Entering Donghai Town, thinking that it was already Saturday night, Sima Fuqiang's face became very unsightly again. Although the problem of bandits has been solved, it is still impossible for the population of Donghai Town to increase in a short period of time, and it is only a temporary solution to the labor problem of Donghai Nine Villages.

The time when the Donghai team entered was the local morning again, and when they walked out of the gate of the town guard mansion, Elder Mu Qing and Wu Qiang were already waiting outside. Seeing Sima Fuqiang, they immediately greeted him.

Elder Mu Qing spoke first, "My lord, Wu Qiang and I have a suggestion to establish a checkpoint at the mountain pass leading to the official road in the southeast of the southwest village, and then build a bridgehead at the end of the Nancun Bridge. In this way, combined with the natural barrier of the Jiulong River, we can completely abandon Dongwei Pass. ”

When Sima Fuqiang heard this, he returned to the lobby of the town guard mansion and looked at the huge sand table he had made, which almost covered a radius of fifty miles around Donghai Town. I have to admit that Elder Mu Qing and Wu Qiang are still quite concerned about the defense of Donghai Town, and their proposal is also quite practical.

By following their recommendations, Tokai Town would be able to easily defend these two key points with only its current population. It's just that this is not the most ideal result for Sima Fuqiang, and he hopes that the East China Sea team can hold the entire East China Sea territory, rather than giving up nearly half of the land south of the Jiulong River.

In any case, one more line of defense is better than nothing, so Sima Fuqiang agreed to the proposal of the two and let them start building, anyway, it would not cost much manpower and material resources compared to the city wall of the East China Sea.

This time, the person in the dream still has to survive in the power dream for seven days, and there are no bandits to deal with, which is inevitably a little boring. After sending Elder Mu Qing and the others away, Sima Fuqiang was pulling Huang Zhi to discuss how to spend the next few days, and it was Elder Shui Xuan's turn to come to the door.

Elder Shui Xuan brought good news to the two, which was passed back to them by Zhu Gui, who had already started selling salt, through carrier pigeons. Zhu Gui and his men had been away from Donghai Town for more than three days, and they had traveled upriver along the Jiulong River, and at this time they found the mountain road to Xin County that he had described at the time.

What's more interesting is that at the junction of this mountain road and the Kowloon River waterway, I don't know when a Taoist temple was built. In Zhu Gui's letter, it was mentioned that this Taoist temple sheltered some homeless people, cultivated land in the mountains, and said that they lived a very hard life. He suggested that the people in the dream go to the Tao to see it for themselves, and by the way, gather the displaced people to expand the population of the East China Sea territory.

The news was really like a blessing in the snow, and the two decision-makers of the East China Sea team were extremely excited.

Zhu Gui's letter was accompanied by a map of the waters of the Jiulong River, which clearly marked the location of the Taoist temple. Taking the map from Elder Shui Xuan's hand, Sima Fuqiang sandwiched it in the "Chronicles of the East China Sea Town", on the one hand, he continued to discuss with the Great Elder how to arrange for people to accompany the East China Sea team to the Taoist Temple, and on the other hand, asked Huang Zhi to hurry up and call his teammates back.

Three male team members are currently teaching combat skills to the Town Guard. It is said that Wu Qiang reported that the effect of those days on Thursday night was not bad, and it is estimated that as long as the dream person sets aside a day to guide every time he enters the power dream realm, the elite villagers of the Donghai Town Guard will soon be able to go further.

The two women went to inspect the construction site of the city wall, on the one hand, the progress of the project, and on the other hand, let Li Sha treat the villagers who were accidentally injured in the course of work.

At this time, the population allocated by the villages in the territory was in place, and Donghai Town and the surrounding nine villages showed a prosperous scene. The walls of Tokai Town were about to be completed, and it was certain that all the finishing touches would be completed before the people in the dream had left for seven days. As for the two new projects that were proposed by Mu Qing and Wu Qiang just in the morning, because of the relatively small scale, they could be completed after the people in Zhou Yu's dream entered the power dream again.

