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At this time, Abao Grotto was like grasping a life-saving straw, and naturally accepted it. He had previously conquered the Xi tribe, Heishui and Sumo, and plundered many war horses. In addition, there have been heavy casualties recently, many cavalry have been killed in battle, and their horses have been emptied, which happens to have a lot of surplus.

As a result, Abao Cave exchanged 5,000 war horses for a large number of swords, guns, bows and arrows, and then returned to the battlefield with his army.

As a result, the pressure on the four coalition forces such as Tiele and Heishui suddenly increased. Kuburai was also shocked and angry, and specially sent someone to question Yu Ming, why did he use weapons to support their enemy Khitan Department?

And Yuming laughed, saying that he was just doing business, the Khitans exchanged war horses, cattle and sheep for weapons, and the Liaodong camp was also short of horses and food. How can there be a reason to refuse to do business that is delivered to your door? If the Tielebu wants to buy weapons from him, he will sell them as well.

Kubrai was helpless, after their four-part alliance, the number of troops was already more than that of the Khitans, but the equipment was still poor. Although the weapons sold by Yuming to the Khitan Department were only inferior weapons originally used by the Goryeo army, they were also much better than those of the various tribes in the grassland. Therefore, the four-part coalition army suffered a lot in this regard.

In order to prevent Abao Cave from getting more weapons, and also to improve the strength of your own side. Kubrai had no choice but to agree to Yuming's conditions, exchange a large number of war horses, cattle and sheep for weapons and equipment, and then continue to fight with the Khitans......

This big battle lasted for more than a month and lasted until winter, because several snowstorms fell, so that the two sides had to stop fighting. At this time, they found that most of their war horses, cattle and sheep had gone to the Sui army, and the prisoners captured by both sides had also been replaced by the Sui army, and the strength of their four divisions was now declining.

In this situation, even if Kubrai and Abao Cave want to continue fighting, they are powerless. At this time, the Sui army was in a big move.

Yu Mingfang, on the grounds that the harsh winter was coming and he was worried that his allies would not be able to survive the winter safely due to the war, suddenly sent troops to attack the location of the tooth tents of the four tribes, put the four tribes such as Kubrai and Abao Cave under house arrest, and took over the civilians of the four tribes. Then, the Sui army broke up and reorganized the various departments, established the armor protection system, moved the people back to the location of the camp in Liaodong, and officially declared that the four major tribes in the grassland of Liaodong were under the unified jurisdiction of the camp.

Because the people of the four tribes are tired of the war, they want to live a stable and peaceful life, with food and clothing. It was because of the sudden and strong intervention of the Sui army, and not many people resisted.

Although the upper echelons of the four tribes were very indignant about this, they had no choice but to lead the leader, and the Sui army also monitored them strictly, and immediately killed those who wanted to make trouble if they made the slightest disturbance. So after secretly resisting for a while, he finally surrendered. Let the fertile soil of the Liaodong grassland finally become the territory of the camp. The threat to the northeastern part of Liaoning was officially lifted.

At this time, it was already the twentieth day of the lunar month, and it was almost the New Year.

Yu Ming was in a good mood, led 5,000 Sui troops, escorted prisoners and civilians of various departments, and returned to Liaodong City in a mighty manner. He calculated the time, and at this time, the new Liaodong City should also take shape.

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When Yuming returned to Liaodong City, it was the 29th day of the lunar month. At this moment, the wind and snow are combined, and the last snow in Liaodong City before the New Year has come.

When he was still a few miles away, he saw a huge and majestic city on the bank of the Liao River in the distance. The entire city is far away, with a radius of at least dozens of miles.

And the city wall of this city is also very tall, no less than the previous Liaodong City, the city head fluttering in the wind "Sui", "Yu" two flags make him feel very cordial.

Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, Hu Sizheng and others all got the news early and came to greet him.

"Lao Wei, Ru Hui, Si Zheng, you have worked hard!" After Yu Ming dismounted, he exchanged pleasantries with several officials for a while. He was also a little surprised that the new Liaodong City could take shape within a few months, especially the completion of the city wall.

Hu Sizheng smiled and said: "The marshal has passed the award, and we have set a time limit for the Goryeo people who are in charge of each section of the city wall, and if it cannot be completed when it expires, the whole team will be beheaded." In this way, in order to survive, they naturally have to work for their lives! In addition, slaves from Aoki Castle continued to be sent over, so it was finally completed on schedule! ”

He said it in a frivolous tone. But Yuming still heard it in his heart, and knew that in order to repair this city, he didn't know how many Goryeo people and the captives sold to him by the steppe tribes died. I'm afraid that Jingguan is enough to stack a few seats.

Yu Ming looked at Du Ruhui, only to see that he really had an unbearable expression on his face, and Wei Zheng was even more indignant, it seemed that the two of them and Hu Sizheng should have argued over this matter.

However, in the complicated situation of Liaodong, in order to stabilize their territory as soon as possible, let the soldiers under their command have a safe and warm place to live, and at the same time guard against the attack of the surrounding enemies, they can only take such cruel measures, otherwise, when it snows heavily, the soldiers will not be able to live in the city, and there will inevitably be infirm people who will freeze to death, resulting in non-combat attrition.

