After a few months, Qin Feng appeared in the Tiger Prison again. The last time he came, Qin Feng used the Tiger Prison as his base camp, gathered troops, and defeated the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses gathered by Qin Huang Ma Yue in one fell swoop, and completely determined the Qin Ming war situation.

The war continued, but it was no longer Qin Feng's main concern. There is no doubt about victory, the only thing to worry about is how much it will cost to win Yong.

Yongdu, after all, is the capital of the Qin State. The Qin people around Yongdu are also the places with the most sense of identity with the Qin State, the city is strong, and the grain reserves are bound to be not too small. There are complete production workshops for all kinds of military equipment in the city, as the last fortress of the Qin court, it is definitely not an easy thing to gnaw down.

Besiege first, consume the enemy's will and courage, and then gnaw little by little, is the strategy formulated by the Ming court, in the case of the overall situation has been decided, whether it is Qin Feng, the political hall or the military department, they are not willing to use the high casualty rate in exchange for the results of the defeat of Yongdu.

The most outrageous thing about Ma Yue's mistake was that he gathered hundreds of thousands of troops to launch a counterattack against the Tiger Prison. This battle, not only did not achieve the desired goal, but instead depleted a large amount of living force, and at the same time reduced Yongdu's strategic grain reserves to a dangerous level. In Yongdu City, although there are also a lot of fields that can be planted, it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a drop in the bucket for the population of Yongdu.

There are two things that Qin Feng values most now.

The first is the stability of the occupied Qin lands, and the second thing is the economic development of these places.

What Qin left to Daming was indeed a mess. The purge of the Deng clan is the first wave, recruiting a large number of strong men to enlist in the army, apportioning various war taxes and then encountering a miserable defeat is the second wave, Bian Wushuang led his troops to turn back on Qin and surrender to Chu is the third wave, and the continuous heavy blows have caused the Qin State to suffer heavy losses, and the lack of overnight food is the most common state of the Qin people now.

The people are struggling to make a living, bandits are rampant, the law and order situation is extremely deteriorating, and now it is just the winter when thousands of herds are dormant, which makes all this even worse.

The Ming Dynasty could not mobilize more troops to maintain local law and order, and the officials who accepted the new appointments and went to the new territory were not accompanied by the army, but their own guards plus Tianwu, who was hired to exterminate the bandits, and the dart masters of the Mingwei Dart Bureau. Their manpower is also limited, and what they can ensure is the safety around the city, while the rest of the area is still in a state of chaos.

Letting the people of Qin try not to starve to death this winter is Qin Feng's main goal at present. As long as there is some food to survive and not starve to death, it will not cause chaos.

Qin Feng was not afraid of organized resistance or the counteroffensive of the Qin army, but what he was most worried about was a catastrophe similar to the one caused by Mo Luo in the Yue Kingdom back then. A large number of people were wrapped up in the association, walking all the way, robbing all the way, eating all the way, like locusts in transit, destroying the places they walked through.

This is the most difficult thing to deal with, send an army to exterminate them, these people will be crushed at the first blow, but as soon as the army leaves, they will immediately resurge. What is even more annoying is that the army simply cannot tell which ones are traitors and those who are civilians. It would be easy to kill them all, but this is something that the Ming Dynasty and the opposition must not accept.

Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the people, they now recognize one thing, that is, to develop, more people must be needed. It has been eight years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, but it has been in the dilemma of lacking a large number of people. Years of war have caused countless Dingkou to die, and many counties in the Ming Dynasty are still in a desolate place with no one for hundreds of miles.

This also made the county guards in various places unscrupulous in order to attract population, and even did such things as buying and selling human beings.

Let the people of Qin eat first, this is the consensus of the Ming Dynasty and the opposition. Fortunately, this year's Ming harvest was bumper, grain prices plummeted, and in order to safeguard the interests of farmers, the imperial court even had to set a grain protection price. The grain purchased by the imperial court was much higher than the grain purchase price in the market.

With this means, the imperial court stockpiled a large amount of grain. As for the imperial court to pay a lot of money, but there is no need to worry, this year Daming has encountered a tightening, the central bank of Daming has been printing money vigorously, and it is not easy to stabilize prices. In other words, the current Ming Dynasty has money, but it is worried about where to use it.

A large number of the troops gathered here have their own whereabouts, and one-third of them have been organized into the new army, and they have eaten the imperial food of the Ming Dynasty. One-third of them were taken away by the county governors who lacked population in various parts of the Ming Dynasty by some various means to enrich their local population, and the other one-third returned to their hometown with the severance money.

