The fire flows in July, and the fire travels westward.

July is also ripe for the Han people near the Great Wall, and the spring wheat is ripe and drooping heavily on the ground and will be harvested soon. July is also full of joy for the grassland herders. After the long winter, after the fattening seasons of spring and summer, it is now the fattest time for the horse to be strong. On the grassland near Huaihuang Town, the horses are chewed with grass, their hair is shiny and their screams are powerful. On the nearby hillside, the white sheep are rolled over like white clouds in the sky. The mutton is the most fat. If it is bitten in the mouth, its mouth will be filled with oil.

The spring wheat that is about to be harvested from the south slope, and the cattle, sheep and war horses all over the mountains. This is what I saw when Li Chongjiu returned to Huaihuang Town from Feihu County. When Li Chongjiu's cavalry arrived, he was stationed in Huaihuang Town, Liu Yi, Zhou Xu, Ji Chuan, and the city general Tan Zong came to welcome him.

When everyone met, Liu Yi and Zhou Xu, among the trio of civil servants, bowed to Li Chongjiu to the end, and called him the prefect, and met with the courtesy of his subordinates. They obviously accepted Li Chongjiu's decision to be independent and prepared to follow him to the dark.

Li Chongjiu glanced at Ji Chuan and saw that the other party was silent for a long time. Seeing Li Chongjiu looking at him, he shrugged and said, "Anyway, I have been dismissed from my family. I will not enter the ancestral hall or die. I have the status of my present and my future glory and wealth. I can only rely on the prefect." After that, Ji Chuan bowed a long time, and although he was a little reluctant, he still decided to stand on Li Chongjiu's side.

Li Chongjiu was not concerned about Ji Chuan's attitude. The three of them now told him about the development of Huaihuang Town after going to Yuyi Town. Liu Yiyan said: "I have reported to the prefect that winter wheat has been harvested in the warehouse, and spring wheat will be harvested soon. This year, our cattle and sheep flock has doubled, and the food for winter is very sufficient, which is enough for us to have nearly ten thousand Huaihuang Town people to have a wealthy winter."

"Nearly 10,000?" Li Chongjiu asked in surprise, "When did we have so many people in Huaihuang Town? I remember that a lot of them have moved to Yuyi Town."

Liu Yi smiled and said, "Nearly half of the newly added population are settled by merchants from Zhuo County, and the purpose is to trade in Caoshi twice a year." Li Chongjiu nodded. As long as the Caoshi trade between Hu and Han is still there for a day, Huaihuang Town, as a commercial town, will continue to attract the settlement of these big businesses.

Ji Chuan bowed his hand and said, "I have reported to the prefect that the financial resources of the merchants in Zhuo County are better than those of the previous Yanmen and Shanggu counties. If Luo Yi had not rebeled from the rebellion this year, they would have never come to Huaihuang Town. However, I have talked with them, and they are still hesitant about our Huaihuang Town forces, and now they are just entering tentatively."

"This is not enough," Li Chongjiu nodded, looked at Liu Yi and asked, "Which other half of the population entered?"

Liu Yi said: "Yes, Hu people. In fact, there have been many Hu tribes north of Huaihuang Town, most of which are the five Xi tribes, the Wu tribe, even the Khitan, Shiwei, and Turks. They are not hostile to our town, just for the convenience of Caoshi. However, according to the prefect's intention, we only allow people from the Xi tribe to live in Huaihuang Town, and the soldiers who join our Cangtou Army can be given priority."

Li Chongjiu nodded and said, "That's exactly what it is."

At this time, Tanzong reported: "Report to the lord, the soldiers of the six regiments of our Cangtou Army, four of which had been transferred to Yuyi Town, and Huaihuang Town had only two regiments of troops. It was previously expected that the harvest would be abundant this year and the food would be free of worries, so two regiments of soldiers were recruited and trained."

Li Chongjiu narrowed his eyes slightly and asked, "Whose decision is this?"

"Yes, the four of us decided together, mainly because we were worried about the direction of the Turks. Liu Wuzhou was enthroned by Shibi as Dingyang Khan. At present, the two counties of Loufan were lost in Mayi and Loufan, and the Turks even went south in large numbers. Here, the herdsmen, Huaihuang Town, faced the Turks' pressure, so we did not wait for the lord's order, so we recruited two regiments of soldiers to train first to enhance our strength. This was a response to unexpected problems."

"This matter can be given up this time, so I won't be an example."

Hearing Li Chongjiu say this, the four of them breathed a sigh of relief. Indeed, Li Chongjiu's military distribution is still very tight at the moment. Li Chongjiu brought only 300 cavalry from Feihu County, and Feihu County still has six regiments of county and township soldiers, but they cannot be mobilized, so they can only be stationed in the county to guard against Song Jingang. The fourth regiment of the Cangtou Army's cavalry and the garrison army were all in Yuyi Town. Therefore, although Huaihuang Town is solid, it only has two regiments of garrison, which is too weak, so Zhou Xu and the others' self-decision is understandable.

