A group of armored horsemen were like stars holding the moon, hugging Chen Wang and galloping all the way from afar.

"Greetings to the Commander-in-Chief!"

Before they got close, the officers and officials of the guard station on the road were already bowing down and bowing in unison.

"No courtesy."

Chen Wang did not dismount, restrained the war horse in front of everyone, and gently raised the horsewhip.

"Get up."

Before coming to Shiquan, he had already sent someone to spread the word to Wang Yuankang and Tang Shiping.

"You don't have to do these things in the future, it's better to put them in the guard house if you have this heart."

Chen Wang frowned slightly, and his gaze swept over Wang Yuankang and Tang Shiping, who were standing at the forefront.

He sent someone to spread the word to Wang Yuankang and Tang Shiping that they should sort out the documents, and he wanted to know the general situation in the Zhongwei Station this year, so as to make better plans for the future arrangements.

Chen Wang never cared about what pomp and circumstance, these pomp and circumstance were useless in his opinion, and it was better to do more things and work if he had this time.

"Your Excellency instructed the lower officials to keep it in mind, and the lower officials will let everyone disperse."

Seeing Chen Wang frowning, Wang Yuankang's heart sank, and he hurriedly bowed his head and ordered everyone to disperse.

When the officers and officials of the guard station heard the order, they also hurriedly retired.

In an instant, in addition to the soldiers on duty outside the city, only Wang Yuankang and Tang Shiping were left.

At Chen Wang's signal, both of them also rode horses and joined the team.

Looking at the scattered people, Chen Wang finally had time to observe the built city at this time.

All the way from Shiquan City, Chen Wang saw the general situation of the city.

In the original plan, the right thousand households of Hanzhongwei were roughly a square.

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 two thousand meters.

However, when the outer city was finally built, Chen Wang revised the plan and changed the original square to a hexagonal shape, which widened the area a little more.

The outer city wall is built according to the shape of the fortress, and at the same time, the urn city, the corner tower, the gate tower, the female wall, the pheasant moat, and the horse road are all built.

The wall is more than two zhang high, the outer green brick, the inside is filled with tung oil, and it is extremely firm.

On the periphery of the city wall, a moat was dug with a depth of three meters and a width of six meters, and then the water of the Han River was diverted into the moat as a moat.

This is also a plan for the worst-case scenario.

Hanzhong Mansion is surrounded by mountains, and it only needs to hold the key passes to isolate it from the outside world, but no matter how tightly defended it is, there will be loopholes.

Now Chen Wang has basically put all his family resources in this place and city, and there is no room for loss.

The grain, grass and silver seized from the Golden Winged Peng and the Black Killing Tiger were basically stored in this exit city.

Most of the soldiers' families have also been moved to the city by Chen Wang, so it is natural to strengthen the defense as much as possible.

Chen Wang inspected the outer wall of the city, the figures of the soldiers on duty could be faintly seen at the battlements above the city wall, and the muzzles and guns of the black holes could also be seen between the battlements and arrow towers.

As long as there are enough defenders in the city, whoever wants to take this place will have to leave tens of thousands of corpses outside it.

"Go back to the official hall first."

Chen Wang was resolute, briefly inspected the construction of the city, and then drove his horse towards the city again.

Tang Shiping and Wang Yuankang naturally did not refuse, and followed Chen Wang on the left and right.

Chen Wang led a group of armored horsemen into the city, and everyone followed behind him.

Chen Wang was at the forefront, and his clothes were undoubtedly the most eye-catching, when he was building the city, Chen Wang stayed in the office for a long time, so he was quickly recognized.

Chen Wang rode on a red horse and looked to both sides of the street.

The streets in the city are distinct, clean and tidy, and most of the buildings are newly built, showing vitality at a glance.

The city is very clean and tidy, there are many buildings and shops along the street, and there is not a lot of people coming and going, a thriving scene.

Chen Wang led a group of A bikes to walk on the street, which is not unremarkable.

The news of Chen Wang's arrival had already spread, and there were actually more pedestrians on the streets than usual.

They all heard that Chen Wang was coming and waited in advance, this was not Wang Yuankang's arrangement, but the military households in the city wanted to meet Chen Wang, a big official.

Most of them were homeless people, and when they were recruited as military households, they heard Chen Wang's name from the mouths of recruiting officers.

It was Chen Wang who gave them a bite to eat, so that they did not starve to death in the wilderness and freeze to death in the mountains like other homeless people.

Chen Wang walked all the way, and everywhere he looked, all the soldiers and civilians along the way bowed their heads and bowed.

Chen Wang did not show a detached posture with the frame of the general soldier, but held a horsewhip in his hand, smiled and returned the salute with his fists.

