With the harness ready, Wang Rong began to pay attention to the situation of the river. The river is the mother river of the people, but the mother's temper is not good, and from time to time it turns blue, flooding the farmland on both sides of the river and plundering the food that her children have worked so hard to grow.

Wang Wei took his personal guards and rode horses and mules to the bank of the river, looking at the rushing water. Looking across the river, Li Sujie, who was following alongside, followed Wang Rong's gaze and also looked at the opposite side.

"According to the local elders, when the big river arrives here, it divides into two rivers, one called the North River and the other called the South River. The North River flows through Woye City to the front of Wolf Mountain, then turns to the east, flows along Wolf Mountain through Linhe City, and joins the South River in Shuofang City.

When the Beihe River flows through the Hetao Plain, the river overflows, forming a large lake in front of the mountain, which is called Tushenze by the locals.

This area of the North and South Rivers is known locally as the Hetao Plain. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, the climate is suitable, and the fields are fertile for thousands of miles.

During the Warring States Period, King Wuling of Zhao built the Great Wall at the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain, and established the three cities of Jilusai, Sanfeng and Yaohun. After that, the Qin Dynasty for more than 200 years, in order to resist the Xiongnu, in the north and south of Yinshan Mountain, built cities and fortified the borders.

In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, because of the war, the border people fled, these three cities were abandoned, the development and reclamation areas were forced to abandon, and the cultivated land was all deserted. Li Sujie didn't do rice worms during this time, but actively collected the hydrological and geographical conditions of Woye City and learned some things.

Wang Rong looked far away, the wolf mountain in the distance was verdant, full of verdant mountains, and the river in front of the mountain was surging. However, traces of large-scale deforestation can still be seen.

The grasslands along the river have been reclaimed on a large scale due to military, production and living needs. The abandoned land is exposed due to the lack of vegetation cover and has become significantly desertified after long-term wind erosion.

Wang Rong frowned, he looked at the other side of the river, and asked in a deep voice, "Su Jie, if you think that if I rebuild the city in Tu Shenze, what do you think?" ”

Li Sujie had a ghostly expression on his face: "Zhong Ming, no, it's very difficult to build a city, first of all, the terrain here is decided, and this place can only be built into a rammed earth city." Secondly, we don't have that many people. In the end, you don't see that Jilusai and Kouhun City are all abandoned. ”

Wang Rong was not persuaded to retreat, and said in a deep voice: "Although we no longer need the Great Wall as the front line against the Hu people, but the geographical location of Jilusai is really good, you see, here is the Great Wall in the north, Tu Shenze in the east, located in the pass leading to the north of the Saibei, the Saiqian Canyon runs through the north and south of the Wolf Mountain, and controls the traffic throat through the Wolf Mountain. I just don't know what the current situation of Jilu Saicheng is, and whether there is any possibility of recovery. ”

"Uncle, I know this, I heard the local old man say that this chicken deer is on the cliff building, standing on the west side of the gorge, the whole is square, and it is built with stones from the mining of Wolf Mountain. The circumference is only more than half a mile, and the remaining walls are still seven or eight meters high. There were fortifications at each of the four corners of the city. The city gate of the city faces south, and there is a stone road in the gate to the city. There is an urn city outside the gate, which is also built of stones, and the urn city gate faces east. Li Sujie told the information he learned in detail.

"The ruined city is still of such a size, this place is just the right place for us to station, I am going to take the guards and the first team to Jilusai to check it out." Wang Rong listened to Li Sujie's words and became more interested.

"Zhong Ming, are you serious?" Li Sujie asked with a look of surprise.

"Of course." After Wang Rong answered, he took his guards back to Fertile City.

"Su Jie, let's get ready for an enlarged meeting." Wang Rong was directly preparing to convene an enlarged meeting.

This time it was the same to hold a meeting in the county office, Wang Rong, Li Sujie, the captain of the first team, Lao Wolf, the captain of the second team, Wu Mo, and the ten chiefs.

First of all, the captains and chiefs reported on the progress of the work, and Meng Song took the lead in getting up and preparing to report.

"Meng Song, don't be nervous, you can sit down and report and tell me how the task assigned to you is done?" Wang Rong did not have the habit of listening to his subordinates standing up, and his neck had a headache.

When Meng Song heard this, he had no choice but to sit down, stabilize his mind, and reported: "Uncle, after this period of investigation, I have found out that among the more than 5,000 people in Woye City, that is, 1,000 households, about 200 households are engaged in animal husbandry, and the animals they graze are generally horses, cattle and sheep, of which cattle and sheep are the majority, and horses are relatively few. And the most troublesome thing for these 200 households is the competition for pasture, many of which are such things as one family's sheep eating another family's grass. ”

"Do they have any divisions about the grasslands north of the city?" Wang Rong directly asked the essence of the question, for herders, pasture is extremely important, not that a random piece of grassland can be grazing. The grassland is divided into three types: forest steppe, meadow steppe and arid steppe, and the middle and both sides of the tributaries of the river are meadow grasslands, and the forest grasslands near the Wolf Mountain are forest grasslands.

"I asked these herdsmen, and they didn't have a special division, just conventions, but some of them were big and some were small." Meng Song's answer was not Wang Rong's expectation, those who owned large grasslands generally had relatively strong force values, and those who owned small grasslands had weak force values.

