Chapter 47: The Wall Is Completed
Xiao Yi is located in Datong Prefecture, Shanxi Province, at this time most of the peasant army is concentrated in Shaanxi, only a small part in Shanxi, and most of the Shanxi at this time are uncertain horse thieves and robbers and thieves who occupy the mountains as kings. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Xiao Yi has lived four or five days of clean days, and in the past few days, Xiao Yi has hardly moved much except for leading his subordinates back and forth to carry sand, gravel, grain and rice from Changning Town, and he gets up in the morning to exercise for a while, and then drinks porridge and eats breakfast with the people, and provides them with a day's meat and meat within a few days.
Breakfast is followed by a morning of construction, then eating, then labor, and so on. Finally, after three days, the wall was finally built. The walls are not in a straight line, some are staggered from each other, and some are not direct. Although it is made of bricks, it is also built in an arc.
This circle of walls is more than seven white meters in both horizontal and vertical directions, and there is an east gate in the direction of Changning Town and Peach Blossom Fort, and Xiao is also named 'Exorcism Gate'.
And towards the direction of Shaanxi, that is, the Mandarin Duck Water, there is a West Gate, and Xiao is also named 'Ping Thief Gate'. Opening this door is particular, firstly, it can help everyone to get water conveniently in the future, and secondly, Xiao has also explored the terrain, which is sloped, and it is uphill here, and opening the door on the slope helps to defend.
The other two directions are pure city walls without city gates, one is to have fewer doors for defense, and the other is that Xiao also wants to use this as an inner city, and the inner city does not need too many city gates, and the outer city must be expanded in the future, which is not mentioned in the future.
It's just that the current city wall is still only a shape, and many facilities are not complete, for example, in the past few days, Qi Lao and the three of them have suggested that Xiao Yi can set up horse faces every 20 meters, especially in the parts with strong defense.
Horse face is a noun in the Song Dynasty, that is, to build a square buttress in the outer building of the wall, about five by eight meters, from the appearance of the same as the city wall, this is to defend the enemy siege city, to defend the city of a facility.
Xiao Yi was amazed after listening to Liu Laosan's explanation, the architectural culture of ancient China is really broad and profound, but such a culture was actually stolen by such barbarians, which is Xiao Yi's most helpless place.
Thinking about his own financial problems again. These days, Xiao Yi's only remaining hundred taels of silver are almost exhausted, and there are only more than forty taels left, and Xiao Yi is worried about where to get the silver.
I had to put off things such as the setting of the horse face and the modification of the battlements until later, when there were rich people and someone had time, I would slowly get it.
Everyone looked at the wall about seven meters high, they were very proud, a few days ago this was just a flat land, but now in the hands of themselves and others, such a circle of walls has been built. Huang Yang patted Xiao Yi on the shoulder, the two glanced at each other, and they both laughed, although the official uniforms received by several people were all dirty, but compared to this, the dirty uniforms were all floating clouds.
Shi Gang has clouds, if the official uniform is dirty, you can find a mother-in-law to help you clean it, this city wall is not built well, but there is a big problem.
There is another thing, that is, when Xiao Yi went to Changning Town to find Wang Changliang a few days ago, Wang Changliang's face was not very good-looking, and Xiao Yi didn't know where he provoked him.
I only feel that I am extremely unlucky, there are two top officials, and one is the team officer Li Zhen somehow looks at himself unpleasantly, and he is sneering at himself all day long.
Xiao Yi always thought that he was a day late for receiving the sue and asked for too many things and people to provoke Wang Changliang. So these days, I didn't go to Wang Changliang to ask for sundries.
Now there are four or five days when the deputy thousand households Qi Dahai is going to come here to inspect it, and now the outer city wall has been completed for the most part, and the most important thing is to demolish the three broken houses in the innermost part and build the houses again.
Xiao Yi divided everyone into two parts, one part was led by Huang Yang, there were about 40 people old and young, and more than 10 people on each side of the city wall, slowly reinforcing the city walls around Xiulong, and then helping to build houses after processing. Because at this time, there were only some miscellaneous affairs left in the outer city wall to deal with, so Xiao Yi would be like this.
Shi Lu led more than 40 young people to build a temporary living shack.
And the rest of the people, most of them are young and strong, and they followed Xiao Yi to demolish the three broken houses, at this time the houses were all made of rammed earth, and there were no bricks, so the demolition was naturally very simple. Everyone worked together, and in less than a day, most of it was demolished.
"Come on! He Niangzi, give me another bowl! Shi Gang stretched out the clean bowl he licked, and smiled at He Ping, who was sharing porridge.
He Ping rolled up his sleeves and said with a smile, "Why did Brother Shi eat so much raw, how many bowls is this?" ”
Shi Gang said embarrassedly, "He Niangzi, I've said it a few times, don't call me Brother Shi, I'm not much older than you!" ”
Before He Ping could answer, Liu Tong laughed behind him, "You guy, if you drink so much, adults can afford to support you, but I and Brother Wang are twice as much!" Shi Gang didn't pinch Liu Tong this time, but scratched his head embarrassedly, "I, I have a lot of food, these mothers have said it." Speaking of this, Shi Gang's eyes suddenly became a little melancholy, "My sister and my father and mother are starving to death to feed me." ”
Liu Tong didn't want to poke Shi Gang's pain, so he quickly stopped laughing, and stepped forward to persuade him, but he didn't know how to speak, so he just followed and was silent. Seeing this, Wang Dayong said, "Lao Shi, it's okay, it's all over." In the future, follow the adults and win glory for the fathers and mothers! ”
Shi Gang nodded, revealing a firm expression, "My Shi Gang's life was saved by an adult in Da'ankou, and now this little flag official is also ordered by an adult to become a prince, and the adult treats me like a brother every day, and the adult is like mine..."
Xiao also knew what Shi Gang was going to say next, which was nothing more than regenerating parents and the like. Hurriedly picked up the conversation, "Hey, Lao Shi, drink more, you can't drink me, you and I are brothers, don't say anything extraordinary." After speaking, he patted Shi Gang's shoulder vigorously, which was self-evident.
Shi Gang's eyes actually flashed with tears, but he just nodded and drank loudly.
"My lord, you are also tired from a long day, let's rest after drinking hot porridge." He Ping personally brought a bowl of porridge to catch up with Xiao Yi and smiled.
Xiao Yi glanced back at this woman, after these days of contact, Xiao Yi felt that this He Ping was not like a woman at this time. not only has the reserve of an ordinary woman, but also gives Xiao Yi a sense of heroism.
Especially during the meal time of the past few days, no matter how hot everyone is, they can always hear He Ping's little leopard-like shouts on time.
Xiao Yi took the bowl, his fingers inadvertently touched He Ping for a moment, He Ping withdrew his hand like lightning, hurriedly shook Xiao Yi, and rushed back.
Xiao Yi shook his head, this woman, I don't understand, how can she be so arrogant and reserved as soon as she comes to her. Shaking his head and smiling, he leaned against the wall and drank.
Since it was January of the third year, the weather that should have been somewhat warmer was still very cold due to the Xiaoice period, which was better than half a month ago. Xiao Yi and the others also had to put on their original shabby coats at night, although they didn't look good, but it was true that they kept warm.
The people are also prepared, although the clothes are not good-looking, but thick is a certainty, at this time everyone knows that keeping warm and eating is the most important.