After enjoying the beauty's warm wine and rubbing his shoulders, Li Xuancai put on a thick cotton-padded jacket and went out with a look of reluctance.
As the 'eternal sage' in Liu Bagou's words, Li Xuan naturally cannot be lazy. Today he has a rather special schedule, which is to visit the Jiguan Mountain prisoners who were escorted back some time ago.
No, they can no longer be said to be prisoners. They are now citizens of the Tang Dynasty.
Because these people had just arrived, and the temperature had dropped sharply in the past few days, Li Xuan was a little worried about people freezing to death in the face of this situation, so he frequently asked about their situation in the past two days.
It didn't take long for him, accompanied by Liu Bagou and others, to a row of simple wooden houses at the foot of Huangzhu Mountain.
Speaking of these simple wooden houses, they were temporary wooden houses built when they first evacuated to Huangzhushan in the summer. After settling down, everyone in Huangzhushan built solid wooden houses one after another and moved in, so these simple wooden houses were empty
came out.
The last time someone lived there was when Shuilong Village had just been recaptured. The people in Shuilong Village temporarily lived in these simple wooden houses until they moved out after their own houses were built.
The prisoners of the Ming Army were originally planned to be placed here, but in order to facilitate management at that time, they were concentrated in the prison camp converted from the cowshed. During this period, as the weather cooled down, Bai Yunqi had already let the prisoners of the Ming Army
After strengthening and thickening it myself, the prisoner camp today is no longer crude, but more like a military camp.
After being vacant for several months, these simple wooden houses finally welcomed their new owners: the people of Jiguanshan.
When Li Xuan arrived with his people, everyone was busy, whether they were elderly people, women, or even children.
They are expanding and strengthening these simple houses, otherwise these simple houses will not be able to allow them to survive this winter.
On the other side, more people are building new wooden houses. These newly built wooden houses are prepared for the new prisoners in Black Tiger Village and Huanggui Mountain.
Yesterday, the latest batch of messengers returned to Huangzhu Mountain and brought back the latest information from Fang Dongquan and the others, saying that they had defeated the Black Tiger Village and the coalition forces in Huang Guishan, and were now heading to the Black Tiger Village.
Due to the inconvenience of communication, it also takes time for messengers to come and go, so the news received by Huang Zhushan was delayed for several days.
Li Xuan and the others still don't know that the people in Black Tiger Village who escaped have been stopped, and they all surrendered when there was no hope of escape.
But even if they don't know the follow-up news, Li Xuan and Liu Bagou feel that since Fang Dongquan and the others have defeated the coalition forces of Black Tiger Village and Huang Guishan, it is unlikely that anything will happen if they take over Black Tiger Village and Huang Guishan later.
Problem.
Therefore, it can be expected that it won't take long for Fang Dongquan and the others to return to Huangzhu Mountain with a large number of prisoners.
And these prisoners are precious resources of the Tang Dynasty, and we cannot let a few of them freeze to death in the winter.
So Liu Bagou and the others had already mobilized everyone in Huangzhu Mountain to start building houses two days ago. It was impossible to say how good these temporary houses were, but at least they could give the captives a place to stay.
land.
Seeing hundreds of people working together, there were not even many young people among them, most of them were old, weak, women and children. Seeing them working and sweating in the middle of winter, Li Xuan couldn't help but sigh, his Tang Dynasty was also
It's not without merit.
At least there were no common people in the Tang Dynasty!
Because all the people in the Tang Dynasty were bandits and their families, to a certain extent, these old, weak, women and children in front of them were also members of the bandits.
Therefore, when doing some collective projects, there is no need to talk nonsense at all, just give one sentence and everyone will go out.
This is true for the land reclamation that has been going on for a long time, and it is also true for the current housing construction.
This situation caused Li Xuan to inexplicably call out the 'Great Battle' of later generations. The scene in front of him was completely the Tang Dynasty version of the Great Battle!
"Now there are so many of us building wooden houses together, and these wooden houses are very simple and fast to build. It is estimated that within a few days, we will be able to build enough houses to accommodate everyone in Black Tiger Village and Huanggui Mountain!" Liu Bagou pointed.
Some newly built wooden houses in front said: "Although these houses are a little bad, it shouldn't be a problem if we let them stay for ten days and a half first!"
Li Xuan nodded and said: "Although the house is ready, don't let it fall behind in other aspects. We want those people to know that there are benefits to surrendering to us, and they don't have to starve or freeze!"
Liu Bago said seriously at this time: "Your Majesty, don't worry, I have already started making relevant preparations when General Fang and others set out for the expedition, and there will definitely be no delay!"
Hearing what Liu Bagou said, Li Xuan felt relieved. Although Liu Bagou sometimes seemed to be a fool for studying, he was still very good at handling these chores.
In the past half year, he was able to lead Huang Wenhua, Qian Mengjiu and the others to handle many civil affairs affairs in Huangzhushan, whether it was major matters such as land reclamation and farming or other trivial matters.
This time, Li Xuan believed that Liu Bagou would not mess up either.
In fact, Liu Bagou was the one who paid the most attention to the captives of the three bandits in Jiguanshan, Huangguishan and Heihuzhai. He even paid more attention to these captive populations than Li Xuan.
Unlike Fang Dongquan and the others who only knew about fighting and cared more about the victory of the war, Liu Bagou cared more about the growth of the population of the Tang Dynasty. Before Fang Dongquan and the others set off for the expedition, Liu Bagou repeatedly told them to bring as many people as possible with them.
When the prisoners come back, don't kill them too harshly.
This matter was originally promoted by Liu Bagou, and the relevant preparations and arrangements had been made, and they were just waiting for Fang Dongquan and the others to come back with the prisoners.
Fang Dongquan and the others did not disappoint Liu Bagou. Three days later, another messenger returned to Huangzhu Mountain and reported the latest progress.
The messenger said that the army had successfully captured all the men and horses in Black Tiger Village, including their families. The old and weak women and children in Black Tiger Village were already being escorted back to Huangzhu Mountain.
However, just like the last attack on Jiguan Mountain, the nearly one hundred young men from Black Tiger Village were not escorted back. Instead, they were incorporated into Fang Dongquan and others, and then took them with them to Huanggui Mountain.
Hearing that Fang Dongquan and the others once again intercepted the young men, Li Xuan was no longer angry, because he also figured out that he couldn't take back those young men anyway. If he was angry with them, he might as well let them go.
Bai Yunqi has trained the rear army well, and he has also trained the Guards well.
However, although Li Xuan was no longer angry, it did not mean that he did not take action. He immediately wrote a handwritten imperial edict, appointing Cai Erhu, who had just surrendered, as the General of Zhenxi, commanding the Zhenxi Army. The soldiers of Zhenxi were young and strong from the original Black Tiger Village.