Chapter 1273 Several Major Events

Southern Wasteland, Wucheng.

The big sun was hanging in the sky, and it was undoubtedly a very good day.

At this moment, facing the direction of Qingzhou, Wucheng had many people working. One group was quarrying stones on the nearby mountains, another group was transporting stones, and another group was using the large stones they had quarried to repair the city wall.

Construction is always more difficult than destruction. This hole has been blown open for more than half a year, but now the progress of repair is not even one-fifth of it.

But this matter is imperative. Now because of the nuclear bomb explosion, the court dare not mobilize troops for the time being, but if a few years pass, it may not be the case.

Although the plank road was burned, the court can still repair it. There are many dangerous places along the way from Qingzhou to Southern Wasteland, but as long as you don't care about human lives, you can cross it.

Everything depends on whether it is worth it.

And if it really comes to that time, the more than 50-meter-high wall of Wucheng will be the most solid barrier.

Therefore, it is imperative to build the city wall.

However, since ancient times, building a city wall has always been a major event, which not only consumes manpower, but also costs a lot of money.

If the city wall wants to be strong, the adhesive cannot be made of earth ash, but a mixture of glutinous rice paste, slaked lime, egg white, sand and gravel.

In this era, how extravagant is it to use grain as an adhesive? !

If Zhao Cheng had not killed many local wealthy families, exterminated their clans and confiscated their homes when he was in Qingzhou, accumulated a large amount of gold, silver and grain, and obtained a batch of money and grain from Wucheng, he would not dare to build the city wall easily.

As for burning cement, Zhao Cheng is already doing it now.

Inheriting the foundation of Huang Tiandao, he not only obtained 60,000 available elites, but also a large number of craftsmen. In fact, he had already begun to transfer population to the Southern Wilderness before the heroes arrived in Qingzhou.

The first to be transferred were mainly the families of the army, then the craftsmen, and finally, the people who were willing to follow the army into the Southern Wilderness.

Zhao Cheng did not force those who were unwilling to leave their hometown.

Perhaps in the eyes of other heroes, population is very important, but Zhao Cheng did not pay much attention to this aspect, because the population of the Southern Wilds was already not small.

On the contrary, it would be more troublesome to bring too many ordinary people to the Southern Wilds to settle them.

At this time, Zhao Cheng was standing on the wall of Wucheng, looking at the huge gap. It was fun to blow up the city, but it was really troublesome to repair it.

And behind him at this time, there were also some people following him. Among them, Lin Yi was the leader on the left and Li Tonghai was the leader on the right. The pattern of civil and military coexistence has been initially revealed.

Zhao Cheng has been back to the Southern Wilds for more than a month. During this time, he naturally did not only repair the city wall. Compared with the various things he did, repairing the city wall was just one of the less conspicuous things.

The first thing he did when he entered the Southern Wilds was nothing else but to reorganize the Yingtian Army and completely settle the civil and military system.

If there had not been the bloody battles in Qingzhou for several months, it would have been impossible for Zhao Cheng to reorganize the Yingtian Army, but now, it was decided with one word.

The Huangtian Army that followed him to the Southern Wilderness had more than 60,000 people, and his own Yingtian Army had more than 5,000 people, adding up to a total of about 67,000 people.

In this case, he selected 3,000 from the militia in Wucheng and raised 70,000 people.

These 70,000 people were divided into seven armies by Zhao Cheng, each with 10,000 people. Among them, the 10,000 led by Zhao Cheng were named Yingtian, which was the elite of the elite and gathered the essence of the entire army. The subsequent six armies had no names and belonged to the Yingtian Army, the second army, the third army..., and so on to the seventh army.

The commander of each army was a general, and Zhao Cheng was the general.

In order to prevent factions in the army, the promotion in the army was also alternating. Whenever an officer was promoted, he would be transferred to other armies.

Now, of the 70,000 troops of Yingtian, excluding the 10,000 Yingtian troops stationed in the military camp in Wucheng, the remaining 60,000 are all camped outside Wucheng.

Zhao Cheng used to have only 5,000 troops, so he could only rely on the natural defense of Wucheng to garrison. Now that he has more troops, he is no longer afraid of Wucheng's attack, but instead plans to take the initiative to attack the other side.

Of course, Zhao Cheng is not in a hurry about this matter, but plans to wait until he gets more explosives, crossbows, and even muskets before attacking to reduce losses.

And this is exactly what Zhao Cheng is doing at the same time as reorganizing the army, that is, to really build the foundation of the Ministry of Industry.

