Since Jiangjiazhuang and Zeng's Liangzi were married, Jiang Lintian put the construction of the fort on the agenda, strictly ordered the personnel in the village not to go out without reason, and asked the fifth uncle to buy a large amount of food for urgent needs.

In one day, the fifth uncle had already notified every household of the matter of recruiting people to repair the fort.

And put up notices everywhere in the village.

Because Jiangjiazhuang accepts the majority of homeless villagers, housing and public facilities can no longer meet the needs of today's villagers, proposed by Jiang Gongzi, all the villagers of the original Jiangjiazhuang agree, I Jiangjiazhuang will expand the township, and the specific matters are as follows:

All men who participate in the fort repair are three catties of grain per person per day, all strong women who participate in the fort repair are two catties of grain per person per day, and all young men who participate in the fort repair are one pound of grain per person per day, and the rest of the men who participate in the fort repair are regarded as young men's remuneration.

In particular, it is informed: All excellent masons, blacksmiths, and carpenters can be the head of the craftsman, and each person will have eight catties of grain per day, and the rest of the craftsmen will have four catties of grain per day.

During the construction of the township fort, Jiangjiazhuang provided two meals per person per day, both of which were arranged by Jiangjiazhuang.

Registration office: Jiangjiazhuang Wang Wu.

Registration Period: Before June 15.

A middle-aged man in his forties looked at the notice on the wall and read it aloud.

"Folks, Jiang Gongzi is a gift to me, hurry up and sign up."

Before the notice, a group of homeless people were talking.

"How can there be such a good thing, the work is also distributed to food, I used to work for the owner, and I have never given out food."

"Don't talk nonsense, you prank, Jiang Gongzi is kind-hearted, if he hadn't recruited us to Jiangjiazhuang, we wouldn't know where to wander, I believe Jiang Gongzi is what he says."

"If you want, go to the head of the five kings of Jiangjiazhuang to sign up." , said the middle-aged man earlier.

On the side of the square in the east of Jiangjiazhuang, Jiang Lintian, Song Yunpeng, and Wang Wuyi inspected the terrain of the entire Jiangjiazhuang, Jiangjiazhuang is connected to the outside world on three sides, behind is a hill, and below is the valley, to strengthen the defense, that is, to strengthen the defense on three sides, Wang Mang knows that the most important thing now is to build a fortress wall for three defenses, Jiang Lintian intends to include the ancestral hall and square of the entire Jiangjiazhuang, so that it looks atmospheric.

The east is an endless field, ten miles away is a small river, the west is Kaihong Mountain, ten miles away from Jiangjiazhuang, Jiang Lintian observes the surrounding terrain.

"Fifth uncle, how far are we from the official road?"

Wang Wu pointed to the front: "Son, ten miles away is the official road, the reason why I chose this location as Jiangjiazhuang at that time is also because you can quickly reach Yuncheng and Liangshan Shuibo when you enter here, and you can enter the Mangmang Mountain when you retreat." ”

Jiang Lintian nodded and said, "Fifth Uncle, thank you for coming here first to lay a good foundation, we have to plan for this." I think that the fort wall should be built first, and then it will be expanded five hundred paces east beyond the square. You see there is a little river in the west, and it expands to the west side of the river. In front, it starts from the main entrance of the ancestral hall and expands 800 steps. ”

"Young master, this design is the best, the small river on the west side can be dug into a trench and used as a moat."

"Fifth uncle, I think the same way."

"Young master, please look, at that time, arrow towers can be built at every corner, and then the defense will be free of dead ends." Song Yunpeng said on the side.

"Fifth Uncle, when the entire defense is designed by you, this will have to worry about the fifth uncle."

"Young master, it doesn't have to be like this, this is exactly what I do."

The three of them inspected the terrain of the entire Lijiazhuang, and already knew in their hearts, a huge tent was temporarily set up on the east construction site, in which more than ten cauldrons were placed, this is the temporary canteen of the construction site, and the whole project will start tomorrow.

On the morning of the first day of construction, the construction site sounded the sound of crackling firecrackers, and the villagers all stood beside the construction site.

After the ceremony, after Jiang Lintian shoveled the first shovel of soil, the entire construction site became busy and dusty. Today, there were only more than 100 villagers here, but they were all very motivated. Jiang Lintian knew that many people were watching, and if they all received food on the first day, there would naturally be more people on the second day.

The back mountain is a forest, so there is plenty of wood, and there is no shortage of stones, but to build a fort wall, it requires a large amount of loess tamping mud, and three earthen kilns have been built in the field three hundred steps away from the construction site, which are used to burn the green bricks that wrap the wall.

In the process of ramming the fort wall, it takes a lot of manpower to dig the soil, mud, and remove the blank, and then dry it in the sun, which affects the progress of the project, but the fifth uncle thought of a very clever way, which is to sprinkle a little black powder into the mud.

