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The mountaintop stone fort, which was called the Houyefu Fort by the military households, could be built so quickly, not only with more than 3,000 craftsmen and young people working day and night, but also a large amount of yellow plaster taken out by Xiao Ye, as well as a large amount of bounty. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the stone mill under Xiao Ye's rule can produce a lot of yellow plaster every day, the two small black houses that continue to devour the mineral material are the key to the sufficiency of materials in the Hou Ye Inner Fort.

Kang Hongyuan's flag team entered the cave in shifts, constantly transporting all kinds of goods, and the yellow stucco that had been added to the civilian catalogue in June, and the bags made of extremely coarse thick cloth were filled with blue-gray and earth-yellow grade stucco.

With the addition of a large number of wounded soldiers, Kang Hongyuan's flag team has increased to five hundred, but fortunately, the small courtyard of the stone house that is now vacant in the stone fort is more than enough.

Xiao Ye, who refused to make a noise, pulled the yellow plaster from the warehouse to Ximen Stone Fort, but no one knew that a large part of the remaining waste materials in the processing center had also become plaster.

This kind of earthy yellow bag, the military households refused to waste it, and Wang Dali made the decision to reward each team of 100 people, which was distributed by the leader of the team; The family members are industrious, and the craftsmen and young people who are busy on the construction site are now the most conspicuous sign of the pants of the same color on the lower body, which are strong and wear-resistant, and the style imitates the appearance of field uniforms.

Seeing that the temperature was getting colder, Xiao Ye and Xin Rulin discussed with them, and announced the order to move the Hou Mansion; At this point, in addition to the warehouse, Kang Hongyuan's flag team, and the garrison guards in Madao Stone Fort, most of the people will turn out of this valley and enter the grassland.

Of course, the warm cellar that has begun to supply vegetables to the Hou Ye's mansion cannot be moved. The sweet potato seedlings that were planted by Hu Shibiao came back to life, and the yield surprised Xiao Ye, and the thirty catties of rhizomes will continue to expand the planting next spring.

On the top of Ximen Stone Fort, that is, in the Houyefu Fort, 300 water umbrellas have been placed in the water purification room, and they are firmly tied with strings; Tiny streams of water converge in rows of semicircular bamboo tubes, flow into the pond, and also flow along the bamboo tubes into the large vat on the side.

The pure water flowing out of the branch is stored in more than 30 large vats, which is also the only water source in the Hou Ye's mansion.

The grassland is dry and hot in summer, cold and dry in autumn, and dry and cold in winter, and the water output of water umbrellas is significantly reduced.

People came and went in the courtyard of the guards' military quarters, official offices, communication teams, and account rooms, all carrying large and small bags.

Some hidden things must be carried by the guards at night.

Buzzing, the pig-shaped chariot was in front, followed by a black transport cart, drove steadily up the long slope, and under the watchful eyes of a team of guards, drove into the open space outside the Sanjin compound; The car door opened, and several female guards with box guns in their waists jumped out first, standing outside the car and looking around.

"Master Hou's family has arrived," Elder Shi/Hu, who was leading the patrol on the castle wall in the distance, muttered, waved his hand and continued to walk on the road with ten brothers.

Mei'er, Lina, Tian Xiuxiu, with their children and two smart little wolves, came to their new home. Futons, books, and bits and pieces were brought together.

As the saying goes, moving once is like a fire, but these people who are reluctant to belong, they just move all kinds of sundries in the Madao Stone Fort without landing at all, and the time will naturally drag on for a few days.

The communication team here uses the letter post three type, and the communication soldiers left behind at the Madao Stone Fort can keep in touch at any time; Due to the inconvenience of moving the sand table, Wang Ziliang, the communication team of Madao Stone Fort, left a team of men.

In the inner fort under the mountain, the medical hall and the school hall have also been moved, and the completed military compounds and stone house courtyards have their own official rooms to arrange for them to move in.

In the stone fort outside the second wall that is about to be completed, thousands of logistics teams are gathered, and the construction site is very busy.

The only regret for Wang Dali is that he personally took a dozen old craftsmen to dig a few wells near Ximen Stone Fort, although there was also water, but it was all bitter saltwater, which made the hopeful Aman quite disappointed.

With the spread of the emerald vine, in the near future, the people in his tribe will enter the logistics team to find work, and most of the young and strong men will join the war barracks, and the share of food and salary will support the family.

The military compound is in the inner fort, and it occupies an area in the two stone forts, which is also the camp of the two war battalions of Wang Meng and Wang Hu, so as to ensure the core safety of the Ximen stone fort.

