Gongsun Jian is also very refreshing, it's okay to send bricks, but I need to send someone to help reinforce it. Wu Jun will withdraw first, and then you will enter when I help you get it for you. You see how good we are, directly contract labor and materials, and you can screw the package and move in.

Regarding Gongsun Jian's reply, Sun Sheng was a little unhappy. Everyone has a good relationship, why are you so stingy when you ask for something? So he sent people to take 3,000 people to go around the vicinity of Dingxi County and held a military parade.

At the beginning of the activity, it was good, but on the way home encountered some trouble, because the host was too enthusiastic, and saw that the guests were leaving, so they hurriedly ran to stay, but the guests did not give face, so the host also turned his face and directly beat the guests.

The team of 3,000 people returned to Zhenyuanguan with less than 1,000 people. Sun Sheng was really angry now, but in the end, he calmed down and held back, and now it is not the time to turn his face with Gongsun Jian.

So he sent someone to see Gongsun Jian, saying that he had no malicious intentions, and that his subordinates were disobedient and ran to Dingxi County to show off their might, in fact, it was just to show off that their arms were thicker. But I don't want your arm to be broken by you. Forget it, we have a good relationship, and I won't ask you to pay for the medical expenses, but you can send me back the captives.

Gongsun Jian is very polite, since they are all here, don't be in a hurry to leave, stay here for a few more days, I will definitely not treat them badly if they eat and drink, if they are really idle and have nothing to do, I just happen to be building a new city here, if you want, you can help with it.

In this way, there are more than 1,000 Wu 'volunteer builders' on the construction site in Linshui County.

Sun Sheng felt uncomfortable no matter how he thought about it, but what could he do if he was uncomfortable? Then the best thing to do is to make the other person uncomfortable too. As a result, a brick and tile factory in Dingxi County was attacked by unknown persons. Fortunately, the brickyard had its own security guards, and the security guards were very good, but the attackers were either killed or captured, and none of them escaped.

Within a few days, there were 1,200 more volunteers on the construction site in Linshui County. However, Zhenyuan Pass was struck by lightning one night, and the city wall of more than ten zhang died, and many soldiers defending the city died.

After stealing chickens twice in a row, Sun Sheng finally stopped. And Gongsun Jian sat in the second hall of the newly built Linshui County Ya, smiling happily.

The reason why Gongsun Jianxiao was not because Sun Sheng suffered a loss, but because of the arrival of a person. This person is none other than Xu Huaizhi, the commander-in-chief of the Vietnamese army stationed not far from here. Since Qian Yan was transferred to the Northern Army with more than 30,000 horses, Xu Huaizhi was the chief general of the Vietnamese army who stayed behind to monitor and guard against Gongsun Jian and Wu Guo. And Xu Huaizhi also has an identity that is not known to outsiders, that is, he is actually Gongsun Jian's cousin according to his generation.

The public family has a big business and the children are luxuriant, and the main house of Gong Mohan is a descendant, but Gong Mohan also has brothers and sisters of the same generation and other side branches of the public family. Xu Huaizhi is married to the daughter of a half-brother of Gongmohan, so he is Gongsun Jian's cousin.

Because of Gongsun Jian's relationship, the public family has been released, although he can only be placed under residential surveillance in Shangjing, but it is relatively much better than living in a prison cell. Besides, the public family and Gong Mohan have been in the Zhou State for so many years, how can they not have some foundation? So as soon as he got out of the prison door, Gong Mohan began to mobilize all his connections to secretly transfer the family's money and available power to Gongsun Jian, because he knew very well that as long as Gongsun Jian did not fall, then he and Gongjia would be fine. Even if even Qian Zhuo still wants to kill him in the end, and can't help but kill him and these people from the Shangjing family, it can also show that Gongsun Jian's power is estimated to be enough to overthrow the Zhou State of the Qian family. At that time, even if he died, his Gong Mohan would smile at Jiuquan.

