Su Yan sent a letter, and Yan Teng, the lord of Yuancheng, and Mu Tao, the minister of the household department, came to Zhongjing City by boat.

"Patriarch Yan, I have something I want to give you to do." Su Yan looked at Yan Teng and said.

"King, leave everything to me, and promise it to be completed." Yan Teng said confidently.

Mu Tao stood beside Yan Teng and did not participate in the conversation, but Mu Tao heard a layer of meaning from the king's words, the king should have a task to be handed over to the city lord, and the position of the city lord must be removed, and he, the head of the household department, will be the next city lord of the source city.

Often, the head of the household department of each city has a higher probability of taking over the position of city lord, which is a recognized rule in the Xia Kingdom, of course, if the city has the position of deputy city lord, the new city lord will be promoted by the deputy city lord first.

While Mu Tao was thinking, Su Yan pointed to the location of the Yan clan's hometown on the map and continued: "Yan Patriarch, this is your clan's hometown, do you still remember the black stone?" ”

"Black stone? Remember, isn't it just a stone that can burn, there are many of them in our Yan clan's hometown. Yan Teng said without thinking.

"I give this black stone a name, coal, in the future, we need a lot of coal in a plan of our Xia Kingdom, I plan to build a new city in the area where your Yan clan came to live, relocate some of the population in the past, and specialize in digging coal, which is the hometown of the Yan clan, so the Yan patriarch will take people there to build a city and serve as the first city lord of the new city."

"Build a city in our clan's hometown, King, and I accept this task to ensure that it will be completed on time." Yan Teng made a guarantee to Su Yan.

Su Yan's gaze turned to Mu Tao and said, "Then Mu Tao will take over the position of the city lord of Source City." ”

"No"

Later, Su Yan explained some things to his father-in-law, such as that there will be not only one city built in the Yan clan's hometown area in the future, at least two cities, and when the construction of the new city in the Yan clan's hometown area is completed, a group of slaves will be sent to dig coal......

The position of the city lord does not mean that the replacement will be replaced, it will take a certain amount of time to hand over, and there are not too many things that need to be handed over, and it took six days to complete the handover after Yan Teng and Mu Tao returned to Source City.

After the completion of the handover, Yan Teng came to Zhongjing City, in the central city of Xia Kingdom, to prepare to form a team to go to the Yan clan's hometown, the initial number will not exceed four hundred, mainly composed of the Ministry of Works' topographic exploration personnel, (house city) builders, and escort team, Yan clan people will occupy a quarter to one-third of the quota.

After Yan Teng's team was formed, just as the First Trading Fleet was preparing to go to the grassland again to trade, the five A-type ships that Yan Teng's team was riding and the sixteen A-type ships of the First Trading Flotilla formed a huge fleet and sailed all the way west along the main trunk of the Yellow River.

After eleven days of sailing, the fleet arrived at the hometown of the Yan clan, the fleet was divided into two, the first trading fleet continued to sail west to carry out trade tasks, and the five A-type ships that Yan Teng's team was on stayed.

Standing on the deck, Yan Teng looked at the Yan clan's hometown in the distance, where Yan Teng had lived for more than thirty years.

From afar, the habitat that once inhabited thousands and hundreds of people was dilapidated, even the wooden fence was rotten, and weeds grew freely in the residence.

Yan Teng's mind came up with a picture of the Yan clan's life in the place where they lived, there were laughter, sorrow and sorrow, the joy of harvest, and the sadness of the clansmen's death, but everything had passed, it had been abandoned, and there was no trace of people.

Yan Teng misses his former life, nostalgia and nostalgia, Yan Teng does not have a trace of the idea of wanting the Yan clan to return to the previous life, it is really too big a gap between the previous life and the current life, the previous life can only be said to be barely living, but the current life can be described as happy and beautiful.

is used to living this happy and beautiful life, I am afraid that no one will return to the hard life before, and Yan Teng is the same.

When he did not join the Dragon Tribe, the Yan clan only had a population of more than 1,000 people, and his strength was not very strong, if he did not have the weapons and equipment that he had traded from the Xia Kingdom, in the final battle, even if the Yan clan was able to repel the enemy, he would have suffered heavy losses.

After joining the Xia Kingdom, everyone doesn't need to worry about the enemy's attack at all, the Xia Kingdom is strong enough to destroy all enemies, and with endless food and comfortable houses, after coming to the Xia Kingdom, the life of the Xia Kingdom is completely the life that the Yan clan dreams of, I didn't expect the dream to really come to reality.

Many Yan clan people are very grateful to Yan Teng's daughter Coriander, it is Coriander who likes the king of the Xia Kingdom, and then the Yan clan joins the Xia Kingdom, if there is no this, the possibility of the Yan clan joining the Xia Kingdom is very small, and it is even possible to be destroyed in this natural disaster.

Yan Teng looked at the Yan clan's hometown and was silent for a long time, on the five A-type boats, many older Yan clansmen also looked at their hometown quietly, and some even had red eyes and shed a few tears, only the younger Yan clan people did not miss their hometown much.

From the thick planks that stretched from the five A-boats to the shore, the members of Yan Teng's team stepped off the boats and came to the shore, Yan Teng did not rush to lead the team to the place of residence, and the first thing he did when he came here was to build a simple dock.

With the tools, Yan Teng's team got busy, first choose the right area, and then build the wharf, this task was not completed that day, rest in the ship for one night, the next day before noon, the task of building the wharf was completed, this simple wharf can dock three A-type ships at a time.

After building the wharf, Yan Teng led the team to the residence, the next task is to build a simple residence, as long as the houses in the residence can shelter from the rain and block some wind, the speed of building the city in the Xia Kingdom is very fast, and the city will not be built in winter at the latest, and the houses in the city are all standard houses in the Xia Kingdom, which can block the wind and rain and resist the cold.

Although the Yan clan's hometown is dilapidated, in the eyes of everyone, this is still the most suitable place to build a residence, and it takes less effort than building a new one.

Walking into the place of residence, Yan Teng saw the houses where he once lived, and saw the relatively rough pottery, wood, and stone tools placed on the ground, these things were too rough, much worse than those of the Xia Kingdom, and the Yan clan did not take them away when they moved, and abandoned them here.

Now it seems that every item is a vivid memory, and many of the items are made by the Yan clan members in the team, who excitedly hold a dusty artifact and then introduce it to their companions.