Chongzhen 9th year, December 19th.

Carts carrying stones and timber were pulled into the newly built Yousenhesho Castle in the east of Stone Spring Castle.

Autumn is coming to the east, and the sky is filled with fine snow particles.

Such snow particles do not cause snow to accumulate on the ground, but they can make the road muddy.

After more than a month of construction, the city of 1,000 households has begun to take shape.

Most of the acropolis and thousand households in the Ming Dynasty were built when they were built, and they would carefully survey the terrain and formulate a plan for building the city according to local conditions, in order to maximize the defense of the city.

However, no matter how the city defense changes, the layout and facilities in the Acropolis and Senhu Castle are basically the same.

Buildings such as government offices, barracks, granaries, arsenals, stables, and forage yards all need to be built in fixed locations.

At the beginning, the craftsmen who were in charge of the construction of the castle had already drawn the foundations of the houses for the dwellers, and divided the roads for travel and the main roads in the city.

The inner side of the city wall is surrounded by a four-way racetrack, and the cross street in the city runs through the east, west, south and north, dividing the city into four districts in the shape of a field, and setting up many lanes that are connected with the racetrack, which is used for life in peacetime and is conducive to transporting troops in wartime.

The streets and alleys in the city are designed in the square of the character "Tian", the streets are intertwined, the alleys and alleys are communicated, neatly arranged, and spread to the four streets loop, and the center is connected.

The four streets are connected to the racetrack around the city with the help of these alleys, crisscrossing and extending in all directions.

The street inside the office is spacious, shaped like a chessboard, and the layout is symmetrical.

In addition, in the center of the main street of each street, there is also a place to build various market squares and torii gates.

After determining the location of the street, the craftsmen immediately drew out the location of the temples instead of the official offices.

The northwest corner of the city is ready to build "Jade Emperor Temple", "Sanqing Temple", "Zhenwu Temple".

At the end of South Street, near the city wall, "Chenghuang Temple" and "Qixu Temple" will be built.

At the middle end of East Street, the "Mawang Temple" will be built here in the future.

The official office of the Thousand Households Office is located in the west of the North and South Streets, and the north of the East and West Streets, near the intersection of the two streets.

Chen Wang did not stop the craftsmen from demarcating the construction places of various temples at the first time.

Although Chen Wang does not believe in God, he knows very well how important these things are to people in this era.

Moreover, this kind of planning and layout is a conventional layout, and Chen Wang naturally cannot change it without authorization.

However, the craftsmen who built the Acropolis also knew that the immediate priority was to build houses, because the weather was already cold, and it was already winter.

Chen Wang wore a scarf on his head, a rivet armor, a collar neckkerchief, a Yanling knife on his waist with his left hand, and a horsewhip in his right hand, and walked on the East Street to check the progress of the construction.

Behind him, Tang Shiping followed closely behind Chen Wang with more than a dozen heavily armed soldiers.

The soldiers on duty and the craftsmen who were working all saluted when they saw Chen Wang's arrival.

Wang Yuankang, who was presiding over the repair of the city, had already received the news that Chen Wang was coming, and hurriedly put down the work in his hand to welcome him.

"How's the city going?"

Chen Wang's gaze slowly swept over the buildings in the city and asked Wang Yuankang.

"In about ten days, all the barracks can be capped and can be temporarily occupied."

Wang Yuankang held the paperwork in his arms, and saw that Chen Wang's gaze had been stopped at the barracks for a long time, so he stepped forward a little and reported to Chen Wangyu.

Chen Wang glanced at the barracks that were under construction not far away.

The barracks of the garrison have indeed been almost built, the outermost houses have begun to be tiled, and many of the dozen or so sergeant barracks behind have already been erected.

Although many places are still quite simple, as long as the top is sealed after a few days, you can shelter from the wind and rain, and people can live temporarily, and you don't have to live in military tents.

Living in the barracks, this winter will at least be much better.

"The progress of the government offices, granaries, arsenals, stables, and forage fields in the city is about the same as that of the barracks, and they can be completed almost at the same time."

Wang Yuankang glanced down at the paperwork in his hand and continued.

"According to the instructions of the lord, the right and back two cities of a thousand households have been expanded outward by a hundred paces on the basis of the original plan."

