To their surprise, after the first wave of crossbow arrows were fired, the Qi army on the opposite side dropped a few corpses, and turned around and ran, not at all like the brave Qi troops that Fan Chang met on the side of Xiangxi.

Stopping Xiao Liang, a new recruit, who was so excited that he wanted to chase and kill, Fan Chang carefully inspected the Qi army who died on the ground, and suddenly realized.

"It's not a regular Qi army field soldier, it may be a miscellaneous unit in some places." Standing up, Fan Chang said to everyone. Vulnerable. Pack up these people's weapons and armor and go!"

Bringing back weapons and armor can prove their military exploits, and as for the corpses, there will soon be troops of Qi people to converge, but there is no need for them to do it for them.

There were about twenty or thirty people who escaped, Fan Chang's eyes swept over everyone's faces one by one, but he was disappointed to find that none of them were familiar, originally he hoped to see some familiar faces among these people, so that he could find out the whereabouts of his brothers, sisters-in-law and nephews, it seems that this time it will be in vain.

Facing the repeated thanks of these ecstatic refugees, Fan Chang said: "The big guy should follow us out of here, the Qi people will escape, it won't be long before their cavalry will arrive here, and we must also notify the higher authorities to prepare to deal with it. You guys, help get those little dolls on their backs."

He pointed to Xiao Liang and a few other soldiers.

The group quickly crossed the hill and headed towards the rear, and in front of them, Fan Chang had already sent a soldier lightly to report to the large army stationed in Wenzhu, requesting that cavalry be sent to meet them.

"This military master, I heard that our Taoyuan County is now distributing fields and building houses to the people for free, right?" A man in his early forties, after the initial panic, finally settled down, and after the joy of being rescued, he couldn't help but worry about his future life.

Fan Chang had a little doll of four or five years old on his neck, and when he heard this, he nodded with a smile: "Where did you hear about it?" Yes, the people of Taoyuan County can get ten acres of good water for one person, and they don't need money, but the land they get in this way must be handed over to 50% of all the harvest in the first year, 30% in the second year, and from the third year onwards, they can be the same as everyone else."

"Is that really the case?" The man's face couldn't hide the joy: "Our family has escaped back with a total of five people this time, doesn't it mean that there are fifty acres of land?"

"Of course!" Fan Chang glanced at the family members gathered around the man, and couldn't help but be envious for a while, this kind of scene where the family lives and dies together makes his heart hurt slightly. These lands are all familiar land, and if you have extra energy, you can also reclaim the wasteland yourself, and these wastelands are exempt from all taxes for the first three years, so as long as people work hard, everyone can live well."

"I didn't expect what we heard to be true. But Master Jun, we were taken captive by the Qi people back then, and now we have fled back, and there is nothing left." The man was a little worried again.

"You don't have to worry about these, for righteous people like you who fled back from Qidi, Taoyuan County is to help build houses, and will also provide production tools and livestock, of course, this is not given in vain, it is the county government that uses interest-free loans to help you make discounts, and in the future, you must return it according to the year, but don't worry, now Taoyuan County has many ways to make money. As long as you are willing to do your best."

"We don't have anything, we only have a handful of strength left." The man and the family around him were full of joy, "Master Jun, we used to be from Pingxiang, Taoyuan, can we go back to our hometown now?"

"Pingxiang? I'm afraid it won't work." Fan Chang shook his head: "It's too close to the Qi realm, and there are often Qi people harassing you, like you, I'm afraid you will be placed in a safer place." Our Taoyuan County suffered a great disaster back then, with ten rooms and nine empty rooms, and the land was vast and populated, and now everyone is concentrated in a place near the county town with fertile land, convenient transportation, and close to the county seat."

"I see!" The man was a little disappointed, but the disappointment was immediately replaced by excitement, "This time it is right to escape back, the military master doesn't know, we Yue people, where we really can't live, so we are not treated as people by them, those who have money are better, like us, living like dogs over there."

In this way, Fan Chang has heard it many times in the past two years. When the Qi army retreated, the big fish and small fish caught in a net, almost turned the border counties like Taoyuan County into a thousand miles of nothing, after the Ming army took over, spared no effort in the development of several years, and now it is only around the county and some important counties, gathered some population, even if the county guard Ben Kuan went around to find people, buy people to fill the huge gap in people, it is still a drop in the bucket, and now the population of Taoyuan County is less than three percent of Taoyuan County in its heyday. The land is truly vast and sparsely populated.

