Early the next morning, Yang Mingzhi took a dozen or so cavalrymen to Jianning Guard, but he returned that very afternoon.
Zhou Lan only had him bring Yang Zhengshan a single message: he did not need to bother with those messy, tangled affairs, and could focus on expanding Yinghe Fortress in peace.
After receiving Zhou Lan's reply, Yang Zhengshan set his mind at ease. Since Zhou Lan had said so, it meant she already had her own calculations in mind and did not need him worrying over it.
The expansion of Yinghe Fortress proceeded very quickly. In just one month, the work of widening and heightening the fortress walls was completed, leaving only the construction of the houses and streets inside the fortress.
Still, Yang Zhengshan wanted it to go even faster, so he transferred over a group of young and able-bodied men from Sanshan Fortress and Xiangyuan Fortress to help.
Time flowed slowly by. The whole of Yinghe Fortress was like one massive construction site, with everyone busy at work.
Inside the tun fortress, bare-chested young men built houses one after another.
Outside the tun fortress, by the riverside, three hundred cavalrymen were training. In the military fields, large numbers of women were tending to the crops. On the hillside, Li Erhu was leading a group of people in planting trees.
The weather grew hotter and hotter, and the charcoal business had long since stopped, but Yang Zhengshan did not have Li Erhu and the others disband.
They would still make charcoal, firing it two or three times each month. Though it could not be sold right now, it could be stored first and sold once winter came.
In their spare time, they would go up the mountain to cut trees while planting trees at the same time. According