On the same day, everyone dispersed happily, because Wang Huan and others were tired, Qin Liangyu arranged food and lodging for several people in Tusi City, set up a banquet and hospitality, and then let Ma Wannian accompany Wang Huan to visit and play around the stone pillar for three consecutive days, and understand the style of the stone pillar, which made Wang Huan have a clearer understanding of the stone pillar.

Shizhu Xuanwei Envoy Division, subordinate to the SC Bu Political Envoy Si Kuizhou Mansion, is located in the south of the Yangtze River, east of Huguang, south of ZQ north and Wanzhou, northwest and Zhongzhou as the boundary, since ancient times for the minority inhabited area, mainly Tujia, there are Miao people, Dulong and other scattered, the territory is mountainous, less flat, is a part of Wushan Da Lou Mountain, Qiyue Mountain and Fang Dou Mountain run through the whole territory, the mountain is rugged, there are countless pings, dams dotted among them, constitute a tribal village.

In the territory of Tusi, the basic government structure of the county government of Daming Prefecture is different, the Daming official government is the bottom of the county, below the county, in the early Ming Dynasty for the Lijia system, one hundred and ten households for one mile, set up the chief, ten households for the first one, set up the head of the first, to the local Ding grain the most to serve. In the city, there are workshops and chambers. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the first system was changed to the first system, one protected the jurisdiction of ten first, one governed by ten cards, and one card governed ten households, respectively, set up the chief of the guarantee, the chief of the first and the head of the card, and lived in the local large households or those who were highly respected, responsible for collecting taxes and maintaining public order.

In the territory of Tusi, there is no lijia, divided by natural village tribes, regardless of the number of people in the village, the number of households, there are heads, the head is in charge of the size of a village, unless it involves military taxes, other matters can be ruled by one person, the right is great, but the head is controlled by the consolation envoy, pay taxes and grain on time every month, arrange for the clansmen to serve in conscription, in case of consolation envoys to transfer troops to fight, must fight according to the number of people, a bit similar to the federal state in later generations.

Now there are more than 100 big and small heads in Shizhu, except for Shizhu County, which is directly managed by the Xuanwei Envoy, other places are controlled by large and small heads, of course, the Xuanshu Envoy is generally the most powerful head, so this political system has always been effective, in the barbarian and uncivilized mountainous areas, most of them are the world of Tusi, the civil government of the imperial court, can not be controlled at all, so the Ming Dynasty, whether central or local, has turned a blind eye to Tusi, as long as they do not make trouble, pay food and conscription on time, and do not ask anything else.

"What? There are only 15,000 stone pillars? Less than 100,000 people? Wang Huan was taken aback, and he couldn't stand still.

Ma Wannian, who accompanied him, looked sad, sighed: "Yes, the imperial court fights every year, and my grandmother leads the troops in a good way, the soldiers are strong, and almost every year they have to draw Ding to fight, these ten years, the young and strong in the territory are almost exhausted, and the court is not effective in war, although my native soldiers have the reputation of white pole soldiers, but they can't stand such consumption, at present, the soldiers in my territory, there are only less than 1,000 people who can fight, if not, last year Zhang thief entered, grandmother led the army to resist and would not be outnumbered, by Zhang thief drove straight into occupy the provinces in central Sichuan. ”

Wang Huan nodded in relief, Ma Wannian said well, Qin Liangyu is relied on by the imperial court, every time there is a big war, he will draw troops from the stone pillar, and regard the white pole soldiers as an inexhaustible source of soldiers, the mountainous area is already sparsely populated, where can it withstand such consumption, especially five years ago, the governor Shao Jiechun fought Zhang Xianzhong, Qin Liangyu did his best in the territory, got 30,000 soldiers, and galloped to the aid in the starry night, but because of Shao Jiechun's defense mistakes, he returned defeated, and the 30,000 soldiers were almost wiped out, so that Qin Liangyu was slumped, and since then he has returned to the stone pillar, It is no longer possible to organize such a strong army as it was in Liaodong.

