The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 343: Changing with each passing day
The child wants to leave.

Where else can we go?
As the garrison commander of Ganluchuan, Gan Minglan brought her family here to show her willingness to share weal and woe with the soldiers and build the city together.

Otherwise, you're asking the military families to give up the courtyard they've lived in for almost half a year to come here and suffer.

The commander-in-chief left his own children and elderly relatives in Hami City to enjoy a life of luxury.
What's going on then?!

She had discussed it with Zuo Wenkang before making this decision.

Seeing her daughter making such a fuss.

Gan Minglan couldn't help but ask Steward Zhu, "Didn't you say you found clay? We have a lot of people, shouldn't we hurry up and fire the bricks and tiles?"

It would be even better if the brick house could be built before the New Year!
Unexpectedly, according to Steward Zhu...

Old Master Xia, who claimed to know how to build kilns, rejected the suggestion today, saying:

"To ensure that the bricks and tiles produced are strong and will not rot for thousands of years, the clay used for making bricks should be dug up and left to dry in the wind and sun for more than half a year before use."

Finish the calf!
To live in a brick house, we'll have to wait at least another six months!
Their own luxurious dugout, which little Yuanyuan always complained about, couldn't even accommodate the servants of the General's Mansion.

Steward Zhu and his family had no choice but to move back to their own dugout.

Granny Wang and the maids from the kitchen would come over during the day to help with cooking and taking care of the children.

Yuanyuan is quite easy to take care of during the day.

After opening her eyes and drinking her milk, she immediately started clamoring to go outside.

The pronunciation of the word "走" is exceptionally clear.

Their intentions were also very clearly expressed.

And so, the four little girls led me to see the distant snow-capped mountains, the women busy picking grass and rice on the nearby withered grassland, and occasionally we went to the river to see the rushing water.

Rivers formed by the melting snow from high mountains are devoid of fish and shrimp.

Compared to all of the above, the little guy prefers to play happily with cows, sheep, and horses.

The little one is fearless.

She even dared to reach out and pull the tail of the wild horse king.

The horse king was becoming more and more intelligent, and it was quite familiar with this two-legged creature that smelled of milk.

Even when the pain is severe, they only dare to bare their teeth and scare people.

Ok.

The little darling thought it was smiling when it bared its teeth.

He immediately instructed the maids to put her on the horse.

The little girls were trembling with fear, afraid that the horse king would kick each of them away with a hoof.

After much coaxing and persuasion, they finally found a very docile ewe for the little master to enjoy riding.

The world outside is so big!
I don't want to go home at all once I go out.

What to do when you're hungry?
It's brighter outside.

People just like to eat out.

Whenever he got close to the dugout, he would yell at the top of his lungs.

A ten-month-old baby already knows how to read people's expressions.

Taking advantage of her dislike for dugouts, she would want to hang herself on her mother like an ornament after dark.

I need a hug, I need to be comforted, I need to be fed.

Fine, I'll indulge you then.

The mother gently patted her daughter's back, occasionally using her supernatural abilities to massage her tummy, hands, and feet.

They were humming with pleasure.

No matter how much she fusses, just a couple of quarters of an hour of rubbing and kneading will make her fall asleep like a little piggy.

You can sleep soundly until dawn the next day.

The training of the guards did not stop just because they had just arrived in Ganluchuan.

So it was changed to one hour of physical training in the early morning and one hour of academic study in the evening. The mornings and afternoons were spent helping dig dug dugouts or felling trees.

Of the 20,000 people, about 8,000 are able-bodied young men, so there is a relatively abundant manpower.

After studying the old city ruins for a day, Gan Minglan ordered that four greenhouses, each about 500 square meters, be built at the four corners of the old city wall.

She said to Steward Zhu:

"Two of the greenhouses were used to grow mulberry branches, one greenhouse had glazed tiles on its windows to serve as a classroom or meeting place for the soldiers, and the last one was used as a snow boot workshop for the soldiers' families."

“Your arrangement is excellent! The old city wall looks dilapidated, but it is still very sturdy as it has not been eroded by sand. With these two walls on site, the construction of the four greenhouses will be completed in less than half the time compared to building them from scratch. We can then plaster the walls with clay a few times and use them as new walls.”

"Whether the greenhouse stays warm or not depends entirely on the fireplace dug out inside and the fire wall built. We'll go to the new town and bring back more coal."

"Huh? Can we start large-scale coal mining now?"

"Yes! General Xiong thought the new immigrants were moving too slowly, so he had the garrison in Hamiwei lend a hand. The city walls of the new city are almost finished, and we plan to officially start excavation at the beginning of next month."

"Good, good, good. With coal, we won't freeze in winter anymore. By the way, why haven't you contacted me to pick up the 30,000 lambskins you ordered half a month ago?"

"I've been notified. Send me a message via flying eagle. Someone will deliver it to Ganluchuan in three days."

Why did we have to wait for so long?

It's not that the military camp didn't have enough sheepskins.

The UGGs that Gan Minglan had previously shown off were said by military family members who were very knowledgeable about fur to be made from the wool of lambs that were only three months to six months old.

Only the wool from this type of lambskin has finer fibers, resulting in better softness, skin-friendliness, moisture absorption, and warmth retention. Most importantly, it is less prone to shedding.

Even the leather is softer than that of sheepskin from animals over one year old.

Normally, herders rarely slaughter these lambs.

But who could blame them when General Gan was the one who ordered the sheepskin?
Those more than one million sheep were all herded back from Weilumu by others.

The quartermaster, after receiving the order, searched the entire warehouse of the camp, but found very few that met the requirements.

Of the surviving sheep, there are only about 30,000 lambs at most.

One last bite.

They kill, skin, and tan right there on the spot.

Their asking price was very reasonable, eight qian of silver per piece!
As the weather gets colder.

Frost had already settled on the withered grass that had emerged early in the morning.

The site of the Tang Dynasty's Yiwu Army has undergone tremendous changes.

outside the city.

The clay dredged from the river has been used to build a two-mile-long clay wall in the northeast direction.

Inside the city.

The construction of four greenhouses and more than 5,000 dugouts was completed one after another.

The dugouts were arranged in neat rows, and each house had a thick layer of sod on its roof.

The flue was moved underground.

When cooking over a fire inside the house, you can't see any smoke.

Inside the greenhouse, the fireplace was lit, making it as warm as early summer.

The mulberry groves in the Flaming Mountain gullies have all been cut down to bare trees.

There were about five million mulberry trees, each a foot long, planted in the sandy soil of the two heated earthen beds.

The snow boot workshop is still in the exploratory stage of simply copying others' methods.

The funds were initially intended to provide resettlement allowances for the families of the soldiers, so the families of the vanguard battalion were not required to work.

On a pasture spanning hundreds of miles.

The withered yellow weeds and roots of doggrass had been almost completely gnawed bare by the cattle, horses, and sheep belonging to the military families.

Even the grass seeds were completely harvested by the women and children, and each family stored about two hundred catties of grass seeds.
(End of this chapter)