June in Gyeonggi is the second best time of the year after October.

At this time, spring ploughing has long ended, and the countryside and every family's farmland are full of green crops.

Because buds, sweet potatoes and potatoes are more productive and can feed more families and fill their stomachs better, these new crops have now replaced wheat, soybeans and sorghum as the most grown crops in Gyeonggi.

Whether it is the fertile plains in the east and south of the north and the barren mountains in the north and west, in the newly opened farmland all over the mountains, there are these green and vigorous bud valleys.

In today's Beizhili area, the government has always encouraged the people to open up the wasteland, as long as it is ownerless wasteland, whoever cultivates it, the harvest will belong to whom.

From north to south, a large number of barren mountains and mountains, a large number of dry river valleys, have been reclaimed into large or small farmland by the landless people.

In particular, with the strong support of Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Hebei, the old road of the Yellow River on the southern plains under the jurisdiction of the governor of Hebei, more than 20,000 hectares of farmland have been forcibly reclaimed by immigrants who have come one after another in the past two years, which not only resettled a large number of displaced people from Henan, Shandong, and Jianghuai on the spot, but also ensured a steady stream of military food and soldiers for the Tianxiong battalion.

Although there were many people in the imperial court who impeached Lu Xiangsheng for occupying the Yellow River, which would leave endless hidden dangers to the people and the imperial court in the future, Emperor Chongzhen gave firm support to Lu Xiangsheng's use of the Yellow River's old road to Tuntian.

The Yellow River has been diverted to the south for many years, taking up the course of the Huai River into the sea, but in the eyes of many ministers in the court, the dragon of the Yellow River could be changed back to its original course at any time due to a flood.

Once that time comes, the practice of occupying Tuntian, the old road of the Yellow River, today will not only harm these people, but may also cause popular revolts in the future and bring greater pressure to the imperial court.

The worries of the courtiers were understandable to Emperor Chongzhen.

However, now the Chongzhen Emperor from later generations also knows very well that the Yellow River re-flowing northward and changing back to its original course did happen, but it would not happen until a hundred years later.

However, in the face of the current situation in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, he has no time to worry about what will happen in a hundred years, so he can only give priority to solving the problems in front of him and get through the current difficulties first.

Shandong, which is only separated by a canal from the jurisdiction of the governor of Hebei, has now greatly alleviated the situation of displaced people, and the White Lotus Rebellion, which occurred at this time in history because of famine, has also disappeared without a trace with the large number of displaced people going north to reclaim the famine and going to sea from Dengzhou.

To go north to reclaim the wasteland, it is to pass through Jingdong and other places, all the way out of Shanhaiguan, out of Xifengkou, to the edge of Jizhen, that is, today's Rehe and Liaozhen left road.

And going to sea from Dengzhou, together with the landless and landless people of Denglai, rushed to the reclamation order of Lushun Town Shoufu, Andong Town Shoufu and Yingzhou Town Shoufu to divide land and land.

The hungry people in Shandong and Denglai areas fled the famine, and there was a tradition of crossing the sea from Dengzhou to the north to Liaodong to reclaim land.

Now with the reclamation orders of the four major towns and guards in the direction of the Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula, and the news of relatives and friends who have gone to divide the fields and land, since the spring of the second year of Chongzhen, a large number of hungry people in Shandong and Denglai have hired ships to go north in groups.

Although at the turn of spring and summer in the third year of Chongzhen, the northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty were still dry, but without these hungry people to make dry firewood, even if there was a fire, it could not light the smoke everywhere.

The same situation also happened in Shanxi, as Jin Yiwei wantonly arrested traitorous merchants who collaborated with the enemy and treasoned in Shanxi, and a large amount of land owned by these giant merchants and wealthy families fell into the hands of the imperial court.

Or it can be more accurate to say that the total amount of more than 100,000 hectares of land confiscated by Jinyiwei from the hands of the fourteen giant merchants and wealthy families actually fell into the hands of the emperor.

These include salt lakes controlled by the Zhang family in Puzhou (i.e., the Zhang Siwei family) and the Shen family (i.e., Zhang Siwei's brother-in-law's family, who have intermarried with the Zhang family and the Wang family for generations), as well as the land owned by the Puzhou Wang family (i.e., the Wang Chonggu family).

Now these salt pans and farmlands that fell into the emperor's hands after being confiscated were handed over to Shi Kefa by the emperor's will, so that he could sell them to the people who had no land and less land at an ultra-low price, almost half sold and half given away.