In the future, the sergeants of a hundred-man squad guarding the defense in Wangjiabao will be stationed by these two battalions in turn.

The entire Ximen Stone Fort, regardless of the inner and outer forts, is the most distinctive, or the existence of no fort gate, and even the entry and exit of the Houyefu Fort is only a big slope, which is also the reason why the guards, the war barracks, and the war barracks camped on the periphery do not dare to slack off for a moment.

Jian Yingxing and Ximen Wangfu led their troops back, bringing back a long convoy full of loads, and also brought back a peace agreement with the king of Tulufan, which was recorded by the official office.

Ximen Wangfu led the troops back to Juyan Lake, and the Shenche Battalion in Yushan, after resting for half a day, put into the busy transportation, transporting all kinds of materials to the warehouse of Hou Yefu and the warehouse of Inner Fort.

The Han captives brought back by the three thousand gave Xiao Ye a headache, these serious military households, there were not only three thousand-level officers, but also hundreds of households, officials and other figures, if they wanted to naturalize them, they could only use powerful pills.

Fortunately, these people came with their families, and under the supervision of Wang Ziliang and Xin Rulin, Xiao Ye put the strong military households into the war barracks, and the others were put into the logistics team and released a lot of pills.

If you want to be promoted to an officer in the barracks, you need not only qualifications, but also ability.

At the end of October, Ximen Stone Fort was officially in full operation, and the Wangjiabao and Yangjiabao Stone Fort under the rule of the Hou Yefu were completed.

The newly opened Shijia shop in the inner fort of Ximen Stone Fort has been transformed into a wholesaler, buying materials in bulk and selling materials in batches; The daily sporadic trading was handed over to the shops, and Xiao Ye's method made the merchants very happy.

In the fang market in the walls of the second fort, the outer walls of the shops have not yet been completely hardened, and the merchants are impatient to do business, and even set up stalls, and the flow of people is crowded.

Outside the Ximen Stone Fort, the grassland in the east belonged to the war barracks of Daozi, and the pasture in the west belonged to the Galen war barracks of Aman, and the tribes set up large yurts, and groups of cattle and sheep gathered in the leeward part of the mountain valley.

The small black house on the bank of the Chijin River is constantly devouring the river sand with tungsten ore, slowly supplying the processing center, and also casting the gold sand screened out of the waste materials into gold ingots and sending them to Kang Hongyuan's hands, and gathering them in the treasury of the account room.

The annual sergeant contest is time again, this time, the guards are going to select six hundred guards, and when the news spreads, the barracks, the stone forts, and the two affiliated tribes are boiling; Even Simon Wangfu was reluctant to make a request, he did not think that the warriors of his tribe were inferior to others.

Wang Meng's Battalion, Wang Hu's Battalion, Duding's Battalion, Liu Shuihe's Battalion, Artillery, Shenche's Battalion, Commander's Battalion, Galen's Battalion, Night Owl's Banner Battalion, and the Chehhashan Battalion first sent rugby teams to Ximen Stone Fort for the first large-scale game.

Ximen Wangfu personally sat in a rat-shaped chariot and went to Ximen Stone Fort to observe. This car was obtained by him after abandoning two tribes that did not obey the edict, sending troops to escort them to the depths of the Gobi Desert, and then saying all the good things to Xiao Ye, and reluctantly gave it in exchange.

The logistics team also sent two teams to try to get a good place. But Wang Dali estimates that the countdown is certain.

In the open space outside the Ximen Stone Fort, thousands of soldiers from various war barracks and tribes, at first glance, saw a black transport vehicle, slowly driving out of the fort gate, straight to the direction of Madao Stone Fort.

"Si," the centurion who led the team with knowledge of the goods, watched the convoy drive past, and couldn't help but secretly gasp, "Good guy, there are eight of these cars, but there weren't so many last month,"

However, there were still only three rat chariots guarding the flanks of the transporters, and Xiao Ye tilted his resources to the freight, so he could only owe it to the guards.

The twelve teams opened their posture, and in the open space with white lines drawn, they began to fight each other, and there were not only many military families and craftsmen watching the battle, but Xiao Ye also appeared in front of everyone with his family.

Jin Sanniang's matter can no longer be covered up, Xiao Ye took Jin Sanniang and the maid a few days earlier, and met with his wife and concubine; The gentle and generous Mei'er accommodated this woman who was a few years older than her own grade.

Although Jin Sanniang has her own room in the Houye's mansion, she usually stays in her own shop, and she doesn't know what she thinks Xiao Ye, but she won't trap Sanniang in the backyard and let her take care of her own business, which makes Jin Baoliang surprised.

