This big victory not only made the generals of the Standing Army clearly understand the strength of the Standing Army, but also made the ambitions of the generals soar, and they were all thinking about what positions they would assume after the real expansion of the army.

Therefore, when the army returned, the generals were in high spirits, even higher than when they went out, and the speed of the march was much faster, and in less than three days, they had already returned to Tianshui County.

Although the means of helping Chu He win people's hearts were cruel, the effect was unexpectedly good.

Chu He led the army back to Datong County, and before he even had time to make a post-war summary and reward the soldiers, he found that many officials and gentry, business representatives, especially the official gentry in Ji County, had already arrived in Changding Township and asked to see him.

It was Chu Wendu who showed deep worry, asked to see Chu He, and bluntly talked about the expansion of the army.

The gentry gathered in Datong County, also for this reason, hoping that Chu He could expand the scale of the Changding army as much as possible, and for this reason they were willing to provide a large amount of rice, grain, money and silver to help Chu He expand the army.

It's not that these officials and gentry are not in a hurry, the losses in Ji County are really too heavy, before the defeat of the mountain bandits, there are tens of thousands of people and more than 2,000 soldiers casualties, and there are no less than 30 gentry who were robbed by the mountain bandits.

Although the mountain bandits were defeated, there were still thousands of mountain bandits hiding in the mountains and dense forests everywhere, and the remaining Changding army could not free up their hands to exterminate them one by one, and from time to time you could hear the news that the mountain bandits went out to plunder rice and grain, and it was not limited to a county in Ji County, and the gentry of Tianshui County could be regarded as everyone in danger.

Before the return of the Chu River, the officials and gentry had already asked the county officials to send troops to suppress the bandits.

Problem: If the counties want to send troops to exterminate the remnants of the bandits, there is no way to do it, the strength is just a little, what if there are still mountain bandits attacking, it must be the priority to protect the county, at most it is to send some guards to inspect the countryside.

Tianshui County is now full of vitality, far from the war capture, I don't know how many gentry relocated to the counties of Tianshui County, not only can save their lives, but even take advantage of the development of Tianshui County to make a lot of money.

The people of Tianshui County are very rich, especially the families of the soldiers, who do not have a hundred and eighty taels of silver to hide at home, and the gentry and merchants can basically sell the goods that enter Tianshui County from outside at a good price.

In particular, the materials purchased by the military are even more generous, cotton, ore, coal, salt, furs, etc., those who come do not refuse, and the price is two or three percent higher than that outside.

It can be said that Chang Dingjun is now closely related to the gentry and local tyrants and merchants in Tianshui County, and even the entire gentry family has migrated to Tianshui County.

The Changding army went out to crusade against the invading enemy, which made the troops in Tianshui County empty, so that the mountain bandits had the opportunity to burn and loot in Ji County, these gentry and merchants were even more concerned about the construction of the Changding army than Chu He, and it was natural for them to come together and donate a large amount of property in the hope that the Changding army would expand its army.

Not to mention these gentry and merchants, even those old people in various counties and townships, they also went to various official offices, asking Marshal Chu to send soldiers and horses to garrison the townships, and increase the scale of the militia in the guards, so as to protect the peace of the countryside.

Chu He met with the visiting representatives of the gentry and businessmen, and promised to obey their persuasion and expand the size of the Changding army, and finally persuaded the representatives of these gentry and businessmen to leave.

Throughout history, any change of dynasty is impossible to confront the mainstream forces, and can only follow the trend, even in the future generations of the earth, Taizu and others who are not masterpieces in the world, but also have to implement strategies such as winning over small landlords and wealthy households, unite all the forces that can be united, and finally succeed in establishing a new dynasty.

Chu He knew very well that his intention to overthrow the Shu State was by no means the lowest-ranking Shu clan, but the gentry class, the backbone of the Three Kingdoms.

Even those mud legs who started with the Chang Ding Army have now transformed into a gentry clan.

With the improvement of their own strength and status, more and more clansmen and villagers have joined them.

Like Wu Shizhu, who was originally just an outsider in Qinghe Village, has now become a wealthy martial artist.

Even Wu Shizhu didn't understand where he came from so many relatives and friends of the martial family, but he came here with various documents and genealogies in his hands, proving that he and Wu Shizhu had various blood ties, etc., anyway, now the martial family has several clansmen and dozens of children with martial surnames.