A group of military pedestrians on both sides of the street were flattered and more respectful when they saw Chen Wang's return salute.

They originally thought that their chief soldier had become famous at a young age and was in a high position, and he should be domineering.

But I don't want to see that I look quite gentle and modest.

However, no one showed contempt in their hearts because of this, Chen Wang's appearance was heroic, his eyebrows were dignified and vibrant, although his demeanor was gentle and moderate, he couldn't help but be afraid in his heart.

Chen Wang led everyone along the street all the way to the east, and soon saw the location of the Thousand Household Official Hall.

The 1000 government halls occupy a large area, and when you turn into the street, you will see two tall trees outside the main entrance.

The two trees are vigorous and vigorous, and they have become mature trees, and they are obviously transplanted old trees, which must have taken a lot of effort.

The soldiers on duty outside the official hall did not squint, but did their duty.

Seeing Chen Wang's arrival, all the soldiers saluted.

Chen Wang did not give an order, and the group of guards and armored horsemen who followed him were already dismounted in their own gears.

More than a dozen people still followed Chen Wang's left and right, and the rest of them scattered according to their swords, and soon took over the defense of the entire official hall.

After receiving the report of the takeover, Chen Wang walked towards the interior of the official hall.

As soon as you enter the gate, you will be greeted by a wall that is more than three battles long and more than one zhang high.

The front and back houses of the thousands of official halls, the gate, the lobby, the second hall and the third hall are all on the central axis, and the other buildings are basically symmetrically distributed on the left and right sides according to the central axis.

There are several separate pavilions in the official hall, which are the main and deputy thousand households, the town of Fu, and the office of the officials in the order room.

Chen Wang walked into the lobby, the lobby is five rooms and seven frames, and the layout is quite martial style.

The situation of the right thousand households of Hanzhongwei is a bit special, although there are thousands of households and vice presidents, but the main and deputy thousands of households are actually nominal and not in office, and the actual full strength is in the hands of Chen Wang.

Originally, Chen Wang planned to personally preside over the development of the guard center, and make good use of the time spent in the past two years to develop the guard center and organize and train the new army with ordnance.

But the plan couldn't catch up with the changes, although he warned in advance to block Li Zicheng's way.

Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng actually took Wenxian County and turned south into northern Sichuan, not only did not fall, but caused a greater sensation.

Then Hong Chengchou ordered him to be transferred directly from Hanzhong Mansion, and then he spent more than half a year running back and forth, and only returned to the guard at this time, and many things could not be checked in person.

The authority of management can only be handed over to Tang Shiping and Wang Yuankang respectively.

Tang Shiping was in charge of the military and political affairs, and Wang Yuankang was in charge of the civil affairs.

Now that a year has passed, although the two of them will report the situation in the institute from time to time, the specific situation Chen Wang still does not know.

Chen Wang sat down at the top, and without signaling, Wang Yuankang had already stepped forward to hand over a booklet and report it at the same time.

"In the last two thousand households, a total of 971 hectares of land was opened, and 71 acres were one cent."

"Last year, there were 11,230 stones, 2 buckets, 6 liters, 7 he, and 7,363 bunches of grass."

Chen Wang flipped through the booklet and scanned the data on it.

"According to the instructions of the adults, the two thousand households are still expanding."

Wang Yuankang lowered his eyebrows and lowered his head, and then reported.

"There are 4,353 males in the house, including 3,378 young men and 975 young men."

"There were three thousand two hundred and twenty-eight women, of whom five hundred and twenty-one were women under the age of thirteen, and the rest were over the age of thirteen."

The total population of the two thousand households is now more than 7,500 people, which is enough, and the regular army also exceeds 2,000 people.

Although according to the regulations in the Ming Dynasty, there should be 1,120 regular troops if a thousand households were full, but in fact, most of the guards limited the number of troops to this number.

The current Hanzhong Wei right and back two thousand households can be regarded as super-standard guards.

But it doesn't matter, now that Sun Chuanting has not fallen, Sun Chuanting will help if there is any problem.

Sun Chuanting is a person who is quite protective of his shortcomings, he is not like ordinary civil officials, who regard military attaches as lackeys Qiu Ba.

Sun Chuanting has clear rewards and punishments, and he will not deduct anyone's salary, nor will he be greedy for the military exploits of his subordinates.

As much merit as there is, you will repay as much merit as you have, and as much reward as you have, you will give as much reward as you want.

When fighting, Sun Chuanting took the lead, and when his generals were discriminated against and bullied, he would also stand up and justify him.

