Hu Chuquan really went back to Yanmen with Lu Chen, and concentrated on being the shepherd of Wuzhu.

Of course, Hu Chuquan is not Wuzhu's slave but her father, in fact, he has a lot of freedom, and Lu Chen gave him a mansion to settle his family. His men help Wuzhu herd the sheep, he only occasionally points fingers, most of the time is idle, he seems to like this carefree and leisurely life without worrying about being suddenly killed.

Wuzhu's shepherds are sufficient, and they completely liberate the chemical genius Fatima and her assistant Xiaohong Xiaolu, she now completely belongs to Lu Chen, cough, of course, only in the work relationship.

At the beginning, Hu Chuquan's arrival once surprised Lu Bu, Zhang Gu and other high-level officials, but after drinking with Hu Chuquan a few times and deeply understanding Hu Chuquan's tragic puppet career, they no longer suspected Hu Chuquan, because this old man had no soldiers in his hands.

The three retired bigwigs gradually had a lot of friendship, which Lu Chen did not expect. At one time, these three guys were all princes of one side, both nominally and in fact, and this is what they all have in common. They often drank together, hunted together, and inspected and commented on the various places in Yanmen under Lu Chen's rule together, which can be regarded as having fun in old age.

Lu Chen was far from being so relaxed, and after returning to Yanmen, he was so busy that he barely touched the ground.

First of all, it is necessary to urge the firearms workshops to clamp and make gunpowder and nitroglycerin to support the Xiongnu and Xianbei people; secondly, it is necessary to organize manpower and material resources to build several Qin Straight Roads; Next, he had to help Fatima buy equipment for the chemistry lab that had just been built; Finally, Lu Chen also had to deal with internal decision-making matters such as people's livelihood, factories and mines, public security, grain and grass, etc.

In addition, he also had to go to Yanmen Academy every three days to teach for one day, and in two months, the number of students in Yanmen Academy had exceeded 300, all of which relied on Pang Degong's huge prestige.

After nearly a month of continuous rotation, Lu Chen stole half a day of leisure.

Originally, he was going to Yanmen College to teach on this day, but because it happened that the students of Yanmen College today, under the leadership of more than ten gentlemen, visited textile factories, coal mines, iron mines, road repair sites, hydraulic iron smelting yards and other places, so Lu Chen could "skip class" for a day.

In the morning, Lu Chen took Shi and Xiao Meow to Grandma's steamed bun shop and ate two meat buns, without being beaten by Grandma, he wandered on the street for a while, and it was very cold, so he went home.

Wuzhu built a greenhouse for her cattle and sheep outside the city for the winter, and Zhen Mi was busy preparing for the reconciliation of New Year's goods and Zhen's shop, so both of them were not at home early in the morning.

According to Lu Chen's instructions, Lu Zhan is leading the construction team to dig the foundation in the wall to make the heating, the north is cold in winter, Lu Chen designed the floor heating, anyway, now they are not lacking coal the most. The plan has already been implemented in Lu Bu's mansion, and now there is no need for Lu Chen to ask again, and Lu Zhan can complete the matter successfully.

The house was chiseled with holes, and the cement in the study was not dry, so Lu Chen could only take the time to teach stone martial arts in the small courtyard, this little guy was very solid and liked to practice martial arts. Several times, this guy secretly played with Lu Chen's tungsten steel halberd from the weapon rack, and was almost crushed to death, but this did not hinder his love for martial arts.

Poor scholars and rich martial arts, if Shi didn't meet Lu Chen, he would not have become a martial artist, at most he was just a rough man with strength. Fortunately, Lu Chen was quite good to the stone, and he could let him eat meat every day, and the stone's body was much stronger than a few months ago.

Every morning before, when Lu Chen was doing radio gymnastics, Shi hid in the corner and secretly followed along, and when Lu Chen found out, he pretended to do things, and when Lu Chen looked away, he began to steal the teacher again. Once, Lu Chen couldn't help but ask him why he followed the radio gymnastics, and this little thing was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed. A handful of tears and snot begged Lu Chen not to drive him away, and he raised his little hand and swore that he would never steal Xiao Junhou's advanced martial arts again.

Lu Chen couldn't cry or laugh, and since then he began to teach Shi to learn martial arts, and allowed him to use the stone locks, sticks and other tools in the small courtyard, the stone cried with joy, and kowtowed to Lu Chen, and solemnly swore that he must be a general in the future to protect Xiao Junhou and Xiao Meow. Lu Chen felt strange, I am your master and your lord, you are right to protect me, but what is the matter with Guan Xiaomeow? Xiao Shi's face turned red, and he twisted like a little girl, and Lu Chen instantly understood-this product is too precocious, right?

On this day, while leisurely teaching Shi Shi to practice martial arts, Lu Chen couldn't help but ask, "Shi, who is the military general you admire the most?" ”

Shi didn't want to blurt out: "General Zilong! ”

Lu Chen said unhappily: "Why is it Zhao Xiaobai's face, not for me?" ”

Stone said: "He is my idol. ”

Lu Chen smiled and said, "Do you know what an idol is? ”

Shi nodded and said, "I know, master, you told me." He is a person who worships and wants to learn from him. ”

"Do you want to practice martial arts with Zhao Yun?"

"It's not."

"And what do you want to learn from him?"

"He took Xiao Junhou's sister!"

"So what? I only have one sister, and you can't learn if you want to, and besides, you're too young. ”

"Yes...... You also have a sister. ”

Lu Chen scratched his head, could it be that he was so busy that Lu Bu gave birth to another daughter I don't know? When he was suspicious, he saw the little girl who was washing Lu Chen's clothes with soap by the well not far away, and Lu Chen was angry and didn't come anywhere. People's hearts are not ancient! The stone bastard even has a scheming!

