Thinking of this, Li Xinchen couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

It is no wonder that the final rise is the northern family represented by the Guanlong group, compared with the southeast clan, there is no doubt that the northern family is more united, but also more tolerant, for a great unified dynasty, internal unity, external tolerance is the most important, as for a single branch or something, obviously should not appear in a great unified dynasty.

Maisons who go to the southeast often fail to show this kind of inclusiveness and cooperation, so although they always emerge with some amazing talents, they ultimately struggle to hold their feet in the rolling tide of history.

Thinking of this, Li Xinchen was a little helpless. The Southeast family gave him a feeling that he couldn't help Adou, but he didn't blame them, after all, they were the losers who didn't want to resist and wanted to run away when they crossed south in a hurry.

Li Xinchen slowly paced on the city wall, and happened to see the craftsmen who were carefully studying several trebuchets used to defend the city under the city wall, these craftsmen were all Ouyang Mo's disciples, and the apprentices that Ouyang Mo brought to Bashu at the beginning have now gradually grown into craftsmen who can lead a party, although it is not to the point where Ouyang Mo is experienced and Li Xinchen is thorough, but they are all beginning to emerge.

Just like when they were in Bashu, Li Xinchen conquered the city in front, and while they took care of the equipment in the army, they began to gradually study and investigate suitable places to set up workshops. It's just that since the army left Hanzhong, there have been few gains.

After all, the area from Hanzhong to Xiangyang is mainly a valley and a mountainous area, and it is not easy to find a suitable flat land for building a workshop. Now for them, Xiangfan, located on the plain north of Jingshan and on the river network, is obviously a good choice.

Compared to Li Xinchen's siege of the city, they prefer to build workshops everywhere. Craftsman is not a respected profession, but a workshop is definitely not something that anyone can build if they want to see it, and at least there must be permission from the imperial court. This is especially true for workshops that can produce large instruments. And Li Xinchen obviously didn't mind this, which also made these craftsmen overjoyed. Everyone wants to make their profession more respected and more visible.

Looking at these simple and smiling craftsmen, Li Xinchen felt that they were very happy. Perhaps this is the simplest group of people in the entire Xiangyang City.

Footsteps hurriedly sounded, and a veteran walked briskly to the city gate.

"The last general didn't catch Wei Chishun, it was humiliating to the mission, and the general was asked to punish him!"

Chun Yuliang's attitude of admitting his mistake is so good, of course Li Xinchen can't say anything more, and immediately stepped forward and stretched out his hand to hold Chun Yuliang up: "General Chunyu, don't be like this." The brothers Wei Chishun and Wei Chikuan are treacherous and cunning, and they almost suffered losses in the first battle of Tanxi before, and the old general was able to catch up with Wei Chikuan in the chaos, which can be regarded as a great credit. ”

Chun Yuliang breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, obviously Li Xinchen did not mean to make things difficult for himself, at this time, thinking of the previous March period with Li Xinchen, Chun Yuliang felt an unspeakable pain. It seems that he is really old.

And Li Xinchen didn't seem to be in the mood to ponder what Chun Yuliang was thinking, and immediately made a gesture of please: "After a night of fierce fighting, the old general is also tired, a banquet has been set up in the palace, the old general, please move." ”

Chun Yuliang was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that this was a celebration banquet held by Li Xinchen, and it must also be a banquet for distributing meritorious services and taking this opportunity to convene the generals to discuss the next arrangement.

Of course, Chun Yuliang will not refuse this.

He also wanted to know what kind of status he had in Li Xinchen's heart.

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Before noon, the city was already bustling with activity.

The people of Xiangyang City have obviously been accustomed to this kind of life for a long time, and even for them, it doesn't matter who owns this Xiangyang City at the head of the city, as long as they can be good to the people, then they can naturally be supported.

Of course, if there is a ruler who is also good to the people, then the people will not feel much pity, they are more concerned about their immediate food and clothing, and if they can't even solve these problems, they won't think about the rest, as for who is standing on the head of the city, who is collecting taxes from them, what does it matter?

However, at least now Li Xinchen has gained a lot of favor from these people, and the main reason is that Li Xinchen promptly ordered the army to stop looting such as before, which reduced the losses suffered by the people of Xiangyang City as much as possible, and the people naturally had a good impression of Li Xinchen.

Of course, the good impression now doesn't make much difference. During the period when Wei Chi Hui was stationed in Xiangyang, he was also good to the people, and he was quite praised, and the soldiers and horses under his command were later supplemented by many Xiangyang disciples. However, in the subsequent offensive and defensive battles of Xiangyang, Cao Xiaoda has wantonly squeezed the people in the city in order to collect grain, grass and soldiers and horses.

Cao Xiaoda's move was understandable from the aspect of defending Xiangyang City, but it undoubtedly made him lose the support of the people of Xiangyang in a short period of time, especially when Li Xinchen's army entered the city, he was surprised to find that many people of Xiangyang did not hesitate to tie up the Northern Zhou soldiers hiding at home and hand them over.

Hearing the news, Li Xinchen could only sigh.

In troubled times, to tell the truth, it is no longer necessary to ask how high the quality of the people can be. If you are good to them, they will be good to you in turn, but sometimes they are like animals that protect their food, and if you touch their interests, then they will definitely not hesitate to turn against you.

However, this is not incomprehensible, after three hundred years of continuous turmoil, and the people who are at the forefront of the tug-of-war between the two sides such as Xiangyang, have already become some people who may have unthinkable ideas deep into the bone marrow.

In troubled times, cannibalism can happen at any time, not to mention that these people are just more cold? Handing over the soldiers hidden in the house is undoubtedly a way for them to survive, and they don't expect Li Xinchen to give much reward, as long as they don't punish them for no reason.

After all, if the family is detected that there is a hidden enemy, then it is inevitable that they will all be beheaded.

As long as they are in order to survive, these people have long forgotten about what courtesy, righteousness and shame have been, and they may return to "wildness" even more.

In this regard, Li Xinchen had nothing to do but sigh.

No concept can be changed overnight, even if Li Xinchen has great ability, he does not dare to change everything in a short period of time, what will happen in this way, it is not without history that there is no such thing.

He also doesn't force everyone to know what they want to do and what they want to do in such a short period of time······