I know that I can only stare at it if I make money!

It's true that the state is gradually getting better now, but if you want to come up with something to trade with the Turks, it's a bit whimsical.

First of all, food is impossible, this thing is not enough to dislike itself, except for what must be eaten, it must always be stored for backup, there is no more food to sell, not to mention that food is also the most worthless one, although it can be earned, but it is definitely not so profitable.

As for the rest, I'm sorry, but the state can't produce good silk now, and it doesn't have that technology. And ordinary fabrics are not needed.

Let's talk about tea, okay, and the state produces tea? It doesn't exist. In that case, what should be sold?

Not to mention merging states, even if it is the half of Yuzhou occupied by Huofeng, the situation is not much better.

Speaking of which, what produces the most in the state?

Zhou Shaoyu was stunned suddenly, and the state produces coal!

Syllable...... Just slapped yourself in the face, now that the winter has passed, what about coal production, why have you forgotten this stubble all the time, how can you make money. Forget it, let's talk about it then, after all, it is mainly used for heating this year, and it really can't be sold much in winter.

In recent years, the state has not been less scourged, natural disasters and man-made disasters and wars, the death and the escape, I remember that when I first occupied the state and sat on the Taiyuan side, there were only a few people under my command. Putting it together, in the end, it was basically the development of Taiyuan City and Jincheng, so to speak, at that time, there was no decent city in addition to these two places.

Subsequently, Zhou Shaoyu carried out a series of solicitation matters, and many people fled from Yongzhou, Jizhou and even Youzhou, which made the population of Bingzhou finally increase significantly.

It's just that in this way, whether it is Taiyuan City or Jincheng, it is already crowded and a little overpopulated, and several small cities have been developed one after another, but it is not enough, and it is obviously necessary to continue to expand. And it's too sad to have a huge state, how can you do it with just a few cities.

It's just that if you simply mobilize the people to call for immigration, even if you make a certain amount of compensation, I'm afraid that not many people are willing to move, after all, it represents the unknown, everything is redeveloped from scratch, no one knows what will happen in the future, not to mention that life is good now, why make changes.

After thinking about it, I finally agreed on a method.

Just after the end of the year, the army immediately marched and went to Yunzhong County, which had been abandoned.

Yunzhong County is located in the north of Bingzhou, and it is also a border county, and because of this, Yunzhong County was the object of being looted and invaded by the Turks from the beginning. It can be said that it was the first to be scourged and then abandoned. Those who can run have already run, and those who can't run away are basically hanging.

As for now, Ainur and his retreating Turks are arranged in Yunzhong County, which is nothing more than a small town on the border. And at this moment, the army is rushing to the original Cloud City.

The reason for choosing such a place to re-establish is also very simple, first, it is natural to re-establish the frontier defense system, otherwise people will come from the grassland, wouldn't they be able to come to Taiyuan directly. Speaking of which, in winter, it is also thanks to Ashina Huqin that it is not the grassland route, otherwise it will not be so easy to block.

The second is to be able to echo with the Turkic city where Ainur is located. It is more conducive to trade with the Turks in the future. In fact, it is not that the state cannot take out anything to trade with the Turks, but the small amount of materials that have been vacated are all placed in Ainur, and through her trading with the Turkic tribes in the steppe, it is incidentally publicized that a market has been opened here.

Now that it has achieved some results, this still has to drag Gao Yuyao's blessing. Gao Yuyao blocked the trade, making the Turkic supplies scarce and scarce, otherwise those Turkic tribes might not have ventured over to try trade.

And the third, coal in the clouds!

Where is it in the clouds? That's Datong, there is wood in the coal capital, how is it an income. This alone has enough advantages to make it easier to develop than to rebuild elsewhere.

Zhou Shaoyu was very upright, anyway, there was no war now, so he personally led the army to rebuild.

The city must still be there, this thing is not so easy to dismantle, but it has been abandoned for a few years, and it is inevitable that it will be mottled. As for the houses in the city, most of them are a bit shabby.

Strange to say, if the house is inhabited all year round, it can be used for a longer time, but if there is no one, it will be abandoned or even collapsed in a few years.

Popularity, this thing is also mysterious.

Zhou Shaoyu simply waved his hand, simply demolished it all, and then re-planned, referring to the workshop of the Tang Dynasty.

