Cut off my army's food supplies? I'll open a portal between the two worlds and max out my

"Get up first," Li Wen said. "From now on, you are also members of Anxi Town. Don't kneel down so easily."

Li Wen first emphasized the rules, then glanced at the bandit prisoners on the ground:

"They were originally meant to be handled by you."

This was something Li Wen had already planned.

Letting these women take revenge themselves would allow them to vent their anger to the fullest extent.

"Thank you, merciful God," Huaihua said gratefully, bowing her head.

After assigning tasks, Li Wen went to inspect the construction work in Anxi Town, while Huaihua called the other women over as well.

They remained calm, each quietly picking up the weapon that was at hand.

There were stones picked up from the riverbank, and also hoes used for working.

"What are you going to do?"

"Spare us! The people who arrested you are dead! We are innocent!"

The robbers on the ground suddenly realized something was wrong; why were so many women suddenly surrounding them?

Especially seeing their expressionless faces and the weapons in their hands, I was terrified.

Huaihua glared at the bandits and gritted her teeth, saying, "You beasts! This is what you deserve!"

"Ah!!! Have mercy!!!"

Huaihua brandished her hoe, and the bandits cried out in agony, begging for mercy.

The women unleashed the full power of their weapons, and soon the bandits on the ground were rendered lifeless.

However, these women did not stop immediately; they continued to vent their anger with weapons such as stones and hoes.

"Okay, sisters, let's stop."

In the end, it was Huaihua who stopped this unusual act of revenge.

The women stopped, panting, tears streaming down their faces, but they quickly wiped them away.

Their past lives were ruined, but they now have new life goals.

In particular, most women raise the children they find as if they were their own, which is also a new hope for them in life.

"Let's clean this place up so that the traces of these beasts don't pollute the God's territory."

After saying that, Huaihua took the lead in cleaning up the traces on the ground. The women worked together to lift the "garbage" onto a trailer and then took it to a remote spot to burn in a large pit they had dug earlier.

After burning it, Huaihua and the other women sprinkled lime on it to disinfect it.

Although they didn't know what the purpose of doing this was, it was taught by the gods, so they just did as they were told.

Li Wen, meanwhile, began his inspection of the valley.

This place is perfect for development as a base. If it is well-constructed, it can be used as a foundation to develop into a city.

The land near the Tum River basin is still quite fertile.

Although this land is commonly referred to as the "Gobi Desert," it is quite different from the deserts and Gobi that Li Wen had in mind on Earth.

The only similarity is in the desolation.

People from the Western Regions simply refer to this undeveloped land, which contains some loess and sand, as the Gobi Desert.

Actually, this place can hardly be considered a Gobi Desert. In particular, the pasture near the Tumu River grows exceptionally well. The main reason why no one has cultivated this land is the lack of order.

This land connected the roads of the Western Regions to the Great Zhou Dynasty, making it a vital transportation route.

Neither the true desert in the north nor the plateau in the south are easy to traverse. Only the Tumu River area has flat terrain, which can be imagined as the Hetao Plain.

However, the order here is too chaotic, and no one can truly develop this land in a stable manner, so it has been abandoned for a long time.

Even if some nomadic tribes have cultivated the land and planted crops in this area.

When the harvest is ready, it will naturally attract the armies of other kingdoms in the Western Regions.

The nomadic tribes were simply incapable of protecting their crops.

"My neighbor hoards grain, I hoard weapons"—this was the survival principle of the people of the Western Regions.

The Anxi army was different.

First, the Anxi Army has a good reputation, especially now that it has no shortage of supplies. Other kingdoms in the Western Regions have lost the guidance of "external forces", so they are even less likely to take the initiative to offend the Anxi Army.

The nomadic tribes active here also relied heavily on the Anxi army.

The news that affordable salt was being sold at the Anxi town market had spread throughout the nearby tribes.

Many people come specifically to buy from them.

Actually, many people were still a bit skeptical when they came over, thinking, "How can such precious salt be sold to us so cheaply?"

When they arrived, they found it was true.

The only drawback is that each person can only buy one small jar; large-scale purchases are not allowed.

Li Wen took Jiang Tian along on his inspection tour.

During the inspection, Li Wen and Jiang Tian discussed their general plans for the future.

Currently, in addition to building bases, the main tasks of the Anxi Army are to be responsible for land reclamation and management.

"The plains on both sides of the Tum River are suitable for land reclamation. All the soldiers know how to farm, right?"

Upon hearing his general's plan to farm, Jiang Tian's eyes lit up: "General, don't worry! Our Anxi army brothers may not be the best at fighting, but they are definitely experts at farming."

The soldiers of the Anxi Army were all ordinary people who couldn't afford to eat by farming. Just as Jiang Tian said, their greatest skill was not fighting, but farming.

Li Wen nodded in satisfaction: "That's good. In the next few days, you will lead three hundred men to clear the weeds from the Hetao Plain near us and also plan the field ridges."

"No problem!" Jiang Tian readily agreed, then asked the question that had been nagging him: "General, are we going to be converted into militia?"

In the early days of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Fubing system was adopted.

However, later, the Great Zhou Dynasty weakened, and with the serious land annexation, the living space of the soldiers was completely squeezed out, so Emperor Gaozong changed to a system of recruiting soldiers.

It's understandable that Jiang Tian thinks this way, since Li Wen's actions are similar to the Fubing system in history.

However, Li Wen shook his head and said softly, "That's not the case."

"Our Anxi Army's development model is somewhat unique, and you may not be able to understand it now, just knowing the name is enough."

Jiang Tian maintained absolute admiration for Li Wen. When the general said he couldn't understand it now, he realized that he was not yet capable of comprehending the general's profound arrangements.

He had only heard the name of the system the general had mentioned.

"Production and Construction Corps"

This is the system currently implemented by the Anxi Army.

Jiang Tian distributed Li Wen's arrangements. He didn't understand what the other brothers were doing in terms of production and construction, but he knew that it was the general's order and they just had to follow it.

The others did the same; after hearing that this was a task arranged by Li Wen, they did it truthfully even if they didn't understand it.

Anyway, following the general and his men means you can live a life of luxury.

The food standards of the Anxi army are now comparable to those of a five-star hotel kitchen.

The occasional appearance of delicacies on the dinner table was unbelievable to the soldiers of the Anxi Army.

They never dreamed that the food they were eating would be so good!