Xihai County is still nominally the land of the Great Sui, Li Yuan, Yang Xuangan, Yu Wenhua and these people, although they all have secret dissenting intentions, but without exception, they all launched a person from the Yang family to be a puppet emperor, Liu Ziqiu wants to use troops against the Central Plains, the first one will clash with Yu Wenhua, he wants to let himself occupy the moral height, he can't recognize the identity of Emperor Yang Yu, and he also has to admit one of Yang Hao and Yang Gao, so that he can become famous

Yang Hao was established by Yang Xuangan, and Yang Xuangan himself was still charged with killing the king, then he must not recognize Yang Hao, but can only admit Yang Gao, Yang Gao was established by Li Yuan, according to the process of history, the Great Sui was eventually replaced by Li Tang, if Liu Ziqiu stood up at this time to support Yang Gao, it is equivalent to indirectly supporting Li Yuan, once he chooses to support Li Yuan, in the future, if he rebels again, it will inevitably fall into the comments of a repeated villain

The world will be in chaos, and Liu Ziqiu, the generation of the Li family, and Liu Ziqiu couldn't help but think of that little note again, is this the fate that can't be escaped

Seeing Liu Ziqiu's uncertain face, Lin Qiao'er whispered: "It's time for the king to go back."

They were having lunch in the wild just now, a few pieces of cured meat and a pot of water, adults don't care, but children can't stand it

Liu Ziqiu was slightly stunned, turned his head, and saw Yang Qi, and suddenly had an idea, nodded and said, "Well, let's go back."

Yang Yu is Yang Guang's grandson, Yang Hao is Yang Guang's nephew, Yang Gao is Yang Guang's son, all belong to the royal family's descendants, Yang Yu is also Yang Guang's grandson, and is Yang Yu's eldest brother, Yang Guang's eldest grandson, Yang Yu can be the emperor, Yang Yu can also do, and is more qualified than Yang Yu, Yu culture and can support Yang Yu, why can't Liu Ziqiu support Yang Qi, Yang Qishi's famous difficulty will be solved, with this idea, Liu Ziqiu's mood suddenly brightened, but he did not put his ideas into practice immediately

In the next few days, Liu Ziqiu suddenly began to run at high speed like a well-wound machine

Liu Ziqiu first asked Zhao Ling to dispatch capable scouts to form a large caravan of 400 people, among the Xihai tribe, there were originally many soldiers from all over the country, these soldiers have now become herdsmen, but their level of grazing is really limited, it is better to let them do their old business, the main purpose of this caravan is not to make money, but to spy on intelligence

Immediately after that, Liu Ziqiu began to visit the various tribes in Xihai County, making more and more friends, and making fewer and fewer enemies, which is the strategy adopted by Liu Ziqiu in order to gain a firm foothold in Xihai, suppressing by force can only be brilliant for a while, only by getting everyone's heartfelt recognition can it be longer, at this time it is the grazing season, the herdsmen of various tribes do not live together, but are scattered on large and small grasslands, Liu Ziqiu this time "traveled" The whole county of Xihai took advantage of this opportunity to bypass the tribal leaders, go deep into the people, and come into contact with many ordinary herdsmen, understand their suffering, and understand their demands

This trip lasted for more than half a month, Liu Ziqiu has figured out the situation of the tribes in the West Sea, and knows that many herdsmen live extremely difficult, and they can only barely maintain food and clothing by grazing alone, and the environment in which the herdsmen live is extremely bad, and many herdsmen look much older than their actual age, Liu Ziqiu has already made an idea in his heart, and if he wants everyone to become rich, he must make full use of this trade route connecting the East and the West

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Seeing that there was still one day to return to Weiding City, the sky was suddenly covered with dark clouds, and it began to rain, and the rain was not big at first, but Ji Rentai had lived in this wasteland for many years, and was very experienced, and he chose a high ground to set up a tent, and sure enough, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the rain on the ground gradually gathered into a path, washing away the soil on the ground, and the heavy rain continued to rain for two days and two nights before it stopped, and a small river ditch appeared in front of the camp

Seeing this small river ditch that suddenly appeared, Liu Ziqiu was dumbfounded, he didn't expect that the power of nature was so powerful, no wonder a snowstorm could cause the Sui army on the way to the class to lose sixty percent

Ji Rentai had already seen it and said with a smile: "My lord, the soil here is soft, and it is common for a few small ditches to appear after heavy rain, but the wind and sand here are also strong, and after a strong wind, these small ditches will soon be filled in, and then nothing can be seen."

Liu Ziqiu nodded, and was about to order the camp to return to the city, when his eyes suddenly lit up, he pointed to the small river ditch and said, "What is that, I'll take a look."

A soldier had already jumped down the ditch and scooped up a swarthy stone, Liu Ziqiu took the stone, and when he looked at the sun, it seemed to flash a strange light

"Coal, this is coal," Liu Ziqiu jumped up excitedly and said loudly, "Quickly go up the ditch and see where this stone came from."

