"The King of the Bulls should be well aware of the difference, and I am not an unreasonable person, since he has given me a thousand strong adult men as gifts, of course I have to return the same standard of gift from him. But I'm not going to send someone to send it over, he'll have to get it himself if he wants. ”

……

Two hours later, Wu Peng left Rock City, and he headed north with his guards.

Tianhao stood at the top of the tallest tower in Rock City, silently watching the back of the line in the distance.

Although the meeting was unexpected, he could still feel the concern from the great masters. This old man had worked for the people for a long time, and he feared that he would be lost in front of his outstanding military exploits and huge loot. There are countless examples of this in history, because you are too young, and the gap between age and experience often leads to self-confidence and then develops into arrogance.

The Great Master also did not like His Majesty's orders, but he could not oppose them.

Your Majesty is old, but shrewd. As the supreme ruler, he knew that he had to keep his subordinates at odds with each other, and that any contradiction could be easily resolved with the intervention of the supreme power, as long as it was not a decisive vendetta that shook the foundations of the empire. Powerful local forces are worrying, and complex possibilities could lead to a deterioration of the situation. Sometimes, rebellion is actually a reverse push effect from the middle and lower forces, but until then, the supreme ruler can control it by various means to prevent it.

Tianhao is an exception, he comes from a long dead civilization.

Rock City is an exception to this rule. Tianhao's business methods are different from any barbarian high-level. Whether it is food production or material allocation, the understanding and use of wealth, including the subjective initiative development of the people at the bottom, he is far ahead of this era. All efforts are made to prepare for the coming war, and the entire city is developed to the maximum of offensive and defensive capabilities. In fact, many of Tianhao's practices are not too much to describe as "reckless and reckless", the people of Panshi City have almost no entertainment projects, no private space, no personal property, and the meaning of everyone's existence is to win the next war.

It's a war machine in the truest sense of the word, an oversized barracks hidden by the name of the city.

Sogu is a discerning city lord who sees Rock City's powerful war operation capabilities and bets on the future with all his net worth. Of course, this is due to Tianhao's personal charm, but more importantly, the entire social framework of the northern barbarians is extremely primitive, and the individual free thinking has not yet reached a full awakening.

Many people are surprised that Panshizhai has been elevated to a city miracle in just a few years, but they don't know about Tianhao's secret efforts under the pretext of "running the city". Looking at the entire northern continent, no village, city, or tribe has such a deep understanding of the importance of intelligence as he has; No middle or high-level ruler can pay as much attention to communication with the people at the bottom as he does, and at the same time extend the control tentacles infinitely, firmly attached to every civilian like an octopus.

It sounds scary, but it actually works well. He knows what the civilians at the bottom need and what price they are willing to pay in exchange. This is not just as simple as having the strength to fight a war with a full stomach, no one can ensure that everyone under the rule can be willing to sacrifice and sacrifice, at this time it is necessary to guide, long-term, multiple, from individual to group continuous improvement, repeated contact, and hands-on guidance. Only in this way can the subjective initiative of the people be provoked to the greatest extent, so that they can have the idea that "I am the master of the city (clan)", instead of being passively driven by the rulers and forced to obey more than to take the initiative.

Under Tianhao's management, Rock City has reached remarkable heights. The northern barbarians are known as "all the people are soldiers", but not just any tribe or city can do this. Taking Mishui City as an example, if it had not received the full support of Panshi City in terms of food, Zonggu would not have been able to send tens of thousands of people to participate in the battle anyway, of which the proportion of auxiliary troops exceeded 80 percent, rather than more than 50 percent of the overall combat force like Panshi City.

Tianhao's vision is not limited to Rock City. He has a great appetite and at this stage encompasses all the habitable areas to the north of the city. The ten villages that I got from Wu Peng, the great master last time, have already been built, with an average size of about 1,000 people, and the largest of them is Zhangpu Village. Tianfeng succeeded Jianping as the leader, Tianhao allocated more immigrants there many times, and with the capture of the pig people in the past allocated in this war, the current number of people in Zhangpu Village has exceeded 6,000.