Elder Shui Xuan helped the Donghai team find a canopy boat that could accommodate more than a dozen people, and arranged for four boatmen to take turns to support the boat in two groups.

That afternoon, the people in the dream set off along the map provided by Zhu Gui. The Jiulong River twists and turns, flowing up 400 miles from Donghai Town, is where the Taoist temple is located, and it is also the starting point of the mountain road leading to Xin County.

As Zhu Gui said, when the autumn is dry, it will be much easier for the Jiulong River to sail against the current. The four boatmen worked in two shifts to support the boat, and it took three days to find the location of the Taoist temple according to the map. At this time, it was the afternoon of the fourth day that the dreamers had entered Donghai Town, and counting the one day it would take to return downstream, and leaving a little room just in case, they still had two days to visit the Taoist temple and the nearby homeless people.

At this time, Sima Fuqiang discovered a mystery in the "Chronicles of the East China Sea", and the topographic map of the five hundred miles of the East China Sea changed. Originally, with the exception of a small area along the southeast coast, 60 percent of the East China Sea territory was marked with hills and mountains marked in gray, which was an incomplete map.

After the exploration of the East China Sea team against the current, the tortuous waterway route of Xixi in Jiulong River has appeared on the screen, and the location of the Taoist temple has also been marked, which is a map that can be completed automatically.

Since this is the case, this entire "Donghai Town Chronicles" should have such an effect, and Sima Fuqiang hurriedly turned it back. Sure enough, with the extermination of the bandits, all the villages in the Tokai Territory recognized the dominance of the Tokai Town Guard, and the names and population of these villages were displayed in the relevant columns of the town chronicles.

At this time, the census of Donghai Town's taxpayer population displayed in the town records was 5,149, which also showed that the young and middle-aged population was 1,763. In other words, in the event of an inevitable war, the Donghai Town Guard can be temporarily expanded to 1,763 people, although it is still very small, but it is completely enough to guard the two key points outside Donghai Town.

Zhao Meng, the deputy captain of the town guard, was accompanied by Sima Fuqiang, who immediately came to him to discuss and follow the military system implemented by Yuwentai of the Western Wei Dynasty in Donghai Town, so that these villagers could work in agriculture and train in their spare time. Zhao Meng agreed with this approach, after all, the Dongzhou forces have always implemented the government military system, but they have been abandoned in the East China Sea territory for many years.

The villagers in the East China Sea territory have been bullied by bandits in recent years, but they are powerless to resist, and they have long hoped that someone will organize the villagers to defend themselves. Moreover, the government military system that Sima Fuqiang was preparing to implement was even better than other places in Dongzhou, not only did not need to provide their own equipment, but also allowed the government soldiers to be exempted from a certain percentage of taxes. At this time, there should be no resistance to re-implementation.

The reason why the East China Sea team can implement such a preferential government military system is that they do not regard themselves as people of this world, so they are not rare in the material comforts of this world. Except for the poll tax, which can be converted into points, they basically do not need the wealth of this world, so they can implement a more relaxed tax policy. The bureaucrats of other state capitals and counties are different, they are the aborigines of Dongzhou, they have families and mouths, and they have lived here all their lives, and it is not surprising that they pursue material desires.

It is believed that the tax system of the East China Sea Territory will be very attractive to the hungry and poor people in the surrounding counties, and the population will slowly increase over time. However, it is still a matter of time before the issue of opening the border is not solved, and if the problem of opening the border is not solved, it may be that Donghai Town will become the fat in the mouth of the Weixian thief army within a few days, and everything will not be mentioned after that.

The Taoist temple is built on a hill on the edge of the West Creek in Jiulongjiang, located between the green mountains and beautiful waters, and really has the appearance of a fairy mansion.

The mountain gate was built halfway up the mountain, and the group went up the steep and narrow staircase, and the vertical height from the foot of the mountain was more than fifty meters at this time, and everyone was already out of breath when they arrived here. The mountain gate is open, and on the lintel is a log plaque that has not been treated in any way, on which the words "East China Sea View" are written vigorously and vigorously in small seals.

Seeing that the mountain gate was unguarded, the dreamer walked in unceremoniously.

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