In the Ming Dynasty, one step was five feet, and one foot of the measuring ruler was converted into a unit of thirty-two centimeters in later generations, and one step was one meter six.

The castle was built outside of Shiquan Castle and was built in a fairly gentle place, so the length of the castle was almost the same from north to south and east to west, and the castle was built in a square shape.

The length of each wall was only 200 steps, that is, 320 meters, and the circumference of the city wall was more than two miles, covering a total area of about 100,000 square meters.

It is naturally enough for an ordinary thousand-household city to have such a size, but for Chen Wang, such an area is naturally not enough.

Each is expanded by 100 steps, and each wall is 300 steps long, and the total circumference of the city wall reaches Sanmingli.

The total circumference of the city wall is almost 2,000 meters, and the area will be more than 200,000 square meters.

As long as the circumference of the wall of the city is not more than four miles, it is not considered a violation, and it can be built without the approval of the above.

The reason why such a large city is to be built, Chen Wang is naturally not lost.

The castle of the Right Thousand Households was located in the southeast of Shiquan, not far from the mouth of the Chihe River, and it was located at the throat of the main road from Hanyin to Shiquan, cutting off the communication between the east and the west.

In addition to the need to accumulate troops, the most important of them was naturally to protect the security inside the Hanzhong Mansion.

The several hundred households under the jurisdiction of the right thousand households are basically located in important places, echoing each other and relying on each other.

In some important places, Chen Wang also chose the address, and after changing the money and grain, he directly built the military fort on the site.

As an important artery from Hanyin to Shiquan, Chen Wang has also ordered it to be renovated and set up a hundred households on the site of Chihekou.

If the precautions are not strict, once a rogue enters the mansion, then the hard-earned fields and the foundation they have saved will be destroyed in one day.

"The rest of the 100 households in various places are built according to the conventional specifications of the city, but because the manpower is concentrated to repair the 1,000 households, the progress of the 100 households in various places is a little behind, and many people may still need to live in shacks in winter."

Wang Yuankang raised his head and reported in a low voice.

Chen Wang frowned slightly, the time was too urgent, even if it was in a hurry, it was still a little too late.

"There is really no way, and I can only accept ......"

Chen Wang looked away from the barracks and looked around.

A complete acropolis is defended with walls, gates, urns, corner towers, moats, and so on.

However, due to the urgency of time, the four walls were not built, and they were still in the state of foundation.

Many of the construction sites in the office are quite dirty due to rain and snow, and most of the streets and alleys are muddy and difficult to walk.

Stones and timber can be seen everywhere in the city, and all kinds of miscellaneous things are piled up together, which looks quite scattered.

Although the weather was cold and the conditions were difficult, the faces of the people who were working on the construction site did not have half of the bitterness.

The simple reason is that these newly built barracks will be where they will need to live in the future.

When they were away from their homeland for a long time, they were displaced all the way, living a precarious life, and now they finally have a place to stay.

Most of them were so hungry that they couldn't resist the temptation of those few mouthfuls of thick porridge in a big pot that they were willing to sign the post to become military households.

Originally, I just thought that the military household was hard, but I was afraid that it was only a little better than being a homeless person, and they were already ready to be cattle and horses.

Who would have thought that during this period of time, they would be able to eat enough every day, or three meals a day.

At first, it was thick porridge, but in the past few days, it has been dry rice, and there are even a few days when I have seen meat.

When they were wandering around, they never thought they would be able to live like this.

Later, when the city was repaired, those people told them that they were going to build a new city, and the house they were building now was the house they were going to live in.

Every day, there is enough food and food, or a house for himself, and there is a reward for contributing, everyone works hard to help, and there are almost no lazy people.

The weather was fine before, and Chen Wang didn't feel anything unusual.

But this time, he found that he noticed a problem.

Most of the people who were building their houses were dressed in extremely thin clothes, and there were even those who could not be covered by clothing, and they could not help but shiver when the north wind blew.

Wearing such thin clothes in such cold weather, I am afraid that many people will fall before this winter has passed.

The sergeants who fall every year in the Nine Sides because of the cold are not as few as those who fall on the battlefield.

Chen Wang clenched the Yanling knife at his waist, stopped, and cast his gaze towards the north.

Counting the time, Lu Xiangsheng has been the governor of Xuanda for two months.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng's letter complaining for the border army should have been handed to Chongzhen.

