After time travel, my best friend and I exchanged supplies and became a rich woman

The other end.

Liaocheng.

Ever since King Kang and his companions left, Chen Dongyue started preparing for survival in the apocalypse.

She always felt that before Ji Chongning left, he asked Doctor Yao to take special care of her, asked Prefect Meng to repair the city wall, and asked her not to sell grain or something, there must be some deeper meaning.

Although it is unlikely to be a zombie outbreak or something like that, it was a common tactic in online novels in the past.

But Chen Dongyue guessed that Ji Chongning and Prince Kang went to the capital this time to fight for the throne.

As we all know~~~~

If the royal family starts fighting for the throne, there will be chaos in the court.

If there is chaos in the court, there may also be fighting among the people below.

Although it is still unknown who will fight whom.

but! !

It's always a good idea to make adequate defensive preparations first.

So Chen Dongyue followed Ji Chongning's instructions and went to the government office to find Prefect Meng first, saying that in order to prevent the bandits from counterattacking, he asked Prefect Meng to order the city wall to be repaired.

Of course, Magistrate Meng refused immediately.

Why are we building a city wall during this non-holiday season?!

Of course, there are festivals every year, and under normal circumstances, the city walls of the provincial capital are repaired every three to five years.

After all, building a city wall costs money, and it can’t be built just by talking.

Chen Dongyue knew that Magistrate Meng would not agree easily.

So she pulled out her trump card, "I heard that building the city wall can also be included in the annual performance evaluation of officials."

"Really?!" Prefect Meng suddenly became interested, "How come I haven't heard of it before?"

"New rules," Chen Dongyue was an expert at lying with her eyes open, "My godfather wrote to me two days ago about this."

"Why is your godfather telling you this?" Prefect Meng is a man who can think.

"Because I asked," Chen Dongyue said, "but it wasn't me who wanted to ask, it was Lord Sun who asked me to ask.

As you know, Lord Sun was demoted from the position of prefect, so I guess he has been thinking about getting back to the position... Oh, did I say too much? !

Lord Meng, you must not tell Lord Sun that I told you this, please keep it secret, you must keep it secret."

Lord Meng's face, which was already a little blue, turned even darker.

He looked serious and asked, "How much money will it cost to build the city wall? Have you calculated it?"

“I haven’t really calculated this, but I heard Lord Meng mention it. If we build both the north and south walls together, it will cost about 50,000 taels.

However, I heard that the northern side has not been repaired for more than ten years, while the southern side has been slightly repaired due to the bandit incidents in the past.

So if we only repair the north side, it will cost about 30,000 taels."

"Okay, okay," Prefect Meng suddenly stood up, clenched his fists, walked forward a few steps, and sat down on a rocking chair, "What a great Co-Prefect Sun, it turns out he has already planned everything about building the city wall!

I am not dead yet, are you trying to steal my achievements?! Chen Dongyue, pass on the order for me to start building the northern city wall of Liaocheng tomorrow!"

Sun Hanwen, you are such a sweet-talker! You actually thought of something that could harm him.

It's a crazy ball.

If you want to steal the achievements of this government, don’t dream about it!!

This time, I have gotten ahead of you and built a new city wall. Let’s see how you can compete with me!

Thinking of the exciting part, Magistrate Meng couldn't help but start coughing again.

Chen Dongyue quickly bowed and said, "Then I will go and inform Sun Tongzhi right away..."

"Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough, cough." Magistrate Meng almost coughed out his lungs.

When he finally stopped coughing, he quickly grabbed Chen Dongyue who was about to run away and said, "Don't let Sun Tongzhi interfere in this matter. Let the workshop manager take you and Jiang Tongpan to get this done."

"Ah?!" Chen Dongyue looked embarrassed, "But I have other tasks..."

"Don't you have two assistants in the Inspection Office? You can leave the Inspection Office's work to them for now. I now order you to be the supervisor of the workshop and be in charge of the construction of the city wall."

"Well... okay." Chen Dongyue replied with an embarrassed look.

Now that the matter has been settled, Magistrate Meng doesn't want to wait any longer.

He directly asked someone to call Yin Shijie, the workshop manager, and told him that they would start discussing the plan of building a new city wall today.

