Du Shiyi's original intention in establishing Anbei Yatent City was to establish a permanent stronghold in Mobei, a fortress that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and at the same time convenient for military and civilian settlement, so as to minimize the impact of bad weather.

However, just as there are many residents in the counties and counties in the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty, but more people are still scattered in the countryside, even if the Anbei Yatent City is extremely accommodating and there is still vacant land in the city, it is impossible to really include everyone in the city to live. How many nomadic people can be accommodated within a large radius of a big city, Du Shiyi may not be able to calculate so accurately, but he has his own way. When Yuwen Rong included Tian Kuohu, in addition to reusing and promoting many judges, he also used quite a lot of officials. These people are proficient in arithmetic, but with the fall of Yu Wenrong, most of them have been shelved, Du Shiyi quietly made a certain placement of low-grade officials on Yu Wenrong's list in the early years, and carried out a series of operations with Miao Jinqing Wei Zhi and others in the Ministry of Officials.

Today, he has a full fifty or sixty such officials under his command, forming a series of teams, ranging from finance, logistics, pasture rotation, pasture management, urban planning, ...... There are all kinds of aspects, and the entire Anbei Tent City is allocated and arranged as a whole. Even if he didn't enter the Anbei Yatent City, but only the small and medium-sized tribes who were nomadic dozens or even hundreds of miles away from the city, he also set aside the corresponding pasture water source, and he was not allowed to cross the border when he was idle. And because the Hui suffered a great defeat for a time, many of the scattered soldiers became horse thieves, and many small tribes of three or five hundred people could not be disturbed, and more and more tribes moved to live near the city of Anbei Yatent.

These small tribes were not accustomed to the strict rules and scattered paramilitary management of the city of Anbei, but they wanted to avoid the war, so they did not seek to enter the city to obtain shelter from the wind and rain, but continued to live in the surrounding nomadic tents. There were about a dozen such small tribes, and the number reached five or six thousand. Because of this, not only did the new army being trained by the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anbei come into conflict with them from time to time, but even the herdsmen who settled in the city complained that they were often found grazing across the border. But because it was difficult for the people in the city to grasp their handles, most of the conflicts were limited to verbal quarrels.

However, when the servants Gu Huaien and Li Guangbi followed Du Shiyi's instructions to select the best and strongest from the scattered herdsmen living in the city and then train a thousand new troops, this conflict was immediately magnified. Even if they left the city, they had to operate in a fixed area at a fixed time, but now when they enter the army, they have to follow the drills of the main general, or practice the military formation in the city, or pull out of the city to practice bows and horses, and patrol, often day and night.

If Li Guangbi was on patrol, he would often restrain the generals and soldiers of the army from privately conflicting because of this, and then severely reprimand, order the history of the military orders to be recorded, and wait until he returned to inform the corresponding officials of the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anbei to punish them. But if it was Fugu Huai'en, then the situation would be different. He was extremely protective of his subordinates, even the recruits who had just been assigned to him. Therefore, when accompanying Du Shiyi out of the city to inspect, in the face of the coach who served Jian, Li Guangbi did not add any oil and vinegar, but just told the truth about what he saw once.

"Marshal, I'm not blaming General Fugu behind his back, it's really because he is too conniving with his subordinates. As far as I know, once he led his army on a patrol and encountered six herdsmen who had crossed the border grazing, and there were about 300 cattle and sheep grazing. Several soldiers under the command of General Fugu probably had a dispute with these herdsmen over grazing, and they fought immediately, but after General Fugu asked what happened, instead of presiding over mediation, he connived at the generals under his command to whip these six herdsmen severely, and took their cattle and sheep, saying that it was a punishment for them to cross the border for grazing! ”

Speaking of this, Li Guangbi raised his horsewhip and pointed to the scene of cattle and sheep in the distance, and said sincerely: "Marshal, I know that General Fugu is highly meritorious, but if he blindly favors his own generals and governs the army without paying attention to the law, in the long run, he will only connive at the arrogant soldiers in the future, and I implore the marshal to be clear!" ”

Du Shiyi was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Where are the more than 300 cattle and sheep that Huaien detained?" ”

Li Guangbi knew that Du Shiyi's question was not aimed at him, and besides, he really didn't want to say this. At this time, Azler, who was following Du Shiyi's side, explained in a low voice: "General Fugu sent a hundred sheep to the kitchen of the Protectorate of the Northern Metropolis of Anbei, so that the officials and even the miscellaneous servants from top to bottom all shared five catties of meat. When he heard about the rest of the sheep, he distributed them to the recruits under his command. As for the cattle, they were all sent to the vegetable garden in the city to be used as ploughing cattle. ”

Du Shiyi was not too surprised by Fugu Huaien's measures, but laughed out loud. Unlike Li Guangbi, who grew up in Chang'an and said to be a Khitan, but in fact was born and raised in the Tang Dynasty, Fugu Huaien grew up in the Fugu Department of Xiazhou, and his ears and eyes are a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye, but this habit is difficult to change. After teaching the unruly people a lesson, and then taking away other people's cattle and sheep, compensating for the losses of his subordinates, he distributed the remaining spoils to other people, and by the way, he also added ploughing cattle to those official vegetable fields in the city, which can be said to be comprehensive.

Only the servant Gu Huaien himself did not reap the benefits!

