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The soldiers have long been blowing the wind among the herdsmen, and whoever continues to work for a month can get a piece of pasture of no less than 300 acres between the triangle city and Zhenhai Fort, and if they work for two months, they can not only get a piece of pasture, but also a homestead in the southwest corner of the city, and when the city wall is completed, they can build a three-room house according to the unified plan, and the ten herdsmen who persist to the end can get a homestead in the place facing the street, which can be used as a shop in the future.

If there is no need for pastures and homesteads, the army can also pay them half a tael per month, which is paid in the same month.

Due to the limited number of pastures, the number of herdsmen recruited this time will not exceed 3,000, unless it is agreed that the remuneration will be settled in silver.

The remuneration of half a tael of silver, if it is placed in the south of the Yangtze River, it is an extremely low remuneration, but here is Xining, the people are mainly grazing, close to the nomadic life of the Mongols, and the output of the land is also low, so this kind of remuneration is still very attractive to herdsmen.

According to the recount, there were about 3,500 people on the construction site, of which less than 400 were unpaid laborers, and less than 600 of the remaining paid laborers were paid in silver.

The bluestone used to build the city is made of local materials, plus you can eat a full meal every day, you can see at least the fishy smell in the dishes, the speed of building the stone wall is faster than expected, by August 20, the east city wall has reached one zhang, the preliminary completion, the west and north two city walls are also seven or eight feet high, and the rammed earth on the inner side of the city wall is also basically filled, just waiting for the stones to be transported.

However, it is difficult to say whether this kind of temporary city wall is reliable or not, and Li Zicheng can only build the framework of the city wall for the time being, and then slowly strengthen it in the future.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the weather began to cool, and the speed of building the city was faster, Li Zicheng estimated that at the current rate, it would not take more than a month for the city wall to be initially built.

On 25 August, when Li Zicheng was supervising the herdsmen and soldiers to build the city wall, He Xiaomi, who rushed over, approached Li Zicheng and whispered a few words.

Li Zicheng was shocked, "Where are the people?" ”

"My lord, after the visitor arrived at Zhenhai Fort, he didn't stay, he came over directly, and now he is outside." He Xiaomi pointed with his hand, and sure enough, he saw a burly soldier looking over here.

Li Zicheng was worried that there would be too many people on the construction site, so he personally greeted him.

The soldier took two steps forward and bowed to the ground, "Subordinates knock to see Li Qianhu!" ”

"No need to be polite, get up and speak," Li Zicheng stretched out his hand and helped him, "Brother has been running all the way, and it has been hard!" ”

"Li Qianhu is polite, his subordinates are ordered by Lord Liang to inform Li Qianhu." When the soldier said this, he didn't say anything, but his eyes turned around on He Xiaomi's face.

Li Zicheng knew that Liang Wencheng must have something important to explain, so he made a look, and He Xiaomi immediately retreated ten steps away.

The soldier said: "Li Qianhu, Lord Liang said that the Ganzhou General Kingdom came to Xining. ”

"Kingdom? What did he come to Xining for? Li Zicheng frowned, he couldn't figure out the intention of the kingdom for a while, since he came to Xining, he had lost contact with Ganzhou, and Ganzhou no longer cared about their life or death.

"Lord Liang said that General Wang asked Gonggong Wu and Lord Zhao for someone to ask Li Qianhu to return to Ganzhou immediately," the soldier hesitated for a while, and finally said: "Lord Liang and his subordinates asked Li Qianhu what he could do with General Wang when he was in Ganzhou, and General Wang even had an unpleasant quarrel with Gonggong Wu and Lord Zhao for the sake of Li Qianhu. ”

"What's involved? Nope! When I was in Ganzhou, I was already a hundred households, if I had anything to do with it, how could I be promoted from a soldier to a hundred households? Li Zicheng thought left and right, but still didn't understand the meaning of the kingdom.

"That'...... Lord Liang was relieved," the soldier was about to turn around, but said: "Lord Liang reminded Li Qianhu that the kingdom is not good this time, and Lord Liang is not very good, I hope Li Qianhu will prepare as soon as possible." ”

"Isn't it good?" Li Zicheng said in his heart, he was promoted by the kingdom from the small flag officer, to the chief flag officer, and then to the hundred households, although the kingdom did not promote himself according to any good intentions, but let himself come to Xining to die, but he never offended him, and he only met two or three times.

Could it be that his identity has been discovered by him? Li Zicheng was suddenly startled, and he didn't feel a chill in his heart, but after thinking about it, no, he had been a post guard before, and had sent all kinds of official documents, and he knew that it was impossible for local official documents in Shaanxi to reach the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, which was a military town, and the local government had not set up a prefecture and county, so there would be no civil affairs official documents to be delivered.

What is it for?

"Li Qianhu, the rumors of his subordinates have ended, what does Li Qianhu have to say to Lord Liang?" The soldier clasped his hands into fists and saluted Li Zicheng, apparently preparing to return to Xining.

Li Zicheng returned the salute, "Thank you Lord Liang for your kindness, I bother my brother to reply to Lord Liang, Li has not done anything unfortunate, Lord Liang doesn't have to worry, his subordinates know." ”

"The subordinates understand, the subordinates take their leave!" The soldier didn't say anything more, but turned over and got on his horse and walked away, the dust raised by the horse's hooves scattered half of the sky.

Li Zicheng wanted to break his head, but he still didn't understand the intention of the kingdom's trip, and when he heard that he had fallen out with Gonggong Wu for himself, he was even more restless in his heart, and he couldn't figure it out, so he didn't think about it for the time being.

