Nanhuang, Wucheng.
The big sun hangs in the sky, which is undoubtedly an excellent weather.
At this moment, in the direction of Wucheng facing Qingzhou, there are many people working. One group of people is quarrying stones in the nearby mountains, another group of people are transporting stones, and another group of people are using the quarried big stones. Stones to repair the city walls.
Construction is always more difficult than destruction. This hole has been blown open for more than half a year, but now the repair progress is not even one-fifth completed.
But this matter is inevitable. Now because of the nuclear bomb explosion, the court does not dare to use troops for the time being, but if it takes a few years, it may not be possible.
Although the plank road was burned down, it was not impossible for the imperial court to repair it. There were many dangerous places along the way from Qingzhou to Nanhuang, but as long as human lives were spared, it was not impossible to cross.
Everything depends on whether it is worth it or not.
And if that time comes, the city wall of Wucheng, which is more than fifty meters high, will be the strongest barrier.
Therefore, it is imperative to build the city wall.
However, since ancient times, building city walls has been a major undertaking, which not only consumes manpower, but also consumes a lot of money.
If the city wall wants to be strong, the adhesive cannot use earth ash, but a mixture of glutinous rice slurry, slaked lime, egg white, sand and gravel and other materials.
In this day and age, how luxurious is it to use food as a binding agent? !
If Zhao Cheng had not been in Qingzhou, he had killed many local wealthy families, exterminated their families and ransacked their homes, and accumulated a large amount of gold, silver and grain. He also obtained a batch of money and grain from Wucheng, and he would not have dared to build the city wall easily.
As for burning cement, Zhao Cheng is already working on this matter.
Inheriting Huang Tian Taoist's foundation, he not only obtained 60,000 usable elites, but also obtained a large number of craftsmen. Even before the heroes came to Qingzhou, he had already begun to march southward. The population has been transferred.
The first ones to move were mainly the family members of the army, then the craftsmen, and finally, those who were willing to follow the army into the Southern Wilderness.
Zhao Cheng does not force those who are unwilling to leave their hometown.
Perhaps in the eyes of other heroes, population is very important, but Zhao Cheng does not attach much importance to this aspect, because the population of Southern Wilderness itself is already quite large.
On the contrary, it would be more troublesome to bring too many ordinary people to the Southern Wilderness and resettle them.
At this time, Zhao Cheng was standing on the wall of Wucheng, looking at the huge gap. It was fun to blow up the city for a while, but it was really troublesome to repair it.
There were also some people behind him at this time, including Lin Yi on the left and Li Tonghai on the right. The pattern of coexistence of civil and military forces has been initially demonstrated.
It has been more than a month since Zhao Cheng returned to the Southern Wilderness. During this time, he has naturally not only built the city wall. Compared with the various things he has done, building the city wall is only one of the less conspicuous things.
The first thing he did when he entered the Southern Wilderness was, among other things, to reorganize the Ying Tian Army and completely finalize the civil and military system.
Without the months of bloody battles in Qingzhou, it would have been impossible for Zhao Cheng to reorganize Ying Tian's army, but now, it was decided with one word.
Huang Tian's army that followed him to Southern Wilderness numbered more than 60,000, and his own Ying Tian's army numbered more than 5,000. Together, the total number was about 67,000.
Under this circumstance, he selected the best among the militiamen in Wucheng and selected 3,000, and raised 70,000.
These 70,000 were divided into seven armies by Zhao Cheng, each with 10,000 troops. Among them, the 10,000 commanded by Zhao Cheng were named Yingtian. They were the best of the best, bringing together the best of the entire army. Subsequently, The six armies, however, have no names. They belong to the Yingtian Army, the Second Army, the Third Army, etc., all the way to the Seventh Army.
The commanders of each army are generals, and Zhao Cheng is naturally the general.
In order to prevent cliques in the military, promotions in the military are also on a rotational basis. Whenever officers are promoted, they will be transferred to other armies.
Now Yingtian's army of 70,000, excluding 10,000 of Yingtian's army, is stationed in the military camp in Wucheng, and the remaining 60,000 are all camped outside Wucheng.
In the past, Zhao Cheng only had 5,000 troops, so he could only rely on the natural dangers of Wucheng to garrison. Now that he has more troops, he is no longer afraid of Wu Qi's attack. Instead, he plans to take the initiative to attack the opponent.
Of course, Zhao Cheng is not in a hurry about this matter, but plans to wait until he gets more explosives, repeating crossbows, and even muskets before attacking to reduce losses.
And this is what Zhao Cheng is doing simultaneously while reorganizing the army, which is to truly lay out the foundation of the Ministry of Works.
