The newly built cement kilns, brick kilns, warehouses, and other facilities are all located outside the city.
If bandits from the grasslands were to attack, these industries would likely be destroyed.
Therefore, Li Xin plans to take this opportunity to expand Dongning City.
Three miles north of Dongning City, there is a low hill that extends from the forest on the east side to the Shuibin River on the west side, about one or two miles long.
This is also the only way to reach Shuangcheng Prefecture, Xiande Prefecture, and even the territory of the grassland bandits in the north of Dongning City.
Even the official road leading to Liaoyang City passes through here before turning southwest.
After some investigation, Li Xin, Wei Jun, He Chaojun, Liu Jingxuan and others discussed and decided to define the northern part of the city wall here.
Relying on the eastern mountains and forests and the western Shuibin River, which form a mutually supporting defensive position, this was the initial construction of the Dongning City Wall.
The next step is to extend the city wall southward from the eastern mountains and forests, reaching the sea.
This is the second phase of the project.
Nowadays, all that's needed is to complete the initial construction.
After determining the location, a date was chosen, and construction officially began.
The third day of the third month in the seventeenth year of the Tongxu reign.
An auspicious day.
The site where the city wall was selected is located north of Dongning City.
Holding a shovel, Li Xin stood in the cold wind, looking at the people around him, and said loudly, "Fellow villagers, this is the location of the new city wall of Dongning City."
From now on, this vast land will be our home.
Once this new city wall is built, we won't have to be afraid even if tens of thousands of grassland bandits attack!
Fellow villagers, for our homes, for our future, let's get to work!
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