The solution of this winter's food problem made Xiao Ye let go of the anxiety in his heart, and also made his thoughts of contact with the side wall more and more faint. Although Wangfu took away a lot of grain, Xiao Ye's warehouse was full of more.

Although the three merchants of Huang, Tian, and Wang had purchased shops in advance in Ximen Stone Fort, Qingfeng Valley had been closely monitored by Liu Shuihe, and the patrol route of the rat-type chariot was also there.

The rugby game is a bloody scene where the winner can be determined in a few days, and the first-place night owls each got a brand new bicycle; If they refused to ask for it, there would already be a merchant deacon and a man waiting with a silver ticket next to them, and they would be able to trade immediately with a nod of their heads.

The sergeants and officers who got the bikes were red with excitement, and even the second- and third-place teams were arrogant, even though there were no prizes to be won.

But these carefully selected sergeants and officers, after watching the rugby game of the two guards, the pride of the winner was gone; Among them, no one could be knocked out of the way for a dozen steps, roll a few laps, and still jump alive and continue to fight.

Next, the sergeant competition kicked off, shooting at 50 paces and 100 steps, fixing targets, moving targets, throwing earth-shaking thunder, digging trenches, and running with weights.

"Boom, boom, boom," gun grenades, lightning guns, and target shooting competitions are even more exciting, and the strength of the artillery team hidden in the depths is leaked in front of everyone, and the merchants who are crowded in the crowd have different moods.

The sergeants who won the top three received their favorite pocket watches, lighters, and exquisite sets of glasses, which also made the rugby game quickly spread in the stone forts.

Despite the abundance of various mineral materials, under Xin Rulin's suggestion, Xiao Ye continued to store all kinds of weapons in an orderly manner, occupying most of the resources in the processing center; In the three warehouses that were heavily guarded by sergeants, the stockpiles of firearms gradually increased.

More than half of the goods for civilian use are traded.

On the first day of its opening, the only shop in the inner fort, the Shijia shop, there were long queues of large and small merchants and merchants, holding silver tickets and materials to exchange for Persian goods.

On the shelves of the shop were iron nails, ice condensants, hand warmers of all kinds, and glasses of various styles, plus new horseshoes from the blacksmith's shop, which were sold to the small traders; However, the merchants queuing up at the counter simply don't look at these few things that are open for sale.

The big merchants have a lot of money, and they have already paid the deposit and come to pick up the goods on the agreed day.

"The Huang family ordered twenty pieces of glass last month, and it will arrive tomorrow, you can go to the Eagle Claw Fort to pick up the goods," in the Shi family's shop, Wang Gui looked at the account book, checked the Huang family's order last month, and said lightly to the Huang family's deacon outside the counter, "There are five hundred silk cotton coats, half of them are out of stock, one hundred vanity mirrors, and fifty hand lamps, can you pick up the goods?" Or wait? ”

"Take it, take it together," the deacon of the Huang family, who nodded his head, paid the other half of the payment, handed over the contract with a smile, and asked Wang Gui to stamp the private seal, and hurried to the backyard of his shop; Although the shops in Erdaobao have not yet been completed, the carriage can be stored in the backyard, and a few guys are still waiting at the Liang Family Inn.

"Next," With the shouting of a steward, the deacon of the Zhai family, who was at the back, stepped forward to hand over the appointment to Wang Gui, "Brother Wang, are you free at night?" I have a jar of good wine, and we two drink it, not outsiders."

"Brother Zhai," Wang Gui smiled, looking at the appointment book on the cabinet, no need to look through the account book, "The glass gives you three hundred, the pocket watch has not arrived, the water umbrella is also out of stock, and there are thirty heating stoves, or not?" ”

"Yes, I want it, you stamp it, and I'll pay the money," the deacon of the Zhai family said with a smile, took the letter of appointment, and when he turned around to pay the money, he didn't forget to beckon Wang Gui to drink at night.

"Don't, brother, if you're good for me, I'll invite you when I have time, Jin Family Restaurant," Wang Gui waved his hand and declined, each merchant can only order four kinds of goods in advance every month, not only limited quantity, but also short of goods and no supplement, which directly made him a big celebrity.

But with four shift stewards around him, where does Wang Gui dare to be presumptuous, if he is not careful, he will change from a shopkeeper to a steward.

This kind of regulation proposed by the official office gives those small traders a certain way to live, and also makes other merchants uncomfortable.

Large quantities of cheap goods, such as iron nails and ice condensants, became the target of small traders.

"Hey, isn't this the shopkeeper of the Tian family, please inside, the steward of the Hou Ye's account room, wait inside," Wang Gui, who suddenly smiled like a flower on his face, brought the deacon of the Tian family who walked into the shop into the back room.

