Chapter 19: Talk about Li Yuan’s attitude

Perhaps because Chen Ying's speech was unclear, when Ge Tong took out the planning model and sent it to Chen Ying, Chen Ying was a little reluctant to build the manor into a steel workshop.

Looking at the lifelike model, the Mingtang, wing room, elegant house, pavilion, pavilion, pavilion, small bridge in Chenjiazhuang in the future... are surrounded by deep ditches and high walls, with internal houses connected, and towers and towers built in the center of the four corners.

Ge Tong didn't know much literacy and was not outstanding in eloquence, but his skills were good. He was not only proficient in machinery and smelting, but also proficient in wood processing. With his hands and poor tools alone, he actually created a three-foot square model.

In Ge Tong's plan for Chen Ying, the future Chenjiazhuang will take the Chen family Mingtang as the center, divide eight courtyards and twenty-four courtyards on both sides. In front of the Mingtang is a corridor, twelve steps wide and about one hundred and sixty-eight steps long. On this straight corridor, it will pass through the inner and outer courtyard walls, and the surrounding courtyard walls are as high as four feet and six inches tall. In fact, it has left the scope of the courtyard wall, surrounded by blue brick walls about three feet and six inches thick, forming a fort-style building.

It is even planned to build a ditch to connect the Ba River, enter the Wei River from the Ba River, and form a water transportation system for Chenjiazhuang to the outside world. This artificial ditch not only undertakes the future water transportation of Chenjiawu Fort, but also serves as a moat.

At this moment, looking at the model of Chenjiazhuang, Chen Ying was filled with emotion. What Ge Tong took out was not an ordinary manor, but a fort.

The fort, also known as the fort, is a civil defensive building. It was formed around the time of the Tianfeng period of Wangmang, when the north was famine and the society was in turmoil. In order to protect itself, rich families built the fort camp walls. After the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of Han ordered the destruction of the fort, but the ban could not be eliminated. Because the people in the northwest often suffered from the Qiang troubles, the people automatically organized self-defense force. After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, a large number of troops and family soldiers were stationed in the fort, which became a safe haven for old officials and guests.

Because building such a fort is quite expensive, it is generally more than ten times more expensive than ordinary houses. Once peaceful years, it will gradually decrease. However, during the Five Barbarians' invasion of China, some Han people were forced to leave their hometowns and move south, while some Han people did not want to stay away from their hometowns. However, during the Five Barbarians, the Hu Hu slaughtered Han people like pigs and sheep, and the forts that had already gradually disappeared rose up in the Central Plains. Bingzhou alone, when Fu Jian alone captured Bingzhou, he had received more than 100 forts surrender and more than 200,000 people.

Ge Tong lived in Shuozhou. Since the end of Daye in the Sui Dynasty, Shuozhou has often faced the invasion of the Turks. In order to protect himself, Han landlords and powerful people in Shuozhou built a fort-style building complex. Such a fort is actually a small city. When attacked by the Turks, they can build forts and protect themselves.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, this kind of dock building complex formed local group training, but in the era of thermal weapons, this kind of dock building complex gradually disappeared from the Chinese architectural system.

As a general, looking at this model with a radius of only three feet, Chen Ying subconsciously placed his position on the side of the attack, and finally found that if a fort like this is sufficient food and equipment, three or five hundred guards can deal with at least five thousand enemy attacks, and can be defended at the lowest cost. If you want to break up such a fortress, there is no other way except to fill it with human lives. Just wanting to fill a ditch that is fifty steps wide and two feet deep is a huge project, and under the suppression of an arrow tower with eight arrows as high as six feet high, the work of filling the trenches will be a bloody road.

Chen Ying did not want to hand over his life to others. At the first moment, he thought of building this Chenjiazhuang at all costs, no, Chenjiabao, at least in the future, can protect himself, his family and future generations.

However, it is no less difficult to complete such a huge building complex than building a small city on a flat ground. The money and food consumed will be astronomical. If the construction of a city, the government can come forward to promote corvee labor and recruit people to bring their own dry food to serve. The main expenses are nothing more than bricks and stones and wood, and the cost is much lower.

However, Chen Ying had to build such a fort, not only to bear the cost of raising workers, but also to bear the workers' food, accommodation, wages, and a large amount of construction materials. Especially in the era without steel bars and cement, the adhesives for the construction were made of glutinous rice juice. However, there was no glutinous rice in Guanzhong and it needed to be transported from Jiangnan. A stone of glutinous rice was less than fifty yuan in Jiangnan, but it was transported to Guanzhong, which was more than three times the size of the construction. Therefore, Chen Ying's construction cost would be more than three times higher than that of the official building.

However, Chen Ying really didn't want to waste Ge Tong's creativity. So Chen Ying asked: "Deputy Chief Ge, you can estimate how much manpower and how much food is needed to build this fort? How much time will it take?"

Ge Tong thought for a while and said, "Reporting to the grandfather, the old man made a rough calculation. He needed to use five hundred people to dig a canal, and two hundred people transported the digging soil to the fort to burn bricks and fill mud and build a wall. He actually didn't need too many people to build a house. Generally, two hundred people are enough. One hundred carpenters build a house..."

"So, at least one thousand people are needed?"

"It's almost the same, it's almost the same for one thousand people to work for two years!"

Chen Ying silently calculated in his mind that two-thirds of the thousand people were small workers, and one-third were large workers. It was easy to solve the problem of small workers. One person had twelve cents a day plus three liters of grain, plus salt, oil, vegetables, and meat. It costs about thirty cents a day, and basically it can be handed over. The key is craftsmen, especially skilled craftsmen. Their prices are not low. Some families of craftsmen can earn three to twelve cents of money. Chen Ying naturally couldn't hire a famous craftsman. Based on the monthly calculation of three craftsmen in a mature craftsman, the wages were only one. More than 300 craftsmen, plus six or seven hundred craftsmen, it costs more than 30,000 stewards.

This requires adding stone, wood, paint, hemp rope, and coal costs for burning bricks and tiles. 50,000 guan can't be defeated at all. If it doesn't work, it will cost 100,000 guan, or even more.

Chen Ying himself has money and a lot of money, but as for building a fort with a century of foundation and a history of eternity, this money is just a drop in the bucket.

Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "Deputy Chief Ge, you go and do it first. Follow this model to prepare first. I will find a way to deal with the money!"

Chen Ying sat on the soft couch and stared at the model in front of him in a daze.

The problem Chen Ying was thinking about was not just about money, but also whether Li Yuan would be more afraid of him. Anyway, the fort was still very far away from being built. Even if you want to see the clues, it would take at least three or five months. Chen Ying thought about it and decided to wait until Li Xiuning returned to Chang'an and let Li Xiuning explore Li Yuan's bottom.
Chapter completed!