Wang Shuwang went to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, received the officer's farewell and appointment letter, and drank bitterly with the young people in the same township in the evening.

These fellow villagers of his were assigned to different places, some of them were going to the Western Regions, and some of them were staying in the royal capital. Two were also given to Kojishuo.

Their current residence was settled by the Governor's Palace, and they all lived temporarily in the guest house of the Governor's Palace.

Early the next morning, everyone said goodbye at the door of the guest house and went their separate ways.

The two people who were assigned to Koji Shuo were able to travel with Wang Shuwang for a while.

The three of them went out of the south gate and walked south along the official road.

After passing through Cangsong County, passing through the remnants of the eastern part of Qilian Mountain, they did not go too far and entered the territory of their hometown Guangwu County.

The three of them are all young people, newly awarded officials, and when they are full of pride and ambition, they just want to rush to the place where they take office as soon as possible to meet the chief officer, show their skills, and make a name for themselves, so as to make their parents happy, and seal their wives and children.

After traveling more than 100 miles, when they reached the shore of Huangshui, the three of them parted ways.

The two men crossed the river to the west and went to Tangxing County to find Koji Shuo to report; Wang Shuwang crossed the river east and went to Longxi County.

The three of them got off their horses at the edge of the Huang River, and they were relatively together.

The sky is high and the clouds are light.

Looking north at Qilian, the river is surging nearby.

Wang Shuwang said with a smile: "The mountains and rivers are far away, and life is like a white horse. Say goodbye today, and work hard! I hope that when you and I meet again in the future, we will already get ahead! The husband has made contributions to the country and enriched himself, so that this life will not be in vain! ”

He untied the two common things hanging from his belt, one a flint and the other a knife, and gave them to the two men.

The two men each had a gift in return.

One person said: "We are mediocre, not as good as my brother Baiyi, and I don't dare to have extravagant hopes." Brother Zhuangcai, this trip to Longxi, will be like a fish in water, it doesn't take too long, you will be able to become an official, and wealth is just around the corner! The younger brother is in Tangxing County, waiting for the good news of the elder brother's relocation! ”

Another person also said: "In the future, my brother will rise to the top, but don't forget my brother!" ”

Wang Shuwang smiled and said, "Thank you two for your good words." In the future, if we can really do what you two said, we will be rich together! ”

The two men said goodbye and left.

Wang Shu looked at the side of the Ma River and watched them go away, then he turned over and got on his horse, raised his whip and galloped, stepping on the green grass by the river, and running eastward. Traveling more than 100 miles, within the boundaries of Wushi County, looking for a ferry, crossing the Yellow River, is already Longxi County.

In the realm of Wushi County, compared with Nei County, Wang Shuwang has encountered significantly fewer people along the way, and when he enters Longxi County, this change is even more significant. He traveled more than 20 miles, but did not see a single household, and the villages he passed through were all empty, full of thorns and weeds, and the view was no different from that of the wild, the well was full of dust, and foxes and rabbits were rampant.

Wang Shuwang was not surprised by this situation.

He had long known that most of the people in the counties of Longxi County, whether Tang or Hu, had been forcibly relocated by the imperial court to Jincheng and Tangxing, west of the Yellow River, including his hometown Guangwu and other counties.

The inward migration of the people of the frontier lands is what all the countries of the Northland are doing now.

The reason for this is to prevent it from being plundered by enemy countries.

The protracted war caused a sharp decline in population, because of the relatively peaceful environment and the influx of a large number of displaced people from the north, Jiangzuo was fine, but the northern states, Qin, Wei, and Dingxi, are now facing the serious problem of withering hukou.

Therefore, it has naturally become a common practice for the armies of various countries to plunder the people of the other country through war to plunder the people of the other country in order to enrich their own countries.

The corresponding countermeasure is to move a large number of people from the border areas of the country into the interior.

The counties of Longxi County, which are now occupied by Dingxi, began to move the local indigenous people in batches and in a planned manner since they were defeated. By the time we arrived, the people of several counties had almost been relocated.

Walking in the county and township is like walking in the wilderness.

In the ravines beside the road, in the old fields where weeds are abundant, you can see piles of white bones from time to time.

