Outside the window, the remnant sun is like blood.

It was this plan, which later historians called "covering one's ears and stealing bells", that successfully deceived the intelligence system of the Luope people and made the decision-makers of the Luope people make the wrong decision, that is, this wrong decision gave Wufeng a whole year of respite, so that Wufeng could have the opportunity to successfully strengthen the strength of his army in this year, laying the foundation for the second Northwest War later, and Ling Tianfang also began to show his edge in the military circles of the Eastern Continent with this deception plan. Later generations also said that if the Luobei people boldly launched an attack on Qingyang at that time and strangled the Wufeng forces in the cradle, maybe there would be no glorious empire in the future. But history has no ifs, and Li Wufeng won the time and won the victory.

Although the hot summer has passed, the wave of immigration continues to slowly heat up. Due to the beautiful weather this year, most areas of the entire continent have had good weather and good crops, except for a few places. The policy of exempting taxes for three years adopted by Qingyang Prefecture has made these new immigrants taste the sweetness of the harvest in Xiaochun, coupled with the propaganda of well-intentioned people, in June, July, and August, an average of nearly 1,000 immigrants pour into Qingyang Prefecture every day, and even some poor nomadic herdsmen have also moved to the northwest corner of Qingyang Prefecture to engage in grazing, which makes Wufeng excited, and it seems that a good policy can even transcend ethnic erasure and hatred, making it difficult for all people who desire a happy life to resist ah. Under the deliberate adjustment of the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources, the cultivation area has gradually developed from the east and south of Qingyang Province to the north and west, and has gradually tended to be rationally planned.

With the influx of a large number of laborers, the investment and property purchase of merchants in other parts of the empire gradually tilted towards Qingyang. New workshops and shops are constantly opening in the city of Qingyang, and a small number of small workshops have also appeared in some larger market towns in the territory, and the whole Qingyang presents a vibrant scene.

With Wufeng's approval, the army recruited additional troops again, replenishing each garrison division to about 18,000 people, and the army in the entire Qingyang Province has reached about 38,000 people. Xiao Tang pointed out that the total population of Qingyang Mansion is now less than 350,000, while the number of troops is close to 40,000, and the ratio of soldiers to civilians has reached 1:9, which is simply unheard of. In fact, the expansion of the armed forces is a disguised competition for labor with handicrafts, agriculture, and commerce, and in the long run, this will certainly seriously affect the stamina of Qingyang's economic development.

For this reason, Wu Feng specially introduced the current grim situation to Xiao Tang and others, and promised not to increase the number of troops in the near future, which barely calmed the dissatisfaction of the political axe, after all, the army also needs a lot of time to digest the recruits it absorbs.

With the large number of immigrants entering the country, the required loan funds have also increased exponentially, and the two sums of money that Wu Feng obtained from the central government of the empire have become somewhat stretched, but fortunately, in addition to Chase Money Bank and Wanfeng Money Bank, the second largest money bank in the Jiangnan area. In order to ensure the normal operation of the administrative organs, the Qingyang Finance Bureau stopped the business of direct loans to immigrants, but fortunately, there were three financial institutions that were sufficient to meet the normal needs of immigrants.

In September, a bumper harvest is in sight, and anyone will be overjoyed when they look at the golden fields in the fields. But Wu Feng's heart was heavy, although there was no sign that the Luope people would invade Qingyang, and there was also information that the Luope people had shrunk their forces in order to prepare for the big battle with the Chidi people, and gave up the invasion plan in several other directions. But current affairs are changing, and it is difficult to guarantee that it is not the rumor that the Luobei people deliberately released in order to paralyze their own side, especially in the face of an old fox like Tu Da, before November, no one dares to play this guarantee.

In order to strengthen the intelligence and information work, Wu Feng also specially approved a sum of funds to the Intelligence Bureau and the Security Bureau to investigate the collection of the activities of the Luo Pei army, after all, this is related to the fate of the entire Qingyang Mansion, and there is no negligence at all, on average, every three days there is a special person to transmit the information of the Luo Pi side to Wu Feng.

Another piece of information also came, the horse thief "Iron Riding Club", who had not shown up, finally appeared in the territory of Guide Mansion, and according to the intelligence, their nest is estimated to have moved to the border area between Guide Mansion and Yinchuan Mansion, it seems that the leader of this Iron Horse Club is still quite familiar with current affairs. Wu Feng also breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that his intelligence department had never found any trace of the "Iron Cavalry Club", and he always felt that it was a hidden danger to Qingyang's economic development, and now that he has arrived in the territory of Guide Mansion, let the magistrate of Guide Mansion have a headache.

