Although they are not top talents, and these cultivated guards are not particularly powerful now, but in any case, with their current ability, they can already help themselves manage the territory for Lord Zhao Hu, as for whether there will be top talents among them in the future, it is impossible to predict. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Due to the addition of nearly a thousand captives in Zhao Hu's territory, the speed of construction has been accelerated, and when Ou Di came back with a large number of goods, the original simple wooden camp has completely become similar to a town, if it were not for the fact that the ground is still mud and the city wall is still wood, it is equivalent to a town.

The guards of that squadron were driven away by Ou Di with a gold coin before they got close to the territory, and Ou Di didn't want to spread the changes in Zhao Hu's territory so quickly.

In the Lord's Mansion, which had become a bit grandiose, Ou Di reported to Zhao Hu about going to the provincial capital, and finally said, "My lord, do you think this is okay?" ”

Zhao Hu, who threw the internal affairs to the guards and took the prisoners and servant soldiers to participate in the labor, said with a smile: "Well, you have done a very good job, as for the wharf, after you set off, Liu Bin has already led people to start construction, although I didn't go to see it, but it is estimated that it will be enough to restore the original state in two days." ”

"Oh, I didn't expect Liu Bin to have such a ......" Ou Di said this, and suddenly his eyes lit up and said: "My lord, is Liu Bin very good at port construction?" ”

"This, since he dares to ask to be in charge of building the dock, it stands to reason that he should have some ability for this, right?" Zhao Hu was a little unsure.

"My lord, please bring Liu Bin here, my subordinates want to ask him a few questions." Odi said busily.

Although Zhao Hu was puzzled by this request, he still waved his hand and asked the guards to find someone.

Soon, Liu Bin and Zhou Wen walked into the lord's mansion together, and Liu Bin had just said hello to Zhao Hu, and Zhou Wen shouted: "My lord, Liu Bin is too powerful, and the dock has been built very beautifully for him!" I never thought I could build a dock like this out of wood! ”

Zhao Hu and Ou Di were a little unimpressed, how beautiful can the wooden pier be, isn't it just a few pillars and a few planks?

But after seeing a hint of shyness flashing in Liu Bin's eyes, Ou Di hurriedly said: "Then you have to appreciate Mr. Liu Bin's masterpiece, you say yes, my lord?" ”

Zhao Hu also nodded in agreement, after all, he is not an unkind person.

"Liu Bin, I don't know if you are good at shipbuilding and navigation?" Ou Di didn't wait for Liu Bin to ask what he was calling him for, so he asked directly.

"Shipbuilding? Navigation? Liu Bin shook his head suspiciously: "I just have some experience in drawing and architecture, and I have never been in contact with shipbuilding and navigation." ”

Speaking of this, Zhou Wen suddenly interjected: "Does Uncle Oudi want to build his own ship for smuggling activities?" ”

Odie glared and said, "Can't you?" As long as we have our own boat and occupy a good place, are we afraid that we will not be able to make money?

"And we have a lot of trees here, and there are a lot of big trees that neither of us can hold, it's a pity not to build your own ship, I believe that as long as those carpenters tinker, they will definitely be able to build a ship."

Zhou Wen tilted his head and said suspiciously: "Is it that simple?" I've heard that there must be a special shipyard, but if we carpenters are concerned, we can only build boats that can only fish in small rivers, after all, they are only carpenters and not boatmen. ”

"We can recruit shipwrights!" Sun Jie, who heard the news and ran over, immediately interjected.

Zhou Wen was different from others to him, and reached out and knocked Sun Jie's head: "Stupid! These shipwrights are the treasures of the ports, how did we recruit them! ”

Liu Bin pondered for a moment and said: "We don't have to build a shipyard, we only need some shipwrights who can be repaired, and such shipwrights should be able to be invited, after all, it is better to buy ships than to build ships now." ”

Speaking of this, Liu Bin found that Zhao Hu was listening with great interest, and continued a little excitedly: "But if you really want a senior shipwright, it is not very difficult, there are many shipwrights in the coastal areas of the Southeast Peninsula, due to the war between various forces, there will definitely be many shipwrights who become prisoners of war, why don't we just buy them?" ”

Just as everyone was applauding this opinion, Odie suddenly slapped his head and shouted in annoyance: "What a stupid donkey! It's been two trips from the provincial capital to here, why didn't I think of recruiting people! ”

Except for Zhao Hu, everyone else was stunned for a moment, and then lowered their heads and shook them in annoyance.