In addition, Liu Fengru also came to a lot of relatives of her mother's family or something, plus some doormen and wealthy slaves took refuge, and the slaves and servants who were purchased, the number of people who relied on the martial arts family to live has exceeded three hundred!

The samurai family has become a first-class wealthy family in Tianshui County.

The situation of other generals is similar, such as Jiang Wei, former relatives and friends, including Cheng Xiao's family who once took him in, came to the door, and Jiang's mother was said to move, how could Jiang Wei not take them in?

Even ordinary people, in fact, they can't represent themselves, in all villages and ethnic groups, the elders of those who can decide major matters are the patriarchs, squire leaders, and sleeves from the gentry, and if they get the support of the gentry, it is equivalent to the support of the people.

Because of this, Chu He now represents the interests of the gentry class, and the rise of the Changding army is nothing more than overthrowing a group of old nobles, and then occupying their own positions and becoming the new upstarts.

Although Chu He was helpless, he could only rely on their strength to seek a great cause, and at most he tried to make the life of the Shu people better.

Officials, gentry and businessmen came together, and Chu He had to be treated politely, with their support, the expansion of the Changding army was logical, and there was no obstacle.

Of course, even if the gentry class did not agree to expand the army, Chu He would have forcibly implemented it, but it was better to have their support.

After persuading the visiting gentry, Chu He was not idle, and the people waiting for him to meet went to many nautical miles, Chu He thought for a while, and then ordered his personal guards to pass the phoenix feather to the city lord's mansion.

He was a little curious about the phoenix feather.

The other party sent troops to help Ji County, and he definitely asked for something, but he could make a decision so quickly, he was a grandmaster at the peak of the fifth grade, and there were thousands of elite brute soldiers on hand, so if such a talent came to vote, Chu He would certainly not take it lightly.

If you can subdue the phoenix feather, you can lay a nail in the southern barbarian tribe, and if the anti-Shu army is defeated in the future, with the example of the phoenix feather, it will be easier to recruit the barbarian tribe.

Most of the barbarians were well placed outside the city of Ji County, and the leaders such as Fenghuang Yu and hundreds of elites went to Changding Township.

Although he only lived in Changding Township for a few days, the shock to Phoenix Yu was extremely huge.

She found that this was not at all the remote mountain place that others had said before.

A peculiar style of small city wall will protect the whole half of Datong County, inside is a huge residence, the buildings are tall, the style is novel, arranged neatly, restaurants and inns, weapons shops, ready-to-wear shops, etc., all kinds of shops are available, people come and go bustling and lively.

The buildings are all three-storey structures, three feet high, neatly arranged, with straight and flat cement passages between them, and the official road outside is wide enough to accommodate eight horse-drawn carriages to pass through.

The roads are also unusually clean, with no livestock manure and no sewage flowing from other towns.

The faces of the people were also full of smiles, and they were well-dressed, and their ruddy and slightly bulging cheeks showed that their daily diet was quite rich, and the numerous beggars and hooligans of other towns were not to be seen here.

Phoenix Yu has been to Datong County before, but compared to here, Datong County is simply as dirty and messy as a flower nest.

At the beginning, Phoenix Yu thought that this was Changding Township, and deliberately praised the prosperous appearance of Changding Township from the heart, and when he saw the officials and soldiers who came with them laughing dumbly, he knew that he had made a big joke.

When he really arrived in Changding Township, Feng Fengyu realized that what he had seen before was just a medium-sized focus in Wuqing Township, and there were still dozens of miles away from Changding Township.

Even after the previous shock, when they really arrived in Changding Township, Phoenix Yu and the others were shocked again.

Buildings with four or five stories high towered all over the Changding Army, and such a building was enough to accommodate hundreds of people.

The cave and thatched hut where Phoenix Yu lived before, compared with these buildings, definitely formed a huge contrast, and one building could be worth several caves.

Looking at it, such a four- or five-story building is densely packed, and there are dozens of buildings within a radius of one mile, so it is not a problem for the entire Shuangyue clan to live in it.

Feng Fengyu is very skeptical that Changding Township needs so many strange high-rise buildings, but the clothes hanging and drying from the buildings are obviously inhabited, and from this estimate, I am afraid that the entire Changding Township has a population of more than 300,000!

Phoenix Feather's estimate is actually conservative.

The world is full of dangers, so that the people habitually live together to defend themselves against all kinds of dangers.

Most of the land is uninhabited, and people live in a few villages.

