Chapter Thirty-Six: Pingwu Castle

Just when Ma Yuan was busy training soldiers and horses, Jiang Hexing and Zhang Jie took a group of people to leave the military camp of the large-scale military training and came to the bank of the Gonglu River, organized the Xiongnu prisoners, went up the mountain to mine stones, burned lime, burned bricks, and let the merchants who repaired the city and Lianghu City understand come to attract investment, and contracted out the city wall in the bidding section. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The power of wealth was endless, and the merchants soon arrived with a large number of craftsmen, and the brick kiln factory was set on fire, black smoke billowed out, and the lime factory smoked, and white smoke filled the air, and the cement factory was opened, and the captives were taken in batches.

All the military academy students also participated in the construction of the city, not because they were asked to do coolies, but because they had a comprehensive understanding of the construction of the city, whether it was repairing the city or attacking the city in the future, there were always many references in their hearts.

In five or six days, the pier was built. The city has been planned, and several large warehouses in it have also been determined, and the military academy is now located here, and it is also under construction.

Ma Yuan sent someone to report that the reorganization of the army was over, and now the iron armor of the iron armor division is not enough, and it is still necessary to build a factory here to build armor.

Jiang Hexing thought about it, so he simply sent someone to find coal and iron ore again, and then asked Zhang Kai to send someone to invite the master of ironmaking, and planned to make steel and iron in this city, and all the war preparation materials on the battlefield.

After a few days, Jiang Hexing thought that he had not yet named the new city, and thought for a long time, this city was named Pingwu City, and Ma Biao and Wu Han were repairing it as Yangwu City.

It's summer, and it's dawning in the morning. Jiang Hexing got up very early today, and he wanted to see how the construction of Pingwu City was.

After breakfast, Jiang Hexing put on beige civilian clothes, followed by two plainclothes soldiers behind him, and walked to see the newly built Pingwu City.

Now the camp is in the north of the city, built along the river, the river line along the camp to the west, along the way the grass dew is very heavy, after a while I feel that my shoes are wet, fortunately it is already summer, and there is no special discomfort.

To the west of the camp was a stone mountain, where Zhang Jie sent troops to dig stones for the foundation of Pingwu City.

At the foot of the mountain, the ground is paved with rocks, sewage flows sideways, and the ground is filled with a smell of urine.

The soldiers did not work, and the people who worked were all captives of the Huns.

The captives of the Huns had already started early, and their hair was shaved off, and all of them were bald. He was wearing only a pair of shorts, and his body was shining with oil under the sun.

More than a dozen four-wheeled carriages were lined up in turn, and the Huns carried stones of different sizes onto the carts one by one, and there was a Pingzhou soldier who looked like a big man next to him, waving a long whip and shouting: "Hurry up, hurry up." ”

The Huns also lined up, loaded the stones onto the cart, filled one car, led a cart behind, and filled it again.

The stones were all filled and driven away by the soldiers of Pingzhou.

At this time, another car was full, and Jiang Hexing saw that the car was very full, and several stones on it shook on the railing.

Jiang Hexing nodded at the two pro-soldiers, followed the rickety carriage, and walked south.

The driver was a young soldier, who looked to be in his early 20s, dressed in a gray single coat. Although he is young, his beard seems to have not been taken care of, and he looks unkempt. The gray clothes also tended to turn a little black, and there were dots of mud on them, but the young man did not pay attention, but seemed to hum a little song in his mouth, waved his horsewhip, and walked along the newly paved gravel road to the south.

The car didn't go fast, but it was still a little bumpy, the car swayed, the car creaked, and it looked like something would go wrong at any time.

Jianghexing also walked all the way, all the way to see, the cars going south lined up into a long line, not only stones, but also sand, bricks, and a lot of cars on a big cowhide bag, the cowhide bag tied the mouth, the car ran very fast, the cowhide bag swayed back and forth, a lot of water droplets dripped under the car, and only after careful look did you understand that there was a car that sent water.

