After sending off Ma Guiren, Liu Xian's life returned to normal.

This time the Yellow Turbans of Montenegro attacked, although they were victorious, and they were defeated in almost the shortest possible time. However, for Yangshi County and Liulin Village, it is not a good thing.

Victory is good, but the damage it has done to the people here cannot be repaired. At least, thousands of people were killed and wounded, including the guards of the Liu Mansion caravan, officers and soldiers, those young men who were temporarily organized in Yangshi County, and some ordinary people.

Every casualty is equivalent to a family having to bear the pain of losing a loved one, and thousands of casualties are equivalent to thousands of families.

If he could, Liu Xian really didn't want to see the painful faces after losing his loved ones.

But war is like that, and it is impossible to take all the benefits by yourself. Liu Xian asked Shan Yong, Wen Shen and others to do a good job of pacifying the people, giving full pensions to the families of those soldiers who were killed and wounded, and making arrangements for their families' future life and work as much as possible.

From now on, Liu Xian will require the people below to have a clear registration of every soldier and people who follow him, and after every battle, if there are deaths, they must do a good job in all the work after the war.

Liu Xian is also planning to get an ID card for the people within the forces under his control. With this, it will be better to govern the people within the sphere of influence in the future.

This battle was indeed victorious, and the benefits obtained were extremely rich, not to mention, so many prisoners alone were a huge wealth. Not to mention, he also obtained a lot of weapons and armor.

In fact, as long as it is iron, it is useful, and damaged weapons can be rebuilt, and some armor can also be re-sewn.

With more than 20,000 Yellow Turban captives, plus those Yellow Turban captives who were originally brought back from Quyang, Liu Xian now has almost 30,000 laborers.

The original Yellow Turban captives, Liu Xian still left them to Wen Shen for the time being, and asked the thousands of captives to help carry out the current spring ploughing work.

Of the more than 20,000 Yellow Turban captives captured this time, Liu Xian planned to use them to build the prismatic castle of Liulin Village.

There are a lot of materials for building the city, and Liu Xian thinks that the early construction of the city wall can be carried out.

Outside Liulin Village, along the banks of the river, a large number of hard stones were piled up from the mountains in the upper reaches of the Qingshui River, which were mined from the mountains by the villagers of Liulin Village during the severe cold winter, braving the wind and snow, and transported from upstream to the outside of Liulin Village by rafts and wooden rafts.

For the planning of the construction of the castle in Liulin Village, Liu Xian almost personally designed and planned it.

After thinking about it, Liu Xian decided to expand the scale a little more and build a square city with a length and width of about two kilometers. Such a large city is no longer a castle, almost as big as the county seat of Yangshi County.

Of course, if the real construction is completed, Liulin Village should be renamed Liulin City at that time. Moreover, the city wall of this willow forest city is not a city wall in the traditional sense, and when the time comes, some other prominent urn cities will be built outside the city wall, so that the whole city looks angular and angular, like a hedgehog lying on the ground. When the time comes, any army that wants to attack Liulin City will be intimidated when they see Liulin City.

According to Liu Xian's plan, the city wall should be more than 30 meters high. Only a high enough height can easily cope with those simple siege tools.

Also, Liu Xian wants to build a moat around the city outside the city, and in the future, outside the city, he will also do some defensive works to defend the city. For example, within a mile or two of the outside of the city, you should dig some traps and put some relatively strong antlers on the ground.

Anyway, when the time comes, Liu Xian will decorate the city of Liulin Village without leaving a drop of water, and anyone who wants to attack Liulin City will have to think carefully about whether they can attack it.

Much work has already begun on the construction of the city. For example, according to Liu Xian's plan, the foot of the city wall can be excavated, and the moat can be excavated.

Liu Xian planned to use those hard stones to build the corners of the city wall, and if there was no cement, he would use the construction method of the ancient era to use some glue made of rice and other things to make the adhesive to glue the stones.

Here, in fact, don't underestimate the wisdom of the ancients, haven't you seen the Great Wall of China? After 2,000 years, it still stands on those high peaks. It can be seen that as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Chinese people have mastered some construction techniques, especially some problems in building materials, which have long been able to be solved.

Therefore, Liu Xian will not worry about the problem of no cement at all.

This excavation of the corners of the city wall is equivalent to laying the foundation for future generations.

More than 20,000 Yellow Turban captives were excavated under the watchful eye of the caravan guards of Liulin Village.

Digging the foot of the city wall, Liu Xian plans to dig two or three meters deep, in fact, even if it is one meter deep, but these free laborers, they are not afraid to call, there is no need to save them effort, and it is naturally the best to be able to build the city wall stronger.

This is a big project, and it is estimated that it will take a long time to build the city.

The city wall, Liu Xian dug it long and was about 20 meters wide.

In this way, it can be calculated that in this era, there are no excavators, so everything has to be done manually.

Liu Xian also asked those Yellow Turban captives to be simply reorganized, according to the establishment of the army.

When the excavation began, let the two people line up, and let each person be responsible for the excavation of one meter open in front of them, and at the end of this day, twenty people, at least two meters long and two or three meters deep, can dig a pit two meters long and two or three meters deep, right?

