Yang Fan announced that the main tent of the Chinese army would be located in Jiuyuan City. At the same time, the city would be rebuilt and built into a famous city outside the Great Wall.
With the army moving in, large-scale renovations in Jiuyuan City began.
Engineers rushed to Yinshan to blast away rocks, and seven-ton caravans transported the rocks from the mountains. Countless stones were piled outside the city, forming hills.
One hundred thousand migrant workers were mobilized, including 40,000 who have been transferred to group training. In fact, there are still more than 35,000 of them now.
They began to rebuild the city wall in sections. On the basis of the original city wall, the height of the city wall was increased to ten meters and the thickness was expanded to eight meters. Then they were covered with stones on the outside.
Yang Fan did not use blue bricks like Guihua City.
To wrap the bricks with blue bricks, you have to build a brick kiln and then find a nearby coal mine to bake the bricks. This comes too slowly. We simply use engineers to blast the stones and transport them to build the outer city wall with cement.
Because he needed to build fortifications, Yang Fan brought a lot of cement in his baggage. They were all packed in iron barrels. Yang Fan had 180,000 people at his disposal, and he could also mobilize the hundreds of thousands of captured Mongolians. He had enough human resources.
Now that there is no longer a war, they cannot be left idle. They all become construction teams and start city construction.
Houses have also begun to be built within the city walls. After all, the city has been abandoned. Apart from the crumbling earth walls full of holes that have been chewed by dogs, there is nothing left inside. The only drum tower is also a dilapidated building.
Yang Fan ordered that buildings be built directly with stones. Because the brick kilns had just started to be built and the coal mines had not yet been found, there would be no bricks and tiles available for a while. This caused Jiuyuan City to become a city of stones.
The speed of digging and blasting rocks is very fast, and a large amount of rocks can be extracted every day. Yang Fan also has a large caravan, and there is no shortage of strong cattle on the grassland. The captured herdsmen also drove Lele carts to transport the stones. The project progressed very quickly.
Yang Fan has already asked the new city to transport a large amount of cement. As long as the cement can be supplied, the construction speed will be very fast.
Due to the lack of steel bars, large buildings often use arch structures to build roofs. It is close to the Yellow River and has many woods. If ordinary buildings are built into two- or three-story buildings, wood can be used as the floor slabs.
According to Yang Fan's requirements, the city wall was built with a horse face every 50 meters, and stone blockhouses were built on it. It can be used as a place for accommodation for the soldiers guarding the city, and there are also shooting ports, which can be used as blockhouses to attack attacking enemies.
Because I had experience in building new cities, I felt comfortable re-planning Jiuyuan City.
The city in the Ming Dynasty basically had the same pattern. The streets were oriented east-west and north-south. The center of the city was the Yamen and the square. Nanmen Street was the main commercial street, with bell towers and drum towers on both sides.
In many small towns, the bell and drum towers are combined into one building. They are collectively called the bell and drum towers.
Related facilities such as the City God's Temple, Taoist temples, temples, and Confucian temples were also naturalized and construction began. After all, a city must have all the functions it should have.
Yang Fan and the students from Xinghe Academy who accompanied the army planned Jiuyuan in one night according to the model of the new city.
At this time, there was a bustling construction scene in the city. Soldiers and construction workers worked in three shifts, and people did not stop working during breaks. They also used torches or lit fires for lighting at night to intensify construction.
The entourage of the Ministry of Industry was amazed at how skillful and methodical Dingyuan Bo was in building the city. They were especially surprised by the use of cement. This gray powder was so easy to use after being mixed with sand.
It was used to build stone walls. After three days, it became as hard as a stone. After more than ten days, rows of stone houses in the city were basically built. It was just because of the lack of carpentry, lack of trees, and lack of doors and windows.
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These woods need to be cut down in the Yinshan Mountains or small patches of woods on the grasslands, which takes time and needs to be dried in the shade. Carpenters also need to make doors and windows. For the time being, we can only use reeds from the Yellow River to make straw curtains and cover the doors and windows first.
Get up and use it.
At the Yamen in the center of the city, Yang Fan simply built a castle in the style of a European castle. This kind of building can be used as an inner city, a solid fortress, and can be used as the last stronghold after the city is broken. At the same time, living in the castle is also relatively comfortable.
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The castle has a thirty-meter-high tower that serves as the city's bell tower, drum tower and watchtower.
Outside the city, Yang Fan planned agricultural land and pastoral areas. The follow-up plan is to divert water from the Yellow River to irrigate farmland and plant pasture. The captured herders will be converted to settled grazing. This can better control them. At the same time, it can also increase the load capacity of a single piece of grassland.
Livestock quantity.
The current grassland management model is too extensive, too inefficient, and has no ability to resist natural disasters. Planting pasture to store green fodder in autumn and driving cattle and sheep into stone houses can greatly reduce the death and fat loss of livestock in winter.
The Yellow River here is also higher than the two sides. It is easier to divert water. Just prevent the embankment from breaking. The river water will flow by gravity. With irrigation, both agriculture and animal husbandry will develop better. There is no need to worry about the future in the next ten years.
Drought and climate cooling.峖
The reason why Mongolia is so miserable is that they don't know how to carry out water conservancy projects. But Yang Fan has no shortage of such talents. By building dams, he has trained a qualified construction team and design team.
In the blink of an eye, Yang Fan and his army had been in Jiuyuan for a month. Except for sending the scout cavalry far away to monitor the remnants of Tumut and the Ordos people near the river, no new military actions were taken.
In the past month, the city wall has been completely rammed with earth. The outer stone covering has also entered the final stage. In about ten days, the cement will be completely dry. By then, the city wall made of granite will be impregnable.
Sewers have been repaired and roads have been paved in the city. A large number of private houses have been built on both sides of the road. They are all two or three-story buildings.
Military camps and school grounds have been built in the city. Warehouses and armories have been built. The stone castle in the center of the city is also under construction. This project is relatively large and is estimated to take one year to complete.
The city has planned residential areas and commercial areas, as well as livestock pen areas and handicraft workshop areas.
Ten large water wells were built in the city. They are all deep wells made of stone with a diameter of three meters. They are covered with well pavilions outside, which can accommodate many people to collect water. Ten water presses are installed on the outer circle of these wells, which can easily
to press the water out of the well.
It is close to the Yellow River and has very rich groundwater. The wells do not need to be too deep to produce water. However, a large amount of water is available in case of emergency. These wells are all twenty meters deep. The water stored in the wells is at least ten meters deep. This is guaranteed.
Sufficient water sources are available.
After Daza ran to Linhe, the two parties were basically in peace. Except for the frequent encounters between the scouts and cavalry, there was basically no fighting.
