Regardless of whether Jiang Wuwei was hostile or not, Guo Pu and the others could only obey the other party's arrangement.

The women, children, and children, who were ragged and almost homeless, were immediately gathered.

Most of these women, children and children are family members of military generals, and there are also a few displaced people who have taken refuge on the road.

However, even the women and children who came out of Qinzhou now have most of them without husbands and fathers, after all, this army has fought thousands of miles, and many generals who came out of Qinzhou have been killed, leaving only widows and orphans.

There were not many old people in the team. When the army was not enough to protect women, children and children, many old people consciously picked up weapons and participated in battles, or stayed behind the palace.

They all understand that they are burdened by staying behind, and they only consume food in vain, and they leave the hope of survival to the women who play a greater role, and the children who represent hope.

Most of these non-combatants did not know what was happening, only that the team was trapped in the valley by the enemy, and they were panicked and panicked in the ranks.

Guo Pu personally came forward to explain, calmed everyone's hearts a little, and then asked the remnants of the defeated soldiers, who were also damaged in armor and whose image was not much better, escorted them, and followed the guidance of Jiang Wuwei's soldiers to the bathhouse and the hospital with a strange name.

Guo Pu and the others naturally went to Ji County with the team, and the bathhouse and hospital were ten miles away from the county seat.

Guo Pu and the others were stopped at the border of Tianshui County, and now that they really entered Tianshui County, they found that Tianshui County was quite calm and peaceful, as if they had not experienced the ravages of combat power at all.

Most of the people I saw on the road were working hard in the fields, and they had a lot of idyllic scenery, and they didn't feel like they were in a troubled world at all, and they couldn't pretend to have a heartfelt smile on their faces.

Even many people, when they saw Jiang Wuwei's soldiers, came over to say hello with a smile, and they were not afraid of these elite troops with distinct armor and murderous spirit, which made Guo Pu sigh very much, so it can be seen that the Changding army is very popular with the people in Tianshui County.

In other counties, the people were not so close to the soldiers, they could even be said to be as fearful as snakes and scorpions.

Those southern barbarian army is better, the defeated soldiers who escaped from Qinzhou City, lack food and clothing, and are even more ferocious than the mountain bandits, burning and looting the people of Qinzhou like evil wolves, so that the people of Qinzhou City slowly turned to the Southern Barbarian Army.

They even took the initiative to report to the Southern Barbarian Army, so that the Southern Barbarian Army could exterminate the defeated troops in Qinzhou.

Although the situation was strict, the soldiers and horses under his command were not allowed to harass the people, and the supplies were looted by raiding the strongholds of the Southern Barbarian Army, most of the people of Qinzhou treated them as defeated soldiers who burned, killed and looted.

The whereabouts of this army were exposed many times, and they were chased and killed by the Southern Barbarian Army, because of the reports of the people of Qinzhou.

Guo Pu also knew that in fact, many of the defeated soldiers in Qinzhou were dressed up by the Southern Barbarian Army to make the Qinzhou soldiers and horses who surrendered to Chengcheng, so as to make the people of Qinzhou return to their hearts, but it cannot be denied that most of the people who harmed the people were the real defeated soldiers of Qinzhou.

In the mountainous and hilly areas, many fields are located on highlands or even halfway up the mountainside, and there are many terraced fields, and water sources are an important factor limiting the yield of fields.

But Guo Pu was astonished to find that on the edge of the river, a strange round instrument was erected, and a strong man stepped on the side, and then the water was constantly transported to the high place by the waterwheel, and flowed down the ditch to the field.

Such a water conservancy project, even Guo Pu had never seen it, but he could see the huge effect of this round instrument.

If it can be popularized in all states and counties, the grain production of those barren lands will certainly be greatly increased, not to mention that they can be promoted to high-class fertile land, but there is absolutely no problem with medium-sized fields.

The most strange thing for Guo Pu and the others is that the fields of Tianshui County are full of plants with wide leaves, red, purple and green.

Grain production is the most important thing, and the governor of the state, Guo Pu, knows more or less about the situation of agricultural production.

Qinzhou is mainly rice, and other coarse grains, peanuts and beans are secondary, and he has never seen such a strange crop.

The fields were planted with this peculiar crop, and Guo Pu knew that the people of Tianshui County must have used it as their staple food.

Ding Meng and several other generals of Jiang Wuwei accompanied Guo Pu and the others, and walked dozens of miles, Guo Pu found that the fields were basically planted with sweet potatoes, and only a few were planted with rice and other miscellaneous grains, and finally couldn't help asking: "General Ding, I don't know what is planted in this field?

