A relieved smile appeared on the prince's face, and then he turned to look at Misu next to him. "Chief Engineer Mi, hard work, this fortress is well built, I will tell my father the emperor."

"It would be best if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince could be satisfied." Smiled reluctantly. "I always thought it could resist any enemy attack and defend your capital."

To be honest, although he had always been very confident in the fortress he had designed, he still inevitably felt some nervousness in his heart when the cannon was pushed up just now.

If the effect is not good, then the future of the trust he finally gained in the Han court will definitely be gone, and he may even be killed.

The good thing is that everything is as it should be.

Although he was not as excited as Misu, the prince was also quite happy in his heart, he felt that there were more than ten or twenty forts around the arch guard, and after the cannons were all in place, the capital was indeed impregnable now.

However, the prince also understands that if he wants to keep the world, it is not only by the fortress, but more importantly, by the hearts ********of the people.

Fortresses and fortresses need to be built, but the most important thing is to not lose the hearts of the people in the world - although the prince is young, he still understands this truth.

"Uncle, it shouldn't take too much to fix here, right?" The prince asked with a little concern.

"This level of damage can be repaired without much material." The minister immediately dispelled the prince's doubts, "Now the fortress is only roughly built, and there are still a lot of materials and personnel left here, so let them continue to work and make up the places that should be repaired." The minister thought about it just now, and the acceptance method of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the minister felt that it was very effective - if the fortress couldn't even stop the artillery fire of his own people, then what was there to talk about being strong? The minister will then issue a specific rule, stipulating that each fortress and blockhouse must go through similar measures when they are inspected, so as not to waste the state's money! ”

He did this not only to provide another means to verify the solidity of the fortress, but also to establish the authority of the prince in this way, after all, the prince was his own nephew, and he had just come out to do something, so he should always help.

"Thank you, uncle." The prince didn't expect to go to such a deep place, but he just thanked his uncle with his chin head.

Then the prince took the telescope back, handed it to his attendant, and let out a long sigh of relief. "I've been staying in the distance, although I can see the overall situation, but after all, it's better to be immersive, uncle, let me go to the fortress to have a look."

"Okay, the prince, please come with the minister." Gong Xiang didn't say anything and took the lead directly.

In this way, a large group of people came out of the pavilion on the hill, walked down the hill in a great way, and then walked towards the fortress.

Along the way, from time to time, soldiers passed by, or dragged cannons or held guns, they had just fired a round of cannons and were very excited, after seeing the prince, they all cheered, and then fell to their knees.

"Soldiers, excuse me, please get up!"

The prince wanted to get them up, but he couldn't help them all for a while, so he had to smile bitterly.

These soldiers will later be relieved of their responsibility to defend the construction site and become the defenders of the fortress, that is, they will carry out the important duty of guarding the capital for the Han Dynasty.

In the process of the soldiers saluting, the prince and his party slowly walked forward, and finally walked under the fortress.

At this time, when he looked up, the prince found that he could feel the oppressive force brought by the fortress more than when he was on the mountain before. As far as the eye could see, the sloping walls everywhere were facing him on several sides, and there were many black cannons facing him in the muzzles, although he knew that these cannons could not fire at him, but he still couldn't help but freeze.

This fortress guards the traffic arteries, and guards a large area of land on the inner line of the capital, and also indirectly defends the generation of Hebei Zhili, if it is in the pre-Ming Dynasty, it can be said to be a national treasure. And now, the Mongols have been repelled by the Han Dynasty for thousands of miles, and they have long been unable to threaten the Jingshi......

"I'm a great martial artist, but don't let me lose my prestige in my hands......" he thought to himself.

Soon they came to the interior of the fortress, which was much smaller and more empty than the two high walls outside, except for some masonry barracks for the soldiers, there was a special cellar for storing food and ammunition, and a small square in the middle for the soldiers to practice.

The prince looked around, silently calculating the space inside the fortress, and then gradually counted it in his heart. He walked slowly along the inner corners, looking at the structures everywhere, and by the way, observing the materials to see if they had cut corners.

But when he got to a corner, he found a group of men building a barracks by a ladder.

He approached, ready to get a closer look at the stone carriers. He has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and usually studies with the teachers, so he does not have many opportunities to contact the people and understand the sufferings of the people. Therefore, he plans to take this opportunity to get to know the people as well.

