After saying that, Li Mu turned around and returned to the Kucha Palace, with the smile on his face getting deeper and deeper.

Single business development is not enough, and Kucha still needs to develop industry. Of course, this means that under the premise that Kucha is already the surname "Tang", with self-produced and self-sufficiency industries and combined with prosperous business, Kucha Town will surely become a pearl of the Western Regions within three years.

With this "satellite city", hiring idle mercenaries in the Western Regions with huge funds can become a "strike tower" in Dingxiang City, and buy a lot of time for Dingxiang.

Only by taking economic, military and two-pronged approach can Kucha play its due role.

...

On the other hand, the Turks' retreat is in progress.

Tong'e is worthy of being the best figure in the Western Turks. She did not delay her work. She agreed to withdraw her troops and immediately withdrew her troops as agreed.

The movement of 150,000 people could not hide it at all. The people of Kucha climbed up the city wall and looked at the rolling smoke and dust away. The tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and many people collapsed directly, and cried and howling endlessly.

Li Mu was also on the city wall, Su Lie, Usman, and Moham were around him.

Moham was behind Li Mu, and he wanted to speak but stopped a few times. When Usman saw it, he said, "You just say nothing, the Marquis doesn't like to hide it."

Li Mu turned around and looked at him. Moham saluted and said, "Marty, please forgive Xiao Wang for being reckless... The Turkic people have not been damaged. Xiao Wang is really worried that they will make a comeback."

"Come back?" Li Mu smiled and said, "They didn't leave either?"

"Didn't leave?" Moham looked at the direction where the Turkic people retreated, thinking that it was something wrong with my eyes or the Marquis' head was wrong. Isn't this leaving?

"They continue to move eastward." Li Mu said lightly, his eyes looking eastward, his eyes full of deep worries.

Moham was even more confused. This was obviously a retreat to the west. Why did the Marquis say it was going east? Could it be that things were inverted in the Tang Dynasty?

Li Mu was too lazy to say too much to Moham, so he glanced at Su Lie and asked him to explain.

Su Lie nodded and said, "Tong'e is a man with a deep plan. Now he is blinded by our cannons. After seeing the lethality, he dares not use human lives to fill it. His slave soldiers have almost been exhausted, and he will be able to consume them any more. He is reluctant to leave them."

"So he chose to withdraw his troops, but he could see that there must be not many reinforcements. Otherwise, we would have fought out a long time ago. Moreover, our cannons are powerful weapons to defend the city, but if they leave the city and have no support, they are disadvantages in mobile warfare. As long as they get on the horse, they don't have to worry about cannons."

"There are still 150,000 troops in the Turks, and the main force has almost no loss. If they retreat at this time, they will get nothing, and they will be angry and resentful to the Western Regions, and their lives will not be easy. Therefore, the Marquis judged that they only had one way, that is, to continue to advance eastward. There were not many people in Kucha City and not many reinforcements. It is impossible to chase them out. If we chase them out, it would be even more intimate. Our few people, without cannons, are not enough for them to get stuck in their teeth."

"What should I do?" Moham's voice trembled and he asked, "Is Dingxiang's defenders enough? Will they be unable to resist... being broken into a city?"

"You think the Prince of Hejian is a stingy?" Li Mu said angrily: "The Prince of Hejian Li Xiaogong is a famous general of the world. With him, he only has 150,000 troops. Even if he is twice as many, it will be impossible to break through the city gate of Dingxiang in a short time!"

Moham breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You can rest assured that this little king is like this,"

Moham was indeed relieved. For Kucha, whether it is better than the Tang Dynasty or Kucha, it is not a good thing for him. But if both sides suffer losses, it is most in line with Kucha’s interests.

"You don't need to worry about the safety of Kucha City in the future." Li Mu suddenly said to Moham. He signaled to Usman and said, "This one is Usman, the commander of Kucha Zhechong. His Majesty has given his surname Li with grace. In the future, Li Siman will represent the Tang Dynasty and garrison a guard here to protect the safety of Kucha and the surrounding trade routes."

Moham was anxious: "Marty, the turtle [     www.biqugex.co] is confident that he can guard..."

