"What's that?" Wanyan Pu Jianu said in astonishment.

The black smoke rushed straight into the sky, and even the heavy snow could not cover it, and there was no exclamation and panic, even the messenger of the post house carrying wine and food on the side, looked up, and there was no suspicion, which was obviously commonplace.

"Look at the little brother if he is strange, he must know, and he will tell each other." Pu Jianu skillfully stuffed a golden bean to the post house with warm wine.

The latter's face changed suddenly, and his smile was not warm. "You're welcome." With a palm of his hand, the golden bean has fallen into the cuff.

"The black smoke is discharged from the shelter on the bank of the Sanggan River in the west, only two or three miles away from the post house, so it can be seen clearly."

"Shelter?" Pu Jianu was puzzled, how can this come about? Listening to the name, it seems to be about charity and so on.

A somewhat strange smile appeared on the messenger's face, "The shelter is where the grassland refugees are taken in, and now the other side of the residence is full of savages who have been thrown in because of the white plague, they don't know how to be polite, they are barbaric, and An Neng allows them to run rampant outside, causing a lot of trouble for nothing." ”

Pu Jianu didn't ask again, but looking at the small face of the poor man, he subconsciously felt that there was a ghost in it.

At this moment, on the bank of the Sanggan River, which is only three miles away from the post house, a number of small camps are connected and become a large camp covering an area of 100 acres. During this period, in a small barracks, unkempt steppe refugees streamed into the building in the center of the barracks.

Aguru and his wife huddled together, looking at the building in front of them with uneasy eyes.

"Men's side, women's side......" There was a special general in front of the building shouting.

Agulu knew that he and his wife had to be separated first, and the rules of the Han people could not be violated, otherwise starvation was still a trivial matter, and being expelled was the only way to die. But even if they knew, they still couldn't make the couple feel at ease.

It snowed again and again in Yanjing, and the grassland was even more cold and bitterly cold in August. Agulu's parents, brothers, and children all froze to death and starved to death in the heavy snow, leaving only the couple lucky enough to run to Bei'anju. Then because he was not very old, in good health, and could understand a certain amount of Chinese, he was immediately sent to Yanjing.

They endured a lot of hardships along the way, but how could that little hardship be compared to the days of starvation and freezing on the grassland?

At least on the way to Yanjing, the husband and wife were well fed, and there were tent houses along the way to meet them, so that the suffering of these refugees was as sweet as honey. The Han people didn't send them to death on purpose.

Hold the wooden sign in his hand, this is the proof of their husband and wife, the man said, from here they can use the wooden card to meet in the camp dedicated to the couple. Can't you separate husband and wife, the shelter is quite humane in this regard.

He followed the person in front of him into the building, lifted the thick cotton curtain, and the heat almost washed Aguru away.

Then what Aguru saw was the scene that struck his soul.

It's really vertigo. Under the rows of trumpet-like outlets, there are smooth fruits, and the scene of the black pig washing white is very spicy.

Thick cotton curtains cut off the screams in the room. The guy who was covered in dirt and soap and was difficult to clean, was pressed by a strong man with a big waist and a thick waist in the central pool, wielding a stiff-bristled brush as if he was removing the hair of a pig.

The screams were so sharp and the scene was so poignant that Agulu's legs trembled.

Especially when those 'victims' were picked up and thrown by strong men after being washed and thrown into the water with a loud pop......

On the left and right of the bathhouse, there were also big men with sticks and whips, all wearing red trousers, with tall chests and shy, standing in the middle of the field with sticks and whips, looking at the crowd as if they were waiting to be slaughtered.

On the other side, a shaver holding a willow leaf scimitar is removing three thousand troubles for the visitor at a fast speed.

Unfortunately, the health of these steppe refugees is so worrisome that the only place for their oily hair and clothes to go is to burn them. Even though the standard Khitan hairstyle was bald, the Mongols were similar to the Khitans, balding with drooping hair around the skull, or only two long locks of hair on the temples. But it should also be shaved clean.

The sole purpose of doing this is hygiene.

When they came out of the bathhouse, they were changed into clean linen underwear and middle clothes, and on the outside they were put on thick cotton jackets.

These people are all treasures in the eyes of Yanjing's upper class.

After being sent to a camp, Aguru saw his newly washed wife, and the two looked at each other and tears flowed down their eyes.

At the same time, truckloads of tattered leather clothes and sticky hair were all sent into the boiler room, billowing black smoke into the sky.

After returning from the flower garden, Pu Jianu immediately sent someone to inquire about the asylum, which was not very secret in Yanjing City. Soon the news came back. Pu Jianu was shocked first: "How many people should there be?" ”

Then I thought that this method was a good way to subdue the people of the steppe bow.

Hungry wolves are the most ferocious. Only in the long and cold winter, the small people at the bottom of the grassland, who suffer from hunger and cold, will become the bravest warriors in the coming year.

