The land of the river is not very peaceful, the cultivation technology is also backward, all kinds of agricultural facilities are also very bad, and the grain output is naturally not high.

Coupled with the drought, the food of these farmers is much worse than that of the Tuntian Army, and those heroes are not open-minded, and the squeezing on weekdays is not light.

After three years of Tuntian Juntuntian, at least some property can be saved, but these farmers don't have such a thing, and the farmers don't even have freedom.

Theoretically, the banker is not a slave, he has personal freedom, and he can go as he wants, but in practice? Where do you go in a place like this?

It was during this time that the imperial court extended its strength here, and the Tuntian army came, and things changed a little.

Even if these heroes are unwilling, they are powerless to resist the will of the imperial court, not to mention, this time there is not only the imperial court, but also other Guanlong nobles, Hebei families.

The strength of these people is not as good, coupled with the support of the imperial court, the local powerful landlords are honest.

If you dare to stab, those Guanlong nobles and century gate lords are worried that there is no good place to settle their family business.

After discovering this situation, many villagers have moved their minds, who is willing to be a slave for a lifetime, and who does not want to have a land, a house and an industry.

As a result, some active Zhuang Ke began to defect to the Tuntian Army, and the officials in charge of Tuntian also accepted it directly, not afraid of the opposition of those powerful people.

Even, they are still waiting for those heroes to come to the door, and then there will be an excuse to clean them up.

On the post road, a group of people came from afar, led by a few cavalrymen wearing leather armor and carrying bows and arrows, followed by more than a dozen auxiliaries, and about 20 people with hundreds of horses.

"Zhao Yong, where did you bring so many horses from?" The old man Jiang, who was bragging with others, heard the movement and immediately got up and looked over.

"This is a horse assigned by the imperial court!" Zhao Yong said with a smile: "Most of these horses are old war horses, which are no longer usable, so the imperial court ordered them to be abolished, and then handed over to the Tuntian army to try horse farming." ”

"Ma Geng, this place is indeed suitable." Old man Jiang thought for a while and said.

There is a lot of pasture in this river, and those miscellaneous beards can come to graze, and they can naturally graze, which is almost nothing. As for the opening up of those lands into farmland, although there are many victims who have migrated from the imperial court now, they are too far from filling up the land of the river.

But what does Ma Geng say? The endurance of horses is not good, and although the efficiency of farming is higher than that of oxen, they soon lose their strength, and of course horse farming is better than manual farming.

And although these war horses can't go to the battlefield, they can be used to pull carts, carry goods, and ride, and the trained war horses are also more obedient.

If a family can raise a horse, a lot of farm work will not be difficult.

Just like harvesting grain and transporting it back, in the past, it could only be pulled by manpower or oxen, but now it can be directly pulled by horse-drawn carts.

But these hundreds of horses seem like a lot, but there are more than 2,000 households here, which is not enough at all.

The news of the lack of livestock and farm tools has long been reported, and the imperial court has been looking for a solution. The retirement of this kind of war horse is one of them, and in addition to these, there is also the need for the workshop of the imperial court to seize the time to produce a farm tool.

"It's getting better day by day!" Old man Jiang smiled and said: "The imperial court first gave us disaster relief, and now it is distributing livestock to us to help with farming, so we can work hard, and we will have a land, a house and a mother-in-law in the future!" ”

Hearing the mother-in-law, the body that originally felt tired immediately seemed to be beaten with chicken blood, and the whole person became excited.

After surviving the existential crisis and seeing the hope for the future, everyone began to think about starting a family and passing on the legacy to future generations.

Many of these victims do not have wives, and if they can get a wife, they will naturally work very hard.

Not only these victims, but even the soldiers of the Tuntian Army, such as Old Man Jiang.

There was another sound of horses' hooves, and then I saw a cloud of smoke and dust in the distance, and the old man Jiang, who was leading people to farm, saw it and immediately shouted, and everyone retreated to the camp.

Immediately, everyone retreated into the camp like a tide. There are many miscellaneous beards in the land of the river, and the number of these miscellaneous beards is large, and the few are only a few dozen.

Sometimes they would graze their herds, they would trade with the people of the summers, and sometimes they would take advantage of the opportunity to plunder.

Now a cavalry suddenly appeared, and everyone didn't know whether it was friend or foe, if it was an enemy, they didn't see a warning from the wolf smoke, if it was a friend, once hundreds of cavalry attacked, they couldn't stop it.

Soon everyone returned to the camp, and the old man Jiang looked at the camp with his feet, and soon saw a flag waving in the wind, on which the sun, moon and stars were drawn, which was the flag of the imperial court.

And under the banner, there are many knights wearing bright light armor.

This Mingguang armor is the hardest armor of this era, and it is also specially equipped with heart goggles on the chest and back. Extremely high defense.

At the same time, the cost of this armor is also very expensive, ordinary people can't afford to use it at all, there is Mingguang armor, there are battle flags, it is obvious that the cavalry in front of him is not a miscellaneous Hu who came to plunder, but the army of the imperial court.

Seeing this scene, Old Man Jiang didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly ordered someone to open the camp on his behalf, and then led someone to greet him.

After a while, they saw that the leading knights had arrived, and at this time, everyone also found that among these knights, a carriage was guarding.

The carriage was very simple, just like an ordinary carriage, but there were so many people guarding it, as long as you were not stupid, you would know that the people in this carriage must be noble.

Soon the carriage stopped, and a man got out of the carriage, and then handed the official document he had just written in his hand to a knight and said, "Send it back to the state capital, and then send it to the Zhongshu Order!" ”

This person is handsome and extraordinary, and the bird pattern in the center of his eyebrows is shining, this is actually a descendant of the Wang family. No one could have imagined that the Wang family would let their descendants come to such a place.

"This is Xixiping Town!" Wang Xuanji looked at Tucheng in front of him and asked.

"It's Xiping Town." The guide next to him said.

"I didn't expect a county town to be so simple!" Wang Xuanji said with some emotion.

"Shangguan, this Xiping Town was originally a military town, and later became a county, and this is the county seat."

"At the beginning, Xiping Town could garrison 2,000 soldiers, tens of thousands of stones, grain, grass, ordnance, etc., enough for 2,000 troops to be stationed for two years."

"How much arable land is there outside the city?" Wang Xuanji asked.

"1,200 hectares, plus what we have cultivated, about 600 hectares before." The man next to him said.

"Twelve hundred acres." Wang Xuanji shook his head slightly, such a county is far worse than the Central Plains.

"There are quite a few, no matter how much they are, they can't be cultivated, after all, the population is insufficient!"

Wang Xuanji nodded and said, "This year and next year, we will continue to migrate people here, and it will be about the same in a few years." ”

Wang Xuanji came to Hexi in person this time because the court was preparing to reopen the Western Regions and restart the trade route. And the immigrants are preparing for this.

(End of chapter)