The vast Pingmachuan (Kanto Plain) can be said to be the largest and flattest plain in the entire East China Sea at present, with more than 24 million mu of land, which is what later generations called 160,000 square kilometers, and even larger than the area of the entire Qingzhou in the Central Plains at this time.

With such a vast amount of land, according to Wang Ze's latest policy of exchanging land for military exploits and the order of equalizing land promulgated in the past, according to the calculation that each person can be allocated 50 mu of land on average, nearly 500,000 people can be resettled in the plain part of Pingmachuan alone.

In addition, the large plateaus and hills around the Pingma River are not high in altitude and the terrain is gentle, and 120,000 people can be accommodated, and there is also a castle to be built near Tokyo Bay in the future to assume the task of the highest capital in the East China Sea, and it will be a rich place with a population of nearly one million in the future.

Of course, these are Wang Ze's future visions, and the initial development of Pingmachuan is still ongoing, and after a few months of preliminary construction, a number of strong tunbao towers stand on this newly discovered land.

The original natives have long since disappeared into the vast Pingchuan, and they have either fled into the mountains of the central Wa Kingdom to take refuge, or they have worked hard as Han slaves to cultivate the land for their masters, while the other Wa people have been reduced to fertilizer and buried deep in the soil, making their own contribution to the prosperity of this land.

In fact, at the time of the occupation of the Japanese state, Pingmachuan was also a remote place on the front line bordering the Ezo people, and the population was not particularly large, which also led to the fact that there were only 30,000 or 40,000 Japanese slaves in the entire Pingmachuan Tunpu, plus some slaves from Baekje and Silla, there were only 50,000 or 60,000 in total, so it was far from enough for the militia of each tunpu.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of cattle and horses in Wang Ze's hands now, and a large number of large livestock are transported from Jeju Island, Qinjin and even Lingnan and Liaodong.

A large number of large livestock, with advanced farming tools, in just a few months, more than half of the wasteland on the entire Pingma River has been reclaimed, and next year will be another bumper harvest year, even if Wang Ze is no longer short of grain in his hands, it is a good thing to be able to produce more grain.

Since a large number of armed militias and armed colonization teams landed in Pingmachuan a few months ago, all the militias have now settled down on the land they have been allocated, waiting for all the Japanese people to be cleared and their families to be brought in.

Tens of thousands of militiamen were divided into 100 and 5 tunbao, centered along the Xiaoqing River (formerly the Tone River, corresponding to the Qinghe River in Qizhou) on the Pingma River, and evenly distributed to the entire Pingma River, firmly controlling this most elite land of the Wa Kingdom in their own hands.

At this time, it was already late autumn, and the land that had been cultivated earlier had already been planted with winter wheat, and if the newly cultivated land could be cultivated and planted before the snowfall, it could also receive six or seven percent of the normal sowing wheat.

Although there were slaves, the militiamen who were born as peasants still did not have to watch from the sidelines like officials and landlords, and in order to get a good harvest in the coming year, they also bowed down one by one, and even went into battle shirtless.

If it is in the land of Sanqi, where winter comes early, everyone will have rested a long time ago, but this rare winter in Pingmachuan comes later, while it is not yet frozen, as much as possible to reclaim some wasteland, even if it is too late to plant winter wheat, you can wait until the beginning of spring next year to sow spring wheat.

All the way up the river, you can already see the new green wheat seedlings sprouting from the wheat fields that have been sown long ago, because of the different sowing times, the color of the wheat seedlings on the land is different, but it is like a beautiful picture.

On the edge of the Xiaoqing River, you can see a row of tall waterwheels every few miles, constantly rotating under the washing of the river, constantly drawing the water in the river to high places, these are the hydraulic equipment used to get water to irrigate the wheat fields, at first Wang Ze paid for the money, but the militia had to make up half of the money in the next three years.

It's not that Wang Ze is stingy, but the people have always loved to be cheap, if they don't pay a penny, they will not cherish these large waterwheels very much, and even if they give a little money, and this thing is used by him, these people will cherish these utensils very much.

The size of the tunpu on the Pingma River is divided by the size of the land to which the migrants lived, so under the influence of rivers and mountains, there will always be some tunpu that is larger and some tunpu that is smaller.