To maintain and strengthen the rule of a region, it is necessary to focus not only on the development of the core city, but also on the existence and influence of the surrounding villages.

The entourage of the Great Master had already gone far away and completely disappeared from the center of sight.

Tianfeng slowly walked to Tianhao's side, squinted his eyes into the distance, and persuaded in a low voice: "If you want to open a little, in fact, the great master has no malice, he has been helping us." ”

"I know." Tianhao nodded calmly and slowly: "He is a person who has ideas and really wants to do things, but there is always a gap between reality and ideals. ”

"Hao, what do you mean?" Tianfeng was a little strange and glanced at him.

"Actually, I can let Yu Zheng live, or beat him up and then get out of Rock City. In short, there are many ways to deal with it, and the initiative is in our hands. The Great Master has not intervened, just to see how far I can go. He's testing us, he doesn't know what I'm really thinking, and he's not even sure if I'm really rebelling as the rumors say. Tianhao breathed in the cold air, and his smile had a hint of flashy mockery.

Tianfeng didn't have Tianhao's thinking that transcended the times, he thought for half a minute, and asked uncertainly: "You mean, the Great Master knew from the beginning that you would kill Yu Zheng?" ”

Tianhao shook his head: "He doesn't know. But no matter what I do, the great masters will not stop it. ”

"Why?" Tianfeng was dumbfounded, this was beyond his cognition.

"Because I am the lord of the city, I have this right." Tian Hao raised his head and stared at the bright sky above his head with the faint clouds and the sun: "Even with His Majesty's orders, the King of the Fierce Bull cannot force me to obey his will. We are not a clan, and his ideas are of no use to me. Not to mention Yu Zheng, pulling the tiger skin as a banner, pretending to be public and private. Since he offered to put his head out for me to cut off, of course I would not refuse such a request. In a word, let him live or die, it all depends on my mood. But in the presence of the great master, Yu Zheng had to die. ”

"I have to make my attitude clear to the great masters in this way. This is called politics. Toughness has a tough approach, and weakness must bear more weight. If I don't kill Yu Zheng today, the Great Master will ask me to obey the will of the King of Fierce Bulls and exchange prisoners according to the numbers on that damn paperwork, and no one will be missing. Because I'm not the kind of person who is tough and unwilling to back down in the imagination of the great master. Although I won the battle, my bones were full of fear of power and aristocrats, so that Rock City lost its cultivation value, even if I became a lord, it was to make a wedding dress for others, and anyone in the Niu clan could dig a piece of meat from me, year after year, and it would never stop. ”

"So it's not enough to kill Yu Zheng, you must also use the toughest attitude to drive the division away. Don't you want to be exchanged, the king of the bulls? You have to follow my rules. Anyway, this group of old and weak people has already come, so they will stay in Rock City honestly. The King of the Bulls will certainly not give up, and next time he will come with an army. But so what? Who wouldn't be able to cheat? I told him directly, these people are dead, what can he do to me? ”

The corners of Tianfeng's eyes twitched when he heard this: "Ah Hao, this ...... I'm afraid it won't work! ”

"Why not?" Tianhao shrugged his shoulders: "He didn't leave food for these people, just said that they were starved to death, what can he say?" ”

Tianfeng finally understood his brother's intentions: "Are you determined to fight to the end?" ”

"They were the ones who provoked the conflict first." Tianhao laughed loudly, and his eyes flashed with a cold light: "If you want to fight, just come, Rock City is not a soft persimmon to be manipulated." ”

Standing quietly in the cold wind for a long time, Tianfeng let out a deep sigh: "I finally understand why the Great Master is leaving. He had nothing to worry about. Ah Hao, you are very strong, and Rock City is not afraid of anything. ”

Tianhao slowly lowered his lofty head, and his resolute gaze seemed to penetrate time and space: "It's not enough, we have to do better." ”

……

A new round of population resettlement work is in full swing.

As many as 60,000 pigs were assigned to the newly built villages. Take Huanche Village and Qingyuan Village as examples, these two villages were destroyed in the war, and Tianhao ordered to rebuild them on the original site with a scale of 3,000 people.

