As soon as the young man transported by Liu Jian arrived, the entire Chicheng suddenly became busy again.

Wang Wen stood next to the dock under construction and smiled happily, good guy, this is a full five thousand Ding Zhuang. With them, the dock will be built much faster.

The young men had been divided into groups of ten, some were repairing the road, some were building berths, some were tying up the wooden stakes of the boats, and many more were digging silt at the bottom of the river where the water had been pumped to expand the entire wharf even further. The whole construction site looks chaotic, but it is in order. Looking at the hundreds of wooden stakes on the shore that tethered the boats, the prototype of the dock had already appeared.

Not far away, countless warehouses and warehouses are in full swing under construction, starting from this wharf, along the Chaobai River through Ye County, and finally to Chicheng, a total of more than 50 miles, both sides of the bank are such a busy scene. Countless restaurants, inns, warehouses, and warehouses are under rapid construction. Flying wood chips fell in the Chaobai River, making the river turbid, and the yellow sawdust dyed the Chaobai River into the Yellow River, which never flowed. After several months of hard work, a number of warehouses and warehouses have been built there.

Wang Wen stomped on the rammed ground under his feet and nodded with satisfaction. As soon as the square stones being mined on the side of Taihang Mountain arrive, these roads will be paved with a layer of large bluestone that is two feet long, one foot wide, and one foot thick. The owner said that the wharf should be paved with large bluestone within a radius of more than ten miles, and with the wharf as the starting point, the warehouse and warehouse should also be paved with large bluestone. When the time comes, this pier will be able to operate normally no matter what kind of weather it is. Of course, these come with a fee, and they're definitely not expensive.

Thinking of those big bluestones, Wang Wen couldn't help but have a cold war in his heart.

The owner is really ruthless, although those Huang Ming's ironclad right army were not killed, but they were all sent to the quarry on Jin Xu's side to widen the mountain road for transporting iron ore. 2,500 people were forced to work in vain and night by knives and guns. In fact, there is no need to force them with knives and guns, after repeated stimulation, those people are completely frightened, one by one insensitive, as if they have no vitality, even if they are released, they dare not escape.

More than 2,500 people, doing the heaviest work, eating the worst food, just a few days, exhausted a lot of seriously injured and frail people, I heard that the first polished stone is sticky with blood.

In fact, the entire Chicheng suddenly rolled out six or seven huge projects, such as iron mines, monkey nests, Chicheng and Yexian city walls, wharves and supporting facilities. The gap for the strong men is unusually large, and with the prisoners of war, those free labor must be used to death. Which of these projects would not have taken thousands of people years to complete? In particular, the 100-mile-long mountain road of the iron mine will take decades or hundreds of years, but what the Chicheng Group lacks is time, and these projects cannot be done one by one, and none of them can be missing, only one bite

All the gas is on the horse.

Needless to say, the wharf is something that the tea and horse market is absolutely inseparable. And the reconstruction of Chicheng and Ye counties is also inevitable. Without a tall enough city wall, the Akagi Group is like an insignificant beauty exposed to the gaze of a group of big men. What's more, for the Khitan people who have always been ambitious in the Central Plains, Qin Forget can't help but be on guard. Besides, the monkey nest and iron ore that took the longest time can't be stopped over there. Whether it is the wharf or the reconstruction of the two counties, a lot of wood and stone will be used, and these things should be collected from those two places, so as not to delay the construction of the two places. I really can't tell which is the most important and which is slightly less important.

With so many large projects, Akagi is very short of people, especially young adults. Now Akagi doesn't see a single person idle, as long as it is moving, it is distributed in various construction sites. Even if they were soldiers, in addition to 1,000 people as a garrison, the remaining four or five thousand people were also involved in the construction of the two cities. Qin Forget didn't dare to let these soldiers go far, but only built a city wall around the two counties. In case something happens, you can also come back as soon as possible.

Now Chicheng has recruited a lot of strong men one after another, and Liu Jian has sent two more batches of people, compared with the end of the war a month ago, Chicheng has tens of thousands more. But these tens of thousands of people sprinkled into several large construction sites, like a drop of rain rushing into the sea, without even splashing a splash, and disappeared.

