The Yiluo Basin is surrounded by the end of the Qinling Mountains in the southwest and the Funiu Mountains in the northeast.
It is divided into several small basins and valleys of various sizes and interconnected by mountain branches and rivers.
Hua spent a day, with the help of the system's own map module, to find a satisfactory location, which was the location of Ruyang County in later generations.
This is a basin with about 40 square kilometers of plains in the shape of a "7".
At the corner of the "7" is the only external exit to the northeast.
Outside the exit is a trumpet-shaped valley plain, and the trumpet is facing the northwest end of Rushui Valley.
In the basin, several streams flowed down from the surrounding mountains, and converged with a small river rushing out from the depths of the mountains at the center of the basin.
It flows through the entire basin and plain area, flows out at the outlet at the northeast end, passes through the "trumpet mouth" plain, turns around and flows to the southeast.
This is Ru River.
The reason why Hua chose this place was not only because of its strategic location, but also because the system map showed that a hundred miles south along the Rushui Valley would lead to a place later known as Pingding Mountain.
As someone with a bachelor's degree in geology and mining in his previous life, Hua certainly knew that Pingdingshan was the only place in the Central Plains that was rich in mineral resources and had the benefit of copper salt.
Hua came to the small river at the exit of the basin.
Bring up the inventory of the system panel, and an icon of a city founding order is already listed.
Click on it with your mind.
An operation interface appeared, showing an aerial view of the area, allowing Hua to specify the specific location of the city.
After Hua set the location of the city, a prompt dialog box popped up.
Do you agree to build the city here?
Hua asked the system a little worriedly: "Is there a risk of flash floods here?"
"No, based on the analysis of astronomical and hydrological data of the past three hundred years, this probability is very, very small."
Only then did Hua feel relieved and clicked in his mind to agree.
There are several reasons for building the city at the exit of the basin instead of inside the basin.
One is that it can be used as a barrier, which can protect the cultivated land in the basin in the future and that no one from the village will come to plow the valley.
Second, it can prevent the enemy from cutting off or polluting the water source in the city.
Third, it can prevent the enemy from easily blocking the pass and trapping itself in the basin with only a small number of troops.
In the blink of an eye, a city was erected on the side of the mountain pass, and the small beasts and birds that had been hiding here dispersed.
The wall of the entire city is made of logs on rammed earth foundation, about seven meters high.
There are turrets about nine meters high at the four corners.
There is a corridor about three meters wide at the top of the wall, supported by wooden frames.
The nearly 20-meter-wide Ru River enters through a water hole at the bottom of the west wall of the city and exits from a water hole at the bottom of the east gate.
It is the dry season, and there is only a water channel less than five meters wide in the depths of the river.
The water tunnel is supported by a number of stone pillars, making the city wall above look like a bridge.
Between the stone pillars, bronze pillars as thick as an adult's wrist were planted into the river bed to form a fence to seal the water hole.
The gap between them could not allow an adult to pass through.
Hua planned to extend the west wall of the city to the cliffs on both sides when he had enough manpower.
This would be a real Guanzhai.
Hua entered the city gate with ten bronze shield guards and walked around the city in a quarter of an hour.
The city is about 800 meters long and wide.
The river passing through the city divides the city into north and south areas.
There are five wooden bridges connecting the two banks.
On the central axis to the north of the creek, there is a wooden palace with a length of 200 meters and a width of 100 meters.
It is made of Maoci earth steps.
The front hall covers an area of nearly 6,000 square meters.
The floors are all made of solid wood.
The back palace also covers an area of more than 5,000 square meters.
There are more than thirty rooms.
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The remaining area is the palace courtyard, with a circle of houses and cloisters along the courtyard wall.
To the right of the palace is the warehouse, which covers an area of more than 10,000 square meters and is divided into multiple storage areas, warehouses, and open-air storage yards.
When Hua entered the warehouse, he found some strangers dressed in Shang Dynasty style.
When one of them saw Hua coming in, he quickly bowed and saluted and said, "See, Your Majesty, I am the warehouse manager of this warehouse."
Hua thought that these people were generated by the system as part of the warehouse.
He didn’t know whether the population attached to the building would occupy the balance of the population.
Thinking of this, he quickly called up the system panel to check the information and found that the population balance was still 3,000.
Obviously the population that came with the building did not occupy the population balance.
At this time, as the system prompts a ding, a sweet female system voice also sounds continuously.