"Marshal, please come into the city!" Hu Sizheng and others also turned over at this time and led in front.

Yu Ming and his entourage followed them and slowly walked into the city.

At this time, the snow was pouring down to cover the rows of roofs in the city, the wide and straight streets, and the birch trees planted along the streets.

Du Ruhui introduced to Yuming: "Marshal, now Liaodong City is divided into an inner city and an outer city. The outer city is a place for the residents of the city and foreign merchants to live, live and trade. It is divided into four areas: east, west, south and north. ”

"The northern part of the city is the trading area, which is the most concentrated market in the city, and most of the local merchants live here."

"The west of the city is a metropolitan city, and all the restaurants, inns, and brothels in the city are in this area, and most of the foreign guests are also active in this area."

"The east and south of the city are residential areas, and almost all the residents of the city live in these two areas......"

"Each area has a city guard command post, stationed in a city guard squad, with a team leader and a team deputy, who are mainly responsible for handling complaints and reports of surnames, handling civil disputes, arresting prisoners, collecting taxes, going through registration procedures......, etc."

Hearing this, Yu Ming was stunned for a moment, and then asked in a deep voice, "City Guard Squad?" It seems that this kind of thing should be done by an errand officer. ”

Du Ruhui sighed and said, "Marshal, theoretically, it should be done by the official yamen's errand officer. However, our Liaodong camp is only a military organization, and we have no right to set up local official positions at all, so we can only be done by the city guards. For this reason, we also had to convert some of the regular army soldiers into city guards! ”

Wei Zheng's lips moved at this time, as if he wanted to say something, but finally he still didn't say anything. But Yu Ming noticed this, he had already guessed that there must be a lot of people on this occasion, and Wei Zheng was not easy to say.

After walking around the outer city, Yuming is still satisfied with the construction of the outer city. At least the infrastructure of city walls, roads, and drainage pipes is in place. The only thing missing is that there are fewer houses in the city, and many people live in tents.

However, Yu Ming also knew that there was no way to do it, who told them to build such a large outer city before, and almost used up the stones and wood in the surrounding area. We have to wait for the beginning of spring, and then slowly transport it from other places. But he believes that as long as it takes another year, this Liaodong City will definitely be the fourth largest city in the world after the eastern capital Luoyang, the Jiangdu Yangzhou and the western capital Chang'an.

And from the fact that Yuming asked the residents of the city, including those rescued Sui prisoners and migrant workers, to understand the situation. They are quite satisfied with the current situation, at least they are well fed, they are well dressed, and they are not worried about any enemy attacking, and their lives are guaranteed. It's just that there are many soldiers who are homesick and some want to go home.

This is also human nature, after all, everyone has a family. And tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, but everyone is still in Liaodong, where it is so cold and snowy, it is strange not to think about home. Even Yuming himself misses his mother Xiao Wanjun and his wife and grandson Wuji.

While speaking, the group had already walked to the gate of the inner city, and several soldiers standing guard at the gate saw such a large group of high-ranking generals coming, and hurriedly stood up and raised their guns and saluted. Then, after checking the identity token handed over by Hu Sizheng, he let them enter the city.

Hu Sizheng walked at this time, and introduced: "Marshal, the inner city is the residence of the Liaodong Xingying Camp and the residence of the officers and soldiers in the army and the officials of the Yamen. At the same time, it is also equipped with martial arts training grounds, training grounds and other places. At present, the yamen of our Liaodong camp headquarters is located in the original city lord's mansion. Of course, the original City Lord's Mansion was too small to accommodate so many of us. So, we expanded it and now it can accommodate thousands of people at the same time! ”

"Not bad, not bad! I didn't expect that during the time I went to Aoki City, you actually succeeded in expanding Liaodong City, which really surprised me. This time, the construction period of the city was short, the time was tight, and it was approaching winter again. I was always worried about not being able to finish on time...... But it seems that I underestimated your abilities! Yu Ming praised sincerely. He really admired the ability of Du Ruhui, Hu Sizheng and Wei Zheng and others.

"By the way, Marshal, while we were building the city, the Minfu dug a deep pit nearby, and a black whirring liquid came out of the pit. Due to the pungent smell it emits. Wei Zheng thought for a moment at this time, and still reported it.

"Black whirring liquid? Still smelling pungent? When Yu Ming heard this, he also frowned slightly.

He then stopped and said, "Can you get some back?" ”

Wei Zheng nodded, and then ordered the soldiers to carry out a clay pot and said, "We suspected that it was poisonous, so we sealed the pit." But Lord Hu said that if this thing is really poisonous, it can be applied to arrowheads and gun tips to kill and injure enemies. But then we tried it with the beast, and the black liquid didn't seem to be poisonous. And do you think the pit should be filled? ”

Yu Ming took the clay pot, and as soon as he opened it, he immediately smelled a pungent smell rushing towards him......

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