On the roof of the Silver Tower, Duke Dozan was pacing back and forth, looking particularly in a bad mood. Du Mo and Xilin brothers and sisters were all standing on the side, but they didn't even dare to breathe, everyone knew that if Duke Duozan really started a fire, it would really be thunderous and angry.

"Xilin, is your message accurate?" Duke Dozan asked with a gloomy face.

Xilin also looked a little uneasy, and hurriedly said: "Back to Your Excellency the Duke, this is what the spy I planted in Daheng City came back to tell me personally, it must be right." Now that Daheng City is already boiling, even ordinary people are afraid that no one knows about this matter. ”

Duke Dozan sat down on the chair and said in great frustration: "Cousin, cousin, how can such a thing happen! Do you say I'm standing by or helping you? Alas......"

Xi Ling licked her beautiful red lips and said, "Your Excellency, I don't think it's time for us to be impulsive. No matter how close our relationship with the old city lord of Daheng City was before, it was time to re-examine this relationship. Not to mention anything else, just now the strength of Mogoda in Daheng City has reached eight or nine hundred, and it has absorbed eight hundred horse bandit veterans who are good at fighting, and I heard that they are now blackmailing all the forces in Daheng City. I'm afraid that in the near future, there will be more than just 1,000 people now! ”

"Your Excellency Duke, do you think that such a powerful force can be matched by more than 600 soldiers in our Silver Tower City? Moreover, most of our soldiers are still recruits and captives, and their combat effectiveness cannot be compared with that of the other side. Your Excellency, you must think twice! ”

Duke Duozan listened carefully to Xi Ling's words, and then said: "Among the veterans of our Silver Tower City, there are a hundred elite soldiers borrowed from Daheng City at the beginning. Now that the old city lord is in trouble, if we stand idly by, even those soldiers will probably not be convinced! ”

Xi Ling hurriedly said: "Your Excellency the Duke doesn't have to worry, the hearts of those soldiers have already naturalized my Silver Tower City. Now that the new forces of Daheng City are so huge, they are not fools, and they all know the truth of seeking good fortune and avoiding evil, how can they be unreasonable! You can rest assured. ”

In the Lion King squadron camp.

Cheng Lei had just finished eating, and he was basking in the sun with his teeth, and some time ago in order to find a plaster for Qi Mi, Cheng Lei spent a lot of effort. In the end, Xing Chenghui's work was finally done, and Xing Chenghui sent someone to buy gypsum from a nearby city-state and ship it back, and Cheng Lei bought it at a high price.

In this way, Cheng Lei saved a lot of labor, and if his people went to other state cities, it would be tantamount to a black eye. If you want to buy gypsum as a sought-after material, you also need the kind of people under Xing Chenghui who have good relationships in all aspects.

Cheng Lei secretly determined that in the future, he would install his own people throughout the federation, and strive to have a good relationship with the upper echelons of the city-states. And then if you want to do something, it's much simpler and easier. Relying on others like now, Cheng Lei has really had enough.

The gypsum has been continuously transported to Qi Mi, and whether it is successful or not depends on how the follow-up work is completed. Now that more than half of the construction of the fence at the base has been completed, Cheng Lei's plan is to start the construction of the house by separating people from more than 1,000 migrant workers, and the rest of the people will continue to build the wall.

Due to the tragic disaster of being invaded by horse bandits in the eighteen villages outside Xicheng, all the migrant workers who belonged there were about several hundred, and they all went home to see the situation. More than half of them have lost their homes, and instead of rebuilding their homes, they have returned to the base to continue their work and work harder than before.

Because Cheng Lei once promised that every migrant worker who participated in the construction of the base would be eligible to live in the base and also have a qualification to sign up for their mercenary guards. It can be seen from the destruction of the eighteen villages outside the west city that in the absence of natural and artificial barriers, the invasion of such a small village is like walking on the ground.

However, the base is different, with the design of the most famous architect of Silver Tower City, the walls reach twelve meters high, and of course a moat is dug outside the city, and there are various other unknown defenses. Compared with the current base, it is definitely impossible for the migrant workers to go back to the 18th village to rebuild their homes, but to work harder to build the base, after all, no one is a fool.

Qi Mi has already started the production of cement, and he paid attention to the debugging and installation of various equipment, and he did not listen to Cheng Lei's words at all. Originally, Cheng Lei's plan was to be able to produce one or twenty tons of cement per day, but Qi Mi secretly increased the size, and more than 40 tons were produced on the first day of official production. Moreover, Qi Mi also asked someone to bring a message to Cheng Lei, this is not the maximum production capacity, and the maximum may reach the level of sixty tons per day.

