Expand your territory.

Let the wild land gradually become a place for the Qin people to settle.

Li Yuan, who worked hard at the end of the Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, was like the founder of a small company who had just established a small company, carefully taking care of his small world.

After a period of migration, differentiation and integration, Li Yuan gradually gained a firm foothold in the western part of the Qin state, bounded by the Qishan and Chencang lines in the east, crossed the Qinling Mountains in the south, and touched the southern part of Longxi County, in the west, with the Great River as the benchmark, and in the north, bordered by Wang Li's border army along the line of the Great Wall.

Under Li Yuan's rule, the total population was about 300,000, of which 200,000 were new immigrants and 100,000 were Qiang, Qin, and Di people who originally lived in Yongqi and Longxi.

The people in the northwest are fierce, and the 70,000 troops composed of herdsmen and farmers can compete with the more than 100,000 troops in the Central Plains in terms of combat effectiveness.

A single draw will cause the Yongqi base area to lose too much blood, and the continuous battle will also exacerbate the loss of troops, and in the face of the large and small princes of Kwantung, Li Yuan, a lonely Qin army, has too much pressure to bear.

There are not many soldiers, but the most important is fine.

Steady.

Strengthening himself step by step, giving hope to the people under his rule a new life, letting families spend the new year with a smile, and letting adult men step onto the battlefield with pride and pride, this is all Li Yuan wants.

It's unreal, but it's real.

The carpenter Han Si's ancestral home is from Huaiyin, Donghai County, but now he resolutely joined Li Yuanjun's ranks, because he married a Qin man from Guanzhong as his wife.

Han Si joined Li Yuan's army with a sense of pride, from Daliang to Yongzhou, although he did not enlist, he was a witness to Li Yuan's rise.

Han Si, who is single, never thought that there would be a day when he would find a woman in his life. And his wish came true soon after arriving in Yongzhou.

A young bride from the small city of Linxia became Han Si's bride, this woman's man lost his life in the battle of Julu, leaving only an orphan and widow, the woman probably also fell in love with Han Si is an honest man, so she did not hesitate to tempt each other, for Han Si, who had no woman to comfort him for a long time, the young woman's killing was amazing, and it was impossible to resist.

A month after the wedding, Han Si was recruited to join the army, there were two more mouths in the family, and his carpentry work with no bite could only be thrown away, Li Yuanjun adopted a recruitment system, and the monthly military salary for enlisting in the army was just enough for Han Si to support two mothers and daughters.

In the midst of hardship, ordinary people like Han Si live so ordinarily.

Feng Xuan, who escaped from Xianyang, is now Han Si's top boss, and Jiang Yu's infantry lieutenant is compared to Li Zheng, who only knows how to write on paper, Feng Xuan, who has been the commander of the Qin State Guard, is undoubtedly more marketable than Li Zheng, after hearing that Feng Jing and other men and women were beheaded by Xiang Yu in Xianyang West City, Feng Xuan joined Li Yuan's army.

He is the only seedling of the Feng family.

Regardless of his previous hatred or love, as a descendant of Feng Zheng, the general of the Qin State, he wants to prove that he is not a coward.

For example, Han Si and Feng Xuan, there are many new soldiers who are newly enlisted, and in the same way, after screening and elimination, those soldiers who are no longer suitable for the army have been dismissed, some of them have become a yeoman farmer in Yongqi, and some have become officials who assist their fathers and pavilion chiefs in managing the place.

In a little change, Li Yuan painted a picture scroll of his own on the land of Yongqi, although it is still a little naïve and a little rough, but it is full of vitality and yearning.

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October.

The ripening season is also a season of hope.

For the Qin people in Guanzhong, the changes of this year have made them remember it in their hearts, enter it into the family tree, and never forget it.

The powerful Qin Dynasty ended, and Qin's sense of superiority over the six Kwantung countries for many years was also wiped out with the fall of Xianyang, and the majestic palace was burned clean by Xiang Yu, who returned to the east, leaving only the ruins of the Afang Palace still whimpering and telling the glory of the past.

In autumn, a joy filled the faces of the people of Yongqi

Everyone's face rippled, this is a smile from the heart, so simple, and so easy to satisfy.

Zhang Ying held the golden and plump wheat grains in his hand, and he couldn't help himself with excitement. This is the result of a season of hard work, heavy, but extraordinarily precious.

The yield of wheat, judging from this season's spring wheat, has already surpassed that of traditional millet grass, and with more grain, the people under Li Yuan's rule will have a better life, and at the same time, they will also be able to seize the opportunity of logistics supply in future wars.

In the same October, for the Qin people in Guanzhong east of Yongqi, it was an unbearable month to look back, under the rule of the three princes and kings of Long Ji, Zhang Han and Dong Peng, the tax commission reached an astonishing fifty or fifty percent, which made the Qin people in Guanzhong who had been living by expectation miserable.

The anti-Qin army stayed in Guanzhong for a long time, robbing and consuming almost all the grain stocks in the hands of the people, and the only thing they hoped for in the autumn harvest was now, half of it was taken away, and what was left was not enough for the people to support until the next season.

Late October.

The news of the Yongqi harvest, instigated by some people with ulterior motives, began to spread in the land of Guanzhong, and not surprisingly, it immediately secretly triggered a surging wave of refugees.

The autumn wind began to be cold, blowing on the body, there was a bone-chilling cold, Qishan, Chencang and other important passes, a pull from Fufeng, Xiayi and other places fled from the Guanzhong Qin people carried a few items, waiting for the inspection to be released.

Yongzhou, the county capital.

Chen Ping, the chief historian, was reporting the influx of refugees to Li Yuan, who had just returned from a tour on the Western Front, and the data and news from the intermittent work showed that the sudden influx of refugees was turning in an unstoppable direction.

"The county guard, east of Qishan, there are more and more refugees stranded, and it is getting colder and colder, if there is a mistake, what should I do?" Chen Ping is at a loss, and in terms of political affairs, although he is competent, he still lacks experience. Among the refugees, a considerable number of them have relatives in Yongqi, and the existence of these people makes Chen Ping unable to make it impossible to make it impossible for Chen Ping to have thunderous means.

"Chen Changshi, the matter of refugees, it is not difficult to say, it is not easy to say. The key is not to accept or reject, but to discern. For those who are related by blood to the people of Yongqi, they can adopt the method of joint sitting and guarantee, and accept them after identification; For those who have nothing to do with it, they don't have to be polite to reject them, at the beginning, since they chose to defect to the Chu people, then they have to bear the consequences today. ”

In the face of a complex and changeable situation, Li Yuan has grown from a hot-blooded and impulsive young general to the leader of a shili, and the ruling party is concerned with interests rather than warmth.

Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me perish.

This is the law of survival in troubled times, Li Yuan now, just want the Qin people to remember that only by following him Li Yuan can they survive.