"When people don't see any hope, they usually have two options."

Standing in the remnants of Pingling Mountain, Fu Xiaoguan looked at the hot scene under the mountain, and said slowly to Bai Yulian beside him: "One is to give up, get by and sink until you die." The second is to fight hard, such as being a bandit, anyway, it's a dead word, it's better to break the jar and break it. ”

Bai Yulian took out the wine gourd and took a sip, "So you are giving them a hope?" ”

"You see, many people were watching the other day, but when they saw that the people who worked here had really received the money, their hopes were already rising, and the number of people who participated on the second day was twenty percent more. Today, all the doubts in their hearts have dissipated, and even a long-lost smile appeared on their faces. ”

The craftsmen of Xishan arrived in Pingling and Quyi counties on October 15.

The next day, tens of thousands of villagers from the two counties flocked to the county government from all directions, and most of them wanted to receive the ten catties of grain - that was ten catties of rice!

They are reluctant to eat, and they can exchange it for two or three hundred dollars in exchange for the market!

It took two days for the craftsmen in Xishan to choose the locations of the cement and brick workshops, and by October 18, the construction of these sites had officially begun.

On the first day, there were only more than 10,000 villagers who participated, and the rest of the people were waiting and watching.

When the salary on the first day was paid according to the recruitment notice posted, the doubts in the hearts of the villagers who were watching were reduced a lot, and only 20% of the people were still waiting on the second day.

And on the third day, all the villagers participated.

Among them, there are teenagers who have just turned 12 or even less than 12 and pretend to be twelve, and there are also old people who are in their sixties, of course, this part is a minority, and the vast majority of them are in the prime of life, and among them, the villagers who have been bandits in the mountains are the most.

"In fact, those children should have gone to school at such an age, and those old people should have enjoyed their old age at home...... Xiaobai, it's not that my brother doesn't abide by the labor law, but now they really need money! ”

Bai Yulian glanced at Fu Xiaoguan, he didn't know what the ghost labor law was, he only knew that those villagers were really working frantically with all their energy.

The earth was too heavy, so the two young children carried it out, and the old people carried out with baskets and crutches.

Fu Xiaoguan entrusted two county officials to open canteens at the construction site, and the food was not much better than that of Xishan.

I still remember that on the first day of the meal, the makeshift rice shed was crushed by the crowded villagers, and even the county government's quick knife pulled out had no effect.

It wasn't until three days later that the scene returned to normal – perhaps because the villagers knew that such meals were available every day, and that everyone would have them.

Later, they began to line up patiently, and order was restored.

At least 40,000 villagers in one county participated in the construction, and cooking alone made two county commanders very troubled.

This requires a large amount of food and a large number of people, so Fu Xiaoguan asked Xishan Express to transport grain to these two places early, but it ensured the supply of grain and there was no major chaos.

"Things seem to be as you want them to be here, what's next?"

"Next, we're going to go to the Wasteland."

"Chen Po and they have stirred up the storm in the barren country, robbed a barren man's pasture, the problem of war horses has been solved, and they are training riding skills on the grassland."

"Well, let them use guerrilla tactics, mainly to plunder the pastures of the deserted, and occasionally attack the border towns, and they have to lure out the elite soldiers and horses in the capital of the wasteland."

Bai Yulian suddenly asked, "If there is a chance to take the Platinum Khan Palace of the Wasteland...... Do you want to do a big one? ”

Fu Xiaoguan was silent for a few breaths, and then dispelled this thought, "You are inflated, that is the enemy's home field, and now there are hundreds of thousands of cavalry, and that place is not an environment like Pingling Mountain." In the endless grassland, we have more than 3,600 people left, how can we do it if the enemy charges us? ”

"It would be nice if there were 100 red-clothed cannons...... Bai Yulian said with regret: "After this battle goes back, you have to continue to replenish the troops, when do you have to show up, the maximum number of people in a regiment training is 2,000 people, we have doubled, if we expand the troops again...... I'm afraid that Your Majesty will think that I am going to rebel! ”

Show up......

Fu Xiaoguan looked at the vast snowfall, and thought to himself, and now Wu Ling'er's body doesn't know if it has recovered.

He didn't know much about the situation of the Wu Dynasty, he only knew that with the presence of Empress Dowager Xi and the assistance of loyal ministers like the left and right ministers, Wu Ling'er's throne should be stable.

On the contrary, it was his own appearance that would bring trouble to Wu Linger's throne.

After all, the people of the Wu Dynasty accepted Wu Ling'er as emperor because of the bloodline of Emperor Wen, and now only Wu Ling'er is left.

"Let's talk about it, after the trip to the wasteland is over."

"When will Her Royal Highness the Third Princess be here?"

"In terms of time, it's almost time to come."

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October 25 of the ninth year of the Xuanli calendar.

The three princesses arrived in Pingling County at noon.

Zhang Wenhan, the county magistrate of Pingling County, is naturally busy, and Yan Linqiu, the county magistrate of Quyi County, also came here - Yan Linqiu and the third princess Yu Qinglan knew each other, so he wanted to come and see Her Royal Highness the Third Princess again, because Her Royal Highness the Third Princess was out of the plug, I am afraid it will be difficult to see her again for the rest of his life.

The envoys were led by Xu Huaishu, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Xue Pinggui, a thousand households under Huo Huaijin, was in charge of security matters - both of them had experience in envoys to the Wu Dynasty.

And the envoy who went to Jinling to welcome his relatives was Tuoba Qiu, the national teacher of the Wasteland Country, and he brought his grandson Tuoba Yuan.

There are also five hundred guards in the wasteland, and this team is extremely large, which suddenly made Zhang Wenhan dumbfounded-this is special, almost all the cooks in Pingling County have been invited to the construction site at the foot of Pingling Mountain, how to solve the problem of eating for thousands of people?

According to the meaning of Xu Huaishu and Tuoba Qiu, the honor guard does not need to stop in Pingling County, but should go to Xincheng.

As an important town in the north of the Yu Dynasty, Xincheng is many times larger than this Pingling, and Xincheng has an official post of the Yu Dynasty, at least the problem of food and accommodation is easy to solve.

But the third princess said that she would stay in this Pingling for a day to miss her homeland.

The guard of honor stopped on the streets of Pingling County, and everyone in the third princess and her entourage also got out of the car.

I thought that there would be many onlookers, but Yu Qinglan got out of the carriage and found that it was deserted, and only a few officials greeted her.

"This place...... Why is it so desolate? Yu Qinglan asked, she knew that Pingling Quyi was a barren land, but she never thought that it would be desolate to such a situation.

"Back to His Royal Highness, Xishan has set up industries in Pingling and Quyi, this person ...... All went to their construction sites. ”

Yu Qinglan was stunned, "Oh...... Take Hongu to have a look. ”

"This ......"

"What's the inconvenience?"

"It's not that it's inconvenient, it's the princess's daughter, and I'm afraid that the mess in that place will stain His Highness's eyes."

"It's okay, lead the way!"