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As the winter snowfall begins, the rangers and 'heroes' who go to the Three Mountains and Five Mountains to pan for gold return to this relatively safe and warm city for the winter.

Now, the Anton Metropolitan Protectorate has also adapted and got used to it, and every winter, more than 30,000 or even more than 50,000 rangers and 'heroes' come to Xinhua and other places to spend the winter.

In order to meet the needs of these grandfathers for alcohol and various luxury goods.

After entering September, the route from Qilu to North Korea was lined with ships transporting various supplies.

The Lou Chuan Yamen and the Lord Duwei Yamen became the first beneficiaries of this grand event.

Just collect the transportation costs and taxes of these merchant ships.

Lou Chuan and the lord are all lieutenants, and the yamen counted the money until their hands hurt.

Businessmen are also willing to invest in this aspect!

After all, if you transport a thousand stone of liquor and come to Anton, you can get more than twice as much profit as if you change hands!

In comparison, the shipping and taxes are drizzling!

The second beneficiary is the reclamation regiments in various parts of Andong and the counties under Anton's rule.

Every year, the number of gold diggers is close to 100,000 or even nearly 200,000 at the peak.

Let everyone who grows food in Anton smile from ear to ear.

The appetite of these 100,000 or 200,000 young men is like a bottomless pit.

They devour untold quantities of grain, wine and meat every day.

Especially in winter.

In Xinhua City alone, last winter, these people ate more than 1 million stone of grain, more than 5,000 stone of wine, more than 50,000 horses of cloth, in addition, more than 200,000 catties of iron.

And that's just one of the cities!

In Anton, there are two or three places where rangers like Xinhua spend the winter!

Although the number and scale of the gathering are not as large as those of Xinhua.

However, the food they ate and the goods they consumed were enough to make the reclamation groups in Andong, as well as the immigrants from North Korea and the immigrants from Xinhua, eat with their mouths full of oil!

It was precisely by relying on the consumption of these masters that all the reclamation regiments in Anton repaid the arrears and investments of the imperial court in advance.

In other words, from now on, the people of these cantonment groups will be free.

They can legally own the land they have cultivated and the houses they have built.

These are the property that they can pass on to their future generations.

Even, some people who are well-run or wealthy cantonment groups still have money and savings to spare.

And the third beneficiary was the fiefdom of the nobles of the princes.

The influx of immigrants and rangers from all parts of Andong has created a huge consumer market no less than in any kingdom in China.

Here, anything can be sold for a price.

Whether it's the beasts of the mountains, or the ginseng of the mountains, or the fish caught in the water.

Even, even if you have nothing in your fiefdom, you can get rich by logging.

Even if it is a pig, as long as it is not squandered indiscriminately, just relying on the output of the feudal country itself is enough to obtain the resources necessary to develop the feudal country.

Pity......

Most of the nobles, although not pigs, have never changed their love of comparison, show-off and extravagance.

So, these guys take the money earned from the resources of the feudal kingdom and squander and spend it everywhere.

For a big dog that is domesticated for a Hao person or Wuheng person, there are many people who spend hundreds of gold.

And in order to marry a lady from South Korea who is a 'son of North Korea', throwing hundreds of gold and hundreds of gold out is not a thing!

Thus, in Andong, the feudal kingdom of the princes was amazing.

However, most of the feudal development funds of the lieges still need to be taken from the interior......

Of course, the sons and nephews of the princes also have their own reasons - Lao Capital is a concubine, and this grace will be a feudal country, and there will probably be nothing to do with me in the future!

Case......

Why should I save money for the sons and daughters of the lord's house?

Only those princes who sent their sons-in-law or even sons to preside over the construction of the Garn feudal kingdom here were barely able to make ends meet.

And some of the more shrewd guys, even, by virtue of the grace of the feudal state, have earned more wealth than the feudal tax in China.

As a result, the addition of these princes made the trade and commercial atmosphere of the whole Andong even stronger!

So much so that some businessmen shouted that they wanted to reproduce the great cause of Tao Zhugong in Andong and build this place into the Cao Kingdom of the world.

But in fact, right now, it's the changes in Anton and the changes in the market.

It is not a businessman, nor a reclamation regiment or an immigrant, but also an army and an official government.

But......

