to call the city, as far as I know, the prefect Ji Yushan just said that you don't care about building a city, but you build a city...... Will he get you in trouble? Aiden reminded Ji Xinyu.

Ji Xinyu thought about it, the "mansion" of this era can be big or small, and the Shu Wangfu of Bashu is in charge of the sixteen states, and the construction of the city is also a little limited. It's better to call the house directly, or to catch the words of Ji Yushan, but at that time it was not said that the mansion was built to build a residence.

"Then it's called Nanxi Mansion? What do you think? Ji Xinyu asked again.

Aiden paused and said, "Please decide for yourself, but Nanyue Creek is too short, and the total tributaries all the way to the north are less than 15 kilometers, so it's a bit stingy to call Nanxi." ”

"If you want to be atmospheric, then call it 'Lingchuan Mansion', Sichuan means to cross the river in the south, and then develop to Lingshan Town in the south, and take Lingshan Town into our base." Ji Xinyu laughed and decided to settle down.