This time, the brigade entered Beijing, and the station naturally asked the Changlong to look for preparations, and sold a vegetable plot of more than 50 acres on the bank of the Cai River behind the Dailou Gate early in the morning, and also sold more than 20 small houses on the east side of the Yinan Bridge on the side.

The street and alley were originally called Caihe Water Street, and later it was more suitable for Nanqiao Lane, and most of the people living in the alley were livestock dealers, tooth men, butchers and miscellaneous servants who watched the street pavilion in Nanxun Gate. Most of the alleys and courtyards are illegal buildings built with bricks and stones, and there is no title deed recognized by the government, and there is only a paper deed that is better than nothing. And this Yinanqiao Lane is less than 300 steps away from the city wall, and the nearest courtyard is at most more than 120 meters away from the city wall.

Therefore, it did not cost much to buy this half of the street, and the steward of the Changlong took almost two years, just like ants moving, buying a household in March and buying a house in May, unconsciously, quietly bought half of the street, and then found someone to quietly rebuild it, and selected seven households in the north of the street to change to one household, and built a medium-sized courtyard with four houses, which is Huang Jie's main house arranged by his family.

It is said that after Mo Da led Henry into the city as the forerunner, he parked the cart end to end in the vegetable field that had been filled with more than 50 acres of tamping, and soon used the cart to stack out a hollow-shaped car array, the outer array was connected to each other on all sides of the cart end to end, a total of 80 on all sides, the cart unloaded the cart horse, first with the foot pile before and after the front and rear support, and then removed the inner side of the car wall and the car plate hung outside the wheel and wheel on the outside, and after a while there was no appearance of the cart, turned into a car city.

And the internal structure is not simple, after forty cars formed the inner city of Huizi, someone took out the long wooden pole from the car, assembled it with some cross-shaped and T-shaped connecting sleeves, and then built a frame between the inner array and the outer array, after building the frame, and took out a double-layer of oilcloth and a single-layer of warm flannel cloth from the car to cover the roof and the top of the frame, and some people began to dig a fire pit in the car array, shovel the snow, and build a floor, just half an hour of effort to make the general construction of the car city, The rest is a bit of water grinding.

Huang Jie asked people to send his father and mother and Su Lianniang to rest in Yinan Bridge Lane first, and then came to the outside of the car city to take a look. I saw that Henry did not shout and command the whole process, and he also patrolled and watched like him, but the five hundred servants and craftsmen who were responsible for building the car city and the five hundred sons and daughters from Huangzhou acted in an orderly manner, and the scene of thousands of people doing it together could not hear the neighing of horses or the sound of people.

It took an hour to find out about it, and the rough exterior of the car city was all completed, and Henry also invited Huang Jie to inspect the city, Henry led the way in front, and Hua Rong explained: "After my uncle left the design, I and the general manager of Heng led five hundred Huangzhou guards to practice and explore day and night, and finally before going north on the road this time, the time to build the city was controlled within one hour, and the city was solved within half an hour. Along the way, I traveled through the state and the government, and I found an opportunity to practice with the servants and craftsmen three times, but there were 500 more people, and it was a little hindering to do things. ”

Huang Jie smiled when he heard this, but did not comment, and followed Henry to enter from the east gate of the car city, but saw that although the gate was opened between the two cars, the two cars that were the pillars of the gate were on the top of two cars to two feet high combined watchtowers, and there were horse-rejecting piles and car blocks next to the gate, and the gate was also a combination of square wooden doors half a foot thick and two feet wide.

"Password!"

Just as he was about to enter the city, the guard guarding the watchtower shouted, and Henry also stretched out his palm and made a set of gestures, and could see that it was "three, five, two, four", so he heard him speak: "Litmus, Dharma Father, Tuwu, Buddha!" ”

After the guards on the watchtower saw clearly, they also opened their mouths and whistled, and saw a team of guards with guns running out of the car city, and lined up at the gate, but saw this group of guards, wearing a cotton head, a big red hero scarf around their necks, wearing a soap-colored thickened cotton jacket, wearing a pair of cowhide copper nail bracers on both arms, to tie a cowhide nail belt, staring at a pair of wool leather boots, one by one looks so heroic.

Especially among the guards, the dozen or so people at the end of the group still look like girls, and there are two flower hairpins on their cotton heads, which can also be distinguished.

However, after the guards stood in line, they tilted their guns slightly in front of them, and then straddled their legs, turned their heads to look at Huang Jie in unison, and hit their chests with one hand and whispered a "huha" sound.

Huang Jie also tapped his chest in response, and then stepped into the camp.

Entering the camp and taking a look, you will see that in the car city in the shape of a zigzag, there are already brackets to set up a canopy to block the wind and snow, not only on the ground with a non-slip aisle laid with straw mats, close to the two walls of the cart, there are also brackets and wooden planks to build a floor shop, each floor also dug a sunken fire pond in the center, once the fire pond is lit, the heat will be dispersed along the gap between the bracket and the ground, and the floor can be heated.

However, just heating the floor with a fire pit cannot completely keep out the cold, and at this time, you can also see the servants and craftsmen in black robes and black pants are adding curtains to the four sides of the floor shop. Huang Jie inspected a circle, whether it was a servant craftsman in black clothes and black robes or Huang Zhouwei in a soap robe and red scarf, they were all in an orderly manner, and at most, when Huang Jie walked by, he either hit his chest or bowed down.

When I walked to the corner of the west side of the outer city of Huizi, I saw that there were 20 large iron stoves here, which were making fires with charcoal, and fifteen of them had already placed a large pot with a diameter of four feet on the stove, and half a pot of water was filled in the pot. The other five were placed with six-foot-diameter iron pans, and more than a dozen girls wearing Huangzhou guard clothes were lifting the basin down from two carts, and the basin was full of good sober noodles.

Seeing Huang Jie coming, the girls were all surprised, so they also came to perform a chest salute, but each of them had either charcoal ash or flour on their hands, so they naturally made jokes.

Huang Jie naturally nodded and smiled when he looked at them, so he went straight to the inner city without bothering.

Entering the inner city, the site is not small, forty carts on four sides, the length of each side is twenty zhang, but the space of four hundred zhang wide is divided equally by five group tents, and it seems empty.

Soon Huang Jie followed Henry into the main tent in the center, only to see that the ground was also covered with wooden boards, and a thick layer of wool felt was matted, and butter candles were lit around the big tent as lighting, the front tent was equipped with handsome seats and generals' seats, and the back tent was equipped with a bookcase and a six-foot square sand table, when everyone walked in, they could see that the sand table was placed on a miniature car city model, and each model car was also labeled, respectively written water wheels, grain trucks, sundries, weapons, firearms, dining cars and so on.

Outside the model car, there are small wooden carved models of small tents, sword-wielding soldiers, archers, cavalry, etc., which look lifelike, but look at these models have a strong Western Regions style, which should not be from the hands of the Song people. (To be continued.) )