On April 18, Liu Zhong led Fu Dingyuan, Hu Xiya, Guo Zhenxi, Zeng Nianhua, Wang Duzhen and others to the open land that Hu Xiya said was the most suitable for building a capital and protecting the mansion.

"Boss Hu, you have been traveling south and north for so many years, and according to your own words, you have also seen a lot of good feng shui, but Liu has also learned some fur from the doctors of Qin Tianjian over the years, and this land is clearly a Jedi! There are no mountains on all sides, and it is far away from the river, so there is no momentum at all! Even regardless of this feng shui, if an enemy comes to attack, there is no way to retreat! Liu is a shallow learner, and he also asked Boss Hu to solve his doubts! ”

Hu Xiya smiled and gave a thumbs up, "Most of the protectors are all right, whether it is feng shui or military perspective, this is a Jedi!" ”

"Boss Hu, which one are you singing, do you want to harm Dadu Protection? I don't know Feng Shui, but I understand military affairs, such a flat, open and undefended central area, if you encounter an enemy siege, you can either win or escape! ”

"Yes, Boss Hu and Zuo Shuai have a good relationship, but most of us are good at protecting people, you Boss Hu can't just think about Zuo Shuai but come to dig a pit for Dadu Protection!"

"Commander Ma, Commander Fu, two, didn't Ma Tong say before he took the lead, as long as he wins, it's good? If the battle is won, it will not be a Jedi! Hu Xiya continued to tease

Although Liu Zhong didn't understand military affairs, he immediately reacted when Hu Xiya said this: "I understand Boss Hu's good intentions, if you want to really build a capital protection mansion here, it is not possible to hide in the mountains like before!" Although the enemy cannot attack it, it is extremely inconvenient for us to trade or go out! As long as we are based on winning the war and erecting the banner of our Great Liang Anxi Protectorate here, we will be able to gather the people and wealth west of Yili, and we will be able to truly open up the Western Regions and operate the Western Regions! This is the real offense and defense! ”

"Dadu Huxiong is only strategic, I, Hu Xiya, just thought about how to really stand firm in Yili, and Dadu Hu's thinking is even more far-reaching!"

Liu Zhong looked at Guo Zhenxi, Guo Zhenxi looked indifferent, obviously not very optimistic about this place.

"General Guo, you are now in the army of the Protectorate, and someone Liu wants to hear your opinion"

Guo Zhenxi smiled slightly, "Actually, what the two generals said in front of me is very right, this place is easy to attack and difficult to defend, if you want to defend here, it is not enough to rely on the more than 1,000 people in the current capital to protect the mansion!" ”

Liu Zhong patted Guo Zhenxi's shoulder, "Guo joined the army, you miscalculated, there are more than 6,000 people in the Duhu Mansion, and there are more than 5,000 of yours!" This is our home from now on! ”

Guo Zhenxi smiled embarrassedly: "How dare our combat strength be compared with the tiger and wolf army of the Western Army, but they are just some ordinary people who can hold swords!" Thanks to most of them, they will not give up, but it will take time to train them, Guo is worried that if something happens, I'm sorry for the big protection! ”

"It's okay to draw out a thousand young people out of more than 5,000 people, Guo joined the army, and there are more than 2,000 people together, and one with one can also practice. And if everyone took turns to train and guard the Tuntian to escort the caravan, wouldn't there be more than a thousand more people? This account is worth settling for Guo to join the army! ”

"Dadu Hu, we old people, you can't look down on it? Even if I can't do it like this, why can't those forty or fifty-year-old men come to guard the capital? Guo Zhenxi hadn't answered yet, Zeng Nianhua asked first

Liu Zhong bowed his hand to Zeng Nianhua, "The old man misunderstood!" Men in their forties and fifties are more experienced in business, hunting and farming, and they will not be used on the battlefield unless they are absolutely necessary

Target. And after the capital is built, the next step is the construction of the market inn and so on, and when these people are gathered, it is necessary to ram the earth to build the city wall! More people will be needed! ”

Everyone was stunned, didn't they say that they would only build a capital palace? Why is it that the matter of building the city wall is even mentioned now?

"Zhenxi! On behalf of the people of the Metropolitan Protectorate, when will the young and strong team be formed? When will the roster of forty or fifty-year-old men be provided to the Metropolitan Protector? You're going to have to give a letter! Zeng Nianhua's words were extremely serious

Guo Zhenxi's heart trembled, and after a little thought, he gave an answer: "Young and strong, whether male or female, two thousand people have been trained in!" There are more than 800 people in their forties and fifties, and the roster will be handed over to Dadu Hu in three days! Since I, Guo Zhenxi, have been appointed as the Protector of the Metropolitan Mansion to join the army, I naturally have to serve the Protectorate of the Metropolitan Mansion with all my heart! ”

Liu Zhong was very satisfied, "Guo joins the army, don't get me wrong, the commander of the newly trained 2,000 people is designated by you, and none of us will interfere!" Don't build this capital palace too high, it's too big, to put it bluntly, my capital protection house is just a county government. I am the county master of these two products, and when the Duhu Mansion is completed, everyone can come and go at will, and there are stalls and shops of all sizes outside the Duhu Mansion. In peacetime, I am the big shopkeeper who introduces you to merchants from all walks of life, and when the war starts, I am here to attract the enemy's heavy troops. The reason why another 2,000 people are trained is to hide the soldiers from the people, and when there is really a war, this is a strange army to defeat the enemy! ”

Guo Zhenxi was very ashamed, thinking that Liu Zhong was going to be wary of him, but he was given more power in front of everyone.

