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In the Central Plains, to measure whether a city has the ability to expand, is to see whether there is a large number of fields suitable for cultivation around it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info. The update is so fast.

It's just that Fuhugang has developed from a soldier to a town, which used to be the place where hundreds of thousands of Yin soldiers were stationed.

However, now Fuhugang is also saturated, and once people come again, it will lead to poor resources and unable to live.

This turned Fuhugang into a ruined city. Xiaobao's current strategy is to build a city and develop a city, and attract a large number of people to settle down with favorable farming conditions, so that many towns in the Yin Dynasty can be 'pumped' away, so that it cannot organize a strong defense.

Xiaobao never thought that he would easily defeat Yinhu, and overthrowing the Yin Dynasty was not something overnight. Back then, Yinhu raised troops to fight the Chouchao, and he fought for eight years! How many years he had to fight, Xiaobao didn't know.

The Central Plains is vast and crowded, although Xiaobao does not need to fight town by town, but this way to Kyoto, it is not a straight line, some big towns must be beaten, which needs to take more cities, so that their strength becomes stronger and stronger, so that they can continue to fight with the Yin Dynasty!

Therefore, for every town that is captured, Xiaobao needs to plan and operate it well, so that it can exert its maximum strength.

Now seeing that the land of Fuhugang is so barren, I have a feeling that all my hard work has been wasted.

Tie Yi smiled slightly, and said to him: "Xianggong, don't forget, Fuhugang was originally a soldier's camp, a place to garrison soldiers, not a place to raise soldiers!"

Xiaobao sighed and nodded. Seeing his disappointed look, Danniang also smiled, glanced at him and said: "If you can't plow the field, it doesn't mean that you can't do anything else! Think about it, what is the most suitable thing to do here?"

Xiaobao was stunned for a moment, this Fuhugang looks 'very' lively, but in fact, it has reached the limit of the population, it can no longer be expanded, and the resources are very poor, what else can it do?

"There is Huoyun Mountain here, so the soil here has some fire 'nature', and it is the most suitable place for smelting, whether it is alchemy or iron smelting!" Danniang woke up the dreamer with a word, and when she heard this, Xiaobao's eyes lit up!

Yes, who said that you must grow grain in order to expand the city? If the forging factory of Niutong is placed here, wouldn't it be easier for the Xuanbing soldiers to get weapons? If you take this place as the source, South Mohuan, West Huxiao, North Helan, and even open up the passage of the East Bird, and continuously export iron tools to the outside world, then the development here is no worse than that of other towns!

And there is a unique advantage here, the weapons created by the fire of the center of the earth must be better than the 'fine' tempered by ordinary furnace fire, and when the time comes, the advanced smelting methods and iron tools created by the Xuanjun will not only attract the four small countries around here, but the reputation will spread farther and farther!

Seeing that his man's face became clearer, Tie Yi and Danniang also smiled happily. Yinhu may never have dreamed that the place where he raised his army would one day become his sworn enemy, the place where Xuanbao made money!

Bypassing Huoyun Mountain, the sky was already slightly bright, everyone was resting on an open wasteland, Xiaobaobu went down the enchantment, and the palace guards fed the horses after they were full, and they were all led into the enchantment to rest.

The cities and towns in the Central Plains are of different sizes, some are like Fuhugang and Cheongju, the cities are next to each other, and the distance between them is an hour, and some are far apart, and it takes several days to walk.

However, the small inner city surrounded by the city wall does not mean that the whole city is small, and some people who do not live in the inner city can live scattered outside for dozens of miles, and they all belong to the residents of a city.

The Central Plains is the most extensive and populous country on the Bailuan continent, and many cities are wastelands or mountains, which are very barren and not even accessible roads.

Now Xiaobao and everyone walk this road is no one has ever walked, although there is no high mountain, but many places are thorns, poisonous snakes, poisonous insects, fortunately, the Jingongwei are riding war horses, the "legs" are covered with protective gear, plus these Shengongwei are not ordinary people, ordinary poisons dare not get close.

It took a long time to open the way all the way and go all the way forward. Everyone left a mark as they went, so that the army that followed would open the way along this line all the way to Nanping!

There was no danger along the way, everyone ate dry food when they were hungry, sometimes they could catch wild rabbits and roast them to eat, and when they were tired, they rested in the enchantment set up by Xiaobao, which looked like they were on the road day and night.

When you encounter a large area of thorns, you can cut them down, and if you can't cut them, you will burn them all with spiritual fire. When encountering the river, they cut down the trees on the shore and built simple wooden bridges on both sides of the bank to cross.

In fact, there are no real rivers along the way, just some water streams, real rivers will affect the surrounding landform and will attract people to live.

When they arrived in Nanping, the crowd was a whole night later than planned! But now it was daytime, so they could enter the city, and it was a good thing that everyone was late, and the army would arrive early, and that was the main thing!

From a distance, the city wall of Nanping City is much higher than that of Qingzhou City, and there is an endless stream of people at the entrance of the city's 'gate', and several city guards are checking the passers-by.

