Xiaoxianglou's conversation unexpectedly leaked out, making many people wary, the Mo family has lost its status for a long time, and is disliked by Confucianism, everyone avoids it, even some people who originally had a good impression of Yang Chong, do not dare to speak for Yang Chong anymore. The center's text also came down quickly, and Yang Chong led the head of the military department and the head of Handchuan Rong as Zheng Qipin, and was in charge of the crushing farm and tuntian in Hualong County. In the second year of the abolition of the emperor in the Western Wei Dynasty, Hualong County was named after the Hualong Valley in the territory; In the third year of the Great Cause, the imperial court abolished the Kuozhou south of the Yellow River, and changed it to Douhe County, Hualong County belonged to the jurisdiction of Douhe County, and then it was assigned to Xiping County.

Yuan Wuji, Duhu and others all understood that Pei Ju and others really had no choice but to exile Yang Chong in this way, but the location of Tuntian was changed from Huangshui County to Hualong County, which was very unfavorable to Yang Chong, because the land that could be used in Hualong County was far from enough, and the geographical environment was sinister. However, Yang Chong was still smiling as usual, and asked Cao Tong, Ma Ji, and Wu Zhuo: "Which of you is willing to go to Xiping County with me, where is the Tuntian manager of Zhengjiupin." ”

In the Sui Dynasty, officials were divided and ruled, each with its own system, and it was an insurmountable step from an official to an official, and there were even fewer examples of Yang Chong taking the initiative to think of his subordinates. However, the three of them are all old men in the military department, and they not only know the situation in Xiping County, but also understand Yang Chong's current situation; After a moment of silence, Wu Zhuo opened his mouth and said that he was willing to go, and Yang Chong finalized the matter. The support of the Wei Mansion was still effective, not only did it decide to increase Yang Chong's number of soldiers to 1,000, but Duhu also sent Shi Daqian, Shan Fu, and Shan Ying over as the generals who led the troops.

Before Yang Chong set off, he decided to entrust all the affairs of Chang'an to Meng Kunpeng, Yang Lei's loyalty was not a problem, but there were some things that Yang Lei couldn't resist. Jiang Fei decided to go to the Western Regions with Yang Chong, Louguandao was powerful in the west, and Feng Qi sent his disciples Tianjian and Tianqi to assist; Yang Chong's own family arranged for Yang Heng to take Yang San, Yang Si, Yang Qi, Yang Shi, and Gu Di Zang. Meng Kunpeng called Sikong Xing and Qin Yunyou, Sikong Xing used to be the lord of Shangshu, but he lost his official position because of Yuwen Xin's conspiracy; Qin Yunyou is a veteran who has been to Tuyuhun and other places.

Yang Chong and his entourage set off from Chang'an, bringing five carts of nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur, Yang Chong's idea was very simple, when his life was threatened, he didn't care about any forbearance, and lived one more day is a day, as long as someone knocked on the door, let him taste the power of gunpowder. Yang Chong received an additional 400 elite soldiers at Yumen Pass, and Zhang Ju was also transferred to Yang Chong, and Yang Chong learned that Hualong County was actually a fort and two forts according to the introduction of Zhang Ju and Wu Zhuo.

Handan Chuan Rong was in charge of the area of Hou Ba, the captain of the Han Dynasty, in the east and west of Handuntian, and the other was Rilan Fort and Stone Castle, which were the county governors of Qianliang and Northern Wei respectively. However, when he arrived in Handchuan Rong, Yang Chong's first surprise was to see apricot blossoms, which had just snowed, and there was snow water on the budding flower bones, but it did not affect the other flowers to show their beautiful petals under the sun.

The original commander of Handchuan Rong was Dadao Wang Ting, an officer who had been stationed at the border for nearly ten years, and when he learned that Yang Chong had never led a soldier, he couldn't help but be very curious, and asked Shi Daqian in private: "What does the imperial court mean by this, why don't you directly appoint you as the commander?" ”

Shi Daqian shook his head and said: "I'm not suitable, Yang Chong is the head of the military department and the commander of the war, he came here, the most important thing is to open the mill and the tuntian, and the appointment of the lord is just to facilitate his actions." ”

Wang Ting understands this, the counties and counties in the border pass are actually military states, there are very few residents, if there is no military power, it is equivalent to nothing, Wang Ting is also a little curious, in this deserted place, Yang Chongtuntian is easy to understand, it's a big deal to send a little more prisoners over, but how to open the mill? Wang Ting found a reason, and instead of leaving in a hurry, he stayed in the stone castle, waiting to see Yang Chong's movements.

