Each platoon leader took the team out, stopped the team at different planned locations, and distributed tools for the soldiers to start building the rammed earth wall.
Building the city wall is very simple. It is to dig soil from the outside of the city wall according to Li Zhi's plan, and then fill the soil into the planned position of the city wall. The place where the soil was dug out will become a moat. At that time, from the Haihe River
When water is brought in, the moat becomes a moat. The soil accumulated on the city wall is tamped with stone piers to become a rammed earth city wall, which is the inner foundation of the brick city wall.
The most arduous task of building the city wall is ramming the soil. Each layer of soil must be compacted. During the operation, more than a dozen people use ropes to pull a large stone mill from different directions. Everyone shouts in unison to pull the stone mill and wave the stone mill.
, then pull the rope and let the stone mill hit the soil of the city wall heavily to compact the soft soil. Repeat this step again and again until all the soil is compacted.
Doing this work of ramming earth is very laborious and it is heavy physical work.
After the rammed earth wall was built, the brickwork and battlements were left to the masons.
The city wall project planned by Li Zhi is quite large. The city wall has a circumference of 3,000 meters and is a square, with each side measuring 750 meters. The city wall is five meters high and three meters wide, with a horse face built every 20 meters.
The so-called horse face is a pier protruding outward on the city wall, which facilitates soldiers on the wall to attack enemies climbing the wall from the side. The design idea of this defensive facility in the Ming Dynasty is similar to the bastion of later generations, and the purpose is to form a multi-directional
Cross fire. Li Zhi absorbed the advantages of the bastion during the design and designed the horse face as a protruding triangle to facilitate cross fire on the city wall to attack enemies climbing the horse face.
Calculated in this way, the entire city wall of Fanjiazhuang New City requires more than 50,000 earthworks. On average, each soldier has to do more than 20 earthworks of rammed earth walls, carrying stone mills on their shoulders and backs to compact them. Calculated, it takes four or five days to work.
months.
However, the food Li Zhi gave contained vegetables, meat, and meat, which were nutritious. Doing physical work with adequate nutrition and adequate rest was good for the body. Speaking of which, although the two thousand servants Li Zhi recruited were in good health, they
They are not strong enough by the standards of soldiers. Building rammed earth walls can help these soldiers exercise their muscles and become a qualified soldier as soon as possible physically.
In addition to arranging soldiers, Li Zhi also arranged for officer candidates.
Li Zhi personally served as the leader of the vanguard selection group, which facilitated Li Zhi's control of the army. Li Laosi and Zhong Feng were the two captains of the original servant team, and now they naturally serve as the two battalion commanders of the vanguard selection group.
There are still two battalion commander positions, one of which Li Zhi decided to let his younger brother Li Xing take. In these troubled times, being a military general has a better future than managing a textile factory. Li Zhi is determined to leave the good position of battalion commander to his younger brother. And if
The fact that Li Zhi has his own brother leading the army is also a deterrent to others and will make Li Zhi's position as a parent more stable. Li Xing has been practicing as the general manager of the textile factory for several months and has certain management capabilities. Now
Move to the position of battalion commander to continue training.
After making up his mind, Li Zhi rode to the textile factory to find Li Xing. Li Zhi entered the factory and saw Li Xing walking around the factory with an assistant. Li Zhi called Li Xing, and he saw Li Zhi and his assistant.
Ran over.
"Brother, are you here?"
"I haven't been here these days. How is the textile factory going?"
Li Xing clapped his hands proudly and said: "I'm just waiting for you to ask me! Under my management, the output of the textile factory increased by half this month, with a monthly output of more than 31,000 pieces of cloth. In addition, I organized
Excellent spinners taught their experience to other spinners, and cotton consumption dropped by seven tons this month!"
Li Xing tilted his head and said, "Brother, you want to give me a silver reward!"
Li Zhi spat: "You have the nerve to talk about a small number like seven dan?"