After practicing martial arts for a while, Lu Chen was sweating, and the stone was about to collapse, so Lu Chen stopped, ready to let the stone rest, but the result was good, this guy rushed to help Xiao Meow work.

Lu Chen said hatefully: "Tired of you bastard." ”

Although his mouth was unforgiving, Lu Chen felt very good in his heart.

Xiao Meow is not welcome, except for Cao Xing and Lu Chen, no one likes her. Even if Lu Chen dotes on Xiao Meow very much, Zhen Mi and Wu Zhu are not close to Xiao Meow, not to mention Zhen Mi, the daughter of a businessman with a bit of identity, she is not close to Xiao Meow, but she also has some sympathy. Wuzhu's reason for not liking Xiao Meow is more fierce - Xiao Meow can't herd sheep, this kind of little girl should be thrown into the snow and starved to death, anyway, living is a waste of food.

Therefore, Lu Chen was very happy to have one more stone who could care about and like Xiao Meow, so he taught stone martial arts more seriously, the purpose was not to make Shi a general, but to have more life-saving means when he went to the battlefield in the future.

The sweaty stone was rubbing the clothes, and the little meow stood aside and pointed, kicking it if it was wrong, and then reprimanding it viciously, the stone was not angry and continued to work hard with laughter.

This picture is very warm and very ghostly, the little two people actually feel a little like a woman singing and a husband.

After this day, Lu Chen was busy again, but he still insisted on teaching stone martial arts every day. Lu Chen is not busy with many things now, except for going to Yanmen Academy to attend classes, which is to settle the new homeless people.

By the end of the year, the people in the south, who had been deprived of food due to the raging war, could no longer afford to eat. As soon as the news of Yanmen's distribution of land to provide guaranteed food and seeds spread to the hundreds, the people in Jizhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou who could not eat spontaneously rushed to Yanmen, wave after wave, wave after wave, wave after wave, and tens of thousands.

In less than half a month, 200,000 people poured in, which had a huge impact on the total grain and grass in Yanmen.

According to Chen Gong's rough estimates, by the end of the year, the number of displaced people will exceed 500,000, and the population of Yanmen will reach 1 million. Even if the displaced people who came at the beginning of the year have already produced their output, the grain from the tax revenue is by no means enough to feed 600,000 people, so Yanmen, which has been prepared for a long time, has been purchasing grain since a few months ago, but the gap is still very large.

Chen Gong and Pang Tong had already advised Lü Chen to abandon the policy of distributing free grain and instead evacuate the displaced people to the border and mountainous areas to fend for themselves, but Lü Chen rejected this suggestion. This is not because of Lu Chen's kindness, but because he needs more people so that Yanmen can develop.

Just when Lu Chen was worried about food, a turning point came.

At the beginning of the lunar month, the Xianbei people called, and many Yanmen descended as if they were facing a great enemy, and even Lu Bu, Zhang Gu and Hu Chuquan, the three former bigwigs, couldn't sit still, and they all listened to the government and urged Lu Chen to quickly recruit troops to resist the enemy.

But Lu Chen was very happy and relaxed, for him, the Xianbei people were sending food!

Zhang Liao had already built more than a dozen ice cities in accordance with Lu Chen's requirements, and transported all the population, grain and grass into the city, and the walls were cleared. Therefore, the Xianbei people did not encounter the slightest resistance all the way over, but they were like entering a no-man's land, but they ran for hundreds of miles and failed to get even a grain of grain. In the end, they had to besiege Mayi with heavy troops, trying to break through the largest city in Yanmen and plunder.

Zhang Liao, who was outside the army, did not return to the rescue, and Lu Chen did not go out of the city to attack, but just held on.

After a stalemate for more than ten days, the first to sit still were the Huns.

Soon, 100,000 Xiongnu cavalry dispatched, although they did not come to Yanmen to support, but they waved their troops straight into the north, cutting off the retreat route of the Huns. And, all the way north, to plunder the empty Xiongnu pastures in the rear.

Hu Shengai and Liu Qubei were reluctant to save Lü Chen, but when Yanmen was besieged, their arms support was cut off, and they had to take action to let the Xianbei people leave Yanmen and restore the connection between the Xiongnu and Yanmen.

They succeeded, and the Xianbei retreated in a hurry.

As soon as the Xianbei army came out of Yanmen Pass, they encountered Liu Bao's 20,000 cavalry of all ethnic groups who were in ambush, they occupied the northwest highlands, easily broke the main force of Xianbei with nitroglycerin poisonous smoke, and then looted and killed. The Xianbei people gathered their men and horses and retreated, but they didn't go far, and they ran into the army of Hesheng Love, and the same poisonous smoke once again made the Xianbei people defeated and left. Before they retreated to the territory of Xianbei, they encountered the Totok cavalry again, but this time they did not encounter poisonous smoke, but the other party planted mines on the place where they had to pass, and the outcome was self-evident.

The good news continued to come, and the seized grain, grass, baggage, cattle and sheep were also continuously sent to Yanmen in exchange for iron tools and gunpowder, and the food crisis in Yanmen was alleviated.

Although the Xianbei people suffered defeats, they were strong after all, and the army was more than twice that of the Huns, so they were unwilling to fail and gathered again, and encouraged the West Xianbei to go south in three ways, left, center, and right, and attacked the Huns. The Huns also fought like chicken blood, and they carried it hard with red eyes, and this battle was destined to be a battle of life and death.

Lu Chen and his Yanmen were eating melon seeds next to him to watch the excitement, and by the way, they assisted the Huns with some ammunition. (To be continued.) )