All in all, the larger tunpu is likely to develop into the center of several or even a dozen nearby tunpu in the future, while the smaller tunpu plays the role of the most grassroots village.

Compared with other tunbao in the coastal or riverside area, which has an average of 500 young people in each place, Qingshuizhai in the northwestern corner of the Pingma River is a little weaker, and it is the tail end of a river valley at the confluence of the Pingma River and the central mountains of the Wa Kingdom, and the land area is slightly less, so the people who are assigned here are much less.

The total number of young and strong people in the entire Tunpu is only three or four hundred, of course, in order to ensure the safety of the people here, when the Tunpu was built, the Tunpu here was far stronger than other Tunpu, except that the area is a little smaller, it is simply a small city.

But in this regard, Zhang Qing, the tun chief of Qingshui Village, still has more opinions, taking advantage of the early morning to convene the militia training, he is complaining to the militia captain Li An: "You said that we have more mountains here and less land, but half of us here is surrounded by mountains, and the surrounding mountains are Japanese people in the south and Ezo people in the north, if they come over, how can we withstand it here!" ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Qing spat and said indignantly: "We are not Fangzibao here, there are only so many people, and they are basically militiamen who have not gone through the battle formation, where is the level of the militia commanded by those veterans in Fangzibao, if those Ezo people came to us at that time, I think our Qingshui Village would definitely be hanging!" ”

Fangzibao in Zhangqingkou is a large tun fort in the northernmost part of Pingmachuan, because it is close to the territory of the Ezo people, and the terrain is flat, and the hills around the plain are mostly gentle hills that can be grazing, and there is more land.

Therefore, there are thousands of people in the whole Tunpu just Qingzhuang, and when these people bring their families in the future, it will be at least a town of more than 5,000 people in less than a year, and it can be said that it is also among the top three in the entire Pingmachuan.

It may be that the remarkable achievements of the Hermes-Epitek in the development of the Pingma River in successive months have made some of the Ezo people red-eyed, and the fact that Hermes-Epitek has not infringed on the nearby Ezo people since they came to the Pingma River has made these guys who have been fighting with the Japanese people for hundreds of years dizzy.

At the end of last month, suddenly a tribe of tens of thousands of Ezo people invaded Pingmachuan, and Fangzibao was blocking the road that these Ezo people must pass through, so the Ezo people wanted to take Fangzibao first, and then use it as a base to invade the hinterland of Pingmachuan.

But what these Ezo people didn't expect was that even before Hu Bingchang and Yang Wu's regular cavalry troops had time to make a move, they actually fought under a tunbao with only 1,000 people, not only did they not take any advantage, but also lost one or two thousand young Zhuang tribesmen, which made this Ezo tribe suffer extremely heavy losses.

Seeing Tun Chang Zhang Qing complaining there, Li An smiled and said: "Brother Zhang, not to mention the vast land in Fangzibao, and nearly half of the people have migrated from Jeju Island, and they have always been good at horseback riding, where can we compare with others here!" ”

Nearly half of the immigrants in Bangja Fort were immigrants who did not want to be frightened on Jeju Island after the Battle of Jeju Island.

Most of these people had disciples who participated in the expedition to Pyeongmacheon, and then they exchanged the land of Jeju Island in the hands of the government, and although it was impossible to exchange it for a better plain, the large area of hills around Fangzibao that was extremely suitable for grazing could be exchanged at a ratio of 1.5 to 1.5.

When these people of Jeju Island came here, on the one hand, they had a higher level of knowledge than other immigrants, and on the other hand, they had more abundant cattle, sheep, and horses, and many of these people had participated in wars and were good at horseback riding, so they took control of the local leadership from the moment they arrived at Bangja Fort.

And these people are also the most supportive of Wang Ze's rule, and under their influence, the people in many places have slowly begun to develop in the direction Wang Ze wants.

