Liuzi Town.

This is the most prosperous town in Bozhou, the canal passes through here, creating a developed business here, the merchants from the south to the north like to rest here, coupled with the deformed customs industry, so that this place is famous, many merchants do not rest in Linlian, do not live in Yongcheng, do not go to Fuli to stay, and choose here, the reason is here.

Tongqiao Town and Liuzi Town, one east and one west, have become the most typical market towns in the Huaibei Canal area.

At that time, a figure scurried into a leather shop on Nanwai Street in Liuzi Town.

This Shanji leather shop is a time-honored brand, as early as the time of Pu, the boss is the son-in-law who came to recruit money, and then slowly became bigger, and the source of goods is heard to be from the north of the Yan people, the profit is huge.

"Who?"

"San Lang, it's me, brave and loyal!"

"Rush to the trouble so late, is there something urgent?" The oil lamp slowly turned on, and in the square hut, a man in black leaned quietly against one end of the wall, with a mask on his face, staring at the comer.

"Well, there's something out of the ordinary, and it needs to be reported right away. The man who came in was also standing by the door, covering his face with a black scarf, and his voice was a little urn-like.

Hearing the right code, the two took off their black scarves and masks and met each other.

"What's the situation?" The man who took off the mask had a dark face and bright eyes, but he was no more than thirty years old, and his hands and feet were thick.

"There is something abnormal in Yongcheng, on the twenty-fourth day of October, the brother in charge of monitoring found that Yuan Wuxing entered Yuan Wuwei's mansion, the two had a long talk, and the latter two went out of the city that night; in the next ten days, the Yongcheng garrison increased sharply, and the preliminary estimate increased by more than six army ,......."

"Oh?" The black-faced man silently calculated, on the twenty-fifth day of October, the city reported that Yuan Wuwei and Yuan Wudaunt jointly entered the Yingbo regiment to practice the embassy to visit Yuan Huaiqing.

Although the Yingbo regimental training embassy is stationed in Bozhou Prefecture, in fact, the Yingbo garrison is mainly in the line of Yongcheng and Linji, and judging from the news from Linji, Shansang's troops are also trying to shrink in Linzhou, and at the same time, the materials on the front line of Zhenyuan and Qiaocheng are also being transported to the east, what does this mean?

This means that the Yuan clan is preparing for war again.

Of course, it is not his duty to make these specific analysis and judgments, he only needs to synthesize and report this information, and the headquarters naturally has a special person to be responsible for the analysis work.

"Anything else?"

"There is also the fact that the price of food in Yongcheng has continued to rise, which has been stable for a period of time, and it has begun to rise again during this period of time, and it has risen very quickly,......"

The black-faced man nodded, "Did you bring the specific situation of the increase?"

"Brought, in addition to food, iron prices and leather have risen sharply,......"

The black-faced man was slightly moved, and he was rising, which became more and more obvious.

When Zhou Yang set off from Shuzhou, it was already the beginning of November.

The weather is already a little cold, of course, for the Huainan area, it is undoubtedly more suitable to go out at this time.

The distance from Shuzhou to Xuzhou is more than 1,000 miles, and there are several routes.

You can take Tong'an, Shucheng to Luzhou and then go north to Shouzhou or Haozhou, take a boat into Huaishui, Surabaya, through Suyu, Xiapi to Xuzhou, you can also take a boat from Shouzhou, Haozhou through the canal, through Linhuai, Hongxian to Tongqiao, and then from Tongqiao to Xuzhou by land, of course, you can also directly cross Huaishui from Haozhou or Shouzhou, and go north directly to Xuzhou by land, all in all, it is very convenient.

Zhou Yang chose to take Tong'an, Shucheng to Luzhou to Shouzhou, and then from Haozhou to Huai directly to the north, this line is basically an official road, and it is not like the waterway that needs to be detoured for a while, but it is a horseback ride all the way, which is a little tiring.

It was already early winter, but as soon as he entered Luzhou, especially after the section from Hefei to Haozhou, Zhou Yang felt different.

Groups of displaced people with northern accents can be met almost every ten or so miles, ranging from 70 to 200 to 2,300 people, most of whom live in shacks and grass huts, and are mainly engaged in dredging and repairing canals, widening and leveling roads, and doing a good job.

There were constantly small groups of officers and soldiers patrolling back and forth on the roads, mostly cavalry teams, and the number was no more than twenty or thirty people, and it was obvious that they were still not very worried about these new homeless people in Huainan.

However, they obviously underestimated the obedience of these homeless people, and on the premise of ensuring that they had a good meal, almost no one would have other ideas, and the system of protecting the armor and sitting together also eliminated all kinds of possibilities to the greatest extent.

At most, it is a fight caused by some disputes over food, which is all acceptable.

Zhou Yang silently calculated what he had seen along the way, the homeless community, from Shucheng to Hefei one hundred and twenty miles, he observed eleven homeless communities, with a total number of more than 2,000 people, if you count the attached old and weak women and children, it is estimated that the number will be more than 3,500 people.

