Chu He has an advantage, that is, he is honest with his own people.

Since he trusted the Chu blacksmith, he handed over the steel mill to the Chu blacksmith, and asked the Chu blacksmith to recruit the Fang Shi of the Dingdemon Army to Changding Township, and there was no need to take any roundabout routes, just go directly to the Chu blacksmith.

Refractory bricks and other secrets of Chu He are still hidden, not because they can't trust Chu Blacksmith, but because they are afraid of inadvertently leaking out, which has nothing to do with trust.

The fact that the blacksmith of Chu will keep this secret does not mean that others do not need to use other methods, such as buying the craftsmen, threatening or even kidnapping the craftsmen, to try to obtain the secret of steelmaking.

Anyway, the steel smelted now is enough for the Chu River, and if two small blast furnaces are built, the output of steel can be greatly enhanced, and there is no problem in selling it on a large scale.

Closing up and controlling Changding Township is also on the agenda.

Within a month of Chu He's return to Datong County, the mountain people of Changding Township learned a news from his mouth that Qianyuanwei had recruited reserves again, and there were quite a few of them, as many as 2,000.

However, these two thousand team members are not only recruited in Changding Township, some innocent homeless people who meet the requirements may enter the Qianyuanwei!

When the news spread, the entire Changding Township instantly boiled.

The Yellow Turban Army was in turmoil, and all the thousands of miles southwest of Qinzhou fell into the hands of the Yellow Turban Army, and the only one that was not captured was Datong County.

Others don't know why Datong County is not affected by the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army, but there are not many places for the people to hide and escape within a radius of thousands of miles.

Except for some of the refugees who were hiding in the mountains and forests, Tianshui County, and the refugees who could escape were basically rushing towards Datong County.

Although Datong County is not affected by the scourge of the remnants of the Yellow Turbans, the disasters caused to Datong County by the displaced people and those defeated generals will not be less than the remnants of the Yellow Turbans.

The soldiers and horses of Datong County did not even dare to leave Datong County for half a step, and the city gates were also closed, and the precautions against the rout of the soldiers and displaced people were no less than the fear of the remnants of the Yellow Turban.

Changding Township is definitely a paradise, there are not many homeless people to make trouble, and there are no mountain bandits and soldiers raging, the villagers know that the reason is only three words, Qianyuanwei!

Many villagers actually know that the mountain bandits are strictly disciplined and do not loot indiscriminately, and there is the shadow of Qianyuanwei behind them.

Otherwise, if the mountain bandits who do not engage in production and do not rob the villagers, where will they get the food to survive? Where will they still be in the mood to stop the homeless people from breaking into Changding Township?

Qianyuanwei is undoubtedly the protector of Changding Township, and the treatment of Qianyuanwei has also made countless young people in Changding Township hot.

As long as one person in the family can enter the Qianyuanwei, it basically means that the family of ten people will not have to worry about eating and drinking!

After this news was announced, the people of Qinghe Village, especially those close to the Chu family, could really be described as stepping through the threshold in one sentence, and they didn't know how many people came to the door.

On the one hand, they implored the children of the village to join Qianyuanwei, and on the other hand, they also vaguely said that only the children of their own township could be trusted, and those foreign homeless people were unreliable, and it was best for Qianyuanwei to recruit soldiers in Changding Township.

Their careful thinking is obvious, the Qianyuan Guard recruited 2,000 people, recruited from the homeless, and the guards recruited by Changding Township will naturally be fewer.

Qinghe Village suddenly became lively, and a large number of young people from other villages entered Qingqing every day, and many of them came over with letters from their elders or something.

Of course, these things are useless.

The people of Qinghe Village were approached by relatives and friends from other villages, and their attitude was quite polite, and they ate enough esophagus, but when it came to entering the Qianyuanwei, they just said that they could sign up directly at the registration office.

Once you pass the required test, you can become a member of the Reserve of the Abyssal Guard.

Fortunately, the requirements for the Qianyuanwei to recruit reserve fighters this time are much lower than before.

There were only twenty or thirty thousand people in Changding Township, and the young people were only five or six thousand, and more than 1,000 people were pulled away by the Ding service last time, plus the quota of several hundred young people and two thousand Qianyuanwei reserves was recruited before, and the remaining young people in Changding Township were almost wiped out.

The outcasts, who can join the Qianyuan Guard, are only thirty or fifty people in the end.

These displaced people are all guaranteed by the villagers of Qinghe Village, and their physical fitness is quite good, and most of them have also practiced martial arts.

The young and strong have all joined the Qianyuanwei, and the remaining old people, children and women in Changding Township have become difficult to farm.

Moreover, even if the seeds are really sown, they may not be harvested, and it is likely that even the seeds will be lost.

Chu He took the opportunity to release the news, such as leasing the fields of the villagers in Changding Township, and operating according to the model of Qinghe Village, which naturally won the support of a large number of villagers.

The model of Qinghe Village has already made other villagers envious.

