The sun is warm, warm as spring, Zhou Yi is on the Baibu Bridge at the entrance of the palace, watching the water of the Yudai River flowing slowly under his feet, the thoughts in his heart have already leaped over thousands of mountains and rivers, in Zhending Mansion, the rice has been harvested now, this matter has already written to Tang Huan, she should be able to handle it. In fact, what he is most concerned about is Qingshen County, although everything seems to be prosperous during the New Year, and Zhou Min handled it very well, but Zhou Yi is worried that someone will sabotage her and she can't deal with it, after all, it is now a big family, and it is a new family, so it is possible to be remembered.

In the distance, the open palace gate began to walk in some people, since Zhou Yi occupied this palace, this place does not seem to be as mysterious as before, many people will see the door open when they pass by here, and they will secretly glance inside, and they will not be punished.

Zhou Yi walked over there, still sitting in the same position as yesterday, waiting for the arrival of these people, he had already ordered, only those who signed and painted for Zhou Yi yesterday could come in, and the guards carefully verified their identities one by one.

This huge imperial city is all inhabited by Zhou Yi and the tens of thousands of soldiers under him, but it doesn't seem crowded, anyway, there is no one in it. And these soldiers may not have dreamed that they would one day live in the imperial palace, even though this is nothing more than the imperial palace of the Liao Kingdom.

With such good living conditions, these soldiers were simply overjoyed, and they were naturally more obedient to Zhou Yi, who brought them all this, and what Zhou Yi said most often by their side was, follow me, there is meat to eat. As long as I'm still here. Make sure you eat and drink spicy.

You say you're a soldier. Or even in other industries, isn't it just for the sake of fragrant and spicy life ideals, as long as you follow Lord Zhou, you have all this, and Zhou Yi is still good to his subordinates, not with him.

Zhou Yi sat here for a while, and someone came here, each of them came with a burden, and Zhou Yi was very embarrassed. I told them that I wouldn't go home for three months, so they were going to take everything they were wearing?

But think about it, if Zhou Yi doesn't provide these things, will everyone not change their clothes for three months? That's going to stink.

When those people came to Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi still asked them to sign and draw, each person has a specific place, which is convenient for Zhou Yi to compare everyone's fingerprints, in this era when there is no means to verify identity, only this method is the most reliable, although it is a little troublesome.

Later, Zhou Yi found a problem, that is, only eighty people came, and more than twenty did not come. This couldn't help but make Zhou Yi feel a little annoyed in his heart, how could these people not take their words seriously. Say it and don't come?

He asked this question, seeing that his face was not very good, everyone did not dare to speak loudly, Zhou Yi asked again, and only then did someone say: "Zheng Laosan went home and said this after his mother-in-law beat him, I guess I don't dare to come." ”

When the people around heard this, they all wanted to laugh, but when they saw Zhou Yi's expressionlessness, they could only hold back. And Zhou Yi was also a little stunned, in this male-dominated society, there is still a wife beating her husband? Is this really the 21st century or what?

He looked around, very helpless, and said indignantly: "Zheng Laosan, a soft egg, is still not a man, and he was actually bullied by his daughter-in-law. What about the others? ”

Now that someone has spoken, everyone is not so scared, and they have told what they know, some children will not let him go, some daughters-in-law will threaten to steal people as long as he does not go home, and some parents can not bear to leave when they see their old age.

It seems that everyone is not for no reason, so Zhou Yi is not very good at punishing them, and he can't go to other people's houses to arrest people, right? So I can only do it, but eighty people are eighty people, anyway, it is not for the whole world, and it is enough to protect Yanjing.

"Very good, you can come here today, it seems that not only to support my work, but also to support my work, the people in your family are also willing, okay, without further ado, follow me inside, cross this bridge, and come out again in three months."

Zhou Yi glanced around these people, and forty or fifty of the eighty people could be recognized at a glance as Han people, obviously descendants of the Han people who remained here, and now Zhou Yi is also a Han person, and the proximity of blood makes them more willing to help Zhou Yi, and most of the people who left are Liao.

Zhou Yi was very happy to see so many Han people here, and he led these people all the way to the palace. Just like Yu Yong had eaten deer lips and other things yesterday, these people entering the palace can be regarded as the first time that a big girl has gone on a sedan chair.

