Winter goes and spring comes. On the top of the mountain, the tallest and largest ancient pine tree first revealed a little green sharp corners. The pointed pine needles were covered by heavy snow for a whole winter. At this time, they finally leaned out and swayed happily in the wind. Drops of crystal dewdrops fell on the snow between the branches below as it swayed, rolling downwards, and finally slipped out of the edge and hit the ground with a tingling sound.

It seemed that the creatures on the top of the mountain were awakened. In the depths of the snow, several unknown little insects crawled out of the loose snow caves, facing the rising sun, and climbed towards the top of the tree.

More exposures appeared, and they gathered into thin streams of water. On the snow covered in trees, trenches slowly melted out, and the snow melted like rain fell down these small ditches.

In the sky, the sun was shining and magnificent, but it was raining throughout the mountains.

The trickle gathers, flowing from the high places to the valley, and finally gathers into a rolling flood, making a rumbling sound, flowing towards the low places.

The mountains are getting greener day by day.

The snow melted, revealing the ground that had been stinging for a winter. It seemed that overnight, the ground was covered with a fluffy green carpet. When Dingqing looked, the tiny buds leaned out of the ground tenaciously, swaying a weak but extremely powerful figure in the wind.

Taiping City also became lively. Everyone was divided into three parts.

Some of them are soldiers. They have completely separated from pioneering affairs since last winter, and there is only one thing every day, that is, training soldiers. The second part is the weaker young, old and women. In this spring, they were divided to prepare for spring sowing, while the third part is still working last winter, constantly cutting down trees, opening mountains, building city walls, and building houses.

Walking down Taiping City for several miles is Donglai Village. This is a flat land between the two mountains. The people of Donglai County, led by Sun Deliang, began to build their own houses here last winter. When the ice and snow melt and everything revived, their village had already begun to take shape.

Hundreds of people gathered on a wasteland. Here, the original trees had been cut down, leaving only some low bushes and weeds. Sun Deliang held up the torch in his hand and looked at the large wasteland in front of him, with an excited light in his eyes. From the time of escape to now, they finally have their own land again.

"Kaihuangluo!" He raised the torch high and waved it to everyone. Amid the cheers of everyone, he lowered the torch and lit the withered weeds around him.

The fire was ignited, thick smoke was pouring out, covering the sky and the black ashes were flying all over the sky, but hundreds of people followed the burning fire, cheering and leaping all the way.

The fire finally stopped between the isolation zones set in advance. After the fire, the fertile black soil exposed on the ground. The sharp plow penetrated into the soil with the temperature after burning. The men put the lasso on their shoulders. The old people held the plowshare and with a shout, the plowshare slowly advanced. The black soil rolled out like waves. The underground soil that had never seen the sunshine in countless years finally saw the sunshine in the sky for the first time.

Sun Deliang stood at a high place, looking at the waves of soil drawn by countless plows, and looking at the rumbling streams flowing through the stream ditch not far away, his heart was filled with satisfaction. He finally won the bet last year.

He planned that riot, and hundreds of people were punished for him. Although he was hidden behind the scenes, he felt that the young general's sharp eyes seemed to see him clearly. In front of him, he seemed to be wearing no clothes. That kind of eyes could make people lose their last line of defense.

But the other party did not do anything to him, but instead gave them family money to settle down. He brought the money back to Shayang County. After thinking about it, he decided to take these old and weak people all the way to Taiping City. At that time, more and more refugees outside Shayang County became more and more refugees, and making a living there became a more difficult thing. When he arrived in Taiping City, as long as he was willing to put in his efforts, he would still have a bite of food.

Now it seems that the loneliness at that time was a great chess move.

Here, there are mountains, water, land, and their own houses.

Not far away, the wooden and stone houses, the same pattern as those in Taiping City, were designed by a man named Zhishou in the army. They were strong and durable. Although they looked a little rough now, no matter what kind of house, as long as people moved in, they would give him life and they would become better and better day by day.

The streams in the mountains will not stop flowing even in the dry season, which ensures the most basic needs, with land and water, and they can make this land bear fruit.

Women are sowing seeds on the land they have plowed, which is their hope, because starting this fall, they will not only start to be self-sufficient, but also pay certain taxes to Taiping City.