This number is a bit scary, after all, they mainly rely on manual processing of various raw clinker. At most, a few windmills have been installed by relying on the geographical location, after all, it is windy all year round, and these windmills are used to drive grinding machines.

Moreover, their vertical kiln is only a small vertical kiln more than 1 meter wide and 4 meters high, and now there is such good news, the daily output has reached 40 tons, and the label is only higher than the cement of the Western Empire. Cheng Lei excitedly immediately ordered the cement to be transported directly to the base, which could be used to build houses.

Cheng Lei and Qi Mi had already designed the drawings of the base when they designed the cement plant, and the style was somewhat like a military town, with a military camp on one side and a living area on the other. On the side of the barracks, there are independently designed tube buildings as single or multi-person dormitories for soldiers, as well as various training grounds and other equipment and facilities.

Moreover, they also left a large vacant land on the north side of the barracks to be used as a factory in the future. They want to build this place into an arsenal, but this will not be built in a day, and they will have to increase their efforts to recruit troops after the construction of the base is completed.

As for the living quarters, it was built for those who worked and contributed to the base, and of course if the soldiers got married and had children, their homes would have to be settled here. Cheng Lei decided to build all three-storey buildings, invest in eight in advance, and properly resettle those migrant workers. The three-story building is the limit of the horse-drawn waterwheel that can supply water, and no matter how high it is, the waterwheel will not be able to sleep at all, and how can you live in a house without water.

The best architect in Silver Tower City was particularly surprised after seeing Cheng Lei and Qi Mi's plan, he had never seen ordinary people's housing in this form. He couldn't help but sigh for Cheng Lei and Qi Mi's whimsical ideas, reinforced concrete, which is the top priority they emphasize.

They want to use cement as if it didn't cost anything, and build all the buildings into reinforced concrete. Crazy, they must be crazy! The architect cried out in his heart, do they know what the market price of cement is?

After Balon'o in the north began to accelerate the expansion of armaments, the states and armies of the Scorching Sun Federation began to build various fortifications one after another, and the defensive strategies were laid out in advance, and the fortifications poured with cement were the safest. However, the Scorching Sun Federation does not have the ability and technology to produce cement, so cement is originally a rare thing, and now it is in short supply and even difficult to find.

High-grade cement has now reached the price of 150 gold victors a ton on the federal black market, and it will continue to rise. The ordinary grade of cement has also risen from 50 to 80 gold vik per ton to 100 gold vik per ton, and all those who resell cement and need cement are pouring cement like crazy, and the price is of course getting higher and higher.

On the evening of the second day after Cheng Lei sent someone to the architect to design the construction drawings, more than 20 carriages entered the base under the escort of the Viper team. Pan Jin and Yin Kaicheng hugged excitedly, they hadn't met since the cement plant was built, of course they had to get close. Pan Jin also joked that Yin Kaicheng was about to become a black man in the Gobi Desert in the northeast!

When the architect saw the cement unloaded from the wagon, he was stunned. He suspected that he was dazzled, now that cement is in such a tight supply, how could Cheng Lei buy so much cement at once? But after rubbing his eyes, he found that it was not his own eyes, but the real thing.

At this time, Yin Kaicheng came over and said, "May I ask you are the chief architect, Mr. Siddock, I am Yin Kaicheng, the captain of the Viper Squad." You can give me a number of how long these cement buildings will last, so that I will send them in before the cement runs out. ”

Sidddock's face was full of surprise: "Mr. Yin, where did you buy the cement?" What do you mean, can you get more cement? ”

Yin Kaicheng said with a smile: "Mr. Siddock, I'm afraid this is not your duty. But it doesn't hurt to tell you, we have built a cement plant northeast of Yinta City, and we have started to put it into production, and this cement is produced by our cement plant. Got it? ”

"Cement plant?" Schidock really didn't know how much more shock these guys would give themselves: they actually had the capacity to build a cement plant, and the production capacity was tens of tons a day. Judging from the current cement market, this is simply not a cement plant, but a gold mine. What they produce is not cement at all, but Huang Cancan's Golden Vic!

Szydok had always felt sorry for himself, and his own architect, one of the most famous architects in the Federation, had been reduced to the point of building a base for an obscure mercenary guard.

Looking at it now, the ability of this mercenary guard is indeed not ordinary, and this cement plant alone is not something that ordinary people can build and operate. But this mercenary guard actually did it, and did it very well, and Shildock's heart could not help but be filled with sincere admiration.