My brother Ying Zheng, who dares to kill me?.

Chapter 1160: The troops that are good at fighting can live in the city of God! Ying Chengjiao: I just want to give them a home!
Ren Xiao nodded decisively: "Yes!"

Ying Chengjiao gestured with his hands again and ordered, "Then cut some more wood and build a fence around this pasture. I want to use this fence to keep cattle and sheep."

"So, the fence must be deep into the ground and must be strong!"

"Send soldiers to the northwest to find a place that is sheltered from the wind, facing the sun, high in terrain, dry and far from water, and dig the earth to build a cellar. The cellar should be one foot deep and three inches wide. Drainage ditches should be dug on both sides of the cellar to divert rainwater. In addition,..."

Ren Xiong, who had just made a mistake, did not dare to refute or ask any questions, but just nodded: "Yes!"

How can a general not understand civil engineering?

The experience of deploying troops, setting up camps, and building city defenses can be directly applied to the field of construction.

Not to mention building 500 houses, even if Ying Chengjiao asked him to build a city, it would be within his capabilities.

But Hulun and other surrendered generals could not help but look at each other as they listened.

When Ying Chengjiao finished explaining his needs, Hulun couldn't help but ask, "Does my God want to build a city here?"

Ying Chengjiao nodded and said, "This place is adjacent to Jin'alin in the north and Nanshui Grassland in the south. The Yalu River flows beside it. It is really a treasure land."

"I want to build a town here, without walls outside, but with houses inside, for the men from the grassland to live in."

Even though they already had a guess, when they heard Ying Chengjiao say this with their own ears, the surrendered Donghu generals couldn't help but take a deep breath and their faces were filled with shock.

Bell said in disbelief: "My God! Are you going to build houses for us! For us to live together?!"

Even the King of Donghu never built houses or gave tents to the Donghu tribes, but now our God is building houses for us?!

Ying Chengjiao nodded, then shook his head: "I do want to build a town here for you all to live in."

"But this place can only accommodate a few tribes at most, and I am unable to build more cities. So if you want to live together, you can only wait for the Great Qin's plan and then build cities elsewhere."

As soon as these words were spoken, the ecstasy that had just risen up in the Donghu surrendered generals quickly subsided, but they did not feel any dissatisfaction in their hearts.

They were just slaves, and it was their job to build houses for the Qin people. How could they possibly recruit the Qin people to build houses for them? Just thinking about it was impossible!

A strong desire to fight arose in the hearts of the surrendered Donghu generals. Our tribe must become the most capable tribe under the command of our God in order to be qualified to live in the God's city!

Ying Chengjiao had no idea that the Donghu surrendered generals had such a rich inner thoughts, so he continued, "I will be frank with you all. The main purpose of building this city is not to build a place for a few tribes to live together, but to explore a possibility."

Ying Chengjiao looked around at the Donghu surrendered generals and said sincerely: "I am willing to treat you as Qin people, and you are willing to follow me to return to Qin, but your living habits and production methods are very different from those of the people of my Great Qin."

"If you don't change this difference, the gap between you and the Qin people will exist forever!"

"Therefore, I want to explore the possibility of allowing you to maintain the old production methods and integrate into Daqin."

"And this city is one of my attempts."

Looking around this land of lush grass and water chosen by a group of Donghu surrendered generals, Ying Chengjiao spoke in an increasingly contagious voice: "I hope this city can support your families, and the grasslands to the southeast can support your lives."

"I hope this city can comfort you for your hard work, and the pine wood walls can block the biting cold wind."

"I hope this city can become a pearl on the grassland, so that you can smoothly and quickly integrate into Daqin, truly become a member of Daqin, and become the pride of Daqin!"

As he spoke, Ying Chengjiao swept his right hand in the air like a kitchen knife, his eyes filled with visions of a bright future.

Seeing Ying Chengjiao so enthusiastic and serious, the eyes of the Donghu surrendered generals became moist.

Several surrendered generals including Hulun and Buir were even moved to the point of shedding tears!

We are just slaves and surrendered soldiers! We once swung our swords at our god for the sake of Changshengtian!

As a result, my God is trying every possible way to block the cold winter wind for us, working hard to make us a part of the Qin State, and even to give us a home!

The King of Donghu claimed to be the son of Eternal Heaven, but he never let us feel the slightest mercy from Eternal Heaven.

No one in this life has ever thought so wholeheartedly about us. Neither humans nor gods have ever been so good to us!

Oh my god, I'm crying!

All the Donghu surrendered generals bowed their hands and shouted in gratitude: "Thanks to our God for his gift!"

"We are willing to kill all enemies for our god, and continue to serve our god after death until our souls are scattered!" Ying Chengjiao looked back and smiled gently: "But I don't want you to die. I only hope that you can enjoy a good life."

The Donghu surrendered generals did not even dare to look directly at Ying Chengjiao's gentle smile. Hulun stepped forward and said in a broken voice: "My God! I will send a message to the tribe right away, asking all the old and young in the tribe to come here and help me build this city together!"

A group of Donghu surrendered generals came forward one after another: "We are still here! We are willing to move our entire tribe here and build this city for our god!"

"We have many cows, able to pull heavy loads. We are willing to dedicate all our cows to our God!"

