Longxi Dizhi, northwest of Didao.

"Childe, we've been away from Di Dao for five days."

The group rode horses, and Li Ergou, Yingziyi's subordinate, said.

Beyond the Great Wall, this era is indeed desolate, far away, green and vast, and the sky is one.

"Oh, I'll go, I thought Di Dao was desolate enough, but I didn't think that this is a mountain and a mountain high."

It is not as prosperous as Guanzhong, the land of Longxi, sparsely populated, half cultivated and half pasted. The Qin people and the Hu people live together, and for a hundred years, the Hu people here have adapted to the life of the Qin people and have gradually separated each other. Out of the Great Wall, in this area, there are often Hu people nomadic here.

"Look at the topography here, surrounded by mountains in the north and south, and the Yellow River runs through the city from east to west, it is really a strategic hub!" Ying Ziyi sighed. This is a typical basin

"Yes! It's just that this is already the border of Longxi County, and there are often hostile Hu people, so we have to be careful. Li Ergou expressed his worries, and he still didn't understand why Gongzi brought them here.

"Yes!" Ying Ziyi nodded, pointed to the sky, and said loudly: "I have a dream!" ”

"What?"

"I'm going to build a city of my own here!" Ying Ziyi swore and said.

With a pop, Li Ergou fell off the horse and fell hard.

After Li Ergou tidied up the outfit on his body, he shouted, and his voice changed to vent the surprise in his heart: "Build a city? ”

"yes!" On top of the foal, Ying Ziyi looked at Li Ergou lightly, looking like you are very two.

"But we're only a thousand slaves!" Li Ergou said.

"So what?" Ying Ziyi said very arrogantly.

said that it was going to build a city, but in fact, Ying Ziyi took out the drawings planned from the system. All that was to be built was a small walled fort.

He ordered people to dig trenches, build walls, and build fortified facilities, including a series of measures such as new warehouses, areas where soldiers lived, the main city where Ying Ziyi lived, public areas, stables, and arsenals.

The address chosen by Ying Ziyi is a tributary of the Yellow River, the surrounding terrain is relatively flat, the water and grass are abundant, the fields can be tuned, the grazing can be carried out, and there is a large forest on the left.

The construction began by digging a trench, and the slaves bought by Ying Ziyi from Xianyang took his specially made shovels and began to dig the earth. Under the special incentive means of Yingziyi, the excavation project went smoothly. Ying Ziyi had promised in advance that after the construction of this city was completed, these slaves would be free and become the first inhabitants of this city.

Soon, a boxy trench had been dug and the water from the tributaries could be diverted through the ditch to serve as a moat. It is convenient for the enemy and residents to use water in their daily lives.

After that, the fence was built, and the timber dismantled from the trucks was used as the raw material for the fence.

Two planks were placed at regular intervals on the ground behind the trench, with rows of wooden pillars in between, tied with ropes, but the gaps between the planks were filled with loess and tamped. In accordance with this distance, layer by layer.

The walls built in this way were no less solid than those made of stone. And the material is convenient, for Yingziyi, this is the most suitable way of construction.

About two months later, the entire fence was built. Ying Ziyi plans to start building the facilities in the city.

Located in the center of the city is the residence of Ying Ziyi, a small long building divided into three floors. The first floor is the hall, where you can meet your subordinates and conduct business. The second floor is Ying Ziyi's private residence. On the third floor, there is a small watchtower extending from the building, which monitors the city and its surroundings.

This main building, summed up, is simple but functional.

Ying Ziyi built a series of soldiers' longhouses around his residence, which were inhabited by one hundred Qin soldiers brought by Ying Ziyi and more than eighty strong men selected from the prisoners of war of the Six Nations as soldiers to guard the main building. Next to the main building, there are also armouryards, warehouses and stables for storing goods and weapons, as well as war horses.

On the outskirts, there are ordinary residential areas and public areas. The two are separated, and the common areas include a bathhouse, toilets, and a tavern. In addition, there are some areas that have been retained by Yingziyi and will be used for other purposes in the future.

Five months later, a small city had been basically completed, a small city on the edge of Longxi County. Ying Ziyi named it the city of five cars, which means the city built with five cars of treasure.

Among the slaves bought by Yingziyi at the beginning, there were men, women, and some clever children. More than a thousand people moved in, but the number was still too small compared to the size of the small city. The entire city is dotted with buildings, and there is a large open space to use.

