Author: Gongsun Wujiu

When Mani returned to Luntai, Luntai City had become a large construction site.

Today's Luntai City was built when the Han army first arrived in Luntai in the fourth year of Taichu.

At that time, we were so poor that we had to use dismantled materials from the old city of Luntai Kingdom combined with clay mortar to build it.

Not only is the city small and the land is cramped, but all the materials are not up to standard. Although it is not a shoddy project, it is not much better.

Over the years, the city walls have become shabby.

Some areas even collapsed.

Zhang Yue had long wanted to rebuild Luntai City, but he had been unable to start the construction due to financial and manpower constraints.

After these years of development, Luntai has sufficient financial and material resources.

At this time, the external environment was also very good, and the Xiongnu royal court was falling into brief chaos due to the death of Shan Yu.

The Sun Chaser King's Division and the Oto King's Division, which could threaten Luntai, were also crippled in the war in the previous two years, and are still silently licking their wounds.

Qiuci, the most powerful among the countries in the southern part of the Western Region, has surrendered to the Han.

In a short period of time, there was no force in the surrounding area that could threaten Luntai.

Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Zhang Yue finally launched the plan to build Luntai New City.

In Zhang Yue's plan, the new Luntai City was not only the fortress of the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions.

It is also one of the most important nodes on the Silk Road.

Therefore, the new Luntai City must take into account both commercial and war needs.

After on-the-spot investigation, the new Luntai City was chosen ten miles east of Kuqa Water.

According to the planning and calculations of Zhang Yue and other craftsmen, the new Luntai City was even larger than Dunhuang.

After completion, the circumference of Luntai New City is nearly 20 miles, the wall is about four feet high, and the city foundation is ten meters thick.

There is a city gate in the southeast and northwest, with a tower built on the gate and an urn outside. A 50-meter-wide moat will be dug outside the city.

Outside the east gate of the city, a large campus will be built that can accommodate 30,000 people for sergeants to drill and review.

Outside the south gate of the city, it is planned to build a market dedicated to foreign caravan trade.

Inside the city, the city of Chang'an of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was imitated and transformed into large and small squares.

Each village is directly independent of each other. Even if someone raids the city, each village in the city can continue to resist.

In addition, a large number of open channels and culverts will be built for drainage. Because Luntai is located in the area of ​​the Fourth Battle, these drainage channels also have the function of city defense.

This idea was proposed by Zhang Yue, and after deliberation with the entire general camp, it was deemed feasible. Everyone in the general camp was full of confidence in Luntai New City.

Especially Pang Yi, he was excited when he thought that the largest and most majestic city in the entire Western Region would be born in his own hands.

Without Zhang Yue's supervision, he and General Zuoying devoted themselves wholeheartedly to the construction of the new city.

In order to complete the construction of Luntai New City as soon as possible, Zhang Yue mobilized almost all the idle manpower available in Luntai.

In addition to all the idle personnel, all enemy soldiers captured in the previous two battles were also pulled to the construction site.

In order to increase the enthusiasm of the prisoners of war, Zhang Yue promised in public that as long as the daily workload was completed on time, these prisoners of war would gain complete freedom after the city was built.

Not only that, Zhang Yue even promised the prisoners of war that if they continued to stay in Luntai after freedom, they could also get land.

If you don't want to stay in Luntai, you can still get a piece of money as wages.

Zhang Yue's approach suddenly increased the enthusiasm of the prisoners of war, and the progress of the project was also much faster.

People from Qiuci, Yuli and other countries who were close to Luntai heard that there were wages for the Han army to build the city, and people kept coming.

Zhang Yue also accepted all orders, and his current attitude towards manpower is that the more the merrier.

The scene of thousands of people working together on the construction site every day is also known as a spectacular sight.

However, the cost of building a city is also extremely huge.

To build a strong city in this era, the best material is to use Sanhe soil.

The so-called Sanhe soil is a mixture of loess, lime and river sand plus a certain proportion of cooked corn.

Its production method is to mix these three raw materials in a certain proportion, continuously beat and turn them with bamboo chips or wooden mallets, and then stack them for a period of time to fuse and age.

In particular, lime and loess both have an evolutionary process from raw to mature.

The length of the resting time should be controlled before the mixture hardens. It may vary from a few days to ten days, and then it can be beaten and turned again.

The more times and the longer this refining is done, the better the effect will be. The dryness and humidity should be controlled so that it can form a ball when kneaded by hand, and it will spread when kneaded by hand.

The wall foundation tamped with this "three-component soil" is quite solid.

It can not only bear huge pressure, but also prevent floods, erosion and immersion from mountains and rivers, and has an indestructible defense function.

Loess, river sand, and lime were fine, but Zhang Yue couldn't help but feel heartache at the thought of using a large amount of corn.

However, according to Pang Yi, the fort wall built in this way is strong and durable and can last for hundreds of years.

And this was also the most common wall-building technique in ancient times.

In some big cities or palaces, they built city walls. In addition to adding a large amount of corn, they even added a large amount of brown sugar, egg white, red beans and other substances to make adhesives, which cost countless money.

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When Mani and others arrived, Zhang Yue was discussing matters with everyone. When he heard that Mani had brought back a large number of female slaves, he hurriedly led everyone out.

Zhang Yue was surprised when he saw this group of female slaves. He did not expect that Mani would bring so many female slaves at once this time.

When Zhang Yue arrived with his people, Mani had already gathered them on a flat ground.

At this time, these female slaves looked at the people around them with fearful eyes, with surprise and a little fear in their eyes at the same time.

Around them, some young men who were working stopped their work and gave them instructions and discussions from time to time.

When Zhang Yue and his party came out, they saw a circle of people surrounding the female slaves. Wu Tong walked up and shouted loudly: "What are you looking at? Every time you see a woman, why don't you hurry up and get to work?"

After hearing this, everyone dispersed with a roar and continued to do their work, but everyone's eyes looked here from time to time, wondering if they had the chance to marry these female slaves.

When all the female slaves saw a young officer coming out to yell at everyone, he seemed to be very powerful, they all subconsciously shrank their bodies.

Looking over again, the female slaves saw Zhang Yue, who was surrounded by everyone like stars holding the moon. Although he was young and not tall, he had an extraordinary aura.

The officer who just shouted at the crowd also came back to stand next to him with a smile on his face.

The female slaves knew that this was the legendary master, and they all knelt down: "Greetings to the Lord..."

Zhang Yue just nodded slightly and turned his eyes to Mani.

Mani quickly stepped forward and said, "I pay my respects to my lord..."

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