After the dinner, Chaling and his entourage were extremely satisfied with the extravagant hospitality of the palace. So much so that when they were leaving, many Chaling people quietly expressed their willingness to stay in Chaolin City and not leave, as long as there was that kind of banquet to eat every day.

This was naturally wishful thinking, and therefore they were ruthlessly rejected.

In retrospect, Lin Ji may have drunk too much at the banquet. When he kept talking, he completely ignored the language barrier between the two, and didn't pay attention to whether there was an interpreter around him.

In hindsight, it's hard to confirm. Because Mingyu, who acts as a translator next to him, also seems to have drunk too much. But this is not a big deal, the things on the wine table, true and false, don't be real. If you're friendly enough after the night, it's not too late to woo you.

After the Chaling people left, Huang Hu was taken to a prison in the city and held in solitary confinement. Usually, in addition to doing some boring handicrafts, even the person who delivers the food is a mute with a broken tongue. Lin Ji wanted to see what would become of the leader of this poor mountain ten years later.

After this visit, the kingdom's focus shifted to the west. Because of the 6,000 young men provided by Chaling as labor, the kingdom decided to build three small cities from the three strongholds in the west. Then, based on the small town, they set up farms nearby, and used this labor and hired nearby tribal labor to plant.

This requires a lot of manpower in the early stage, and at the same time, it is necessary to allocate a large amount of materials and grain as the initial input. It's a huge project.

Fortunately, Chaolin City is now full of supplies, and the rations and tools for tens of thousands of people are nothing. It's just that manpower is stretched thin.

Fa Arc and the others only knew at this time that even if there were nearly 60,000 people in Chaolin City and the population of the kingdom reached more than 500,000, it would still be very difficult for him to mobilize 10,000 people to build the city.

There is a planned labor everywhere in the kingdom, and there seems to be a shortage of manpower everywhere.

The kingdom also introduced policies to encourage fertility at this time. The queen then came forward to meet with a group of heroic mothers of the kingdom who had raised more than eight children. At the same time, the Kingdom announced that couples who had more than five children would be supported by the Kingdom to provide for a fifth or more child until the age of fifteen. The food and other subsidies given by the kingdom to support the children are all set according to the standards of the children of Chaolin City, which is far higher than the living standard of the children outside the city, and the subsidy for one place is almost enough to feed two children. For this reason, many couples really began to work hard to have children, just to get more subsidies and make their family live a better life.

Huaxia's increase in the price of metal tools made many tribes in the west quite dissatisfied. At this time, the kingdom also took advantage of the trend to introduce alliances to reduce prices and other subsidies or secret transactions for trading.

This allowed Huaxia to gain several small allies in the west. The introduction of the method of exchanging labor for tools has directly solved the problem of labor in land reclamation and farming. Through the method of secret transactions, he also secretly won over the hearts of a group of people inside Chaling.

Two street lamps in Chaling were installed in a valley 30 kilometers north of Jingzhou. The reason why it was built in the middle of the valley was because the wires brought with it were not long enough. However, the people of Chaling have no opinion on this, and the valley is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is conducive to them guarding such a treasure.

It is said that when the street lights are on, the whole valley is boiling. Tens of thousands of people party all night in the valley. Worried that their treasures would be stolen, the Chaling people also built a wooden wall around it, and some even proposed to learn to build a wall to protect the castle.

In the end, Huanye negotiated with Shenglan, after the construction of the three cities, Huaxia will carry out the engineering output of Chaling and build a walled city for them here. It's just that the price hasn't been negotiated yet. Just talk about it later.

The delivery of the former futures payment of Chaling is also very happy. Later, everyone remembered that Chaling had annexed 6,000 people on the Yangtze River before, and at this time, some of these 6,000 people were exchanged, which not only solved the internal digestion problem of Chaling, but also directly made themselves stronger more than a little bit in this way. They don't need to arrest many more people to make a deal, maybe Huaxia has helped them a lot.

After the Chaling people returned, the legend of China's prosperity and wealth spread throughout the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

The people of Chaling have turned the legend of China into a place where even ice and snow are dripping with honey. The forest ruins are said to be gods who can keep the sun lit at night and keep the house in the winter to cool off.

This made the tribes in the west have a great awe of the forest ruins, but also made many people covetous, after the departure of the Chaling people, the thieves on the western front began to wreak havoc endlessly.

The first thieves were discovered just a few days after the departure of the Chaling people. A gang of thieves of 500 people was caught and killed by Chang Shen and others. The captives were sent to various places to be mined, and the dead were hung in the forest for guarding.

But that's just the beginning. The thieves in the back ranged from a few to hundreds, and sometimes even thousands. Huaxia also constantly sent new troops in and out of the forest to strangle. So much so that the guard bones in the forest are arranged in a line like a wall, and the landscape of the white bone boundary appears, becoming a legendary place on the western front of China.