It is comforting that the city wall defense system of Qingyang Fucheng has finally been preliminarily completed. It is said that it is preliminarily completed, due to time reasons, there are still many auxiliary facilities have not been fully completed, but the entire city wall construction has been completed, which is also the crystallization of tens of thousands of people's hard work day and night. Fearing the uncertain surname of the Luope invasion, Wufeng strictly ordered Su Minshun to list this project as the No. 1 project, and all other construction projects must give way to this project, otherwise once the Luope people invaded, the existing forces of Qingyang Mansion were simply not enough to resist, and if there were no strong city fortifications, it would be like a beautiful woman taking off her clothes and posing for the robbers to ravage.

Su Minshun also understood the reason, for this reason concentrated two-thirds of the recruited migrant workers, gave them a good salary, worked overtime at night, and the migrant workers also took turns to work, Su Minshun even asked Wufeng to let the army transfer manpower to participate in the construction, but considering that the army's combat effectiveness now urgently needs a lot of time to train to improve, Wufeng still did not agree after thinking about it again, but asked Xiao Tang to allocate a certain amount of funds to Su Minshun and let him recruit more migrant workers. Because Wufeng demanded that many of the original city walls that were not strong enough be demolished and rebuilt, and the scale was increased several times, the amount of work was very huge, even if so many manpower and material resources were invested, it still took eight months to complete the basic facilities of this project, and the remaining auxiliary facilities still needed nearly a month to gradually improve.

Wu Feng was very satisfied with this, after all, he was not defenseless now, and it only took another twenty days for the city defense project to be completely completed, and at that time, it would be impossible for the Luobei people to capture Qingyang without paying a certain price.

Time passed day by day under Wufeng's close attention, and on September 27, 692 in the continental calendar, the war between the Chidi people and the Luope people finally broke out. In order to consolidate their hegemony in the West Tengger Grassland and establish a strong image for other nomads in the West Tengger Grassland, the Chidi people gave up the original practice of invading south and west every year, and concentrated an army of 600,000 troops divided into three battle groups to attack the territory of the Luope people. Fierce battles broke out in three places in the Fertile Plain.

On October 3, the famous general Chaqin led an army of 200,000 troops to forcibly break through the defense line of the western part of the Luope people's expedition in the fertile soil of the southern front, and the 150,000 Luope army on the southern front was forced to retreat.

On the night of October 7, Chaqin took advantage of the retreating army of Luopei's army to fluctuate and gain an unstable foothold, forcibly crossed the Daerba River, raided the Luopei camp, and defeated the 150,000 troops on the southern front of the Luope people in one fell swoop, captured more than 50,000 Luope soldiers, and the remnants of the army retreated for more than 300 miles. Fortunately, Kurdo led an army of 100,000 in the east to arrive in time, collected the remaining more than 60,000 remnants, and stationed them in Huangyangyuan, curbing the advance of the Chidi people.

On October 14, a fierce battle broke out between the Chidi army and the Luopei army on the northern front at Benmayuan, and both sides suffered damage. On October 16th, the Chidi army of the middle line and the army of Luo Pei fought a general battle in Saimayuan, because the terrain of this place was quite flat, there were no obstacles, both sides coincidentally chose their main cavalry to duel, the fierce battle lasted for half a day, the warring sides suffered heavy losses, and finally were forced to withdraw from the battle.

After more than 10 days of stalemate between the two sides on three fronts, on October 26, the Chidi army on the southern front, under the leadership of Chaqin, once again launched a fierce attack on the Luope army led by Kurdo, due to the difference in military strength of nearly 50,000 people, the fighting spirit of the Chidi side was high, and the fighting spirit of the remnants of the Luobei expedition in the west had been seriously weakened, and Kurdo was forced to lead the army to retreat after making a slight resistance in order to preserve his strength.

On October 27th, the northern front of the Chidi army and the Luo Pei army again in the Benma Yuan battle, the two sides used light and heavy cavalry infantry to fight in all directions, the war lasted for a day, and finally the Luo Di army first withdrew from the battle, the Chidi army also suffered a lot of losses, did not pursue.

On 29 October, the envoys of the Ann'ou arrived in the city of Sarah of the Chidi and the city of Barona of the Lope to persuade the two sides to negotiate peace. On November 11, negotiators from both sides began negotiations in a makeshift tent on the horse race plain, witnessed by the Anou envoy. After three days of marathon negotiations, the two sides finally reached a compromise on a series of issues such as the withdrawal of their troops and the redemption of prisoners of war.

On November 22, the armies of the two sides withdrew to their respective territories, and on November 27, the prisoners of war between the two sides were exchanged, and the Chidi side received a ransom of 1,000,000 gold coins and 100,000 slaves.

