Chapter 63: Re-entering the Secret Realm (3)
After Jiang Ge chatted with Wu Yan and Jiang Yibai, he roughly knew what to do next, but he still needed to think about it clearly, and then plan the order before he could start implementing it.
Since the base number of people is not low, it is not a problem here in Jiang Ge, and it seems that the Shence Army led by Jiang Ge is well-known in the entire alliance, if it is recruited, will the effect be more obvious.
Including the restoration and construction of the entire Qingfeng City after the recruitment of people, the division of labor arrangements, military affairs, agricultural affairs and many other things have to be planned by Zhou Xiang.
There was a lot to say, Jiang Ge's head ached a little, and he said to Jian Hong: "Although our brothers can be trusted, but the warehouse must be guarded well, in the face of huge wealth, even I will lose myself, so I warn my brothers to keep their hearts, and everyone will have a share in the award in a few days." I'm going to have to work hard for you for a while. ”
Jian Hong hugged his fists and said, "But according to the general's orders." ”
Jiang Ge nodded and said: "Wu Yan is the head of the city, Qingfeng City has to work hard, since Xiao Jiang has this ability, he also has to help our Shence Army contribute, you and Brother Wu discuss the recruitment matter, we are short of people and money now, Qingfeng City, as the first base of the Shence Army, must be run quickly, let us gradually light up all the cities occupied in the land of Yanzhou in the future from this point." Don't bother me these days, I need to think about what to do in the future. That's it, let's disperse. ”
Wu Yan and the three of them got up to say goodbye, and when they left the courtyard, Jiang Yibai asked Wu Yan curiously: "Manager Wu, the general doesn't seem to be very familiar with our alliance, and he doesn't know a lot of things, could it be that a genius who was not born has just entered the WTO?" I always felt that the general was a little mysterious. ”
Wu Yan laughed and said: "The old man doesn't know how the general's family background is, not to mention that a child like you with a prominent family background can know a little bit about everything, the old man doesn't know much, but the general will definitely exceed the expectations of everyone in the alliance, I am convinced of this." ”
Jian Hong said on the side: "Heroes don't ask where they come from, the general is such a peerless person, there are few in the world, or think more about how to keep up with the pace of the general, I asked myself if the swordsmanship is not bad, but compared with the general, hey, don't talk about it." Yibai will follow me to see our general's family background, so that you can do things in the future. ”
Jiang Yibai was even more curious about what the general said about the concept of no shortage of money, the recruitment of 10,000 people, the daily expenses are terrible. Jiang Yibai, who was a little worried all the way, felt the same as Wu Yan before after seeing the mountains of gold coins piled up in the huge basement, how to use so much money. His face was full of sorrow.
The repair work of Qingfeng City is steadily carried out under the dispatch of Wu Yan, according to Jiang Ge's requirements, the first thing to build is the pass on the northern passage, according to Jiang Ge's sketch, build a strong pass that can accommodate 2,000 people at the mouth of the passage in the north, although the project is a bit large, but once the pass is completed, the enemy must capture the pass if he wants to wave his army south, and the narrow passage does not have the use of large-scale siege equipment, so he can only keep using people, and he cannot pass through that pass without losing ten times or even ten times the number of troops. In this way, once the enemy attacks, Qingfeng City, which is twenty miles away, can support the pass for a moment, and the so-called one man is the one who is the pass.
Jiang Ge was lying on the ground on the huge map and kept writing and drawing, after his body was able to move normally, Jiang Ge was a little idle, although he would not move around, but the daily practice of qi and boxing gradually returned to normal, the more he exercised, the faster his body was better, and the more energetic he was.
After writing and drawing on the map for three or four days, Jiang Ge finished sketching the last stroke on this day, still biting a pen in his mouth, shook his hair and stood up to look at it carefully, nodded with satisfaction, put down the tools in his hand, cleaned his hands and face, and instructed Liang Shu to hang the huge map on the beam, fix it against the wall west of the general's mansion chamber, and make a small roller shutter mechanism, pull the rope to stretch out or curl the map hanging on the wall to the top.
Jiang Ge sat in the hall drinking tea, his coat was a foot away from the map stretched out on the wall, and his eyes were a little appreciative to look at his works.