After all, it is a frontier county, we must pay attention to defense, assuming that the Turks rise again in the future, even if the city wall is broken, you can rely on the wall to resist the enemy for the second time, for the war, whether there is a defense project or not is two different things.

And to be honest, Fang City is indeed more convenient to manage and more able to ensure law and order.

Even if the city in the clouds is not large, it was originally mainly defended, and the city walls are high and thick enough, but the area is relatively small. With tens of thousands of organized and probable armies operating efficiently, the work of overthrowing and rebuilding is also rapid. Even a separate part of it is used to open up the loose soil, so that some people can migrate over and just sow seeds directly.

At the same time, Xu Miaojin and others on the Taiyuan side are also trying their best to call on the people to relocate. Divide the house, divide the land, and there is the corresponding compensation. In addition, it is also necessary to do a good job in the selection of officials, and one more city, up to the county order and down to the small officials, also needs to be selected.

However, in the end, the speed is still overestimated, seeing that it has entered the spring ploughing season, there are still not many people who are willing to emigrate, and the people who take the initiative to sign up are mainly people who used to be in Yunzhong County. The reconstruction of Cloudsdale is far from complete, and many places are still in ruins.

As a last resort, the plan could only be changed temporarily, and this year the city in the clouds was simply used as a place for military reclamation, and the army continued to be stationed here, rebuilding and reclamation at the same time. The speed of reconstruction can be slowed down, but reclamation needs to be grasped, and if spring plowing is missed, there will be losses. If you continue to rebuild, you can slow down and make time for training.

In the final analysis, the main duty of the army is to fight wars, and if it does not train for a long time, it will not be abolished.

After the autumn harvest in the second half of the year, the construction of Cloudsdale must have been completed, and at that time, the people who are willing to emigrate can be resettled first, and at the same time recruit people to develop and dig coal mines, and at the same time build various workshops and workshops, and when there is a stable economic industry, the population will naturally increase slowly. And it is also conducive to frontier trade, after all, the geographical advantage of Cloudsdale is here.

After the decision was made, the reconstruction of Cloudsdale became more orderly, and Zhou Shaoyu began to run into the mountains all day long, the purpose of which was naturally to find a coal mine.

There is a lot of coal in the clouds, that's for sure, but you can't just dig it just because it's a mine.

Everyone knows that digging coal is hard work, and it is also very dangerous, even in later generations, it is common to hear about landslides, not to mention the ancient background of incomparably backward technology. If you really want to dig a big hole, not to mention the degree of danger, but the efficiency and cost will be too different.

It is because Zhou Shaoyu is ready to find an open-pit coal mine, which is fast to build, large output, high labor productivity, and low cost, which is simply suitable. After all, you should decide on a good place first, and you won't be in a hurry when the time comes.

"Tired or not?" Zhou Shaoyu casually threw over a water bag, and untied a grunt and drank a few sips.

Ainul wiped the sweat stains on his forehead, shook his head, took the water bag and didn't start drinking it immediately, but said, "You have been running into the mountains like this all day this time? ”

"Or else?" Zhou Shaoyu shrugged, this is not just for the industry to make money. At the same time, there are also people sent to Manchu Prefecture to explore iron ore, no matter how much it is far richer than Tanzhou, once it is discovered and mined, if you want to forge it into various agricultural tools and even weapons and armor, don't you need coal?

"Good and decent, why do you have so much leisure to accompany me to climb the mountain?" Zhou Shaoyu asked. "If you have any ideas, just say it, don't beat around the bush like this, we don't have a good relationship, right?"

In fact, there is no need for Ainur to say, Zhou Shaoyu also guessed seventy-seven-eighty-eight.

If it weren't for Zhou Shaoyu, Ainur would have been sold by Li Xiuning at the beginning, and she didn't take the original covenant to heart. Then Ashina Falcon was defeated and died, and Ainur returned to the grassland with the intention of reproducing the glory of the Ashid family, but his skills were not as good as others, and he was beaten into a lost dog by Ashina Huqin, if it wasn't for Zhou Shaoyu to take him in, he wouldn't even have a stable place to live.

It's just that no one likes the feeling of being under the fence, even if Zhou Shaoyu doesn't treat him badly at all. But not everything is so pleasant.

Take the previous raid on the grassland as an example, because of Ainur's unauthorized decision, she was finally placed under house arrest and not allowed to participate, although she can still share a part of the spoils and the captured population, but this restriction is clear.