In addition, as early as the completion of the wall construction, Ying Ziyi had already ordered people to reclaim farmland outside. Combined with the purchase of cattle and chickens, the city was largely self-sufficient two months after the wall was built. Of course, this is on the premise that the population does not increase anymore.

The reason why Ying Ziyi wanted to build this small city was to provide a supply base for the passing caravans of the future Silk Road trade route. In the future, if he has the ability, Ying Ziyi will build many such walled forts along the Silk Road, and the scale will be much larger.

Before, it was to build a caravan, a caravan of its own.

It happened half a month after the construction of the wall. At that time, the main building of Ying Ziyi's residence was only half built. He had to live in a wooden soldier's longhouse next to the main building.

One morning, Ying Ziyi was in her sleep, dreaming of a better life in Jicheng. A team of Qin soldiers came in a hurry, disturbing Ying Ziyi's sweet dream.

When Ying Ziyi yawned and sat up from the bed, Li Ergou was standing next to him, standing straight, directing two soldiers to walk in with a fat man.

"Childe, this is when we went out on patrol this morning, we found a caravan and was detained by our people, this is the leader of the caravan."

Ying Ziyi looked at this fat man with a fat face, with a treacherous look. He said expressionlessly, "Pull it out and fight!" ”

"Yes, Childe!" The soldiers on both sides were ready to faithfully carry out Ying Ziyi's order. But I heard the fat man say, "Son, spare your life, I'll recruit me." ”

The soldiers on both sides looked at Ying Ziyi and signaled if they wanted to fight, only to see Ying Ziyi continue: "It's better to pull out and fight!" ”

When the bruised fat man came to Yingziyi, he said tremblingly: "Childe, I said I was recruited, why do you want to beat me?" ”

"Number one, I don't like people who have no backbone. Second, who knows if what you say is true. Third, you disturbed my sweet dreams. ”

“！”

In this way, after the fat man learned the tragic torture and prison extortion under the feudal autocracy, he finally told the truth.

The fat man's surname is Jin, the third in the family, and he was originally a businessman in Weiguo. But unlike ordinary merchants, one of the ancestors of his family once went to the Western Regions. It is said that he once served as a royal merchant under a great monarch in the west, and he was in a prosperous situation. Later, after the monarch died, his generals rebelled and divided the monarch's huge territory, and the fat man's ancestors returned to the Central Plains to escape the war.

As at the beginning of all stories, their family was passed down to his generation, and the family was already poor. After the fat man accidentally turned over the books and logs left by his ancestors in his ancestral house that recorded the folk customs of various countries in the far west, he knew that there was still a vast land in the west. The fat man was not an ordinary person, he decided to go out and make a break, and after selling his family's ancestral home to raise a sum of money, he went west alone.

The fat man has reached as far as the Western Regions, and it is said that the kingdom established by the generals under the original king has lasted for a hundred years, and the architecture, customs, and language under his rule are very different from those of China. Five years later, the fat man returned to the Central Plains again. In the past five years, the fat man has learned the languages of various places in the Western Regions, familiarized himself with the customs of various countries, and learned about the landforms along the way. After selling the novelty of the West, the fat man made a fortune and became a veritable rich man. But he didn't stop there, perhaps because of his natural adventurous spirit, the fat man organized the caravan again and prepared a second expedition with great ambition.

That is, this time. Originally, it was quite smooth at the beginning, but in the end, on the way back, he was robbed by a group of Hu people. Maybe it's because the fat man's caravan is too big a target this time, and he has been targeted.

Fortunately, this group of Hu people only sought money and did not kill them. Although the fat man lost all his blood, his life was saved.

"How can it be reasonable, the people who bullied me have come to pay it back." Ying Ziyi stood up after hearing this, and said indignantly.

"We seem to have just met." The fat golden man muttered. This little child who judged the two of them before and after, the fat golden man secretly asked if there was something wrong with him.

"How many people are on the other side? Where are the people? Ying Ziyi ignored the fat man and continued to ask.

"More than 500 people, it should be a small nomadic tribe nearby." The fat man said with a chatter.

"Come, send me troops, and send me 3,000 soldiers from Didao. Such a lawless thing, this son really can't stand it. "Ying Ziyi's actions are quite a rush to uphold justice.

"Three or three thousand!" The fat man was a little scared.

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