More than 2,000 people were placed in the camp halfway through, there were shady hillsides and hills, only low turf, a stream as a water source all around, no dense forests and shrubs, more than 100 tents were installed in a large area, and there were people on the periphery with a one-man high wooden fence to build a winding wooden fence, there were four arrow towers, and two people were left to garrison.

After the water and food, plus the garrison, as well as the medical officer and the medicinal herbs, everything was arranged, and the team continued to move forward.

After more than ten days' journey, the elderly and infirm, who were not suitable for long journeys, were placed in several settlements, and by the time they reached the final wooden house area, there were only more than 1,000 people left.

Most of the people were women, and the men were all people who were in the army, and at this time they were either on guard at the security line, or digging trenches near the official roads in the north and south fort districts to prepare for battle, and it was impossible to hide in the evacuation procession.

As far as Zhang Mingliang knows, there are many similar routes, and there are more young and strong men on the island, after all, except for the displaced people from Zhangzhou, immigrants from other places are selected after screening.

Although Nan Anhou is quite benevolent, he can't accept the kind of family that has no middle-aged men, all of them are old and weak, and even have disabilities, sick and the like.

Xu Zixian is willing to help these people, but only if he has more power.

Even the Salesian Bureau and the Nursing Home in Nan'an Hou Mansion are also for the families of the dead, wounded and disabled soldiers or servicemen, and they are not sheltered when they see the old, the young, the sick and the disabled, if that is the case, at least tens of thousands of people will have to be accommodated on Fujian Road alone, or even more, how can there be this force to do such a thing now?

When I arrived at the wooden house area, it was calculated that it was more than 300 miles away from Nan'an and Huaxi, which was a fairly safe distance.

There were no harbors or moorings on the seashore, and there was no way for pirates to come ashore from the seashore, and it was impossible for them to travel hundreds of miles just to rob these fleeing inhabitants who had almost nothing.

Zhang Mingliang and his family also brought some softness, he is a close branch of the Zhang family in Tingzhou, and he is in charge of the overall situation of the business bank in Nan'an Town, if it is not targeted by Wang Yue, the prefect of Jianzhou, Zhang Mingliang should be happy in Nan'an Town now, instead of fleeing for his life like a lost dog here in the Eastern Domain.

Even if he fell into the current situation, Zhang Mingliang had no intention of complaining, if it wasn't for the Nan'an Hou Mansion that day, he would have died in the Jianzhou Mansion by now, and his death was miserable.

The family has no choice, the Zhang family is considered a wealthy merchant family in Tingzhou, but its strength in Fuzhou is quite weak, even in Tingzhou, if the Lord Fuzun wants to deal with Zhang Mingliang, the Zhang family has no way.

Even after Zhang Mingliang was sent to the sea to catch documents by Jianzhou, he didn't dare to go back to his hometown in Tingzhou.

If Jianzhou sent Yaqian to take people, the Zhang family in Tingzhou would not dare to shelter, and there would not be another Wu Weisan there, and he drove Wang Yue's people out after teaching them a lesson with a big stick.

This kind of thing may happen under the protection of Nan Anhou, and if you change to other forces, who would dare to provoke Wang Yue, who is now in the limelight?

If it weren't for the Eastern Domain, Zhang Mingliang would not only be unable to protect his own life, but he was afraid that even his wife and children would not end well.

There are a lot of wooden houses, which are basically built to house more than 1,000 people, and there is also a wooden wall made of wooden fences on the periphery, and there are also arrow towers for defense.

To the east is a distinctly alpine area that stretches endlessly, making it difficult to see the end.

There is a small stream flowing in the camp, the water is crystal clear, clear and cold, which makes the people who have walked down for ten days in the hot weather feel a burst of temptation, first the children drink by the stream, then many women are by the stream to draw water, the same is true for the men, after drinking, then wash their faces, soak the cotton cloth and wipe their faces and hands, everyone feels a burst of coolness.

Zhang Mingming's family was also assigned to a room, accompanied by officials, who were quite experts in these matters, and everyone lined up according to their families, with many children, children and the elderly in the forefront, and then began to distribute houses and food.

There were firefighters and soldiers at each resettlement site, but the food was still distributed to each family, and the top brass of the Hou Mansion understood the psychology of the people, and in such a process of almost fleeing, if there was no food at hand, everyone's hearts would not settle down.