When they passed the white stone bridge, Zhou Yi also saw someone take off their shoes and put them on their hands, as if they didn't want the dirt under their feet to stain the whiteness here. After crossing the bridge, there was a large square, and such a large square was also the first time they had seen it, this square was used by the emperor when he personally marched or when something else important happened, it could be a procession of the army, it could be a meeting of hundreds of officials, etc., in short, it should be large enough to accommodate all the high-ranking officials in the country.

Walk through this large square, and then in front of it is the vermilion wall, and the inside of the wall is considered the real royal palace. At this time, the city gate was wide open, Zhou Yi led the mermaid in, admiration, strange sounds, endlessly, for these people who are accustomed to thatched houses, the century-tall big house has exceeded the scope of their understanding, the doors and windows and beams of the carved beams and paintings, they were stunned, it turned out that this is the palace, this is the place where the royal life is, it is really the same as the fairyland on earth, it is the legendary Penglai Fairy Island, it is just like that, such exquisite patterns, where is the world should have.

Some places on the doors and windows are decorated with gold leaf, and under the sunlight they emit a light that people dare not look at directly, among which the Taihe Hall is the main hall that uses the most gold, and even the roof is decorated with a layer of gold sheets, so when you see this building at any time, you can feel that it is golden, so the people call this building Jinluan Hall again. This is the most important place in the whole palace.

Of course Zhou Yi would not take these people into the Jinluan Palace, and they did not come in to visit the palace in a group, Zhou Yi just took them through these buildings, and then came to the place where the former Liao eunuchs and palace maids lived, the environment here can be said to be relatively poor in the palace, but it is already an absolutely good place for this group of people. Zhou Yi had already asked people to renovate this place before, set up an entrance from a house, dug a large underground palace, and used to store ammunition, there is a water source near here, even if there is any danger, the water can be quickly brought over to relieve the crisis. Zhou Yi sometimes wonders if he is a rat, why does he always like to make holes.

Next to the well is a relatively wide field, more than a hundred people in it does not seem crowded at all, this place was the place where the palace maids and eunuchs washed their clothes before, and the entire palace lived in tens of thousands of people, if the place was not big enough, the clothes could be stacked to fill the place. The whitened stone slabs reveal traces of history, which can be regarded as ancient buildings.

"Okay, this is where you will work for the next three months, and live here, each person has a room, you choose what you like, and someone will bring you food every day, all according to the dietary standards of the palace, and your task is to do everything I have to do, and you don't need anything else." Zhou Yi said.

The people below pricked up their ears, and then Zhou Yi was going to release the task, and this is what everyone will do in the next three months.

In fact, a few days ago, Zhou Yi had already found the largest steel casting workshop in Yanjing City, and ordered them to make the shells and steel balls needed for cannonballs, so the job of these people who came to the palace now was to mix steel balls with clay and saltpeter to make interiors.

Zhou Yi explained the work of these people, and then personally demonstrated the successful production of one, and then pasted a large recipe sheet on the wall. These people are experienced workers, and they can see what they are going to do next.

After the demonstration, Zhou Yi said: "That's right, every time you make a shell, you have to write your name on the shell, if the shell is not qualified, I will find someone directly, so you had better be honest and dare to play tricks, not only yourself, even if it is your whole family, it will be worse than death." ”

He had always painted big cakes for dates before, and when necessary, Zhou Yi still gave them a piece of advice, and he didn't think this advice was scaremoniding, if anyone really wanted to play tricks, he didn't mind killing chickens and monkeys.

Everyone was silent, and Yu Yong was also startled, but remembered that his task was only to tell the people outside what he was doing, and he was not doing anything in these things, so he was immediately relieved.

Zhou Yi gave a few more instructions and then left, and someone gave them the raw materials they brought in and packed in a large tank, and asked them to start working immediately. There were ten people standing at the only exit, and the walls were three feet high, and it was impossible for them to get out. But for them, it's the same everywhere they work, so that no one thinks about going out. Anyway, it's only three months, and it's worth it to get so much money.

There are a lot of raw materials such as saltpeter and loess in Yanjing City, and now that such a group of people are organized to make cannonballs, they will no longer have to worry about running out of shells in the future. (To be continued......)