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After the New Year's Festival, although the outside of Hengshan City was still cold and windy, and the ice and snow were everywhere, Chen Hai deployed a small Wind Flame Heavenly Machine in each of the four corners of the city, constantly absorbing the Xuanyang Gang between heaven and earth, and the dense population in the city made the earth atmosphere warmer than outside the city.

After the ice melted, the streets and alleys except the main road became muddy, and the people who were responsible for carrying gravel and slag to pave the road took advantage of the rest to listen to an old man with gray hair and a weathered face sitting on a bluestone slab, telling about the fertility of the Yandang Plain in those years.

At the end of the day, the old man had gray hair, ragged clothes, and wore a pair of straw sandals that were almost crushed, and there were several equally thin old men and dozens of young men in ragged clothes and yellow muscles around him, listening and swallowing saliva.

"Old Zhao Tou, do you remember, when my father took us to hunt, the stupid roe deer didn't run when he saw someone, as long as he passed lightly, he waved the stick so hard,"

Before the other thin old man could finish speaking, he couldn't wait to pick up the stubble, recalled the long memory, and excitedly gestured with his hand and said:

"The stupid roe deer was knocked over to the ground, and the fur was either made into leather clothing or sold. The roe deer skin is warm and smellless, and the lords of those sects are very happy. As for the roe deer meat, it's fragrant. The oil can also be collected to make fire wax, how good it was back then!" said the old man, tears streaming down his face.

"But since the old man gave up Yuchengling, we were forced to move into this Hengshan, Brother Zhao, what kind of life have we lived in the past few decades......"

The old man surnamed Zhao was also in tears, and said: "Brother, isn't the good day coming just now?" Tianji Shenhou has already beaten away the demon barbarians, and is still building a city in Tongkou, and he is going to move people to the past to reclaim the famine in the spring, and now the notice will be posted. As long as he is willing to move north, according to the male, when he reaches the age of fifteen, he will be given fifteen acres of land. Or if they have the strength to go to Tongkou and Yandang to participate in the construction of the city, not to mention the food and esophagus, and pay ten yuan a day, if they are fortunate enough to join the Longxiang army, they will be given 50 acres of land, a house, and a ploughing ox or mule and horse outside Hengshan City...... It's a pity that we don't have the strength to toss anymore!"

Several old men who had passed their prime, wept profusely.

The young people around him, although they were yellow and thin, and poor, had a hopeful light in their eyes.

At this time, the northern border is still frozen for thousands of miles, although the winter defensive battle has won a great victory, but the Longxiang army will hold the defense line of Yuchengling for thousands of miles in the future, so that the demon barbarians will no longer invade an inch of land in the Yandang Plain, which is still a difficult task.

With the existing manpower and material resources, while continuing to build Tongkou City, Longxiang Daying will also rely on the remnants of Yandang City and other remnant villages, and build two more cities on the east bank of the Tong River at the same time, first relying on the Wanren Mountain at the northwest foot of Qintong Mountain, to construct a line of defense line.

Of course, Chen Hai also planned to select some suitable land between Hengshan and Tongkou to reclaim and grow grain -- in the later period, the Tonghe, Guanhe, Tianyuan River, and other rivers would be harnessed, and all kinds of things would require a large number of young and strong laborers.

For a long time, Hengshan City was the first line of defense against demons, a large number of villages were abandoned, and the remaining population also migrated south in large numbers. In order to build the three cities of Tongkou and Yandang, after tens of thousands of people were recruited, the labor force in Hengshan City began to be in short supply, not to mention the large-scale reclamation of land and water conservancy in Yandang Plain.

However, the influence of the winter defensive war was very great, and a large number of landless poor people in Tianshui County to the south of Hengshan also gathered to move north to Yandang Plain in search of livelihood when they heard the news that Longxiang's camp had won a great victory and was going to build a defense line in Yuchengling......

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"Senior Brother Wu, during this time, there are already forty or fifty thousand displaced people who have gathered in the north of Puxian County and want to go to Hengshan, and we can still stop it, but after the beginning of spring, the displaced people will gather more and more, and the trouble will be big, so we have to come up with a way now!"

In Guanhe City, Zhou Tong was in Wu Cheng's Governor's Mansion Chamber, walking around anxiously.

