Time passed, and before I knew it, it was already the end of autumn.

During this period of time, Li Chuan's army to conquer the west has been receiving success, and under the premise that Wang Dadong's "genuine" army has been defeated, those "miscellaneous armies" with tribes as units are even less opponents.

Along the way, the number of the Western Army not decreased, but it snowballed, getting bigger and bigger.

In the current Zhenxi Army, the number of barbarians has reached the same level as the regular number, and I don't know how many barbarian soldiers will eventually exist in the Zhengxi Army if this continues.

Also, Li Chuan found that all the barbarian tribes had a large number of slaves among them.

Usually they need to dare to do the hardest and most tiring work, and when it comes time to fight, they are all cannon fodder rushing to the front.

Li Chuan didn't know why there were so many slaves, but whenever he defeated a barbarian tribe, he would send these slaves to the rear where they could recuperate and cultivate the fields.

Only later did Li Chuan learn that these slaves were basically the leaders of the tribe that lost in the war between the two tribes, as well as their families and subordinates.

This also explains why he was so excited when he heard that Li Chuan asked them to join the army after defeating these tribes, those leaders or something.

What is the point of fighting a war compared to being a slave who is worse than death?

At the same time, during this time, several batches of new equipment have been created and the army has been equipped.

In addition, the Higher Education Institute has been built and is ready to start the first round of admissions.

All in all, everything is on the bright side.

More than a month has passed, and at this time, it has come to winter.

A few days ago, I went to college, and although it didn't cause any disaster, it still added a lot of workload to Xia Qi.

Xia Qi, who was reviewing the documents and reports in his hand, seemed to have remembered something, and suddenly asked out loud: "By the way, Zhang Liang, are the grain reserves in the granaries of each city still sufficient?" ”

Within the Great Xia, ordinary people's grain can be directly purchased from grain stores in various places, and there is basically no need for Xia Qi to care.

However, the government has to take care of the food for the three meals a day for the coolies who work on the construction sites and mines.

In other words, all this grain had to be paid for from the stockpiles of grain in the granaries of the cities.

This year, he has recruited more than 100,000 grassland people on a large scale, and although he has already traded a large amount of grain from Mingzhu in advance, he is still a little worried in his heart.

After all, it's about the lives and deaths of at least 100,000 people.

Faced with Xia Qi's question, Zhang Liang quickly flipped through a document at hand.

"Back to Your Majesty, the current grain storage in the granaries of each city is still very abundant, and I think it should be enough."

Xia Qi, who got this answer, felt a little relieved in his heart, but just in case, he still asked Zhang Liangduo to keep an eye on this piece.

In this regard, Zhang Liang naturally responded in a loud voice.

After all, there were too many things last year, and the food consumption of the successive wars, coupled with the newly received hundreds of thousands of grassland people, these things added a lot of food burden to Daxia.

It's always a good idea to be cautious these days.

At the same time, since he talked about the food problem, Xia Qi naturally couldn't help but care about the newly received batch of grassland people.

In fact, those spies of the embroidered guards are still mixed with those steppe people.

On the one hand, it is natural to continue to keep an eye on the group of grassland people, so as not to cause any chaos on the other side.

On the other hand, they are constantly preaching the goodness of Great Xia among the grassland people.

Its purpose is naturally to allow the grassland people to integrate into Daxia more quickly.

However, this matter is not as simple as it says, in this whole process, if you behave too deliberately, it will make those steppe people suspicious, but if you do nothing all the time, or do too little, it will not be effective at all. How to master a balance in this is definitely a technical job.

For now, the hundreds of thousands of grassland people are still in peace.

Although they need to do relatively heavy work every day, they are not hungry for three meals a day in Daxia, and the embroidered guards who are mixed in play a role from time to time.

Things are going quite smoothly here.

One by one, we quickly process and confirm the past.

Before you know it, time flies.

Winter goes to spring, the ice and snow melt, and the summer ushers in a new year.

As a season of hard work, the spring of Great Summer is undoubtedly busy.

This is no exception, even Xia Qi, who is the emperor.

On the desk, a large number of documents and reports can almost be piled up into a small mountain.

Fortunately, Xia Qi has a large number of secretaries, otherwise, he would have to be exhausted to death by this workload.

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Louronse.

Since the Snow Werewolf and Snow Fox were submissive, Xia Qi temporarily arranged them in Lulongsai, planning to build a new tribal camp for them when the time came.

As a result, there were too many projects inside Great Xia, so it was delayed until now.

The two orc tribes didn't complain about this, after all, this Luronse was much safer than the icy and bitter cold place outside.

At the same time, the explorer camp in the bitter cold land, which had been abandoned for a long time, welcomed a group of uninvited guests.

"Bang!"

The dusty door was pushed open by a large, thick hand, and a bear man walked in from the outside.

