Although it was already December, the surrounding area of the city of Pulen was still bustling.

In this world, there is no such thing as the New Year or the Spring Festival. In fact, a large number of Pullen laborers were holding wooden tools, standing on the staggered wooden pillars arranged in advance, filling the empty space in the center of the staggered wooden pillars with "cooked earth" and some other gravel and other things, according to the orders of King Pullen, the royal city must be expanded if it is to be upgraded twice.

Now, although the city of Puron has a strong first defensive circle, the main factor that makes up the defensive ring - the walls are still wooden walls in nature.

Although the walls of Pullen are painted with a layer of wet mud to ward off attacks such as fire bolts, wooden objects will eventually corrode over time. Moreover, even in peacetime, the life of the wooden walls themselves is not very long, and the main reason is not people, but weather and other conditions.

Rain is the worst enemy of the wooden wall, and unlike the enemy's rockets or trebuchets, it is pervasive and unguardable, and once the wood is soaked by water for a long time, it will rot, and the wood will become more fragile when exposed to the heat of the sun the next day.

It doesn't hurt in normal times, after all, no enemy will come to attack the city of Pulon in a short period of time.

But!

Crises are often hidden in ordinary negligence.

Suppose one day the city neglects to manage the city walls, and the enemy is attacking with a large army at this time. The enemy's trebuchets collectively aimed at the rain-corroded walls, and in less than an hour, the first defensive ring of the city of Pullen would be easily breached by the enemy's army, followed by a brutal and unusually heavy battle of defending the city, which would suffer heavy losses regardless of defeat or victory.

Therefore, the establishment of the second defensive ring outside the city of Pulon and the rapid reaction mobile early warning force - the earth wall and the October Knights of the Rose of Glory were put on the proposal table of the national defense plan of the Pulon King City in advance.

However, due to the limitation of the number of horses and qualified cavalry, the proposal of the October Knights of the Rose of Glory was postponed by King Pullen. Not only because of the scarcity of horses and cavalry, but also because the funds of the Puron royal city are now used a little less, and they must save money and make use of the local geography as much as possible to improve their living conditions.

At present, there are more than 1,300 people in the city of Pulun, which is a little crowded according to the standards of the previous establishment of the royal city of Pulun. Most of the neighborhoods are already full, and a few alleys are even overcrowded.

This not only greatly affected the rapid reaction ability of the defense forces in the city of Pulun, but even increased the possibility of the outbreak of diseases and infectious diseases, and more importantly, once an infectious disease broke out, it would be a fatal natural disaster for the slightly crowded Pulun Royal City at this time.

Excluding the members of the October Legion and the peasant fathers in charge of farming, there were still about 400 people in the city of Pulun who were left idle, and if only women and children were left in the city, there would still be more than 300 laborers who could join the construction of the new city in the city of Pulen.

Speaking of which, I have to mention that the number of elderly people in the city of Pulun is very rare, which is mainly because the mortality rate of the elderly in the current era is much higher than that of ordinary people, and it is the highest mortality rate after the mortality rate of young and strong people.

"When it comes to completion, it's really the stone wall that is the most reassuring."

Tianxiang's original plan was to build the first stone wall belonging to the Puron royal city, because the stone wall was not only strong and durable, but more importantly, it was far easier and cheaper to maintain than a wooden wall. The problem, however, is that the construction of the stone walls is now far beyond the capabilities of the royal city of Puren.

Because in order to build a stone wall, the royal city of Pleon must meet three basic conditions. The first is the designer - no problem, Tianxiang can take on the responsibility of the main design, after all, the previous city wall was designed and built by him.

The second necessary condition is the stone mine - this is also relatively simple, and there are stones that can be polished all over the mountains and fields.

The third necessary condition is the basic group of workers.

This is the last condition that makes Tianxiang dumbfounded on the spot, and it is also one of the most important conditions.

There are no basic construction workers and groups in the royal city of Pullen, which also means that it is not possible to gather a group of veterans with novices like the Ministry of Iron, you do what I see, you see me learn to develop teaching systematically. It's as if the school has been built and the students are already in place, but TMD has no teachers in the school!! This Nima learns a P!

Not only that, but it takes a lot of hard work to dig the rocks, a lot of manpower to polish the stones, and then the manpower and material resources required to transport the stones down from the mountain, as well as the manual labor that can occur and those who die due to accidents...... Tianxiang carefully calculated, and he found that the Puron King City did not have this capacity at the moment.

So, Tianxiang could only be very unwilling, and his face was distorted to retreat.

"Build a city of earth, so is the will of heaven." Even so, Tianxiang's face was still ugly. At least the crowd standing around him, including Ni, could feel the depression and depression in Tianxiang's heart, and this was the first time that the great and correct King Pullen had an unsolvable problem in the development of internal affairs, which made the king deeply angry at his own incompetence.

However, it was a great relief for Ni and the others. They thought to themselves from the bottom of their hearts, "Great, the king has finally encountered something that cannot be solved."

Originally, King Pulun's usual unsmiling appearance put a lot of pressure on the others, plus he knew almost everything, at least in the eyes of the commoners of this era, he was like a perfect person who knew everything and could do everything, and he finally encountered something that he couldn't do.

Ni and the others were honestly a little happy in their hearts, not because they were gloating, but because they could finally feel that the king in front of them was no longer so high, and they were so depressed that they couldn't breathe just by looking at it. He will also smile, he will fail, he will also feel angry and unwilling to do what he can't do, but the most important thing is that he is always able to step up when it matters. This is a living human being, their true King of Puren.

"What shall we do, King?"

"Well, the construction of stone walls is impossible. Then we can only build a wall on the basis of the original city of Purun. The entire size was ten times the size of the original Pulon King City, and the extent of the city walls extended directly to the riverbank, from the original size of a town of three hundred people to the size of a city capable of holding three thousand people. ”

Tianxiang glanced at the forest in the distance, and then at the river.

"Nee, look over there. There are natural barriers in the north, south and west of our Pulun royal city, and there is only a flat river in the east. The forest has a rich soil for us to draw from, and the materials there are almost inexhaustible. I plan to build a super thick earth wall that is 4.5 meters high and 3 meters thick. We can use the method of digging deep into the foundation, and then match the log scaffold, fill it with sand, and the soil should be cooked soil, not afraid of wind and rain and sunshine. ”

Nee nodded.

Both he and King Pullen knew in their hearts that this was a big project, and that it was a super defense siege that needed to be joined by both women and children. It is unlikely to have any effect in a short period of time, and it will take at least half a year or so to be fully completed.

However, it is already December, and the functions of the royal city of Pullen are gradually entering the stagnation zone, just like the soldiers in and around Dublin, hundreds of miles away, everyone is busy preparing for the cold winter.

It's getting dark.

The weather has also gotten colder.

Ni walked up to Tianxiang in Pullen's standard armor and reminded Tianxiang in a low and humble voice.

"King, it's already dark...... We should go back. ”

“………… Well, let's go back. ”

Before leaving, Tianxiang rode on horseback and looked back at the mountains in the distance.

Behind the mountains lay a realm he had never set foot in. Where there were English, there were Scots, there were Welsh and Irish, and even some French knights.

The city of Prien has grown, and the world it is in will become more and more wide.

The future and splendor of the Intramuros are coming.

And that time is coming......

The beginning of spring in March next year.

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Ended in 1085.

In 1086 began a new era in the royal city of Puren.