From late lunar month to early February, Li He led his strange troops and Mo family disciples to the west to investigate the landform of the Western Loess Plateau, and advanced tens of miles straight to the northwest, but he was far from seeing the end of this loess plateau.

It can be seen that this seemingly barren loess plateau is far beyond everyone's imagination.

Originally, everyone wanted to take the risk to go deeper, but the broken sheepskin coat gave Li He aside. After all, Shaoliang is still very weak at present. If there is indeed a Lin Hu living in front of him, and the other party discovered his whereabouts and attacked him along the route, whether his Shaoliang could block it or not, it would at least seriously affect the development of his Shaoliang.

Therefore, Li He decided to return on the same road. Anyway, with his current national strength, it would be great to develop on this loess plateau for dozens of miles. There is no need to continue to go deeper. When his national strength in Shaoliang becomes stronger in the future, it will not be too late to continue to survey in depth.

So Li He ordered the surprise troops to eliminate the traces of their arrival and return with all the Mo family disciples.

If we came mainly to investigate the terrain and landforms of this area, then on the way back, we mainly look for various minerals.

But unfortunately, even in early February, the snow on this loess plateau showed no sign of melting for the time being, greatly increasing the difficulty for everyone to explore the ore veins. What made Li He feel particularly regretful was that he failed to find limestone.

Fortunately, this does not affect the construction of Shaoliang in the next stage. After all, the water conservancy project that Shaoliang needs to vigorously develop in the next stage is mainly mainly for the consumption of bricks and stones. The main material for firing bricks and stones is clay. Shaoliang is full of hills made of loess accumulation everywhere, and the loess contains a considerable proportion of clay. It is no exaggeration to say that the clay reserves in Shaoliang, especially the western loess plateau, may not be consumed even if the bricks burned for hundreds of years are burned.

This means that Shaoliang doesn't have to worry about clay at all.

In early February, just as Li He and his group returned to Old Liang, the Qin army began to evacuate from Shaoliang on a large scale. They built many carts and took away the bodies. Conservatively, it would take at least ten days.

As for the camps built by the Qin army, whether it was the two camps of Gongsun Zhuang army, Miao Lin army, or the camps established by the Qin army on the Zhichuan Plain, after Shaoliang sent Wang Xiao to negotiate with Ying Qian, Ying Qian was very generous.

At the same time, several Wei generals including Zheng Hou, Hua Jia were also preparing to lead the remaining Yuanli Wei soldiers to return to the State of Wei.

The Wei army in Yuanli under Xia Yangjun had a total of more than 7,000 soldiers, but now there are only more than 1,000 people left. The casualties ratio is scary, and even they may not be able to explain why they still had the courage and fighting spirit at that time, and continued to fight with Shaoliang's army to continue to resist the Qin State.

Maybe it was because of Liang Ji's singing? Maybe it was because of Li He's encouragement?

No one can tell.

On the day when the Wei army was about to evacuate, Li He and tens of thousands of subjects in the old Liang city saw him off. The scene and the specifications were astonishing.

Not to mention that the Prime Minister of Wei, Sun Yan, did not have such treatment, even the King of Qin did not.

More importantly, it was not Li He who gave farewell to this Wei army, but was spontaneously caused by the old Liang army and civilians.

This touched the Wei army about 500 people.

Why are there only five hundred people? Isn’t it said that there are more than a thousand people left?

Yes, there were indeed more than a thousand remaining Wei troops in Yuanli, but some of them were seriously injured and difficult to move, and even lost their hands and feet and became disabled, unable to return to Wei State with the army; some decided to stay in Shaoliang because they had no relatives at home.

There were only about 500 people who followed Zheng Hou, Hua Jia and others to return to Wei State.

"Those people left... please."

Before leaving, Marquis Zheng and Li He shook hands.

Li He nodded and said solemnly: "Don't worry, those who are willing to stay, I, Shaoliang, will treat them like my brothers, and will not change because of my Shaoliang's relationship with the State of Wei. As I said before, they are the same as Shaoliang people..."

"I believe." Zheng Hou nodded and then said melancholy: "I hope we don't meet each other on the battlefield in the future..."

Jia Jia from the side smiled bitterly and said, "If it really comes to that time, can the Shaoliang Qibing be proud and save our lives?"

The surprise soldiers who were sending him off to the side laughed, and the hundred generals Hou Yun even laughed and said, "As long as you throw down your weapons and shout 'I am the Dongliang soldiers', my surprise soldiers will be captured and not killed."

As soon as he finished speaking, a hundred generals from the Wei army in Yuanli shouted: "This is what you said, don't turn your back on others then."

The Shaoliang military and civilians were laughing, and hundreds of Yuanli Wei soldiers laughed, which made Qin envoys standing beside Li He feel quite incredible. After all, the relationship between Shaoliang and Wei State is very tense, and it is hard to imagine that the soldiers of the two countries can still be so harmonious.

"Take care of yourself!"

"Take care of yourself!"

He held his palm solemnly. Zheng Hou and Hua Jia and several generals took the hundreds of Yuanli Wei soldiers and embarked on the road to return to Wei State with complex mood.

Given that the Herong Kingdom had been completely occupied by the Qin army, they would go to Fanpang and return to Hedong by boat. Fanpang's doctor Sima Zhuo would send troops to protect them along the way so that the Qin army would have any ideas about this Wei army.

The Qin and Wei troops were all preparing to leave one after another, and the weather gradually warmed up, and Shaoliang's post-war reconstruction was also put on the agenda.

