It's not that Cao Wenzhao is really fierce, but the enemy is too weak, which is about the same as a well-equipped and well-trained elite border army fighting the common people, and it is not surprising that they won the battle.

In August of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Cao Wenzhao took the invincible men and horses to fight the Liukou in Datong and Jiannu, and then he knew that he was two catties, and the final result was that the Houjin army fought more with less, and the defeated soldiers were retracted into the city and never dared to fight again.

The Han people lost as much as eighty percent of their population in the last years of Chongzhen, and the 150 million estimated by later scholars dropped to 20 million or 30 million after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs.

In the dire situation of 80% mortality, who can guarantee that they will be able to escape?

Huang Han left Ningyuan's 5,000 soldiers to be converted into the garrison army, and each of them gave them 50 acres of wheat fields to cultivate.

In the case that they did not have any income, each of them gave six pieces of silver and five buckets of miscellaneous grains, and began to prepare for spring ploughing now.

If they have a small family in the mainland and are willing to come to Guanwai to settle for reclamation, they can report to the town magistrate, and then the "Red Banner Army" will contact the Sifang Express to provide free food and lodging expenses along the way, and pick them up for reunion outside the Guanwai.

Where does the fertile land come from? This is the real purpose of Huang Han's control of Ningyuan, because Huang Han knows geography, the Liaoxi Corridor is close to the endless Yanshan Mountains, and the water resources are abundant, and too many rivers cross the Liaoxi Corridor and flow into the Liaohai Sea.

The western Liaoning corridor is distributed in countless large and small Hetao areas with fertile land or long-sunshine areas, which are more suitable for crop growth and small watershed management.

Small and medium-sized reservoirs have been built to ensure that they can store water and cope with a drought that occurs once in 30 years, and ditches have been built to quickly drain water when flooding comes.

It is too important to have a grain production area that guarantees harvest in drought and flood, and more than 3 million mu of ownerless fertile land between Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, which can support millions of soldiers and civilians.

Huang Han's next plan will seek to control Shanhaiguan, and then a large amount of fertile land between Shanhaiguan and Funingwei and Kaiping Town can be better controlled, even if he can't take all of them, there will be millions of acres of land in one or two percent.

It is estimated that there will be very few cases of families coming to Guanwai to reclaim land this spring, and it will be completely different in the autumn.

Because it is a common problem for the shrewd Han people not to scatter the eagle without seeing the rabbit, when they will get the harvest, get the grain and silver, and they will have the idea of bringing snacks to fill their stomachs.

The vast majority of these old and weak soldiers are also bullied in the camp, and the nominal monthly salary is about one or two pieces of silver, and the amount actually received cannot exceed five yuan.

In this way, I often owe it for half a year, and now I am paid six dollars of silver and five buckets of miscellaneous grains every month, and most people are satisfied.

These rations are enough to feed two or three people, mixed with some wild vegetables and tree bark so that four or five people can do it without starving, after all, six coins of silver can buy two hundred catties of dried sweet potatoes.

Half of the people in Ningyuan City were family members of the garrison, some were Liao people who had fled from their homes, and some were soldiers sent by the Inland Guards to serve, and these people were almost as degraded as peasants.

No one can predict whether the reclamation will succeed or not, relying on the consciousness of the military and the people in this era is a joke, and it is imperative to adopt coercive measures within three years, and it is a principle that not a single military or civilian who is already outside the customs will be released.

The army, the common people, Huang Han also adopted the method of giving 50 acres of land to each family with Dingkou to carry out the military tun, and those who were willing to take over the family for free, and those who wanted to go home should first complete the three-year tun tun to see the labor performance.

Liu Zaiqi's propaganda team has also expanded, and now there is a hundred generals, he now has the rank of a civil official who is a top eight pin to praise the painting, and the two chief flag officers under his command have been given the main book of the nine products.

The Ming officialdom was civil and military, and the civil and official grades recognized by the imperial court gave Liu Zaiqi a sense of accomplishment in one step to the sky, and he personally brought a member of the general banner propaganda team to Ningyuan to publicize the necessity of the military tun and the conditions created for the people.

The propaganda team also has a general flag left in Golden State, and more than half of them are tasked with serving as teachers for study classes.

Presumably, there are dozens of children and Xiucai grinding with those generals every day, and the effect must be good, at least these people will never want to go back and listen to their nagging after leaving the study class.

The decree on reclamation that had just begun to be promulgated basically did not dare to speak up to the military and civilians, because Jiannu would come to Ningyuan from time to time to take a turn, and the wheat that had been planted with great difficulty might not wait for the harvest to be cheap.

In order to dispel the worries of the military and the people, the propaganda team widely publicized Huang Han's countermeasures.

The vast territory from the west of Ningyuan to the north of Shanhaiguan can be selected for reclamation, and the "Red Flag Army" guarantees the harvest of all the soldiers and civilians who reclaim it.

If the tuntian was destroyed by Jiannu, the "Red Banner Army" would compensate five buckets of wheat for every mu of land destroyed, and if the people of Tun were killed by Jiannu, regardless of the old, the young, women and children, everyone would receive 30 taels of silver from the "Red Banner Army".

The acres of land planted by the military and civilians are fixed at a quota of one ding and fifty acres, and the harvest is half for the "Red Banner Army" and the military and the people.

Residents also need to participate in the construction of water conservancy projects and defense projects organized by the Red Banner Army, and when they participate in collective projects, they do not need to bring their own food, everyone will be given a ration of food, those who work hard will be rewarded, those who steal and cheat will have their food deducted, and those who are serious will be whipped.

The propaganda team explained what is called deducting the ration of food, and the "Red Banner Army" organizes laborers to do manual work, and everyone can eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

After all, propaganda is only rhetorical, and many people will be skeptical, and then no one will not believe it, because the "Red Banner Army" has really issued white silver and yellow and bright rice, but in order to get six coins of silver and five buckets of miscellaneous grains, it is necessary to establish a household registration.

There is no family, so many of the laid-off veterans reunited with the families that lost their men, and gradually the women were obviously not enough for the men to start a family.

The propaganda team urgently mobilized two or three thousand women rescued from Fuzhou and Jinzhou to come to Ningyuan to match with the old soldiers, most of these women are the playthings of Jiannu, and they cherish the opportunity to be wives, and few people pick fat and thin.

After all, there are not many autonomous people in marriage in this era, basically the parents are in charge, and the "Red Flag Army" will protect all the rescued women, and they are also the mother's family of thousands of poor women.

If anyone encounters domestic violence, they can confide in the "Red Banner Army" junior soldiers who are responsible for helping, or they can also find propaganda team members and pacification officers to call the shots, and then the violent man will be educated, and it is entirely possible that the man will be sentenced to labor reform and the woman to remarry if the circumstances are serious.