Although Wang Bo was not happy, he still held a farewell party for Zhang Liao with a dull atmosphere. Facing the disdainful Xinghan generals, Zhang Liao smiled helplessly, and after bidding farewell to Wang Boshen, he embarked on the journey back to Bingzhou.

After sending Zhang Liao away, everything in the Xinghan army returned to normal, and Wang Bo's energy was devoted to the self-reliant development of Xinghan City.

There were originally many craftsmen in Xinghan City, all of whom Wang Bo came here with great painstaking efforts. Most of them belong to folk artists, and they used to have low social status, and they knew this skill just to supplement their families in addition to farming, so they could only do some simple technical work. But what Ding Yuan sent was different, they were all recruited from official workshops or powerful forces, in the words of his previous life, he was a professional craftsman.

These craftsmen are skilled and have effectively supplemented the various workshops in Xinghan City, and some things that Wang Bo had suffered from in the past and could not carry out were also solved with their reassuring participation. No, not long after I arrived, the craftsman in charge of exploring mineral deposits found a small-scale iron ore at the old site of Zhongling County, dozens of miles to the south, and the ore was very close to the surface and easy to mine.

After receiving the good news, Wang Bo immediately ordered the coolie battalion to open a road for the transportation of mining and ironmaking. After the construction is completed, Xinghan City can also cast weapons and iron tools by itself, and then through Wang Bo's guidance, both quality and efficiency have been improved a lot. Of course, due to the limitation of production, it was still unable to meet the increasing demand of Xinghan City, and a large number of iron ingots still had to be exchanged for the caravans.

After the Chinese New Year, due to the large demand for materials in Heunghan City, the number of caravans coming and going increased day by day. In view of the great role of the caravans, and in order to encourage the enthusiasm of the caravans to come to Xinghancheng, Wang Bo also specially convened all the caravans, held a forum where everyone was happy, formulated many measures conducive to commerce, and solemnly promised: Xinghancheng will always protect the interests of legitimate trading merchants.

No tax was charged on all items traded with the Xinghan army, and caravans traveling to Yunzhong and Shuofang through this place also collected a small amount of tax according to the goods they carried. It also provided some caravans that were closely related to the Xinghan army and provided protection along the way from Yuhu Pass to Yanmen and Daijun.

At the meeting, Wang Bo announced a lot of new transaction contents and methods: first, Xinghan City accepts displaced people from all over the world, as long as the caravan sends the displaced people to Xinghan City, all expenses on the way are paid by Xinghan City, in addition to paying according to the capitation fee, but also according to the distance of the road, the quality of the displaced people and other conditions to give rewards.

The second is to increase the purchase price of iron ingots and grain, which is nearly double that of before, and the larger the quantity, the higher the price.

One of the most important is that Heunghancheng relaxed the trade of war horses. The caravans that came and went could not only buy war horses from the Hu people, but also trade war horses from the Xinghan army, but they just needed to control some quantity and quality.

After Wang Bo, he left Wang An of the Wang family caravan alone and handed him a list. Please ask him to use the influence and shops of the Wang clan in the states of Merge, Hebei, You, Qing and other states, and visit the people listed on the list, including their addresses, current conditions, etc., the more detailed the better, or ask other caravans or forces to do it, Wang Bo does not care about the process as long as the result is done. Every time he found someone, Wang Bo promised a lot of benefits, if he could recruit to Xinghan City, the reward would be so big that even Wang An, an old fritter who had been on the market for a long time, couldn't refuse.

In the face of Wang An's inquiring gaze, Wang Bo only explained slightly: These people on the list are all capable people who are of great use to Xinghan City. In fact, it is Wang Bo's impression of the celebrities of the Three Kingdoms according to his memories in his previous life.

After Wang An nodded solemnly, Wang Bo discussed another matter with him.

Chen Zhi's intelligence work was also carried out after the Battle of the Imperial Slave Pass, and from the slaves returned by Xianbei, many people who had been engaged in all walks of life were selected before, and these people were all very loyal to Xinghan City without exception, and the brains were flexible.

After discussing with Wang An, Wang Bo decided to open a number of wine shops and furniture shops in various counties and counties in Bingzhou in the name of the Wang family. The profits will be handed over to the Wang family and Wang An, but the Wang family must ensure that they do not interfere with the operation of the store and pay attention to confidentiality, otherwise Wang Bo finally said cruel words: If the Wang family causes heavy losses to Xinghan City, the Xinghan army will make the Wang family disappear from the state.

Wang An, who was originally happy, couldn't help but shrink his neck after seeing Wang Bo, who usually treats him politely, and viciously warned him in a blink of an eye, and wanted to regret it, but he was cowardly under Wang Bo's smiling gaze, and scolded in his heart: This young master turned out to be a smiling tiger? I was so careful that I got on the thief ship! If you don't agree to this, I'm afraid you won't know which horn you will die in tomorrow!

A few days after sending off the caravan stewards, Wang Bo ushered in his first experience as an official, and he was also appointed by the supreme ruler of this era, Emperor Ling of Han.

