Fang Xuanling's memorials quickly received a huge response.

The public's remarks about building a city are already in the air.

Although some people compare building a city to building a Grand Canal.

But it is unfair to say that it is because the construction of the canal was entirely due to the Sui Dynasty's manpower, which was the responsibility of the people to carry out labor service.

But Chen Zhengtai gave the money to build a city.

Therefore, ordinary people did not complain, but because of the money, many aristocratic tribes saw the opportunity. If it were in the past, the tribes would not dare to escape. After all, the Tang Dynasty had strict regulations on the tribes and slaves!

If you escape easily and betray your own head of the family, you will be severely punished once you get it.

Therefore, many parts dare not easily leave their own head of the family.

Of course, there were also surprises. On the one hand, the land of the aristocratic races began to decrease, and the land that the tribe could cultivate naturally decreased.

On the other hand, if they escape, the Chen family often turns a blind eye, and they go to the desert, where there is no place under the jurisdiction of the king and the law. Can the aristocratic races still send people to the desert that is uninhabited thousands of miles to catch people?

These troops that became slaves began to flee in groups, and even more so, they were in groups.

After they fled to the desert, special merchants would respond to them, and then provide them with food and drink, arrange their food and accommodation, and deliver them to Shuofang.

After arriving in Shuofang, they could soon find a job as a coolie, and the reward for merchants was to give themselves 20% of the monthly money per month within one year.

In fact, at the beginning, the merchants were very unwilling and directly asked for 50% of their monthly salary. However, the Chen family seemed to have noticed this problem. Many people who fled with the help of the merchants lived particularly miserable lives. Then, Shuo issued a law to increase the monthly salary to 20% of their monthly salary, which exceeded this amount, so the Chen clan members could be found to uphold justice.

The merchants finally restrained a little.

But even 20% is profitable.

The Chen family is rich.

And some aristocratic races are humans.

Shuofang was recruiting people and labor was in short supply. At first, the merchants assisted the troops in escape. Later, some specialized merchants began to be dissatisfied with this. They began to hire people, spread various messages everywhere in Guanzhong, depicting how comfortable Shuofang's life was, and began to lure some troops out of seclusion.

Driven by profits, merchants have even reached the point where they can offend certain great clans and take risks, and batches of people appear at the pass.

And here, the officers and soldiers of the pass have long been bribed.

Because a large number of people need to go out of seclusion, some transport goods and some transport people, a huge market has been formed here. The local guards are now surrounded by merchants with delicious food and drink every day. At first, he was unhappy because the aristocratic chasing and fleeing troops also put a lot of pressure on him. But these merchants gave too much money. After collecting one, the people in the future became endless. In a moment, they found that they had already counted the money and counted it.

Therefore, almost no officers and soldiers at the pass checked, and the people from major caravans were released directly.

As soon as I left the customs, someone had already responded here.

The corporations who contacted major commercial banks immediately registered.

All registrations are necessary because Shuofang has rules that every person who comes out of seclusion must report his name, hometown, and skills. If someone dares to hide and refuses to report, he will be sent back to the seclusion.

The merchants finally got the people out. If they were sent back, they would not be able to eat the blood of these troops. Of course, they would obey the rules.

Wei Er is one of them.

In fact, he had never known what his surname was. He only knew that he had herded cattle for the Wei family since he was a child, but for some reason, everyone called him Wei Er since he was a child.

Wei Er actually didn't know why he came out of seclusion.

I only knew that I had herded cattle well, but someone suddenly came over to inquire about the Wei family's army, and then whispered to him in a messy way outside the pass. I had meat all day and had money to earn every month.

Of course, these are not the most important thing, what is important is... they say they are there to send their daughter-in-law.

So Wei Er came.

Wei Er was not very brave. At first he was afraid because his troops fled and once they were taken over by the head of the family, the head of the family had the power to execute them.

But beyond his expectations, everything went smoothly. After he only contacted people, he was immediately hidden!

When the news passed, there were always people along the way changing him into various identities. These merchants seemed to be familiar with this, and even the forged identities were ready.

When he arrived here, Wei Er had a confused look on his face and was uneasy to register. The so-called registration was nothing more than inquiries.

For example, name, age, gender, etc.

When asked about the skills, Wei Er was bored for a long time before scratching his head and said embarrassedly: "I only know how to herd cattle."

When he heard the word "herding cattle", the registered clerk and several people on the side couldn't help but look at each other.

The pen in the clerk's hand trembled, leaving a pool of ink marks on the paper. Then he looked at Wei Er steadily and said in surprise: "Can you herd cattle?"

"Yes." Wei Er said seriously: "I have been herding cattle for the former head of the family, oh, and helping raise horses by the way."

The clerk's face was even more shocked. After a long time, he said, "It's rare to be talented."

The person on the side whispered: "I haven't met someone who can herd cattle or feed horses in the past two days. Today I can be considered to have bumped into another one."

"I don't know if it's a liar, I'll know it after a try."

"Now the Chen family is recruiting people who can herd cattle and raise horses everywhere and hire them to go to the ranch. If this person is really a good person, then there will be a lot of prospects in the future."

"This kind of talent...is hard to find now."