He looked around and saw that the workers were generally in good health, and that they were all wearing padded jackets, and showed no signs of starvation or cold, but they were not in good spirits, and seemed to have little enthusiasm for the work, but only to cope with the errand.

Among this group of workers, there was one worker who stood out, he seemed to be older, so he carried the least stone, and his face was full of wrinkles, and it was obvious that he had worked for most of his life. The clothes he wore were quite thick, but the clothes were covered with dust, and even his face was covered with yellow and black dirt, which looked as if he had just rolled out of the mud.

Looking at this group of workers, the prince's heart was slightly sour, the people's livelihood was suffering, the people's livelihood was just four words in a book for him before, but now he knows how bitter it is when he sees it with his own eyes. And these people are at least food and clothing, and among the people of the Han Dynasty, I don't know how many of them are living harder than them?

Moreover, it was he who had just ordered the bombardment of the fortress, and he had added new work to them, and then they would probably have to climb the wall of the fortress to repair the damage caused by the shelling.

With that spontaneous sense of guilt, the prince walked to the side of the barracks.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come down, you guys stop work first!" An overseer walked under the ladder and shouted to the workers on top of the barracks, "Come down quickly, let His Highness the Crown Prince see!" ”

Under the shouts of the supervisors, as soon as they heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had actually come to inspect, the group of workers hurriedly stopped their work, hurriedly climbed down the ladder, and then walked to the prince and his party and knelt down and kowtowed frequently.

"The grass people meet His Royal Highness the Prince!" They kowtowed and shouted.

The prince hurriedly asked them to be exempt from courtesy, telling them that they didn't need to salute like this in the new dynasty, but they were all mixed up in the past, and they had already cultivated a docile character under the authority of the official office, and the identity of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not know how much higher than the official office? So no matter what the prince said, they were only willing to kneel all the time and did not dare to get up.

The prince sighed secretly, and then walked over to the old man he had seen just now, leaned down, and looked at each other with his most pleasant expression. "Uncle, dare to ask Gui Geng this year?"

The old man blinked, but he didn't react for a moment, and it wasn't until a moment later that he realized that the old man called by the prince was actually himself. His face turned blue in an instant, and he hurriedly kowtowed again.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has killed the grass people, how can the grass people afford it!"

The prince persuaded him several times, but he still refused to accept the title of the old man, and in the end, he was only willing to let the prince call him "Old Sun Tou".

"Old grandson, how old is this year? Where are they? The prince was not impatient, and asked again at the request of the other party. Who is in the family now? ”

"Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the grass people are forty-seven this year, and they are from Hejian Mansion in Zhili." The old man looked up and replied. In this day and age, forty-seven years old is indeed an old age, and maybe he even has grandchildren. "The grass people used to work as farmers at home, and when they were not working, they worked as masons, and their families ...... There was a wife and two sons at home, but ...... However, in the previous turmoil, the old wife and a son have gone now, and now there is only one son, but the son is now working on an errand at another construction site, and has found a daughter-in-law, and now he has added a grandson to the grass people, and if you count it, there are now four people in the family......"

When talking about the death of his wife and son, his tone was very flat, as if he was used to his misery, and even seemed to be a little glad that he had a son who survived and continued his bloodline.

When the prince heard this, his heart was sour.

In the last days of the former Ming Dynasty, although he himself did not feel it personally, he heard many people around him say that many tragic things are unbearable to hear, in this chaos, I don't know how many people died in obscurity, how many families disappeared, I am afraid it will never be able to be counted.

I only hope that the people of China will never have to suffer such a tragedy in the future......

"I guess your grandson must be very obedient." After enduring his sadness, the prince continued to ask, "How is the food and clothing at the construction site here, is there a shortage?" ”

"The food and clothing treatment here is very good, this is a project personally grasped by the Minister of Labor, so the upper and lower levels are very strict, and the supply has not been interrupted except for the occasional shortage in winter." The old man replied immediately, and his expression was not a perfunctory lie, "The soup on the construction site here is very good, and there is often a supply of meat, to be honest...... It's better than what the grass people ate at home before, but it's a pity that the grass people are old and can't eat too much, if they were ...... back then It would be nice to be able to enjoy such blessings back then......"