Outside the window, the setting sun was as bloody.

It was this plan, which later historians called "hiding the ears" that successfully deceived Luo Beiren's intelligence system and allowed Luo Beiren's decision-making to make a wrong decision. This wrong decision gave Wufeng a whole year of respite, giving Wufeng the opportunity to successfully strengthen the strength of his army in this year and lay the foundation for the Second Northwest War. Ling Tianfang also began to show his strength in the East Continent's military with this deception plan. Some people in later generations said that if Luo Beiren boldly launched an attack on Qingyang and strangled Wufeng's power into the cradle, there might be no future glorious empire. But there was no history, and Li Wufeng won time and won victory.

Although the hot summer has passed, the immigration trend has continued to heat up slowly. Due to the good weather this year, most areas on the continent, except for some places, have good weather and harvests. The policy of exempting taxes from three years has made the new immigrants taste the sweetness of the harvest in Xiaochun. In addition, the publicity of those who are interested, on average, nearly a thousand immigrants flock to Qingyang Prefecture every day. Some poor nomadic herders moved to the northwest corner of Qingyang Prefecture to engage in grazing, which made Wufeng very excited. It seems that good policies can even transcend the nation to erase hatred, making it difficult for all those who yearn for a happy life to resist. Under the intentional adjustment of the Agricultural Administration and Water Resources Administration, the cultivated areas have gradually developed from the eastern and southern parts of Qingyang Prefecture to the north and western parts, and gradually become more reasonable.

With the influx of labor, the investment, business and property investment of merchants in other parts of the empire gradually tilted towards Qingyang. New workshops and shops opened in Qingyang Prefecture City. A small number of small workshops appeared in some larger market towns in the territory, and the entire Qingyang showed a vibrant scene.

After Wufeng's approval, the army recruited again and added each security division to about 18,000. The entire Qingyang Prefecture army has reached about 38,000. The military expansion plan has also been strongly criticized by government officials led by Xiao Tang. Xiao Tang pointed out that the total population of Qingyang Prefecture is less than 350,000, while the number of troops is close to 40,000. The ratio of soldiers to the people has reached a ratio of 1:9, which is simply unheard of. The expansion of the army is actually a disguised competition for labor with handicrafts, agriculture, and commerce. In the long run, this will definitely seriously affect the potential for Qingyang's economic development.

Wufeng specifically introduced the current severe situation to Xiao Tang and others, and promised that the number of troops would not be increased in the near future, which barely calmed the government's dissatisfaction. After all, the army also needed a lot of time to digest and absorb the recruits.

With the large number of immigrants entering, the required loan funds also increased exponentially. Wufeng's two funds obtained from the Central Committee of the Empire have become a bit stretched. Fortunately, in addition to Datong Money Bank and Wanfeng Money Bank, Jinling Money Bank, the second largest money bank in Jiangnan, also entered Qingyang to open a semicolon. Wufeng also successfully reached an agreement with the Jinling Money Bank on the matter of guaranteeing the acquisition of micro-loans by the government for new immigrants. In order to ensure the normal operation of the administrative agency, the Qingyang Finance Department stopped the direct loan of the Finance Department to immigrate. Fortunately, three financial institutions were enough to cope with the normal needs of immigrants.

As September comes, the harvest is in sight. Looking at the golden fields, no one will feel happy. But Wufeng's heart is heavy. Although there is no sign that Luo Beiren will invade Qingyang at present, there are also information that Luo Beiren has reduced its troops in order to prepare for a war with the Chidi people and gave up the invasion plan in other directions. However, current affairs are changing, and it is hard to guarantee that Luo Beiren deliberately released the wind to paralyze his side. Especially in the face of an old fox like Tu Da, no one dares to make a guarantee in less than November.

In order to strengthen intelligence and information work, Wufeng also specially approved a fund to the Intelligence Bureau and the Security Bureau to investigate the collection of Luo Beiren's military activities. After all, this is related to the fate of the entire Qingyang Prefecture, and we cannot be careless at all. On average, a special person will transmit the information of Luo Beiren's side to Wufeng every three days.

Another message also came. The horse thief "Iron Cavalry Association" who had not appeared in the face finally appeared in Guide Mansion. According to the information, their nests were probably moved to the junction of Guide Mansion and Yinchuan Mansion. It seems that the leader of the Iron Cavalry Association is quite conscious of the current affairs. Wufeng also felt relieved. It turned out that his intelligence department had never found any trace of the "Iron Cavalry Association". He always felt that it was a hidden danger to Qingyang's economic development. Now that he has arrived in Guide Mansion, let the local officials of Guide Mansion have a headache.