The clerk winked and pulled Wei Er aside, looked at Wei Er with appreciation, and said, "Who was your former head of family?"

Originally, this issue was very taboo, because everyone knew it was a fugitive slave, but Shuofang could not admit that the other party was a member of the army even if he was beaten to death. He just treated it as an ordinary refugee. Anyway, you know and I know it, but on the surface, you have to pretend to be deaf and dumb.

But now the clerk couldn't help but ask.

Wei Er thought about it and said honestly: "It's Chang'an Wei family."

The clerk immediately made a marvelous voice: "No wonder, how many cattle and horses have you put on?"

Wei Er thought about it again and said, "Not many, there are more than thirty cows and a few good horses from the husband."

"Good horse?"

"Yes, the little husband in the third room likes fierce horses, and I will take care of them."

The clerk's eyes were shiny, pinched his beard, nodded repeatedly, and then said with a relieved smile: "No, very good, very young and promising. I really want to hide it. My surname is Zhao, and I have a daughter in my family. I just divorced her husband for a while. Now I am at home when I am married. I might as well go and meet her for some time."

Wei Er glared at him, and it turned out that the merchants were not lying, but they were really married.

How could he know that people with skills like him are incredible in the entire desert.

The Turks like nomads, but the Han people prefer a stable life.

Of course, raising cattle and horses in this grassland is an essential thing, so everyone prefers to build a more stable pasture!

Therefore, among the Han people who left the pass, anyone who was good at herding cattle and raising horses became a hot commodity.

After all, the Turkic nomadic methods can be learned, but there is little use. People like Wei Er are now in short supply. Several pastures of the Chen family are now spending a lot of money to recruit such people. As long as Wei Er goes, if he really has the ability, he will definitely not have to worry about food and clothing in the future. He will definitely have a foothold in this Shuofang.

This clerk brought his family to the customs. In fact, in his opinion, although the environment outside the customs is harsh, the living conditions are not bad. There are too many people in Guanzhong, and it is difficult to have a foothold for ordinary people. But here, if you have a skill, you will not worry that you will starve to death.

Although his daughter is a second marriage and has divorced her husband, so what? Outside this barrier, no matter how many women, not to mention second marriage, even third marriage, fourth marriage, or fifth marriage, are also a hot commodity. I wonder how many men are thinking about it.

He felt that Wei Er looked honest and seemed to be a person with real skills, so he was naturally willing to match him.

Wei Er naturally responded happily, and the clerk gave him an address and asked him to record it. After he settled down, he would come to find the clerk.

Then, Wei Erma followed a caravan without stopping, carrying the paper distributed by the clerk.

This road... walks along the road. As the saying goes, there is no road in the world. As many people walk, the road comes out, not to mention that the desert is flat and the road is straight!

After walking north for seven or eight days, there were caravans along the way serving him food and drink. Soon, he arrived at the place!

In the distance, countless huge stones were piled up, and countless stonemasons were processing various large stones. The newly built brick kilns rose up and emitted thick black smoke. The newly released stone bricks were immediately transported to the construction site after being cold cut. At the huge construction site, people laid the foundation soil and piled up the city walls.

The city wall looks very majestic, and a river not far away is filled with countless boats and boats, which send countless materials such as coal and rock to a simple pier.

He followed the abortion and arrived at the place where the workers were recruiting, and sent the paper he had registered first.

Soon, someone measured his height and weight. After confirming that he was a strong man, someone immediately pulled him off.

He was dizzy all the way, but Wei Er was not nervous because no matter how far he went and who followed him, although the other party had a stern expression, he often threw a food bag and a water bag when he met. When he opened it, he saw that the food bag was full of big cakes, hard, and jerky!

This was already very satisfied for Wei Er, because he might not be as good as his food in the Wei family.

In Wei Er's opinion, those who are willing to give him food will never be too bad.

Soon, Wei Er was sent to a ranch, and then a chief came to look at Wei Er and asked him some questions about cattle and horses.

The person who brought him, seeing Wei Er's face was confused, hurriedly urged: "This is the head of this ranch, a member of the Chen family, why are you still standing there? Are you looking for death? Say a gift."

It seems that people in Shuofang often have some respect for those surnamed Chen.

On the one hand, the children of Chen surname are all members of Chen Zhengtai.

On the other hand, everyone found that although these Chen children were in charge of various places, they were often not idle. For example, the head of the ranch in front of him, this guy was obviously the backbone of the horses and cattle breeding. He was very proficient in this matter. There was nothing in the ranch that could hide from him.

This person is Chen Zhengning. His skin is dark and rough, and he looks like a groom. He is wearing a sheepskin jacket, with his hands behind his back, and he looks at Wei Er the same way.

He looked at Wei Er's legs with his eyes curled up, and he nodded to him in his heart. This man had some legs, and he looked like he was accustomed to riding.

Wei Er felt uncomfortable when he was seen, so he hurriedly bowed to Chen Zhengning.

Chen Zhengning had a clear mind and said, "Without so many rules here, can he ride a horse?"

Wei Er honestly said, "Yes, I'll do it."

"I understand the matter of raising horses?"

Wei Er nodded, a little unconfident: "Understand more."
To be continued...