"Hey!" Li Mu waved his hand and said, "Since you regard the Tang Dynasty as the sect leader, why are you still polite? Protecting the security of the vassal states is also one of the sect leader's responsibilities. You can rest assured that from now on, Kucha will be left sideways in the Western Regions. Whoever dares to attack Kucha will declare war on the Tang Dynasty!"

"No, Marquis, this cannot be like this..." Moham was still about to speak, Li Mu had already gone down the city tower, Su Lie and Usman stopped Moham, and they both smiled and said, "Congratulations, the court has spared no expense and stationed troops in Kucha. It is enough to show His Majesty's importance to you."

Moham stomped his feet in a hurry: "This, this is not the same thing!"

...

After a day of fundraising, the results were surprisingly impressive.

According to statistics from the civil servants, the merchants in Kucha City contributed a total of more than 60,000 stagnants of funds for the expansion and construction of the city. Of course, it is a bit less than the new city walls and markets, but it is already very good to have this amount in just one day.

The next day, more and more businessmen came to hear the news. No matter what, humans have a herd effect. As long as someone takes the lead, the people behind will follow the trend even if they can't figure it out. In the eyes of those who don't know the truth, so many people rush to donate money, which seems to be at a disadvantage, but there will definitely be benefits.

If you are clearly beneficial, you cannot fall behind even if you don’t understand it. Give the money first.

So the donation the next day reached more than 80,000 guan, which combined for about 150,000 guan.

Li Mu was overjoyed and immediately ordered that the new market start construction. The wall repair project of Kucha City was carried out together. Fortunately, there were food prepared by Moham in Kucha City. Moreover, a lot of people were dead in Kucha City at this time, so it took even longer for the time to save enough food to eat.

In order to defend the city and make category gunstones, Kucha City demolished many houses, and it was impossible to restore them. It happened to be used to build a market and a new product was used. As for the people, it was good that they could survive after the disaster. Even if they had no house, they would have no complaints as long as they had a bite.

But Li Mu was not that cruel after all. He mobilized the women who flocked into the city that day to make their own mud bricks. This is the native method of the people in the desert. Many houses in Kucha City are also built in this way.

There is a place nearby where the dunes are very sticky. As long as they are mixed with water, they are molded with molds. After the sun is exposed to the sun and then dried in the shade, mud bricks can be made. These mud bricks can be used to build houses. After several rains, mud bricks are integrated and the house is also very solid.

Of course, it is still incomparable to a house with wooden and stone structures, but it is already very good.

This is also another form of labor-for-relief. Otherwise, so many people would not work and eat free food, and sooner or later, they would be eaten. Psychologically, work also played a great role, with tasks every day and work every day, which greatly reduced their time to think about it. Gradually, the sound of crying in Kucha City became less and less. From day to night, it was a prosperous work scene.

Kucha suddenly became lively, with hundreds of merchants standing far away in the south of the city, gathering in one place, watching the scene of people on the construction site being enthusiastic. The merchants looked surprised and had more understanding of Li Mu's decisive behavior.

It is hard to explain why the merchants' trust in this young marquis from the Tang Dynasty gradually deepened, and they became more and more excited about the new market and the new warehouse.

Li Mu's fundraising is actually a trick of laying eggs by borrowing chickens and laying eggs. He makes money without paying a penny. He uses the merchant's own money to build a market. After the construction is completed, the merchant has to spend money to buy back the shops in the market one by one. The basis of all this is the golden signboard of the Tang Dynasty, the credibility established on the Silk Road, and the absolute control that Moham dares not resist him now.

If you can't decide and the promises you give cannot be fulfilled, how can the merchants be willing to pay? This is the first time dealing with you, and you must not let down the trust of merchants. This transaction must be done so that the merchants cannot find fault with each other, so that they will be conducive to the next development plan.

Li Mu expressed his satisfaction with the current development and everything was in his plan.

Standing in the open space in the south of the city and watching the left guards pushing the city walls in the distance, Li Mu chatted with the onlookers and drooled them with a big cake. At the same time, he did not forget to praise how prosperous Chang'an and Luoyang were. It was not embarrassing to attract investment?

