Chapter 167: Changing Horses, Expanding, Digesting

On the one hand, Wanyan Pingtao has long coveted the gunpowder cannon in Chen Xian's hands.

On the other hand, he felt that it was a good deal to arm himself with the war horses that sooner or later cheapened the Mongols in exchange for weapons and armor.

As for the relocation of the racecourse...... If Wanyan Pingtao dares to say nonsense that the grassland can't be defended now, eighty percent will be imprisoned for the crime of shaking the morale of the army.

For the people of Laiwu, Wanyan Pingtao is naturally a big man, but above the Jin Kingdom court, he is just a small fish.

said that the Jin State couldn't defeat Mongolia and couldn't hold the grassland, and Wanyan Pingtao couldn't even convince his father.

In desperation, Wanyan Pingtao could only secretly dig the corner of the racecourse, anyway, he didn't do it alone.

But horses are not just a matter of getting their hands on them, they still need to be shepherded, although the Wanyan family has a big business, but it does not completely belong to their own territory, and they are not able to support a large number of horses.

Therefore, in addition to some of the horses that Wanyan Pingtao got from the horse farm to supplement into his own army, and in the Tianping army controlled by his father, he could only sell the surplus horses, but Wanyan Pingtao didn't want to exchange the horses for useless gold and silver.

At this time, Chen Xian's letter, for Wanyan Pingtao, was completely sleepy and touched the pillow.

Although Wanyan Pingtao was also full of vigilance against Chen Xian, compared to the huge threat on the grassland, Chen Xian was not even a scabies, so he happily sent Bai Shijie after the lion opened his mouth to give a high price.

This time, Bai Shijie came on behalf of Wanyan Chengtao, in addition to armor and weapons, he also asked to buy iron cannons, and the other party insisted that if there was no iron cannon, there would be no deal.

Chen Xian took out the flying sand cannon provided to Yang Anguo and gave it to Bai Shijie and told him that there was only this kind of small cannon.

Bai Shijie saw the test firing of the flying sand cannon, and when he found that this kind of light cannon could be carried by camels, he immediately decided to purchase this kind of small cannon instead of Yan Chengtao.

After half a year of digestion, Chen Xian had completed the most basic education and training for the population he had captured from Huojianan Zhuangzi half a year ago, and Chen Xian had recruited a battalion of regular soldiers from among these people and trained a militia of more than 1,000 people.

After this increase, Chen Xian attacked again, and he captured six powerful Zhuangzi around Laiwu County, which had opposed him at the beginning.

This time, Chen Gendarmerie divided into two routes, the north road started from the original Hejiazhuang, led by Yang Miaozhen, and the first route started from the original Huo family's old Zhuangzi, led by Li Shi.

With the lessons of the Huo family, the Haoqiang knew that Chen Xian's methods were vicious and left no room for error, so except for the two families who were initially attacked and surrendered, the other four families fled with fine and soft before Chen Xian's army arrived.

The newly occupied six Zhuangzi not only brought Chen Xian a population of more than 20,000, but also allowed Chen Xian to seize a large amount of supplies.

After occupying these six Zhuangzi, Laiwu County was basically surrounded by Chen Xian, but the officials of Laiwu County could do nothing but tremble.

Chen Xian once again replaced the population of the six Zhuangzi with the old population of Yiyuan.

After this replacement, the old population of Yiyuan has basically been replaced.

In order to ensure the safety of the nest and the digestion of the newly acquired population, Chen Xian returned to Yiyuan West Zhuangzi with two battalions of regular troops.

At this time, more than 80 percent of the population of the entire Yiyuan was forcibly relocated from this new plunder, and the remaining 20 percent were the managers of the three Zhuangzi, the backbone workers of the various hydraulic workshops, and the army brought back by Chen Xian.

Chen Xian concentrated all the young people under the age of 18 in the newly relocated population at the suit-sub school, and once again served as the principal of the suit-sub school, personally monitoring the education work of this group of teenagers.

Young people between the ages of 18 and 25 were recruited by Chen Xian to work as apprentices in various hydraulic workshops, where they studied and received cultural education at the same time.

He also set up girls' schools in various villages, stipulating that all unmarried girls must go to girls' schools for one year of education, in order to dispel people's concerns and attract women to schools, Chen Xian stipulated that all teachers and employees of girls' schools could only be women, and only the students and graduates of girls' schools could get some jobs, such as receiving zha jia pieces from water conservancy factories to make zha jia, and each set of zha jia could be well paid. These nails are a good export product.

Chen Xian did not spare the able-bodied labor force over the age of 25, who, in addition to joining various agricultural companies to earn salaries, also had to participate in militia training and receive the most basic literacy and ideological education.

The education of young people is a closed full-time education, and young people are relatively easy to obey, plus Chen Xian personally stared at it, so it was carried out well, and other aspects of education were relatively unsatisfactory, at first people were more resistant, but with Chen Xian promulgating a series of incentives, such as linking the educational performance of workers with their income, people's enthusiasm gradually increased.

Just when Chen Xian was busy in Yiyuan, news came from Laiwu County that Wanyan Pingtao's second caravan came.

This time, Bai Shijie and Wanyan Pingtao's fierce Meng'an was extremely fierce, with 500 cavalry, driving thousands of war horses to Laiwu County.

The news came from the Chen family's shop in the county seat, this time, Wanyan Pingtao asked for 3,000 pairs of armor and 1,000 pairs of vests, and 300 flying sand cannons.

Judging from the price of the last transaction, a thousand horses in exchange for these things, some lions opened their mouths.

However, Chen Xian still agreed to the other party's conditions without hesitation and ate the thousand war horses, because it was already October of the second year of Da'an, and there were only more than four months left before the outbreak of the Battle of Mengjin.

After eating these thousand war horses, Chen Xian had two thousand war horses in his hands, in addition to opening a few new horse farms in Yiyuan to raise breeding horses, Chen Xian also returned to the south of Hejiazhuang, that is, the wasteland he passed through when he attacked Huojianan Zhuangzi before, and circled a large horse farm.

After keeping more than 1,000 war horses in captivity here, Chen Xian also moved the cavalry commander's line to Hejiazhuang, and let Yang Miaozhen lead the only more than 1,000 cavalry under Chen Xian to be stationed in Hejiazhuang.

These 1,000 cavalry cavalry are stationed here, which can not only take care of the horse farm nearby, but also guard the choke point located in the geographical center of Chen Xian's territory, and can also quickly support any place in Chen Xian's territory. It's a triple win.

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After basically straightening out the education work of Yiyuan's new population, Chen Xian was not in a hurry to leave, and he did not plan to carry out new expansion until this group of people was digested.

Now, although time is pressing, he is also unwilling to risk indigestion.