Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is also light and early spring.

As in previous years, the Xianbei cavalry still moved south around October to intrude on the Han border. However, for Shuofang, there are very few Xianbei who have entered this year, and even if they are lucky, the Xianbei cavalry that has flowed in has been easily solved by the team deployed by Xiang Ao. As long as it is not a large-scale invasion by Xianbei, it is of course easy for Shuofang County to eliminate the Xianbei cavalry that is cruising and plundering.

However, for the other Wuyuan County and Yunzhong County, Wushuofang County was so good. It's not that the two counties are too incompetent, it's true that the two counties have limited troops. And for this matter, the two county guards also wanted Xiang Ao to ask for help. Xiang Ao did not shirk either, and directly ordered Jiang Yan of Gaoque Fortress to send a thousand cavalry to support, and he could also fight the autumn wind. The population may not be large, and it is not feasible to capture a few good horses.

With the increase in population, disputes among the people of Shuofang County under Xiang Ao's jurisdiction did occur more and more frequently. For this reason, Xiang Ao specially ordered the Jiang twin brothers who followed him from Xiongshan to be responsible for the arrest of the entire Shuofang County. Among the twin brothers, the elder brother Jiang Zhuo is calm and upright, seeking justice in everything, never being biased, and there is Xiang Ao's support in Shuofang County, Jiang Zhuo is not afraid of crimes, as long as the evidence is conclusive, it should be done.

And his younger brother Jiang Lu is very different from his brother's personality, and he loves to think about some ideas and think about others. Jiang Lu's methods of punishing prisoners are endless, whether physical or mental, and it is difficult for a seven-foot man to resist. He used cruel means to torture the inhuman form, but he couldn't die. Even if he is a ruthless foreigner, Jiang Lu's approach is also tried and tested.

After the cold winter, the cavalry in Gaoque Fortress was also withdrawn by Xiang Ao, and only hundreds of newly recruited cavalry and infantry mixed troops were sent to the guard. The rest of the team was sent by Xiang Ao to the Ordos Plateau to collect the Southern Xiongnu herdsmen, and the Southern Xiongnu who originally moved into the vicinity of Meiji were allowed to live here for a long time, but they were not allowed to set up a single position, and if they were found, they would be charged with rebellion and killed.

In May, the Imperial Court finally began to react to the relocation of refugees promulgated a year ago, and the first to move in was the refugees in the state. Because the most populous counties in the prefecture are Yanmen County, Shangdang County and Taiyuan County, the total number of refugees who have migrated from the three counties is not too large, only 50,000 people. Other counties are already small in population, and even refugees are cheap laborers, so it is impossible to move out of all of them, but only to move out the superfluous people who local officials feel are burdens.

And June was the time of the influx of refugees. Only Youzhou, Jizhou and Sili are adjacent to the state, Youzhou is acceptable, only the number of 50,000 people is moved, Sili is already rich, and there are not too many refugees to migrate, but Jizhou is a populous state, and the number of refugees is more than 200,000. With such a large number of people pouring into Shuofang in an instant, even if Xiang Ao was prepared, it almost made Shuofang collapse directly.

At this time, among the county officials, Xiang Ao brought Hu Zhao, Xu Fu, Jiang Yan, Ma Jun, Zhang Long, Jiao Jing, Jiao Meng, Gao Shun, and Jiang's twins to discuss countermeasures.

"Prince, someone in the court must want to frame us. Who in the world doesn't know that Shuofang is barren, and so many refugees are pouring in, isn't it just to directly drag down the lord? Xu Fu was already anxious at this time. More than 300,000 refugees, from a distance, look like a large swarm of ants, you can't see the edge at a glance, just looking at it, Xu Fu is all trembling.

Xiang Ao was even more bitter at this time, and when he asked the court to relocate refugees, Xiang Ao considered that someone would get in the way. But he never thought that the traitors of the DPRK and China would be so vicious, and in order to attack Xiang Ao, he even caused the lives of 300,000 refugees. If Xiang Ao can't solve the problem, won't all the 300,000 refugees die here?

"Whether it is a court or a battlefield match, a battle of wits and courage is inevitable." Even Hu Zhao, who was extremely urbane, was annoyed and burst out foul language: "But such a person who ignores the lives of 300,000 refugees is really thundering that day, not as good as pigs and dogs." ”

Xiang Ao also frowned, but he also persuaded the two: "It's okay, although the number of refugees in this time exceeds our estimate of more than 100,000, it is not that there is no other way." ”

"The imperative is how to deal with so many refugees. In addition to the expected arrangement of the people who reclaimed the wasteland and the herding people, I plan to replace the work with relief. Didn't Your Majesty allow Ao to build a city on the Ordos Plateau? That is too guarded to take you and others as a thing that cannot be done. ”

Xiang Ao was determined, his eyes were full of confidence, and his invincible momentum shook everyone's hearts.

"We are willing to do it with the king!" The crowd bowed their heads in anger.

When Hu Zhao and Xu Fu heard Xiang Ao propose to use relief as an agent, they instantly understood that the extra 100,000 people were not impossible to arrange. Xiang Ao's food reserves were only enough for 300,000 refugees for less than a month, and the top priority was to arrange for people to go to other counties to buy food, and then order all the cavalry to attack Xianbei. In Xiang Ao's words: If the food is not enough, the cattle and sheep will make up.

"Since there is enough manpower, let's arrange it this way over there." Although Xiang Ao felt deep pressure, he also knew that this was an opportunity, and if he handled it properly, Shuo Yi would become a real frontier county, and in the future, it would not lose to Jizhou, Yuzhou and other wealthy counties in the state.

