"Your Majesty!" Zhang Xingjin was the first to see Li Ye and led a few people to greet him.

I haven't seen him for many days, Zhang Xingjin is a lot more stable and capable.

"In just a few days, you have tossed a city." Li Ye scolded with a smile.

Zhang Xingjin was not restrained at all in front of Li Ye, "Thanks to Your Majesty's strategy, I'm just running errands." ”

Knowing that he was patting himself on the back, Li Ye still couldn't help but be nervous, it was indeed his plan, but the rabbit cubs also contributed a lot.

The crowd was busy, and Li Ye was wearing ordinary clothes, and no one recognized him as the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Entering the city to see, there is a look, the soldier area and the residential area occupy half of each, the house planning is scattered, neither seems crowded, nor does it seem cramped, tour a circle, very satisfied, although the sparrow is small, all the organs.

Zhou Yunyi brought a man who looked like a scribe in his thirties over, "Your Majesty, this person's name is Yuan Jingcheng, and the Xiliu Camp can have such a scene, it all depends on Mr. Yuan's planning." Yuan Jingcheng hurriedly gave a salute to the emperor, looking at his salute movements, unlike ordinary scholars.

"Mr. Yuan doesn't need to be polite, the society is declining, and Mr. Yuan's help is really God's favor." Li Ye also patted his ass.

No matter how sober a person is, he will be overjoyed in the face of the emperor's sycophants, but Yuan Jingcheng has always been the same, "It is the blessing of the grass people to be able to do things for the Tang Dynasty." ”

Li Ye saw that he was behaving modestly and asked, "I don't know where Mr. Yuan is from?" Mr. Guan's talent is by no means very human. ”

Yuan Jingcheng's eyes gloomed, "The grass people were originally the county order of Wannian, the yellow thieves captured Chang'an in the first year of Guangming, the grass people did not want to follow the thieves, and went out of the city to hide in the mountains. ”

Li Ye remembered that Chang'an was divided into east and west by Zhuque Street, with Wannian County in the east and Chang'an County in the west.

Yuan Jingcheng is so young that he can become the 10,000-year-old county commander at the foot of the Son of Heaven, either because of the family's shadow or because he is talented.

Judging whether a person has talent or not is actually very simple, words and deeds. It is not excluded that some people are particularly good at acting, but how can they escape Li Ye's eyes.

Obviously, this Yuan Jingcheng is a capable person.

"If the feudal town is divided today, I want to revive the Tang Dynasty, please teach me." Since he is a talent, of course Li Ye is unwilling to let go.

However, Yuan Jingcheng looked very hesitant.

Thinking about it carefully, it is not difficult to understand that the decline of the Tang Dynasty has reached this point, and in the eyes of the vast majority of people of insight, it has long been weak, and following Li Ye is tantamount to seeking a dead end. This is actually what most courtiers think, so some people continue to collude with the feudal towns, in fact, to leave a way back for themselves.

It can be seen from this how rare people like Zhang Chengye, Han Hao, and Zhao Chongning are.

Li Ye has been doing sales for many years, and observing words and emotions is a basic skill, "Mr. is so talented, how can he let the people be displaced and starving everywhere?" ”

He is quite familiar with the scholars of this era, high-ranking officials are useless, and Li Ye can't take it out of his hand, so he can only frame him with a big hat like Cangsheng Li Min.

Sure enough, Yuan Jingcheng arched his hand and said: "The grass people are thin and talented, and they only know some techniques for governing the land with peace and security, since Your Majesty will not give up, the grass people are willing to smear the liver and brain." ”

In troubled times, being able to calm the people and farming is a great talent, Li Ye is very happy in his heart, and the appearance of Yuan Jingcheng can be regarded as making up for the shortcomings of his talents.

Then you can let it go.

Yuan Jingcheng roughly told Li Ye about the population and composition of Xiliucheng, which was still slightly less young and strong, mostly old and weak, women and children, but they were able to wander to the vicinity of Chang'an, and their bodies were still strong, and the fields by Weishui were their credit.

These fields were originally the owner's best fields, but after years of war, they gradually became abandoned.

Yuan Jingcheng led everyone to plough again and divert Wei water for irrigation, so that it was what it is today, planting some wheat, vegetables, and rushing to plant some taro.

The people take food as their life, and without food, the displaced people will not stay in Xiliucheng with peace of mind.

However, listening to Yuan Jingcheng's meaning, food is still not enough. Li Ye thought about it for a while, it is impossible to rely on Chang'an for relief, and it is not a long-term solution, and the situation in Chang'an is not very good, it has long been the imperial capital of the year, and it has declined like the Tang Dynasty.

There is no source of taxes, there is no blood transfusion in the Central Plains and the southeast half, and the entire Guanzhong is in decline, which is also the reason why Zhu Wen looks down on Guanzhong, since the late Tang Dynasty, Guanzhong has been completely marginalized.

