After a few days in Salt Lake City, after Ling Yun handed over all the matters related to the construction of salt fields and the refining of salt to Tuoba Xiaodao, He Lanhong and Liu Ying, he did not continue to stay, set off again, and went to the next station to inspect. For Salt Lake City, Ling Yun only planned the direction of development and the general policy, and the specific operational affairs had to be handed over to the people below. In Lingyun's vision, Salt Lake City has the benefits of salt lakes, so it relies on salt to eat salt, and salt is the core of development. Salt Lake City has a population of more than 10,000, with only 500 garrisons and a few hundred guards, and in addition, there are now tens of thousands of men, women, and children who have just moved from the villages. After the ban on robbery, it is impossible for so many people to continue to eat big pot rice and sit and eat every day.

Now with Lingyun's Snow Salt Ice Salt project, it is just the right time to put these manpower into it. After the establishment of the new salt plant, Lingyun meant that sixty percent of the shares of the salt factory were owned by Huaihuang Zongrud, and forty percent were owned by Yanhu Branch. The forty percent of the shares of the rudder are equivalent to the common ownership of more than 10,000 people in the city today. Every citizen in Salt Lake City has a share and gets a share of the dividends from their participation in the salt works. At the same time, according to the arrangement of the rudder, these people from Salt Lake City can also get paid for working in the salt factory, in short, breaking the previous big pot of rice. Of course, there are also many brains and bold people who do not go to work in salt factories, but choose to open shops in the city or work in shops. For this, Lingyun is very welcome, if you want to grow up in Huaihuang Military Town, economic development is indispensable. And to develop the economy, it will definitely not be the same as in the copycat era. It is necessary to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the city residents, so that it is possible to develop.

Depart Fort Salt Lake. Lingyun's next stop is Wild Fox Castle, a castle built on Wild Fox Ridge. Yehuling is a dangerous area, and it is also the only way for Huaihuang Town to reach the original Fuming Town in the west. At the time of the Northern Wei Dynasty. It was also an ancient battlefield and there were many major battles here. The night before leaving Salt Lake Fort, Ji Yao was reluctant to give up, and in the end, she turned her reluctance into lingering, and the two lingered all night until dawn. After dawn. Ling Yun left her behind and continued on her way. He couldn't bear her, but he couldn't show her up. lest Yang Guang find out that Ji Yao was here. Although Ji Yao was so wronged, it was also a helpless move.

When Ling Yun arrived at Wild Fox City, it was still a mess, different from Salt Lake City. Even the walls are not yet finished.

Wild Fox Fort is located on Wild Fox Ridge. The new city is not an expansion on the original site, but a new city. Although the original Wild Fox Fort was located in a dangerous location, the place was too small, and it was limited to the terrain, so it was difficult to expand. Eventually, the construction plan for Wild Fox City was changed to the establishment of a new city. Even based on the important location of Wild Fox Ridge, the new Wild Fox City was built not far from the original Wild Fox Fort, and on the other side of the new city. A fort will also be built to protect the new city from the original Wild Fox Fort. Form a triangle to form a horn momentum to greatly enhance the Huaihuang Army's control over the important area of Yehuling.

However, as a result, the amount of work has also increased greatly, and a new city and a fortress have been built, and the construction is in a more complex area, which also leads to the project process falling behind a lot.

The design pattern of one city and two forts in Wild Fox City, the two fortresses are purely military, only stationed soldiers and horses, and are not open to traders and households, and even the families of the fortress guards are also placed in the new city. The main layout of the two military forts is the same, the barracks, granaries, forage fields, arsenals, horse farms in the forts, plus the outside city walls, city gates, horse faces, Weng City, corner towers, arrow towers, hao ditches, etc. The circumference of these two forts is only one mile, and the height of the city is two feet. It is like two hedgehogs with long thorns guarding the new city, which is extremely hideous.

In comparison, Wild Fox City is much more gentle.