There is no clothes to hang on, and a full meal every day......

Nowadays, it has become the norm for people to eat more grain and levy more than they want.

Not only the border troops are suffering, but also the people......

Chen Wang glanced up at the sky, looking at the snow particles falling in front of him, and couldn't help frowning.

Now the weather is getting colder and colder, and after a while, after the first month, I am afraid that it will be difficult to work, so I can only rest in the barracks.

In the past, the winter in Hanzhong Mansion was not too cold, and you could survive it, but now the weather is getting colder and colder, but it is difficult to get through.

Raising soldiers costs money like running water, and everything costs money for food, clothing, housing, and transportation.

A winter coat counts the price of cotton and the labor cost, and those that can keep warm are at least one or two taels of silver, and the subsequent armaments and ordnance are even larger, and they often need ten taels of silver.

The two thousand households are only considered to be the main army, and if they are fully staffed, it will be two thousand people, and Sun Chuanting will definitely not transfer the equipment of these two thousand people, and Chen Wang will not be able to find other ways to arm, so he can only build it by himself.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, when the system of guards was decided, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered all the guards in the world to place ordnance bureaus to produce ordnance for their own use.

But by now, most of the Inland Guards' Ordnance Bureaus have been abolished.

The Ordnance Bureau in Hanzhongwei has been abandoned for many years, and most of the military craftsmen's task in previous years was only to repair the broken ordnance, and the rest of the time was basically to make kitchen knives and farm tools.

That is, in recent years, when the civil uprising has risen and various places have been in turmoil, inland guards such as Hanzhongwei have resumed their function of making ordnance.

However, due to the problem of raw materials, as well as the problems of money, food, and corruption, these weapons produced by the Guards Ordnance Bureau can only reach a usable level at best.

In fact, the military craftsmen of the 100 households and 1,000 households of the first-class guard center only have the power to repair the ordnance.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no gun factory among the people, and both guns and guns could only be done by the War Bureau, and ordinary guards did not have the power to cast guns and make guns at the beginning.

When there was really power, it was still in the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, because of the need to quell the rebellion, so the local guards were released to make their own copper cannons and firearms, but they had to be approved by the imperial court before starting construction.

However, up to now, most of these systems have been basically abolished, and there are few craftsmen in ordinary inland guards who can cast guns, and it is not difficult to make guns, but Chen Wang does not need them to make guns now.

In some small places, no one will manage the guns that make a few guns, but they are still very strict with artillery.

Chen Wang, an important institution like the Ordnance Bureau, naturally would not hand it over to others.

When he was in Hanzhongwei, Chen Wang directly demanded that most of the ordnance made by the craftsmen in Hanzhongwei was too inferior and could not be used, and demanded that the Weizhong military craftsmen be reorganized and the Ordnance Bureau should be revived.

Most of the people in Han Zhongwei's Weapons Bureau were basically brought to Shiquan by Chen Wang, and the entire Weapons Bureau can be said to have actually been moved to Shiquan by Chen Wang.

The first building to be built in the city was not an official office or barracks, but an ordnance bureau.

The Ordnance Bureau was set up by Chen Wang next to the arsenal, which was located in the northwest of the Qianhu Office.

Chen Wang didn't stay in the barracks area for long, and after a little inspection, he took Tang Shiping in the direction of the Ordnance Bureau.

Construction is still going on at the construction site in the city, and not only has the first armory bureau been built, but the craftsmen in the bureau have even begun to make armaments and weapons.

Before entering the game, Chen Wang already heard the sound of the hammer constantly beating the iron, and at the same time, there was also the sound of the wind blowing the fire.

The inside of the Ordnance Bureau was as busy as it was outside, and as soon as Chen Wanggang walked into the workshop behind the Ordnance Bureau, he felt a wave of heat coming towards him.

In the workshop, a group of craftsmen are constantly busy, and everyone in the huge workshop performs their duties, in an orderly manner, without the slightest panic.

Chen Wang stood in front of the door and watched as one after another pieces of forged iron armor were sent to the work table.

On either side of the table stood a group of children, about eight or nine years old, holding ropes through the armor of the iron armor to connect them.

What they did was the iron shield that was widely equipped in the Ming army, and dozens of iron shield arms were already installed in the basket under the table at this time.