"Guo did his best to build the capital protection mansion, and Guo will definitely defend the capital to the death!"

"Guo is too polite to join the army, you and I don't have to be like this! By the way, Commander Ma and Commander Fu, how many people do you think are appropriate to patrol every day, how many people are resting, and how many people are training? Well, I'll leave this matter to the two of you and Guo Senjun to discuss, I haven't read the military book, everything is subject to your arrangement! How to build the Duhu Mansion and how much money is needed, I will hand over this matter to Guo Senjun, Old Man Zeng and Boss Hu, everyone will discuss everything, and I will not interfere too much. ”

"I'm waiting for the training of soldiers, the patrol of patrols, and the construction of houses, what do you do to protect most of them? Why don't you go to accompany the girls? Haha" Ma Hua felt a little strange in his heart after hearing that the women had been pestering Liu Zhong before, so he said this sentence in a weird way.

"Haha, I, of course, the people who accompanied you on patrol first familiarized themselves with this whole place! The commander of the horse seems to be interested in accompanying the girls, so the Bendu Protector will grant you three days off, and let you accompany the girls to hunt and fish on horseback, as long as you don't mess around! ”

As soon as Ma Hua heard that he was going to accompany the group of women, he immediately waved his hand, "Dadu protection, Dadu protection, don't be surprised, I talk about it cheaply, I can't do this, I don't know what to say and do when I see women?" ”

Everyone laughed together, and Fu Dingyuan poked him in the head, "Those people who were hacked to death by you on the battlefield are really wronged, I knew that you were so useless, wouldn't it be better to send a few women to meet you?" Ah, hahahaha, you guys say I'm right. Most of the protectors, MCA is reluctant to accompany the girls, I will accompany you, you allow me to leave! ”

Without waiting for Liu Zhong to answer, Guo Zhenxi waved his hand first and shook his head, "Dadu Hu, can you allow him to go here!" This Fu Dingyuan is too much of a thing, his mouth is too poisonous, last time I kindly invited him to dinner, but he was good, and he damaged all the girls present, saying that people have one eye

One is big and one is small, the legs are short and the other are long, and there are so many things that I am embarrassed to say. If you let him go with my girls, he will either be hacked to death by my sisters or hacked to death by my mother and my aunts! Although this Fu Ding is far from a thing, it is easy to get a general in a thousand armies, so it is better to let him live a few more years! ”

The people around him laughed even more, Fu Dingyuan laughed, "What I said is the truth, I can see the nose, eyes, ears, mouth, and hands exposed outside, I have seen everything that should be seen, and I haven't seen anything that shouldn't be seen!" Why did you say that I became a street rat? You can't ruin me like this! ”

"Ahem, cough, Dadu Hu, several generals, there is a small proposal under the order, that is, to dig three wells here first, one to stay in the courtyard of the Duhu Mansion, one for the military camp, and one for the market!"

Hu Xiya's proposal instantly changed the topic, and everyone immediately pointed out.

"Instead of digging a well, it is better to bring water from the river and make the moat as well, so why dig a well?"

"Yes, drilling wells takes too long, and it's not good for irrigating the fields!"

"The city wall will be built in the future, and there will be a moat outside the city wall, and you can also farm the land"

"Mr. Hu is well-informed, why didn't he think of this?"

Liu Zhong knew that Hu Xiya deliberately led them to say it by himself, so he smiled, "You are very talented, Liu is very happy, you talked like this, but it inspired Liu." The moat and the fields outside the city must be cultivated, but the drinking water of the people of the city must be separated from the water for irrigation and washing of clothes in the fields. Especially in the event of a war, if the enemy cuts off the waterways or poisons them, the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

"I thought of it just then, and I was about to talk about protecting Dadu"

"Most of them are wise, make the best use of things, so good, it's really a thoughtful way to get the best of both worlds!"

Hu Xiya smiled secretly, if he proposed it himself or Liu Zhong arranged it, these people would not be so obedient, and there would definitely be many opinions.

Now that these people are speaking from their own mouths, Liu Zhong has become logical when he brushes it again.

As for the craftsmen, Hu Xiya had already hired fifty people from the west to come back, and the piggybacking was also released, saying that Ili still needed a lot of labor to carry it, just waiting for them to find it themselves.

The newly built Metropolitan Protectorate is neither like the prefectural government of the Central Plains, nor like the round stone fortress in the west, but a completely new style.

According to the shape of the excavated stones, the craftsmen built nine houses in the front, middle and back, and the nine houses were not a nine-square grid, but staggered from each other.

This design was written by Hu Xiya, in order to prevent the enemy from killing the place where the capital was located after the attack of the capital protection mansion.

Not only are the houses staggered, but the doors are all narrow, and there is a blocking stone behind the door.

However, from the outside, it seems that this palace is a square gate, surrounded by four high walls outside the nine houses, and the mezzanine inside hides some water tanks according to Liu Zhong's intentions, and some are placed lime dry firewood and other things.

After the completion of the Duhu Mansion, Liu Zhong wanted to move in immediately, but was stopped by Hu Xiya, "In the newly built house, you have to put charcoal fire and bake it for a few days and nights, and then let some boys go in and play for three or five days before you can enter!" ”