This so-called Western Xinjiang is actually the collective name of Western Xinjiang, Tibet and New Xinjiang and Xinjiang. At the beginning, when the foreign rule of the previous dynasty was overthrown and expelled by the Han people in the Central Plains, this western frontier also took the opportunity to break away from the rule of the foreign people of the previous dynasty. After that, it did not return to the Great People, nor was it recovered by the Great People's Dynasty.

Since these two places are not good places, one is a plateau, and the air is thin, even if they are conquered, the Han people will not be able to survive here, let alone govern here, and eventually they will have to return to the hands of these locals. On the other hand, there is even less merit. A desert, not even a root grass can be raised, people can't get out when they enter it, what's the use of coming. Therefore, although the people in these two places have to go to the border of Damin every year to burn and loot, they have not aroused the passion or discussion of the Damin Dynasty to recover these two places.

Now Xiaohu saw that the scattered people, who had always been considered nomadic herders, actually had a battle column that only had a regular army, and he couldn't help but be surprised. Although he can see that these people are a little extraordinary, Xiaohu will not be timid. It is still going according to the previously formulated combat methods.

When these people from the west of Xinjiang were waiting in a circle, they suddenly found that not far away was growing under a big tree, and a bush that they thought was thorns was instantly raised. Then someone from each of the trees slid down and pulled up the thorny nets and came around them.

"Archery!" The leader of the Western Xinjiang people gave an order, and even if he did not give the order, those Western Xinjiang people were already drawing their bows with arrows, but before their arrows were fired, there were immediately arrows that were quickly and forcefully shot from top to bottom on the wrists of the archers holding the bows.

Someone looked up and shouted, "On the tree! The sound of the tree stopped abruptly, and the man fell from the horse. I saw a unique tailless arrow stuck in his eyebrows.

They did not care about their fallen companions, and they took up their swords and slapped their horses and slew at those who were running with their ropes, and they would not be allowed to kill them. Immediately someone slid down the tree. Fighting with them, when they were dragged to the rope net fence, they quickly abandoned the battle and joined together with the rope net boy to protect the rope net boy.

The rope used for this rope net is the hemp rope collected by Xiaolong after reading the drawings of the mountain drawn by Xiaohu and telling the general situation, and deciding how to use it. It is impossible to cut constantly. But it's not something that can be broken immediately with one or two knives. Those people in the west of Xinjiang kept chopping ropes and nets, and arrows always shot from the trees in front of them, blocking the road ahead. Someone saw the rope net when the knife was cut down. They will lower their heads and think about jumping over them. Who knew that not only would they not be able to jump over, but they would let the horse's feet step on the net, and the mesh of the net would be sturdy. I couldn't run with four hooves anymore.

It is not impossible for the people of Western Xinjiang to shoot their arrows on the string. It was fired at the tree indiscriminately, and the knife was held in his hand but he couldn't reach the target to be aimed at, and he jumped helplessly.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the nimble people of Western Xinjiang immediately adjusted their horses' heads and wanted to return to escape from the gap without rope nets. As they fled to the narrowest entrance to the ditch, a rope of the hinch suddenly hung from the ground, like a wall, blocking their way. There were a few horses rushing ahead, but they didn't brake for a while. This head and front hooves were stuck in the net hole of the rope of the nooke, and the more they struggled, the more they couldn't get out, the more they were stuck. The man on the horse, though did not fall off the horse. But because he wants to control himself from falling, there is no way to free his hands to fight, and the final result can only be slaughtered by others.

When all the Westerners were killed and captured alive, the two boys who were guarding the outermost entrance and exit were about to shoot and kill the fleeing Westerners, and they didn't take the opportunity to shoot at all, and they couldn't do it.

"Owner! In the future, we don't want to stay in that kind of place, it's not interesting at all, and you don't leave a few for us to enjoy. ”

Xiaohu is very happy today, it is really a brutal thing that is not as enjoyable as using his brain. Seeing that those people in the western Xinjiang are like trapped beasts in a cage, with no brute strength but no use at all, every pore is really cheering.

Although there are also people here who were injured by the arrows fired indiscriminately by those people in the western Xinjiang, but the injuries were not critical, so they pulled out the arrows, cleaned the wounds with alcohol, and applied wound medicine, and it is estimated that they can form scars in seven or eight days.

I was happy for today's results, and there was no heavy burden of the wounded, and Xiaohu's heroism was also stimulated. Loudly replied, "Yes!" Next year, if any of them dare to come, I'll take you over again for a great time. Most of these horses are unharmed today, and each of you will count as your reward. These horses are all good horses, much better than my horses, if you put them in the capital horse farm to sell, a horse will cost a thousand taels of silver, you want to treasure, don't lose it. The horse will run back on its own, but do you understand? Xiaohu's last sentence was shouted at everyone.

"Got it!" Although the boys all have a horse to ride, the horse only has the right to use it, but not to own it. Now I finally have a horse of my own, or a good horse worth thousands of dollars, all of them are so beautiful that their noses are foaming. They all ran to the pile of good horses to choose their favorite horses, and the wounded horses were placed on the other side, and the little tiger was ready to take them back to heal the wounds and use them as farming livestock.

