Sichuan, Chengdu.

Yang Laobai grabbed a hemp rope, carried a broken burden full of patches, and walked with a crutch in the middle of a bunch of "called Huazi" who were dressed up like him. His stupid wife, stupid son and ugly daughter were tied to the hemp rope, and the ugly girl Yang Leer's brain was fine, so at the back of the line, he watched his brother and mother to prevent them from getting lost. This way from Anren Town, this is how their family came together!

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! ”

A fierce-looking official swung a leather whip on the ground of the bluestone slab, making a chilling sound down his spine.

"Hurry up, you stinky flowers, what are you rubbing! If you are delayed on the road for a day, will I have to be scolded when I go back? ”

But the official thought to himself, "If you arrive earlier, I will be able to pay the errand earlier, and maybe I can save some money on food—the work of recruiting collective farm households is undertaken by the local government, and the Northeast Development Corporation subsidizes it on a capitation basis." This subsidy includes the cost of recruitment and transportation, and the official of Dayi County received a dozen yuan for food, and then escorted more than 100 people on the road. As long as you arrive in Chengdu and pay the people, the remaining food expenses can fall into your pocket. So he couldn't wait to let these people fly to Chengdu with wings, and he did everything possible to harsh everyone's food along the way. And the people with empty bellies can't walk, so they can only be driven away with leather whips.

"Jin Liu, you go and ask those people what's going on? Why do you have a rope to tie it and a leather whip to drive it away? ”

At the south gate of Chengdu, a procession of lamas, retinues, guards, grooms and horses is slowly leaving the city. The first was a middle-aged lama in his thirties, and his robe was very gorgeous. Riding a white horse. See the oncoming procession of "prisoners". The lama's curiosity was offended. Have one of your attendants ask about the situation. And this retinue named Jin Liu is none other than Aixin Jueluo. Sushun. This lama is Zhang Jiahu Tuketu, who walked all the way from Beijing.

Hearing the order of the great lama, Su Shun sighed in his heart, this lama is good at everything, but his temperament is too slow, and he is not in a hurry at all about such an important matter as going to Tibet, and he has been grinding in Sichuan for several months. I traveled all day long, and I ate all the delicacies of Sichuan, of course, all the expenses were from the Ming court.

"Buddha, those are poor sticks who immigrated to Manchuria." Su Shun quickly inquired about the ins and outs of the matter, and came back to report to the lama, "Recently, some landlords here in Sichuan have been quitting, and the tenants who have lost their livelihood have no way out, so they can only sign up for collective farms and go to Manchuria. ”

"Oh," the lama nodded, puzzled. "Since I signed up to go to Manchuria by myself, why should I be tied with a rope. Do you want to be escorted by officials? ”

Su Shun snorted: "Of course it's going to be escorted...... This is more than 10,000 miles to Manchuria, who is willing to run so far away from their hometown with a good background? There must be something hidden here! ”

"Sure enough, it is dead, the people are bitter, prosperous, and the people are also bitter!" The great lama shook his head, gently patted the horse's neck with the reins, and the white horse under his crotch walked forward slowly.

Su Shun glanced at those ragged travelers again, and sneered in his heart, this Zhu Rebellious world is really going to be chaotic! Not only were the scholars forced to deviate from morality by Zhu Yi, but even ordinary farmers also suffered and were forced to live no longer! This is probably the people's lack of livelihood, right? Maybe when will there be heroes and heroes who will rise up, like the thieves of the year, turning the Ming Dynasty upside down, and the Qing Dynasty will take advantage of the situation again, why can't it be recovered? Thinking of this, he immediately quickened his pace and followed the white horse of the Great Lama towards the main road leading to the Tibetan border.

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At this moment, at the destination of Yang Laobai and other "new northeasterners", the construction project of Heihe Badazhai on the southwest bank of Heilongjiang has begun. The so-called "Dazhai" is naturally different from ordinary collective farms, not one hundred households but five hundred households, so the scale of the walled city is larger, the defense capability is also stronger, and it is not a boxy regulation, but it is built according to the appearance of the Western Star Fortress, but the building materials used are still the most common logs here in the Northeast. Thousands of logs are tied together with thick wires to form an outer wall, with the smaller half buried in the earth and the most exposed on the ground. The interior walls were also built with some smaller timbers, and the rammed earth was filled between the two walls, and platform fortifications were built on top, just like ordinary city walls. The brick-clad walls are no less solid than the walls. Outside the city walls, there were also trenches dug out, which were two zhang wide and about one zhang deep.