What is comforting is that the city wall defense system of Qingyang Prefecture City has finally been initially completed. It is said that it was initially completed because of time. There are still many auxiliary facilities that have not been fully completed. It is just that the entire city wall construction has been completed. This is also the crystallization of tens of thousands of people working day and night. Due to the uncertainty of the Luo Bei people's invasion, Wufeng ordered Su Minshun to list this project as No. 1 project, and all other construction projects must give way to this project. Otherwise, once the Luo Bei people invade, the existing troops in Qingyang Prefecture will not be enough to resist. If there are no solid city defense fortifications, it would be like a beautiful woman taking off her clothes and posing and letting a robber ravage it.

Su Minshun also understood the truth, and for this, he concentrated two-thirds of the recruited migrant workers, gave generous rewards, worked day and night, and the migrant workers also took turns to work. Su Minshun even asked Wufeng to let the army draw staff to participate in the construction. However, considering that the army now needs a lot of time to train to improve its combat effectiveness, Wufeng still did not agree after thinking about it. He just asked Xiao Tang to allocate a certain amount of funds to Su Minshun and ask him to recruit more migrant workers. Because Wufeng asked to demolish many of the original insolid city walls and rebuilt them, and expanded the scale several times, the project volume was very large. Even if so much manpower and material resources were invested, it still took eight months to complete the basic facilities of this project. The remaining auxiliary facilities still need to be gradually improved in nearly a month.

Wufeng was very satisfied with this. After all, he was no longer in irresistible. It only took another twenty days to complete the city defense project. By then, it would be impossible for Luo Beiren to conquer Qingyang without paying a certain price.

Time passed day by day with Wufeng's close attention. On September 27, 692, the mainland calendar, the war between the Chidi people and the Luobei people finally broke out. In order to consolidate their overlord status on the Xitengri Grassland and established a strong image for other nomads in the Xitengri Grassland, the Chidi people gave up the original practice of invading south and west every year, and concentrated 600,000 troops into three battle groups to launch an attack on the territory of the Luobei people. The Luobei people, with the Western General Wule as the main general, gathered 500,000 main troops in the southern expedition, and fought fiercely with the Chidi people in the three places of the galloping horse, horse racing and fertile soil land near the dividing line between the traditional forces of the East and West nomads in the central Tengri Grassland.

On October 3, the famous Chidi general Chaqin led an army of 200,000 to force the Luobei people to break through the defense line of the western part of the Luobei army, and the 150,000 Luobei army on the southern line was forced to retreat.

On the night of October 7, Chaqin took advantage of the recession of Luobei's army's morale and stood firm. He forced his crossing of the Daerba River and raided the Luobei people's camp. He defeated the Luobei people's army's southern line in one fell swoop, captured more than 50,000 Luobei's soldiers, and the remaining troops retreated more than 300 miles before they could seize the ground. The entire Luobei territory was shocked. Fortunately, Kurdo, the eastern expedition, led a 100,000 army to arrive in time, collected the remaining more than 60,000 remaining soldiers, stationed in Huangyangyuan, and curbed the Chidi people's advance.

On October 14, the Chidi army and Luobei army broke out fiercely in the northern line of the horses, and both sides suffered damage. On October 16, the Chidi army and Luobei army held a grand battle in the horses, because the terrain of the place was quite flat and there were no obstacles, both sides chose their respective main cavalry to confront each other. The fierce battle lasted for half a day. Both sides suffered heavy losses and were finally forced to withdraw from the battle.

After the two sides had been stalemate on three fronts for more than ten days, on October 26, the Chidi army on the southern front, led by Chaqin, launched a fierce attack on the Luobei army led by Koldo again. Due to the difference in military strength of nearly 50,000, Chidi's side was highly motivated, and the fighting spirit of the remaining soldiers in the western region of Luobei's expedition to the west had been severely weakened. In order to preserve their strength, Koldo was forced to lead the army to retreat after a slight resistance.

On October 27, the Chidi army and Luobei army on the northern front fought again in the Rainmayuan. The two sides used light and heavy cavalry and infantry to fight in all directions. The war lasted for one day. In the end, the Luobei army first withdrew from the battle, and the Chidi army also suffered a considerable loss and did not pursue it.

On October 29, the Ano people's envoy arrived at the city of Sarah in the Chidi people and the Barona in the Luobei people respectively, and persuaded the two sides to negotiate. On November 11, under the witness of the Ano people's envoy, the negotiators of the two sides began negotiations in a temporary tent on the horse racing field. After three days of marathon negotiations, the two sides finally reached a compromise on a series of issues such as retreating their own troops and redeeming prisoners of war.

