Facing the hundreds of miles of fertile fields in the Shangchuan Valley, Wang Hu really couldn't bear to wait for the future reclamation, and wondered how many people would be left to build a city here.

The convening department will hold a meeting, at which Wang Hu made a decision that the next step must be to suppress the Maoren villages that participated in the rebellion, kill those who should be killed, and arrest those who should be arrested as slaves.

"This is the upper reaches of the Ishikari River, and although it is a valley surrounded by mountains, it is a fertile field, and it is a treasure land of 10,000 acres of fertile land if it is reclaimed."

Wang Hu told the thoughts in his heart, and the generals listened to it in their hearts, and roughly guessed that their own master would want to reclaim the land here. It was the cold winter of Hokkaido, and the generals were not very happy to brave the snow and travel more than 200 miles to fight here, and they were even more reluctant to reclaim the famine.

The generals looked at their noses and noses, and their noses looked at their hearts, and they didn't care about it, so Wang Hu was talking to himself alone.

Wang Hu was suddenly a little annoyed, and slapped the table and shouted: "Except for a battalion of soldiers and horses to clear the Maoren village, everyone will stay here to build the city and reclaim a thousand acres of land before returning to Ishikari County." ”

The generals were quite unhappy to live in tents on snowy days and build cities and reclaim wasteland in the snow, but when they saw Wang Hu's murderous appearance, the generals could only do so if they were unhappy.

Fortunately, Wang Hu did not ask to build a county town that occupies a circle of one mile here, and only needed to build an earthen fort with a height of 1.5 zhang and a garrison of 500 troops with civil engineering.

To open up the wasteland, it is only necessary to take the earthen fort as the center and cut down the vegetation on the surrounding 1,000 acres of land, and as for plowing the land, it is better to get it again in the spring of the next year.

There were more than 1,000 captives available, and it would take more than ten days to build an earthen fort and reclaim 1,000 acres of land.

As for the people left behind, Wang Hu knew that no one in this gang of killers was willing to take the initiative to stay and share their worries, and he didn't bother to ask their opinions, so he directly pointed out that Shuiyang, who was brave and honest in battle, took 500 people to stay here and continue to reclaim the famine.

Shui Yang had to accept the order with a bitter face, but thinking that the earthen fort had just been built, and the houses built of logs in the fort were a little poor in keeping out the cold, so he had to ask Wang Hu: "Please also ask the general to leave us more warm clothes and enough grain and grass for March." ”

Wang Hu agreed without thinking about it: "No problem, there are enough furs seized from the Maoren, leave three sets for each of you, except for some grain and grass allocated by the army, and leave all the dried meat and other food seized from the Maoren for you." ”

Well, Shui Yang admitted, most of those furs were ripped off the dead people, and he was bad luck when he heard it.

When the army was about to leave, Shuiyang found that the existing soil fort had not yet been named, and hurriedly chased Wang Hu to name it.

Wang Hu didn't have a few taels of ink in his belly, and he didn't think of a word when he wanted to get a good name, so he had to turn around and ask for help, the only one in the team who couldn't come out, was Bai Shuiheng, the son of the assassin of Beisha City.

Built at the confluence of five rivers in the valley, the Baishui Hengguan Tubao coincides with the sun rising from the eastern mountains, and the golden sunlight imprints on the frozen rivers to form a refreshing winter snow scene.

"The sun rises and shines on the river. It's better to call it Asahikawa Castle, how about the king's will? ”

Wang Hu's title is the deputy envoy of Hokkaido, so he is generally called the envoy.

Asahikawa said that Wang Hu nodded hurriedly, indicating that this name was very good, and sighed, it was still the interest of people with ink in their stomachs.

Wang Hu led the army to leave Asahikawa Fort and return south along the Ishikari River, and went south for 100 miles, and found that the distance between Asahikawa Fort and Ishikari County was more than 230 li, and the contact was extremely inconvenient. Asahikawa Forino has something to do, and Ishikari Prefecture is difficult to know.

So it was decided that at the confluence of the Ishikari River and the Sora Chi River, the local Mao people transliterated the name of this place and built a fort in Takigawa to reclaim the garrison, and named it Takigawa Fort, with a garrison of 500.

