Zhou Bin, who was stationed in Triangle City, was illiterate, and the letter was written by someone else: Triangle City is preliminarily completed, and the herdsmen have returned, please arrange the next step.

"Done?"

Li Zicheng was overjoyed, although the triangle city was only preliminarily completed, the city was only one zhang high, and basically could not block the attack of the Mongolian cavalry, but the Ming army finally had a place to settle here, if it could hold this traffic point, the west gate of Xining would be firmly controlled in their own hands.

What's next?

Li Zicheng thought for a moment, or decided to inspect in person, since leaving the Triangle City, he mainly stayed in Xining, the Triangle City was completed, just took the opportunity to go to the west to inspect it, and said to He Xiaomi: "Get ready, go to the Triangle City tomorrow!" ”

"Yes, sir!"

After He Xiaomi left, Li Zicheng no longer had the heart to sort out the matter of Hanyu Pinyin, he pondered alone in the study for more than an hour before he turned off the lights and went to the back office.

Song Yulian heard footsteps and hurriedly opened the door, "Your Excellency is back?" ”

"Well," Li Zicheng didn't see Chen Qiudie, but it was a little strange, "What about Die'er?" Why didn't you see it? ”

"Die'er has already slept," Song Yulian bowed and said, "My lord, my son...... The servant has already taught her a lesson! ”

"Oh?" Li Zicheng smiled: "How did you teach her?" What did she say? ”

"Die'er said that she will bury her attachment to adults deep in her heart, and she will never make adults unhappy!"

"So Butterfly is so obedient?" Li Zicheng stroked Song Yulian's face, "It's still Lian'er who teaches her a good lesson, since Die'er is so well-behaved, then ...... I'll stay with her tonight, O, you help me tidy up, I'm going on a long trip tomorrow! ”

"Yes, sir!" Song Yulian was a little happy when she heard that Li Zicheng was going to stay in the inner room at first, but knowing that Li Zicheng was going to go far away, she had a little bit of a little woman-like attachment, and she wanted to ask where to go, but she didn't dare, so she had to silently pack up for Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng is used to sleeping alone, but he didn't think too much, he had a busy day today, and he was thinking about the affairs of Triangle City just now, and his body was a little tired, so he could sleep early with little Lori in his arms.

After breakfast, Li Zicheng summoned Liang Wencheng, Liu Yunshui and Ma Youshui at the official office and explained that he was going to Triangle City.

Liu Yunshui was not at ease, "There are more than 20 personal soldiers around the adult, so let's be accompanied by my subordinates, the soldiers under my subordinates have war horses, which will not affect the itinerary." ”

"It's okay, Xining has calmed down, and it's hard for the villain to have different intentions," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Besides, my own soldiers are all cavalry, and there will be no danger, so you better hurry up and train your troops." ”

"Then Zicheng himself should be careful, Zicheng is the backbone of Xining Wei, and there must be no mistakes," Liang Wencheng paused, and said: "Zicheng, Qin Danian and Song Wen escorted more than 40 defenders from various passes to Xining, how should these people be handled?" ”

"What about these people? Are you willing to surrender? ”

"Xining is gradually stabilizing, there are only more than 40 soldiers, and there are no major generals, what waves can be set off?" Liang Wencheng was quite disdainful.

"Then they will be incorporated into the army, and those who are unwell among them will join the fishing team, and now that the weather is getting cooler, large-scale fishing should be possible in the West Sea."

Liang Wencheng nodded slightly, "That's what I mean, more than ten people have been singled out." ”

"That's it, Xining will be handed over to you for the time being." Li Zicheng clasped his hands into fists and saluted one by one.

"Don't worry, sir!"

He Xiaomi has already brought the war horse over, the food and water are all on horseback, the soldiers are ready to go, Liang Wencheng, Liu Yunshui, and Ma Youshui just happened to see off Li Zicheng, "My lord, have a good trip!" ”

Out of Xining, it was already Chenshi, Li Zicheng whipped his horse and galloped on the flat grassland west of Xining.

About noon, a group of people arrived at Zhenhai Fort, at this time Zhenhai Fort, there is no garrison, although the fort is in order, Li Zicheng is still not at ease, Zhenhai Fort was originally a military fort, there is no civilian design in the fort, there is no garrison, the power is in a vacuum, the people are in a spontaneous state, not to mention the Mongols, as long as there are three or two thieves, there may be chaos in the fort.

After thinking about it again and again, Li Zicheng still followed the original plan, left He Xiaomi temporarily, and gave him four personal soldiers, and asked him to recruit 120 soldiers among the herdsmen, and then replace He Xiaomi when he had a suitable candidate.

These soldiers are divided into two general flags, and they will be trained first, and in the future, if any 100 households need to expand the army, these well-trained soldiers will be directly transferred, and as long as they train with the original soldiers for a period of time, the training time can be greatly shortened.

Before joining the new troops, they were equivalent to reserves, and they were responsible for guarding Zhenhai Fort, because they were not real soldiers, and their salaries were only half, but after they trained for a period of time, they would have a relatively long vacation, and they could go back to animal husbandry or farming.

Li Zicheng specially explained to He Xiaomi that when recruiting soldiers, he would rather lack than indiscriminate, and could only recruit honest soldiers, such soldiers would be obedient, and after strict training, their combat effectiveness would be relatively strong, and they would not become soldiers.

