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Chapter 242 Li Yan Tours South Henan Middle School

Li Yan's vision is very accurate, knowing that whether it is irrigation water conservancy or piers, it is a costly thing.

Gao Yihuan has achieved such an achievement in such a short period of time, and he doesn't know how much money he invested.

The Ming Dynasty built countless forts in the frontier fortresses, and each fortress cost at least one or two hundred taels of silver, and larger ones cost more, and the cost was probably close to a thousand taels.

However, these costs are mainly due to two parts, one is manpower, and the other is the cost of materials for building the fort.

Gao Yihuan had a dedicated team for building the fort, and the households in the fort also participated in the construction, so the efficiency was very high.

Anyway, resettling the refugees also required spending money to build houses for them, so Gao Yihuan simply invested a little more and built the fort directly.

Tunpu is the home of Tunhu, so they don’t need wages, just provide food. The material for building the fort is red brick fired in a wheel kiln, which is much cheaper than green brick, so the cost is much less.

At this time, a group of people came to a pier under construction next to the vortex water, and saw many figures busy.

The fort was chosen on a raised hill with a higher terrain, which was good for drainage and defense.

Everyone got off their horses outside the fort, and saw many strong men on the fort wall, some were in charge of hanging frames of red bricks on the wall, some were busy building brick walls, and there were many men and women going to battle together, all With hoes and baskets, they dug and picked soil around the fort wall.

The fort wall adopts a brick-encased structure. In this way, when the fort wall is built, there will be a moat.

Gao Yihuan pointed to the busy masons on the wall and said, "Jieshuai, those men with red scarves on their heads are all specially formed fort-building teams by me. Each team has 100 people, and they are responsible for building cities, forts, roads, and structures for me. Bridge. The others are residents of the Fort, and the Fort is where they will live from now on, so they all have to help."

Li Yan secretly wondered, "You have more than one team building this kind of fort, right? Besides, how long will it take to build such a pier?"

"I have twenty fort-building teams, all of whom are building forts and cities in various places." Gao Yi laughed and said, "It doesn't take long to build a fort. The key is to prepare all the materials. In a few months, a castle can be built."

In two years, the bastions in Luyi and other places have been completed.

Gao Yihuan did not disband the team for building the city, but organized them into many teams to carry out construction in various places.

This kind of fortress is just an ordinary pier fortress. Gao Yihuan is too weak to build bastions everywhere.

These forts are mainly distributed along the Wohe River, and they are related to the transportation of materials and red bricks. The villages further away are built by the gentry and villagers themselves, but the level is naturally not comparable to that built by the fortification team. It is probably just the Gao family. Fort level.

"Go, go in and have a look!" Li Yan was very interested.

At that moment, a group of people entered the fort that was still under construction, and the craftsmen and residents who built the fort stopped to greet Gao Yihuan one after another, and then continued to work.

Li Yan was a little surprised, he could see that Gao Yihuan had a high prestige among these people, and he was able to mingle with the common people and craftsmen.

This, Li Yan felt, was very rare.

The forts built by the fortification team are all round forts, with a circumference of only about one mile. For the convenience of defense, there is only one fort gate.

Everyone entered the gate of the fort from the suspension bridge. After entering the fort, they saw the back of the fort wall. There were houses of the fort people, as well as granaries, weapons, farm implements, cattle, mule and horse shacks, and in the middle was a grain drying field and a water well. .

It is also worth mentioning that there is also a toilet and septic tank in the fort, which is convenient for collecting excrement and garbage together, which can not only fertilize the fields, but also prevent diseases.

Under the leadership of Gao Yihuan, Li Yan and others visited various places in the castle. Gao Yihuan explained them one by one, and everyone nodded.

After seeing the pier fort, everyone rushed to Luyi County again. When they saw a huge prismatic fortress, they were all shocked.

There is no city built like this in the whole of Henan. It is undoubtedly a huge waste for the entire city to protrude a few corners.

The bastions in the West are all used for military purposes, or are owned by nobles, and there are basically no poor people living in them, while Chinese cities are designed to protect the common people. There are as few as thousands, as many as tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people in the city. surname.

The focus of the two is different, and the characteristics of the city are naturally not the same.

If the city in the Central Plains needs to accommodate so many people, it is natural to first consider the area of ​​the city circle and the space inside the city.

Also with a circumference of ten miles, Sifang City can undoubtedly enclose more land than a Bastion, so Bastion is very difficult to become popular.

Li Yan looked at it and exclaimed, "Yihuan, this is a city you built with reference to the "Guncheng"."

In the Ming Dynasty, Sun Yuanhua and Xu Guangqi admired the western bastions very much. The Ming Dynasty also built a copy of the "Guncheng" in Liaodong. It is said that Ningyuan Fort is the same. However, the construction of the fort was huge and the Ming Dynasty's finances could not afford it, so the bastion was not popularized.

Gao Yihuan was so unclear, but he didn't explain, "Well, it's just for reference."

When everyone came to the city, Gao Yihuan explained the function of the bastion and how the walls of each city work together to stop tens of thousands of soldiers.

"Jie Shuai, this city is only occupied by troops and not by civilians, so we are not afraid that food and grass will be consumed too quickly. Even if tens of thousands of horses come to attack, we will have no problem defending it for half a year."

Li Yan's eyes lit up when he heard this, "How much money did Yihuan spend on building this city."

Gao Yihuan said: "It took a total of 6 taels of silver before and after, and it took a year and a half to complete it."

After Li Yan heard this, his eyes darkened again.

A small county town actually cost 6 taels to build. The people accompanying him all looked at Gao Yihuan strangely, and couldn't help but feel a little distressed, how rich they were to be defeated like this.

Li Yan pondered for a while, but said to Gao Yihuan: "As far as I know, the Gun City is the Xu Xueshi of the Ming Dynasty. The commissioned building is said to be a reference to Western fortresses. Using the city to protect the people is a safe and harmless strategy. As long as you build more big guns and then build a platform, the enemy will not dare to approach within a few miles, let alone advance forward to attack. Claiming that a platform is strong can be tens of thousands of soldiers. "

Xu Xueshi that Li Yan was talking about should be Xu Qiguang, but Gao Yihuan didn't know this very well. He didn't expect that the people of Ming Dynasty had already built a bastion.

After Li Yan finished speaking, he looked at the city, and couldn't help saying: "Yihuan, you can't be called a "gun city" if you only have a platform and no guns!"

A gun city, a gun city, requires a gun, but now Li Yan only sees the city, but not the gun, so he reminds him.

Hearing his words, Gao Yihuan suddenly sighed and said: "Jie Shuai, I have also cast a lot of cannons, but casting cannons consumes a lot of refined iron. Ever since I fought against the Ming army in Nanzhi, Ma Shiying has been very interested in Shang Dao. The blockade is very strict, and I can't buy refined iron, so the supporting artillery has not been manufactured yet."

"You can still cast cannons?" Li Yan was shocked, but along the way, there were too many things that surprised him, so he didn't take it too seriously.

Li Yan frowned, pondered for a while, and turned to an official behind him, "Is there any refined iron in the smelting field near Baofeng County in Ruzhou? Send some to General Gao!"

Gao Yihuan was overjoyed when he heard this, but the official replied: "Jieshuai, the mine in Ruzhou has just recovered, so I'm afraid there is not much refined iron produced."

Gao Yihuan frowned, immediately put his nose on his face, smiled and waved: "It doesn't matter if you haven't practiced now. Why don't you leave the mine to me, and I will practice by myself, so as not to trouble Jieshuai."

(End of this chapter)