Taoyuan County is in Shayang, and in the eyes of people in Zhengyang, these places seem to be a poor place in the countryside now, but originally, they were also prosperous. When the Qi people raided Zhaotou and defeated Luo Yishui, the plot was the fertile land of Taoyuan, Wuling and Yiyang, and took these three counties, which made Qianyue lose a large grain producing area, which is one of the former Yue grain producing areas that can be compared with Zhengyang County, and belongs to one of the richest areas in Qianyue.

But the continuous years of war have completely destroyed everything here, especially when the Emperor of Qi Cao Tiancheng and Qin Feng reached an agreement to withdraw from these three counties, it was a complete destruction. Take away everything that can be taken away, and burn all the things that can't be taken away, and even the people will almost be swept away. All that was left for Qin Feng was a land that was extremely barren.

No matter how good a place is, if there are no people, it is not much different from the wilderness. But at that time, the strength of the Ming Dynasty was not enough, and the strategic direction was to plot against the Qin State first, for such a situation, Qin Feng could only knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach. I had to take on this huge baggage.

But from another aspect, the recovery of the three counties of Yiyang, for the Ming Dynasty that was not long after the founding of the country, is an excellent opportunity to unite the hearts of all the people of the former Yue, it can be said that it is precisely because the Ming Dynasty soon recovered the three counties of Yiyang from the hands of the strong Qi State, thus successfully establishing a tall image in the hearts of the former Yue people, so as to stabilize their rule, and let the former Yue people see hope, gain confidence.

Economically, the Ming Dynasty has just been founded with a heavy burden, but politically speaking, it is of great significance to the Ming Dynasty.

Since that time, the Ming court has started a large number of subsidies for these three counties, and after several years of operation, it has only made Taoyuan County a little better.

The former majestic county town of Taoyuan has long been destroyed in a fire, and now although the city wall has been built, the city wall is still empty, and large areas are like scars all over its body. This big city with a population of more than 100,000 people in the past is now only 20,000 or 30,000 people, and it is not as good as a prosperous county town under Shayang Zhengyang.

In the county seat, two yamen stand opposite each other, one is the Taoyuan County Guard, and the other is the Taoyuan Town Guard. This is where the highest military and political chief of a county is located, and compared with the yamen of other counties, the two mansions in Taoyuan are shabby, just two small courtyards.

Taoyuan County Shou Ben Kuan, since the recovery of Taoyuan County, he came here as a county guard, for several years, one of the things he did he could was to try to increase the population of Taoyuan County, for this goal, he even did not hesitate to be abducted, but now he wants to attract people to Taoyuan County such a dilapidated place, it is really not easy, he had to be the same as Ma Xiangnan back then, the idea hit the head of the Qin people.

From the initial use of human traffickers to get a large number of people from Qin State, and then to personally go to the Tiger Prison to solicit a large amount of money, it can be said that everything is done.

In the eyes of the Qin people at that time, the most valuable land was precisely the most worthless thing in Taoyuan County. Naturally, he could have promised these lands without hesitation. Because of this, he actually abducted a lot of Qin people in the Tiger Prison and followed him back to Taoyuan. The current composition of Taoyuan County, Qin people account for at least one-third.

Those Qin people from the bitter cold land in the west arrived at the warmer peach orchard, and really got the land, houses, farm tools, and livestock they wanted, naturally they were overjoyed, and what made them even happier was that the land allocated to them seemed to be raw land at a glance, but they picked up a hoe and dug it, but found that it was not the same thing at all.

After several years of hard work, Taoyuan County finally has a new atmosphere.

As a border county town bordering the Qi State, the Ming Dynasty stationed two armies here, one is the Fuyuan Battalion Wang Yun's department in Taoyuan County, and the other is the cavalry battalion of Li Xiaoya, the only formed cavalry unit in the Wuling Theater.

Generally speaking, Ben Kuan's operation in Taoyuan County was successful, he gave up places like Changzhu, and vigorously developed areas like Xiangxi, taking advantage of the Qin people's good warfare, and established one fortress-style manor after another, not only effectively reclaiming pieces of land, but also gradually operating the Ming power in the border areas.

With the victory of the Ming Dynasty in the battle against Qin, the Ming Dynasty has gradually become the most important enemy of Qi in the future, and the policies of the Ming Dynasty have gradually spread, which directly led to a consequence, that is, the people of the three counties who were taken captive back then, many people tried to flee back. After the first few mass escapes, the Qi people began to strictly control it, making it an extremely difficult and dangerous thing to carry their heads, and this limelight was gradually killed.

