I started as an exile, and I relied on space to support my family of loyal heroes.

Prefect Tian listened to his subordinate who was talking more and more outrageously, and rebuked him with a sullen face, "Don't talk nonsense. You can't say such nonsense. General Long is very capable and will not harm the country."

It was not like he hadn't seen how much the Xiao family protected Lin Yiran.

King Yongchang didn't object to Lin Yiran recruiting private soldiers, so even if they had objections, they had to swallow them.

The Xiao family is now favored by the God King. They have rain when they want rain and food when they want food. There are many people willing to work for them, and it is not necessary for them, the old foxes in the officialdom, to be the only ones who can do it.

If they dare to talk nonsense behind our backs, the Xiao family can replace them directly.

"You are indeed worrying too much. General Long's Kung Fu is unfathomable. He can defeat ten thousand troops alone."

Fang Tongzhi, who was standing beside Prefect Tian, ​​looked in Lin Yiran's direction with eyes full of admiration.

He has loved practicing martial arts since he was young, but his physical fitness or potential is not enough.

He could defeat ordinary guards and servants, but he could only barely withstand two moves from the secret guards around Chang Sun Dongcai.

As for Zhao Hu, who had been practicing martial arts for many years, he could only defend himself and could not hurt Zhao Hu at all.

Although his martial arts skills are not very good, he has seen many experienced masters and can tell the level of a person's martial arts skills at a glance.

Anyway, in his entire life, he has never seen anyone with better martial arts skills than General Long.

"Yes, yes, your Excellency is right. I am short-sighted..."

When the county magistrates heard what Prefect Tian and Co-magistrate Fang said, they all shut their mouths with worried faces.

Come on, we can't afford to offend anyone, just do what we are told.

How could such petty officials like them question the top-level decisions?

With the Divine King protecting the Xiao family, and Xiao Yunzhan being the only man left in the family, there would be no internal strife, and at most there would be the harem interfering in politics.

Fortunately, Shuitian City is now the base camp of the Xiao family. If the Xiao family succeeds in their rebellion, people like them will also rise with the tide, and they will be no different from the current officials in the capital.

At this time, many people who had registered with the chief clerks, holding papers with the chief clerks' seals and fingerprints, walked towards the pile of food with happy faces.

The Lin family soldiers stood in front of the piles of food they were responsible for. They took the papers handed over by the people very seriously and wrote down the items they had received that day in the blank spaces on the papers.

The people took the heavy loads of food with trembling hands, and their bodies shook with excitement.

After receiving the food, the people would consciously walk up to Xiao Yunzhan and Lin Yiran and kneel down to express their gratitude.

Waves of people left the parade ground with tears of emotion.

After Lin Yiran and Xiao Yunzhan watched the food distribution at the parade ground proceed in an orderly manner, they turned directly and went to the barracks.

The Xiao family's private army barracks had a special granary. Lin Yiran simply filled the granary up. When the soldiers came back from farming, she asked Zhang Sun Dongcai to be responsible for distributing the soldiers' salaries.

"After the soldiers finish planting the land today, let them help expand the barracks tomorrow."

Lin Yiran followed Xiao Yunzhan around the barracks and suggested,

"The God Army has almost 100,000 soldiers. Let's expand the barracks here so that all the soldiers can live here."

"The previous reinforcement barracks should be dismantled and rebuilt according to the barracks here, so that the soldiers don't feel favored."

The barracks of the Xiao family's private soldiers looked more than one or two levels higher than the barracks where the reinforcements temporarily lived.

The barracks here have large bunk beds with kangs, and each room has a row of cabinets, each with a number on it, for storing personal belongings.

The floor and walls of the room were very smooth, there was paper on the windows, and the quilts on the bed were neatly folded, which looked very comfortable.

Unlike the reinforcements' barracks, each room only had a wooden bed, and in the winter you would be frozen to death. There were no cabinets at all.

The floor and walls are even worse, full of potholes. If it rains a little, you can even raise fish in the house.

"Okay." Xiao Yunzhan nodded and pointed to the north, "Expand to the north, there is a large open space over there."

"Tomorrow, arrange for the soldiers to go dig mud. Digging mud is used to make adobe bricks. It takes about three or four days to make adobe bricks. It will be very fast to build a building. With so many people, it can be built in one or two days."

The construction of adobe houses mainly involves a lot of preliminary work:

1. The first step is to dig mud to make adobe bricks and obtain an appropriate amount of soil raw materials. Generally, land with better mud quality should be selected, and the excavated soil should be screened, dried, and other processes.

The weather is dry and hot now, so the drying process is faster, which can save a lot of time.

2. The second step is to let the soil settle. The purpose of soil sedimentation is to remove impurities and particles in the water to make the soil purer, and at the same time remove the bubbles in the soil so that the soil is more suitable for making adobe.

3. The next step is mud screening, which removes impurities and small stones in the soil to make the soil finer, which can ensure the quality of the adobe and make the produced adobe more uniform.

4. The next step is to mix the adobe. To mix the adobe, you need to mix water and cement, impurities, stones, plants, etc. in a certain proportion according to different actual conditions, mix them evenly, and then press them into shape.

5. Finally, shape the adobe into a mold, fill it with the prepared adobe, compact it, take it out, let it dry naturally and then use it.

If it can be completed in four or five days, it is considered fast. The main problem is the lack of materials, but there is no shortage of manpower.

Lin Yiran looked at Xiao Yunzhan with a puzzled look.

"There are no bricks in Shuitian City?"

It can be built in one day with bricks, why would it take so much time?

With hundreds of thousands of people, if each person contributes a brick, wouldn't it be as fast as building a tall building on flat ground?