It was precisely because Sun Chuanting led his troops to fight but was able to make repeated contributions, that the generals at that time were extremely convinced of him, and were even willing to entrust their lives.

In history, He Renlong was resentful because Yang Sichang handed over the thief general he had promised to him to Zuo Liangyu, and then refused to listen to the order, which eventually led to the failure of the encirclement and suppression plan.

Later, He Renlong was basically in a state of separation, and the orders of the local governor and governor were directly regarded as empty letters, even if they obeyed the order to go, they did not engage in war with the rogues at all, and often left with noise before the war, and no one could control it.

Sun Chuanting was released from prison and served as the governor of the three sides in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, and after he was released from prison, he issued an order to convene in Xi'an.

Faced with Sun Chuanting's call, He Renlong, who had always listened to the tune and did not listen to the announcement, chose to follow the order at this time.

At that time, He Renlong was already out of the control of the imperial court and had actually completed the separation, but when he heard Sun Chuanting's summons, he still chose to comply, which was enough to see Sun Chuanting's personality charm.

What happened next is already known to most people.

When He Renlong led a small number of personal soldiers to leave the safe base camp and entered Xi'an to meet Sun Chuanting.

What awaited him was a butcher's knife raised high......

Chen Wang's expression was a little gloomy, He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu were not names in the history books for him, but two real people.

Zuo Liangyu once had a heart-to-heart with him, and He Renlong once fought side by side with him.

He Renlong and Zuo Liangyu can also be said to be quite loyal at the beginning.

At the beginning, Zuo Liangyu had some other thoughts in his heart, but He Renlong really did his best when he started to suppress.

However, no matter how the current situation is or the government is like this, civilian officials regard military attachés as pigs and dogs, and military attachés are humble and strictly guarded.

The court treats people harshly, and the rewards and punishments are unknown, how can people not deviate from morality?

“…… There are four schools in the institute, and according to the instructions of adults, male students over the age of thirteen are enrolled in school, and they are taught to read, write and count, with one year as the ......"

Chen Wang retracted his thoughts, and Wang Yuankang stood still reporting on the affairs of the office.

The affairs of the school are also arranged by Chen Wang, the training cycle of children is too long, and now the time is urgent, and the resources are limited, so it is naturally put on hold for the time being.

Nowadays, the schools are all crash courses, once a year, and they are not full-time schools, and the students who come to school attend half a day of study and do half a day of work.

The teaching is all common words, as well as basic arithmetic and so on.

Now the scale of military equipment is far from meeting the demand, and when the hydraulic hammer is built and the large-scale workshop is established, these students are the best candidates as workers.

"The first batch of students will graduate in June of this year, right?"

Chen Wang interrupted Wang Yuankang, who was reporting information.

Wang Yuankang nodded.

"Adults remember that the first batch of students enrolled in June last year, and it was exactly one year old in June this year."

"What's going on with the Ordnance Bureau now?"

Chen Wang put down the document in his hand, Wang Yuankang put the civil administration of the two guards in an orderly manner, and he didn't need to divide much attention, he only needed to develop steadily, and Wang Yuankang's report was also detailed.

Compared with civil affairs, Chen Wang is actually more concerned about military and political aspects.

"The Ordnance Bureau now has 170 armorymen, 150 first-class craftsmen, 17 second-class craftsmen, and three third-class craftsmen."

"One hundred and fifty-three craftsmen, one hundred and thirty first-class craftsmen, twenty-one second-class craftsmen, and two third-class craftsmen."

Today, the craftsmen in the Ordnance Bureau are also Chen Wang's new grading methods to delineate the grades when he left. Monthly wages are paid according to the level of rank.

Tang Shiping's expression was slightly embarrassed, the development of the Ordnance Bureau was not as fast as the development of the Tuntian Tunjun of the Wei Institute, and he felt a little ashamed of Chen Wang's entrustment.

"The bird gun can now produce about 110 rods per month, and the armory workshop needs to allocate a part of the people to make farm tools and kitchen knives, so there is a bit of a delay......

"There are very few people who are willing to be craftsmen, so the number of craftsmen has not grown much."

Compared with the military households, the life of the artisan household is more difficult, and the status is even lower, even if the status of the artisan household has improved a lot under Chen Wang's control, there are still not many willing to become craftsmen.

And even if you want to, it is not easy to become a qualified craftsman in this day and age.

Chen Wang frowned slightly, he knew that the development of the Ordnance Bureau had reached a bottleneck, and under the current situation, if they wanted to expand their scale and continue to develop, they had to find another way.

He came here this time for the development of the Ordnance Bureau.

And the person he wants to see is Bo Jue.

(End of chapter)