Due to the fact that the land in the north of the mountain was plundered by the Khitans last year, not only the population is much smaller, but the mountain people have lost their livestock, and they also have to rely on relief to live. As for the resettlement of refugees from Shanbei, Li Qi's precondition was that these Tibetan Han and mountain people who received relief must join the military households, otherwise they would not be asked.

Eventually, most of the refugees were forced to join the Shanbei Army before the summer harvest, working with the newly recruited military households to build dams and repair cities. Shanbei is a good place suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry, and Li Qi's development focus this year is here. The Shanbei Army recruited troops on a large scale in Hebei and Hedong, but fortunately, the areas under the jurisdiction of Zhen and Dinger Town were governed "well", and the hungry people were very numerous, which actually made Li Qi's recruitment very smooth.

It is a pity that many local reservoirs and dams have not yet been repaired, and after the arrival of this autumn flood, this large amount of precipitation has flowed away along the Sanggan River.

After the spring sowing, Li Jiqi began to continue his "great cause of building a city".

A new outer city was built in Wuzhou City, extending from the side of the mountain to the river, sealing the passage east of the Sheep River to the south. In this way, if there is an attack, Wuzhou City is backed by mountains on one side and water on the other, and the enemy can only attack from the north and south, and it will be much easier to hold on.

A new Guancheng was built across the Sheep River at the foot of Jiming Mountain, sealing the route from the Xuanhua Basin to the south as a second barrier.

Huairong City in the south of the Nanyang River was moved from the mountain pass in the south to the north bank of the Nanyang River Pass, thinking that Yunzhou was a new pass to the north of the mountain, and the newly built Zhangyuan City and these measures greatly improved the defense capability of the five states in Shanbei.

Li Qi's dream in his previous life was to be a big developer and make a fortune from it, but unfortunately it doesn't matter if he has no capital. Unexpectedly, when I came to this world, I finally showed my ambitions, and I really became a big builder and a big contractor.

Since the wheat harvest, Li Qi has been out of the bottle-shaped village from Daizhou, and entered Ulzhou through Lingqiu, inspecting his new territory in Shanbei. It was not until early August that all affairs were arranged, and they arrived at the newly built city of Huairong and prepared to go to Yunzhou. The newly built Huairong City is more southwest than the location of Huai'an County in later generations, and it is stuck on the mountain pass leading from Yunzhou to the Zhangxuan Basin in Shanbei, which is basically a closed city.

The road leading from Yunzhou to Shanbei has been renovated, but it is also flat and wider, and it is quite convenient for cars and horses to pass.

The threat on the northern grasslands of Yunzhou mainly comes from the Khitan in the east, and the Yinshan area in the west is the territory of the White Tatars, and the relationship with the Shatuo Li clan has always been very good. When Li Keyong was beaten by the Tang army and fled with his family, it was the Tatars who took in their father and son. In addition, the Turks, Tuyuhun, and Zhuqiang tribes are nominally the territory of the Jin army.

Li Qi planned to build a defensive line in the northern grasslands and unite the tribes of the northern land to resist the westward expansion of the Khitan. After that, he will gradually infiltrate his influence into the Loop, gradually grasping these territories.

He believes that as long as he does well, he will slowly make these places stronger.

The pastures of the Northlands, symbolizing the cavalry.

In this era, having a strong cavalry force is the king, and the so-called infantry is basically nonsense against cavalry. In the field, when the infantry encounters the cavalry, even the cavalry cannot force the battle, and can finally drag down the infantry with its strong mobility ability, unless it is a defense of the city.

Only fools will use cavalry to attack the city, and there are very few forced sieges in these years, and they are basically besieged.

Under his planning, the horse administration in Yunzhou and Shanbei began to gradually recover, and twelve horse farms have been built in Yunzhou and Shanbei, and the scale of the horse farm will expand year by year in the future.

Ma Zhengcai is one of the foundations of military strength, with these war horses, the Khitan people do not dare to go south and west easily, and the strength of the Jin army, which is already famous for its cavalry, can also be further enhanced.

