"Can't you come to my second brother if you're fine?" Huang Chengen was in a very good mood. The elephant team officially started operating. A large amount of goods from the Northern Vietnamese Dynasty were sent to Nanning Prefecture through Xiangzhou, and the goods from Nanning Prefecture were sent to the Northern Vietnamese Dynasty. The trade profits this time were higher than those from Pingxiangzhou's previous three months of income.

Only with money can one have power. The Huang clan family of Siming Prefecture, which had ignored Pingxiangzhou, also sent people to contact him, hoping that Xiangzhou's elephant team would go to Nanning Prefecture. He also took the initiative to express his responsibility for the construction and expenses of the station, which became too lukewarm than before, and Huang Chengen was a little fluttering.

"Brother, I have nothing to do. I'm racking my brains to build this village." Zhou Shixiong arranged for Zhou Wu to lead the elephant team to stay and build a city block in Baiyu Mountain. According to Huang Chengen's idea, he built some wooden stakes to surround the beach and then built a batch of bamboo and wood buildings. This Zhoujia Village was considered a result. But Zhou Shixiong didn't think so. He wanted to build a small town of about the same level as Baiyun City, which would support Baiyun City and firmly clamp down on Baiyun River and Pingxiangzhou Highways.

"Second brother, you don't object to Jiancheng, but if you want to complete it in one go, you really can't help too much. The eldest brother is not enough!" Huang Chengen knew that the biggest advantage of Zhou Shixiong's construction of the city was his own, but he didn't have more people to give to Zhou Shixiong. This is also the truth because of the small population in Xiangzhou. Therefore, Huang Chengen's words were full of apologies.

"Everyone is in hand, where can I find more people?" Zhou Shixiong also sighed to the sky. In modern times, I feel that there are too many people in everything I do, but in ancient times, it is extremely difficult to find people to do things.

"Second brother, Hengzhou has agreed to your request. When the war is over, half of the slaves will be distributed to us in Pingxiangzhou. Otherwise, don't be too busy to start work. It's not too late to start work after they finish fighting." Pingxiangzhou has always been restricted by insufficient manpower. Even if someone sells slaves to Huang Chengen in the past, he would not dare to buy too much. There is not enough food to eat, is it fun to buy it and starve to death?

This time, Zhou Shixiong gave Huang Chengen the idea to hand over the shipment to Chen Yongfu, a thousand households in Zhennanguan, for sale. The two companies officially formed a commercial alliance. Chen Yongfu was responsible for the export work, accounting for 20% of the shares. Since everyone was an alliance, the grain problem would be easy to solve. Chen Yongfu was responsible for purchasing grain from the Northern Vietnamese Dynasty. With Xiangzhou, there was no need to worry about the problem of too many people and no food to eat.

Zhou Shixiong's second idea was to ask Huang Chengen to contact the Lei family in Hengzhou. Iron ore could be sold to Hengzhou at half price, but Hengzhou would give 10,000 slaves in Pingxiangzhou. Of course, Hengzhou would not give his own people to Pingxiangzhou. The slave would have to wait for the end of the war and be marked out from the captives of the Cen family. Since it was futures, Zhou Shixiong would not suffer any losses. The standard set was to occupy half. If half of the prisoners were less than ten thousand, Hengzhou would have to make up for it.

Although the war clouds between Hengzhou and Xunzhou Prefecture are airtight and thick, it seems to explode at any time, but no one knows how long it will take to fight. Zhou Shixiong can't build a city in order to wait for these 10,000 people, so Zhou Shixiong and Huang Chengen wanted a thousand slaves, plus his five hundred men and women and five hundred slaves, and began to carry out preliminary renovation of Baiyutan.

The formation of Baiyu Beach is caused by the rocks and soil washed down by Baiyu Creek, the main mountain stream of Baiyu Mountain. If Zhou Shixiong wants to build a city here, he must first solve the waterway where Baiyu Creek flows into Baiyun River. If the water from Baiyu Creek is allowed to flow into Baiyun River according to the original route, it will not only reduce a large piece of land that can be used, but will also cause damage to the city walls when the mountain torrent breaks out.

Zhou Shixiong has not built a city yet, so the first step is to build an underground system. He doesn't want to live in a place where there is no sewer, which is too inconvenient. Zhou Shixiong has never been a builder, but he is not worried that there will be problems with his plan. Not building it does not mean that he has never seen it. He has a clear idea of ​​how to do it. It's just that he doesn't know about professional things. Zhou Shixiong built a batch of sheds on Baiyutan to be used for workers to live in, but the sheds were sinking as soon as they were built. It seems that there is something wrong with the idea of ​​building a city in the beach.

Zhou Shixiong knew the solution, but he did not have the ability to implement this method. Piling is very simple, and letting a person who has never been in contact with the construction industry invent and create a pile driver, which is pure nonsense.

Piles are also needed for bamboo and wood building, but that kind of pile is a piece of wood to solve the problem. Four wooden piles are enough for a small building. How many wooden piles are needed to build a city? Zhou Shixiong didn’t even have the idea of ​​calculating. Even if wooden piles were piled up everywhere, he could not withstand the stone walls. It is not possible to use bricks. Burning bricks has no technical content. As long as you find the right soil and don’t need anyone’s guidance, Zhou Shixiong can burn it and turn it around. But the bricks are heavy and the wooden piles cannot hold on. And there is another thing that restricts Zhou Shixiong’s design, that is, there is insufficient manpower, and no one can do anything even if there is no idea.

