Originally, Yun Xiaoshui's reluctance to do the concubine selection activity suddenly became a good governance strategy for him to win the hearts of the people, especially the praise of the poor people, and they had a little hope when they accepted their fate.

Next, the wedding ceremony was carried out with great fanfare. Yun Xiaoshui unceremoniously accepted gifts, and he still received gifts without hospitality, spent nothing, and made money. Some of the rich and noble families who gave congratulatory gifts were unhappy and did not dare to show it. Yun Xiaoshui later gave a "sunshine" thank-back, and sent a "Yunfu thank-you gift" to every household in the three counties of the fiefdom, shouting "rejoicing with the people"!

This measure has won the hearts of the people, which is equivalent to "robbing the rich and helping the poor", and celebrating their weddings with the whole world, which is really a stroke of God!

After getting married, Leng Yue, Bingshuang and Xiangzhi took the eight female guards to serve as the chief training chief and coach of the "Women's Inspection Team" short training class, and hired some civil and military female coaches with a lot of money.

Many affairs have just ended, everything is on the right track, Yun Xiaoshui looks back, he has been back to his hometown for more than half a year, and he has enjoyed the joy of family with his wife and concubine.

A decree from the imperial court came, asking Yun Xiaoshui to rush back to the border pass and strengthen the military defense function of the city wall.

"Go back! This is too general to say 'strengthening the military defense function', right? Yun Xiaoshui pondered, and led his family and honor guard to return to General Meng Tian's central camp day and night, or Yun Xiaoshui's "craftsman tent group".

"Master—Master! You want to die as an apprentice! Yun Xiaoshui had just calmed down, holding the Book of Heaven to find inspiration, preparing to complete the task of "strengthening national defense" of the First Emperor, a group of people came out of the tent under the leadership of the guards, and they shouted loudly from afar, and they knew that it was Fat Liuniang when they heard it.

"How did she get here?" This fat Liuniang is on the Shanhaiguan side, and the husband in the camp where the original servant built the wall is the chief!

Yun Xiaoshui walked out of the camp tent to meet this group of people, it was really Fat Liuniang, as well as Fat Seventh Sister, Old Man Zhou Jin, and the other three daughters who were rescued with Mrs. Yuyao's mother and daughter, there were more than a dozen in total.

It was still the fat Liuniang and the old man Zhou Jin who told the reason, Xiang Tuo was transferred away after being promoted to captain, and there were new people in Shanhaiguan. When General Xiang was leaving, he called Fat Liuniang and the others to ask if they were going home, or if they were going to Yun Xiaoshui? Left behind is no one to shelter them anymore. If they choose to go home, General Xiang is ready to issue a certificate for them to dismiss them.

"It's all because of your face, Master Craftsman, that we can get General Xiang's special care! As soon as a few of us discussed, we would be poor when we went home, so it was better to come to you, Master Craftsman, so we all came, please give us a bite to eat! ”

Looking at Fat Liuniang and Old Man Zhou, Yun Xiaoshui smiled and said, "Aren't your family worried?" Don't want to miss you? You don't go home when you have the chance! ”

"I didn't have anything to eat or wear when I went home, so why worry about it?"

Yun Xiaoshui didn't recognize it for a while, there were still Old Man Liu and Old Zhang Tou among them! They were all veterans who had stayed in the tents. This is what Old Man Liu said.

Yun Xiaoshui nodded, left them all behind, put them in the honor guard, and enriched them in the kitchen and guard members.

"Hahaha...... It worked! Master Craftsman! General Meng sent the last man to invite you to go to the brick kiln to have a look, the blue bricks and tiles fired by the soldiers are absolutely good for the construction of the pass fortress! ”

The military advisor Zhang Liang came with the guards, and shouted to Yun Xiaoshui from afar. Now these two people have become "old and young friends", Zhang Liang likes to pat Yun Xiaoshui's thin shoulders when they meet, because he is much taller than Yun Xiaoshui, and he pats it condescendingly, sometimes lightly and sometimes heavily, and when it is heavy, it can make Yun Xiaoshui grin in pain.

A large group of people and horses walked towards the foot of the Great Wall, and there were 16 male and female guards around Yun Xiaoshui, plus wind and thunder, cold moon, and a Orion woman Frost was collected from the deep mountains of Mengyin, a total of 20 people. The frost appearance and martial arts are no less than Leng Yue, acting as a personal female guard, and also serving as the female guard captain, at the same level as Feng Lei, Leng Yue became the captain of the general guard.

