When they arrived, the 800 cavalrymen reached Wei County in half a day.
However, it was much slower when they returned. They walked for two days.
? After returning, Zhao Feng did some calculations.
There were more than 5,000 catties of grain, which was enough for them to eat for a long time.
Then there was the gold, which was 3,000 jin.
Adding on the three thousand jin he had left, Zhao Feng now had six thousand jin of gold.
The jewels and other valuable items that he had snatched from the Wei family were also worth a lot.
With one sentence, Zhao Feng suddenly became a rich man.
He had taken over the Wei family's wealth for nearly 400 years and became a rich family in an instant.
And now, Mount Whitewave had a total of more than five thousand people.
There were a total of about 3,500 young and strong men. These people were warriors with weapons and could go to the battlefield.
Of course, some people still needed to be trained for a period of time. For example, those servants. If they went to the battlefield now, they would basically be courting death.
There were also the old, the weak, women, and children. There were about two thousand people.
……
With more people, the resources were also abundant.
? But now, there was another big problem in front of Zhao Feng.
That was where they lived.
It was impossible to live on the mountain.
The houses that were built before were still okay for two to three hundred people to live in, but now there were more than five thousand people. How could they live in them?
Even a military tent wouldn't do. It wasn't enough.
It was only these few days that the weather was not bad. Otherwise, almost everyone would be drenched.
That night, Zhao Feng was studying the map of the Eight Trigrams City under the moonlight.
Zhao Feng was thinking if he could shrink the scale and make do with it.
"Zhao Bolong, why aren't you sleeping at night?”
Cai Yan suddenly appeared behind Zhao Feng.
Zhao Feng rubbed his temples and said,"I'm worried. There are so many people.”
Cai Yan looked around. Other than the elderly and children, even the women could only sleep on the ground next to the bonfire.
? Although no one blamed Zhao Feng, Zhao Feng didn't feel good seeing this scene.
"Then what are you researching? Let me see."
Zhao Feng gave a large stack of blueprints to Cai Yan.
The more Cai Yan looked, the more obvious his surprised expression became.
"Where did you get this? If this city was built, it would definitely be more powerful than Luoyang and Chang 'an.”
"To fuse the Eight Trigrams into the city and into every house is truly amazing.”Cai Yan exclaimed.
"Where did you get it? Don't ask anymore. I was just about to ask you something.”
"This city is built according to normal proportions. It's too big. We can't build it with just a few people. Do you have any way to shrink it?”
"Or rather, we should make some changes, but the general idea is still based on this blueprint.”Zhao Feng asked.
"Why shrink? This city was so great that it was definitely a miracle. Why did it have to be changed?”
"Indeed, we don't have that many people, and we definitely don't need such a large city. But we can build it slowly, bit by bit. Maybe when we have more people here in the future, we'll be able to build it.”
"Sister, it's not as easy as you say. Build it bit by bit? How could a city be called a city if it had no walls and could not protect the people?”
"We're not ordinary people. We're mountain bandits, and there will definitely be soldiers attacking us.”
"How can we defend without the city walls?”
"Exposing the houses outside and waiting for the soldiers to burn them down?”
"If you want to build a city, you need at least four walls for defense, right?”
"You know our situation. Just the four walls alone are not enough to build. How can we talk about building a city?”
Zhao Feng had already thought about building it bit by bit.
But now, he had just killed a county soldier. Would Wang Yun pretend that nothing had happened?
Would Luoyang allow him to build a city bit by bit?
If they were attacked, what would happen to the houses, the people, the old, the weak, women, and children?
Wouldn't they be waiting to be burned and killed?
The current situation was that other than the elderly and children, the rest added up to about 5,000 people.
It was not a problem for these people to build houses.
However, building a city wall was a huge problem. Even building a miniature version of the Eight Trigrams City was equally difficult.
Putting everything else aside, the city walls couldn't be too short, right?
It was at least seven or eight meters tall, right? Otherwise, how could they defend against the soldiers?
He also had this extremely awesome blueprint in his hands. It would be a waste not to waste it.
However, he couldn't use it, and this gave Zhao Feng a headache for a few days.
"No, I said that you're smart. You're really stupid now.”Cai Yan said with a smile.
"How am I stupid? Tell me a way, and you'll think of a way to build the city wall? If I had known earlier, I would have let you be the leader. Let's see if you can still smile.”Zhao Feng said unhappily.
"Forget about the leader position. You should keep it for yourself.”
"But I really have a way."
Cai Yan had to admit that there was a qualitative difference between her and Zhao Feng.
How long had it been?
He could pull a team of fifty people to five thousand people now?
There was also so much gold and so much food.
Even Cai Yan, who was no less heroic than a man, had to admit that she absolutely could not do these.
"Tell me what you can do." Zhao Feng asked.
"Our terrain here is surrounded by mountains on three sides. Only the White Valley Road is the entrance and exit.”
"Why do you always want to build a city with four walls? Why not just build a checkpoint in White Valley?”
"Isn't an impregnable pass better defended than the four walls?”
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