"Brother, it seems that this city cannot be built, so let's build a village according to your idea." Zhou Shixiong thought about various conditions and found that even if he had money, he could not do many things, so he could only bow to reality.

"Don't worry, build a village first. When the eldest brother has too many people, build a city for his second brother. We should build a few more cities based on Xiangzhou." In Guangxi, whether the chieftains of a state or prefecture are strong can tell whether they have a population and village. If they own a city, then this state is at least a medium-sized state. If there are multiple cities, even if the state has a small population, they can communicate with other large chieftains on the same level. The city is a symbol of strength.

It is better to summarize it with an idiom than to say so much. I have heard of siege and siege. A village will be uprooted by people, but the city can only be broken. No one dares to say that he has the ability to siege the city.

Now that Xiangzhou is booming, it is easy to be swallowed up by other jealous toasts without building a few cities. Huang Chengen's words are definitely not casual.

It is easy to build a village. Every day, there are a large number of wood rafts along the Baiyun River and bamboo rafts are down the river. Huang Chengen said that he could use whatever he wants and no need to report to him. Zhou Shixiong was not polite to him and ordered Zhou Hou, "Stop all the bamboo rafts and wooden rafts you saw, and find the chief yamen to take the money." A few days later, two bamboo mountains and log mountains appeared on Baiyu Beach.

With the materials, Zhou Shixiong first brought a thousand slaves to build five dams on Baiyu Creek. It was not the kind of tall dam, but used bamboo and wood to create a one-person-high dam in front of each naturally formed pool.

When the stream is full, it will naturally flow downward. It seems that Zhou Shixiong is doing this and is looking for trouble. In fact, Zhou Shixiong's dam is mainly used to deal with mountain torrents. As long as each dam can eliminate part of the impact of the flood, Baiyu Creek will not pose a threat to the safety of the village from now on.

After the flood control dam was built, the next work was to deal with the water. Zhou Shixiong wanted to dig a new waterway and let Baiyu Creek become the moat for the village as he asked for a large amount of work. Zhou Shixiong asked Huang Chengen to help, and then made twenty enlarged super plows, using elephants instead of cattle as traction, and ditches were opened like plowing. The remaining elephants were responsible for transporting the digging soil and filling the depressions in the high Baiyu Beach.

The underground system also started to be built at this time. Zhou Shixiong did not waste time digging the ground, but built a sewer system directly on the ground. He thought about it. Anyway, he built a stilt house and just lay the floor on the ground. It is not a problem to build the sewer on the ground. Using wooden boards as the ground of this village, Zhou Shixiong really didn't plan to save money for Huang Chengen. I wonder if Huang Chengen's feelings would be painful after seeing the account book.

After four trips to Nanning Prefecture and Zhennan Pass, the time was November of the sixth year of Tianqi. After three months of hard work, Zhoujiazhuang was officially launched. Huang Chengen brought Huang's senior executives to Zhoujiazhuang for wedding banquets. This year, Xiangzhou's harvest is not enough to describe the surge in revenue. In addition, Xiangzhou's status among the Huangdong Barbarians also surpassed Longzhou, Jiangzhou and Siling Prefecture, and became the third largest force in the southwest region following Siming Prefecture and Taiping Prefecture.

"Welcome, brother is so early." Zhou Shixiong and Liu Wangzhou, Zhou Si and Zhou Wu stood in front of the gate of Zhoujiazhuang to welcome Huang Chengen and his party. Apart from these guests, Zhou Shixiong did not invite anyone else, and he didn't know who to invite.

"My second brother's new home is completed. Can I do it if my brother doesn't come early?" Huang Chengen looked at the village more than one meter above the ground, and was both happy and painful. The village was 500 steps long and 200 steps wide. It used more than 20,000 trees to lay the ground. If it was half a year ago, Huang Chengen had the intention to vomit blood. Although it is now developed, this amount of expenses still hurt him.

Zhou Shixiong led his guests to the main house near Baiyu Mountain in the village, which was his new home. In order to accommodate 500 servants, Zhou Shixiong's house occupied three parts and one area of ​​the entire Zhoujiazhuang. Zhou Shixiong lived with Liu Wang and the three brothers in the middle. There were two courtyards on both sides of the left and right. Behind the village, a huge elephant railing kept 100 elephants, which facilitated the rotation of elephant teams.

"Hey, Uncle Second, are these monkeys brought back by the Monkey King?" Zhou Shixiong led everyone to sit down at the long table in the living room. A group of monkeys in jackets took food boxes and started serving dishes. Huang Shouyi knew the origin of these monkeys, but he never expected that Zhou Shixiong could train monkeys to this level.

"Yes, I had no one to my hands some time ago. Seeing these guys being bored when they were full a day, I trained them to take care of my diet. It was just fun." After serving the dishes, the monkeys stood in front of Zhou Shixiong. Zhou Shixiong handed the monkey a stack of salted peanuts on the table. The monkeys took turns to grab a handful of their pockets placed on their jackets and walked out of the living room.

"Interesting and interesting, Uncle Second, can you give me a few?" Huang Shouyi is about the same age as Zhou Shixiong. Although he has been married for many years and is very playful, he is very interesting when he sees these monkeys, and excitedly asks Zhou Shixiong for it.

"If you can make the monkey obedient, I will give it to you, otherwise you will have no use to bring them back." Zhou Shixiong would not send these monkeys. He wanted to train a monkey army to be responsible for going into the mountains to collect herbs and fruits. The number of one hundred monkeys is too small, and he himself is not enough.

ps: I wish you a happy New Year, a spirit of dragon and horse, all the best, and a great source of wealth.
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