As he traveled south through the province of Lucesen, Yat encountered many refugees from the Northland who had fled the war.

The war in the north has been in turmoil for more than half a year, except for the army that has been called up to fight, it is difficult for ordinary civilians to continue to survive in the war, their only way out is to flee, the hinterland of the eastern province of Jonah is fertile, of course, it is the first choice for refugees, but as the war continues, the province of Jonah has become more and more unable to support these refugees, so they have to turn around and move to the slightly worse south for refuge.

Art found that there were occasionally families of young men and strong men and strong women among those refugees, and originally planned to leave the guard Matthew and a few personal guards behind to recruit displaced people to take to the south, but he heard two pieces of news that dispelled his thoughts, one was that as early as the early autumn wheat harvest, there were already people in the south to recruit young and strong people in the north, and the other was that a large number of refugees had gathered near the county of Tinets in the south, and it was said that the number was almost more than 5,000.

With these two pieces of news, Art immediately canceled the plan to leave Matthew to recruit, and it seems that the valley civil administration did not forget to run the territory when he went out to fight......

South, County Tignats, Wincheston Manor, Lord's Mansion Hall, Council, Valle Civil Officer, and Army Adjutant Odo.

“...... The lord has told us again and again - the focus of running a territory is manpower, and no one is going to reclaim those wastelands? No one who grows food for us? No one who is going to build houses and castle fortresses? ”

Cooper took a large sip of beer from a wooden conical cup on the long table, and the drink with hops was frothy, Cooper's gray beard was covered with foam, he raised his hand to wipe his beard, and continued to say in a loud voice: "The lady sitting in the valley has sent a letter of order, and she agrees to allocate 10,000 pounds of grain from the valley reserve for us to recruit the homeless. Now is the time when the refugees are most scarce in food, and as long as anyone can let them eat a meal of clear soup and wheat cereal every day, they will definitely be willing to work for whom. ”

Obviously, Cooper, the civil governor of the valley, personally led the officials north out of the valley and entered Wincheston Manor, in order to expand the territory and manage the territory.

With the Northland War's victory and Art's outstanding exploits in the battle of the successors, Cooper knew that Arte's title would be promoted again, and his territory would continue to expand. Conquest is the business of the army, and it is not the turn of the civil affairs system to worry too much, but the matter of expanding forces is the business of civil affairs.

According to Art's repeated teachings, there are many things in civil affairs, but the most important are farming, workshops, and commerce.

The workshop has been on the right track, but at the moment, not only can it not make money, but it also needs to invest a lot of people and money to maintain basic operation; The trade of the European Continental Commercial Bank was originally the biggest dividend, but just after its expansion, it was greatly affected by the war in the North, and now the European Commercial Bank can only encourage self-preservation, and the development of the European Commercial Bank needs to wait for the situation in the Northern Land to calm down, which is not something that Cooper can control.

The development of the three levels can still make some achievements in agriculture today.

Thanks to the neutrality that Viscount Pierre tried to maintain in the early stage, Tignets County, which is poor in the mountains in the south of the country, has not suffered too much persecution from the war, and the barony of the valley located on the southern border of the wilderness of Tinets County has not been affected by the war, so this year several villages in the valley valley, Lane Manor, Southwest Farm and Wincheston Manor have harvested abundantly, and even those thin soil on the border post have harvested more than 10,000 pounds of miscellaneous grains, and the fundamental reason for the agricultural harvest is the secret promotion of "manure", However, it is claimed that God's holy light shines on the territory of the Great, after all, people are more willing to believe that it is a miracle created by God than "manure".

As early as when the war of the successors to the north was in full swing, the civil affairs officer Cooper began to recruit refugees who fled south from the north, and in only three months from July to October, the civil affairs sent to the north brought back more than 500 young and strong farmers and peasant women, of which 200 of the most reliable refugees were brought back to the valley, and were assigned to the valley to continue to reclaim the wasteland to the south and participate in the grain harvest of several established villages, and the remaining 300 or so slightly inferior refugees were scattered and placed in the southwest farm, Wincheston Manor and Lane Manor to supplement the farmers.

The most important thing in recruiting displaced people is grain land, which is very abundant, but food is not allowed to be transferred at will, because the war in the north was not clear at that time, the civil administration did not dare to use a large amount of grain to expand the recruitment of the people, so it was temporarily stopped after recruiting 500 people.

Half a month ago, Art's great achievements in the east were reported back to the south, and the destruction of Besançon, Cooper and the civil officials decisively seized this opportunity, and after obtaining the consent and authorization of Baroness Lottie, Cooper personally led a group of civil officials to the north to recruit the people.

