For the 2,000 women, this successful trade was indeed a feat.

Although there are no thrills and dangers along the way, this is also something that they will all be commendable in the future.

Liu Xian asked them to go back to Liulin Village to rest first, and then escorted the 2,000 Yellow Turban captives to the official prison in Yangshi County.

The prison could not hold these two thousand Yellow Turban prisoners, but there were four military camps in Yang's county, each of which held 300 Yellow Turban prisoners, and the remaining 800 Yellow Turban prisoners were imprisoned in the county jail.

Liu Xian explained the situation of these Yellow Turban captives to Wen Shen and Wang Bao, and then asked them to write a document to receive these captives, and sent someone to Quyang to present them to Huangfu Song for inspection. This is to reassure Huangfu Song that the two thousand captives have been handed over to the Yang County Government for custody. In the future, the 2,000 captives will also be distributed by the Yang County Government.

For Liu Xian, these official efforts must be done enough. Then, how to deal with or arrange these two thousand Yellow Turban captives is all up to Liu Xian.

Naturally, Liu Xian didn't need to be in a hurry, the two thousand captives were first taken into custody by the government, and then the two thousand people were interrogated and interrogated in detail, and the condition of each of them was carefully registered.

These are prisoners, but they are a little different from the yellow turban thieves of Liu Xian's criminal army. For if any of these captives were indeed guilty of the most heinous crimes, they could be reported to the higher authorities by the government, and then they would be put to death.

Even if it is a criminal army, there is no place for those Yellow Turban thieves who are really guilty.

Liu Xian also set some bottom lines for Wen Shen, Wang Bao, Li Yuan and others. Through the interrogation and interrogation of those Yellow Turban captives, and then let them testify against each other, if it is indeed some people who have killed too many people, and even killed people and ate meat when they are extremely hungry, this part of the Yellow Turban captives will be focused on being imprisoned, and they will not be recruited by Liu Xian into the criminal army in the future, they will either be executed, or they will be cattle and horses for the rest of their lives. Liu Xian can't let them have another day.

What Liu Xian wants are those who still have a sleepless conscience, and who still have a little conscience, and who regret their past behavior. This part of the Yellow Turban captives, Liu Xian will only recruit into the criminal army in the future, when the time comes.

These Yellow Turban captives, they are basically from Jizhou, and the people of Julu County account for a large part. It can be said that they are actually the children of the giant deer.

Therefore, it is actually possible to interrogate them and find out their true origins. Especially those people who are already from Julu County, as long as they ask which county and which village and town they are, Liu Xian will send someone to investigate in the future, if they still have relatives, it will be even better. In the future, as long as they join the Sin Army, then they no longer have to worry about committing crimes, and they will be absolutely loyal.

If the situation allows, Liu Xian will also let their relatives come to meet them in the future. In this way, they are not dying for themselves?

Well, that's all for later.

After explaining to Wen Shen, the acting county commander of Yang's County, and Wang Bao, the county lieutenant, carefully imprisoned the two thousand yellow turban prisoners, Liu Xian really had a lot of things to deal with.

One is to send someone else to Quyang City to bring back the materials that have been discussed with Guo Dian and bring back the materials that they can't use.

These include some mules and horses, crippled horses, badly damaged armor, weapons, and so on. These don't mean that it's just a matter of moving back, everything has to be registered as a price, the value is calculated, and then deducted from the 20 million money that Huang Fu Song said would pay Liu Xian.

Then, Guo Dian promised to pay Liu Xian two million yuan first, and the two million money was used by Liu Xian for emergency use, and after grinding with Guo Dian for a long time, Guo Dian agreed to pay. This is because Liu Xian is in a hurry to get two thousand prisoners, and he has not yet gotten it.

Then there was the preparation to receive the grain. These have to be arranged first, Huangfu Song has just laid down Quyang now, and he has not had time to apply to the imperial court for the transfer of grain, so this has to wait.

Liu Xian didn't plan to go to Quyang again, so he told Li Yuan to take more than a dozen scholars and transfer 200 people to him, and he would count the materials with Guo Dian. It was then transported back to Yang's County.