Xu Huaizhi quietly came to Linshui County to meet Gongsun Jian, which was also what Gongmohan meant. And sent two great gifts to Gongsun Jian, the first is a list of the government's properties all over the Zhou Kingdom, which was personally ordered by Gongmo Han to be transferred to Gongsun Jian, and the preliminary estimate is that its value will not be less than 10 million taels of silver. This is equivalent to giving Gongsun Jian huge financial support. The second gift is the 20,000-strong army of soldiers and horses that Xu Huaizhi currently has in his hands.

Due to the current difficulties in domestic and foreign relations in the surrounding area, Qian Zhuo offended Gongsun Jian because of his mistakes, but now he had to beg Gongsun Jian to help him sell salt and raise funds. It can be seen that the silver in the treasury of the Zhou State is already stretched. Therefore, this army, which currently has no combat mission, has not been paid for almost three months, and even the basic food and grass guarantee is almost unable to keep up.

Xu Huaizhi has always been the chief officer of this team, among which there are five or six thousand descendants, as for the rest of the people, after repeated persuasion and persuasion over this period of time, there is basically no problem. Besides, who can't see that the current Zhou Kingdom is stormy, and it is already a broken ship that is about to sink. Therefore, Xu Huaizhi was ready to take 20,000 horses and horses directly to Gongsun Jian.

For the two big gifts sent by his grandfather and Xu Huaizhi, Gongsun Jian was naturally very happy. Especially at the moment, when the money and food in my hands are not too sufficient, I am simply dozing off and sending pillows. With 20,000 people, the danger from the side of Zhou in the first place was temporarily lifted, and there was even capital to directly confront Wu. This will also free up his hands to start expanding his territory and truly regain control of the three northwestern provinces in his own hands.

After making an appointment with Xu Huaizhi, Gongsun Jian took Wei Meng, Ding Feng and others to the other party's camp to meet the main generals in the army in person, and welcomed the other party's willingness to serve him. In addition, a lot of grain, grass, wine, meat, and 50,000 taels of silver were also sent as temporary military expenses. Everyone also said that they would follow Gongsun Jiangongzi in the future. Gongsun Jian, on the other hand, said that they would keep the Vietnamese army for the time being, still stationed here, and confront him on the surface.

There are several advantages to this approach, one is that they do not raise the flag, as long as the news is not leaked out, the court of the Zhou State must also provide them with military salaries and grain and grass, although it is not there for the time being, but it does not prevent you from asking for it! Second, you can confuse Wu Guo, so that you can leave a back hand, maybe when you can pit Sun Sheng. The third Gongsun Jian has not yet made the final preparations, and everything can only be implemented after Gongsun Jian completes the construction of the new city in Linshui County and the expansion of the army. In the end, once these generals take refuge in themselves, then with Qian Zhuo's character, many of their family members who stay in Shangjing will be in danger. So before that, Gongsun Jian had to send someone to secretly pick up their family.

Almost all the generals had no objection to this, and they began to have a good impression of Gongsun Jian from the bottom of their hearts. I feel that Gongsun Jian is not a reckless second person like the rumors I heard before, and he is also more concerned about the people who serve him, and he can think of the safety of their families first.

After successfully receiving Xu Huaizhi and his 20,000 horses, Gongsun Jian suddenly had a lot of confidence. Qi Shi was ordered to speed up the training of recruits from the two regiments, and at the same time, Liu Dayuan and Feng Huaidao were also asked to speed up the construction progress of the new city in Linshui County, and strive to complete the construction of the outer city before the summer harvest was busy.

