Liu Jing was not very interested in repairing the city walls of Lingxian County, but the rammed earth walls were not resistant to rainwater erosion and soaking. If left alone, cracks would inevitably appear in the walls and they would even collapse.
The best way to resist rainwater erosion is to weave thatch and cover it on the wall. This cost cannot be saved.
The area south of the Yangtze River is not as good as the north. Because of too much rain, it is not cost-effective to build cities with rammed earth, which is a waste of money and manpower. It needs to be repaired and reinforced basically every year. Therefore, many counties in the south of the Yangtze River "weave wood into cities", "
Bamboo and wood are the city.”
As a modern person, Liu Jing understands the future development trend. It is undoubtedly a better choice to have rammed earth on the inside and bricks on the outside. Today, people believe that bricks are yin, and are now mostly used to build tombs.
The cost of covering the city wall with bricks seems huge, but in fact, if you calculate the annual repair and reinforcement cost of the rammed earth city wall, it is definitely a dizzying number. On the contrary, it is more cost-effective to cover the city wall with bricks.
Of course, even if Liu Jing intends to use the brick-clad technology, he will not use it in Lingxian County. The fate of this city has long been doomed and will be gradually abandoned in the future. Linzheng Township represents the future of Lingxian County.
Liu Jing decided to move the county seat to Linzheng Township, expand the township, and build it into a military fortress as a base to resist Liu Biao.
On this day, Liu Jing, accompanied by Zhen Zhen and Chu Fang, and protected by more than 20 guards including Liu Liang and Yu Zheng, climbed the embankment all the way.
Liu Jing looked up and saw a bustling scene. Thousands of prisoners in shackles and ragged clothes were scattered along the ten-mile embankment.
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The reason why they work hard is by no means voluntary. If they are a little lazy, the county soldiers responsible for supervising the work will swing their whips and hit them hard.
The county soldiers would not show the slightest mercy to the prisoners. Often, with just a few whips, the prisoner would be beaten until he cried like a ghost and howled in pain.
There are not only men among the prisoners, but also many women. They only need to bear relatively light tasks such as transporting earth. Moreover, Liu Jing had previously issued strict orders that no one should insult female prisoners. Anyone who dares to disobey will be severely punished.
Some people didn't take it seriously at first and turned a deaf ear to Liu Jing's words. It wasn't until they saw someone being convicted for this and being forced to wear shackles and repair the dam together with the prisoners that they were shocked and didn't dare to disobey his order again.
Among the prisoners who were repairing the dam, Jing Man accounted for a large proportion, numbering between eight and nine hundred people. In fact, there were originally more Jing Man, but they were all surrendered by Shan Rixi.
As expected, Liu Jing saw Shan Rixi among them.
At this time, Shan Rixi also saw Liu Jing and immediately came with several close followers.
"Liu Jun..."
"Uncle Weng, have you gained anything today?" Liu Jing asked with a smile. At the beginning of the day, the recruitment and surrender work did not go very smoothly. However, as time went by, especially after the construction of the dam began, not only was there not enough food to eat,
, there was still endless work to do, and things began to go smoothly, with new people joining almost every day.
"Yes." Shan Rixi looked happy and nodded, "We have recruited five more people, and the number is close to three hundred."
Liu Jing smiled and said: "If you can recruit all these people to surrender, you will have the capital to return to Hengshan for revenge. Work hard, work hard."
Shan Rixi perked up after hearing this. Although he knew that this matter was extremely difficult, it was not completely impossible to achieve.
Back then, he suffered the disaster of annihilating the village and fled Hengshan with only a dozen of his relatives. He was confused and didn't know how to take revenge. Now, the opportunity is right in front of him.
Liu Jing reminded him again: "It's just that, Uncle Weng, the new people should pay more attention and not be negligent."
"Nuo." Dan Rixi looked embarrassed. Liu Jing naturally had a reason for saying this. Previously, Jing Man pretended to surrender and then escaped at night. It was just because he didn't speak Chinese and had a different image that he was captured before he could run very far.
The Xiangting tribe captured him.
When the man was being twisted back, Shan Rixi wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl in. You can imagine the anger in his heart.
He treated people sincerely. In Chinese, that means "pushing food to eat and undressing people". However, he was betrayed in the end, so he gathered all the Panhu descendants under his command and personally killed those people in front of everyone.
People beheaded and killed.
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Time flies, and it is mid-April in the blink of an eye. Lai Ci has lived in Ling County for nearly a month. Seeing that his son Liu Qun is still lively and not acclimatized, he thinks of taking him back to his hometown in Lingling to visit relatives.
Ling County is only a few hundred miles away from her hometown, and can be reached by boat in just a few days.
She married into the Liu family when she was sixteen, and she is twenty-five this year. Unknowingly, she has been away from home for nine years. Fortunately for her, her parents are still in good health and have no illness or disaster.
Since the death of her husband Liu Yuan, she has missed her parents day by day.
This matter cannot be decided by her alone, especially if she wants to take Liu Qun away, she must obtain the consent of her uncle Liu Jing.
Therefore, when Liu Jing came to visit with Deng Yuan on his day of rest, he took the opportunity to talk to Uncle Ji about the matter.
Liu Jing was slightly startled. Since the death of his brother Liu Yuan, his sister-in-law Lai Ci has been very depressed. She rarely shows her emotions and is indifferent to everything. But now, he saw the word "expectation" in his sister-in-law's bright eyes.
"Sister-in-law, she must really want to go back to the place where she was born, raised, and loved..." Liu Jing thought silently in his heart.
Of course he would not refuse his sister-in-law Lai Ci's decision to return to her parents' home to visit relatives. In fact, he was the first to bring it up, but when it came to the matter, he was still a little worried...
He is not worried about his sister-in-law Lai Ci. What he is worried about is that his sister-in-law's parents will take this opportunity to force her to stay at home and force her to remarry someone else. After all, his sister-in-law is only twenty-five years old this year and is in her prime.
Are parents willing to see their daughter remain a widow for the rest of her life?
Liu Jing groaned and said: "I have no objection to my sister-in-law wanting to take the tiger head back. However, recently, the bandits on the Xiangjiang River are afraid of my reputation and have fled into Lingling. My sister-in-law's journey back to Lingling may not be safe. It's better.
In this way, I will send ships and soldiers to escort my sister-in-law and Hutou to ensure that they are not disturbed."
Lai Ci didn't think much about it and asked: "Zhongda, sending troops to escort me and Hu Tou will not affect you, right?"
Liu Jing smiled and shook his head: "No."
"That's good."
Lai Ci was eager to return home, so she packed her bags that night, and early the next morning, she took her son Liu Qun to board the ship Liu Jing prepared for them.
In order to ensure the safety of his sister-in-law Lai Ci and nephew Hutou, Liu Jing had good intentions. He not only sent a Dou-Jian-class ship and hundreds of soldiers, but also let Liu Zhu personally take charge.