Southern Wilderness, Wucheng.

The big sun hung in the sky and it was undoubtedly an excellent weather.

At this moment, Wucheng is facing the direction of Qingzhou, but there are many people who are working, one group is quarrying stones on the nearby mountain, another group is transporting stones, and there is a group of people who are using the big stones they have collected to repair the city wall.

Construction is always more difficult than destruction, this opening, has been blown up for more than half a year, but now the progress of repair, but not even one-fifth, has not been completed.

But this matter is imperative, and now because of the explosion of the nuclear bomb, the imperial court does not dare to use troops for the time being, but if it is a few years later, it may not be.

Although the plank road was burned, the imperial court was not unable to repair it again, from Qingzhou to the Southern Wilderness, there were many dangerous places along the way, but as long as human lives were spared, it was not impossible to cross.

Everything is just about whether it's worth it or not.

And if it really comes to that time, the city wall of Wucheng is more than 50 meters high, which is the strongest fortress.

Therefore, the matter of repairing the city wall is imperative.

However, since ancient times, the repair of city walls has been a major event, which not only consumes manpower, but also consumes extremely money.

If the city wall wants to be strong, the binder cannot be made of earth ash, but mixed with glutinous rice milk, slaked lime, egg white, sand and gravel.

In this day and age, what a luxury it is to use grain as a binder?!

If Zhao Cheng hadn't been in Qingzhou, he would have killed a lot of local households, exterminated his clan and raided his family, accumulated a large amount of gold, silver and grain, and got a batch of money and grain from Wucheng.

As for firing cement, Zhao Cheng is already working on this matter now.

Inheriting the foundation of the Huang Tiandao people, he not only obtained 60,000 usable elites, in addition, he also got a large number of craftsmen, and even, long before the group of heroes came to Qingzhou, he had already begun to transfer the population to the Southern Wilderness.

At the beginning, it was mainly the families of the army, then the craftsmen, and finally, the people who were willing to enter the Southern Wilderness with the army.

For those who are unwilling to leave their hometowns, Zhao Cheng is not forced.

Perhaps in the eyes of other heroes, population is very important, but Zhao Cheng doesn't pay much attention to this aspect, because the population of the Southern Wilderness itself is not a lot.

On the contrary, if you bring too many ordinary people to the Southern Wilderness and settle them, it will be more troublesome.

At this time, Zhao Cheng stood on the wall of Wucheng, looking at the huge gap, and it was cool to blow up the city for a while, but it was really a troublesome thing to repair.

And behind him at this time, there are also some people, among them, Lin Yi is the leader on the left, and Li Tonghai is the leader on the right, and the pattern of civil and military coexistence has been initially demonstrated.

It has been more than a month since Zhao Cheng returned to the Southern Wilderness, and at this time, he naturally did not only repair the city wall, compared to the various things he did, repairing the city wall was only one of the less conspicuous ones.

The first thing he did when he entered the Southern Wilderness was nothing else, it was to reorganize the Yingtian Army and completely settle the civil and military system.

If it weren't for the months of bloody battle in Qingzhou, it would have been impossible for Zhao Cheng to reorganize the Ying Tian Army, but now, it was a word.

The Yellow Heavenly Army that came to the Southern Wilderness with him had more than 60,000 people, and his own Ying Heavenly Army had more than 5,000 people, adding up to about 67,000 in total.

In this case, he selected 3,000 from the militia in Wucheng and raised 70,000.

These 70,000 were divided into seven armies by Zhao Cheng, each army, 10,000 people, of which 10,000 led by Zhao Cheng, with Yingtian as the number, is the elite of the elite, bringing together the essence of the whole army, and the subsequent six armies, but there is no name, belonging to the Yingtian army, the second army, the third army, ...... all the way to the seventh army.

The commanders of every army are generals, and Zhao Cheng is a general.

In order to prevent the formation of parties in the army, the promotion in the army is also alternate, but all officers who are promoted will be transferred to other armies.

Now the 70,000 troops of Yingtian, except for the 10,000 Yingtian army, are stationed in the barracks in Wucheng, and the remaining 60,000 are all camped outside Wucheng.

In the past, Zhao Cheng had only 5,000 people, so he could only rely on Wu Cheng to garrison it, but now that there are more people and horses, he is no longer afraid of Wu getting up to fight, but plans to take the initiative to attack the other party.

Of course, Zhao Cheng was not in a hurry about this matter, but planned to wait until he got more explosives, crossbows, and even muskets came out before attacking to reduce losses.

And this is exactly what Zhao Cheng is doing at the same time as the whole army, that is, the foundation of the Ministry of Industry is really out.

