Outside Chang'an City, Qianniuzhuang.

Forget about Chino Chili, this broken place is also deserted.

Li Chengzong frowned, thinking to himself, oh my God! Is it because of my bad vision, or is it too bad luck, so many Zhuangzi outside Chang'an City are very good, why did it become my turn to become this ghost?

Xu Shiji looked at it, secretly happy in his heart, and said secretly: "King Jin's vision is very unique!"

However, Xu Shiji is not an ordinary person, Li Chengzong's purpose of winning Qianniuzhuang, he can understand it to some extent, and he admires Li Chengzong a little bit in his heart, this kind of precautionary thinking.

"Xu Shiji" Li Chengzong shouted.

"Yes, the end will be." Xu Shiji was startled and hurriedly replied.

Li Chengzong glanced at him and said, "I know you didn't lose it!" Go, come forward to check for this king, where have all the Zhuangzi people gone?"

You uncle, how can Xu Shiji not scold him.

Okay, you are a king of Jin, as soon as you go out, you call and hug back, eight-armed Arhats, four King Kongs, so many people, you don't let me go?

Although he was irritable in his heart, Xu Shiji still went hard.

A quarter of an hour, two quarters of an hour, an hour passed.

Li Chengzong guessed that there was something strange in Qianniu Village, and hurriedly shouted: "There is an ambush!" With this king, the wind is whistling. ”

Wang Hu's toothache!

"Lord Wang, Xu Shiji is out." Just when Li Chengzong and his hundreds of guards were about to turn around and flee back to Chang'an, Xu Shiji and a few old men of rotten wood walked over slowly.

Xu Shiji replied: "King Jin, these five old men are the only ones left in the village."

Li Chengzong asked: "A few old men, isn't Qianniuzhuang claimed to have a population of tens of thousands?" Where have all those people gone?"

An old man with no teeth replied tremblingly: "They are all dead, and they are either dragged to fight as soldiers, or they are starved to death at home." The year before last, there was a plague in Zhuangzi, and I can't count how many people died, and then the government came and set a fire, and Qianniuzhuang became the ghost it is now. ”

Li Chengzong said secretly: "It's really aptly described, it looks like a ghost."

After giving some food and settling the five old men of Qianniuzhuang, Li Chengzong hurried back to Chang'an.

Jin Wangfu.

Li Chengzong borrowed Wei Zheng and Xue Wanche from the crown prince again, after all, everyone is an old acquaintance, as for the fact that Li Chengzong has no one in his hands at all, ignore it!

Li Chengzong said: "You know that there are still 300,000 guan left in the hands of this king, and I plan to build a thousand cattle villages, and I need you to plan it for me."

Wei Zheng said: "300,000 is already a lot, in fact, the key is not money but population. Since the end of the Sui Dynasty, the population of the Central Plains has been decreasing, and natural disasters have continued one after another, so if you want to prosper Qianniuzhuang, you must solve the population problem. ”

Li Chengzong smiled and said, "Lord Wei misunderstood the meaning of this king, I didn't say that I wanted to prosper this place, I wanted to plan it as a city fortress."

"Fortress" was repeated at the same time by people including Wei Zheng and Xue Wanche.

Li Chengzong said: "It is to build a strong castle, a miniature version of the city."

Xue Wanche said tentatively: "King Jin means to build a camp?"

"That's pretty much what it means, the key is that it has to be strong, it's built of stone bricks."

Wei Zheng frowned and said: "I'm afraid it's not good, Qianniuzhuang is too close to Chang'an, and King Jin will inevitably be reprimanded by the saint if he does this, and it will also make King Qin and his party hype and slander."

Li Chengzong thought about it and looked distressed. He felt that Wei Zheng's words made sense, and it was not appropriate to build a fortress, so what should he do?

Suddenly, there was a flash of inspiration.

Li Chengzong said: "If you can't build a fortress, then build a big warehouse, a huge and sturdy warehouse."

