Fish swimming around the world

Nowadays, the Rat City has been secretly completed. Many residences have been built in the tunnels below, and many people have been accommodated. However, the secret city cannot absorb a large number of outsiders. Almost all the people living in it are from the Rat Sect, and some are from the so-called circle of friends of the King Rat. This number naturally cannot meet Jiang Fan's requirements.

However, it has won Jiang Fan's great praise. He did not intend to make stubborn and rigid requirements. The role of the Rat City in the future should not be too big. So he simply waved his hand and counted the 100,000 rats as his people. So, he met the standard strangely.

Later, Meng Qi also knew the identity of the King Rat and understood that the so-called circle of friends was actually the people in the paradise.

The city lord of the Rat City was the deputy sect master sent by the King Rat according to actual needs. He was also his younger brother Wang Hao, and he also served as the city guard. Meng Qi was the city lieutenant.

Interestingly, there are also Lishan students here, but only two of them are good at geology. The other eight are constantly traveling back and forth to Wei State, acting in secret, and no one knows what they are doing.

After the two strange people, it was the turn of the youngest Yuan Chao.

Although Yuan Chao was the youngest, he had the most flexible mind among the ten outstanding people and his vision was also very unique.

The city he designed was located on the bank of the Huangsha River at the junction of Qin and Xia. It was also the place where Jiang Fan had performed military exercises with thunderbolts.

He thought that since the mountain chief had set his sights on this place, it must be very important, so he turned his brain and built a strange city here.

It was called strange because it was very high, really high.

The whole city was built on a hill, and the foundation was ten feet higher than the city of Xia on the opposite side, almost on the same level as the battlements of the other side. Standing on the city wall was like looking down on the other side.

The name of the city - Linghou City.

Yuan Chao once said proudly that he had a flexible mind and it was not wrong to call it Linghou City. Besides, monkeys love to climb high, so they should stand high and see far. If the red-coated cannons were transported here in the future, they would be able to shoot across the river and make the Xia people lose their way.

Jiang Fan was amazed by the idea, and he also found that the Monkey City did have extraordinary strategic significance. Here, not only can we deter the Xia Kingdom, but we can also discover the other party's every move as quickly as possible and respond as quickly as possible.

Especially as Yuan Chao said, once the small steel cannon and the red cannon are transported, the city of the Xia Kingdom can only sit back and take a beating.

However, building this city is not easy. It is under the surveillance of the Xia Kingdom.

Therefore, Yuan Chao, the monkey, started to build it in the name of building a wharf. He also found the coolie gang that specialized in contracting work in Huangsha River without knowing it.

At that time, the coolie gang had just annexed the Huangsha Gang and was racking their brains to expand their sphere of influence and build a base. They were immediately attracted by this idea.

But the three gang leaders were not very confident about Yuan Chao. However, after finding Jile and requesting an investigation, the chief steward Wang Shu directly said that there was no problem and he could act with confidence.

So, in the name of building a wharf, the Monkey City started.

What does the coolie gang do? Everyone is capable, and the number of people is astonishingly huge. The coolie gang mobilized 30,000 people for this purpose, and the city was completed the fastest. The foundation was laid in less than a month, the prototype was in place in three months, and it was completed in five months. At this time, Xia Guo had just reacted and didn't even have time to think of a countermeasure. He was shocked to see a high city rising from the ground on the opposite side, which made them dizzy and sore.

The scale of this city is not large. It can just meet Jiang Fan's requirement of accommodating 100,000 people. Now there are 10,000 fishing state troops stationed here. And because the dock was indeed built, it has become one of the coolie gang's strongholds, with more than 5,000 coolie gang members stationed. At the same time, the coolie gang is constantly helping to transport people in, but most of them are fishermen. After all, it is difficult to maintain other practitioners near the Huangsha Gang, and the number is only more than 4,000.

The rest are scattered people. So there are not many people here, including the military and civilians, but only more than 20,000 people.

But with the delivery of the Huangsha Gang and the improvement of the city's residences, there will inevitably be more and more. Because there is one thing worth praising, the residences here are provided free of charge. Although they are a bit rough, they are already what the poor people want.

However, Linghou City is far behind in terms of the best collection of refugees.

The best in this regard are Gongyang and Tangang. These are cities built by the alliance of two brothers Yang Wei and Yang He.

Their approach is not complicated, but it is very energy-consuming.

They chose a relatively fertile land and planned to build two twin cities with farming as the main focus. And this location is near Wei at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, not far from Xia. The purpose is to collect refugees from the two countries.

Therefore, these two did not build a city at the beginning. Instead, the first step was to build simple houses and then buy advanced agricultural tools from Mount Li to open up wasteland and reclaim land.

To do these things, 20,000 taels of gold seemed very sufficient. As a result, the neat simple houses were completed very quickly, and 10,000 acres of fertile land were reclaimed in half a year.

As for the manpower for reclamation, they recruited ordinary people with 5,000 taels of gold. With free food, houses, seeds and farm tools, the 10,000 people settled down quickly.

After they had the manpower, they began to build the city around the houses. The method was to select 4,000 young and strong people from the 10,000 people to build the city, while the other 6,000 were responsible for farming and feeding people.

As for the funds, they had long been insufficient, so they adopted the ancient method to build the earth city, but it was not that this method was not possible, but it was easy to construct and the materials were easy to obtain. And the earth city they built was twice as thick as the general city wall.

Although this method is fast, it started late and had to be completely self-sufficient, so they were the last cities to be completed. They were only completely completed last month.

However, Jiang Fan was quite satisfied with the two earthen cities. First of all, the location of the two cities was very conducive to attracting vagrants. Secondly, the wall structure was made of adobe, which was very convenient to repair. Third, the twin cities echoed each other and were difficult to capture.

What he especially appreciated was that they did not live up to the names of the two cities. Today, the twin cities have developed into a place that focuses on farming and animal husbandry.

The straw produced by farming can be used as feed, and animal manure can become nutrients for the land, forming a perfect cycle.

In this case, although Wei and Xia tried every means to stop them, countless refugees still poured in. The population of the twin earthen cities, not counting the 6,000 garrisons, has reached more than 100,000 civilians, far exceeding Jiang Fan's expectations.

As for the lords of the two cities, no one else was chosen, because only they were clear about their step-by-step development plans, so the two brothers simply took on the duties themselves, and only the city lieutenant and the city defender accepted the dispatch from Yuzhou.