Moreover, the danger of Lingzhou has been solved, the Zhou army has taken control of the battlefield situation, although the number of the blocking army fleeing north is quite large, but the north of Lingzhou is sparsely populated, and it has lost the possibility of supplying by plunder. Baili Wuji judged that this army had no other way but to return to the north to block the divination. Therefore, there is no point in Yunyang Department continuing to stay in Lingzhou, it is better to return to Jinling and make arrangements.

After dealing with the affairs of the army, Baili Wuji began to work on the construction of official roads. He ordered Ma Jiyun of Chengdu Prefecture to arrange for tens of thousands of prisoners of the Liao army to build an official road from Chengdu Mansion to Lingzhou; ordered the 250,000 captives who surrendered under the command of Yelu Hugo to build two official roads from Fengzhou to Yanzhou and Fengzhou to Taiyuan Prefecture; Nearly 100,000 Liao army captives captured in Qianzhou were ordered to build the official road from Yanzhou and Dadingfu to the south bank of the Huang River.

At the same time, an envoy was sent to Lingzhou, one was to greet the injured Chai Rong, and the other was to inform Zhou that Ming would start to build two official roads from Jinling Mansion to Lingzhou and Jinling Mansion to Yanzhou. In order to grab time, Baili Wuji hopes that Chai Rong can go down to the states where the official road passes to recruit the people to build, so that the states can start construction at the same time, which can not only save time, but also reduce the suffering of the people involved in the states. The Ming State will bear all the expenses for recruiting the people.

For a time, hundreds of thousands of troops in the world moved back and forth, and hundreds of thousands of people began to build official roads, which were boiling and lively.

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Chai Rong's injuries have been stabilized, and after he met the envoy sent by Baili Wuji, he personally met with Yun Yang, expressing his gratitude to Yun Yang's first army for the timely rescue, and at the same time asked Xiang Xun and Zhao Kuangyin to practice for Yun Yang on his behalf.

Yun Yang returned to China at the behest of Baili Wuji.

On this day, Chai Rong's spirit was better. He summoned Xiang Xun and Zhao Kuangyin.

Chai Rong stared at Zhao Kuangyin and didn't speak, but Zhao Kuangyin was secretly frightened.

In fact, Chai Rong had forgiven Zhao Kuangyin from that day when Zhao Kuangyin led the army to attack without authorization. No more blame on him.

Looking at Zhao Kuangyin, who was bowing his head apprehensively, Chai Rong sighed and said, "The matter is over, the third brother doesn't have to mind anymore." ”

Zhao Kuangyin was stunned for a moment, he raised his eyes to look at Chai Rong, who had lost a lot of money due to injury, and was grateful in his heart, but he didn't know what to say.

Xiang Xun on the side is always with Zhao Kuangyin, so he probably knows something. Seeing that the monarch and the minister are now reconciled, they naturally respond to peace on the side.

Chai Rong knew about Zhao Kuangyin's bits and pieces, the forbidden army scout who escaped from Zhao Kuangyin's men. It's been dead for a long time. was killed by Chai Rong's order, Chai Rong couldn't bear to break with Zhao Kuangyin, so he could only kill this person, otherwise the news would spread. Just Zhao Kuangyin privately released the enemy's army. Zhao Kuangyin should have been given death, and when the time comes, Chai Rong will not be able to be partial. And those things are completely negligible compared to Zhao Kuangyin's ability to sacrifice his life to break the siege for himself.

Chai Rong has been on bed rest due to injuries these days, and his mind has been thinking about how to revitalize the Zhou Kingdom.

Now that the attacking army has retreated, the road to the Northern Expedition has been opened, and Baili Wuji has begun to repair the road and begin preparations for the Northern Expedition. In accordance with the agreement with Baili Mowgli. All the proceeds of the Northern Expedition went to the Zhou State, which means that as long as the Northern Expedition wins. Then the territory of the nearly two Zhou states will be included in the territory of the Zhou state.