"I wonder what King Jin thinks?" Wei Zheng's generation of famous ministers couldn't keep up with Li Chengzong's thinking.

Li Chengzong said: "Whether it is a fortress or a camp, isn't it all for hoarding goods and stationing personnel? Since it is not appropriate to build a fortress, turn it into a warehouse. In this way, people will not grab the topic and achieve the goal. ”

Xue Wanche thought to himself, Lord Jin is really ambitious! Dare to hide the army privately, or in such a close place to Chang'an.

Wei Zheng thought about it almost the same as Xue Wanche, but he thought more comprehensively.

Wei Zheng asked cautiously and quietly, "I don't know how many people King Jin plans to build a warehouse?"

"Three thousand!" Li Chengzong felt that if there was really a change in Xuanwumen, Li Shimin would not be crazy and chase and kill him, and he would not be satisfied with the 3,000 people, and 30,000 would be almost according to his actual meaning.

Wei Zheng nodded, thinking about it, and felt that it was about the same. The 3,000 people of King Jin may be the last straw that crushed King Qin at a critical moment.

Wei Zheng said: "Craftsmen and people can be recruited on the spot in Chang'an, and the lower officials can be responsible."

"Then so be it, I bother Lord Wei to hurry up and prepare, the sooner this king is built, the more peace of mind."

After Wei Zheng and them left, Zhu Bajie dared to stand up and say.

"Lord! Servants can also recruit people to share the worries of the prince. ”

Li Chengzong asked, "Where are you going to recruit?"

Zhu Bajie said: "Near my house, the prince has also been there. Many people in that place don't look at living in Chang'an, in fact, they are already poor and sell their sons and daughters, as long as they are fed, they still don't work?"

"That's fine, you go!"

Li Chengzong thought of something again, and said: "You tell those people that you can also come to work for this king with your family." But if you come, you can't leave, you have to settle in Qianniuzhuang. ”

"Yes, the minion remembers." Zhu Bajie walked away lightly.

After a few days, I only saw the people of Wuyang and Wuyang in front of Qianniuzhuang.

Wei Zheng deserves to be a famous minister, and he recruited more than 2,000 craftsmen and people in just two or three clicks.

Zhu Bajie is worthy of being a good minion, more courageous than Wei Zheng, since he abducted nearly 5,000 people from Chang'an, although he dragged his family to the King of Jin to beg for food, but Zhu Bajie's mouth should not be underestimated.

Wei Zheng said: "King Jin, what's the use of so many old and weak women and children?"

Li Chengzong said: "Cover up!" Otherwise, such a large warehouse, with so many materials stored and so many people stationed, would be too easy to be discovered. ”

"King Jin is thoughtful, and the officials admire it."

Li Chengzong said: "I can just think about it, and what to do next depends on you and General Xue."

Xue Wanche brought a large number of tents and food.

Everything was fine.

The head of the craftsman said to Li Chengzong: "Lord Wang! It's really hard to build such a large warehouse, and if it is built like this, it is better to break it down into several small warehouses, not to mention that the working hours can be much shorter. ”

Li Chengzong doesn't understand this, since people have said it, don't blindly participate in it.

Li Chengzong accepted the suggestion very sincerely, but changed the number of warehouses proposed by the craftsmen from four to ten, and the more one request, the better.

Xu Shiji saw it in his eyes from beginning to end, but no one listened to him!

Li Chengzong called Xu Shiji and said, "Is it boring, helpless, and unhappy to follow me?"

Xu Shiji said: "How can you, Lord Wang, eat and drink well with you, how can you be unhappy."

"Forget it, I don't want to study whether you are telling the truth or falsehood, I arranged ten guards for you to escort you to Pingzhou, and exchange Su Dingfang for me." Li Chengzong said expressionlessly.

Xu Shiji hurriedly said: "Seeing that the sky is going to be dark!"

Li Chengzong said angrily: "Nonsense, how can I transport you out in broad daylight."

Xu Shiji was dizzy for a while, this reason is so powerful.