The platoon commanders took the team out, stopped at different planned locations, and distributed tools for the soldiers to start building the rammed earth wall. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Building the city wall is also very simple, that is, according to Li Zhi's plan, dig soil from the outside of the city wall, and then fill the soil into the planned city wall location. Where the earth is dug out, it becomes a moat. When the time comes, water will be brought in from the Hai River, and the moat will become a moat. The earth piled up on the city wall is compacted with stone piers to form a rammed earth city wall, which is the inner foundation of the brick city wall.

The heaviest part of the work of building the walls was rammed earth, which had to be compacted with each layer of soil. During the operation, a large stone mill is led by more than a dozen people with ropes from different directions. Everyone shouted in unison, pulled the stone mill and waved the stone mill, and then pulled the rope to make the stone mill smash heavily on the soil of the city wall, compacting the soft soil layer. Repeat this step again and again until all the soil is compacted and compacted.

The work of rammed earth is very laborious and physically demanding.

After the rammed earth city wall was built, the matter of wrapping bricks and building pheasant moats was handed over to the masons.

The amount of city wall projects planned by Li Zhi is not small. The circumference of the wall is three thousand meters, it is a square, and each side is 750 meters. The walls are five meters high and three meters wide, and a horse face is built every twenty meters.

The so-called horse face is a pier protruding outward on the city wall, so that the soldiers on the city wall can attack the enemy who climbs the wall from the side. This Ming Dynasty defensive design idea is similar to the fortress of later generations, with the aim of forming multi-directional crossfire. Li Zhi absorbed the advantages of the fortress when designing it, and designed the horse face as a triangle that protruded from the outside, so that the fire on the city wall could cross to attack the enemy who climbed the horse face.

In this way, the city wall of the entire Fanjiazhuang New Town needs more than 50,000 earthworks, and on average, each soldier has to do more than 20 earthworks of rammed earth walls, carrying stones on his shoulders and grinding and tamping, and it takes four or five months to be busy.

However, the food given by Li Zhi includes vegetables, meat, and meat, which is fully nutritious. Doing physical work with adequate nutrition and adequate rest is good for the body. Speaking of which, although the two thousand family members recruited by Li Zhi were healthy, they were not strong enough by the standards of soldiers. Building rammed earth walls can help these soldiers build up their muscles and become qualified soldiers as soon as possible.

In addition to the arrangement of soldiers, Li Zhi also had to arrange for officer candidates.

The head of the Xuanfeng Regiment was personally served by Li Zhi, which made it easier for Li Zhi to control the army. Li Laosi and Zhong Feng were the two captains of the original Jiading team, and now the two naturally serve as the two battalion commanders of the selection regiment.

There are also two battalion commander positions, one of which Li Zhi decided to let his younger brother Li Xing occupy. In this troubled world, being a general of the army is more promising than managing a textile factory, and Li Zhi has the heart to leave the good position of battalion commander to his younger brother. And if Li Zhi has his own brother to lead the army, it will also be a deterrent for others, and it will make Li Zhi's parental position more stable. Li Xing has been training in the position of head of the textile factory for several months and has a certain management ability, and now he has been transferred to the position of battalion commander to continue to hone his training.

After making up his mind, Li Zhi rode to the textile factory to find Li Xing. Li Zhi entered the factory and saw Li Xing walking around the factory with an assistant. Li Zhi called Li Xing, and he saw Li Zhi and ran over with his assistant.

"Big brother, are you here?"

"I haven't been here these days, how is the textile factory doing?"

Li Xing clapped his hands proudly and said, "I'll wait for you to ask me!" Under my management, the output of the textile factory increased by half this month, and the output of cloth was more than 31,000 horses a month. In addition, I organized excellent yarn workers to teach experience to other yarn workers, and this month's cotton consumption was reduced by seven quintals! ”

Tilting his head, Li Xing said, "Big brother, you want to give me a reward of silver miles!" ”

Li Zhi chirped: "Are you embarrassed to talk about such a small number as seven quintals?" ”

Li Xing said dissatisfiedly: "How much is also saving!" I don't have the guidance of the immortals on the beach, so I can only engage in this kind of petty fight! After saying this, Li Xing pulled the assistant beside him to the front and said loudly: "Big brother, I want to recommend my assistant to you."