Lynn, the adjutant of civil affairs, is a steady and steady character, and he is relatively steady, he hesitated for a moment, and said softly to the top Cooper: "Old butler, according to your plan, we have recruited more than 1,000 people this time, is it too much money, food and materials to be consumed for such a scale of recruitment?" It is now the beginning of February, and there are still more than four months before the winter wheat harvest, and even if these people immediately reclaim the wasteland and sow the spring wheat before April, it will not be harvested until September. Moreover, the reclamation of wasteland requires farm tools, livestock, and seeds, and these things are very expensive, so should we wait for the adults to come back from the Northland to make a decision? ”

Cooper shook his head, "The situation in the Northland has become clear, and many refugees will soon be on their way home, especially those who are young and strong. The city of Tignets has stopped giving food to the refugees, and these hungry people will definitely leave Tignets and return north, so we can't wait long......"

The valley adjutant Gehr pondered for a long time, then raised his head and suggested: "Old butler, you see if this will work, we will send people to Tinetz to recruit workers on a large scale, and recruit those who are strong enough to work at Wincheston Manor to work, strengthen the manor's walls, repair roads, reclaim wasteland, dredge rivers, cut timber, and let them do whatever they can." Then we offered a meal of wheat cereal to the people who came to work every day, and hung them until the adults returned. ”

"This doesn't have to cost too much food, but also can keep the young refugees, and can also run the territory, even if the adults don't plan to recruit the people after they return, we should send out the food to buy the adults a benevolent reputation, how about it?"

Cooper glanced around the hall and nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I'll leave this matter to Lynn and Gehr, first transfer three thousand pounds of grain from Wincheston Manor, and you two will personally go to Tignets to recruit them."

"Gehr, you're the construction adjutant, think about what you can do for these refugees?" Cooper asked Gehr, who was in charge of the construction.

"Then repair the road, shall we? The adults have long wanted to repair the north-south trade route, and this task requires a lot of manpower, so it is just right for these people to do it......"

While thousands of northland refugees in Tiniez County were struggling to support themselves, a team of nearly 1,000 people in the northeast of Jonah Province was also dragging its long tail to the south, and the head of the team had sunk into the mountains, but its tail was still on the plains.

The team was led by Art's new clerk, Bob Wolfgang, and Dennis, the ideological officer.

After the war in the East, Art ordered the two men to recruit refugees on the road to the east, along with 10,000 pfennigs, five wagons of food, and fifteen escorts.

After receiving the order, the two of them immediately began to work, there was money and food, and the matter of recruiting the people was not too difficult, and Dunnes was even more skillful, he told those refugees who had returned to the east that he was likely to invade the border again soon, and the border was no longer suitable for survival, and then he boasted about the exploits of Yat and the good life in the territory of the southern Yate, and made those yellow-faced and thin-skinned refugees who had suffered so much that they wanted to fly to the south immediately to become the subjects of the hero of the East.

In less than three days, the two of them recruited while traveling south, and the number of people in the team soon exceeded 1,005.

Most of the 1,500 refugees are young and strong refugee families, but there are also many old and weak women, children, sick and disabled who follow behind, and the two leaders do not deliberately drive away, and their method of cutting out the old and weak and selecting the young and strong is very simple - every day they will run to the front of the team with food and baggage to make a fire to cook, and each time the wheat porridge is boiled is only enough for two-thirds of the people to eat and drink, and those strong refugees can naturally rush to the front of the team in time to eat a life-sustaining meal of clear soup and wheat cereal, Naturally, the frail refugees who were dragging their tails could only die hungry on the way or leave on their own.

Bob's own hundreds of people are also among them, Bob of course has to take care of these people who have been begging behind him, these people always eat a few more grains of grain than ordinary refugees every day, but with Dunnis together, he can't be too obvious, that will cause some unnecessary misunderstandings, so his own hundreds of people have fallen behind one after another.

"Lord Dennis, just now I took someone to ride to the rear team to see, and five more died in the back, I'm afraid those on the tail won't follow tonight, I estimate that the number of people in the team is at most in the early thousands, and young families account for the vast majority." Bob, who was sweating profusely, came to a sheltered valley in the mountains, three huge deep barrels of copper cauldron gurgling and bubbling, the ideological and political officer Dunnis and two officials were holding grain bags and counting the wheat grains and pouring grain into the boiling water, four or five soldiers armed with short swords and spears stood guard around the cauldron, in fact, no one dared to snatch food after killing the two refugees who were not long-eyed.

"Lord Bob, from today onwards, we will not deliberately cut out, and we will live and cook every day after everyone is roughly there." Dennis put down the spoon in his hand and clapped his hands.

