Yunyang Mansion, in the eyes of the Qing court, has always been a big trouble and powder keg, both in the past and now. This powder keg did not appear only in the Qing Dynasty, but has appeared since the Yuan Dynasty.

As early as the Yuan Dynasty to the Zheng period, Yunyang has been displaced people gathered here, if it is just that, but the geographical situation here is very complicated, the west starts from the end of the Nanshan Mountain, the southeast to Tongbai Mountain, Dabie Mountain, the northeast to Funiu Mountain, the south to Jingshan, the mountains are continuous, the river is back to the forest, as long as the displaced people hide in the mountains, the government basically has no good way.

Therefore, the government at that time was to use this generation as a forbidden area, and the people were not allowed to move in, and the Ming Dynasty still implemented the ban policy, and sent Deng Yu, the Duke of Weiguo, to lead troops to Fang County to clear it, "empty land, forbidden people are not allowed to enter."

However, since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, due to land annexation and other reasons, coupled with successive disasters, a large number of peasants have gone bankrupt and become homeless, and at that time, batches of peasants left their hometowns and fled in all directions, among which the Huguang Jingxiang area is a very large gathering place of displaced people, and the displaced people from Hubei, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces gathered here, with a total number of more than 1.5 million people.

These landless displaced people, in order to survive launched two Jingxiang uprisings, the first uprising of Liu Tong called himself "King of Han", the number of rebels as high as hundreds of thousands, the momentum is almost unprecedented, and later was suppressed by the Ming army, and then the second time there were refugees launched an uprising, this time the scale was larger than the previous one, the number of displaced people responded to the millions, the world was shaken.

After being suppressed this time, the Ming court finally began to look for other ways to solve the problem of displaced people, and set up Xunyang Mansion in the twelfth year of Chenghua, and allowed the displaced people to attach themselves to the people in the mountainous areas, reclaim wasteland, and make it their own business forever. But is this the problem completely solved? Still not, Xunyang Mansion during the Ming and Qing dynasties was still in an unstable state.

At present, the Fu Han army has taken Xunyang Mansion, and it also needs to face such a complex problem. And this time Ning Yu went to Xunyang Mansion, on the one hand, to recruit brave and good Xunyang soldiers, and on the other hand, to find a way out for Xunyang Mansion, so soon after the wedding, he hurriedly started his patrol.

The road from Wuchang to Xunyang Mansion is very far away, and the road on this road is not quiet, so Ning Yu plus the people and horses of the guard battalion, walked back and forth for a few days, although the early spring scenery along the way is also very nourishing, but Ning Yu's inner anxiety is a little more, the reason is very simple, since the Xiangyang Mansion, the scene on this road can be described in one word: poor.

Different from the original poverty of Yunmeng County, Xunyang Mansion is a little more helpless, its own terrain is between the mountains, the amount of cultivated land is naturally limited, many families are directly from the mountains to open up fields, the yield is extremely meager.

When he arrived at Xunyang Mansion, Ning Yu found that there was a line of officials waiting at the border, and the person who was the leader was the Xunyang prefect who was officially appointed by the Fu Han Army not long ago.

The prefect of Xunyang was not dressed very luxuriously, just a simple coarse cloth shirt, the pulp was cleanly washed, his hair was shaved cleanly, with a layer of bluish scalp, the wrinkles on his face were folded with wrinkles, and at first glance it looked a little more bitter, he walked over quickly and bowed deeply to Ning Yu.

"Xiaguan Xunyang prefect Guo Chong has seen the young general!"

Hearing the name Guo Chong, Ning Yu quickly searched for this person from his memory, and was a little surprised at the moment, because according to the information of the Fu Han Army, Guo Chong was originally a son of a wealthy family in Xunyang Mansion, but this son of a wealthy family now looks more like an old farmer working in the fields. Before the Fu Han army marched into Xunyang Mansion, Guo Chong led the people to revolt and surrendered to the Fu Han army, so he was appointed as the prefect of Xunyang in order to stabilize the situation.

Ning Yu couldn't help but feel a little more speculative in his heart, isn't this person pretending in front of me?

Seeing Shangguan's different expression, Guo Chong shook his head with a wry smile, and sighed: "Xiaguan's dress is definitely not disrespectful to the young general, it is really because Xiaguan has been used to dressing like this since he was a child, and now he has never cared about the official authority and body, it is really because Xunyang is too poor." ”

As soon as these words came out, Ning Yu felt a little more favorable, and he was able to realize the current situation under his rule, so he was still a very good pastoral officer, and there were more nerdy officials in the whole world who were not diligent in their limbs and did not distinguish between grains and grains.

"In the Yuan Dynasty, Xunyang was poor, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was still poor, and now in the hands of my Han army, this situation must be changed." Ning Yu said firmly, this matter is very difficult, but it must be done, only by solving Xunyang's big trouble, can it be transformed into the help of Faqing.

Guo Chong nodded lightly, "Xia Guan is from Xunyang, and this situation is even more painful, but my lord has come all the way, I must have seen it, I Xunyang has neither fields and minerals, nor business and travel communication, except for the brave and unrivaled man, there is nothing else." ”

This is true, Xunyang people have always been able to fight well, even in the Qing Dynasty, there were people against the Qing Dynasty, Hao Shaoqi had resisted the Qing army according to this, and so on for a few decades, the beginning of the uprising of the White Lotus Sect in Sichuan and Chu also originated in Xunyang, forming a great chaos that swept across Sichuan and Chu.

Thinking of this, Ning Yu also got straight to the point: "Now that our army is in a critical stage of development, it also needs a large number of young and strong people to enlist as soldiers, with a silver allowance of five taels per month, and they will be awarded land after meritorious service, and they will also be awarded land after they die in battle." ”

"Really? How many people? Guo Chong was naturally overjoyed, if he could send all the young and strong people of Xunyang out to serve as soldiers, it would not only be able to feed the hundreds of people in Xunyang, but also reduce many unstable factors, so he would naturally support it strongly.

Ning Yu nodded lightly, "This matter is naturally true, but before conscription, I want to visit the counties below Xunyang to see the truth there." ”

If you want to stabilize the development of Xunyang Mansion, you can only go down and see it in person, Ning Yu will have the bottom in her heart, and the matter of conscription is not so important at this time, let's put it first.

Guo Chong was a little hesitant, as if he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it all the time.

Ning Yu was not interested in guessing any riddles with him, and said bluntly at the moment: "If there is any difficulty, you can raise it now, I came to Xunyang this time to solve the problem." ”

Guo Chong didn't know how many times he had sighed today, gritted his teeth and said: "Now my Xunyang Mansion has just been the capital after all, although Yunxian and Yunxi have been initially restored, but other places are still in a state of chaos, if someone offends the major general Huwei, the lower officials can't afford it." ”

Ning Yu glanced at Guo Chong deeply, and said, "I brought a guard battalion this time, and it is difficult for ordinary Qing troops to lose half of my points, let alone the homeless bandits everywhere?" As for the hospitality, there is no need for Guo Fuzun to worry, our army has prepared dry food for this patrol, and will not take a penny of the place. ”

This last sentence made Guo Chonglao's face red, he is the kind of capable official who really thinks about the people, so he is afraid that Ning Yu and his party will go to Dasuo, and now that they have the promise of Ning Yu, they feel that they can't open their eyes, and they can't help but be a little ashamed.