It took a month for Hong Tao's team to reach Kaifeng, and the total number of people was close to 3,000. There are countless robberies encountered in the middle of the www.biquge.info, and there are four robberies in broad daylight, and there are more people who steal chickens and dogs at night. Of course, not to mention a thousand people, even if you add a zero to the back, you can't beat the Imperial Army equipped with more than 20 field guns, not to mention that these armies are all cavalry. However, in order to take in the prisoners, Hong Tao had to complain to Lin'an again and asked for more transport ships to be sent along the river canal.

This canal is not the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal that everyone is familiar with in later generations, but the Sui Dynasty canal built during the period of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty. Its northern end is in Zhuo County, and the southern end is Hangzhou, but the middle is a little westerly, and the center point is in Luoyang, because the capital of Emperor Yang of Sui is in Luoyang. The section from Zhuojun to Luoyang is called Yongji Canal, the section from Luoyang to Huaishui is called Tongji Canal, and the section from Huaishui to Hangzhou is called Hangou.

If Hong Tao wants to go up along this river to Zhuo County, he must first go along the ditch to Huaishui, and then continue to go straight to Kaifeng along the Tongji Canal, and finally transfer from Kaifeng to Yongji Canal, the whole journey is more than 2,000 kilometers, and it takes about three months to walk, and when he arrives at Kaifeng, he has just finished more than half of it. When we set off from Lin'an, it was still a harsh winter, and when we arrived in Kaifeng, there were already signs of germination on the willow branches.

For the captives of this little 1,000 people, Hong Tao did not send a boat to Lin'an, these people followed half the way, no need to go back and change to the sea route, just go together, endure for another month and get to the place. If there were so many more captives along the way, it would be easy to cut the ration in half, as long as it didn't starve to death. If you want to eat a full meal, don't rub it off, go to Zhuojun to divide the house and land, and eat big fish and meat, this is the big cake that Hong Tao painted for them.

Does this flatbread work? It really works! People in this era are too easy to deceive, as long as they see the officials, they can't help but believe three points, and then see the yellow satin holy decree and the respectful attitude of the officials along the way to Hong Tao, although they don't know what kind of official position the prime minister is, but they believe seven or eight points in their hearts.

In addition, following Hong Tao's army, there is basically no need to do any heavy work, you can eat three meals a day, and women and children can still walk on a boat without strenuous walking, and the treatment is too good. Even if there is no future commitment, most people are reluctant to leave, and some people are beginning to care about the conditions of being a soldier. They also want to be this kind of soldier, anyway, they are all selling their lives, why don't they sell it for a good price.

Of course, Hong Tao would not accept them into the army, but he did not refuse. In Hong Tao's view, using the soldiers as bait to train these bandits and homeless people first, so that they know and know the rules, will also help them in the future. As a result, these 1,000 people became a temporary reserve battalion, and there was also a separate camp, led by regular soldiers, who went out on time every day to exercise, train, light fires and cook, and set up camp.

Everything is better than not knowing, one is more frightened, don't look at it is a simple daily training, originally thought that it was easy to be a soldier The homeless people only took one day to know that this bowl of rice is not as delicious as expected, and the weight-bearing cross-country running alone is enough for most people to complain. You said that you have good physical fitness and can carry it, so there is still a queue practice. And these things are not once or twice, but at least once a day, and even if you are sick, you have to attend as usual, unless you can get the approval of those military doctors.

The most terrible thing is not tiredness, but annoyance. Allowing the homeless to live directly in the barracks, the ubiquitous rules have become the biggest obstacle. Eating, sleeping, getting up, walking, and talking are all governed by rules, and even pooping and peeing are not allowed at will, which makes the homeless people who are used to it very uncomfortable. In the first three days of the establishment of the reserve battalion, the barracks were full of crying from morning to night, and it was a miserable cry.

At this time, most of the displaced people can only complain that their lives are not good, and they have to endure hardships and be controlled when they have just eaten their stomachs. A small number of people feel that they are smarter than others, and they begin to think about how to escape, and would rather go to the mountains and forests to have a full meal than this kind of inhuman life.

Unfortunately, none of the deserters managed to escape, and those who were captured were tied to stakes and stabbed into sieve holes with bayonets by the hands of those in the same tent as him. If you don't do it, the soldiers with guns next to you won't force you to stab. These soldiers are very reasonable, they will tie you up and let someone stab you. Whether to kill or be killed, it is 100% up to you and no one interferes.

When the team reached the territory of Hebei West Road, Hong Tao suddenly found that the situation here was very different from when he had just crossed the Yellow River. Although it is still relatively sparsely populated, the villages and towns here are relatively orderly, and bandits are rarely seen.