As the political and governance center of Tianshui County, it is conceivable that Changding Township will attract many wealthy families to move in, and many of the courtyards of buildings connected together are the real estate of a wealthy family.

Today, the small Changding Township has attracted a population of 400,000, which is comparable to the three previous Datong counties.

Of course, these buildings are not for them to live in for free.

On the four-story building, the materials used are precious blue bricks, bluestone, cement and a small amount of steel, and then reinforced with runes, a 100-square-meter suite starts at 3,000 taels of silver, and a four-story building with 16 households, plus a 100-square-meter garden courtyard, the price is 50,000 taels of silver.

In addition to the meritorious buildings that are allocated to the families of military generals for free, or the buildings that are rented to soldiers at low prices, foreign wealthy families must pay in full to buy buildings, and they have household registration in Changding Township, Tianshui County.

In later generations, the real estate economy of Huaxia has been the first to be implemented in Changding Township, and the sale of buildings alone has brought more than 10 million silver taels to Chuhe.

Now the gentry of Tianshui County, looking at their status, is no longer judged from the various titles before the Shu Kingdom, but whether they can have the household registration of Changding Township, and then whether there is real estate in Changding Township, and how big the location and area of the property are.

A person who can own a whole building in Changding Township is not a joke, as long as he tells others the news, he will definitely have all kinds of conveniences and advantages to do business in Tianshui County, and he will take a real estate certificate and raise it casually outside, which is a proof of strength and credibility, and at least he can get 100,000 taels of silver on credit.

In addition to the real estate economy, the goods sold in various stores also dazzled Phoenix Yu and others.

Except for the large market that was specially set up, these things are extinct.

On both sides of the road are a series of low and neat shops, what really gets the big scene is the shops on the ground floor of the building, which are basically the shops built by the big merchants and wealthy families after buying the building, and there are a lot of goods in it, but the price is also quite expensive.

The shop that attracts Phoenix Yu and others the most is the weapon shop.

When he first entered the armory shop, he dazzled Phoenix Yu and the others, and many tribal leaders even drooled.

Stainless steel armor, stainless steel heavy shields, stainless steel giant swords, spears, strange knives, chain guns, hook and sickle guns, steel ropes and steel whips, etc., almost all the standard equipment of the Changding army can be bought here, except for steel bows.

It is no exaggeration to say that if these earth buns of the Shuangyue Clan can purchase a set of steel soldiers, it will not be a problem to double or even two or three times the combat effectiveness!

The problem is that they can't afford it!

A stainless steel giant sword, weighing thirty-three catties, two thousand taels of silver is not negotiable, a set of steel armor, battle armor, gloves, arm shields, combat boots, knee pads are all available, and thirty thousand taels of silver are not negotiable.

Seeing that these buns were obviously shy in their pockets, but they were reluctant to leave, Zhao Chang, who took them to Changding Township, was Zhao Yilong's biological son, and he had already received a note from his father, and immediately sent a set of steel soldiers to Phoenix Yu, which can be regarded as repaying Phoenix Yu for relieving the siege, and also buying these barbarian leaders.

As Chu He's cousin, Zhao Chang's authority in Tianshui County is of course not small, and there is no shortage of money and silver, but he will not give away thirty or forty thousand taels of silver, which of course has to be reimbursed to his father.

This is not Chu He's reward for Phoenix Feather, it is completely a private gift from the Zhao family.

The Zhao family made his fortune relatively late, and he didn't have much strength in the army, but Zhao Yilong was definitely unwilling to be the head of Ji County, and after knowing that Phoenix Yu had the heart to join the Chu River, he planned to invest in Phoenix Yu, and a meeting gift of thirty or forty thousand taels of silver was definitely not light.

Phoenix Feather has a five-grade divine weapon, the Phoenix Divine Armor and the Phoenix Divine Bow, of course, there is no need for this set of steel soldiers, but the people under him are different.

She casually transferred the steel soldiers to the middle-aged man who had made great contributions in the Battle of Jixian County, which made the other barbarian leaders envious.

Leaving the armory shop, Zhao Chang took them to the Qinghe Hotel to have a good meal, braised black jade snake section, stir-fried kidney flower, steamed Qinghe carp, fragrant stewed pork knuckle, etc., all kinds of delicacies can not stop eating the Nanban soldiers.

When Zhao Chang settled the bill, more than three hundred taels of silver surprised Tuman again.