The next morning, Wang Huan rode a horse and led more than 20 guards, led by several guides, left Wanshou Valley, and plunged into the deep mountains of stone pillars.

All of them were dressed in short clothes, lightly dressed in leggings to facilitate the climb over the mountains, with sharp blades hanging from their waists, bows and arrows on their backs, but in their hands they held a wooden pole for climbing, and several of them carried a large backpack, which was empty.

"Brother Huan, are you going into the mountains to hunt?" Their appearance made Xu Tiezhu, who saw him off, confused, and couldn't understand why Wang Huan still had such an interest in pastime at this juncture.

Wang Huan smiled slightly, and did not explain, but carefully advised: "You carefully count and inquire about the three thousand households who were assigned to the fields outside the fields, and inquire about the areas where they lived before they came to Wanshou Valley, and then break them up and reorganize them into new armor, and each thousand households will be organized into a battalion, which will be useful when I come back." ”

Xu Tiezhu's eyes blinked, he was an extremely clever person, and he was the best at hearing the signs from his words, at this time, his eyes rolled, and he immediately asked, "Brother Huan, do you want to open a mine again?" ”

Wang Huan laughed, and praised with some appreciation: "I can't hide anything from you, yes, I went into the mountain this time, is looking for a new ore vein, after you make up the crowd, you have to disclose the news to them in advance, this time as a miner, the salary remains the same, only one miner enters the mountain to mine, and the family can stay in Wanshou City, before the end of this year, my official office will still guarantee daily meals, but starting next year, they will have to rely on their own labor to earn money for the whole family to buy food." ”

Xu Goudan immediately lowered his head and thought about it, then raised his head and said: "There is no problem with this, although they have not been allocated the fields, they will only be happy if they can sell their labor in exchange for silver taels and free food." ”

Wang Huan nodded: "Then hurry up, I will come back in half a month at the latest, and a large number of miners will enter the mountain immediately, you can't go wrong." ”

This sentence was not only said to Xu Tiezhu, but also to the scholars standing behind Xu Tiezhu.

The scribes led by Zhou Cheng bowed down together and responded: "Yes!" ”

"The education of those orphans, as well as the training of recruits of the 100-man team, I have arranged for specific people to carry out every day as usual, you have to keep an eye on it regularly, don't slack off. I'm not here, you act as the city lord, if you have something, go to the earth fort to find Ma Wannian and discuss with the ancestors, Ma Wannian is the son of the stone pillar to comfort the son, he is very prestigious among the people, with him, there will be no big chaos. Wang Huan finally looked far away, looked at the endless mountains outside the valley and said in a deep voice: "If everything goes well, this trip can not only solve the labor problems of tens of thousands of people, but also pave a clear path for the future development of my Wanshou Valley." ”

Xu Tiezhu and Zhou Cheng and the others nodded solemnly, keeping Wang Huan's words in mind, and at the same time looking forward to Wang Huan's trip, if he could find another silver ore vein, it would be great.

All the explanations have been exhausted, Wang Huan reined in the horse and raised the whip, facing the morning sun, and suddenly stepped on the loess official road out of the valley, a group of guards followed closely, and after a while, they disappeared among the green mountains and green waters.

After Xu Tiezhu waited for Wang Huan to leave, he led a group of scribes, and conscientiously followed Wang Huan's requirements, while urging the construction of the city, while reorganizing the armor, he had clearly understood Wang Huan's intention to reorganize the armor, this is because people have the habit of living in groups, especially in a strange place, they will live in a group based on the area where they originally lived, and it is easy to take care of something, such as the Huguang Hall and Sichuan Hall all over the country in later generations, which is the specific manifestation of this, Not to mention the Chinese Association that exists in almost every country in the world.

But in this way, it will bring another kind of confusion of managers, once there is a policy that is not conducive to the introduction of displaced people, or for the benefit of the whole and must damage the interests of some people, it will encounter great resistance, the more people in the group, the greater the resistance, this is what Wang Huan does not want to see, Wanshou City, there should be no more Fengdu County people, Kuizhou people and other regional classifications, but should be Wanshou City people's self-style, only in this way, the residents in their hands can really become their own people, all the manpower twisted into a rope, For my use.

The rearrangement of the armor is the first step, and the people who have been allocated to the fields by the 3,000 households have basically done it, and the rest of the people have to come step by step.

This work is not easy, and it will naturally provoke resistance, but Xu Tiezhu already has experience, Wang Huan's method of beating a stick to give a piece of candy has been tried and tested repeatedly, first find the leading figures among the displaced people, promise benefits, lobby for benefits, and win over these characters who speak effectively, and then they will explain, and if there are diehards, who do not listen to life or death, the soldiers will come forward and directly throw people out of the valley.

Now Sichuan, either Zhang Xianzhong's territory, or the territory of the Southern Ming warlords, the two sides are in turmoil, everywhere wolf smoke, it is difficult to live the current stable and safe life when driven out, survival is a problem, the displaced people look at the disobedient people who are crying and shouting and drag their families out of Wanshou Valley, their backs are cold sweat, and there are no more people who dare to come forward and resist stubbornly.

Ma Wannian in the earthen fort was guarding the silver mine, and the ancestors stared at the smelter, not daring to relax at all, they had a great responsibility, one was to prevent foreign spies from mixing into the silver mine to spy on the bottom of the matter, the amount of silver ore produced was a secret bigger than the sky, except for a few people on the top floor of Wanshou City, nothing else could be known. Second, it is necessary to prevent the miners from stealing by themselves, after all, there are more or less people who secretly take a few pieces in the pit and hide them in the secret places on their bodies, and take them out with luck.

This unhealthy trend must be strongly suppressed, otherwise it will be out of control and will end up like a Ming official mine. People who hide their smugglings have all kinds of tricks, including hiding silver nuggets in the sandwich of clothes, in the uppers of shoes, in hair bundles, in their mouths, and even in stuffs.

However, the ancestral border army was born, the army was selfless, Ma Wannian was young, but he was a tendon person, the system was strict under the management of the two, and the soldiers under his command were all local soldiers who hated corruption.

Cut off the hand, with a yard of salt, placed at the gate of the silver mine, every person who goes to work can be seen, nearly a hundred severed hands are neatly placed on the wooden shelf, it is shocking, and then there are people with bad intentions have to weigh it, this is not worth it, so the wind of theft is stopped, and the atmosphere of the silver mine is positive.

The days passed, and half a month passed in a blink of an eye, Wanshou City became more and more prosperous under the management of a few people, and the vigorous and upward vitality was stirring on everyone's face, and everyone felt that living here was safer and fairer than any place in the Ming Dynasty.

There is no oppression, no exorbitant taxes, no wolf-like servants, as long as you can work, you have food to eat, you have money to earn, is there a better life than this?

Half a moon later, Wang Huan came back, his face darkened, his body stronger, full of the fierce aura of the mountain people, and the guards who followed him carried a backpack full of ore.