After a long journey of more than half a month, the Dingliao army and the Wuwei army finally rushed to the capital with nearly 300,000 prisoners, and according to the unified arrangement of the Ministry of Industry, they would camp ten miles west of the city, because it happened to be the center of the future Xicheng District, and it was very convenient to build the city wall or build a factory in any direction.

Perennial foreign wars, Qin Gongming and Li Mingfu are also well-informed, but after arriving to the west of the capital, they can't help but be shocked by everything in front of them, they originally thought that the place to build the new city should be similar to the wilderness, at most there is a rough outline of lime on the ground, but the west of the capital is in full swing at this time, and tens of thousands of migrant workers have already started there before them!

Of course, they were not building the city walls, but planning the layout and transporting materials under the command of the officials of the Ministry of Works.

In other words, just use lime to draw an outline and prepare some supplies, do you need tens of thousands of people? The answer is yes, because the planning is too detailed, and the materials are even more terrifying, Qin Gongming and Li Mingfu were shocked by the piles of materials everywhere or like mountains.

It's piled up like a mountain range, what kind of material is it?

First of all, it is naturally food, two legions plus 300,000 prisoners are 500,000 people, and at least 500,000 stone of grain will be consumed in a month, and the new city is obviously not built in a month, you can't let people work on an empty stomach, so the Ministry of Food Industry alone has mobilized a million stones, one stone is about 120 catties now, and a million stones is more than 100 million catties, and the volume of the pile is not only as big as a mountain!

Then there is stone and timber, if the Dingliao army and the Wuwei army escort the prisoners over and then go to the mountains to mine stone and timber, then this new city may not be built well in a year, so the Ministry of Industry applied to Zhu Cijiong to let the Beiyang Navy Division drive a warship to Shandong, Liaodong and even North Korea, Dongying to buy stone and timber, and then transport it to Dongdaying, and then pull it over by train, it can be said that the ready-made stone and timber that can be found in the two nearby provinces and even the two countries have been purchased by them, and how many are piled up, you can imagine.

Finally, there are lime and fine sand and other adhesive materials, at this time the cement has not been made, can only make do with the old way, fortunately, the city wall is thick, relying on its own gravity are relatively strong, but do not need too strong adhesive materials, lime and fine sand and other stirred into adhesive materials are enough.

It can be said that the preparatory work is almost done, the Dingliao army and the Wuwei army only need to dig some clay with the captives and burn some square bricks, clay may be rare in other countries, but the Ming Dynasty is everywhere, there are several good clay layers in the west of the city, and the Ministry of Industry even has brick molds and coal ready for them to put those places, they just need to dig it out and burn it hard.

In fact, the tens of thousands of migrant workers recruited by the Ministry of Industry are not specialized porters, sprinkling lime lines and carrying things are just their sideline jobs, most of them are skilled workers who have participated in the construction of Jingdong and Beijing-Liaoning railways, and their main business is to repair railways.

The west of the city is the transportation hub of the Jingdong Line and the Jingliao Line, all trains have to turn around here, and now a new city is going to be built, and it will definitely not work without renovating.

The Ministry of Industry has made a detailed plan for this, the general structure of the ring line remains unchanged, but the link where the train turns around is concentrated in the steel plant and cable factory in the north of the city, as far as possible not to affect the lives of residents in the central part of Xicheng District, and the other ring road is transformed into an internal ring line connecting Wang Gong factory and four new factories, that is to say, the good things produced by these five factories do not need to be moved out of the factory, and can be loaded on the train directly in the factory.

Of course, this inner ring road also passes through the city, but it doesn't matter, just choose to transfer it in the early morning every day, when there are basically no people on the road, and it will not affect the normal life of residents at all.

The people of the Ministry of Industry are waiting for the Dingliao Army and the Wuwei Army to escort the prisoners to come, now that they are here, they can hand over the materials, and as soon as the materials are directly transferred, they can take the migrant workers to renovate the railway loop, anyway, the city wall, the road and the planning of the factory area have been drawn with lime, and they only need to repair it according to the lime line.

The Dingliao army is worthy of being a legion from Liaodong, and it is called a skilled person to build the city wall, and he does not need Qin Gongming's command, and the generals at all levels under his command will command the captives to dry up after receiving their respective tasks, how high the city wall will be built, how deep the foundation will be dug, how many stones will be laid below, how much soil will be piled up, how many stones and bricks will be used for the outer layer, etc., etc., they all know in their hearts.

The next day, the Dingliao army and 300,000 prisoners were spread out on the periphery of Xicheng District, a total of 400,000 people, the division of labor was clear, each of the three city walls was 25,000 Dingliao army led more than 70,000 prisoners to dig directly, and the remaining 25,000 people also led more than 70,000 prisoners to dig directly, but they did not dig the foundation, but dug clay and burned bricks.

The Wuwei army led by Li Mingfu is not idle, it doesn't matter if he can't repair the city wall, he needs people to carry materials, stand guard, and make fires and make meals, and he is responsible for the logistics of 400,000 people, and 100,000 people are neither more nor less, just right.

With the full cooperation of the Dingliao Army and the Wuwei Army, and under the active command of the generals at all levels of the Dingliao Army, uh, it seems that this should not be said, it should be under the wise leadership of the corps commanders Qin Gongming and Li Mingfu, the three walls of Xicheng District came out of the ground at a maddening speed, why use this impostor, because the speed is too fast.

Here a little estimate to know, according to historical records, the Ming capital is composed of the inner city and the outer city, of which the inner city is 6.65 kilometers long from east to west, 5.35 kilometers wide from north to south, 7.95 kilometers long from east to west, 3.1 kilometers wide from north to south, the inner city is in the north, the outer city is in the south, and it is in the shape of Lu. Now it is necessary to build a new city as big as the original capital, that is to say, it is about 8 kilometers wide from east to west, and about 8.5 kilometers long from north to south, one side of Xicheng District is next to the old city, and there is no need to build a city wall, and the other three city walls add up to about 24.5 kilometers, and each side is almost 8 kilometers, 100,000 people are lined up on 8 kilometers, with an average of almost 12 people per meter, and the materials are ready-made, and there are 100,000 people burning bricks for them, 100,000 people are managing logistics for them, they are only responsible for building, can this speed not be fast.

In less than half a month, the main body of the city wall is basically completed, and the rest is the female wall and the city gate tower, but these can not be as sloppy as Liaodong, this is the capital, is the face of the Ming Dynasty, must be carefully crafted, and even the city gate has to cast a variety of animal head shape relief inlaid on it, each city gate must ask the emperor to set the name, and by the calligraphy master pen!

I won't go into details, but in short, this winter in the capital is not very cold, because more than half a million people are building a new city in the west of the city.

Since then, the people of the capital have one more after-dinner entertainment project, that is, to go to the west of the city to see people build city walls, build roads, build factories, and more than 500,000 people start work at the same time, that scene is really unforgettable!