The map in front of me is an enlarged version of the Qingfeng City Kanyu map, with Qingfeng City as the center, including the Qingfeng Basin with a radius of nearly fifty miles, and the Qingfeng Mountain Range twenty miles away from the basin. At the far north of the map are the towering mountains, as well as the Qingfeng Pass under construction.
The Qingfeng River flows through the Qingfeng City from the mountains in the northwest to the southeast, after Wu Yan's investigation, the river is not more than ten zhang wide, but the water flow is abundant, and there are many mountain streams and streams around, and the water source in the basin is quite abundant.
There is nothing else in the entire basin except for Qingfeng City, a lonely city, and it can be said that the endless expanse is full of fertile fields.
On the map, Jiang Ge carefully planned the cultivation area, breeding area, forging area, residential area and commercial area. As you can see on the map, the four passages around the Qingfeng Basin are set up with checkpoints, and although the three directions of east, west and south are not as majestic and solid as those of the Qingfeng Pass in the north, they are also the structure of the city wall gates, and each entrance is always equipped with two full-standard defenders.
In this way, the entire Qingfeng Basin formed a huge closed city. There are dozens of lookouts on the mountains around the basin, especially in the north, where there are more than 20 lookouts.
In Jiang Ge's planning, Qingfeng City is the military, political and commercial center, and the residential area is outside the city wall in the east, west and south directions of Qingfeng City, neatly arranged in a concave shape, with the residential area as the boundary, the wasteland in the south as the cultivated land, and the southeast river as the breeding area. The north is an industrial and military region.
In addition, the Qingfeng River was divided into three from the mountain pass, and two tributaries were excavated, one flowing through the agricultural area and the other flowing through the industrial and military area.
Although the water flow becomes thinner after being divided into three, there is no overlap of water in different areas, which can well prevent the occurrence of various diseases caused by water source problems. Moreover, it is autumn now, and the river is relatively abundant, and when the rainy season comes, it should be able to meet the needs of the three branches. Not to mention the small streams that flow through the surrounding mountains.
It's just that according to Jiang Ge's huge and neat planning, it is equivalent to completely building the entire Qingfeng Basin, especially the areas in the south and north of the city, and many details need to be designed in more detail under this overall planning.
There is still a shortage of people, an incomparable shortage of people.
After thinking for a long time, Jiang Ge instructed Liang Shu to convene Wu Yan and the others to discuss the matter, waiting for people to come over and over again, and thinking about how to fool the people south of the Great Wall into living in Qingfeng City.
It is certainly not enough to recruit mercenaries alone, and only by letting the residents who retreat to the south of the Great Wall voluntarily relocate to Qingfeng City can the plan on the map be truly completed.
But how can these people relocate to Qingfeng City? In everyone's mind, the north of the Great Wall is an unsafe place, where threats and even death can be encountered at any time. Moreover, there are several strategic places like Qingfeng City hundreds of miles away in the east and west directions of Qingfeng City, which are no smaller in scale than Qingfeng City, and they are still firmly occupied by the enemy. At this time, who would dare to gamble their lives to relocate to Qingfeng City? Jiang Ge didn't have a trace of confidence in his heart, but this was the only way, if the people of the alliance didn't come out and live in the narrow coastal area by the Great Wall, they would never want to recover the occupied land in the north.
Relying on a limited number of troops, even if the territory is expanded, there are no superfluous people to consolidate it, and it is also a waste of effort.
Therefore, Jiang Ge must open this precedent, so that the people hiding south of the Great Wall can bravely take steps towards their homeland.
After a short time, all the generals gathered in the council hall of the General's Palace.
Before explaining the map, Jiang Ge smiled at everyone and said: "Let's talk about the good news first, and in half a month, that is, on January 1 next year, the whole army will be awarded." Let everyone wait for a long time, but it won't disappoint you, presumably everyone already knows the promotion order, and that day it will go to the form, the key, or the reward, in addition to the reward of the battalion, the general also has a reward. Let's wait and see. Okay, so let's not talk about it today, but now you look at the map on the wall on the left. ”
Although the map was drawn by Jiang Ge, and many ideas and plans were also designed by Jiang Ge, in fact, many field investigations and analyses were personally surveyed by Wu Yan. Therefore, Wu Yan was the first person to know about the general's overall plan, and he was also the one who knew Jiang Ge's intentions the most.
