The wild grass is green, the people are lonely, and the chickens and dogs are not heard for hundreds of miles, which is the most intuitive status quo on the Liaohe Plain.

Aside from the smaller walled towns and some popularity, the rest of the city has become almost a paradise for wild animals and wild animals.

From this, we can also feel the terrible impact and bad consequences brought about by the continuous wars on these places that bear the brunt of the war, and the basic truth of the so-called "rise and fall are all suffering".

In fact, the suburbs of these strongholds, large areas of farmland and vegetable fields, which have not yet been abandoned, have been abandoned for a long time because of the lack of suitable labor.

Only under the city wall, some melons and vegetables that do not need to be bothered to care for and feed are more prosperous in the shelves and soil stalk mountains.

Occasionally, there are only a few figures of women and children, and the lifelessness and depression in them are in stark contrast to the joy and enthusiasm that I had seen when I first passed through here.

And for those who set foot in this land for the first time under the banner of the Huaidong Army, it is a completely new experience.

"It's really a good field."

Deng Fang, a veteran from the new army, dragged a handful of fresh earth, and sighed repeatedly, from between his scattered fingers, he could clearly see the black humus inside.

I thought that those plains along the southwest coast of Liaoning were good enough; But I didn't expect that in the bitter cold of the Northeast, there would be more suitable places for fat.

The mountains to the north and west have almost negligible cold currents blowing from the Mongolian plateau, while spring and summer moisture and cumulonimbus clouds from the southeast sea can be blown inland through the unsheltered coast.

As a result, the local winter is cold and dry, and the summer is warm and rainy. With the unique climatic advantages of rain and heat and abundant sunshine, it is also a good agricultural production area.

In addition, the organic matter precipitated by impact in several river basins over the past generations can be said to be a natural land with thick soil and deep water and long-term cultivation.

In the basin on both sides of the Liao River, there are relatively densely populated areas.

Some time ago, the princes of various families ran into the wilderness, fighting and fighting with each other, and the traces of indulgent burning and wanton destruction left in the place are still reflected in those walled villages and towns.

And Luo Yunxiao commanded his own army, and repeatedly broke the battlefield of the rebel party; It is still full of new earth, with flocks of wild dogs and crows, and broken and abandoned weapons and flags can still be seen everywhere;

It is like a cluster of monuments quietly sighing in the wind, slowly clustered in the wilderness, and faintly buried among the newly grown grass.

When we crossed the last branch of the Liao River, the muddy waters, we entered the hinterland of the traditional Luo Domain. With the reappearance of the walled village, it has become popular and fireworks again.

But it is still difficult to hide the atmosphere of depression and decadence, and everyone regardless of age has a dish; Even a few young men standing at the head of the wall or at the entrance of the village, holding wooden spears on guard, could not hide the fatigue of the muscles.

And on the roads, there are many groups of homeless people, as well as old and new corpses that have been killed one after another, some of which have suspicious marks that have been cut and gnawed.

It reminds us that it is the summer season when there is no success; At this time, the grain we brought with us became a kind of foresight. Because compared to the time when they came, people from all over the place rushed to bring their own agricultural products and gathered into a temporary grass market; Now, even if you have money, you can't buy much in the place.

The coalition led by Luo Fan repeatedly added wars to them, not only draining the local young and strong labor, but also expropriating the last bit of local surplus and inventory; It has also caused the local agricultural production, which is the most taboo, to fall into a serious shortage and hardship.

Judging from the sparse and poorly grown seedlings in the fields, at least this year's harvest is inevitable or even a complete harvest.

This is the fragility of agrarian societies and smallholder systems. Once the superior is not properly handled or unprepared, it is easy to evolve from a local problem to a protracted natural disaster that spreads out.

However, it is obvious that the Liaocheng side does not seem to be aware of this now, or has no time to take care of this aspect of the problem for the time being.

Of course, the losses in the prime of life in the war are great, but for the local population, it is only a matter of a generation, and as long as the generation of teenagers grows up again, it may be able to alleviate some things.

But the premise is that they must be able to survive these years and continue to live until they reach adulthood, instead of starving to death or dying of disease on the road to escape famine one after another.

