Most of the soldiers of the Chu army who were active on the battlefield in Hebei were the Eight Banners, and these Eight Banners were selected through many aspects such as personality, loyalty, family, yearning for the Han family, etc., and the Eight Banners of the Holy Elephant were the most humble.

The Chinese mainland has experienced decades of wars and turmoil, especially now that it has experienced several major turmoil that has affected the whole country, the old and weak are the most likely to be eliminated because of displacement, lack of food and clothing, lack of self-defense ability, and other reasons.

Secondly, the highest elimination rate is not the relatively weak women, but the men.

With the army and civilian husband coolies, the soldiers who fought and killed the field were all men, and the people who died were all in batches, and the men died more, but there were more women than men, and there were many strong men as soldiers, and most of the places were women.

The Chu army also saves mainly women, so many single women can't all be concubines for Han men in the Chu army, right?

Nowadays, it is a feudal monogamy and multiple concubine system, and the rich and landed Chu army and the military and civilians are not short of wives, not even concubines, as a poor and white refugee woman, it is not the turn to be the wife of the Han people in the Chu military area, and even to be concubines have to queue up.

Especially the soldiers of the Chu army who are rich, powerful, have fields and give concubines, many of them are overflowing with concubines, sometimes there are too many concubines, more arable land, and limited seeds, and this reproduction will also be affected.

For this reason, a phenomenon appeared in the Chu army, and Cao Xing also deliberately added fuel to the fire, and many Eight Banners soldiers who did not have Han nationality would enter the homes of Han women.

You can't enjoy a group of wives and concubines, and you are completely subordinate to the family, but it is the fastest way to get Han nationality, and the children of the two will still be pure Han people in the future, and they will enjoy the treatment of pure Han children, such as school subsidies, enlistment privileges, and so on.

There is also a difference between Han nationality, although they are all Han people who nominally enter Han nationality, but there are many meritorious alien races who are given Han surnames, and they are gradually distinguished from pure Han people.

Alien nationality is often called naturalized Han nationality, and the status is much higher than that of the unnaturalized Yi nationality, but there has been a phenomenon that is inferior to the genuine Han nationality, such as the naturalized Han nationality as a soldier is mostly into the Eight Banners, and cannot enter the best treatment of the regular soldiers.

This makes many naturalized Yi people who have obtained Han surnames and Han nationality choose to join pure-blood Han families, not to mention Yi people who have not obtained naturalized Han nationality.

At the same time, many Han women no longer have to queue up to be concubines for others, especially women whose incense is about to be cut off at home.

——

A month passed.

In the newly built port city on the coast of Beihai in Qingzhou, Cao Xingzheng, who had just arrived here, was under the escort of the tiger and leopard, watching the refugees coming by boat from Hebei.

While the bloated triple armor on his body provided protection for Cao Xing, the weight of dozens of catties has been pressing on him, and Cao Xing has never unloaded his armor outside the house, as if he was used to the weight of these dozens of catties.

I should get used to it, and after wearing it day after day for five or six years, I'm afraid I can't feel the weight of the triple armor anymore, just like I can't feel the blood flowing on the battlefield.

The civil and military are still around him, and the head of the civil officials this time is Wang Xiu, who rushed over from Donglai, in front of this old Cao Jun mastermind with high status and meritorious achievements, whether it is the master of the Xun family of the big family, or Chen Yang, who is also an old qualification, he must be in the back row.

"Mr. Shuji, we haven't seen each other in a few days! Thanks to your hard work over the years, there is today's Chu Army. ”

Cao Xing treated Wang Xiu respectfully like a student, which was also his attitude towards Wang Xiu all along, and he had never changed.

Wang Xiusheng is straightforward and cheerful, and has been used for this teacher-student ceremony:

"You are the lord, this is what the old man should do, but the lord is worthy of this following of the old man!"

"Haha!"

Cao Xing laughed twice and returned to his normal color:

"Mr. Shuzhi, you cherish time the most and don't care about vulgarity, so I'll get straight to the point."

Cao Xing's eyes looked at the Hebei refugees who were landing on the dock:

"Since the start of the Qi-Zhao war, Beihai has been the main gathering and distribution place for refugees, how many refugees have been resettled now?"

Wang Xiu's tone was a little sad:

"Not counting this batch, there are a total of 1,035,401 refugees from the north and south of the Yellow River, including ...... men."

Wang Xiu was directly accurate to a single digit, obviously spending a lot of energy on this, and after a detailed report, Wang Xiu expressed his concerns:

"Lord, according to statistics, more than forty percent of the refugees choose to go to Liaodong, only one percent choose to go to Jiangnan, and nearly fifty percent of the refugees would rather drink porridge in Beihai to hang their lives, and they have to stay here and watch, looking forward to returning to their hometown one day.

In order to play the role of these refugees who remained in the North Sea Country, the old man privately organized them to repair ships, city walls, roads, etc., and also let them earn some odd jobs.

They see that there are odd jobs to do, and more people are reluctant to leave.

hindered the lord's plan to expand his territory and colonize, and he was willing to be punished! ”

Cao Xing just shook his head, and he didn't mean to punish Wang Xiu.

There are too many factors in the homeland, nostalgia, fear of the unknown, hometown land, laziness, etc., are just one of them, before colonization becomes the mainstream, so that countless people can enjoy the benefits of colonization, the progress of colonization will be extremely slow.

The system in Beihai and even in all refugee shelters is the same, each person is only provided with two bowls of porridge every day, and children under the age of seven or eight can still eat half full, and adults can only hang for their lives.

And every bowl of porridge is supervised by someone to finish you, if you don't finish eating, you can pour it back, but you can't leave with the porridge, to ensure that the weak and weak hanging porridge will not be robbed.

Sometimes there will be some odd jobs for them to do, such as building roads, city walls, houses, etc., most of the odd jobs are to be full, and there are wages to pay, but there are very few odd jobs, and starvation is the mainstream.

But even so, it was much better than their previous days, and it caused more people to be reluctant to go to unknown places.

"Let's organize more publicity! Tell stories, give speeches, make dramas, and so on, and at the same time ask the whole army for advice to see if anyone has a better way. ”

"No!"

The work efficiency of the Chu army was extremely fast, and Cao Xing's orders soon began to spread internally, and reached Cao Que who had just received the escort mission and docked at the dock of Beihai Kingdom.

The love between the village girl and the Holy Elephant Eight Banners has spread, and the two of them are called one like glue and lacquer, which attracts the envy of many single women and lonely widows like the village girl, especially when they hear that the other party is going to be rich.

The village girl's maiden family was called a happy one, the village girl's family had five brothers, but they were all pulled by the yellow scarf, officers and soldiers, and Zhao Jun and never returned, and the eldest brother's lone seedling became a fool because he had no money to see a doctor......