Although Guanhe City is not the county capital, it has always been a military center for Tianshui County to defend against the southern invasion of demons.

The county governor's mansion is located in Guanhe City, and the county governor's mansion in Huayang Mansion can be said to be the two poles of secular power in Tianshui County.

Before the earth warmed up and the main force of the demon barbarians retreated north, Zhou Tong, Wu Cheng and others still did not dare to leave the Guanhe River easily, but they didn't expect that this year, the demon barbarian soldiers did not bring them any trouble, and new problems appeared.

Chen Hai led the Longxiang battalion to guard Hengshan or Tongkou, as long as there were no large number of followers, there was no way to lay a foundation in Yandang Plain after all, Tianshui County still belonged to the Wu family, the Zhou family, and the Qu family, but now the situation is a little different.

There are too many landless poor people in Tianshui County, if hundreds of thousands, millions of landless poor people are allowed to move north to Yandang Yuan to join the Longxiang army, then from Hengshan to the north, they will have to completely break away from the Wu, Zhou, and Qu tribes.

Thinking of this situation in the future, Zhou Tong also hurried over to Wu Cheng to discuss countermeasures.

Wu Cheng sat steadily on the Taishi chair, a pair of green lion spirit seals in his hands flickered and flickered, and his face was also worried.

If it is said that it is not difficult to completely prohibit the people in the county from going north, it is not difficult to do it, and it is enough to send troops to guard the passage south of Hengshan, but after Liao Yunkui returned from Yuchengling, his prestige was unparalleled for a while, and he strongly advocated the people to be on the side, so that Tianshui County could not be afraid of border troubles for a hundred years, which made many disciples within Tianshui County and even within Huayang Sect oppose the elbow on the side of the mountain again.

More crucially, the war between Hexi and Hechuan County is now over.

All the disciples and relatives of the Helan Sword Sect who were willing to move east to Yehuling with the Huang clan did so, and the vanguard had already entered Tianshui County and was about to enter Qintong Mountain.

This meant that it would only take a few more months for the Hexi Army to completely control the situation in Hechuan County, digesting the huge population and vast territory.

Helan Sword Sect also has a Dao Fetal Realm Ancestor, with millions of soldiers, and he was so embarrassed by the Dong Clan, if the Dong Clan gathers an army to threaten Tianshui and Qinshan, will the Huayang Sect and the three clans surrender or fight at that time?

"Shi Sun Gan, the governor of the Longxiang Governor's Mansion, asks to see the Governor. At this time, the soldiers ran in from outside to give a message.

"What is Sun Gan doing here?" Zhou Tong looked at Wu Cheng suspiciously and asked.

Sun Gan assisted Chen Lie in his early years, and then stayed in Liquan to assist Chen Hai, and was the same as Su Yuan, Zhou Jingyuan, and Ge Tong, all of whom were Chen Hai's most relied on ministers.

"Senior Brother Qu, I hope to buy a batch of Heavenly Machine Weapons from the Tianji Academy Palace to strengthen my armament, and leave this matter to me to talk to Chen Hai, Sun Gan may have come to talk about it. Wu Cheng said.

"What if Chen Hai is on the condition of relocating people?" Zhou Tong thought of something and asked Wu Cheng hesitantly.

"That's what I'm worried about right now. Wu Cheng smiled bitterly.

Regardless of whether it is surrender or war in the end, it is always fundamental to continuously strengthen the armament of the Tianshui soldiers and improve their own strength, and even if it is surrendered at that time, they can negotiate good conditions, so as not to be bullied by the Dong clan and the old clans in Hexi.

However, now if you want to quickly strengthen your armament and improve your strength, the most convenient and effective means is to equip a large number of celestial weapons.

Huayang Sect Craftsmen and Refiners are impossible to compare with Taiwei Sect or Tianji Academy Palace, regardless of scale and quality, and at this time, if they want to buy secret maps and make them themselves, they can't catch up in a short time.

At this time, the Longxiang battalion was equipped with heavy crossbows, and there were a batch of old-style Tianji crossbows to be sold. The power of the Heavenly Machine Repeater is slightly worse, but it is the most desired thing for the soldiers of Tianshui County, and of course, it is best to obtain the secret map of the heavy crossbow at the same time......