As for Yangzhou, he did not mention it. It was too far away, and these businessmen were not the target customer group.

...

The Western Turks' "retreat" speed was very astonishing. In two days, they had retreated to the west for 300 miles. Here, they had already left the border of Kucha. Such a speed did not reach even when the army was launched in the east.

After escaping for 300 miles in one breath, the Turks were trapped and their speed slowed down. Seeing that it was dark, the nobles asked Tong'e, "Khan, we have been traveling for two days in a row. Can we go to the camp and rest? We can also gather the lower people." At the request of Tong'e, they only focused on retreating quickly. How could the 150,000 troops not be in chaos? The soldiers could not find generals, generals could not find soldiers, and the tribes were mixed together. Once there was something wrong, they could not command them at all.

"If it doesn't work, you have to do the whole show." Tong'e shook his head flatly and said, "If the Tang army attempted to explore the horse, my Khan's plan would not work! You know that people are trapped and horses are too scarce, the Tang army must also know that if they attacked us at night or chased us with something that could fly, the distance between these three hundred miles would be nothing!"

"The Khan is wise!" Who dared to refute Tong'e by the Turkic nobles? He immediately flattered: "Those Tang people are the most treacherous and like to do sneak attacks in the middle of the night!"

"It's a pity that we met Khan, their abacus was destined to fail!"

"Then when will we run to the end?" Someone also whispered to himself. The Turks also talked to him. If they lost and ran away, there would be nothing to say. But now, even though the main force was not damaged, they would flee in a hurry. Many young Turkic warriors naturally dissatisfied and resentful.

"It's retreat, not escape." Tong'e raised the whip in his hand angrily and pointed at the person who said this and said, "What do you young men know? Ben Khan's purpose is to make them believe that we are retreating west, but in fact!" He sneered and said, "We are not going west, we are going east!"

"Going east?" Everyone looked at each other, and Tong'e sneered, "Our goal is to take Dingxiang directly, it's just a big bend." Tong'e signaled the guard to take out a sheepskin roll. This is a map of the Western Regions, all measured by the Turks with horse hooves, and there are symbols that only the Turks could understand. He pointed with a horse whip and said, "Let's cross the Tam River, march along the north bank, and then cross the river to the south from 80 miles north of Dingxiang, and catch them off guard!"

"If it doesn't work, you have to do the whole show." Tong'e shook his head flatly and said, "If the Tang army attempted to explore the horse, my Khan's plan would not work! You know that people are trapped and horses are too scarce, the Tang army must also know that if they attacked us at night or chased us with something that could fly, the distance between these three hundred miles would be nothing!"

"The Khan is wise!" Who dared to refute Tong'e by the Turkic nobles? He immediately flattered: "Those Tang people are the most treacherous and like to do sneak attacks in the middle of the night!"

"It's a pity that we met Khan, their abacus was destined to fail!"

"Then when will we run to the end?" Someone also whispered to himself. The Turks also talked to him. If they lost and ran away, there would be nothing to say. But now, even though the main force was not damaged, they would flee in a hurry. Many young Turkic warriors naturally dissatisfied and resentful.

"It's retreat, not escape." Tong'e raised the whip in his hand angrily and pointed at the person who said this and said, "What do you young men know? Ben Khan's purpose is to make them believe that we are retreating west, but in fact!" He sneered and said, "We are not going west, we are going east!"

"Going east?" Everyone looked at each other, and Tong'e sneered, "Our goal is to take Dingxiang directly, it's just a big bend." Tong'e signaled the guard to take out a sheepskin roll. This is a map of the Western Regions, all measured by the Turks with horse hooves, and there are symbols that only the Turks could understand. He pointed with a horse whip and said, "Let's cross the Tam River, march along the north bank, and then cross the river south from 80 miles north of Dingxiang, and catch them off guard!" "If it doesn't work, you have to do a full set of shows." Tong'e shook his head flatly and said, "If the Tang army fails to explore horses, my Khan's plan will not work! You know that people are trapped, and the Tang army must also know that if they attack at night, or chase us with something that can fly, the distance between these three hundred miles will be nothing!"
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