"Uncle, I don't think it's a little strange here. You see, we have been in such a big movement for three days, and none of the villages and towns that pass by have come out to greet us. Even if the local people don't welcome us, what about the local government officials? Seeing the banner of the imperial court, why do they have to send someone out to ask, right? After leaving Kaifeng and walking north along the canal for three days, Bo Jiao had questions about the current situation.

"If you had asked me this question before, I wouldn't have been able to answer you. After staying in the Great Song Palace for a few months, I can be regarded as gaining knowledge. Guess how the Great Song Dynasty managed the Northern Territories after it took them back? Hong Tao put down the binoculars and did not answer Bo Jiao's question, but asked a question.

"Where do I know......" Bo Jiao grew up on the beach since he was a child, and this time is probably the most northerly one, and he is really blind to this place, and he doesn't know anything.

"Lao Kong, what do you say?" Hong Tao threw the question to Kong Pei again.

"Is it difficult to hand it over to the local wealthy clan to manage, and the court will not interfere?" Kong Pei thought about it carefully and gave a not very clear answer.

"I'll just say that the local people must be familiar with the local people to manage, and outsiders not only have no sense of responsibility, but also don't understand the local people's feelings. Lao Kong was right, most of the area north of the Yellow River was still modeled after the Mongol occupation, and was handed over to the local wealthy clans to manage. Nominally, these places were required to pay money and grain to the imperial court every year, but in reality, the imperial court never received their taxes. Hong Tao punched Kong Pei out two thumbs up, extremely confirming his guess.

"Then it took years, and it cost money and died on the labor expedition, what is the use of reclaiming these places? Isn't this a loss-making deal? Kong Pei's answer Hong Tao could understand, but Bo Jiao couldn't understand it at all. When a national government rules a piece of land, it doesn't want taxes, population, and resources. It's good now, even the taxes can't be collected, and the population and resources can be imagined.

"It's not that the court doesn't want to take care of it, but the court can't manage it. When the imperial court moved south, some of the people in these places followed the imperial court, but most of them stayed. When the Jin people came, the local wealthy families came forward to deal with the Jin people, and they could generally keep one side safe. The Mongols came, and it was still the same. Without these local wealthy clans, the Mongols could not even collect grain and grass. Now the Great Song Dynasty is back, but time has passed, and hundreds of years have passed since the Great Song Dynasty occupied here, and who of the locals still remembers who the Great Song Dynasty is? They still have to use this trick to deal with the Great Song court. Look at it, there's something going to happen if you can't keep it all along the way. The front is not far from the Daimyo's Mansion, so let the soldiers be vigilant and treat it according to the wartime situation. A little more caution is a point, your uncle and I are not immortals, I really don't know what trouble will be encountered. ”

When Hong Tao first heard that the Song Dynasty had unified the north, but had never sent magistrates to the north of the Yellow River, he also had the same idea as Bo Jiao. Later, after some explanations by Ding Daquan and Jia Nidao, I realized that this was also a last resort. It was not that the Great Song Dynasty did not want to bring the area north of the Yellow River under the leadership of the central government, but it did not have such a great ability and could only maintain the status quo first.

“…… If it were me, I wouldn't welcome Da Song back. Abandoned me back then and ran away, let me be ruled by foreign people for so many years, and come back when you say back? Do I have to welcome? Why am I so cheap, who knows if they will leave me and run away next time. Bo Jiao probably understood what was going on, and made a statement from his point of view, giving serious spiritual support to the local people.

"So, as soon as I said that I was going to build a factory north of Zhigu Village, Yiyi's eyes were about to pop out, even if I told him that it was my hometown, I wanted to go back and see, I guess he didn't believe it. Believe it or not, there are not only clear Imperial observers like the two of you in this team, but also eyeliners under the Imperial Supervision Department and the Ministry of Defense. Hong Tao didn't refute Bo Jiao's remarks, and he couldn't refute it, Bo Jiao still didn't say it too ugly because of his face.

"Then do you want to go back to your hometown?" As soon as Hong Tao talked about this, Bo Jiao and Kong Pei almost reacted in one way. Hong Tao was right, not only Yi Yi didn't believe it, but Bo Jiao and Kong Pei probably didn't believe it either.

"Eighty percent yes." Hong Tao didn't dare to say everything, he wanted to go to Beijing in this era to see the truth, but he didn't have much hope. Now that part of Beijing may still be a wasteland, and even if you go back, you probably won't be able to find where the city should be in the future.

"And what about the other twenty percent?" Bo Jiao is very persistent, and he has to break the casserole and ask to the end.

"Aren't you and Yi Yi political enemies, this time his term of office is up, don't you plan to come to power for a few more years? Why are you in such a hurry to help him, you tell me honestly, did he promise you any benefits? Hong Tao stared at the triangular eyes a little impatiently, since the fight came over, he added a strange problem, that is, he doesn't like others to ask too much about his thoughts, especially more personal things.

(To be continued.) )