Thinking of this, Qin Mu suddenly realized that as long as one more year, his grasp would increase in geometric multiples.

When they returned to the living room, the five people who were thinking and meditating in the living room found that for a moment, their boss seemed to have changed. The feeling of depression disappeared without a trace, and replaced by the momentum that was dominant in the world.

"My thoughts have not been fully mature just now, so I have been waiting for you for a long time. Now I have made some preliminary plans and I hope to listen to your opinions. Today's visit to Kasilon is actually a sign that the Chidi people are about to take action against the Husky people."

"And I judge that this Casillon was authorized by their king to form an alliance with other forces, which means that the war will happen this year at the latest. We also urgently need a buffer time to accumulate strength and strengthen ourselves. Only in this way can we truly gain a foothold in this fast land."

"This also gives us an opportunity. If the Chidi people can really fight with the Hunter, it will inevitably restrain the Hunter's energy. If we can supplement it with other means, maybe we can avoid a war with the Hunter this year, so that we will win an extra year of rest and our chances will be much greater."

"So, we must be prepared to make the Chidi people believe that we have the ability to fight the Huns and make them more confident in the war between the Huns. Whether to form an alliance is not important, but it is important to make the Chidi people believe that we can help them restrain some of the Huns' military forces. Of course, we must also make the worst plans."

Qin Mu made a conclusion with confidence. "In addition, Liang Qiming, Liu Xiaoshan, Li Dadan, Shangguan Yonglun, you four are going down to make preparations. I am going to let Kasilon see our military training. Although we are not many, our combat effectiveness must be reflected."

When Liang Qiming, Liu Xiaoshan, Li Dadan and Shangguan Yonglun left, Qin Mu then asked Zhuge Fang, who had not spoken, "Mr. Zhuge. What do you think?"

"I think that since the Chidi people have made up their minds to fight a war with the Hunters, whether to form an alliance with us is secondary. They mainly want to seek some forces to restrain the Hunters. We should still focus on strengthening our strength. Of course, it is necessary to take some measures to restrain the Hunters from multiple parties. But according to the current situation, even if the Hunters and the Chidi people have a war, they still have enough strength to deal with us, so we have to plan carefully to avoid the occurrence of this phenomenon." Zhuge Fang thought it quite carefully, and even Qin Mu nodded repeatedly after hearing this.

"Yes, this is also a problem we have to face."

The next day, Liang Qiming represented Qin Mu, as the chief official of the Tokugawa County Government, accompanied the Chidi Envoy to watch the training of several divisions and told Kasilon that because he went out to carry out the bandit suppression mission, there were still several division troops who had not returned, and Kasilon did not comment.

Afterwards, Kasiron said that he was basically satisfied with the combat effectiveness of Tokugawa County's army, but his overall strength was far from enough. Whether to form an alliance still needed to report to Mulua after going back. Qin Mu said that it was not important whether to form an alliance or not. What was important was that we had a common enemy. As long as we cooperate and support each other, we could put a lot of pressure on the enemy.

Seeing that Qin Mu was not very enthusiastic about the alliance, Kasilong felt strange inside. He thought Tokugawa County urgently needed foreign aid and should be very enthusiastic, but the situation seemed to be not like this. After listening to Qin Mu's words, Kasilong felt enlightened. He said he wanted to go back to report to the king and study it carefully. He also said that he would come to Tokugawa County again within two months.

...

Time passed quickly, and another year passed in a blink of an eye. It was the 14th year of Apocalypse. The New Year's Eve of the 13th year of Apocalypse can be said to be the most lively year that Qin Mu has lived after coming to the Great Qin world. The entire Tokugawa County was decorated with lights and colorful colors everywhere, which was very lively.

At noon on New Year's Eve, Qin Mu set up more than 200 banquets in the county magistrate's office to host officials of the eighth rank and above in Tokugawa County, officers of the corps commander or above in the army, as well as the main merchants of Tokugawa County and some local gentry who were popular among the people. Thank them for their support for themselves in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse. I hope everyone will continue to work hard to build a better Tokugawa County and make Tokugawa County the best prefecture of the Great Qin Empire.

In the evening, Qin Mu and his women set up a table in the inner courtyard and spent the last night of the Thirteenth Year of the Apocalypse with his women.

The New Year passed quickly. Due to the effective publicity and the implementation of preferential policies, the inflow of immigrants and foreign investors and businessmen has accelerated significantly. As of the end of January, in just over a month after Qin Mu returned to Tokugawa Prefecture, more than 30,000 people moved to Tokugawa County to settle down. Nearly 20 workshops and shops of all sizes were opened, and the entire Tokugawa County showed a prosperous scene.