Li Xing said with dissatisfaction: "It's a saving to some extent! I don't have the guidance of the immortal on the seaside, so I can only engage in this kind of petty trouble!" After saying this, Li Xing pulled his assistant forward and shouted loudly
Said: "Brother, I want to recommend you my assistant."
Li Zhi glanced at the assistant: "Oh?"
"Brother, I'm afraid you have forgotten. His name is Zheng Hui, he is the grandson of my grandfather's brother, and he is our cousin. He learned spinning and weaving in two months, and he is very familiar with the management of the factory. This month
The ability to produce more semi-finished cloth is all due to him."
Zheng Hui was pushed forward by Li Xing. He was a little nervous and said, "I've met my boss." Then he knelt down to salute Li Zhi.
Li Zhi also put on airs in front of his subordinates, and waited for him to finish the salute before saying: "No courtesy! You did a good job, well done to Li Xing!"
When Zheng Hui heard this, he stood up with a happy face and stood aside without saying anything.
After praising Zheng Hui, Li Zhi said seriously to Li Xing: "Li Xing, I'm going to change your position! Let you change your position!"
Li Xing blinked and thought for a while, but felt that Li Zhi had no position greater than the general manager of the textile factory, and murmured: "Brother, what position do you want to give me? Isn't my general manager doing a good job?
"
Li Zhi patted Li Xing on the shoulder and said, "I want you to become a general and the battalion commander of the selection group."
Li Xing's eyes lit up and he asked: "Being a battalion commander? How many people will you be in charge of?"
Li Zhi said: "Now I am in charge of 500 people. But being a battalion commander is different from being a factory manager. Being a battalion commander is a general, and you must be responsible for the soldiers' daily life, food, work, training, and combat! You have greater power." After a pause,
Li Zhi added: "And the selection team will expand in the future, and then your battalion commander will become the team leader."
Li Xing rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Okay! It sounds pretty good!"
Li Zhi said: "Being a general is so majestic. You can take a group of people with you wherever you go. When fighting a war, commanding the soldiers to charge into battle is very different from being the general manager of a textile factory!"
Li Xing thought for a while and said with some worry: "But I can't lead troops to fight?"
Li Zhi said slowly: "You can learn it if you don't know it. Learn it bit by bit through training and practice. My new army uses Mini rifles. The way of fighting is completely different from before. No one has experience. You learn things."
It’s pretty fast, you can get started within a few months.”
Li Xing said loudly: "Okay, then I will be the battalion commander for my eldest brother!"
Li Zhi nodded and said no more.
Li Zhi left the last battalion commander position in the selection group to his cousin Zheng Kaicheng. Zheng Kaicheng managed the soap workshop very well and was a rare management talent. He was also related to Li Zhi, so Li Zhi handed over the army to him.
Also feel more at ease.
Zheng Kaicheng was to be the battalion commander, and the soap workshop needed a supervisor. Li Zhi thought about it and simply asked his second grandfather Li Yousheng to take charge of the soap workshop. Now Li Zhi's business is getting bigger and bigger, and almost all the relatives of the Li family have been absorbed into it.
After working in the industry, the Li family all recognized Li Zhi as the master of the business. Li Yousheng, the patriarch, was not as recognized by his relatives as Li Zhi. However, Li Yousheng was a shrewd person, and he was in good health before he was sixty years old, and he could still do management.
The most critical thing in a soap factory is that the secret recipe cannot be leaked. As the patriarch, the possibility of leaking the formula is extremely small and Li Yousheng is a reliable candidate.
Seeing that the juniors were getting rich following Li Zhi, the old man Li Yousheng was also a little greedy. Li Zhi asked him to be the supervisor, and he immediately agreed happily.
As for the candidate for the general manager of the textile factory, Li Zhi chose his uncle Zheng Yuan, who was a supervisor in the textile factory. Although Zheng Yuan was a little shy before, that was caused by his poor life. After becoming the supervisor of the textile factory in the past few months,
His mental outlook is very different. He is very serious about his work and can be regarded as an excellent manager.
