Entering Xuzhou in September, autumn is getting stronger.

After more than half a year of construction, on the basis of Jiming Village, Chenzhong County is also built on a large scale.

The county seat of Chenzhong is located on the south bank of Chenshui, which is divided into an inner city and an outer city.

The inner city is roughly consistent with the Jiming Village, and the inner city wall is also rebuilt on the basis of the stone wall covered with large and small city bricks.

The inner city is very small, and some of the buildings inside have been renovated and rebuilt after planning.

In addition to the state government offices and the generals' residences, it is mainly the living area of the state medical hall, the engineer school, the military attache school and the student dormitory.

The outer city, in addition to building a number of outer verandah houses as the barracks of the defenders next to the inner city wall, also planned to pave new streets and alleys, sewage ditches, roughly the inner city wall as the core, forming two large, semi-closed ring roads, and then through the straight road connected with the three gates of the inner city and the straight road along the river in the north of the city, forming the basic pattern of the outer city, building civilian houses, workshops, markets and so on between the streets and alleys.

The outer city is no longer built with walls, but directly connected with the surrounding fields, mountains and rivers.

The outer city should be repaired with a city wall, the total length is nearly ten miles, even if the rammed earth is not covered with city bricks, it is also costly, and the project is huge.

In Han Qian's view, if you can't resist the enemy outside the borders, and wait until the core place is penetrated by the enemy, you have to rely on a city wall as the last defense, even if you can barely resist the attack of a strong enemy, in fact, it is only a dying struggle.

Besides, not to mention the more powerful offensive weapons in later generations, only after the large-scale promotion of the whirlwind cannon, the defensive role of the city wall has also been greatly weakened.

Instead of spending money to repair a ten-mile long wall, it is better to use this money and grain to reclaim 30,000 or 40,000 acres of slope terraced fields.

The terraces along the hilly slopes are ventilated and light-permeable, which is conducive to the growth of crops.

In addition, because the precipitation will bring a large number of minerals and humus from the crest and the top of the mountain, and the dissipation of the soil force, the terraced terraces built along the contour line are even better.

The only problem is that every two to three floors along the contour line must be repaired to prevent seepage ponds that can store rainwater, and the cost of reclamation is extremely high, which is several times that of building embankments and canals in the river valley area for land reclamation.

Some prefectures and counties in the southwest have large areas of terraced fields, which are the fruits of the hard work of hundreds of thousands of generations of working people.

However, it is not possible to open the terraces in Tatsunachu.

Forcibly occupied the river fields in the upper reaches of Chenshui, and set up Chenzhong County, with 1,300 households and more than 8,000 aborigines.

After deducting more than 30,000 acres of land directly under the direct jurisdiction of the original Xi clan and used by Han Qian for the resettlement of the Xi clan and the construction of the county seat, the aborigines only have 70,000 mu of cultivated land, and the per capita cultivated land is less than 9 mu.

It is planned that a total of 40,000 or 50,000 mu of new land will be reclaimed by the beginning of spring next year, but this is only enough for the more than 1,000 households of the newly relocated Chishan Army to move westward as food ration fields.

In addition to these, there is very little room for reclamation in the valley and flat dam area.

On the one hand, the follow-up reproduction of Chenzhong County's own people is one thing, and the pace of attracting population inflow cannot be stopped, so it can only focus on the development of hilly terraces.

Not to mention the others, the hilly belt on the north bank of Chenshui stretches for 100 miles from east to west, and the north and south layers layer over 30 miles, and the limited height is below 100 zhang, facing south, and the slope is suitable for the area, after preliminary survey, the terraced land reclamation potential is as high as nearly 600,000 mu.

Of course, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream that Chenzhong wants to reclaim 600,000 acres of terraced fields at once, but not only Chenzhong, but also Qianyang, Zhijiang, Linjiang, Zhongfang, Quyang and other counties will promote the reclamation of terraced fields as a long-term project, and the seven counties and 59 townships will unite to organize villagers to reclaim more 20,000 acres of terraced fields every year, and the accumulation of ten years will also be a very considerable number.

In fact, after the vigilance of Xuzhou was heightened in the four weeks, the control of the pass was strengthened, and after the Chishan Army moved westward, the process of foreign population flowing into Xuzhou was temporarily interrupted - although the pass was not forbidden to trade and travel, but the business travel in and out of Xuzhou did not come to settle down, and could not directly lead to the increase of the net population of Xuzhou.

However, even if the inflow of external population is interrupted, the growth of the qualified labor force in Syria has not stopped due to endogenous factors.

It takes time for newborns to grow into a suitable labor force, but with the improvement of material conditions, with the improvement of medical and patient management and sanitary conditions in rural communities, the epidemic rate of adult labor force has decreased, and the mortality rate of adolescents and children has decreased, which directly reflects the continuous expansion of the number of adult labor force.

In the past, the population of Xuzhou has remained largely stable for hundreds of years without a large-scale influx of people from outside, mainly relying on high fertility to resist high mortality rates.

In Xuzhou, it is very normal for a woman to have six or seven children in her life, but the epidemic rate in children and adolescents is extremely high, and it is not easy for half of them to survive to adulthood.

This also means that as long as Han Qian can improve the medical and sanitary conditions in Xuzhou, improve the living conditions of the poor civilians at the bottom, even if it is a little better, reduce the mortality rate of adults, and reduce the premature mortality rate of teenagers and children, it will directly lead to the increase in the qualified adult labor force year by year, without waiting for newborns to grow into adulthood.