Because they are fearless, because they know that they can't get food and cloth, what kind of fate will happen to themselves and their families when the wind and snow come on the prairie this year. At that moment, life and death will not be taken into account by them.

Just like when a ferocious wolfdog is chasing after you, the human potential to run will be maximized. When the people of the Northland are forced by the cruel wind and snow, they can also exert their own power to the extreme.

In later generations, there was a brick family to explain, why were the Jurchens in the late Northern Song Dynasty and the Mongols after that, and even the Manchus in the late Ming Dynasty, so fierce? The reason is that Xiaoice is persecuting them.

The bitter cold of winter in the north meant that they had to go south to bite more meat from the Han people in the warm southern regions to fill their stomachs.

I don't mention the truth of this statement, but tell all the people of the Northland that the weather will only get colder and colder in the future. If you want to survive this long Xiaoice period, there are still five or six hundred years of suffering.

The bitter days of the people of the northern bow have only just begun.

But now that the Han people are so contained, it is equivalent to giving the people of the grassland a hope of life at a critical moment, and when the news spreads throughout the prairie, Pu Jianu feels that the end of Emperor Tianzuo has come. But if this method falls on the Jurchens......

Pu Jianu turned his mind around, and he was so bottomless.

When the heavy snow stopped two days later, the Jurchen mission hurried south.

In Yanjing City, after a gluttonous feast, the porridge dishes were also served. After all, people can't stand the big fish and big meat. Although the congee side dishes are not very valuable, they can also change the appetite and clean up the stomach.

It's just that the seats at the table of the latter are limited, and those who have come from the prairie are not yet eligible for them. Even if you want to instigate the grassland nobles to catch slaves and trade slaves, there must be a process. If you are in a hurry, you will be suspected of being deliberate, and it will not be beautiful.

What's more, there is no shortage of manpower in Yanjing's industrial and commercial development.

A large number of displaced people and refugees were quickly resettled by land lease after being treated, but what about the artisan workers in the city? The essence of the Khitan Dynasty is in Yanyun, and it is subdivided, and Nanjing Dao occupies the majority. Even if a lot of it has passed because of the war, there are enough people left.

That is, in less than a year, large waterwheels have risen one after another on the banks of the Sanggan River, and the role of water power in the workshop has been well known to the military and civilians of Yanjing Mansion.

This is the role of the physical object.

It's not just a matter of seeing the examples right under the eyes, how do the people of Yanjing know the magic of water power? A year ago, they hadn't heard of much of a hydraulic forging hammer, but now when it comes to hydraulic applications, they can set up a gantry array.

Along with the large waterwheels on the banks of the Sangan River, there are also workshops and workshops of different scales. There are 50,000 people in Yanjing Mansion alone, and only talking about the military needs of so many troops, deducting the two categories of armor and arrows, food and clothing, I don't know how many locals have made a fortune. There is also the repair of the city and the Great Wall, the latter of which is a particularly huge project that is still a minor one.

Therefore, in the land of Qilu, especially Yidu, a large amount of capital has been pouring into Yanjing. Under the leadership of Song Gongming, he hit it off with the local family that had suffered heavy losses.

What Yanjing really lacks is low-cost heavy labor, high-quality iron ore in Miyun, Mentougou and Shijingshan, and high-quality coal in Fengtai, all of which require a lot of labor to be developed.

Aren't these steppe refugees in the shelters an excellent source of cheap labor? Their "cost" is cheaper than bringing in labor from a manpower firm. It's just that cashmere and wool have suddenly been born now, and the fate of the current batch of refugees in the shelter seems to be luckier than that of their predecessors.

The ironworks set up by the government in the west of Yanjing only collect iron ore and coal, but never care about how iron ore and coal are mined. The interests in the latter were already sold at the turn of spring and summer.

Emperor Lu only had gold, silver and copper in his eyes, and he didn't care about the 'low-value' minerals of iron ore. Unless it's a high-quality iron ore like Yokoyama Iron Mine. However, it has been more than 1,000 years since China entered the Black Iron Age, and the Great Iron Mountains of excellent quality in the Central Plains have long been dug up and exhausted.

In addition to Hengshan Iron Mine, the only high-quality iron ore in Emperor Lu's memory is Shilu Iron Mine in Qiongzhou, which is already being explored.

In addition, the biggest reason is that Lu Qian doesn't think that the mine needs to be hidden at all. The Ministry of Industry has long begun to sell iron ore in the local area in an all-round way, and even Laiwu Prison and other places are also slowly carrying out the retreat of officials and the advancement of the people. As long as they can pay their taxes on time!

And places like Laiwu Supervisor have slowly faded away from the administrative flavor of their bodies and changed to a dedicated mineral safety supervision.