Recently, Min Yuanqi's focus has been on training troops and accumulating internal strength, and for the time being, he has no intention of taking advantage of the situation to forge ahead.

The water of the river rushed forward in front of him, and there were crowds of people with happy faces all around, busy, like swarms of worker bees and worker ants.

Outsiders can't see it much, if Min Yuanzhong and Min Yuanjin are there, it can be seen that Min Yuanqi, who is standing at the wharf on the bank of the river, is actually full of worries, which is completely different from the happy crowd around.

Min Yuanqi does have some things on his mind, but it has nothing to do with the things in front of him.

The agricultural work was handed over to Li Guoding, and the rest of the 100 households, especially the few 100 households in Hebei, were also mobilized.

Before that, because of the river, the income of the 300th households here seemed to have nothing to do with the 100 households in the north.

After Li Guoding decided to clean the acres of land according to Min Yuanqi's explanation, and after developing water conservancy, the manpower and material resources used suddenly increased to more than 1,000 people, not only strong men, but also sturdy women and middle-aged and elderly men.

River workers have always been local workers, and they generally have to be led by the government before they are started, and even if the workers are forced into labor, they are requisitioned by the government and serve free labor.

Nominally, it may be only one month, but counting the time to come back and forth and the time to delay and delay, it usually takes at least two or three months.

Living in a shack on the river workers, not having enough to eat and sleep, and being conscripted into the conscription of river workers is as terrifying as a tiger.

It is impossible to levy free conscription here at Yunti Pass, or according to Min Yuanqi's idea of training the flag army at the beginning, and he used the method of Zhuwen to distribute food every day, receive a sign according to the amount of work completed every day, and then receive food with a sign.

After a few days have passed, everyone can receive grain, and the projects everywhere are laid out, Min Yuanqi has seen it a few times, and feels that Li Guoding's current thinking is to lead water to soak in the fields.

The mobilization of so many strong manpower, most of them are used to dredge the original ditch, and then Chen De and the Li family brothers and others, as well as the carpenters within dozens of miles nearby were caught by Li Guoding, more than 100 carpenters built a large waterwheel by the river, in addition to the water diversion, a large number of waterwheels can also be used, the daily water diversion after soaking the field, to ensure the water use of the acres of the field, these waterwheels are also used.

If a person acted as a transport army and went to Beijing last year, delayed his return for a few months, and arrived at Yunti Pass at this moment, I am afraid that he would only be full of surprise and surprise.

The change is too big, the people in the city are almost empty, the original Yunti Pass of the hundred households flag army, if not the transport of the army and not the time of farming, either in the city to find work, or to go to a few nearby large market towns, or go south to Yancheng, or to Huai'an Fucheng, Guannan, Haizhou, Anton, these are optional, the distance is generally no more than two hundred miles, a few days of hard work can catch back and forth someone on the road.

In late spring, when people are busy preparing for the harvest of wheat or other crops to ripen, fewer people go out to collect work, and most of them are crowded into thousands of households.

The city is less than three miles in a narrow area, full of sewage and garbage.

Even in these years, there was no unified health management department in the county, and the cities of the ancients were by no means as fresh and beautiful as later generations imagined.

In the usual season, the city was full of idle banner troops, and there were bleak and decaying scenes everywhere, which was what an ordinary guard city should look like.

This year, the city is still dirty, but the city is almost completely swept away, except for a small number of women and old people and children, most of the men in the prime of life are nowhere to be seen, and when you walk a short distance east along the city, you can see a large number of carpenters building waterwheels by the river, and the fields on both sides and the ditches are full of men and women with tools.

There are construction sites and people doing work everywhere, and the spring famine was originally the saddest time for people, but at this moment, all parts of the Yunti Pass are a prosperous and lively situation, which is completely different from the spring famine in people's impression.

All changes happen very quickly, and the people who are in it still don't feel deeply, if they come back after a few months, they are afraid that they will not be able to recognize the Yunti Pass, and they have to suspect that they have gone to the wrong place.

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Min Yuanqi would walk on both sides of the river every few days, meet people, say a few words of encouragement, and then stand on the side of the officials when distributing grain, watching the people from hundreds of households come over with signs to exchange grain.

This is also to strengthen Min Yuanqi's sense of existence, so that these people know who they are receiving food from.

Some of these ghost ideas are the thoughts of Zhuwen, and some are the suggestions of Min Yuanjin, and Min Yuanqi doesn't care too much about these small means...... There are two hundred households, Zhao Shilu and Wang Zichang have resigned one after another, and the men of each hundred households have either been trained in the battalion as soldiers, or they are organized into second-line garrison soldiers and horses, and they are also included in Min Yuanqi's system.

Either in Yanchi, in various workshops, most of these temporarily mobilized water conservancy and agricultural personnel are about forty years old, and they can barely do farm work, even if they are the last batch of people who are not qualified for the second-level garrison.

Of course, such a large-scale cleaning of acres of land attracts the most people in the vicinity, and most of the men in their twenties and thirties in the crowd are the people who are close to the left.

These households are suspicious of joining the army directly, after all, in the Ming Dynasty, it is not that people who cannot survive will not choose to be soldiers, and the main body of recruitment of the border army in the north is the guard post set up along the nine sides, and the guard post is also the most stable and reliable source of recruitment for the border army.