There are at least a dozen such villages around Taiping City, with a large number of people. The large ones are like Donglai Village, with hundreds of people gathered, and dozens of people. They are all fellow villagers from the same place, and after this, they gathered together. As for the lonely and scattered escapees, they all stayed in Taiping City, where a lot of labor is needed, and they are not worried about not having food to eat.

Taiping City started recruiting soldiers last winter, but under Sun Deliang's instruction, no one signed up for Donglai people. Good men did not join the army. This is the creed that Sun Deliang has always adhered to. As long as he has land, he can survive. When he joined the army, he may die outside at any time. What makes Sun Deliang even more grateful to Qin Feng is that although there are many young and strong people in Donglai village, there are many people who are strong, but no one has forced them to join the army.

Taiping City implemented a voluntary enlistment system. Those who intend to join the army will register on their own, but the conditions for admission are extremely harsh. Among the ten people, only one or two people were admitted. Such a high elimination rate made Sun Deliang very shocked. He had seen the imperial court recruiting soldiers before, but it was not a call, but a strong man, three man draws two, and one man draws one. Regardless of whether you want to or not, a rope will be tied up and left. There is no news from then on. At least in Sun Deliang's memory, none of the strong men who were pulled away could return to the ancestral land.

As long as they were taken away, the family would basically think they were dead. Therefore, the recruitment of soldiers by the imperial court once the third year was a nightmare for every household. At this time, many families would be extorted by some officials to almost bankrupt in order to avoid being evaded.

Sun Deliang did not think that there would be war in Taiping City. He had already walked this road three times. If he wanted to reach Taiping City, the mountains and ridges along the way were natural barriers. He also saw that Taiping City had set up checkpoints at all dangerous passes. Any movement would allow Taiping City to get news. In some places, Sun Deliang even believed that it was a dangerous pass that was a one-man who could pass the pass and ten thousand men could not open it.

This is probably the reason why General Qin did not recruit soldiers on a large scale. Taiping City does not need too many soldiers to ensure their safety. Raising soldiers is a expensive thing.

"General Qin, isn't that expensive to raise such an army?" Ge Qingsheng frowned, and couldn't help but think about the large and small expenses and the wealth they have in Taiping City now. After all, there was always a gap.

As the county magistrate of Feng County, after being abandoned by Mr. Liu and staying alone in Feng County for half a year, Wang Hou came to have a deep conversation in person on the door, Ge Qingsheng gritted his teeth, rolled up the bedding, and entrusted his family to Wang Hou, and then gritted his teeth and went to Taiping City.

He was warmly welcomed by Qin Feng and immediately took office as the lord of Taiping City. Qin Feng's command was not short of generals who charged forward, but lacked such a person-friendly official who could coordinate the overall situation.

Ge Qingsheng never expected that so many people had gathered in this deep mountain. When he entered the mountain, the number of people who fled into the mountain had expanded the number of people in Taiping City to nearly 30,000, which was almost the size of a lower-class county. Even Feng County, including the county town and some surrounding villages and towns, had only so many people. It is not easy to support so many people.

Taiping City is still a bottomless pit with only expenditures and no income. The food consumed by 30,000 people every day. Even if Ge Qingsheng just thought about it, he felt a creepy feeling.

"General Qin, now our Taiping City has only so much inventory. Without other income, our stockpile will not be able to support the harvest after autumn. But even if we have harvest after autumn, the income will not be able to support so many people. At this time, it is really a bit over the horse to spend so much money for the army. The money you gave me is indeed a lot, but I think this money should be used to buy grain to support us at least through this year. The military affairs should be slowed down!"

"No." Qin Feng shook his head firmly, "You can slow down anything else. The military affairs will definitely not be able to slow down. Without the army, we have nothing, and the Lord of Ge, or it will take not long to go out to fight. Without good equipment, how can we win this war? If we don't win this war, we will lose everything."

"Moro may not necessarily come." Ge Qingsheng said: "Even if he comes, he may not necessarily come to Fengxian. Shayang County City will be a more attractive target."

"Even if he doesn't come to Feng County, I will come to him. I will not allow him to occupy the city of Shayang County. I need a stable Shayang County and a stable ally like Mr. Liu." Qin Feng said. "Mr. Ge, you are experienced and I don't want to interfere with your civil governance of Taiping City, but there is no need to discuss this matter."
Chapter completed!