In the early morning of the next day, Li Yanzhi and the other sergeants who escorted the bald tribesmen returned, then bid farewell to Captain Ma Du, and then embarked on the return journey with more than 200 subordinates. This was the first time to trade with the Bald Xianbei Tribe, and although there were many concerns and twists and turns, it was finally successfully completed. The next step is to transport these cattle and horses back to the county seat, and then arrange the reclamation and autumn sowing that will begin soon.

It has been two days since I returned to the county seat. Hearing that Li Yanzhi had returned to the county seat, Xin Yan also left the county seat and led a cadre of scribes and others to greet him outside the county seat. Li Yanzhi also told Xin Yan about the trade with the bald department before, although Xin Yan was not very optimistic, but as the county magistrate of the county, he also attached great importance to this matter. After all, if a group of strong cattle can be obtained to participate in the subsequent reclamation and autumn sowing, it is also a guarantee for the people's agricultural affairs that cannot be underestimated.

When he saw Li Yanzhi leading more than 200 subordinates to escort a large number of cattle and horses back to the county seat, Xin Yan smiled on his face, and personally went to Li Yanzhi's horse and said: "Brother Dingdong is very human, so that I can rest easy about sowing and cultivating in autumn later." It's just that it's a long way to go, and Brother Dingdong is hard, so please go to the county government to take a break. ”

Li Yanzhi also smiled when he heard this: "Why should Fuliang be like this, the prince of the government ordered me to do my best to assist, this matter is all within Yanjiong's responsibility." If Fu Liang was so polite, he would have killed Yan Bing. ”

Xin Yan stepped forward a few steps forward and grabbed Li Yanzhi, who had just dismounted: "Please Brother Dingdong enter the city." Li Yanzhi was flattered when he saw this, and hurriedly bowed down and said, "Fuliang, please go back to the county mansion for a while." After Yanzhi settled these livestock, he went to the county government to talk to Fuliang. ”

After sending Xin Yan away, Li Yanzhi also drove these cattle and horses into the city with his soldiers, and he had already asked the carpenters in the workshop to enclose a vacant land near the left side of the barracks to build a barn in advance, just to store these cattle. And these more than 100 horses can be directly led to the army, and a soldier can expand the stable. Moreover, not all of the more than 100 horses in this batch were used as military supplies. In Li Yanzhi's own imagination, he also selected fifty of these good horses, prepared to go through the Xin family's way, and transported them to Xihai and Wuxing to sell them.

Although the treasures of Fan's shopkeeper were confiscated, they were huge. However, if there is no input, sooner or later it will be empty. Li Yanzhi also knows these things, and every batch of livestock bought back can actually be sold to those slightly more remote counties. Also back some funds. Although it is not yet possible to break even. But in the long run, sooner or later, you can get back even the interest.

Li Yanzhi returned to the camp and asked Zhou Xing to arrange for manpower to expand the stable. Fifty of these new horses were selected by the camp horsemen to be branded as military horses, while the other fifty were placed separately to be sold as the first goods to the remote counties when the matter was settled.

After settling down, Li Yanzhi went to the county government, reported the matter to Xin Yan, and recorded the purchased livestock in the archives of the county government. Later, it was time to arrange for the reclamation and distribution of these livestock.

After days of running around and tiring, Li Yanzhi was also quite sleepy, and when he saw that things had settled down, he went to rest. I slept until three o'clock the next day before I got up. As soon as he woke up, everything in the county government now came into his mind. He went to the room to get some porridge to eat, and then went to the main hall to find Xin Yan, and together with him, he summed up the manpower distribution needed to reclaim the wasteland.

Although Xin Yan had never been engaged in government affairs before, with the assistance of Liu Jiwu and others, who were familiar with government affairs, he also had a preliminary arrangement for the upcoming reclamation and other matters. The displaced people in the north of the city have been resettled in the existing villages, and a small number of them have been resettled in the existing alleys, while most of them have been diverted to the downstream direction of the river, and settled in the wasteland where there are conditions but have not yet had time to be reclaimed as fields. Before Li Yanzhi was away, the county government had also allocated more than a dozen craftsmen and a batch of building materials to organize these displaced people to build their new homes.

When Li Yanzhi and Xin Yan arrived at one of the newly purchased miles, they saw Qin Dayong leading some craftsmen to lead the displaced people to build their own houses. Quite a few of the houses are largely in shape, and all that is needed is some final finishing touches. Except for some of the elderly, even women and children helped carry building materials and clay on the construction site. Everyone knows that the happy life that can be hoped for today is not easy to come by. He also showed great enthusiasm for building his new home.

Xin Yan came down to inspect the work this time, and he also put on a chapter uniform quite burningly. At this time, in the countryside, surrounded by a group of errand soldiers, watching the construction progress of this newly purchased li back and forth, it was also quite a bit of a taste of self-pride. The old men who were sitting by the road resting, looking at him at this time, were also full of inexplicable admiration and awe. Xin Yan and Li Yanzhi walked back and forth on the construction site that looked like a mess, and in a blink of an eye, there were several old men walking into the road, Xin Yan saw these old men blocking the way, and he was very unhappy.

However, the first old man had already bowed his hand and asked Xin and Li, who were at the head of the team, "Are the two officials Xin Mingfu and Li Sima?" The two looked at each other for a moment, then turned to the old man and nodded together.

When the old man saw the two nodding, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "The grass people thank the two officials!" The two of them were not mentally prepared, and they were taken aback for a while, and then Xin Yan, who was dressed in chapter clothes, and Li Yanzhi, who was wearing a short shirt and leather armor, stepped forward separately and worked together to help the old man up.

"We are officials of a county, and we are ordered by Zhang Yuanjun, so we should govern this county for Zhang Yuanjun. Pacifying the displaced people and helping them to reclaim land is also within my share, and my husband doesn't have to thank him. Xin Yan's expression was relaxed and he wrote lightly.

When the old man heard this, he said with emotion: "The land of Longxi is now full of trouble...... I think that at the beginning, we couldn't stand the endless exploitation of the thieves, and the persecution of the Qiang people fled north to Liangzhou. I thought I could only find a place to live in the wild, and I fought with wild beasts for a bite to eat. But unexpectedly, the county Zhongming Mansion and Sima were so kind to us, and we were all apprehensive and grateful in our hearts......"

Life is not easy, especially in these troubled times. Li Yanzhi only has some thoughts on development and growth, so treating these displaced people who may become the backbone of the county's labor force and getting their gratitude is not Li Yanzhi's original intention, but just an additional product.

Li Yanzhi looked at these villagers who were grateful to him when they had a place to live, and felt that it was not easy to survive in this troubled world. If they can be treated well and live, who wants to leave their homeland?

Li Yanzhi arched his hand to the old man and said: "We are all descendants of Yan and Huang, our ancestors started from the Yellow River Valley, and the word ploughing and warfare has not been wasted. If it is like today, it will be a little quiet. Sheltering and treating Han people well is even more right, and the old man doesn't have to say thank you. I just hope that in the future, I will have a good life and farm, and the county will recruit my children to serve in the army, and we will be able to feel great relief......"