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Half a month later, news came that Dou Jiande had built an altar in Leshou County, Hejian County, and established himself as the King of Changle (Note 1), showing his determination to dominate Hebei.

After reaching an agreement with Dou Jiande, Li Chongjiu left Su Su and Zhao Wansan as civil officials to coordinate the affairs of Shanggu County, while Gao Chu, Wei Chi Jingde and other generals were responsible for the training of the troops. As for Li Chongjiu, he also changed the cavalry of the 500 army to serve as the cavalry of the county soldiers. Li Chongjiu gave them the same reward of a piece of silk every year. These soldiers were selected from the 9,000 horsemen who went south with Li Chongjiu, all of them were equipped with iron armor and leather horse equipment, and they were one person and three horses, far superior to ordinary cavalry.

These 500 cavalry were stationed in Lingqiu County, Yanmen County (Note 2), 50 miles away from Feihu County, Shanggu County.

The current situation in Yanmen County has been looted by the Turks since two years ago when the Turks besieged Yang Guangyu in Fenyang Palace, and Yanmen Hejun was plundered by the Turks, and only a few cities remained. After that, although it recovered slightly, it was rebelled by Liu Wuzhou. After Liu Wuzhou defected to the Turks, he led his army to attack Yanmen.

Liu Wuzhou's army was sharp, Yanmen County Cheng Chen Xiaoyi, Wu Benlang General Wang Zhibi was defeated repeatedly, lost the natural danger Yanmen County, Alcohol County, Wutai County, and now pack up the remnants of the army and retreat to Fanshi County. When he was attacked by Liu Wu, Chen Xiaoyi repeatedly asked for help from Li Yuan, who was left behind in Jinyang, but the news sent in was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no news. Now that the road between Fanshi County and Taiyuan County has been cut off, Chen Xiaoyi and Wang Zhizhi have become lone soldiers, but Rao is so, but the two still do not surrender, and continue to confront Liu Wuzhou.

Of the five counties of Yanmen County, Liu Wuzhou occupied three counties, Chen Xiaoyi held a county and resisted stubbornly, as for Lingqiu County, it was ignored for the time being, not that the strategic location was not important, but when the Turks invaded Yanmen before, this place was the most severely damaged, so two years have passed, and it is still a barren place. Now Li Chongjiu has decided to rebuild Lingqiu County and collect the displaced people here. The purpose of rebuilding Lingqiu County is naturally to wedge a bridgehead in Yanmen, on the one hand, as a barrier for Shanggu County to resist Liu Wuzhou, and also to ensure the smooth flow of this trade route between Feihu County and Huaihuang Town.

Of course, the reconstruction and restoration work is not only in Lingqiu County, in addition to the three counties of Feihu, Yi and Fanyang, which are now possessed by Li Chongjiu in Shanggu County, it is also necessary to rebuild the three counties of Laishui, Suicheng and Yongle that have been abandoned due to the wanton plundering of thieves. Although Song Jingang was defeated, there were still many thieves and bandits in the mountains, and many people were worried about being attacked by thieves, so they would rather hide in the mountains than go down the mountain. Therefore, Li Chongjiu asked Wei Chi Jingde, Gao Chu and others to lead troops to encircle and suppress, which can be regarded as giving the newly established county soldiers a chance to exercise in actual combat, and at the same time do the work of the people, so that they can go down the mountain and reclaim the fields with peace of mind.

For the mountain thieves and displaced people who surrendered, Li Chongjiu resettled them in the cantonment, and strived to let the displaced people resume farming in these three counties within this year. At this time, the winter wheat is too late, so it is even more impossible to miss the spring ploughing, Su Su will send the seeds of spring wheat to the displaced people in an interest-free way, so that they can cultivate with peace of mind this year, without any taxes, as for next year, the tax will be halved, and the full amount will be collected in the third year. Under such a policy, people in Shanggu County have taken refuge in various prefectures and counties every day, asking for their return to the people.

Seeing this scene, Li Chongjiu couldn't help but sigh, it was only one year since Wang Suba wantonly plundered Shanggu, and according to the statistics of the seven years of the Great Cause, Shanggu County had a total of 38,700 households, and more than 200,000 people, but now within five years, it has withered to less than 100,000, and it really only takes one year to destroy, but when it comes to construction, it will take ten years.

Looking at all parts of the Central Plains of Hebei now, such as Dou Jiande, Du Fuwei and others, the anti-kings are busy annexing forces, competing for population, expanding their armies on a large scale, and plundering money and grain in order to conquer cities and seize land, so that the more soldiers and horses under their command, the better, and the stronger the strength.

On forcible grabbing, Dou Jiande and Du Fuwei are of course good hands, but Li Chongjiu's advantage is not in this, compared to the number of people, it is also important to turn the hearts and minds of the people in troubled times. If the people's livelihood is stabilized and the people in the territory are rich, their own prestige will be improved, and in the future, the Quartet will come to invest, and it will be easier to digest the territory of others. Prestige is also a part of power compared to the number of people.

Of course, there are also great disadvantages of such development, that is, the prestige rises too slowly. As the so-called wealth can be established, when Zhu Chongba's righteous army was in Huaiyou, when the army was short of food, it still ate people, and then there was a foundation, so it paid attention to courtesy, righteousness and shame. Although Zhang Shicheng won the hearts of the people, when the city was finally broken, the people of the city were willing to die with him, and the people had a word, not thanking Baoqing Yang in life, and not complaining about Taizhou Zhang in death. In the end, he was defeated by Zhu Yuanzhang.

