I was the best old lady in ancient times

Chapter 464 Priority
The head of Huilongzhai and the three great masters didn't know that when the pirates landed this time, the entire army was wiped out.

Not only did he die, but he was arrested, and the matter of returning to Longzhai was shaken off completely.

At this time, they are still waiting for the good news from the pirates!

If it weren't for the fact that the second leader was arrested and beheaded for public display, it would be too difficult for them bandits to enter the city again, and they would have gone to inquire about the news by themselves.

However, even if he didn't go to Decheng, he still learned from the villages around Fucheng that the fishing villages along the coast of Fucheng in Nanyue were destroyed.

Those who inquire about the news are afraid of being identified.

He only dared to ask a few rough words, and then went back to report.

Unbeknownst to them, although some fishing villages were wiped out, those pirates were also kicked to the iron plate, dying and being caught.

"Master, I believe it won't be long before this Lord Futai won't have any thoughts on our stockade!"

The third master smoothed the two mustaches on his mouth, and said proudly.

"Third son, why don't we take advantage of Nanyue Mansion's current focus on the fishing village, and let's make a big deal?"

When the head of the family thought that he had been hiding in the stockade all these days, he was really suffocating.

Today's Master Futai of Nanyue Mansion must not be interested in targeting them.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he took his brothers down the mountain to do something big. Then, he would hide in the village for a few more months, and he wouldn't be so bored anymore!

When the third family heard what the boss said, they couldn't help but think of the grain stored in the cottage warehouse.

Although at least everyone in the village can eat for a year or so.

But, who would think there are too many things?

The most important point is that Nanyue Mansion did not target them before, and they could still secretly go to the city of Nanyue City to buy food with silver taels.

But now, even if the big guy has money in hand, he can't spend it!
Therefore, the food storage for a year and a half seems to be really not enough.

"Okay, then let the brothers go and inquire carefully. You must get a fat sheep."

Money is secondary, the most important thing is to be able to get food.

Actually, according to reason, Cui Qingyuan let the common people grow those sweet potatoes, the output of these sweet potatoes alone, after deducting the tax paid, is enough for people to eat.

It's a pity that this time Longzhai didn't know much about the high-yielding sweet potato that Cui Qingyuan promoted because the predecessor Futai was killed and the new Futai was not familiar with it.

Moreover, in their hearts.

What can fill the stomach is naturally rice and wheat, and other things.

The high-yielding sweet potato is probably the result of the nonsense of the new Futai Lord to fool the common people.

Why did they become bandits in the past? Wasn't it because the officials' corruption would fool them, the lowly untouchables?
Cui Qingyuan didn't know how the two masters in Huilongzhai thought of him.

After he received Xie Qiping's reply, he patiently waited for the arrival of the three thousand soldiers.

As for the matter of the three pirates, he was tightly covered by him, not letting anyone know.

It is also because of Mrs. Ning's heroic fight against these pirates this time, as well as a reminder that Liu Hu came to ask to buy more stones, she approved the note with a swipe of a pen!

Speaking of this stone, there is a quarry in the county under the jurisdiction of Nanyue Prefecture.

The terrain here is special, and it is basically impossible to plant land, because it is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the mountains are all stones.

I happen to live in a fishing village by the sea, and the houses built with thatched huts are easily blown away by the sea breeze.

It is also here that the county magistrate has a flexible mind, and immediately thought of chiseling the stones into cube shapes, and then selling them to the fishing villages along the coast to build stone houses.

After feeling that stone houses are much better than thatched houses, most fishermen in fishing villages would be willing to spend money on stones to build houses as long as they have some silver in their hands.

Therefore, at first, the chiseled stone was not very sellable.

Later, it was in short supply.

After all, the stones on this mountain need to be knocked down piece by piece, and then hand-hewn into stone blocks to be useful.

In this way, people who need it will naturally not be able to buy a lot at one time.

The Ning family wanted to build an earthen building made of stones, and even if they got money to clear the way, they only bought part of it.

After all, it is impossible for the stones in this quarry to be used by the Ning family.

Liu Hu really had no choice but to ask Master Futai.

Hearing what Liu Hu said, Cui Qingyuan wrote a note without further ado, asking the local county magistrate to give priority to the stones needed by the Ning family.

Liu Hu, who went to buy stones with the approval slip, naturally got his wish.

Pulling a large amount of stones back to Yujiawan, the earthen building built by Ning's family in Yujiawan was already five meters high.

But even though it was five meters high, Ning Pengpeng still shook his head, saying that it was not enough and had to build again.

In Ning Pengpeng's mind, it is best to build this earthen building to a scale of three to four floors.

The height of each floor is about [-] meters. In that case, if there are four floors, the height of the city wall will be more than ten meters.

The height of ten meters is nothing compared to the height of Nanyue Prefecture.

However, it was enough for those pirates who came ashore.

Unless, these pirates who came ashore can get things like cannons or catapults.

Otherwise, it would be easy to be noticed by the inspectors before they got close.

When the time comes, the rain of arrows will be shot down from top to bottom, which will definitely make these pirates feel completely chilled.

In addition, this tulou is divided into an inner circle and an outer circle.

In this way, a lot of stones are needed.

Ning Pengpeng still feels that the stones brought by Liu Hu are a bit small, and the more the better.

"Old lady, the county magistrate over there took me to the quarry to have a look. There are not enough manpower to dig stones. We want too much, and they have no time to supply it!"

Hearing Liu Hu's words, Ning Pengpeng couldn't help but miss Hyundai's direct use of gunpowder to blow up stones.

As long as the rocks on the mountain are blown down, the rest of the work will be much easier and the speed will be several times faster.

However, the Great Jin Dynasty is still the era of cold weapons.

If she figured out this stuff, she might have to speed up the course of history by at least a few decades.

Of course, the most important point.

That quarry does not belong to Ning's family, she made this thing, the county magistrate at the quarry knows such a useful thing, will they still be willing to let the common people manually dig stones?
It's not that Ning Pengpeng is selfish, even if he wants to use it, Ning Pengpeng just wants to hold this technology in his own hands.

After all, this is no better than the recipes for making oyster sauce.

After thinking about it, Ning Pengpeng finally pressed down on the matter of researching gunpowder.

The speed of the construction of this earth building, slow down!
I believe that this group of pirates came ashore and haven't returned to their lair for a long time. The pirates in their lair will probably live in peace for a while.

After all, the person who can be the leader of a pirate is definitely not an ordinary person.

They will definitely send people to investigate the reality of the current Nanyue prefecture city before proceeding to the next step.

(End of this chapter)