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A few families were happy and a few were sad, at this time, Chen Hai was hurrying to the Yandang Ruins City after supervising the closure of Tongkou City.

Whether it is the northward migration of displaced people or the distribution of prisoners to the frontier, there needs to be a process.

But what Chen Hai lacks now is time.

If the child born can be put into production immediately, Chen Hai can't wait to put all the couples in the area under the jurisdiction of Hengshan on the bed to carry out the man-making movement.

The population of Hengshan City is still small, counting the auxiliary soldiers and the old and weak women and children left to him by Wu Cheng at the beginning, it is only 1340,000 people, so that the mines in the deep mountains at the northwest foot of Qintong Mountain are mined, Su Yuan and Zhou Jingyuan They all used wind and flame airships to transfer tens of thousands of young people from Liquan.

The five major camps of city building, water conservancy, road construction, land reclamation, and Longxiang camp must be expanded, more minerals must be mined, and workshops must be built, and if there is no one or two million people, don't think about what you can do, and don't think that you can build Qianli Yucheng Ridge into a strong iron city that resists the southern invasion of the blood demon.

Chen Hai's ultimate goal in constructing the Yuchengling defense line was not to defend against the southern invasion of the demons, but to guard against the more powerful and terrifying Rakshasa Blood Demon.

From Helan Mountain to Tieliuling to Taiwei Mountain, there is the convenience of guarding the terrain, but Rakshasa bypasses Taiwei Mountain and goes to the north of Tianshui County, and you will find that there is a huge gap here.

If this gap is not blocked, in the end, the defense line of Helan Mountain, Tieliuling and Taiwei Mountain will not be established.

However, considering the Blood Demon's huge demon body, powerful attack power, and desperate numbers, the dozen or so cities that Chen Hai planned to build on the first line of Yucheng Ridge had to be watered with iron juice mixed with gravel to be impregnable.

It's just that each city needs to be big enough to accommodate enough refugees, and the walls must be high enough and thick enough, what kind of manpower and material resources are needed to do this?

"Will Huayang Sect give in?" Su Yuan rode his horse and followed Chen Hai's side.

"Maybe, maybe not. The Wu clan and other clans, if they had the intention of surrendering to the Dong clan, it was more likely that they would not let go of the border and let the displaced people come over. Zhou Jingyuan said worriedly.

"Look, after the beginning of spring, if there are enough landless poor people gathered in the north of Pu County, and the soldiers of Tianshui County still don't let go of the switch card, I will lead the troops to pick it up. Chen Hai said.

Chen Hai's tone of words was very light, and there was also a faint murderous aura.

Su Yuan and Zhou Jingyuan were in a state of mind, and Chen Hai would sometimes compromise and give in, but sometimes he would not give an inch and face each other with swords.

Everyone followed Chen Hai to the newly built Yandang City on the basis of the remnants of the demon barbarian village, and after the slanting sun was trying to emit his last light and heat, he unwillingly fell below the horizon, and a crescent moon was hanging obliquely on the treetops.

The entire Yandang City was illuminated by more than 100 campfires, and the city walls were still busy.

Chen Hai crossed the gate of the early scale, and remembered that when he came to sweep this ruined village, it was still dilapidated. But the city wall in front of him, which was only more than two meters high, was black and blue, and he hammered it slightly, and there was a metallic texture at the tentacles, which was also poured according to the method of Tongkou City.

He nodded with satisfaction, leaned sideways and asked Qi Hanjiang, "What time is it, why hasn't the work stopped here......?"

Qi Hanjiang grinned and said: "My lord, I don't dare to oversqueeze the people's power with your orders, but the people are too enthusiastic to stop it, so they work day and night." Mr. Su came over at this time and ordered to come over, divide the people into two shifts, and take turns to fight......"

At this time, someone at the construction site recognized Chen Hailai, and the ocean of enthusiasm was instantly ignited.

Chen Hai looked at the cheering people in front of him, and sighed that it was these ordinary people who had no power to form this vast world, and they worked hard to support one after another high sect lords.

It's ridiculous that those who think highly of themselves always think that more magic weapons, more armor, and more weapons can sweep the world, but they scoff at the power at their fingertips.