In just a few months, even the gods can't settle hundreds of thousands of refugees. In fact, as early as when he dealt with the White Lotus Sect, Zhang Ke had already stretched out his hand to the grassland.

After defeating the fried flower department, Zhang Ke sent elite soldiers to attack the grassland and drive away all the fragmented small tribes, regardless of the cost.

Qiao Gui even used the grassland as a training ground for recruits, camping and training, rehearsing military formations, shooting targets, and even attacking Tartars, for live-fire training. The vast grassland has almost become a training ground and back garden for the Yiju soldiers.

On the first line of the Great Wall, within a radius of 200 miles, the herdsmen have almost disappeared. Some wounded veterans were bold and not afraid of Tartars at all, so they gathered a group of young men and strongmen to cross the Great Wall and establish a stronghold. For the feat of expanding the territory, Zhang Ke naturally supported it unconditionally, personally formulated the rules, and handed over a percent harvest, so that he could be sheltered.

Less than 100 people, the Grange in various places solved by itself, more than 100 people, and the Yizhou soldiers came forward.

This year is the first year of harvest in Juntun, although the newly cultivated fields are not fertile enough, and the yield is limited, but it cannot hold many fields, and it can still raise livestock. As a result, everyone's income has increased several times compared to before.

The veterans have changed from homesteaders to small landlords, and their identities have leaped forward, and they are all happy.

With successful experience, Zhang Ke dared to get refugees to the grassland.

With the original military stronghold as the core, a large number of grange villages and towns quickly appeared, as if mushrooms had sprung up after a rain, and the grassland instantly burst with strong vitality.

The refugees have an account in their hearts. When the tenant has to endure more than half of the land rent, as well as all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, he is on the front line. There are many conscriptions, they can exhaust people to death, even if they are tired and don't die, God feels sorry for the big guy, at most, they will do it for half a year and half a year, and they can't see a little light in their lives.

But when it comes to the grassland, it's completely different, and only one percent of the land rent. As long as you are capable, open a thousand acres. 10,000 acres and no one cares about you.

As long as you are willing to work, you can change your fate!

There is no need to doubt the diligence of the Chinese people, and the first moment the refugees arrive in the grassland, they begin to work frantically.

Zhang Ke has arranged for people to demarcate the homestead. Build a strong fence with bricks and stones outside the village where you live, which is a guarantee of everyone's safety in the future, and there can be no sloppiness.

As for the simple thatched huts, the shelves were made of wood, the adobe bricks were dried in mud, and the roofs were made of reeds and straw, and the labor was sufficient, and dozens of houses could be built in a day, and the whole village could live in new houses in a month.

Refugees fled from Liaodong. Became nothing.

But the original clan neighbors, relatives and friends, and strange relationship networks have all been broken up...... All of them work together. Obey the arrangements of the officials, divide labor and cooperate, and do their own mission diligently.

Soon the big guys suddenly found that their work efficiency had increased exponentially, and they were stunned to get the house in order before the snow fell. In winter, you don't have to be cold.

More than 4 million acres of fields have also been opened, which can be cultivated just by waiting for the beginning of spring.

What is even more amazing is that industry and commerce have also developed.

In fact, to put it bluntly, a sentence is also forced. The governor's yamen promised to give grain, but the grain was only borrowed temporarily, and it had to be repaid later.

It's uncomfortable to owe money, and it's even more uncomfortable to owe money to the court, so I just try to make some money.

Some people began to raise poultry and livestock, and some people noticed the large number of reeds on the grassland, cut them back, and weaved them into mats.

Zhang Ke had expected this, not that he was too godly, but that he had gained experience in Hewan Village. As long as there is a relaxed and safe environment, the instinct to chase wealth can drive the people crazy.

Of course, Zhang Ke will not just watch, but also guide the people, he has come up with two ways to make money, one is the salt lake on the grassland, there is a large amount of high-quality salt and alkali, which are indispensable for the people.

The Ming Dynasty had a law for the salt administration, that is, merchants were encouraged to transport grain to the nine sides, and the nine sides issued salt leads, and the merchants took the salt leads and then went to the salt field to collect salt and send it to a fixed area for sale.

Zhang Ke and Wang Huazhen jointly signed a petition to restore the Chinese and French countries in Liaodong, but the specific measures changed somewhat, and the merchants took grain, cloth, and iron tools to Liaodong, directly exchanged for salt, and transported them to the sales location.

This trick is relatively open to China and France, from triangular trade to straight line trade, merchants do not have to run around, save time, and the price is cheap.

You must know that salt is a monopoly of the imperial court, but alkali is different, and you can buy and sell it casually. The keen Jin businessman instantly smelled the business opportunity. Most of the northern provinces eat pasta, and they use alkali, which is also a business of one or two million per year, so how can you miss it.

Several major Jin merchant families sent Fan Wensheng and Huang Delu and others to find Zhang Ke and begged bitterly that they must hand over the saline-alkali business to them.

Zhang Ke is also very simple, there is only one requirement, that is, all trade in the grassland must be approved by the people arranged by Zhang Ke!

Although Zhang Ke also had an agreement with them last time, with their style, they must be in defiance of yang and yin, but this time, they have to think carefully about the consequences of offending Zhang Ke!

The second way to make money is wool, textile is an authentic sunrise industry, full of stamina, the industrial revolution is the beginning of textiles. Zhang Ke specifically stipulated that anyone under the age of twenty-five, who is dexterous, regardless of gender, can receive training to become textile workers.

