At the beginning, with more than ten professional craftsmen, 100 craftsmen who were still somewhat proficient, and more than 300 ordinary laborers to do what Zhang Fan said, it seemed like a very simple thing to build a simple house that was equivalent to an ordinary large household with hundreds of acres of fertile land. Of course, when people started to do it, they found that the place chosen by Zhang Fan did not seem to be an easy thing for building construction. In many places, behind the shallow layer of soil are hard rocks. Or rather, the entire northern slope is essentially a very solid stone mountain. Although the source of some raw materials seems to be simpler, if Zhang Fan plans to build a tunnel or underground palace in this kind of place, it will be a bit of a big trouble.

Seeing the ten craftsmen who were still a little frightened at this time, Zhang Fan did not shy away from saying: "If I really ask you to help me build some secret palaces underground, even if it is just design and planning, even if I am much more merciful than ordinary gangs in the rivers and lakes, I will definitely let you be placed under house arrest as if you were imprisoned for life." After all, the freedom of ten or dozens of people at most may not be as important as the safety of hundreds of people. But I thought about it for a moment, and I thought maybe it wasn't right. Therefore, in the following month, I plan to ask you in detail for some essentials and know-how about tunnel construction, survey, and even excavation, and I hope that you will not hesitate to give advice. As for the real work, rest assured, I will let someone who is truly reliable and trustworthy take care of it ... ”

Hearing Zhang Fan's words, the hearts of the craftsmen at this moment calmed down a little: "Respect the Lord for benevolence and righteousness, the people of the world... ”

"Hey, don't say anything about flattery... Zhang Fan said disapprerovingly.

Seeing that Zhang Fan seemed to be an approachable person, a craftsman led by him also said some of his opinions after a while: "Building a tunnel or underground palace is different from other buildings. If you want to build in secrecy, it is not easy to take a multi-point approach from the beginning. But in this way, it consumes more time. In my opinion, the stone on this mountain is in charge of the work of four people who are willing to work hard in shifts, and they can only dig about a foot in a day and night, and they can barely stand and pass through the stone cave in both directions. Even if the cumulative length is only three or four hundred zhang, it cannot be completed without more than a year. The main thing is that the mountains in this area are rocky... ”

Zhang Fan smiled disapprovingly: "Hehe, I think it doesn't hurt in a year or two or even a few years, although I have the world's exercises, my foundation is still too shallow." I don't think it's possible to be an emperor in the true sense of the word without at least a generation to consolidate itself. Maybe to a large extent, he is probably still a nominal number one master or a hermit or something like that... ”

Seeing Zhang Fan say this, the craftsman no longer cared too much, and learned a lot of experience and knowledge about exploring feng shui geology according to the direction of Zhang Fan's inquiry. For example, under what circumstances are various hidden dangers such as water permeability, poisonous gas, and ground fire? At what depth can the construction be carried out to avoid the exposure of symptoms to the greatest extent. and even how to carry out rough and precise positioning underground and aboveground, etc.

At this time, Zhang Fan also relied on his extraordinary memory ability to secretly write down the essentials of building an authentic underground palace told by these craftsmen, and seemed to feel sure that he would not forget what he had heard and planned to remember at this time.

When the craftsmen began to be busy, Zhang Fan was not idle, and when there was not much to do, he actually followed the craftsmen to carry out quarrying or crushing work, which surprised many craftsmen. In this world, don't say that you have internal strength, that is, you don't have internal strength, and you have learned three tricks and half a thing, and you have never worked in person. It is even more unheard of to quarry stones in person.

"This... How can this be done ... If it gets out ... Some of the craftsmen were even a little apprehensive at this point.

Zhang Fan smiled and said: "Then you can rest assured, as long as you don't brag about it... ”

Of course, at this time, Zhang Fan also had a little mind when he was working: in addition to the efficiency of crushing stones, which seemed to be seven or eight times the efficiency of ordinary strong labor, doing some other work only had about four or five times the advantage, unlike giving people some hints that were easy to guess their future behavior. When he was busy, Zhang Fan often sighed: "I know why the martial artists in the world have never worked hard to practice, the output within a quarter of an hour is okay, but if it is more than an hour, it is not ten times stronger... Ay... ”

Zhang Fan has some general spectrum of his real ability through these labors, and at the same time, Zhang Fan is also estimating the approximate ability of those children, when carrying out some simple digging and carrying tasks, maybe hundreds of children in shifts can still be converted into dozens of adults.

In this way, Zhang Fan did not get busy with any private visits as soon as some people imagined after setting up the "Ten Mu Palace" like a hermit's wild residence on the cloudy slopes of the northern part of Beizhou in a simple way that many people seem. Instead, when the residence barely seemed to be inhabitable, he took the children and finally settled here after a month-long trek.

After about a month and a half of busy work by hundreds of craftsmen with extraordinary efficiency, although it looks very simple, it is still a spacious stone courtyard on this cliff and barely formed, not only that, according to Zhang Fan's list of needs, many supplies and water have also been sent over, Zhang Fan is still patiently inspected, and finally believes that there are not too many hands and feet in these things. Especially different from the ordinary hundreds of acres of fertile land of large households, the pools and warehouses of the mountain palace are also built with some doorways. Contamination of water sources can be avoided even in the event of stagnant water as much as possible, as well as in places where food is stored.

Of course, this is just a normal situation. Zhang Fan, who had experience in fighting with the Xishan faction, could easily deduce that if he faced real battles and plots, these places that seemed to be able to store a lot of charcoal, fire, and water would still not be able to stop some real plots.

