Zhao Feng took a while to react.
He slapped his head.
"I'm really too stupid. Why didn't I think of building a checkpoint? Building a checkpoint is much simpler than building a city wall.”?" I'm fine!"? Zhao Feng said in annoyance.
Because of the Eight Trigrams City blueprint, Zhao Feng's thoughts were in a loop.
When he thought about the city walls, the size of the city, and the other problems, he actually fell short.
Cai Yan was an outsider and could see the crux of the matter at a glance.
……
The next day, Zhao Feng, Xu Huang, Yang Feng, and company arrived at White Valley.
He found a rather good spot.
The valleys on both sides were about fifteen meters high.
The width in the middle was about twenty meters.
"Canal Marshal, this place is too suitable to build a checkpoint. Once it's built, it'll directly merge with the valleys on both sides.”
"Moreover, the total length is only twenty meters. A few dozen people can hold the front line.”Xu Huang said.
It was indeed as Xu Huang had said, very suitable.
? Although Zhao Feng had 3,500 strong men, there were very few veterans who had been on the battlefield.
It was alright for the others to follow them to fill in the numbers, but if they were to really defend the city, it would probably not be very good.
"Alright, this is it. Xu Huang, you're in charge of this.”
"Don't build it with soil. Think of a way to directly collect stones from the mountains. Build it with stones and then use soil as the outer layer.”
In this era, most cities were built using inferior soil methods.
But to be honest, it wasn't very sturdy.
For example, with catapults, as long as there were enough of them, they could even create a gap.
However, if he used mountain rocks directly, there would not be a problem with the sturdiness.
Of course, quarrying stones in the mountains was much more troublesome, and it required more manpower. Even moving stones was troublesome.
However, compared to the trouble, sturdiness was clearly more important.
"Don't worry, Canal Marshal. Give me a thousand men and it won't take long to build it.”
Zhao Feng was very confident in leaving it to Xu Huang.
Xu Huang's greatest strength was that he was meticulous.
……
Zhao Feng then arranged for people to start building houses at the foot of the mountain.
Zhao Feng was completely following the blueprint of the Eight Trigrams City.
Eight Trigrams City had a total of eight main streets and eight city gates.
There were eight main streets that radiated outwards from the city center.
The eight directions of the Eight Trigrams Formation were Qian, Dui, Li, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Gen, and Kun.
From inside to outside, there were four streets.
These streets were divided into different areas.
? With Zhao Feng's current strength, he could only build a small area.
It was about one-sixty-fourth the size.
? But Zhao Feng still built the houses according to the directions on the map.
For example, the height of the house and the direction of the door had strict standards.
Zhao Feng's goal was very simple. He wanted to wait for more people to come and slowly make the Eight Trigrams City a paradise.
? A few days after Zhao Feng returned.
More and more people came to Mount White Wave.
This time, there were more refugees.
Moreover, they came village by village.
Zhao Feng only understood after asking around.
It turned out that these refugees were ordinary people on the banks of the Fen River. Because of the flood, many villages had been burned down, so they had become refugees.
This was the same as the refugees who came to Zhao Feng's side.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, there were no water conservancy projects, let alone advanced equipment such as water pump.
Therefore, most people would build villages near the river because water meant that they would not be afraid of drought and food could grow better.
Not only the villages, but even the cities were the same.
All the cities in the world, be it county cities or county cities, were not too far from the river.
This was also a habit of the Chinese people for many years.
Even in modern society two thousand years later, people would choose places close to water sources.
The Fen River was the largest river in Hedong Prefecture, so there were many cities and villages built beside the Fen River.
However, who would have thought that there would be so much rain this year that the Fen River would surge.
The county could withstand it, but many villages could not.
The grain planted in the fields was swallowed by the Fen River, and the houses were washed away by the flood, so there were many refugees.
? These refugees had long heard of Zhao Feng's name.
In the beginning, they thought that Zhao Feng wouldn't accept refugees. After all, they were all commoners and didn't know how to fight, so they didn't dare to come to White Wave Mountain.
However, after Zhao Feng said those words to the commoners in Wei County.
In just a few days, the news had spread throughout Hedong County.
More and more refugees came to Mount White Wave with the intention of giving it a try.
He did not ask for anything else. He just hoped that he could have some food and not starve to death.
These refugees were really suffering. Zhao Feng saw that many children were starving to the point of being skin and bones.
When they were hungry and had no food, they would even eat tree bark.
Zhao Feng didn't reject any refugees.
He set up twenty big pots on Mount White Wave and cooked porridge every day.
As long as they came, regardless of whether they stayed or not, they would eat their fill first.
……
In just a dozen days, the number of people on Mount Whitewave had skyrocketed again.
From 5,000 to 20,000.
After these refugees arrived, they naturally did not want to leave. After all, they could only eat their fill here. Only a fool would want to leave.
The remaining refugees were not just freeloaders.
Even the children and the elderly would help out with whatever they could.
? After all, hearts were made of flesh, and these refugees understood how good Zhao Feng was to them.
? This was why these refugees wanted to do more work to repay Zhao Feng for saving their lives and taking them in.
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