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Wang Tong's team went out to Guihua City, from Wang Tong to the ordinary military vehicles below, everyone revisited the old place, and they were very familiar with this road to victory. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But after all, it is more than a year past, familiar and unfamiliar, although it is close to the end of the year, but after the tiger's mouth, there is no slightest desertion, the road is very lively, and there are a lot of people, cars and horses.

Ma Dong is a general soldier, in Datong Town received Wang Tong to accompany him a few days after returning to the town, but the person sent was Ma Yong, who followed Wang Tong to conquer the naturalized city last year, and he is also an acquaintance, he is now the faint general of the Datong Left Guard, and he knows the changes in this area very well.

"Hou Ye, now that the Naturalization City is pacified, there are already more than a dozen big Zhuangzi from the Naturalization City to the Killing Tiger Mouth, and the harvest will definitely not be bad if it is reclaimed by waterway, and now the Hou Ye sees that this scene has actually become deserted because of the New Year, and after the fifteenth day of the first month, there will be more people!."

Not only are there more people, after coming out of the mouth of the tiger, you can already see the obvious road, presumably there are more people walking, and there are traces on it, last year, the cart and the army walked on the grassland, although they also knew the general route and direction, but there were always wild grass and ditches under their feet.

Originally, it was a day's walk, and when it got dark, there would be a tribe of Mongols there to receive and do business business, but now it is different, and when it is almost dark, you can see a large and large village, which is close to the roadside with a very simple car shop.

"Last year, the Hou Ye led everyone to fight down, and many people came out to reclaim the famine, Your Majesty's kindness, exempted from taxes in the past few years, this year, these people, although they only have time to plant the next season's crops, can harvest for themselves, and it is enough to eat......"

The speed at which Wang Tong's body recovered surprised all the people accompanying him, and when he was past the tiger's mouth, Wang Tong was already able to perform martial arts on the horse, and there was no difference from his previous physical state.

For the north of Datong, around the naturalization city, it was originally the core area of the Ministry of Alberta, that is, the territory laid by Wang Tong's people, Wang Tong was very moved by the changes that had taken place here, and Ma Yong also understood this and intended to talk about it more.

"A few days ago, the king of Zhou and the king of Yi in Henan sent people over, asking Shanxi and Datong to strictly investigate at the checkpoints, and all those who came from Henan, if they were working in Wangzhuang, they would be caught and sent back, who would pay attention to them, so many people dragged their families and mouths over, what did they do in Henan's official mansion."

Ma Yong said directly, Wang Tong also smiled, there are many princes in Henan, there are a few vassal kings, not to mention the king of the county, such a vassal king is noble, there is a vast land in Henan, the tenant farmers work it, and they have to endure very harsh records, even if ordinary people are mean, sometimes they have to take into account the law and reputation and the like, the vassal king and the like, the power is monstrous, who will pay attention to this, those tenant farmers are really miserable.

Shanxi and Datong are different, the land here is not very suitable for farming, industry and commerce are relatively prosperous, and when the naturalization city is laid, a huge amount of land can be cultivated and people need to cultivate, but in Shanxi can not recruit too many farmers in the past, Henan is close to Shanxi, with a large population, which naturally threatens one of the sources of recruiting farmers.

As for whether this farmer wanted to go over by himself, or whether Shanxi sent someone to recruit him, Ma Yong didn't say it, and Wang Tong didn't bother to pay attention to it.

Henan's Wangzhuang real estate covers a vast area, and the tenant farmers who cultivate above are regarded as cattle, and they are not valued at all, and the management is not strict, but these farmers can escape with their families, and they pass through the state.

The vassal king sent people over to exert pressure, no one would pay attention to it at all, Ma Yong said with a disdainful smile on his face, what is the vassal king, but he is just a pig who is enclosed in the city, he can do nonsense, he can toss wildly, but he can only be in the city, the naturalization city is defeated, how many business opportunities there are, how many good fields are there, these business opportunities are good land from the officialdom to the people, and Shishen Hao businessmen are involved in it.

These undertakings, how much labor is needed, how many peasant households are needed, how many guards are needed, and these people who are coming here now will become immeasurable wealth and even power in a year and two years.

When it comes to interests, even the Son of Heaven has people fighting for him without giving an inch, not to mention those rich vassal kings in Henan.

"No one has assigned these newly cultivated fields along the road to their own names, right?"

Wang Tong asked this question, the hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land around Guihua City have been counted as the fiefdom of Huangzhuang and Wang Tong, but the fields reclaimed along the way have no subordination, if there are powerful rich and noble people who say that this is his own land, I am afraid that the common people will also obey.

But in the Seyne to be tenants for the landlords and wealthy families, if they are still tenants out of the Seyne, then there is no need, these people will have to go back sooner or later.