Jiang Ge sat on the Taishi chair next to the map with a teacup, drinking tea by himself, and Wu Yan stood in front of the map and explained to everyone one by one.
After listening to Wu Yan's explanation, everyone was amazed, the general's eloquence was really extraordinary, and the whole thing was to build another huge city, a city that could be inhabited north of the Great Wall. It's incredible, whimsical, bold and ambitious.
Jiang Yibai rubbed his hands extremely excitedly and thought, if Jiang Ge could build this Qingfeng City, then it would mean that the pattern of hundreds of years would be broken, and the stalemate between the enemy and us would also be broken. So the extremely delicate balance will also be broken. Will the consequences be good or bad? In Jiang Yibai, this is a groundbreaking move, something that countless people dream of, but they have never implemented it like this, not even a plan. Why? The reason is simple, once such a city breaks the stalemate, it is very likely that the city will face a surging attack. Become the focal point of the entire front, so as to attract the attention of the enemy, and forcefully suppress militarily. In this way, the city was turned into sand under the iron hooves of the enemy army before it was built.
Most of the other people also have Jiang Yibai's thoughts, and from the bottom of their hearts, they will be excited because of Jiang Ge's plan, but the ensuing reality will crush this expectation again and again. The final conclusion is that it is not feasible.
Jiang Ge, who didn't say a word, kept scanning everyone's expressions, just like Wu Yan at the beginning, looking forward to, excited, eager to try, sad, silent, and depressed.
However, Jiang Ge just smiled and didn't say much, and when Wu Yan finished talking about all the content, everyone became quiet from the first round.
Jiang Ge spoke: "I know everyone's current mentality, I also know everyone's thoughts, and I agree with everyone's opinion, among you, there are the children of the gate valve, the children of the family, the official eunuchs, the heroes, and more civilian families." I believe your views are representative of the vast majority of people south of the Great Wall. But what I want to say is that if you never take the first step, you will always stay where you are, and you will only gradually decline if you are complacent, and only when there is pressure will you be motivated, we are all soldiers, and our duty is to recover the lost territory and defend the people of the country, the Great Wall is a desperate situation from which there is no retreat, and when we take this step, even if it is a thousand dangers, we can bring hope to everyone in the alliance, even if the enemy swarms, picks up the weapon in hand, and kills him upside down. As long as the first step is taken, there will be a second step. Our Shence Army has come to this point, even if we continue to regain the lost territory, if there is no one to consolidate the recovered city territory, when will we, who are already short of troops, recover the land of Yanzhou? We must have confidence in ourselves and the people behind us, so that we will not be rootless duckweed, but lotus flowers that break their shells when they encounter water, from one flower, to the entire lake. ”
"The general said well, we must not be depressed and self-denial. Everything is difficult at the beginning, and our Shence Army must become an example for the entire alliance, take root in the front line, and fight the enemy to the end. ”
"Nothing will happen
, that is, he can kill the enemy, and he doesn't know anything about construction, but Lao Tzu has never been afraid of rushing into battle with a knife. ”
"Following the general, I have never been aggrieved, and I have been killing all the way, without discomfort, thrilling and suffering, not the same as taking Qingfeng City. If I attack the city again, my big axe will cut down the city wall and kill him, leaving no armor behind. The general said he would do whatever he wanted. ”
“........”
After Jiang Ge's impassioned speech, the morale in the hall was obviously mobilized, Jiang Ge stretched out his hand and pressed it a few times in the air and said: "Since we are not afraid, then we will train our soldiers and defend Qingfeng City, and we will slaughter as many enemies as they come." It is necessary to ensure the stable construction of Qingfeng City. The first bold step is victory, and I hope that you will fight bravely to kill the enemy and defend your home and country in the future. ”
"Fight bravely to kill the enemy, defend the home and defend the country."
Everyone shouted in unison, and the council hall was suddenly warn, and the dark clouds over Qingfeng City dispersed, revealing a clear blue sky, and the sun shone on the earth.
After everyone dispersed, only Wu Yan and Jiang Ge were left in the hall.
The cold potatoes made new tea were placed on the table next to Jiang Ge and Wu Yan's seats, and the two of them drank tea separately, and the atmosphere was harmonious.
