Li Wenyuan came out of the barracks and asked Zhang Juntai to go to the barracks first to contact the old department and select soldiers. I went to the place where the displaced people were held first.

In the barracks, a piece of land was enclosed by a wall made of earth and stone, which was used to hold prisoners of war, called the earth city, and soldiers patrolled back and forth on the earth and stone wall. Such a building can accommodate 2,000 people, and there are ten more such buildings within the jurisdiction of Jincheng, which can barely accommodate 20,000 people, plus some local bandits before, and now the largest number of people is imprisoned in Tucheng, which holds nearly 3,000 people.

After Li Wenyuan showed Xue Ju's approval, he entered Tucheng accompanied by several guards. As soon as he entered Tucheng, he suddenly felt a foul smell, Li Wenyuan frowned, and did not cover his mouth and nose, he didn't want to add a sense of estrangement to the hearts of the people in his future jurisdiction.

Soon, the guards in the earthen city brought the prisoners of war to an open field in the earthen city.

Looking at the more than 3,000 people in front of him, Li Wenyuan cleared his throat after stepping onto the high platform and said, "Before, whether you were bandits, homeless people, ringing horses, or exiled criminals, I didn't ask any questions. I just want to ask you, if you have enough to eat, do you want to do all those robberies again? ”

"Have you ever thought about it, you gather in the mountains and forests, rob homes and houses, and share the spoils and gather righteousness. Ah, how quick it is to drink wine and eat meat in large chunks! Li Wenyuan continued:

"Then have you ever thought about it, the cycle of heavenly reason, retribution is not happy! Today, you rob and kill rich merchants and loot villages, and those who are forced by you to live will also be forced to fall into the grass and rob your families! ”

Some lowered their heads, more remained silent, and a few were unimpressed. Li Wenyuan saw it in his eyes and laughed in his heart, sure enough, some people still have to be bought by interests. Then he said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, are you still comfortable living in this earthen city? Can you pay off this foul-smelling life? ”

Saying this, Li Wenyuan walked to the high platform where he was standing and sat on the ground, looked at the captives in front of him and said: "I am not here to ask you for sin, I am here to ask you, let you get out of this sea of suffering, and maybe even reunite with your family, are you willing to go with me and go to the Western Regions to break through?" Or do you mean that when you face the Hu people, you can't even move your legs? ”

Speaking of this, the people below finally had some reactions, the queue began to be chaotic, the captives began to whisper, Li Wenyuan raised his hand to stop the guards who were going to suppress the captives, and continued: "You can make a choice now, but I can guarantee that there is only one such opportunity, those who are willing to follow me, stand under the left wall, and if they are unwilling, they can go back to their barracks directly, and no one will stop you." ”

At this time, a man plucked up the courage to ask, "Can you get out of here for any crime?" ”

Li Wenyuan smiled: "As long as you don't poke a hole in the sky, I can take you away." ”

Another asked, "Are you serious?" How can you have so much power? ”

The guard next to him shouted: "Presumptuous, this lord is the governor of the eight states of the Western Regions who is personally appointed by the Holy Lord, and he is naturally a promise." You little people..."

Without waiting for the guards to finish speaking, Li Wenyuan stopped him and said, "You go with me, you will not be guilty of the previous crimes, and you will even have a chance to regain your freedom." Then he stood up and looked at the crowd and said:

"Of course, if you don't repent when you go to the Western Regions and want to be a chaotic citizen, I will kill you for two crimes. But if you are willing to change your past and be a good citizen, then I promise you that you will not suffer from cold and hunger. ”

"I'll go, if it weren't for the fact that I couldn't pay taxes on a few acres of thin fields at home, I wouldn't have gone up the mountain and fallen into the grass, since you said so, my lord, I also let it go, and dying outside is better than staying in this stinking pigsty." A man said hatefully, walked to the right under the earthen wall, and sat on the ground.

Li Wenyuan nodded, handed over the matter here to the guards around him, and instructed them to treat these prisoners well whether they went or not, and must not use force.

Out of Tucheng, Li Wenyuan took the water bowl handed over by the guards next to him, drank a fine drink, and turned over on his horse. Under the guidance of the guards, he came to another earthen city, and he had to do this thing nine times before it was finished.

Alas, it's hard to start a business. Li Wenyuan thought so.

In such a day, he finally walked all over the earthen cities, and at dusk in the western mountains, Zhang Juntai also chose a team to enter the Western Regions together. Xue Ju very carefully arranged a camp of 10,000 people for Li Wenyuan.

Li Wenyuan asked Zhang Juntai to go to various Tucheng to lead people, and a total of 20,000 people were brought out, most of them were homeless, and there were only a few dozen former horse thieves. These people were placed in a new barracks, which was a little more crowded than the barracks where normal soldiers lived, but it was still much better than Tucheng.

I have to say that Zhang Juntai is extremely good at leading troops, and the 3,000 newly formed soldiers were actually put in order by him, and the night patrol arrangements were not leaky. Later, Li Wenyuan asked Zhang Juntai to go to the treasury of Jincheng to get the soldiers' linen robes, and find a dyeing workshop overnight to make them white, so as to make it easier to distinguish the homeless people from the army soldiers.

Li Wenyuan used his position to find Hao Ai, the county guard of Jincheng, borrowed 5,000 stone of grain, and returned the original amount after the autumn harvest of the following year. The grain was prepared to let the displaced people have a full meal that night, and then stressed to Zhang Juntai that they must be forced to bathe one by one, remove the filth from their bodies, and then they can enter the camp to rest normally, and if they do not comply, they will rush back to Tucheng directly.

After doing this, Li Wenyuan left the barracks and rode his horse to the martial arts arena. As soon as he entered the martial arts arena, he saw Udru sweeping one person off his horse, and the onlookers next to him cheered in unison. Li Wenyuan thought it was funny, so he also urged him to step forward, lifted the horse lance and shouted, "Take me a move." ”

Udru swept the previous person off the horse, and when he was exhausted, he felt a golden wind attacking behind him, so he hid in stirrups and dodged a sweep from Li Wenyuan. Then he lifted his horse lance and stabbed it at Li Wenyuan, Li Wenyuan also dodged a stab from Uderu sideways, hung the horse lance back on the horse, grabbed Udru's horse lance with his hand and said: "Uderu, your martial arts have improved a lot." ”

The reason why I say this is because Uderu first met Li Wenyuan, and Li Wenyuan swept himself off the horse from behind with a horse lance. Seeing that it was Li Wenyuan, Wu Delu was also very happy in his heart, and said: "Brother Wenyuan, it's really good that you came back from Liaodong alive, I heard people talk about Liaodong..."

Uderu said that he was about to pull back the horse lance and step forward to reminisce about the past, but he did not twitch after two pumps, he looked at Li Wenyuan, and saw Li Wenyuan looking at himself with a smile, so he knew that this was Li Wenyuan who wanted to wrestle with himself, and immediately used all his strength to pull back the horse lance.

Uderu didn't twitch the horse, but Li Wenyuan pulled Uderu two steps closer to his side. Li Wenyuan said to Uderu: "I'm about to go to the Western Regions to make a trip, and there is a lack of capable generals around me, how about it, do you want to go to the battlefield with me to kill the enemy?" ”

Wu Delu blushed, he couldn't pull back the horse lance, not to mention, and was pulled by someone and almost fell, he knew that he was invincible to Li Wenyuan's strength, so he let go of his hand immediately, and let Li Wenyuan pull the horse lance away, and heard that Li Wenyuan wanted to go to the Western Regions with him, and he had a chance to go into battle to kill the enemy, so he immediately said: "Go, why don't you go?" ”