Chapter 61: Houses and Wells

The next few days were dull in the past, Xiao Yi took the recruits and veterans to train every day, and He Ping took all the women to be responsible for everyone's three meals a day, because of Doctor Qin's dietary method, everyone's complexion became more and more ruddy, and their strength has recovered a lot, and even the new homeless people can help with work. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

With the help of more than 100 people, most of whom are young and strong, the ancestral hall was completed in less than ten days. The first thing Xiao Yi did was to put Liu Fangliang's spiritual position, which had been done a long time ago, into it.

Everyone gathered around the edge of the ancestral hall, only to see the left and right couplets Xiao Yi handwritten, on the left is: "An Yingling, behead the Tartar thief and die on the battlefield." ”

On the right side: "China is prosperous, and the Yongan Iron Army stands in the sky." Xiao Yi waved his pen, and everyone looked at it, only to feel their blood boiling, thinking that if he could also place his spirit in it after he died in battle in the future, then it would be worth dying in battle.

The people saw that Xiao Yi could also write fluently, and he looked like the pen rhyme was plump, upright and natural, and there was a sense of perseverance. They all felt that this Shangguan was not simple, he really went to Ma Ke to kill thieves with a knife, and he was surprised to get ink from Ma Ke Wuwen.

Subsequently, Xiao also paid the craftsmen and asked for their opinions on the construction of houses, and the craftsmen of these craftsmen discussed with Liu Lao and the others for a long time, and finally decided on the amount of sand, stone, mud and tiles and other materials needed.

Because Tunpu is currently only the size of a pier guard, and also built an ancestral hall that places the spiritual seat of the dead soldiers, the rest of the place is according to the arrangement of the Daming Dunwei, the southwest corner of Tunpu needs to build a bullpen in the horse shed, and Xiao Yi's room is located in the best position to sit north and face south, and give priority to construction.

In fact, Xiao also wanted to let the private house be built first, and then everyone was comforted. said that Xiao Yi, as the chief flag and the official in charge of the tun, lived in the shack for these days was enough, but Xiao Yi had no choice but to do so.

The other brick-covered houses could only be built with more than 20 rooms, that is, they could only be used by more than 20 families to live in, and the rest had no way, so Xiao Yi could only ask the soldiers to help them build some nests along the edge of the city wall to temporarily provide housing.

Everyone is busy again, and everyone has his own work. The soldiers helped to dig pits on the ground, move some stones, and use simple small walls such as mud tiles and branches, so that the people could pick up some thatch and build on it to become a simple hut, which was simple and easy to build, and the materials were simple. In just a few hours, everyone had built a nest that was large enough for all the people to live in.

In the evening, everyone gathered around the edge of the nest, chatting about the world with a bonfire, and soon He Ping brought the women and children to distribute rice.

Now even some simple tasks can be done, so Xiao Yi listened to Doctor Qin's words, made hard food for them to eat, and added some meat, so that they could recover more quickly. The newcomers were moved to tears when they looked at the snow-white rice in their hands, how long had they not eaten such rice.

The night sky is full of stars, and the night passes like this.

On the second day, the construction of the brick and stone houses in the fort began, and since they were private houses, each foundation was made slightly shallower than the city walls. According to the previous plan of Liu Lao and the three of them, they first asked the soldiers to demarcate the boundary with the white stone, although it was a small tun fort, but it should be divided into three or two streets, and it could not appear chaotic.

After the boundaries are drawn, the next step is to build the houses, one by one, and the speed at which more than 100 people build a house together is still very fast. In a few days, the houses in Yong'an Fort were built, and more than 20 small brick and stone houses were built.

The people who were assigned were all happy in front of the brick and stone house that was in charge of their own home, and Xiao Yi, who was not distributed, also said good words to persuade him, saying that there will be in the future, and the people did not doubt it when they heard it, but they had some expectations.

Looking at the tunpu that had been formed, Xiao couldn't help but be happy. Immediately after that, the work of digging wells began again, and it was necessary to carry boulders to dig wells, but there were many sands and trees around Xiao Yitun Fort, but there were no boulders. The nearest boulder is going to another Tunpu Mountain bunker over there to carry it.

However, this mountain bunker and its own tunbao belong to not a thousand households, according to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, and you can't rush to quarry. Xiao Yi was helpless, so he went to Changning Town to find Wang Changliang, and Wang Changliang also sent Jiang Ying, the chief flag of his family's team, to help Xiao Yi, and at the same time heard that Xiao Yi was going to dig a well, and he was surprised and did not forget to make a deal.

It turned out that he happened to have a batch of logs, and he also needed logs to dig a well, which could be sold to Xiao Yi cheaply, and even if Xiao Yidang agreed, Wang Changliang sent more than 20 military households to help carry the wood.

That Jiang Ying took more than 30 military households in the town to push the ox cart from Changning Town, and passed through two dun guards all the way, and the dun soldiers on the dun guards were very surprised when they looked at Xiao Yi and his party.

After that, it was a long transportation work, and more than a dozen ox carts were all pushed by manpower, watching the military households try their best to transport, Xiao Yi was also very helpless, this Jiang Ying was also enough to pick the door, and Wang Changliang was the same, and I didn't know if it was his own idea or Wang Changliang's idea.

The third trip was to transport the necessary stones, and the group entered the fort. Jiang Ying looked at the houses with distinct streets in Tunpu, and patted Xiao Yi's shoulder vigorously, "Xiao Zongqi, I, Jiang Ying, really convince you, I heard that you are very brave in killing horse thieves, and you also killed horse smokers." I didn't expect the establishment of Tunpu to be so fast. "Anyway, I wandered around curiously.

Xiao Yi smiled bitterly a few times, but he didn't say anything, it was easy to build a fort, he didn't have anything before, he started to build it little by little from the city wall, and even the money was obtained by himself, and all kinds of hardships were only known to himself and these people.

After making calculations, the craftsmen found a good place in the center of the fort and began to dig a well. Jiang Ying looked at the hot scene in front of him, and couldn't help but say, "Hey, my brother really admires you kid more and more." Xiao Yi smiled and said that he didn't dare to take it seriously, but there was no follow-up.

Two days later, on the first day of February of Chongzhen's third year, the first well in Yong'an Fort finally came out of the water.

This well is more than 20 zhang deep, the well water is shallow and the water quality is better, the bottom of the well is paved with fine sand, the wall of the well is repaired with bluestone, and the periphery is paved with gravel.

On this day, the people were all gathered around the well, and they were all smiling. In particular, the new homeless people who joined Tunpu found it difficult to drink such clear well water outside, and many of them hugged each other and shed tears. Xiao Yi personally fetched a large bucket of water and distributed it in a small bowl to the people and soldiers to taste.

When the first bucket of well water came up from Xiao Yi's hand, there was a thunderous cheer around, and the people were all vying for it.

An old man drank the well water and said happily, "Such dry well water, the old man has not tasted it for many years." After that, he actually wiped the cloudy tears from the corners of his eyes. After tasting it, the people were full of praise, and they were grateful to Xiao Yi, calling this well 'General Flag Well'.

Xiao Yi also took a bowl of well water, only to see that the well water was clear and visible at the bottom of the bowl, and it was very thirst-quenching not to mention that it had a sweet taste.

Liu Sheng took a sip and said with a smile, "This water is so sweet, I can't bear to use it to clean things." ”

Shi Gang laughed out loud after hearing this, and also scooped a bowl and drank it in one gulp, still full of praise. After that, Huang Yang and several people stepped forward one by one to taste the well water, and after drinking it, they couldn't believe that this was their own well, and they were proud.