In the blink of an eye, in the middle of November, since the defeat of the Xu family, Wang Weizhen, the manager of the team, was busy disposing of the four businesses of the Xu family, all of which were handed over to Jia Hongyu, the chief flag officer, to cook, and began to make profits one after another to earn a little silver.

At the same time, Wang Weizhen moved out of the 100-household official hall and lived directly in the Xu family's mansion, and changed the plaque to the 100-household mansion, and happily lived in the "mansion".

As for the Huangshan Pier, the Wind Volcano Pier and the Shagou Pier, Wang Weizhen also arranged for manpower to be reorganized. Wang Weizhen newly appointed three chief flag officers, one of whom was Shen Tuo, who was originally looking for a mountain pier.

Shen Tuo made meritorious contributions in the battle to exterminate the Haikou and was promoted to a small flag officer by Wang Weizhen, and this time there were just three vacant positions of chief flag officers, so Wang Weizhen ordered Shen Tuo to be promoted to another level, promoted to the chief flag officer, and presided over the Huangshan dun.

And Liu Yan was not idle, when he heard the news of Shen Tuo's promotion, he specially sent someone to send a congratulatory gift of twenty taels of silver, and invited Shen Tuo to have time to come over for a drink.

Then Liu Yan stared at the construction of Dapan Fort wholeheartedly during this time, which made the construction speed much faster, and finally in the middle of the year, Dapan Fort was completed.

The circumference of the whole fort is about 600 meters, which is a traditional square, and the whole body is rammed with loess, and there is no brick. The northern two ends of the fort wall are connected to the horse circle wall of the original large pan pier, and it just so happens that this fire road pier can be used for watching. At the same time, the urn city outside the south gate is also built, and there is also a moat with a depth of three meters and a width of six meters.

Outside the Dapanbao Fort, the original simple arena has also been repaired, not only leveling the ground, but also building a fire range, arsenal, barracks and other facilities, Liu Yan directly built this school field into a barracks.

According to Liu Yan's plan, the strength of Dapanbao will continue to expand, so the place where it is stationed must be spacious, and some barracks and other facilities must be reserved in advance, so the school field here is naturally converted into a barracks, which is considered to be Liu Yan's preparation work in advance.

At the same time, Liu Yan ordered the construction of some barracks in Juntun and Haiyan Workshop, Chen Xunqi was stationed in Juntun, and Zhang Yiqi was stationed in Haiyan Workshop. The personal guard banner led by Miao Shao was stationed in Dapanbao, and the rest of Wang Yueqi, Wang Boqi, and Xu Mingqi were all stationed in the school barracks.

As a result, the barracks everywhere were understaffed, and there were many empty houses, which were reserved for future expansions.

After the construction of Dapan Fort was completed, the safety of everyone in the fort was guaranteed, and a stone in Liu Yan's heart finally landed: finally before the Qing army entered Shandong, the Dapan Fort was built!

On this day, Liu Yan, accompanied by Wang Bo, Wang Yue, Miao Shao, and Xu Ming, inspected the fort wall. Then Liu Yan was surprised to find that the densely rammed fort wall of Dapan Fort was very strong, and its strength had exceeded Liu Yan's expectations.

When building before, those invited craftsmen bought a lot of tung oil after consulting Liu Yan, and poured some tung oil into the wall when building the fort wall.

At that time, when those craftsmen came to ask for instructions, Liu Yan didn't care, but said that these were just fixed processes for craftsmen to build fortresses. But at this time, Liu Yan was really surprised, patted the wall hard, and was surprised to estimate the solidity of the fort wall, and even on the concrete of the later generations, you must know that it is now the end of the Ming Dynasty, it is really incredible to think about it, the technology of Chinese craftsmen is really extraordinary!

The fort wall of Dapan Fort is about ten meters high, there are battlements and female walls built on it, the wall is full of shooting holes for bird gunners to shoot, and there is also a special place to pour gold juice and boiling oil, which is designed very scientifically, which greatly increases the defense power of Dapan Fort.

As for the height of the fort wall of Dapan Fort, Liu Yan remembered that at this time, the border towns of Daming and the fort walls of the coastal tun fort were generally six to fourteen meters high, and the fort wall of Dapan Fort was ten meters high, which was also decent, enough to meet the defense needs at this stage.

Then Liu Yan and others came to the south gate, the city gate built at the south end of Dapan Fort was made of stones, and was named "Pingyu Gate" by Liu Yan, and the inner gate was named "Xingtai Gate". At the upper end of the fort gate, there is a stone plaque inlaid with a stone plaque, the middle is shallow carved in regular script "Dapan Fort" three big characters, the left and right sides of the big character are vertically engraved in regular script, which records the time of building the fort, the generals, craftsmen and other deeds and figures.

Of course, the most important person in the record is Liu Yan, Liu Yan has seen these contents in advance, looking at the words of praise overflowing on it, Liu Yan just laughed at it, and did not mean to modify it, and everyone was even more happy, so it was directly engraved on the wall.

At this time, there were more than 500 military households in Dapan Fort, with a population of more than 2,000 people, but the places in the fort were still relatively loose, and there were still many homesteads where no houses were built, only white lines drawn on the ground.

