Boating was quite boring. Because Mrs. Wei Yue was about to give birth, Liu Yi gave up his main ship to Wei Yue and his wife. After leaving a few maids to help take care of him, he picked up another mother-child boat to take it on.

"I didn't expect Mocheng would become a must-fight place!" Liu Yi lay down on the penetration, carving the tops of the wooden pillars standing on the side of the ship into wood carvings, and complained casually.

He did not expect that Mocheng, which was originally a good match for everyone, had now become a place where Liu Bei and Sun Quan could not stand stalemate.

Thinking about it, I still have some fear. If I really didn't vote for anyone and stayed in Mocheng at that time, Cao Cao's failure, facing Sun Quan and Liu Bei's eye, would he really have the ability to remain neutral? Or would he not even have the scum left in the war?

"Not to mention the exquisite equipment produced by Tiangongfang, even the Mocheng itself is probably no one to ignore." Cui Zhouping sat beside Liu Yi, touching Wangcai's neck and shook his head, "It's better to move all the people out now, but this Jingnan land will be a place where the Sun and Liu families will compete in the future."

"Don't we join forces to fight against the strong?" Liu Yi sat down, took the water bag handed over by Deng's mother, looked at Cui Zhouping and frowned.

"The truth is this, but who is stronger and who is weak?" Cui Zhouping shook his head and said, "Besides, if Sun Quan thinks he can easily capture Jingzhou, or if Liu Bei thinks he can easily capture Jiangdong, wouldn't these two families be more likely to compete with Cao Cao?"

Simply put, although everyone understands the truth, it is also a truth that has not changed forever. Now Liu Bei can be said to be the biggest profiter in the Battle of Red Cliff, but his foundation is initially determined and not as stable as Jiangdong. Therefore, Jiangdong can tolerate Liu Bei. But if Liu Bei really takes over Yizhou, as Cui Zhouping said, when Liu Bei's power reaches its peak and even competes with Cao Cao, Sun Quan may not tolerate Liu Bei's continued strength in this way.

In addition to this reason, there is another problem that if Liu Bei gets Yizhou, Liu Bei can send troops from Jingzhou and Shuzhong to capture Xiliang, where Cao Cao's power is relatively weak and his foundation is unstable. However, Sun Quan went north, but he had only one choice, that is, to attack Xuzhou.

There is a flat horse over there, and it is another place where Cao Cao has been running for many years. There are not many cavalrymen in Jiangdong. Sun Quan is here to take advantage of the tough guys. Liu Bei is trying to take advantage of Cao Cao's weakness. No one will agree that Jiangdong Junjie is just a waste of money?

"If you don't talk about this, let's study the Eight Formation Map sent by Kong Ming." Liu Yi rubbed his temples. It's really not easy to play with things like politics.

Zhuge Liang had already sent the Eight Formation Diagram, but only looked at the Formation Diagram. Liu Yi was confused. He had learned from Cuizhou Ping these days and could only recognize the Bagua. Liu Yi could figure it out the direction and corresponding natural elements represented by Qiankun Xun Zhen Kan Li Gen Dui, but as long as Cuizhou Ping combined these Bagua, Liu Yi would be confused.

"This has been told to you that Qian is the sky, so the Qian hexagram should be in the north. However, the position you selected, west and north, are all facing water, so Qian is above and below Kan is the Tianshui hexagram, and the west faces water. There should also be a water camp here, which is the main energy of the soldiers and swords. The soldiers and swords can be fire. The above and below Kan are above and below, and the water and fire are in harmony, so we should arrange this way..."

Cui Zhouping took the formation diagram, then picked up the pen and drew on the paper prepared by Liu Yi. After a while, another eight-formation diagram was formed, which looked similar to Zhuge Liang's eight-formation diagram, but if you carefully distinguish it, it was completely another version, without a corresponding place.

Cui Zhouping said seriously, and Liu Yi tried his best to remember it. At the same time, he also corresponded to all the equipment he prepared in his mind. Among them, it also involved the power system of the entire city. It must be done with the help of hydraulic power to integrate it. Liu Yi couldn't think of it for a while. If Cui Zhouping said, he would need to make at least eight power systems to drive the power supply of the whole city, but it is not difficult to make these eight power systems. How to emit emissions? If Cui Zhouping said, it would break the balance of the sixty-four hexagrams.

When Cui Zhouping saw Liu Yi frowning, he didn't say anything more, but leaned against the side of the boat and said, "Since the gossip is not done, why not try the Five Elements?"

"There are also formations of the five elements?" Liu Yi looked at Cui Zhouping in confusion.

"That's not." Cui Zhouping shook his head: "There are actually some in the battle formation, but they are not static formations. I mean it is constructed according to the five elements and based on the number of five or five, it may be easier."

Liu Yi frowned. In fact, if the power system is not added, the gossip can be made, but the power system will destroy the original gossip structure. Liu Yi's idea is that since the ornaments such as divine beasts and monsters can have some strange attributes, then if the city is built according to these Yi numbers, can some strange attributes be triggered?

Eight, Five...