Wu Yan took a few sips and said: "General, forgive me, my subordinates plan to relocate all the clansmen in the family to Qingfeng City, and take advantage of their positions to choose a house in the city, and ask the general for forgiveness." ”
Jiang Ge's eyes were shocked when he heard this: "Brother Wu is so fast? This decision is about the lives of the whole family. Brother Wu has to think about it carefully. To be honest, I don't have 100% of my heart, so I can only do my best. However, there is no guarantee that the lives of those who have been relocated here will not be safe. ”
"I Have a Catalogue of Ghosts and Gods"
Wu Yan smiled: "Since I followed the general for two zhang, to be honest, the old man feels that because of his lack of ability, he is about to be unable to keep up with the rhythm of the general, and he feels a little backward." is older, but he is not as free as young people when he rushes to the front line. If it weren't for the blessing of the general, the old man would not have been able to reach the heights he has today. The family has worked hard with me for most of their lives, and now they have hope, of course, they must grasp it, and a few boys in the family are about to reach the grade of joining the army, and they don't need to be so strict in screening when they come to Qingfeng City. ”
Jiang Ge looked at Wu Yan's somewhat gray hair, and thought of his father, who continued to work hard for his descendants and family when he was old.
Jiang Ge empathized and said: "Brother Wu's direction, these are all trivial matters, you can arrange it yourself, I am only responsible for the formulation of the general direction, and when it is specific, Brother Wu still has to implement it with a group of colorless capable men." Otherwise, I am afraid that my castle in the sky will not be implemented one day. And what are the goods in the warehouse? ”
Speaking of this, Wu Yan took out the notebook he carried in his arms and flipped through it: "The count has been completed, a total of 1 million gold coins, 100,000 gems of various colors, 200,000 portions of various materials, 1 million quintals of grain and grass, a total of 100,000 quintals of other food, and 100,000 barrels of two kinds of wine." ”
Jiang Ge took a sip of tea and said, "So many treasures are hidden in Qingfeng City, and I haven't seen any big moves from the enemy." ”
Wu Yan said: "If it is said normally, Qingfeng City has more than 30,000 people to eat, drink, and have armaments, and the materials in the warehouse are quite full. It's just that those gold coins and gems are a bit much, and an ordinary city of the same size would never store such a huge amount of wealth. Of course, the possibility of historical accumulation cannot be ruled out. Moreover, these controlled demon armies actually do not consume much of these materials, and the food and grass are not as good as what we eat every day, and the consumption is less, and it is not impossible to accumulate over time. However, the demon people are the same as us, and it is also possible that this Qingfeng City is a place where the children of the demon family secretly place idle money. ”
Jiang Ge said curiously: "According to what you said, the vast majority of the power of the demon army will actually rebel because of the erosion of the demon clan's unique control methods, and the five clans of the alliance are naturally resistant to this kind of control. In fact, the demon race is the same as the five tribes, eating, drinking, Lazar, etc., there is no difference? Then, could the person who assassinated me be a demon? ”
Wu Yan said: "What the general said is that the demon people are the same as the five clans of the alliance, there is no difference. It's just that their population base is several times that of the five races, and it will erode ordinary people and turn them into half-demon puppets. The person who assassinated the general must be a demon clan, and he is a master. He only escaped from the skylight in the basement. I guess we escaped before we went into lockdown. So we didn't catch it. It's the only fish that slipped through the net. The alliance rarely catches demons, and there are only a few cases in history, so demons are relatively unfamiliar to most of us alliance clansmen. ”
Jiang Ge nodded and said: "Oh, I see, in fact, in the long years, the soldiers of the alliance are actually fighting with the puppets of the demon clan, because the puppets are not afraid of death, and they have the reaction thinking of normal people, plus the blessing of the power of the demon race, so the strength of the puppet soldiers is strong." On the contrary, the demons rarely appear on the front line, and they are basically remotely controlled in the rear. ”
Wu Yan nodded and said, "What the general said is very accurate. It's a shame to say that the warriors of the alliance have been constantly losing those puppets with their flesh and blood, and the puppets seem to be endless, and the real demons rarely see them. After so many years, I don't know how big the demon people have developed. ”
Jiang Ge finally figured out the overall structure of this world and the real situation of the two camps, and couldn't help but exhale heavily, the previous sense of unknown fear gradually dissipated, and he became more confident.