Chapter 1081 Gongsun Zan Newly Establishes Lulong County
Just as Ma Xuan said, Huyanda had led his men to the outskirts of Chifeng. Chifeng at this time was no longer a grassland camp on the edge of the grassland north of Yanshan Mountain, but a huge city with Yanshan Mountain behind it.
Wang Men may not be a general who can stand alone, but he is a down-to-earth general who can do things seriously. After a few years, he has built Chifeng into a huge city with a length and width of about eight miles. In addition, the favorable terrain around Chifeng has rivers passing through three sides. The southeast wall is outside the Yinbo River, the southwest is the Banzhijian River, and the northeast is the Yinhe River. Only the northwest wall is flat, so Wang Men ordered a moat about ten feet wide to be dug between the Banzhijian River and the Yinhe River. In this way, the entire Chifeng is surrounded by rivers on all sides, and they are all running water.
Not only that, Wang Men was surrounded by foreign races, and he valued his life very much. There are nearly 80,000 people in Chifeng City now, including 15,000 soldiers, 10,000 infantry, 5,000 cavalry, and the remaining 65,000 people are about 10,000 households, more than half of which are Han people, and the rest are Xianbei people, Wuhuan people and other foreign races. No foreign race has an advantage.
For his own safety, Wang Men also built an inner city in the south of the city. The inner city is about five miles long and wide, more than one-third of the outer city. In addition to the 5,000 infantry he personally led, there are also 2,000 cavalry, and the rest of the troops are stationed in the outer city.
In addition to these people, the people living in the inner city are basically the families of officials and generals in the city. There are several huge warehouses in the entire inner city, which contain enough food for 50,000 people a year, and enough weapons and a large amount of raw materials for 20,000 troops to support a year of war. In addition, the important workshops in Chifeng City were also placed in the inner city by Wangmen. If Huangfu Chaobo knew about this situation, he would be very surprised. Wangmen's practice is so similar to the full city in later generations.
At this time, Hu Yanda had arrived in Chifeng for five or six days. He had led people to set up camp in the northwest of Chifeng City. It was impossible for two thousand people to enter Chifeng City, even the army of the allies. So after arriving in Chifeng, Hu Yanda ordered the army to camp ten miles outside the city, but he led dozens of guards to meet the defender Wangmen in Chifeng City.
When Huyanda arrived in Chifeng, Wang Men, the defender of Chifeng, had received Gongsun Zan's order and new appointment: to establish the twelfth county under Youzhou, which was the seventh county under the rule of the Yan army - Lulong County, and to appoint Wang Men as the governor of Lulong County, which governed Lulong City (formerly Lulong Fortress), Kuancheng Town (middle town), Pingquan City (small town), Xiaosigou Town (middle town), Dianzi Town (middle town), Louzidian Town (big town), Chifeng (middle town), and Lingyuan, Jianping, Ningcheng, and Yuanbaoshan cities belonging to foreigners.
The seat of Lulong County was set in Chifeng. At the same time, Gongsun Zan also ordered Wang Men to relocate 10,000 households of foreigners under Lulong to Liaoxi and Youbeiping counties, and Lulong County was ready to receive nearly 20,000 households of people relocated from Zhuo County and Guangyang counties. He also ordered Wang Men to urge the trainers in Chifeng to speed up the training of war horses and provide as many war horses as possible for the Yan army.
At the end of the order, Gongsun Zan mentioned that the trainers of the Tang army Longhua will arrive in Chifeng soon to capture the wild horses near Chifeng, and let Wangmen provide full assistance so that it can provide enough white horses for the Yan army as soon as possible, so that the white horse volunteers can be replenished as soon as possible.
Looking at the long list of orders and his own appointment letter, Wangmen was stunned for a moment and was in a state of confusion for half a day. The generals and officials under him were summoned, and after announcing Gongsun Zan's appointment to everyone, all his subordinates were delighted.
In fact, the conditions for setting up counties in the cities of Chifeng had long been met, but Gongsun Zan did not pay much attention to it. This time, it was Huangfu Chaobo's preparation to set up a new county that stimulated him, and he could use immigration to eliminate the hidden dangers of instability under his rule, so Gongsun Zan acted very quickly.
On the day Huangfu Chaobo left Jixian, he sent people to the counties to convey the order, requiring the counties that were relocating people to determine the people to be relocated within ten days and start to set off for the relocation site. Those who did not relocate within the deadline would be sent troops to forcibly relocate.
For a while, the four counties of Zhuo, Guangyang, Shanggu and Yuyang were in chaos. You know, the governors of each county had received a secret order from Gongsun Zan, and the people who moved out were all those aristocratic families who were close to Liu Yu and alienated Gongsun Zan. Although Wang Men knew that these aristocratic families would be scattered in various cities, he also understood that these people were some cancers, and even if they were scattered everywhere, it would be enough to make him busy for a while.
However, since Gongsun Zan's order has come, it is definitely not allowed to be rejected by Wang Men, so now all he can do is to make arrangements as soon as possible to avoid being in a hurry. As for the 10,000 households of Lulong moving to the south of the Great Wall, it is the simplest thing. These foreign races are eager to move to the interior. As long as Wang Men announces it, it will only take a few days to recruit 10,000 foreign people.
In the past few days, Wang Men had been discussing with his subordinates the resettlement of the relocated people. At this time, he heard his generals report that a large group of Tang troops had arrived ten miles outside the city. The generals who had been informed in advance immediately led Huyanda and his party to the prefectural governor's mansion.
Wang Men had already prepared for Huyanda's arrival. After learning that they were going to camp ten miles northwest of the city, Wang Men readily sent thousands of civilians to set up camp for them. As for the matter of capturing horses, he did not ask much about it. After all, he had too many things to do, but handed it over to an official in the prefectural governor's mansion.
With Wang Men's permission, Huyanda quickly arranged the affairs in the camp, and then led hundreds of people to the grassland further north. He had long been drooling over the wild horse herds around Chifeng, and he had already sent people to figure out the range of activities of each wild horse herd. However, before the territory north of Longhua was built, he did not plan to attack the best wild horse herds, but first picked a medium-sized wild horse herd to start capturing.
First, capture a batch of horses and send them back to Longhua. When the camp north of Longhua can accommodate the captured horses, he will start with the large wild horse herds. He will directly send the captured good horses back to Longhua instead of sending them to the camp outside Chifeng for placement.