Datong Mansion is the largest city in Dahua closest to the grassland.

To the north of Datong Mansion, the carriage traveled for three days and three nights to reach the endless grassland.

At the beginning of the establishment of Dahua, the Hu people on the grassland often gathered thousands of cavalry teams in the winter when they lacked food and clothing, and plundered the edge of the grassland and Datong Mansion for a generation, so that the people here migrated and migrated, and the killed were killed, and soon became a famous no-man's land.

Later, Taizu established Dahua, in order to stabilize the frontier, after careful thinking, he built another city at the border of Datong and the grassland.

This city is just stuck on the way to enter the grassland, plus the mountains on both sides, the Hu people can only attack this place first if they want to plunder.

The Hu people's combat strength is on horseback, and they have no way to deal with the city with high walls and thick walls, so it has stifled the Hu people's ambition to invade Dahua here, especially in the past twenty years, and they have not been able to find the cavalry to plunder.

The local people also safely harvested the seeds they had worked so hard to sow and named it Qingfeng, which means the best vision.

Because of the existence of the city, the Hu people need supplies, so they can only honestly exchange things. So even after receiving the news that the Hu people were about to invade, for most of the people of Qingfeng, the war was still far away from them.

Bai Jingfei sat bored on the city wall, watching the endless migrant workers carrying cement and green bricks. He really didn't understand why he had to thicken and raise the city walls day and night these days. How good is it to have this time, brothers, to bet on two, or to tease the girls of the 'Poetry Book Workshop'?

In order to keep it secret, Bao Xiren only announced the news of the Hu people's winter invasion and announced that he would make every effort to raise the city wall. Fortunately, except for a lazy guy like Bai Jingfei, everyone else attaches great importance to this, after all, it is now winter, and there is really not much time for them.

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Fang Mu is the steward of the brick kiln village responsible for building houses, and was summoned by Bao Xiren alone a few days ago to take charge of the reinforcement of a city wall.

As a veteran house builder in Qingfeng County, he naturally takes this matter seriously. After all, building a city wall to protect the people of Qingfeng County from intrusion is a good thing for the benefit of others and oneself.

Needless to say, as for self-interest, as long as you say that the brick kiln village construction team, the reinforced city wall, blocked the Hu people's 100,000 iron horses, and there is no business to come to the door?

Of course, the most important thing is that he wants to meet the people of the recently rising Wyvern Gang building team.

In the past, with superb building quality, flying building speed, beautiful house design, and the most comprehensive and intimate after-sales service, the brick kiln village construction team has always been the largest construction team in Qingfeng County, and there is no one.

But this year, a small gang of ruffians suddenly sold lime and red bricks, and the business was so hot that it had a great impact on them, so much so that the village chief specially called everyone together to fight back.

In the face of such stragglers, the general choice in the village is to reduce the price, which is also their most common way, so that what you produce cannot be sold, it will naturally close the door, and then raise the price to monopolize the market.

But this tried and tested method completely failed.

Let's talk about red bricks first, when Fang Mu got the red brick sample, the whole person was confused, why was the brick burned by the other party red? And the bricks you burned yourself are green? The other party must have mastered a new method of burning bricks.

The village tried to lower the price of green bricks, but the effect was basically ineffective. The people of the Wyvern Gang claimed that the firing of red bricks was made of the best clay through a special process, and the process was so complex that there were hundreds of processes.

Fang Mu is convinced of this, the people in the village burn the green bricks, and the process is also thirty or forty steps, and the red bricks burned by the Flying Dragon Gang are as bright as red jade and condensed like jade, and they know that they are good things at a glance, how can they be completed without hundreds of processes?

Therefore, their price reduction not only did not cause any negative impact on the other party, but promoted the sales of the other party.

Because there is a rumor that a house built of red bricks is the most comfortable house to live in. Do you know why the price of green bricks has dropped? That's because as soon as the red bricks were born, the green bricks basically couldn't be sold, and the people in the brick kiln village had to reduce the price.

Fang Mu dared to conclude that this rumor must have been spread by the Wyvern Gang, but he could only watch and there was nothing he could do.

The lime is a little better, the price moves, the sales of the Flying Dragon Gang have declined, and it doesn't take many days for the other party to stop burning lime, which makes Fang Mu's injured heart a little comforted.

However, this comfort did not last long, and those people introduced a new material called cement, which is definitely an architectural artifact except for the ugly color.

It is said that the brick walls made of this thing are stronger than the stones, and the hammer is even more difficult to smash.

Red bricks, cement, there must be a master builder on the other side, and it is likely that he is still a master craftsman in the Ministry of Engineering.

Fang Mu has given up the idea of competing with the other party, a master craftsman in the Ministry of Industry, not to mention a small brick kiln village, even if it is the largest builder in Datong, it is not an opponent!

His only wish now is to meet this master, and if he can get a few words from him, he will be of infinite use in this life.

In the past, he would never have this kind of thought, after all, some unique skills are the secret of the masters. But today is different, when the Hu people come to attack, it is the time when everyone is united to fight against foreign enemies, as long as they behave better in front of the master, the other party will be happy, maybe they will ...... Hey......

But Fang Mu was disappointed, this time the city wall of Qingfeng County was reinforced, and no people from the Flying Dragon Gang appeared. It stands to reason that this is very unreasonable, strengthening the city wall and resisting the Hu people is the unshirkable responsibility of every Qingfeng people, and Bao Xiren has no reason to skip the people of the Flying Dragon Gang!

He had seen the houses built by the Wyvern Gang, and many of the structures were absolutely ingenious in their handling of details, and the fact that he could understand them alone inspired him greatly.

At this moment, a voice sounded in his ears: "Master Cheng, the quality of the red bricks I bought from you last time was very good, and my lord was so picky that he praised it." Master Cheng's skills are not there, and said, when do you have time to sell me a little more? My lord said, the price is negotiable! ”

Fang Mu's heart moved? Will this Master Cheng burn red bricks? Could it be that he is the mysterious master invited by the Wyvern Gang? Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the other party. Master Cheng is about forty years old, with a pair of palms covered with calluses, and his face is full of the vicissitudes of time.

It must be right, although the image of the other party is a little different from the master in his mind, there will always be a gap between the ideal and the reality, and Fang Mu said that he can accept it.

Taking a deep breath, he was just about to pay a visit, but he heard this Master Cheng sigh: "Brother Tai, I'm sorry, the red bricks over there have been sold out, and I will never burn bricks in the future, if you need it, you can contact the person in charge of Yunxi Technology." ”

The person who bought the bricks was surprised: "Yunxi Technology? Their red bricks are a lot more expensive than what you burn, and you can't buy them at all. ”

Master Cheng was helpless: "Then you just wait, red bricks are not food, and there will be no goods and no starvation for a while." ”

The person who bought the bricks wanted to say more, but Master Cheng shook his head and turned to leave.