Chapter 321: True, good at war, developing at home

As the wealthy merchants went to various places to sell this year's batch of weapons under the banner of the Dingbei Garrison Regiment, they also brought back a lot of goods and sold them. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Li Deyi took the opportunity to arrange them all in the trade city, and those storefronts that had been built in advance finally came in handy at this moment.

These merchants brought a lot of novelties and new goods, attracting many Yi people and people from Dingbei County to come here to buy and sell, making the trade city more prosperous. Now because whether it is the Yiren or the people of Dingbei County, they all have a lot of silver coins in their hands, so they are willing to buy something they like in the Trade City. Anyway, the Dingbei garrison regiment will recruit workers every year, and the family can earn a lot of silver every year.

Seeing that the trade city he had built was becoming more and more prosperous, Li Deyi walked on the street, really a little proud. Now, coming to the Trade City every day to inspect a circle has become a must-have homework for Li Deyi. When the Yiren and people of the Trade City saw Li Deyi, they would greet Li Deyi with a smile and greet the little general cordially. Gradually, Li De's pair of trade cities seemed to have an indescribable sense of intimacy. This is his city, which he single-handedly built, formulated detailed rules and regulations, and prospered to the city it is now.

Li De regarded this trading city as one of his great pride, and now he was furious when he heard the soldiers report that some Yi people were making noise in the streets. Since Li Deyi forcibly resettled these small tribes on the grassland into the Trade City, he has paid special attention to the emotions of these Yi people, and has always treated them quite favorably.

As the Yi people were recruited by Li Deyi to work and earn a silver coin, in exchange for the tea, iron pots, and cloth, the lives of all the Yi people began to improve day by day. There is milk tea to drink at every meal, and good clothes with colorful materials and durable clothes are worn, and many Yi people have gradually accepted this kind of stable life.

However, Li Deyi never relaxed his control over the trade city, and every day, two teams of 1,000 people each had a garrison of foot soldiers patrolling back and forth. These wild and untamed people, coupled with the blood feud between the tribes for hundreds of years, the slightest carelessness may cause accidents.

At this moment, I heard that under his vigorous governance, there were still people who dared to make trouble on the street, and Li Deyi's anger burned directly to the top of his head. With a murderous wave of his hand, he beckoned the thousand foot soldiers patrolling behind him, and Li Deyi rushed over to the accident site.

Although Li Deyi is good to these people, he is also giving them a house to live in, and arranging work for them, so that they can earn money to improve their lives. But this does not mean that he has suddenly become kind-hearted, he is still a murderous bandit leader in his bones.

Why did he not hesitate to suspend cavalry training before, but also send troops to destroy those Yiren tribes who dared to come to the trade city to plunder. Half of it is because he promised to give these Yi people a stable life, and half of it is also to establish his authority and deter the Yi people of these trade cities, telling them that Lao Tzu's knife does not recognize who you are, and dares to come to my territory and violate my rules, even if you catch up with thousands of miles, you will be wiped out.

"These people are really dogs, and they don't have a long memory. As soon as I put the knife in my hand for half a year, they dared to make trouble on the street, and they had to kill a few leaders later, so as to shock these dogs. Let you let go of your peaceful life, but you have to make trouble. Li De thought angrily as he hurried to the scene of the incident.

When I arrived at the place, it turned out that the Yi people were divided into two groups and were arguing. One of them was driving a herd of cattle and sheep and was about to pass through the street to the other side of the trade city. And the noisy group stopped them, not wanting the cattle and sheep to pass.

Li De parted the crowd and walked in. The roar of the chirping, coupled with the bright knives in the hands of the 1,000 garrison foot soldiers, and their murderous reputation, finally shocked this group of angry Yiren.

After the two sides had quieted down, Li Deyi first cleared the streets so that people could continue to pass, and then sent troops to take (escorted) two groups of noisy Yiren to a secluded place and asked them why they were arguing.

It's a lot of chatter on both sides. Li Deyi frowned and listened intently for a long time, and finally figured things out. It turns out that although the Yi people in this trading city have been stable here for half a year, it is still difficult to change the habit of living on the grassland for many years, and many Yi people will bring their cattle and sheep to the northern grassland to graze a circle every day.

The trade city was built by Li Deyi, and it is impossible to adopt the model of mixed living of people and animals on the grassland, and the outside of the house is a corral. That would cause many health problems, and the Trade City firmly adhered to the "Sanitary Regulations for Wounded Barracks", and naturally did not allow people and animals to live together. Therefore, Li Deyi built a large circle of corrals in the east of the trade city, divided it in detail, marked with the names of each family, and specially used to raise cattle and sheep. As for the horses, in addition to the pack horses, the slightly better horses were all "bought" by the Dingbei Horse Farm.

Since the city is inhabited, it must have drinking water. In this commercial city, Li Deyi, according to the habit of building a city in the past, drilled four deep wells at the intersection of the four main roads in the city. These four deep wells do not dry all year round, providing drinking water for the entire trade city. There are also several shallow wells, which are fed directly by the seepage of water from the Jinshui River.