Wild Fox New Town has a large area and is a square city, with a length of one mile on each side and four miles in circumference. Although at the time of the original design, some people said that the circumference of four miles was too large, but Ling Yun insisted on building a four-mile city. According to Lingyun's plan, although Wild Fox Fort will only be a small peripheral trade transit town in Huaihuang Border City, Wild Fox City has a unique location, and it is the only way to enter Huaihuang from the Turkic Khan's court in the east and west of the river, which is not only extremely important militarily, but also a must on the trade route. Ling Yun was very confident in the border city of Huaihuang, and he believed that Wild Fox City would definitely prosper in the future if it was on such an important road. Therefore, the castle was made larger at the beginning, but also for the convenience of the future, and the province will be expanded in time. Even if the walls were only built in the first place, it doesn't matter if they are empty inside.

The four-mile city wall of Wild Fox City is shorter than the city wall of the two castles, both are only one zhang and five feet high, built with rammed earth and stones, the city base is three zhang wide, and the top of the city wall is also one zhang wide. On the city wall, there is a protruding horse-faced pier every three zhang, and there is a corner tower on each corner. If it weren't for the fact that it consumed too much manpower and material resources, Ling Yun even built the walls of Wild Fox City according to the prismatic walls of the fortress.

The city wall has been built nearly half, and the ditch is also being excavated, although the project is relatively large, but the wild fox city has a population of nearly 20,000, and these people do not cultivate and graze, and now the only task is to build the city, so the progress of the new city is very fast, and the periphery of the two most important military forts has been basically completed, and now only the barracks and wells in the fort are left. Most of the walls of the new city have been built, and work is also being carried out in the city.

Wild Fox City has four gates, along which two main roads form the Cross Street, dividing the entire new city into four districts, and each district is divided into four blocks by the Cross Street composed of two separate roads. In this way, the whole new city is planned very neatly, with four large squares, sixteen miles, smooth streets, and clear lanes.

On both sides of the main road of Grand Cross Street, there are all shops along the street, and the other four small cross streets are also large-scale shops. This is completely in accordance with the planning of the commercial city, and the concept of business-oriented is reflected everywhere.

In addition, at each of the four gates, there was a military camp with a garrison stationed there.

The residential area of Wild Fox City is distributed in four squares and sixteen miles, and the rows of houses will be very neat and clean. Although all the houses facing the street are built as shops, the residential area is still spacious, leaving plenty of space.

Liu Guodong just moved into his new house today, since the cottage was withdrawn. They built a shed on this large construction site and lived there for a long time. However, when I was busy building the castle every day, I listened to the new lords, hall masters, garrisons, and other officials above talk about the new houses that everyone can live in in a new house. Everyone is still very happy. After being busy for so long, although the new city is still only a big construction site, and the city wall is only half built, the first of the four squares and sixteen miles in the scale has been built, and Liu Guodong is lucky, after the first one is built, the new house is still not enough for nearly 20,000 people to live. A square can accommodate 10,000 households, and only one-tenth of the population of the new city can be temporarily solved in one room. Originally, Liu Guodong thought that the above would arrange the residence according to the size of the official position, but he was notified to go to the lottery.

It actually asked every household to draw lots. Those who draw will be the first to move into the new house.

Liu Guodong asked his fifteen-year-old eldest son to draw a lot for him, and the result was actually drawn.

When the two brothers who had been holding the number plate and following the garrison found the house corresponding to his number plate in the newly built Lifang, he still couldn't believe it.

Chongrenfang, Ji'anli, Cheng'an Street, No. 19, Wujia Liubao.