Zhao Hu smiled and said, "It's okay, as long as the defense facilities are built, the people will definitely be attracted here." ”

Ou Di said a little anxiously: "Why don't I go to the provincial capital again and release the news of recruiting people?" The sooner this can be done, the better. ”

Zhou Wen hesitated a little and reminded: "Uncle, we don't have any cultivated fields, no logging mills, no fishing boats here now, so it can be said that there is nothing but this militarized town, are those people willing to come?" You must know that no one can force a freeman to relocate except by order of His Majesty the Emperor or the Imperial Council! ”

Hearing Zhou Wen's words, Ou Di and Zhao Hu were stunned, they thought that as long as they said hello, there would be people coming over, but they didn't expect that they were so remote and poor here, how could those people come here?

When everyone present was thinking hard about what to do, Liu Bin spoke up again: "I wonder if we can buy some prisoners of war from the Southeast Peninsula to be civilian husbands?"

"The custom on the Eastern Continent is that prisoners of war are either executed or sold as slaves, and I believe that the habits on the Western Continent are similar, right?"

"The prisoners of war on our side have a habit of paying a ransom to be free." As soon as Odie said this, he slapped his thigh and shouted, "That's right! The southeast peninsula is relatively poor, and most of the captured soldiers cannot redeem themselves, so we can start from here. ”

Everyone agrees with this approach: "What about the funds?" Zhou Wen frowned and asked.

A prisoner of war can sell at least two gold coins, and these prisoners of war need food, tools, and camps to buy back, which is a lot of money. Although there are hundreds of thousands of gold coins in stock now, money is needed everywhere, and it will be spent like a stream of water if you are not careful.

Odie said confidently: "Don't worry, if the smuggling goes well, we will be able to take the profits from the smuggling from the Southeast Peninsula in exchange for prisoners of war." ”

Speaking of this, Ou Di immediately said to Zhao Hu: "My lord, my subordinates think that we should divide the development plan of the entire territory now, although one hundred square kilometers is huge, we also need to determine how many acres of land need to be developed, how many factories and workshops need to be built......

Zhao Hu was about to wave his hand and prepare to hand over everything to Ou Di when he heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside.

Hearing this voice, everyone's faces changed, and without important military information, no one would ride a horse in the town.

As soon as Zhao Hu stood up, the servant soldier centurion elder knife rushed in and shouted, "Master! A large number of rogues have come ashore! ”

"Rogues!" Everyone was shocked.

Zhao Hu immediately ordered: "Ring the alarm bell immediately, and the servant soldiers are ready to standby!" Guards spy on the captives! Old knife, explain the situation. ”

The old knife hurriedly followed Zhao Hu, who grabbed the saber and walked out, and said as he walked: "My lord, just now, we found the shadows of dozens of small boats in the distance on the seaside, and we thought it was a smuggling fleet, but when they docked, we found that the boats were full of soldiers!"

"And the soldiers were shouting and heading towards our docks, and one of the captives said that they were dressed like rumored rogues, so his subordinates came back immediately to report."

"Have all the people who built the docks come back?" Zhao Hu asked.

"Yes, except for a few cavalrymen who were left to watch from afar, everyone else came back with their subordinates."

The old knife's heart warmed, and he hurriedly replied.

"Do you know the exact number of ships and the number of people?" Zhao Hu asked again.

Lao Dao thought for a moment and said: "I heard that captive say, it is about forty or fifty small fishing boats, master, because the distance is a bit far, the captive is estimated according to the size of the hull, saying that each boat carries about forty or fifty people." ”

"That's about 2,000 people? Well, well done, now you take your cavalry of the hundred-man team to pick up the brother who is on guard, and by the way, when the battle is over, bring the prisoner who found the enemy to show me, he is talented. ”

Zhao Hu's words made Ou Di on the side have a vague idea in his heart.

"Yes!" The old knife immediately took the order to retreat.

"Odi, when the rogues invade, how many people are usually dispatched at one time?" Zhao Hu asked.

Ou Di, who didn't grasp the inspiration, hurriedly said: "My lord, there is no definite number, sometimes thirty or forty people, sometimes three or four hundred, but there are absolutely no thousands, this time it doesn't seem like an ordinary rogue invasion." ”

"How?" Zhao Hu frowned.

"We used to be a barren place here, and the rogues would not have chosen this place as a target for looting, usually they sneaked ashore from other places, ransacked some villages and left, how could there be so many men and horses as openly dispatched as now?" Odie sighed.

He couldn't understand why Lord Zhao Hu's territory was so popular, it was attacked by the garrison division at the beginning because it broke the smuggling route, and now it was favored by the rogue of about 2,000 people, could it be that there is any treasure hidden here? Otherwise, it wouldn't have attracted so much attention.

Odie didn't lean on the smuggling gang, after all, he had just established a relationship with the people in the smuggling gang and was about to join the gang, how could those guys who put money first get into such trouble?