Shaowu made an interesting decision. He would go to Shanshui City and Fairy City to observe the ceremony in person and congratulate them. He also took the opportunity to go out for a trip. After all, he had not left the area around Batu City for many years.

It is said that for such a matter, it is enough to send an envoy. There is no reason for the monarch to go there in person. However, Huwa and Panhu have already arrived today, and he also has to personally participate in the canonization ceremonies of the other two countries.

Hanxiong's reaction was quite calm, but Xiao Sa at the table was dumbfounded. When he came to the palace today to accompany the banquet, he thought it was just these sworn brothers gathering for a banquet. Unexpectedly, they discussed and decided such a big matter without prior notice.

Reveal a little bit of news.

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Not to mention that the three brothers in the palace of Batu City have solved the problem of Chong Bo Gun, and the canonization of the Three Kingdoms will be a matter of course. Fan Chong was appointed as the national envoy, holding the Red Festival, with the two demon kings as deputy envoys, leading the ceremonial guard

The entourage rushed to the northeastern border of Ba, where he was once the king.

Fan Chong has great authority. He can mobilize manpower and material resources from various border cities, and can order garrison formations to obey orders. His identity is also very sensitive. Under normal circumstances, it is impossible to hold this position. If it was proposed by others,

, will definitely be unanimously opposed by the ministers of Ba Kingdom, but this is the proposal of Mr. Peng Keng, so Ba Jun appointed it without hesitation.

If you return an abdicated king to his homeland and give him the right to act on his behalf, won't you be afraid that he will take the opportunity to rebel, or organize his old troops to break up the country and claim the title of king again? Even if Fan Chong himself did not have this idea, but like this

No one in the court dared to raise the suggestion, but Mr. Peng Keng dared to do so, and the young minister also dared to agree.

Shaowu not only showed his unreserved trust in Lord Peng Keng, but also showed an absolute confidence. He was not afraid of Fan Chong's rebellion at all, nor did he think Fan Chong could do that.

Many dignitaries in the Badu country have privately discussed that Peng Keng resigned from his position as a scholar, was awarded the title of ten nobles and was given the sword to rule the country, and then stayed away from Badu to avoid being overshadowed by his achievements.

, subject to the suspicion of the king.

But Fan Chong understood that this might not be the case. Lord Peng Keng didn't seem to care whether the young minister was suspicious of him, but in fact there was no need to care, just like the young minister didn't care about returning him to Fan Shi's hometown as an envoy.

Mr. Peng Keng did not "ask" or "not ask" about worldly affairs. This statement itself is a misunderstanding. He has always been involved in worldly affairs.

Fan Chong himself has also received a lot of discussion. Some people think that he voluntarily abdicated because he was threatened by Chi Wangqiu, or because he knew that no matter what he did, he could not be better than Shaowu, let alone save Fan Shiguo.

Ba Yuan will be unified sooner or later, and it will never be Fan Jun who restores the country of Ba, so Fan Chong simply let go as soon as possible to avoid becoming the king of subjugation.

Many people say this, but they are actually wise after the fact. Only Fan Chong himself knows that he really gave up at that time, and he really didn't care about the position of king. It was inexplicable that he became king in the first place. There are many things that are actually difficult to understand clearly.

It's not difficult, but it's not easy to make a decision.

Fan Chong had long known that as a king, he had to do a lot of work, and that the restoration of the unification of the Ba Kingdom was the general trend. However, it was not until he met Mr. Peng Keng that he truly gave up and made the decision he had wanted to do for a long time.

Many people in Bayuan also discussed that the reason why Shaowu was able to succeed was because of the help of Master Peng Keng. There is even a saying that "the one who conquers the tiger evil will conquer Bayuan".

Fan Chong, as a Dacheng monk and once the king of a country, also knows very well that this is not the case. Even if Master Peng Keng had never appeared, I am afraid that Shaowu would still be the one to unify Ba Yuan in the end, but the process would be a little different. People should really think about it

What's more interesting is why Shaowu got help from Mr. Peng Keng instead of others being so lucky.

When Fan Chong met Mr. Peng Keng at the beginning of the year, he had a moment of emotion. Why couldn't such a talent be used by him? Why didn't he meet it first? But after thinking about it, Fan Chong realized that he had thought too much.

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Shaowu was not Bajun at that time, but just one of the princes of Bashi Kingdom. When Peng Keng came to Bayuan that year, the first prince he saw was not Shaowu, but Gong Lang, the prime minister;

The first lady he saw was not Shaomiao, but the lady of the prime minister's kingdom, Gong Yuan. So what happened? Gong Yuan asked him to kick him, and Gong Lang asked him to kill him.

Even among the princes of the Bashi Kingdom, the first people Peng Keng met were Zhong Lan, Gu Liang and Huiliang. They all had the opportunity to make friends with Peng Keng before Shaowu. So what happened to these three young princes later?

What? Fan Chong thought about these things along the way and arrived at Dingfeng City at the very edge of the northeastern border of Bayuan.

With Dingfeng City as the center, Fan Chong mobilized the strong labor force of a total of five surrounding city walls, and brought the garrison formations of each city wall to the foot of the mountains on the edge of the wilderness, selected a suitable location, felled trees, and fortified the city.

The soil was dug, gullies were dug, springs were diverted, walls were built, houses were built, and a large camp was leveled.