This is Liu Guodong's new home, Liu Guodong's family of six. Therefore, he participated in the draw of lots for the extended family group. The house assigned is also a single courtyard, the style of a quadrangle, three large rooms in the north, a wing room on the east and west sides, and an upside-down room in the south. As soon as Liu Guodong's four children entered the yard, they ran around excitedly. Excitedly fighting for a room of their own. Liu Guodong's wife was also red with excitement, they were originally from Hedong. At the beginning, Liu Guodong's family also had dozens of acres of land, and he had a good life. With his wife's childhood sweetheart, he once thought about marrying a young lady as his wife in the future, and then having children, and his life was so plain and dull. Who knew that there was a drought in his hometown later, and there was no harvest that year, so he borrowed the usury of the landlord's house next door to survive the famine, and the result was a roll-off of profits, and the family's land was also offset by it, and the father of the fine mother also borrowed a loan, and finally the father of the fine mother was reluctant to land, so he sold the fine mother to the landlord. Liu Guodong's land was gone, and his parents were seriously ill and had no money for medical treatment, and finally died, so he could only work for the landlord. The fine lady was sold into the landlord's house and began to make a ring, but later the landlord did something to her, once happened to be seen by Liu Guodong who entered the house, and killed the landlord in a moment of anger, and the two were scared into exile, and finally Liu Guodong and they went into exile outside the plug and went to the Yehuling cottage. More than ten years have passed, and both of them have four children.

However, although Liu Guodong went to the cottage in his early years, he has only done some carpentry work in the cottage, and has never gone down the mountain to participate in robbery activities, and his wife only does some logistics things. Therefore, the two of them have always had a low status in the cottage, there are many people in the cottage, and the houses are basically built with their own planks. Compared with the current quadrangle courtyard, it can't be compared at all, although the house is also a thatched roof and a muddy wall, it is much better than the house where I lived in it.

Liu Guodong, who has been a carpenter in the cottage for many years, is even looking at the layout of the house, thinking about preparing to add a few pieces of furniture to the house when he is free.

"Boss, this house is so good, you see, the courtyard is a small courtyard." Liu Guodong's wife, Xi Niang, touched the courtyard door and said excitedly.

Liu Guodong smiled and watched several children competing for their own houses, in the past, the family lived in a thatched house, his husband and wife lived in one room, and four children lived in one room, where is it like now, there are five houses and a yard. "Yes, there are five rooms, a few rabbit cubs don't quarrel, two boys live in the east wing, and two girls live in the west wing."

"Now that we have a house, do we have to start thinking about a partner for the boss, he is fifteen years old this year, and it will be time to talk about his daughter-in-law. I think it's better to let the eldest live alone in the east room, and the third to live in the south room. Liu Wang said.

Liu Guodong looked around at the house and said in a low voice: "Now that we have moved down the cottage and lived in this city, we have followed the alliance leader to accept the imperial court's recruitment, and now we can be regarded as a legitimate family." In the past few years, we have also saved some copper coins, I will see if I will go back to my hometown in Hedong to see, sweep the cemetery for my father's mother, and then see if there is a suitable girl in my relatives' house, and say that I will be a daughter-in-law for the old man. ”

Liu Wang's face is also yearning, he has fled his hometown for more than ten years, and often thinks that he can go back one day. "It's not cheap to marry a daughter-in-law, not to mention that even if we are innocent now, it is estimated that it will be difficult for people to marry a girl to such a far away Saiwai, even if they are willing, there will definitely be a lot more to be courteous. We have that little money. What's wow? ”

"The city lord has said that when the city is built, shops will be opened in the city. Build a workshop, I think so, my carpentry skills are not bad over the years, when the time comes, I will open a carpentry workshop, you see that now I don't eat big pot rice, especially after so many new residential houses, what can be less demand for furniture? Open a carpentry shop. Definitely not worry about business. "Liu Guodong has been summing up these days, removing the cottage and building the city, and not allowing the robbery. After being told by Zhao'an that he would do business in the future, and if he didn't farm or graze, Liu Guodong thought about it, although he went to the workshop built by the rudder to be the carpenter's head. You can get a fixed salary every month. But he still wants to open a carpentry shop by himself, the four babies in the family are not young, the eldest is fifteen years old, and in his hometown, such a big boy has already married his own son. There are also two girls who are also in their teens, and they are about to get married, and the dowry is not ready yet. And the youngest boy, after he heard that the new city was built. When the time comes, there will be a school academy in the city, he thought to himself. While the child is still young, let him read some books.

"If you are in charge and open your own shop, can you make money?"

