As soon as the autumn harvest passed, the weather began to turn cold rapidly, but for Xiangyang City, it was the most active time, Guan Yu in order to let Liu Yi speed up the progress of the city, and allocated 100 million yuan from the treasury to Liu Yi to hire 10,000 more people, he hoped that before the beginning of spring, people could live in it.

"Junhou, are you joking?" Liu Yi looked at Guan Yu a little speechlessly, just the twenty miles of the city wall, you can't build it in just three months for 20,000 people, Yueyang City took two years to fully build, and now the scale of this Xiangyang City is not smaller than Yueyang City, and the city wall is built according to the height of ten zhang.

How tall is ten zhang? If converted into meters, it is about twenty-three meters, Liu Yi has never been to Luoyang and Xiangyang, but he can guarantee that the city wall of Xiangyang, in terms of majesty alone, is no longer under the capital cities of Luoyang and Xiangyang, let alone the degree of solidity.

Once this Xiangyang City is built, if Cao Jun wants to cross this hurdle, it is basically impossible, such a city, you asked me to build it in three months? What's the trouble?

"Hard?" Guan Yu looked at Liu Yi and wondered, he felt that Liu Yi built the city very quickly, when Yueyang City was short of manpower, it only took less than two years, and now Xiangyang has enough manpower and no shortage of money, so it should be faster.

"Prince, there is a mechanism in this city wall, and there is a shooting port at Bazhang, and the wall is thick, and this shooting port is slanted, and the soldiers can shoot the enemy soldiers through this shooting port, but it is difficult for the enemy's arrows to shoot in." Liu Yi looked at Guan Yu seriously and gave him an analysis.

Guan Yu looked at Liu Yi puzzled: "What's the use of Bo Yuan telling someone this?" Guan doesn't understand this. ”

Then you're pointing a fart!

Liu Yi wanted to spit on that red face, but after thinking about the consequences, he still held back, took a deep breath, and said to Guan Yu: "Three months, if you only build the city wall, then with the current construction speed, it can barely be done, but there are organs, elevators, and crossbows in the city wall, these military marquis have all seen it, as well as hydrodynamic trebuchets, barbs, flowing fire ditches, drum platforms, these organs and buildings must be done, and they can't affect the solidity of the city wall, so don't say that the entire Xiangyang will be built in three months, but this city wall, It can be completed in more than three months, Yueyang is an economic city, as a link between Jingnan and the two places, but Xiangyang is built to guard against Cao's army, it is a war-type city, how can it be the same? ”

Although he was extremely unhappy with Liu Yi's aggressive tone, it was obvious that Liu Yi was reasonable, and what he was most afraid of was for the layman to guide the insider, Guan Yu obviously made this mistake now, but it was impossible for him to admit his mistake, he just glared at Liu Yi and said in a muffled voice: "In this case, Bo Yuan is in charge of the construction, if there is a need, you can open your mouth, and you will not refuse." ”

Of course, I'm in charge, isn't that what the craftsman does?

Seeing that Guan Yu was a little displeased, Liu Yi didn't continue, just nodded silently and began to continue to assign tasks.

"The Tiangongfang is going to set up two workshops this time, one is located in the city, open to the people, mainly to create some furniture utensils, and the other is located in the military camp, mainly casting weapons, armor and some military needs, this workshop is located in the south of the city, there is a special water power transmission, separated from other places." Liu Yi tapped on the table, looked at the old people who followed him, and muttered: "Xiangyang is different from Yueyang, and there are not many water power devices, so there are eight waterwheels this time, three of which are located in the city, five are located outside the city, six are mainly for the city wall, and the remaining two are responsible for the power transmission of the city government office and some designated houses. ”

It is impossible for the whole city to enjoy the power, although Yueyang City also has eight waterwheels to provide water power, but the scale is much larger than Xiangyang City.

"As always, first build the power transmission building, and then build the city on its foundation, except for the city wall, all the buildings have to give way to these power transmission equipment, here are the drawings, you will do it first, in addition to a rolling car controlled by manpower, this will be done later, I will make a model of the entire Xiangyang during this time, if I am not there, you can build according to the model."

"Bo Yuan still has something to do during this time?" Guan Yu looked at Liu Yi suspiciously.

"I promised Brother Zhou Ping to help him rebuild Gangneung." Liu Yi nodded, and did not hide it, after all, after he designed the city and hired people, there was nothing else to do, and there was not much more to build himself.

"Rebuild Jiangling ......" Guan Yu looked at Liu Yi: "There is still so much money and grain in the treasury?" ”

Build a Xiangyang city, it costs a lot, as well as military expenses, military food, materials, although Jingzhou has been rich a lot in recent years, but there are also a lot of places to use money, and the reconstruction of Xiangyang is mostly the property left by Cao Jun in Xiangyang, but to build a Jiangling, is the money in the treasury enough?

When Liu Yi heard this, he glanced at Ma Liang on the side and said, "There is no need to worry about money and food, this time it is the Jiangling gentry who voluntarily contributed money and efforts." ”

When Guan Yu heard this, he narrowed his eyes, those gentry are so easy to talk to?