Ding Yuan did not break his promise, as early as last year, he wrote to Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty with Wang Yun, the then assassin of Yuzhou, and strongly recommended Wang Bo to guard Dingxiang County, but was blocked by the eunuchs who did not receive benefits. Although Emperor Ling heard that Wang Bo killed tens of thousands of Hu in two battles and captured tens of thousands, which can be called the greatest achievement against Hu since Emperor Ming, Long Yan Dayue, but under the slander of Zhang Rang and others, in the end, he only hastily appointed a small Xinghan County Order, and added a loose lord: "Marquis of Yuhu". still only issued an edict, and did not officially send eunuchs to deliver the edict, as for the hundreds of taels of silver that should have been rewarded according to the rules, there was no mention of it.

When the holy decree arrived at the Assassin's Mansion in Bingzhou, Ding Yuan, who was upright, did not care about Wang Bo's despicable behavior of intercepting his Han army cavalry, but instead pasted hundreds of taels of silver upside down himself, and delivered the will of the imperial court to Xinghan City, so that Wang Bo also saw the character of a loyal minister of the Han Dynasty.

After several months of fermentation, and under the deliberate rendering of the caravans, it spread throughout the northern states of the Han Dynasty after the year, which greatly encouraged the three states of Merge, You, and Hebei, and the vast number of people who suffered from the invasion of Hulu outside the Saiwai for many years, the officials of the Han court in various counties and counties, and the enlightened clans were also relishing.

Folk storytellers even arranged the Xinghan army into fierce and vicious heavenly soldiers and generals, Wang Bosheng's three heads and six arms, drank Hulu blood raw, and used his head as a snack and so on. When many people heard this, they knew that it was a lie, but they listened with relish and rejoiced.

There are also many people who denounce Wang Bodi's reincarnation of the evil star, and tens of thousands of heads build a Beijing view, how cruel? How vicious is cultivating ghosts? This move hurts the peace of heaven and is the work of a brutal martial artist! However, most of these people are helpless sour Confucians.

However, hot-blooded people such as rangers and high-rollers from all over the country regarded Wang Bo as their idol and rushed to Xinghan City to serve in the army. A large number of displaced people in Hebei and Bingzhou due to the rebellion of the Montenegrin army also slowly converged in the direction of Xinghan City after hearing that the people of Xinghan City lived and worked in peace and contentment, and they were also born as moths and thieves before.

After hearing about the decree of Wang Daxian, he immediately threw the holy decree stamped with the emperor's jade seal to the generals who were waiting to see the rarity, and ordered to send a squad of soldiers to set up a shelter for displaced people in Daijun and Yanmen Pass in the name of business, which was specially responsible for receiving the endless stream of people. And went to the counties to make a list: Whoever helps the displaced people in the past, Xinghan City will be grateful.

The major Shang clans in the north have long coveted Xinghan wine, and the big families are also interested in the new furniture of Xinghan City, so they have been a little convenient for the displaced people in the past, and have never stopped and treated them harshly. Wang Bo also entrusted the Wang caravan to give thanks. Wealthy businessmen from all over the country who had a relationship with him heard the wind and sent powerful henchmen to Xinghan City to ask for Wang Bo, including the Zhongshan Wuji Zhen family, who he was familiar with in his previous life. Wang Bo was kind to these visitors, and agreed to the matter of easy wine.

The weather is getting warmer in a blink of an eye, and it is almost farming season. Wang Bo arranged early to feed the coolies for a winter, and under the leadership of logistics, he opened up the wasteland and prepared the tuntian. The two rivers in Xinghan are the heaven-sent fertile land for irrigation of farmland, and the land that could not be irrigated by water on both sides of the river bank has become fertile land in front of the cheerful running waterwheels.

The two treasures of the waterwheel and the Quyuan plough are the great contributions of Wang Daxian to this era, and in the eyes of others, they are masterpieces that can not be imagined by breaking their heads, but in fact, Wang Bo also ran to the craftsman, spent only a few hours, and left in the amazement of the people of Xinghan. And Wang Bo took away countless admiring eyes, and what he gained was the satisfaction of being a little person in his previous life.

A few days before the start of work, as the supreme leader of the entire Xinghan City, Wang Bo personally led the generals to do it in order to show his importance to farming, and also made the ordinary people feel his pro-people side.

So, in the bright spring field, countless Xinghan people with happiness and longing on their faces repaired the canal; erecting a waterwheel of a waterwheel; Cultivated land for cattle drive...... The rushing river reflects their energetic figures.

With the use of a large amount of animal power, tens of thousands of Xinghan people did not take many days to reclaim thousands of acres of land along the river, and even on both sides of the river outside the Yunu Pass and the Yuhu Pass, a lot of land that could be used to grow grain was opened. Grass and wood ash and human and animal manure were added as fertilizer, and all the canals and waterwheels were irrigated, just waiting for the arrival of the spring sowing season.

