172 Renovation of the city walls
On the night of Dragon Boat Festival, a night of demonic wind blew the ashes from a few miles away into the moat of Yangcheng. It rained again in the middle of the night. The moat rose by a few meters. The clear and gentle lake water, which was usually clear and gentle, became turbid and ferocious.
Zhang Ying was overjoyed when he saw the moat and thought it was God helping him. When he was about to launch a new round of siege, the deputy general beside him squatted down and picked up a piece of charcoal on the ground, wondering: "General, our army uses hay and small firewood to cook in the fire, but this...you see--"
Zhang Ying followed his eyes and saw a piece of thick charcoal or a charcoal from a camphor tree. He looked around and saw a lot of this charcoal around him, obviously rushing into the moat through the water flow.
Zhang Ying was busy asking people to go around to inquire about the news, especially the forest with a camphor tree.
The soldiers who were exploring the news came back and reported that they had indeed seen an army camp stationed on the grass below Lingshan, with the number of troops being twice their strength!
Zhang Ying was panicked and thought to himself: Could it be that Qin Mo’s reinforcements have arrived?
With the intention of not sending troops without exploring it clearly, Zhang Ying and his men kept holding the troops.
In fact, when Zhang Ying's soldiers saw it, they were a little panicked. Think about it, there were some soldiers around them, are they afraid?
The rain kept falling, and I don't know when it would stop.
Zhang Ying was worried that the heavy rain would cause floods, and they were afraid that they would move the place for a whole morning.
Qin Mo seized the opportunity and led thousands of Qin Qi's soldiers and thousands of soldiers and bandits collected by the Ninth Princess to rush out of Yangcheng and headed straight to the grassland where Zhang Ying was stationed.
Zhang Ying's soldiers did not close their eyes all night because of the storm last night. Now they heard a large group of people rushing over. In the heavy rain, they didn't know the direction and thought it was the reinforcements. They were inexplicably afraid for a while. The morale of the army was unstable and retreated in panic. The soldiers who had not had time to retreat were killed by the soldiers led by Qin Mo, and the casualties were very serious.
Qin Mo's attack was full of joy, and the heavy rain did not stop until evening, and Qin Mo also brought his men back to the barracks.
The Ninth Princess prepared everything and took her people to divide the work and cooperate the next day. Qin Mo did not stop her, but she did not support her, so she just let her play casually.
By the way, he just took Xiaojiu's idea as a play.
All the soldiers and bandits were combined, and there were more than 5,000 people in total. The tiger boss divided the 5,000 people into one thousand teams and inspected different locations respectively, so that all Yangcheng circles could be inspected in one day.
Fortunately, it rained the day before, and it was not hot.
In the evening, all of them were found out and handed over to the Ninth Princess.
The Ninth Princess turned over and said, "There are 64 sections of the city walls that need to be repaired, some are not long, only one meter, and some are more than ten meters; some are low-lying terrain and easy to store water. Yesterday, the heavy rainstorm rushed, and some collapsed directly. The entire wall needs to be repaired. If it is not repaired, it will easily cause floods in the future. Therefore, this part of the city wall is the most urgent; there are 9 observation decks that need to be rebuilt, so repair is impossible, so it can only be rebuilt, and there are..."
"Anyway, our troops are busy day and night, and it may take two or three months to get better. In addition, it is summer, so I am afraid that the soldiers will not be able to bear it after being busy for a long time."
The Ninth Princess looked at Yingkong. She now relies on Yingkong in these things.
Yingkong said: "They still group people and divide their labor."
The Ninth Princess nodded, thought for a while, and said to the old tiger: "I'll thank you for your hard work this time. I'll leave the division of labor to you. You group the soldiers and divide them into multiple sections. Each section is responsible for a soldier who has built a house and a city tower. Let them go out early in the morning, rest at noon, and go out only when the sun is not big in the afternoon. Don't let them be too tired. Let's repair the most serious place first..."
The tiger eldest daughter smiled silly and nodded quickly: If only this was her own wife, she would be so beautiful...
No money is required to repair the city wall. The Ninth Princess's hair is almost caught by herself, but there is still no way.
She wants to do the business that Yuan Mao and the others often do before and go to rob the big family?
The Ninth Princess touched the jade pendant and thought to herself: Why don’t you cheat Gundam again?
He is the garrison of Yangcheng. They helped him retreat. How could he not afford money or effort?
After making up his mind, Princess Nine decided to check the collapsed city wall first, and then visit Gundam, Yangcheng Prefect and other officials...
Still thinking, the fourth princess took out the things around her, night pearls, jade bracelets, whole jade pendants, ruby step shaking, exquisite wooden box, east bead embroidered shoes...
There were actually a few white silver notes in the agarwood wooden box...
The fourth princess herself also forgot when the silver bill was put in. She was walking up the mountain and was so anxious that she only wore these... If she was still in her Mingyue Palace, there would be countless good things, which was more than that.
This agarwood wooden box was secretly brought out by Lu'er from behind. She had never opened it before. I think it was Lu'er's silver note. In the palace, she, a palace maid, had these, and I don't know how long it had been saved.
A large area was placed on the ground, which opened the Ninth Princess's eyes. She first took the silver notes and picked some treasures that people would not suspect were leaked from the palace, so that Xiaodouzi would sell them...
She picked up the pair of embroidered shoes and frowned in disgust: "Who wants this?"
Xiao Douzi hurriedly snatched it up: "Princess, you don't understand this. The Dongzhu on it is a good thing. You can't sell a lot of silver after taking it off!"
The fourth princess didn't expect that her pair of shoes could be sold like this. However, she couldn't help but dislike these shoes after wearing them several times. Since they could be sold for money, just take them...
Xiaodouzi pondered: "If you tell people that this is Princess Mingyue's shoes, I'm afraid this will become a treasure that everyone is fighting for..."
The ninth princess' eyes lit up, and the fourth princess did not miss the light in her eyes. She pressed her hand on the Dongzhu on the upper and spoke seriously: "If you have other ideas, I will take these back."
The Ninth Princess hurriedly pinched her hand, "How can it be - if you sell it, if you sell it, it's a pity. If you can take advantage of people's curiosity about Princess Mingyue, then these shoes are priceless...
This action moved Xiao Douzi, a stingy eunuch, and thus contributed the jade dice he had searched for...
Selling property, aren’t they just selling property now?
The next morning, the sky was getting dark, and the Ninth Princess set off and went to a city wall to the east with her group. Due to the heavy rain the day before yesterday, the road was still a little muddy. When did the Ninth Princess see the road, she frowned and wondered when such a road would appear in the imperial city? If she had money...
I thought about my purse and turned off my thoughts.
The place they went to was the most serious part of the city wall, low-lying and water accumulation. When the rainstorm the day before yesterday, a turbid puddle directly formed here.
The rocks on the city wall were exposed on the puddle. From the tip of the iceberg, the majesty and grandness of the city wall were vaguely seen.
The morning breeze blew, and it was a little cool. Some trees around were blown off by the wind and fell on the city wall.
Some soldiers have already started to work hard, carrying intact stones and putting them aside, and maybe they can still be used.
Some people noticed the movements of the people and raised their heads one after another. A young man stood in a collapsed city wall without water. He was tall and handsome, and beautiful, making people unable to take his eyes off.
The Ninth Princess saw that the big stones they moved were the same as those on the city wall before, but they were not waterproof.
The Ninth Princess's mind flashed and looked at Yingkong and said, "How many craftsmen are there in Yangcheng? Can you ask them to participate in the repair? The wages... The wages are twice as much as they do on weekdays."
Yingkong nodded and went down to make arrangements.
Chapter completed!