"In addition, Jiangxia, Jiangling, Xiangyang I am ready to build a few post roads, this has been said before, this time the Jiangling gentry have contributed a lot of money, just to be able to start construction together, this post road along the way to the township out of some manpower, within three months can be built, I have asked Brother Zhou Ping to help coordinate, tomorrow will go to various places to hire people to start building the post road, in addition to the road from Zhuyang to Hanzhong, I am also ready to discuss with the chief of the text, build up, then Hanzhong to Xiangyang will be much easier."

The most important thing is to increase the exchange and communication between Shuzhong and Jingzhou, before the construction of Nanzheng to Jiamengguan, and now build a post road from Hanzhong, it will be much smoother, but the amount of this project is a bit large, six or seven hundred miles away, it is not possible to build overnight, but now Zhuyang has started, but there is time to build.

"So much?" Guan Yu was a little stunned when he heard this, even if he didn't understand this, but he also knew that the manpower and material resources consumed by these projects were definitely astronomical, not to mention that they had to try not to affect people's livelihood as much as possible.

"These are necessary infrastructure construction, building bridges and paving roads, the merit is in the present generation, the benefit is in the future, these are built, it will be of great help to the economy and trade of Shuzhong and Jingzhou, and this game of chess can be revitalized!" Liu Yi said with a smile.

Now the exchange between Jingzhou and Yizhou, mainly by the Yangtze River, support or something, are very inconvenient, if the road from Hanzhong to Zhuyang is repaired, then the problem will be much simpler, the materials in Shuzhong can be transported out in an endless stream, and the materials in Jingzhou can also be sent to Shuzhong through this road, not to mention others, just the business income of the exchange is enough to fill the treasury.

Infrastructure?

Guan Yu glanced at Liu Yi, nodded silently, stood up and said, "Bo Yuan continues, and I will go to inspect the military camp first." ”

When it comes to talking about this, there is no need to talk about it at all, all Guan Yu can think of is that it will be much more convenient for the two places to support each other, but Liu Yi obviously thinks more.

Liu Yi nodded, didn't think much about it, and continued to assign tasks.

Those old people who follow Liu Yi, Liu Yi does not plan to stay here, the various construction sites are scattered, and the main role is to command and solve some problems, after all, he can give ordinary people temporary skills, but he does not have the ability to directly let them even have experience, many things, need someone to take care of and guide.

When all the tasks are arranged one by one, the time is not early, tomorrow will leave for Jiangling, Liu Yi will rest early, and then there will be a long time, in the midst of rushing everywhere, the plan for Liu Bei, the road from Hanzhong to Zhuyang, has to be approved by Liu Bei, he can discuss with Wei Yan, and then start construction, and the manpower is mainly transferred from Hanzhong.

Early the next morning, Liu Yi said goodbye to Guan Yu, took a boat down the river, and went to Jiangling, not long ago, Cui Zhouping sent a letter, Jiangling should be demolished, because it is the central city, Liu Yi is not ready to build an underground city for Jiangling, just build a new city on the original basis.

On the contrary, the construction of roads in various places is more troublesome, and Liu Yi needs to run from place to place and hire craftsmen, and in this world, the main thing is spent on this road.

For a whole winter, Liu Yi almost ran around the world in the three counties of Jingbei.

At the beginning of November, Liu Bei gave Liu Yi an approval, agreeing to build the road from Hanzhong to Zhuyang, and also informed Liu Yi that after the construction of Jingxiang was completed, he would rush back to Chengyang as soon as possible. In all, there will be major events that need to be handled by Liu Yi.

As for any major event, neither Liu Bei's official document nor Zhuge Liang's private letter to Liu Yi mentioned it, but Liu Yi already had some conjectures in his heart.

Cao Cao was promoted to the king of Wei in April, at this time, it is estimated that Liu Bei is not willing to let Cao Cao continue to press himself, and he is ready to be crowned king, and recruit Liu Yi to go back, firstly, because Liu Yi's identity is enough, and secondly, I am afraid that Liu Yi is also asking Liu Yi to help Liu Bei deal with the problem of pomp.

After all, this king is self-appointed, somewhat unjustifiable, and a little pompous, which can also make some people shut up.

Thinking about this, Liu Yi could only sigh, in this way, Jingzhou may not be able to continue to stay, saying that he returned to Jingzhou this time to avoid those political whirlpools, who knew that after arriving in Jingzhou, he directly calculated Jiangdong, and it didn't seem to have stopped.

A year for it!

Liu Yi set a goal for himself in his heart, a year later, try his best to build Xiangyang City completely at the end of the twenty-second year of Jian'an, this second big city born in his own hands, should help him break through the shackles and enter the fascinating realm.

"The letter of the head of the house, the lady." Liu Yi, who was imagining the future, was interrupted by the servant next to him and handed Liu Yi a bamboo slip.

"Oh?" Liu Yi's eyes lit up, and his heart, which was originally a little irritable, suddenly felt a lot more comfortable, took the letter and looked at it carefully, and his face, which had not been smiling for a long time, was a little softer......