A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 393: Confessing a state and establishing a country to open up northern Xinjiang

Wang Xiang defeated the Cheshi Kingdom, and then ordered the exiled powerful and noble officials from the City of God to continue to come here.

The migration speed of 2 people was very slow. Fortunately, there were [-] elite escorts from the Guardian Knights along the way, so there was no need to worry about safety along the way.

Winter in the Western Regions is coming very quickly, and Wang Xiang must build the city in the shortest time. Otherwise, when winter comes, these powerful and noble people who have been exiled here have not experienced the bitter cold in the north, but they are really Will freeze to death.

With Wang Xiang's large supply of grain, beef and mutton, and the guidance of master craftsmen from the crafts supervisor, and with the hard work of more than [-] people, a brand new city was quickly built on this land.

In the autumn of the 28th year of Tianming in the Qian Dynasty, King Zheng and Wang Xiang built a royal city in northern Xinjiang, called Beiting.

[Beiting is built. This great city stands in the northern border of the Western Region. In the next few thousand years, this city will be one of the most important cities in the northern border. Your luck points have increased. 】

After the Beiting was completed, a prompt appeared in the system, but Zijue fell into a deep sleep and didn't care much about such things. Only when some major things happened would he pay attention.

The completion of the construction of Beiting City gave Wang Xiang a foothold in northern Xinjiang.

Although the environment in Tingzhou is not as good as the God-given City, the surrounding land can be cultivated, but it can only be cultivated once a year.

Fortunately, the land around Beiting is vast enough, and there are a large number of horses for farming. Although the population is smaller, it can be made up for by more land and horses.

With Beiting as the foundation and the support of Wang Jing and Wang Bo, Wang Xiang's Zheng State also began to develop rapidly.

The large number of expedition athletes who came to the northern border of the Western Region also received a lot of benefits. This group of expedition athletes came from a variety of sources, including passionate men from all over the country, as well as some relatively well-known powerful men.

Those who made outstanding contributions in the battle against Cheshi Kingdom were also enfeoffed by Wang Xiang.Moreover, the enfeoffments here are not the kind of food towns in the Central Plains, but actual fiefdoms during the Bang and Zhou Dynasties.

After Wang Xiang annexed Che Division, he defeated the Northern Xiongnu and Qie Mi in the north. In three years, Zheng State had become the overlord of the northern border of the Western Region.

Northern Xinjiang of the Western Region, Zheng State, Xinju City.

It can be seen from this name that the founder of this city is most likely from Jucheng in Qidi.

Lin Zhi wore a suit of leather armor and carried a horizontal sword at his waist, walking swaggeringly on the streets of Xinju City. This Xinju City is not large in scale. It is said to be a city, but in fact it is more like a town.

The city wall is only three meters high, its circumference is only five miles, and there are only more than [-] people in the city.He is one of the five heads of the city under Xu Jie, the lord of Xinju City.

Although they say they are Dutou, they actually have fifty soldiers. Compared with the Central Plains, Dutou here has a more prosperous life.

This guy was originally a private salt dealer in Qingzhou, smuggling sea salt with a local wealthy family.Anyone who dares to engage in private salt trading is naturally not a good person.After all, once discovered, it would be a head-turning deal.

Originally, under the cover of local state and county officials and nobles, these people cooperated with coastal fishermen to open salt farms on some small islands near the sea and made a lot of money.

Daqian's control over the people is actually relatively limited. Even if they send additional embroidery envoys, Zhuxia is too big.Even if there is an embroiderer, it is impossible to cover everything.

The number of inspection censors is even smaller, and the inspection censors focus on officials from various states and counties, while illegal salt production is not on land. Let alone the inspection censors, even the embroidery envoys may not discover it.

The imperial court's large-scale crackdown on those powerful people was also aimed at the powerful people who occupied vast areas and oppressed the people. However, these private salt dealers were not keen on land, and because selling private salt required a wide network and made many friends, they appeared to be charitable and charitable.

As a result, he was hired by some embroidered clothes envoys to patrol, participated in the battle to clean up powerful people, and was even recommended and almost became an embroidered clothes envoy.

But Lin Zhi didn't dare to go at all. He knew that he was working undercover. He was not discovered this time, but there was no guarantee that he would not be discovered in the future. Then it would be over.

As a result, Lin Zhi continued to engage in the business of selling illegal salt in Qidi. They cooperated with fishermen along the coast, and the business even grew bigger and bigger, and began to expand to other counties.

But Xu Ju, the uncle of Jucheng, saw a better way to make a fortune from the court. His Majesty the Emperor divided the clans and princes into feudal clans and went to the Western Regions to establish kingdoms. This was a real feudal kingdom.

Seeing that his family title would be reduced to viscount after his death, Xu Ju sent people with his troops to recruit heroes from various places, preparing to follow the emperor's eldest son Wang Xiang to the Western Regions.

Xu Jushi was a local tiger in Jucheng, so he naturally knew about those guys who sold illegal salt, not to mention that his family was one of the protectors of these illegal salt dealers.

How can these private salt dealers hide?Xu Ju's eldest son Xu Jie personally went to the island in the sea to find Lin Zhi, but Lin Zhi didn't believe him at all. He was living a good life in Qidi and was prosperous. He only went to Qidi thousands of miles away when his brain cramped. The northern frontier of the Western Region.

Therefore, no matter how fancy what Xu Jie said, he just ignored it. Later, he got really annoyed and hid away from anyone.

Seeing this situation, Xu Gai walked away angrily.

Although overseas islands are nice, they don’t grow food, so Lin Zhi still has to bring people back to buy food.As a result, when he went back to buy grain from an acquaintance of merchants, the elite Linzi guards of the imperial court, each with two hundred elite cavalry, surrounded them.

Xu Jie cooperated with these people in the private salt business, and naturally knew their weaknesses. They would definitely have to buy grain every once in a while, and even the merchants from whom they often bought grain were their people.

After the merchant learned the news, he immediately sent people to ambush him. When Lin Zhi and others came to buy food, they directly surrounded them.

These people were all private salt dealers. They were not many in number and did not have many horses. They fell into a trap and were surrounded by two hundred fine horsemen. It could be said that they had no chance of escaping.

At this point, Lin Zhi was also a bachelor and did not let his men resist. They were so small that they could not even sustain one round of the crossbow arrows of the elite cavalry and would be shot into hedgehogs.

So these dozens of private salt dealers became Xu Gai's prisoners.

Then, in a small town nearby, a petty official wearing black official uniform and claiming to be the Lingjun of Jucheng quickly convicted Lin Zhi and others in just a moment.

Lin Zhi even suspected that in such a short period of time, he just wrote down the names of himself and others.Damn it, a family has been exiled for eight thousand miles for a serious crime, and it can be decided just by drinking water?It’s not even filed and reported, so that’s the end of it?
When he saw that among the exiled troops, the one who served as the guard general was Xu Aihou, he immediately understood.

(End of this chapter)