Yang Fan announced that the army's central tent would be set up in Jiuyuan City. At the same time, the city would be rebuilt and built into a famous city outside the Great Wall.

With the arrival of the army, large-scale renovation of Jiuyuan City began.

The engineers rushed to Yinshan to blew up the mountains and opened the stones. A caravan carrying seven tons of loads transported the stones from the mountains. Countless stones were piled up outside the city, forming hills.

One hundred thousand migrant workers were mobilized, including 40,000 who had been converted into group training. In fact, they still have more than 35,000 people.

They began to rebuild the city wall in sections. Based on the original city wall, the city wall was raised to ten meters and the thickness was expanded to eight meters. Then they then covered the stones outside.

Yang Fan did not use blue bricks like Guihua City.

To wrap bricks with blue bricks, you have to build a brick kiln and find a nearby coal mine before burning the bricks. This came too slowly. You simply used engineers to blow up the stones, and then transported them to build the outer wall with cement.

Because of the need for fortifications, Yang Fan's baggage brought a lot of cement, all in iron buckets. Yang Fan had 180,000 people in his hands, and could mobilize more than 100,000 captured Mongolians. His human resources were sufficient.

Now that there is no war, we cannot let them be idle. They all become construction teams and start urban construction.

Houses have also begun to be built within the city wall. After all, the city has been abandoned. Apart from the dogs, there is nothing left in the broken wall covered with shabby pieces. The only drum tower is also a dangerous house.

Yang Fan ordered the building to be built directly with stone. Because the brick kiln was just started, the coal mine had not been found, and there were no bricks and tiles available for a while. This led to Jiuyuan City becoming a stone city.

The mountain-breaking stones are fast, and a large number of stones can be harvested every day. Yang Fan also has a caravan with great capacity, and there is no shortage of strong cattle on the grassland. The captured herders also drove the Lele truck to transport stones. The project progress is very fast.

Yang Fan has already allowed the Xincheng to transport a large amount of cement. As long as cement can be supplied, the construction speed is very fast.

Due to the lack of steel bars, large buildings mostly use arched structures to build roofs. This place is close to the Yellow River and there are many woods. If ordinary buildings are built with two or three-story buildings, wood can be used to make floor slabs.

According to Yang Fan's requirements, a horse face was built every fifty meters in the city wall, and a stone-built tower was built on it. It can be used as a place for soldiers guarding the city, as well as a shooting port, and can be used as a bunker to attack the enemy.

Because of his experience in building a new city, he was familiar with re-planning Jiuyuan City.

The cities in the Ming Dynasty were basically the same pattern. The streets were east-west and north-south. The center of the city was the Yamen and the square, and Nanmen Street was the main commercial street, with bell towers and drum towers on both sides.

Many small towns are composed of bells and drum towers into one building, collectively called bells and drum towers.

Related City God Temple, Taoist Temple, Temple, Confucian Temple and other facilities have also been naturalized and construction has begun. After all, a city must have all the functions it should have.

Yang Fan took the students of Xinghe Academy who accompanied the army and planned Jiuyuan in one night according to the new city model.

At this time, the city was in full swing. Soldiers and construction personnel were working in three shifts, and people were resting and working. At night, they also used torches or ignite fires to light up. Construction was stepped up.

The entourage of the Ministry of Works was amazed that Dingyuanbo was so skillful and orderly in building the city. Especially the use of cement, they were even more surprised. This gray powder and sand were so easy to use after mixing it.

It is used to build stone walls, and it becomes extremely hard after three days, like a stone. In more than ten days, rows of stone houses in the city were basically built. It was just because there was insufficient carpentry, insufficient trees, and the doors and windows were all holes.

These woods need to be cut down in the Yinshan Mountains or small woods on the grassland. This takes time and needs to be dried in the shade. Carpenters must make doors and windows. For the time being, they can only be weaved with reeds by the Yellow River to make straw curtains, and cover the doors and windows first.

In the yamen in the center of the city, Yang Fan simply built a castle directly in the form of a European castle. This kind of building can be used as an inner city, and a solid fortress can be used as the last stronghold after the city is broken. At the same time, the castle is also more comfortable to live in.

The castle carries a thirty-meter-high tower, used to make the city's bell tower, drum tower and watchtower.

Outside the city, Yang Fan planned agricultural land and pastoral areas. He then planned to divert the Yellow River water to irrigate the farmland and plant pasture grass. He changed the captured herders to settle and grazing. This would better control them. At the same time, it could also increase the livestock loading of a single pasture.

At present, the operating model of the grassland is too extensive, too low in efficiency, and has no ability to resist natural disasters. Planting forage grass in autumn and storing green feed, driving cattle and sheep into stone houses can greatly reduce the death and fat loss of livestock in winter.

The Yellow River here is also higher than the two sides of the river, so it is easier to divert water. As long as the dam is prevented from collapse, the river water will flow by gravity. With irrigation, both agriculture and animal husbandry will develop better, so there is no need to worry about drought and colder climate in the next decade.

Mongolia is so miserable because they don’t know how to engage in water conservancy projects. But Yang Fan is not short of such talents. By building a dam, he has trained a qualified construction team and design team.

In a blink of an eye, Yang Fan had been staying in Jiuyuan for a month. Apart from releasing the scout cavalry far away and monitoring the remnants of Tumote and the Ordos who were in the river, he did not take any new military actions.

In the past month, the city wall has been completely rammed earth. The stone wrapping on the outside has also entered the finishing stage. In about ten days, the cement will completely dry. At that time, the granite-built city wall will be solid.

Sewers were also built in the city and roads were paved. A large number of houses were built on both sides of the road, all of which were two or three-story buildings.

Military camps and schoolyards were built in the city, warehouses and armories were built. The stone castle in the center of the city was also under construction. This project is relatively large and it is estimated that it will take one year to complete.

Residential and commercial areas, as well as livestock circle areas and handicraft workshop areas are planned in the city.
Chapter completed!