Time goes by, and it’s already the end of autumn before I know it.

Over this period of time, Li Chuan's Western Expedition Army has been reporting constant successes. Under the premise that "genuine" armies like Wang Dadong have been defeated, those "miscellaneous armies" based on tribes are even less of a match.

After fighting all the way, the number of the Western Expeditionary Army not only did not decrease, but actually snowballed, getting bigger and bigger.

The number of barbarians in the current Suppression of the West Army has been equal to the regular number. It is not known how many barbarian soldiers there will be in the Suppression of the West Army if this continues.

Also, Li Chuan discovered that all barbarian tribes had a large number of slaves.

Usually they have to do the hardest and most tiring work, but when it comes to war, they are the cannon fodder at the front.

Li Chuan didn't know why there were so many slaves, but whenever he defeated a barbarian tribe, he would send these slaves to the rear area to let them recuperate and cultivate the fields.

Li Chuan later learned that these slaves were basically the leader, family members, and subordinates of the tribe that lost in the war between the two tribes.

This also explains why after he defeated these tribes, the leaders and so on were so excited when they heard that Li Chuan asked them to join the army.

Compared to being a slave whose life is worse than death, what is fighting?

At the same time, during this period, several batches of new equipment have been built and equipped with the army.

In addition, the construction of colleges and universities has also been completed and is ready to start the first round of enrollment.

All in all, everything is developing for the better.

More than a month has passed, and now winter has arrived.

I went to college a few days ago. Although it didn't cause any disaster, it still added a lot of workload to Xia Qi.

Xia Qi, who was reviewing the document report in his hand, seemed to have remembered something, and suddenly asked: "By the way, Zhang Liang, are the grain reserves in the granaries of each city still sufficient?"

Within Daxia, ordinary people could buy food directly from grain stores in various places, and Xia Qi basically no longer needed to care.

But for those coolies working on construction sites and mines, the government is responsible for their three meals a day.

In other words, these grains have to be spent from the grain storage in the granaries of each city.

This year, he recruited hundreds of thousands of grassland people on a large scale. Although he had already traded a large amount of grain from Mingzhu in advance, he was still a little worried.

After all, this is a matter of life and death for at least hundreds of thousands of people.

Facing Xia Qi's question, Zhang Liang quickly opened a document at hand.

"Reporting to your Majesty, the grain stores in each city's granaries are still quite abundant. I think it should be enough."

After receiving this answer, Xia Qi felt a little relieved, but just in case, he still asked Zhang Liangduo to keep an eye on this area.

Zhang Liang naturally responded to this.

After all, there were too many things last year. The food consumption from the successive battles, coupled with the hundreds of thousands of newly accepted prairie people, these things have added a lot of food burden to Daxia.

Nowadays, if you are cautious, you will never make a big mistake.

At the same time, since the food issue was mentioned, Xia Qi naturally couldn't help but care about the newly adopted group of prairie people.

In fact, the spies from Xiuyiwei are still among those grassland people.

On the one hand, it was naturally to continue to keep an eye on the group of prairie people to prevent them from causing any trouble.

On the other hand, they continue to promote the goodness of Daxia among the grassland people.

The purpose is naturally to allow the grassland people to integrate into Daxia faster.

However, this matter is not as simple as it sounds. During this whole process, if you act too deliberately, it will make those grassland people suspicious. But if you do nothing all the time, or do too little, then the effect will not be achieved at all.

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How to master the balance here is definitely a technical task.

So far, the hundreds of thousands of prairie people are acting quite calmly.

Although they had to carry out relatively heavy work every day, Da Xia did not starve them for three meals a day, and the Embroidered Guard agents who mixed in among them played a role from time to time.

It can be said that things here are going quite smoothly.

Process things one by one quickly and confirm the past.

Before you know it, time passes quietly.

Winter turns to spring, the ice and snow melt, and summer ushered in a new year.

As a farming season, the spring of Daxia is undoubtedly busy.

Even Xia Qi, as the emperor, is no exception to this point.

On the desk, a large number of documents and reports can almost pile up into a mountain.

Fortunately, Xia Qi had a lot of secretaries, otherwise, the workload would have exhausted him to death.