Each person has one tael or three dollars of silver a month, and if he does a good job, his salary will be more than two taels after a year!

Ordinary people, where can they resist this temptation, parents and elders have sent their children away, crying and shouting for the factory to accept it. Invisibly, the shortage of workers was solved. [,！ ] The disadvantages of woolen textile have been accelerated several times, and they are all happy.

……

The governor's yamen, above the hall, is brightly lit.

Behind the two large rows of cases, there was a young bookkeeper, and their fingers were flying, and they could only hear the crackling sound when they moved the abacus beads.

Zhang Ke crossed Erlang's legs and tasted tea with one mind. Wang Huazhen walked back and forth on the ground, delicate beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and she sighed from time to time. Glaring.

There is a reason why the old gentleman can't sit still so much, he went to the grassland tuntian. has a lot of achievements, but Liaodong and even the imperial court have been turned upside down.

Most of the tenants of the family ran away, and they even had to use their own soldiers to barely get the grain back. But what to do in the coming year, you can't let the family go farming!

These people are burned inside, and they are so angry that they fart out. Especially Bao Chengxian. His father-in-law, Xu Shou, was the most mean to the tenant farmers, and he had already run seventy percent. By next year, there may not be any left!

The daughter-in-law of the loser cries in her ears every day, forcing Bao Cheng to snatch the tenant farmer back first, but how dare he. Zhang Ke's men and horses are staring at him!

"Long hair and short things, do you want to be widowed?"

The lady was even more fierce, and scolded: "If you are widowed, you will be widowed, and if you are such a coward, it is better to die!" Don't say that your subordinates are lost, you eat our family and drink our family every day, and you can't help at all, what kind of thing are you! "

was scolded by his daughter-in-law for his head and face. Bao Cheng's ancestors were under the low eaves, so he had to bow his head and run to the barracks in anger. stewed three black dogs in one go, and scolded while eating, clearly treating the dog meat as Zhang Ke......

The generals are probably like this, and they use all kinds of connections to beg the officials in Beijing to stand up and help them say something.

The hundred officials in Beijing heard Zhang Ke's two words. The head is several times bigger. A gang of Donglin Party members impeached him, but not only did they succeed. Almost the whole army was wiped out, the first auxiliary Ye Xianggao, and the left capital Yushi Zou Yuanbiao all stepped down, leaving Han Yi and **Xing struggling to maintain.

No one dares to impeach Zhang Ke, but they also have a way to focus their firepower on Wang Huazhen.

Impeach him for provoking the border, abusing the gentry, showing disregard to the border generals, and brutalizing the people...... All in all, Wang Huazhen became a scapegoat and a lawsuit.

Lao Wang pointed to Tuntian's achievements and severely blocked the mouths of the officials. It can be said that the accounting gentlemen are not accounts, but the reputation of Lao Wang's life, so they have to care.

When it was almost the third watch, Xiong Ruoguang hurriedly ran over with the list in his hand, and said with a strong pressure and excitement: "Lord Zhongcheng, please take a look!"

"How's it going, there's a catch?"

"Well, a big deal!"

Wang Huazhen hurriedly looked at it, the more she looked at it, the happier she became, and in the end, she couldn't help but look up to the sky and laugh.

"Hahaha, Yongzhen, you are extraordinary!"

The idea of Tuntian Grassland was all Zhang Ke's idea, although it was in the name of Wang Huazhen, in fact, he was just an executor.

However, when the situation was summed up, Wang Huazhen was still very excited.

"In less than four months since August, more than 430,000 people have been settled, 115,000 houses have been built, 3.3 million acres of land have been cultivated, more than 13,000 new troops have been trained and rebuilt, and 300 miles of territory have been restored!"

Wang Huazhen's voice rose higher the more he read: "It costs 2.75 million silver to settle the people, 500,000 stone of grain, and the rest of the bricks, stones, and wood. However, in a few months, the commercial tax will be levied 120,000 taels, and if the land tax is paid next year, the income will be more than 500,000 taels! "

After reading the statistics, the big guys are clear, in more than a year, the investment can be recovered, and there is a large piece of land out of thin air, tens of thousands of soldiers.

In the face of the results of the iron fight, the accusation of the official surnamed Dong is not a fart. It has always been the greatest credit to expand the territory, even if it is a loss, let alone making money!

"Yongzhen, I'll go to the court, let those noisy officials see, and let the saint know that we are the ones who really do things!"

Zhang Ke was confident and said with a smile: "Shibo, don't worry, Tuntian is a success, and many miserable tenants will join it, and the number will skyrocket next year."

"What's wrong with that?" Wang Huazhen asked suspiciously.

"Hahaha, Shibo, you can't make the grassland and make Liaodong empty! Or follow those big families and bow their heads, as long as they are willing to be obedient, they still have to leave a way to live......"

Zhang Ke didn't wait for him to finish speaking, when someone suddenly ran in, panting and said: "My lord, something is wrong, under the rule of Guangning, with Xujiabao as the center, there are more than 20 squires and landlords in villages and towns who have rebelled, and they have driven out all the officials they have sent, recruited troops, and want to fight with the imperial court!"

"Look for death!"

Zhang Ke slapped the table and said sharply: "Immediately order all the people and go to Xujiabao!" After a pause, he added jokingly: "Call Bao Chengxian and let him put down the rebellion!" (To be continued)