The main thing for Liu is to consider how to develop next.

Liu Xian believes that his focus should be shifted from Liulin Village to Yangshi County.

Liulin Village is really close to Yangshi County, but because there is a big river between them, there is also a relationship between rivers and lakes. This also makes Liulin Village seem more hidden, or in the eyes of people in Yangshi County, or outsiders who don't know the situation, they usually don't pay much attention to Liulin Village, and even people in Yangshi County don't know that there is a village and town so close to Yangshi County.

In this way, Liu Xian felt that Liulin Village was actually quite suitable for himself to build a relatively hidden and important base.

After careful consideration, Liu Xian decided to build a large number of buildings in Liulin Village, and built a city in Liulin Village on the scale of a small county town, with the plan of building a permanent fortress to build this Liulin Village castle.

Liu Xian decided to build the castle according to the specifications of the fortress.

Liu Xian believed that the construction of a fort was necessary and necessary.

The whole of Jizhou has always been a place of right and wrong, and this Liulin Village can barely be regarded as the central region of Jizhou. I don't dare to say that Yangshi County and Liulin Village are battleground for soldiers, but in the future, whether it is Yuan Shao or Gongsun Zan or even the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army in the mountains to the west, they can threaten here at any time. Their military horses can be talked about, if Liu Xian wants to develop his own power with Liulin Village and Yangshi County as the center, then it will definitely not work without a little means of self-preservation.

If there is no means of self-preservation, then Liu Xian does not need to think about any development, because even if it develops, after a few years, it will either be destroyed by the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army, or swallowed by Yuan Shao, or occupied by Gongsun Zhan.

A permanent fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, a shuo fort, is enough for Liu Xian to gain a firm foothold here. As long as a Suo Fort is built and enough supplies are stored, then even in the face of thousands of troops, Liu Xian does not have to worry.

Soburg, what is Soburg? Suobao is not like those cities of the Han Dynasty now, these cities of the Han Dynasty are basically a city of four or four, even if some cities are limited by the terrain, but their city walls are a straight line, long and straight.

The essence of the fortress is to change the fortress from a convex polygon to a concave polygon, so that no matter what point is attacked in the castle, the attacker will be exposed to the attack of the defenders on the side of more than one bastion, and the defender can use crossfire to carry out multiple strikes.

This is like Quyang City, the officers and soldiers of the imperial court attacked the city, and what they attacked was a straight line of the city wall, and the officers and soldiers who attacked the city only had to face the attack of the Yellow Turban defenders on the wall on this straight line. However, if the wall is rebuilt into a wall with multiple concave faces, then there are more restrictions on the besieging side. Moreover, when attacking a city, it is necessary to face attacks from three sides.

And now in the war of this ancient era, as far as siege is concerned, the so-called firepower is nothing more than rolling stones, boiling soup, bows and arrows. Taking advantage of this, attacking the besieging army below the city on a line of walls does have many blind spots that allow the besieging soldiers to evade those fire attacks from the city's head. However, if it is under a concave wall, there are far fewer blind spots for the besieging soldiers to dodge. They will be hit from three directions on the city.

It can also be said that such a castle, in this ancient era, can be said to be a meat grinder. The casualties of the besieging side will definitely greatly exceed the casualties of attacking a normal city.

Liu Xian is rich, and with Huang Zhong's service, there will be soldiers in the future, more soldiers. There are soldiers and generals, not to mention many, only one or two thousand men and horses, and if they are well prepared, they will not be afraid of the attack of the opponent's military horses ten times their own. In other words, a not too big Suo Fort can withstand an army of 200,000.

In fact, whether it is 200,000 or 400,000 or even more, when the number of military horses reaches a certain level, the number of military horses is the same, because the castle is so big, every time it attacks, it can only send a certain number of men and horses to attack. The pressure on the defenders is the same. It's just that the duration and intensity of the continuous attack are different.

However, it is conceivable that when the casualties of the attacking side are too large, will they still force the army and horses to attack the city regardless of the cost of casualties?

In this era when there was no artillery, a strong fortress was enough to cover a million soldiers.

