Migration continued until around the summer solstice. Immigrants who came early were able to plant a crop in time, and those who came late could not grow any food. These strong men can only continue to build roads, earn some food for themselves and their families, and do not have to dig all the wild vegetables. As a result, the army of road builders gradually expanded, slowly recovering to nearly 10,000 people. At this time, with the harvest of the first batch of planted grain, the shortage of food supply has been alleviated to a certain extent.

After the increase in manpower, the progress of road construction returned to its original state: the road was built after half a month, and the place where the famous merchant Yidun started. Zhang Lu was exposed to the story of Yidun during his study tour, and he accepted Fan Li's guidance, started as a livestock breeder in Yishi, and gradually expanded his business to the salt and jade industries, and finally became rich. Zhang Lu wanted to recreate the glory of Yidun in Yishi, and when the road was close to Yishi, he began to inquire about Yidun's descendants. But he was very disappointed by the results, the inhabitants here are all Qin people who immigrated from Guanzhong, and there are almost no natives here. These Qin people tenaciously cultivated a small acre of land in a wasteland, planted grain, and fought the wild weeds every day to protect their harvest.

Zhang Lu wrote a letter to Pi Juan, saying: "The Yi family has been passed, and it can be moved to the other side, and the grass is very rich and beautiful!" After receiving the letter, Pi Wan immediately moved almost all the herdsmen in the three counties to Yishi. Once again, the road construction army stopped building houses for the settlers. This time it was not a simple grass hut, but a gathering under the unified arrangement of Yishi County. -- In the three counties along the river, only the peasant households are organized, and the herdsmen are still scattered, because there is no large pasture along the river, and they can only graze sporadically, and there are not many livestock.

When the herdsmen arrived in Yishi, the vast pastures were refreshing, and there were barely enough livestock to graze. Zhang Lu asked the counties to gather herdsmen and livestock here.

Unlike peasant households, which are self-herders, herders are not "self-herders", they are counted as government workers, and their grain is supplied by the government. One of Zhang Lu's important tasks was to negotiate with the Yi clan to supply food to the herdsmen. There is a serious shortage of Yi farmers, and it is clear that it is impossible for them to bear the food supply of the herdsmen. But the main significance of cattle and sheep raising for food is self-evident. Yi Shi Ling is a rough man, and it is impossible to conduct economic accounting with him; However, the Yi Clan's order had the advantage of resolutely implementing the instructions of the superiors. After accounting, Zhang Lu proposed a directive plan to the Yi Order: for every sheep or cattle raised by the Yi Clan, one stone of grain per year; turn over one stone of wool and one stone of grain; The cattle were rented by the farmers and cultivated once, with one stone of grain; If sheep and cattle die, the skins and meat can be discounted for grain.

Although Zhang Lu increased the grain subsidy for the Yi clan, the Yi clan was not satisfied with the order, because the territory was full of herdsmen, and it was difficult for him to organize an army. Zhang Lu praised his addition, adding horses to the variety of livestock! This time the Yi clan was satisfied.

When the road passed through Xie County, Zhang Lu finally made a move against the salt merchants, announcing that all the salt ponds would be taken over by the government. The salt merchants were in mourning, and some were secretly putting up violent resistance. Zhang Lu beheaded all the dozens of resisting salt merchants by the Shushui River, and the blood stained the river red! At the same time, Zhang Lu announced that salt merchants can participate in the operation of official salt, which is divided into several parts according to the process, such as salt drying, salt production, sales and transportation, and each salt merchant can only participate in one of the processes. The government also provided the tools for making salt and the livestock for transportation. Each process obtains the corresponding grain according to the results of labor.

After stipulating the corresponding systems and methods, Zhang Lu continued to build roads. Before this, Zhang Lu built a road along Zhongtiao Mountain from Anyi to Yanchi, and then to Wucheng and Maojin. Now, another road has been built along the Lianshui River to Anyi: there are two roads connecting Xie County to Anyi, thus strengthening the connection between the two places.

After entering Angeup, craftsmen sent by the Pi clan had repaired several kilns and were trying to resume the production of pottery, iron, copper, and other utensils. The carpenters also repaired several houses. Anyi ordered Zhang Lu to let migrant workers repair the city, but Zhang Lu refused, he thought that the restoration of the city in Anyi could not use civilian workers with knighthoods, and it should be completed by prisoners after the order of Hedong was restored.

The road continued to stretch forward, and finally a month after the construction of the Yi clan, the road was built to the mouth of the Shushui Valley. And the reason why it took so long was because in Xie County, in order to suppress the resistance of the salt merchants, the road construction army stayed for half a month.

Zhang Lu invited Pi Juan, who had stayed behind to deal with immigration and economic work, to discuss with him whether he wanted to build the road to Quwo from which direction.

It is now the height of summer, the valley is full of flowers, except for a few farmers who cultivate, almost no one walks here, the road is hidden in the wild grass, unlike before, although the road is uneven, but the trampled road traces and direction are clear at a glance. And here, a path must be carved out of the grass, and it is not known where the road leads.