However, these Yi people went to the corral every day to carry their cattle and sheep through the trading city to the northern grasslands for grazing. Cattle and sheep walk back and forth in the trade city every day, and the manure is pulled on the ground, and sometimes it rains and it is too late to clean, so it seeps into the ground with the rainwater, and finally pollutes the well water.

Now the four deep wells in the trade city have a smell of cow and sheep dung. It turns out that when the Yi people were on the grassland, they chased the river water for grazing, and the river water kept flowing, which would wash away the cow and sheep dung that fell in the river. But the well water doesn't flow, and drinking water, which you didn't need to worry about, is now a headache.

Originally, when the days were hard, I was hungry and full every day, and the water was not drinkable. Now that everyone is living a good life, this water is undrinkable, and it has become an unbearable thing.

Some old Yi families have sons who serve in the cavalry of the Dingbei Garrison Regiment, and they themselves make leather shields, bows and arrows, and leather armor for the Dingbei Garrison Regiment. The silver money earned every month is enough to live a healthy life and have a surplus, so they don't want to go to herding anymore. Some young people still can't let go of the cattle and sheep that have been serving for many years, and they have to go to graze every day to feel safe. Originally, these two groups of Yi people were safe and sound, but now the well water is polluted, and everyone's drinking water is affected, so this matter is troublesome.

That's why there was the scene of the quarrel before, some old Yi people stopped the young people who went to the grassland to graze and persuaded them not to graze anymore, after all, now everyone is given the North Garrison Regiment to work, and their lives are rich, and they no longer have to point to these cattle and sheep to live, and they can be handed over to the Dingbei Garrison Regiment to graze.

Li Deyi brought these Yi people back at the beginning, obviously not to let them all go to herd sheep and cattle, but now Li Deyi cares more about their skilled leather making skills. Almost all the Yi people on the steppe are familiar with how to make leather, making cow tendon into the best bowstring, cowhide into leather armor, and leather shield. Of course, they used to grind animal bones into arrowheads, which was a good skill, but Li Deyi didn't use it. We have money and mines now, and the arrows are all made of iron!

At the beginning of the establishment of the Dingbei Craft School, in order to free up Yiren's hands to help him make leathers, Li De used his brains overnight to come up with an unprecedented fund-raising plan through the picture in the sea. He got up the next day and wrote down "Dingbei Animal Husbandry Collective Ownership Chamber of Commerce". In fact, according to the picture that appeared in the dream, this chamber of commerce should be called a company. But Li Deyi didn't understand the meaning of the word "company" when he thought about it, and finally he could only use the word "chamber of commerce" instead.

Then, all the Yi people were informed that they needed to take a stake in this chamber of commerce, so they used their cattle and sheep to take a stake. Of course, Li De has always disliked forced buying and selling, and he is the most reasonable. Li Deyi gave them an offer that they couldn't refuse, half of the annual harvest was settled with tea, and whoever bought the shares now would be immediately given two whole tea bricks!

As soon as these words came out, they immediately caused a great sensation among the Yi people. The sky is above, these Yi people grow up, most people have only heard of the legendary delicious mare's milk boiled with tea in the mouth of their grandfather, and they are comfortable to drink, and they are not afraid of how greasy they are. Even their patriarch has almost forgotten what the tea looks like and the aroma of the tea.

In the end, under the temptation of tea, Li Deyi and thousands of soldiers of the garrison regiment lined up to welcome him, and under the "protection" of the shining, cold steel spear tip, these Yi people all pressed their handprints on the contract, bought all their cattle and sheep, and joined this collective ownership chamber of commerce.

Then Li De gathered together the best shepherds of each tribe and hired them at a good price to herd these cattle and sheep. At the same time, in order to take care of the customs of the Yi people, Li Deyi promised them that they could also herd their own herds. But even if it is counted in the chamber of commerce, it is purely a personal hobby, and the chamber of commerce will not pay them any wages.

Unexpectedly, in order to take care of the Yiren's ancestral grazing habits for generations, a sentence left by a soft heart has become the introduction of today's accident. Nowadays, as long as they don't have any work, they will take their cattle and sheep through the trade city almost every day and go to the northern grassland to reminisce about the poor and difficult days at the beginning. And these cattle and sheep, all the way, the manure pulled down everywhere also polluted the well water of the trade city, causing many people to be dissatisfied.

People are like this, when life is hard, they think about when they can have a good life every day. When the days are good, I will deliberately taste the bitter days of the past, and I will remember the bitter sweetness of the name. Toss and toss, don't you get tired? All day long, I was led by the nose by these things that I ate, wear, and used.

After understanding the situation clearly from the Yi people on both sides, Li De immediately made a decision that in the future, cattle and sheep should not be allowed to pass through the trade city again, and cattle and sheep must be detoured for grazing. At the same time, he is also thinking about solving the problem of well water.

In fact, not only the well water in this trade city, but also several old wells in Dingbei County, as well as the newly dug wells in recent years, all have water quality problems. As soon as it rains, the water becomes turbid and must be filtered before drinking. Although the deep well does not dry all year round, the water is so shallow that once many people come to get water, the silt underneath is often exposed.

Li Deyi faintly felt that he seemed to have a way to solve this matter completely.

(To be continued.) )