There was some mildew in the wooden house, after all, it had been raining for many days in a row, and it was easy for such a house to be poorly ventilated.

After Zhang Mingliang entered the house, he opened the doors and windows to ventilate, and found that there were two beds in the house, divided into inner and outer rooms, the area was not large, only enough to shelter, the beds were all up and down beds, the bed was covered with a pu mat, some mildew, Zhang's wife immediately took it out to dry after entering the house, Zhang Mingliang went out to the stream and soaked a few pieces of cloth, and went into the house to wipe all kinds of them.

The stream is quite lively, and many homes are cleaning, after all, most women are naturally tidy, and although many people are tired and sick after many days of travel, and have to wait for the doctor to see and treat them, most of them still have the spirit to clean the temporary dwelling with only tables, chairs and beds.

Children are the most cared for, on the road, many places are rudimentary paths, children can take turns resting on dozens of mules, if any child behaves wrong, they will be sent back immediately, preferring to bear some danger than let the child die of fever in the middle of the road.

Fortunately, this section of the road has been walked back and forth dozens of times by the soldiers of the government army, and the natural environment is not much different from the south in the middle, and even people feel that it is cooler than the south...... I don't know if it's a psychological effect.

Except for Xu Zixian, no one knows that after the development of the Eastern Domain in another time and space for decades, the island's residents finally exceeded 500,000 people, and it was gradually divided into Tainan Prefecture, Taiwan Prefecture, and Taipei Prefecture.

The Taiwan Prefecture is also the Taichung area, which is Taichung and Miaoli place.

Xu Zi chose to go this way first, obviously with a deep meaning.

The Tainan area, which is roughly the core area of Tainan Prefecture in the future, has now opened up a circular official road with a radius of more than 300 miles, a large number of acres of land have been reclaimed, and canals, waterwheels, windmills, roads, bridges, mansions, everything is readily available.

Of course, it can't be compared with later generations, even if it is far from the peak of the Qing season.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Taiwan was divided into three prefectures, one state, four halls and eleven counties, and the population of Tainan Prefecture was close to one million, that is, it was about twice as large as the current Nan'anhou Prefecture, but the population was about ten times more.

Even if there is 10 times more population, the average living standard of the surplus population in Fujian accepted by Taiwan is still much better than that of the mainland.

The area that has been developed in Nan'an is not small, but in the next few years, because Fujian Road was originally an overpopulated place, with a mixed population and a considerable number of unemployed people, otherwise there would not have been a continuous migration to the sea for hundreds of years.

The development of the Eastern Domain is obvious to all, and if it can develop benignly, the rate of immigration in the future may increase explosively.

The choice of a new development site must not be delayed.

When Zhang Mingliang was cleaning, several soldiers were already waiting outside his house, and when Zhang's wife and others came back, the leader said to Zhang Mingliang apologetically: "Mr. Zhang, according to the previous agreement, this time we will continue to go in the southeast direction, there will be a sentry to protect Mr., and there will also be a master craftsman Zhang Zhong and his men to follow and act together." ”

Zhang Mingliang nodded and said, "Since Sun Dutou doesn't need to rest, then we'll leave immediately." ”

These soldiers in front of them, not only refuge and guard, Zhang Mingliang and them also have a very clear task, before the pirates attacked, Xu Zixian fell ill, this task was Zhang Mingliang himself took the initiative to follow, in such a panicked period, Zhang Mingliang had no intention of this, if Nan Anhou could not recover, the situation on the island would collapse, and it was very likely that everything would be ruined, at this time to do the current thing, what is the point?

Sun Rulan seemed to see Zhang Mingming's thoughts, he hugged his fists and smiled, and said, "Of course, I will leave immediately, and I can't delay." The gentleman's family is small, and there will be soldiers to help take care of it, so you don't have to worry about cooking on the fire. At night, there are government soldiers, and there are more than 200 people guarding around, there are indeed indigenous communities nearby, but their population is small, and the place for farming is very small, so there will not be much conflict with our side. And ......" Sun Rulan smiled implicitly, and continued: "Huaxi, Beigang, and Nan'an have all fought with the natives, and the prince has even brought a cavalry battalion to fight with them. After such a long time, of course, the news has spread a long time ago, and the societies here are actually very stable. ”

The northern and central societies are actually much more docile than those in the south, probably living at the junction of hills and mountains, with some arable land, not purely for picking wild fruits and hunting for a living, and their lives are not so hard.

