Countless men and horses, after a long journey, frantically passed through the Ural Fortress and poured into the mud of Eastern Europe.

At this time, it is the beginning of spring, and although everything is recovering, the frozen soil is just beginning to melt.

As a result, most of this vast land is barren and muddy.

And in this land of thousands of miles, there are rangers everywhere, and there are fights almost everywhere.

The three hundred and twenty-one Niu Lu of the Eight Banners of Manmeng and Mongolia almost led the men and horses of the headquarters, and went deep into various parts of the territory to begin to attack the city and pull out the village.

This is also the strategy of Huang Taiji.

The land here is too vast, and the distance between the villages and towns is very long, and if the army is combined, the progress of Manchu and Mongolia will not go smoothly.

Instead, the men and horses were divided into pieces, and the army was divided into two or three hundred units with Niu Lu as a unit, and they went deep into various places to raid the villages.

At this time, the west of the Urals was still cold and windy, but fortunately, compared to Siberia and Liaodong's hometown, the Jiannu people were also accustomed to it.

It's just that the Russians are by no means vegetarians, and their counterattacks are also extremely ferocious, and a large number of Cossack cavalry transferred from the Western Front, as well as the Russian infantry corps, put up a very stubborn resistance.

It can be said that ...... At this time, Jiannu was bleeding on a large scale, and the losses were so huge that Huang Taiji had to frantically repair the book, so that the people who recruited people and rested in the rear immediately rushed to reinforcements.

But no matter how difficult it was, Huang Taiji decided to continue to persevere.

Although the number of dead and wounded has been as high as thousands in the past few months, this is a heavy loss for the eight banners that can barely gather 50,000 or 60,000 horses and draw almost all the strong ones of the Jiannu people.

But he knew very well that if he didn't take this opportunity to occupy more land, Li and Zhang, who had finished their rest, might have to come to pick peaches.

The brothers should receive as much blood and sweat as they have paid, and once they retreat to the east of the Urals, then their blood will be wasted.

Therefore, the only thing he can do now is to keep increasing his troops.

In addition, it is necessary to constantly study the enemy's tactics in accordance with the reports coming from the front.

The phalanx of the Russians is quite powerful, and it is said that they learned it from some Swedes. And their Cossack cavalry should not be underestimated.

The most important thing is that they are very tenacious, and even when they are obviously outnumbered by the rushing Jiannu people, they can still fight to the death.

Even their civilians, even women and children, often refuse to be arrested.

This has brought great trouble to the Jiannu people.

Of course, the Jiannu people are not bad.

On the one hand, they are red-eyed and greedy for money, and on the other hand, they are desperate to protect their own land, so they become two giant beasts, without the slightest cowardice of each other, even if they let themselves bleed, they must do everything they can to kill and injure each other.

It's just that when it was late spring, Huang Taiji was still desperate after all.

Because at this time, in the city of the Urals, Zhang Xianzhong's vanguard had arrived violently.

Immediately afterward, the recuperated and refreshed exile army also arrived in the Urals one after another.

These people who were yellow-skinned and ragged at the beginning are now all in high spirits.

There were plenty of firearms, even several heavy guns, everyone wore overcoats to protect against the cold, and some even had short guns stuck diagonally on their left and right sides.

After the army gathered, the new force from the east began to drive straight in, and Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng's purpose was very clear, that is, Moscow City.

Thus...... The mighty men and horses, without any stop, were like a sharp knife, piercing the hinterland of the Russians, who were already exhausted.

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Arthur City.

It's changing every day, and now it's impossible to count the population.

Because the population is increasing every day.

And most of them are people who have migrated from Kannai.

In addition, the merchants gathered by sea and land, although the scribes had racked their brains, they were no longer able to make accurate statistics.

At this time, many predicted that the population of Lushun should be above 700,000.

This is definitely an eye-popping number.

Although there are a lot of plans for such a huge city in Guannai, this place is not the warm Jiangnan like spring after all, nor is it the capital of the Ming Dynasty, just a bitter cold place.

As soon as the population increases, congestion is inevitable and noisy, and the city expands almost every month.

The only good thing is that...... The land that the Zhang family can provide to attract the population is unlimited, and in Liaodong, there is never a shortage of land.

The people who came and went from the south to the north brought countless messages, and there were countless messages of Lushun that spread all over the world through the merchants.

The convergence of three religions and nine streams has given birth to countless industries.

And the most lively is always the tooth line.

Of course, today's Liaodong has banned human trafficking, but now that there are many foreign populations, whether it is leasing or hiring business, it is still very hot.

