Huangniling Village was originally a village of more than 100 families, but it was only ten miles away from the garrison of Chen Shaowei's third battalion of the Tiger Prison New Army. For the common people here, the army of the enemy country is naturally as fierce as a tiger, and if they don't escape, they are afraid that they will not even be able to leave the bones and slag. After a few months, Huangniling Village has lost its appearance, it was originally some adobe thatched houses, and after months of heavy snowfall, most of the houses in the village that were of poor quality were crushed by the snow.

When Qin Feng stepped into this village, he couldn't help but shake his head again and again.

It is not far from Shuanglian City, and it is less than a hundred miles away from Yongdu City, and the life of the common people is so hard. If you don't look at anything else, just look at these houses, and then look at the crude furniture in the houses, you can imagine how hard these people live on weekdays.

This should be regarded as the foot of the Son of Heaven of the Qin State, they are all so poor, those Qin people who are far away from Yongdu, the life can be imagined. If the people live like this in the capital of Yuejing, the local pro-people officials are afraid that they will immediately lose their official hats.

Blue bricks and blue tiles, small bridges and flowing water, chickens and dogs barking, leading old cows to carry hoes and walking on the ridges, dogs running and chickens jumping around, green smoke curling in the house, this is Qin Feng's ideal rural family, but all this in front of him, except for dilapidation, decadence, and desolation, basically did not give him any other feelings.

Standing outside a house with a collapsed roof and looking inside, there were hardly any pieces of furniture to be seen, the snow was piled up in the room at least a foot thick, and the long ice cubes were shining on the tables and benches.

There was no pot on the stove, and there was a large black hole left. The iron pot is a very valuable belongings for ordinary people, and when these people fled, they naturally carried it away.

"It's a little too run-down." Qin Feng stood on top of a stone mill in the village with his hands behind his back, with a bird's-eye view of the entire village.

"Your Majesty, it looks a little dilapidated, but the foundation of the entire village is still there, and the general appearance is still there, so that's fine." Chen Zhihua's military Sima Su Kan hurriedly came over and explained. Chen Zhihua is the commander of the army, and he is busy every day, so he naturally can't accompany Qin Feng out for a walk, because to resettle those refugees, the military Sima Su Kan is in charge of some logistics on weekdays, so he is naturally familiar with the way.

"The last general has already sent someone to inform Chen Shaowei, and the logistics and heavy troops of the new third battalion will arrive soon in a while, and they will definitely make this village look different and make His Majesty's eyes shine."

Qin Feng laughed: "It's not easy to make my eyes shine."

The logistics baggage troops of the Ming Dynasty are very different from the logistics baggage troops of other countries, or in other words, they should be called engineering troops. The transportation of grain, grass and ordnance of the Ming army was contracted to merchants, and the so-called logistics baggage soldiers did not care about these things, they also occupied the quota of regular soldiers, and under normal circumstances, they did not need to go to the front line to fight. But these people are all baby bumps in the army, and each one of them is a guy with a skill. In the locality, they are all skilled craftsmen, building roads and bridges, building and repairing all kinds of equipment, but anyone who stays in the army for a few years and returns to the local area is a very popular person. Because they have nothing else to do in the army, the only thing they can do is to study their own skills, and their craftsmanship is more than a star and a half stronger than those craftsmen in the local area.

Therefore, after the logistics baggage of the Ming Dynasty has been in the army for three years, it is difficult to retain it in the army. In addition to those officers who have military ranks, these craftsmen can return to the local area after retirement, and within a few years they can make a lot of money, and the army is a good place for them to improve their skills.

The army is not like the local master who still wants to keep a hand, in the Ming Dynasty, the best various techniques are always applied to the army at the first time, and these logistics baggage soldiers are the first batch of people to learn the hand.

It is not that no one has made suggestions to Qin Feng, asking for an extension of the service period of these soldiers or even restricting the retirement of such soldiers, but Qin Feng refused without hesitation.

Of course, the best technology will be applied to the military for the first time, but then, it will naturally spread to the people, these people have learned good technology, returned to the countryside, and can rely on their skills to drive one party to get rich, this is a good thing, why restrict? What's more, the core technology of the Ming Dynasty, such as the skill of smelting steel, the skill of building those crossbow machines, and the skill of thunderbolt fire, is impossible to flow out. At most, these engineers can repair.

The entire Huangni Village is now busy except for Qin Feng, who is an idler. Su Kan was busy directing the materials transported from Pingtang into categories, and the horse monkey led the guards to start clearing the snow in the village, this village was almost buried by snow, and he had to clear a few roads first.