The bear-man's size was not as large as the bear-man patriarch Baker, but it was also a head taller than the average bear-man.

Looking at the empty camp, the bear-man who walked in frowned.

"What's going on? The fox people you mentioned earlier are gone, and there is no one here to answer us! ”

Faced with this question, the bear man who followed up couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.

"Lord Locke, I don't know this, I don't know this, when I left, Lord Bey said that he would leave a few people here to pick us up."

Obviously, the bears who appeared in this explorer camp at this time were reinforcements from Beira.

Rushing back from the outskirts of the Bitter Cold Land, and then rushing to the outskirts with reinforcements, they also lost their way several times during this time, causing them to arrive only now.

This kind of support efficiency, if it happened in a human war, the front-line troops would have cooled down a long time ago.

However, the bears have always believed in their own strength, so no one thought about it, and now in the face of this situation, Locke has to express doubts.

"So, do you think the idiot forgot about it, or is it dead?"

In the face of these remarks, the bear man who followed behind obviously shrunk his neck.

After all, Bey is the younger brother of the Great Chief, and it is estimated that Locke, who is standing in front of him, dares to say this kind of thing, but the bear man who follows behind him does not dare to answer at all.

Even the fifty bears who came to support this time all looked at each other with expressions on their faces.

Locke obviously didn't have any interest in standing here stupidly blowing the cold wind, but he spoke again quite dryly: "Let's go, go to the human camp you said." ”

As he spoke, Locke left the explorer camp with a group of bearmen and hurried in the direction of Luronse.

However, what they didn't notice was that almost at the same time as their front feet left, several snow-white figures on the frozen ground on both sides also quickly left the area.

There is no doubt that it was a scout of the Snow Fox Clan.

The fox-man scouts, who were familiar with the terrain, were obviously more efficient than the bears, and before Locke could lead the bears to the entrance of the canyon, they returned to Luronse and reported to the White Wolf about the situation on the Explorer's camp.

The white wolf who heard this raised two eyebrows, but he was not too dignified.

According to the report of the fox scout, there are only forty or fifty bear people, and it is completely impossible for this number of bear people to threaten Lu Longse, who has already strengthened his defenses.

But it's not good to relax too much, thinking of this, the white wolf immediately sent two teams of fox scouts out, so that they could keep an eye on every move of the group of bear people.

After being away for too long, he obviously remembered the road very well.

After several days of work, after finally finding the familiar entrance to the canyon, the bear who was responsible for leading the way finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's the front, through that canyon, and at the end of it is the camp."

Locke replied expressionlessly, then raised his chin at the bear man, and said, "You go in first and have a look." ”

Hearing this, the bear man's expression froze.

Although none of them dared to answer the conversation when Locke was doubting whether Bey was dead, but now at this juncture, the bear man who was responsible for leading the way was also a little panicked.

As one of the bears who had attacked this canyon in the first place, he knew in his heart how dangerous this canyon was.

In case of......

Bey is really dead, this canyon has fallen into the hands of the enemy again, and he is now going in, isn't that looking for death?

After all, it was about his own life, and the bear man had been grinding for a long time, but he never had the courage to enter the canyon.

Looking at the bear man who had been grinding for a long time and hadn't moved a few steps, Locke probably knew what the other party was thinking.

However, they are not a large population race after all, because it doesn't seem to be good to break a clansman because of this matter.

Thinking of this, I saw Locke take two steps forward, and then after taking a sharp breath, let out a loud roar.

"Bey !!"

The huge voice reverberated through the entire canyon, and the group of bear men standing behind Locke couldn't help but cover their ears.

In the depths of the canyon, standing on the head of the Lulongsai wall, listening to the echo of that voice, a trace of surprise flashed in the white wolf's eyes.

It seems that the group of bear people outside the canyon are alert.

Looking up at the troops that had been deployed on the mountain walls on both sides of the canyon a long time ago, he had planned to take the other side by surprise.

But looking at the situation, it doesn't seem to be that easy.

Immediately, the white wolf turned his head and looked at Ali who was standing aside.

After feeling the white wolf's gaze, for some reason Ali only felt a chill rise in his heart, and he couldn't help but shiver.

"General, what are you going to do?"

"Why don't you work hard for the Ali patriarch to take a trip and bring in the bear people outside?"

Ali walked towards the outside of the canyon step by step, walking on two small short legs that kept trembling, and his heart could be said to be panicked.

And at this time, he didn't even bring a single guard.

And the person who caused all this is undoubtedly the white wolf.

The white wolf's exact words are that the bear man on the other side seems to have a bit of brains, and if you take a group of armed guards out, it is easy to arouse their vigilance.

And if you bring a few less, there is no difference between facing the bearren clan and not bringing it.

It's better to bring none of them, in this state, the bear people will not be wary of him a thin fox man, which is safer.

Hearing this, Ali had a sentence in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it at all.

So, there is this scene now.