When he woke up the next day, Tang Zheng was dizzy, although the alcohol was not high, he couldn't hold up the amount, and anyone who drank more than half the night would have a headache the next day. Tang Zheng got up almost noon, this was the latest time he came to this world. When he got up, Cheng Pu had already returned to the county seat, and left a letter to tell Tang Zheng that his appointment would come down soon. After washing his face indiscriminately, Tang Zheng decided to go to the mine to take a look, and he didn't even look at the military training during this time. When we arrived at the coal mine, everyone was busy, and since Tang Zheng came up with honeycomb coal and coal stoves, coal was in short supply. Now it has spread to several surrounding villages, and the village is also famous in the surrounding area for its honeycomb coal and coal stoves, and even many large families in the county town have sent their servants to the village to buy honeycomb coal. Honeycomb coal is cheaper than charcoal, and if you make a tin kettle at the blacksmith shop in the village, there will be hot water in the house for a day. Now more and more people are flocking to the village, and the village has begun to sell small goods, and it is becoming more and more prosperous. Nowadays, people in the village generally do not dig for coal, and now the people who dig coal and stone are recruited displaced people and people from nearby villages. At present, only cement and rotation are burned in the village, and the burning of cement is very harmful to people's bodies, and it is easy to get silicosis. Tang Zheng said to the people who burned the cement, but they just didn't invite outsiders, and would rather suffer their own bodies than ask outsiders to help, and the people in the village burned them themselves. Tang Zheng also told Grandpa Cheng about this, and Grandpa Cheng also laughed and said: "Boy, this is the life-saving craft of our village, but I don't dare to pass it on to outsiders." If others learn, what will the descendants of our village rely on to survive? From then on, Tang Zheng no longer said this, but continued to strengthen protection, repeatedly emphasizing that no matter how hot or tired he was at work, he could not take off the layer of cotton cloth on his mouth, and he must drink more boiling water. For Tang Zheng's ability, the people in the village were convinced, so everyone followed what he said.

Tang Zheng didn't find any problems in the mine and the cement kiln circle, and then went to the blast furnace to take a look, as soon as he arrived at the blast furnace, he saw the soldiers walking in pairs carrying steel bars to the direction of the barracks, Tang Zheng nodded with satisfaction and walked directly towards the blast furnace. A large group of blacksmiths were busy carrying ore, carrying ore and coal. Looking at the tired and sweaty man, Tang Zheng suddenly patted his head, how could he forget about this matter, why didn't he know that he had directly built two simple railroad tracks from the coal mine and the iron mine. Tang Zheng called the craftsman to tell the craftsman his thoughts, and then looked at the confused craftsman, and said everything he said in vain. Then Tang Zheng wrote and painted on the ground, and after dancing his hands and feet, the craftsman understood a big block. Then someone quickly went to find the clay that came to make the mold, made the mold in front of Tang Zheng, and then poured the molten iron, and when he cooled down, everyone removed the mold, and a section of the track appeared in front of him. Tang Zheng asked everyone to follow this method, and first make the track and then talk about it. The distance from the coal mine to the blast furnace is a little far, one or two miles away, and the iron mine is relatively close, just on the mountain of the blast furnace, and then Tang Zheng taught them how to lay tracks, how to make mine carts loaded with ore and coal, and everything is irrelevant. In fact, people at this time are very smart, often as long as you provide them with an idea and a direction, they will solve it themselves, of course, this is not Tang Zheng's laziness, but he does have a lot of things to do. The day passed quickly, when Tang Zheng returned home, it was dark, Cheng Pu didn't come back, Cheng Ying and Grandpa Cheng had already finished eating and resting. Tang Zheng also went back to his room to sleep after he was done.

The next day, Tang Zheng went to the barracks early in the morning, and after a few days of rushing work, the carpenter made the planks, and the steel bars and cement were also moved. Tang Zheng called the mason to personally tell them how to tie the steel bars and how to put the wooden boards, and when everything was ready, the mixed cement and small stones were poured into a box surrounded by wooden boards in a certain proportion. Wait for these people to learn Tang Zheng before letting them operate it themselves. In this way, the wall can be built many times faster than in the past, and the board can be dismantled in the afternoon after watering in the morning. When the board was disassembled, these craftsmen saw it with their own eyes, and their jaws dropped in shock. Although I believe in the effect of cement, it is a small-scale use after all, and I am still shocked to see such a large-scale use. They all know exactly what the appearance of cement means. Tang Zheng looked at the watered city wall, pressed it with his hand, the hardness is not bad, it is still not dry inside, if it is dry, the hardness will be stronger.

