With capital, you naturally have the ability to act. As a taishou, although he was only trapped in a lonely city, before the phantom array judged that he had failed, Li Jingxuan felt that he should still do his duty as a taishou. Of course, this is not for the people in this virtual city, but for themselves to be able to win. After all, Li Jingxuan already knew that everything here was false, so he naturally wouldn't invest too much emotion in these dumb people.

In Li Jingxuan's view, all kinds of things running in such a large phantom array are actually like a more realistic real-time strategy game. It has everything in reality, but it takes dozens of times faster than reality. Here, a lot of things are quantified. Even the people have a favorability value to measure their own senses, which is a little rigid and eccentric.

"It's a lot easier, though. Li Jingxuan shook his head and sighed, but he thought it was reasonable. After all, the battle for hegemony can last for months or even years, and if everything is compared according to reality, even if there is some kind of artifact that can speed up time, I am afraid that it will take a long time, which is something that everyone does not want to see. Although cultivators have much more time than ordinary people, their goals are also greater than ordinary people. If you want to achieve the corresponding goal in the corresponding time, even cultivators don't have much time to waste.

The city is isolated, the people are displaced, and the people under them have nothing to do, or take refuge in their homes, or wander around, making the entire Pingzhou City like a ghost. This is not what Li Jingxuan wants to see. So, after he had money and food, he decisively issued an order of "work for relief", and gathered all the people in the city to repair the city defenses and restore the public facilities and people's houses in the city. Because the Phantom Array had bound this place to him, he couldn't give up this place no matter what, and in order to defeat the strong enemy on the Kraken's side, he could only try to build this place.

So how to build it? Stabilizing people's minds is the most important thing, and building cities is the key. Li Jingxuan's "cash-for-work" is to assign labor and turn labor into recruitment, so that the people can be tired and exhausted and unimaginable at the same time, and at the same time, they will be given corresponding remuneration, so that they can eat enough to be alone, and have peace of mind, and then there are many public security problems caused by idleness.

Flickering around the "half a month" - the half month here is only the relative time in the magic circle, but not the actual "half a month", which is roughly equivalent to the relative time in the game played by Li Jingxuan in his previous life.

In short, after such a period of time, the original withered Pingzhou City has slightly recovered its vitality. Although the population of the city has not increased much, the people in the city have improved. Although their performance was the same, Li Jingxuan vaguely saw something called hope from their faces. At this moment, they were not as lifeless as they had been at the beginning.

"It's been half a month!" Li Jingxuan muttered to himself. At this time, the basic urban defense facilities of Pingzhou City have been restored, most of the shops and residences in the city have been rebuilt, and the city defense troops in the city have already had a trace of elite appearance under the training of Tang He, and the money and food that they rely on to support them have once again reached the bottom line.

"There are only 100 yuan of money and 270 stones of grain in the treasury, but it can't support it for long. My lord, your order is good, and the city is a little recovered, but we are a lonely city, and the money is good to say, but we have less food for a month. The political envoy, the general judge, and the imperial history once again jointly found Li Jingxuan and told him about the dilemma of the treasury in front of him.

"How long can it last?" Li Jingxuan asked them.

"Twelve days...... I guess I can only hold on to these days. The envoy frowned in annoyance.

"Twelve days, this is enough......" Li Jingxuan laughed when he heard this, but he didn't panic at all. He found the officials outside and instructed them: "Go and find Tang Duwei." Now we need his help. ”

"Yes!" the official quickly left.

After a while, Tang Helai entered the mansion and came to Li Jingxuan. This time, not only he came, but even his lieutenant generals and soldiers were brought here.

"Jingxuan, are you going to send troops?" Above the lobby, Tang He sat opposite Li Jingxuan and asked him such a question calmly.

"yes. I'm going to send troops!As long as you're ready, you can ......" Li Jingxuan nodded lightly: "It's okay on your side." ”

"Naturally, with half a month of high-intensity training, although these guys are not quite elite, they can still take them out and yo. Tang He replied with a smile. On top of his own professionalism, he is still very confident.

"Well, in that case, let's start sweeping up the bandits within the ten to twenty miles around the city. I remember that the bandits in this range don't seem to be very strong. Li Jingxuan pondered for a while and said his order.

"Understood!" Tang Heteng stood up, beat his chest with his left hand, and said loudly: "I will annihilate them all." ”

"Annihilation? This is not enough...... Li Jingxuan shook his head: "Actually, I don't need to annihilate them all. The bandits are all rabble, and they only need to kill their leaders, and as for the younger brothers, who are not stained with blood, let them become peasants and settle them on the spot, and those who are stained with blood will be brought back to me, and the coolies in the city will still need them. I'm going to enclose a plot of land by the sea and carry out my plans. Li Jingxuan said his arrangement very plainly.

"Wouldn't that be too cheap for them. I think it's better to take strict measures to kill them all. Tang He felt that Li Jingxuan's plan was very woman-like, but he frowned slightly and expressed his opposition. He is a lieutenant, and he is equal to Li Jingxuan in terms of rank, so he can put forward his opinions without concessions.

"Do you want to kill them all? It's easy...... But doing so creates a problem. Despite being dismissed by Tang He, Li Jingxuan was still not angry, he smiled faintly and said very calmly: "If you want to defeat the Kraken, what we need is population. At present, the population of Pingzhou City is seriously underpopulated. While we can use the policy of soliciting civilians to attract civilians, it will take time. So, I need to put the power of these bandits to use. Whether it is military or civilian, we need their manpower. ”

"You need their manpower, that's what you need. You have taken them in, you have forgiven them, and you have used their power to alleviate the problems at hand. But, can you rest assured? A thief for one day is guilty for life. Can you guarantee that they will obey your orders, not betray you, and not make trouble for you?" After thinking for a while, he frowned and expressed his concern.