But Xiningwei had a problem, it is very likely that it has something to do with himself, Li Zicheng can not build the triangle city with peace of mind, he handed over the task of building the city to Zhou Bin's 500th household, and Zhou Bin took the soldiers to continue to supervise the herdsmen's construction of the city, and he took Xie Guangze's 600th household and Song Wen's 700th household soldiers to return to Zhenhai Fort immediately.

Wang Anping's rangers were fully mobilized, on the one hand, he informed Li Guo of Fuqiang Fort, ordering him to suspend all training, and immediately lead all the soldiers of the 200th household to rush to Zhenhai Fort to meet, on the other hand, immediately send rangers to infiltrate Xining City, to investigate all abnormal conditions in the city, if necessary, you can secretly contact Liang Wencheng to obtain accurate information in the city, Liu Yunshui's cavalry, also informed, if there are no Mongols nearby for the time being, rush to Zhenhai Fort as soon as possible.

Li Zicheng and his own soldiers both had war horses, but Xie Guangze and Song Wenbu were both infantry, and the journey was slow, and it was not until the next morning that they arrived at Zhenhai Fort.

Li Guo has already arrived at Zhenhai Fort, and will come to the outside of the city with Qin Danian to greet Li Zicheng, "Subordinates wait to meet your lord!" ”

"Get up!" Li Zicheng jumped off the horse and walked side by side with the two, "What's the abnormal situation in Zhenhai Fort?" ”

"Back to my lord, we have been training in the fort, and the four gates are guarded by soldiers, except for the herdsmen's normal entry and exit, no abnormal conditions have been found," Qin Danian only said that Li Zicheng was a flight inspection, and he was a little nervous in his heart, "My lord, what happened?" ”

"Let's go back to Fort first!" Li Zicheng entered the city first.

In the official office, Li Zicheng sat in the main seat in the middle, Li Guo and other four hundred households sat on the side, He Xiaomi gave each person a cup of tea, and went out of the official office to wait.

Li Zicheng looked at the four hundred households opposite, and didn't know what to say for a while, what happened in Xining, why did the kingdom come to Xining, Liang Wencheng seemed to have any information, but it was not detailed enough, it was vague to say, maybe it was just his guess, but to take precautions, he must let these hundred households and soldiers be loyal to him, even if there is an abnormal situation, with soldiers, he can be invincible.

Needless to say, Li Guo is not only related by blood, but the two have also undergone the test of life and death together, no matter what happens, he will stand firmly on his side, and Liu Yunshui should also be regarded as his own person.

But Qin Danian, Xie Guangze, and Song Wen were originally a hundred households, after all, they were just reinstated officials, not to mention much kindness, and at the critical moment, it is difficult to say whether they will follow them with an iron heart.

Of course, it is better to divide them, even if they cannot all follow themselves, and never let them unite against themselves.

"Are you going to rebel?" Li Zicheng's heart couldn't help jumping wildly, and he obviously felt his heart beating faster, in the history of later generations, how did Li Zicheng embark on the road of rebellion, he didn't know, was it just because of suspicion?

He only knows the result, and with this result, it is enough.

If you want to pull everyone to rebel with you, can you give them enough benefits? And how can you convince them?

Now the situation in Xining City is unknown, maybe it is not as serious as imagined, if you plan in advance, won't there be a leak? Li Zicheng was not mentally prepared for rebellion at all, let alone "digging deep holes and accumulating grain" for the rebellion; in fact, apart from the soldiers' monthly salary, he did not even have a grain of grain in stock.

In any case, it is always not wrong to let the soldiers be loyal to themselves first.

Li Zicheng took a sip of tea, sorted out his thoughts, and then slowly spoke, "Qin Baihu, how is the training of the soldiers?" Has there been any improvement in military discipline? ”

"My lord, according to his subordinates, it is really difficult to say how much the combat effectiveness of the soldiers has improved, but the military discipline has definitely been greatly improved, and the soldiers are absolutely obedient to their subordinates...... No, absolutely obey the orders of the adults. ”

"Really?" Li Zicheng said with a smile: "If I let them jump into the river, will they jump without hesitation?" ”

"Don't talk about jumping into the river, even if they attack Xining, they will ......" Qin Danian suddenly realized that this metaphor was too inappropriate, and he really wanted to investigate it, and he was suspected of rebellion, so he didn't realize that he would cover his mouth, and swallowed the second half of the sentence alive, and a trace of fear flashed in the corner of his eyes.

"Haha," fortunately Li Zicheng didn't hear the overtones, "If the soldier is so disciplined, I will give you a credit." ”

"My lord, what's going on in Xining?" Song Wen asked tentatively.

"To be honest, I don't know, someone has already been inquired into," Li Zicheng shook his head slightly, there were no special intelligence officers, and the information was not smooth, "Everyone, if something happens in Xining, how will you deal with yourself?" ”

This question is vague, I don't know what happened, so how do these hundreds of households choose? But what Li Zicheng wants is this effect, if he directly tells them to rebel, who would dare to express his position in public? After all, this is the business of the Zhujiu clan.

This kind of question can also be understood as a question of loyalty, which is a common thing in the army, these hundreds of households belong to Li Zicheng not long ago, the people's hearts are not necessarily appropriate, and the military orders between the upper and lower levels are not necessarily smooth, Li Zicheng implicitly raised this kind of question, in essence, it is to ask these hundred households to be loyal to themselves, and in the future, it will be passed out, and they need to be held accountable, and it is just Li Zicheng's seizure of power and profit in the army, and it is not a big deal.

If Li Zicheng is honest and fair, and is not greedy for a penny of military salary, then it is Wu Shaoling's henchman, at least Wu Shaoling feels that he is a hard thorn in Xiningwei, and he will prick his hand if he is not careful.