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When the convoy marched to Shuangfeng Village, Xiao Tianjian and his subordinates from afar saw a hot scene, although it is still the second day of the Lunar New Year, but the construction of the wall of Shuangfeng Village has not stopped because of the New Year, but continues to be in full swing.

The farmers who pick up the soil are like a long dragon, coming and going to transport the soil to the outside of Shuangfeng Village, mixing some lime, sand and other ingredients, and being poured into the plywood of the wall.

There are also a large number of stonemasons who are constantly quarrying, through quarrying, some relatively gentle terrain is transformed into steep, so that the attacking side can not use these terrain to attack Shuangfeng Village, changing the terrain outside the wall, making it easier to defend Shuangfeng Village.

The quarried stone is transported to Shuangfeng Village as the cornerstone of the wall, or used to cover the soil wall in the future, and there are people who transport the burned lime to Shuangfeng Village in a car and mix it into the soil to increase the hardness of the wall.

In short, in this New Year's Festival, the periphery of Shuangfeng Village is a lively scene, thousands of people are gathered here, struggling to help the Xingtian Army repair the wall, Zhang Chao who manages here is not stingy, even if there is no salary to give the people, but the food is so that the people who come to help can be full, especially in the two days of the New Year, but also killed a few pigs, so that the people can rarely eat a mouthful of meat, or drink a mouthful of broth, can have this kind of treatment, the people are already very satisfied, one by one are working hard, Even in the middle of winter, many people only wore a single coat, and even worked bare-chested, sweating like rain.

Looking at such a scene, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but sigh to Liu Bao who followed him: "Liu Bao, see it, the truth that those who win the hearts of the people win the world is right in front of us, as long as we are good to the people, the people will not hesitate to repay us, if it weren't for us to divide the land for the people, I think even if we take knives and guns and force them to work here, I am afraid they will not work so hard for us." ”

Liu Bao also looked at the lively scene in front of him, and sighed sincerely: "Yes, general, or you are amazing!" In other words, how can we treat the people like this! Originally, I brought the recruit camp here this time, and I thought that there would be hard work for the recruits to do, but now it seems that the general did not lie to us, and we don't need to do any work here! ”

"Yes, it's enough to work with these civilians, and your task is to speed up the training of new recruits, so that they can be integrated into the soldiers as soon as possible and can be used in battle!

This time I came here, not only for you to train recruits here, but also for you to take the recruits to take charge of the defense here, and at the same time, you also have to select a group of qualified recruits and send them to Dongye Town to strengthen the defense level there! Dongye Town is now increasing the iron-making furnace is also increasing rapidly, and it is an important place for us to produce iron in the future, and after the wall of Shuangfeng Village here is repaired, we will repair the wall of Dongye Town when we turn back to use the agricultural leisure, so that Dongye Town has also become a fort, and Shuangfeng Village, Lotus Village are three-legged, so that the official army has no way to take us! Xiao Tianjian then said to Liu Bao.

Liu Bao immediately bowed down and ordered: "Obey orders!" Please rest assured that the general will be humbled to ensure that within a month, all these recruits will be trained into soldiers and integrated into the battle team, and the general will never be held back! ”

Zhang Chao heard that Xiao Tianjian came here again, so he hurriedly took a few of his subordinates out to greet him, Xiao Tianjian introduced them to this foreign devil Gao Su, and told Zhang Chao that Gao Su would be the cannon casting master here in the future, and he would be responsible for casting cannons here, and also told Zhang Chao that Liu Bao's new barracks would also be moved here in the future to strengthen the defense force here.

Zhang Chao immediately met with Liu Bao and Gao Su, and those artisan heads under him looked at this Gao Su in surprise, as if they had seen a monster, a little afraid of him, after all, there are very few people who can see foreign devils in this era, plus this is Chinese mainland, it is even more difficult for people to see foreigners, and Gao Su has white skin, blue eyes, and high nose bridge, no wonder people are afraid of him, it is not good to say, it is similar to mandrill.

"You don't have to be afraid, Gao Su is a foreigner, and he came to us from a far, far west across the sea, so he looks different from us, but I promise he won't eat people, hehe! You can rest assured of this! And he's still a warrior, and he can also forge cannons, so everyone will have to work with him for a long time to come! Let's get to know each other first, and then have a lot of exchanges! After Xiao Tianjian saw the expressions of these craftsmen, he explained to them with a smile.

After Xiao Tianjian's explanation, these people were better, and they all saluted Gao Su, and Gao Su also bowed to them very gentlemanly, and got to know each other, but as soon as he bowed his waist, he frightened several craftsmen and took a step back.