Correspondingly, on the opposite side of Changning County because of the plundering of a large number of former Yue population, resulting in overcrowding, land is limited, resources are limited, these captive former Yue people, where the situation can be imagined, rich households, can still rely on business or open up joints to the circulation of the country, no money, can only survive.

"There's nothing more than that." Fan Chang corrected: "Now it is His Majesty the Great and Wise Emperor Ming who can give you a happy and good life, you remember it."

"Yes, yes, I remember, it's Daming, and we're all Daming people now."

The conversation with the man made Fan Chang even more worried about the situation of his relatives, and he couldn't wait to go to Changning County immediately and rescue his brother, sister-in-law, and nephews. Now my life is very good, but my relatives are still suffering, although the two sides are not far apart, but they are close to the end of the world.

Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty has destroyed the Qin State, and the current Ming Dynasty is extremely powerful, maybe in the next step, His Majesty the Emperor of the Holy Ming and Heroic Emperor will turn his attention to the Qi State. Fan Chang hadn't read any books, but he also knew that there were no two heavens and no two people, and how could two tigers coexist on a piece of land? Sooner or later, Da Ming and Qi will have a battle, and he only hopes that this day will come earlier. He has great confidence that Da Ming can defeat the Qi State on the other side, at least he knows that among the garrison of Taoyuan County, there are many people like him who escaped the catastrophe back then, and they are extremely looking forward to fighting as soon as possible.

An hour later, behind them, there was no shadow of the Qi people pursuing, in front, a Ming cavalry had already come at a gallop, Fan Chang was completely relieved, now they are still walking in a deserted area, Qi people cross the border to pursue, this is not unusual, but now, he can rest assured.

"You're safe!" He smiled at these people who had escaped suffering: "A new life is about to begin, thank you to the Great Emperor."

Compared with the barren Changzhu, Xiangxi under the rule of Taoyuan County is another scene, also adjacent to Changning County, but Xiangxi is now a border area that the Ming Dynasty focuses on, where the land is fertile, the water resources are abundant, and the terrain is much more precipitous than Changzhu in Pingchuan, here, it is impossible to carry out large-scale troops, but it is necessary to guard against small-scale troops to attack and intersperse, so here, the Ming garrison is not much, but it has made great efforts to develop the people's livelihood here.

A large number of farms have risen here, a village, is a defensive node, the village is built with a tall wall, the stream around the wall is a natural protective belt, between each village, there is a wide road connection, one side has the ability, all sides come to help.

All the villagers live in a village protected by high walls, and outside the village, there are vast fields, and after several years of management, there is already a sign of prosperity here.

When Shoubenkuan of Taoyuan County implemented this strategy, the people who were resettled in Xiangxi were additionally selected, and most of the current people of Xiangxi are refugees from the original Qin land who arrived in Taoyuan County through various means.

Some of these people were bought by Ben Kuan with money, and some were recruited by Ben Kuan after the Tiger Prison Incident, and after these Qin people who had nothing arrived in Xiangxi, they immediately got the land, farm tools, and livestock, and the villages they live in now are also built with the help of the county government.

These Qin people, who had been poor all their lives, suddenly became proletarians with houses and land, and lived a life that they could not have imagined before, and for these people who traveled thousands of miles to Taoyuan County in the hope of living a new life, everything here is worth cherishing and protecting. Anyone who wants to take away their hard-won life will naturally become their enemy.

And these enemies are naturally from the opposite side of the Qi people, the Qi army.

The Qin people are brave and warlike, and the Ming Emperor Qin Feng once said that the Qin people are born warriors. And the county guard Ben Kuan was even more bold to distribute weapons to these Qin people, and some of the weapons eliminated from the army eventually became weapons used in these villages for self-defense, this move also made many Ming officials worried, and Ben Kuan's only check and balance measure was to send a retired Ming soldier to serve as a military officer in each village.

Ben Kuan was convinced that these former Qin people would cherish their current life immensely, because he had witnessed the tragic situation of these Qin people back then. And the last facts also proved the wisdom of Ben Kuan's move, the Ming only stationed a small army in Xiangxi to respond, vigilance, and the Qi people infiltrated Xiangxi countless times, attacked, and finally defeated them were the Qin people in this village.

Jiang Hui spilled the last bit of water in the bucket into the ground, looking at the green crops, his heart was full of joy, this year is another bumper harvest year! He was one of the first people to go to Taoyuan County, and it was really miserable to say that he sold himself for ten taels of silver to get his family through the difficulties. But he never expected that he sold himself in exchange for a new life that he never dreamed of, the Ming merchant who bought him sold him for twenty taels of silver to Taoyuan County.

Now I am already a rich man from the perspective of the Qin people in the past.