The dead people of Western Xinjiang, Xiaohu ordered them to be buried in the ditch on the spot. They filled the ditch with earth, so that in the autumn there would be no one who would fall into the mountain hunting and be injured or lose their lives. Those who are alive let those who are good carry those who are injured and cannot walk, and those who are injured but can still walk follow by themselves.

Over there, Xiaolong received the news that Kuaima came back early to report the news, but he was in trouble, what should he do with these captives? Those mountain bandits are easy to manage, as long as they set aside a piece of land for them to cultivate, use the money they have collected to get them a place to live, and transform them for more than ten years, they can eventually become good citizens. But these captives outside the borders of the Great People can't do that! How to transform them is not their own family. In the past, they were either killed or run away by the people of Western Xinjiang, and there were no people captured alive, so there was no precedent for even seeking advice, but how to get it?

I really couldn't think of a way, so I had to write an urgent letter of 600 miles and ask people to send it to the emperor for an answer.

When the emperor first received the letter, he was very excited, very excited, and very emotional. Every year, the people of Western Xinjiang cross the border to kill and rob, which makes him very annoyed, but it has not reached the point of provoking a war between countries. The border army is a step late every time, either those people from the western Xinjiang have already finished killing and looting, and when they see an army coming, they turn around and run, or they are already in ruins. There has never been such a way to stop the people of Western Xinjiang in the middle of the road, and they have been caught in a net, which is the first case since the establishment of the Damin Dynasty.

But then, he couldn't help but be annoyed. The large number of troops raised by hundreds of thousands of them every year is not as good as the wild road raised by a farmer. What does this make him embarrassed?! Can this be said to the courtiers explicitly? He feels so shameless when he says it!

Ay! It depends on the children who are raised in the Wang family's compound that may have a few capable children like the orphans of the Wang family in the future.

The emperor quickly sent another person over, of course, in the form of a holy decree to the prefect of the king: let the prefect of Lanzhou use all the captives (including the mountain bandits) on the land cleared in the west. If you don't know how to farm, you will treat them as oxen and horses, and you should always be able to pull plows and sowing machines, right?! Those who don't work have nothing to eat, let them starve themselves to death, and no accountability will be held.

Of course, Xiaolong would not let these Western Xinjiang captives make trouble in their own wasteland, and all of them were sent to a special place for exiling felons, working with shackles on their hands and feet. Two meals a day, two steamed buns, a bowl of porridge, don't starve to death, want to eat meat? Yes! Wait for the day you die, eat a full meal, and add you a piece of meat.

After dealing with these captives in the western Xinjiang, they began to clear the various hills. Xiaolong is not stupid now, he doesn't fight against these mountain bandits at all, and he has made enough croton powder, so that the world's secret agents who have long been mixed in will be mixed in all the flour of the mountain bandits, so that they can avoid it.

After cleaning up the mountain bandits very easily, Xiaolong found that those mountain bandits were not difficult to suppress, but the officials who had always been afraid did not think about cleaning them up at all. There are also those rich tyrants, who would rather take money to support these mountain bandits every year, and have never thought of cleaning up these mountain bandits. Xiaolong couldn't figure it out and didn't think about it, so he only took out the results of the interrogation of the mountain bandits, which family colluded with the mountain bandits to resell the stolen goods for profit, and some were even the contact points and sales places that the mountain bandits put at the bottom of the mountain, and there were also people like the Yan family, who were robbers themselves, but they got a legitimate identity as rich people at the bottom of the mountain, and all of these people wanted to buy the bottom. There was collusion between the government and the mountain bandits, and all the profits from it were investigated and dealt with by the imperial court laws.

The rich and wealthy men who gave money every year to support the bandits, whether on their own initiative or under duress, did not pursue them and did not compensate them from the confiscated Tibetan silver. In addition, it is necessary to re-check and register the family property and slaves as the basis for future tax collection, which means that there is no need to evade taxes and evade taxes in the future. Since there is so much money to support the mountain bandits, can they still pay taxes without money?

Xiaolong is busy with the affairs of the government here, and Xiaohu and Erya also have a lot of things to do. Although they were able to do away with the wasteland, they invited two people from the workshop in the government office to come and see how to make a simple canal walkway, which could not only irrigate reasonably when there was a shortage of water, but also not because the canal would wash away the crops that had been cultivated when the flash flood broke out. Er Ya and Xiaohu have to observe this matter on the side for a few days to see if they can rest assured that they can be handed over to these two people.

Seeing the respectful and grateful looks of the people in the two workshops in the face of Xiaohu from the bottom of their hearts, Erya still admires his younger brother. A year ago, Erya deliberately asked Xiaolong to arrange for two people from the workshop to go to the big reservoir to have a look, and try to repair the canal in time for the peak flash flood at the end of summer. But the little dragon said wait!

Today I finally saw the effect of waiting. The people in this official office are because the new prefect is vigorously and resolutely installing people; easily suppressed the mountain bandits; clear out the robbers and bandits hidden among the rich, the rich, and the commoners; The most powerful thing is that they silently blocked and killed the people from Western Xinjiang who entered the country to rob. Such a skillful and powerful prefect did not think about abandoning them, nor did he empty them so that they would not have a chance to come out, but believed in them and reused them.

Because of gratitude and fear, they did everything they could and were loyal to do this water conservancy project, regardless of size or public or private. (To be continued.) )