In Chinese, the word city literally means city walls and markets, which was also characteristic of an ancient city.

Every city in the Great Sui had walls and markets.

But in a remote place outside the gates.

There are only a dozen cities in Liaodong and Liaoxi in Andong Province with city walls and markets, and the rest are either castles with only cities and no cities, or tunzhuang or villages with no city walls and only wooden fences.

In Liaodong, there is no difference between the city and the countryside.

The high wall did not separate the city from the countryside, but only protected the official yamen, the official warehouse, the market shops and various handicraft workshops in the city.

Outside the city are the fields.

In the Central Plains, cities are often the economic centers of a place, attracting the wealth of the surrounding villages, and concentrating wealth through market transactions and taxation.

But outside the gates, the city pays the most attention to its original role, that is, defense.

More than a dozen cities outside the customs are all built on the banks of the big river, Liucheng, Luhe Town, and Liaoxi City built along the White Wolf River, as well as Wanghaidun Town along the river and the sea, and Huaiyuan Town and Tongding Town built on the side of the Liao River.

In Liaodong, there are Liaodong City on the bank of the Liao River, the new city on the edge of the small Liao, the Anshi on the side of the Haihe River, and the Beisha built by the sea.

And those Goguryeo mountain cities in the mountains have become the Yingyang military mansion or military town, fort, or tunzhuang of the Liao Sui army at this time.

In the spring, when the snow melts in the north, the river swells, turning the river into a canal, but it also begins to threaten the villages and fields on both sides of the river.

The rainy season is just around the corner.

Countless young people are struggling to build cities and villages, and they use the simplest rammed earth method to build walls, putting the treated soil between two wooden planks and ramming them into a wall. Then they cut down the trees and built the roofs of their houses with wood and bark and thatch.

Everyone is busy, there are no idlers.

Luo Cheng also set up markets in various cities, and also set up ferry grass markets near some big river ferries.

But Luo Cheng also stipulated that it is strictly forbidden to climb over the wall.

"Climb over the wall of the county, ninety rods. Climb over the walls of the county town and be sentenced to one year's hard labor. Climb over the walls of the fortress of the military town and be executed! ”

He was also in six counties in Liaodong, each with three counties, stipulating that the people were not allowed to leave the county border at will, and that they must first go to the government office to go through the examination and pass through the county border, and only with a certificate could they enter the county border, and there must be a legitimate reason.

He allowed the people of Liaodong to carry swords, encouraged everyone to practice riding and archery, and even as long as they became village warriors, they were eligible to hold a set of armor, but they must be registered with the government, and they must also be purchased from the government, and they cannot be made privately.

Luo Cheng not only had soldiers stationed at the city gates in each city, but also set up checkpoints, sent sentry posts, and sent people to patrol on various roads and river crossings.

The government soldiers, county soldiers, and township soldiers staggered and defended to form a tight net.

At night, Luo Cheng implemented a curfew system, and after dark, all cities and forts closed their gates, prohibiting walking outside the house, prohibiting noise, and not entering and leaving the castle.

And in Liaodong, the most surprising thing is not the transformation of the original Goguryeo fortresses.

The most amazing thing is that in Liaodong, you can't see a single idle person, let alone a beggar and a homeless person.

Luo Cheng forbade beggars, and the way to deal with them was very simple, not to drive them away, but to let them go to Tuntian. Even the disabled and unable laborers were put into special camps, and the government provided them with the minimum food and clothing guarantees, but at the same time, they were also given some of the simplest manual work in exchange for the labor they could.

And if it is a beggar who is good at work but refuses to work, he will be sent to Tuntian when he finds it out once. If you still run away and beg again, you will be sent directly to the hardest and most tiring mine labor if you find it again.

In addition, Luo Cheng brought all the markets into the management of the Jiedu Envoy, and changed the practice of no commercial tax in the Great Sui.

There is a tax on entering and exiting the market, and there is a transaction tax on transactions, and it is stipulated that large transactions must be deed, which shall be stamped and filed by the government, and the corresponding deed tax shall be collected.

Basically, the merchant has to levy a tax on sales, thirty taxes one, which is also the city tax.

and the merchant shall be subject to a tax of thirty and one.

In addition, there is also a tax on the loss of the transaction, and the deed is required, which is a transaction tax with the nature of deed tax, which is 20 tax 1.