Wang Rong directly put forward his own strategy: "In this way, Meng Song, I will take you away." You stay and serve as the shepherd of the Fertile City, with the fifth member of the second team, Shi Song Wenbai, as your deputy. You divide the two hundred herdsmen into two hundred, and each hundred is divided into ten ten. The redistribution of pastures for the 200 herdsmen should be fair and just. In ordinary times, civil affairs are decided by you with the two heads of the hundred households and the two deputy heads of the hundred households, and Song Wenbai, a soldier, is mainly to maintain law and order and inspect the grasslands, and if there are thorns, resolutely suppress them. By the way, the divided grasslands should not be too concentrated, but scattered and mixed together, understand? ”

Meng Song hurriedly wrote down Wang Rong's policy on paper, and when he heard his question, he nodded, indicating that he understood. To put it bluntly, it is not unusual, that is, if the two hundred ranches are mixed with sand, they will not be able to form a joint force, and they will not be able to fight.

The old dog then reported on his work: "Uncle, the north of this fertile city is all grasslands, and you have given orders before that you cannot destroy the grasslands for farming. However, there is too little arable land in the south, and nearly 800 households in the city are engaged in farming, but the average cultivated land per household is less than 20 acres, which is simply not enough to support such a large number of people. ”

Wang Rong asked: "There is not enough land, are there many idle people in the city?" ”

The old dog sighed: "They also want to find something to do, but unfortunately they don't, this fertile city is so big, there is not so much work for them to do." ”

Wang Rong directly said the solution policy: "Since these idlers want to find a job, I have a job." I intend to apply to General Xiang Zhengbei for several projects:

The first project is the Dahe port, we first build the water village, then expand it little by little, and finally build the port, and then build ships, so that we can directly communicate with Linhe and Shuofang along the big river, and the money and grain can be transported more quickly.

The second project is the Cypriot City, which will be used as our future stronghold, and I plan to use the original foundation of the Seychelles to strengthen and expand it, and then garrison it here.

The third project is to re-establish Tushenze's city and establish a port in Tushenze, so that Tushenze, Nanhe, and Beihe will be connected, and Jijiao, Sujuan and Woye City will be connected in a line, and once there is a change in any place, they can notify each other to support. ”

Although Li Sujie knew that Wang Rong had a big project in his heart, he didn't expect it to be such a big project, not one, but three.

"Zhong Ming, your project is too big, first of all, we are facing a manpower problem. Secondly, it's money and food, how are you going to get it? Is conscription issued? Thirdly, we don't know how long we've been here, why we're doing such a big project. Li Suji raised these questions, and the meaning of opposition was obvious.

Wang Rong said with a smile: "Su Jie, don't be impatient, these projects were not decided by me on a whim. Although I, Dayong, have driven the Hu people out of the north of the Great Wall, the world has changed and the situation has changed a lot. I will explain the importance of this important place with the general, and at the same time, I will also make this fortress project a project for the Northern Army, so that we don't have to worry about money and food, and the general will solve it for us.

Tu Shenze is located in the east of the city, which is an important water source and supply channel for the city, and it is impossible for us to reach the city directly from Woye City, so the city must be built. With the city, in recruiting landless displaced people from Guanzhong, there are people, and the land around Tu Shenze is fertile, very suitable for farming, and the area is large, and it is not a problem to feed 10,000 people. When the population is larger, we will have to build and strengthen the embankments on both sides of the great river. ”

Wang Rong looked at the crowd, and when they had almost digested and understood their words, he continued: "In order to better understand the situation of the chicken, I decided to take the guards and the first team to investigate. Old dog, you stay in Woye City, serve as the head of the Fertile City group, manage the cultivation of Woye City, and encourage farmers to reclaim new fields on the basis of the original farmland, but there must be a degree, with 50 mu per household as the upper line, and cannot be exceeded. The fourth in the second team, Shi Liu and Ze, serve as your lieutenants and help you maintain law and order.

The second team and the third Shi Yin He, you stay in the city and serve as a security team, and you must severely crack down on stealing chickens and dogs, and fighting miscellaneous thefts and robberies. ”

Yin He, the third chief of the second team, heard Wang Rong's appointment, and his face was bitter, one tithe and ten people, managing a city of five thousand people, just kidding, he smiled bitterly: "Uncle, I am just one person, not enough." ”

Wang Rong directly appointed: "You are temporarily acting as the county lieutenant of Woye City, in charge of the security disaster in the city, in addition to your one person, you can also hire two officials." ”

Yin He listened to Wang Rong's words and didn't dare to refute, thirty people should be enough.

Wang Rong looked at Wumo and the others and said: "The horse harness must continue to be built, the horses must continue to be screened, and the training of the cavalry cannot be interrupted." The first team rotates with the second team once a month, and each team rotates according to their respective responsibilities. ”

This is what Wang Wei thought of temporarily, after the meeting, he began to write to Qin Ke, mainly for the planning of the Hetao area, he knew that the burden on Qin Ke's shoulders was not light, but the development of the Hetao could not be delayed, he hoped to make good use of this land, and make this place a second new Qinzhong.