Li Jing didn't know what Zhang Yi was doing. At this time, Quan thought that Zhang Yi was helping him with the prisoner's affairs, so he quickly said: "Report to Your Majesty, Zhang Mujian will handle the Turkic prisoner's affairs in the rear, and it should take some time before he can come back."

"Dispose the prisoners?" Li Er had some questions in his heart, but at this time, he could continue to ask in front of so many people.

Zhang Yi has to work hard, what do those prisoners do? Killing those prisoners is the most convenient way to save money, people and labor.

You should know that Zhang Yi has not yet washed away the suspicion of Taiping's skills. A large number of people including Changsun still believe that Taiping's skills is about Zhang Yi, including Li Er himself, who also think that this is possible.

Now that Zhang Yi dares not return to Chang'an, his suspicion is obviously even greater!

The next procedure did not last long, because the person he wanted to see most did not appear, so Li Er was a little absent-minded, besides the young generals like Cheng Chumo, he comforted Tang Jian and his son who were ignored by Li Jing.

As soon as the matter ended, Li Er had a dark face and asked Tingfeng to investigate Zhang Yi's affairs immediately. Although he had always sent someone to monitor Zhang Yi, Zhang Yi could also detect it, so he would basically not show any flaws to him.

This time he asked Tingfeng to come over in person, and it is necessary to find out what Zhang Yi wants to do!

Zhang Yi, thousands of miles away, did not know that Li Er, who was in Chang'an, would be worried about him and would be afraid of such things. He has now brought a group of prisoners to open up wasteland and reclaim the land with Yue Shiyi and others.

If the border is to be stable, then the Tunbao system must be developed. Now the Tang Dynasty does not have so many people for him to use, so he can only use these prisoners to do these things.

If these prisoners can finish the most difficult early work, then the Tang army that came to garrison would not have to spend so much manpower and material resources to start from scratch, and they could enjoy the fruits.

And now the biggest wish of these prisoners is to survive.

Because Zhang Yi did a lot of plays in the early stage, it can even be said to be a fake play, killing a group of prisoners, letting these prisoners know that the person who cares about them now is a person with means, and they dare not act rashly.

Moreover, Zhang Yi often hungry these guys on the grounds of lack of food for a few days. Now he has just given these prisoners a full meal, so that they can know that only by working hard and working diligently with his own hands can he have a full meal.

In fact, Zhang Yi is not short of food now, and Shuofang City is not short of food either. But only by doing this can he control these prisoners and make them willingly work for themselves.

Now Zhang Yi has shown that this effect is very good. The prisoners who have been hungry for a few days do not say they have no strength to work. On the contrary, they know the taste of hunger. At this time, even if they just make a promise to eat a full meal, they will spare no effort to implement it.

After completing the task, they will be grateful to themselves after giving them a full meal. And they know that doing this will make them full meal, so few people will resist Zhang Yi's method.

In fact, this is how people are. Whether they are Turkic or Tang people, this is a common feature of people. Often, when you are kind to you, you don’t know how to cherish and will not treat them well. Once the other party loses patience, you will be worried. When the other party is occasionally kind to you, even if it is false, you will feel very satisfied.

Seeing the hundreds of Turkic prisoners in front of him busy reclamation of the land, Zhang Yi smiled happily.

There are dozens of places like this, each of which is a fortress of the Tang army. If you continue to build it according to this method, then there will be a fortress connected to the northwest border.

These dozens of fortresses were just the first batch he made, and it was the first step in the fortress system.

Don’t underestimate these dozens of fortresses, dozens of fortresses can station thousands of Tang troops, and they can also have independent supply capabilities. Even if they want to block 100,000 cavalry, it is not a big problem!

Especially Zhang Yi thought that if he brought the cement here and asked them to use cement to build fortresses, the grassland cavalry would suffer from it in the future, and they would almost never be able to break the fortresses built with cement.

As long as the Tang army was in it, they could only be surrounded by them at most, and the self-sufficient Tang army was not afraid of the siege of the Turks. Even if it was food, the Turks were left far away by them.

"The movements are a little tiring. I didn't have lunch at noon. I'm halved for dinner today. There are additional rewards for completing the task."

A Tang soldier shouted loudly on the newly built fortress, and the Turks below worked even more after hearing this.

They just want to have a good meal now!

Zhang Yi nodded with satisfaction, then rode a war horse and started walking towards the next fortress. Now every fortress is working very hard, but Zhang Yi also knew that he had to patrol. Not to mention anything else, he had to do it well just to prevent rebellion.

As long as this period of land reclamation has passed, and when the spring sowing is done, he can cultivate the land in these fortresses in batches.

At that time, there would be no need for so many prisoners. These Turkic prisoners who had been changed by his merchant model could be transported to the Central Plains or Chang'an to work for people. Shuofang only needed to leave a certain number of Turkic prisoners to continue working.

Apart from the land reclamation period, there will not be so many work to do so, so the number of prisoners left at that time must not be more than the Tang soldiers responsible for guarding the city, otherwise safety hazards will be easily arise.

Zhang Yi led Yue Shiyi, Lao Zhong and others to go back and forth every day to patrol these Turkic people. They used these Turkic prisoners to bring great wealth to the Tang Dynasty.

But His Majesty Li Er didn't realize this at this moment, or in other words, Tingfeng didn't realize this yet, and he had not had time to report to Chang'an City.

To be honest, when he first saw Shuofang City building so many connected fortresses towards the grassland, his heart was full of shock.

With these fortresses, what are the Turks there? Even if they come to have 100,000 string control men, they can't break these fortresses at all.

These fortresses can not only be used to deal with the Turks, but if the guards responsible for guarding here have different intentions, it will be difficult to deal with Chang'an.

This is a double-edged sword, and it depends on who His Majesty Li Er gives it to.
Chapter completed!