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Luronce.

After the Snow Werewolf and Snow Fox people surrendered, Xia Qi temporarily arranged them in Lulongsai, planning to build a new tribal camp for them when the time came.

As a result, there were too many internal projects in Daxia, so it was delayed until now.

In this regard, the two orc tribes did not complain. After all, Lulongsai was much safer than the cold and icy land outside.

At the same time, the explorer camp in the Bitter Cold Land, which had been abandoned for a long time, welcomed a group of uninvited guests.

"Bang!"

The long-dusted door was pushed open by a strong hand, and a bear man walked in from the outside.

Although the size of the bear-man was not as large as that of the bear-men leader Baker, he was still a head taller than the average bear-man.

Looking at the empty camp, the bear man who walked in frowned.

"What's going on? The fox tribe you mentioned before has disappeared, and there is no one here to pick us up at all!"

Faced with this question, the bear man who followed him couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.

"Lord Locke, I don't know about this. When I left, Lord Bey said that he would leave a few tribesmen here to support us."

Obviously, the bear men who appeared in the explorer camp at this time were the reinforcements sent by Beira.

They rushed back from the outskirts of the Bitter Cold Land to the depths of the Bitter Cold Land, and then rushed to the outskirts with reinforcements. During this period, they lost their way several times, resulting in them not arriving until now.

If this kind of support efficiency occurred in a human war, the frontline troops would probably be in decline.

However, the Ursines have always been confident in their own strength, so no one thought about it in that direction. But now faced with this situation, Locke had to express doubts.

"So, do you think the idiot forgot about it, or is it already dead?"

Faced with these remarks, the bear man following behind visibly shrank his neck.

After all, Bey is the younger brother of the great chief. Perhaps only Locke, who was standing in front of him, dared to say such words, but the bear man following behind did not dare to answer at all.

Even the fifty bear men who came here for support this time looked at each other with expressions of confusion.

Locke obviously had no interest in standing here and blowing the cold wind, so he spoke again quite simply: "Let's go and see the human camp you mentioned."

While speaking, Locke led a group of bearmen directly out of the explorer camp and rushed in the direction of Luronce.

However, what they did not notice was that almost at the same time as their front feet left, several snow-white figures on the frozen soil on both sides also quickly left that area.

There is no doubt that they are the scouts of the Snow Fox Clan.

The fox scouts who are familiar with the terrain are obviously more efficient than the bears. Before Locke and the bears rushed to the entrance of the canyon, they returned to Luronce and reported to the white wolf about the explorer camp.

side situation.

When Bai Lang heard this, he had two eyebrows and one eyebrow, but he was not too solemn.

According to the reports of the fox scouts, there were only forty or fifty bears. It was completely impossible for this number of bears to threaten Lulongsai, which had already strengthened its defenses.

But it is not good to relax too much. Thinking of this, White Wolf immediately sent out two more teams of fox scouts, asking them to keep an eye on every move of the group of bear men.

He had been away for too long, so he obviously didn't remember this road very clearly.

After several days of hard work, the bear man who was responsible for leading the way finally breathed a sigh of relief after finally finding the familiar entrance to the canyon.

"It's just ahead. After passing through the canyon, the camp is at the end."

Locke responded expressionlessly, then raised his chin at the bear man and said, "Go in and take a look first."

The bear man's expression froze when he heard this.

Although no one of them dared to talk to Locke before when he doubted whether Bey was dead, but now at this juncture, the bear man who was responsible for leading the way was also a little panicked.

As one of the bears who launched the attack on this canyon, he knew how dangerous this canyon was.

just in case......

Bey is really dead, and this canyon has fallen into the hands of the enemy again. If he goes in now, isn't he seeking death?

After all, his own life was at stake, so the bear man lingered for a long time and still did not have the courage to enter the canyon.

Looking at the bear man who had been lingering for a long time without moving a few steps, Locke probably knew what the other person was thinking.

However, the Bear Tribe is not a large tribe after all, so it would not be good to lose a member of the Tribe because of this matter.

Thinking of this, Locke took two steps forward, then took a deep breath and let out a loud roar.
To be continued...