"General Qiyu, all kinds of things here are going on step by step! In this aspect of the wall, the progress is very fast, the people are willing to come here for two meals, and the middle-aged laborers in the surrounding radius of 20 miles are basically here, and the near ones go home to sleep, and the distant ones simply set up a shack here and live under the foot of our village, so that they can not delay their work! Some people even brought their wives and children! We didn't treat them badly, as long as we can do what we can, we can still give them food!

Now the repair progress on this side of the walled wall is very fast, and within two months, the repair of the main walled wall will definitely be completed!

In addition, there is no shortage of manpower here, and hundreds of people have been divided into the village to start building dams, the first dam can be built within 20 days at the earliest, and before February, two dams can be built if it is fast! After Zhang Chao finished saluting Xiao Tianjian, he said to Xiao Tianjian.

"Oh? Is it so fast? Xiao Tianjian immediately asked in surprise.

"No problem! The people are grateful to us for giving them land, and many people are idle and willing to work for us, so the progress of this work is faster! Zhang Chao said happily to Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian lowered his head and groaned for a while, then nodded and said, "Okay!" It's better that way! Such! Since the common people do not take wages and are willing to work for us, we will not treat them badly, after the spring ploughing begins, all those who come to work here during this time, we can provide them with some good seeds of grain for free, and these grains can not be returned after they are harvested! In addition, everyone who comes here to work for us, you write down their names, turn back to the farm tools, and give them some simple farm tools to offset some of their wages! In short, if you are worthy of us, we will be worthy of them! It is also fairer to distinguish between those who come to help and those who do not! ”

Zhang Chao hurriedly nodded in agreement, and Lin Baotian, who was responsible for building the wall, was also happy, as long as the news was announced, these people would definitely work harder, and more people would come to help, in that case, the wall would be built faster, even if it was not covered with stones this year, but the rammed earth structure that completed the main body before the beginning of spring must be no problem.

"Although there are more people working, but eating has become a problem, the original expected food consumption here is much larger than the actual consumption, if it goes on like this, Shuangfeng Village still needs more food, I'm afraid that the food supply will not be available!" After Zhang Chao reported the good news, he immediately reported his worries again and said his request.

Xiao Tianjian patted Zhang Chao's shoulder and said: "You can rest assured that Brother Yan came back a few years ago, and brought back a lot of food, which should be able to provide you with food, and also brought back a lot of mules, horses and donkey carts, this time I also brought you all the brains, this time these carts and mules and horses are left for you, and the shortage of material transportation capacity here will at least be alleviated!"

In addition, Brother Luo took people out of our territory yesterday and went to Jiangxian, Wenxi and other places to fetch grain, if it goes well, there will not be much problem with food, you can rest assured!

These days for the New Year, you might as well give the people more meat to eat, since we flattened this area, the hunters can rest assured to enter the mountains, the harvest is a lot more than before, not to mention that we pay two percent, but also take the prey to find us for some food cloth, as well as salt, we are now relatively rich, you might as well be generous! Even if you can't eat meat, at least let the people drink the broth! In short, find a way to make the big guy more motivated! ”

After hearing this, Zhang Chao sighed: "I didn't expect it! The general refuses to rest during the New Year, and he has to be busy with so many things! ”

"Didn't you stop working during the Chinese New Year? Shall I lie down on my stomach and enjoy myself? Hehe! Let's go, let's go into the village, there are still a lot of things to do! I'm going to see where the dam goes! Xiao Tianjian replied with a smile and beckoned his subordinates to start entering the village.

After Xiao Tianjian took Gao Su into the village, he first arranged a place for Gao Su to live, and then recruited Yang Changshou from the iron side, and asked Yang Changshou to draw twenty craftsmen from the craftsmen and call Gao Su so that Gao Su could put into work as soon as possible.

As for the various bronzes that he brought with him, Xiao Tianjian also handed them over to Yang Changshou, and asked him to arrange for craftsmen to smelt them and find a way to meet Gao Su's requirements for casting cannons.

Yang Changshou had seen this Gao Su in Lotus Village before, so he was not surprised because he was a foreign devil, but what surprised him was that Xiao Tianjian actually used this red-haired ghost to cast cannons for him, originally Yang Changshou also knew how to cast cannons, he thought that after the matter of the bird gun was in order, he was going to start casting cannons, but he didn't think that Xiao Tianjian didn't let him be in charge of casting cannons, but he found a red-haired ghost to cast cannons for him, and his heart was a little unhappy.

Xiao Tianjian is also a human spirit in terms of looking at people's moods, and he can see Yang Changshou's unhappiness at a glance, so he waved his hand and asked Gao Su to arrange a place to live first, and took Yang Changshou into the house to let Yang Changshou sit down and talk.