Now it has entered October, and it will enter winter in November, the weather will be very cold, and it is not suitable for construction, and now the city wall has not been built, and the barracks and houses have not yet begun to be built, if the houses and barracks cannot be built within this month, I don't know how to spend this winter. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

So Feng Youcai arranged for Feng Tian to take a few people to Ningxia Town to continue recruiting workers, taking care of food every month, and a monthly reward of 1 tael of silver. Let Zhao Laozhuan continue to help recruit workers, a large number of workers are needed, and now that the autumn harvest is over, many people have nothing to do, and Zhao Laozhuan ran several hundred households along the North Great Wall, recruiting a total of more than 800 people, all of whom are strong laborers.

Now the construction is divided into several batches, and all the women go to the kitchen to cook; A group of people are continuing to raise the city wall, which is now 4 meters high, and Feng Youcai's opinion is that it is at least 5 or 6 meters high; The carpenter began to cut wood, preparing to make purlins for doors, windows, beams; There is also a group of people who are making adobe for the construction of barracks and housing; There is also a group of people who have begun to build barracks, preparing to build Datongpu barracks, so that if winter comes, and the houses have not yet been built, everyone should be able to live in the barracks temporarily, and the location of the stove for building the kang will be reserved.

There are different opinions on whether to recruit soldiers, and Zhang Yang's opinion is to recruit soldiers, leave a few people to train, and watch over the family, and they can go out hunting.

And Zheng Hao's opinion is that there is no way to train if he is recruited temporarily, and there is no place to stay, so he can't arrange it at all, so he should wait for the fort to be built, and the barracks and housing will be built before recruiting.

Zhang Yang's opinion is that as long as the young master is at home or not, he is not afraid, what if the young master is not at home? Anyway, if I go hunting, I'm definitely going to go, and you're staying at home, and since you're not worried, what the hell am I going to do with this idleness?

Zheng Hao was speechless.

In the end, Feng Youcai made a balance and did not recruit soldiers for the time being, but these people who work can sign up first, inspect first, and after the construction is completed, they can be directly transferred to the ranks of soldiers, telling them not to worry, they will not be listed as military households, and after the fort is built, a school will be built, and their children can go to school for free, and they can participate in the imperial examination in the future. After joining the army, the treatment is to eat, live, and wear, 200 catties of rice, and 2 catties of refined salt.

In addition, people in this era generally do not eat well, most of the body is in deficit, even if the recruitment comes, it is necessary to maintain for 2 months to increase the intensity of training, just take advantage of the time of work to eat well, plus labor, the physical fitness will generally be improved by a grade, so that after the construction is completed, you can directly train.

Zheng Hao and Zhang Yang also accepted this opinion, and Zhao Gaoming was in charge of recruitment and training.

After Zhao Gaoming announced the recruitment and the treatment after becoming a soldier, as long as they were of the right age, they all signed up, and it was not the treatment of military households, which also reassured them that the soldiers of 100 households not only ate well, but also received good treatment.

Zhao Gaoming also announced that only 500 people will be recruited this time, and it will also include soldiers recruited from other places, so if you want to be a soldier, you must work hard, and the chance of performing well will definitely be great.

Now Lu Xiao has to go to 100 households or 1,000 households or Yinchuan City in Ningxia Town every day, to buy materials for the construction of barracks and housing, and to transport grain to thousands of households, the last time the grain of 100 households has not been transported for 4 months, although the young master did not say anything, Lu Xiao always felt that he ignored things, so that the young master lost 30,000 catties of grain, so this time he learned a lesson, as long as he has time, he will go to thousands of households to transport grain, this grain can only be regarded as his own grain when he is placed in his own warehouse, Otherwise, it is an approved note, and it may be invalidated at any time. In addition, he also went to the farmer's house to buy cabbage, radishes, potatoes and other vegetables that could be stored, and now that there are so many people, it takes a lot of pickles to eat.

Now it's about to be winter, and the Mongols haven't gone south yet, every day of delay, Feng Youcai's psychological pressure is greater, this year it is impossible for the Mongols to be just winter because of their arrival, if they don't go south to plunder, their winter will be very difficult. In fact, what he didn't know was because of his arrival, and now the Mongols really didn't dare to go south.

It has been half a month since he took office as an official of 100 households, and the Mongols still did not go south, and Zhang Yang's opinion is to hold another exercise, take out more heads, and organize a cavalry team at the same time, at least the number of 1 general flag, otherwise your 100 households will not be valuable.

Feng Youcai is also a person who can accept other people's suggestions, and he feels that Zhang Yang's words are very reasonable, he has been in office for half a month, and he has to show a little bit of success, besides, at this time, there are Mongolian cavalry in other guards in Ningxia Town to rob, it is impossible that only here is safe, if the leader suspects that he is having an affair with the Mongols, it will not be good. It was decided to hold another exercise on 16 October.

The routine of the exercise is still the same, first the Xiayingzidun in the north is lit with beacon fires, and the Baofeng pier, abduction ditch pier, swallow pier and Zhenguan pier in the back are all lit with beacon fires. Zhenguan pier due to the drill many times, this time the construction personnel still methodically hid in the fort, the old man and children squeezed into the beacon pier, although the newcomers are a little confused, but it does not affect the overall situation, because now the wall of the fort is close to 5 meters high, the Mongolian cavalry will definitely not attack the fort, and there is a deep ditch outside the fort to block.

This beacon fire made the hearts of the guardians along the North Great Wall hang, after so long, the Mongols finally came, there must be a lot of Mongols who came this time, whether they can hold it or not, they have no confidence to fight.

Feng Youcai and 14 other cavalry still rushed to the north, preparing to fight the Mongols. In the afternoon, Feng Youcai and his entourage came back, this time a total of 45 people's heads were cut off, and 55 war horses were seized, because these Mongols were all ridden by one person, and they ran some war horses, but only caught 55 horses, and the results were good.

On October 17, Feng Youcai pulled the heads of these Mongols in a carriage, and went to Qianhusuo with Feng Di and six others to report the results of the battle to Huang Zhen.

Huang Zhen was very happy with Feng Youcai's arrival, very satisfied with Feng Youcai's results, and was even more complacent about his ability to recognize people, dare to use people, and use people's skills.

For Feng Youcai's proposal for the imperial court's reward has not come down for a long time and there is nothing he can do, but he just responded to Feng Youcai and said that he would go to Ningxia Town tomorrow, ask the chief soldier to understand, and report these military exploits by the way.

Huang Zhen instructed to continue to work hard to ensure that this year's Mongolian cavalry could not cross the Great Wall and protect our Ming people from harm.

Feng Youcai also promised to complete the instructions of the Thousand Households, thank you for your support.