Zhao Cheng has come up with a set of simple assessment systems to grade all craftsmen. The higher the grade, the better the treatment. If there is a contribution, there will be rewards.

Among them, Zhao Cheng also vigorously supports carpenters and blacksmiths. On the one hand, he established a relevant apprentice training institution system, and on the other hand, he encouraged craftsmen to innovate.

Zhao Cheng attaches great importance to this matter, and those who dare to stop him will be directly killed.

In ancient times, it was not easy to engage in industry. Even though Zhao Cheng now occupied Wucheng and had a large number of craftsmen, the quality of these craftsmen was generally not high. For example, the formula of cement was not complicated, but the requirements for the furnace fire were too high. One thousand five hundred degrees, this temperature was enough to smelt high-strength steel.

If the furnace fire temperature reached, Zhao Cheng would not burn cement, but would definitely use this high-strength steel to make guns and cannons.

As for now, it can only rely on the Taoists in Tiangong Pavilion to barely manufacture on a small scale.

This is also the third major event that Zhao Cheng has done in the Southern Wilds. He has changed the careers of the Taoists in the army. They are no longer put on the battlefield to fight, but to really play their role.

A Taoist is actually comparable to a small manufacturing platform. It is a waste to use it to fight with others.

Take Zhao Cheng for example. In terms of force, he once exhausted his magic power and only broke through ten armors. However, the same Taoism, whether it is used to rub seamless steel pipes by hand or to refine high explosives, the benefits of a day are more than killing ten enemies.

The Taoists in the Huangtian Army, led by Huang Qi, now form the core of the Tiangong Pavilion. As early as half a month ago, the Taoists had already started working and began to explore and rub seamless steel pipes by hand. As for high-purity gunpowder, this thing is too dangerous, so Zhao Cheng is still practicing it himself.

Calculating the time, by March next year, Zhao Cheng will be able to form a musket battalion of about 2,000 people, which is enough to kill Wu Qi's army.

At the beginning, Wu Qi used 3,000 Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to defeat Huang Tian's 50,000 armors. In March, it was time for Wu Qi to see what it meant to defeat 100,000 with 2,000.

Of course, Wu Qi's army actually did not have 100,000 people. Now there were only about 60,000, but it was just called 100,000.

Apart from this, Zhao Cheng finally rebuilt the civil official system headed by Li Tonghai and let Li Tonghai take charge of logistics.

Zhao Cheng on the city wall looked at Wucheng from the gap in the city wall.

At this time, there were almost no people on the streets of Wucheng, showing a depressed scene.

But this was what Zhao Cheng intended.

Zhao Cheng's idea was to concentrate on doing big things.

Because the city gates were closed, most of the people in the city were in a state of lack of food, but Zhao Cheng, who had a lot of food, did not sell the food in his hands.

Instead, he used food as wages.

Zhao Cheng deeply understood a truth, that is, money has no value in essence, and what is valuable is always people, that is, the so-called population resources, and money is just numbers.

If you can read, then you can become a teacher and teach people. If you can't read but have a skill, then you can become a craftsman in the army. If you can't do anything, then you can become an apprentice craftsman, learn skills during the day, and go to night school at night. You can also get food, and if you perform well and pass the assessment, you can get extra food.

Zhao Cheng has now mastered the means of making fertilizers. If he wants to capture cities and territories in the future, he doesn't need too many people to farm, and those extra people will naturally be sent to the "factory" to increase the war potential.

Until the end, the world was swept by the torrent of steel.

Thinking in his heart, in the void, huge qi gathered on Zhao Cheng's Tao seeds at all times, nourishing them.

Although the territory of Qingzhou has been lost now, the amount of qi has been greatly reduced, but the cultivation of Taoists is not based on qi, but on qi as food.

With the accumulation of the previous period in Qingzhou and the supplementation of Wucheng during this period, Zhao Cheng's Tao seeds finally bloomed to the ninth grade without a sound.

As the Dao Seed changed, his body also began to transform in subtle places. However, this was not the most important thing. The most important thing was that the demon stain in Zhao Cheng's Dao Seed became stronger and stronger, and many subtle things flowed out of the demon stain.

This was because the demon fetus in the void saw that Zhao Cheng had more hope of establishing the Dao Kingdom on the ground, so it made additional investments.

The manifestation on the outside was that Zhao Cheng's aura suddenly became stronger, as if his destiny had been decided. When people looked at him, they would have a feeling that this person was carrying a destiny.