For ordinary mountain people, this is a guarantee of income from drought and flood, and the fields do not have to pay any taxes, and if they save some food, the rent given to them by Qinghe Village is enough.

Moreover, the Chu River is known for its benevolence and righteousness, even if the villagers do not have young and strong children in Qianyuanwei, the Chu River will try to find a way for them to make a living, and the villagers can still trust the Chu River.

The integration of Changding Township went quite smoothly, and some wealthy households who held opposing opinions, Chu He was not reluctant, but only sent a message that as long as one household in a village did not agree, the whole village lease would be stopped.

In this way, how can those fierce mountain people endure the resentment of the rich people.

Originally, everyone could learn from Qinghe Village well, and life became more and more nourishing, but those rich families did not care about the life and death of the entire village for their own selfishness, which caused public anger.

In the eighteen villages of Changding Township, there are soldiers of Qianyuanwei in every village, and they receive loyal education, even if those rich families who disagree, have the background of wealthy families, or the elders and patriarchs in the village, in the eyes of Qianyuanwei, there is no deterrent at all.

With the anger of the public, the team of Qianyuanwei pulled up some young people with strong blood and strength to make trouble in the courtyard of the rich households, and those rich families were unable to resist.

In this world, in the end, force is king, the rich and rich, and they can hold the authority, but it is not the force in their hands that they rely on!

Now the armed forces of Changding Township are concentrated in the hands of Chu He, Datong County is unreliable, and the wealthy families of the Shi clan have escaped from Datong County early, and the rich families of Changding Township finally have to give in and make contracts one by one to lease the land to Chu He.

Those who are really stubborn, such as the Hu family in Hujiazhuang, the henchman housekeeper actually led hundreds of family members to defend the family's land to the death, and Chu He also met their sworn requirements.

One hundred Qianyuanwei easily captured Hujiabao, and the housekeepers led by him were executed in public, and those family members were also sent to the mine to serve in labor, and the hope of coming out is estimated to be very slim.

Of course, Chu He did not covet the property and grain in Hujiabao, but generously distributed it to the villagers and tenants of Hujiazhuang.

The Hu family was already unpopular, and Chu He's benevolent and righteous methods made Chu He's reputation even greater.

A small number of rich families who still wanted to resist were suddenly frightened and chilled, and many villagers even shouted that they would invite Qianyuanwei to kill them, and divide their money and food.

How dare these guys resist stubbornly, and they have sent people to Qinghe Village to intercede, willing to accept the transformation of Qinghe Village.

Chu River used both soft and hard means, and Changding Township was soon completely included in the control of Qianyuanwei.

The current professional breeding households in Qinghe Village can be regarded as a big face, and under the dispatch of Chu Quan, they have gone to other villages to guide others to breed livestock and the like.

For Chu He, it is too simple to find a way out for 30,000 or 20,000 people in Changding Township, anyway, there are too many jobs, mines, ironworks, building city walls, renovating houses, etc., all require a large number of people.

In this troubled era, money and grain are everything, Chu River now has enough grain and grass, and Qianyuanwei not only expanded twice as many people in an instant, but Chu Mu Chu Shi, Chu Heizi, and Chu Yuan, the two mountain bandits, are also expanding rapidly.

It is even easier for them to recruit mountain bandits, and they do not refuse to come, and they can also bring their families with them, and most of the displaced people who can escape here anyway are young and strong or in good health, old and young women and children.

With the previous team of more than 1,000 strictly trained mountain bandits, it is by no means a problem to recruit 3,000 new mountain bandits.

The newly joined mountain bandits, it is impossible to form a group, Chu Mu and the others punished some disobedient soldiers and blue-skinned thorns with thunderous means, and the newly joined mountain bandits quickly obeyed, anyway, as long as they have food to eat, the training is a little harder.

If they weren't really forced to have no way out, these homeless people didn't innate want to be a mountain bandit who didn't recognize their relatives and was full of blood.

Before that, most of them were honest farmers.

The generals under Chu He's hands were expanding and improving at an astonishing speed in a short period of time.

However, it will still take a long time for the newly joined soldiers and bandits to form combat effectiveness.

On the side of Datong County, I don't know if I don't know the actions of Qinghe Village, or the role of the 50,000 stone rice grain, anyway, I don't care about Qinghe Village, and even sent Chu Wen out to serve as the head of Changding Township.

Chu He pondered that there were enough soldiers and horses under his command now, and before they were transformed into combat effectiveness, there was no point in recruiting them, so he began to train soldiers and horses wholeheartedly, and as for other matters such as production and planting, everyone in the Chu family was responsible.

In the blink of an eye, a few months have passed.

Chu He has been in Changding Township, but he has sent people to find out the situation outside.

As Chu He expected, the Yellow Turban Army had joined forces with Meng Shu, connecting many counties in the south of Shu State, and the front of the army had approached Qinzhou City, and it was said that there were more than 500,000 allied troops.

If it weren't for the help of other states and counties, I am afraid that Qin Prefecture would have been captured by Meng Shu long ago.