Fast forward to mid-May, and everything is going very well. The construction of the outer city has been completed, and the summer grain has also begun to be harvested, so naturally there is no need for Gongsun Jian to worry about this. Since Liu Dayuan was captured and rescued last time, it was as if he had changed his person, and he showed the courage and enthusiasm that he had never had before, and handled all the big and small matters in the county very safely. And Feng Huaidao also broke away, mainly responsible for helping Gongsun Jian make money everywhere. Now he is not only responsible for the construction and sales of high-end residential areas and Xicheng commercial districts, but also in charge of the operation of Linshui County's trade exchanges and steel, cement, bricks and other factories and mines. Fortunately, there are a few good helpers under him, Liu Dayuan's daughter Liu Fanglan is quite business-minded, and after being explained by Feng Huaidao, Liu Dayuan came forward to take charge of the exchange, and Feng Wan'er helped him deal with the current documents and accounts, and even Gongyu Wu now has an official position, responsible for the audit of all the finances of the entire Linshui County and Dingxi County. Of course, Gong Yu Mai's main job is to go to school, but this does not prevent her from exerting her super high mathematical talent, and almost all of the more than 20 bookkeepers under her are her so-called 'apprentices'. It is also this group of people who supports all the things of the audit yamen.

Today's Linshui County is not what it used to be, and it has become the norm for women to come out to work. I haven't seen that many of the girls have gone to school. There are now five primary schools and one middle school in Linshui County. Education is free for almost all school-age children. Dingxi County is also gradually carrying out compulsory education work, and the two primary schools currently under preparation have also opened. Of course, these things also need to be supported by money, and Gongsun Jian will never be stingy with money in this regard. And Huang Wenyuan, who is in charge of education, health, and propaganda work, has also contributed a lot. In addition to the county's financial allocation, Huang Wenyuan has not been around outside. While asking for donations from those big families, he also promoted the set of propaganda theories he organized. In addition, public health and medical treatment are also under the jurisdiction of Huang Wenyuan. Just to prepare for the construction of the hospital, he was busy losing at least ten pounds.

In a word, in almost a year after regaining Linshui County, the entire Linshui County has completely changed its original appearance. A thriving scene. And at this time, it was also time for Gongsun Jian to make a move.

The internal affairs are taken care of, and the next time is the time for external expansion. Gongsun Jian's goal is not big, and he will completely control the three northwestern prefectures before making the next plan. When he joined forces with Qian Yan before, he had won Sanfu, but at that time, he was at most a soy sauce player, and the main force still relied on Qian Yan's men. But now it's different, with Xu Huaizhi's 20,000 horses behind him, and more than 10,000 people in his hands.

Under the order, according to the battle plan that had been studied and planned long ago, Tian Kuo and Ding Feng led two regiments of more than 3,000 soldiers under their command to go on the expedition.

Gongsun Jian had a particularly good control of the timing of this expedition. Because everyone was busy with the summer harvest, almost all the militia groups in the county government went home on vacation to go to the farm. And the standing guards of each state city are only a few hundred people, and they are not opponents at all, plus Hu Tianyi and Zhao Changle's spy system has long been arranged in these major prefectures.

In addition, the most important thing is that the army led by Qian Tuan, the king of Chu, had just suffered a major defeat on the southern battlefield, and the offensive of the Qi State in the north was even more fierce, and even the metropolitan governor Xu Hu was said to have personally carried his sword to the front line. The repeated blows made the court of the Zhou State and the state capitals all panicked, worried that the sky would change when it was said, and many people had already begun to prepare for the future. Therefore, Gongsun Jian's attack almost did not meet with decent resistance, and soon the three northwestern prefectures were all occupied by Gongsun Jian.

Gongsun Jian stayed in Dingxi County for many days, firstly, to inspect the development here, and Cao Liang to study how to quickly improve the local people's livelihood and economy, and secondly, to guard against Sun Sheng in Zhenyuanguan. It stands to reason that Gongsun Jian sent troops to capture Sanfu, and Linshui County must be empty of troops, which is just a good opportunity. But Sun Sheng may have learned shrewdly, so he didn't jump out this time to take advantage. On the contrary, it was an uncharacteristically shrinking force, sticking to the town and not coming out.