Chapter 147 Bastion Strategy

"Bastion. Read М"

The study room of the palace.

Zou Rong looked at what the King of Yan had drawn on the paper.

This is a six-pointed star-shaped building, with each corner extending outward.

The middle area is used for soldiers to train and rest.

And this building has two floors, with a large hexagon below and a small hexagon above.

He had never seen such a building before and felt it was novel for a while.

"Your Highness, I understand the lower floor, and I can use each corner to shoot the enemy, but isn't the second floor a bit of a waste?" Zou Rong asked.

"Not a waste at all, you will understand in the future." Zhao Xu smiled.

Zou Rong's understanding is only to use bows and arrows as defensive weapons. Because the second floor is farther away from the battlefield, he thinks it is not very useful.

But what he doesn't know is that it is equipped with artillery.

After this bastion is built, it will become an unsinkable warship, staring at the enemies coming from the deep mountains.

Zou Rong nodded. This task is much more difficult for him than building Chengdefang.

The King of Yan has already told him in detail how to build the bastion.

The Arms Department will provide something called steel bars.

Let the steel bars become the skeleton, let the carpenters fix them with wooden boards on the outside, and pour concrete.

Build two high walls with a distance of five meters, and fill them with soil.

He only understood these things, but the King of Yan said that he would go to guide them personally, so he felt much more at ease.

The next most important issue is the people who build the bastions, which is a big project.

Before he opened his mouth, he heard the King of Yan say: "As for the people who build the bastions, I remember that at the end of the war, 40,000 to 50,000 people who were looted by the Northern Di arrived in Yan County. You can select young and strong people from them, and give them one or two silver coins per month if they are willing to go."

Zou Rong knew this group of people who didn't want to go back.

This group of people are basically young and strong men and women, and the Northern Di people will not abduct the old and the young.

Excluding women, at least 30,000 young and strong people can be selected from them.

So many people are enough to build five bastions.

"In addition, you can also recruit civilians. After the autumn ploughing, the civilians can have some free time. These five bastions should be built at the same time. The mountains are closed due to heavy snow in winter, and the northern barbarians can no longer cross the mountains. You have more than half a year from now until next spring and summer." Zhao Xu said.

In ancient times, there was corvée labor.

In theory, he could have recruited civilians for corvée labor.

But because corvée labor was free, the civilians hated it and would not take it seriously.

Therefore, he decided to turn the construction of bastions into a policy to activate the economy of Yan County, such as infrastructure.

The civilians are free in winter, and they naturally want to get silver, and their enthusiasm for work has also increased.

The construction period of the bastions can certainly be shortened.

Although this will cost the palace a lot of silver.

But when the silver is in the hands of the civilians, the civilians have money, and the business of Yan County can prosper.

The palace can then return this money to the palace through commercial taxes.

Even if part of it goes to the merchants, the merchants will cooperate with the merchant bank and get goods from the palace, and part of it will still go to the palace.

In this way, the money has been circulated back, the economy has been revitalized, and the infrastructure has been improved. Why not do it?

However, he can do this on the basis of being able to harvest the rich and powerful in Dasong through commercial goods.

And this is why he attaches importance to Yanjun Commercial Bank.

Next, he will also transform the commercial bank to make it easier for him to accumulate wealth for the royal palace.

Just like the growth of trees requires roots to attract nutrients from the land.

In modern times, the development of Western industry has established the wealth of exploiting colonies.

He can't go to sea now, and without sea power, he can only complete the original accumulation by extracting wealth from the fiefdom through commercial goods.

"Your Highness, if so, these five bastions will cost millions." Zou Rong roughly calculated and was shocked.

In such a short time, he planned to recruit at least 60,000 people, after all, he had to transport cement and mine rocks into stones.

So the monthly salary for seven or eight months is almost more than 500,000.

This does not include the silver for materials.

Zhao Xu felt a pain in his flesh, but he had to bear the pain.

Fortunately, the palace made millions of taels of silver from the last monopoly, and the palace still has 1.5 or 600,000 taels of silver to take out.

Moreover, the project is not completed in one day, so there is no need to take out so much silver at once.

But even so, he has to continue to make money.

The restoration of Shanggu County and Yan County, as well as the salary and equipment of 30,000 new soldiers, and the plan to build ships and open up the sea trade route.

Of course, there are also artillery.

"My head hurts..." Zhao Xu knocked his head, and there is still a long way to go to make money.

But he still gritted his teeth and said to Zou Rong: "Don't worry about the silver, just do it."

"Yes, Your Highness." Zou Rong replied yes.

At this time, Zhao Xu gave Zou Rong the bastion map he drew and asked him to arrange it immediately.

Zou Rong just left.

Feng'er suddenly poked his head outside the study, "Your Highness, there is a man named Mo Yu outside the palace who wants to see you."

"Mo Yu?" Zhao Xu was stunned for a moment, thinking he had heard it wrong.

"Yes, he said he was the son of General Mo Di." Feng Er said.

Mo Yu did not come to the palace when he came, but went directly to fight.

So she did not know Mo Yu.

"How did he enter the city?" Zhao Xu showed a confused expression. '

Generally, the city gate guards would stop people who brought soldiers.

"He is alone."

Zhao Xu frowned, stood up and walked out, "This king will go and see."

When Zhao Xu arrived at the gate of the palace, he saw Mo Yu standing at the gate.

And he was not wearing any armor, just a casual dress.

"Captain Mo." Zhao Xu smiled, "What brings you here?"

"Meet His Royal Highness the King of Yan." Mo Yu bowed.

Then he sighed, "To be honest, I have been dismissed from my post and now I am just a commoner. My father is the only one in Yanzhou who is really fighting against the Northern Di, so he asked me to come to Your Highness and hope that Your Highness will take me in."

Zhao Xu thought for a while and understood.

He was also wondering why Mo Yu could lead troops to help him. Now it seems that General Mo Di was away and did not obey the king's orders, so he asked Mo Yu to come.

Now that it has come to the court, someone must be playing tricks.

So Mo Yu became a shield and was dismissed.

"I am not an ungrateful person. If it weren't for Captain Mo's help, the war would not have ended smoothly, and I would not have captured Kutu and immediately made contributions to get Shanggu County." Zhao Xu said.

Mo Yu pinned down Chaerha and helped Lu Chang to capture him.

Otherwise, when Tam and Chaerha were united, more than 10,000 Northern Di cavalrymen were rampant in Yan County, and he had no power to resist.

In this matter, he really helped a lot.

Now Mo Yu lost his job because of this, and it was recommended by Mo Di, so it would be a bit unreasonable for him not to accept him.

Moreover, Mo Yu was trained by Mo Di.

His military ability is not necessarily worse than Chang Wei.

Right now, he is about to expand the army, and it is the time when he needs generals.

There is a position for him.

So he said: "Captain Mo came at the right time. The emperor allowed me to expand the army to 60,000 people. Captain Mo might as well stay in my personal army and train the new soldiers."

Mo Yu was overjoyed and bowed and said: "Thank you, Your Highness. Mo Yu will serve Your Highness from now on."