Twenty more men were placed behind them, who were responsible for loading the earth they had dug up into the rattan baskets. Then, I asked the people of Liulin Village and some of Yang's County to help carry the soil from the rattan baskets to the open field.

The twenty Yellow Turban captives, who were in charge of loading the earth, regularly exchanged them with the diggers in front of them, so that they could maintain their physical strength and continue to work.

As for the soil, it is not necessary to move too far away, because after the city wall is built, it will be necessary to use the soil to build the middle of the city wall, so the soil dug up is still useful, so that even ordinary people can help carry it.

In fact, when it comes to work, every 40 people are responsible for the excavation of a section, and at the end of the day, it is not just two or three meters long. In addition, even if you lay the foundation, you don't have to dig out and fill the pit if you really need to use it.

In fact, Liu Xian only asked them to dig two corners about three meters wide.

But digging the moat, that's really going to be completely dug up.

It is conceivable that Liu Xian had more than 20,000 Yellow Turban captives on his hands to use as labor. If all the excavations are carried out, forty people can dig out a section of two or three meters long in one day, 400 people are 30 meters, 4,000 people are 300 meters, and 20,000 people are 3,000 meters, that is, three kilometers. In this way, the foot of a wall can be dug in one day.

But it's not really that fast.

Mainly because there aren't that many digging tools available yet.

This time to defeat the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro, some of the weapons harvested can also be used to make some digging tools, but even if they want to be made, it is not possible to make so many tools in a day or two.

In this way, Liu Xian can only make reasonable use of these manpower and the excavation tools he has temporarily.

For the time being, it was not the turn of the people to dig, so Liu Xian arranged for them to carry the soil and let them carry some stones.

In addition, some work can be carried out together.

For example, if the foundation is excavated, you can start masonry.

After the foundation of the city wall is laid for a section, then the city wall can also be formally built with green bricks, and after the green bricks are built, after the bonding of the adhesive mud, after condensation, the soil can be built within the city wall.

In this way, while excavating and building, Liu Xian found that the efficiency was also quite good. Because the excavated soil packed in rattan baskets can be directly transported to the built city wall, and directly filled in between them, no matter how bad it is. In this way, a lot of effort can also be saved.

The green bricks fired in Liulin Village have also piled up, although it is not enough, but it has been fired during this time.

Liu Xian originally thought that it would not be so easy to build a city. But when the construction of the city began, Liu Xian found that it was not as difficult as he imagined.

The construction of a city is nothing more than a problem of money, food, manpower, and materials. But Liu Xian is really not short of money and food, and with money and food to open the way, everything is easy to say. What's more, the most important manpower is available, so Liu Xian's intention to build a city is so logical.

As for the more than 20,000 Yellow Turban captives, it is said that none of these Yellow Turban captives are good people. They can become the elite of the Yellow Turban Army in Montenegro, and it can be said that they have all fought and killed people. Even if he becomes a captive, he will not be so peaceful.

However, what is strange is that Liu Xian did not put any iron handcuffs on them, and did not even use ropes to tie them together.

Of the more than 20,000 Yellow Turban captives, Liu Xian only used more than 2,000 people from the Liu Mansion caravan and another 1,000 young men organized to watch the prisoners, and when they were doing labor, they were completely untied with ropes. In case they want to run away, or even rebel, this is not to say that it is impossible.

However, there are more than 20,000 Yellow Turban captives, and they are only in the day or two when they are just captured, and occasionally a few guys want to escape. But after that, the more than 20,000 Yellow Turban captives were really very peaceful, not noisy or noisy, and completely obeyed Liu Xian's labor arrangement. Even, in the process of their work, they are not lazy, and they are all energetic.

If you don't know about such a situation, it will really feel a little incredible.

Not to mention Liu Xian's caravan guards, even if it was the officers and soldiers of the imperial court, they captured so many people at once, and when there were not enough people to guard them, it was strange that those Yellow Turban captives did not flee or rioted.

But here in Liu Xian, let alone that they fled and rioted, even if they were driven away now, they might not leave.

Without it, these Yellow Turban captives would be so peaceful. Mainly because Liu Xian drew a big pie for them. Liu Xian moved out of the secret camp of the criminal army, which is equivalent to giving them a hope, a new life, and a future for them.

In fact, you can think about it, they rebelled with the Taiping Dao uprising. What are they for? Well, these Yellow Turban captives are basically illiterate ordinary poor people, they can know that the Yellow Turban Rebellion killed officials and eat big households, but they will never know what they are doing this for. At most, it means being able to have a bite to eat, in order to be able to survive.

But they experienced a great defeat, fled into the mountains, and lived a day of starvation, not knowing which day they would be killed or starved to death by officers and soldiers.

Now, Liu Xian clearly told them what their original intention of rebellion was, but they underwent a bad qualitative change in the process, so it made it impossible for their uprising to succeed.

Liu Xian used the most simple and straightforward truth to tell them some of the most basic understandings. Let them understand what they have done, especially what Liu Xian said, they were originally some poor people, but why did they kill people who were also poor like them?

Some simple truths, even illiterate people can understand when they hear it, and when they understand it, they will naturally have a self-guilty mentality. I realized that I had indeed committed so many wrong things and so many evil deeds.