Since the meeting that day, everyone in Akagi Prefecture was amazed to find the huge changes in the whole of Akagi.

First of all, Akagi recruited troops on a large scale, and the military salary of three buckets of grain and five dollars of silver every month quickly spread among the young and strong, which was almost twice as much as the previous one bucket of grain and three hundred dollars of money. All the young men went crazy, and they threw down their work one after another, ran to the place of conscription, and wanted to join the army. The strongest young men in the major construction sites ran cleanly, and they were so angry that Yang Da, Wang Ming, Wang Wen and others jumped to their feet and scolded their mothers, but they didn't dare to do anything after venting, Akagi military first, everything had to make way for the military.

It's no wonder that these young people are excited, working in Akagi, in addition to having enough food, there are only two buckets of coarse grain a month as a gratuity, and Akagi has not yet issued copper coins or silver as wages at any construction site. Qin Forget once also planned to use silver money to recruit young people, but he still gave up for various reasons. Now as long as you join the army, you will have an extra bucket of food and five dollars of silver, how can the young and strong not be excited?

On the first day, there were 30,000 or 40,000 young people to sign up, and Dongzhuang's infantry had the lowest requirements for soldiers among the three arms, as long as they were strong and tall. But he didn't dare to recruit too much, for fear that he would miss out on more excellent soldiers, and only recruited 2,000 people.

Yang Xuan and Su Dingnan's cavalry and archers also only recruited a few dozen people. The conditions for Yang Xuan and the two to recruit were extremely harsh. The minimum requirement for the cavalry recruited by Yang Xuan is to be able to ride a horse. There are many children of Han people in the north who can ride horses or mules, but there are very few who can say that they have good riding skills. In addition to the minimum requirements of being strong and strong, it is also required to have a wide waist and long arms, and to be able to ride a war horse and run three laps on the school field, which is considered qualified.

Su Dingnan's requirements are more demanding, first of all, he requires strong arm strength. Without strong arm strength, continuous shooting cannot be done. The army's standard eight-bucket hard bow, the average elite archer can only shoot about eleven or twelve in a row, and then the arms are sore, and the bow can't be opened. So for the shooter, arm strength is almost everything. Su Dingnan first asked the people who came to join the army to be able to lift the fifty-pound stone lock at least ten times in one go, and they should also be able to see the copper coins fifty steps away, and if they were from a good family, there would be a family. These three conditions alone brush off nine out of ten people.

It took several days for Akagi to fill the 21,000-strong reserve soldiers, who had to go through several months of training before selecting the real soldiers. And the ironclad infantry, as Huang Wushuang expected, failed to gather enough 3,000 people, the cavalry did not recruit a full 1,000 people, and the archers were also not enough for 3,000 people. This made Yang Xuan, Su Dingnan and the others very unhappy for a while.

In the end, 2,500 ironclad soldiers of the beggar army were established, of which 500 were Huang Wushuang's original Ulzhou ironclad left army, 2,000 prisoners of the original right army plus the criminals accumulated by the monkey nest, and 3,000 auxiliary troops were also from criminals or prisoners. Wang Ping's First Ironclad Army, of which 1,000 ironclad soldiers were newly recruited, and the original Huang Wushuang's Ulzhou Ironclad Left Army had 500 people, and the auxiliary soldiers were also 3,000 people. Liu Yang and Ding Chen's two ironclad armies were also in the same configuration. In this way, there are 20,000 infantry in Akagi, including 7,000 ironclad soldiers, and the proportion is still very objective.

Yang Xuan's cavalry of 2,700 people, of which the cavalry of the five clans was elite, and the remaining 700 cavalry were recruits. After mixing the two thousand seven hundred people, they were divided into three cavalry battalions, the first battalion of Yang Xuan and the second battalion of Guo Yong.

3rd Camp of Kinson. Su Dingnan commanded 2,200 archers. The remaining nearly 7,000 people, all of whom were organized into pikemen, were personally trained and led by Dong Zhuang.

The entire Akagi was unprecedentedly strong, and after a short period of integration, all the troops immediately threw themselves into the hot training.

The second biggest change is the steady influx of Akagi's population. Whether it is Helin in the north or Dayan in the south, a large number of people are escorted every day. In particular, Horin in the north would send tens of thousands of people at a time, and among them were not only Han Chinese, but also Uighurs or people of other races, and even blond-haired and blue-eyed Yi people. These people are all strong, and in addition to the traces of abuse, they have more or less some arrow wounds and knife wounds, and a discerning person can know at a glance that these people were once soldiers.

Now the Khitan and the Uighurs are in a big war, and the Khitan has a great upper hand, capturing many Uighur prisoners and civilians on the front line, and some of these people are killed, but most of them will be sold as slaves by the Khitan generals. According to Wang Ming's statistics, so far, the Khitans have sent 20,000 Uighur slaves to Chicheng, as well as 3,000 slaves from the Hu, Xi, and Murowei ethnic groups.