But even so, the Tiger Prison has not been deserted because of this, and it is still very lively. Outside the Tiger Prison City, a large number of barracks have now become huge warehouses. A large amount of grain and ordnance were transported here from the Ming Dynasty, and then from the Tiger Prison as a starting point, they were transported to various places in Qin.

This grain supplied the Ming army besieging Yongdu, and also shouldered the burden of helping the people of Qindi, every day, there was a steady stream of caravans of Ming native grain transported here, and then a caravan carried the grain from these huge warehouses, and then along different roads, transported to other places.

However, relief can only solve a temporary predicament, the so-called emergency relief is not to help the poor, so that the people of Qindi can first fill their stomachs and not rebel, this is only the first step. The second step is to enable these people to support themselves. And that's the matter for the new officials.

So even if it is winter, the entire Qindi is still in the midst of vigorous road construction and water conservancy projects. In fact, with the current temperature of the season, it is really not suitable to do these things. But special things, special treatments. Even if it's half a job now, Daming is still happy to do it.

Of course, this is not because the officials of the Ming Dynasty are stupid, but because they really have to suffer.

After all, relief is just a life, and if nothing is done all winter, then maybe something will still happen, and the officials who have just taken office must find something to do for the people under their rule, so that they can spend their energy on hard work day by day.

These tasks are not mandatory. You don't have to stay at home, then you can only rely on the relief of the imperial court to survive, and it is only a bowl of porridge every day. But if you can go and do all the work, build roads, dig ditches, work for a day, you get paid for a day.

There is no such thing as labor in the Ming Dynasty, and these projects are all paid by the government to hire people to do them.

In Daming, because of this system, there have been various engineering teams of all sizes. There is always no shortage of smart people in this world, who recruit craftsmen and laborers, and form an organized team to undertake these tasks of the imperial court. And the imperial court is also happy to see it, because there are many such engineering teams, and under the competition with each other, the price paid by the imperial court is smaller. More importantly, these engineering teams have professional personnel and a high degree of organization, which also greatly reduces the pressure on the government organization, and the number of officials in the open is too small.

But in Qindi, such a thing is still unthinkable. It can only be organized by the government, but fortunately, these officials who have just taken office have been instructed by their superiors in advance, and now they don't need to do how beautiful the project is, or how fast the progress is, the most important thing is to let these Qin people have something to do.

In the words of Shoufu Quan Yun, that is to spend money to buy peace.

Cutting through the thick snow and digging through the frozen hard ground is a thankless task in itself. But it's worth the price.

Because that brings stability. Moreover, even if it is half the effort, at least these roads and ditches have a prototype, and after the spring ploughing, this work can be started again, and these projects can quickly enter the formal channels.

I have to say that the people of Qindi are still very able to endure hardships. After having the life-saving relief grain, and having the opportunity to earn money with labor, the Qin people enthusiastically participated in this wave of construction.

In order to reassure these people, all the construction sites are paid on a daily basis, and they can get a few colorful tickets every day, and then use these tickets to buy food for the family from those ubiquitous merchants, which has become the happiest thing for the Qin people.

It was a rare thing for the Qin people to get paid for working for the government, because under the rule of the Qin people in the past, there was a word called labor and another word called levy.

Although it is also fed, it is not much better than that of pigs, and now it is self-earning, and those who are willing to eat better can buy whatever you want from the merchants, and those who are willing to be frugal can also just eat enough.

In fact, the banknotes of the Ming people had already begun to circulate in most of the Qin State before this, and it was not a difficult thing for the Qin people to accept this kind of banknotes.

For Qin Feng, the happiest thing is that Qin Di has gradually begun to stabilize. At least in the county seats, the county seats, and the surrounding areas of the center, all work has been orderly, which also means that the rule of the Ming Dynasty has begun to take root in these places. There are still many bandits, and rebellions are still happening, but these unpleasant things are gradually moving away from the center of development in a place and are forced to shrink to remote places or remote places deep in the mountains and forests. Although this makes it more difficult to suppress the bandits, it is an excellent thing for the overall situation.

Tianwu, a dart game like Mingwei, took the government's money, so naturally they had to do what they had to do. The imperial court, on the other hand, was free to vigorously develop the local economy. Qin Feng believes that maybe by next year, Qin Di will be completely stable. And the more stable Qin Di is,

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