A quarter of an hour later, Sikong Xia Xun came in a hurry. www.biquge.info This is a lean and lean old man, tall and tall, wearing a Xuanduan on his body, like a robe hanging on a drying rack, which makes people feel gimmicky.

"See my king."

"Excuse me, please be seated."

After sitting down, Xia Xun asked, "I don't know why my king summoned Weichen?" "He is really strange in his heart, since the Son of Heaven ascended the throne, he has never summoned him, the governor of the Winter Official Mansion who manages construction and water conservancy, one reason is that the Son of Heaven does not care about state affairs at all, and the other is that the royal family has basically nothing to build water conservancy in recent years, so that the Winter Official Mansion of Nuoda is cold, not to mention the summoning of the Son of Heaven, I am afraid that other people often forget that there is such a place as the Winter Official Mansion.

Ji Yan looked at Xia Xun, who had gray hair and was a little nervous, and said with a smile: "There is a difficult thing to do, and I hope Aiqing will teach me." ”

"My king has any problems, but it doesn't hurt to ask, the old minister knows everything."

"What's the easiest way to build a house? What materials are needed? ”

"My king wants to build a palace?" Xia Xun asked in surprise, this huge palace is already deserted, and there are many vacant houses, why do you still build residences?

"It's not a palace, it's the most ordinary residence, the kind that Chinese people live in."

"My king is talking about people's houses?"

"Yes."

Xia Xun thought for a while and said slowly: "To build a dwelling, first use the stone as the base, then fill it with the thick wood as the pillar and the bamboo fence as the frame, and then use the big wood as the beam and the fine wood as the rafters, and the rafters are covered with wheat stalks, straw or rice stalks and other things as the top, which is the most common method of building houses. It can also be rammed earth for the wall, but it is time-consuming and laborious and costly, and it is not possible for non-wealthy families. ”

Ji Yan nodded and said, "If you build a three-entry and two-open house, according to the simplest construction method, how long will it take." ”

"The length of time depends on the number of craftsmen and craftsmen. Site selection and digging pits, opening mountains and quarrying, cutting wood and materials, erecting columns and beams, weaving fences, tying wheat straw, laying roofs and other work are completed, if there are 30 people and enough craftsmen, it will take up and down a month. ”

"Can the back walls of the houses be connected and left and right to create a long row?"

Xia Xun thought for a while and said: "It stands to reason that it is possible, and it saves nearly half of the wall, which can save a lot of manpower and material resources." It's just that this method of construction has never been heard of. ”

Ji Yan smiled: "As long as you can." Lone is planning to build such dwellings, with fifty rooms in each row and one hundred rooms in front and back. If you were given 10,000 people, how much time would it take? ”

Xia Xun opened his mouth and said: "Now there are only tens of thousands of people in the entire royal city, where are there so many lifu?" ”

"You don't care where Lifu comes from, Aiqing just calculates the time it takes."

Xia Xun shook his head and said: "Even if there are so many talents, it is in vain if there are not enough craftsmen. Craftsmen are required to mine stones, and craftsmen are required to make and erect columns, beams, rafters, etc., and nothing can be done without craftsmen. ”

"You don't have a craftsman in the Winter Mansion?"

Xia Xun said with a bitter face: "There is almost no water conservancy construction, and the cost of the house is decreasing, so it is difficult to support too many craftsmen, so most of them were sent home." Today, there are less than 100 officials, craftsmen, deacons, servants and other personnel in the Winter Mansion, and there are only about 30 craftsmen, and most of them are old people. ”

Ji Yan couldn't help frowning, thought for a while and asked, "Can the craftsmen who were sent home be summoned?" ”

"If you can pay for a certain amount of food and goods, the old minister is confident that he will gather one or two hundred people." Speaking of this, Xia Xun paused before saying: "But the house really can't get the food and goods it needs, so it's ......."