Then Zhou Xu reported to Li Chongjiu that he hoped that the teaching situation of the Mengjiu was in the hope that with the help of Yunyin and punctuation, the children in the Mengjiu could read and write roughly in a year. After all, Li Chongjiu was very happy to hear Zhou Xu say this. For him, the cultivation of poor children was more happy than the increase in military strength and the increase in food and grass. After all, Li Chongjiu still had no family of a small scale, and could look down on his Cangtou Army and came to take the initiative to rely on him, not one of them.

At present, Li Chongjiu issued a new appointment to Zhou Xu and the others. Because of the increase in population, it was too appropriate to call the town in the situation of the garrison. He changed Huaihuang Town to Huaihuang County, Yuyi Town to Yuyi County, and officially merged it into Shanggu County. As for Zhou Xu and Li Chongjiu appointed him as the county chief, Liu Yi was the chief, and as for the other clerks of Huaihuang Town, they were appointed as the six chief ministers and clerks according to their abilities. As for Ji Chuan, Li Chongjiu appointed him as the county magistrate of Yuyi County, and Wang Mahan was the county magistrate, commanding all the soldiers of the Cangtou Army. Ertuo and Yinghefu were respectively the Hu Qi Captain and Changshui Captain, and also served as the commander of the foreign cavalry.

After staying in Huaihuang for a day, Li Chongjiu went home to have a meal with Pingping, and reunite with him. He went to Yuyi Town with Ji Chuan without stopping.

Li Chongjiu left Yuyi Town and calculated roughly, it was less than three months old, but now he saw it was a very different place. Dahong City, the main city of Yuyi Town, has been completely built. The entire city is square, with a circumference of one mile and one third, and the city wall is three meters high with a compact loess wall. The moat under the city is also dug, more than two meters wide, and is connected by suspension bridges at the four gates. Everyone has settled in Dahong City. As for the Gaoshan Fort three miles in front of Dahong City, it has been half built, and the other Jiulian Fort has just begun. At present, the city is surrounded by herders from Shidexi tribe, which is very happy.

The new commander, the city general Wang Mahan, and Etuo, Yinghefu came to welcome Li Chongjiu and welcomed him into the newly built yamen in the city.

After meeting, Wang Mahan kept scolding Li Yuan and Yang Guang as a foolish monarch. As for Etuo, Ying Hefu was also full of hatred for the enemy, meaning that since Li Chongjiu had rebelled against the Great Sui Dynasty, let's follow our Xi tribe to work. Etuo said directly: "Now the Central Plains are now fighting bandits, bandits fighting officers and soldiers, and they are in chaos. Uppa is a person with great ambitions. Why should we go to this muddy water? It would be better to use Huaihuang, control the barbarians and Feihu to control one side, and establish a country on the grassland with the Xi tribe. In the future, Shi Deyun married Li Chongjiu and became the queen?"

Very well, Li Yuan married his concubine daughter to Li Chongjiu as his wife, but refused to marry the legitimate daughter. The meaning of the Side Xi tribe here was to let Shideyun be Li Chongjiu’s wife rather than a concubine. The methods on both sides were exactly the same. I remember that in history, in order to accommodate Song Jingang, Liu Wuzhou married his sister to the other party, and Song Jingang decisively divorced his original wife and transferred Liu Wuzhou’s sister to his wife.

The battle for the big house is tragic. Just like the difference between a concubine or a legitimate daughter when married, the gap between a concubine and a concubine is even greater. If Li Chongjiu established a country on the grassland in the future and even became emperor, then the gap between the queen and the concubine is even more unrelated.

Etuo said this, not just casually, but a thoughtful statement. Li Chongjiu was unable to marry Li Sanniang as his wife for the time being, and the position of the main wife was empty, and now they were given a chance. If Shi Deyun changed from a concubine to a main wife, then the position of Shi Dexi's Xi tribe in the new forces in the future will be even higher. Li Chongjiu also took a deep breath. Compared with Li Yuan's confined to the view of poor families, these Hu people were still very enthusiastic about him. Not only did he not neglect because of his loss of power this time, he was also willing to marry Shi Deyun to him as his wife. Compared with the two rights, Li Chongjiu felt warm in his heart.

Li Chongjiu said, "I will discuss this matter for the time being. Where has Shi Jin gone?"

Ying Hefu was secretly regretful, but said on his face: "In the grassland dozens of miles northeast, we will arrange these 20,000 new herders' autumn pastures."

Li Chongjiu was very happy to hear the joining of this new force. At least 20,000 herders would have at least 4,000 strong men, but they could form cavalry, which was a powerful combat force. It was far more than that. I heard that there were nearly 30,000 herders from the Xi tribe in Wuhou Qinshui. If they joined their own tens of thousands of grassland cavalry, they could be formed.

"Ying Hefu, something is wrong!" Just now, a man with a braided hair and a leather robe rushed into the main house. The other party was stunned when he saw Li Chongjiu.

Yinghefu introduced: "This is Uppa from the famous grassland."

The other party was shocked when they heard this and said, "It turned out to be Uppa. I have admired him for a long time." The other party bowed to him by a Han man and said immediately. Li Chongjiu had heard of the other party's name. It was this time when he led 20,000 herders to Yuyi Town to ask for the leader, who was Shi Deyun's cousin.

"What's the big deal?"
Chapter completed!