When the recruitment of troops for Zhenhai Fort was officially launched, Li Zicheng left Zhenhai Fort and he only stayed in Zhenhai Fort for twelve or thirteen hours, and after lunch, he set out on the road to the west.

The Triangle City is two hundred and forty miles away from Xining, that is, it is nearly two hundred miles away from Zhenhai Fort, if you march in a hurry, you can arrive in one day, but Li Zicheng did not choose to march in a hurry, but walked up unhurriedly, the soldiers were puzzled, the adults received the message of the Triangle City, and immediately set off to go, and now the road is like a tour of the mountains and rivers.

Li Zicheng is naturally not a tourist, his biggest concern is food, Xining is actually in an independent state, and now it is clear that it still accepts the jurisdiction of the imperial court, that is just to deceive the imperial court's food and salary, sooner or later it will be seen through, once the imperial court runs out of food and salary, Xining will have to be self-reliant.

Although silver is important, it is still secondary, the key is food, if there is not enough food, the soldiers can mutiny, not to mention combat effectiveness, at any time.

That's why he desperately wanted to set up a county seat in the Beichuan River Valley.

Xiningwei is on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the Huangshui and Datong rivers, two important tributaries of the Yellow River, pass through the border, and the large and small rivers are dense, so it is impossible not to produce grain, and even the desert land with higher latitudes in the Hexi Corridor can practice food self-sufficiency.

The main thing is still war horses.

The imperial court wants to resist the Jurchens and Mongolians in the nine borders, and needs a large number of war horses, but the important war horse production areas Liaodong and Hetao have been occupied by the nomads, Xining is the last and largest war horse base of the Ming Dynasty, for the sake of war horses, the imperial court forcibly let most of the people of Xining return to grazing and raise war horses for the imperial court.

For the sake of war horses, the imperial court would rather use grain to raise Xiningwei.

The imperial court can afford to raise it, but Li Zicheng can't afford it, once the imperial court cuts off the food supply to Xining, there is no need to send a large army, and starvation, it can make the soldiers defect.

Although Xiningwei is not short of grain now, and even there is a surplus of grain allocated by the imperial court, Li Zicheng must take precautions, grain is not an industrial product, it has its own growth law, and working overtime will not work.

Li Zicheng seems to be a good man, but in fact he is looking for arable land along the Huangshui, preferably in patches of arable land, if he finds patches of arable land, he can concentrate the population and restore the former agricultural state.

However, he was a little disappointed, and all the way through, although the south bank of Huangshui was flat, it was a high mountain valley, and it was really impossible to borrow river water for a large amount of farming, and if it was based on the terrain, it was still more suitable for nomadic herding.

About the time of Shen, Li Zicheng was suddenly blocked by a river, looking at the rolling river water to the north into the Huangshui, Li Zicheng's heart throbbed, from the entrance of the river, there is fertile land, this tributary of the Huangshui, the two banks are flat, the drop is not big, isn't it a natural river valley?

He took out the marching map he carried with him and found that this river was called "Yaoshui River", but its upstream and middle reaches were called "Nanxiang River". He asked the soldiers around him: "This river is called Yaoshui River, why is its upstream called Nanxiang River?" ”

"My lord," said one of the soldiers, "the Yaoshui River originates in Taizi Mountain, but the Nanxiang River, which originates in the Sun Moon Mountain, is greatly opened up and the flow is greatly increased after it is injected into the Yaoshui River. ”

"Oh, that's what happened!" Li Zicheng didn't care, the name was just a code name, the purpose was to distinguish the same kind, "The terrain here is flat, the water source is abundant, and the typical river valley terrain is a pity, but there is no arable land, it's a pity!" ”

"My lord......" One of the soldiers spoke very carefully, looking unconvinced, "My subordinates have heard from the old people that in the past, this was originally cultivated land, but to the west of Sun Moon Mountain, there is no arable land, and it is all pasture. ”

"Could it be that Sun Moon Mountain is the dividing line between pastoral and cultivated areas?" Li Zicheng didn't understand whether it was because of the climate, or the topography, or the amount of rainfall, but since it was farming before, it should not be untargeted to recover, at least reclamation is not useless, and it is not a waste of herdsmen's mental energy.

Since this is the limit of farming, the triangle city deep into the pastoral area is an important fortress in the Gongwei farming area, no wonder the Han built a city here.

If the Triangle City can be defended, not only can it protect the farming area, but also get a large area of grassland between the West Sea and Huangshui, especially the Jinyin Beach, Li Zicheng's original purpose to restore the Triangle City is to take a fancy to this pasture.

"Who else knows the local history, or legends?"

"Legends...... Legend has it that when Princess Wencheng entered Tibet, it was the ...... that passed by"

"Princess Wencheng? Could it be that this is the main road to Uszang? Li Zicheng always thought that this was only the south of the Qilian Mountains, and if he could cross the eastern edge of Yanze, he should be able to bypass the Qilian Mountains and reach the west of the Hexi Corridor, but he didn't expect it to be a passage into Tibet.

Of course, for Li Zicheng, the most important thing here is that it can be used as arable land, and to maintain the stability of the mouth of the poured potion river, it is necessary to strengthen the defense of the triangle city.