Northern Dynasties

Chapter 394 Suizhou New Town
In autumn, the water flow of the Sheyanshui River has not declined significantly. The reeds and aquatic plants on the river beaches on both sides grow very lushly. There are large sloping fields distributed between the plateaus. The grain and millet crops in the fields are growing well and heavy. The ears of grain and the full pods make people feel happy when they see them.

When Li Tai passed by here last year, there were only some ruined city frames left in Weiping City in Shuofang County, but looking around now, even the ruins of the deserted city were gone, replaced by a large flat camp .

There are many felt tents scattered in the camp, and it is roughly estimated that there are at least 2000 felt tents, large and small.One yurt means a herdsman family, and these more than 2000 yurts mean nearly [-] herdsmen and women.

But what is really eye-catching here is a huge city nearly ten miles away.

The city faces the mountains in the west, an open and gentle slope in the north and east, and faces the mountains in the south, forming a narrow and long curved valley between them.

The city was built due to the terrain, and it was not a square city. The east wall was slightly shorter, like a protruding horse face. The city gradually expanded inward, shaped like a trapezoid, making the inner space of the city deep and wide.

The city gate facing east is the main gate of the city, complete with majestic Chonglou and curved wall urns for defense on both sides, looking down at the large swath of fertile soil between the city and Sheyan water.Although the north and south gates are not as grand as the east gate, they also have more horse-faced battlements. In the eyes of a military leader like Li Tai, this is simply a rose with thorns!
Judging from the outside, this city is already built stronger and more imposing than many other cities in Guanzhong. After looking at it for a while, Li Tai felt vaguely familiar. After thinking for a while, he remembered that this city was the same as what he had seen before. Tongwancheng's style is mostly similar.

When Li Tai left here last year, this place was just a deserted mountain. When he came back to his hometown this year, he saw such a majestic city. One can imagine the surprise and joy in his heart. He couldn't help but galloped around the city and watched. Fan, the more I look at it, the more I like it, and I can't help feeling that Jihu's ability in building cities is really not small.

Of course, with a leader like Helian Bobo, even if he is not very capable, he was directly rammed into the walls of Tongwan City.

Liu Ping, who had just returned from inspection elsewhere, quickly caught up with Li Tai. When he got close, he dismounted from his horse, bowed his head and bowed, with a bit of pride in his excited expression: "I was lucky to be blessed by the lord a few years ago, and to give this town Thinking that the family is a place to live and rest, it is difficult to repay this great kindness, so I did my best to supervise the construction of the defense city for the Lord. Now the city wall is shallow and can be displayed, waiting for the Lord to examine it. If it is acceptable, it will be the last general The entire clan is delighted to show no mercy!"

"It's not only passable, it's a surprise! Such a majestic city is rare in Beizhou. Although I planted a branch here, it is also the credit of General Liu and all the clans that can thrive."

Li Tai got off his horse, bent down and pulled up Liu Ping, who was worshiping in front of the horse, and motioned him to walk towards the city gate with him. The more he looked at the city, the more satisfied he was.

This city is about twelve or thirteen kilometers away, and its scale is not very large, but it is definitely not small. It is slightly inferior to Luochuan Fangcheng, but it is slightly better than Heishui Fangcheng.

However, the construction time of those two defense cities has been quite long, and the selection of the site itself has no shortage of construction foundations, and there are personnel and materials continuously transported along the Luoshui River, which makes it possible to have such a scale.

However, the city in front of him just abandoned the original Weiping City and chose another location for construction, combining the city with the geographical mountains ingeniously. It only took more than half a year to complete the framework.

Not to mention that the Liu family of Diaoyin only started to migrate to this place at the end of last year. It is very difficult to maintain the living conditions of the tribe when they first come to this strange place. It is unimaginable that they still have the energy to build such a majestic city. .

It should be noted that under the construction conditions of later generations, it is not easy to complete a construction of this scale. If there are any commercial disputes, capital chain breaks and other issues involved, it will run away in minutes.

Although there were no commercial disputes in ancient society, the rigid need of manpower and material resources could not be avoided.Especially this side is far away from the bustling area, and the character base is very weak, which undoubtedly makes the construction more difficult.

"The ability to build this city is not the strength of our department. The accumulation of various personnel left by Lord Lang before is the real great power..."

Liu Ping was overjoyed to receive such high praise from Li Tai, but he didn't fully take the credit for himself, so he followed Li Tai and told about the construction process of the city.

Years ago, after Liu Ping agreed to Li Tai's suggestion to migrate here, he immediately returned to his tribe and began to migrate. More than [-] tribesmen migrated here year after year.

At the very beginning, the situation was indeed very difficult. Wei Pingcheng was already dilapidated and lacked food and clothing.Although Li Tai left a part of the food and grass compensation paid by Xiazhou, there are already tens of thousands of Li Shihu remnants here, plus the East Xiazhou troops guarding here, there is a serious shortage of supplies.

