"Changqing, thank you uncle for teaching!"

There was a sound of footsteps outside, and Wei Fangyun's relatives followed him back, "General Hui, it's over." ”

Wei Fangyun stood up, "It's not early, I should leave too." ”

"I'll send you."

Coming up from the hole in the ground, Wei Fangyun could see at a glance that there were many people standing in front of the stove room.

"What is that doing?"

"In a meeting." Meng Changqing said: "Tell the guards some rules. ”

"Go over and listen."

“…… Divided into morning, noon and evening three shifts, each shift on four hours, every six days three shifts in rotation, the following remember what time of day your group work.

From the first group to the forty-fifth group, the corresponding guards raise your hands. ”

Yang Zheng looked at the logarithm of the raised hand, and then continued, "You go to the morning shift first, and it is your work time from the beginning of the hour to the end of the afternoon." From the forty-sixth group to the ninety group, you follow the back to the middle class, from the beginning to the end. Ninety-one to one hundred and fifteen groups, at present you have the smallest number of people in your shift, and you work the evening shift, from the beginning of the day to the end of the day. ”

Wei Fangyun asked in a low voice, "Why do you have to divide into three shifts?" ”

Meng Changqing approached the other party and said in the same low voice: "Uncle, people's energy is limited. ”

Yang Zheng's voice continued, "The shift is different, the time to eat three meals is also different, one hour before each shift goes to the stove room to eat, two hours after work, you are responsible for transporting each group's meals to the construction site, and half an hour after work, you can go to the stove room to eat the third meal." ”

Wei Fangyun had another opinion, "This way of eating, is your food enough?" ”

Meng Changqing said: "If I don't stretch out my hand, and the officers and soldiers below don't stretch out their hands, it's enough to eat." ”

The grain given by the imperial court is 250,000 stones, and the servants can be less than 40,000 people, but if the food is insufficient, Meng Changqing will definitely write a second letter to his family.

Nowadays, one stone of grain is about 125 catties, and the servant plus the guards are counted as 32,000 people, not counting the lack of people in the early stage, nor the increase in the number of people in the later period, roughly dividing, each person can get nearly 1,000 catties of grain.

Evenly shared, each person can get 16 catties of grain per day.

Let them open up and eat even more.

"Can you guarantee that you are not greedy, how can you ensure that your subordinates do not take it?" Wei Fangyun asked.

"I can't guarantee it." Meng Changqing said, "But I dare to promise, no matter how greedy you are, if you catch one and kill the other." ”

The soldiers near Meng Changqing trembled.

"National affairs are in front of them, tens of thousands of people work day and night for the same purpose, if someone is greedy at this juncture, it is definitely a spy of the Yan Kingdom." Meng Changqing asked rhetorically, "Uncle, did you say that?" ”

Wei Fangyun nodded, "You understand it like that, it's not wrong." ”

"The guards of the group, to maintain good daily order, but also to ensure that no one dares to be lazy and slippery, at any time there will be inspectors to find your group, if you are slack in management, you will lose the face of the magistrate of Hongjia County."

At this point, what Yang was about to say had already been finished, and his gaze fell on Meng Changqing and Wei Fangyun next to him.

Meng Changqing walked to the front of the line and said politely to the soldiers: "Brothers from Hongjia County, when the city wall is completed in the coming day, each of you will have merit, and I will report your name to Liangzhou Mansion." ”

In Wei Fangyun's opinion, what Meng Changqing did was simply inexplicable and messy.

So before leaving, Wei Fangyun said: "Changqing, I will wait for you for ten days, and I don't care what you do during this period, but if the city wall is not built to the corresponding mile, after ten days, you will hand over the power, and I will send someone to take over the matter." ”

"Yes."

After sending Wei Fangyun away, Meng Changqing immediately washed up and fell asleep.

As soon as the next day arrived, the soldiers patrolling outside had just struck the first gong, and Meng Changqing dressed and walked out of the hole.

People who are freezing in the cold have to be careful even with their breathing.

The guard in charge of the morning shift shouted at the door of the pit, "Hurry up, it's time to eat, come out and line up." ”

Meng Changqing arrived at the stove room earlier than the servants.

This morning, 84 pots in three stove rooms were fired at the same time.

As soon as you enter the stove room, you are instantly warmed by the heat inside.

Meng Changqing was wrapped in a gray cotton jacket and covered his face with a scarf before he came in, but the people cooking inside didn't even wear a cotton jacket.

The person in charge of cooking gets up earlier than the servants, and although it is said that it is a millet rice to be made, it is necessary to cook rice before cooking, which is a manual work.

So Meng Changqing said hard when he entered the door, and asked, "Have you eaten yourself?" ”

The people who were busy working in the stove room this morning included soldiers from Hongjia County, soldiers under Zhang Yuan, and Yang Zheng's group, a total of about 30 people, and the one in charge was Zuo Datou.

"My lord, we've eaten."

The left big head stepped forward, "My lord, can I serve you a bowl?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, someone picked up a bowl and asked her to serve it.

"No, no, no." Meng Changqing pressed the man's movements, "I don't have an appetite yet, the servants will come soon, I'll see if the meal is ready." ”

Meng Changqing looked over from stove room to make sure that the forty-eight pots were full of millet rice.

I also checked with Zuo Datou how much grain he received today and how much firewood and charcoal he used.

Zuo Datou worked carefully, and he answered the questions asked by Meng Changqing fluently, and he was also in charge of the account books.

"Why are you in charge of the stove?" Meng Changqing finally asked.

Zuo Datou lowered his voice, "Originally, my captain wanted to let Captain Zhang be in charge ......of this matter, but I listened to it in the camp," he quickly stopped and changed his words, "I look at Captain Zhang's face, he doesn't look like a clean official, so let me be in charge of this matter." ”

"I didn't see it, Brother Zuo, you can still look at your face."

"Believe me, my lord."

"Of course I believe you, I'm tired of Brother Zuo staring at the stove, and come to me in time if you have any questions."

While the two were talking, three groups of people had already entered the stove room.

Before dawn, the people waiting outside were still holding torches, "Big brother, let's eat now?" Last night's meal was solid, and I wasn't hungry. ”

"Is it good to have something to eat?" The eldest brother stretched out his head to look forward, "You can't finish eating for me later." ”

said that he was not hungry, but a bowl of rice was in his hand, and it was all in his stomach.

After eating, I followed the guards to the construction site, and each group of people was in a different position, digging and digging, and tamping and ramming.

On the first day of construction, Meng Changqing has been watching from the side, but if there is any group that is not serious, he will directly ask the guards, so that the guards have to be serious.

More than 2,000 people worked at the same time, and the construction site became lively in an instant, the height of the city wall slowly rose, and a ditch was dug in the place where the soil was taken from the periphery of the city wall.

In the cave, Yu Xing asked her father Yu Youcai, "Dad, did you have no food to eat before the start of work?" ”

"There is porridge to drink." The answer to her was to stand outside the cave and be in charge of the guards of their group, "You work at night, and you have porridge to drink in the morning and at noon, and when it is your turn, I will call you again." ”