"Deheng, you have to work a little hard, I need Deheng to take over Kong Ming's affairs, responsible for the reclamation of fertile land in Woye County, the optimization of the irrigation system, and the farming affairs of the entire Shuofang County. I don't know if it's possible? ”

"Jun will live up to the trust of the king." Ma Jun cherished his head.

"Kong Ming, this time I have the heaviest task to return to you, I need to be responsible for the personnel arrangements and refugee resettlement of Shuofang County, and I also need to try to contact my master Bo Gong Gong, Cao De Gong, Zi Gan Gong and my friend Cao Cao Cao Mengde for me, and ask them to help, not only money, but also a talent with the ability to govern."

"Zhaoding should do his best."

"Jiang Yan!"

"In!"

"Ordered you to recruit 2,000 cavalry and 100,000 refugees to the Ordos Plateau to rebuild the Etuoke Banner, and find a site to build a fortress along the Yellow River.

"The subordinates are willing to make a military order!" Jiang Yan knelt down on one knee to salute the general, and shouted loudly.

"Where are Jiang Zhuo, Jiang Lu, and Zhang Long?"

"Subordinates obey orders!"

"There are 300,000 refugees pouring into Shuofang County, and the public order must have plummeted, and the three of you are ordered to supervise the entire Shuofang led by Zhang Long!"

"No!"

"Gao Shun obeys!"

"The subordinates are here!"

"Order you to lead 800 traps and 1,000 elite horsemen to guard Gaoque Jilu, and you must not let a Xianbei enter the country, dare to accept it?"

"Shun in one day, Xianbei stops at the Great Wall!"

"Ah Jing, you cooperate with Kong Ming to contact my relatives and friends, and you must not delay time."

"Yes!"

After some arrangement, the officials of the entire Shuofang County are full of tasks. Even Jiang Yao'er and other family members who knew some knowledge went to help Xiang Ao and Hu Zhao deal with the paperwork. However, Xiang Ao himself took Jiao Meng to lead two thousand elite horsemen from Gaoque Sai to the north and went deep into the Xianbei realm. Xiang Ao was relaxed, leaving Kong Ming and the others to die of exhaustion. 300,000 people were naturalized, just write down their names one by one, and then record whether each person farmed or worked on credit, which made the already small number of scribes collapse.

The system set by Xiang Ao was not to arrange shelter and food for the refugees for free, either to reclaim the land on credit and collect the same taxes as the people of Yuan Shuofang, or to voluntarily go to Xiang Ao Jiancheng and other official non-compulsory forced labor to receive wages. Anyway, it is necessary to support itself, and the official labor salary is not low, and the land lease is charged according to the proportion of the current year's harvest. Even the county government also funded the construction of villages in the permitted places to make it easier for the people to farm.

Refugees who are willing to live in the city can rent houses temporarily, and the rent is not too expensive, ranging from 50 to 100 yuan per month. However, the lease has a term, and if Baixin has not saved the money to buy a house within two years, he will have to move out of the city. After all, Xiang Ao is not just doing good, if he wants a better life, he needs to work hard to fight for it, and those who have worked hard have a greater sense of belonging to Shuofang after settling down in Shuofang.

Countless people in Bingzhou and its surrounding states and counties have watched Xiang Ao's actions, and the vast majority of scholars or people are not optimistic about Xiang Ao's relocation of the people, especially when they know that someone is secretly making a hindrance and moving so many refugees to Shuofang, the people of the family are even more sneering at Xiang Ao's behavior, and they all think that Xiang Ao is arrogant, and the people who are famous and reasonable are even more worried about Xiang Ao.

As for the people from poor families, most of them are watching what Xiang Ao does and cheering him up. If Xiang Ao really has the ability to handle this matter, then the family will have goals and examples to follow, and it will also enhance the status of the Hanmen in the Han Dynasty. As for the indoctrination mentioned in Xiang Ao's book, there were originally arranged for someone. However, this person is also a proud person in the family, and he didn't want to go to the remote place of Shuofang, so he procrastinate in writing on the matter of population, saying that Shuofang is not suitable for education at this time, and he needs to wait for Shuofang to deal with the affairs of the refugees before going.

After Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty learned of the situation, he was even more angry in his bedroom. Originally, he wanted to take this opportunity to help Xiang Ao, but he never wanted to be used by traitors to murder Xiang Ao, and I don't know if Xiang Ao can survive this catastrophe. In order to prevent the traitor from discovering that he had thoughts about Xiang Ao, he didn't dare to show it in the palace, so he had to vent a little alone, which made Zhang Rang and the other officials baffled.

Of course, Xiang Ao's arrangement also had results, and the most anxious were Cai Yong and Lu Zhi, after receiving the letter from Jiao Jing explaining the situation, they secretly contacted their friends to try to support the baggage or money. He even asked people everywhere to find celebrities, and after indicating Xiang Ao's situation, he saw if anyone could help Xiang Ao get through the difficulties.

No matter how the Central Plains reacted, Xiang Ao had gone deep into the desert at this time, plundering the Xianbei tribe everywhere, as long as the Xianbei tribe cavalry did not exceed 3,000, Xiang Ao dared to annihilate it with 2,000 elites, and brought back all the harvested baggage, horses and population. As for the population, it is only to rescue the captive Han people, and Xiang Ao, a Xianbei herdsman, can't take care of too much, after all, the population of Shuofang is about to explode now.