After Li Zicheng returned to Kadang City, he immediately summoned Zhou Bin, he was about to leave Kadang City, and he had to explain some things to Zhou Bin.

He explained to Zhou Bin that after the battle of Kadang City, the cadres of Mai Li were almost completely wiped out, and at the rate of the population of nomads, Mai Li Gan should not commit Kadang City again in a short period of time, unless he was supported by the big tribe, or was swallowed up by the big tribe, and completed the integration.

Kadang City has no threat from the outside for the time being, its main role is to protect the Hongshiya Copper Mine, as well as the miners and their dependents, the 500th household as part of the Xining Army, but also to protect the relatively scattered Haomen County, for this reason, Li Zicheng left Zhou Bin with fifty war horses.

"My lord, what about these Mongolian women? They can't be allowed to shepherd here forever! After these Mongolian women came to Kadang Mountain, Li Zicheng never asked, so Zhou Bin didn't know his plans.

"They...... There must be some miners who don't have wives yet, so be a reward for them! ”

"Yes, my lord," Zhou Bin paused slightly, and then said: "The Mongolian woman has gone, what about these cattle and sheep captured in the mountains?" ”

"The cattle are evenly distributed to the ten strong villages in Qingshi Town, as ploughing cattle, as for sheep...... Kill some of the meat first, leave a little, and put it in this mountain as a source of meat for the 500th household! ”

"My subordinates have thanked you!"

On April 14, all the cavalry of Liu Yunshui's department returned to Kadang City, and in Haomen County, five hundred auxiliary troops of Zhou Bin's department had been deployed.

From Kadang City to Triangle City, it is only fifty or sixty miles, and it is mostly downhill, but the roads between the mountains are rugged, and some places are still just developed by rangers, which are relatively narrow, and the speed of cavalry passage is not fast, until the evening, they arrive at Triangle City.

Li Ji from the mouth of the ranger, has learned that Li Zicheng is about to come to the triangle city, he has been sending people to explore the vicinity for the past few days, today I saw a large number of cavalry outside the city, take a closer look, sure enough, it is Li Zicheng, hurriedly opened the city gate, personally out of the city to greet, "subordinate Li Ji, knock to see the lord!" ”

"Li Baihu, please get up!" Li Zicheng turned over and dismounted, looked up at the walls of the Triangle City, and the afterglow of the setting sun put a faint golden coat on the Triangle City, but the tragic battle that had happened here could no longer be traced.

In the gaps between the stones, a layer of loess was poured into them, scattered and scattered, as if a lot of patches had been applied to the city wall, but the weeds still barely retained their footprints on the land that did not belong to them, and from a distance, the grass stems seemed to be blood-red......

Li Zicheng entered the city from the east gate, and when he looked at it, the first feeling was that the city was still extremely empty, and the sight could penetrate almost any side of the city wall, and there was no tall building, showing the Han civilization of this military city.

The barracks had been replaced with mud walls, the thatch on the roof was fluffy, apparently just covered and had not yet been compacted by the rain, and in the southwest corner, near Ximen Street, there were also two rows of thatched houses, the height of which was exactly the same and the shape was exactly the same, and it looked very neat.

Li Zicheng estimated that the owners of these dwellings were all meritorious people who participated in the construction of the Triangle City that day, so they were qualified to live in the city for the first time, and even the land was the same size.

Behind these two rows of thatched huts, there are some half-height earthen walls, sparsely sparse and sparsely with a few strong men, who are piling loess on the walls, apparently to raise the mud walls.

Li Zicheng smiled faintly and said, "Are these new residents the people of the neighborhood?" ”

"Lord Hui, they are all herdsmen in the vicinity, and they are already familiar with the brothers," Li Ji said here, a little hesitant, "Your Excellency......

"Huh?" Li Zicheng was also stunned, and said with a smile: "What's the matter, are they Mongolians?" ”

"That's not true," Li Ji shook his head and smiled: "My lord, these people who came in later, if they want to get a piece of land in the city to build a house, each household must hand over five sheep!" ”

"Five sheep?"

Li Zicheng chuckled, five sheep can buy a homestead, and the land price of Triangle City is comparable to that of a ghost town.

Although the triangle city is a military city, but also needs the people to live, the military and the people are united, not only can improve their own protection ability, but also make the city more prosperous, in the long run, the city still has to absorb a certain number of residents to live, preferably the people nearby.

As for the threshold for the people to live in the city, whether five sheep were suitable, I am afraid that even the most famous economist cannot make reasonable inferences.

Li Zicheng hopes to absorb a large number of residents and develop the nearby land, even if it is to graze on the land, at least so that the Triangle City will not become an isolated city.

"Why do the people want to stay in the city? But for the convenience of farming nearby? ”

Li Ji thought for a moment, and said: "My subordinates think that the people are mainly worried about the Mongolian cavalry, in case the Mongols come, they have a house in the city and store a certain amount of food, so they can take refuge in the city, at least they can save their lives." ”

Nomads again!

The contradiction between the nomads and the agrarian peoples is probably an unsolvable problem, and as long as they exist with each other, this contradiction will always exist.

From the perspective of the farming people, who have cultivated their own land to grow grain, paid taxes, and have not recruited anyone and provoked anyone, why do they often encounter this kind of misfortune that they have no way to appeal?

Why are there always robbers? Is it their cavalry that they rely on?