Zhang Qing didn't care so much, he snorted angrily: "No matter whether it's comparable or not, at least the number of people we have here is too small, and even the weapons are just dilapidated weapons eliminated in the army, I don't think the government takes us to heart, if the little marquis comes here one day, I have to sue him!" ”

Zhang Qing is a person who migrated from Qizhou, and he is more enthusiastic and practical in treating people on weekdays, and the only big problem is that this mouth really likes to nag about something. Kiss

Hearing that he was nagging again, Li Anzheng said: "Brother Zhang, in the past, when you were in Qizhou, you were in the hinterland of Northern Qi and there was never a military disaster, and later the little Hou Ye attacked Qizhou, and you followed the little Hou Ye to the East China Sea a long time ago, so you didn't suffer much, but do you know what the situation was like when we Han people in Huainan were at the beginning?" ”

Hearing that Li An was going to teach himself a big lesson again, Zhang Qing, who had already heard Li An talk several times, immediately hugged his fists with a headache and said: "Okay, I know that you have worked hard there, at first it was Hou Jing who caused you, then Wang Seng argued that you were troubled, and then it was Qi Guo who caused you!" ”

Seeing Zhang Qing's appearance, Li An, who had long understood his temper, smiled: "So, the weapons in our hands are worse than those in the army, but the weapons in the hands of some county soldiers in the Southern Dynasty are not as good as ours!" At present, the Ezo people covet our rich land of Pingmachuan, so we still have to be more careful! ”

"That's okay, we don't have much land here, and it's basically open now, let's ring the bell early today and let everyone come to gather for training, and General Hu will send troops to check the training situation after a while!" Although Zhang Qing was the tun chief and was not responsible for the militia's training, the militia's training was all during the slack time, so when the training should start should be based on the tun chief's opinion.

While talking, a team of young men who had eaten breakfast also came to the training ground, and at this time, everyone's family members had not yet arrived, so these young men had already adapted to the big pot of rice, and the time to come was relatively concentrated.

"Captain, we only have two or three hundred slaves in Tunbao, which is not enough for one of us, why don't you talk to General Hu and them, and give us more points," a tall middle-aged man with honest eyebrows and honest eyes and a bearded face joked to Li An, "You see that the ground was opened a few days ago, and I was almost tired of lying down with such a burly body!" ”

Li An fixed his eyes and saw that it was the strong man in the tun, the old Qian, the big name Qian Desheng, this guy is already thirty or forty years old, with a big beard, it is said that he wanted to join the army, but because he was the only son in the family, and there was a blind old mother in the family, the people in the conscription department refused to join the army.

Before immigrating to the East China Sea, although Lao Qian had a lot of strength, but because his family was poor, he was very able to eat, even if he could work, no one was willing to marry his daughter to him.

In this way, it was not until he came to the East China Sea that he briefly participated in the battle to clean up the Japanese tribes on Xiadu Island as a militiaman, and Lao Qian finally dreamed of getting a delicate woman from Silla, even if this woman was no longer the original goods, but Lao Qian still loved it.

Just before Lao Qian left home to go to Pingmachuan, the Silla woman was already pregnant with Lao Qian's child, so after being divided into more than 200 acres of flat land with his military exploits, Lao Qian can be said to have worked hard to open up the wasteland, and almost collapsed from exhaustion, and became the laughing stock of everyone for a while, even Lao Qian himself has a lot of self-deprecation.

Now that the Japanese people have almost not dared to take the lead, and the land has almost been reclaimed, Lao Qian is now looking forward to taking his wife and pregnant wife over as soon as possible to live a good life.

Hearing that Lao Qian was laughing with the captain Li An, the other militiamen also laughed, and Li An also laughed and scolded: "You stupid rammer, you still want to be a slave?" There are so many mountains in the surrounding area, it depends on whether you dare to catch it yourself! ”

Qian Desheng scratched his head and said: "Even if a hundred dwarfs come down the mountain with my body, I am not afraid, but I can't exert this strength in the mountains and forests!" If you lead the big guy into the woods, captain, I'll be able to catch him with one or twenty slaves!" ”

Nowadays, the Japanese people do not dare to appear on the plains without the protection of mountains and forests, and they are rarely seen even in the river valleys close to the mountains and forests, but in the densely vegetated mountains and forests, the short Japanese people seem to have entered the water.