Wang Huan frowned, at this moment he and Ma Wannian took Zubian, Chen Ergou, and Xu Goudan, and were walking in a Touren village a hundred miles south of the stone pillar.

He inspected the spot and found that the mountain range where the silver mine was located did not have any traces of excavation, and it was well preserved, and he was happy in his heart, but when he heard Ma Wannian say this, his mood suddenly became bad again. But wherever the rise of a place is inseparable from people and money, money is easy to earn, Wang Huan digs underground, and gold and silver come. The number of people is not in a hurry, and it will take one or two decades for a generation to reach adulthood.

Where is this man to be found? Wang Huan made a difficulty.

The local leader who accompanied him also sighed: "Ma Xiaoguan said very well, over the years, there have been almost no middle-aged men in our tribe, the old and the young, or women and children, and even those foreign refugees are a little powerless to control. ”

Wang Huan was worried, and when he heard the last paragraph that the leader said, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he turned around and asked urgently: "Refugees? Where did the refugees come from? Where is it? ”

Seeing that Wang Huan was in a hurry, the head man was a little inexplicable, pointed to his hand, and said: "Well, twenty miles south from here, there is a cottage, called Tubao Village, which was originally a stone town to prevent bandits and bandits, and then abandoned, in recent years, there are many refugees from neighboring states and counties who have come to avoid trouble because of the thieves, and they have been comforted to make the adults settle near this place, and slowly form a scale, open up wasteland and farm, multiply, and estimate that there are about tens of thousands, so that I am very headache." ”

Wang Huan looked at Ma Wannian, and the square-faced young man also said: "That's true, grandmother saw that those refugees were pitiful, so she set aside a piece of land around the earthen fort, let them live on their own, temporarily resettled, and allocated some food relief, and when the court clearly came down, and then make proper arrangements according to the court's intentions." ”

Wang Huan couldn't hide the ecstasy on his face, and couldn't help laughing, this is really sleepy and encountering a pillow, what do you want, tens of thousands of refugees, how to say that there are nearly 10,000 adult men in it, this is the labor force, this is the source of soldiers, but don't let them run!

He grabbed Ma Wannian and roared urgently: "Take me to see, refugees live hard, I must go and take a look and comfort them." Because of his anxiety, he didn't even want to sit in the carriage, so he jumped on the horse that Ma Wannian was riding, and wanted to ride the same horse with Ma Wannian.

Everyone looked at each other, Chen Ergou and Xu Goudan both said in their hearts: This refugee is your business, what are you doing in such a hurry?

However, Ma Wannian and the head man were very moved, feeling that this new senator was very considerate of the people's suffering, and he couldn't sit still when he heard that there were refugees gathering, but he was a vigorous and resolute character.

How did they know what Wang Huan was thinking about, a group of people rode horses, crossed a mountain pass, and saw a low dirt mountain, sure enough, there was a stone village, along the cottage, there were countless thatched huts and shacks built into a piece, stretching out, the entire mountain valley bottom is a whole piece of shed, at this moment it is noon, the cooking smoke is bursting, I don't know how many people are living and resting in it, some people saw Wang Huan and others riding horses, they just looked at it numbly, and they were not moved to do their own things.

Wang Huan saw that the people among them were all yellow-faced and thin-skinned, and their bodies were thin, and they were indeed some people who had fled.

"Alas, the court is incompetent, and the troubled times are strife, but these people are suffering." Ma Wannian sighed, he is chivalrous, and he can't see this kind of scene the most.

"You haven't been to HNSX and other places, it's hell on earth, and it's good here." Wang Huan patted him on the shoulder behind him and said, "Enough is enough, let's go, let's go back and see Lord Qin." ”

Ma Wannian was stunned, and then he took a look, why did Senator Wang, who cares about the people, leave again?