Ji Yan ignored Xia Xun's words, and asked directly: "If there are two hundred craftsmen, plus ten thousand lifu, how much time will it take to build such a hundred houses?" ”

Xia Xun tilted his head, snapped his fingers, and thought for a long time before saying, "It should be built within half a month." ”

Ji Yan was overjoyed and said excitedly: "As long as the craftsmen can be gathered, as for food and goods, I will find a way." Aiqing will go back immediately, and let all the subordinate officials of the Winter Official Mansion take action, gather as many craftsmen as you can, and gather all of them in the Winter Official Mansion early tomorrow morning. ”

"No." Xia Xun responded weakly, and walked out with a heavy heart. The Son of Heaven said that he came to find a way, could it be that a batch of grain and goods were allocated from his internal affairs supervisor? But I heard that the internal affairs supervisor is also struggling, how can there be surplus food and money? But when the Son of Heaven spoke, it was not a very big matter, and the three princes and six secretaries had to discuss and decide, so they could only do it, and as for the rest, it would be a headache at that time.

As soon as Xia Xun left, a small chamberlain walked in and said, "Enlighten my king, the brigade commander and guard strictly ask to see me." ”

"Wei Yan." Ji Yan thought for a while, and then remembered that he had seen this person in Wengcheng yesterday, and he had the style of a general, "Let him in." ”

Wei Yan walked into the hall quickly, still looking like a dragon and a tiger, and came to the hall to bow and said: "The last general will see my king, please forgive the last general with armor on his body, and he can't pay a full salute." ”

"General Wei is exempt." Ji Yan smiled and said, "I don't know why the general is here?" ”

Wei Yan said in a loud voice: "Qi my king, the two weeks of public reinforcements have arrived, the general has completed the delivery with the representative of the other party, and the receipt of the army has been completed." However, when arranging the defensive deployment, the commanders of the two support armies refused to accept the general's order, and the general was helpless and wanted to enforce the military law. The place of the accident happened to be outside the city wall guarded by the last general, and the general sent someone to inform the last general, so that the last general could report to our king as soon as possible. ”

"Oh? How can such a thing happen? Ji Yan was taken aback. You must know that there are 14,000 reinforcements, and if you clash with your own defenders, the consequences must be catastrophic, so you shout: "Change clothes, prepare cars, and go out of the city." ”

After changing clothes and preparing the royal car, Ji Yan walked outside the hall accompanied by a group of attendants.

The guard who was waiting in the hall arched his hand and said: "There are many reinforcements and horses, for the safety of my king, I must bring the forbidden army as a guard." ”

Ji Yan thought about it and felt that it made sense, the soldiers were in danger, and who knew what these reinforcements would do, so he sent an inner attendant to the Tiger Benjian to convey the king's order: leave two hundred forbidden troops to guard the palace, and the rest of the forbidden troops to guard the Son of Heaven out of the city.

It took time for the forbidden army to assemble, Ji Yan sat back again, and asked Wei Yan to sit too, but Wei Yan didn't sit, saying that he was not qualified to sit in front of the Son of Heaven, so Ji Yan had to give up.

He said to Wei Yan: "I found that General Wei didn't have a local accent. ”

Wei Yan nodded: "The king is keen, the ancestor of the last general is indeed not from Luoyang, but from Yanguo." ”

"Oh? The general does have the style of Yan Zhao, and he is bold and Xiong Jian. Looking at the general's behavior, it should be behind the gate, I don't know why I came here? ”

Wei Yan groaned slightly, and said slowly: "My father was originally a partial general of the Yan State cavalry, eight years ago I was implicated in the rebellion of the son, my Wei clan was punished, and the last general escaped with a few efforts, only to be spared, five years ago, he fell here, joined the Sixth Army of the Son of Heaven and became a foot soldier, fortunately with the appreciation of General Li, he can rise to become a pawn year by year." This time, the general summoned troops to defend the royal city, and the soldiers under the jurisdiction of the last general were basically full, which made the general quite happy, and he was promoted to the last general to be the brigade commander. ”

"I see. Nowadays, all countries are recruiting troops, with your conditions, it should not be difficult to build a career, why not go elsewhere, but come to Luoyang, a place where it is difficult to make a difference? ”

"My father once told the last general that the ancestor of my Wei clan was originally the personal guard of King Wu, who participated in the battle of the war, and was later divided into the Yan Kingdom. After the clan was wiped out, before his father died, he regretted that he could not return to the command of the Son of Heaven, so he came to Luoyang and joined the six armies of the Son of Heaven, which was regarded as the fulfillment of his father's last wish. ”

Ji Yan nodded slightly, paused for a moment before saying, "You are now a brigade commander, so there is a division commander and a general." ”

"Yes."