Of course, there were trebuchets in this era, and if a large number of trebuchets were constantly bombarded, it was estimated that it would still be possible to storm the castle.

But Liu Xian will definitely not be too passive, and in terms of defending the city, he will definitely make more strong crossbows and bows, and he will also make trebuchets.

Anyway, it won't take too long, as long as this Suo Fort is built, Liu Xian can rest assured that many things will be messed up.

At the very least, Liu Xian can safely produce some goods that can quickly harvest money in Sobao. Like stronger alcohol, toothbrushes, soap, and so on.

Without a relatively safe place, Liu Xian felt that many things were inconvenient for him to do.

Liu Xian wanted to do it, and he immediately drew a figure of Suobao overnight.

After the painting was drawn, he called Wen Shen, Wang Bao, as well as Liang Ji, Yu Jin and others from Liulin Village.

The construction of Sobao is the next important work.

But at the same time, some industries, Liu Xian thinks can be transferred to Yangshi County.

For example, the spinning and weaving workshop already has a garment sewing workshop with a little assembly line operation division of labor. A weaving workshop that uses some raw materials to weave things. Liu Xian thought that all of them could be transferred to Yangshi County.

As a result, the population of Liulin Village will also move to Yangshi County in large numbers. In Liulin Village, Liu Xian will only keep the villagers of the original Liulin Village, as well as the villagers of nearby villages, and then the family members of the caravan guards of Liufu. Only these people can live in Liulin Village in the future.

Of course, when Liu Xian wants to produce some products that are not yet available in this era in Liulin Village, the manpower he needs to use, these manpower and their families can also live in Liulin Village in the future, of course, there are some people who can enter but not leave. Some secret people were involved, and they could no longer leave Liulin Village without Liu Xian's permission.

Liu Xian took out these things one by one and discussed them with Wen Shen, Wang Bao, Liang Ji and others. Of course, Wen Shen and Wang Bao are not clear and unfamiliar with many things, so they only have to listen and how to cooperate with these tasks in the future.

There's nothing wrong with that. The most important thing is the question of building a city.

To build a city, one is manpower and materials. Liulin Village is located in the plain, a little far from the stone mountain, and there are too many stones needed to build the city. This is a problem and a major difficulty.

As for manpower, there are 2,000 Yellow Turban captives for the time being, and these 2,000 people can be called upon at any time.

It's cold weather right now, and it's unlikely that you'll be mining stone.

Everyone also gave some opinions. One of the most feasible suggestions is to explore upstream along the waterfall river outside Liulin Village to find a place near the river where there is stone mining. Then we found a way to mine the stones, and then used boats and rafts to transport the stones down the river to Liulin Village. However, if you want to start working, you will have to wait at least until the spring of the next year.

But Liu Xian couldn't wait for that time. What's more, when that time comes, those 2,000 captives will have to go to farm work.

There was no way, Liu Xian decided to use bricks instead of stones to penetrate the city.

Bricks are fired green bricks.

You can make your own firing and start working right away.

You only need to find the soil suitable for firing the green bricks, and then dig out some brick kilns and then you can fire.

Liu Xian is asking for money, money, people, and people, and it is really not difficult to do this.

As for the green bricks, they have long been available in this Han Dynasty, and Liu Xian doesn't know when they appeared. However, for some reason, this building material has not been widely used. As for the reason, Liu Xian has no way to investigate, but it is estimated that it is because of poverty.

In fact, in ancient China, most of the houses lived in were civil engineering buildings, especially wood. Even the earth is not made of bricks, but it is made of earth to build walls.

Now there is no way to find a craftsman who knows how to fire green bricks. But there's nothing wrong with that.

Although Liu Xian doesn't understand everything, in his mind, as long as it is something he has seen in his previous life, as long as he touches on things related to these, he will naturally remember it.

No one understands, he can experiment according to those methods.

In this way, Liu Xian asked people to find craftsmen who knew how to fire green bricks, and at the same time to experiment by themselves.

Next, Liu Xian asked people to dig up different kinds of soil everywhere, and then mixed the soil and water into a slurry, fixed it into bricks, and then took it to the brick kiln to burn.

Liu Xian believes that it will definitely be fired.