According to the rules of Pingzhou, the cars are all walking on the right, and the left are empty cars from the city, and the team is also very long, there is one person to catch the car, there is also a person in front of the car, and there is a person standing in the back compartment, and I don't know what they plan to pull.

Just then, coming to an uphill slope, the carriage went more slowly, and the stones on it were crumbling. The soldier didn't pay attention, just waved his horsewhip and shouted "drive, drive, drive".

Suddenly, the horse ran forward violently, and with a bang, the stones on the cart rolled down. Perhaps the soldier hadn't noticed the anomaly and drove the car on.

Jiang Hexing's own soldiers immediately ran to the front to stop the carriage, and asked the soldier, "You pulled a lot of stones, didn't you pay attention?" ”

The soldier drove the cart to a flat ground, stopped the carriage, looked back, and found that there were stones falling from his cart all the way behind, and his face suddenly turned red and said, "Hey, I'm in too much of a hurry." ”

Jiang Hexing, together with two personal soldiers, helped him reload the stones into the carriage.

The young soldier began to get back on the road in his car, and because the road was not very good, the three of them walked almost parallel to his carriage.

As they walked, the young soldier thanked the young soldier and then talked about the reason why he was in a hurry.

Originally, Zhang Jie was in charge of the urban construction of Pingwu City, especially the foundation, and now the urban construction businessmen came one after another, and Zhang Jie basically contracted out the remaining projects, so that many soldiers would return to the camp one after another.

This soldier has the last cart of stones left, and he can return to the camp after pulling it, so he wants to complete the task as soon as possible and return to the barracks as soon as possible.

Jiang Hexing nodded and asked, "Now that the army is undergoing a major adjustment, have you been assigned to that army?" ”

The soldier said excitedly: "Hehe, I'm going to join the sabre team now, I heard that the new division commander is the commander of the King Kong division, and now I'm going to hunt down the Huns, and when he comes back, all of us will go." ”

Jiang Hexing asked: "I heard that King Kong is a capable general under Commander Li Xiaoquan, why did he run to the saber team, he should enter the long sword army?" ”

The soldier looked around for a while, looked at Jiang Hexing, and said, "Brother, you know quite a lot about our Pingzhou army." Even the newly formed Long Knife Army knows it. But don't ask too much about the affairs of the army, it may not be a good thing to know more, do you say? You're a merchant from Xianwu City, right, what kind of business do you have? ”

Jiang Hexing saw that the soldier was quite willing to talk, so he said casually: "I'm just looking, I don't plan to do anything yet." ”

The soldier suddenly realized: "You are all doing great business, yesterday a man, who looked to be in his sixties, like you, also said look, go around the place where we have a great foundation. It seems, very ordinary an old man, nothing special, do you know who he is? It scares you when you say it. ”

Jiang Hexing became interested, looked at the soldier and said, "Who, such a big majesty, can still scare me, do you know what his name is?" ”

The soldier pouted and said, "Of course I know, but I only found out later, yesterday he talked to me about laying the foundation, and I saw that he also knew a little, so I casually told him." ”

Jiang Hexing frowned and said, "Can that brother tell me, who is this old man?" ”

The soldier said softly: "The rich man in Xianwu City is said to be the richest man, his name is Sun Zhong, and it is said that half of the current houses in Xianwu City were built by him." ”

Jiang Hexing nodded and said, "Oh, I've heard of this person." ”

Jiang Hexing thought to himself, it seems that there should be a lot of wealthy businessmen, and it is time for urban construction to enter the fast track.

The carriage slowly moved forward, the road ahead was getting worse and worse, there were more and more cars, and after the wheels were crushed, the stone road was left behind one by one.

The four-wheeled carriage pulled the stone to a place, there were two parallel white lines on the grass, and it looked like it was the white lime that had just been sprinkled, the soldier parked the car outside the lime, Jiang Hexing and his party helped him unload the stone, and he ran to call his leader to accept it, and drove away happily.