From all directions, all over the world, for the common ideals and aspirations, the rangers and heroes who come across the mountains and seas.

It was they who worked tirelessly and risked their lives to go deep into the various parts of Andong to pan for gold.

Their hard-working gold was dug out of the sand of the river and the sand.

Then, charcoal is burned to melt the sand gold into a gold cake.

Finally, they took the gold cake and entered the bazaar and the city.

Money comes too quickly, and naturally it will be spent quickly.

What's more, most of the rangers and heroes believe in the motto of life that the daughter is gone and comes back, and there is wine today and drunk today.

As a result, they attracted merchants from all over the world.

As a result, they are constantly consuming all kinds of goods.

They are like schools of fish that migrate regularly every year in the Blackwater River.

Schools of fish with sharp teeth, strong physiques and abundant fat.

The beast that attracts the whole of Anton.

Bears, wolves, leopards, tigers, and eagles crouch on both sides of the river every summer.

And these schools of fish and beasts eventually attracted humans.

And guide human beings, constantly going up, looking for their final destination.

It is no exaggeration to say that without migratory fish, the current ecology of Anton will collapse immediately.

In the same way, there are no these rangers and heroes who came to Anton to pan for gold.

Anton's market will collapse immediately.

Ranger and hero, the thorn in the side of the Han family and the destroyer of social order in the past, have become the number one main force for national integration, border guarding, and development and construction in this new solid land!

However, the 'main forces' do not have half of the so-called sense of mission and responsibility.

They were divided into regions and townships, and gathered in different areas of Xinhua City.

Even on a street.

Probably, the first half of the street is the territory of the Qi people, but the second half belongs to the heroes of Yan Zhao or Bashu.

Each force guards its own territory, there is no matter or conflict, and it will never interfere with others.

The reason is very simple, if you go to other people's territory and something happens, attracting soldiers from the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate and even the thieves, then everyone will not be able to eat and walk away.

Thus, the ideal society of the escapist school of the old school.

Chickens and dogs smell each other, old and dead do not get along, but in this winter Xinhua City, it can be realized.

"Damn!" A big man wearing a burlap shirt and a layer of animal skin wrapped in his coat to keep warm held a wine jug, drank most of the jug of wine in a big gulp, and then wiped his lips and said to the left and right with a big grin: "This place Anton, everything is good, but it is cold and cold in winter!" I knew that I should have returned to Hanoi in the autumn with my friends, and the provincial people would suffer here! ”

"That's what the big brother said!" Several strong men around also nodded in agreement.

However, this is also just lip service.

Who is willing to leave Anton?

Aren't you afraid that next spring, when the ice and snow melt, the territory that was grabbed by many brothers after spending a lot of effort last year and killing and wounding many brothers will be taken away?

Not to mention, in this land of wealth.

Even if it is just one day less gold, the loss is an astronomical amount of gold or even a dozen gold!

In the past, everyone used to be dogs for businessmen and Haoqiang in Hanoi, ignoring their conscience, bullying their fellow villagers, and even harming people's lives.

When the masters are happy, they will give a little good.

Then, if something happens, everyone needs to gamble with their lives!

What is better than eating meat and drinking wine in Anton, and you can send money home, feed your family, and even send your children to school?

As a ranger, who wants their children and grandchildren to be arrested by the government, spurned by their neighbors, and become the dogs of the powerful?

In the past, there was no chance and no hope!

However, if today's son is examined with one hand and reclaimed with the other, everyone sees hope.

As long as you make money, send your heirs to a famous teacher, study for three years and five years, and then go to Chang'an to participate in the examination.

Rely on knowledge to speak, and use your skills to earn a bright future for the family!

Therefore, despite the fierce competition in Anton, the big guy lives a life of licking blood from the knife in order to keep his gold rush lot.

Even, he had to endure Anton's polar night and bone-chilling cold in winter.

But, the big guys are willing.

In his own generation, he can't read a single word, and his background is even more humble.

can only rely on this cheap life and this strength to seek a future for future generations.

"I heard that this year the imperial court is going to war with the Xiongnu again!" A man said: "Damn, it's a pity that I'm on Anton's side, otherwise, I would definitely go to join the army......"

When the others heard this, they were also depressed.

Today, it is recognized that the promised land of the great husband and hero is the army.