"At that time, the master confessed, saying that he wanted to keep people at the beginning, and he couldn't do this, my handsome family stared closely according to what the Hou Ye said, who dared to serve the power and occupy the territory, and my handsome man's knife would not agree."

Seeing Wang Tong nodding, Ma Yong said with a smile: "Hou Ye is really clear, the shopkeeper under the handsome has calculated, and when the people of these villages stand on their feet, they will definitely need the protection of soldiers, and they will be willing to pay taxes when the time comes, this is a small head, when the time comes, the merchant store will buy special products in these villages, sell salt and other specialties, and it is a large amount of income, and their grain must also be bought and sold. But these places are all hens that lay golden eggs! ”

In the battle of Guihua City, Ma Yong also led the cavalry of Datong and Wang Tong to life and death, and the most important friendship between the warriors was this, and they spoke a lot more casually, many of which were originally said by their own family members, and Ma Yong said it without care.

What Ma Yong said is the same as what the Sanjiang Commercial Bank here in Shanxi reported to Wang Tong, which is similar to Wang Tong's prior arrangement.

However, those people who dragged their families to the grassland, their farm tools, their houses, and even the seeds sown, Guihua City would give a batch, but more of them were borrowed from wealthy merchants all over Shanxi, and the Ma family must be the big one.

With such a loan relationship, the process of repayment must first make a profit, and then these people take root here, and the dependency relationship already exists, now make a small amount of money first, and slowly make a lot of money.

Wang Tong is not opposed to recording and making money, but in the early stage of developing the naturalization area, he can't be too ruthless, otherwise, without the Han people who come from everywhere, the area of the naturalization city will be unstable and untenable.

Compared with Wang Tong's 1,000 people, Zhai Xiuer and Lu Ruomei from the south are not used to this kind of bitter cold and dryness, when they first arrived at the grassland, looking at the boundlessness around them, they still felt that there was some freshness, but their hands were cracked, and their faces were also frozen and painful, and they were busy hiding in the carriage.

The four-horse dragged van car, there is a special charcoal stove inside, the layout is extremely comfortable, the big car that the ladies ride, the craftsmen are specially designed, two layers of thick wooden wrench, cotton and fur pads between the wooden wrench, the gap is smeared with cement, and the ventilation duct is designed with smoke white, which is indeed warm and comfortable.

The road is smooth, there are settlements along the way to supplement the rest, and the land is frozen hard in winter, Wang Tong's party traveled much faster than the march at that time, and there will be no shoes on this road to intercept it, calculating, they can actually enter the naturalization city on the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

Chinese New Year's Eve and Spring Festival, on Wang Tong's side, is nothing, but Yiying Nucheng and the guards below still look at it, Naturalized City is also a big city with a population of more than 200,000, and this year's Spring Festival is the first Spring Festival after the occupation of Daming, it must be very lively.

Along the way, the village saw about twenty, which are all along both sides of the road between Guihua City and Datong Town, it is said that there are settlements on both sides of the road to the east and west, but the scale and prosperity are not as good as those on both sides of the road, this can also be understood, the main road is caravan walking frequently, transportation supplies are convenient, and the rescue of the official army can also be very fast, and if you go deeper, they are not so convenient.

According to Ma Yong, there are also small groups of horse thieves and horse bandits, and they dare not touch the caravans with firearms in Guihua City, but these villages have threatened the target, and there is no effect after several clearances, and they all wonder if the people of the village are colluding with the horse thieves, but it is also a disease of scabies, and it will not become a big climate.

The roads and villages are not only Han people, Wang Tong also saw the Hao ancient people who raised livestock, but they were not from the Wei tribe, and they were also based on families.

The Han people also need livestock, need cattle and horses to plow the fields, to ride, also need meat, large-scale livestock storage, they are naturally not as good as the ancient people who have lived on the grassland for a long time, and the ancient people have the supply of food and various items, naturally they are not willing to nomadic wandering, and the two sides are also complementary.

However, Wang Tong learned one thing from Ma Yong's introduction, and he was very concerned, that is, to prepare a village and organize a team of Xiangyong according to Wang Tong's statement, but most of the people who participated in this team were wealthy people, and the Han people felt that it was better to go to farming and work at that time, so why bother.

"It must be compulsory, according to Dingkou to draw people, if the wealthy are willing to do it, the Han people are not willing to do it, what will happen in the long run, these villages will become the territory of those Mengren, and they will protect it, I will go to Naturalization City to tell Tan Jiang, you also go back and explain to your family, don't ignore it."

Wang Tong said very cautiously, Ma Yong did not dare to slack off, solemnly agreed, and on the third day, Tan Jiang led the horse team of Naturalization City to greet him, and by the morning of the fifth day, Naturalization City had appeared on the horizon