Chapter Ninety-Three: Plundering the Population!
Just when the Datang Express was developing rapidly, Lu Chen began to pack up his salutes, he was going back to the Holy City, after all, it was his base. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
In this Minzhou City, most of the shops that originally belonged to the Jiang family have been controlled by him, and now they are all taken care of by him. As for the silver taels earned, Lu Chen let people buy a lot of materials needed to build the city and some daily necessities, and transported them directly to the holy city.
After all, the Holy City has only built an inner city, and it will definitely be built in the outer city in the future. Therefore, now as long as there are good construction materials in Minzhou City, Lu Chen will let people buy them. In addition to these, the daily necessities of the thousands of people in the Holy City are also purchased from Minzhou City, and the current Holy City can be said to be parasitic on Minzhou City.
After packing up all their belongings, this time they had a total of more than a dozen carriages of things, among which there were eight carriages of gold and silver, and the rest of the carriages were some precious antiquities, jade, and those weapons that were accidentally found in the underground secret room.
Because there are carriages, and some of the things in the carriages are very fragile, so the journey is very slow. It was only after a whole day that they could see the mountain range in the distance.
Looking at the mountains that were still far away, Lu Chen let everyone rest in place, after all, they couldn't see anything clearly in this late night, especially in the woods, it was easy to damage the rare antiquities in the carriage.
On the second day, as soon as the sun brightened, Lu Chen woke everyone up, and then urged everyone to go to the two mountain ranges in the distance, although these places had not heard of mountain bandits, but Lu Chen was afraid of being discovered by the cavalry of Tubo.
After all, the contents of these carriages are comparable to one-third of the Datang Vault, so Lu Chen naturally has to be careful.
It wasn't until under the mountain range that Lu Chen relaxed slightly. He had all the carriages hidden in a cave because of the two mountains, and they couldn't go up at all. When Lu Chen first arrived here, those heavy soldiers were left outside by him, and these caves were also dug at that time, and there were simple defensive traps outside the caves. At that time, it was to keep those grain, grass, horses and other things from being stolen, but I didn't expect to use them now.
Lu Chen entered the stone cave, but saw that there were still a few people guarding these things, and the sweat and blood BMW obtained in the spring hunt were also honestly staying there eating forage. It may be that seeing Lu Chen coming, the horse suddenly shook his body, and then two breaths erupted from his nose.
Lu Chen walked over and gently touched his mane with his hand, this horse rubbed on Lu Chen's hand very honestly, this scene saw a few people next to him were amazed, they had to be careful when feeding this fierce horse, for fear of being hurt by it, I didn't expect this famous fierce horse to be so obedient.
When Lu Chen was about to go out, the sweaty BMW rubbed against his body again, and then looked at Lu Chen with a pair of pitiful big eyes. Seeing this, Lu Chen smiled slightly and said, "I can't take you out yet, wait a few days and we'll go back to Chang'an!" ”
I don't know if I understood what Lu Chen meant, the horse suddenly looked up to the sky and neighed.
After Lu Chen hid these carriages, he took Longyan and Lianfeng over the mountain range, and from a distance, it seemed that an outer city was being built outside the holy city. However, it may be that time is not in a hurry, and there are only about 1,000 people who are building it. Some others are harvesting crops, and some soldiers are training.
"Wow! There's actually a city here! At this time, Lian Feng beside Lu Chen shouted, still looking at the busy people in the distance in disbelief after shouting.
A group of people walked down from the mountain range, only to see that the places that were still full of woods and weeds before have now all been opened up into farmland, and in these newly opened up farmlands, people from several tribes were busy, and when they saw Lu Chen coming back, these people all saluted him respectfully.
When Lu Chen walked to the bottom of the holy city, the old patriarch had already come out, Lu Chen pointed to the farmland that had just been opened up in the distance, and asked, "With so much farmland, do we have enough manpower?" ”
Hearing Lu Chen's words, he saw that the old patriarch was full of spring, and said with a smile, "Isn't this because the Holy City is going to be expanded?" There was a lot of farmland that was going to be occupied by the new outer city, so I asked people to go to the outskirts and reopen some farmland."
Hearing this, Lu Chen nodded suddenly, and then he looked at the outer city that had just begun to be built, and frowned slightly, "I'm afraid it will take a long time to build" and it will take a lot of time to build houses and shops in the inner city, and there are not a few houses built in the inner city yet.
Seeing that Lu Chen was a little helpless, Long Yan next to him suggested, "General, in fact, we can buy some slaves to help us build the city wall!" ”
Hearing Long Yan's suggestion, Lu Chen's eyes suddenly lit up, this is also a good way. Although it is not easy to buy slaves now, after all, in recent years, the bigger battles have been in Minzhou City before, so there are not many slaves on the black market, and the price is still high and scary.
However, Lu Chen didn't plan to buy it, but to catch the slaves himself!
This is the border between the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, even if the Tubo people don't come to loot, Lu Chen can rob them. The only difference is that Lu Chen is not robbing food but population!
After making up his mind, Lu Chen immediately sent someone to inform Li Xinran, who was shopping in Minzhou City, that Lu Chen could not take her in the previous battle. But if she doesn't tell her about this kind of small war, once she knows about it, this Nizi will start a surge, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
As Lu Chen expected, after knowing that there was going to be a war, the eldest lady rode back that day, and when she saw Lu Chen, she immediately said excitedly, "Are we really going to fight?" ”
Looking at the eldest lady's enthusiastic appearance, Lu Chen was very puzzled, in Chang'an City, the girls of other wealthy families are trying to be a big girl, why is there such a strange thing?
Lu Chen said with certainty: "Of course, we have to take the initiative this time and go to Tubo to plunder the slaves!" ”
Hearing Lu Chen's words, Li Xinran's face suddenly showed excitement, and then she said to herself, "I have nothing to do all day these days, I can suffocate General Ben, haha, now General Ben can finally show his skills!" ”
Lu Chen ".........."
Now that the eldest lady is here, Lu Chen immediately began to prepare. This time, he only planned to take a thousand people with him, after all, the Holy City was still in the construction period, and he couldn't spare too many people. Moreover, Lu Chen did not intend to capture many people at once, if he really did this, it was likely to attract the attention of the Tubo high-level, and Tubo might directly send a large army to exterminate the Holy City.
In the end, Lu Chen decided to mobilize two hundred people from his Holy City City Guards, and then eight hundred people from the two thousand people under Lin Yuan's command before. These nearly 2,000 people, Lu Chen has not reappeared in formation since he brought them to the Holy City. One is that Lu Chen was busy stabilizing Minzhou City at the time, and he didn't have time to do these things at all, and as soon as Lin Yuan left, Lu Chen immediately reorganized his troops, for fear of causing them to rebound.