Thirdly, the bankrupt peasants in the towns of the nine borders, even if they do not have their own land, can be tenant farmers, can be laborers, porters, coachmen, or have a way to work as a post man, an errand soldier, a helper, or a shopkeeper, etc., and being a soldier is the second choice of the bankrupt peasants.

The experience of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong is quite obvious, both of them have worked in all walks of life, and for various reasons, they finally had no choice but to join the army and become border soldiers.

Previously, ninety percent of Min Yuanqi's recruits were from the children of military households under the Yunti Pass and the rest of the Dahewei.

Originally, he was in the army, and when he reached the 300th household, it was equivalent to recruiting soldiers, although he did not have a name, but everyone also felt that it was a matter of time.

With Min Yuanqi's training ability, coupled with his previous military exploits, he will inevitably be a strong force in the pacification of the place in the future, and he is afraid that he will not have a name?

Farming, workshops, salt ponds, and military training are all strung together to form an organic whole.

In the eyes of outsiders, everything in the Yunti Pass is thriving, orderly, and gratifying.

The only thing that makes people suspense is the fact that the Jingshi was broken by the thieves that was determined a while ago.

When the news came, the entire Yunti Pass fell into a state of fear and sadness.

Even Li Kecheng's heartless person pulled a few pieces of white cloth in the cloth village, and the family was filial piety, and white cloth was hung on the lintel.

This is true for the furniture of the hundred households and the general flag.

The ordinary flag army also made some white cloth to bring filial piety to the emperor, and the county seat of Guannan and the nearby market towns were also pure white as if it was snowing.

People don't care too much about the survival of the Ming Dynasty, and like the officials, gentry and generals who gave up the Ming Dynasty, everyone has no feelings for the Ming Dynasty, and most of them are even full of resentment.

But when I heard that the emperor was martyred, there were those who felt miserable, those who were afraid, those who were unwilling for the emperor, and those who were afraid that after the thieves won the world, they would cause chaos in the world and the local people would not be able to make a living.

Under all kinds of emotions, people suddenly felt that Emperor Chongzhen, who had been in the world for seventeen years, had become a familiar and accepted existence for everyone, even if some people faintly felt that they were about to die, but they never thought that the emperor would end his life in such a strong way.

Fear, fear, hostility to the rogue, and sympathy for the emperor were complex emotions that led people to deliberately ignore the suffering caused to ordinary people under the king's rule, and instead turned these emotions into various mourning activities for Emperor Chongzhen......

I have to say that in this period, Emperor Chongzhen with his usual fortitude and decisiveness, and finally martyred, so that the Ming Dynasty seems to be alive in people's hearts for a short time, people have lived under this dynasty for generations, many young people from birth to remember the people under the rule of Emperor Chongzhen, the monarch committed suicide and martyrdom, I have to say that it gives everyone a very wonderful feeling. If it is said that everyone has any deep feelings for Daming, it is categorically impossible to talk about it, but there is still some sense of identity in the bones, and the impact of the emperor's suicide on everyone is even stronger......

This is the reason for the funerals everywhere, and it is also a kind of emotional collective convergence, more of an unconscious catharsis.

Through these things, Min Yuanqi faintly understood something.

In addition, the high-level Qing court claimed that he was invited by Wu Sangui, the chief military officer of the Ming Dynasty, to enter the pass to fight the thieves, and the pursuit of the Liukou was also to avenge the Chongzhen Emperor.

It has to be said that the rulers of the Qing court were the most vicious enemies in the history of the Han civilization.

Under the 3,000-year history of the Han civilization, those tough steppe nomads were stronger and more vicious than the other, and the Manchurian Eight Banners, with only more than 60,000 men, were really not worth mentioning in terms of combat effectiveness.

Only its political ferocity, cunning, decisiveness, unscrupulous means and spare no effort, the control and grasp of the Han civilization, the use of traitors, the suppression of public opinion, the use of Han officials and vigilance, the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is to put an end to the self-national consciousness of the Han civilization, to put an end to all academic development and research that is not conducive to its own rule, to put an end to all changes that may shake the rule, the whole of China under its rule is like a pool of stagnant water, in contrast, the massacre at the beginning of its founding is just a trivial matter, suppressing the entire Han civilization at the bottom of the feet, The civilization after the ravages and suppression is an emasculated version of the civilization, or it is no longer a civilization, and China after involution, ignorance, closure and conservatism is at most a semi-civilized country, and the word civilization has gradually become distant.

Min Yuanqi only shook his head and smiled after hearing the news of King Fu's imprisonment.

After hearing that Donglu mourned for Emperor Daxing and allowed hundreds of officials to hang their filial piety, these pigs of Nanming really thought that Donglu did not have great ambitions, and soon after King Fu supervised the country and succeeded to the throne, it was determined that the Qing soldiers occupied the Beijing Division, and Nanming's peace conditions were discussed, and officials were sent north to negotiate peace with the Qing court.

Ceded the territory outside Shanhaiguan and gave the Qing people 100,000 taels of silver and 100,000 horses of silk per year, which should be an imitation of the story of the Song Dynasty.

These pigs, people are coming up with knives, and they are still humming, fantasizing about whether the butcher can eat meat or not?

Behind him are these fools, what to do next, this is the most urgent question when Min Yuanqi is standing by the river and thinking!