Wang Peng once again ordered someone to inspect the terrain of the entire Jingmadian, and finally stationed in Xiangyang Mountain, convened a meeting of all his subordinates, and said: "One person is short and two are long, this time I summoned you here to ask you if it is more appropriate to build a city there?" ”

Zhen Thirty-three immediately said: "It's good to build a city here in Xiangyang Mountain, there is a black Haizi on both sides of the north and south, there is no problem with the water source, and the stone material is also very abundant against Xiangyang Mountain, the east is a primeval forest sea, there are countless wood raw materials, and the west is a gravel land, which isolates us from the contact with other Murowei people, I suggest building a city here!" ”

"I'm against it!" Zhen Sixteen slapped the table and shouted: "This place is really too big, the two Black Regions are more than thirty miles apart from each other in the north and south, do you want to build a big city with a circumference of a hundred miles?" I suggest building a city between Xiangyang Mountain and Haizi in the Southern Black Domain, the raw materials for building the city are ready-made, we can build a smaller village first, and then slowly expand our city north? ”

"Since this is our fierce fire oil supply base in the future, there is no reason to build the city too far away from Jingmadian", Zhen Eighteen retorted to Mai Mang: "The secret of the fierce fire oil cannot be leaked out, and the place where the city is built should be close to Haizi in the Northern Black Domain, so that the entire Jingmadian can be controlled in our hands, so the city cannot be built near Xiangyang Mountain!" ”

Ma Sui saw that they were arguing, and Wang Peng on the side didn't seem to care at all, so he cleared his throat and asked carefully: "Can I ask, how do you build the city, it seems that there are only more than 10,000 people in our people plus the Wuluo Protector Muruwei people, even if these people don't do anything this year, it is impossible for the city of three miles and the city of seven miles without 100,000 people?" ”

After Ma Sui finished speaking, he found that the people around him looked at him like fools, and he was a little annoyed in his heart: "Isn't what I said wrong?" Can you build a three-mile city with more than 10,000 people in one year? ”

Zhen Thirty-three immediately said with some pride: "We can build three small cities within a radius of three miles within 10,000 people in a year, but now in the north, because of the climate, there is no problem at all to build two, so we are now considering Guo Cheng of seven miles, not a small city of three miles?" ”

"Nonsense!" Ma Sui was really angry now, he was not a fool, he had also participated in the construction of the city, if he only used the loess dam, it might be okay, but such a city could not be called a city at all.

"They don't talk nonsense," Wang Peng said: "We have a new way of building a city, and the city we built is not made of loess, it is a real seven-mile city, and you will see it with your own eyes." Okay, what you just said is not wrong, Jingmadian cannot afford to lose, the first city must be built on the edge of the black sea, the stone can be taken from Xiangyang Mountain, the wood can be taken from the forest in the east, all the Murowei people within a hundred miles around Jingmadian must be cleared, we who are willing to return to Shun accept it, hand it over to Zhen Thirty-three to collect, and kill all those who are unwilling to surrender, we need to have a stable development time, as long as we can survive until this winter, even if we have a firm foothold in this grassland, Which task do I assign to each person? ”

Ma Sui couldn't understand what these people were doing, and wanted to remind these people that the main thing for herdsmen was to graze, not to build cities, and that the grassland had never heard of building cities, and only by letting cattle and sheep lay more cubs could they survive the next winter.

From a military point of view, the biggest advantage of the Hu people fighting in the Central Plains is mobility, and if they can't fight, they will take their cattle and sheep thousands of miles away, which is the way to survive on the grassland, and these people are now doing the opposite, crazy! Do they want to occupy this steppe for a long time?

There are Hui, Turkic, Tatar ...... in the west, a large group of Murowei savages in the north, Khitan and Xi in the south, and Bohai and Tatar in the east.

Cleaning up the Murowei people for hundreds of miles around Jingmadian, Ma Sui did not object, so that the news of the construction of the city here would not leak out as much as possible, but God knows how long this secret can be kept secret.

It is not surprising that women, children, and old people graze their cattle on the grasslands, and sometimes the able-bodied herdsmen spend the whole year fighting outside, and the children and women do the work at home.

When Ma Sui saw that the waist-thick trees were cut down, and then thrown directly into the black sea, and then dragged by a small boat to the opposite shore, where countless windmills and water wheels were erected within a few days, and the big trees were sent in, and when they came out, they turned into wooden planks, and Ma Sui's eyes immediately fell off.

The imaginary scene of building the city did not appear at all, and the large bluestone was not seen, and the first thing that appeared on the construction site of the city wall was a mess of rubble, and then I saw several large brick kilns being built, emitting black smoke day and night, but fortunately, there was no shortage of wood here.

Burn bricks to build a city!

Ma Sui shook his head with a wry smile, the city wall is about one mile wide, three zhang high, and one zhang thick, and it takes at least hundreds of thousands of bricks, how can the city of Qili Guo also cost millions of ......bricks, Ma Sui calculated the time it takes to build the city in his heart, and found that it is painful to find that it cannot be done without three years, and the time that can build a city in a year on the grassland is less than half a year, that is to say, it takes six years to build a seven-mile city.

Are these people crazy, or do they really take the Murwei people for fools, is there really six years?

When Ma Sui saw buckets of things that had been stirred into mud and poured on the irregular stones, he wanted to shout loudly to stop these people's crazy behavior, shouldn't the binder be glutinous rice juice mixed with clay? Can such a wall be built?

Oh, my God! Didn't these people build the city with bricks?

Ma Sui soon found that those bricks were not used to build the city wall at all, or not the main materials used to build the city, the messy stones and those who did not know what the thin mud was the main raw materials for the construction of the city, just less than ten days later, a section of the city wall about three zhang high was erected in front of Ma Sui's eyes, and then extended to the left and right, and it seemed to be good from a distance.

"This is what you call the wall?"

Ma Suila, who was busy on the construction site, pointed to a section of the city wall that had just been built: "This is how you built the city wall?" ”

Zhen Thirty-three's face was dusty, and he looked very excited, and Ma Sui did not help train the cavalry, but walked around the city wall very dissatisfied: "That's right! If you are not satisfied with this section of the city wall, the function of the city wall is defense, and the first condition for defense is to be strong, you can see if this section of the city wall is very strong......

Ma Sui immediately had an extra sledgehammer in his hand, weighing twenty pounds, and under the coercion of Zhen Thirty-three, the sledgehammer struck on the city wall, Ma Sui immediately felt a tingling on his arm, and only a shallow pit the size of a fist was left on the city wall!

(End of chapter)