Li Zhi glanced at the assistant: "Oh? ”

"Big brother, I'm afraid you've forgotten it. His name is Zheng Hui, and he is the grandson of his grandfather's younger brother, and he is our cousin. He learned to spin and weave cloth in two months, and the management of the factory was clear, and it was his credit to be able to produce more semi-finished cloth this month. ”

That Zheng Hui was pushed to the front by Li Xing, a little nervous, and said: "I've seen the owner", so he knelt down and saluted Li Zhi.

Li Zhi also put up a stand in front of his subordinates, and waited for him to finish saluting before saying, "No courtesy!" You did a good job, help Li Xing well! ”

When Zheng Hui heard this, he stood up, his face was happy, and he stood aside and stopped talking.

After praising Zheng Hui, Li Zhi Zhengse said to Li Xing: "Li Xing, I'm going to adjust your position!" Let you change positions! ”

Li Xing blinked and thought about it, but felt that Li Zhi's subordinates did not have a bigger position than the head of the textile factory, and muttered: "Big brother, what position do you want to change for me?" Isn't my manager doing a good job? ”

Li Zhi patted Li Xing's shoulder and said, "I want you to be a general and be the battalion commander of the Xuanfeng Regiment." ”

Li Xing's eyes lit up and asked, "Be a battalion commander?" How many people are in charge? ”

Li Zhi said: "Now it is in charge of 500 people. However, being a battalion commander is different from being a factory manager, being a battalion commander is a general, and he must be responsible for the soldiers' daily life, food, labor, training, and all actions! More power. After a pause, Li Zhi said again: "And in the future, the selection of the forward regiment will be expanded, and then your battalion commander will become the regiment commander." ”

Li Xing rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Okay! Sounds great! ”

Li Zhi said: "Being a general is majestic, and you can bring a ticket with you wherever you go." Fighting a battle and directing the soldiers to charge into battle is very different from being the head of a textile factory! ”

Li Xing thought for a while, and said with some worry: "But I won't lead troops to fight?" ”

Li Zhi said slowly: "I can't learn, I can learn little by little in training and practice." My new army is a Mini rifle, and the way of fighting is completely different from what I used to, and no one has any experience. You learn things very quickly, and you can get started in a few months. ”

Li Xing said loudly: "Okay, then I'll go and be the battalion commander for the eldest brother!" ”

Li Zhi nodded and said no more.

The position of the last battalion commander of the selection regiment, Li Zhi was left to his cousin Zheng Kaicheng. Zheng Kaicheng manages the soap workshop very well and is a rare management talent. He is also related to Li Zhi, and Li Zhi is more relieved to hand over the troops to him.

Zheng Kaicheng went to be the battalion commander, and the soap workshop needed a general manager, Li Zhi thought about it, and simply asked his second grandfather, Li Yousheng, to manage the soap workshop. Now Li Zhi's career is getting bigger and bigger, and almost all the relatives of the Li family have been absorbed into the industry, and the Li family recognizes Li Zhi as the owner of the family, but Li Yousheng, the patriarch, is not recognized by Li Zhi by his relatives. However, Li Yousheng is shrewd, and he is not in good health before the age of 60, and he can still do management. The most critical thing in the soap factory is that the secret recipe cannot be leaked, and Li Yousheng, as the patriarch, is extremely unlikely to leak the formula, and he is a reliable candidate.

Seeing that the juniors all made a fortune with Li Zhi, Li Yousheng, an old man, was also a little greedy. Li Zhi asked him to be the chief manager, and he immediately agreed with joy in his stomach.

As for the candidate for the head of the textile factory, Li Zhi chose his uncle Zheng Yuan, who was the workshop manager in the textile factory. Although Zheng Yuan was a little shy before, it was caused by a depressed life. After being the manager of a textile factory in the past few months, his mental outlook is very different, and he is very serious in his work, and he can be regarded as an excellent manager.