Liu Guodong said with a smile: "There will definitely be no less, let the boss help me, and recruit two more boys as apprentices, how can I earn five or six thousand in a month, if the business is good, I estimate that I can earn seven or eight thousand." ”

"Wow." Liu Wang's family was dizzy, not to mention seven or eight thousand, even five or six thousand a month was enough to make her excited. In this era, with a monthly income of 2,000, you can support your wife and live and work in peace and contentment. With a monthly income of 3,000, he can even drink some wine and cut some meat to eat. If you have a monthly income of eight or nine thousand yuan, then your life is already quite rich. Generally, people with little skill work as coolies, and they are only fifteen yuan a day, and even the garrison of Wild Fox City now has a monthly salary of only two thousand yuan.

For the future, the couple is full of hope at once. Leaving the cottage is not only moving out of the simple grass house, but also untying a chain that has been pressed in my heart for many years. Although they had no choice but to go to the cottage, in fact, they have always been worried about this identity, and often wake up in their dreams, for fear that one day the officers and soldiers will kill the mountain. Now that he has been recruited, he has moved down the mountain and lived in a big house, although this house does not belong to them, according to the above, they only have the right to use this house, no ownership, cannot be sold or re-sold, and have to pay 300 yuan in rent every month, but this still makes him seem to be twenty years younger, full of energy.

"Boss, then you have to hurry. There are a lot of people who know how to work wood, but don't let people take the lead. ”

"Well, that's what I said, I have to go to the City Lord's Mansion to register quickly. Damn it, you will buy some red paper and put a few window flowers on it, buy a few more cannonballs, and cut a few catties of meat by the way, let's celebrate. ”

"Okay, go quickly, I'll get another pound of wine back later." Liu Wang picked up the straw hat of Jiyang and put it on for her husband, watched him go out, and then walked around the new house for a long time, and then took the children to start moving the simple belongings in the grass shed area back to the new house, and after being busy for a long time, he went out to buy vegetables.

Although Wild Fox City is still a large construction site, after all, more than 20,000 people have gathered here, and although the street shops have not yet been officially built, along the small river not far from the new city, there are already many caravans here who have set up tents and established a grass market. There are also some people in Wild Fox City, who go hunting and fishing when they are free to sell here, which is very lively.

"Ouch, isn't this Sister-in-law Wang, I heard that your family drew a small courtyard in Chongrenfang today, but it's amazing, it's really lucky. Congratulations on the housewarming, living in a new home, what to buy? As soon as a familiar guy saw Liu Wang coming over with a basket, he immediately greeted with a smile.

"Change to a new home, how can you not buy some good wine to celebrate, come on, I have a new good wine here, a bucket originally cost 120 Wen, today is a congratulations to you on your housewarming, just count you a bucket of 100 Wen."

"Buy a sheep, you can't buy a sheep if you have such a good thing, look at how fat this sheep is, don't take more from you"

When Ling Yun arrived outside the Wild Fox City with the hussars in the tent, he happened to see this scene full of vitality. With the relocation and merger of cottages into towns, the towns themselves can generate great demand, and at the same time, great business opportunities. The cottage changes the mode of survival, here will be established workshops, shops, become a small handicraft workshop gathering place, but also become a transit supply station for border trade, these past villages are no longer robbery, but work, business, with the monthly salary, the prosperity of the shops, here is stable, will soon form a new commercial town. Ling Yun wasn't worried that there would be no merchants coming, and although this was once a dangerous area of influence of the Tiger Alliance, merchants were always the ones who dared to take risks. The changes in the Tiger League, new business opportunities, will make businessmen take the initiative to come. Just as he saw in front of him, Wild Fox City had not yet been built, but the business opportunities shown by this large construction site with a population of more than 20,000 people gathered by more than a dozen cottages had already attracted a large number of businessmen. And once Wild Fox City is completed, he believes that more merchants will come.

Ling Yun saw on his horse that under the city wall on the other side, a team of wild fox garrisons dressed in blue were practicing. Wild Fox City has 500 garrisons, and due to its important geographical location, there are 500 men and horses in each of the two military forts to guard the important passage to the east of the river.

"I love it here!" Ling Yun turned to the people around him and said. "There's a sense of life and excitement here!" (To be continued......)