Traveling through time and space and becoming a deposed prince, he just wants to survive!

From the outside, Shigang Village has not changed much. Zhao Erniu is still guarding the compound, and Zhao Hu is still in charge of the workshop. As for matters such as the shipping process, they are still responsible for everything.

It was because Luancheng had a demand for a large amount of bricks and stones, and their brick kiln in Shigang Village could not meet the demand even if it ran around the clock.

It is said that Jia Siren from Zhao County spent a lot of money on Zhao Youcai, but in the end he got nothing. He was a merchant from the Cui family of Qinghe, and he was just a relative from a side branch. He was often scolded by the Cui family during this period.

Hearing that Zhao Hu was too busy firing the kiln, he took the initiative to come to his door and ask, "Brother Zhao Hu, can you share some of this busy work with our Jia family?"

It takes a certain level of skill to make bricks for large cities. Either they cannot be burned through, or they are deformed or cracked. Many unscrupulous businessmen only make the surface look good. However, Luancheng needs not only bricks for city walls, but also a large number of bricks and tiles for beggars to live in.

He knew that the big businessman Jia owned a ceramic factory that also made bricks and tiles.

"Why don't you go find the person in charge in Luancheng yourself? They have a lot of materials that you all have!"

What Zhao Hu said was true. A lot of materials were needed this time, and it was impossible to purchase them from just one company. They would purchase them in different categories based on the characteristics of products from different manufacturers.

When Jia Siren heard this, he was even more confused. How could he know nothing about such an important matter?

The construction of Luancheng was quite urgent. The most scarce item was not cement bricks, but wood such as beams and trusses for building houses. Moreover, some workshops were large in scale and had extremely high requirements for wood.

Only then did Jia Siren realize that Luancheng needed a large number of blue bricks, and that he could make them himself, so he headed towards Luancheng alone with his servants.

Li Xin, whose courtesy name was Liheng, was the princess of Dingzhou County. She was given the surname Zhao, so she should be called Zhao Xin in official circles, so most people also called her King Zhao.

Their family is the Zhaojun Li family, which used to be a big family, but now it is a king of a different surname. The Zhaojun Li family basically revolves around him.

"Your Highness, I heard that you have changed the surname of your adopted son to Zhao. Do you have any thoughts on finding a son-in-law?"

The speaker was a manager of the Zhaojun Li family in Dingzhou, named Li Youran. He was no more than forty years old, with a fair face and no beard. He was of medium height and spoke in a somewhat feminine manner.

Li Xin didn't like such people. When he saw him, he would think of the eunuchs in the palace.

However, Li Youran is a very good person. The construction of Luancheng was fully funded by the Li family of Dingzhou. The issue of money has not been mentioned so far. They also sent 200 craftsmen and nearly a thousand laborers.

Although he didn't like it, he knew how to behave. Li Xin had no choice but to greet him with a smile: "Boss, I'm sorry for the expense to the family this time. Normally, it wouldn't be difficult for me to build a princess's mansion, but this time we've gone a little overboard."

Seeing the prince being polite to her, Li Youran smiled sweetly: "Look at what you said, the word Zhao is written in one stroke. We are all family. If our Dingzhou Li family doesn't care about this matter, who else can we rely on?"

Dingzhou is not far from Zhao County. Earlier, Zhao County also sent people here. Although the Zhaojun Li family is a large clan, the population is relatively scattered. The clan has some public funds, but they dare not use them at will.

Li Xin also knew about this matter, and he kindly advised the elders not to worry about these things. When the Princess's Mansion was built, he would definitely go to the tribe to burn incense and pray.

This was the power of family in ancient times. While at first glance it seemed like kinship, a closer look revealed that kings feared it, hence the common practice of exterminating entire clans. To avoid being exterminated, many families split or merged their family names.

The construction speed of Luanzhou was also astonishing in that era. The addition of the family was like icing on the cake. In addition to the large number of people, Zhao Sheng also used a lot of modern knowledge.

For example, to lift large timber, in the past, some methods involved building ladders or piling up soil. Today, the principle of levers and pulley combinations are used on site to solve many problems.

Especially for the construction of the workshop, Zhao Sheng strived for simplicity, practicality and durability. Originally, there was a river passing through Luancheng, but the river was not wide enough.

During the transformation process, Zhao Sheng simply built two lakes in the city, one on the edge of the inner city and the other near the industrial area. The river channel was dug out from the original single one.

A workshop was built in the southeast, and a residential area was built next to the workshop.

This was in ancient times, and residential areas could only be built as bungalows. Considering space utilization, the drawings designed by Zhao Sheng were basically one and a half stories high.

This is a bit like the flat-roofed houses in the north in later generations, where people can hang things on the roof. But they designed it to have a large room on the second floor, so people can go up directly from their homes.

Because the houses were built in a concentrated area, one wall brick could be saved between the houses, and suddenly rows of strange houses appeared in the northwest residential area.

"Sir, how much will it cost to continue construction like this? So far, we have only built 2,000 such houses, and a lot of the materials were paid for by Shigang Village, and we haven't paid for them yet."

Zhao Sheng also understood that although he had made some money from his business and Zhao Changsheng of Zhaojiazhuang also supported him, it was still a drop in the bucket. It would be difficult to build such a big city by his own strength.

"Okay, some of the workshops have been built. Those making military compressed food can start work now. Those making ready-to-eat food can also start work. We are now looking to recruit people. Those who come to work here need to have a guarantor."

In fact, Mr. Zhao has already trained several food technicians, and he just needs to recruit new people to help, which is actually not difficult.

Military reserve food benefits the country and the people. Li Shuya discussed with her father to recruit some veterans who were about to retire and those who were willing to work could go to the workshop.

Most of the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty were soldiers under the corvée system. After the battle, they had to go back to farm. Many people returned after fighting for several years to find that their land had become someone else's, and some even had wives who were no longer their own.

This is also the tragedy of this era. As the old saying goes, doctors cannot be punished. If you don’t have absolute power behind you, you can’t fight against the local evil forces at all.

Behind these evil forces are either clans, government, or even gangs. How can you expect these local officials to manage this? If you offend any of them, you'll lose your life.

There are more than 2,000 houses, and a row of them are first reserved as public dormitories for people who need to stay overnight. One room can accommodate at least five or six people, and it is not impossible for ten people to squeeze in.

The outer wall of Luancheng is three meters high. Zhao Sheng used the method of filling the soil with arches under the first layer. Of course, not all of them are the same. Basically, there is one such arch every three meters, and it occupies less than half of the wall.

The main purpose of this is to seal some commonly used supplies here, and sometimes it can also be used as a temporary shelter during a war.

But Zhao Sheng completely built the second floor into an accommodation area. He repaired the area near the outside of the city with city bricks, and built another wall three places apart, but with small green bricks, and filled the middle with white lime and soil.

Then many houses were built on this floor. Of course, there were some steps between them. Some houses were also used to store supplies. After all, it took time to transport war supplies from the rear.

The top floor is a platform and battlements for shooting, and the most strange thing is that there are countless arrow towers on the top of the chariot building.

Anyone who has fought in a war knows that arrow towers are usually built on flat ground, and there are very few such towers on city walls. However, this city wall has such a facility, which is not very high, about twelve feet high.