Shi Kefa sold most of it to tenant farmers who had rented the land, and a small part was distributed to the displaced people who had fled the area due to the war in the north.

There are also a large number of properties and shops confiscated by Jinyiwei, which were also sold to the local merchants who were willing to take over at an extremely low price in accordance with the emperor's will.

Emperor Chongzhen asked Jinyiwei to engage in this kind of wealth redistribution in Shanxi, which greatly alleviated the original undercurrent of public sentiment in Shanxi.

In addition, after the end of the Xuanda War, Xuanda Governor Yang He, Governor Fan Fucui and others took the brunt of recruiting displaced people in Shanxi and Shaanxi, and went north to Datong, Xuanfu, Naturalization, Jining and other places to resettle, so that a large number of displaced people who had originally gone south because of the war in the north began to return to the north, re-register their households, and accept the resettlement of the Xuanda Governor's Office.

By the time they returned, the original situation of many people and few places had completely changed, and it had become a sparsely populated place.

Those refugees who still had money in their pockets bought the best fields directly at ultra-low prices, even symbolic prices, in accordance with the proclamation of the Xuanda Governor's Palace.

According to the proclamation of the Xuanda Governor's Palace, those starving people who were completely penniless and completely refused to provide regular labor in exchange for Xuanda's land, or signed a contract with the Xuanda Governor's Mansion to obtain Xuanda's land for free at a higher land rent.

Or, it is safe to let the Xuanda Governor's Mansion arrange, from the two places of Killing Tiger Pass and Deshengkou, and going to Wuchuan Town Shoufu and Jining Fort respectively, and distribute land completely free of charge.

Originally, in the third year of Chongzhen, the various civil unrest that broke out again in Shandong, Shanxi was eliminated invisibly.

In June of the third year of Chongzhen, from Beizhili, to Shandong, to Shanxi, although there has been no rain since the beginning of spring, it is still an abnormal drought, but the most important places in the north of the Ming Dynasty are a busy and calm scene.

The city and the countryside still look so dilapidated, but the crops between the fields are still stubbornly growing in the face of drought.

From Shandong to Shanxi, on the fields in the north of the Ming Dynasty, the sweaty farmers who were working hard, although their clothes were ragged and gray-faced, but their eyes were full of hope, occasionally looking up at the scorching sun in the sky, scolding the thief, and then still buried their heads in cultivating their newly acquired fields.

The same situation also occurred in Shaanxi, which is only separated by a river from Shanxi.

By mid-June, the Ordos Mongols, who had made Hong Chengchou and other Shaanxi civil and military officials fearful and ready for battle, finally drove their flocks out of Guanzhong one after another, then crossed the Qinling Mountains, and finally disappeared on the long ancient road from Ningqiang Prefecture in Hanzhong Prefecture to Lizhou Wei in northern Sichuan.

Almost at the same time as tens of thousands of Mongolian men, women, and children in Ordos drove their flocks south to Hanzhong, a large number of landless homeless people in the countryside of Guanzhong, as well as unemployed homeless people in the cities, helped the old and the young, took all their belongings, and followed the official servants to settle in groups north to the river.

The legend of the fierce and vicious Taokou, that is, the Ordos Mongols, has now been driven away from the Hetao area by the imperial court, which is a fact witnessed by the common people of Shaanxi.

In the vast area of Hetao, there are indeed no Mongols grazing cattle, sheep and horses, and there is a large amount of fertile land, waiting for the people of Guanzhong to occupy and reclaim.

Such news spread with the arrival of the official document of the trilateral governor Yamen, and at the same time, as the Ordos Mongols moved south from Guanzhong, and were deeply believed by the people of Shaanxi.

After the Ordos Mongols passed through the Guanzhong region and went south to Hanzhong Prefecture, there was no need for Hong Chengchou and other officials of the Shaanxi Governor Yamen to mobilize, and many unemployed vagrants, homeless beggars from all over the country gathered in Guanzhong, and automatically went north to apply.

If it weren't for Hong Chengchou's concern that these people would stay on the spot when they passed through northern Shaanxi, or that there would be some chaos on the way, there would be no need for him to send any official servants to escort them north.

Although the recovery and reclamation of the Hetao area has only just begun, it has already greatly alleviated the problem of displaced people in Shaanxi.

In fact, the common people of China, especially the Han people, from ancient times to the present, as long as they have something to eat and a way to live, or just a hope of survival, they will not think of creating a rebellion against the imperial court.

However, when the situation in these core areas in the north of the Ming Dynasty began to ease up, at this time, the land west of the Taomin River west of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty was completely different.