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This move made the common people feel a little more favorable towards the new rulers like Lu Chensheng.

Chapter 337 Planning

"There are many herdsmen in the city, right? If you buy horses like them, is it easy to get them?"

After Lu Chensheng took some time to teach the students for a while, he then asked Gu Zhifang to ask.

There are [-] horses in the city, which belong to them, but these [-] horses are really too small.

"Although the nomads don't want to sell us horses very much, if we are willing to buy iron utensils and salt, they are still willing."

Although this thing is forbidden, there are still many private transactions.

Lu Chensheng suddenly realized, if this is the case, maybe he can use it to buy some good horses.

"Shopkeeper, you don't want to do such a business, do you? If a large amount of ironware flows into their hands, it will be unfavorable to us."

Seeing that Lu Chensheng seemed to be a little restless, Gu Zhifang quickly said something, with a bit of anxiety in his tone.

Lu Chensheng smiled slightly when he saw this, "Why are you in such a hurry, if you give them some inferior iron tools, you can also get good horses in exchange, why not?"

Gu Zhifang was taken aback, "But those people are not fools. If you give them some inferior ironware, they will naturally recognize it. How can they be willing to trade?"

"If you develop better ironware, some of the previous ironware will naturally become inferior."

With that said, Lu Chensheng patted Gu Zhifang on the shoulder.

For the nomads, the iron tools used in the three countries are all excellent.

But now, the craftsmen recruited by Lu Chensheng can already smelt better metals, and those iron tools before have become scrap iron.

What's more, the ironware sold is actually worse in terms of quality, just like the horses sold to the Central Plains by the other party, there are actually not many good horses.

Lu Chensheng thought about taking some defective products in exchange for some horses. Even defective products are still precious in the hands of nomads.

Things in the city were carried out in an orderly manner, and Lu Chensheng came to the valley immediately.

Seeing this, Bai Yi also followed in.

There are some weeds in the valley, but they are not dense. You can see a lot of stones everywhere, and the mountains on both sides generally surround the valley.

At first glance, the valley is extremely huge.

Lu Chensheng asked someone to bring a horse over. If you want to walk through such a huge place, you don't know how much time it will take.

Roughly estimated, I am afraid that there are thousands of square kilometers.

With such a huge place, it's no wonder Bai Yi said that it would definitely not be an easy task to rely on the mountains and build a city wall around it.

"Do you really want to rely on this place to build a mountain range?"

Bai Yi glanced around, but still felt that Lu Chensheng's way of doing this was really unreliable.

The amount of engineering involved is too great, and the manpower and material resources to be consumed in the process are even more numerous.

"It's a bit difficult, but if the city wall here is built on the mountain range, don't you think this place will be extremely majestic? And such a huge place, just now there is enough room to display it."

Hearing this, Lu Chensheng pointed to the extremely huge valley inside, and said with a smile on his face.

Bai Yi was silent for a while, then turned her head and looked around, and had to admit it.

If it is really achieved as Lu Chensheng said, then there is nothing comparable to the majesty of this place.

"There is little water outside the frontier, has anyone dug a well in this valley?"

Lu Chensheng rode a horse and strolled in. There was grass inside, and there were many trees on the mountains. Logically speaking, there was water.

"I have inquired before, and the people in the city only drilled three wells, and there are no more wells."

The three wells are barely enough for the people in the entire city to use, but it's just barely enough.

If the population increases in the future, this well will not be enough.

"It seems that we still have to see if we can drill some wells."

Hearing this, Lu Chensheng frowned slightly and said something.

Bai Yi nodded when she heard the words, the water source is indeed very important, and if this place is besieged, it will be even more important.

"Looking at the inside of the mountains, it seems quite damp. If we dig in, I don't know if there will be water."

Lu Chensheng got off his horse and leaned towards the mountain range beside him. Some water stains were still seeping on some rock walls, which didn't look like a place without water.

"Dig the mountain?"

Bai Yi and the others looked at each other when they heard the words, didn't they all dig wells when they wanted to find water?What do you dig mountains for?

Bai Yi and the others didn't understand, and Lu Chensheng didn't explain either.

There is only a little water in the wells dug.

But if you dig a mountain, if you are lucky enough to dig an underground river, then there will be enough water.

In such a large valley, it is entirely possible to use some places to grow food or something.

After all, the water in the wells dug is quite small, and it is only for people to drink, which is really not enough.

According to the people in the city, it is not easy to drill wells underground, but you can try to dig some caves to try.

Lu Chensheng pondered for a moment, then led the crowd to continue walking forward.

The vastness of the valley was beyond Lu Chensheng's expectation. The key is that there are still many places in the valley, which look pretty good.

"This place is really nice."

Lu Chensheng looked at it and was immediately satisfied.

It would be a pity if such a huge place was not used.

But right now, there is no way to build it directly, so we have to wait.

After wandering around the valley roughly, Lu Chensheng also had some bottom line in his heart.

Then they left the valley together and returned to the city.

Everyone in the city is quite busy, and there are many places to work. Due to the shortage of manpower, Lu Chensheng specially spent money to hire some people in the city to work as laborers.

By the way, let the students start counting the population of the city.

The previous data was not too detailed. This time, Lu Chensheng needs to carefully count how many people live in this Wudeng city.