Xiaobao gave everyone a look, and everyone dismounted, removed all the protective gear on the horse, and threw it aside.

Although this Nanping City sent troops to Panda, it seems that there are still a lot of people left in the city, and these city defenders seem to be 'very' responsible, when Xiaobao traveled to the Central Plains some time ago, those guards basically played a role in maintaining order, and they didn't care much about the people in the past, but they had to check them one by one, did they have guessed that the Xuan soldiers were going to attack here?

Danniang lowered her voice and said to Xiaobao: "Nanping is most famous for cloth, we can pretend to be cloth merchants and enter the city!"

When the 'women' of the Central Plains walked the rivers and lakes, most of them would be 'covered' with black gauze, because before the ugly dynasty, the 'women' were not allowed to throw their heads and 'show' their faces, and they had to go out of the 'door' as a last resort, and they had to 'cover' their faces with gauze or cloth to prevent outsiders from seeing their appearance.

Although the Chou Dynasty and the Yin Dynasty did not issue the same ban, the 'women' have already developed a habit and have been following the example of the previous dynasty.

The crowd rode towards the city gate, and in front of them was an old man in his fifties, carrying a pole with cucumbers and peppers and other vegetables.

The old man was also interested, so he 'pulled' out two cucumbers from a distance and handed them to the two city defenders, one tall and one short, bowed his waist and said, "The two military masters are early!"

The two city guards were not polite, one of them took a cucumber and stuffed it into his mouth and crunched it, the short man was not enough to eat, and honestly and unceremoniously 'pumped' a large handful of cucumbers from the old man's basket, threw them into the big wooden basket behind him, and scolded in his mouth: "Old man Huang, when will the money be paid this month?"

This guy 'pulled' out this handful of cucumbers that contained more than a dozen cucumbers, and the basket was suddenly half lighter, and the distressed old man's face was 'twitching', and he pleaded and said: "Ask the military master to be merciful, and leave some goods for me to sell some silver taels, so that I can 'hand' the money!

The short man had a cold face, squinted his eyes and looked at the old man Huang and said, "What's the matter, the master is distressed about taking a few cucumbers from you?"

"Don't dare, don't dare!" The old man hurriedly nodded and apologized, and said with a bitter face: "It's just that there is only this dish left at home, and the rest are 'paid' monthly payments, the two military masters are good, let me sell two more money, and when the persimmons come down next month, I will 'pay' the money to the two masters!"

The tall man came up and kicked the old man's body, directly kicked him to the ground, the cucumbers and peppers in the flat shoulder were scattered on the ground, and the tall man stomped a few feet, stepped on it to the ground, and then smashed the cucumber in his mouth on the old man's face, and yelled at him: "I don't know what to lift! You haven't 'paid' the money this month, and Lao Tzu is still chirping here after eating a few cucumbers from you? Don't go into the city if you don't 'pay' the money, you can't sell a single one!" Get out!"

"Ahh

These are already his last storage, and after months of hard work, the vegetables he grew were all taken away by the prefect, saying that there was a war and that he wanted to add monthly payments. Just left this little bit, I originally thought that I bought money to buy 'medicine' for my grandson who was having a fever, but I didn't expect it to be all in the soup!

The son died in battle, and the daughter-in-law died of illness, leaving him, an old man and an old woman, to take care of their grandson. The little grandson is the 'meat' of the old couple's hearts, but now they have been sick for five or six days, and they are burned to death if they don't look at the doctor!

But how can I find a doctor if I don't have money? I really had no choice but to sell the vegetables that I used to keep the seeds, and now, there is only a puddle of mud left!

"You robbers!" Old Man Huang finally broke out, stood up like the tall man rushing forward, punched the tall man's 'chest', and shouted with tears in his eyes: "You return my food! You evil wolves who eat 'meat' and don't spit out bones!"

The two city defenders didn't expect that the old man Huang, who had always been honest, would dare to fight against their opponents, and when they reacted, the tall man had already received a punch in his chest!

However, Old Man Huang is an ordinary person after all, and he has been starving for several days, his grandson is sick and anxious for a few days, his body is too weak, and this punch does not have much strength.

But he also annoyed the tall man, gritted his teeth and scolded at Old Man Huang: "You are an old immortal, you dare to do something to Lao Tzu? You dare to beat up officers and soldiers? I think you are tired of life! Die to you!"

The short man also came up from time to time to make up for a few kicks, and scolded in his mouth: "Old immortal, is it reasonable not to 'pay' money? Killing you is like killing a dog!"

The people around looked at this scene, and their faces 'revealed' numb looks, as if they had become accustomed to such things!

But Xiaobao and the others were already trembling with anger, and Tie Yi scolded angrily in a low voice: "I don't care, even if they recognize me, I will take care of it! I can't stand it anymore!"

Just about to rush forward, one hand grabbed her horse's head, Yu Xiaofen had already dismounted and walked to his side, shook his head and said, "Niangniang, let me do this!"