The next day, Zhou Yi informed the king of Loulan Kingdom of his intention to stay in Loulan City.
Although Xiban, the king of Loulan Kingdom, had ten thousand reluctances in his heart, he did not dare to take action. However, he still struggled to explain: "Tian Khan, if you want to station troops in our Loulan, there is no problem, but our Loulan only has more than 10,000 people, and I am afraid that we cannot support your 100,000 army..."
"Who said I need you to feed my army? I will have 300,000 civilian laborers escorting military supplies for me in the future. I am going to build another Loulan New City near you."
"You Loulan people can participate in the construction of my new city. When the time comes, I will distribute food to the people who participate in the construction as rewards!"
The King of Loulan Kingdom's eyes lit up immediately after hearing this, and he no longer objected to Zhou Yi building a new city here.
Since this decision was made, Shi Wentai and Chi Jingde continued to lead the 10,000 vanguard army to continue the western expedition, while Wang Dachui led 50,000 elite troops in the rear, and Zhou Yi took charge of material support in Loulan City while continuing to wait. The civilians in the rear will work together to build the new city of Loulan.
In these small countries in the Western Region, they have no currency, and most of the time they exchange goods directly. For the common people, the most popular items are not gold, silver, agate or the like, but food that can help people survive.
In addition, other items such as table salt, pottery bowls, and ironware are also extremely popular.
What surprised Zhou Yi the most was that there was a natural salt pond fifty miles away from Loulan Kingdom, but they still lacked salt.
You know, any salt lake in Yongzhou can now produce salt worth four to five thousand taels of silver every day.
But the people in Loulan have so much wealth without even realizing it.
All the knowledge of these Loulan people is passed down by word of mouth from their elders.
The older generation told them that the salt in the salt pond was poisonous and that people would become swollen and sick after eating it.
Therefore, the people of Loulan lost the courage to explore the salt ponds, and they could only use the expensive salt brought by traveling merchants.
Naturally, the salt water in the natural salt pool cannot be eaten directly. It is brine salt containing various impurities.
It must go through processes such as impurity separation, evaporation and crystallization to produce edible salt that ordinary people can eat.
When Zhou Yi issued a summons in the name of the king of Loulan Kingdom, the people of Loulan Kingdom were just like the people of Pingliang County. Not many people responded to Zhou Yi's call.
Because in the past, when it came to building city walls, King Xiban of Loulan always used force to force the people to go.
Moreover, ordinary people need to bring all the construction tools themselves, and even food needs to be prepared by themselves.
Moreover, King Loulan also said that this was their own protection.
Of course, there were also people who went to help Zhou Yi build the city with the mentality of giving it a try, but they were successful after just one try.
They discovered that Zhou Yi even included meals here.
The most important thing is that the food here in Zhouyi is refined food that they have never expected in their lives.
In addition, there are those salty things that crunch in your mouth.
That stuff goes so well with white porridge.
More importantly, working under Zhou Yi allowed him to eat three meals a day.
In Loulan City, before Zhou Yi came, the only one who could eat three meals a day was the royal family of Loulan.
Others, even wealthy merchants and landowners, cannot help but consume three meals of dry food a day.
Since then, the Loulan people have more intuitively understood how powerful and wealthy Zhou Yi and his army are.
Therefore, more and more people in Loulan City began to join Zhou Yi's construction of the new city.
After working for Zhou Yi for ten days, Zhou Yi began to use grain to pay wages to the people of Loulan Kingdom just like he did in Pingliang County.
This move even made the people of Loulan City think that Zhou Yi wanted to buy his own life, so that he could use it to do extremely difficult things for Zhou Yi.
Many Loulan men are asking Zhou Yi's soldiers which country they will attack next.
However, with the patient explanation of the translator, these Loulan people realized that the money they had just received was not the money to buy their lives, but the labor remuneration for their work some days ago.
At this moment, all the people in Loulan froze in place for a long time looking at the food they had received.
They originally thought that after a hard day's work, the three meals a day and enough dry food were already the reward for their labor.
But I didn't expect that the powerful Tian Khan who came from the east and defeated the Xiongnu Chanyu was so generous and kind-hearted, and even gave him additional grain as payment for his labor.
At this moment, Tian Khan Zhou Yi looks like a Decepticon who promised humans an eight-hour working day and triple pay for overtime.
Almost all the people in Loulan wanted to kneel in front of Zhou Yi and call him "dad."
It was precisely because of the generosity of Tian Khan Zhou Yi that after hearing the news, the people of some nearby small countries in the Western Regions who had surrendered to Zhou Yi also went to Loulan Kingdom to help Zhou Yi build a new city.
Wang Dachui and his team are also making great progress.
When Zhang Huogen and Zheng Zhibai escaped from Dayuan, more than a dozen small countries sent troops to intercept and kill Zhang Huogen and others.
Now that Zhang Huogen, Shi Wentai, Chi Jingde and others came with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, the kings of the small countries who had been adding insult to injury suddenly regretted their mistakes.
Even if these kings took out the treasures they had treasured for many years to apologize to Wang Dachui and the others, Wang Dachui remained unmoved.
Since they didn't open their eyes and chose to take such a dark road, it's no wonder that I didn't leave them any kindness.
The dozen or so little royal families who had added insult to injury were all wiped out by Wang Dachui.
Many members of the royal family fled their country before the war. Wang Dachui also sent a message to the surrounding countries, telling them not to protect these remnants of the royal family.
The royal families of more than a dozen small countries were easily destroyed, which really impacted the hearts of the kings of the Western Regions like a stormy sea.
However, Zhou Yi's troops only killed the evil leaders and did not implicate innocent people. This also calmed the panic of the countries in the Western Regions a little.
Considering that the annihilated royal families themselves were the disaster caused by their own troubles, and the kindness of Tian Khan has been spread everywhere in the Western Region recently. The kings of other countries in the Western Regions have chosen to obey Wang Dachui's will.
The heads of the remnants of the royal family who fled to other countries in the Western Region were all cut off, and were delivered to Wang Dachui by the king's confidant who wanted to make good friends with Zhou Yi, along with a letter of submission to Tian Khan.
From then on, Wang Dachui and the others' journey westward became smoother and smoother, and they did not encounter any unfamiliar country before arriving at Dawan Country.
