Although the Mongols are gone, they will soon come again, and next time, the Mongols will not be satisfied with just besieging the capital.

The third Mongol raid of the Jin generals divided the route, swept the entire North China Plain and Shandong region, and the historical records record that the Mongol raid was extremely heavy and slaughtered cities at every turn.

In Shandong, only a small part of the eastern plain of Shandong was spared.

In order to avoid the Mongols' military peaks and gain more time for development, Chen Xian could only put the next development goal in eastern Shandong.

There are no twists and turns in the occupation of Mengyin, this county is a poor county, and the strong and powerful here have little strength, and the county town is also weak in defense.

After taking Mengyin, Chen Xian stopped the offensive again, and he needed the county to digest the chassis of Xintai and Mengyin counties.

As in Laiwu, Chen Xian killed or drove all the Jurchen and Han landlords in Xintai and Mengyin counties, pinched all the land and walled cities in the two counties, and at the same time held the grain and wealth hidden in the people in these two counties in his own hands.

After establishing his rule in the two counties by iron-blooded means, Chen Xian chose a walled city with open terrain and fertile and concentrated cultivated land around it, established a town-level ruling body, and built brick kilns in the selected walled cities, fired city bricks, and transported cement from Laiwu to strengthen these selected walled cities, and installed cast-iron artillery on the walls of these walled cities.

In addition to the old walled city, Chen Xian also chose a location with open terrain and abundant water power for nearby rivers to build a new walled city.

He adopted a combination of guidance and coercion to move some small villages and displaced people to the newly built walled city, on the one hand, to increase the labor force for the new walled city, on the other hand, it can be regarded as a cash-for-work work, and in addition, these people are also the residents of the new city after the new city is built.

After the rule of the two counties was basically stabilized, Chen Xian transferred a large number of young people from Xintai and Mengyin counties to various hydraulic factories in Laiwu Yiyuan as apprentices, so that they could receive amateur education in the factories.

Some of the older and more honest young people were hired by Chen Xian to set up construction teams.

Chen Xian chose to build hydroelectric factories on the rivers of Xintai and Mengyin, where water resources were relatively abundant, and most of these hydraulic factories were cement factories except for some iron-making and wrought iron plants.

Chen Xian also went around prospecting in Xintai and Mengyin counties to find coal and iron ore, and in later generations, these two counties themselves were rich in these two things, and now Chen Xian just wanted to find them out in advance.

For the county towns of Xintai and Mengyin, Chen Xian also adopted the same policy as Laiwu County, allowing them to obtain a part of self-control except for justice and taxes.

The county lords of these two counties soon got a taste of the electoral system of the Legislature.

After these series of actions, the poor men who newly occupied the two counties and the rich families who survived basically settled down.

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Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it came to the autumn of the first year of Chongqing, Chen Xian dispatched troops, relocated the population, and he was also running around, and finally completed the most basic digestion of Xintai County and Mengyin County.

He strengthened and built a total of more than 30 towns with a population of between 3,000 and 5,000 in Xintaimengyin County, and transferred more than 3,000 households and more than 10,000 people from Yiyuan and Laiwu counties to these 30 towns and scattered them into these more than 30 towns, forming the first government of these towns, and establishing a central school in each town.

These central schools have recruited tens of thousands of students from the population of 1340,000 people in Xintaimengyin County, and in Feng Chou's view, these students are his most important income.

These students, as soon as they enter the school, live on campus, enjoy free food, and can also exchange jobs for their families.

Chen Xian also recruited tens of thousands of recruits from Xintai, Mengyin and Yin counties, all of whom were unmarried young people between the ages of 15 and 25.

On the condition that these young men join the army, they exchange their families for 10 acres of land and the opportunity to work in agricultural companies to earn rations and salaries.

After the soldiers entered the army, they were not immediately thrown into the regular army, Chen Xian formed a recruit camp to train these recruits, and the training of the recruits was divided into two parts, one part was a military part, which was held in the afternoon, and the other part was cultural study, which was carried out in the morning.

Chen Xian's army can be said to be the place where the most people have received new education, so there is no shortage of teachers to train recruits.

Although the land in Mengyin is not fertile enough, it is very rich in water resources, and Chen Xian mobilized manpower to build a large number of water factories here.

In the end, only the prime and the elderly over thirty-five years old were left to the agricultural companies in the towns.

Fortunately, Chen Xian sent a large number of heavy ploughs and high-quality agricultural tools that he improved from Laiwu and Yiyuan, and the shortage of labor was made up by women.

Just when Chen Xian had just taken a breath and was about to rest for a few days, a news that was both shocking and expected came from the north.

The Mongols are here again.

In July of the first year of Chongqing, the Mongols, who had returned to the steppe to recuperate all summer, launched another crusade against the Jin State.

This time, however, the Mongol attack was a bit anticlimactic, and after besieging the capital for several months, they retreated again after plundering the Gyeonggi region.

It is said that this retreat of the Jin army was due to the arrow wound that Genghis Khan received while commanding the battle.

Chen Xian ignores the changes outside, he hurries up his own plan, now it is an excellent development opportunity for Chen Xian, the Jin people are under the pressure of the Mongols, internal and external difficulties, frequent regime changes, and they can't take care of him This kind of small shrimp that only makes trouble in a few remote counties, and the Mongols are still separated from him by a Jin country at this time, and they don't have the consciousness of ruling the Central Plains at all, so naturally they won't pay attention to a small shrimp like him, he can make a fuss at this time, and no one will interfere with him.

After the construction of Xintai and Mengyin counties was initially on the right track, Chen Xian suddenly left Xintai County and returned to Yiyuan East Zhuangzi.

After returning to Dongzhuangzi, Chen Xian launched the transformation of Dongzhuangzi, he planned and built a neat brick courtyard on the vacant land within the city wall of Dongzhuangzi, these small courtyards are small and fine, and each courtyard has a main house and a courtyard, a yard in front and back, and even an independent dry toilet and a cleverly designed pigsty in the backyard of each house; The courtyards are one after the other, and they are very compact.

The construction of this kind of brick and tile courtyard, as long as there is a sufficient supply of bricks and cement, and there is enough labor, the construction is very simple and fast, in just two or three months, a large number of neat brick and tile courtyards are filled with the original large vacant land of Dongzhuangzi.

Chen Xian distributed these small courtyards one by one to the original residents of Dongzhuangzi.

Then, he demolished all the houses vacated by the original occupants and continued to build neat brick yards.

In the end, the entire Dongzhuangzi only left the original Yang family and Bai family compounds, and later built new courtyards for the Yang family and the Bai family, of course, now these four courtyards have become the East Zhuangzi Central School, the East Zhuangzi Town Government, the East Zhuangzi Supervision Court, and the East Zhuangzi Court...... and other administrative agencies, the Yang family has already gone to Laiwu County, and Yang Yuanwai was also elected as the mayor of Laiwu County this year...... Except for these four courtyards, all other places were filled with neat courtyards by Chen Xian.

After such a transformation, Dongzhuangzi, which originally only had more than 4,000 people, could be stuffed with more than 10,000 people.

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