However, after twenty days of hard work, the city wall has begun to take shape, after all, it is the work of thousands of people, and the speed of construction can be slowed down?

Under Wang Xiaolai's special request, the city wall at the mouth of the Echo Valley Valley is two and a half zhang high, and the thickness is also one zhang, which is a scale that completely imitates Daxing City.

Hou Selei didn't understand at all, nearly half of the tens of thousands of refugees in the refugee resettlement site hadn't been talked about, so what did Wang Xiaolai do with such a deep and thick city wall? Isn't that a waste of silver?

Walking on the construction site, Wang Xiaolai greeted Sere: "Old Hou, how is the situation at the refugee resettlement center?" ”

"The families of the workers working in the paper mill have already moved over to help when they hear the news of your construction of the city, and it is expected that the earliest batch will arrive tomorrow morning."

Wang Xiaolai nodded: "I have to arrange Jingyu to pick them up, by the way, how many people are there." ”

"About a thousand."

"It's okay, someone is here anyway."

"My lord, I still want to remind you that the 200,000 taels you said were used to build the city have now gone down halfway, and if you continue, I am afraid that the silver will not be enough at all." Hussere Road.

Wang Xiaolai turned around: "Why do you say that, this city wall is almost completed, as long as you get a city gate, it will be completed." ”

"That's true, but my lord, this is just the wall of the valley mouth of the Echo Valley, what about the valley? What about Hooftown? ”

"Hey, what else do you want from Hucheng, it's demolished directly."

"My lord, are you planning to make the whole of Echo Valley a new city?"

Wang Xiaolai nodded: "What, can't it?" ”

"With all due respect, it's really risky to do so."

"Say so for Mao."

Hu Sere pointed to the three sides of the ring mountain: "My lord, although I am a layman, but I also know that the mountain surrounded on three sides is not only the natural barrier of the Echo Valley, but also the shortcomings of the Echo Valley, in case, I mean, if an enemy comes to attack you, as long as you touch it from the mountain, it will be a massacre, and when the time comes, no one will be able to escape, which means that this Echo Valley is a place of death." ”

Wang Xiaolai smiled: "Don't worry, I have already thought about this." ”

Hussere: "??? ”

"I've asked Jiuchai to go up the mountain with the escort team to investigate."

"Survey what?"

Wang Xiaolai said: "I plan to build a city wall on the mountain and connect it with the city wall in front. ”

"My lord, where is the silver!"

"Settle down, you're too sensitive, and I don't need money."

"No money? How do you build a wall? Isn't it all silver to buy bricks or something? Also, the top of the mountain is not like a valley mouth, and there is no place to go down to the foundation. ”

"Hehe, don't worry, I've been prepared for this."

Hou Selei looked at Wang Xiaolai puzzled.

Wang Xiaolai put his hands behind his back and looked at the top of the mountain on three sides.

Unlike flat land, the city wall on the top of the hill can be said to be the best to build, but relatively speaking, it is also the longest to build.

You must know that Wang Xiaolai spent a lot of money and invited a lot of craftsmen.

With these craftsmen here, it is enough to spend some time, mix gunpowder, and chisel on the mountain to make a wall.

There is no need to how high the city wall is, after all, the top of the mountain is already steep, and the city wall that is chiseled out as long as it is one zhang high and one meter wide is completely enough, and the city wall on this mountain can be built into a wide and narrow appearance because of the geographical location, so that it is more trouble-free, and the protection will not be bad.

Thinking of this, Wang Xiaolai smiled slightly.

···

In Daxing City, Lily reported what Wang Xiaolai had done to the empress every day, and even sent back a map of Wang Xiaolai's progress in building the city.

Looking at the transformed appearance of Echo Valley on the picture, the empress couldn't help but smile: "I didn't expect that this little laizi has a talent for architecture." ”

Narcissus pursed his lips and said, "Your Majesty, what do you think, Wang Xiaolai is a little out of line to do this." ”

"What's out of the ordinary?"

"There is no war at all at the moment, he Wang Xiaolai looks like he has made Echo Valley impregnable, what is he going to do?" Narcissus Road

The empress smiled and waved her hand: "Don't worry, Xiao Laizi has no two hearts, otherwise, he would not be able to let this picture appear in front of me, besides, if he really has two hearts, then he must have enough strength." ”

"Your Majesty, you promised Wang Xiaolai to allow him to recruit 100,000 refugees, in case he recruits soldiers among these refugees..."