Not only the people who have been violated, but I am afraid that people of insight among the agrarian peoples will also ask the same question.

But for the nomads, they also have their own hardships, who let the farming people occupy a large amount of fertile land and produce abundant food products, in his mother's eyes, even an ordinary farmer, is rich.

Everyone is under the same blue sky, why do you eat delicacies from the mountains and seas, wear silk and satin, and sleep with slender waist beauties, while yourself, not only have to chase water and grass for life, once the snow falls, the livestock may freeze to death, and the people of the tribe may starve, or even silently annihilate in the cold world.

To resolve the contradiction between the two, history is not without precedent.

For Chuo, from the beginning of the documented Warring States period#, the conflict with the nomads in the north has never been interrupted.

With the absolute population advantage of the central country, if the central country is in a unified and powerful era, the nomads will temporarily take a step back, once the central country due to civil war, division, weakened its own strength, the nomads will go south, encroach on land, wealth, and even plunder the population, that is, the unification of the Central Plains, is not unified.

When Li Zicheng was in later generations, although he did not specialize in history, he also had some common sense understanding of the struggle between Hu and Han.

In order to deal with the Xiongnu in the north, Zhao not only set up "Dai County, Yanmen County, Yunzhong County" in the north, but also learned the Huns' riding and archery skills to control Hu.

At that time, the Xiongnu were just emerging, and even the steppes were not unified, so Zhao State built the Great Wall to the north of Hetao and Yinshan with the strength of one country, and completely included the Hetao area with the most abundant water and grass into its jurisdiction.

After Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, the strength of the Central Kingdom was unprecedentedly strong, and the Xiongnu only had to go to Mobei to shed tears, and the wars between the Han people and the nomads mostly occurred on the grassland, and there was no direct loss to the people of the Han land.

But the short-lived Qin dynasty then fell into civil strife, giving the Huns a chance to rise.

The Han Dynasty was a rare and powerful dynasty in the history of the central country, but Han Gaozu faced a Xiongnu who had unified the steppe, and the "Siege of Baideng" made him realize that if he wanted to defeat the Xiongnu, he must recuperate and accumulate national strength.

This task was finally completed sixty years later by the great Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Li Guang, Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, and Li Guangli, generals who went down in history, were sent by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to expedition to the Mobei royal court of the Xiongnu.

The life of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was basically spent in the struggle against the Huns, and he also achieved success, which reached its peak when Huo Quzhi was enshrined in Wolf Juxu Mountain.

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty has continued the war advantage against the Huns, when General Chen Tang issued "those who commit strong Han crimes, although they are far away, they will be punished", the Western Xiongnu finally perished and exterminated the species, the Han Dynasty achieved the most complete victory over the nomads in the history of the central country, and the Huns have since been annihilated in the long river of history, and no trace can be found again.

There has never been a shortage of nomads on the steppe, and one wave is flat, and one wave is rising.

At the end of the Jin Dynasty, the civil strife in the central government gave the nomads an opportunity, and in the era of "Wuhu Chaohua", not only the Han people in the north lived in the region, but the Han people were almost wiped out, according to later historical statistics, this was the era of the smallest number of Han people.

The Han nation has never lacked fighting spirit, when Emperor Wen of Sui integrated the Guanlong family and established the Great Sui regime, the Hu people who entered the Guannei were forced to hide among the Han people, and the surname Hu appeared among the Han people, even if the Turks integrated the steppe, they still did not dare to look at the back of the Great Sui and withdrew from the Hetao in disgrace.

Unfortunately, the Great Sui, like the Great Qin, only experienced the second time, and in the civil strife of the Han people, the Turks made a comeback, and even the Shengming Tang Taizong had to make a humiliating covenant.

But the unified dynasty of the central country, never willing to give in to the nomads, and so the Tang Dynasty eased up, the military god Li Jing still divided the Turks into two, and later the Tang Dynasty repeatedly played with the Eastern and Western Turks and applauded, although they could not be completely eliminated, but they were raised into two earth dogs, with chains around their necks.

In the later two Song Dynasty, because of the loss of the sixteen states of Youyun and the lack of protection of Yanshan, it was a rare weak unified dynasty in the history of the central country, and it has been in a bitter war with the Khitan, Dangxiang, and Jurchens.

Until the emergence of the Mongols who swept across Eurasia, the Southern Song Dynasty was defeated, completely losing the entire central country to the nomads.

Perhaps it is the nomadic people's unsuitability to the central country, or the unyielding fighting spirit of the Han people, less than a hundred years, the Ming Dynasty established a country, and drove the invincible Mongols out of the pass, when the Lan Yu general destroyed the Mongolian Yuan in the fishing Erhai, the Mongol Empire, which once crossed Europe and Asia, collapsed in an instant, and the headquarters of the steppe was also divided into Mobei, Monan, and Moxi Mongolia, returning to the nomadic state.

If history continues to develop according to the original trajectory, it is still the nomads who replace the Ming Dynasty, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty finally marched into the Guannai after decades of fighting.

But it was not the Manchus who destroyed the Ming Dynasty, but the internal strife of the Han people, and it was not the Manchu iron cavalry that broke through the Beijing Division, but the peasant army of the Dashun regime, and the Manchus, as nomads, once again seized the opportunity of the Han people's infighting.

But "Li Zicheng" has been born, will history repeat itself?