Just when Tang Zheng was busy dealing with things in the barracks, Grandpa Cheng and Cheng Pu found Tang Zheng, Cheng Pu brought the newly recruited 500 county soldiers, and also brought Tang Zheng's letter of appointment, that is to say, from now on, Tang Zheng is an official official of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although he is only a county lieutenant, but he also has the right to lead the troops. Although the imperial power is declining now, the righteousness that should be there is still indispensable.

Tang Zheng still broke up and reorganized the newly recruited 500 people and the previous 282 people according to the previous establishment, divided them into eight brigades, and then organized the eight brigades into a battalion. Among them, there were actually thirty-six people who used to be hunters who would ride horses and shoot arrows, and Tang Zheng divided these thirty-six into scouts and personally trained them. Then he handed over the others to Cheng Hu to train, and now Cheng Hu is becoming more and more like a soldier.

After Cheng Pu finished the handover, he told Tang Zheng that Lord Xu wanted him to train his troops well, and he didn't need to go to the county seat to thank him. Tang Zheng was unwilling to kowtow to people, so he took advantage of the situation and said that he would definitely live up to Lord Xu's promotion, and he would train hard to strive to train a strong army. Cheng Pu was clear about Tang Zheng's thoughts, and he didn't say anything and said with a smile that he would go back to his life. Grandpa Cheng was also surprised by Tang Zheng's performance, and it took less than a year for him to change from an unknown source to an official of the imperial court. Tang Zheng looked at Grandpa Cheng in a daze and asked, "Is there anything else going on with Grandpa?" "By the way, I almost forgot about business, that is, two days ago you said that you planned to build a road from the river bank to the city wall, and I have arranged the manpower and will wait for you." Grandpa Cheng came back to his senses and said to Tang Zheng. "Grandpa, you first take them over to see how the city wall was built, although they used to build water canals, but at that time cement was used less, and they may not know the large-scale use of cement. You arrange for some to come and learn how to build the wall, and then I'll tell them exactly what to do in the past. Tang Zheng said to Grandpa Cheng. Yes, good. I'll arrange for someone to come over tomorrow, I just saw that they are indeed different from the previous canals, so I won't bother you and go back first. After saying goodbye to Grandpa Cheng, he went back by himself. Tang Zheng also went to do his own business.

The next day, Tang Zheng found the thirty-six people from yesterday and asked them to show themselves, not bad, their equestrian skills are very good, and their archery skills are even more incredible, running at high speed on a horse, and they can still shoot at the target, which makes Tang Zheng impressed. One of them is called Zhang Chao, who is twenty-four or five years old, and basically achieves 100 shots and 100 hits, and shoots wherever he points within 100 steps. Tang Zheng appointed him as the captain of the scout battalion, although there were only thirty-six people in the scout camp now. I heard Zhang Chao say that his family made a living by hunting, his eldest father was a hunter, Ye Ye was also a hunter, since he was a child, he followed them into the mountains to hunt, I heard him say that he Ye Ye could ride a horse and shoot the rabbit that escaped, but later he went into the city to sell prey, offended the powerful and was beaten up, and died not long after. My mother died of illness in less than two years, and now he is alone at home, and I heard that the county is recruiting, so I came out to give it a try. Tang Zheng comforted him a few times and told him that he had a chance to take revenge. Tang Zheng felt that they had nothing to practice, and Tang Zheng didn't understand how to find out information or anything. Tang Zheng simply let them train by themselves, and the main training was archery. Cavalry and archers were the most difficult to train in any dynasty, and a qualified archer had to be trained repeatedly for at least three years. Not to mention the cavalry, which was completely piled up with money and grain. In fact, Tang Zheng also learned bows and arrows, but no one taught him, and he was always groping and practicing, and now there are thirty-six qualified archers, Tang Zheng plans to learn from them. Just after Tang Zheng arranged the thirty-six archers, Grandpa Cheng arranged for the people to study, Tang Zheng took the people to the city wall and handed them over to Wang Ming, the master craftsman in charge of building the city wall, and asked him to teach these people how to fix the planks, how to mix the cement and pour the cement slurry, and then they didn't care. He followed Zhang Chao to learn archery.