In the wasteland, the only signpost that can indicate the road is the Lianshui River. After some calculations, Zhang Lu and Pi Juan decided to build the road along the Lianshui River first. The soil in the valley is not as crunchy as it is outside, but it is very dense because of the plants. Building roads here is almost the same as clearing wasteland.

Find out all the iron shovels that are still in each prefecture and transport them to Taniguchi. The crowd turned over the grass as if they were ditching and ridges. It also became very difficult to get the soil, and eventually they realized that it was better to take the soil from outside the valley than to dig it out of the valley.

According to the changes in working conditions, the headquarters adjusted the manual distribution in a timely manner, and specially organized a team to carry the earth, and the progress of road construction naturally slowed down. After about half a month of repair, Zhang Lu found a wide valley mouth, and a small stream flowed out of the valley and poured into the water. Judging from the traces of Taniguchi, there are still many pedestrians here, and it seems to be a relatively important thoroughfare. Zhang Lu sent people to guard the valley mouth, and when he met pedestrians, he only asked them where they came from, where they were going, and where they came out of the valley. The traveling groups often form groups of hundreds of people to act collectively, and they are all surprised to see a large number of soldiers in the valley.

It only took a few days for Zhang Lu and the others to understand that they had found the entrance to the road!

After confirming the news, everyone present was shocked. The path of my heart and mind is actually right in front of me. Zhang Lu suddenly remembered that there were pedestrians coming out of the road before, and he hurriedly sent someone back to Anyi to look for the pedestrian who had entered the road that time. The pedestrians had already returned to Xianyang. Zhang Lu immediately revised the book, reported his findings, and asked Xianyang to look for the pedestrians who had returned from Anyi at the beginning of the year and those who had followed the Wei army into the road.

More than ten days later, Xianyang finally found those pedestrians and sent them to Anyi again. Zhang Lu and others met them in Anyi. The last time these pedestrians came to Anyi, Anyi was still very dilapidated, but this time, although it was not very good, it was much more prosperous, especially the construction of roads, which immediately improved the taste of Anyi.

After Zhang Lu met with them, Zhang Lu asked them to recall the direction of the road. So the pedestrians took Zhang Lu and others up the river, and sure enough, they entered the valley where a stream flowed out. Then, a group of pedestrians also pointed out to Zhang Lu and others, and walked along this road to Tang, Yi, Jiang and other places.

After confirming the location of the road and the strategic importance of this valley, Zhang Lu and the others sent the pedestrians away, all shocked. Everyone thinks they've found a treasure here! Almost without any hesitation, a building plan for the valley was formed. Quwo was naturally the first position of sortie. But when Anyi was still weak, it was necessary to establish a support position in this valley, on the one hand, to accumulate food and grass for the next move, and on the other hand, to provide a cover for Anyi.

At this time, the road had been repaired to the valley under the tomb of the Marquis of Jin. Zhang Lu met with the old Jin people who guarded the tomb and said that he was just building a road and passing by, and had no other intentions. At the same time, the cemetery of the monarch of the Jin State was swept away, especially the cemetery of the Duke of Wen of Jin.

A few days later, the road was finally repaired to Quwo, which means that the entire road construction work in Hedong has been completed. Qu Woling prepared a grand banquet for Zhang Lu and his entourage, and all the migrant workers also had a piece of meat soup and a plate of salt plums.

Zhang Lu asked Qu Woling and Wei to move to the valley behind the mountain, and arranged half of the migrant workers in this valley. He demanded that Qu Woling must develop in concealment, and not easily show signs of a large number of people emigrating, so as to avoid being tabooed and attacked by others. When everything is ready, a thunderous blow will be struck. Although Qu Woling did not know Zhang Lu's specific deployment, he knew that he would play an important role in a major military operation, and he was very excited.

Quwo stayed in Quwo outside the mountains to manage the day-to-day affairs of the city. Both Qu Wo Ling and Qu Wo Wei retreated to the valley behind the mountains and arranged for emigration. The land has been cultivated here before, but it is not the focus of production. Now, Quwo wants to shift the focus of production from the front of the mountain to the back of the mountain.

Migrant workers who were arranged to immigrate to Quwo moved their families along the avenue one after another. Quwo Ling measured the land, demarcated the settlements, and organized the townships. Since the Qin Law had detailed regulations in this regard, everyone was very familiar with the officials and the people, and they were soon on the track.

Although the Wei people in Quwo have also retreated, many people still migrated to Quwo because of its location at the junction of various countries, and the city outside the mountain is also very prosperous. Now that the cultivation season has passed, it is just right to use it to clear the land. At Pi Wan's prompting, Qu Woling asked the families of these immigrants to graze their cattle behind the mountains to provide them with food and let them survive this period of land reclamation.

Of the 17,800 people, more than 3,000 will eventually return to Shangjun. Since the project was completed, Zhang Lu asked the doctor to take them back. However, Dr. Gong first went back to Shangjun and said that although the disaster in Shangjun had eased, the food had been consumed too much in the past few months, and the treasury was basically empty. If these 3,000 people are allowed to go back, they can only starve, please Hedong find them something to do again, and come back after the New Year.