Jiang Lintian felt very strange: "Fifth uncle, what is that?" ”

"Young master, that's a kind of mineral powder sprinkled on it, which can dry the mud in a very short time, and it has been used in the border pass before."

Jiang Lintian thought to himself, it must be a desiccant, a powder ground from ore containing desiccant.

"Fifth uncle, you are so knowledgeable."

"Hehe, young master, these are the experiences of the older generation."

The first day's work was completed quite smoothly, and the villagers on the construction site received their own food after completing the day's fort repair, and the news quickly spread among the displaced people.

"Gongzi Jiang is a good talker, everyone who went received food, and you slandered Jiang Gongzi everywhere, causing me to go one day less and receive one less day of food."

"It's not what I said, it's all the fifth king of the West Village, he told me, otherwise, I lost three catties of grain for nothing today."

The two agreed to go to work on the construction site tomorrow, so as to save food and earn rations.

Wang Mang used his recruitment notice to mobilize the strength of all the villagers to build the fort wall, more than 3,000 people, regardless of men, women and children, all went into battle, except for the old man who really couldn't walk, and the baby who couldn't go out, everyone came out to work, and the whole construction site had a feeling that the whole people were in battle.

"Young master, the foundations of all city walls must be paved with stones, dug half a zhang deep, the stones must be polished, and the rammed fortress walls must be glued with slurry."

"Fifth uncle, do you use glutinous rice juice?"

"Yes, however, I also have some experience in building a city at the border gate, and we have used burned cooked soil to make bonding, and the effect is better than glutinous rice juice."

"Fifth uncle, what did you say? Cooked soil? “

Jiang Lintian was taken aback, cooked soil! Could it be cement? It's impossible, if you really have cement, you can develop and do a lot of things.

"Fifth uncle, where is the place where the cooked soil is fired, take me to see it."

"Young master, the location is in the back mountain, there is no hurry to go and see it, the young master should go back to the village to rest, Chaojiazhuang Chao Tianwang came to visit, saying that he was looking for you to have something." The fifth uncle replied.

"Yun Peng, you go back to Tianwang, I can only rush back at noon, there are too many things here."

Song Yunpeng agreed and ran towards the Jiang family's compound, now everyone is in a hurry, striving to complete the castle as soon as possible.

Men and women carrying dustpans and baskets carried earth back and forth along the side of the castle, some craftsmen directed the strong men to polish the stones, others rammed the castle walls to the sound of neat trumpets, and the construction site was in full swing and the voices of people were boiling. Not far away, at the edge of the construction site, a group of craftsmen are making triple soil from loess pulp, river sand, lime, and glutinous rice in a certain proportion, and everyone is sweating profusely.

"Are you making Sanhe soil? Isn't there cooked soil? ”

"Qi Yu Gongzi, the cooked soil is precious, it has been used up, and it is far away from here, so it cannot be transported in large quantities, so it is still suitable for Sanhe soil."

Jiang Lintian understands that even if Sanhe soil is used, the rammed fort wall is also very strong and durable, such as the Great Wall, which is a great miracle in the world, but it is not something that Meng Jiangnu can cry down.

Some of the female walls are also buried in the corpse of wild cats, saying that they can ward off evil spirits, Jiang Lintian smiled, he does not believe in ghosts and gods, but the villagers still can't get rid of the folk customs of the Chinese nation, since the Yellow Emperor, some concepts have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Loess and river sand are easy to say, but thinking of wasting a lot of glutinous rice, Jiang Lintian couldn't help but feel distressed, he hadn't eaten glutinous rice once when he came to this world, if there was glutinous rice, it could also be used to make wine, and everyone in the small mountain village where Jiang Lin's hometown was located in the previous life would make glutinous rice wine.

However, for the fort wall to be strong, only in this way, according to the craftsmen, you will be more distressed after half a month, after ramming the fort wall, when the outer bread bricks, in addition to adding glutinous rice, but also according to a certain proportion of brown sugar, egg whites, red beans and other materials are mixed to form a binder, the effect is particularly good.

After listening to the words of the craftsmen, coupled with the ink masters of the Momen Tianji Hall to supervise the progress and quality of the project, the fifth uncle stayed on the construction site and kept correcting some small mistakes, Jiang Lintian relieved himself and returned to the Jiang family compound.

Chao Gai kept looking outside, how did Jiang Lintian do this, he hasn't come back for a long time, a big official, I'm wandering around the construction site, isn't it too cheap.

"Heavenly King, are you in a hurry to find me?"

"Senior official Jiang, I have an important matter to discuss with you."

Jiang Lintian noticed that this time he came with Chao Gai, and there was also a Confucian scholar who cranked a feather fan, Jiang Lintian had a clear heart, which may be Wu Yong. , you are lonely, the young lady warms you with a movie