Before Chen Fu finally returned to Dongguan, he believed that Chen Xun could not fight against those forces that coveted Chenjiazhuang.

In Chen Fu's view, how many generations of those forces have accumulated, Chenjiazhuang has only developed for several years?

On February 25, the construction of the wall in Chenjiazhuang began.

The lines were shown, and several families blocked the construction path of the village wall. Chen Xun spent a day persuading almost the Chen clan members to agree to the relocation and expropriated the arable land in the village wall. The village villagers gave some compensation for their own land and replaced it outside the village. It was easy to say that the land rented by Han people in the northern region were all Chen Xun.

In order to make the walls sufficient bricks and stones, Chenjiazhuang's brick kiln has been expanded twice, and four new brick kilns are planned to be built. The expansion of brick kilns has resulted in insufficient coal, which can only increase orders in Qingyuan's coal kilns.

After pulling the whole body, Chen Xun first realized what a large project is. It requires manpower in all aspects. For a time, Chenjiazhuang had insufficient manpower and gaps in all aspects.

In addition to insufficient people, money is also spent like flowing water.

All kinds of purchases cost money, and those who work have to pay wages. In addition, food is managed on the construction site, and the consumption of previously stored grain has also accelerated sharply.

Chen Lu persuaded him that the village wall was built for Chenjiazhuang himself and that the wages should not be paid, and everyone should work hard. But Chen Xun understood that the work efficiency of giving money and not giving money is completely different.

Because Zhuangmin did not have the urgent feeling of Chen Xun. If the system of paying wages according to workload was not available, everyone would probably work hard, and the work that could be done in a month would have been delayed by three to five months.

The extra time is a cost to Chen Xun.

Moreover, this construction was done at home, and the wages were already low.

I have been busy on the construction site for four or five days before I slowly sorted out so that Chen Lu could manage it independently.

In the past four or five days, Dongguan County and Guangzhou Prefecture both seemed very "quiet". Le Zhi had not returned to Dongguan since he went to Guangzhou. The spy who stayed in Guangzhou in Chenjiazhuang could only follow Dao Le Zhi and visit Wang Si every day because he did not intervene in the official's mansion and knew nothing about the content of their discussion.

There was no movement in Guangzhou's imperial guards, Hunan army, local army and archers.

Compared with the remaining troops in Guangzhou Prefecture, the Korei tribe on Lantau Island could no longer stand it.

On the one hand, the food brought by the troops this time has been almost exhausted, and Chenjiazhuang cannot deliver food. Who knows if anyone is watching Chenjiazhuang's every move now?

On the other hand, if the pirates left behind on Penghu Island are not suppressed for a long time without the main force led by Ke Lei, it is easy to cause chaos. Moreover, if the main force of the pirates led by Ke Lei is abroad for a long time, Penghu will be easily taken advantage of by other places.

You should know that there are a considerable number of Chenjiazhuang people on Penghu Island now, and Chen Xun's third uncle Chen Shou is on the island.

These days, Ke Lei has at least a letter every day to report his condition to Chen Xun.

Up to now, the captive salt households have become stable. They know that they will not die, and the pirates are a little relieved and cooperate with a lot.

The salt cooking equipment on Lantau Island has been plundered.

Ke Lei also led his men to attack the Daxi Mountain Island area. This time, he made sufficient preparations and surrounded all sides, and basically no one ran away. All Yanhu villages that were targeted were basically taken away by pirates.

These people are now all concentrated on Lantau Island, and their food consumption is huge.

Seeing that the Gunko army in Guangzhou Prefecture had not been in motion for a long time, Chen Xun had to order Ke Lei to retreat, and all the captured salt households were taken back to Penghu Island.

In order to support the construction of Penghu Island, Chen Xun ordered the Chen Trading Branches such as Chaozhou, Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Wenzhou, Hangzhou, and Yangzhou to purchase all kinds of materials and transport them to Penghu.

In addition to material support, a large number of long-term workers with various skills (contract slaves, debt slaves) were purchased from the mainland to send them to Penghu.

Now the entire Penghu is a large construction site.

According to Chen Xun's order, Chen Shou would establish the most basic living facilities in Penghu before the typhoon season so that all people coming to Penghu can have a house to live in when the typhoon is blowing.

There are only more than two months left before the arrival of the typhoon season, and time is tight.

The money Chen's commerce has earned over the years, with the construction of Penghu and Chenjiazhuang Village Wall, is like a water tank having a big hole from the bottom, and water is scattered out.

According to regulations, each trading branch will send an account statement to Chenjiazhuang in one month. It is estimated that the account statements of each branch’s first month will be very ugly.

"Do you want to tell the hungry people that their families are in Penghu?" Lu Hui saw many hungry people crying secretly these days. After asking, he realized that they were worried about their families, and some people wanted to take a look at Lantau Island.

"Wait, wait until this storm passes." Chen Xun did not agree.

People in this era are used to separation from life and death, and their ability to withstand such things is much better than those in later generations.

Just like what was sung in that song:

“The sunlight of the past has become slower

Cars, horses, and emails are slow

Only enough to love one person in your life”

The slow speed of information transmission determines that people in this era are more patient.

Unlike later generations, if no one answers the phone, they will think about it. If they come back later at night, they will be worried that they will not be able to sleep.

In this era, if the family is traveling far away, the tolerance time for late return can be calculated in a month.

After all, there is nothing we can do about it.

The matter in Chenjiazhuang has not come to an end yet, everyone’s personal needs have to be pressed down and wait!

February 1st, I finally got a day of free time.

Chen Xun came to the South School again to watch the training of his personal guards.

The training content of Chenjiazhuang personal guards is very close to that of the People's Liberation Army in later generations.

Basic training for long-distance running, cross-country running, weight-bearing cross-country running, obstacle running, push-ups, sit-ups, horizontal bars, parallel bars, queues, battle formations and other things.

Training of spears, swords, shields, bows, crossbows, muskets and other equipment.

Depending on the types of troops, the focus is different.

This is just the training content on the school grounds. There is at least one hour of indoor culture classes every day, literacy, learning commands, battle flags, war drums, and simple tactics.

The above are all the training contents of soldiers.

For officers, there are also some small meals. After dark, light up the lamp and boil oil to continue learning advanced tactics, strategies and battle examples, views, drawings, reconnaissance, management, command, etc.

After more than ten years of development, the training system of the Chenjiazhuang Personal Guard has been very perfect.

The training on the Coast Guard is different, but it is similar. It is all about defeating the enemy, saving itself as its goal, and making every effort to improve the combat power and survival ability of its own army.

"Mr. Lang, can we only wait passively for Guangzhou to take action before we can deal with it?" Lu Hui asked.
Chapter completed!