"Can this crop be used as rice grain?"

Jing Xiong and others are also very strange, looking at this crop, it should be a kind of vegetable, but vegetables can not be stored for a long time, and it is not easy to fill the stomach, so it cannot be planted as a staple food.

Nowadays, sweet potato cultivation is no secret, and Jiang Wuwei even often catches people who come from nearby Hongdong County to steal sweet potato seedlings.

However, Chu He did not punish them severely, after all, they were also forced by life, even if they stole sweet potatoes, they could only be regarded as ordinary food for the stomach.

I don't know how to store it, I don't know how to process it into potato flour, sweet potatoes can't be stored for a long time, they can only be used as supplementary food, but they can make the people of Hongdong County live a better life.

Tianshui County and Hongdong County are only separated by a river, and the lives of the people are very different.

The Southern Barbarian Army only cared about fighting, and did not have much energy to focus on the people's livelihood, Hongdong County had been devastated by the war, and the young and strong suffered heavy losses, most of the fields were deserted, and it was difficult to reclaim again, and they needed to pay heavy taxes, so life was naturally not much better.

On the side of Tianshui County, the situation is completely different.

Chu He got a huge amount of rice grain from the hands of the Southern Barbarian Army, and the people only planted sweet potatoes, and after the harvest, they could ask the government to make potato flour on their behalf, and only need to pay one-third of the sweet potatoes as processing fees, or they could exchange sweet potatoes for rice grains, and three catties of sweet potatoes for one catty of rice.

For example, in the water county today, the mountain bandits and robbers are basically extinct, and there is no need to worry about the war, the people can work with peace of mind, and from time to time they can participate in the training of the guards, although three catties of sweet potatoes are exchanged for one catty of rice grain, but compared with the yield of sweet potatoes, the people get much more grain than before.

In addition to the whole county of Tianshui County, the tax on the fields is also light, and those who have people in the family who participated in the battle in Fenglai County are exempt from taxes for five years, and the days are getting better and better day by day.

The Standing Army can make the people live a better life, and naturally it is more and more supported by the people.

Hearing that Pu was curious about the situation of sweet potatoes, Ding Meng said with a smile: "This is the sweet potato found by Chu Shuai, there are tubers growing underneath, the yield is extremely high, and the potato vine leaves can also be eaten. ”

Seeing that Ding Meng did not hide it, Guo Pu was slightly surprised, according to reason, there is really such a high-yield crop, and he must try his best to hide it.

He hesitated slightly, and then asked, "This sweet potato can be used as food?" It seems that it should be easy to rot and not easy to preserve. ”

Ding Meng was extremely impressed by Guo Pu's observation, and he couldn't imagine that the chief official of a state was so clear about agricultural affairs.

"Sweet potatoes are not easy to store, but Chu Shuai has a way to process sweet potatoes, and it is not a big problem to store them for two or three years. As for what the method is, Ding is not very clear. ”

Even if Ding Meng really knew, it was impossible to leak it out easily.

When they arrived at a place dozens of miles away from the county seat, they were surprised again.

What appeared in front of everyone was a straight and flat road that was three zhang wide, one end did not know where it led, and the other end extended to the capital of Ji County.

This road is unusually hard, no difference between stones, even eight horse-drawn carriages can speed on this avenue, even the roads in the inner city of Qinzhou cannot be compared with a three-zhang wide avenue.

The general of the bus loses the car, thinking more, such an avenue is not as simple as walking, and the military significance is more important.

If the army marches on such a large road, the speed can be at least doubled, and it can also quickly transport all kinds of bulky war equipment.

If the road can be extended to all parts of Tianshui County, it can connect the huge Tianshui County and become a huge military camp, and the soldiers can quickly rush to support everywhere, especially the cavalry troops, and it is common to run three or four hundred miles in an hour.

If there is an enemy invasion, such an avenue can definitely become a nightmare for the enemy army.

The situation in Tianshui County is so weird that even Guo Pu, a former state pastor, thinks that outside of Qinzhou, this is not Tianshui County under the jurisdiction of Qinzhou at all.

The bathhouse that Ding Meng said was quite simple, divided into two parts for men and women, and the men's bathhouse was simply enclosed with wood and bamboo, and there were several huge pools inside, and the pools were specially configured with disinfectants.