"Don't worry, you just have to give them to me. What I have is a way to get them to obey. If you're worried, you can watch from the sidelines when I concoct them. Then you will be able to see if my solution will work or not. Li Jingxuan swore and said, "Although I don't know where the Kraken made their fortune, their luck should not be worse than ours." It's a race against time. If we can turn the enemy's forces into use, then we must work in this direction. Time is running out for us, and we can't afford to waste it. ”

"Okay! I'll let you give it a try...... This time, I will take action myself!" Hearing Li Jingxuan say this, Tang He once again thought silently for a while, and finally nodded helplessly and agreed.

At that moment, he was about to turn around and leave and go to the battlefield, but Li Jingxuan stopped him again: "By the way, there is not much money and food left in the city." I will organize a group of people to follow you, and once you have defeated the bandits, I will let them enter the cottage and transport the bandits' money and food to the treasury. In the past few years, the bandits have blocked the mountain road and made a lot of good goods, and I need to capture them to make up for the lack of the treasury. ”

"Well, I see. Don't worry, I'll leave those people's copycat supplies to you completely. Tang He nodded in agreement, and then took a step.

Since Li Jingxuan set a strategy as the leader between the two, Tang He naturally began to implement this strategy non-stop. After all, he and Li Jingxuan have the same idea, and they both want to work hard to get the final victory for themselves.

So, with the two sides reaching a consensus, Tang He sent troops. The 100 elite soldiers he had trained rushed out of the city gate in full armor and with the most elite weapons in the treasury, and went straight to a small mountain village five miles south of the city.

It was originally a mountain village where tea picking was the business, but because of the pirate attack on Pingzhou City, the defenders of Pingzhou were defeated, resulting in the loss of control of Pingzhou City over its mountain village, so that the village was occupied by a group of bandits. This group of bandits not only robbed the people of the small village, but also turned them into serfs, oppressing and exploiting them in an open and honest manner. Such an act made the people of the small village miserable. At that time, there were some bold people who threw information about the village under the door of the imperial history. Therefore, Li Jingxuan and Tang He also obtained information about the village through the imperial history.

"There were sixty robbers...... Sixty of them were their elite, and the other hundred were brought in by them later. They controlled three villages, including Cha Village, and about a thousand villagers fell into their hands. Hehe, in this way, their strength is not very strong, but it is not very weak. Li Jingxuan picked up the information about that small village again and again, and the anxious irritability in his heart slowly calmed down: "There are only one hundred and sixty people in total, which is nothing...... It should be easy to take them down with Tang He's ability. I just need to wait for the good news of the Tang River to come, and immediately organize the people to go over to count and collect the corresponding loot...... This shouldn't take too long!"

Regarding Tang He's military ability, Li Jingxuan is still very convinced.

And that's exactly what happened.

Li Jingxuan only waited in the lobby of the government office for a while, and then a soldier came to report quickly: "Lord Taishou, the commander has entered the army smoothly, and he has cleared three bandit strongholds, killed 180 bandits, and captured 573 bandits. Now the governor is stationed in Hecun, eight miles south of the state city, and asks the lord to send Minzhuang there as soon as possible to escort the prisoners back. ”

"I understand!" Li Jingxuan nodded with satisfaction when he heard this, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Although he believed in Tang He's ability, this was the first "war" he encountered after all, and he had many illusions about the outcome of the war, but before the final battle report was delivered, his heart was always helplessly hanging on a high place, and he was worried about it.

Although he also understood that this was not right, and there was no other use for it except to scare himself, he still couldn't produce this emotion on his own, and it wasn't until Tang He passed on the real battle report that he finally felt at ease.

And after being relieved, Li Jingxuan was still a little skeptical......

"Well, this time I only asked him to target one village, how did they recover three villages at once!" Li Jingxuan asked with a frown.

"Because I met a good opportunity, I ......" The soldiers who came to report the news were a little excited, and there was a slight pride on their young faces: "Our battle to attack the tea village was very smooth, and we took the tea village at once." While the spoils were being collected in Chacun, we unexpectedly received news that the bandits from the mining village and the Hecun village wanted to gather together and attack Pingzhou City again. They agreed to meet in the valley on a moonlit night. ...... Since the time of the alliance was in the evening of the same day, Lord Tang He did not have time to ask for instructions from you, so he directly launched a surprise attack on the enemy. During the battle, Lord Tang He took the lead and beheaded two other bandit leaders, defeated the bandit leaders of all sizes, and achieved amazing results. Capture the captured civilians and the soldiers of the bandits. Now they're waiting for you to send someone to receive it. ”

"I see!" Li Jingxuan nodded, knowing what had happened.

At that moment, Li Jingxuan no longer hesitated, and quickly sent the organized Minzhuang to the three villages recovered by the Tang River, and escorted the money, grain, and prisoners in the bandit stronghold back to the capital city. Because these three villages were very close to the city, and the bandits who still existed around were all killed by the Tang River, Li Jingxuan's actions were not intercepted by the thieves, but he easily sent the relevant materials to the government treasury.

At this moment, the money and grain in the treasury, which was about to bottom out, rose again. Although it has not reached the point where the treasury is full, at least it has risen a lot, and the crisis of the originally depleted treasury has been lifted again.

This result made Li Jingxuan's always indifferent face can't help but have a rare smile. (To be continued.) )