People who were a little idle turned their eyes to the surroundings of Xinghan, and within a few days, the two places of Zhongling and Wujin also changed from a barren area in the past to a fertile field. In particular, Zhongling County, which has difficulty getting water, although it is close to the upper reaches of the Hunhe River, the difference between the water level and the river bank is too large, and even this cannot change the people who are looking forward to the fertile land, so they force the craftsmen to spend countless timber and iron materials to make a giant waterwheel several times larger than usual.

Originally, the enthusiastic people also wanted to go to Tuntian in Wucheng, Luoxian, Jiling and other places given up by Xianbei people, but they were stopped by Wang Bo. Because he knew that although the above-mentioned places originally belonged to Dingxiang County and were close to the river, they were located at the southeast end of the Qiantao, and there was no danger to defend, and Wang Bo had decided to lead the Han army to attack Xianbei in Yunzhong at the end of summer and early autumn, and it would inevitably cause a fierce counterattack by the Xianbei people, and these reclaimed fertile fields would also be destroyed.

In the end, Wang Bo really couldn't bear to hit the enthusiastic people, so he had to order the construction of a city on the site of the old Zhongling and restore the former Zhongling, so that some of the displaced people who had recently joined Xinghan could also be resettled, and Xinghan City would not be overcrowded. At the same time, the coolie battalion was ordered to strengthen the defense of Wujin County, rebuild the defensive wall outside the original city, and dig a moat, so that Wujin County became a strong fortress in Izumo in front of the Xinghan army in a short period of time.

After the Tuntian matter was on the right track, Wang Bo turned his attention to the preparations for war against the Xianbei people.

Since it is necessary to take the initiative to attack, siege and field warfare are indispensable. With the current strength of the Xinghan army, although Wang Bo is very sure that he will be able to defeat the Xianbei people, the casualties must be not small. Now it is the weakest time for the Xianbei people in the clouds, as the saying goes: take advantage of his illness to kill him! Wang Bo didn't want to miss this great opportunity. Then you can only work on the weapon.

Jing Yan, in terms of tackling tough problems, Wang Bo first thought of it.

At this time, the war, people still advocate people's bravery, generally mainly the battle of the battle array, otherwise they would not have invented any two yi array, three talent array, four elephant array and other combat formations, even if the number of people is small, if it is not afraid of escaping, it will also choose to impact the enemy's military formation when the war starts. The competition between the two sides is the morale and elite of the soldiers, and the test is the courage of the main general and the grasp of the fighters. Unless the difference is too great, they will hide in the city and hold on.

In the battle of attacking and strengthening the city defenses, the main means of besieging and cutting off food and water were used to disintegrate morale. Although this kind of siege weapon has long existed, it is not very convenient and easy to burn, unless it is used when it is attacked at the expense of casualties after being provoked. Especially in the passively defensive north, it is useless to face the nomads who come and go like the wind, so it is not common.

Wang Bo designed a kind of liftable shaft, closed on three sides, up to more than ten zhang when rising to the highest, the front end is set up with a three-zhang long climbing step, the rear drags a wooden ladder, and the main parts are all wrapped with iron sheets. For the axles that are easy to wear, the craftsmen are instructed to embed iron hoops, and the iron bars made of iron blocks in the middle imitate the rolling bearings of the previous life, without butter, so they have to be replaced by animal fat, which is applied before each movement, and it is more flexible to operate.

The monster that took several days to make was very huge, and during the test, he saw the soldiers who pushed it, and they staggered on the flat ground, so Wang Bo simply found three cows and used animal power instead of manpower, but he had to pay a lot of materials for the cattle to do protection.

After several experiments and improvements, the well was finally met to meet the requirements of siege. This is an invincible giant beast for the current Xianbei city defense, not to mention shooting rockets and throwing spears, even if you keep smashing stones, it will take half an hour to destroy.

After improving the shaft, Wang Bo was limited by the current iron-making technology, and there was no good way to improve the stone throwing machine, which mainly relied on manpower, so he had to design a giant "slingshot" by himself.

The giant slingshot is very simple to make, as simple as two giant logs with thick wrist strings. During the siege, the giant tree is buried deep in the ground, and the other end of the hanging ox tendon rope is tied to a pocket that can hold stones or chain balls, and after being pulled by the ox and horse for a certain distance during the launch, the hook lever is opened, and the contents of the pocket fly forward.

Wang Bo was originally inspired by the bed crossbow and wanted to improve the long-range strike ability of the Xinghan Army, but after testing one, everyone shouted, especially when the slingshot was used to launch the chain ball, the chain ball flying in a circle was amazingly destructive under the huge elastic force of the cow tendon, and it was swept away. Although the accuracy is not very good, the frightening effect on people is first-class.

Weapons that can be used to improve the ability to attack fortifications, Wang Bo can make so many now, after all, an era has a technical background of an era, you can't make gunpowder and guns now, that's something that can't be done if you want to break your head.

Next, look for ways to restrain Hu Qi. In order to defeat the cavalry, you must first slow down the cavalry charging at high speed. I am confident in this Wang Bo: it does not have too good shortcuts, it fights for the elite level of the soldiers, and after the tempering of the previous battles, as long as it is not subject to a surprise attack, the Xinghan army is already fully competent.