After Yang Chong ran a lap in Hualong County, he found that the Yellow River was in Hualong County to run down the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, from Jianzha into Xunhua, the Gushi Gorge is the Yellow River must pass through, the two mountains confront, the mountains are steep, towering into the clouds, the steep wall is like cutting, the sky is shady. After the Yellow River enters the gorge, because the river channel is narrow, the reef in the river is lurking, the rolling river water flies turbulent to create a whirlpool, roars down, climbs to the top to view the scenery, is magnificent, very dangerous.

After returning, Yang Chong began to make personnel adjustments, and Shi Daqian served as the deputy commander and was in charge of the army; Shan Fu and Zhang Ju led 150 men to garrison in Zhilan Fort and Stone Castle respectively, and as for the two castle lords appointed by Wang Ting, Murong Xixiong and Gongsun You, they were transferred back to Handchuan Rong by Yang Chong to serve as the general of the cavalry battalion. Sikong Xing and Wu Zhuo served as the managers of Tuntian, responsible for Donghanbao and Xihanbao respectively, Yang Chong's plan was to open the crushing farm in Xihanbao, and after Donghanbao, it was the county administration of Hualong County and the camp of Handchuan Rong.

The county order of Hualong County was originally the head of Handchuan Rong, and Yang Chong did not arrange other personnel, but handed over the security to the original deputy commander Cheng Shang; Shan Ying was responsible for assisting Shi Daqian in military training. In fact, there are not many residents in Handchuan Rong, and the four forts together are only one hundred and seventy-eight households, with about five hundred people; However, there are still more than 1,300 people in the camp, all of whom are ordinary prisoners and soldiers, and few of them have backgrounds.

Yang Chong held a family meeting and decided to build a workshop in Handchuan Rong, listen to Jiang Fei's suggestion to build a medicine school, imitate the Daxing medicine school to train ambulance personnel, and collect medicinal materials by the way; Jiang Fei and Tianjian and Tianwu have seen it in the nearby mountains, and the medicinal value is higher Cordyceps, green fritillary, Zhu Ling, licorice, Codonopsis, Bupleurum, Snow Lotus, Astragalus, Panax notoginseng, Fritillary, Xuemancao, etc. Yang Heng was responsible for establishing a government-run ironware workshop and training ironsmiths in the reclamation camp; Gu Dizang and Qin Yunyou were sent to Shanshan by Yang Chong to look for medicinal herb merchants who might cooperate, and buy some slaves by the way.

Yang Chong saw that there were still many children in Donghanbao and the camp of exile, and decided to pay for a private school by himself, and asked Tianjian to teach these children to read and write; This incident caused quite a stir in Handchuan Rong, because Yang Chong's principle was that no matter the children of prisoners, slaves or other children of other races, they should have the right to be educated and learn Chinese characters. Shi Daqian and others had already heard Yang Chong indoctrinate this kind of thinking, but they didn't think anything about it, but Cheng Shang and Gongsun You couldn't accept it, how could these children of Hu people and slaves be the same as the children of Da Sui.

In the end, Sikong Xing came up with an idea and asked Yang Chong to buy the more than 40 prisoners and children from the camp who were going to go to private school and use them as his own slaves, so that others would not care; The children of the Hu people can worship Jiang Fei as their master and throw themselves into the door of the Taoist Temple. Sure enough, after Yang Chong spent a hundred taels of silver and changed the identities of those children, Cheng Shang and the others no longer objected; Jiang Fei and others came to the west, and they themselves shouldered the mission of preaching, although Jiang Fei did not accept apprentices, but directly asked Tianjian to hang the sign of the private school upstairs to observe the Tao, not only to teach, but also to do things.