On November 22, the troops of both sides withdrew their respective territories. On November 27, the exchange of prisoners of war between the two sides was completed. The Chidi side obtained 100,000 gold coins and ransom of 100,000 slaves. It was called the "Seventh Tenggeri War" in history and ended with the victory of the Chidi people, but the Luo Bei people's vitality was not damaged, which only planted the seeds for the next war.

"This Ano people is really fucking abominable. The battle between the Chidi people and Luobei people is nothing to do with him, so can he mediate in it?" Wu Feng looked at the report on the war between Chidi and Luobei and cursed the Ano people. Although the Luobei people's invasion may have completely disappeared, seeing that the two sides, who had not suffered much casualties, stopped their troops and made peace with Ano people, Wu Feng was in a very good mood again.

"The Ano people live in the central and northern part of the Tengger Grassland, sandwiched between the Chidi people and the Luobei people. Although their strength cannot be compared with these two strong people, they should not be underestimated. They have always maintained an impartial attitude towards these two strong people and often acted as peacemakers for both sides. The current chief Jiber is also a talented leader. Under his leadership, the strength of the Ano people has developed greatly." Ling Tianfang is familiar with the situation of the nomadic people on the grassland.

"Then why didn't he let the Chidi people and Luo Bei people fight to the point of losing both sides, and he could take the opportunity to grow stronger?" Wu Feng raised his own question.

Ling Tianfang shook his head and explained, "Sir, the situation is not that simple. There are several powerful nomadic peoples around the Ano people. Once the Chidi and Luobei people are weakened, the balance on the Tenggeri grassland will inevitably be broken. It turns out that the other ethnic groups that have ambitions for the Ano people will have no scruples and may attack the Ano people. The Ano people have maintained good relationships with the Chidi and Luobei people and have gained a lot of benefits from it. At the same time, they are also thinking that the two are restrained, which gives it a chance to develop. It also hopes that the situation can be maintained longer and that it can gain more time to strengthen itself. From a certain perspective, it seems to be somewhat similar to the strategy we have adopted. Kiber probably made this plan."

As December has begun to turn colder, after confirming that Luo Beiren is no longer able to launch an attack on Qingyang, Wufeng and all the government officials have put a big stone in their hearts and can finally concentrate on solving other problems.

Due to the great harvest of spring, almost everyone was smiling. The houses of farmers were filled with harvested food, and farmers were also planning how much to leave for family consumption and seeds for next year, how much money the remaining ones could be sold, and how much loans could be paid. They were looking forward to a happy and prosperous Spring Festival, and hoped that next year's life would be better. The merchants also put all their energy into preparing for the upcoming spring shopping season.

Only when the army has not changed, they continue their training plans, and have not relaxed at all because of the temporary disappearance of the threat in front of them. They knew that what should come will come sooner or later. Only when they are more prepared can they have greater opportunities. It is impossible to achieve the final victory by avoiding.

As of the end of December, in the eighth, nine, tenth, eleventh and twelve fifteen months, an immigration climax was set off, with a total of 200,000 people pouring into Qingyang. On average, more than 1,000 immigrants entering Qingyang Prefecture every day. Especially after the harvest of food in October, as many as 2,000 people entered Qingyang Prefecture to settle in Qingyang Prefecture every day, and the source was more scattered, and the proportion of workers, scholars, technicians, handicraftsmen, and small merchants also increased significantly. The population of Qingyang Prefecture has reached nearly 550,000, close to the highest level in history.

Businessmen who smelled business opportunities also flocked to them, with many workshops, workshops, and shops open almost every day, and absorbing a large amount of idle labor. Large-scale basic farmland water conservancy construction and road traffic construction in Qingyang Prefecture were officially launched, and Qingyang Prefecture to Jinzhou Prefecture, Qingyang Prefecture to Gaochang State, Qingyang Prefecture to Luzon Grand Duchy of the People's Republic of China, these three roads were placed first. In the words of Su Minshun, the completion of these three roads will greatly improve the traffic conditions of Qingyang Prefecture, attract more caravans to Qingyang and transit from Qingyang, which will also create good conditions for increasing taxes.

The large influx of population has caused the work of the entire government agency to be overloaded, and various departments have requested to increase their staff, but Xiao Tang only approved the report of the Administration and the Agricultural Administration and Water Resources Department to increase their staff, which made Moron scold Xiao Tang for being disgusted with his "full figure" and deliberately wanted to become thinner himself as if he were Su Minshun.

Wufeng also rejected the army's request for further expansion of military recruitment, and required the army to focus all its energy on improving the combat effectiveness of existing personnel rather than recruiting new recruits. However, Wufeng also stated that as the population of Qingyang Prefecture continues to grow, recruitment of new recruits can be considered after the Spring Festival, but it must be on the premise that the combat effectiveness of the existing army has reached satisfactory.
Chapter completed!