Imperial County Magistrate

Chapter 587 Post-War Reconstruction
Ye Hongxue nodded lightly. They didn't know that Zhao Kang had already won. Since the war was not over yet, Li Long naturally wanted to lead troops to support Zhao Kang.

"General Yuan."

With Ye Hongxue's approval, Li Long called Yuan Mingqing beside him.

Yuan Mingqing hurriedly responded: "General Li."

"When Senior Wu Tianhu's injury is better, you immediately send someone to escort Lord Ye, His Royal Highness, and the three of them back to Tongzhou. This Jinlin Pass is still not very safe, remember!"

Li Long said with a serious expression: "If there is an enemy attack, even if everyone at Jinlin Pass is killed, Master Ye and His Highness the Crown Prince will not be harmed at all!"

"I understand, General Li, please rest assured!"

Wu Guanhai on the side put down the decoction in his hand, stood up, looked at the two men and said calmly: "I'm sorry to trouble you two generals."

"His Royal Highness is polite."

The two said goodbye to Ye Hongxue and Wu Guanhai and left to set up defense.

Wu Guanhai sat down, and after a long while he said, "Something must have happened to my father."

Otherwise, if Wu Rulong were here, how could he sit back and watch the capital of Jing Kingdom be attacked by the enemy?
Ye Hongxue also thought of this, but it was hard to face it for a while. Looking at Wu Guanhai's calm expression, it felt even more unpleasant.

In the past, the Jingguo Imperial Palace had hundreds of concubines in the harem, but when the Qi and Zhou coalition forces invaded the imperial capital, all they saw were corpses on the ground.

Only Ye Hongxue and Wu Tianhu knew that these people were killed by the most virtuous and honest prince in Jingguo in the past quarter of an hour!

Wu Guanhai was known for being humble and courteous, but never lacked decisiveness in killing. When the imperial capital was breached, he could escape like a bereaved dog.

But never allow your relatives to be insulted by others, even if it is him who does it in the end!
Wu Qingxue said that living people will bear more, because they know that their elder brother will do that.

After a moment of silence, Ye Hongxue said: "Zhao Kang will definitely not be defeated. We still have hope!"

Wu Guanhai raised his head and smiled: "Of course, I have always believed in the National Master!"

……

Five days after trapping and killing the surrendered troops.

Under the coordination of Zhao Kang and the efforts of everyone, the imperial capital of Huajing City has been cleaned up. Only the dilapidated city walls bear witness to the devastation of the past.

At this moment, Zhao Kang was standing in front of several strange-looking machines, which were the thunderbolt chariots used by Zhou Jun.

Previously, Wu Xiong and the others were only focused on escaping, and how could they care about these bulky siege equipment.

So it was captured by Zhou Long and his men.

Several people gathered around the Thunderbolt Car, and Yu Chenggong asked curiously: "Prince Zhao, you are well-informed, but you don't know what this thing is? Why did the enemy create this thing?"

Although Zhao Kang did not see the Thunderbolt Chariot attacking the city with his own eyes, he understood it when he saw that the shape of this thing was similar to a trebuchet.

"For throwing gunpowder."

"gunpowder?"

Hua Fengyuan was a little surprised: "Those gunpowder barrels we captured?"

Zhao Kang nodded and studied the structure of the Thunderbolt Car. He understood it instantly and called a few soldiers to demonstrate it.

Gao Yuan clicked his tongue and marveled: "No wonder, no wonder the Imperial City was breached. At that time, there were these things that threw gunpowder, and it was really difficult for Huajing City to hold on. This is a good thing from the Imperial Master, should we make some?"

As a result, Gao Yuan saw Zhao Kang look at him like an idiot.

Gao Yuan was a little embarrassed: "Did I say something wrong?" Zhou Long rolled his eyes: "Why do we need this thing when we have cannons?"

"That's true." Gao Yuan slapped his forehead in embarrassment.

Zhao Kang asked the soldiers to disassemble the Thunderbolt Chariot. He looked at the parts and said with a smile: "Although it is a bit useless, it should be said that they can make this thing. Zhou and Qi are still quite capable."

During the previous attack and defense of Jinlin Pass, Zhao Kang also thought of a catapult and asked the craftsmen in the army to start making it.

It's just that time was in a hurry at that time, and the catapult we produced was not only much smaller than the thunderbolt cart in front of us, but the throwing distance was also not as good as this thing.

But as Zhou Long said, now that Qian Guo has the ability to make cannons, there is no need for this thing.

The current development direction is how to improve cannons.

After the battle, Zhao Kang also discovered that the cannons made by Qian Guo were powerful enough, but they also had their shortcomings, that is, they were bulky.

Marching with a cannon couldn't go any faster, so he was now thinking of making some small mountain cannons.

With the cannon in front, there shouldn't be too many technical obstacles for the craftsmen to make this thing.

A soldier handed over the book. After Yu Chenggong took it, he handed it to Zhao Kang and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the list of fallen soldiers has been calculated."

Zhao Kang took it and looked through a few articles. There were people from Qian Guo and Jing Guo on the roster. For a moment, he felt that this roster was so heavy.

"Let me keep it safe and let His Majesty make a decision after we welcome His Majesty back."

The His Majesty mentioned here is naturally Wu Guanhai.

Exhaling a breath, Zhao Kang knew that he would be very busy next, so he called a messenger and handed over several letters he had written: "You ride a fast horse to Tongzhou of Qian State and find Li Fengnian, the deputy general of Tongzhou, and ask him to He handed over these three letters respectively."

"As ordered."

Then Zhao Kang called several messengers: "You will go to Jizhou, Yanzhou, Cangzhou and Yizhou, and notify the herdsmen of these places or states respectively, so that they can rush to the imperial capital as quickly as possible."

"Does the prince want it?" Hua Fengyuan didn't finish his words.

Zhao Kangdao: "In the battle of the imperial capital, all the officials in the court were killed and the court was paralyzed. We must replenish fresh blood as soon as possible to maintain the operation of the court. Otherwise, if it drags on, the country will really be destroyed."

"Hua Fengyuan and Gao Yuan, you two will be responsible for leading troops to appease and search for refugees in various places starting today."

"Zhou Long and Sun Fang led people to clear the floods in Xuzhou. The river water should not rise again after the rainy season. Everyone, although the war is over, the burden on our shoulders has not been lightened. It is time to rebuild our homes."

rebuild home……

Repeating Zhao Kang's words, Yu Chenggong and the three Jingguo generals were in high spirits.

After assigning tasks, Zhao Kang returned to Ye Mansion and began to think about Jingguo's post-war reconstruction. Ling Ling wrote some hastily, and he felt a little helpless.

If Chen Kai and the others were still alive, this job would be much easier, and they would definitely know more about Jing Guo's situation than Zhao Kang in their high positions.

It can actually help Jingguo rebuild.

But they all died in the battle, and not one of the more than 200 officials survived. This is so heroic.

Compared with some subjugated slaves in the history books who hung from the beams and threw themselves into the well water without ropes, they had much more backbone.

"We can only make some temporary plans until Wu Guanhai comes back to select talents as officials."

With Zhao Kang in mind, he started to write, and spent a whole day and night writing out a strategy for resettling the refugees and restoring the economy. Of course, this was only a rough idea and needed to be improved.

(End of this chapter)