If Li Chongjiu wants to catch up with Li Yuan and Li Mi, he must first accumulate prestige in the Central Plains and cultivate his reputation, while on the grassland, he does not have to care about his reputation, he takes advantage of it and expands his power, after all, benevolence and righteousness are rarely emphasized on the grassland, and the strong are more respected as kings.

As for Li Yuan, they must adopt the method of combining vertical and horizontal to curb the speed of their momentum. Now Li Mi, under his repeated reminders and reasoning, has not gone south to attack the eastern capital. As long as Li Mi did not attack the eastern capital for a day, the Sui army in Guanzhong would not advance eastward for reinforcements, and the Sui army in Guanzhong would not advance eastward for a day, then Li Yuan would not dare to raise troops from Jinyang to take Guanzhong directly. This is equivalent to dominoes, compared to history, Li Mi has been postponed for half a year, and he did not attack the eastern capital, so Li Yuan will not be able to rebel from Jinyang, so the plan to seize Guanzhong will also be greatly delayed than in history.

But Li Mi didn't reply now, but at this time, the elders on the grassland began to urge again, and Li Chongjiu didn't want to make the relationship too stiff, so after arranging the garrison defense of Shanggu County, he led the army back to the grassland.

In the first month of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, after the New Year, Li Chongjiu led the grassland cavalry to step on the snow, from Feihu County to Lingqiu County, and returned to the grassland. When passing through Lingqiu County on the way, you can see the ragged people walking in the snow like wild people in the mountains, many of them don't even have shoes, and they are frozen blue and purple.

When the people saw the officials and soldiers, they all hid, Li Chongjiu felt strange, and immediately ordered Wang Mahan to investigate, and then learned that the people of Lingqiu County had just received the spring wheat seeds that had just been sent to them by the official uniform, and in a blink of an eye, they swallowed these seeds into their stomachs.

When Li Chongjiu heard this, he immediately ordered Wang Mahan to arrest these people, and Wang Mahan immediately took hundreds of cavalry to collect them everywhere. After that, he led his soldiers to catch more than 30 people who had received spring wheat seeds, but cooked them privately. Li Chongjiu turned his eyes and saw that the spring wheat seeds he had sent were boiling over a low fire in the crockpot where half of the side was missing, and the rice porridge in the crockpot was already boiling and bubbling with small bubbles.

And more than 30 people on the side had ropes on their hands and feet, and they were all scared to the side of the Fan army. Seeing this, Li Chongjiu sighed and said: "It is the responsibility of my parents and officials that the people do not have enough to eat, and I am ashamed of you." ”

"But the law and discipline cannot be violated, if everyone is like this, the wasteland in Lingqiu County will not be reclaimed, and then you will starve to death next year, but the difference between early death and late death, everyone who comes will be dragged down and whipped ten times, the old and weak women and children will be halved, after the criminal law, and give them spring wheat seeds, if they violate the criminal law again, the criminal law will be doubled."

After saying that, Li Chongjiu turned to leave, and there was the sound of stripping clothes and whipping behind him. Listening to the screams, Li Chongjiu's face jumped, and after enduring it for a long time, he got on the horse with a long sigh and left.

This is about to come when there will be no crops, when there will be not enough grain and grass, and the rice merchants will take the opportunity to stock up, and a large number of people will starve to death at this time of year. Li Chongjiu ruled more than 100,000 people, and the little food reserve of his own was barely enough to keep the soldiers to eat, and he did not go to civilian looting. Of course, this is countless times more robbed than the anti-kings in other places, not to mention the army of the ogre king Zhu Cang.

A few days later, Li Chongjiu led his army to Huaihuang Town and rested for a while. Liu Yi, Zhou Xu, and Ji Chuan, the three civil officials from Huaihuang Town, as well as Tan Zong, immediately came to visit Li Chongjiu. Everyone is also reunited after a long absence.

I haven't seen it for a year, and Huaihuang Town is already very different, in the grass market in the north of the city, it has now developed into an attached city that is not inferior to the city. According to Zhou Xu's account, there were more than 3,000 Hu and Han merchants in the four directions here, and even Goguryeo merchants came to the Western Regions. Even in winter, the market in Huaihuang Town is a thriving scene.

If it weren't for the financial support of Huaihuang Town, Li Chongjiu's large-scale expenditure on troops in the south this time would not have been able to sustain it, and the establishment of this city in less than two years has already given Li Chongjiu a steady stream of support. However, Li Chongjiu heard this, but he was more worried, Huaihuang Town was in the front line of the Turkic and Liu Wuzhou forces, once the war started, this place would be at the forefront, and then it would greatly destroy Li Chongjiu's biggest financial income now.

Zhou Xu didn't see the worry on Li Chongjiu's face, but instead enthusiastically introduced him to the matter of the Hope Meng Pavilion. It has been a year and a half since the opening of the Hope Mongolian Museum, and it has basically completed the basic training of Chinese dialect and simple Chinese character understanding for the generals in Huaihuang Town. For those children who read, it is also a teaching of rhyme books, as well as the recitation of thousand-character texts, Analects, etc., exegesis, and basic arithmetic training.

Zhou Xu unconsciously enjoyed it, deeply substituted for the fun of Principal Zhou, and he felt that the scale of teaching could be expanded. Zhou Xu even proposed to Li Chongjiu that Mengxue, primary school, and county school were the three first-level promotion colleges. The reason is that Li Chongjiu has now become a county guard, and he can no longer use Huaihuang Town to run education, but also expand the scale and number of students.

Note 1: The biography of Dou Lie, the king of the New Tang Dynasty, in the first month of the thirteenth year, built an altar in the river and established himself as the king of Changle.

Note 2: Lingqiu County in the Sui Dynasty is equivalent to today's Wei County, Lingqiu County, and Yangyuan County (to be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )