Under the planning of Zhao Junsheng and some masons, the entire urban area of Wuchuan City drew lime lines, and every street and alley was clearly drawn, and the system of workshops was implemented, which was divided into 24 squares.

Government offices, military barracks, shop areas, horse markets, and livestock are often not within the 24 squares.

Zhao Junsheng also ordered a scribe to draw up a drawing, marking the name of each square, street and alley on the drawing, and ordering someone to insert a wooden sign in the actual corresponding geographical location to write down the prominent road signs and the name of the square area.

Zhao Junsheng patted the lime on his hand, raised his eyes to look at the crisscrossing lime lines drawn on the empty ground and the large number of signposts and wooden plates, and said with a sense of accomplishment: "If this city is built, no Fertile Town and Huaishuo Town can only be regarded as small villages in front of it!" General Ben dares to say that even the capital is not as well planned as it is! ”

"Look what you can!" Mulan's voice came from behind her in the distance.

Zhao Junsheng turned his head and saw Mulan running over, and when she jumped off the horse, he asked, "You're back so soon?" You're not going to scare Joe away, are you? ”

"You just look down on your fiancée like that?" Hua Mulan whitened Zhao Junsheng, walked over and knocked on the horsewhip and said, "It's done!" ”

"Talked? How to talk about it? ”

Hua Mulan said: "For half a year, his caravan was allowed to freely enter and leave the jurisdiction of Wuchuan Town, including Jinling Daying, Nantianbao, Baidaoling, these defense areas and passes. On the one hand, he provided us with 20,000 stone of grain and 12,000 horses of cloth! ”

When Zhao Junsheng heard this, he was quite impressed by Hua Mulan, and said in surprise: "I didn't expect that you still have a talent for negotiation, and you can let this Qiao member take out so much food and fabric, I'm afraid I can't do it!" ”

Hua Mulan smiled slightly: "You think I don't know what the merchants do?" A businessman pursues profits, and if he can't earn it back, he will never agree! ”

Zhao Junsheng remembered something and asked, "Is Qiao Yuan gone?" ”

"Not yet, it's getting late today, he and his entourage have set up camp to stay here for one night, and then leave tomorrow!"

"Let's go, let's go back, I still have something to tell him!"

Hua Mulan followed Zhao Junsheng back to the camp with a stomach full of questions, and sent someone to call Qiao Yicheng over again.

The two took off their helmets, untied their swords and swords, and as soon as they took a breath, Qiao Yicheng rushed over.

"Villain Qiao Yicheng visits the two marquis!"

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand: "Qiao, don't be polite, I called you over again because I want to ask you for help!" ”

"Hou Ye is serious, Hou Ye needs the villain's service just give orders!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Okay!" That's the case, now the general and the flower general were ordered to build the city in Wuchuan, and the imperial court is temporarily unable to provide the general with the materials needed to build the city and the living materials needed by the officers and soldiers, and must be purchased from the private market. As for the shipping issue, how much should it be, and there will be a special official to settle with you at that time! ”

Qiao Yicheng was a little embarrassed, he thought for a while and then said to Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan: "Two marquis, the villain's caravan is not big enough to take care of the Wuchuan Army's military procurement while undertaking his own business, but the villain can send people to hire some chariots and horses, and each city has some chariot shops and individual coachmen looking for work, they themselves have their own carriages, as long as they are paid, they can be hired to work!" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it, it is unlikely that he wants to set up one or several caravans of his own in a short period of time, the key is that time waits for no one, and at present, he can only ask Qiao Yicheng to help send someone to temporarily hire a coachman and a carriage.

However, it was already imperative to form his own caravan, and Zhao Junsheng decided to wait for the artisan team to be busy for a while before letting them build a large number of carriages.

As for the coachmen, the horse-drawn fleet is simply not too much, and even many civilians and soldiers will drive the carriage, and the horse-drawn carriage in the army does not have grain and grass to transport every day, and many soldiers and civilians can be arranged to learn to drive the carriage when they are idle.

"Okay, let's do it according to Qiao's outside!"

"Yes, Master Hou!"

After Qiao Yicheng left, Zhao Junsheng said to Mulan: "Mulan, now that we have settled down, I plan to write a trustee to bring back Suiyang to let Liang Lian sell the property, and let him bring his family to help me, what do you think?" ”

When Mulan heard this, she agreed after a little consideration, "I think it's okay, if we let Liang Lin come over, we can open a tannery, a wool textile factory and a garment factory here, and let Liang Lin take care of it, we have so many slaves, don't use it in vain!" ”

Zhao Junsheng smiled and said, "Your idea coincides with mine!" In addition, you can also ask the soldiers to bring their families over, and if the tooth owner and the officers above the tooth owner take over their family members, I will give them a free apartment for each household; The tooth owner can buy a house at half price when he comes over with his family; When a soldier comes over with his family, he can buy a suite at 70% of the price, and an ordinary soldier can buy a house at 80% of the price! When the food crisis is lifted in a few years, you can also divide the fields to the generals, and each field can hand over 30% of the harvest to the town general's mansion every year! ”

"In addition, we can go to the imperial court to set Wuchuan Town as a border trading town, allow the Rouran tribes to come here to buy and exchange for the living materials they need, and also allow merchants from all over the Great Wei to come here to sell goods, as long as the imperial court allows, I believe that Wuchuan Town will become the largest trading town in the north in a few years, we don't have to do anything, we can afford to raise these soldiers and horses by only collecting commercial taxes!"

Hua Mulan thought about Zhao Junsheng's words and said, "Your idea is good, but you need the court's consent!" ”

"I don't think it's difficult to do this, hasn't Your Majesty already made peace with the Rouran people? I think there should be no major war between Rouran and my Great Wei in a few years, and based on this, it is very likely that the imperial court will agree to open the border and trade with the Rouran people! ”

That night, Zhao Junsheng wrote another note, that is, to suggest to the emperor that Wuchuan Town should be opened for trade with the Rouran people, stating various reasons and benefits that could be obtained, the most important of which was to send people from here to inquire about the military deployment and movements of the Rouran people.

Shanno County.

A few days ago, Du Chao's troops killed the Hukou Pass, and wanted to defend it according to the danger, but unfortunately he was not well prepared, and the soldiers were not very good at defending.

Outside the county town of Shanwu, Tuoba Jian still organized troops to launch a fierce attack, using the method of encircling three and missing one, and the soldiers and generals defending the city had no confidence in holding on after suffering several defeats in a row.

The siege battle lasted for three days, and the generals under Du Chao's command could not support it, their morale was low, and Du Chao was forced to lead the army to break through.

Tuoba Jian waved his army to cover the killing, captured more than 3,000 people, beheaded more than 2,000 people, and Du Chao fled to Wuzhou County with only a few hundred people.

This Wuzhou County has been the border town of the soldiers in the past dynasties, it is the place where the soldiers must fight, the Northern Wei Dynasty court set up several passes here, more than 10,000 soldiers, guarded by the Xizhong Lang Yiluoji, it is the west gate of the capital, Tuoba Jian is difficult to capture in a short time, and can only retreat and return to Shanwu County.

After Tuoba Jian led a large army to be stationed in Shanwu County, officials such as county guards, county commanders, and commanders in some surrounding towns defected one after another, changed their flags, and came to express their allegiance to Tuoba Jian.

Tuoba Jian summoned these people, comforted them, and asked them to go back to prepare grain and grass materials for the army, and these officials and generals breathed a sigh of relief and happily went back to prepare grain and grass materials and sent them over to show their loyalty.

In the temporary palace, Tuoba Jian took a copy of the recital and read it, turned his head and asked Yu Ji: "A few days ago, Zhao Junsheng sent someone to send the recital to say that the military resources and grain and grass are insufficient, and the amount of materials needed to build the city is huge, please ask the imperial court to allocate some, I have already approved it, temporarily allocate a batch of baggage for him to support him for a period of time, do you send someone to transport it?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, this batch of baggage is on its way to Wuchuan!"

Tuoba Jian shook the chapter in his hand and said: "This Pingbei general is here again, he has a whim, and asks the imperial court to allow the merchants to trade with the Rouran tribes in Wuchuan Town, saying that this can relieve the pressure on the Rouran people in terms of living materials and reduce the possibility of them going south to plunder, and the imperial court can obtain a large number of skins and livestock of the Rouran people through commerce and trade, increase the income of the imperial court, and the imperial court can also use Wuchuan Town as a fulcrum to send a large number of fine workers to the various departments of Rouran to pay close attention to the movements of the Rouran people!" ”

Yu Ji said: "In the past, my dynasty did not send detailed works to the various ministries of Rouran, but there was no news, and the ministers thought that it must be the wrong way, these fine works did not have an identity as a cover, and it was easy for the people of Rouran to see the flaws!" If, as General Zhao said, the minister thinks it is feasible, and mixing the fine work in the caravan is the best cover! ”

For an emperor like Tuoba Jian, opening Wuchuan Town to trade with the Rouran people can get a lot of taxes in his eyes at all, what he cares about is the collection of military intelligence on Rouran, Zhao Junsheng specifically mentioned this point in the chapter is the reason why he attaches importance to this chapter!

Tuoba Jian sighed: "Yes, in the past, every time Rouran went south to plunder us, we could get very little information, and every time they were taken by them, if we can keep track of their movements, this situation should be improved!" ”

After speaking, Tuoba Jian wrote his consent on the chapter and handed it over to the secretary to promulgate the decree.

At this time, Mulan was riding on a high hill to check the farming of the people and slaves.

The large-scale labor scene of more than 10,000 people is really spectacular, Mulan has never seen such a huge scene, hundreds of people hold iron plows in their hands and quickly plough the fields under the pull of cattle, and the cattle are led by special people to prevent them from being lazy, this kind of farming speed is greatly beyond Mulan's expectations.

Zhao Junsheng calculated that an iron plough should be able to plough about six acres a day, but if the livestock pulling the plough are frequently replaced, it can plough seven acres a day.

Zhao Junsheng rode over and said in surprise: "Hey, this farming speed seems to be much faster than I expected!" ”

Hua Mulan turned her head to look at it and couldn't help but say, "What are you doing with me?" ”

"Men and women match, don't get tired of working!"

"Hey, poor mouth!"