After a year and four months of transformation, some areas of Guangchengze have already looked a little.

The fastest progress is Guangcheng Palace, which is located on Kongtong Mountain, south of Linru Town and north of Jianshankou Reservoir in Ruzhou in later generations.

This mountain is rumored to be the place where Guangchengzi cultivates immortals, and the history of the Yellow Emperor once asked Guangchengzi to be in Kongtong Mountain.

The mountain is not high, more than 100 meters away, it is not big, after the logging is leveled, it is only enough to build a medium-sized palace on the mountain.

Shao Xun looked at the bottom of the mountain, this palace is not much bigger than an ordinary manor, and there are dozens of palaces.

But the cost is not small!

Guy is surrounded by vast swamps, grasslands, and dense forests, and it is not easy to transport materials, even more so to the mountains.

He looked around again.

At the foot of Kongtong Mountain, the farmland is one in the east and one in the west, and it is only roughly sorted out, and it is not sown.

Between the farmlands, you can see the rippling blue waves everywhere - I don't know which god kills, and pave the way into the lake, and at the end of the road is a viewing pavilion.

Your grandmother's, I want to build a military fortress, you give me the whole resort, right?

But - forget it, after all, it's not your own money, so what?

In addition, he was very emotional.

In later generations, this area was already a relatively densely populated area, but who would have thought that at this time, it would be a water town?

At the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Guangchengze has degraded and silted, and "spit out" part of the land, but it is still swampy everywhere - every Xiaoice River period is actually a period of swamp degradation and slow siltation into land, Guangchengze is the same, Liaoze in the northeast is the same, and even the coastal road (Liaoning West Corridor) where Youzhou exits the customs is formed in the late Tang Dynasty and the Xiaoice River period of the Five Dynasties.

In this way, it has been silting up, coupled with human activities, and in the 21st century, the last vestige of Guangchengze is probably only the Jianshankou Reservoir.

1,700 years of vicissitudes, the changes are indeed too great.

"The palace is all finished?" Shao Xun put away his emotion, pointed to Kongtong Mountain, and asked.

"Sixty-eight large and small halls, all of which have been completed." Cheng Le Kuan, who was busy working around Kongtong Mountain, was not very impatient, but when he saw the more than 2,000 soldiers and horses brought by Shao Xun, he suddenly changed his attitude and said, "The general wants to go up the mountain to have a look?" ”

"Let's go." Shao Xun took the lead.

Tang Jian hurriedly led the Shaw Clan soldiers, who had been expanded to two teams (113 people), tightly surrounded the surroundings, and sent more than 20 people to open the way first.

After arriving at Guangcheng Palace, they were assigned to various places to guard.

Le Kuan watched silently, only feeling a little funny.

It's just a material officer general, and it's not the king of the world, why do you make such a big show? Are you so afraid of death?

Shao Xun didn't know what Le Kuan was thinking, he just kept looking at the palace.

The materials are very solid, the civil structure is mixed, and even a few bricks and stones are used - I saw smoke billowing from several places under the mountain before, but it turned out that bricks were burning.

The national project is really generous.

"Let's add a warehouse city." Shao Xun said.

"Kurajo?" Le Kuan was a little surprised.

It's just a palace, what you need to transport up from the mountain, why bother to build a warehouse city?

"It doesn't need to be big, it can store half a year's grain and rice for thousands of people." Shao Xun said.

"No." Le Kuan sighed and responded.

Guangchengyuan requisitioned a total of nearly 60,000 masters from the five counties, which really disturbed the people.

The first year is over, and everyone can still bear it.

This is the second year, and there are already complaints in the county.

He didn't dare to imagine what would happen next year, would there be a riot?

"After the Guangcheng Palace is completely completed, there will be no need to repair the palace room." Shao Xun said: "Leveling more fields, digging more ponds, dredging more rivers, and the river embankment does not need to be strengthened now." Around the pasture, enclose a circle of wooden fences, and then build a few earthen cities and warehouse cities, as a place for soldiers and weapons. ”

Le Kuan listened and stopped.

This is not the way to the palace, it is more like a military village.

"This is the place where the Son of Heaven talks about martial arts hunting, and you can't be sloppy." Shao Xun glanced at him and said.

Le Kuan arched his hand and said, "No." ”

Shao Xun's reason is terrible, but it is also reasonable.

Once the Son of Heaven really brings the forbidden army here to talk about martial arts, he really needs a military city barracks, and a warehouse city to hoard supplies.

Shao Xun saw that he didn't speak, so he nodded and went down the mountain by himself.

Guang Chengze is too big to circle them all, and in fact, there is no need to do so.

Due to the geographical environment here, it was not suitable for cavalry operations, and Gain rode and walked like a river, a stream, or a pool of water, or a muddy field. If the Hun cavalry came here, Shao Xun didn't mind blocking them again, confined them to a small piece of isolated land, surrounded by rivers and lakes, and couldn't run if they wanted to, and finally calmly mobilized the infantry, which was completely a one-sided massacre.

Of course, if the Huns mobilize a large number of infantry here, it will be another matter.

However, there is no such possibility in a short period of time, and they may not even be able to take Luoyang now.

After returning to the bottom of the mountain, Shao Xun made another round.

He even saw several docks, and his face was darker.