Standing on a small hill outside the tent, Yun Xiaoshui looked up, but saw that the sun was shining, the white clouds were drifting, and a wide dirt road in the east-west direction was winding away, glowing with a dazzling white light in the shadow of the sun. It crosses a desert of no people, through a dense woods, to the end of the field of vision, where the mountains are continuous, the green peaks are towering, the peaks are shrouded in mist, and the scenery is beautiful, like a nine-day fairyland.

In front of a row of brick kilns and lime kilns, Yun Xiaoshui saw piles of small mountains of fuel, mainly wood, which made Yun Xiaoshui feel shocked, and suddenly remembered that the widespread use of coal as fuel would be a few years later, about the Western Han Dynasty.

During the Great Qin period, there should have been alchemists who would use burning coal, but there was no name for coal at that time, some people called it black stone, and it was called Shihuang in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

"May I ask the master craftsman, if this can burn the bricks and tiles red, how dazzling it would be to build on the big wall!" Suddenly, a partiality general asked Yun Xiaoshui.

Yun Xiaoshui looked at him and said with a smile: "That's very simple! It's just that red bricks are not as resistant to corrosion as green bricks, and this big wall is blowing in the wind and rain all day long, and green bricks can last longer! ”

"Huh? Very simple? If it can be done, it can be used in the middle, and it can also make the city wall more eye-catching from a distance! ”

Yun Xiaoshui looked at General Mengda, and seemed to have this intention, so he said: "After the brick blank is burned, there is no need to use the method of 'water injection kiln' to make the kiln bricks cool naturally, and the bricks that come out are red!" ”

"Really? Try this kiln! ”

Looking at the delighted look of the general, Yun Xiaoshui had an urge to kick him, shook his head and urged the horse to run towards a building complex on the top of a mountain.

"Master Yunjiang, where are you going?" Zhang Liang asked anxiously.

"Go to the top of the mountain and see what it is?"

"Tianyaguan, there are few Taoist priests, and the smell of pills is everywhere!"

Listening to Zhang Liang's words, Yun Xiaoshui wanted to take a look even more, and he was glad that he could go and see what kind of fuel the alchemy old dao used.

The mountain road winds and turns more and more difficult to walk, sometimes climbing, sometimes downhill, and the whole is to the southwest, farther and farther away from the city wall.

When he arrived at the foot of the mountain, there were stone steps going up, Yun Xiaoshui had to put all the horses here, send people to guard them, and he led people to climb up on foot.

It just so happened that Zhang Liang said that it was a Taoist temple, a pure wooden building, not large in scale, and the smoke in the sky was not small.

Before I got close to the mountain gate, I asked about the strong smell of pills.

"Huh? There is really something that the master is looking for, and there is a smell of coal in this medicinal smell...... That's great! Yun Xiaoshui came first just thinking in his heart, thinking about it and being happy, he shook his head and shouted: "I found coal!" ”

"What? Master! ”

"Giggle...... Aren't you crazy, young master? ”

"Frost, what did you say about the young master? Palm! Leng Yue glared at Frost and said.

Frost hurriedly stretched out her tongue, raised her hand and patted her cheeks twice, then covered her mouth and giggled.

Yun Xiaoshui never realized Frost's "crazy words", Frost's fast talk, lively temperament, and sunshine brought him heartfelt pleasure, so Yun Xiaoshui liked Frost very much in a short time.

"What's going crazy? Go and see what is burning at the bottom of those old alchemy furnaces? ”

Suddenly, an old man's voice came, "Hey, hey! The boy is waiting for me! The voice came from the small door on the side of the Taoist temple, and I saw two people dressed as an old man and a young person, who had already passed by Yun Xiaoshui and they went down the mountain.

If the old man didn't say anything, he wouldn't be able to attract Yun Xiaoshui's attention at all, although there were very few pilgrims who came to this temple, but after all, there were, so the two of them couldn't attract attention. However, it was the old man's movement that attracted Yun Xiaoshui's attention. The first thing he found out was that the old and the young, the old is not the old man, and the little one is not a child.

"These are two young men! Martial arts master! Go take them down! If something goes wrong, there must be a demon! Listening to Yun Xiaoshui's order, all the guards were stunned at first. This old and young are young martial arts masters? On what basis did the young master judge?