"Who are they?"

"Division commander Yang attack, army general Yang Jun."

"Why are they all surnamed Yang?"

Wei Yan paused for a moment before saying, "In the entire Six Armies of the Son of Heaven, there are many senior generals with the surname Yang. ”

Ji Yan's face suddenly darkened, and he suddenly remembered a conversation with Wang Ding two years ago.

"Does my king know that there are many generals surnamed Yang in the six armies of the Son of Heaven?"

"The surname Yang? So what, isn't a surname a surname? ”

"But there are many surnames Yang, don't my king think it's strange?"

"What's so strange about the surname Yang, it's like the surname Ji in this palace. Lone just wondered how the fruit in the fruit garden could have killed my general, how could it be so accurate? Sister, tell me, why doesn't the fruit fall to the sky, it must fall to the ground? It must also fall on the head of the general. ”

"Hey! My king is thinking about your cricket again. ”

"That's a great general who hasn't been defeated for three months, how can Lone not want it."

"If my king can arrange a few people to enter the six armies of the Son of Heaven, Xiao Tong will definitely catch a more powerful one for you."

"Sister can catch something more powerful? Okay, well, how to arrange it, you can arrange it, and this king will do it all. ”

So the pro-guard team led Chen Kai and Gao Ping into the Sixth Army of the Son of Heaven.

Thinking of this incident, Ji Yan once again felt that Wang Ding was worthy of being a virtuous helper, she was always worried about herself, a bastard genius, even if she used coaxing, she was also thinking about herself. At that time, she could have arranged for her relatives or cronies to go over, but in the end, it was the Son of Heaven who arranged it.

Gao Ping and Chen Kai entered the Sixth Army of the Son of Heaven as the generals of the Shence Army and the Shenwu Army respectively, Wang Ding originally hoped that they would one day be able to fully master the Sixth Army, so that the Sixth Army would return to the hands of the Son of Heaven, but two years have passed, but they have not even fully mastered the two armies of Shence and Shenwu under their own names, let alone master the Sixth Army, these two people are too hasty, and they have to find time to call over and knock and beat.

"Enlighten my king, the forbidden army has been assembled, except for the two hundred people left behind, and the remaining eight hundred people are all in place."

A sentence pulled Ji Yan out of his contemplation, and when he looked up, it was Ji Fang, the general of the forbidden army. Ji Fang is considered to be Ji Yan's cousin, and his position was appointed during the reign of King Zhou Shenliang, over the years, he has been loyal to Ji Yan, obedient to his words, and accompanied him to do a lot of ridiculous things.

"Okay, let's go." Ji Yan got up and said.

On the square outside the Son of Heaven's dormitory, the eight hundred forbidden troops lined up in a phalanx, which looked orderly and quite imposing. Ji Yan couldn't help but be overjoyed, he couldn't imagine that this army, which was completely controlled by himself, looked quite elite, and it seemed that he was not completely without a team! So he hurried over, intending to impassionedly admonish a few words.

As he got closer and closer to the phalanx, Ji Yan's face gradually darkened, and he was about to become the bottom of the pot in the end. Nima, is this the Son of Heaven's forbidden army? Not to mention the variety of weapons in the hand, there are actually many soldiers wearing straw sandals, not to mention this, but you can't be disabled! There was a soldier in the ranks who was missing an arm. Then, he found a bigger problem: there are a lot of holes in the middle of the team, and there are people around them, and they can't be found if they don't look closely, this must be the person who should have come didn't come, but Ji Fang wanted to get through the trick.

The trouble on the reinforcement side has not been solved, and then it is found that the Sixth Army of the Son of Heaven is about to become Captain Yang's private soldiers, and now he finds that the forbidden army he controls is a rotten army that is about to rot. Ji Yan felt that his heart had fallen into an ice cave, but his lungs were about to explode.