However, with the arrival of early spring and the warmer weather, the situation quickly improved.First of all, the food and grass resources from the south were continuously delivered, including the materials for building the defense city brought by Li Yantou, and the assets transferred by the Diaoyin Liu family themselves.

When formulating the construction plan of Fangcheng, Li Yantou and others planned to make repairs and supplements on the basis of Weipingcheng ruins, so that the investment cost is the least, the construction period is short, and the effect is faster, so that the basic defense can be built in spring facility.

It should be known that when winter turns to spring, the resources in the wild are abundant, and when other Hu tribes roam around, they still have no facilities for cities and fortresses, which will become very dangerous.Now the border of Beizhou is three miles away from the city, and there is no law of the king. Those Jihu tribes who flow across regions have no scruples about using force.

But Liu Ping felt that this plan was a bit inappropriate. First of all, the location of Weiping City, although it is close to the Sheyan River, seems to have a superior natural environment, but because it is located in a low-lying area, every spring and summer flood season, there is a danger of river flooding to irrigate the city. , and such a geographical location is also not conducive to defense.

This is also one of the reasons why Weiping City was abandoned. If the city was established here just because of the convenience of this moment, it would have to be reduced to its previous appearance in a few years.

Since the Liu family of Diaoyin migrated here, they may live here for generations, so of course they have to choose a better place to build the city, so that they can feel at ease after settling down.

So after some investigation, Liu Ping chose this place to build the city. As for the additional construction costs, the Diaoyin Liu family was naturally responsible for it.Compared with the original narrow and cramped clan land, the river valley here is open and not lacking in geographical advantages, surrounded by mountains and rivers, with a belt from north to south, the living environment is much superior.

"But even so, it is difficult to build such a magnificent city in such a short period of time with only the manpower here!"

For Liu Ping's idea, Li Tai naturally agrees. This place is called Suide in later generations. It is the transportation hub of Qin, Jin, Guan and Shanxi. Plus, Li Tai would not easily arrange for them to come here to make a living.

After Liu Ping heard the words, he nodded and said: "Master Lang is wise. Because of the need to build a new city, the foundation of the city must be unsealed after the permafrost is unsealed. The first few months are just preparations for the characters, and the official start of construction did not start until April. It was built to this point in just a few months, in addition to the hard work of the Xihe disciples left behind by the master, it is also due to the enthusiasm and help of the Xiazhou people..."

It turned out that those who participated in the construction of this city were not only the people who stayed here before Li Tai, but also many people from Shuofang in Xiazhou.

After Li Tai learned of this, he couldn't help being even more surprised. He was worried that the Hu people here might not be willing to settle here with the Diaoyin Liu family and other foreign forces, and they were even prepared for a fire and a fight between the two sides, so After Li Yantou entered the country, he was eager to build defenses, and it was Li Tai's instruction.

But he didn't expect that instead of rejecting Diaoyin Liu's arrival, the Hu people here enthusiastically helped to build the city. They worked tens of thousands of dollars in a few months to make this new city stand here.

He asked again carefully, and then he gradually understood.

After all, because of Diaoyin's Liu family's reputation, all the rich chieftains in Xiazhou have already had falcon taming deals with them, and they have accumulated a lot of friendship with each other.Moreover, the conflict between people and land here is not as tense as in Guanzhong, otherwise these Hu tribes would not have abandoned this place and settled near Tongwan City.Of course, it was also because it was the Diaoyin Liu family who came here. If other Hu tribes came here to occupy the land and did not leave, they would still be jointly expelled by those Hu tribes.

After learning about this, Li Tai couldn't help feeling that skilled workers are popular, and the Diaoyin Liu family has such a unique skill, which is really popular in this northern Shaanxi.Because of his own efforts, it saved Li Tai a lot of time and energy.

Li Tai had promised Liu Ping before that as long as the northern defense city was well built, he would fight for a county guard position for it.Now that the city is complete and majestic, of course he can't break his promise.

If it was before, he might have to ask others to help with this matter, but now he himself is the newly appointed governor of Suizhou, and the Bafu has given the administrative units of two counties in Suizhou, who can directly send Liu Pingan He was placed under the rule of Suizhou as the sheriff.

After entering the city, Li Tai became more and more satisfied with it, so he simply appointed Liu Ping as the governor of the state, Shi paralleled Beishuofang County affairs, and assigned him to determine the boundaries of the state governance and preside over the registration of the people in the state, so as to report the general situation of the state governance and people's livelihood to Ba government.

In order to appease and encourage Diaoyin Liu to contribute to this, he even planned to change the temporary county name of Beishuofang County to Diaoyin County. It happened that Shushu Mountain on the south side of the city was also named Diaoyin Mountain.

Since Liu Ping was appointed as a new official, at the same time, he also felt a lot of comfort emotionally. He was very excited and kowtowed to Li Tai again and again to thank him.

(End of this chapter)