Zhuang Yi trained and taught every day day after day, and in this kind of busyness, the days flew by, and the first year of Guangqi passed so quietly and unconsciously. But in the cold Liaodong, the winter is also very long, Chinese New Year's Eve, the Lantern Festival has passed more than half a month, it is already the weather in early February, it is still cold, rain and snow do not stop.

After the Lantern Festival, that is, the Lantern Festival, the government resumed its office, the Liucheng Academy reopened, and Zhuang Yi resumed military training and training for officers. At the same time, he has more to do at the beginning of the new year.

According to the "Five-Year Development Outline of the Pingliao Army" drawn up by him and a group of subordinate officials, after the beginning of the year, it is necessary to start large-scale road construction and city construction, first building Anhua County in the north of the city, planning to set up villages, and resettling the people of Muwei.

The second is to build the county seat of Ruluo on the wasteland fifty miles southwest of Ruluo, and then build an official road from Anhua County to Liucheng, and then go south to the county seat of Ruluo. When this step is completed, an official road from Yuluo County to Yuguan will be built, so that Liaodong and Youzhou will be connected through the Liaoxi Corridor.

It wasn't until the end of February that the weather showed signs of warming. Suddenly, like a spring breeze in the night, the ice and snow on the wild land melted away, the wheat grass in the field poked out the tender green sharp corners, and the stream at the head of the field flowed happily. However, the surface of the ground is thawed, and below the half-foot thick soil, there is a solid frozen layer, and it is obviously not yet time to build the city, but the preparations can be done first.

It was a spring morning, and as soon as the sky was bright, Zhuang Yi got up in a hurry and started his daily compulsory lessons.

The fist does not leave the hand, and the song does not leave the mouth! Ten days without hand practice, ten days without singing oral life! This sentence is absolutely true, as a martial artist, of course, he can't leave his fists.

Since living in the back house of the Yingzhou Mansion, Zhuang Yi asked people to clean up a small school field about two or three acres in the northwest corner of the back garden. In the pergola in the corner of the field, a few sandbags were erected, and plum blossom piles were buried outside the shed, which were all used to practice boxing.

The way of laying the plum blossom pile pays attention to the celestial phenomena, when the ground is closed, the solar terms are combined, and the pile arrangement method has a variety of such as Beidou pile, Tiangang pile, starry pile, etc. But Zhuang Yi is cloth is about two people high Bagua pile, the position of the pile and the position of the pile spacing is regular, the front and back is three feet, just the distance of a lunge; The left and right are 1 foot 5, which is very easy to move around.

As long as you gradually adapt to it and thoroughly familiarize yourself with this strict footwork pattern, you can walk on the ground and be able to play against people with ease.

Zhuang Yi is now stepping on the Bagua pile, first stepping on a horse, lunging, and then practicing plum blossom boxing, but this body is still not as strong as it used to be, and the time to practice is still short, and the speed of punching does not dare to slow down, so he can only maintain a stable average speed and adapt to footwork first.

After practicing boxing, then practice the Five Tigers Broken Door Knife Technique, and then practice the big gun, from the Five Tiger Broken Door Gun to the Liuhe Big Gun, now I can be handy, and I am becoming more and more proficient. After practicing these, I began to practice riding and archery, practicing horse marksmanship and using knives, and finally returned to the room to bathe, changed my clothes and went to have breakfast, and then went to the front office.

Yingzhou Mansion Office, Duanben Zhengyuan Hall, a group of officials rushed to sign in early, just waiting for the military envoy Zhuang Yi to ascend to the hall.

"Why haven't you come yet...... Zhenghe! Call someone to rush it! Zhang Yitai saw that everyone was waiting a little anxiously, and they all looked at him, so he opened his mouth and said to Duan Zhongzhong.

"Who doesn't want to sleep a little longer on this cold day, it's really unusual! I'll take a look......" Duan Zhongzhong stood up with a sigh, got up and walked towards the side door.

At this time, the official outside the door shouted: "The military envoy has arrived!" ”

Seeing Zhuang Yi walk in quickly, he sat down in the hall, and a group of officials came forward to salute, and after greetings, Zhuang Yi immediately took out the case file prepared in advance, and said: "I have agreed with you before, and the terrain has been surveyed, and the drawings have been drawn. At the beginning of the year, a large-scale recruitment of young and strong people was divided into three groups to start construction at the same time. The first group was led by Mr. Zhenghe and was responsible for the construction of Anhua County; In the second group, Yang Deshou was responsible for repairing the road between Anhua County and Ruluo County; The third group will be led by Mr. Zhang Miaokang, and I will personally supervise the construction of the county seat of Jura, as well as the bay salt works south of the county town of Yura. ”

"In this way, the young men of the entire battalion and state must be mobilized, and the three thousand soldiers will also be transferred in turn to help, and all of them must be completed by June at the latest. Is there anything else you would like to add? Zhuang Yi asked.

"We don't have enough manpower, and all the officials have been transferred, so how can Liucheng Academy be maintained?" Duan Zhongzhong asked.

"Your group is the closest to Liucheng, just take turns to arrange people to take care of it."

"Forty-eight townships can recruit up to four or five thousand people, plus three or four thousand people from Murowei, and there are only eight or nine thousand people together, and this labor force is also insufficient! As for the consumption of grain and rice, should they bring their own food and all kinds of equipment and tools? Zhang Yitai said with a sad face.

"Manpower is indeed insufficient, but the food is not in a hurry, Youzhou still owes me a lot of food, I will go to Youzhou in April! You are going to start preparing all kinds of tools now, let Qingzhuang bring some of them, and the government has also created a batch, so make do with it! The second is the materials for building the city, you can collect stones, burn city bricks and green tiles, cut wood for later use, I remember last year when the military fort was built, there are still some leftovers, which can be used. Zhuang Yi said.

"So when will it start? For such a big thing, you have to choose an auspicious day for the zodiac! Zhang Yitai said with his fingers wrenched.

"It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, March 3 is the Shangsi Festival, and it is scheduled to start on the fourth day of the first month of March!"

"That's not ...... There are only seven days left! There was a buzz in the lobby, and everyone began to talk about it.

"Lang Jun Lang Jun! The big lady has a stomachache...... It's already red, it's going to be born! Go and ask the midwife to come! At this moment, a very discordant female voice came in.

Everyone looked at the side door, and when they saw that it was a servant woman in the back house, they couldn't help laughing, and hurriedly got up and came forward to congratulate Zhuang Yi.

Zhuang Yi was stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed, in the morning Ailan said that his stomach hurt, Zhuang Yi thought it was nothing, so he called Zhao Qiuling to take care of her, and finally understood, and suddenly jumped up like an electric shock, and stepped forward to pull Zhang Yitai to go to the back house.

Zhang Yitai came to his senses and laughed and said, "What are you pulling me to do with this delivery?" Wait until I get home and call my wife......"

"Ahem...... Zhuang Yi patted his forehead and smiled bitterly, and said anxiously: "Then you go quickly!" ”

"What's the hurry? Just send a soldier to shout no! We're here waiting for the good news! Zhang Yitai smiled unhurriedly.