The control of the state government over the local government directly penetrated the township community, and population statistics were also an important task attached to the Tu and Hakka nationality.

Excluding the reign of Han Daoxun, since Han Qian's return to Xuzhou at the beginning of last year, the number of male and female laborers over the age of 16 and under the age of 50 in Xuzhou has increased by a net of 2,000 by the end of this summer.

If children under the age of 16 are included, there is a net increase of more than 4,000 people in the state.

This is a considerable figure that can only be barely reached by the rule of the prosperous era.

Of course, if armed conflicts break out between Xuzhou and surrounding forces, the scale of casualties exceeds 1,000 per year, which will lead to the cessation of the increase in the number of adult males.

This is also the embarrassment of the cramped and sparsely populated place.

And everyone judged that even if Sizhou quelled the civil unrest, the vitality would inevitably be greatly damaged, and the reason was here.

With a population of more than 210,000, Xuzhou could not withstand too many casualties, and Sizhou quelled the civil unrest, together with the casualties of the state soldiers and civilians, as long as there were more than 5,000 or 6,000 people, with the difficult material conditions in Sizhou, it would take one or two generations for the people to return to their old outlook.

Since the outbreak of the civil unrest, it has swept most of Jinhe, Insan and a small part of Yeju in the south, and more than 20,000 people have gathered in Panlongling.

And the Chenzhou Xi clan does not look at the current scenery, but the population under its direct control has suffered extremely heavy losses in the wars.

However, in addition to relying on the state government and the imperial court's military exploits, after recovering Jinling City, Emperor Yanyou exiled tens of thousands of prisoners and their relatives to Chenzhou, which slightly made up for the lack of labor within the Xi clan, so that Xiying could still maintain a battalion of 4,000 soldiers in Chenzhou, half of which were tribal soldiers of the Xi clan.

After the outbreak of civil unrest in Sizhou, although Xiying did not directly send troops into Sizhou through the Chenshui River Valley to help suppress, the elite soldiers gathered in Chenyang County have exceeded 3,000 people, and there are nearly 100 large and small warships.

In today's tense situation, Han Qian did not massively increase the garrison in Chenzhong, and this day and night he dictated to Xi Ying to record the verdict:

"Forcibly violated the new law of nationality, obstructed marriage, and sentenced Zhijiang County to six months of hard labor!"

The reform of the land system, the merger of local and guest households, the abolition of cheap mouths, and the trade of slaves and maids have not only caused a surge in county and township disputes, but also produced a large number of cases that have no old precedents to escape.

The so-called joint nationality is not simply a combination of local and guest registration.

There is nothing so cheap in the world.

One of the most important things is to break down the old barriers and make it possible for the two opposing groups to marry freely.

It's just that the power of tradition is still extremely tenacious, and in recent days, there have been several cases in Zhijiang County where parents agree but the clan has come forward to obstruct marriages, and even beat and injure people.

Han Qian has always had a strong attitude towards this kind of case, but the county and Fa Cao still have a good grasp of the punishment standards for these new cases, so they can only upload the file to Han Qian's desk, and Han Qian will make the final instructions.

Seeing that the file in his hand was the last file on today's desk, Xi Ying couldn't help but stretch his waist, revitalize his muscles and bones, and said in a coquettish voice: "I'm tired of the old lady." ”

"Why don't I pinch your shoulders for you?" Han Qian asked flatteringly, his hand had reached out to Xi Ying's slightly stiff shoulder, and he stood behind Xi Ying, his eyes glancing at the surging snow white on his bandeau chest.

At this time, Feng Yi rushed straight in, Han Qian withdrew his hand as a thief, and asked, "What's the matter, you ran over in a panic?" ”

"Yang Hu and Cao Xiushi have returned to Chenyang with their will, and Jinling should be invited by Sizhou and Chenzhou to send troops into Sizhou to suppress the civil unrest. Xi Ying just sent people into the city, and informed that Chenzhou would send Xi Shepeng to lead a thousand soldiers to take the post road on the north bank of Chenshui to Hujian Pass tomorrow, and asked Xuzhou to facilitate it along the road! Feng Yi said, "My brother has not sent news back yet, Tan Yuliang and Dong Tai have joined forces to suppress in Yezhou and Sizhou according to Panlongling, and it is very reluctant to resist, and now Chenzhou will send a thousand elites to wash and shoot Peng in the past, and the situation will be reversed in three or five days!" ”

Han Qian also frowned suddenly.

At present, Sizhou and Yezhou have gathered more than 5,000 soldiers and horses on the periphery of Panlongling to control the entry and exit channels of the soldiers and horses of the uprising, but they are not yet able to attack the depths of Panlongling for the time being.

Although he only led 1,000 soldiers into Sizhou, these 1,000 soldiers are all veterans who have been in the army for many years and have experienced many bloody battles, and their armor and equipment are also extremely perfect, and their combat effectiveness will not be much weaker than that of Xuzhou soldiers.

Although he was beaten like a dog by Xuzhou in his early years, in addition to his bravery, he has grown greatly in the war of cutting down the domain and recovering Jinling in recent years.

Even if Changxianghou agrees to conspire with Xuzhou, but the two places are far apart, it is impossible for Yuzhou's response to be so fast, but Xi Shepeng will lead the elite into Sizhou tomorrow to help suppress, Tan Yuliang and they can support it for a few more days?