However, according to the news from the spies, Qinzhou City has completely fallen into disadvantage, and the soldiers and horses cannot take a step out of Qinzhou City, and it is only a matter of time before they are captured by Meng Yu.

The news further away, the few spies sent by Chu He, were completely unable to find out.

But if nothing else, it is estimated that in another half a year, Zhuge Wenxiang's army will pacify the Yonghong army on the Yizhou side, and then have a big battle with the Nanban army.

However, no matter what the invitation from the outside is, anyway, the Yellow Turban Army and the soldiers and horses of the Nanban did not appear in Changding Township, giving Chu He a precious time for development.

The three thousand Qianyuan Guards, the combat power is getting stronger and stronger, and the armor is also increasing, and some of the elites of the Qianyuan Guards have even been refined into a double golden bell jar.

These elite submerged abyss guards have a strength of two thousand, and they carry two or three hundred catties of equipment on their bodies as if they have nothing.

Five hundred strong archers, five hundred sword shield bearers, five hundred steel spear guards, these thousand five hundred elite abyss guards, all of them are strong and persistent, ten stone steel bows, two-meter factory Mo knives, half-human high steel shields, four-meter-long steel guns, and leather armor inlaid with steel, which can be regarded as armed to the teeth, enough to fight against an ordinary army of 10,000.

The other 1,500 reserves are also steel weapons, and their combat power far exceeds that of the soldiers and horses in Datong County.

On the side of the mountain bandits, although they can't be compared with Qianyuanwei, these six or seven thousand soldiers and horses, compared with the Shu army, I am afraid that they are also superior.

In the past few months, more and more displaced people have poured into Changding Township.

According to Chu Quan's judgment, I am afraid that there are not 50,000 or 60,000 people, and now there are basically five or six thousand displaced people gathered in the soup kitchens everywhere.

However, regardless of the displaced people and the defeated soldiers who fled here, after the hundreds of people who made trouble were killed by the Qianyuan Guard by thunder, they all knew the disciplined rules of Qinghe Village.

The later homeless people did not dare to make trouble, and on the wooden pole next to the soup kitchen, there were still hanging the dried corpses of hundreds of troublemakers.

Chu He did not let these people idle, sent people to organize the homeless people to build wooden sheds and toilets, and even controlled them by military means, anyway, it was just a sentence, those who were obedient and worked had porridge to eat, and those who were disobedient and troublesome were treated with their own guns and guns.

Changding Township is still stable, but the food is starting to be a little insufficient.

Don't look at the hundreds of thousands of stone grain and grass, but now there are almost 80,000 people in Changding Township, even if each person counts one pound of grain a day, it will cost 800 stone a day, and it is more than 200,000 stone grain and grass a year.

If it weren't for the fact that a lot of grain had been harvested before, and the displaced people had only gradually gathered, the 150,000 stone rice grain bought from Qinghe Village alone would not have been able to sustain such a long time.

On the Chu River, an important meeting was held, and a consensus was quickly reached that it was necessary to find a way to sell the armor, break through the blockade of the Yellow Turban Army, and buy food to return to Qinghe Village.

Otherwise, relying on the production of Qinghe Village alone, even if there is a new grain harvest in two months, the rice grain in Changding Township will not be able to support it for half a year.

After this meeting, the Chu blacksmith went to Chu He alone and brought good news.

The few brothers he sent out have already contacted a lot of people from the Demon Army, and there are at least ten Fang Shi, and it is estimated that in a month, these brothers of the Demon Army will be able to enter Changding Township.

Chu He was overjoyed, and with the help of the demons of the demon army, the plan to build the city wall could be officially implemented.

Now the tens of thousands of displaced people in Qinghe Village, if they don't find something to do, sooner or later there will be turmoil.

On the side of Datong County, including the places occupied by the Yellow Turban Army, it was no longer possible to buy food.

For the Yellow Turban Army, food is probably more scarce than Chu He, even if Chu He secretly sends people to contact the Yellow Turban remnants in disguise, it is impossible to exchange silver for food.

If you exchange it for armor, there will definitely be no problem, but Chu He is not stupid enough to be this point.

The Yellow Turban Army did not attack Datong County, not that they did not have this force, and the Yellow Turban Army would not know that Chu He had trained tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in a short period of time, and the reason was nothing more than that the Yellow Turban Army felt that the benefits and costs did not match.

The capture of a Datong county that has little interest is likely to attract Huang Zhong and Gan Ning, and the Yellow Turban Army has calculated this account very clearly.

If you add a steelmaking yard that produces more than 10,000 catties of steel per day, for the Yellow Turban Army and even the Nanban, the benefits are enough to suppress the fear of the seven-rank god of war in their hearts.

In order to obtain more food and other supplies, it was necessary to pass through the occupied areas of the Yellow Turban Army and go beyond Qinzhou.

Just as Chu He was gathering his men and preparing to take the silver armor and venture through the area occupied by the Yellow Turban Army, suddenly, he heard a report from Qianyuanwei that Gantian from Shuangfeng Mountain was visiting.