Judging from the scale of this camp, it was enough to build a city wall. Fan Chong used only 2,000 strong laborers to enter the wilderness to build roads, followed by civilian laborers who transported various supplies and stayed in the camp to provide various logistical support.

With nearly ten thousand people, it can be said that the main labor force and treasury supplies of the five city walls were exhausted.

Then these five city walls must maintain daily operations, so money, food and materials must be mobilized from more peripheral city walls to supplement them. The scale of launching a large-scale battle is only this, and ordinary people really cannot command it.

Fan Chong transferred the garrison to the border wilderness mainly to build the camp in the shortest possible time. He did not wait for the two thousand strong laborers to arrive. He first gathered hundreds of people and started the project. Later, a large number of people arrived one after another.

It is extremely difficult to build roads in the wilderness, and people will always be injured. The heavy labor cannot last long and requires regular rotation and replenishment.

Fan Chong's policy in the surrounding cities was to draw one out of three tribes. One-third of the young men of each tribe had to come. First, they would be counted as serving in the country, and the excess labor could be deducted from taxes.

Some of them can receive money and food compensation from the city walls.

The large tribe closest to the Bianhuang camp is the Qingye clan. After the Qingye clan leader Hu Bai led his tribe to arrive, he was surprised and asked Fan Chong: "Ling Xianjun came here just to clear the road, why did you build such a big camp?

Using so much manpower to build the road so wide and smooth? I think it is unnecessary."

Lingxian Jun is the title of Ten Lords that Fan Chong has just received. Fan Chong said lightly: "How can we neglect to welcome the Chinese Angels on your orders? The Qingye clan is the largest clan in the tribe, and it is most convenient to mobilize the people. Hu Bai Clan Chief

Can we send all the young men and women of our clan to this place? The city walls can compensate the Qingye clan for one year's food supply, and anyone who comes here can also settle here in the future."

Hubai Clan Leader quickly shook his head and said: "I have been ordered by the Lord Xianjun to draw one out of every three tribesmen and have brought them all here. I don't know how long it will take to build roads in the wilderness. If the spring plowing is not completed next year, the tribesmen must leave enough

Manpower. As for the city's grain transfer to compensate the tribes, there is a lot of consumption in the middle, so it is not necessary. It is even more unnecessary to settle here."

Of course, some of the tribes who were ordered to do so had some sneaky people. For example, although the Aoba clan did not dare to make a fuss about the number of people, not all the laborers who came were the strongest.

Fan Chong suggested that the Hubai clan leader send all the strong laborers. This was actually a good intention, because they were the nearest big tribe, and it would be the easiest to do so. If it affected the production of the tribe, Fan Chong had already agreed to leave the city to the city.

make amends.

However, the leader of the Hubai tribe has his own little idea. It is not easy to get money and food from the city to compensate the tribe. Not to mention there may be deductions from the handling officials, and it also takes a long time.

As for Fan Chong's promise that those who participated in the road construction can settle here in the future, Hu Bai thinks it is not a good thing. This is just a temporary camp established for the purpose of building roads, in a desolate place at the foot of the wild mountains, nearby

There is not much land suitable for farming. It takes a lot of effort to create a farm, and the food yield is not very high. Who would be willing to come?

Moreover, if the strong labor force of the tribe settled here, it would be equivalent to the migration of the tribe. Why would they move to this desolate and remote place? Chief Hubai simply suspected that Fan Chong wanted to embarrass himself.

Fan Chong, however, had no intention of embarrassing Hu Bai. He could only sigh secretly that the patriarch only knew how to make small calculations but had no real vision. Now this place is just a deserted camp, which does not seem suitable for migration and settlement. But many people do not

I thought that when the road between Bayuan and the hinterland of China is opened, this place will definitely become an important town for border garrison and trade exchanges.

Whether from a military or economic perspective, a city will definitely appear here in the future, and its city lord will become one of the most important and richest city lords in Ba. If the residents here are mainly from the Qingye clan,

Then according to the ancient tradition, the patriarch of the Aoba clan is most likely to be appointed as the lord of the city.

Such a city wall will appear sooner or later, depending on whether it takes the initiative to build it, or with the passage of history, when it gradually develops into a market and a stronghold, then the monarch realizes that a city wall should be built. So Fan Chong opened the

The camp is based on the scale of building a city wall in the future.

It's fine if the patriarch of the Qingye clan doesn't have this vision. Fan Chong has said the same thing to several large tribes nearby. Some tribes have sent more strong laborers to assist. As for settling down here,

, but he didn’t take it to heart. Fan Chong knew it well, but he didn’t try to point out the future benefits.

Fan Chong urgently mobilized such a huge manpower and material resources to build roads. Many people were puzzled because it was completely unnecessary. Anyway, Lord Chong Bogun was already building roads. The longer the road was built over there, the longer it would be here.

The less effort, the more cost-effective it is. It should be noted that the deeper the road extends into the wilderness, the harder it is to provide logistical support and heavy transportation, and the greater the price paid.

Fan Chong could definitely save some money, food and labor for the Ba Kingdom, but he not only wanted to ensure the traffic standards of this road, but also tried to build it as far into the wilderness as possible. He was simply "robbing" Master Chong Bo Gun.

There are some things that the people who built the road, the clan chiefs of each tribe, and even the city lords of each city cannot understand, but Fan Chong cannot say it directly. What does the road he built mean? Not only Bayuan and China
Chapter completed!