Liu Yi sighed. It seemed that the craftsman's learning was inseparable from mathematics, and the theoretical system he wrote was particularly strict in the accuracy of mathematics, so he had to find time to study it carefully.

"Two gentlemen." Deng's mother came to the two of them with her food plate, put it down and said, "It's time for lunch, the two gentlemen, let's eat something first."

"Sister Deng's food serves delicious food, but it's a pity that there is food but no wine!" Cui Zhouping pressed Wangcai who wanted to pounce on it, shook his head and said regretfully.

Deng's mother didn't answer, but just smiled slightly, turned around and left for a moment, and came over with another food plate, a pot of sake and two wine cups.

Cui Zhouping nodded and thanked him, took the wine cup filled with wine by Deng's mother, took a sip and looked at Liu Yi who was still frowning and thinking hard, and said, "Don't think about this beforehand. What Bo Yuan should think about now is not the construction of a city, and there is another problem that should be solved."

"What?" Liu Yi looked up and looked at Cui Zhouping blankly.

"The soil in this Dongting Lake area is soft and wet. Not to mention building a city, it is not easy to build a house. Has Bo Yuan ever thought about this?" Cui Zhouping looked at Liu Yi and asked.

"Think about it." Liu Yi nodded, picked up the wine cup and took a sip and said, "One is to use pure wooden structure, and the entire city is supported by 3,621 solid wood at the bottom. However, in this way, it is very easy to catch fire."

The buildings of this era were mostly civil and wooden structures, and they were built with pure wood, which was easy to catch fire. And in wartime, just like when Zhou Yu burned half of the Red Cliff, and one fire came to a fire, the entire city was probably burned out.

With the fire prevention measures of this era, it is difficult to eliminate such things. Without anyone else's words, Liu Yi has already rejected this idea.

Cui Zhouping nodded after hearing this, "It seems that Bo Yuan has other plans."

Liu Yi nodded and said, "The other one is to dig deep!"

Liu Yi brought a map on the shore of Dongting Lake and spent a piece of land saying: "Digging the land in this area three meters deep, and isolating the flood by building a dam. On this basis, the city is built up. The entire city is divided into two layers, and the bottom is used to store materials, which can save a lot of time. The ground is a normal city. In this way, the city is stable and a large amount of materials can be stored, but..."

Cui Zhouping knocked his head and looked at Liu Yi with a headache and said, "The materials consumed are very wide, and even with Bo Yuan's ability, it may be difficult to build a city in a year, right?"

Time falls second, and the most important thing is money. As long as you have enough money and recruit ten thousand people, you can definitely build it in a year. But this idea is just to think about it. A work team of 10,000 people will cost millions a day. The money you brought, plus the income from the Zhao family, will be fine if you use Liu Yi's method to run it in Xiakou. It is already good to be able to support one or two months.

"Building a city in one year is not necessarily necessary, but the money consumed..." Liu Yi compared his gesture: "It's ten times more than originally."

If a thousand people are digging a three-meter-long foundation, it will only hire civil servants, which saves money like that, but the attributes are not very good, and they are top-heavy, which cannot achieve the most perfect effect that Liu Yi expected.

"So, what is Bo Yuan going to do?" Cui Zhouping saw that there was no distress in Liu Yi's expression, and knew that he had already had an idea in his heart, and said with a smile.

"Make money first!" Liu Yi looked at Cui Zhouping and smiled: "I have discussed with Brother Zi Zhong. The Mi family also means reorganizing a caravan. I plan to build a fishing ground around the city site, breeding farms for chickens, ducks and poultry, brick kilns, wooden farms, textile factories and other large-scale places to provide a large amount of goods, and then sell them to various places by the Mi family caravan. On the one hand, after the city is built, it can also provide the city's economic industry and livelihoods for the residents in the city. The third can also provide sufficient supplies for the future construction of the city, so there is no need to ask for it."

In this year, the economic foundation was still mainly agriculture, and commerce was also carried out on this basis. The things that Liu Yi said were all in this era, but there were few that were specially made on this large scale, and even Cui Zhouping had never heard of these words.

"It seems that Bo Yuan is not going to start construction this year?" Cui Zhouping looked at Liu Yi and smiled.

Liu Yi nodded: "It is the busy farming season now. Before autumn harvest, we can open these places and start construction after winter. Therefore, we still have time to improve the city design."

Cui Zhouping put down the grilled fish with only fish bones left and nodded, "If it were as Bo Yuan said, if this new city could be built in the future, the land of Jingnan might become prosperous."

Although it was a big construction project, according to Liu Yi's approach, making money and then investing is not a waste of money. The time he chose was also the time to start building the city during the slack season. This was the first time since he met Liu Yi, Cui Zhouping saw Liu Yi taking something so seriously. He began to look forward to the scene when the city was built.

"By the way, where is the madam?" Liu Yi suddenly remembered something and looked up at Deng's mother, as if he hadn't seen Lu Lingqi very much in the past two days.

"My lady seems to be feeling unwell and has been staying in the cabin for the past two days." Deng's mother said with some concern.

"Don't feel comfortable?" Liu Yi stood up and apologized to Cui Zhouping: "I'll go and have a look."
Chapter completed!