"Lord Dunnis, you can just call me Bob, my "lord" is estimated to have been removed from the palace a long time ago, and I am now an ordinary commoner. Bob looked humble.

"No, no, no, even if you are not a baron, you are also the secretary of the Chinese army, and I should call you Lord Bob." Dennis was born into a commoner, and he had a natural respect for people of noble blood, even if the fat man in front of him was a crappy nobleman.

The two of them humbled each other for a while, and decided to use each other's names to avoid being born.

"Dennis, the 10,000 pfennigs allocated by the adults have bought food and supplies along the way, and there are still 3,000 pfennigs left, but there is no place to buy food after entering the mountains, I took a look, according to what you said, there are at least six or seven days before you may return to the territory of the adults, then the remaining food is probably not enough to eat." Bob gets back to business.

Dennis turned around and asked the clerk who had added wheat grains to each cauldron to add two handfuls of wheat to each cauldron, and then said to Bob, "Don't worry too much, this is already the southern border of the province of Jonah, and two days down the mountain road will be a barony called Andermatt, and the lord Baron Antayas is a dear friend of our lordship, and we can get help there, and maybe even a windward dinner......"

Ah sneeze~

Frontier Baron Antayas sneezed fiercely, "Who's talking about me?" Antayas rubbed his nose and whispered a question, and then continued to lead two of his own soldiers around the city.

A soldier who looked like a herald ran up to the wall and bowed to Baron Antayas, "Baron Antaas, Chief Angus, please go to the Chinese military camp to discuss matters." ”

"Little brother, what's the matter with Sir Angus?"

"Back to Lord Baron, Chief Angus intends to bring a small number of elites to stab the Kodorians in the ass, as if he asked you to discuss."

"Take the initiative to attack Kodor? Lord Art's men are all crazy people! I like it~" Antayas smiled and followed the herald down the wall.

This is the Stone Fort, a place that has just undergone the ninth offensive and defensive battle.

The War of the Successors continued to burn in the form of this small-scale subintensity in one of the southern border areas.

Eight days ago, Baron Antaas received a letter for help from the Valley of Wales, when the eighth offensive and defensive battle was underway in the Stone Fort, and an army of thirty people from Kodor actually appeared in the hinterland of the Barony of Sapp in a huge circle from further south, they thought that the defense of Sap's hinterland was empty, and with thirty people was enough to break the internal defense of Sapp, but did not want to be undefended in the past, Barony Sapp had already established a complete defense system, Surviving the initial panic, the Sapp people, led by some squires, quickly withstood the onslaught of small enemy forces, and then were annihilated by the troops returning from the Stone Fort on the road to the defeated mountains.

Although the battle was won, there was also a crisis in Sapp, and the army stationed at Tiaoshi Fort had to send one-third of its elite patrols to defend the hinterland.

After the eighth battle, Sapp called for help again, but before the troops of the Atters had yet to reach Lane Manor, Cooper, the civil governor who remained in the valley, immediately appealed to Fort Andermatt for help.

Baron Antaas, who was leading more than 80 elite troops to clear the hostile forces in the western border of Tignats, immediately rushed with more than 80 soldiers day and night after receiving the letter of request for help, and it took less than five days to reinforce Barony Sapp before the ninth offensive and defensive battle began.

Andermatt's army is not very powerful, but it is also a young soldier, and it can play a major role in the battle to defend the city.

With the addition of more than eighty soldiers of Baron Antayas, the ninth offensive and defensive battle of the Stone Fort was won without suspense.

On the fourth day after the end of the ninth battle, Angus arrived at Fort Sap with the troops of the Wells Legion.

The Kodor army, which had learned of the arrival of the Welsh legion in the north, finally conceded defeat, and they gave up the siege of the stone fort for dozens of days, killing and wounding hundreds of people, and returned to Kodor Province with their tails between their breath.

The day after the Kodor army returned, an army of mountain people descending north from the Count of Longxia broke through a border castle in the province of Kodor, killing the castle lord and more than 100 of his soldiers......

Nine battles were fought on the small frontier, which also caused the eastern and western armies, which were already weak in the north, to start planning a campaign in the south......

The palace moved quickly enough, and on the day of his arrival in the county town of Tiniez, Art received a letter from the palace to send flying pigeons - the court ordered the southern military officer Art to formally form the Southern Garrison Legion, with an approved number of 500, intended to defend the south, resist Kodor and wait for the opportunity to attack the Western Army from Kodor.

The court was unable to support the newly reorganized army, and allowed Yat to use all the taxes paid by Tinets to feed the army until the court announced the abolition of the Southern Garrison......

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Chapter 377: Southern Frontier Garrison Corps