But this is far from deterring thieves who come to plunder. Under the bonfire, successful thieves will always tell their stories while selling their loot, attracting more people to become thieves.

The Lion is undoubtedly the most successful and luckiest of all the thieves. This remnant who claimed to be from the forest extermination tribe had an extremely ugly face. His teeth are turned out like a lion, and his hair hangs around his neck like the mane of a male lion. But his loot is really rich enough to be eye-catching.

"I've been there for the third time before this winter, and I've come back alive." The mad lion under the campfire resembles a demon that leads to crime, which makes his story all the more compelling: "I didn't taste the snow and ice flowing with honey in China, but I did find the soil there to eat." ”

He used his snatched machete to dig through the fire a few times, and in no time several steaming potatoes were sold. He broke one open with his thick black hand, and then stuffed it into the audience around him in laughter: "Haha, of course, this is not soil, this is a kind of grass planted by the Chinese people, after this grass is planted in the soil, it will grow this fragrant and fragrant thing that can make people full." They can fill a field of this size. When you're hungry, dig a little and you can eat it all year round. It's like dirt, and I'm not afraid of not being able to finish it. ”

"They eat too much, so they eat in a different way. None of them eat the skins that have been stained with a little bit of dirt. The skin is peeled off and stewed with other meats. The scent...... Goo ......"

"They also have that kind of red fruit that doesn't heat up without cooking, just rub it on their body a little bit...... Seventh, where is my chili! The lion grabbed a chili pepper, bit off half of it, and applied the other half directly into the eye of a nearby listener. Three seconds later, the listener howled.

The mad lion laughed, divided the chili pepper into several sections, and stuffed it directly into the mouths of several listeners, several people subconsciously chewed it, and then jumped up, causing the mad lion to laugh arrogantly: "How is it, isn't it hot?" Hahaha, wash with some water, use a little more, you have to wash it several times before you go down, hahaha......"

In a warm atmosphere, the mad lion not only introduced a large number of tattered items he snatched back, but also introduced his successful experience of looting by the way: "On the Huaxia side, there are two things that must not be done. First, we can't set fire, as soon as we set fire, those Chinese cavalry will rush over quickly along the road, and we can't escape. It doesn't matter if you burn mountains or villages. The second is that they must not kill their ordinary villagers. ”

"You will ask, how can someone who does not kill them rob them of their things? Haha, you don't know that, do you? Because they had so many of these things that we didn't care about taking a little of them, as soon as we went, they would hide in a fortress in the innermost part of the stockade, and we would take the things outside. Like these knives and axes, icing, wine, grain, pottery, sweaters, and sometimes they can meet livestock, and they can take as much as they want, and they don't care at all. Because they still have a lot of them. ”

"But if you want to kill their people or break down their fortress, you can't. Those Chinese men were also very ruthless in their lives, no worse than their sergeants. Last time, the Dishi tribe went with me, and I told them not to be greedy, but they didn't listen. The man from Huaxia burned down his house and reported it to a nearby village. Then he rushed out with his own sword and axe. They said that the men of the entire village of Huaxia were killed, but all the men of the Dishi tribe were hung in the forest...... If I didn't run fast......"

It was a tribe of two or three hundred people on the edge of the swamp, and the lions had come here in exchange for their own people and the spoils of war. After talking about his own affairs, the mad lion also ordered his subordinates to start negotiating a deal with this tribe called Luzhou.

Although the mad lion does things roughly, he bites the price very hard: "As long as the coins of Huaxia, women or good fur, nothing else." Two knives and axes for three women, which is much cheaper than the exchange price in Huaxia. Huaxia needs four young people to have two...... Potatoes don't cost money, hehe, how big yours, I'll give you two, hehe......"

"If you don't want to change this, then I can give you one young and strong. But you have to send a man to China with me. I want half of what I grabbed. ”

"Danger? What dangers? As long as we don't meet those officers and soldiers in China, we won't have anything to do. The things of the Chinese people are all taken by us. The mountains and forests are so big, as long as we are careful, where is the danger? Ask me dozens of brothers, it was easier for us to go back to our tribe last time than to go back to our own tribe to get something. ”

The mad lion was already familiar with these routines, and it took less than ten days for him to organize a team of nearly 200 people to kill Huaxia in the east in the ice and snow.

And after they had been walking in the forest for a few days, they actually met another group of more than 300 people. The group was also disorganized, but the most striking thing in the group was that one of the men rode seven or eight tall woolly rhinoceros.

Obviously, these tall woolly rhinoceros are even more attractive than the experience of wild lions.

"They want to use this beast to knock down the walls of Huaxia and take away the sun that can illuminate at night in Huaxia." The people in the other team's team said proudly.

"They even tamed the rhinoceros?" Several of the Lion's cronies had dark faces. Even the Wild Lion felt that the trip might be a bit of a hassle.