These dwarfs are extremely resilient to suffering, and it is very difficult to destroy them by gnawing on tree bark and grass roots when they have no food.

Seeing the other militia young men standing there one by one laughing, Li An immediately rang a bronze bell, and after many militiamen lined up in an array, he spoke: "Everyone has been busy for several months, I know everyone is working hard, but we are not just farming here!" ”

Seeing that everyone maintained discipline and did not speak, Li Anxin was still quite satisfied, although he was a militiaman, it was not easy to maintain such good discipline after being busy for so long.

So he said: "Everyone knows that most of the seven or eight miles out of here are mountains and forests, and there may be Japanese people here at any time, or even Ezo people hiding in it, during this time, Ezo people covet the good land we have reclaimed, and there are already twenty or thirty tunbao that have encountered their attacks!" ”

"Everyone knows that last month Fangzibao encountered an attack by a large tribe of tens of thousands of people, although Fangzibao repelled the Ezo people who attacked them, but our Qingshui Village is far from being as good as Fangzibao, we don't even have many militias who have participated in the battle, so we have to train hard, otherwise the Ezo people are coming, and everything will be closed!"

Speaking of this, Li An stared at the faces of every militiaman and said: "Although the little marquis cherishes the people, but if everyone doesn't train well, in case we can't beat the Ezo people, and wait for the little marquis to lead the army to support us, maybe he can only avenge us, and now if we want to protect our own land, we have to train hard to have a future!" ”

Li An's words spoke to the hearts of these militiamen, there is also a tun fort in the west of Fangzi Fort, because it is on the second layer of defense belt, they think that there are two tun forts in front of them, so they are a little inattentive to training on weekdays, and they do not strictly abide by the strict regulations of night guards.

Later, a group of Ezo people took advantage of the night to pass through the wasteland between the two previous tun forts, and raided and captured this place, although several nearby tun forts saw that the situation was not right and immediately sent reinforcements to repel these Ezo people, but the captured tun forts lost more than half of their manpower, and even the Japanese slaves inside also fled.

I heard that some time ago, when the militia of this tunpu opened up the wasteland, there were no slaves sent to them, and those who were tired were panting like dogs.

With Li An's encouragement, the militia of Qingshuizhai can be described as a tiger and tiger in training, and the training is also very serious, among these people, the strongest martial arts, the best battle formation is Qian Desheng's militia.

As an immigrant from Huainan, Li An first came to Nanqingzhou from Haizhou along Yishui, and later settled in Jiaozhou, just before the big war last winter, Wang Ze sent a ship to Changzhou along with other Jiaozhou immigrants.

This time, Li An was assigned here with the army, and he once served as a low-level officer in the Southern Liang Army, and he easily understood the importance and danger of Qingshui Village, where he was located, and it can be said that this is a place where opportunities and crises coexist.

Li An is not young now, although he is tired of fighting on the battlefield, but he still has some feelings of enthusiasm for the achievement of expanding the territory in front of him.

In the more than a year since he came to the East China Sea, Li An has learned a lot of things, and under his training, these militiamen in Qingshui Village are no worse than Nan Chen's army, and the most lacking thing in front of him is actual combat.

Although these militia also said that they were assisting in the defense of Pingmachuan, from the very beginning the main battle was done by the cavalry, and they seemed to have no use except for collecting corpses and digging pits to bury people, and they did not even fight a battle.

Looking at the militiamen in front of him training hard one by one, Li An's heart was also full of thoughts, he was thinking that if Emperor Wu of Liang could take out half of the money and food for worshipping Buddha to train and prepare for martial arts, I am afraid that Xiao Liang, who was once prosperous, would not end up like this.

Seeing that it was almost noon, Li An was also ready to let everyone take a break, and was ready to take a break for an hour after lunch before he could come to training, but before Li An could sit down, he saw a militiaman patrolling nearby with two young men in charge of logistics hurrying over.

"Captain, it's not good!" The militiaman who was patrolling nearby said with a worried face, "The two of them were picking wild vegetables by the nearby river, but they saw a group of Ezo people hiding in a mountain forest on the other side of the river!" ”

"What! Ezo people? Ang Lee exclaimed.