The improvement in food greatly boosted everyone's morale for work.
Relying on his father Guo Dayong's connections, Guo Dong could get an extra bowl of meat at every meal, which he shared with Hui An.
Three days later, the military fort was already up.
Guo Dong, Hui An, and the others were assembled again, marched twenty li south, and began building the second fort.
When the construction of the second fort was halfway done, a group of laborers arrived from the north. How to put it… in Guo Dong and Hui An's eyes, that laborer contingent from the north had far, far higher spirit and vigor than their own side. When they worked, they even sang together—those who knew understood they were laborers; those who didn't might have thought they were soldiers.
After all, laborers and auxiliary troops did the same monotonous physical work day after day; it was hard for morale to stay high—but they managed it.
With the northern laborers joining in, the second fort was built very quickly.
