On April 23, the army returned to Shanhai Town with nearly 5,000 prisoners.

When evacuating from the Valley of the Wind Tribe, there was also a small episode. After learning that the tribe had been captured, the great wizard of the Wind tribe did not want to be captured, so he committed suicide by poisoning himself at the temple.

Hearing the news of the Great Wizard's suicide, the Wind Tribe was in a commotion again, and those mountain barbarians were about to rise up again. In order to appease these mountain barbarians, and also to consider the impact on the surrounding mountain barbarian tribes, Ouyang Shuo deliberately stayed in the valley for one more day to hold a funeral for the great wizard. This move largely lifted the hatred of the ordinary mountain barbarians of the Swift Wind Tribe towards Shanhai Town.

As Ge Hongliang expected, after learning that the Swift Wind Tribe had been captured by the army from Shanhai Town within a day, the two medium-sized tribes and six small tribes around immediately sent someone to contact the Grand Wizard of the Xuanniao Tribe, hoping that he would coordinate in the middle and express their goodwill.

Invisibly, the Xuanniao tribe replaced the wind tribe and became the speaker of this area. This made the tribal leader Shi Xiong extremely proud, and admired the decision of the great wizard at that time. Seeing that Shi Xiong was a little carried away, the great wizard had to come forward to mention him, the reason why the Xuanniao tribe has its current status is that the root of everything is that there is the support of Shanhai Town behind it, and he must not get carried away, snub the tribes of all ethnic groups, and affect the plans of Shanhai Town.

After being mentioned by the great wizard, Shi Xiong came to his senses. In order to express his gratitude to Shanhai Town, he sent two pairs of hummingbirds to show his respect. Ouyang Shuo was extremely satisfied with Shi Xiong's upper path. These hummingbirds were all given by Ouyang Shuo to the Military Intelligence Department for use. He also explained to Song San that if he could, it would be best to learn the secret method of hummingbird breeding from the Xuanniao tribe to further expand the number of hummingbirds. These small things are secret weapons for collecting and transmitting intelligence, and if they are used well, they are worthy of the combat effectiveness of a battalion.

After returning to Shanhai Town, all the 600 surviving members of the hunting party were disarmed and sent to serve in the iron ore mines for two years. After the end of the service, he resumed his status as a free citizen of Shanhai Town. As a result, the number of miners in the iron mine reached a thousand, and it was upgraded to a high-grade iron ore mine. As the Armor Division and the Bow and Crossbow Division gradually got on the right track, the demand for iron ore became more and more great. This group of captured personnel came in handy.

These members of the hunting team had the blood of the soldiers of Shanhai Town on their hands, and Ouyang Shuo naturally would not easily forgive them. Sending them to the iron ore mines to mine is precisely to drain their anger and physical energy. He specially explained to the director of the iron mine that for this group of service members, he only needed three meals a day to maintain food and clothing. Of course, the most basic human rights are still needed, and they cannot be beaten and scolded at will, otherwise they will not be forgiven.

Previously, Ge Hongliang also suggested that some of the six hundred people should be selected to supplement the infantry battalion and the city defense battalion, but Ouyang Shuo vetoed it. Anyway, there are those new tribes who are showing goodwill, and they don't have to worry about not having high-quality infantry soldiers, so they can't use these unstable elements.

The remaining 4,000 people were all sent to Beihai Town by Ouyang Shuo. Among them, 2,500 people were arranged to go to the North Dusk Salt Works to start the last phase of the salt works. After completion, the North Dusk Salt Field will reach a saturated 10,000 acres. The sudden influx of 4,000 people directly pushed Beihai Town to the scale of a third-level township, and after the construction of the basic buildings was completed, it could be promoted immediately.

Ouyang Shuo also considered whether to leave these 4,000 people in the base camp of Shanhai Town, so as to reach a full population of 10,000 people. It's just that it is not a simple matter to be promoted to a first-class county. First of all, the four indices of politics, economy, culture and military are required to reach at least 45 points, and Shanhai Town has already met the requirements.

More importantly, the promotion of a first-level county requires the lord to apply to the system in advance. After the basic conditions are met, the system will arrange a large number of rogues or bandits to attack the player's territory after three days.

Such an application is not unlimited, and once it fails, it will take half a month before you can apply again. If you fail three times in a row, the province will be permanently disqualified from promotion. Therefore, without being fully prepared, Ouyang Shuo would not act rashly.

After returning to the territory, Ouyang Shuo immediately summoned the Construction Division and the Carriage and Horse Division to deploy the construction of a military horse farm in the valley. In addition to repairing the road from the Xuanniao tribe to the Valley of the Wind, the Construction Division is also responsible for renovating the existing buildings in the valley according to the requirements of the Che Ma Division. Some buildings that are not used should be demolished resolutely. In addition, the level has to be redesigned with a suspension bridge to enhance the defenses.

Ouyang Shuo told Zhao Dewang that he wanted to use the labor force of the various mountain barbarian tribes as much as possible, as long as he was paid with grain, those mountain barbarians would be absolutely willing. Ouyang Shuo believed that after tasting the sweetness, those tribes would gradually eliminate their resistance to Shanhai Town and sincerely cooperate with Shanhai Town.