Starting from February 13, some Shaoliang people returned to Zhiyang, Dongliang, Fanpang Sancheng, Zhiyang doctor Zhai Hu, Dongliang doctor Fan Hu, Fanpang doctor Sima Zhuo, Fanpang doctor Sima Zhuo, and the three people were responsible for settling these people and helping them rebuild their houses. Then they should prepare for the spring plowing of that year.

Compared with several cities, the old beam has the heaviest task. After all, the old beam is still responsible for managing the river. Because of this, the only 20,000 troops left in Shaoliang are mainly in Shaoliang.

By the way, the remaining 20,000 troops in Shaoliang have been officially organized into the "Dongliang Army". The commander was Zhai Hu. The four generals under his command were Wei Zhu, Wu Kang, Zhang Ben and Du Liang. Before the spring plowing ended, the fourth battalion army would stay in the old Liang to assist Li He in the early construction, such as digging loess and burning bricks and stones. Until the day of spring plowing comes, the three branches of the fourth battalion army will go to Zhiyang, Dongliang, and Fanpang to assist the local spring plowing.

On February 15, the mighty "Qingshui Project" was officially launched. Tens of thousands of Liang soldiers and civilians rushed out of the city. Some were responsible for cutting down trees, some were responsible for digging loess, and some were responsible for widening the Weishui River. Everyone was very motivated.

During this period, the Qin State envoy was responsible for leading everyone to dig loess.

He was surprised to see that on the side of their homework, a Mohist disciple erected a wooden sign with eight words written on it: Together with one mind, build a country and country.

Is Shaoliang people literate?

Of course it is impossible, but this does not prevent someone from handing over this slogan to the military and civilians of Shaoliang.

Seeing the thousands and tens of thousands of young Liang shouting the slogan "One and the bottom are united, build a home", I was no longer surprised that the 200,000 Qin army failed to capture this small country with a population of only tens of thousands.

What shocked him even more was that Liang Ji and Dong Liang Jun also came to the construction site.

Unlike the clothes he had when Dongliangjun met with him to welcome Prince Qin a few days ago, Liang Ji is still wearing her small leather armor today. Her arrival made tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians here cheer. The cheers were overwhelming and shocking, and his ears hurt.

He stepped forward to greet Liang Ji and Dong Liang Jun, and asked in confusion: "Are Shao Jun and Dong Liang Jun here to inspect?"

When Dong Liangjun smiled but didn't say anything, Liang Ji shook her head and said, "I came today to participate in the construction of my Shaoliang."

While speaking, her eyes found Li He who was not far away, and ran to Li He all the way: "Li He, I'm here."

Li He nodded in praise and said with a smile: "It will be very hard."

"I'm not afraid." Liang Ji said seriously.

Seeing this, Li He handed the shovel in his hand to Liang Ji.

Liang Ji took the shovel that was almost as tall as hers and used it to shovel the soil with difficulty and clumsy.

Although her movements are clumsy and inefficient, who cares?

Do those Shaoliang people who were cheering loudly care? Or do the Mo family disciples who looked at each other from the side and respected Liang Ji care?

"The top and bottom work together to build Shaoliang!"

Li Ying saw the opportunity and shouted loudly, then thousands or tens of thousands of Liang soldiers and civilians cheered in unison, shaking the Qin envoys to travel and cover their ears.

"Dong Liangjun, this..."

He looked at Dong Liangjun in disbelief, unable to imagine that Liang Ji, as the monarch of Shao Liang, came together to participate in the construction of the old Liang.

Just as he was stunned, he suddenly saw Dong Liangjun taking a hoe from his entourage and taking everyone to dig the soil.

“…”

The entertainment game opened its mouth, not knowing what to say.

Although he also knew that Shao Liang had issued a new law a while ago and decided to use the Mohist theories to govern Shao Liang, this...is a sacrifice too great?

But looking at the Shaoliang military and civilians around him who were inspired by the actions of Liang Ji and Dong Liangjun, he also realized that Shaoliang's decision was not only not stupid, but also very wise.

The art of war says that those who want to win at the same level will win, but in fact, everything is the same. Just like today's Shaoliang, from Liang Ji to Dongliang Jun, to the military and civilians of the whole country, they all work together to build the country. How could the reconstruction of Shaoliang not be realized?

Suddenly, I was a little envious of Shaoliang.

He knew that because Shaoliang was a small country with few people and few nobles, some government orders could be implemented, but Qin State could not do so. Just like the reforms implemented by Wei Yang in the past few years, they have been resisted by nobles such as Gan and Du. Even the Qin King's brother Ying Qian actually resisted the new law.

In just three days, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Laoliang built several brick kilns on the north bank of Panshui on the northwest side of Shaoliang City. At the same time, the river channel was widened for several miles in the Qingshui River. The rapid movement made the entertainment industry amazed.

On the fourth day, Shaoliang people used fired bricks and stones to rebuilt a better brick kiln and demolished the old brick kiln.

On the fifth day, Shaoliang people burned tens of thousands of bricks in one day.

On the sixth day, Shaoliang people began to pave river embankments with bricks and stones, and with the rebuilding of brick kilns, the number of bricks fired on that day increased by half.

Before dusk that day, I stood by the banks of the Qingshui River and looked at the mountains of bricks and stones not far away, and I was very shocked.

If Shaoliang had not been too small to threaten him, Qin State, he would have told Liyang immediately that allowing Shaoliang to develop would be a huge mistake.

This small country...

Suddenly it made him feel a little dangerous.
Chapter completed!