In July, the summer heat scorched the earth.

Binh Duong New Town is moving towards regularity in the heat.

The caravan finally brought back potatoes and maize from Zhili to Tang Xidong, and although only a small amount was purchased, at least it gave Tang Xidong a basis for renovating crops.

Wheat in the north can only be sown for one season, but Tangxidong will not leave farmland wasted.

So all the farmland began to be planted with vegetables such as wead, radish, and green onions, and at the same time set aside a test field for planting maize and potatoes.

As long as maize is cultivated, then it will be popularized in large quantities in the future, and the autumn harvest will be more fruitful than the summer harvest.

The construction of the walls of Binh Duong Fortress began immediately after the completion of the construction of the new city.

The newly built city wall, in terms of the size and scale of the original city wall, was transformed into a fortress by Tangxi East.

That is, in the belly of the middle of the city wall, a passage was made for the erection of artillery and guns.

The advantage is that it can greatly protect the gunners and artillery, but the problem is that the mid-end wall is strong enough not to be easily smashed by enemy artillery after digging out the empty passage.

Fortunately, after having cement, Tangxi East can ensure the hardness and stability of the city wall.

At the same time, the moat project was gradually formed under the excavation of manpower.

In addition to the slope, it was also necessary to consider the waterproofing of the foundation of the city wall, and Tang Xidong decided to place the location of the moat ten zhang away from the city wall.

The distance of ten zhang can not only ensure that the river water does not soak the foundation of the city wall, but also ensure that the intercepted enemy is within the effective range of artillery and flintlock guns.

The moat doesn't need to be too wide, it only needs to be three zhang wide and more than one person deep!

And after the independence of Luoliangshan Industry.

Tang Xidong also opened up other industries in Luoliang Mountain, such as ceramic factories and textile factories.

Originally, according to Tang Xidong's idea, it was best to make glass, but the manufacturing of glass required high technology and the cost was too large, and after considering many factors, Tang Xidong still chose to build a ceramic factory.

First, the raw materials are simple, and the second is that the technology is mature.

After building a ceramic factory, Tang Xidong can make another thing.

That's canned food.

For a long time, Tang Xidong, who came to Daming, has always felt that the food types in the lives of the people of Daming are too monotonous, of course, there are certain economic factors, and there is a general lack of vegetables, and there is also a lack of meat.

After the scale of the farm was built, Tang Xidong began to prepare to change everyone's eating habits.

Canned food is Tang Xidong's efforts for this change.

Canned food is simple to make, as long as the meat and vegetables are packed into a clay pot, sealed as a whole, and then steamed at high temperature, it can be stored for a long time.

Therefore, the ceramic factory is a must-do industry in Tangxi East.

And the textile mills, at present, are very small, because there is not a large amount of cotton silk to supply.

Ceramic and textile factories have found jobs for a large number of idle women.

In mid-July, Tang Xidong returned to the government office in Xincheng after visiting the exercises of the 1st Pingyang Regiment and the Luoliangshan Company outside the city.

The government is one of the few large courtyards in the new city.

Not imposing, but spacious enough.

At the beginning of the design, the government built a hall large enough for 1,000 people to hold meetings.

On this day, Tang Xidong held the first conference in this conference hall, after the completion of the construction of Binh Duong New Town.

In addition to the responsible personnel of various departments, the meeting was attended by various lieutenant commanders, security team captains, and army platoon commanders and above.

First of all, the Ministry of Statistics reported the number of people in Binh Duong City and the number of engineering work.

This was followed by reports from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of the Military and other departments.

The population has reached more than 95,000 people, and the projects include new city walls, moats, new farmland greenhouses, industrial plants, and so on.

The reserve of the new army is 10,000 people, and the main combat force is 9,000 people, which are the 5,000 Pingyang 1st Regiment and the 4,000 Luoliangshan Company.

It is equipped with 5,000 flintlock pistols and 50 large and small artillery.

More than 20 million catties of grain and more than 15 million taels of silver.

In the whole city of Binh Duong, there are more than 30,000 young and strong people, more than 20,000 women, more than 20,000 elderly people, and nearly 10,000 children.

There are 5,000 security personnel and 1,000 supervisors.

The number of large and small managers reached 2,000.

There were thirty caravans of size and more than 5,000 people.

