Along the way from Fushunjian to Chengdu, dilapidated city walls and houses can be seen everywhere on both sides of the official road, with white walls and black tiles turning into broken walls. As you can see, it is almost difficult to find a complete house. The fields are covered with weeds and the canals have become trenches. Although the farmers and villagers who have returned to their homes work hard, the piles of thatched trees that are more than one person tall still occupy a large area of ​​the field.

The fields were desolate, the market towns were destroyed, and the people were depressed. The past prosperity of the Tianfu Kingdom was almost like passing clouds and smoke that could not be returned. This shows the devastating destruction of the Mongolian cavalry on Xichuan in recent years.

Changsun Hong and his party hurriedly beat the horse, and the horse's hooves flew, stirring up the loess all over the sky. Sichuan people working between the broken houses and rotten fences in the fields looked up numbly. The unsightly eyes were gone. After squinting, they saw that they were not bandits, and then buried their heads and did their own things.

In the flying beacon, people's expectations for life will often be reduced to a very low level.

When life cannot be safe, what should we talk about life?

However, although it is broken, there are always people, and there is hope for someone. Compared to the scene where locusts cross the border for thousands of miles, it is much better than the scene where there are no chickens crowing thousands of miles a year ago.

Five days later, Changsun Hong appeared in the outer city of Chengdu.

The capital of Wang Kui's army had been waiting for him, and immediately followed him respectfully into the city.

Changsun Hong rode his horse slowly while looking at the inside and outside of the outer city like a huge construction site, his eyes were strange, and he exclaimed: "Mr. Wang is such a big deal. I'm afraid that this has been recruited tens of thousands of people?"

Around him, a huge trench that was twenty feet wide and three feet deep was gradually taking shape under the dense ants of Minzhuang hoe. The trench walked around the city and surrounded the huge Chengdu inside. The city was a giant trench. The trench stretched to both sides, and I don’t know how long it was.

There were also countless people rushing up and down the outer city walls. Square bricks and stones were hung up by simple hanging frames, moving up and down. The compacted loess city wall was like a stone dress, gradually being built into a brick wall. The city wall was taller and thicker than before. From a distance, a thick sense of security came to the face.

Du Yuhou looked gloomy and followed Changsun Hong to point and said, "My Lord has good eyesight. In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the previous commanders, Lord Wang decided to build Chengdu into the first strong city of the Song Dynasty as the mainstay of resisting the northern and southern invasions. For this reason, he did not hesitate to invest great resources. What he saw was just one of the scenes. Now Chengdu is full of such a scene, and it is full of passion. A total of 30,000 troops were recruited and 50,000 people were strong! There were countless refugees coming to work and beg for food nearby."

That is nearly 100,000 people. Changsun Hong looked at the grand construction site, and there were busy people coming and going around him. When he was in it, he felt a sense of aura of conquering nature.

But immediately, he frowned again: "Selecting so many people will hurt the people's strength. Everyone is here, who will go to farm? How to solve the problem of food?"

"You are wise. To recruit people to build cities will indeed affect spring and autumn harvest. However, Lord Wang has calculated that the main body of the city defense here will be completed in about three months, and the remaining projects will not be used for so many people. Then the people can get money back. Only with money can they purchase seeds and farming tools to facilitate farming."

Du Yuhou said respectfully that he found out that the commander Wang Kui and the less-official envoy in front of him were brothers of worship, and he was extremely attentive: "As for food, the envoy of Xuanfu, Lord Meng, strongly supported this place. The grain ships coming from Jinghu every day almost blocked the dock. The road from the dock to Guancang Taiping Warehouse were full of grain trucks for transportation, one after another, so there was no need to worry about food. Lord Wang said that he wanted to build Chengdu into an important town in Xichuan and become the most important base camp to resist the Northern Barbarians."

"This is not counting. What you see is just a scene of the whole place. On Longquan Mountain and on the banks of the Tuojiang River, Lord Wang also recruited more than 20,000 people to build Yunding City. With Yunding as the point and Longquan Mountain as the line, more than 20 cities and villages were built, as the outer defense of Chengdu, firmly protecting Chengdu in it."

His mouth opened and closed, revealing the current situation in Chengdu, which made Changsun Hong understand a rough idea and Wang Kui's idea of ​​managing Xichuan.

The Chengdu City was repaired and Jinguan City was used as the distribution center and garrison core of Xichuan materials. Based on this, the intention of the Xichuan Mountain City presented by Changsun Hong to lock the river is fully expanded, and the entire Sichuan is turned into a city everywhere and a key defense area for the village.

In addition, the mountain was not conducive to the cavalry's galloping, so the Mongolian army heading south was trapped in it like a mud, like entering the Tianmen Formation, and could not get out of the way, thus achieving the goal of guarding the river and protecting the river.

I have to say that Wang Kui is a very smart person and a person with strong execution ability.

Even if Yu Jie came from Huaiyou, what he could do was that.

It seems that I have picked up a treasure and the sea of ​​people is vast. I didn’t expect that if I meet any one, my ability can be comparable to that of historical officials. It is really rare.

Changsun Hong laughed, followed Du Yuhou, and walked all the way through the busy construction site, heading straight to the Xichuan Commander's Office in the city.

The whole city of Chengdu was burned. Wang Kui actually started from Baidi and rebuilt the city. The commander's office was newly built. It was built in a tall and elegant manner, but there were still traces of decoration in many places, and some craftsmen even climbed on the beams and knocked on the beams.

When Wang Kui learned that Changsun Hong had arrived, he had been waiting outside the gate. He saw it from afar that before the people arrived, a generous laugh came over.

The two laughed and hugged, and the man's hormones were filled with laughter.

After a few simple greetings, the two of them walked into the second hall, left and right, and arranged tea and talked.

"The reason why I asked my brothers to come over quickly was because something big happened." Wang Kui's face was excited, and he was a little playful and slight: "Brother, I must have thought that someone would actually join us from the north!"

Changsun Hong smiled slightly and Zhan Yan said, "The world is the current situation and fortune. We are not as good as the Mongols now, so how can we know that the future will not be stronger than them? This person must have seen through the current fortune and felt that we will gain something in the future, so he abandoned the dark and turned to the light. He is really smart."

Wang Kui blushed and thought Changsun Hong was shameless in bragging, but he was well-educated and nodded, "I won't talk about anything else. Let me tell you who this is. Speaking of which, I'm afraid I know this person, my brother focuses on salt administration."

Changsun Hong said "Oh" and roamed around in his mind. Before he could figure out who it was, Wang Kui could not wait to point it out.

"What I came is Jin Rucheng, the leader of the Well God Gang who had been rampant in Sichuan! I heard that this person used to have some contact with the former commander Gui Ruyuan, and his private salt business was even more prosperous than the righteous salt merchant, and he was a domineering person in Sichuan."

"Later, the Mongols came over and took his business. The man took the gangs to the west to surrender to Tubo. He was not very satisfied. Someone below had a strange intention and wanted to collude with the Mongols and become the Northern Eagle Eagle Dog."

"Jin Rucheng doesn't want to do it. This person has bad character, but he has some backbone. In a few days, he turned against the hosts below who wanted to surrender to Mongolia. One night, the wind was dark and the sword was blown. Jin Rucheng's hands were not bad. Not only did he not get somersaulted by the people below, but he also cut many people down and stabilized his status."

Wang Kui said this and laughed loudly: "In order to save his wealth, he had to lead the crowd to the south and return to the Song Dynasty. Not only that, this man also sent a letter of conferring a letter, set up a secretly match with the Mongolian eyeliner with the following hall masters, and arrested them and offered them to us!"

(End of this chapter)
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