Large quantities of supplies and food were dispersed and transported along the newly built roads to distant lands. All the village leaders are personally recognized by Tianhao, who has invested a lot of effort and time in these people, personally imparting various knowledge and skills, and they are impeccable in terms of loyalty.

Together with the ten village quotas approved by the great master Wu Peng last time, plus the reward for this battle, Tianhao currently has the right to build forty villages.

The current situation is not suitable for a full-scale rollout, and the area under control cannot accommodate so many villages. After repeated calculations, as well as the estimation of the water source area and the actual population in the region, it was finally determined that Jia 43 was the northernmost point, and the middle narrow area was scattered, including Zhangpu Village under the control of Tianfeng, and there were as many as 28 large and small villages under the jurisdiction of Panshi City.

After a series of diversions, transformations, and relocations, the number of civilians in Rock City finally stabilized to 150,000.

The city has a design capacity of 200,000 and must leave room for continued development. Tianhao's tone is accurate and direct: because of the area, Rock City is positioned as a fortress. It is not suitable for a densely populated city, and although there is a wide variety of resources in the surrounding area, there is not enough arable land. If you want to build a central city with cultural and economic aspects as the core, you must choose another location.

What's more, from the perspective of the barbarians, the appearance of a large city with a population of more than 200,000 in a short period of time is really appalling, which is not a good thing for the Rock Collar who is on the rise, and it is easy to arouse suspicion from the top, and even deprivation of naked strength.

More than 10,000 women and children from the Fierce Bull Department are a great gift in Tianhao's eyes. These people have lost their resources of subsistence and are real proletarians. Of course, Rock City would not feed them in vain, but their allegiance to their new master was so urgent, a meal of bread and fish soup, a set of clean cotton clothes, and a warm, strong, beautiful and clean house, even a whip and butt could not drive them away.

Tianhao's ruling logic has not changed at all———— in this world, there are no wasters, only lazy people. As long as it is properly arranged, both the elderly and children can find their place in the city.

The military establishment will be upgraded in an all-round way from now on. The Rock City War Regiment was reorganized into the Rock Leader Regiment, with a capacity of 20,000 people. Each branch of the army is divided according to actual needs, and the main force is heavy infantry and archers.

The 28 villages in the territory set up war groups, ranging from 300 to 1,000 people. All villages are assigned a certain number of horses, and beacon signal stations are built between villages according to the specific situation. Usually the rider communicates, and in case of emergency, the fire is lit and the smoke is transmitted.

The capture and domestication of birds was carried out at the same time. Tianhao has specially allocated a batch of grain and special equipment for this purpose, and the external name is tentatively named "Poultry Egg Processing Materials Department". The name itself has no special meaning, it is entirely out of his personal preference.

The bald eagle is a well-known bird of prey in the northern continent and is at the high end of the food chain. This animal is very different from the bald eagle of the civilized era, and it should be a mutant species of the golden eagle that survived the mass extinction era.

Tianhao's attitude is very clear, whether it can be used or not, capture the training first.

He really can't stand the current backward and slow speed of information transmission, and he must fundamentally change.

The research and development of the paper has been entrusted to Wu He before, and he has done a good job, and the great master saw that the breakthrough paper was Wu Ji's masterpiece. It's just that because of the unfortunate time, Tianhao happened to lead the army to fight outside and didn't get the news in time.

The new paper technology requirements have been renewed again: the color must be whiter, the paper surface must be smoother, the flexibility must be better, and the attention should be paid to water absorption and touch comfort, and different kinds of products can be tried on the basis of the existing ones.

Since waking up from dormancy and successfully parasitizing, Tianhao's biggest discomfort in this strange world is to go to the toilet. Eating faring and sleeping are the three basic activities that life cannot ignore. In the summer, savages can choose thicker leaves to wipe their butts. Those who are particular about it will collect a large amount of weeds, dry them in the sun and use heavy objects such as wooden boards to press and rub them repeatedly to make the hay soft, and each time they use it, they will pull out some of it and pinch it into a ball, and rub it vigorously with their backhand on the center of their bare buttocks.

Many aristocrats liked this "soft grass cleaning method", and in fact it was still risky to do so.