The whole meeting was spent in the afternoon.

The purpose of Tang Xidong's meeting is mainly to let all the managers realize what kind of behemoth their new city is, to cheer everyone up, and to cheer everyone up.

At the same time, it also allows the new recruits to follow their footsteps with all their hearts.

For example, Jia Huaizhong, such as Zhang Xiahai.

Zhang Xiahai, who was originally the commander of Pingyang Wei Erpin, has always been in a state of semi-imprisonment like Han Yi.

But with the passage of time, especially the defeat of the elite Guanning army led by Cao Wenzhao, Zhang Xiahai finally saw the strength of the armed forces in Tang Xidong's hands.

Zhang Xiahai, who was unwilling to spend his life in mediocrity, finally bowed down in the summons after Tang Xidong finally remembered.

In Tang Xidong's view, Zhang Xiahai is a capable general, knows the soldiers, knows the strategy, and performs extraordinarily in the defense of Luoliang Mountain, and this person is upright, not greedy for soldiers, and is a good general.

After Zhang Xiahai submitted, there has been no small movement.

Now that Zhang Xiahai is willing to surrender, Tang Xidong naturally has to cherish the talent in front of him.

So he was directly appointed as the deputy head of the 1st Regiment in Binh Duong, only under Jia Hu.

Since Tang Xidong came to Daming, nearly a year, he finally had the first stable and powerful territory in his hands.

The people are strong and the horses are strong, and the grain and grass are abundant.

With this solid base, Tang Xidong has the reliance to break out of the world in Daming.

Maybe I should go out of the realm of Pingyang City, it's time to go out and see this Daming country.

At night, Tang Xidong stood on the four-story building he enjoyed exclusively, looking at the lights in the city, and his heart was full of pride.

Looking at the huge new city under the sky, there is no end in sight, patches of roofs, and roads, and the pride in Tang Xidong's heart is difficult to suppress.

Coming to Daming for nearly a year, from the original small cottage of the village minister, a little scholar, to today's leader who controls the life and death of 100,000 people, Tang Xidong did not expect that he could achieve such an achievement today, which is an affirmation of his efforts and a spur to him.

It can be regarded as living a world of one's own again.

Behind her, Liu Lianqing walked up the stairs in a white shirt, holding a bowl of freshly boiled meat soup in her hand.

Tang Xidong turned around when he heard the sound, and after seeing the girl's eyes with affection, he was stunned for a moment.

He couldn't remember how long it had been since he had been alone with Liu Lianqing.

The long-term busyness and the occasional war have made Tang Xidong dare not relax, forcing himself to work hard to change everything in his hands all the time.

But busyness always makes people ignore a lot, such as the girl around me who has always been silently caring about herself.

In the past nearly a year of training, the original girl has gradually transformed into a strong woman in the city, and she is in charge of the finance department alone, but she takes care of everything in an orderly manner, so that Tang Xidong does not have to worry about it at all.

It was not until this moment that Tang Xidong looked at the thin girl in front of him and felt the other party's efforts to relieve his worries.

Taking the meat porridge handed by the girl, Tang Xidong scooped a spoonful, held it in his mouth, felt the aroma of the meat porridge, and also felt the friendship of the girl, scooped a spoonful again, and gently sent it to Liu Lianqing's mouth, smiling and watching the girl swallow it embarrassedly and shyly.

A bowl of meat porridge is slowly drunk in two people, one spoonful and one spoonful for me.

Holding the girl's hand and standing by the wooden railing, Tang Xidong pointed to the city under his hand.

"The Pingyang City in front of me not only belongs to me, but also to you and everyone. All along, I was too busy to ignore you, Lianqing, please wait, when Pingyang City can have a peaceful and stable life, I, Tang Xidong, will definitely inform everyone in the city, in front of these 100,000 people, I will marry you in a sedan chair. ”

Finally, after a long wait, Liu Lianqing finally waited for Tang Xidong's affectionate promise.

Tears couldn't stop staying, and the shyness and joy on his face were intertwined.

"You don't really have to worry about me, I'll always be waiting for you. Even if it is another ten or twenty years, as long as I can be by your side like now, I will be very content. ”

The girl's voice rang out.

Under the moonlight, after the two looked at each other for a long time, their lips were close and they kissed sweetly.