The large community of displaced people, numbering more than 300 people, was building a section of canal, while the small community of displaced people, numbering about sixty or seventy people, was mainly responsible for the widening and leveling of the official roads, and they all used the most rudimentary wooden tools, and even few iron farm tools, but they did their work very vigorously.

Zhou Yang also observed their diet, which basically maintained two meals a day, but the young and strong laborers were said to have a bowl of wheat porridge in the morning, which was a little thin, but after all, there were, while the old and weak women and children could only have two meals.

This is also reasonable, heavy physical labor needs to ensure adequate diet, but to do this, it is not easy, this to show from another angle, Huainan in the past two years of grain reserves do a lot, otherwise can not afford such expenses.

As a neighbor of Huaiyou, Zhou Yang certainly knew that in the past two years, Huaiyou had recruited a large number of displaced people to open up and reclaim land in Huzhou and Shouzhou, and not to mention the reduction or exemption of taxes and taxes, and also forced some landowners to reduce their land rents, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the displaced people for land reclamation and reclamation.

These displaced people who were almost about to change their children in the north came to Huzhou and Shouzhou almost wholeheartedly devoted themselves to work, plus the two years of Huainan Tiangong was beautiful, and there was no war, so that Guanghushou Sanzhou quickly recovered its vitality.

Even if the yield of the newly cultivated land is not high, it is said that each county in Huainan has set up a special agricultural officer, mostly some bachelors with experience in farming, and their main task is to persuade and teach these displaced people from the north to adapt to the planting methods in the south, and have achieved very good results.

Now it seems that I am afraid that these measures taken by Huaiyou have achieved excellent benefits, and Luzhou, Haozhou and the newly incorporated Chuzhou are also considered to be Huainan's grain-producing places, and it is estimated that Huainan has also brought a lot of grain reserves, so Huaiyou dares to accept displaced people so boldly.

Huainan also adopted a very safe way, dispersing them in batches, solving their livelihoods through the way of cash-for-work, reclamation, water conservancy, and road construction, all of which can greatly absorb these laborers, so that these guys do not live together and have nothing to do.

"Lang Jun, so many displaced people have entered Huainan, and the county prince is not afraid of chaos? The small rough estimate shows that there are thousands of displaced people along the way, and the small one also inquired, I heard that there are still many canals being built on the edge of the waterway, and there are three or four thousand displaced people in Shucheng County alone, and there are tens of thousands of displaced people in this Luzhou? But this Luzhou is surrounded by familiar land, and it is also a land of lords, except for a small amount of reclamation, where can accommodate so many people?"

Zhou Yang came out with his personal companion Zhou Kang, and Zhou Kang's father is the big housekeeper of the Zhou family, so Zhou Kang can be regarded as Zhou Yang's confidant, and he also knows the situation of Zhou Rui, the second lady of the Zhou family.

This week, Kang has also studied in the academy since he was a child, and the level of martial arts is not bad, his mind is flexible, and he is quite familiar with the surrounding situation, and he is gradually participating in the affairs of the Zhou family in the Zhou family.

"Well, if you change to other places, there will be chaos in one county, if three or four thousand people pour in, but the county lord dares to let so many displaced people in, there must be some arrangements. Zhou Yang was also pondering, "Although most of the counties in Luzhou are familiar land, but that refers to the plains, there are many mountains and hills around here, Erlang, haven't you heard that although the two counties of Shengtang and Huoshan in Huzhou are mainly mountainous and hilly, they also accommodate many displaced people?"

"What does Lang Jun mean is that the county prince wants to use these displaced people to reclaim the wilderness and grow tea?" Zhou Kang's eyes flashed, and he was also a little excited, "I heard that the county prince invented a new way of tea tasting, which was popular in Huaibei and Huainan, making tea tasting very popular, and our Shuzhou side is now also beginning to be popular, if so, it can really absorb a lot of displaced people, if so, our Shuzhou can also accept some displaced people to reclaim the barren mountains and plant tea trees." ”

The traditional brewing of tea is indeed a bit complicated, and the acceptance is not high, but since the tea brewing technique came out, it immediately sparked a demand in Huaiyou (Wuning), and also made the consumption of tea increase greatly.

Shuzhou is also a traditional tea-producing place, especially in the mountains and hills, there are many uncultivated, but the people living in the flat land are unwilling to go into the mountains to cultivate tea, if it can attract displaced people to cultivate tea, it is a good thing.

"Well, this trip is a good life, if this northland homeless person is really rich, it can be considered. Zhou Yang was also a little moved.

It's not just the problem of Chashan, in the past two years, Shuzhou along the river has been ravaged by the ant thief Han Baling, and there are many households that have been taken away, and there are a lot of abandoned places.

"Lang Jun, this trip to see the county prince, in addition to the matter of the second young lady, do you still want to discuss the relationship between our Shuzhou and Huaiyou?" Zhou Kang asked in a low voice.

"Hmm, what do you think about Erlang?" Zhou Yang's heart also moved slightly.