In the next few days, the spies and merchants outside gradually brought back the 100,000 people Hu Shui had plundered.
Fortunately, it was done one after another. Because of the different speeds, only about 10,000 people were brought back each time, which reduced the work intensity of Hu Ling and the others a lot.
They have been arranged for nearly a week. It is certain that they will not adapt, but they have to adapt even if they do not adapt. In the grassland, especially here in Zhang Qi, any bad signs will be killed directly. It is better to kill the mistake than let it go. This is the creed of Hu Ling and these wolf cubs.
Five thousand young men recruited from the devout were now stationed around the newly arrived herdsmen following the militiamen trained in battle groups.
Although these five thousand devout people have not received any military training, due to the sufficient nutrition this year, they are all tall and tall, and they look very intimidating.
In order to prevent this group of people from struggling, Hu Ling and others arranged the most tiring work for them. Under the supervision of the militiamen, these people could not make any trouble, and although they had to do a lot of work, they had enough food. , after a few days of training, these 100,000 people have temporarily stabilized.
However, if you want to completely digest them, unless your Lord comes again, these people will not be able to calm down within two or three months.
The participation of 100,000 herdsmen accelerated the construction of Wuhuan City again. The inner city wall no longer had to wait for the outer city wall to be poured and the foundation dug to start directly.
Snow will fall in a few days. The climate has changed obviously these days. If we really wait until winter, the hardness of the ground will not be as easy to dig as it is now.
The piles of earth and stone between the inner and outer city walls are getting higher and higher, slowly growing from four or five meters to six, seven, seven or eight meters. Of course, the soil is loose and has only been slightly compacted. It has no defensive power at all. It can be regarded as a little obstacle.
Along with the enthusiastic working atmosphere, a group of carriages and horses also drove into Wuhuan from Liaodong County.
Zhang Qi personally greeted him, and it was Zhang Chan who arrived with the Zhang family's betrothal gift.
There were nearly two thousand craftsmen of all kinds, and there were sixteen carts of bamboo slips. In addition, there were fifty thousand dan of grain, which relieved Wuhuan's food pressure a little.
Zhang's betrothal gift was very generous, no worse than the cattle, sheep and horses he gave. It can even be said that these betrothal gifts far exceeded the value of the dowry.
Not to mention anything else, these carefully selected craftsmen can enrich all the industries in Zhang Qi's territory. When there are enough apprentices and they are apprentices, Zhang Qi can be self-sufficient in the Northeast.
Although Lu Mu made it clear that there was no need for craftsmen like blacksmiths who would put Zhang Yi at risk, Zhang Qi still saw blacksmiths in this list of craftsmen, and there were quite a few of them.
Although Zhang Qi is ahead of his time in terms of steelmaking technology, the blacksmiths also have their own unique skills. For example, Zhang Qi currently has no coin minting technology. With these blacksmiths, Zhang Qi can make himself He has a monetary system under his command, rather than an invisible and intangible work-point system.
Although work points are good, currency is still needed to really develop a place. The importance of currency cannot be replaced. What he has to do now is how to make his own currency mainstream. In this way, in some things, he can Take initiative.
However, this is not yet on the first list. After reading the list of betrothal gifts several times, Zhang Qi enthusiastically invited Zhang Chan into the royal tent.
The status of women in the Han Dynasty was not low. There were many queens and queen mothers. Except that they had no inheritance rights, their other statuses were sometimes as good as those of men.
So this time Zhang Yi asked Zhang Chan to come over to give the betrothal gift, and also exchange birthdays and choose an auspicious day.
Zhang Qi didn't understand these at all, so he handed them over to Lu Mu.
Three days later, Qinghua and Zhang Guang's auspicious day was set for October 20th. The reason why it was so fast was that firstly, Zhang Yi's trust in the Han Dynasty plummeted and he chose to place a heavy bet on Zhang Qi. Secondly, if he didn't hurry up, When the snow falls, their wedding will be postponed until next year.
Zhang Qi naturally accepted this. The earlier Qinghua entered the prefect's mansion, the earlier the weaving network could penetrate deeply into Liaodong.
Therefore, with both parties having different intentions, their marriage was decided.
Being Zhang Qi's 'sister' is not a trivial matter to Wuhuan Xianbei or Liaodong.
Any happy event will naturally come with a reward. Wuhuan's food supply was already under great pressure, so Zhang Qi did not put much thought into the food, but chose to give him work points.
Although these work points were not important to the herdsmen who originally belonged to Wuhuan Xianbei, they made the new captives very happy.
The number of work points determines when they will return to their status as ordinary people, so everyone who received a reward sent their most sincere blessings to Qinghua.
Time flew by.
The weather was getting colder. Seven days before October 20th, Zhang Qi sent the blue and white flowers to the wedding carriage that Zhang Guang had come from afar.
With a clear sound of horn trombone.
One hundred and fifty NPC soldiers, fully armed and with their armor wiped clean, were divided into two columns and walked on both sides of the wedding team.
The silent knights paired with solemn armor all show how powerful these knights are.
This move is to tell Zhang that Qinghua is not a rootless duckweed, and she has a strong backing behind her.
The wedding team left and embarked on the journey to Liaodong. The journey was long, but Zhang still chose to welcome the bride. Coming seven days in advance was the fastest time they could get back to Liaodong from Wuhuan.
Running along the way is inevitable, but Qinghua is used to fighting with Zhang Qizheng, so this little scene has no impact on her at all. If the bride hadn't been unable to get out of the carriage, she could still perform a sprint of three hundred miles in one day.
Seven days later, the wedding team arrived in Liaodong. As a member of the team, Zhang Qi was also among them. Does the marriage require the presence of his natal family? Although Zhang Qi can have many "sisters", he does not need an extra set of parents.
In addition to accepting the groom's kneeling as the elder of the bride, he also had some things to discuss with Zhang Yi.
Since the dinar income from the riding and cutting world can no longer satisfy the current territory of nearly 300,000 people, then trade must be put on the agenda.
Before the next harvest in Xianbei's farmland, trade became Zhang Qi's top priority.
There were not many products he could provide, and the liquor he had pinned his hopes on was not loved by the powerful nobles of the Han Dynasty. Compared with the spicy liquor, these nobles still preferred yellow rice wine and fruit wine.
These were spread back to Wuhuan as early as when the weaving network penetrated into the interior with the help of merchants.
There is no market for liquor, but sugar syrup and table salt are very popular. The salt mines in Qikai World can produce fine refined salt, and sugar syrup has quickly become popular throughout Youbeiping because of its sweetness.
(End of chapter)
