Chapter 34: Sanssouci Village 3
Everyone listened, thought about it carefully, and felt that the word Sanssouci couldn't be more suitable, and praised it one after another. It is said that the name of the little lady of the Gao family is good.
Zhou Nandao: "Since everyone thinks the name Sanssouci is good, it will be decided." Tomorrow, we will gather the people of the whole village to gather in front of the Zhongshan Temple in the village, and when the discussion is passed, we will start construction as soon as possible. Then they dispersed, and went back to inform their friendly neighbors.
Several respected people in the village have come forward to agree, and there are a group of young people such as Gao Yuan to coax, but also have a tragic history of blood and tears that were looted by bandits a few days ago, the people in the village agreed with these suggestions put forward by Zhou Nan, to Zhou Nan's surprise, the mountain people especially support the matter of the public field, in ancient times, people are old, sick, they pull out to feed the wolf, that is not a rumor, it is true. When you're old, you can have someone to rely on, right? These simple and kind mountain people immediately accepted Zhou Nan's well-intentioned proposals, and almost no one objected, and the matter of building the village was quickly decided.
Since it was decided, and no one put forward an opinion, he still took these few people who were in Gao Yuan's house the day before as the backbone, and still summoned Gao Yuan's family. In the house, Zhou Nan took out his own map of building a village, according to the topography of Gaojiazhai high in the northwest and low in the southeast, and the northwest, north and east are cliffs, and the southwest and south are gentle slopes. The small mountain between the south wall and the southeast corner wall is not very high, but it is very steep and difficult to climb, just connects the two ends of the wall, and sets up the defense point of throwing wood and archery on the small peak, which makes the two sections of the wall impregnable. And on the map, the location of the walled wall and the arrow tower is also drawn out in detail, and the walled wall, the horse face wall and the arrow tower are indicated.
In terms of personnel distribution and arrangement, Gao Yuan and Zhou Nan led 115 people from the Family Protection Society, and Lao Zheng Tou, Liu Zongwang, Zhang Yi, and Gao Bingchang organized the surplus labor of each family to dig stones nearby, and used the method of "dry base" to build a walled wall in the marked position.
Gao Yun insisted on participating in the construction of the wall, no matter how much Gao Yuan persuaded him, it was useless, in desperation, Zhou Nan came up with a compromise solution, asking Gao Yun to organize the women in the village, obey the arrangements of Gao Yuan, Lao Zheng Tou and others, do some light work, and cook a meal every day for the people who work. Gao Yun was happy to make this proposal.
When everything was arranged, the construction began at the mouth of the patio in the southeast corner of Gaojiazhai. The terrain here is narrow and can be completed quickly, so I chose to start here, also to test the progress and effect of the construction, so that it can be improved in the future when the construction of the longer wall to the south is built.
The wellhead, about five zhang wide, is a path similar to that of Crouching Tiger Mountain. The mouth of the patio is facing the southeast of the bandits, and to the west of the mouth of the patio is the isolated small peak, and to the east of the mouth of the patio is a dangerous slope, and the dangerous slope is a cliff to the east. In the narrow place of the mouth of the well, according to the mountain situation built a high three zhang, the stone wall of five zhang wide, there are arrow stacks built on the wall every five feet, you can shoot arrows to hide after the arrow battlement, and in the middle of the wall, two arrow towers were built, the arrow tower is located on the wall, the wood is built, three zhang high, three layers, each layer has arrow holes, you can put arrows to block and kill the enemy, between the two arrow towers is a small walled gate. The gate was six feet wide and arched with stones, and the door was made of thick wooden planks. Outside the walled gate is the steep stone steps of the wellhead, the wellhead is already narrow, and now the walled wall is built, the outside of the walled wall is all steep stone steps, there are twenty people can firmly guard the walled door.
There are stonemasons in the village, in the Tianjingkou here near the mountain stones, the pieces of stones according to the shape of the situation, layer upon layer together, the young and strong laborers are followed by the stonemasons to mine the stones, carry the stones, the older ones are at the wall, several people work together, a piece of brickwork, the strong women in the village also follow the carrying stones, the weak ones do some chores, boil some hot water, cook when they arrive, and give the workers to eat. The rice grain for cooking is made from the captured bandits. The treasury is temporarily managed by Zhou Xing, and he can't do heavy work anyway, so bookkeeping and treasury management are suitable for him.
Only the mouth of the patio was built, and everyone was crowded there, but it was a waste, so Zhou Nan suggested that half of the people should be divided to build the gap in the northwest corner, which was the section of the col that Gao Yuan used when they went to Wohu Mountain. It is the only place in the west and north directions that can enter and exit the cottage, and the rest are higher and steeper cliffs, although very few people will enter the cottage from there, but the experience of the bandits in Wohu Mountain has to be guarded against. In the col, along the edge of the cliff, Gao Yuan also built a section of the walled wall about ten zhang long, two zhang high, and one zhang wide, completely blocked the cliff that could be climbed up the rope, and only built a sentry post on the inner side of the wall, which could temporarily live people, so that they could call the police in time and find the enemy.
Zhou Nan also asked Zuo Xiaosi to pull a few ropes outside the wall, and the ropes were connected to the copper bells hanging in the sentry booth.
It took less than half a month for the mouth of the patio and the cliff gap in the northwest corner to be built. It is not majestic and magnificent, but from the outside of the wall, the stone wall that is three zhang high and steep and difficult to climb, coupled with the guards on the wall, is really easy to defend and difficult to attack.
The most difficult to build is the south side of the village, where the mountains are gentle, there is no terrain to rely on, there is no danger to replace the army, only a river that flows from the west mountain. Gao Yuan and Lao Zheng Tou gathered everyone here, assigned people according to sections, and commanded each section so that the personnel would not be confused. Since there is no danger to defend, Gao Yuan they can only use manpower, on the north side of the river honestly built a stone wall about 150 zhang long, about 3 zhang high, here the terrain is open, build the wall, Gao Yuan they do not dare to have a trace of cutting corners, but every 20 zhang, they will build a horse face wall, at the same time on the top of the horse face wall to build an arrow tower about two zhang high, every five feet to repair an arrow stack. In the middle of the wall, a gate about two zhang wide and about one foot high was built as the main gate of Gaojiazhai. Usually, the people in the village are allowed to go in and out of the mountain from the south gate, and there is no need to go down the mountain from the Tianjingkou, although the Tianjingkou is closer to the mountain. The east side of the walled wall is connected with the isolated small peak, and a sentry post is built on the mountain on this isolated small peak, there is a road to go up to the outpost in the wall, and there are no people to patrol in peacetime, only when the enemy comes, only go up to the outpost, and can roll down with stones and wood, and it is also to prevent the enemy from going over the mountain from here and entering the wall.
The distance of more than 150 zhang, even if the people of Gaojiazhai come to work, it seems a little difficult. Zhou Nan asked Zhou Xing, and discussed with Lao Zhengtou, Gao Yuan and others, the people who built the fastest section of the wall every day were in charge of two meals a day, and each meal had meat.
This reward was passed on, and the progress was suddenly much faster.