Ying Chengjiao pressed down with his right hand to stop the Donghu surrendered generals from expressing their opinions, and said seriously: "This city is just a verification, it cannot accommodate all the men from the northern border."

"If any of you are willing to participate, you can send ten of the smartest members of your tribe here to work together to discuss how to build this city to be more suitable for you to live in."

"If this city is built properly and can really achieve what I wish, these ten tribesmen can also bring their successful experience back to the other tribesmen and teach the rest of the tribesmen how to build a city."

"What I want is definitely not just a city."

"Instead, scatter the pearls all over the grassland!"

Even more than two thousand years later, people still could not think of a proper way to achieve direct grassroots management of tribes that were nomadic and had no fixed place to live all year round.

But later generations came up with another solution: the imperial court paid for building houses for the herdsmen for free!
Even though the older generation of nomads still advocate an ancient way of life, human nature of being lazy and unwilling to work will always drive the new generation of non-productive people to live in warm, convenient, bright and comfortable houses.

After settling for a long time, they were assimilated by the Chinese people around them, wearing Chinese clothes, speaking Chinese language, following Chinese customs, continuing Chinese culture, and intermarrying with Chinese children. How could they not be considered Chinese people? The court could naturally manage them like ordinary Chinese people.

Grassroots herdsmen still need to work diligently in summer to drive their cattle and sheep to chase lush grass and aquatic plants, but when the cold winter comes and snow falls, the biting north wind will naturally blow the herdsmen back to their warm homes. In this way, they will live in one place for half of the year, making it easier to manage them.

More importantly, all the items in the house are the property that the herders have worked hard to acquire, and the house itself is also regarded by the herders as their fixed assets.

Those who have stable property have stable heart. These valuable properties that cannot migrate with them will bind the herders like kite strings nailed to the ground, so that even though their bodies are nomadic, their hearts will have a stable home!

They are no longer a purely nomadic tribe and are much easier to manage than nomadic tribes!

The Qin State is not rich today, and Ying Chengjiao cannot allow the Qin State to spend money and manpower to build houses for the nomadic tribes. However, the Qin State needs someone to raise war horses, cattle and sheep on the grasslands, and needs to achieve direct grassroots management of the nomadic groups to avoid the birth of new alien races!
Fortunately, the blade of the Qin Dynasty was sharp enough to force the herdsmen to build houses for themselves.

Ying Chengjiao didn’t know whether this move would be effective, but he felt it was worth a try!
The Donghu surrendered generals were even more grateful. Some generals even jumped off their horses, knelt on one knee, bowed their heads and shouted: "My God, you are merciful and great!"

"Your subjects are willing to serve you forever, until the end of the world!"

Ying Chengjiao laughed loudly and said, "Why are you all like this? Please stand up quickly!"

"If you are really willing to serve me, why not take advantage of the time when other troops are being organized to lead your tribesmen to harvest all the green grass nearby!"

The Donghu surrendered generals did not understand why Ying Chengjiao did this, but none of them asked, they just bowed and said, "We will obey the oracle!"

More than 130,000 Donghu soldiers quickly rushed in all directions, harvesting the grass in an unskilled manner with the sickles issued by the baggage camp, or directly cutting the grass with the straight knives in their hands, and then tied the grass with hemp ropes, put it on the backs of horses and let the horses carry it back to the Yalu River.

When Sorentu led his people here with cattle and sheep, the little goats that used to be carefree and only knew how to eat and drink were also forced to work as laborers, carrying hay bales back and forth.

Ren Xiong also ordered his men to quickly survey the terrain and hydrology, and dug out a number of deep and narrow cellars on a small hillside.

While Ying Chengjiao was constantly adjusting the Qin army's formation, he kept walking around the cellars and gave orders one after another: "Seal this cellar with iron sheets, seal this cellar with broken pottery pieces, and seal that one with horse manure mixed with soil. Don't be afraid of failure, and don't be afraid of waste. Try more new materials!"

"Have you collected the grass? Cut it into pieces half the length of a finger, and then spread it out in the sun to dry for a while. Then try to squeeze it with your hands. Do you see how much water comes out? It's OK if you can squeeze out a little juice, not too little or too much. After drying, throw it directly into the cellar."

"Come here, a strong warrior, jump into the cellar and trample on it, making sure to trample all the hay tightly... Stop! Go wash your feet first!"

With the cooperation of more than 100,000 people, the Qin army dug more than a hundred different cellars on the hillside in just four days, filled them with green grass, and finally sealed the cellars in different ways.

Hulun wiped off the horse urine and cow dung on his hands, but didn't notice the horse dung splashing on his face. He walked towards Ying Chengjiao with a dirty but brilliant smile: "My God! What else do you need us to do?"

Ying Chengjiao showed a gratified smile: "The rest will be left to Captain Ren and time."

"Our infantry has formed its battle array, and the battle on the front line is about to begin."

"Soldiers, follow me to the front line and wipe out the bandits!"

Looking at the cellars behind them, the Donghu surrendered generals suddenly felt that they had a target that needed to be protected, and that there was an additional piece of territory that could not be lost.

Morale and fighting spirit rose quietly, and all the Donghu surrendered generals bowed in unison: "Yes!"

(End of this chapter)