Martial arts, the cadre of the country, the wings of the Son of Heaven, the minions of Sheji, and the son of Li Shu!

The entire empire, from top to bottom, was proud to have soldiers at home.

Because, the status of the military is high!

If there is a soldier in the family, then the family is honored.

The local officials did not dare to exploit at all.

If there is a pawn of the field army, it will be the glory of the whole pavilion!

Not only the parents and brothers in the family will be respected and looked up to, even if they are harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, no one dares to spread it on the family members of a field army.

Now, the eight masters of Qiu can really be said to be arrogant soldiers!

Whoever dares to spread the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes on the families of these masters, if their commanders know about it, they will react to the military judge every minute, and the military judge will reflect it to Sima and the school captain, Sima Xiaowei is in a better mood, that is, he asks about the situation, and if he is in a bad mood, then he will have a lot of fun.

People sent a letter directly to the local county guard and county lieutenant: Is your county dissatisfied with our XX army?

When the local county guard and the county lieutenant saw the letter, they were immediately frightened.

Because God knows, will these current Sima lieutenants become generals and marquis next year?

I can't afford to offend!

Then, those ignorant officials will automatically and consciously disappear from people's sight.

If there is a person like Yu Linwei or Hu Benwei, the Son of Heaven's personal guard......

Then it can only be said that as long as the whole family does not break the law, they can go sideways.

No land at home?

It does not matter!

The clever officials in the local area will immediately give a fertile official land to their homes at a very low price.

The tax is unbelievably low, almost indistinguishable from giving it for nothing!

The heirs of the family do not have a wife?

That's even more joy!

Immediately, a local gentry would come to the door, willing to send a concubine and a large dowry to the door, just to end the family business!

Because, the soldiers of Yu Linwei and Hu Benwei are retired, at least they are also wandering in the township, even the county officials, and even the county lords and servants!

Its treatment is higher than that of ordinary examination scholars!

It's a real beetle son-in-law!

For the rangers who claim to be heroes and husbands, one of their ultimate dreams is, of course, to become a member of the Han army, make meritorious contributions, and glorify their ancestors.

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as there is an opportunity, the entire rangers of Anton will line up at the gate of the barracks, waiting for the selection of the army.

It's a pity......

By the time Anton's rangers learned the news, it was too late.

Even if everyone plugs in their wings, they won't be able to fly to the clouds of the Great Wall, Yanmen and Shangdai to join the army.

It's really a sigh!

"Alas!" Many people are shaking their heads and sighing, regretting it.

"It would be nice if the Huns came to fight Anton...... I don't know who was sighing, fantasizing, and suddenly, this YY idea immediately resonated with many people.

Oh, yes!

If the Huns don't open their eyes, come to Anton......

Everyone smiled at each other with bad intentions, and then touched the sword at his waist and the bow and arrow on his back.

The heads of the Huns are much easier to find than the gold in the river.

If you want to pan for gold, it takes a dozen people a day of hard work and good luck.

But the head of a Hun is worth nearly one gold.

What's more, the Huns are cavalry, and their war horses and livestock are also very valuable!

What a hate!

Everyone shook their heads, those Hun barbarians probably won't come here.

Their main force should be at the foot of the Great Wall or outside the fortress, and they were so restrained by the main force of the Han army that they couldn't move.

Want the Huns to fly in front of the big guys?

Unless a miracle happens, it's almost impossible!

"Drink, drink......" everyone said helplessly, holding their glasses.

…………………………

Bo Shi, standing at the head of Xinhua City, looking at the mountains and rivers outside the city.

Nearly four years have passed since he set out from Chang'an and came here to take over the Xinhua Order and concurrently serve as the Protector of the Governor.

It has been almost two years since his Andong Protectorate Yamen was established.

Andong Protectorate and Huaihua County were built by him bit by bit, and watched them grow.

Pity......

"I only have four years to go......" Bo Shi sighed, and in four years he had to step down as Governor of Anton and return to Chang'an.

Not surprisingly, the guard lieutenant or lieutenant general in Jiuqing is what he has in his bag.

It's just that......

"I have no military merits, and after I go back, I'm afraid it will be difficult to convince the people......" Bo Shi rubbed his temples, and then walked down the city wall. (To be continued.) )