In fact, Liu Yan had seen some historical materials about the Ming fortress before, and remembered that there was a Weihu Fort in Pinglu, Shuozhou, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, which was 14 meters high and 550 meters in circumference, and there were more than 500 people in the garrison in the fort at that time, dozens of horses, and there were about 3,000 military households in the fort.

Weihu Fort is much smaller than Dapan Fort, but it can accommodate more people than Dapan Fort, Liu Yan secretly said that he can recruit some more people to live in Dapan Fort, and the current more than 2,000 people are not full. According to Liu Yan's estimates, the full capacity of Dapanbao can at least accommodate about 3,000 to 3,300 people.

At the same time, after the fort wall was built, Liu Yan did not build a stage temple that everyone longed for for a long time for the buildings in the fort, but asked people to build a mill in a place named Xingye Lane in the east of the city for the first time.

In the past, there was no mill in Dapan Fort, and the military households had to go to Wangjiazhuang to grind noodles, although the distance was not very far, but it was very inconvenient after all, and now that Dapan Fort was all built, the construction of the mill was put on Liu Yan's agenda.

In fact, it is easy to build a mill, and there is wood loess in the fort, but the difficulty is the construction of the two huge stone mills.

Miao Shao also lived up to his high expectations, and soon hired several stonemasons from the Qianqian Household Office of Xiahe Village to chisel out two huge stone mills, and the mill was soon built.

It was not until after the mill was built that Liu Yan ordered the construction of a stage and a temple in the center of the street, which caused a cheer from the military households. From then on, the soldiers in the fort finally had a place to watch the play.

At this time, Liu Yan and others entered Dapanbao from the gate, and they didn't go far before they passed by this stage, where many children and old people had gathered, resting and playing under the stage.

Liu Yan looked at the happy appearance of everyone, and his heart was also full of tranquility and happiness. Being able to live such a life in this chaotic era at the end of the Ming Dynasty is no less than a heavenly life.

"If you want to live like this forever, or even better than now, you must have enough strength."

Liu Yan cheered up and said secretly in his heart: "It's far from the time to live in peace, we still have to continue to work hard to develop and strengthen the strength of Dapanbao!" ”

At this time, the two major forces of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the thieves were like two mountains, pressing on Liu Yan's heart like a thousand pounds. Liu Yan can't wait to immediately have an army of 10,000 firearms and blow up these two mountains directly!

Thinking of this, Liu Yan took a deep breath, stopped thinking about these for the time being, and walked all the way to the door of the General Flag Hall with a few small flag officers, and the military households along the way saw Liu Yan and saluted respectfully.

At this time, Chen Xun's wife, Chen Jiang, came over with two women, and the three of them had smiles on their faces, and they rushed to salute when they saw Liu Yan.

"A long Wan'an!"

Liu Yan smiled and said to Chen Jiang's: "During this time, Chen Xiaoqi is stationed in Juntun, the family is fine, there is something to help at home, and my younger brothers and sisters have to talk." ”

Chen Jiang's suddenly smiled, Liu Yan was the biggest official in Dapan Fort, and now he called his younger brother and sister in front of others, and his face suddenly felt honored.

"Oops! Captain A is really sympathetic to his subordinates, there is no difficulty in our family, Captain A can rest assured, I and the family will do a good job and follow Captain A! ”

Liu Yan nodded with satisfaction, and then instructed the two women to follow Chen Jiang's work hard, and the two of them also said yes again and again.

Then Chen Jiang said with a smile: "Captain Jia, now that we have completed the construction of Dapan Fort, this is a big thing, congratulations, why don't we celebrate the whole castle for a day to celebrate?" ”

After speaking, Chen Jiang looked at Liu Yan with a smile, a little worried about whether he would be a little abrupt.

Liu Yan nodded in agreement when he heard this, and said, "One day? I can't see it. ”

"Then, that's half a day, half a day is enough, let's just celebrate."

During this time, the military households in Dapan Fort were working and building, which was very heavy and tiring, so Chen Jiang's suggestion actually represented the thoughts of everyone in the fort.

Liu Yan said with a smile: "I don't mean that, I mean, one day is not enough to celebrate, let's celebrate for two days in the whole castle!" At the same time, we will send someone to inform the military tun and the salt drying field, so that all the military households and people who have opened up the salt field will come back and rest for two days. ”

Chen Jiangshi was overjoyed when he heard this, and said with a smile: "This relationship is good, Xie Jiachang!" ”

The surrounding military households also cheered happily, and then Liu Yan asked the small flag official Wang Yue to take people to prepare wine and meat dishes, and the whole castle was celebrated for two days from the day after tomorrow. The rest of the wine, meat and food were all produced by Dapanbao, and Liu Yan asked Wang Yue to draw up a menu and withdraw silver taels from Zhao Min to buy them.

Wang Yue hurriedly went to do it, while Liu Yan let the rest of the people disperse, and only took Miao Shao back to the General Flag Office.

In the evening of the same day, Chen Xun returned to Dapanbao with two dun soldiers, and did not even return home, but went directly to the general flag official hall.

"Huh?"

Liu Yan, who was about to finish eating, looked at Chen Xun and asked suspiciously, "Why did you come back?" ”

Chen Xun said with a smile: "The subordinates came to seize the more than 2,000 acres of cultivated land of the Xu family. ”