The situation of the women's bathhouse is not bad, but it is covered with a bamboo canopy lid.

Those who wore masks and worked in the bathhouse were already quite familiar with the process, and they led everyone into the bathhouse to wash their bodies.

Seeing that Jiang Wuwei was indeed not hostile, he immediately put his mind at ease, left the soldiers, women and children here, and entered the city of Ji County under the leadership of Ding Meng.

The situation in Ji County once again shocked Guo Pu and others.

Ji County, as the governing county of Tianshui County, was originally the core of Tianshui County, and it was the most prosperous and lush, but even when it was the most prosperous, it could not be compared with the current scene at all.

Ji County was once destroyed in the war, burned by the Yellow Turban Army, more than 10,000 people in Jiangwu Village migrated to Tianshui County, and were settled in Ji County by the Chu River, so the entire Ji County was rebuilt in accordance with the planning of the Chu River.

As a later generation, the planning of the Chu River naturally refers to the architectural model of later generations.

The whole Ji County adopts a community model, and the residences are neatly arranged.

Near the city wall, there are neat barracks buildings, and there are training places everywhere.

Beyond the army-controlled area, the inner city was a cluster of square dwellings, with straight alleys and concrete floors.

The residence is not as good as a normal house, there are courtyard gardens or something, everything is practical, the wood and stone frame structure is used, and it is quick and easy to build.

This is also one of the reasons why Chu River was able to build a new Ji County in just two years.

Of course, the sewer project and public toilet system in Ji County must not be avoided.

It took a long time for the villagers of Jiangwu Village to adapt to the strict health regulations imposed by the Chu River.

Those displaced people who migrated to Ji County were seen everywhere at the beginning, and they were ordered to clean the city after receiving many whips, which made these homeless people change their hygiene habits.

Although the quality of the people of Ji County today cannot be compared with the people of Datong County and Fenglai County, it is much better than the people of Qinzhou City.

These people have seen such a scene of the county once upon a time.

Needless to say, the prosperity of Ji County, the sound of people coming and going, all kinds of shops are dazzling, many people are bargaining in the store, bustling, and even feel that Ji County is more like a big city than Qinzhou City.

Ji County is the county of Tianshui County, the geographical location is extremely important, located in the edge of Tianshui County, connected to Hongdong County, is the strategic place of the entire Tianshui County, otherwise the Yellow Turban Army would not have gone all out to capture Ji County.

Although the original people of Ji County suffered heavy casualties, and most of them fled to escape the military disaster and migrated away, after the Chu River occupied Ji County, tens of thousands of villagers in Jiangwu Village settled here, and various preferential policies were announced, such as the opening of schools and academies, etc., to attract people to settle in Ji County.

Later, Chu He purchased millions of Dingkou from the Southern Barbarian Army, and now Ji County, in the capital, lives 300,000 Dingkou, nearly 100,000 more than the previous Ji County population, and the prosperity is better than before.

When the people have more money in their hands, it will naturally stimulate the economy.

In addition, many specialties of Tianshui County, most of them are transported to Ji County, Hongdong County and even those rich families of Birdsong County, continue to send people to Ji County to buy such as cotton clothes, iron farm tools, waterwheel accessories, new carriages, sophisticated bows and crossbows, etc., so that the prosperity of Ji County has been further improved.

In fact, Ji County is just a microcosm of the entire Tianshui County.

For example, today's water county has a population of 2 million, equivalent to half of the population of the entire Qinzhou in the past, concentrated here, agricultural output has increased, industry and commerce have developed, and the people have become rich, and it is difficult to think about prosperity.

Of course, the prosperity of Tianshui County is built on the decay of other counties.

For example, today Shui County occupies almost two-thirds of Qinzhou's population, and Hongdong and Birdsong counties together are not enough to have more people in Tianshui County.

A large part of the young men who were sold to Tianshui County by the Southern Barbarian Army were captured from Wangzhou and Baozhou.

For the Southern Barbarian Army, selling a young man to Chu He can get ten taels of silver or a pound of refined iron, which is definitely a bargain.

One million young and strong can be exchanged for one million catties of steel, which is enough to arm a steel army of 10,000 people, so that the Southern Barbarian Army can capture more territory and grab more resources.

Now the Southern Barbarian Army can withstand the two counterinsurgency armies of Shu State, and a large reason is the benefits of population trading.

Guo Pu and the others felt extremely shocked all the way, and when they saw Chu He, they found that everything before was just pediatrics, and they knew what the real shock was.