The Chicheng Group really had no choice but to hire people to work at a price of 20 yuan a day. But the war and Qin Wang's notoriety for massacring a large number of prisoners of war had long since spread to several surrounding states, and even if the treatment was good, there were very few people who came to work. In the mouths of the surrounding people, Qin Forget has long been rumored to be a monster with a green face and fangs, three heads and six arms, and specializes in eating human flesh, and they would rather be hungry than risk their lives to beg for food.

Thinking of Akagi's embarrassing situation, Wang Wen smiled bitterly. Finally, I have a little money, but I can't recruit people to work, how can I exchange a handful of rice for a strong laborer like before.

The rapid development of Akagi has not only caused a shortage of labor, but also caused a sharp consumption of various materials. Especially for food, the population has increased and the appetite of the people has increased, which directly causes Akagi's food to be consumed at a rate several times faster than before. Recently, Chen Wan'er has been buying food from outside to transport it to Chicheng, but it still can't match the speed of consumption, and Chicheng is almost exhausted.

During this time, Qin Forget also led people to rob a lot of smuggled caravans, and also seized a lot of things. But compared to nearly 100,000 people, it is still not enough to consume.

Wang Wen, who had a sad face, suddenly saw a few horses walking slowly in the distance. As they walked, they pointed to the lively construction sites along the way.

Wang Wen suddenly became vigilant, these people absolutely could not be his own people, all the war horses in Chicheng were in the cavalry battalion of Jinsen, even some officers were not qualified to share one

Bolt. And these people are all one man and one horse, and more importantly, these people are from the north.

"Someone! Go and see what those people do. He beckoned to a few soldiers on guard behind him.

After a while, the soldiers who had passed by brought those people over.

Wang Wen looked at these people carefully, they were all wearing robes with left sides, round necks, and narrow sleeves, shirts and jackets in the robes, trousers under them, trouser legs tucked into boots, and their clothes were mainly made of various furs. These people have narrow foreheads, longer faces than Central Plains people, and high and straight noses, a bit hooked noses, very light complexion, and single eyelids. The most striking thing is that the hair of these people, except for a little braid on the sides of their heads, is all shaved. In the winter, all bald heads are shiny and shiny, and they are not too cold.

Khitans? Wang Wen's spirits were lifted, and deep in the north, he had also seen many Khitans. What are the intentions of these people coming at this time? Wang Wen became vigilant in his heart.

"This lord, we are all from Helin Khitan not far from your land, and we have been neighbors for a long time. This time, Lin Touren and I, Lord Xiao specially ordered the villain to visit General Qin, the general of your department, and asked the adults to introduce them. Several Khitans were brought to Wang Wen, and one of the Khitans led by him spoke in half-baked Chinese.

Wang Wen frowned slightly, he had never had a good impression of these Khitans, four or five years before the Khitans had no war with the Uighurs, these Khitans often came to the Chicheng area to plunder, especially Xiao Zhenggang, who came with the head of the forest, and came most frequently. The people of Chicheng hate the Khitans, and many times they go for this and the Khitan people.

"What do you want to see my general?" Wang Wen asked with a very bad face.

"My lord, the Tea Horse Market is about to open, and both of us are the closest places to the Tea Horse Market, so of course we are here to discuss cooperation." The Khitan man smiled as if he hadn't seen Wang Wen's face.

Hearing this, Wang Wen's face changed drastically, the news of the opening of the Tea Horse Market is still in the stage of secrecy so far, even the high-ranking officials of the Dayan Dynasty Hall do not know that this little and Lintou man actually knows it clearly, so he can't help but be surprised.

"How do you know?" Wang Wen blurted out.

"This adult, Lin and I naturally have channels between me and Lin, so I don't bother with this, and I ask the adult to introduce it on my behalf." The Khitan man said indifferently with an unchanged face.

Wang Wen looked up and down at the Khitan man in front of him a few times, and his intuition told him that this Khitan man was not simple. Because the Khitan people have always been arrogant, but the Khitan people in front of them have such a low posture and speak without leakage. Either he said that the cooperation was great and he was not allowed to be presumptuous, or this guy was definitely one of the few Khitans with a city government. Among the Khitans, such guys are often the most difficult to deal with.