Of course, Yang Dudu saw this fleet, and in fact he also knew that He Gang led the Changsheng army to come for reinforcements, and at this time, in terms of intelligence ability, no one could compare to him.

But he didn't need to care.

Yang Xin then led the army to continue forward, and soon arrived at the forward fortress of the Loyal Warriors, the fortress of the Loyal Warriors, where a battalion of the Loyal Warriors was stationed, and two more to the west, which together formed the northern defensive line, where Yang Xin left the army and waited for the Loyal Warriors to take over the Dantu Fort. If he really withdrew, maybe the Huwei army would reoccupy Dantu Fort, then the division of the land he had just promised would be difficult, so he could only leave the Dangkou army to stare at the Dantu Fort for the time being.

And he led a group of cavalry to continue south.

Of course, he was on foot.

At this time, Yang Dudu estimated that he had to change to a charre horse to carry it.

South of Ishibi.

"The fragrance of rice flowers says a good year, listen to the sound of frogs, and the idyllic scenery!"

Yang Dudu sighed.

At this moment, he was surrounded by a quiet place, with endless rice fields in the clear sun, divided into chessboards by straight waterways, and shepherd boys riding buffaloes and women washing clothes laughing and laughing on the riverside, and it was clear that the conflict had not disturbed their lives. Or they believe that their men can defend their homeland, but a woman suddenly stands up, picks up a crossbow next to her and shoots an arrow, which still means that they are always ready.

The woman then let out a cheer.

Then she ran straight into the river and picked up a catfish that had been shot from the lotus bush.

"I don't want this Jiangnan woman, and I don't lose to our mother-in-law in the northwest!"

Zhang Xianzhong, who walked by next to him, exclaimed.

"You women in northern Shaanxi are also so strong?"

Yang Dudu said.

"Back to the governor, it's still a little worse to say, after all, the mother-in-law and aunts there can't afford to play with bows and crossbows, but if they are in a hurry, they can also beat people with sticks."

Zhang Xianzhong hurriedly dismounted and saluted.

"No need to be polite, now it's just to talk about some family things, Yang is also from a poor background, speaking of which is a merchant guy, but it is similar to your family, but it is only after some opportunities to have today, although it is a Hejian Hou, but Yang never feels that he is more noble than you, we are all the same father and mother, although Yang commands the whole army, but regards you as his own brothers.

This time there is a plague in your place, just as my own brother's house was plagued.

Isn't it silver?

Silver is a bastard, let's earn it again if it's gone! ”

Yang Xin said.

Several of the soldiers around them, who also dismounted, immediately praised gratefully.

However, they are all sincere, although the news from Luo Rucai's side has not yet come at this time, but with Yang Dudu's advance of a year's military salary, it is enough for their family to tide over this disaster, they are paid three taels of silver every month, and they never deduct it. The annual military salary is thirty-six taels, and when they left, the price of rice in Yan'an was about two taels, the cheapness of Yan'an Mansion City, more than one tael, and the price of Yulin City, more than two taels, even if it must skyrocket this year, but they were not so extravagant that they bought all rice.

Rice, millet, wheat and even sorghum can be mixed and bought, and thirty-six taels can buy more than ten stones, not to mention that the production may not be completely extinct at this time.

Not hungry this year.

The life of the whole family was given by Yang Dudu.

Under other generals, you still want to advance military salaries? It is not uncommon for those who should have been given not to be paid enough, and even to be in arrears for several months and half a year.

The respect that these soldiers have for Yang Dudu is absolutely sincere.

"It's a pity that the little ones are too poor, the wind and sand, the drought, the winter is snowy, and the wind can be buried alive by the loess, if they are all like here, how good, look, what good rice, the small ones are not to say that they grow rice, even if they are good land for growing millet, that is, wheat, millet, and eat beans all year round."

Liu Guoneng said.

The words immediately resonated, and a group of soldiers all looked with envy at the endless rice fields around them.

At this time, the first crop in northern Shaanxi is wheat, the second is millet, that is, yellow rice, millet is not much, millet also needs a lot of water, but if you really want to say that the most common on the Loess Plateau, it can be said that the first major crop is actually a variety of messy beans. Peas, red beans, soybeans, mung beans, etc., more than a dozen kinds of beans constitute the staple food of the people of northern Shaanxi, and the reason is very simple, these things don't care about drought at all.

Of course, the production is not mentioned.

That's why sweet potatoes have a special meaning for them.

This thing is not afraid of drought at the same time, but it can also make the yield much higher than these.

However, in front of the rice are all slag, even sweet potatoes are not good, sweet potatoes are not more than rice after they are really dried, this thing is 60% water, and the sweet potatoes at this time are not modern varieties, the yield is actually not high, not to mention the difference in nutritional value and taste between the two, but where there is anything else to eat, who really likes to eat sweet potatoes.

"But the real reason why you can't eat in your hometown is because the place is poor?"

Yang Xin said.