As long as Chai Rong thought of this, he couldn't help but want to laugh.

Therefore, he wants to appease everyone under his command, and the monarchs and ministers are united in their efforts to revitalize the Zhou State.

Xiang Xun and Zhao Kuangyin were summoned today because Chai Rong decided to return to the court.

Three days later, Xiang Xun led 40,000 forbidden troops to temporarily stay in Lingzhou, and Chai Rong led the army to embark on the road back to Kaifeng.

But a strange thing happened on the road, Chai Rong was on the march, reviewed the documents in various places, and got a leather bag, and there was a wooden board more than three feet long in the bag, which was written "Check as the Son of Heaven", Chai Rong felt that this matter was very strange.

According to Chai Rong's guess, Chen Jun would not be so bold as to promise that he would no longer make waves and break his promise. And Zhao Kuangyin has been acquitted by himself, and he will not be investigated for the past, so there should be no more such a demon moth. Chai Rong thought about it and couldn't figure it out.

At that time, Zhang Yongde was in charge of inspection, and Zhang Yongde was Chai Rong's brother-in-law, could this matter be related to Zhang Yongde?

But Zhang Yongde has always been loyal to himself, and he is just a brave and unscrupulous "reckless man", how could he do such a thing? Could it be that someone is supporting it?

"Am I really not fit to be this emperor? Even my brother-in-law wants to usurp my throne? On the march, Chai Rong had no one around him to relieve his depression, and his grief and anger could not be stopped for a while.

Chai Rong was stimulated by this incident, or his injuries were repeated, and he was sick again.

Half a month later, Chai Rong returned to the capital, and immediately appointed Zhao Kuangyin as the inspector of the school, and the palace was inspected in front of the palace to replace Zhang Yongde.

Poor Zhang Yongde didn't know why, he was dismissed from the post of inspector by Chai Rong, and he didn't dare to ask Chai Rong about it, and he was unhappy all day long.

Chai Rong's body is still good and bad, looking at the court of Zhou, at this time in Chai Rong's eyes, no one can talk to himself, and the only hope in his heart is that Wang Pu, who went to Dading Mansion to attend the peace talks between Xi Ming and Liao, can come back as soon as possible.

During this period, Chai Rong decreed that the court of the Zhou State and all the prefectures and prefectures fully cooperated with the Ming State to build official roads, and for this reason, the Zhou State recruited 500,000 people. The reason for this conscription was that the people of Zhou and the local government vigorously supported it, and the reason for this was actually just two words -- food.

After more than two years of war, the Zhou State was too poor, and the people at the bottom could sell their children in order to be satisfied, and once the Ming State recruited the people with the remuneration of two catties of grain a day for one person, the people naturally flocked in, and two catties of grain saved enough for three people to eat for a day.

The construction of roads does not require the Zhou State to recruit so many people, and the more than 400,000 Liao army captives in the north will only need half a year at most to complete their road repair tasks, and then they will take over the construction of official roads in the Zhou State to the south.

In order to rush for time, Baili Wuji asked Chai Rong to recruit in the territory of Zhou, for which he paid twice as much rations as the prisoners of the Liao army as a reward, thinking that one hundred thousand people would be enough, and he didn't want to increase it by five times at once.

However, the Ming Kingdom had to pay millions of catties of food every day for this, which made the Ming court complain. Some courtiers even suggested that the remuneration be adjusted to be the same as that of the Liao army prisoners, but they were vetoed by Baili Wuji.

After more than two years of war, the treasury of the Ming State has been stretched, and it will take two months to harvest the grain this season, and even the price of the grain store in Jinling Mansion has also risen by one percent, not to mention the states and counties of the country. Fortunately, Baili Wuji had ordered Jiaozhou County, Dongying, and Goryeo to collect tens of millions of catties of grain for reserves, otherwise, the three prime ministers of the Ming Kingdom would have already made a mess. (To be continued......)