As soon as Narcissus said this, the empress was stunned and smiled for a long time: "Narcissus, do you think that I have not arranged spies among these 100,000 people?" ”

The empress's words made Narcissus stay directly, and when she said it, she didn't know what happened.

The empress continued to wave her hand: "It is said that the sulfur powder and other things in Longshou County are in short supply, Narcissus, you go to the treasury and send some to Xiao Laizi." ”

"Your Majesty, you still support him."

The Empress nodded.

Hearing this, Narcissus was helpless, so he reluctantly hugged his fists and said yes, turned around and went out.

After the person left, the empress looked at the picture on the dragon book case in a daze, her face showed confusion, and she no longer looked like the person in front of her who was ready for everything: "Little Laizi, little Laizi, I really can't understand you, what are you going to do when you make Echo Valley look like an iron bucket?" Could it be that if it's really like Narcissus said, I just let you out, and you have two hearts for me? ”

With such a muttering in her mouth, the empress's spirit couldn't help but become in a trance.

···

The climate has entered the autumn, the outer outline of the Echo Valley has basically been completed by Wang Xiaolai, you stand outside the Echo Valley and look, you can see, the front side of the city wall is two and a half zhang high, ten miles long, one zhang wide appears in front of you, on the top of the mountain on three sides, there are craftsmen with the method of chiseling, is chiseling on the mountain peak little by little to draw the outline of the city wall.

It's only been more than 40 days, and Wang Xiaolai threw no less than 500,000 taels of silver in this Echo Valley.

And the average income of Longshou County has also risen a lot because of Wang Xiaolai's actions.

In the case of having money, Liu Taizhen was naturally happy, when Wang Xiaolai did not come earlier, the people of Longshou County spent most of the rest of the time in addition to going into the cultivated land to collect grain, so that Longshou County became the lowest state and county in Sizhou.

Now it's okay, in less than two months, hundreds of thousands of people in Longshou County, everyone has a good hand, who doesn't say that Wang Xiaolai is good?

Even, they wish that Wang Xiaolai would make some big moves, anyway, they have the silver.

In the middle of the Echo Valley, that is, the old address of Hucheng before, here, through a simple renovation by Wang Xiaolai, he was barely regarded as the Governor's Mansion, although this Governor's Mansion will leak on a cloudy day and rain, but it is much better than living in a tent.

The backbone of the paper mill, except for the Lu family father and son, Li Shuangyu, Hao Ren and the little parrot in Daxing City, the rest have all moved to Echo Valley.

Even more than half of the tens of thousands of refugees in the refugee settlement have come, and the rest are also on their way to move.

"At present, we should concentrate all our efforts on building the places where the people live, and the relocation of the paper mill can be postponed appropriately." Wang Xiao came to look around.

Hou Selei had been in a cold war with Wang Xiaolai for several days, and he couldn't figure out why Wang Xiaolai threw so much silver in the Echo Valley.

Moreover, in the direction of the mountain behind the valley, where explosions are often heard and falling baskets and other objects are seen in mid-air, you ask, Wang Xiaolai still doesn't say, what is he doing?

If you say that it is a new place for the paper mill, do you really not believe it, and you don't see that the five people, including Lily, are guarding the forbidden land inch by inch, and no one is allowed to approach?

Thinking about it, Hou Selei looked at Wang Xiaolai's slimmed down face in recent days, and was puzzled.

Shu Jiuchai snorted: "Xian Jingyu has already led the escort team to start building a residence for the people who moved in, and every family has also contributed labor to help, and it is expected that the construction will be completed before winter." ”

Wang Xiaolai nodded: "This is the best, there is something missing, even if you mention it to me." ”

"There is not much lacking, if you want to mine the rocks, you can use the medicine you made to blow up the mountain, and if you want to cut the wood, you can also cut it from the mountain, or you can welcome it from the refugee settlement."

"From now on, all the trees in the Echo Valley are not allowed to move, and if there is a shortage of wood, they will be bought from the territory of Longshou County."

"Okay."

"Anything else?"

"Yes."

It was Hongxiang who spoke.