The soldiers immediately fell silent.

"It's not just that the place is poor, to say that the place in northern Shaanxi is really poor, but it is better than the vast and sparsely populated, not as scary as the people in the south of the Yangtze River, we walked here from Xuzhou, almost through the entire Nanzhili, but in our place, that is, from the north of Yan'an Mansion to the south. But the population of a Yangzhou city may not be smaller than the population of the entire Yan'an Prefecture, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there is grass everywhere to graze sheep, and there are even horse farms, even those places along the river are not bad.

The small one here has been asked, and one household is only a dozen acres.

In the small place, a household has dozens of acres, although the yield is low, but there is more land, in fact, the annual grain output is not much less than here.

It's just a wide crop and a small harvest.

But all year round, he was so tired that he couldn't straighten his waist, and the landlord got half of the grain he collected, and then took out at least two transactions of various taxes, deducting seeds and raising livestock, and the rest of the food rations may not be twenty percent.

Naturally, there is not enough to eat.

Even in the event of a natural disaster, not to mention two percent, even the tax is not left, and in the end you can only borrow the debt of the Hades to pay the tax, and once you borrow it, you don't want to turn over in this life, and in the end, it will be the same as those donkeys, carrying goods to death all your life, not to mention that you will not be able to eat and dress for a lifetime, not to mention your own life, that is, your children and grandchildren are the same, and you will live like animals for generations. ”

Zhang Xianzhong said.

He actually read for a few days.

Although his father is a small trader, he still has a bit of a family.

"Then two years ago they were just like you."

Yang Xin said.

As he spoke, he walked to the bottom of the river embankment, where a group of children were looking at them in astonishment, and immediately raised the red tassel gun as he approached, Yang Xin walked over indifferently, and then a few children really stabbed him, but the head of the gun only scratched on his iron armor, and one of the more cunning ones tried to stab him in the face, and Yang Xin dodged it and carried it directly from the back of the cow.

"Go and call someone, the landlord's doglegs are here!"

The child struggled and shouted.

Then Yang Xin took his tooth tag and shook it in front of this guy......

"No need, it's Jinyiwei!"

The child immediately turned back to his minions and said.

"Jin Yiwei doesn't need to call someone?"

Yang Xin said with a smile.

It's normal for this kid to be literate.

In fact, at this time, the militia district had already begun to build schools, including teachers were transferred from the north, Yang Xin had already popularized rural primary schools in Tianjin's Tunken District for many years, and all the books were compiled by him, and a total of more than 500 people were sent south in the past two years, and then schools were set up in Zhuangzi in these militia districts. And the main generals of the Loyal and Brave Army are actually all his previous Dangkou army and militia in Wuxi, Henglin and other places, they were originally like this, as long as all militia areas are established, Yang Xin will send people to run schools immediately.

Naturally, these people are fully supportive of this.

Tianqi also knew this, and even many of their textbooks were written by Yang Xin and Tianqi together, for His Majesty the Emperor, who also hated those Confucian classics and admired science, he was very willing to let these militia children also learn what he thought they should learn.

After all, he really hated those books.

As for not being able to take the imperial examination......

This question is not important, because there are a bunch of positions waiting for these students in Zhaoyi City, and even the earliest students trained by Yang Xin in the north, many of them have been asked to help by the nine thousand years old because they know more about practical technology, such as his cement factory and the construction of bridges in various places, many of them are people trained by Yang Xin, and the earliest tenants of the Yang family have been following him for almost six years, and these people have long been cultivated.

"Zhuang Tou said, we are the emperor's people, Jinyiwei is the emperor's person, we and Jinyiwei are one family!"

The kid said proudly.

"Haha, take us to your house!"

Yang Xin said.

The boy mounted the ox and commanded his minions, leading Yang Xin, Zhang Xianzhong and others towards the village in front, which was actually a fortress, but not as exaggerated as the fortress, but with rammed earth walls piled up around it, forts built at the four corners, and even the Fran machine could be seen. Because this weapon is being phased out on a large scale, the price is equivalent to scrap metal, not to mention here, even some gentry in the north have bought it and hid it to prepare to defend against thieves.

It could also be the repression of tenants.

The ban on the possession of firearms by civilians has been lifted, but the caliber must not exceed half an inch.

Of course, even if it is still prohibited, some of the gentry have private firearms, and the gentry of Liangguang have been putting turtledoves on their big mansions many years ago.

The militia here is already preparing for war, those reservists have rushed to Danyang to assemble, and the Zhuangtou who stayed at home immediately came out with the militia to meet the Hejian Hou, for them the Hejian Hou is their great savior, and everything they currently have can be said to be brought to them by the Hejian Hou, and the more than 2,000 men, women and children of the entire Zhuangzi can be said to beat gongs and drums to welcome the arrival of the Hejian Hou.

Of course, Yang Xin is not here to feel their enthusiasm.

He came to let Zhang Xianzhong and others see with their own eyes the current life of these militiamen.

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