The main task 2 "City Building" is completed, and the task reward is 100 points and 50 Shang Dynasty farmers.
The construction of the city is completed and the construction module is unlocked
Main mission 3: Establish a firm foothold and reclaim 800 acres of wasteland around the city.
Hua then looked at the top of the panel and found that the total population had become 60, and the points had become 150.
Hua suddenly remembered the issue of rations for fifty farmers.
Since the ten bronze shield guards had brought their own rations for a few days when they first arrived, would the Xinyi city have just been completed?
Will there be any initial supplies in the warehouse?
Hua asked the two warehouse managers: "What materials are in the warehouse now?"
"I'm telling you, sir, there are only 100 shi of corn, 100 jin of coarse salt, 1,000 coins of shellfish, and some daily consumable items in the treasury."
“Let’s talk about the metric system” "My lord, what is the metric system?"
the other party asked in confusion.
Hua ignored him and directly called up the panel to find the information.
Corn: 10,000 kilograms, coarse salt: 80 kilograms, Shang Dynasty shellfish: 1,000 pieces When Hua walked out of the warehouse, fifty farmers had entered the city.
When they saw Hua, they all saluted him and greeted him.
Each of them was wearing black linen clothes, their hair was tied up with ocher red cloth strips, and they were carrying bronze hoes and a linen bag.
"Everyone enter the palace, I will arrange your tasks."
Hua said with a smile.
When Hua sat down in the main hall, it was already time to eat.
I saw a palace servant and concubine bringing two pots of food and a pair of bowls and chopsticks.
The bronze pots were filled with rice and the pottery pots were wild vegetable soup.
Only then did Hua realize that the palace also had ancillary people and daily utensils.
Hua, who had not eaten vegetables for a long time, looked at the wild vegetable soup and swallowed his saliva.
Just as he was about to start eating, he found sixty people kneeling on the floor of the hall, looking straight at him.
"Everyone, please have your meal first," Hua said.
Sixty people took out dry food from their skin bags and sacks, and began to eat dried meat.
There is nothing wrong with Hua calling these people as ministers, not only out of respect, but more importantly, in the Shang Dynasty, the words "chen" and "concubine" tended to have the meaning of slaves.
"Give them some vegetable soup," Hua ordered the palace people.
"Your Majesty, these wild vegetables were dug temporarily outside the city by the palace cook.
They are only enough for your Majesty's use," the palace maid said timidly.
"Oh, let's get them some boiled water."
"Hi" Hua, who had eaten and drank enough, was munching on the dried meat brought from Yousu State while assigning tasks to His Highness and others.
The four corner towers of the city must be guarded all day long, and the west gate must be opened and closed by someone who is responsible for opening and closing the gate.
Bronze shield guards must be on duty in two shifts.
Fifty farmers will first hunt the basin for a month and try their best to reduce the number of wild beasts in the basin.
It will take another three months to carry out land reclamation in the basin, and dig ditches, reservoirs and cesspools.
It is required that eight hundred acres of wasteland be reclaimed by the coming spring of the following year.
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In addition, each farmer must collect a pound of wild vegetables in his spare time every day and give it to the cook.
At present, everyone's daily meals are provided by the palace chef.
Everyone said "Hi"
Winter in the Yellow River Basin during the Shang Dynasty was not cold, but it was much drier than the hot season.
Hua lay on a bamboo deck chair he made himself in the palace courtyard, squinting and watching the busy farmers coming in and out.
After all, they are farmers, not hunters, and they do not have specialized hunting tools such as bows and arrows.
They can only use methods such as making nets with wormwood, setting traps, and burning wasteland to capture some small animals such as deer, muntjacs, badgers, cats, rabbits, and sheep.
Occasionally, they can Caught a wild boar or two.
But this is enough to let the beasts in the wilderness know that this plain area is becoming human territory.
This is enough.
In the future, the probability of them going down the mountain to destroy crops will be much smaller.
Some farmers reported that they had discovered a small herd of elephants, which had now fled to the southern mountains.
In addition, these prey supplement the protein and fat in the food to some extent.
The daily wild vegetable soup is no longer clear soup and salt water.
There are a few large oil flowers floating in each person's bowl, and they can eat stewed meat and barbecue every three days.
Hua asked the chefs to smoke the remaining meat into bacon or make preserved meat for storage, which consumed a lot of salt in the storehouse
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