The rebellion of Huangchao, the most poisonous in Guanzhong, a large number of people died, and then there was the Zhumei Rebellion, several feudal towns in Guanzhong stirred up the wind and rain, and the attacks continued, you can imagine what life the people lived.

It was the sharp decline in the population of Guanzhong that made the Shatuo people and Dangxiang people in the northwest frontier gradually rise.

Li Ye's idea was to rely on Chang'an, build Xiliucheng, and vigorously recruit displaced people.

This was the first step in his earnest move.

Li Ye encouraged a few words, and immediately asked Xin Shilang, Yang Jian, and Tuoba Yungui to go back to Chang'an to ask Zhang Chengye for some food and weapons.

In addition to planting, Li Ye also took them around hunting and let them fish in Weishui. There are only some small hills in the north of Chang'an, fortunately there are few people in this year, and the beasts are gradually increasing, yellow sheep, rabbits, fat rats, etc., there are countless more, wild wolves and leopards are even more common things, the hunting is quite rich, the catch is also good, the daily meat and fish together are enough to have more than 500 catties.

Of course, the meat is first supplied to the rabbit cubs, more than 200 people, about 300 catties will be consumed, and the rest will be distributed to the residents of the city.

With meat, the need for food is smaller.

Zhang Xingjin appeased more and more displaced people, but fortunately, Yuan Jingcheng planned in advance, so as not to crowd the city.

For Li Ye, the more the population, the better, regardless of the old and young, no one refuses.

But food is always a big problem.

Xin Shilang came back from Chang'an, 500 stone of grain, as well as forage, weapons and armor, etc., Zhang Chengye had nothing to say about doing things, and he was thorough.

In order to avoid leaking the details of Xiliu City, they are all handed over more than ten miles on the south bank of Weishui.

Except for a few people on Li Ye's hidden front, no one knew about the existence of Xiliucheng and the rabbit cub.

The people of Chang'an City knew that there was a group of displaced people stationed in the north of Weishui.

The ministers in the court also heard the rumors, but can this matter enter their eyes? In recent years, there are homeless people in all directions of Chang'an City, as long as they don't come to Chang'an City to beg for food, who cares about them?

In the eyes of the ministers of the court, the emperor went out on a hunting tour.

This is also a classic hobby of the Li Tang royal family. Hunting itself is a kind of training, these years people are smart, wild beasts are not stupid, not honest, rabbits are in a hurry and bite people, some carnivores, accustomed to eating human flesh, extremely ferocious, hunting is not small, you must be skilled in bows and horses, sometimes encounter wolves, but also go up to close combat.

It's in this environment that the guys are growing up so fast.

Suffering is always the most tempering.

However, several groups of bandits around often came to snoop, and they were all driven away by Ashina Zhenyan.

This guy is worthy of Turkic blood and has first-class equestrian skills.

Every time he sees this Turkic guy, Li Ye will remember the domineering spirit of the Tang Dynasty sweeping the Turks.

In fact, the Shatuo people are also a branch of the Turks, named Chuyuebu, who migrated from the steppe and continuously merged with the Han people in the interior to form Shatuo.

It's a matter of time before they are remembered, even if they don't come to Li Ye, Li Ye will go to meet them for a while, after all, bandits and horse thieves are also fat sheep.

The new army wants to see blood, and Li Ye also wants to see blood.

So Ashina Zhenyan's team became scouts to find out the details of the surrounding bandits and horse thieves.

After almost ten days, Ashina Zhenyan completed the task.

Those who have horses are called horse bandits, and those who do not have horses are called bandits.

The bandits are relatively poor, so they loot everywhere, there are twenty-three handfuls of bandit villages hidden in the small mountain bags on the Loess Plateau, the big ones have one or two thousand people, and the small ones have four or five hundred people, the names are quite scary, one by one they call the king and the hegemon, and the village calls itself the grass fairy and the barefoot fairy, I don't know what the immortals in the sky will feel when they hear these names.

The situation of the horse bandits is somewhat special, and some of them are the officers and soldiers who were dispersed by Huang Chao back then.

There are also some party members.

Their common trait is that they come and go like the wind, and they are skilled in bowing horses.

The first few times they spied on Xiliu City, most of them were horse bandits, not because they didn't want to capture Xiliu City in one go, but because Xiliu City was well defended and occupied a favorable location, they couldn't get benefits.

However, if they know that the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is in this earthen city, it is estimated that they will attack with their lives.

In these years, anyone who understands the official language of Chang'an knows that there is a man named Cao Cao, who coerced the princes of the Son of Heaven to order them.

They don't have the ability to order the princes, but it's okay to let the Son of Heaven make him a big official.

It's a pity they don't know.