In the room of the shop, Li Xunwu was checking the account book and checking the day's income, even when the deacon of the Tian family came in, he just nodded, and he didn't mean to get up at all.

The deacon of the Tian family, who was holding his head up outside, saw this unsmiling Xiucai, and his waist was also three points lower, in the inner room where ordinary merchants couldn't enter, he was just an ordinary businessman.

The five guys who were busy working outside were all sent down from the guards, if he dared to speak loudly, he would be dragged out by the collar immediately, and those guys only looked at Li Xunwu's face to do things.

"Hehe, Li Xiucai, do you see my handpiece?" took out the handpiece and carefully placed it on the table, the deacon of the Tian family wiped the fine man on the door of his head, and cautiously sat on the bench at the door, looking at the seller who was manipulating/making the abacus.

The appointment can only buy ordinary goods, but Xiao Ye personally stamped the handnote, but it can sell firearms, this point, the official room is quite clear, except for Xiao Ye, no one can be an exception.

Crackling, after waiting for a while, Li Xunwu, who finally finished reading the account book, took a sip of warm tea, and picked up the note on the table, "One hundred fires/guns are reloaded, not so many, there are only thirty second-hand ones, and three thousand projectiles,"

"The earth-shattering thunder will give you a hundred this month, twenty short fire guns, and one thousand projectiles,"

"I can give you fifty sets of protective clothing, don't think about the transport truck, let's talk about it next year," After speaking, Li Xunwu sketched on the covenant, stamped his seal on the ground, and casually pushed the handpiece worth 10,000 taels to the table.

"The convention is to exchange food for food, you know this rule," although Li Xunwu's words were very blunt, the deacon of the Tian family still nodded again and again, and put the note into his arms. This kind of covenant that is not like a foreign merchant, he has to keep it.

"Yes, naturally I understand, it has already been delivered in Eagle Claw Fort," hurriedly took out the receipt of Eagle Claw Fort, and after the deacon of the Tian family let Li Xunwu look at it, he retreated.

To extract these weapons, you still need to be accompanied by a guy from the shop to go to Eagle Claw Fort.

With the addition of the official office, Xiao Ye's control over the external buying and selling process has become more and more tight.

In the backyard of the Hou Yefu Fort, Xiao Ye sat by the brazier in the study, watching Xiao Liuzi insert a thin iron chisel into a piece of sweet potato, turning it left and right on the flame, and the aroma that gradually came out made him unable to read the book.

"This thing, it smells quite similar," looking at Xiao Liuzi's drooling appearance, Xiao Ye was very contemptuous, but his eyes also changed a lot.

Holding the detoxification pill in his arms, Xiao Liuzi swallowed his saliva vigorously, "Master Hou, my subordinates will try it first, and you can taste it again if it is not poisonous,"

Bang, the big slap slapped on Xiao Liuzi's head, Xiao Ye got up and walked to the side, looking at the map on the wall, admiring the masterpiece of Zhang Daowu's painter.

Feeling that the sweet potato was roasted, Xiao Liuzi took off the iron chisel, pinched the hot sweet potato and gently broke it, and the golden flesh was exposed with steam, which looked gratifying.

Carefully biting off a piece, and after chewing the belt meat a few times, Xiao Liuzi nodded with satisfaction, didn't care about burning his mouth, swallowed half of the sweet sweet potato in a few clicks, and then put the other half in the bowl and brought it to Xiao Ye's side.

"What's the matter, it's not poisonous?" Xiao Ye, who seemed to be smiling, glared at this guy, pinched the sweet potato and ate it slowly, an unbelievable expression appeared on his face, "This sweet potato is really good,"

"Yes, it's too little, Hu Shibiao just sent a piece, and it's too stingy," Xiao Liuzi, who smashed his mouth, said dissatisfiedly.

"This is a seed, there are not many of them," Xiao Ye swallowed the sweet potato vaguely, and waved his hand to drive Xiao Liuzi out, "Arab merchants, it's still useful, I just don't know, is there a lot of food in the Great Xia Kingdom?" ”

It is foreseeable that there will be more and more soldiers under his command, and it can be seen from the climate on the grassland this winter that the large and small villages near the border towns will not have a good harvest this year.

Xiao Ye didn't know how many people came here to find food, but looking at the attitude of the Gansu town government and the health office towards him, Xiao Ye didn't think they could let him go.

In November, Jin Baoliang, who was dressed in mink fur, found Ximen Xiao Ye and put forward a cooperation proposal that made Xiao Ye excited.