After Zhang Fan settled here, he was not in a hurry to leave his lair and go around for private visits to find trouble. Instead, people sent a lot of idle books and even tools and stationery for leisure time, and then settled down in this place with the children around them, and it seemed that they had no intention of dividing and settling down the world.

Of course, Zhang Fan's dormancy did not make the new lords everywhere look down on him. Because everyone knows that this is not an emperor or martial arts alliance leader in the ordinary sense, but a person with huge strength, and many people in the world may cry wolf at any time with the possibility of "three fires in the new honor".

In order to avoid the appearance of tricks, after several months of Zhao soldiers buying horses and even building large-scale construction, the burden of labor in various parts of the Eastern Plains began to gradually lighten. Although Zhang Fan did not explicitly say that others could not exceed the system, since Zhang Fan had put out the corresponding specifications, many lords in other places would not be able to do too much even if they put some effort into the tower or the underground palace. In this way, although the tax burden and daily labor in various places are still more than in the era of Dongyuan Kingdom, the order on the rivers and lakes is much better than when cats and dogs with no lower limit could run rampant. In particular, you don't have to provide resources or act as cannon fodder for large-scale factional battles. Business travelers will not pass by a place will suffer a lot of exploitation, for a time to a large extent to complete the division of the new world, although it can not be said to be an ideal prosperous era, but it can be regarded as a preliminary decision.

Zhang Fan's biggest concern at this time is the possible safety after he leaves. As for recruiting troops or establishing a new subordinate team, Zhang Fan had thought about it before, but in the end he gave up these plans. Not to mention that with those quasi-outsiders around you, it is possible to involve your energy to a large extent. In the face of a real threat or reversal in the face of a real threat or reversal in the face of these people who are not too reliable and have too much force, it is impossible to ensure safety even if they build a 20-story and 40-zhang tall tower by themselves. Thinking about it this way, it is better to think carefully about how to build a place for children to have a good past when they can't face strong enemies outside.

After killing chickens and monkeys several times in the following months, and no one dared to trespass into the thirty-mile radius of the mountain palace without permission, Zhang Fan also began to get busy with the children at night. Earthwork began on this stone cliff.

When working with those craftsmen, Zhang Fan certainly had reservations. At this time, he is not first-class in terms of internal strength and skills, but he can also be regarded as a second-rate level. Compared with an ordinary strong laborer, although the ability to work in a short period of time may not be able to reach 20 times, but a person with a certain internal force in the body has a great advantage over ordinary people in terms of endurance and fatigue resistance. In this way, even if Zhang Fan did not plan to devote all his energy to this aspect in the following days, he could dig about thirty square rocks in an average day, and in about half a year or so after moving here, the continuous underground secret passage network gradually traveled.

Learning from some of the craftsmen who were good at stone arts, Zhang Fan did not need to mention the use of foreign objects, and also used the crushed stone mud to create some unique doors that could be camouflaged and concealed. At the same time, relying on his own intelligence and even some knowledge, this secret passage that stretches for six or seven miles has largely become a complex labyrinth with only two exits. With enough manpower, it is not difficult to complete or occupy the maze, but it is not so easy to find the dungeon where the children are hiding.

Some of the excavated stones are buried deep in a cavity in the mountain, and some of the surface is piled up on the surface, and if you don't know, you will find an underground palace in this courtyard, and if you look closely, you may find a second place. However, it is not so easy to discover the real subject's class.

Of course, Zhang Fan still felt that it was a little unsafe, and in the following half a year or so, he opened up a lot of places to store supplies and even play for children in this cliff before he finally put his mind at ease.

In the past year or so, the children not only took turns to work with Zhang Fan. The bottom line of culture and even reading ability is not comparable to the past, even if the children are not very talented, three or four people can cooperate with each other to read some ordinary literate adults, may not feel relaxed books.

In this process, Zhang Fan also explained a lot of knowledge on the rivers and lakes to the children: "You should have heard of evil insects and even Gu poison when you were in the Far Barbarian Department, right? In fact, there are some unique investigation methods that you can't see." Unlike me, you may not be able to see some unique tiny Gu worms that are very small but can detect your location. So in the future, when I leave, you must act carefully according to my arrangement, don't think that it is safe to be okay many times, sometimes a careless hidden danger may make you suffer unbearable losses... ”。

Just when Zhang Fan was preparing in the mountains and wilderness palace in Beizhou to prevent those children from the far-reaching barbarians from all kinds of dangers when he left, the peace of the year of peace certainly began to make many people who couldn't bear it want to move. Although some of the more than 2,000 lords who have been divided into feudal lords feel that things may not be so simple, many ordinary lords who are not very experienced are completely different. When the autumn harvest has just passed, the winter leisure is coming again, and before the end of the year, many people have begun to rebuild the building, and at the same time, they have used various means to secretly abduct the women who are still good in the territory, and for a while, at least in some unlucky counties, people's hearts have begun to float.

Zhang Fan did not go down the mountain on the first anniversary of settling down, but seemed to continue to lie dormant in the deep mountains of Nabeizhou, which began to make more and more people breathe a sigh of relief. I also completely let go of a lot of worries. The autumn harvest season of the following year had just passed, and the burden on the counties was obviously much heavier for the majority of the people. People's hearts have also begun to fluctuate a little. It's just that correspondingly, there are many ordinary people who have also ascended to the sky because of this, and have become decent servants or housewrights left in the lord's mansion. There seems to be a lot more consumer markets than in the past. The prosperity of the towns corresponds to the heavy burdens of the countryside, and it seems that in a short period of time, it has gone through the evolution of the former Dongyuan Kingdom, which may only have been available for hundreds of years.