(Recommended reading: "Fengxiao, more wells must be drilled in the city, and once the city is besieged for a long time, it will not run out of water. There is also a warehouse, and there must be more food hoarding in the city. Ye Chen pointed to the map and said.

"Big brother, second brother, sir, if from a military point of view, we can dig some hidden caves in the city, and the number of people does not need to be large, because the space in the city is small, and a dozen people can carry out a wave of sneak attacks." Zhao Yun said.

"Lord, Zilong's suggestion makes sense, but the cost will increase a lot." Guo Jia groaned for a while, and said after calculating.

"It doesn't matter, the building we set up at the corner of the street is for sneak attack, you can dig a tunnel below first, to facilitate the transfer of personnel after the sneak attack, as for the hidden soldier cave, the internal construction of our city will be completed in several years, and then dig slowly."

"At present, there will not be so many people in the city, the well can be hidden first, and then opened when needed, and part of the warehouse can also be camouflaged for defense..."

One suggestion after another was gathered, and several people successively improved the drawings.

Xuanfu County has begun to build, but at present it is still leveling the land, and there are all kinds of simple wooden houses and tents built on the periphery, tens of thousands of people can not have no place to live, the early preparations are relatively perfect, and the construction can start after a few days when the personnel and materials arrive.

Tai Shi Ci and Zhao Yun stayed here for two days, and then set off with the army, Tai Shi Ci went back to take charge of the original army and continued to act with the Wuhuan people, while Zhao Yun hid behind and responded at any time.

At present, the city is still far away from the grassland, but if people of insight understand that once the city is built, then it is a blockade of the grassland, and as long as some soldiers and horses are arranged in this city, then the cavalry of the grassland will not be able to go south from here.

Therefore, Ye Chen did not guarantee that someone from Wuhuan would understand, resist, and attack Ye Chen and them, so Ye Chen made arrangements to avoid being attacked when he got it.

However, in the end, it turned out that the Wuhuan people had no vision, and when the city was built, they were surrounded and trapped in that meadow.

The north is Turkic, the west is the Xiongnu, the Turks and the Xiongnu both want to annex them, and the south is Ye Chen, they want to go south, a male city blocks their way, and the east has little room for development, and a little more east is a little bit of mountains, not suitable for nomadism at all.

Wuhuan was trapped, before the city was built, they could still go south to plunder, but once the city was built, their activity space would be much smaller, although they could also enter from other directions in Youzhou, but once this was the case, the rear would not be secured, Ye Chen could start from there at any time and go straight to their rear.

In this way, the Wuhuan people can only rely on Ye Chen if they don't want to be annexed, and Ye Chen will not annex them, he will only cooperate with them, Ye Chen will sell the goods to them, and they have money before, when the money is scraped clean by Ye Chen, they can only exchange it for raw materials.

It can be a war horse, it can be a cow, a sheep or a fur, but in this way, the Wuhuan people can't do without Ye Chen, without the food, medicine, salt, and iron tools that Ye Chen provided them, they can't raise so many people, and they don't have a luxurious life.

They are obsessed with Du Kang wine, once there is no Du Kang wine, then their life will become tasteless, from luxury to simplicity, Ye Chen has made them accustomed to a luxurious life, and many people can no longer return to the previous hard life.

They can't do without Ye Chen if they want to maintain a luxurious life, the Wuhuan people are intermediaries in the transit trade, making money on both sides, they sell Du Kang wine, salt, etc. to the Turks and the Xiongnu, even if their money is exhausted, they can still maintain this life.

After Ye Chen took over Xuansu County, he also made a very important decision, that is, to relocate part of the production line to Xuansu County, but this would have to wait for Guan Yu to arrive with the Tuntian soldiers.

These production lines are designed specifically for trade with the northern steppes, which can greatly reduce the transportation routes and reduce the burden.

Xuansu County began to migrate the population, concentrated in three directions, these are the three big cities that Ye Chen plans to build, although only one is planned to be built at present, but the population is concentrated first, which can not only facilitate management, but also strengthen defense.

Ye Chen sat in the county guard's mansion, frowning, and the preliminary inventory estimated that there were more than 70,000 people in the entire Xuansu County, and a huge county had such a population, how much tax revenue could it have, and how many soldiers could it provide?

"Alas, the population is still too small.

Ye Chen shook his head helplessly and said.

"How to increase the population?"

"By the way, there are no homeless people, I can buy it or grab it." Ye Chen's eyes lit up, and a large number of people seemed to appear in front of him.

Ye Chen sent someone to call Guo Jia to discuss.

"My lord, it is indeed okay to buy Han slaves from the nomads of the northern steppes, they often go south to plunder, and the population is what they like to rob." Guo Jia is also worried about the population, whether it is to build a city, defend or future development, it is inseparable from a large number of people.

The reason why Liaodong will develop so fast is because it has accepted a population of hundreds of thousands, and Xuanwu County has such a small population, which is really difficult to do.

"My lord, not only can we buy slaves from the northern steppe peoples, but there are still a large number of people in the east, and we can rob them."

Ye Chen said before that he was going to rob the Huns, and he was going to rob the bandits, but he hadn't thought about the east, and the east used to be Goryeo.

Gaoli, Ye Chen became excited when he thought about it, the Goryeo sticks in the later generations were really annoying, at this time, they were not strong, so they robbed them and completely included them in the territory of the Han Dynasty, to see if there would be anything in the future that would be sticks.

Ye Chen was very excited, although he didn't know how many people there were in Goryeo Stick now, but it would definitely not be less, and he could rob their wealth, so he would definitely have a good income.

However, thinking about it, Ye Chen was also a little frustrated, because it was a long-term strategy, at least Ye Chen could not fight Goryeo before the city was built, because there were no soldiers, if he went to fight Goryeo, once the north came over, Ye Chen would have no soldiers in his hands, it would be too dangerous.

When the city is completed, Ye Chen will be able to free up his troops, and the defense of Liaodong will be fine, and he will not be afraid of them coming.

So at present, it can only be bought through redemption, and it is easy to do it on the Wuhuan side, and they are willing to sell slaves to them if they give some benefits, and there are also a large number of people on the Turkic and Xiongnu sides who can be trafficked.

Their population was not only Han Chinese, but also many slaves born from the annexation of tribes, and these slaves were cheap, so Ye Chen asked people to find the Wuhuan people and make their requests.

The Wuhuan people hit it off, their money was exhausted, and cattle, sheep and horses were not unlimited to produce, they wanted slaves, and the offer was very high, of course they were willing.

The Wuhuan people also knew that there were a large number of slaves on the Xiongnu side, and they could make money on both sides by being middlemen, Ye Chen gave a high price, but they didn't use it when they bought it with the Huns, and there was a lot of profit to be made in the middle.

However, Ye Chen also made a request, the Han people were preferred, and the price of the Han people was slightly higher than that of other slaves.

Of course this is no problem for the Wuhuan people, the Han slaves are the most inferior among them, Ye Chen is willing to ask for it, or buy it at a high price, of course they are happy.

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