Fortunately, Yin Jing is experienced and has worked in the workshop for almost twenty years, so he is very familiar with everything in Liaozhou.

He quickly came up with a plan to build a city wall.

The North Gate is the only way for people from Liaozhou to go to the capital, so although it looks a bit dilapidated, there are still many people coming and going.

In addition, the population in the provincial capital of Liaocheng is large, which makes the land not only expensive but also difficult to buy.

So Yin Jingcheng proposed that they should simply abandon the old city wall that required a lot of effort to repair, and instead expand the northern city area outward all the way to... Dehe Villa.

As for why it happened to be Dehe Villa, it was because Dehe Villa had just built an extra-long wall.

The wall extends all the way from the small hillside of Dehe Villa to the gate of the villa.

If the villa could be included in the new urban area, then at least half of the city wall would have to be built.

According to previous calculations, the cost of 70,000 taels can be directly halved.

The key is that the workload can be halved.

The new city wall, which was originally estimated to take half a year to complete, is now estimated to be completed in just two or three months.

Chen Dongyue was shocked. "Lord Meng! I spent real money to build that wall. You...you can't use it for public purposes, right?"

"How can this be called a private wall for public use?" Magistrate Meng explained shamelessly, "It's just a coincidence that your farm just happened to be included in our Xinbei City.

Actually, this is also a win for you! Think about it~~~ your farm was in the northern suburbs before, but after we built the new city wall, eh?! Isn’t your farm now in the northern city?

Even though there is only a wall between them, the land prices inside and outside the city are vastly different. "

.......You really can calculate.

Chen Dongyue thought to himself, no wonder you are sick all the time, it is probably because you are too narrow-minded, so you easily catch a cold.

However, Chen Dongyue actually felt that it was a good deal to incorporate Dehe Villa into the North City.

After all, if a fight really breaks out, it’s better for her farm to be in the city than outside the city, right?

That’s what I think, but I must show my grievances if I need to.

So she complained to Prefect Meng for a long time, and finally she managed to get a subsidy of three thousand taels.

That's it!!!

Chen Dongyue felt that Magistrate Meng was definitely better than Co-Governor Sun.

After all, no matter how hard she and Sun Tongzhi grind, they can probably only grind out one or two stones of aged wheat.

Look at the prefect Meng, what does it mean to be generous!!!

However, Chen Dongyue also made it clear that the three thousand taels of subsidy would be used to strengthen the defense of the walls of his own manor.

Prefect Meng was deeply moved by what he heard and waved his hand...

He said he would send her a few truckloads of bricks when the time comes.

Okay, something is better than nothing, Chen Dongyue was disrespectful to refuse.

It was three days later when Sun Tongzhi learned that Liaocheng was going to build a new city wall.

At this time, the first batch of sand, gravel and bricks had begun to be transported into Liaocheng.

When Sun Tongzhi went to the yamen, he saw a convoy of brick transporters stretching for miles, and he was curious, "Which wealthy family is going to build a new house?"

"Ah?!" The guard standing at the gate of the government office was very surprised, "Don't you know? Our city is going to expand the north city and build a new city wall."

"What?!" Sun Tongzhi was shocked. "When did this happen?"

"It's just a matter of the past few days," the guard replied, "Today is the opening ceremony, and Magistrate Meng and his men have gone to the northern suburbs. You..."

"What?!" Sun Tongzhi's eyes widened. "I just took two days of sick leave two days ago. How come no one informed me?!"

"Sir, why don't you go quickly? If you go now, I'm afraid you may still make it..."

Before the guard at the door could finish his words, muffled cannon fire was heard in the distance.

The guard could only shrug at Sun Tongzhi and say, "It's too late now. The opening ceremony should have begun."

Sun Tongzhi supported his head with both hands, looking helpless.

What's going on? !

This government office...is it really not his government office anymore? !

How come he didn't even know about building a new city wall? !

Prefect Meng, Prefect Meng, you are a dragon from across the river, and I am a local snake.

Haha, you dare to look down on the local snake! Haven't you heard the saying that a powerful dragon can't suppress anyone? Let's... wait and see!

Just...for some unknown reason, the two of them had a small, harmless grudge against each other.