In the counties sent by Huang Ling in the south, young people account for a very small part. Huang Ling still secretly made a mistake, and sent over all the minor and serious prisoners in all the prisons in Yunzhou. This made Wang Wen very dissatisfied, and found Qin Wangyu to clarify the matter, Qin Wangyi could only smile bitterly, the two of them only said the number of people, but did not say the composition of these people. From this point of view, Huang Ling did not lose his words. Qin Forget filled all these people into Huang Wushuang's beggar army. However, there are also unexpected joys, those felons are some Jiangyang thieves who kill people without blinking, and their combat effectiveness is no worse than that of well-trained soldiers, and even many of them have special skills, which are just discipline.

Although Huang Ling was clever, those craftsmen did not discount anything. Nearly 700 craftsmen from the Yunzhou area were sent, including blacksmiths, carpenters, bricklayers, and even sharpeners and pedicure craftsmen from all walks of life, but there were very few craftsmen who could make weapons. This can make Wang Wenle bad, and now Chicheng is most lacking in these craftsmen, and they are waiting to be rebuilt, and these craftsmen will play a great role.

With a steady flow of labor and craftsmen, the labor force at the major construction sites has been increased to an unprecedented extent, and the construction of both the city walls and the docks has been greatly accelerated. Especially the city wall, because there are words on the Khitan and Lin side first, Chicheng and Yexian can only be built for three months, and when the three months are up, all skilled craftsmen and workers will be sent to build the city for Helin, so Qin Wang attaches great importance to the construction of the two cities. Half of the Akagi strong labor was concentrated here, and 100,000 people worked day and night to build the two cities, and as soon as a new population arrived, half of the young and strong people would be selected for the use of the two cities.

On the other side of the monkey's nest and the iron mine, it is an even more spectacular scene, with 3,000 healthy oxen pulling a long line of more than ten miles on the road full of timber and stones. On the first line from Monkey Nest to Akagi, the convoy runs in both directions, with an ox cart following an ox cart, and the first one is connected, continuously transporting heavy timber and stones. It's like a marquee, fast and efficient.

Each ox cart had a person pulling the oxen, but amazingly, these people were Khitans, most of them

It's women, half-grown children, and old people. These people were all sent to Qin Wang by Xiao Ding in order to free up Chicheng as soon as possible, according to the agreement. At first, the people of Chicheng were hostile and wary of these people, but after a long time, they found that these people were just poor people, just like the Han people, the same rags, and the same precariousness. The unique kindness of the Central Plains people made them quickly get along with these Khitans.

As soon as the ox cart, which weighs thousands of pounds, breaks down on the road, a dozen drivers from front to back run over, unload the heavy timber and stones, and carry the ox cart to the side of the road to make room for the convoy behind. Naturally, craftsmen from Akagi came to repair it, doing everything possible not to affect the speed of transportation.

After getting rid of the big trouble of transportation, Yang Da and Jin Xu liberated more than 10,000 young people at once, plus more than 20,000 people allocated to them by Qin Wang, and the addition of 30,000 young people made them develop monkey nests and open up roads to iron mines nearly twice as fast.

Now there are more than 30,000 strong laborers in each of the two places, and 60 acres of mountain forests are cleared out every day in the monkey nest, revealing the dark land underneath. Jin Xu's side will open up half a mile of mountain roads every day, although there is no gunpowder as a sharp weapon, the speed is not too slow. For him, the most difficult thing is the polishing of the stones, which occupies the vast majority of his labor. He was not afraid of mountains, he was afraid of cliffs, and once he encountered a cliff between two mountains, he had to spend months filling it up.

After seeing the power of gunpowder, Jin Xu didn't think about it for a day. Whenever he had time, he pondered the recipe for gunpowder and vowed to invent a more powerful gunpowder.

The wharf was almost built, and Wang Wen only left 1,000 people there for the final repairs, and the 30,000 young and strong laborers were used to build the road from the wharf to Chicheng and then to Yexian.

The method he used to build the road was different from that of ordinary rammed earth roads, and in the future, countless heavy horse-drawn carriages had to pass through this route every day, and ordinary rammed earth roads could not be used at all. Wang Wen asked people to level the road surface first, dig a foot-deep roadbed, which is covered with a layer of gravel up to one foot thick, and then spread a layer of half-foot-thick sanhe soil on the gravel, and while the sanhe soil has not yet dried, the heavy bluestone slab is laid tightly.

The road built in this way is about a foot above the road surface, and it is not afraid of rain and mud at all. Wang Wen personally experimented, he found more than a dozen ox carts, loaded with 2,000 catties of goods, and walked the road after repair. After going back and forth more than a dozen times, the newly repaired road surface was intact, which made Wang Wen very happy.

Wang Wen is not a stupid person, there are not enough Qingtiao stones for the time being, so he led people to build stone roads first, and now less than half of all roads have been completed. The gravel road is very easy to build, dig the roadbed, pave it with gravel, and ram it back and forth a few times to use. Wang Wen also reflected that such a stone road is very useful, and those gravels don't know what's going on, obviously they are simply paved together, but they are very strong, and no matter how heavy the carriage is, it can't crush the stones. And there is no fear of rain at all, those gravel roads will not store stagnant water, and will not be troubled by mud. I have to say that the road built by Akagi is the best in the world. Even compared with the roads of the capitals of the world, it is not bad.

Overall, the huge machine of Akagi is running at high speed, and everything is developing at a high speed for the better.