Because the local people are close to the hinterland of their own family and are in a relatively productive area, they can finally rely on the accumulation of years of savings, and the last savings can barely hold on;

However, the leaders of the other states who were a little farther away could no longer get by, and the leaders at the township and community level took them out to escape the famine and beg for food.

Among them, there are even some who have crossed the border from other domains, because their respective princes and vassals are also fighting each other and all kinds of lives are miserable, and the people's livelihood is difficult.

In addition, because of the repeated transfer of garrison soldiers, the border air defense is weak; and a considerable part of the garrison and government soldiers, who were involved in and participated in the rebellion of their own family and broke the prisoners, causing their original strongholds to become almost undefended; Yes, it was easy to flow all the way over.

Then this again became a contradiction between outsiders and natives. It is already very difficult to maintain the status quo under the local government officials, and there are no spare resources and leeway to help them get out of or alleviate their difficulties.

On the contrary, it is because of the sudden influx of non-staff population, which has caused more pressure on law and order and other problems in social order. Therefore, the cities and villages along the route adopted a certain attitude of strict defense and stubborn rejection in the face of the groups of people who had fled from the desert.

Of course, for me, there is no means or deeds to divert internal contradictions. That is, in the face of general hardship, the sense of disparity contrasted with the miserable situation of the displaced people is used to maintain stability and unity under the rule.

It's just that

There were several incidents in which the group spontaneously gave relief along the way, causing a large group of people to follow us and ask to sell themselves into slavery.

I also made a formal decision: in order to provide a small ration for the resettlement of my family or sell out of my value, I recruited these displaced people to the nearby wasteland in the labor camp in western Liaoning. The required food and qualified materials were added from Huaidong by sea.

Although this kind of behavior of digging the corners of nominal allies (lords) will be very troublesome and handsome on weekdays;

But now in this situation where the other party obviously wants me, I believe that I can still negotiate a result relatively smoothly; Maybe the other party will secretly thank me for solving some kind of trouble for him.

As a result, after staying for an extra day, I also recruited some young men and women from places along the way; Although there is a serious shortage of strong labor in the local area, the children born to each family are not small, and although the work cannot be compared with that of adults, it is also a great burden as a mouth for food.

Therefore, through the appearance of local officials, in fact, there are many families who take the initiative to ask for this opportunity to reduce the burden on families who are struggling to make a living, and can also increase some income.

Of course, I said that I would work as a hired laborer like an apprentice for a few years, but when I entered my labor camp, I didn't want to come out so easily. Under the influence of the large collective environment, there is a set of means and systems for the assimilation of these young people, or brainwashing.

In this way, they have a natural estrangement and geographical exclusion from the local residents in western Liaoning, and after they are mixed together to monitor each other, they will not conspire to do something in the local area; As long as it is properly guided and regulated, a certain relationship of mutual checks and balances and competition will even be formed.

Well, I find myself in this position for a long time, and my thinking seems to be becoming more and more dark and extremely utilitarian.

However, also at this time,

I got the news again, in essence, Luo Zhanrong, the former elder of the split and self-reliant, who was once the number two person in the crusade army, finally bowed his head to the family led by Luo Yunxiao and admitted defeat under the general trend.

Therefore, he voluntarily repatriated his subordinates and went to Liaocheng to mourn for the two generations of feudal lords. Therefore, Luo Yunxiao, the acting lord of the domain, also expressed his attitude generously, allowing him to bring Hu from 500 to his house.

So for a while, the eleven states in the Luo domain shook up and down, and the repercussions everywhere were overwhelming; Those people in the places where ****** monks were watching and watching, almost all of them were "cured without medicine" or "the road was smooth" and "the place was peaceful" overnight; They all moved, took their subordinates and the tributes they had made up, and began to go to Liaocheng.

Therefore, in addition to a number of remnants of the Luo Su clan who fled from the foreign domain, the Anton Da Luo clan, which had just approached the precipice and pass of disintegration and disintegration, was once again united by powerful external forces and internal factors, and people once again saw the prospect and expectation of a certain revival of the family business.

I saw the still magnificent Liaocheng again, as well as the busy camp outside the city; It's just a short month and a half, but it's already a matter of right and wrong, and now it's a different look. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net