The city lord took advantage of the opportunity to eat and inquired: "The officials are on guard day and night, can they be warned?"

Zheng Anping said: "Before the millet returns to the warehouse, there will be thieves, so we have to take precautions." Without waiting for the city lord to ask again, he directly asked the city lord: "During the harvest in previous years, were there any thieves? How to prevent them?"

The city lord said: "Thieves have always been there every year, how can we stop them? It's just money and food. I haven't seen any thieves this year. I'm lucky. I can really count on the power of the doctor!"

Zheng Anping said: "Have you been asking for bribes for three years?"

The city lord said: "We often ask for them, countless of them every year."

Zheng Anping said: "Two to two points each ask for one ride, is that okay?"

The city lord said: "We have asked for a number of requests, but we don't know when." Then he asked: "Is the three pigs also asking for the doctor?"

Zheng Anping answered truthfully: "Two to two cents each will get one multiplier, which will cover a hundred stones per year."

The city lord said: "If you dare to ask the doctor for three pigs, you are extremely foolish. However, if you only ask for a hundred stones, you know it."

Zheng Anping asked: "How much did the pigs ask for three times in the past years?"

The city lord said: "I haven't counted the number, but it is far more than a hundred stones. Or even a hundred and fifty stones...?"

Zheng Anping said: "The city lord once said that the city may have been attacked by hundreds of thieves. I would like to hear the details!"

The city lord recalled: "This is the past year! When we were young and young, we were very energetic, and we were on par with the thieves. On the night of Shuo, hundreds of thieves surrounded the city. There were many dark shadows, shouts and shouts.

The huge tree crashed into the door. The young and old were frightened, so they sent the common people out of the city to seek peace. The common people were humiliated, so they were able to persuade the thieves to turn around. The next day, three hogs were used as the center to make peace with the thieves. After that, the food of the city was

They are all more than three pigs." He said this with a sigh of relief.

After listening to the city lord's explanation, Zheng Anping felt a little confident. In fact, these thieves did not actually attack the city, but only used to scare them. For the sake of safety, Zheng Anping asked again: "Can they invade again in the future?"

The city lord said: "One invasion is enough! If we succeed again, our fate will be terrible!" In other words, from the time when the city lord just took over and was young, until now, there has never been a group of thieves attacking the city. Zheng Anping has

Some courage!

Zou San only asked for a hundred stones a year, and on a regular basis, only five or six people survived; even if he only received half the amount, there were only a dozen people, and they lacked food and clothing, so it was difficult to say how effective they were in combat. He had been trained and had soldiers in armor.

The four warriors, who are perfect and well fed, should have no problem facing this group of thieves.

However, Zheng Anping did not want to omit the hundred kilo of food. After all, if a person is hungry, he has to work hard; if he gives him something to eat, he will be a little soft-mouthed and soft-handed, or it may not be a resistance, but a help.

After the meal, the four of them discussed it, and they generally agreed on this. It’s just that there is a house on the other side of the abandoned city. If it is known to thieves, it will become a weak point and can be manipulated. Everyone still thinks that it is better to move there as soon as possible. After all, the four of them

In another city, if we really fight, we can be more free than in the middle of a group of old and weak. The ruins of the ruins in the city make it difficult for large groups to fight, but fighting alone can become a good barrier to hide ourselves and eliminate the enemy. Everyone decided,

I will move things to the abandoned city tomorrow before Cao Bao comes back.

They borrowed a car from the city lord and transported five carts of grain to the abandoned city the next day - of course they didn't have that much leftover grain, but due to the abundance of grain shipped from Huayang, most of it was left inside and outside the city.

, the four of them also transported less than half.--In this way, everyone can roughly not transport food from home this year. The sixth cart contains everyone's belongings, including four livestock; they also asked the city lord for a set of tableware.

A large basket of fish meat sent by Guan Zhongming was also shipped.

Due to the critical situation, the four of them decided not to separate for the time being. They did not live in any of the four official residences, but in the inn, so that they did not have to disturb each other and could cope with each other if necessary.

The grain that had been transported was unloaded in the warehouse, and everyone cleaned out a post house and took the straw that they had placed in Zheng Anping's house yesterday back to their own houses.

After the last cart was delivered, it was already afternoon. Zheng Anping said to the city lord: "The city lord knows where we live. If there is something going on in the city, we will move when we hear the bells and drums. If there is a policeman in my city, we will raise a fire as a signal.

, I hope the city lord will help me!" The city lord agreed wholeheartedly. Zheng Anping felt that the city lord seemed to have relieved a huge burden...

After the city lord left, the four people discussed that there would be twelve hours a day, and each person would be on duty for one hour. They took a closer look and found a commanding height in the city where they could observe the surrounding movements through the broken city wall. They decided to set up the establishment here.

sentry.

Wuwang is very happy because the cattle and sheep can eat grass without even leaving the house. The dog is a little more troublesome, so he usually gives it some millet porridge to drink; if he wants to eat meat, he probably has to wait until he grows up and can go hunting.

Just fine.

Xiaosi went out to patrol, and the remaining people gathered firewood and started cooking porridge. The puppies and chickens smelled the fragrance and gathered around them. Wuwang and Wuer also came over. At this moment, everyone gave birth to a family.

thoughts.

After dinner, Zheng Anping went out to eat for Xiao Si.