After the army rested for three days, Ouyang Shuo began to adjust the positions of each battalion. The city defense battalion monopolized the high-level military camp in the city and officially took over the city defense duties. The Construction Division built another high-level military camp 20 miles west of the city and handed it over to the infantry battalion for use, referred to as the Chengxi Battalion. The camp in the west of the city is located in the middle of the edge of the territory and the base camp, and is responsible for the territorial security of the western area. The western area concentrates the most important out-of-town industries in the base camp, and most of the mines, factories and settlements are concentrated in the western area.

As for the cavalry battalion, it was officially transferred to Friendship Town. Friendship Town built a high-level military camp for the cavalry camp ten miles north of the city, referred to as the north camp of the city. Like a nail, the camp in the north of the city is deeply rooted in the grasslands in the middle of the basin, and is responsible for monitoring the every move of the nomadic tribes.

The day before the cavalry battalion departed, Ouyang Shuo called Lin Yi to the office, and the two talked secretly all afternoon. As for the specific content of the conversation, except for Ge Hongliang, who was also present at the time, no fourth person knew.

On the eve of May Day, several happy events occurred in Shanhai Town one after another.

Ouyang Shuo recruited a senior Taoist priest named Ge Yan through the Zhaoxian Pavilion, forty-two years old, with a fairy wind and Taoist bones, and it is said that he is the descendant of Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. This person is not only a master of the classics, but also an alchemist, proficient in medicine, and indeed has a bit of the demeanor of Ge Hong Immortal Master back then.

Daoist Ge did not choose to build a Taoist temple in the city, but used three or four days to travel throughout the territory. In the end, the site for the construction of the Taoist temple was chosen on a hill ten miles west of the city, where the scenery is beautiful, and it is indeed a rare and good place. The theory of feng shui is already mysterious, Ge Daochang himself is a clever feng shui master, and the place he chooses naturally has its deep meaning, and Ouyang Shuo doesn't care about it.

The Taoist temple is a cultural building, which is conducive to improving the cultural index of the territory, so Ouyang Shuo did not take a penny, and instructed the Construction Department to build it in full accordance with the requirements of Ge Daochang. After the Taoist temple was built, coupled with the blessing of Daochang Ge himself, the territorial cultural index was directly improved by five points.

After the Taoist temple was built, it was named Qingyang Temple by Ge Daochang. He recruited two handymen in the city, picked four orphans to be accepted as Taoist boys, and went away leisurely.

Two other buildings in the third-level township, a pawnshop and an inn, have also been completed. With the current situation in Shanhai Town, there are four seas money banks that provide low-interest loans, and pawnshops are basically decorations now. Besides, the residents of Shanhai Town are basically homeless, and where are there any valuable things that can be taken to the pawnshop. In desperation, the FSD had no choice but to arrange for a shopkeeper to take over the pawnshop temporarily.

It's the same with inns. Shanhai Town is still a closed territory, and there are no outsiders at all, so naturally there are no guests staying in the hotel. It is said that it is a door, and it is overestimated. Therefore, no one is willing to take over the current inn, and it can only be temporarily managed by the Financial Services Department.

To Ouyang Shuo's surprise, after the jewelry shop was built, it was not opened. After learning about the situation, Ouyang Shuo went to find out the reason. After the truth was revealed, he couldn't stop crying and laughing.

It turns out that there is no shortage of goldsmiths and silversmiths in the territory, but the problem is that these craftsmen have no skills, but they do not have such a strong capital. Ancient metal jewelry is generally divided into three materials: gold, silver and copper, which require gold, silver and copper with relatively high purity. Yishanhai Town has just solved the situation of food and clothing, who has the strength.

After learning of the situation, Ouyang Shuo immediately made a decision, and the Lord's Mansion took over the jewelry shop, and the profits were used for the daily expenses of the Lord's Mansion. Ouyang Shuo immediately invested 100 gold coins, and through the magical function of the storage bag, it turned into pieces of high-purity gold ingots, silver ingots and copper ingots.

Because the jewelry shop is owned by the lord's mansion, Ouyang Shuo specially selected a shopkeeper in the mansion to be responsible for the business of the jewelry shop. On Yingyu's recommendation, he chose Yingyu's maid Siqin to be in charge of this matter. Si Qin has been with Yingyu for a while, and he has also learned a lot of business experience. Leaving the jewelry shop to her to take care of, Ouyang Shuo was quite relieved.

Another happy event is about colored silkworms. After nearly two months of cultivation, the breeding of colored silkworms finally began to get on the right track, and the first silk woven from colored silk, as Ouyang Shuo expected, was certified by the system as a territorial specialty, and could be sold through grocery stores. In this way, Shanhai Town suddenly has three territorial specialties: Sanhua wine, Baihao tea and colored silk.

As the saying goes, rare is expensive, and a colored silk horse sells for an astonishing ten gold coins, becoming the third golden rooster that can lay eggs in Shanhai Town. After Ouyang Shuo got the news, he immediately decided to expand the scale of colored silkworm breeding. The Financial Services Department (DSD) directly provides a low-interest loan of 200 gold coins to upgrade the entire textile industry chain. In this process, the textile association began to play a role.