When they were camping in the evening, thirty or twenty wolves touched Wang Shuwang's horse. Fortunately, Wang Shuwang was bold, but he was not afraid, and he did it with a bow and a knife, but he killed nearly half of them. Learning the customs of the Nahu people, Wang Shuwang broke off the wolf's teeth, strung them into a necklace, put them in his pocket, and made a commemoration. The next day he took the fat of the wolf's meat, roasted it beautifully, and ate it to his heart's content.

Walking again, unlike yesterday, about ten miles away, Wang Shuwang saw a wheat field.

He knew in his heart that this was the tun field of the Koji Ball Department, and in front of it was the military camp of the Koji Ball.

In fact, the Dingxi Imperial Court did not ask for the Koji Qiu Tuntian, but out of the idea of saving a little bit of the consumption of transportation grain for the country, the Koji Qiu took the initiative to ask the Dadu Governor's Office for some Tuntian soldiers, and they were together with the camp households accompanying the army, and ordered them to plant one or two hundred hectares of wheat and vegetables around the garrison.

A few dirty, hakamat-tack pawns saw Wang Shuwang riding a tall horse, and ran to tell their tun chief.

Their tun chief spoke half-baked official dialect and asked Wang Shuwang's identity.

Wang Shuwang showed him the letter of confession and appointment.

The tun chief was illiterate, but he recognized the seal of the governor's mansion, so he hurriedly changed his smile, led the way, and took Wang Shuwang to the garrison's camp.

Koji Qiu's subordinates originally only had Lu Shuihu's cavalry, what he had to guard against was the soldiers and horses of the Qin State, the Qin soldiers were brave, and it was definitely not possible to rely on Lu Shuihu's light cavalry alone, so Koji Shuo allocated him some peony elite cavalry, and the governor also transferred some armor infantry to him.

Now he has 3,500 horsemen under his tent.

With the addition of Tian Zu, it is almost in the early 4000s.

Coupled with the Tang people who accompanied the army, there were only five or six thousand people.

But from the outside, the camp of Kojiqiu, on the left side of the county seat, covers a vast area, and those who don't know it may think that there are no less than 10,000 soldiers in the camp.

Wang Shuwang led the horse on foot, passed through the suspension bridge, crossed a trench several zhang wide, and waited at the gate for a while, when a small school came out and invited him in.

In front of it is a wide camp road, and two cars can drive in parallel.

This camp road runs from west to east, across the entire camp; There is another camp road as wide as this road, which runs from north to south, running through the whole camp.

These two camp roads are the two main roads of the big camp.

The two camp roads intersect at the middle of the camp, dividing the camp into four parts.

Each of these four parts serves a different purpose.

The northwest part is where the camp households and field soldiers live. The southwestern part is the place where the baggage and grain are stored, and it is also the place where the troops practice daily. The northeastern part is the station of the foot soldiers. The southeastern part was the garrison of the cavalry.

The four parts, just like the "li" of the county seat, are surrounded by rammed earth walls, neatly lined up with small streets, and the tents of soldiers or earthen and stone houses for storage are orderly distributed on both sides of each side of each side of the small streets; There are drainage ditches on both sides of the street.

Like the whole camp wall, trenches were dug outside the walls of each part, and the corners were erected with towers, and there were also horse faces on the walls.

Wang Shuwang looked at it as he walked, admired it in his heart, and thought: "The camper, the army also depends on it." In the past, I had only read about how to set up camp in military books, but I had never seen it with my own eyes. When I saw it today, it was really an eye-opener! The Koji Protector is worthy of being the children of the Koji family, and they have been learning from generation to generation, and this camp is really orderly. Not only is the camp wall strong, but the various districts in the camp are also well guarded, so it is not so much a camp as a big city and four small cities! No wonder from the appearance, such as stationed 10,000 people. "I haven't seen Koji, but I have already admired him.

The general tent of the koji ball is located in the garrison area of the cavalry.

Along the main road in the east-west direction, they encountered several groups of infantry and cavalry soldiers, some were on patrol duty, some had just finished training, and some were about to go out of the camp to do errands, Wang Shuwang gave way to them one by one. Under the leadership of the colonel, he passed through the field guard residence and storage area, turned south, entered it through the south gate of the cavalry garrison, and arrived at the general's tent to meet the koji ball.

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There's something going on tomorrow, I don't know if I can change it. If you can't change it, it's two more on the weekend.

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