Nearly 37,000 square kilometers of land, in the pure plains, there are almost no mountain people, they live in the mountains and hilly areas, which are at least more than 30,000 square kilometers, but their total population is less than 150,000 people, and they generally live in the mountains. A county where Han Chinese people gather is generally 1,000 to 2,000 square kilometers, with a population of at least 450,000 people, generally 560,000 people, and more than 1 million people in large prefectures.

Saying this, Zhang Mingliang felt a lot more at ease.

"The place we are in this time is called Big Belly Village." After everyone walked out of a distance, they joined Zhang Zhong and others, and the team reached the scale of more than 60 people.

It's a big cavalry.

Except for a sentry cavalry, the rest of the people rode miscellaneous horses.

Sun Rulan is a capable-looking young officer, at the age of 27 or 8, he is very capable, and he is also a veteran military attache of regimental training. His deputy head is Sun Zhengzhi, seventeen or eighteen years old, a young tooth general who was transferred from Xu Zixian's side, and has already achieved the deputy head of the capital. After everyone rode horses, they walked around outside the wooden house fence, and then they saw that the address of this place was quite excellent, and the wooden fence connected more than a dozen small hills, forming a hinterland with a big belly-like oval shape, Sun Rulan introduced the origin of the name of the village, and continued: "The plan of the Hou Mansion is to take the big belly village as the core, and we have also explored, and there is a port suitable for stopping ships by the sea." The next step is to build a road, connect this stockade to the seaside, and then build a port, and basically this piece of land can be used for development. The farmhouse sent people to see it, there are two big rivers here, more than a dozen streams and tributaries, the land is fertile, the water conservancy is sufficient, and about ten or two hundred thousand acres of land can be opened, which is quite a good place. ”

Sun Zhengzhi continued: "When the time comes, a large castle will be built in Datui Village, which can accommodate three or four thousand to more than 10,000 people, with a circumference of about three miles. In the future, when this area is developed, it will be possible to set up cities, villages and fortresses, and include them within the jurisdiction of the Hou Prefecture. ”

Xu Zixian's development plan is actually the same as that of the Ming and Zheng periods, to the Kangxi period, and then to the Qianlong period.

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"The northeast direction of our left is the place of the Maowu Beam Society, the community land is not small, we have discussed with them, and then the society will be our farming, and we will give them a stone of grain for each land." Sun Rulan pointed ahead with a horsewhip, and everyone saw an area of plains and hills, the weather was very hot, everyone saw a piece of greenery, and they also saw a heat wave.

Zhang Mingliang squinted and looked at it, and he didn't know much about the places, because the terrain was roughly the same, and there was not even an obvious difference.

It can only be seen that the seaside, plains, hills, and high mountains, these terrains are interspersed, and they are not like Beigang, Huaxi, Fengshan, that is, the place of Nan'an Courtyard, where there are almost hundreds of miles of unchanged plains, with many streams and fertile land, and it is no wonder that it is the earliest foothold of the Great Wei Dynasty to develop the Eastern Domain.

The middle of the island is slightly different here, with plains and mountains, and hills are mixed.

For example, not far from the northeast direction of Da Belly Village, you can see a big river rushing westward, this big river is called Dajia River by the local aborigines, and it is also a big river in the middle.

Tracing up the river, it is a continuous hill and mountain, the grass is very high and very long, the people of the Qing Dynasty have recorded here, people and horses pass through the grass up to the shoulder and neck, trace the river, after a long time, people and horses feel like walking under the low ground, this is actually an illusion, this is the Taichung Basin.

The largest part of the Eastern Plain is Tainan, which is composed of Pingtung and Jianan Plains, adding up to nearly 5,000 square kilometers of cultivated land, accounting for about 40% of the whole island, and the rest of the cultivated land is composed of the central and northern plains, and the other is composed of small fragmented plains in the mountains.

Walking in the basins that dot the steppe, there is a general sense of insignificance and fragility.

Fortunately, the deeper into it, the water and grass are moist, and the feeling of the wind is light, the better, at this time Zhang Mingliang and others do not know, the central place is blocked by the Yushan Snow Mountain and other mountains in the central mountain range, the climate is warm and moist throughout the year, not like the north will be cloudy and rainy, nor like the south is too hot, and the winter is not cold, this is the most comfortable place for the climate on the whole island.

Both men and horses don't feel bad, the wind blows on people, and the heat disappears.