"This An'ou is really fucking hateful, the war between the Chidi and the Luope people has nothing to do with him, and he is used to mediate in it?" Wu Feng scolded the An'ou people while looking at the report on the war between the Chidi and Luope sides that was sent. Although the invasion of the Luope may have completely disappeared, seeing that the two sides, which did not suffer many casualties, had stopped fighting and made peace with the support of the Anou, Wufeng's originally very good mood became very unhappy again.

"The Anou people live in the north-central part of the Tengger steppe, sandwiched between the Chidi and the Luope, and although their strength cannot be compared with these two powers, they are not to be underestimated. It has always maintained an impartial attitude towards both powers and has often acted as a peacemaker for both sides. The current chief, Khiber, is also a capable leader, and under his leadership, the strength of the Ann Ou has grown considerably. "Ling Tianfang is familiar with the situation of the nomads on the grassland.

"Then why didn't he let the Chidi and Luobei people lose both, and he could take the opportunity to develop and grow?" Wu Feng asked his own question.

Ling Tianfang shook his head and explained, "My lord, the situation is not that simple. There are still a few powerful nomadic tribes around the Anou people, once the Chidi and Luope people are weakened, the balance on the Tengger steppe will inevitably be broken, and the other peoples who originally had ambitions for the Anou people will have no scruples and may attack the Anou people. The An'ou people also gained a lot of benefits from maintaining good relations with the Chidi and Luopi people, and at the same time, they also thought that the two were holding each other back, so that it had a chance to develop, and it also hoped that the situation would last longer, and it would be able to gain more time to strengthen itself. In a way, it seems to be somewhat similar to the strategy we take. That's probably what Kileber was going to do. ”

As it was already December and the weather was starting to turn cold, after determining that it was impossible for the Luope people to launch an attack on Qingyang, Wu Feng and all the political axe officials had a big stone in their hearts, and they could finally concentrate on solving other problems.

Due to the bumper harvest of the Great Spring, almost all of them are smiling. The farmer's house is full of harvested grain, and the farmers are also thinking about how much to leave for the family to eat and next year's seeds, how much money the rest can be sold, and how much to repay the loan, looking forward to a happy and prosperous Spring Festival, and looking forward to a better life next year. Merchants are also ready to prepare for the upcoming spring shopping season.

Only the army has not changed, and still continues its training plan, and does not relax in the slightest because the immediate threat has temporarily disappeared, they know that it will come sooner or later, only if they are more prepared, the opportunity is greater, and it is impossible to achieve the final victory by evading.

By the end of December, in the fifteenth month of August, September, October, eleventh and twelfth, an emigration ** was set off, and 200,000 people poured into Qingyang, with an average of more than 1,000 immigrants entering Qingyang Province every day, especially after the grain harvest in October Spring, as many as 2,000 people entered Qingyang Province every day to settle down, and the sources were more dispersed, and the proportion of workers, scholars, technicians, handicraftsmen, and small businessmen who came also increased significantly. The population of Qingyang Province is close to 550,000, which is close to the highest level in history.

Merchants who smelled the business opportunities also flocked to the market, and various workshops, workshops, and shops opened almost every day, absorbing a large number of idle laborers. Large-scale farmland water conservancy infrastructure construction and road transportation construction in Qingyang Province were officially launched, and the construction of these three roads from Qingyang Province to Jinzhou Province, Qingyang Province to Gaochang State, and Qingyang Province to the Grand Duchy of Luzon was put in the first place. In the words of Su Minshun, the completion of these three roads will greatly improve the traffic situation in Qingyang Province, attract more caravans to and from Qingyang, and create good conditions for increasing tax revenue.

The influx of the population made the work of the entire political axe organ in a state of overload, and various departments requested to increase the number of personnel, but Xiao Tang only approved the report of the Administration Department and the Agricultural Administration and Water Conservancy Department requesting additional personnel, which provoked Mo Lun to scold Xiao Tang for not being used to seeing his "plump" figure, and deliberately wanted to lose weight like Su Minshun.

Wufeng also vetoed the army's request for another expansion and conscription, and demanded that the army should focus all its energy on improving the combat effectiveness of its existing personnel, rather than recruiting new soldiers. However, Wu Feng also said that as the population of Qingyang Province continues to grow, it is possible to consider recruiting new soldiers after the Spring Festival, but only if the existing army's combat effectiveness is satisfactory.

Walking through the streets of Qingyang, letting the heavy snow wet their hair, the streets and alleys are full of people who are busy buying New Year's goods for the Spring Festival, small businessmen are shouting vigorously to promote their goods, children are also carefree in the streets and alleys to build snowmen, looking at all this, Wu Feng's heart swelled with pride, it only took a short year to build a depressed and dilapidated town into this vibrant image, what reason is there not to be proud? This also made Wu Feng's determination to defend the city in front of him even stronger.

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