Zhao Cheng came up with a simple assessment system to grade all craftsmen. The higher the grade, the better the treatment. If there is contribution, there will be rewards.
Among them, Zhao Cheng also vigorously supported carpenters and blacksmiths. On the one hand, he established relevant apprentice training institutions and on the other hand, he encouraged craftsmen to innovate.
Zhao Cheng attaches great importance to this matter, and anyone who dares to block it will be killed directly.
It was not easy to engage in industry in ancient times. Even if Zhao Cheng now occupies Wucheng and has a large number of craftsmen, the quality of these craftsmen is generally not high. For example, when it comes to burning cement, the formula of cement is actually not high. It's complicated, but the requirements for the furnace fire are too high. One thousand five hundred degrees, this temperature is enough to smelt high-strength steel.
And if the furnace temperature reaches the temperature, Zhao Cheng will not be able to burn cement, but will definitely use this high-strength steel to make guns.
As for now, we can only rely on the Taoists in Tiangong Pavilion to make it on a small scale.
This is also the third major event that Zhao Cheng has come to Nanhuang to do. The Taoist priests among his generals have undergone a career change and are no longer on the battlefield to fight, but can truly play their role.
A Taoist is actually comparable to a small manufacturing platform. It is really a waste to use it to fight with people.
Let's just say that Zhao Cheng, in terms of force, once exhausted his mana, he could only kill ten armors. However, the same Taoist practice, whether it was used to rub seamless steel pipes or refine high-explosives, the profit in a day was, More than ten enemies must be killed.
The Taoists in Huang Tianjun, now headed by Huang Qi, form the core of Tiangong Pavilion. As early as half a month ago, the Taoists had started groping and rolling seamless steel pipes. As for the high-purity gunpowder, This thing is too dangerous, so Zhao Cheng still practices it by himself.
Calculating the time, Zhao Chenggong will be able to form a musketeer battalion of about 2,000 people by March next year, which is enough to kill Wu Qi's army.
At the beginning, Wu Qi used three thousand tigers and leopards to defeat Huang Tian's fifty thousand armor. In the spring of March, it was time for Wu Qi to see what it means to defeat one hundred thousand with two thousand.
Of course, Wu Qi's troops actually did not have 100,000 troops. Now they only have about 60,000 troops. They are just claiming to be 100,000 troops.
Apart from this, Zhao Cheng finally rebuilt the civil servant system headed by Li Tonghai and let Li Tonghai take charge of logistics matters.
Zhao Cheng's eyes on the city wall looked towards Wucheng from the gap in the city wall.
At this time, in Wucheng, there were almost no people on the streets, showing a depressing scene.
But this was what Zhao Cheng did intentionally.
Zhao Cheng's idea is to concentrate on doing big things.
Because the city gates were closed, most of the people in the city were in a state of food shortage. However, Zhao Cheng, who had a large amount of food, did not sell the food in his hands.
Instead, they use food as wages.
Zhao Cheng deeply understands the truth that money has no value in nature. What is valuable is always people, the so-called population resources, and money is just a number.
If you are literate, then become a teacher and teach people how to write. If you are not literate and have skills, then become a craftsman in the army. If you are not good at anything, then become a craftsman's apprentice. Learn the craft during the day and go to night school at night. There is also food to get, and if you perform well and pass the assessment, you will get extra food.
Zhao Cheng has now mastered the means of manufacturing fertilizers. If he subsequently conquers the city, he will not need too many people to farm the land. Naturally, all the excess people will be sent to the "factory" to increase the war potential.
Until the end, it swept the world with a torrent of steel.
I was thinking in my heart, and in the void, huge Qi was gathering at Zhao Cheng's Tao Seed all the time, nourishing the Tao Seed.
Nowadays, although the territory of Qingzhou has been lost, the amount of Qi has been greatly reduced, but the Taoist's practice is not based on Qi, but on Qi as food.
With the accumulation in Qingzhou some time ago, and the benefits gained during this period in Wucheng, finally, quietly, Zhao Cheng's Tao Seed bloomed to the ninth level.
As the Tao seed changes, his body also begins to transform in subtle ways. However, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the demon dye in Zhao Cheng's Tao seed has become more and more intense, and there are many subtle and mysterious things. , flowing out from the demon dye.
Of course, the demon fetus in the void saw that Zhao Cheng was more hopeful about establishing an earthly kingdom, so he increased his investment.
On the outside, Zhao Cheng's Qi became stronger all of a sudden, as if his destiny was determined. When people look at it, they will have a feeling that this person has destiny.
(End of chapter)
