Leaving from the tiger bee's cave, Chu He did not continue to stay in the steelmaking yard, but walked around Qinghe Village alone.

Compared with the miserable world outside, the current situation in Qinghe Village is definitely a paradise.

The fields are heavy with rice, and there are children in the ravines and streams catching fish and shrimp, laughing and laughing.

On the edge of the river, wooden fishing boats are casting, and villagers are casting nets to catch fish.

On the banks of the river, there are villagers shepherding sheep, and there are also half-grown children watching flocks of ducks.

Although Chu River collected all the fields and managed the cultivation centrally, the villagers did not have nothing to do.

The young and strong who entered the Qianyuanwei can already support a large family of people with military salaries, but no farmer is idle, and no one will think that the family has more silver and enough food.

Chu He's plan for Qinghe Village will not leave the villagers idle.

The elderly and children can mow the grass to feed wild boars, bison and goats, and can also dig earthworms to catch small fish and feed chickens and ducks.

Women can cut cloth and make clothes, in the prime of life they can follow the fishing team to fish, they can also cut wood and burn charcoal, and some young people who are not selected for the Qianyuan Guard can still go to mining stones, enter the steelworks, etc., anyway, they can always find a suitable job for them.

Chu Quan now has an innumerable amount of silver taels, and he is also generous, and the remuneration given to these villagers is extremely large, almost three times the normal situation, and the income of the villagers in Qinghe Village is afraid that it is more than five or six times that of the previous one, and every family has a surplus.

There is no harm if there is no comparison, and other refugees who fled to Qinghe Village, seeing the situation in Qinghe Village, needless to say, that envy is needless to say, except for some old stubborns, most of them beg to change their surnames to join Qinghe Village.

After all, the taste of starvation is really uncomfortable, if you join Qinghe Village, you can get a rich life, let your family have no worries about food and clothing, and it is not unacceptable to change your surname.

The current villagers of Qinghe Village, when they go outside, all puff up their chests, and when other villagers see them, they flatter and flatter more, and their relatives from other villages who used to look down on them also show extreme enthusiasm.

In the past, Qinghe Village was very poor, and people in other villages were most afraid of marrying their daughters in Qinghe Village to go back to their parents' homes, and they basically came to borrow money and rice, but now it is different, the women of Qinghe Village are carrying big bags and small bags when they go back to their parents' homes, and it can be seen from here how great the changes in Qinghe Village are.

The villagers of Qinghe Village know that everything is brought to them by the Chu River, which makes the villagers of Qinghe Village extremely heartfelt, and the luck of the Chu River is also constantly improving.

Chu He walked around Qinghe Village, and the villagers who saw him all looked respectful, and greeted Chu He quite enthusiastically, and Chu Ge'er kept shouting.

Those children even showed extreme admiration for Chu He, and soon Chu He was followed by a large string of small tails.

Thousands of iron coins were dispatched, and it was not easy to get rid of the little tail behind him, and when he returned to the Chu family's mansion, Chu He took out the map of Datong County and frowned.

A major strategy of historical significance by the later emperor Zhu Yuanzhang was to "build a high wall, accumulate grain, and slowly become king".

Chu He now has a large amount of silver taels, a large amount of grain and grass purchased, and the strategy of accumulating grain is well implemented, obviously, the next thing is to build a high wall to improve their protection and combat effectiveness.

The terrain of the whole Datong County is dangerous, in a zigzag, surrounded by mountains and the sea on the other, and there is a Daqing River separating Datong County from the land of Nanban.

Qinghe Village is at the bottom of the long strip of Datong County, closest to Huyaling, once Datong County is captured by the Yellow Turban Army, Wuqing Township, Changding Township and other places that can be defended according to the situation, Chu River has this little force on hand, and it is not realistic to fight a field battle with the enemy.

If the people of the Southern Barbarians want to attack Datong County directly, they need to cross the wide Daqing River.

But with the strength of the southern barbarians, it is not a big problem to cross the Daqing River, and you don't even need to pass through Datong County, you can run rampant in the belly of Datong.

Therefore, it is quite necessary to build a walled city near Qinghe Village.

Even if Chu He planned to make a deal with Meng Shu, trading these things could not be negotiated just by relying on Meng Qingtong's friendship, and without a reciprocal status, there was no way to talk about the transaction.

There is no doubt that Meng Shu is definitely a hero, and he even wants to plunder the luck of Meng Qingtong's daughter, let alone himself, an outsider.

Once Meng Huo knew the secret of the steelmaking factory, and he didn't have enough strength to protect it, how could Meng Huo be willing to take out real money, grain, grass, horses, etc. to trade with him.

Huang Zhong and Gan Ning may be able to make Meng Huo jealous, but in the final analysis, the power they can control is the most stable and solid, and only when they have a considerable amount of power can they be qualified to make a deal with Meng Huo.

Of course, it is impossible for Meng Shu to put the main force in Datong County, after all, the army of Shu will immediately go south to quell the rebellion, Meng Shu will definitely concentrate his forces to fight against the army of Shu, and those who come to Datong County are estimated to be some small tribes and small troops, and what Chu He has to do now is to repel them.

No matter how strong the potential of the steelmaking plant is, it will take time to transform it into combat power.

The generals under Meng Shu's command are afraid that they will be equipped with steel weapons as soon as possible, and the transformation of the steelmaking plant into combat power is to equip the army on a large scale, and it will never be possible to do it without three or five years, and Meng Shu will not be short-sighted to this point.

Chu He took a charcoal pen and sketched on the map for a long time, drawing and wiping, and it took two or three hours to plan the sketch of building the walled city.

This walled city is planned to reach the small river outside Qinghe Village in the north, the wild dog ditch more than ten miles away in the south, the Yingchou Stream in the east fifteen or sixteen miles away, and the west directly to the sea cliff.

It covers an area of more than 900 square kilometers, covering almost half of Changding Township, which is almost the same as a county or district in China on the earth, and it is not a problem for a population of two or three hundred thousand to live in it.

This is definitely an extremely huge project, even if the city wall can be built according to the terrain, local materials, the city wall is afraid that there are hundreds of miles away, and the city walls here are developing towards tall and thick, it is not a simple matter to build it.

However, Chu He does not plan to achieve it overnight, this is a long-term plan.

Even if there are many people here who can be used as humanoid construction machines, it is normal to move 1,800 catties of rocks, even if there are homeless people everywhere now, and 100,000 people can be pulled out for a mouthful of food, but such a big project, Chu He estimated in his heart that it would be acceptable to spend three or five years.

Moreover, Chu He's current plan is only to build fortresses in various dangerous places, and finally slowly connect the various fortresses.

Under normal circumstances, the construction of a walled city in this way has far exceeded the scope of a village, and it is not allowed by the government, but at this time, who cares about whether the Chu River is built illegally or not.

Chu He knew that even if Shu could really calm the Southern Barbarian Rebellion, the next thing was to deal with Great Wei, and it was impossible to send a large army over, and the strength of Qinzhou City, after three or five years, how could it be helpless to get Chu He's Golden Bell Cover Iron Army!

At that time, the city and management of Shu will come to demolish the illegal construction, and it will depend on whether Chu Hetong agrees.

This planning map is just a sketch, how to build it, Chu He naturally has to ask other people's opinions.

In addition, the situation has changed abruptly, seeing that the situation is suddenly rising, such a good opportunity to increase troops, Chu He does not plan to let go, if you want to completely control Changding Township, 3,000 troops are indispensable.