There are a total of eight walled cities of this scale on the ground of the Heihe River on the southwest bank of the Heilongjiang River, saying: Eight villages in Heihe, each village will place 500 immigrants, there are 4,000 households in the eight villages, and the total population is about 25,000, of which there are no less than 6,000 strong men, equipped with 8,000 smoothbore guns. Around Bada Village, more than 200,000 acres of fertile land on the west and south banks of the Heilongjiang River have all been allocated to the households in these Eight Villages. In addition, there are military camps in the eight villages of Heihe, and when necessary, a battalion of army can be stationed, and even in peacetime, a company will be stationed with two 6-pounder guns.

The reason for this arrangement is not to deal with the bannerman walled city of Morgan in the southwest of the Heihe River, but to deal with the Russians on the other side of the Heilongjiang River!

"My lord, it was originally our territory, and it was clearly written on the Treaty of Nebuchu, but now it is all occupied by Lao Maozi!"

Standing on the wall of the "Aihui Village", which was the first to be built in the Bada Village, Zeng Guoquan pointed to a star castle on the other side of the Heilongjiang River that looked similar to the Bada Village and said: "What is the name of that castle Nikolaevsky Fort, it is the stronghold of the Russians in the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River, and it was built with the help of the bannermen who fled from the south bank of the Heilongjiang River, and the land around the Nikolaevsky Fort is also planted by these bannermen, and there are many banner women who have become women for the Russians in the castle, which really disgraces the face of the ancestors!" ”

Listening to him were General Luo Junqi, the commander of the Liaodong Army, and Peng Yulin, the chief soldier of Liaodong Town. Since last summer, the first line of the Ming army's defense in the northeast has advanced to the south bank of the Heilongjiang River. Moreover, it is not simply the use of the army to deploy defense, but the combination of military and civilian forces, and the combination of farming and warfare, hundreds of "big villages" have been launched on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River, with 50,000 households planned to be resettled, a population of 25 to 300,000, and more than 10,000 permanent soldiers, which can be rapidly increased to 50,000 if necessary. There are also 50,000 to 100,000 armed immigrants.

According to the plan of the General Staff, once this resettlement project along the Heilongjiang River is completed, the Ming army will have the certainty of defeating Russia in the Heilongjiang Valley. However, in Zeng Guoquan's view, this plan is too conservative.

"If you want me to say, you can directly send 20,000 troops to uproot all the Russian stockades on the other side of the Heilongjiang River! Why bother building hundreds of collective farms? ”

Peng Yulin smiled: "Yuan Fu, it's not so simple to fight the Russians...... They are Western powers, and the relationship between Western countries is very complicated, and it affects the whole body, so we have to wait for the opportunity. ”

Luo Junqi had a better understanding of the situation in the West and explained: "If we start a war with Russia now, of course, we can win, but it is also possible to attract Russia's attention to the East, Britain and France wish that Russia and us would fight a bad war in Siberia and Central Asia, Russia is a first-class power, and if you really have enough strength to fight with us, you will not be able to tell the winner in ten or eight years." So it's better to wait until the European powers are fighting on their own, and then let's get involved. ”

"The Western powers fought on their own? When will it be hit? ”

"I don't know what to do, but the emperor thinks that he will definitely fight within 3 years, Yuan Fu, you still have to work harder here, if the labor is not enough, go and catch more flag people."

"That's ...... Not okay? Zeng Guoquan frowned, "Duke Bohai has already asked to withdraw the domain, and those banner people are also our own......

"Your own people? Are our own people living a good life? Luo Junqi snorted a few times, "Then according to the treatment of the Han Army Banner and the Eight Banners of North Korea, let them help us work for a few years and then break up and integrate into the collective farm." (To be continued......)