"That's good, then I'll stay soon."
With that said, Bo stood up and prepared to leave, and a few words of conversation were heard outside the yurt.
"Wu Shu'er's kid, this Meng Xue get out of class ends so early today? Where is that kid from my family?"
Xianbei's residential area has been planned, and there are several families in one area.
"Ah? I don't know. Today's Meng Xue exam, maybe Tieniu hasn't finished writing it yet. I handed in the paper early, so I came back first."
The child's voice was very lively. As he spoke, he opened the curtain door of his yurt.
"Um, hello uncle."
When the young child saw someone at home, he greeted him obediently. In addition to knowledge, education at Mengxue also includes some etiquette for getting along with others.
Bo glanced at the toddler and smiled: "Hello to you, is school over now?"
The toddler nodded and repeated what he had said to his next-door neighbor before.
Bo listened happily. Before taking over the Department of Justice, his favorite thing was to teach the children in the tribe to read. Now that he saw these young children learning how to read and write, he was extremely happy.
"You can hand in the paper in advance. It seems that you are also a little genius. Yes, work hard and earn service for your Majesty when you grow up."
Bo smiled and touched the child's head, and took out a nice-looking small stone carving from his arms. This was his hobby in his spare time, used to relieve work pressure.
"This is for you, work hard."
The child didn't know Bo, so he naturally didn't dare to take the things he gave him. However, looking at the handsome and cute appearance of the stone sculpture, he wanted it very much, so he looked at Wu Shu'er behind Bo.
"Just keep what the director gave you and just work hard from now on."
Wu Shu'er smiled and nodded.
The toddler cheered and took it.
"Thank you uncle."
Bo sighed, then turned to face Wu Shu'er and said, "Then I won't stay any longer. Just remember to gather in front of the king's tent tomorrow morning."
Wu Shu'er cupped her hands and said, "Nuo!"
Uncle left, and as the curtain was lowered, the child regained his usual energy: "Dad, where are you going tomorrow?"
Wu Shu'er touched the child's head and smiled: "Your Majesty asked me to do something. I could have taken you there, but you also know that your mother is about to give birth, so you have to take care of her at home. good.
Don't let your mother get tired. When your younger brother and sister are born, you can come to me with your mother. "
The toddler's dark eyes looked at his father and nodded seriously: "Don't worry, Dad, I will take good care of my mother."
"Hahaha, you boy, you are like me! Go and find daddy's hook, and I'll get the food."
Wu Shu'er patted the child's back with his good hand, turned around and got busy.
Fireworks went up in Xianbei, and every household was filled with laughter and laughter.
In the early morning of the next day, more than thirty recommended people gathered outside the king's tent. Some of them, like Wu Shu'er, were soldiers who had been injured in various armies and then joined various departments to hold positions. Some of them had followed from the beginning. Zhang Qi's herdsmen were very busy outside the king's tent. In addition to the thirty or so people who had been recommended, their family members were also here.
Compared with Xianbei, Wuhuan needed Zhang Qi to be there at the moment, so early in the morning, he was ready and led about a hundred people and his own bodyguards on the way back to Wuhuan.
In fact, as far as the Northeast is concerned, taking the waterway is definitely faster than the land route, but the dock has just been moved out, so there are not many ships in Xianbei, and small fishing boats cannot carry people like Zhang Qi, and those Fuyu Sushen people who live near the river He hadn't had time to clean up yet, and it wasn't safe.
Because they had family members, Zhang Qi and the others slowed down a lot. It took one day to get here but two days to get back.
It was the morning of the third day when we arrived in Wuhuan. Hu Ling and others received a message from the patrol early in the morning, so they arranged their accommodation in advance. Junshang brought more than 30 people here to relieve their work pressure. Naturally happy.
Wuhuan is still lively. In the past few days since Zhang Qi left, the ten-kilometer-long foundation has now been connected. Just from the foundation Zhang Qi, you can see the style of the city wall. Each section of the city wall has three horse faces, which are used to attack the lower part of the city wall. blind spot.
The city wall is overall regular and is a beautiful rectangular parallelepiped.
The soil removed from the excavation of the foundation was piled on the ground above the foundation at a distance of more than one meter from the inside. The foundation was four to five meters deep, and the earth and rocks were also piled four to five meters. Following the trajectory of the foundation, these earth and rocks already resembled an earth city wall.
The prisoners who are still busy in the foundation at this moment are using long cages woven from processed dry bamboo to stack and connect them on the foundation.
As a horizontal bamboo cage was placed, someone immediately put down the vertical bamboo cage, and the people below tied up the horizontal and vertical bamboo cages.
This is only the foundation of the outer city wall. When the concrete is poured on this foundation and it is one meter above the ground, there will be an inner city wall to be constructed on the inside of the earthen city wall.
Looking around, the entire foundation was filled with captive workers working like this. If Zhang Qi hadn't been wearing a long gown and riding a horse at the moment, he would have almost thought that he had returned to the original era.
He rode a horse around Wuhuan City, and the enthusiastic working atmosphere also infected him. After returning to the king's tent in the city, he also started his day's work.
noon.
Several letters sent back from the grassland were handed over by Hu Ling.
"Your Majesty, You Yi's army has plundered the Zuo Guli King's tribe and the Zuo Tuqi tribe. Now the spy merchants are returning one after another with nearly 100,000 grassland herdsmen. These people."
She could make the decision on her own without Zhang Qi, but now that Zhang Qi was in the king's tent, she naturally had to ask for instructions first.
Putting down the signed and annotated official document in his hand, Zhang Qi took the letter from Hu Ling, glanced at it briefly, and laughed.
"This Hu Shui is quite capable. He did such a big thing in a sullen voice. Yes, he should be the first to make a contribution. You should note it down first and hold a banquet for him when he comes back. In addition, you can prepare for You Yijun. The banner of Hu Shui was changed to the general's seal of miscellaneous numbers."
After reading the letter, the smile on Zhang Qi's face never dropped. He fought to the death to bring back 50,000 to 60,000 prisoners, while Hu Shui's troops looted all the people of the two kings. In this battle in Liaodong, I'm afraid this is the biggest gain.
"promise!"
"But Your Majesty, with the addition of one hundred thousand people, Wuhuan's security force is somewhat insufficient."
Hu Ling first accepted the order and then expressed her concerns.
"It doesn't matter. Now that the prisoners are familiar with this environment, there is no need for so many overseers. You can mobilize five thousand young men from among the devout people and let the militiamen take them. It doesn't matter whether they have fighting strength or not. The point is It looks like it can intimidate people.”
Hu Ling wrote down one by one. Wuhuan had a lot of things to do, so she didn't stay for a long time and turned around to leave.
Zhang Qi leaned back on the chair and pinched his eyebrows: "There are still a few people in management."
(End of chapter)