Municipal construction in various prefectures has also begun to enter the stage of large-scale construction, and the construction of irrigation channels in the countryside has gradually been launched, especially the walls of the prefectures are placed first. Due to the timely implementation of funds, the entire Tokugawa County is heading towards a large construction site with busy people everywhere.

The number of personnel participating in the army has also increased significantly, and the number of personnel in each division has been increased to nearly 10,000. However, due to the supplement of a large number of new recruits, the grassroots officers who were already lacking seem to be short of their combat effectiveness, and their combat effectiveness has not increased much, but have declined. Zhu Yongqing, Liu Xiaoshan, Shangguan Yonglun, etc., who belong to the Tokugawa County army, also personally supervised and trained every day, striving to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops in the shortest time.

After a lot of meticulous and hard work, Mu Ziqi's intelligence personnel finally found two bandit organization supply sites in Tokugawa County and Loulan Duchy of Loulan. They followed the clues to discover the bases of the two organizations. Combined with the intelligence of the search personnel, the exact location of the two organization base camps was finally determined. One was located at the Wild Boar Ridge at the junction of Tokugawa County and the northwest county, and the other was located at the end of the Bayankara Mountains on the border between Tokugawa County and Loulan Duchy of Loulan.

Without further ado, Qin Mu immediately issued an order, ordering Zhao Zhongyao to lead the Fifth Division to Wild Boar Ridge to solve the "Purple Scarf Thieves"; ordering Cao Chongyue to immediately lead the Fourth Division to the border with Loulan Kingdom, annihilate the "Black Tiger", and send his own personal guard brigade to participate and assist the two divisions.

The sky was as dark as ink, so dark that it was impossible to see the five fingers. With the occasional phosphorescence flash, you could see a long queue marching silently on the rugged mountain road.

"How is it?" Zhao Zhongyao asked an officer.

"Report to the division commander, all eight hidden stakes have been removed by us, and the surrounding teams have been arranged in place, just waiting for us to take action." An officer with an excited expression on his face was reporting to Zhao Zhongyao.

"Is there any movement from the enemy?" Zhao Zhongyao was very calm.

"No, they haven't noticed any abnormalities yet, but they have to change shifts every hour. They have already added double posts these two days. It seems that the enemy is still vigilant."

Seeing his boss calm and composed, the reporter felt that he was too excited, and his originally surging heart gradually calmed down.

"Well, it seems that the enemy is still quite alert and may have smelled something, but they have stopped there. Order the troops to prepare and obey my orders." Zhao Zhongyao's eyes showed a cold look that seemed to be a hungry wolf smelling blood.

This is the only slightly flat area on the entire Wild Boar Ridge, and the Purple Scarf Thieves built it into a base camp. The four corners of the solid fence are towering mail towers. There are no weeds and shrubs for dozens of meters outside the fence. They are all cleaned up. Several burning torches on the mail tower illuminate the open area like day. There are three mail towers on each mail tower with wide eyes and staring vigilantly below.

It seems that it is impossible to touch it quietly. Time is tight, and it will be difficult to deal with if the enemy finds a problem with the secret whistle on the periphery. Liang Qiming came to the hidden area close to two hundred meters away from the whistle tower and observed it carefully. He couldn't wait any longer. He stood up decisively and waved his hand. Countless figures were like tigers out of the cage, quickly pounced towards the quiet place.

“Double ding”

The shrill sound of alarm gongs sounded, and the purple scarf thieves were in panic in the base camp. The middle-aged man with round face rushed out of the tent and found that there were torches around the outside of the camp. The enemy rushed into the camp like a tide.

"Brother, brother, what should I do now?" The young man with a vicious face could not hide his panic.

"What should I do? How do I know what to do? You didn't want to leave when you asked you to leave, but now I finally got caught."

While cursing the young man with a round face, the middle-aged man was also trying hard to find the gap. "I ordered all brothers to rush east and rush out before talking. If I could rush out, I would meet at the foot of the Mantou Mountain outside Mage Town, Bonan Prefecture."

"Brother, can't you fight?" The young man was still a little unwilling to give up.

"You still fight for your mother? You don't have a brain. The enemy has obviously been designed for a long time and only moved after being arranged. Look at the torches around you, and you still want to fight for it. You still want to fight for it. You are so desperate! Order Huabiao and lead the brothers to rush east with all their might, and at all costs." Then he lowered his voice and ordered the young man, "Go and call the second brother, third brother and the others over, and we will leave the secret passage."

"Brother?" The young man looked at the middle-aged man with a round face in surprise.

The expression of regret on the blue-blue face of the middle-aged man with a round face flashed, and then the cold eyes stabbed the young man like a knife, "Why don't you go!"
Chapter completed!