Chenghua opened the governor and prefect in Yunyang, and the counties appeased the people and granted them field seeds, and resettled the displaced people as the people.

But even so, there are still many displaced people who have fled here, living in extreme poverty in the mountains, but not willing to become tenant farmers in their hometowns, or being paid taxes to the government.

The living conditions of the displaced people are almost on the edge of the survival line.

Some people may ask, Yunyang gave them land, since it is so hard, why don't you go to the government to get the land, and then pay a little tax to try to settle down?

In fact, the truth is very helpless.

It's not that the Yunyang government doesn't honor it, but that the counties don't have too good land.

Growing it yourself in the mountains is completely no different from the land given by the county.

The county still has to pay taxes, so they simply flee to the mountains to survive.

That's the reality.

However, these homeless people did not rebel, they just survived on their own, and when they produced mountain goods, they had to go to counties and towns to trade to make a little money.

Although most of this money is used to buy food, it is just enough to live.

Wang Hongyu felt that the old man had a clear way of thinking and knew a little about the past and the present, so he should not fall to this point.

The old man sighed: "I once studied in the county school, but because of the disaster, I lost my pillars, and my family's savings were not much and soon declined, and I was invaded by the wealthy family with the same surname,...... Finally become a homeless. ”

Being able to go to county school also shows that the land was able to afford to go to school back then, at least from rich peasant families.

But it can encounter accidents, and it is very unfortunate that if other powerful families in the clan have ambitions to merge, it is likely to end in the loss of everything.

It is estimated that he is literate and able to talk, and can be a servant of the big clan, but he finally refused, came to the mountains as a homeless person, and survived by himself.

Wang Hongyu also truthfully said that he was a general who returned from the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, and he came here to develop this place well.

It is love and hate for the homeless.

"Pickpocketing and begging, according to the "Da Ming Law" is a serious crime, I will have the intention to revitalize Yunyang, this matter can be opened, but these people you are familiar with, you will cooperate with me in the future."

"Yes, little old man obeys!"

"You don't need to call me the old man, the old man can tell me the name. If you rectify the homeless people you know, and you are literate and numeracy, of course you can be a clerk. ”

The old man was grateful, and immediately knelt down and said: "A certain surname Liu, whose name is Fuwen, will definitely not disappoint General Wang." ”

"Uncle Liu, let the refugees you know know that I, Wang Hongyu, want to build a number of industries, and build roads and ships. If you cooperate, your life will be better. ”

Liu Fuwen returned to the mountain and whistled a few times, only to see that the displaced people who had fled just now had returned.

He talked to them for a while, and then he took them with him.

Wang Hongyu saw them kneeling on the ground, all of them with vegetables on their faces, their clothes were very ragged, and through the holes in their clothes, they could clearly see their thin bodies.

Gathered were a few people in the lead, followed by hundreds of adults. In the mountains and forests in the distance, there were many old people and children, looking at them worriedly.

Wang Hongyu estimated that there are thousands of people around Liu Fuwen, which is already a large number of people in Yunyang, which is sparsely populated.

"I brought workshops, technology, tools, money and food, as long as you believe in me and are willing to contribute, I can let everyone have land to plant, work to do, house and future."

He was greeted by a burst of exclamations, followed by a burst of crying.

These homeless people can only barely survive in the mountains, and when they hear such words today, they are suddenly released.

At this time, dozens of cavalry came from the direction of Zhushan.

"How dare you block the road! You still dare to steal and rob it!? ”

"Did you stop General Wang?"

"General Wang is not your enemy!"

Listening to the voice, it was scolding the vast homeless people on the road.

Through many people, the shouts can also be heard, which is quite powerful and imposing.

Liu Fuwen hurriedly asked people to explain, but Wang Hongyu said directly and loudly: "I am Wang Hongyu!"

These people are friends with me! Listening to the tone, people are also friends, and don't hurt each other! ”

The sound is very loud, and there are echoes in the valley.

After listening to it, he laughed and said: "Hahaha, I am a friend of Zhou Dunji, and I am here to greet you!" ”

It turned out that Wang Hongyu was privately inspecting in civilian clothes, and of course the county officials did not know, but Zhou Zhaoan immediately sent someone to Zhushan County to inform him.

There are dozens of Zhou family members, as well as Zhou Dunji's former comrades-in-arms and friends in Zhushan County, and they know that the road from Fang County to Zhushan is not so easy to walk.

Therefore, he immediately hurried to meet him, for fear that the homeless people would steal from Wang Hongyu and extort money and have a conflict.

The result was very happy, Wang Hongyu had already convinced Liu Fuwen, a large number of homeless people.

Three groups of people met and explained the ins and outs slightly, and several people laughed.

The night rested in the grass huts of nearby villages and towns.

Wang Hongyu specially let the former Zhou family's guide and scout post live in the village and town, and he and Zhou Yijie, the eldest brother's friends and others lived in Liu Fuwen's grass hut, chatting until late at night.

Combined with multiple sources, I quickly became familiar with the situation.

It turned out that several counties and villages and towns had people who belonged to the government, and of course the displaced people would go further into the mountains.

But there are more or less contradictions. There were contradictions between the common people and the homeless, and both sides were full of martial virtues, and there were fights and trades.

For example, the Zhou family in Zhushan County, as well as the families of dozens of veterans, are very united, leading the people in the county to practice martial arts and maintain law and order.

Bamboo, iron ore and turquoise are produced here, and sometimes they darts.

The homeless people are also interesting and divided into two factions.

One is aggressive, the other is concentrating on life.

Liu Fuwen's group of displaced people is aggressive.

In fact, it's not much aggressive, but when you meet a lone person, you usually steal, when you meet a rich person, you forcibly surround it to beg, and when you meet the Zhou family and veterans, you can hide as far as you can.

The homeless people here in Yunyang have actually fled, and there are also a small number of fugitives and deserters, who have put forward suggestions of robbing homes and houses, and falling into the grass.

But most of the displaced people still want to live a good life, after all, as long as they go to the Yunyang government to report, they will have land and seeds if they are innocent, so the most radical saboteurs have never had the upper hand.

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There are also the Zhou family and veterans who are also in contact with the homeless, and there have been armed fights before, but they are more engaged in business.

After all, in the deep mountains, the population is not small, and there is not enough to eat for farming, so you have to rely on mountain goods to trade.

The Zhou family and the veterans would sometimes trade with them, so there was friction between the two sides, and more cooperation.

Wang Hongyu was quite pleased.

Now it has not reached the point where the displaced people are extremely large at the end of the Ming Dynasty and it is very difficult to settle down, and I can just tap the potential of the mountains, forests, specialties, rivers and displaced people here.

The basis of force for the cooperation of the displaced people is, of course, the family and friends of the eldest brother.

The next day, he entrusted Liu Fuwen with the task of stabilizing production and persuading other displaced people to cooperate, and continued to march towards Zhushan.