What Zhou Shaoyu wants is assimilation, and he wants these Turks to be safe and stable from now on. What Ainur wants is to recapture the steppe and make the name of Khan change to Ashid again. Even if Ainul's heart is no longer so angry because of setbacks, it is her biggest thought after all.

has been nesting in the border area of the state like this, the time is short, but after a long time, even if she can endure it, the people under her command may not.

"I, I want to lead my army deep into the steppe again." Ainul spoke his mind.

At present, the young Turkic population has decreased sharply, and most of them are concentrated in Youzhou. Although the Turkic tribes are now grazing in the relatively deep steppes, they do not have much actual strength, at least for the time being, the nearly 10,000 cavalry gradually assembled under the command of Ainur is enough to defeat most of the tribes. And winning the war means captivity, it means more population, it means the growth of the tribe.

It may be relatively difficult to do it if you are a human, but for Ainur, who lives in the grassland as a child, going deep into the grassland is like playing at home, and it is very familiar.

Of course, the premise of all this is Zhou Shaoyu's support.

Last year was the first time that the Turks farmed, although the climate was not bad last year, and Zhou Shaoyu also sent someone to teach, but in the end there was a lack of experience, and the grain output was limited, because it was settled and no longer nomadic, and the number of cattle, sheep and horses in captivity was far from being comparable with before.

The expedition is deep, and the grain and grass alone need a certain amount of support. In addition, although the Turks claim that everyone is a soldier, if it is not necessary, there is no reason to let women and children go to the battlefield, in other words, even if Ainur goes out to fight, there must be a lot of people left in the rear.

In this way, even if he returns with a big victory, it will be difficult for Ainur to gain a foothold on the grassland before Ashina Huqin is defeated. Those relatively neutral tribes are better to say, but they are completely hostile, but if they find that Ainul is leading the tribe to live on the grassland again, they will definitely launch an alliance to gather and fight.

At that time, if Zhou Shaoyu was lost, what would Ainur have to fight for.

If this was said earlier, Zhou Shaoyu would have agreed, anyway, even if he was killed or injured, it was not his own person, and it could also bring trouble to Ashinahuqin's rear. But now it's different, Ashina Huqin's threat is no longer big, on the contrary, it even hopes that the Turkic side can contain Daliang's army for a longer time, so now causing chaos and weakening the Turks is a bit more than worth the loss.

Moreover, it is now known that the Turkic side is short of resources. Although the state side can't trade too many things, you can find a way to get together, such as getting some from Huofeng in Yuzhou, and then trading some from Xiao Jiwen to earn a high price difference, and you can still take out some materials. Then further develop the market, you can earn a lot of money in a short time, and in the long run, it is conducive to the layout of gradual assimilation.

Therefore, Ainur's proposal to go deep into the grassland, Zhou Shaoyu did not agree very much. More directly, if Ainul grows stronger, will it still be as easy to control as it is now?

Rejection must be refused, but you can't say it directly, otherwise what do you think about Ainul?

Still hesitating, Ainur over there was already a little unbearable, biting his lip, and then looked at Zhou Shaoyu with a very charming eyebrows, and said with a smile: "What is mine is yours, as long as you agree, I will marry you immediately, and promise that in the future, our child will be the Khan of the future grassland, how about it?" ”

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Zhou Shaoyu suddenly complained, can't we mention the child? The face was dark: "What can I do if I don't have children." ”

"Uh......" Ainur obviously didn't think about this problem, and only then did he react, Zhou Shaoyu has so many beautiful wives and concubines, but ...... Don't have a baby? Shouldn't it be okay, Ainur subconsciously glanced at Zhou Shaoyu's lower body.

Zhou Shaoyu covered his face, don't take you like this!

"Forget it, I won't bother with you about this." Zhou Shaoyu waved his hand, feeling that if he entangled the topic of children again, he would collapse. simply changed the topic, and said with a serious accusation: "If you want to strengthen your tribe and regain the position of Asid Khan, I can understand and support it, but can you not be so utilitarian?" Do you think that I help you only because your identity and ability are useful? In your eyes, am I such a utilitarian person? Don't you know what I do to you...... Never mind. ”

Okay, of course, it's not just about identity and ability, but also because Ainur is also an exotic beauty.

"In short, I already have a comprehensive plan, I don't need you to work so hard, and I don't need too many casualties, I can also achieve your goal, how about it, do you want to listen to it?"

Well, that's where the flickering begins.