Although everyone didn't know what the coal in Liu Ziqiu's mouth was, they still searched all the way down the small river ditch, and soon found the second, third and more black sè stones, and then a small black sè hill in front of them, which appeared in front of everyone, there was actually a coal mine here, and it was a shallow coal mine, which made Liu Ziqiu excited, the heat generated by coal combustion was much higher than that of firewood, and with coal, high-quality steel could be smelted

This time he traveled around the West China Sea, Liu Ziqiu took the route of being close to the people, going from house to house, and asking for warmth, which left a deep impression on many herdsmen, perhaps Liu Ziqiu could not replace the status of the tribal leader in the herdsmen's minds for the time being, but at least most people have recognized the fact that he is the new master of the West Sea, and this harvest has made Liu Ziqiu very satisfied, and he is planning to form a standing army on this basis

Liu Ziqiu is the leader of the Xihai tribe, as long as he gives an order, he can immediately gather the young and strong men of the Xihai tribe, but the standing army in Liu Ziqiu's mind should not only come from the Xihai tribe, but should come from the entire Xihai County, as long as this standing army can be established, the fate of each tribe will be tied up with the entire Xihai County, according to Liu Ziqiu's idea, the size of this standing army is controlled at about 5,000 people, they will no longer graze, specializing in training and warfare

But to maintain such an army, not only need food, but also need to have enough equipment, in the West Sea, the grain is mainly cattle and sheep, the herdsmen attach so much importance to grazing in the summer and autumn every year, just to eat a full meal, but the West Sea is very backward, gold, silver and copper coins are rarely circulated, and it is still bartered, the most popular goods here are all kinds of iron tools, and now the discovery of coal is possible to smelt high-quality steel, with steel, not only can be exchanged for grain from the herdsmen, but also can create jīng good equipment, the discovery of these coals almost solved half of Liu Ziqiu's problem

Liu Ziqiu couldn't hold it back, waved his big hand and ordered: "Hurry back to the city and organize people to come over to dig coal."

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It was already dusk when he returned to Weiding City, and Ji Rentai gathered his men to go according to Liu Ziqiu's order, and most of the Xihai people had gone to the pasture by the lake to graze, but there were still more than 1,500 Xianbei prisoners of war in the city, according to the rules of tribal warfare, these prisoners of war were usually executed in extremely cruel ways, but Liu Ziqiu kept these prisoners of war

He made a promise to these prisoners of war, as long as they obeyed the order and did things with peace of mind, they would be restored after two years, and then they could re-form their own tribe, or they could choose to join the Xihai tribe, in fact, when Liu Ziqiu made this promise, he had already expected that the result would be that these more than 1,500 big men would be released, and it would be difficult for them to form a decent tribe without women, and joining the Xihai tribe would be their only choice

However, these prisoners of war were in the prime of life, and it was inevitable that they would cause trouble when they were locked together, and Liu Ziqiu's countermeasure was to let them get up early and work in the dark, so that they would snore as soon as they touched the pillow at night, and it would naturally be much easier to manage

After opening the chūn, these prisoners of war were repairing the city wall, Weiding City is the only city in Xihai County, but the city wall is not high and not strong enough, Liu Ziqiu's plan is to double the height of the city wall, and then build the urn city at the four gates, the work has been going on for a month, the city wall has begun to take shape, but Liu Ziqiu still decided to let them stop first, digging coal is more important than repairing the city wall

As soon as he entered the mansion, Lin Qiao'er greeted him with joy on his face: "The king came back from the horn, and he said that he found the kind of brown stone that the king was looking for."

Liu Ziqiu sent Jiao Liyan to look for iron ore in the area of the Golmud River very early, and later the war broke out, and this work was forced to be suspended, and with the end of the war, this work was naturally restarted, and more than a month before and after, Jiao Liyan finally brought back the news, which made Liu Ziqiu more confident, and said repeatedly: "It's great to find an iron mine, take me to see it."

It is said that good things come in pairs, Liu Ziqiu didn't expect to find the iron mine today, and at the same time, he also unexpectedly found the coal mine, Liu Ziqiu looked at the two stones in front of him, one was black and shiny, and the other was like a brown honeycomb, the more he looked at it, the more excited he became, and he couldn't help but hug Lin Qiao'er and kissed it

Lin Qiao'er is a person who has come over, but she is not pretentious, and the two tongues are quickly entangled

Although the relationship between the two people is getting closer and more natural, there seems to be a layer of window paper in the middle, which has never been pierced, and today these two ugly stones are placed in front of them, but they unexpectedly make their relationship a step further

When Liu Ziqiu let go of his hand, Lin Qiaoer's face was already red, and he lowered his head and said: "Aren't these two stones very strange on the king, in fact, there are many strange-shaped stones on the Gobi Desert, which are much more beautiful than this, when will the slave and maid accompany the king to take a look?"

"Those you said are weathered Gobi, and they are also the result of nature's miraculous work, I would like to take a look at it when I have time, but these two stones are different, with them, you can" Speaking of this, Liu Ziqiu suddenly paused, frowned, and said, "It seems that there are still shortcomings."