It's just that in the past few days, many dental shops have invariably hung up signs, and it is actually land for sale.

This incident immediately caused an uproar in Lushun.

To know...... The vast majority of the land in Liaodong is in the hands of the government, but at the same time, it is strictly forbidden to sell.

The land in Liaodong is based on the metric system, that is, those who settle down can take the agricultural land if they are willing to farm.

For other land, it is leased on a long-term basis depending on the land use.

As a result, there is almost no talk of buying or selling land here.

Liaodong's new policy can be said to be the most thorough, but in this era, many people's mentality towards land is still stuck in decades ago, and they always feel that they don't have any land that belongs to them in their hands, and it is inevitable that they are a little unsure.

In addition, the most people in Liaodong are now giants, and these big businessmen have already made a lot of money by taking advantage of the east wind of Liaodong, which can be described as rich flowing oil.

They were also the most well-informed, and now they heard that it was actually the sale of land, so they hurriedly inquired, so they learned about it...... It turned out that the land sold was not the land of Liaodong at all.

It's the land outside Liaodong.

In other words, the land in Liaodong is definitely not allowed to be bought and sold, but it does not mean that it is not allowed outside Liaodong.

In fact, everyone knows about the expansion of land in Liaodong, and the land that the Zhang family got from Li Zicheng and the Jiannu people is even more innumerable.

Now the Zhang family wants to sell land, but many people are concerned.

With the implementation of the New Deal, land can no longer be bought and sold, even in Guannai, although the New Deal has not yet been fully rolled out, but people with a discerning eye are already very clear that the New Deal is the trend of the times, and land has become a hot potato.

But even so, people's desire for land cannot be easily dispelled.

Although the value of agricultural land has been greatly underestimated.

However, with the development of industry and commerce in recent years, the value of both ore and other commercial land has increased day by day.

What does land mean?

It means that it can be passed on to children and grandchildren!

What do people live for? Of course, it is to earn the family business and leave it to future generations.

At least that's what people in this era think.

The value of gold and silver...... In fact, it has been depreciating constantly, you know, from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the present, with the influx of a large amount of gold and silver, in fact, it has always been the case.

Of course, if the Zhang family wants to sell land, the disadvantage is not impossible, that is, is that the land really valuable?

After all, it is a bitter and cold place than Liaodong.

However, although some people hesitate, there are also many people who can't help but study.

First of all, the laying of the railway is a sure thing, and the railway company has already begun to prepare for the start of construction.

Liaodong spent millions of taels of silver to build a large number of buildings, and it was obviously impossible to just throw these silver into the water.

With the railway, it means that it is no longer far away.

At the same time, if there is any real product there, it is possible to hire manpower to mine it.

Of course...... And most importantly...... Land there is very cheap.

It is said that the price of the Zhang family's purchase is collected for one penny per mu, one penny...... In this Liaodong, what is a penny? Nowadays, you can't even buy a steamed cake for a few pennies.

How funny it is that a steamed cake can buy a few acres of land!

Therefore, many people are tempted.

At first, everyone went to Yaxing to inquire about the news, and only then did they know that the Zhang family was about to auction the land.

Today's Zhang family is sorting out the land, and after sorting and clearing, some of the land that is about to be sold will be confirmed. After that, it is to make a map, and then package and auction off pieces of land.

Therefore, many people are looking forward to it.

It wasn't until a few months later that the auction house finally opened.

There are a lot of people who come, and everyone wants to go and see the excitement.

At this time, I realized that there were as many as 30 plots sold this time.

The area of each piece of land is not small, 30,000 acres is a plot, and it is directly introduced.

30,000 acres...... If this is placed in the pass, it will definitely be regarded as a big landowner.

Available here...... It's just the lowest unit of calculation.

So in the minds of many people, the size of these 30,000 acres is automatically replenished.

With such a big land, I'm afraid that one person will not be able to walk for a day and a night!

Thus...... Quite a few people were interested.

Zhou Yangsheng is one of them, he is doing silk trading in Liaodong, and now with the development of Liaodong, he has been entering Jindou every day, and he has long been worried about these lands, after all, he has money, but the land is ...... To tell the truth, how can a man have no desire for land when he has money? It's a pity that no matter how rich he is, he can't touch the land in Liaodong and Guannei.

Although the land is now ...... may not be able to begin to recover costs, but the temperament of the Han people is different from others, and in the bones of the Han people, they do not see the gains and losses at the moment, but the things that will happen in a hundred years.