Fortunately, there are patches of farmland near the wharf, and I asked someone, starting from the winter of the year before last year, until this spring, a total of more than 1,000 hectares of old fields of "Guansu Wheat" in the Han Dynasty have been cleared, because they have not been cultivated for a hundred years, weeds and shrubs grow very luxuriantly, and it takes a lot of effort to clean up.

In addition, in the process of construction, they transformed more than 300 hectares of farmland on their own, mainly by cutting down forests and merging swamps, which are used to fill out parts of the swamps with silt when the reservoirs are dug to create new land.

Shao Xun didn't have much hope for these "new lands" at all.

Is farmland obtained from deforestation called fields? There may still be a lot of tree roots left underground. Such "farmland", which is not transformed in a few years, will not yield at all.

However, the newly created lakeside farmland with silt from the bottom of the river can be planted. The yield in the first two seasons will certainly not be high, but with more care, it will slowly turn into fertile and high-yield watering ground.

The transformation of nature by the people of the Central Plains is actually like this, step by step, commonly known as "land reclamation".

Shao Xun walked around Guangchengze for three days, and he saw every place carefully, so he was a little relieved.

On March 16, he climbed to the top of Guangcheng Palace again, overlooking the magnificent scenery around him.

In the pastures that have long since returned to green, the horses gallop.

The leading stallion is in high spirits, wading through the shallow stream, and moving forward.

Hundreds of horses followed, making a big splash.

The 8,000 horses in the pasture are now divided into many herds, each led by a leading horse, and live freely in the vast pastures. Sometimes they run at a gallop, neighing and cheering.

Stop here and time to munch on the juicy grass of the riverside.

What a happy life!

In the middle of the herd, a few knights can occasionally be seen, managing the herd roughly.

On the surrounding hillsides, many small wooden houses have been built, and some warriors of the Long Sword Army and hundreds of Ding Zhuang recruited from Yushanwu are stationed.

Shao Xun has decided to send a Yamen army to garrison this place and replace those Ding Zhuang.

These horses were one of the two greatest fortunes he had ever made.

It is true that horses will age, they will get injured, they will get sick, and they will be consumables when they go to war, but they are still a lot of money......

"How many mares are there?" Shao Xun turned his head and asked.

"Less than fifty horses, it's not easy to find." Tang Jian replied: "The female donkey has found more than two hundred heads. ”

A male horse mated with a female donkey is called a donkey mule, and a male donkey mated with a mare is called a horse mule.

A donkey and a mule are more like a donkey, and a horse mule is more like a horse.

Horse mules are slightly larger, temperamental, curious, and eat a lot, but tolerate rough feeding. It has more strength, stamina and weight-bearing capacity, and is more resistant to disease, but it is slower than horses and cannot be fertile.

Donkey mules are smaller and less powerful than horse mules, but they have a more docile temperament and a lifespan of about ten years, and female donkeys and mules can occasionally give birth to stallions or male donkeys.

Overall, horse mules are still better than donkey mules, after all, there is not much difference between twenty and thirty years of life. After joining the army, they are estimated to live enough for ten years.

"Take your time." Shao Xun said: "The Luoyang Horse Market sometimes sells mares, just collect them slowly. ”

He looked at the rivers, lakes and swamps again.

Mandarin ducks, gulls, plovers, cormorants, herons and other water birds inhabit it, hunting and playing.

There are geese flying in the sky.

Above the water, the occasional fish jumped.

According to the officers and soldiers of the Changjian Army stationed here, Guangcheng Ze is rich in bream, sturgeon, bream, carp, catfish (yellow spicy ding), shark (a kind of small fish that blows sand) and other fish, which have not been caught for many years, and are large in size and in large quantities.

It's a primitive, wild sight.

"How many people are there in Guangchengze?" Shao Xun asked again.

Tang Jian shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

Shao Xun was silent, there was really a lack of competent civil officials around him, and this kind of ordinary scholar family rarely came to join him.

The military and political clique he founded is a bit deformed.

"However, I heard that there is a large settlement on the southern edge of Guangchengze, several small villages, and there are about hundreds of households, some of whom are local people, and some of them are southward refugees." Tang Jian added: "I can't do it accurately, I just heard about it." ”

"Send someone to investigate, and if there is a settlement, take it." Shao Xun said expressionlessly: "The people of the settlement, ration the soldiers of the Long Sword Army as a subordinate, if you don't want to, drive them away." ”

"No." Tang Jian responded that he would pass on this matter to Chen Yougen.

"That's it, Guang Chengze still needs time." Shao Xun turned over and said, "Go home." ”

He said that he would go, and he would not drag the mud and water in the slightest.

Guang Chengze doesn't have much to do for the time being.

In the summer, he may find a way to gather a group of homeless people, come to this kind of crops, and find out how the land is here.

Next year, more fields will be sorted out, and the planting area can be expanded, and after harvesting, it can be prepared to be distributed to the government soldiers.

The Long Sword Army is still accepting people, and it can only be incorporated after carefully assessing all kinds of skills, and it is relatively strict, and the current number is close to nine hundred.

When they are divided, the financial burden will be greatly reduced.

Half-time soldiers like the Silver Lance Army can slowly try to completely take off production, and everything is ultimately linked to economic strength.