Blacksmiths and carpenters had already recruited quite a few, but looking at it now, the number was still not enough.

Thinking of this, Lu Chensheng felt a little regretful. If he had known this before, he would have bought some craftsmen before, and now they are bringing them here, so they can definitely help a lot.

"When the workshop is built, these things will be built by the way."

Lu Chensheng drew some drawings and handed them over to the blacksmiths.

The blacksmiths casually glanced at the blueprints, and kept the things on the blueprints in their hearts. They didn't quite understand the purpose of their own shopkeepers to build such a simple thing.

Chapter 338 Renamed Star Seoul

In Wudeng City, after experiencing the initial turmoil, the people gradually accepted the current status quo.

Because a lot of manpower is needed now, and the wages are quite generous.

This allowed many people to have a job, and their faces were full of joy.

These days, they can eat two meals a day, with some leaves sandwiched in the meal, which is already a prosperous age for them.

These people who have just arrived are quite generous. Even if their wages are deducted, it will be enough to feed them for a month.

And helping the other party, taking care of the meal at noon, made them extremely happy.

In fact, for them, there is no work that can make money this season. In fact, helping each other and being able to manage their meals for a day already makes them feel very good.

Standing on the city wall, Lu Chensheng looked down and could see the people in the city moving wood around, and others were working together to move stones.

It's already late autumn, and it's actually the time when autumn is breezy, but even so, the people below are still sweating profusely.

Lu Chensheng could also see that several old men with wrinkled faces and gray hair were also busy among the crowd.

Although he looked a little older, his strength was still not much smaller than the young man beside him.

Lu Chensheng couldn't bear to see it at first, but when he stepped forward to ask, he immediately scared the old people half to death.

He thought that Lu Chensheng disliked them, so he didn't want them to work.

After hearing their answers like this, Lu Chensheng had no choice but to appease them and let them work with peace of mind.

"What's the matter, why do you keep watching?"

Bai Yi also stood aside, watching Lu Chensheng keep watching the people working below, feeling a little puzzled.

"Looking at the people below, working so hard just for such a mouthful of food, I feel a little unbearable."

Hearing this, Lu Chensheng turned his head to look at Bai Yi's delicate face, and returned with a sigh.

Bai Yi was taken aback when she heard the words, and looked at Lu Chensheng with a strange expression on her face.

"For them, this is actually a blessing, and they can eat a bite of food."

Lu Chensheng shook his head upon hearing this.

"Look, you think it's a good thing for these people to have only one bite of food after such hard work, so in other places, do most people not even have a bite of food? ?”

"But the fact is that if there is a good harvest, some people may not let the whole family go hungry, but if the grain harvest is not good, it is common to eat one meal a day."

Bai Yiben was born in this world, but he is very clear about the current situation of this world.

Therefore, I was a little confused about Lu Chensheng's emotion.

Is it not enough for the common people to eat enough?

"Do you know that in a world I have seen, if the people work so hard, at least they can have enough food, wine and meat, and still have some leftovers, but this is definitely not the case. Such hard work is only for Then have a bite to eat."

Lu Chensheng turned serious, looked at Bai Yi and said something.

When Bai Yi heard this, the phoenix's eyes were full of confusion.

"With such labor, it's just a whimsical idea to have wine and meat. Does my husband know the price of wine and the price of meat? It's just such labor, how can I eat such a sumptuous meal?" ?”

Where is it so easy to make money?

Don't look at the fact that Lu Chensheng could exchange poetry for fine wine in the past, but in fact, wine is something that ordinary people cannot drink.

A few days ago, when Lu Chensheng's share of the military salary was received in the barracks, the soldiers were all grateful. From this, we can know how hard it is to earn this money.

Even soldiers, in order to eat such a mouthful of military rations, it is not so easy to get full.

"Perhaps in your opinion, being a husband is whimsical, but this is the starting point for being a husband. For these common people, the requirements are too simple. As long as there is a piece of land, as long as they can eat a bite of food after farming, they are ready. Very satisfied.

For the rest of the nation, they are extremely simple and hard-working people.

They have been farmers from generation to generation, and they only want to guard a little arable land.

But now, most of the arable land is in the hands of those gentlemen. They just want to farm, but they have to go to other people to get the arable land, and they need to pay [-] to [-]% of the grain when harvesting.

Do you think such a person should be killed? "

When Lu Chensheng was in the past, he had told Jiang Guo's first emperor that he wanted to touch these gentlemen.

But obviously, the pair didn't listen to this at all, and felt that this matter would not work at all.

But Lu Chensheng thought it was imperative.

It is impossible for a stable country to do this, but if it is a rebellion, it will be much easier to solve this matter together by the way.

If the swords were not stained with blood, how could the country be defeated?

Bai Yi's eyes were full of astonishment.

There is wine and meat every day, this is just the starting point, so what does the prosperous world in my husband's heart look like?

Bai Yihu felt that Lu Chensheng in front of him seemed to have become a little more mysterious again.

She thought she already knew the other person a little bit, but sometimes when talking, she realized that she didn't see through her husband at all.

However, for the world her husband talked about, she gradually had a little bit of expectation in her heart.

Maybe, she can really see the world that her father-in-law said?

"If Xianggong has confidence, I will definitely lay down this piece of land for him. Let's see how beautiful and prosperous this piece of land will become in Xianggong's hands."