Prefect Tian listened to his subordinate who was talking more and more outrageously, and scolded him with a sullen face, "Don't talk nonsense, you can also say such nonsense. General Long is very capable and will not harm the country."
It was not like he hadn't seen how much the Xiao family protected Lin Yiran.
King Yongchang didn't object to Lin Yiran recruiting private soldiers, so even if they had objections, they had to swallow them.
The Xiao family is now favored by the God King. They can get rain when they want it and food when they want it. There are many people who will work for them, and they don't have to rely on old officials like them.
If they dare to talk nonsense behind my back, the Xiao family can just replace them.
"You are indeed worrying too much. General Long's martial arts skills are unfathomable. He can defeat ten thousand troops alone."
Fang Tongzhi, who was standing beside Magistrate Tian, looked in Lin Yiran's direction with eyes full of admiration.
He has loved practicing martial arts since he was young, but his physical fitness or potential is not enough.
He could defeat ordinary guards and servants, but he could only barely withstand two moves from the secret guards around Chang Sun Dongcai.
As for Zhao Hu, who had been practicing martial arts for many years, he could only defend himself and could not hurt Zhao Hu at all.
Although his martial arts skills are not very good, he has seen many experienced masters and can tell the level of a person's martial arts skills at a glance.
Anyway, in his entire life, he has never seen anyone with martial arts skills more powerful than General Long.
"Yes, yes, your Excellency is right. I am a little ignorant..."
When the county magistrates heard what Prefect Tian and Co-magistrate Fang said, they all shut their mouths with worried faces.
Come on, we can't afford to offend anyone, so just do what we are told.
How could such petty officials like them question the top-level decisions?
With the God King protecting the Xiao family, and Xiao Yunzhan being the only man left in the family, there would be no internal strife. At most, there would be interference from the harem in politics.
Fortunately, Shuitian City is now the base camp of the Xiao family. If the Xiao family succeeds in rebelling, these people will also rise with the tide, and will be no different from the current officials in the capital.
At this time, many people who had registered with the chief clerks, holding papers with the chief clerks' stamps and fingerprints, walked towards the pile of food with happy faces.
The Lin family soldiers stood in front of the pile of food they were responsible for, took the papers handed over by the people very seriously, and wrote down the items they had received today in the blank spaces on the papers.
The people took the heavy grain with trembling hands, and their bodies were shaking with excitement.
After receiving the food, the people would consciously walk up to Xiao Yunzhan and Lin Yiran and kneel down to express their gratitude.
Waves of people left the parade ground with tears of emotion.
After watching the food distribution at the parade ground proceed in an orderly manner, Lin Yiran and Xiao Yunzhan turned around and went directly to the barracks.
The Xiao family's private army barracks had a special granary. Lin Yiran filled the granary directly, and when the soldiers came back after farming, he asked Chang Sun Dongcai to be responsible for distributing the soldiers' salaries.
"Let the soldiers finish planting the land today, and let them help expand the barracks tomorrow."
Lin Yiran followed Xiao Yunzhan around the barracks and suggested,
"The God Army is almost 100,000 strong. We need to expand the barracks here so that all the soldiers can live here."
"The reinforcements' barracks were demolished and rebuilt, just like the ones here, so the soldiers don't feel favored."
The barracks of the Xiao family's private soldiers looked more than one or two levels higher than the barracks where the reinforcements temporarily lived.
The barracks here have large bunk beds with kangs, and each room has a row of cabinets, each with a number on it to store personal belongings.
The floor and walls of the room were very smooth, the windows were covered with paper, and the quilts on the bed were neatly folded, which looked very comfortable.
Unlike the reinforcements' barracks, each room only had a wooden bed, and in the winter you would be frozen to death. There were no cabinets at all.
The floor and walls are even worse, full of potholes. If it rains a little, you can even raise fish in the house.
"Okay." Xiao Yunzhan nodded and pointed to the north, "Expand to the north. There's a large open space over there."
"Tomorrow, arrange for the soldiers to dig mud to make adobe bricks. It will take about three or four days to make the bricks. The building will be built quickly. With so many people, it can be completed in one or two days."
The construction of adobe houses mainly involves a lot of preliminary work:
1. The first step is to dig mud to make adobe bricks and obtain an appropriate amount of soil raw materials. Generally, land with better mud quality should be selected, and the excavated soil should be screened, dried, and processed.
The weather is dry and hot now, so the drying process is faster, which can save a lot of time.
2. The second step is to let the soil settle. The purpose of soil settling is to remove impurities and particles in the water, making the soil purer, and at the same time remove bubbles in the soil, so that the soil is more suitable for making adobe.
3. The next step is mud screening, which removes impurities and small stones from the soil to make the soil finer, ensuring the quality of the adobe and making the produced adobe more uniform.
4. The next step is to mix the adobe. The mixing of adobe requires mixing water, cement, impurities, stones, plants, etc. in a certain proportion according to different actual conditions, allowing them to mix evenly and then pressing them into shape.
5. Finally, shape the pressed blanks into the mold, compact them, take them out, and let them dry naturally before use.
If it can be completed in four or five days, it is considered fast. The main problem is the lack of materials, but there is no shortage of manpower.
Lin Yiran looked at Xiao Yunzhan with a puzzled look.
"There are no bricks in Shuitian City?"
It can be built in one day with bricks, why would it take so much time?
With hundreds of thousands of people, each one building a brick, wouldn't it be as fast as building a tall building on flat ground?
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