However, Luo Cheng also stipulated that in the eleven counties outside the Guan, those who scattered goods less than 100 yuan will not be taxed, and the customs duties of merchants will only be levied once in the eleven counties.

Furthermore.

Luo Cheng also stipulated that in the eleven counties outside the Guan, grain was forbidden to leave the customs, and the local grain could only be purchased by the government, private sales were prohibited, and all grain stores were operated by the government, and the prices were also set by the government.

If private individuals want to run a grain business outside the customs, they can only transport grain from outside the customs by themselves, and Luo Cheng stipulated that foreign grain is exempt from customs duties and market taxes and transaction taxes.

In addition, Luo Cheng also stipulated that the people should buy grain, implement the purchase of grain according to the limit of their status, buy more than the limit of grain every month, and implement the ladder grain price, the more exceeding, the higher the price.

And Luo Cheng also banned usury in Liaodong, and he also banned private transactions and sales of land in Liaodong.

He also forbade the people to drink and sell wine without permission in Liaodong, and forbade the slaughter of cattle, horses, camels, mules, donkeys, and other animals that could help in production.

From the spring of the tenth year of the Great Cause to the summer of the eleventh year of the Great Cause.

Luo Cheng launched the Great Tun Reclamation Movement in Liaodong.

For more than a year, he did not start a war against the Yuan clan's Korea, but went all out to reclaim the barren tuntian. He not only recruited displaced people from the Central Plains, but then let them establish tunzhuang and let them cultivate it.

On the other hand, Luo Cheng also built water conservancy, built castles, trained government soldiers, county soldiers and village warriors, built ordnance, shepherded war horses, and repaired ships.

The Yuan clan still controls the land of the four counties, and Yang Wanchun still controls Lelang County in the Pyongyang area.

Yuan Taizuo tried to send troops to recruit Yang Wanchun, but Luo Cheng warned him.

After Yang Wanchun felt the pressure of the Yuan clan, he finally had to ask the Great Sui to surrender, Luo Cheng sent troops to send Yang Xuan, the king of Qi, to Pyongyang, and established a new Pyongyang city on the site of the original razed, although it was far less than the previous thousand-year-old Pyongyang, but the banner of the Sui army fluttered on the head of the city.

In the north of Pyongyang, there is a Chang'an Palace, which is the palace of the King of Qi, and at the north gate of the palace, there are two thousand soldiers in the tent of the King of Qi.

In the summer of the eleventh year of the Great Cause.

Guanwai has been harvested three times, and the government soldiers in Liaodong are still 50,000, but the county soldiers have reached 60,000, and the number of Xiangyong is still 100,000.

The entire six counties outside the Guanwai have a population of 1.2 million people, which is quite amazing. Although the combined population of the six counties is not as large as the population of one county in Qinghe County, Hebei.

But before Luo Cheng was appointed as the envoy of Jiedu, the entire six counties of Liaodong, including the military and civilians, did not exceed 200,000 people, and even in the earlier five years of the Great Cause, the population of Liaoxi County was only 700 households, and the population of Liucheng County was only more than 2,000 households.

However, this 1.2 million people are not calculated according to the household registration law of the imperial court, but all the population is counted, and there is no distinction between good and low, whether it is Han or Goguryeo or Khitan, as long as they live in the six counties for a long time, they are regarded as the population of the people of Andong Province under the guard of Zhongwu Festival.

The summer of the eleventh year was a good year.

The Juntun of the Zhongwu Army harvested 600,000 stone of grain, which was enough for the Zhongwu Army to eat for a year. And the grain harvested by the people in the tuntian is also harvested, and the families of the soldiers can keep fifty percent for themselves, and the migrants can keep thirty percent for themselves, and the rest of the grain goes into the granaries of the cities of the festival envoys.

August 15, Mid-Autumn Festival.

Just as the soldiers and civilians of Andong Province were preparing for the upcoming autumn harvest, a fast horse galloped in.

The knight sent shocking news.

"The emperor was robbed by hundreds of thousands of cavalry led by the Eastern Turk Shibi Khan in Yanmen and was trapped in Yanmen."

"There are forty-one cities in Yanmen County, and thirty-nine cities have been broken by the Turkic cavalry, Your Majesty urgently ordered the soldiers and horses of the king of Qin from all over the world, please send troops to the king of Qin to rescue him!"

This edict was issued by the emperor when he was retreating to Yanmen City and was not yet besieged, and the first thing the emperor thought of was Luo Cheng.