Dihua City has begun to take shape.

On this small high ground, a bulldozer is used to flatten the area above 30 meters above the ground. In this way, the top of the high ground becomes a flat platform with a square length of three or four miles.

A wooden fence was erected on the edge of the platform. It took too much time to build the city wall. Yang Fan didn't have that time, so he just made a wooden city because of the ruthlessness. It was just two layers of wooden stakes arranged closely, half of which were buried in the soil, and sand and gravel in the sky in the middle were better. This speed was fast.

These wooden stakes used in wooden cities are all made of trees cut down by the Tianshan Mountains, and the trunks of the branches are removed, burned with fire to prevent rot, and then buried three meters into the ground, exposing seven meters on the ground. The tops are sharpened tips. In order to prevent people from climbing, barbed wire is also set up diagonally outwards.

Three meters wide sand and gravel were filled in the middle of the two circles of wooden fences in the front and back, making a simple city wall and horse road.

This mainly considers the fast construction speed. More than 20,000 people were completed in just half a month.

There is a three-story wooden watchtower every fifty meters on the city wall. It is used to observe the surrounding situation. Gatling machine guns are set up on it to protect the safety of the city. Under this kind of firepower, it is difficult for the enemy to get within 300 meters of the city wall.

At this distance, the enemy's stone thrower and camel cannon cannot reach the city, which is enough to ensure the safety of the city.

Blocks were built in the city, the road surface was hardened with cement, and the sewers were also built with stone and cement. Each block also had steam engine wells and four or five stone-built water towers to realize tap water for cast iron pipes.

As for the houses on both sides of the street, all of them are wooden houses ordered by Buxiya.

There are housing, military camps, warehouses, horse circles, as well as various commercial facilities, service facilities, etc. There are basically all the functions that a small town should have.

The supermarket and Xinghe Money House have also opened. Although the army is mainly stationed here, civilians will soon come to live. A large number of handicraftsmen are also coming. After they come, this place will become a city with fireworks.

In this era, cities provided various services and supplies to the surrounding rural areas. It can be said that the surrounding rural areas cannot be separated from the central cities. Farmers' output must be sold here, and the tools and supplies they need must be bought in the city.

Now there are recruiting teams sent by the Yang family in Shanhe Province to recruit refugees under various counties.

There are too many farmers who are unemployed and landless now. In recent years, droughts have been frequent, and farmland production has been reduced in large quantities, and even out of production has been eliminated. Millions of new refugees will be added every year.

These people wander around looking for food.

However, the entire North China region and the Central Plains region cannot digest these excess populations because the food is too tight. They cannot find food in the countryside, so they flock into the city, and the city cannot provide so many employment opportunities. Even the porridge with the lowest relief cannot be achieved.

The refugees also led to chaos in public security, which made the residents in the city very resistant to these refugees and had no sympathy at all.

The Yang Mansion sent hundreds of recruiting teams, who drove a four-wheel caravan and pulled the food. Following the route planned in advance, they recruited along the way. There was also a military cooking van in the convoy to solve the problem of cooking at any time.

These military kitchen chariots can provide one battalion soldiers with hot food at any time.

These teams, under the protection of a general banner of the Yang Mansion militia, went to various regions to recruit refugees.

Now it is so easy to recruit refugees. As long as you raise a flag, set up a large pot to start cooking cornmeal and porridge, the fragrance of the food will attract a large number of refugees. They run around and tell me where the porridge is served. People will come from Wuyang.

At this time, the clerks began to promote with iron trumpets. The condition for recruiting the Yang Mansion was that there must be family members. Each family had at least one strong man. Each family was given 100 acres of land, without any tenancy, and no longer had to serve the imperial court's corvee.

This simply means that these people are in their hearts, and this is their dream for hundreds of lives.

They all heard it excitedly, even though they didn't believe it at all, they just loved it and never got tired of it.

Most people don’t believe that the documents promote the land outside the border area is divided into 100 acres.

However, they were almost starving to death. They had been eating weeds and bark for a few days, and if they didn't eat food, they would be really cold.

They have no other choice. They just want to sell their children, but they can't sell them.

Because there are too many roadsides.

Nowadays, there have been droughts for several consecutive years, and many unirrigated dry fields cannot even recover the seeds.

All the small landlords are going bankrupt. Who still buys the population that consumes food?

Almost every convoy will return after recruiting a thousand families.

These people followed the convoy and walked fifty miles a day. They were too thin to go too far. Fortunately, they had three meals of cornmeal, a piece of cake and a salted roe stick every day. They finally didn't have to go hungry.

The doctors on the team are the busiest. These people have eaten too much messy things, such as soil and bark, which makes them unable to get shit out. Many people die on the road with a stomachache. The doctors try their best to defecate them.

These people were numb, and they didn't care where these people would take them. At least they followed the convoy, and they had food to eat every day, babies and milk powder to drink, and children under three years old had rice noodles to eat.

Mi Dashan and his family fled from the Hedong area to northern Henan, but there was still no food here. They ran to Anyang again and met a team that recruited enough people and was about to return. This saved their family.

At least he followed, and he had food every day. There were pickles. Their family hadn't seen salt for two years. What shocked him the most was that there were also some young men and women wearing unseen clothes (modern-style work jackets). They had red cross armbands on their arms and carrying cowhide boxes.

These people were examined one by one, and those who were sick were given free medicine. If it was an infectious disease, they would be isolated and arranged to take four-wheeled carriages pulled by strong cows.

His family had just given birth to a son half a year ago, but he was so hungry and had no milk at all.

These people actually gave his family a bowl of milk every day, and they also made a raw egg in it. They said they were to nourish her body and to feed her milk. The child also had a bowl of milk to drink.

These milks are washed out with a powdery thing and boiling water.

When registering, a young man asked him if he had any other skills besides farming. He thought for a long time and said that he could weave baskets and baskets, but he didn't know if this counts.

Unexpectedly, the young man said in surprise, "You are a bamboo craftsman. It's great, we are missing such craftsmen. You bring your family with me, so you don't have to be in this refugee team. You go to the craftsman team. You can have enough food there.

As the sun identified the direction, they were walking northward. He asked, "You are going to take us there."
Chapter completed!