After Su Ziheng returned to Donghai County, the vigorous construction was finally launched, and the entire Donghai County was in full swing.

Even Yao Fusu admitted that it was only on the construction site of his father's mausoleum that he saw the spectacular scene of tens of thousands of people working together.

In this regard, Su Ziheng pouted, it was really rare and strange, and the scene of less than 20,000 people was so fussed. Like the large-scale construction site construction of nearly 100,000 people on the earth in the previous life, wouldn't it scare them to death if they said it?

Early the next morning, Su Ziheng handed over the copied health manual and the Donghai County urban construction plan to Zhong Qinghan. There are plans on how to build reservoirs and salt pans.

At this time, it was already past the twentieth day of the first lunar month, and it was only three months before the high tide of late March and early April. If the reservoir is not built before the arrival of the tide, the output of dried salt this year will inevitably be reduced considerably.

Zhao Chengwen knew that this was not a trivial matter, so he personally found his younger brother Zhao Chengming and asked him to start arranging the construction of the reservoir first.

Fortunately, the construction of the reservoir is simple, and there must be sufficient raw materials and manpower. At present, all the huge stones from the quarry have been arranged to be transported to the reservoir location, and they are waiting to dig the foundation according to the planned route.

The foundation is easy to dig, but the stones are cumbersome to transport, and it is too slow to rely entirely on human power or animal carts.

Su Ziheng went to the quarry once, and frowned when he saw that inefficient mode of transportation, and then he decided to build a track first, not a railroad track, but a track made of wood.

Wooden rails have poor durability and are easy to be damaged, so they are not a long-term solution after all, and they must be replaced by rails in the end, which can only be used temporarily.

But at present, Su Ziheng can't spare so many blacksmiths to build rails, and the most important thing is that there is not so much iron ore wasted on rails, he still needs to keep to build weapons, such as flintlock guns, iron cannons, etc.

……

……

On this day, Su Ziheng was busy on the reservoir construction site, and was suddenly invited back by Zhong Qinghan. After asking, I found out that something had happened to Dong Yuan.

Dong Yuan Yu left Donghai County before Su Ziheng went to Jiangning Mansion and went to Eastern Wei to transport the population.

I went for more than 20 days, but I didn't expect bad news to come out.

Su Ziheng returned to the county office, found Zhong Qinghan, and asked, "What happened, didn't it mean that she was very familiar with the Eastern Wei Dynasty and would not have an accident?" ”

According to the report of the secret detectives who traveled with her, everything went smoothly ahead, and when the first batch of 5,000 people was received, and on the way back, they were intercepted by another rebel army, and they were trapped in Haizhou and were not allowed to go to sea. Let us ransom with the silver. Zhong Qinghan briefly introduced a few words about the situation encountered by Dong Yuanyu.

"Haizhou? Is it the prefecture and county where the Eastern Wei Dynasty came out of the East China Sea? Whose control is it now? Su Ziheng recalled the map of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, although he didn't know much about it, but he had heard the name of Haizhou.

Zhong Qinghan nodded and said: "There are several state capitals in the Eastern Wei Dynasty that are near the sea, the most famous of which are Haizhou and Quanzhou, which are the largest seaport cities, with great foreign trade every year, and have always been a battleground for soldiers. ”

"Now the controller of Haizhou is Zhu Chao, the envoy of the Zhenhai Festival of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and at the same time, one of the anti-kings of the Eighteen Roads of the Eastern Wei Dynasty, he proclaimed himself the king of Zhenhai. His subordinates are in charge of 100,000 water troops, and this trip to Dongyuan is trapped in his hands, which is estimated to be a bit dangerous. ”

After receiving the news of the report from the detectives of the Secret Detective Division, Zhong Qinghan immediately launched an investigation and investigated all the information of Zhu Chao.

"There are 100,000 sailors in this Zhu Nest? In this way, the strength should not be underestimated. But even if he is the envoy of the Zhenhai Festival, the person who offends me will not let him have good fruits to eat. Su Ziheng was very angry, now Donghai County was short of people, but he sent troops to stop his fleet.

Zhong Qinghan frowned and said, "Ziheng, how do you plan to rescue Dong Yuanyu, do you really want to ransom people with silver according to what Zhu Chao said?" ”

Su Ziheng sneered: "The beauty he thinks, now that Donghai County is short of money for construction everywhere, how can he take it." I'm going to shoot someone to rescue Dong Yuan and them, and I'm going to clean up the Zhu Nest again. ”

"Haizhou is close to our Donghai County, and he has 100,000 sailors in his hands, if he can't settle this evil neighbor, what if he often comes to fight the autumn wind in the future? I didn't plan to build a wall on the coastal side, that would affect the plans for the salt pans to boil salt. ”

"Then Ziheng, how are you going to rescue them? We only have more than 3,000 defenders, and even if we send them all, we may not be able to rescue them. Zhong Qinghan was not optimistic about sending troops to rescue him.

"There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, and the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge. Don't be too anxious, I will find another way to do this, and I will not use the defenders of Donghai County. Su Ziheng comforted.

"The Eastern Wei Dynasty is no bigger than Great Xia, they have a total of eighteen anti-kings, and they definitely won't have so much friendship with Zhu Chao, we can drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and transfer thousands of catties in four or two. Qinghan, you first transfer to me all the information you have collected about Zhu Chao, and I will go back to pack up and set off immediately. ”

"Are you going alone? No way! That's too risky, I don't agree. The Eastern Wei Dynasty is now fighting everywhere, and if you go alone, you won't be able to rescue the Eastern Yuan and them, so if you can't do it, we'll take the money to ransom them back. Zhong Qinghan strongly objected.

Su Ziheng walked to her side, grabbed her jade hand, and patted it lightly: "Peaceful, I will take Shi Meng and them together, and set off as a caravan." In addition, there is a dragon god in the back to protect, and I won't make a problem. Besides, now that I have arranged everything in Donghai County, I don't need my place for the time being. Why don't you go to the Eastern Wei Dynasty and see if you can bring us some allies. ”

Seeing that Zhong Qinghan's face eased slightly, Su Ziheng continued to persuade: "Although our Donghai County is the land of Great Xia, after all, it is the closest to the Eastern Wei Dynasty, and if the border is unstable, we will not be able to develop with peace of mind. ”

Zhong Qinghan held Su Ziheng's palms tightly with his backhand, "Then you promise me that after you go to the Eastern Wei Dynasty, no matter what happens, you must ensure your own safety." Even if...... Even if people can't be saved, it's okay, and if it's a big deal, we don't want to get people back from the Eastern Wei Dynasty. ”

"Anyway, now the prefect of Jiang Ankang has also promised me that he will support the construction of Donghai County, and if you need workers, you can recruit them from Jiangning Mansion."

Having said that, she knew the difference between the two. The workers recruited by Jiangning Prefecture will eventually return to Jiangning, and there will be very few who will stay in Donghai County; The people who came back from the Eastern Wei Dynasty were different, they had nowhere to go except to stay in the Eastern Wei Dynasty.

Su Ziheng nodded solemnly and said, "Don't worry, I am the most greedy for life and afraid of death, and I will not put myself in it." ”

Zhong Qinghan said: "I'll write you a letter in a while, you can see if you can find Senior Sister Ji Daoyun Ji after going to the Eastern Wei Dynasty, she knows a lot of people over there, you can ask her for help." ”

"Okay!"