This highland should be the former site of a drum tower. It was built with earth on a high platform. It is about two feet high. There are faint traces of steps on one side, but it is no longer usable. Because the earth on the platform was not compacted, it was covered with weeds.

The top area is not large, but it is enough for one person to lie down on his back. It is just steep and the steps are damaged, so be careful when going up and down.

The so-called fully armed means wearing at least three layers of leather armor, carrying a crossbow on the waist, a bag of arrows (one hundred), and holding a halberd in the hand. The full set of equipment is about thirty kilograms. Climbing such a place while fully armed

Buildings are very dangerous, so everyone decided to dress lightly when on sentry duty, wearing only a layer of armor, no halberds, only crossbows, and only ten arrows.

Zheng Anping didn't feel comfortable climbing the platform with his halberd. He regretted a little. Why didn't he think of letting them repair this high platform with so much effort in vain?

As soon as I climbed up, I had a panoramic view of the surrounding scenery. The sun had already sunk behind the Western Mountain, and there were still patches of sunset in the western sky. At the foot of the distant mountain, there were a few small settlements. In the southwest, there were two rivers with different widths, ranging from roughly the same

It flows parallel to the north, then splits at the edge of the city, and goes east around the south and north of the city respectively. After traveling for more than ten miles, the river in the south of the city suddenly turns north and merges with the river in the north of the city when it approaches the foot of the Great Wall.

Then it flows into the chasm. The river in the north of the city flows right outside the north city, forming a natural moat in the north of the city. There are few people on the other side of the river, and it is a wilderness. If there are more people in Guanyi, there will be no obstacles to development on the other side. The east of the city is surrounded by two

Surrounded by the river, the grassland in the middle of the river has basically been reduced to ashes and has been reclaimed into acres of fields - although only 400 acres have been cultivated, which is a very insignificant piece of land. Zheng Anping thought, for example, he might as well change the planting of each piece of land.

It is beneficial to maintain soil fertility and increase harvest.

Due to river barriers in the west and north of the city, it is very difficult to sneak in without any movement. To the east of the city is the Great Wall, which is surrounded by rivers. Everyone determined that the main warning direction is to the south, which is the only exposed aspect of the abandoned city and can be reached directly

Huayang. Next is the north, mainly because there is a wilderness on the other side of the river. If someone sneaks close, it is not easy to detect; if you sneak close to the city and enter the water, you will touch the city.

There is also a wasteland between the two rivers in the south of the city, but because there are people walking from time to time, the grass is lower than in the north, and there are more obvious paths. Looking far into the distance, you can vaguely see Nanguan, where the city wall has not yet been repaired.

, especially the city gate. This is a arduous task that may take a year, which is very different from building a temporary parapet. Opposite Nanguan is the hometown of Brother Ma San, Mayi, which cannot be accessed from the city but only vaguely.

See the edge of the field - that is also the boundary of Huayang City.

If what the city lord said is reliable, the Han soldiers in Huayang are not allowed to leave the boundary of Huayang, just like the Wei soldiers at the Great Wall are not allowed to leave the Great Wall. So what happened to the Han soldiers who appeared yesterday? Is it an accident or a series of troubles?

The beginning of?

As soon as Cao Bao discovered the Han soldiers, he immediately stepped up his guard and immediately got up to go to Daliang. Did he know something?

It is completely impossible for a hundred households in Guanyi to support a fifty-mile fiefdom. If Guanyi people only reproduce naturally, it will take more than a hundred years under the best circumstances. Only immigrants can quickly multiply Guanyi.

Where can we find so many immigrants?...

In the afterglow of the setting sun, Zheng Anping was observing the activities around him and thinking wildly. There was really nothing around him. People in Guanyi basically did not go out of the city for three miles and could not reach the river at all. Only the hares who escaped occasionally

Passing through the grassland, in the sky, there were waves of crows chirping, announcing the end of the day. When the stars were dotted in the sky, Brother Su came to take over. The two simply said, "Nothing happened."

When the rooster crowed for the first time, Zheng Anping came out to take over again. The waiter simply said "nothing" and walked off the stage along the steps.

It was pitch dark all around, and he could only barely see the surrounding grasslands through the starlight. Zheng Anping simply sat down, calmed down, and listened carefully to the movements around him. Some thoughts kept popping up in his mind, and it was not up to him. Since he gave up,

Unable to give up, Zheng Anping simply stopped controlling and followed his thoughts. His ears seemed to be sharper and he could hear subtler sounds. He just sat like this, ushering in the darkness before dawn. Brother Su came to take over...

After dawn, everyone had eaten, and it was time for Zheng Anping to go to work again. Suddenly Xiao Si appeared and said: "Someone is coming from the east." Everyone hurried out and found that it was Cao Bao. Now the five of them gathered together and returned together.

At the inn, Zheng Anping was about to stand guard, and Cao Bao said: "It's not necessary. Although the situation is urgent, there are only five of us. If we are on guard with all our strength, we will be exhausted before we encounter the enemy. We should rest and recuperate."

He rejected the necessity of sentry duty. Zheng Anping could not refute it. After all, after spending most of yesterday's sentry duty, he was indeed physically and mentally exhausted.

But Zheng Anping was worried and asked: "What will happen if a thief suddenly arrives?"

Cao Bao said: "If thieves come, they must go to the south. During the day, livestock can be kept in the south, so they can take care of both. At night...there are many houses in the city, and they change their residences every three or five nights, making them ignorant and they will not be able to attack!"
Chapter completed!