Zhao Cheng came up with a simple assessment system to grade all craftsmen, the higher the grade, the better the treatment, if there is a contribution, there will be a reward.

Among them, Zhao Cheng also vigorously supported carpenters and blacksmiths, on the one hand, to establish a relevant apprenticeship training system, and on the other hand, to encourage craftsmen to innovate.

Zhao Cheng attaches great importance to this matter, and those who dare to block it are directly beheaded.

In ancient times, it was not easy to engage in industry, even if Zhao Cheng now occupies Wucheng, and there are a large number of craftsmen, but these craftsmen, the general quality is not high, not to mention anything else, just say that the cement is burned, the formula of cement is not complicated, but the requirements for the furnace fire are too high, 1,500 degrees, this temperature, is enough to smelt high-strength steel.

And if the temperature of the furnace is reached, it is impossible for Zhao Cheng to burn cement, but definitely use this high-strength steel to make guns.

As for now, it can only rely on the Taoists in the Tiangong Pavilion to make it on a small scale.

This is also the third major event that Zhao Cheng came to the Southern Wilderness, the Taoist among his generals carried out a job change, no longer put on the battlefield to fight, but really played its role.

A Taoist is actually comparable to a small manufacturing table, which is really wasteful to fight with people.

Let's just say that Zhao Cheng, in terms of force, once, when he exhausted his mana, he could only break through ten armors, and the same Taoism, whether it was used to rub seamless steel pipes by hand or refining high explosives, the income at the end of a day was more than killing ten enemies.

The Taoists in the Huang Tianjun, now led by Huang Qi, form the core of the Tiangong Pavilion, as early as half a month ago, the Taoists have already started work, and began to grope, rubbing the seamless steel pipe by hand, as for the high-purity gunpowder, this thing is too dangerous, Zhao Cheng is still practicing by himself.

Calculating the time, by March next year, Zhao Chengcheng will be able to form a musket battalion of about 2,000 people, which will be enough to kill Wu Qi's army.

At the beginning, Wu Qi used 3,000 tigers and leopards to ride, breaking the yellow sky and 50,000 armor, and staying until March Spring, it is also time for Wu Qi to see what it means to break 2,000 and break 100,000.

Of course, Wu Qi's soldiers and horses actually did not have 100,000 people, and now there are only about 60,000, which is just claimed to be 100,000.

In addition to this, Zhao Cheng finally rebuilt the civil and military system headed by Li Tonghai and let Li Tonghai take charge of logistics matters.

Zhao Cheng's gaze on the city wall looked at Wu Cheng from the gap in the city wall.

At this time, Wucheng, there were almost no people on the streets, showing a depressed scene.

And this was done intentionally by Zhao Cheng.

Zhao Cheng's idea is to concentrate on doing great things.

Because the city gate was closed, most of the people in the city were in a state of lack of food, but Zhao Cheng, who had a large amount of grain, did not sell the grain in his hand.

Rather, they use food as wages.

Zhao Cheng deeply understands a truth, that is, money has no value in nature, and valuable people are always people, that is, the so-called population resources, and money is just a number.

If you are literate, then go to be a teacher to teach people to write, if you are illiterate, but have a craft, you will become a craftsman in the army, if you don't know anything, then go to a craftsman apprenticeship, learn a craft during the day, and go to night school at night, which also has food, and if you perform well and pass the assessment, there will be extra food.

Zhao Cheng has now mastered the means of making chemical fertilizers, and if he conquers the city in the future, there is no longer too many people to cultivate the land, and those redundant people are naturally all sent to the "factory" to increase the war potential.

Until the end, with a torrent of steel, swept the world.

Thinking in his heart, and in the void, there is also a huge amount of qi all the time, converging on Zhao Cheng's Dao Seed, nourishing the Dao Seed.

Now that the territory of Qingzhou has been lost, the amount of qi has been greatly reduced, but the cultivation of Taoists is not based on qi, but on qi as food.

With the accumulation of a period of time in Qingzhou and the benefits of Wucheng during this time, finally, quietly, Zhao Cheng's Taoist seed bloomed nine products.

With the change of the Dao species, his body also began to transform in subtleties, however, this is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that the demon dye in Zhao Cheng's Dao seed is also becoming more and more intense, and many subtle things flow out of the demon dye.

This is natural, the demon fetus in the void, seeing that Zhao Cheng has more hope of establishing an earthly Dao country, has made additional investments.

Manifested outside, it is Zhao Cheng's qi, which suddenly became stronger, as if the destiny of heaven has settled, and at a glance, people will have a feeling that this person bears the destiny of heaven.

(End of chapter)