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Li Siyuan transferred Guo Congqian to Jingzhou in the spring, and then sent someone to kill him, punish his whole family, and eliminate the culprit of the Xingjiaomen change, which can be regarded as avenging Li Cunqiao's death.

Later, Zhu Shouyin was also killed due to rebellion. He served Zhuang Zong from a young age, and although he did not have any skills, Li Cunqiao still trusted him and appointed him to be in charge of the forbidden army. But at a critical time, he sat back and did not save him, which eventually led to Zhuang Zong's death at the hands of the rebels. Now that the dead clan is annihilated, it is also unpleasant to retribution.

Due to Zhu Shouyin's rebellion, Li Siyuan transferred Shi Jingtang's army back to help, and the threat of the Southern Dynasty to Tonghua was eliminated.

However, because Li Congke and Mao Zhang led the army to jam Jinzhou and Jiangzhou, it still made Jinyang very uncomfortable, and the contact with Tonghua could only rely on Yanzhou, and through Gao Yuntao's jurisdiction, there was a danger of being cut off at any time.

On the Khitan side, due to the death of Yelu Abaoji, Yelu Deguang's position after succeeding to the throne was not stable, and now he is making every effort to deal with the former prince, the "human emperor" Yelu Bei, and there is no plan to "go south to herd horses" for the time being, but it also allowed Li Qi to win a respite, build a castle and make every effort to strengthen the northern border.

What made Li Siyuan the most uncomfortable was that Xia Luqi was guarding Zezhou, so that the southern army could not enter the Jin land, and Huo Yanwei suffered great losses in attacking the Tianjing Pass in Taihang, so he had to retreat to Huaizhou and confront the northern army.

The two sides fought several battles in Tongguan, Yangliang Nanguan and Tianjing Pass this year, and the northern army relied on the geographical advantage, although Li Siyuan had many troops and a wide range of generals, he was temporarily helpless against the northern army. After such a consumption, it is September again.

After the autumn harvest, the Northland is a bleak scene.

Autumn planting, summer length, autumn harvest, winter storage, the ancients believed that the cat should be in the house in winter, as little as possible, in order to save food to wait for the cold days to pass. Some people are forced to come out in the winter in search of food, such as hunters...... The military households recruited by Li Qi were not idle in the winter.

It's not training, except for stipulating that if there is nothing to do every day, you must get up early to run for training, Li Jiqi is not interested in military training for these military escorts who have defected. It's just that people can't eat for nothing, and he is not prepared to withhold military rations, so let these people eat as little as possible.

More than 10,000 of the 15,000 registered soldiers were dragging their families to support their families, so Li Qi had to find enough work for them to do. Now the manor's hydraulic workshop can not use so many people, including the iron smelting workshop in Gujiaocheng, all the machine workshops only use more than 2,000 people. A third of them were women from military households. The coal mines and iron mines in Gujiao, Loufu and Xianzhou can accommodate more than 2,000 people, and the newly opened Yunzhou coal mine can also accommodate more than 500 people. Horse farms, cattle farms and pastures require a small number of shepherds, and only during lambing are they needed.

However, there is still a lot of manual work that can be assigned.

For example, sewing clothes, making boots, making chain mail, weapons, etc., most of the work can be done at home.

Therefore, after the daily routine morning exercises, these military households went to the warehouse to collect materials. Many of the tasks were done not only by the soldiers, but also by the women of the family and even by the older children.

If you do more work, your family will naturally live a prosperous life.

Chinese people have never been afraid of hardships and hardships, so they are worried about the lack of food and clothing.

As long as there is money and food, people in this era can always burst out with amazing enthusiasm for work.

In the Tang Dynasty, because many of the Hu traditions were still maintained, the status of women was much higher than in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and now that they had income, the status of men in the family was not so important. In the barracks, you can see some strong women scolding the men who have drunk too much at any time, and then a group of people will come out to watch the excitement and persuade the ......