This trend of fleeing is naturally inseparable from Ben Kuan's manipulation in secret. Together with the person in charge of the Eagle's Nest in Taoyuan County and Wang Yun in the Fuyuan Camp, he formulated a number of plans, including promoting the policies of the Ming Dynasty to the former Yue people in Changning County, the good life of the Ming people now, and other propaganda activities, formulating escape plans one by one, and building some escape passages, which achieved great results in the beginning. Even if a large-scale escape is no longer possible after being severely attacked by the Qi border army in the end, small-scale absconding still happens from time to time.

Of course, this also has some negative effects, and the people of Qi also took advantage of these things and sent a lot of spies to Taoyuan County. Many of the former Yue people who were taken captive back then were recruited by the Qi people, some of them joined the army, and some were recruited by intelligence agencies such as ghosts.

"Ben County Shou, the dozens of people sent from Changzhu have all passed the review, they don't have any problems, tomorrow, our Eagle Nest will hand everyone over to the county guard's mansion, and the county guard's mansion will settle them." Wu Zhengting, the commander of the Eagle's Nest in Taoyuan, handed a stack of files to Ben Kuan, and said.

"Okay, tomorrow the Placement Division will give them the best placement." Ben Kuan said happily, but whenever someone escapes from there and returns to Taoyuan County, he is very happy, in his opinion, every time someone comes back, Taoyuan will have more crops, more anger, and more manpower." Commander Wu, I think you should still increase your strength in this regard, the defense line of the Qi people is not so tight, and this time it is proof that dozens of people can escape on a large scale."

Wu Zhengting spread his hands, "Now our manpower is gathering the other party's military intelligence, and you also know that with the end of the battle against Qin, the form of the two sides of Qi and Ming will be more tense. And a series of recent situations have shown that there is indeed a large-scale military operation in Xianbisong in Changning County, and we really can't draw more manpower in the near future!"

"The more this is the case, the more we have to get more people back, if the war breaks out, most of these people will be forcibly recruited as soldiers by the Qi people, if they die like this, it will be a pity, and every time one more person comes back, our strength will be stronger, and the power that the enemy can use will be smaller! If you don't have enough manpower, you can discuss with General Wang and ask him to send you more people."

"General Wang's army is good at fighting, so it's not very good at doing these things, and there are too many barbarian soldiers in his army, so it's even more unsuitable for doing this kind of thing." Wu Zhengting spread his hands and said. The county guard, this matter is in a hurry, take your time. I hope that there will really be a big battle, as long as the battle overthrows the fresh pine, then how many people do you want from the county guard?"

Ben Kuan frowned, "I'm afraid it won't be a big fight, right?" Maybe there will be some local conflicts. The Qi people are not very stable internally now, we have just defeated the Qin State, and it is not suitable to start another war on another battlefield, the people need to recuperate, and the army must also take a breath, one battle after another, it is not a blessing for the country."

"I hope so!" Wu Zhengting Road.

As the two were talking, there was a sudden sound of heavy footsteps outside, and then Wang Yun's voice came: "Two, maybe you are really going to do a big job. I just received an urgent military report from Xiangxi."

Ben Kuan raised his head in shock, and Wu Zhengting was also a little inexplicable: "Xiangxi? How can there be a large-scale war there?"

Wang Yun raised a file in his hand and said with a smile: "You may not believe it, Xiangxi fought a big victory, and a village there actually killed a general of the Qi people. Although he is just an ordinary tooth general, the identity of this tooth general is not simple, his surname is Cao."

"The surname Cao? Is it someone from Cao Xiancheng?" Ben Kuandao.

"No, it's bigger than Cao Xiancheng!" Wang Yun shook his fingers.

Cao Xiancheng is now the commander of the Qi people, and he is even older than him, so there are only relatives of the emperor." People from the royal family of the Qi Kingdom?" At this moment, even Wu Zhengting's eyes widened.

"Yes, it's a member of the royal family, called Cao Xuan. Originally, people went to Xiangxi, just to fight the village and brush up on their military exploits, but no one thought that there was a military attache named Bao An sent down in that village, and he actually went to the relationship to get a strong crossbow hidden where, and what is more coincidental is that this Bao An used to be a very good strong crossbowman, but this very bad luck Cao Xuan appeared outside this village to command the army to attack, and was shot by this Bao An's crossbow Half of his body was gone. He brought thousands of Qi troops, this battle was fought, the combat effectiveness of that village was very good, if the army of Xiangxi County went a little later, this village would really be gone. Only a few dozen of the thousands of Qi soldiers fled back in the end, this result made the Xiangxi garrison very surprised, there were many such battles in the past, but they were all a little contact, which is like this time, the Qi people attacked this village like crazy, and finally found out the identity of this tooth general from the mouth of the captured prisoner." Wang Yun said this in one breath, took a breath, and said with a smile: "Isn't Xian Bisong crazy this time?" Even if he is still sensible, he must always express his stance to the emperor, so there must be a big fight to be fought."

Ben Kuan and Wu Zhengting looked at each other, how could such a thing happen?