Xincheng is located on the bank of the Liaoshui River, when the reign of King Rongliu was at the beginning, in order to prevent the attack of the Tang Dynasty, a number of cities were built in the country, the new city is one of the most famous and the most solid, but the new city has another unofficial name, that is, the White Bone City, because there is a tall white bone mountain on the bank of the Liaoshui River not far from the north of the new city, even higher than the city wall of the new city, so it has this name.

Li Xiu and his party came to the new city, and the first thing they saw was the white bone mountain on the north side of the new city, but more than 20 years have passed, and the corpses that were piled up into mountains have also turned into white bones, and they are covered with dust and weeds.

However, after all, this white bone mountain is not naturally generated, but artificially piled up, so the mountain looks quite strange, and I don't know if it is because there are too many bones on the mountain, so that the plants on the mountain also grow particularly luxuriant, and the whole mountain looks green and ink, standing there very conspicuous.

The guards of the new city had already received the news that Li Xiu and they were coming, so as soon as Li Xiu and the others came to the gate of the new city, they saw a guard galloping out on horseback, and when they came to Li Xiu, they immediately saluted and said: "The last general Liu Mu has missed the distance, and I hope that the prince of the country will forgive his sins!" ”

"General Liu is polite, we came to collect the bones of the soldiers of the Sui Army this time, and we still need your cooperation at that time!" Li Xiu also said very politely to Liu Mu, this Liu Mu he had met a few times in the army, he was Cheng Yanjin's old subordinate, when Cheng Yanjin beat the new city, so he ordered him to guard here, and later the army returned to the court, he still stayed here and did not go back.

"Guogong is too polite, this is the last general's job, what is there to tell Guogong to send the last general!" Liu Mu also knew that Li Xiu had a good relationship with his old boss Cheng Yanjin, and he was also very cooperative at the moment, and hurriedly saluted Qin Qiong, Ma Ye and Li Daozong next to Li Xiu, and also met Li Zhi, although Li Zhi is young, he is the prince after all, and when it comes to identity, he is the most noble.

At that moment, Liu Mu welcomed Li Xiu and others into the new city, which was originally built to prevent the attack of the Tang Dynasty, so the entire city was originally a military city, but as the Tang army took over here, gradually some people began to settle in, including businessmen who came to do military business, and Tang Jun's own families.

Of course, this family member was not brought from the Tang Dynasty, but some local women, after all, the long-term garrison will also make the soldiers have a strong sense of homesickness, and women are the most effective antidote, so as long as the Tang army is stationed in other places, the general local fertility rate will increase greatly, even if the Tang army withdraws later, there will be a group of fatherless children.

Although the new city is a military city, but because the planning and construction time is not long, and the king of Rongliu is really a big investment, so the whole city is built very grand, not only the city is high and the pool is deep, and the internal planning is also very reasonable, with more and more people moving in, now the new city is also more and more market atmosphere, and the people and cars on the street are also very lively.

However, Liu Mu is obviously not very good at managing the city, especially with more and more people moving in, there are simple houses built everywhere in the city, and some simply occupy the roads, and the fish and dragons in the city are mixed, there are all kinds of people, just what Li Xiu saw along the way, there are no less than four or five fights, it seems that he has to urge the imperial court to send real officials over quickly, after all, Liu Mu is a military general, he is definitely not afraid of war, but it is really difficult to manage a city.

Liu Mu had already prepared a place for Li Xiu and them, which was actually the city lord's mansion where he originally lived, and he and his two newly recruited concubines moved to a residence next to the city lord's mansion, Li Xiu was also a little embarrassed about this, but this city lord's mansion was the only residence in the city that could allow Li Xiu, Li Zhi and others to live in, otherwise they would have to live in a barracks with those troops led by Li Daozong.

After Li Xiu and them were temporarily settled, Liu Mu also asked someone to prepare a reception banquet in the mansion, and he personally accompanied him, in fact, in the entire new city, he was the only one who was barely qualified to talk to Li Xiu's nobles.

"General Liu, how many people are stationed in Xincheng now?" After three rounds of drinking, Li Xiu immediately asked Liu Mu that he had never drunk alcohol, this habit was almost known to everyone, and Liu Mu also knew it when he toasted just now, so he asked Li Xiu to replace the wine with tea.

"Qi Yu Guogong, Xincheng is located in the middle of Liaoshui, the location is very important, before Cheng Biting Jin gave me 5,000 troops to be stationed here, but later after destroying Goguryeo, he sent half of the army back, now Xincheng has a total of 2,500 people, and there is no big mess in normal times, but occasionally there will be some remnants of Goguryeo to make trouble, let's just go and clean it up." Liu Mu opened his mouth to report at the moment.

Liu Mu's answer also represents the real situation of the occupied Goguryeo, with the demise of Goguryeo, especially after the death of Quangai Suwen, although there are rebels who resist from time to time in Goguryeo, but they can't become a big climate, and only the local garrison can be exterminated, so the entire Goguryeo Daxiu has calmed down, and Li Shimin has also classified this place as the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, and the officials who manage it are also being mobilized.

"General Liu, what about the livelihood here, I heard Mr. say that this is a military city before, and I thought there were no people living in it, but I didn't expect that when I entered the city just now, I also saw a lot of ordinary people in the city?" At this time, I saw Li Zhi asking, after what he saw and heard along the way, coupled with Li Xiu's deliberate guidance, he also attached great importance to the people's livelihood, and he had to personally understand the living conditions of the local people everywhere he went.

"His Royal Highness the King of Qiqi Jin, there were indeed no people living in Xincheng before, but after we beat it down, there were some merchants who came to do business, and then some Han people who were previously under the rule of Goguryeo moved in, and some tribes in the north came here to trade with merchants, so Xincheng is slowly beginning to prosper here, and from the beginning of this year, the last general will also begin to collect commercial taxes, although the number is not much, but it can also increase some income for the imperial court!" Liu Mu immediately replied, and when he said the end, he also showed a somewhat smug expression on his face, as if he felt that he had managed the new city well.

"General Liu, we are here this time to collect the bones of the former Sui soldiers, I don't know if you know about the bone mountain in the north of the city, if you collect the bones now, is there any difficulty?" At this moment, I saw Qin Qiong go straight to the point and ask, this is also the question that Li Xiu and they are most concerned about.

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