My younger brother Lü Fengxian

Chapter 86: The Foundation of the Hundred Worlds
Lu Yi's words made everyone worried, fearing that they would be kicked out of the caravan because they could not meet Lu Yi's conditions.

When Lu Bu, Gao Shun and others saw that Lu Yi had mobilized the enthusiasm of the new associates and established their sense of crisis with just a few words, they all began to admire Lu Yi in their hearts.

After training the new recruits, Lu Luyi further divided the responsibilities of the generals behind him.

Among them, Gao Shun was the chief instructor and led Song Xian, Wei Xu and their troops.

Cheng Lian was the deputy, commanding the troops of Hao Meng and Hou Ben.

Lu Yi led five groups alone, who served as his personal guards and also as the caravan's reserve.

In Lu Yi's plan, when the caravan led two hundred men out of the border to do business, Lu Bu and his fifty commanders would stay behind to guard the base camp.

I believe that with Lu Bu's bravery and reputation, ordinary villains would not dare to attack.

It was impossible to train a newly recruited team into the strongest army in the world in ten days. Lu Yi's order to Gao Shun and Cheng Lian was only to let these newcomers learn the most basic skills, including being familiar with their companions, being able to understand commands in battle, knowing simple battle formations, and most importantly, having a certain degree of obedience.

Therefore, the amount of training is not large, but it is more cumbersome.

However, Lu Yi successfully awakened the competitive consciousness in everyone's hearts. They were all eager to perform well and surpass the other seven to become the leader of the couples.

Not to mention other face and honor, the extra four hundred coins per month alone can be exchanged for more than one and a half stone of grain, enough to feed a strong laborer, and if converted into the elderly and children in the family, it can be enough to support a couple!
Regardless of whether they were knights or farmers before, after joining Lu Yi's caravan they all carried the hopes of their families and the hope for their survival.

Gao Shun, Cheng Lian and others carried out Lu Yi's requirements very well, so Lu Yi did not participate in the training.

He just coordinated the logistics outside the field and prepared nutritious food for the guys. Each person could get half a pound of meat at each meal.

Now his family is big and business is big, with only about 200 people, so he can still afford to spend this amount of money.

Many guys who were originally thin due to hunger and cold quickly improved their physical fitness after getting sufficient protein and calories, which was also to accumulate energy for actively going out of the border.

After three or four days of training, Lu Yi finally waited for the late arrival of Zhang Jia and the large construction team led by him.

"Why was it delayed for several days? Did something happen on the way?" Upon seeing this, Lu Yi immediately stepped forward and asked with concern.

"Haha, I heard from Xun'er that Sixiao made a lot of money from Zhen's and was planning to temporarily expand the scale of construction, so he spent more time preparing in Mayi and brought more supplies." Zhang Jia looked at Lu Yi with a smile on his face. Now that the power of this relative is growing, Zhang's family is more interested in Lu Yi. As a senior executive of Zhang's family, how could Zhang Jia not be proud of this?
"So that's how it is. How is the caravan's cargo preparation going?" Lu Yi felt relieved after hearing that, and asked Zhang Jia about another important matter.

"Most of the caravan's goods are ready, and some of the ordered goods are arriving in Mayi one after another. We can set off again in seven or eight days!" Zhang Jia listed them all.

"Seven or eight days? My wedding will take at least one day, so doesn't that mean I have to leave for Mayi after six days? It seems I won't be able to wait for the servants and food that Zhen sent!"

Lu Yi sighed in his heart and quickly suppressed his negative emotions. Without waiting for Zhang Jia to catch his breath, he immediately pulled him and his construction team straight to Jiulihe Bay.

"Green water and fertile soil, it's really a wonderful place to build a foundation and pass on the family heritage! If it weren't located in the remote area of ​​Jiuyuan, those aristocratic families would definitely fight for it!" As soon as Zhang Jia arrived at Jiulihewan, he was impressed by Lu Yi's vision for site selection and couldn't help but admire him.

"It's worth my hard work to get Uncle Zhang's approval." Lu Yi smiled and nodded, and admired Zhang Jia's knowledge. "I wonder how many days Uncle Zhang will need to start the work?" Lu Yi asked.

"Let's wait for the master I brought with me to survey the area first." Zhang Jia was cautious by nature and did not start work immediately. Instead, he called out several experts in surveying and positioning who were accompanying him.

After half a day of exploration, they all affirmed Lu Yi's vision and believed that Jiulihe Bay was very suitable for building the Luwu envisioned by Lu Yi.

Therefore, after a sumptuous start-of-construction meal prepared by Lu Yi, the entire Jiulihewan suddenly became a bustling construction site.

The construction team of more than a thousand people brought by Zhang Jia immediately began intensive construction.

The first step of construction is to clear weeds, trees, stones and other debris from the target area.

The second step is more critical and is the most important step in the entire Luwu construction process - laying the foundation.

Jiulihewan is adjacent to the river, so the foundation is more important than those forts on flat ground, and it must be made solid and firm.

"Hey yo... Hey yo..." Lu Yi and Lu Bu listened to the laborers shouting in unison as they smashed huge rocks or trees hard on the ground to compact the originally soft soil. They couldn't help but look at each other and smiled from the bottom of their hearts.

This is not only about laying the foundation for a fortress, but also about consolidating the Lu family's foundation for generations!
By the Eastern Han Dynasty, the development of forts had formed a complete set of rules and customs.

This is not something some experts came up with on the spur of the moment; it is the result of verification by generations of people including the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Wuhuan and Western Qiang for more than two hundred years.

Any fort that is not conducive to defense will be breached by foreign races, and the families within it will be looted and disappear.

Only the forts that survived the attacks of the Hu people were passed down and continued, and evolved through successive attacks by the Hu people, becoming today's civilian fortresses that integrate functions such as living, defense, and storage.

Leave professional matters to professionals. Bingzhou itself was on the front line of the Hu people's attack, and the Zhang family was one of the earliest families to build a fortress and rely on the fortress they built to survive to this day. Therefore, Lu Yi, who lacked knowledge of construction, chose to trust Zhang Jia and let him do whatever he wanted.

Leave professional matters to professionals. This statement has been tested by history.

In addition to the construction team and building materials, Zhang also brought with him the last 200 mares that Lu Yi had deposited with Zhang, as well as new clothes and equipment for the 200 servants.

Lu Yi had already commissioned Zhang Jia to make the clothes and equipment on an expedited basis on the first day he returned to Mayi. It seemed that he had done a very good job. With his experience, the quality was even three times better than the first batch.

After obtaining the horse equipment, the 200 infantrymen under Lu Yi's command immediately evolved into cavalrymen on the spot. After being dressed in new clothes and fully equipped, they stood together under the leadership of the original 50 old men, and immediately revealed a hint of elite aura, which made Lu Yi smile with satisfaction.

But three days later, another surprise came to Lu Yi.

Zhen's caravan transporting servants, food, and payment for Lu Yi's horse trade arrived ahead of schedule!

There is one more update, which will be made after 12 noon tomorrow, and I will also report the first order results to my readers.

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