Hearing this, Qi Rusong and Su Xun were both stunned, and then looked at Li Ke with disbelief.
"Is your Highness serious? May I ask what your Highness can do? And how long will it take to repair the city wall?" Qi Rusong asked hurriedly.
Naturally, he is most concerned about this issue, because whether the city wall can be repaired depends on whether he can withstand Kunyang City.
Li Ke thought for a moment, then stretched out a fist and said decisively: "Ten days! If you do your best to cooperate with me, I promise that it will only take ten days to complete the repair of the city wall!"
Su Xun on the side just shook his head and smiled bitterly after hearing Li Ke's words.
"Your Highness is really joking. How can such a big gap be closed in ten days, unless you, Your Highness, can move mountains and fill seas!"
Before Su Xun served as Li Kedong's ceremonial minister, he had been in charge of the local government and even personally presided over the construction of the city, so he was very familiar with building city walls.
The two months he mentioned just now is actually the result of careful consideration.
Li Ke said that he could complete the repair of the city wall in ten days. In Su Xun's view, it was simply a fantasy and an unrealistic fantasy.
And when he heard Li Ke say that the city wall could be repaired in ten days, Qi Rusong couldn't help but have a look of doubt on his face.
Although he didn't know how to build a city, as long as he thought about it for a moment, he would feel that it was impossible.
In ten days, it is estimated that only the foundation of the city wall can be rammed out. It is simply a dream to complete the repair of the city wall that is two feet high and one foot wide.
Immediately he looked at Li Ke and asked cautiously: "Your Highness, the repair of this city wall is of great importance. It is not only about you and me, but also the life and death of the 20,000 people in Kunyang. Your Highness can't joke! You really can use it for ten days." Time to repair this city wall?"
Li Ke smiled, with an unusually determined expression on his face, and replied: "Of course I'm not joking. I said I would repair the city wall in ten days, so I will repair the city wall in ten days!"
"And I dare to assure you that when my city wall is repaired, it will be many times more durable than the rammed earth wall in the past!"
Listening to Li Ke's words, the expressions of disbelief on Qi Rusong and Su Xun's faces became more intense.
He said that he could repair the city wall in ten days, but now he said that the city wall he had repaired was several times stronger than the rammed earth wall?
This really made Su Xun and Qi Rusong more skeptical.
Su Xun and Qi Rusong looked at each other, and then asked carefully: "Your Highness, I wonder how you want to repair this city wall? Why are you so confident?"
Li Ke smiled slightly and said directly: "I have my own way. You just need to cooperate with me fully."
After that, Li Ke searched around and finally found a small piece of gray stone in the ruins of a collapsed city wall.
Then he handed the stone to Su Xun and asked: "Mr. Su, is there such a stone abundant around Kunyang?"
Su Xun just looked at the stone briefly, then nodded and said: "Isn't this just gray stone? There are endless mountains in the east of Kunyang, and there are endless such stones. What, what does your highness want this thing for?"
Hearing this, the expression on Li Ke's face suddenly became excited, and then he quickly said: "Very good, now you have someone collect a large amount of these stones for me, and beat them all into pieces. Remember, The more broken the better!”
Then Li Ke thought for a while and continued to ask Su Xun: "Mr. Su, may there be a large amount of iron ore and gypsum mines found around Kunyang?"
Su Xun frowned slightly and thought for a while before saying: "There is some iron ore, but the gypsum mine is poor. However, if necessary, it can be purchased from other state capitals. After all, the price of this thing is not high."
Li Ke nodded with satisfaction, and after thinking about it in his mind, he said: "In addition, I now need a few large iron buckets that can withstand high temperatures and can rotate. Let's do this. I will draw one later. I’ll give you the drawings, just follow the drawings and go to the blacksmith’s shop to customize them.”
Su Xun was confused when he heard this, but in the end he nodded and agreed to everything.
Obviously it was not difficult for him to handle what Li Ke said, but what surprised him the most was, what exactly was Li Ke planning to do?
Does repairing the city wall have anything to do with what he said?
Su Xun found that he couldn't understand this prince more and more now.
However, Li Ke didn't seem to care about Su Xun's surprised look at him.
Because as long as he knows what he is doing.
He believed that it wouldn't be long before he put the things he made in front of them, they would be surprised.
Soon, Su Xun followed Li Ke's instructions and arranged for a large group of people to go into the mountain to mine limestone.
At the same time, people looking for iron ore and gypsum mines also set out.
Obviously, at this time, the people of Kunyang City also knew what kind of situation they were facing, so many people began to choose to join the quarrying team.
For a time, the dirt road connecting Dashan and Kunyang City for more than ten miles was busy with traffic, and there was an endless stream of people transporting stone. In just one day, dozens of tons of stone were transported out of the mountain.
On the other side, Su Xun followed the drawings given by Li Ke and searched for several blacksmith shops in Kunyang City before finding one that could make what he said was an iron barrel that could withstand high temperatures and keep rotating.
Su Xun could finally breathe a long sigh of relief.
Now that he had done everything he could, he really wanted to see how Li Ke spent ten days repairing the city wall.
On the other side, there is a stone processing area.
Li Ke frowned deeply as he looked at the peasants sitting on the ground, waving small hammers to knock stones.
