After the thin monkey woke up, he said hello to Li Yao and went to Yidu, after all, the task of the thin monkey is still very important.

After receiving Li Yao's letter, the craftsman immediately rushed to Yangsong County, when Li Yao just sent away the thin monkey, the craftsman king came to the door, Li Yao saw the craftsman king coming, and hurriedly said: "Grandpa, you came just in time, I have an idea to establish a new firearms bureau in Daxian County!" Although the transportation is inconvenient, it also provides better protection for the Firearms Bureau, and it is a large sulfur county, which is a more ideal place! ”

King Craftsman said: "It is indeed not suitable to establish a firearms bureau on the Gobi Desert, and with the southward movement of forces, the firearms bureau must also change its location!" ”

Li Yao suddenly asked, "Grandpa, how is the defense of Yi County now?" ”

King Craftsman smiled: "Master Hou, then you can rest assured, Yi County now has an army of 20,000, and the firearms army has a regiment, if Yi County is attacked, the people from the Firearms Bureau can also go up to help, it is definitely no problem to guard Yi County, and Yi County is very peaceful, I estimate that Yi County will not have problems recently!" ”

Li Yao said firmly: "Even so, we can't relax the guards of Yi County at all, after all, Yi County is our rear, and we must not mess up!" ”

The craftsman king nodded and said, "I know this!" ”

Grandpa, let's go to Daxian County now to find an ideal location for the relocation of the Firearms Bureau!

King Craftsman suddenly laughed and said: "I really envy you young people, you are always so motivated, but you just got married yesterday, and you can't sit still the next day!" ”

Li Yao smiled awkwardly and said, "Men, always put your career first!" ”

Escorted by the blind man's 5,000 cavalry, Li Yao and the craftsman king came to Daxian safely, and after arriving at the county, Li Yao let the blind man go back with the army. After all, the cavalry is not of any role in Daxian, and there are five divisions of guards in Daxian, so there is no need to worry about safety at all!

The county seat of Daxian is working hard to build the city wall, and if the Liang Dynasty army comes over, the first target will definitely be Daxian, because Daxian is in Li Yao's sphere of influence. It is a relatively large county in depth, and if Daxian is surrounded, it will be difficult to rescue for a while!

Because his father said in his letter to himself that Qi Guo would not give the Liang Dynasty an excuse, Li Yao was not worried about Shitai County being attacked, and if it was to enter Yiguo from the other two exits, it would take at least five to ten days, so in terms of time, there would be at least ten days. The army of the Liang Dynasty will be overwhelmed!

Li Yao had already sent out one of Su Feiguang's bandit brigades, specifically operating at the junction of the southern bandit army and the Yangyun forces, just to monitor the movements of the southern bandit army all the time!

The 50,000 troops of Daxian County and the 100,000 peasants recruited began to strengthen the city wall, and the city wall designed by Li Yao was not narrow, but wide, at least so that the flying thunder tube could be used with ease!

With the efforts of the fat man, Li Yao's gunpowder reserves are already very large, so Li Yao is ready to let the strongest country suffer a big loss under his hands. Only when they are scared will they not dare to move casually!

Li Yao's guard regiment followed Li Yao closely. This guard regiment was selected by Li Yao's original veteran guards, and after careful identification by the dog head, he was allowed to join Li Yao's guard regiment.

The treatment of Li Yao's guard regiment is definitely the best, and the guard regiment is also the top of the 200,000 army, everyone's combat effectiveness is very strong, as a soldier of Li Yao's guard regiment, it is necessary to learn to use firearms. They are equipped with grenades, armor and combat knives are also more than ten steel, and the configuration of soldiers is almost the same as that of ordinary army company commanders!

King Craftsman observed the general topography of Daxian County and said, "Master Hou, we still have to go west." Although it is a barren mountain range, there is an abundance of sulfur there, and we can build a sulfur factory there to process sulfur, and then set up a firearms bureau nearby! ”

Li Yao nodded and said: "Grandpa Craftsman Wang, this matter will be handed over to you, you can just tell me after you choose the address, in addition, our defense here must be done well, this place is far away from the county seat of Daxian, if it is attacked by the enemy, it will be too dangerous!" ”

The craftsman king thought about it carefully and said slowly: "Maybe we can build a city in this place, especially for the Firearms Bureau!" ”

Li Yao pondered for a while and said: "This is a very good idea, Grandpa Craftsman Wang, you can do this matter, you can send craftsmen over first, although it is winter now, but the climate here is not particularly cold, you can still do work, you can eat more meat at each meal, if it is really cold, you can rest, it is best to build a good city at the beginning of spring, how many farmers and materials you lack, I will get you as much as possible, anyway, the progress must be fast!" ”

The craftsman thought for a while and said, "There must be a shortage of farmers, wood and stone are needed to build a city, and this is a barren mountain and a wild ridge, and wood and stone can be taken locally, so as long as the manpower is enough, I am confident that I can build a city before the beginning of spring!" ”

Well, then I will immediately recruit people from Yangsong County and Hu County, and send you at least 100,000 people! Do you see enough!

The craftsman king smiled: "Just build a small city that can accommodate 20,000 people, and 100,000 people are enough!" ”

After the site selection was completed, Li Yao returned to Daxian County with the craftsman king, and asked the craftsman king to send someone to Yi County to call the craftsmen, and then left the craftsman king in Daxian County, and asked the craftsman king to see where it was better to take stones and timber in the mountains, and he returned to Yangsong County with the guard regiment.

When he returned to Yangsong County, he gave two orders to the county order of Yangsong County and the county order of Huxian County, Hu County must collect 70,000 people within three days, and Yang Song County must collect 30,000 people within three days!

Because Yangsong County is about to be transformed into a military county by Yangyun, there are not many civilians in it, because there are many people in Huxian County, so you can collect more people, and the money collected by the people will be solved by the county order, Li Yao specially explained to each county order, each person has five hundred literary wages a month, a total of three months, and a total of 150,000 taels of silver are needed, Li Yao did not attack the county orders of Yangsong County and Hu County when he ruled these counties, so I also believe that these two county orders will take out the money!

In order to be afraid that the county order would not give money, Li Yao issued another notice, if he found out that he owed money to the people, Li Yao would not spare it!

After the two county magistrates heard the news, they immediately summoned the rich squires of the county to raise money, Li Yao didn't know how much money was raised, anyway, these two county magistrates must have made money in the end!

With the people and craftsmen, the firearms bureau is about to start construction, and Li Yao is also stationed in Daxian, because the army of the Liang Dynasty is coming soon, Li Yao must be in charge himself!

(To be continued.) )