Chapter 160: Heading North (1)
The autumn wind blows, different from the cold climate of the southern mountains, the weather of the great wilderness is always so "atmospheric", and even the autumn wind carries that kind of rough heroism. The continuous golden wheat in the southwest region to which the city of Boer belongs is bent over by the fruits, and the autumn wind is pressed like a wave, and countless people have begun a busy autumn harvest under the order of the city of Boer.
Compared with the violets that are fighting everywhere, the southwest interior backed by the Great Wilderness is filled with a sense of peace.
A huge avenue connects the entire southwest, and many merchants affectionately refer to this avenue as the "Golden Avenue" during this busy season.
Both sides of the Golden Mile.
Occasionally, a few tenacious trees with a little green stand in the wind on either side of the road, but more of the leaves are beginning to wither to tell travelers that the warm summer is over, the autumn is here, and the cold winter is coming.
Winter is approaching, and heavy snow will envelop the area, and even if the roads of the Golden Mile are repaired, the horses will not be able to travel in this cold weather. At this time, the Great Wilderness is a well-known taboo period, and anyone can only stay by the fire and wait quietly for spring.
After a period of development, the small port of Bunian began to have some small merchants, and they began to see business opportunities here, and the Golden Mile also extended to this place.
There is a saying among merchants, "With the direction of the Golden Avenue, there is endless wealth in every inch of land along the way." ”
Thanks to Wang Xiaotian's strategy other than rejecting the enemy, under his protection, the southwest was not affected by the continuous war, and under the governance of Boer City, the entire southwest began to flourish.
What is even more rare is that with the progress of the war in the central region, many big businessmen in the central part of the country have also begun to flee to peaceful places, and the west has also taken the opportunity to accept a large part of the merchants.
Especially in mid-October.
Rockefeller Scott's satrapy army attacked Magnolia and began the famous "Battle of the Three Forks" on a tributary of the Marley River.
The entire Sancha River, where the army of the Southern Governor and Prince Wes had been killed, turned red, and the corpses were piled up several feet high, and it was a great battle that spread to the Central Plains.
About 100,000 ordinary civilians lost their homes, and when the autumn harvest was imminent, their homes were destroyed, and most of these poor people were driven to the west by the Central War.
From Magnolia to the west, many cities such as Oz City could not accept them, and Count Andy, who fought in Ofr, ordered a blockade of the northwest to deny refugees entry by force.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees!
They had no choice but to storm the city of Bofi and take the path of Maishina.
It was the entry of more than 100,000 refugees that caused Wang Xiaotian to have to come back from the south to deal with it, this is a big deal, the population of the west is not much, more than 100,000 people is not a small number, and how many strong men are among these people, for Wang Xiaotian, who is in urgent need of troops, it is really timely rain.
Previously, Wang Xiaotian was even forced to hit the attention of the Northern Laurent family, but now the problem has been solved.
In late October, Wang Xiaotian brought hundreds of thousands of tons of grain from the vicinity of Greystone City and Boer City, where there was a bumper harvest.
Part of the Bunian was sent to Dunerke, where food was also needed for the winter. Most of the remaining grain was used for disaster relief, and at the same time, Wang Xiaotian issued a "Temporary Civilian Disposal Order" in the name of Boer City.
The order successfully extradited the refugees to the city of Pophy, where they would be taken to Myhna.
Mehina has been in a state of second-line defense since the conquest, but in fact it is located in a pivotal location in the southwest of Wang Xiaotian's plan, and this location is at a key point in the "Golden Avenue", which is bound to become a prosperous big city in the future.
Taking advantage of this opportunity to bring these refugees to settle here, Wang Xiaotian also encouraged merchants to sell goods at a certain price above the market, and he not only planned the future population base, but also used this opportunity to successfully replenish the population of the southwest.
The Northwest turned the refugees away, but it wasn't long before Wang Xiaotian was confident that the refugees would take up arms and open the gates to the Northwest.
And in order to quickly speed up the development of Mehina, Wang Xiaotian issued a series of Mehina trade laws and relocation orders, all business activities in Mehina will be exempted from a certain amount of commercial taxes, and at the same time, the refugees who move here have various preferential policies as long as they settle down in the first three years.
Although they have settled the refugees as much as possible, the main reason why refugees are called refugees is that they are numerous and difficult to manage, and they are likely to become a time bomb in the territory.
In order to make full use of the labor force, Wang Xiaotian arranged for the young and strong part of the refugees near Maihina to engage in various projects, and some of them were young and strong, and he selected them to form a corps of 5,000 people.
They were sent to the city of Bophy, in front of Mehina, at the forefront of the southwest, to garrison and train the frontier.
Train recruits, harvest food, issue decrees, and handle chores......
In this way, before I knew it, the autumn had passed like this, and Wang Xiaotian, who had been watching the battle in the central part of the country, was wandering around in the southwest like this, and the days were quite leisurely, but with some movement in the north, he had something to do again.
Mehhna City Hall.
Sparks flickered in the huge fireplace, and the weather was slightly cold in early winter, but the freshly baked Mehsina City Hall looked clean and tidy, the neatly cut stone blocks piled up the walls of the hall, and the rough stone pillars supported the hall.
Dozens of orcs were guarding outside the hall with serious expressions, and Wang Xiaotian in the hall looked at a piece of information in his hand with a serious expression.
It was a piece of information from the Northern Wilderness.
The Crimson Red Legion, which was originally stationed on the North Wilderness Garris Line, was evacuated there not long ago, and their destination should be the north, and it seems that a certain person in the Central War succeeded in achieving the allegiance of the Crimson Moon, and they gave up the mission given by the boss and left the Northern Wilderness.
After a long confrontation between the White Horse Legion and the Vitans in Gakaris, as the cold weather approached, the two sides obviously entered a period of repair, and according to intelligence, the White Horse Legion was also transferred out of the Northern Wilderness.
Now the Northern Wilderness seems to have returned to calm.
Wang Xiaotian did not see the changes in the situation in the Northern Wilderness, but the intelligence behind the mention that the White Horse Legion seemed to be about to enter Ofhr in the north, that is to say, the White Horse City was currently weakly defended, and although the troops of Baierburg facing Porphy City did not move, most of the troops of Erdos began to move towards Ofhr.
"Perhaps, this is an opportunity!"
Clenching the letter in his hand, Wang Xiaotian muttered in his mouth.