In the distance, a large group of men and horses were moving towards this place, and the soldiers of the Agni Death Battalion on guard waved flags to indicate that this was their own people, and the guards in the village, who had already raised their weapons, began to work again.

Qin Feng was bored, so he went to see the materials transported by Su Kan. Food, bedding, clothes, everything, but most of the clothes and bedding are worn and old, apparently some materials recovered from the army. But for these refugees, it's too good to be true. Chen Zhihua didn't bring out the latest and greatest guys from the treasury to curry favor with the emperor because Qin Feng was very concerned about this matter, which made Qin Feng very happy.

Saving people is saving people, but after all, it's still different from intimacy. The refugees must not be allowed to wear new clothes and the soldiers to wear shabby clothes covered with torn quilts. After all, this is an unexpected event, and the logistics have not considered such a thing before. Now it's just a matter of squeezing from the soldiers.

"What follow-up measures do you have for these refugees?" Qin Feng asked casually.

"Back to Your Majesty, the general said, you can't let the army feed these people in vain, so after they are settled, there are still some jobs to be handed over to them to do, I don't raise idlers, everyone can play a little role, even if it is women and children, there are also jobs suitable for them. We can only save the emergency, but we can't help the poor, let them live, and then let them use their own hands to earn food for themselves." Su Kan replied with a smile: "Tens of thousands of military camps are gathered here, and there are countless jobs to do. If there are some people like this to do it, it can free up a lot of people to do other things."

"That's right!" Qin Feng nodded slightly. Chen Zhihua thought very thoughtfully, even if it is next spring, these people can farm, but the rations still have to be relieved by the Ming Dynasty, which is a large expense, and the key thing is that this is definitely not an isolated phenomenon, but an extremely common thing. Without a charter, I'm afraid it will be a mess when the time comes.

Shengmien, Doumien. No matter who they are, they should not feel that they should be relieved, and using their own hands to earn a ration for themselves is the long-term solution.

The team in the distance finally approached, and the leader was Chen Shaowei, the commander of the new third battalion, who saw that Qin Feng was also here, so he immediately stopped the team, let the accompanying people and horses stop outside the village, and he rolled the saddle and dismounted, and trotted all the way into the village.

"Chen Shaowei knocks to see Your Majesty!" Chen Shaowei stepped forward to salute Qin Feng.

Qin Feng glanced at the people outside the village, "Didn't you say last time that there were only more than five hundred?" It looks like there are thousands of people, right?"

Chen Shaowei saw sweat on his forehead, "Your Majesty, later, many refugees came over one after another, and some even found our patrol scout team by themselves, and this person became more and more day by day."

Qin Feng laughed hesitantly, and said to himself, "Interesting." Among the more than 1,000 refugees, many are young and strong, accounting for about one-tenth.

"Your baggage is here, aren't they? Let them get to work, and they must clear out some of the houses before it gets dark and stuff them in, or it will be hard to get through the evening."

"Yes, Your Majesty. The logistics and baggage troops of the new third battalion are here, oh, there are 500 men and horses, and the general asked me to transfer them, and this time the right is to escort these refugees over, and then hand them over to General Ma." Chen Shaowei said.

The horse monkey carrying a big log happened to pass by, and when he heard this, the monkey hurriedly threw the wood to the side, and pulled Chen Shaowei and said: "Take me to see what kind of people you give me, if it's not good, I won't follow it."

"Of course it's the best." Chen Shaowei hurriedly said, but was dragged away by the horse monkey.

More than a dozen carts gradually drove into the village, and a hundred or so soldiers tore the tarpaulins from the wagons, revealing all kinds of equipment inside, and these people did their work neatly and tightly, and in a moment the same tools were set up, and under the command of a lieutenant, they began to work quickly.

With the participation of these professionals, the progress of the renovation of the village has been accelerated by the naked eye, unlike before, although there were thousands of people working, it always seemed a little messy.

"It will take about three days to make this village look new!" Su Kan walked up to Qin Feng and said. Your Majesty, this is a model village for us to resettle refugees, as long as we get him right, those Qin people who fled in the future will not change color when they hear about the great light, and they will be busy running away when they hear that we are coming. As long as such people are settled down slowly, after conquering Yongdu in the future, the magistrate will have a lot less trouble."

"Well said!" Qin Feng smiled and nodded: "Since it is a model village, of course we must do a good job, well, we must find some long-term work for them, not only to feed them, but also to let them live well."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will pay attention to it in the end." Su Kan nodded again and again. Doing work for the army is not a long-term solution, and after the battle, the army will eventually have to go.