Mining iron ore is a big project, and the problem of lack of manpower is immediately reflected.

There is no way, how many workers can be gathered, anyway, the mining work will be implemented first, and at present, there is no shortage of troops, and there is no shortage of equipment temporarily.

The mining work is slow and the output is small, and Lin Xiaoman doesn't mind.

Anyway, you can mine and smelt.

Relative to weapons, it is still a matter of food and population.

The cultivation of sweet potatoes and corn has been very successful, and Lin Xiaoman believes that there will be a bumper harvest next year, and now the key is the population problem.

The recovery of the population is definitely a slow process, although Lin Xiaoman has formulated a series of policies to encourage childbirth, but within 10 years, it will not be effective.

Just when I was worried about the population, the population came to the door.

Yin, the Youzhou Mansion next door, sent someone to ask them for help.

Youzhou, extremely miserable, catastrophe, a lot of people died, conscription, and a large number of young and strong men were missing, and there was only a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people left on the boundary of Youzhou, okay, the refugees came.

Further west of Youzhou is Muzhou, which is the capital of the border state, and since the end of last year, several border states have been harassed by the Hu people.

And now, the Hu people have captured several county towns in Muzhou, and they have all reached the city wall of Fucheng.

The Hu people were menacing, and the people of the captured county towns fled all the way, and they were deeply afraid that the capital city would be captured and the flames of war would burn on themselves, and more than half of the people in those areas of Muzhou who had not yet fallen also chose to roll up their burdens and run away as soon as possible.

Muzhou is close to Baizhou, Youzhou, Anzhou, Baizhou is all mountains, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there are often wild beasts on the official roads. And Anzhou is also fighting, and the people of Anzhou are all dragging their families and running away.

Therefore, the fleeing people in Muzhou flocked to Youzhou, and at the same time, many refugees in Anzhou chose Youzhou.

Youzhou was flooded with millions of refugees all at once.

There are too many people to arrange at all.

Youzhou Mansion Yin has already sent several urgent SOS letters to the imperial court, but no one pays attention to him, and the Baizhou and Minzhou next door are also cold bystanders who sweep the snow in front of the door, and no one helps.

Therefore, Youzhou begged them to come to Tongzhou.

As soon as Lin Xiaoman and Yang Hanmo put it together, they almost understood.

Refugees cannot be properly resettled, and it can easily become a disaster, and in addition to the problem of refugees, there are also Hu people!

Although Youzhou is poor and white, the Hu people don't know! What if the Hu people come to fight Youzhou blindly?

According to Yang Hanmo's speculation, there are probably no 10,000 soldiers and horses in the entire Youzhou, and the young and strong men have also been requisitioned.

And now the court is particularly chaotic, I heard that their four elder brothers each brought 100,000 soldiers and horses, formed a 400,000 northern expeditionary army, and attacked Beiqing.

But until now, the army of the Northern Expedition has been blocked outside the Beiqing Gate, and it is said that not even a single county town has been defeated.

Now the troops of Daqian are either fighting Beiqing or have already fought against the Hu people in the west, and there are still some soldiers around the capital, but they are all to protect Jingzhou, and it is impossible to send them abroad.

If the Hu people really occupy Muzhou, the court is afraid that they will be powerless, and Youzhou, which will be Muzhou's neighbor at that time......

Therefore, the officials in Youzhou must be panicked now.

Now is definitely a godsend, the best time to swallow Youzhou, millions of refugees, if they can settle down, it will be completely firm, maybe next year, he will be able to come directly to a southwest Mexico country like Beiqing.

Of course, just think about it, Emperor Wusheng is still alive, and Yang Hanmo is not so bold to create his own Lao Tzu.

However, after the old man dies, the throne will definitely not be his turn, and in the current situation, when the new emperor ascends the throne, he will definitely not be able to control the overall situation, and the big cadres will definitely be chaotic, and when the time comes, he will declare independence!

The southwest of Daqian is his territory.

The ideal is beautiful, but the reality is ...... He didn't have a few soldiers.

After some discussion, Yang Hanmo went to Youzhou with 10,000 soldiers, and Lin Xiaoman immediately arranged for the militia when he withdrew his troops.

Because of the household registration system, the census of Tongzhou is also preliminarily completed, and the current population in Tongzhou is 170,000, and Lin Xiaoman, who has read the household registration information, knows that before the snowstorm last year, Tongzhou had a population of more than 600,000.

Ah, iniquity.

Although there are only 170,000 left, they have managed to escape the catastrophe of conscription, and there are still 70,000 or 80,000 young and strong men.

It's not a busy farm now, Lin Xiaoman came to a national training.

Veterans lead recruits, practice!

It doesn't require much power, you can stab, you can cut, you can kill the enemy, it's OK.

Because there were no soldiers, Lin Xiaoman pondered all kinds of machine bed crossbows, city defense equipment, refugees or something, for Lin Xiaoman, it was all labor.

A month after Yang Hanmo went to Youzhou, the northernmost county in Tongzhou, there began to be an influx of refugees, because Lin Xiaoman had already planned and prepared, and an official began to settle the refugees, implement them in the village, distribute fields, and handle household registration...... All the work has been carried out in an orderly manner.

There are many people, Lin Xiaoman fully started, all kinds of local conditions, there is a weaving workshop, there is a dyeing workshop, there is a paper workshop, there is a pottery workshop, there is an oil mill, there is a carpenter workshop, there is a blacksmith workshop, there is a dyeing workshop, there is a small breeding workshop......

The great cause of manufacturing is starting!

Self-sufficient, strive to be able to export next year!

The manufacturing industry is developing in full swing, Lin Xiaoman is really busy with a spinning top, and with the influx of population, food has begun to be in short supply again.

But it doesn't matter, they have salt, as Lin Xiaoman guessed, there is a shortage of salt, and many states can't buy salt.

Several states near them, that is, Fengzhou, have money and lack nothing, and Baizhou, Minzhou, and Zezhou have all begun to run out of salt.

The other states are too far away, subject to transportation, Lin Xiaoman quietly arranged people to smuggle salt within the three Linzhou areas, and the salt was exchanged for food, which was a very cost-effective deal.

Relying on the salt that came down, their food problem was temporarily solved.

Those who can work hard, Lin Xiaoman did not waste a labor force to arrange all the strong men, and in the busy time, the time came in December, Lin Xiaoman found quartz sand in the west of Tongzhou.

Glass-making has entered the planning, and the relevant test room is underway, Yang Hanmo has returned from Youzhou, Youzhou has basically been completed, and the officials in Youzhou have basically taken refuge in him.

Yang Hanmo also brought two big news.

The Northern Expeditionary Army, led by their four elder brothers, finally invaded Beiqing and defeated so many county seats, and then, I don't know how to do it in Beiqing, tens of thousands of troops in Beiqing suddenly appeared in Xinzhou, and captured the two county towns of Xinzhou in one fell swoop, and it is about to reach the capital of Xinzhou.

Once Xinzhou is lost, Beiqing's army can drive straight into the capital, which is definitely a counter-killing, and the Northern Expeditionary Army immediately transferred 200,000 and quickly supported Xinzhou.

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