He laughed, but Li Guangbi and Azler became uneasy. Especially Azler knew Du Shiyi's temper best, and said at the moment: "The marshal forgives the sin, I just think it's not a big deal, so I didn't report it." ”

"Although General Fugu's move is beneficial to the morale of his own army, and also benefits the officials of the Metropolitan Protectorate of Anbei, as well as the vegetable garden in the city, this is not what a general should do." Although he felt that Du Shiyi's attitude at the moment might not necessarily pursue the actions of Fu Gu Huaien, Li Guangbi still wanted to persuade Du Shiyi to come forward to take charge no matter what. However, before he could speak again, Du Shiyi waved his hand.

"Okay, you don't have to say it anymore, I know it in my heart!"

Today's entourage is the elite cavalry to which Li Guangbi belongs in the Anbei Yatent City, and there is not a single recruit among them, and the horses they ride are all first-class horses, so after a small half a day, a group of more than 200 people came to a place about 100 miles away from the Anbei Yatent City. According to one of the accompanying officials, this should be a pasture that is now in the period of rotation and recuperation, and it cannot be grazing, but as far as the eye can see, Du Shiyi can see a lot of cattle and sheep grazing leisurely, and not far away, you can see herdsmen riding on horses and grazing.

When they found out about their hundreds of soldiers and horses, several herdsmen immediately panicked. With the sharp whistle and shouting, some people were responsible for driving the cattle and sheep, and some people turned their horses' heads and wanted to run back, but as Li Guangbi let people shoot an arrow, with the whistling sound suddenly sounded, someone in the other side shouted that it was General Li, and then the herdsmen who were in turmoil gradually quieted down, and some people waved horsewhips to drive the cattle and sheep that had just fled in all directions because of fear.

After calming down like a headless fly, one of the oldest of the herdsmen rode over and jumped off the horse to salute when he got to the front, and then said tremblingly: "General Li, we just accidentally crossed the line when we were grazing......

Before he finished speaking, he only heard a faint voice in front of him: "Xing Fang, how far did they cross the line?" ”

"The boundary marker in the pastoral area west of the Anbei Tent City was set up by me personally, and it is estimated that they have crossed the border for at least three miles."

The old herdsman was taken aback, looked up, but found that it was not Li Guangbi who spoke, but a middle-aged man wearing a black coat beside Li Guangbi, and at this moment, it was a tall and thin man in green clothes who exposed that they had crossed the border for at least three miles, looking less than fifty years old, and his attitude towards the person who spoke was extremely humble. Knowing that Li Guangbi encountered his own situation during his past inspections, at most he was scolded, and when he turned around, someone from the Protectorate of the Metropolitan of Anbei would come to negotiate, and it could be solved by paying some price, although he didn't know who the two people who spoke beyond Li Guangbi were, he had to squeeze out a more humble smile.

"Generals, we really just accidentally came over there, and we didn't see the boundary monument when we came over there......"

"The rules of rotational grazing were not promulgated on the first day." Du Shiyi interrupted the other party's defense, and when he saw that he was speechless, he continued, "Moreover, since Anbei Yatent City has designated an area for you to graze, and you have lived by grazing for decades, you should be able to see which side of the pasture is resting in rotation and the grass is growing, and you are not allowed to enter. But now you're crossing the line under the pretext of not seeing it, don't you think this excuse is too clumsy? ”

Speaking of this, Du Shiyi glanced at Shi Xingfang, the order of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate who was specially brought out this time to manage the boundaries of the pastoral area, and asked in a deep voice: "How is the cross-border grazing agreed upon by the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate before?" ”

"If it is a soldier or civilian, it will be expelled from the city of Anbei Yatent, and it will be allowed to apply for entry into the city again after one year. If it is a military and civilian who lives 800 miles around the city of Anbei Yatent, they will be ordered to move out, and they will not be allowed to return to their hometown for a year. Speaking of this, Xing Fang thought for a moment and added, "It's just that every time they find out about these cross-border behaviors, the herdsmen often cry and ask for help, so most of the punishments are light, or a few cattle and sheep are confiscated, or a whipping, which can be regarded as a punishment." ”

Du Shiyi couldn't help frowning, and asked Li Guangbi again: "Is that really the case?" ”

Li Guangbi was suddenly a little unnatural, but he still replied truthfully: "Yes, after all, many people say that it is the first offense." ”

"If it has just been promulgated, then it can still be said to be a first offense, but I remember that this decree has not been implemented for a day or two since the fall of the Anbei Tent City began to be implemented! Most people fight nothing more than the idea that the law does not blame the public, a handful of snot and tears, so the chief only thinks that a small punishment and a big commandment are enough, but he doesn't know that the law is the law, and it cannot be violated! How many soldiers and civilians are in the city of Anbei Yatent, if the surrounding pastures can't be rotated and grazing, it's like fishermen who only know how to fish with all their might, and when the surrounding 800 miles are all barren land, even if the city wall is high, what is the use? ”

After saying this, Du Shiyi said in an unquestionable tone: "How to deal with the previous matter, regardless of it for the time being, from now on, anyone who crosses the line will be severely punished in accordance with the law." As for those who are lenient and accept bribes without permission, or abuse lynching when they meet, or even seize the property of cattle and sheep of the indiscriminate herdsmen, the punishment will be doubled! ”