When Wang Hu led the army back to Ishikari County, there were only more than 300 people left around him, and 500 captured Maoren slaves.

Yuan Zuo went out of the city to greet him, and saw that the army of more than 1,300 people before the battle only returned to more than 300 people, and everyone was full of haggard looks, and exclaimed: "Wang Envoy, is this battle a big defeat?" ”

The soldiers and civilians of Ishikari County who went out of the city with Yuan Zuo were full of horror and looked at Wang Hu and others, Nuozhen was defeated, and the military strength in the city was lost by one-third, and the strength was greatly damaged, and the crazy counterattack against the Mao people below was greatly damaged, and Ishikari County was in danger.

"Hahaha...... Is Yuan Yuanjun looking down on Wang? Even if there are thousands of people, a thousand people under a certain command can break it. ”

Wang Hu laughed with a hint of dissatisfaction with Yuan Zuo's contempt for him.

Yuan Zuo was speechless, thinking of the five short figures of the Mao people, not even having iron weapons, a typical battle five scum, and the defeat of more than 1,000 soldiers and horses led by Wang Hu seemed unlikely.

Yuan Zuo, who reacted, laughed: "Yuan is abrupt, I don't know what arrangements the king has made for the thousands of people who have not returned?" ”

Wang Hu snorted with a slightly dissatisfied face: "I saw that the soil in the upper valley of the Ishikari River is fertile and fertile for hundreds of miles, and the local Mao people have no power to resist after this defeat. A certain place built Asahikawa Fort and left 500 soldiers to defend it, but the loop suddenly felt that the two places were too far apart, and built Takigawa Fort at a hundred miles upstream of the Ishikari River, and left 500 soldiers ......"

Yuan Zuo congratulated with a slightly embarrassed expression: "The king envoy Jun is not defeated is the general under His Royal Highness's seat, and the moon is hundreds of miles for the country, which is really the joy of His Highness and the joy of the Tang Dynasty." ”

Yuan Zuo complimented with his conscience, but in his heart he was dissatisfied with Boss Wang Hu. Don't look at Hokkaido, he is the main envoy, Wang Hu is just a degraded defeated army in the future, and he will serve as a deputy envoy here. But under the command of King Yan, Wang Hu can be eight streets away from him regardless of his qualifications or status. He is a genuine Yanwang Mansion general, and he is much better than him, a down-and-out businessman who was recruited halfway.

The only thing that can be proud is that his family is from the Jiangzuo clan, although he is so downtrod that he is not as good as some rich and noble families.

Wang Hu crossed Yuan Zuo and strode into the city, Yuan Zuo snorted coldly in his heart, so he had to catch up. Although he was his boss, because of his intimate relationship with His Royal Highness King Yan, he had to wait for him equally, and sometimes he was simply pressed by Wang Hu, which was really depressing.

Entering the city, Wang Hu found that there were more unfamiliar faces in the city, and asked Yuan Zuodao, who had caught up: "Yuan Yuan, is it that His Highness's fleet to transport prisoners to Hokkaido this autumn has arrived?" ”

Yuan Zuo said angrily: "The fleet didn't come at all, and I don't know if the fleet delayed the journey or didn't send it at all." ”

Since Wang Hu came, he has been training prisoners and sergeants in Ishikari County, and since then he has almost taken care of the foreign conquest and land expansion. If this continues, Hokkaido's contribution to expanding its territory will have nothing to do with it.

Yuan Zuo had planned to use the prisoners brought from Andong this year to give them the benefits to be trained under his command to form an army, and then march eastward, crossing the mountains between the two plains of Hokkaido, occupying the vast plain behind the mountains, and suppressing Wang Hu with his ability to expand the land.

It was frustrating that the fleet had not yet arrived.

"And where did these people come from?" Wang Hu pointed to a few strangers wandering the streets.

Yuan Zuo looked at it and said coldly: "It's the Xuanwu Sea expedition team returning to the south, it docked two days ago, and it will return to Duli Town after resting here for a while. ”

Lu Yuanqing, the deputy head of the Xuanwu Sea Expedition, once belittled the Yuan clan of Chen County, and Yuan Zuo was extremely unkind to see Lu Yuanqing from then on, and even seeing his subordinates was very eye-catching.