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Chapter 206 Relocation

Huangshanguan Town has a population of more than 700 households and more than 3,000 people. Because it is close to Laizhou, it is also adjacent to the Bohai Sea. In the southeast are hilly and mountains of all sizes, and only a small piece of the coastline is a flat plain.

Therefore, this place has become an important transportation hub for Yidu! Before the Eastern Mongolians came, smuggled merchant ships often secretly landed in the hope of avoiding the high taxes. The people of the town also like to cover up these merchants, after all, this can also bring additional benefits to the town.

Now the small Huangshanguan Town no longer has the peace and peace of the past, and replaced it with obvious solemn and murderous aura.

However, after the soldiers from the Eastern Mongolian army entered Huangshanguan Town, they built a defense line here according to the orders of the superiors. Before the main force arrived, they were just the vanguards of the way to explore the way. Being able to defend Dengzhou, a landing bridgehead for the main force is a great achievement.

However, Gao Mingshi did not wait for the enemy to come to the door. While asking his army to build a defense line, he also asked a small group of scouts to enter Laizhou in order to inquire about military information.

"Report! The bandit army has ordered the pseudo-Laizhou soldiers and horses to lead 50,000 troops to attack!" Gao Mingshi, who was inspecting the progress of the defense line, suddenly received an emergency report from his personal guards, and he couldn't help but feel cold.

Because there are only two thousand soldiers in Huangshanguan Town, and they have to deal with the attack of 50,000 troops, it has to be said that their strength is too disparity.

"Is the news reliable?" Gao Mingshi hoped that this was fake.

"This is the news sent by Penglai. I heard it was from the secret guard." The personal guard replied carefully.

The power of the secret guards grew stronger and stronger as the Eastern Mongolian power expanded. This attack on Shandong involved a contest with the Khan Court, so the secret guards also threw great efforts in Shandong and developed many spies.

Although Gao Mingshi's current level is not qualified to know the specific matters of the secret guard, he knew that his army could not say that the person was the secret guard's spy. Therefore, he did not believe the top secret information sent from Penglai, so he asked again: "What did the prefecture instruct?"

It is completely impossible to rely on these troops to defend Huangshan Town. Therefore, Gao Mingshi vaguely hopes that Zul would send more reinforcements.

However, the navy had very few soldiers and horses. The total number of soldiers and horses that crossed the sea this time was only more than 10,000, which also included some of the Korean and Japanese people recruited on the island. They were truly entirely the soldiers brought from Liaodong to Jeju Island, with only more than 6,000 people.

"The prefect said that we would send another thousand reinforcements to come, so that we must hold on for two hours. At that time, there will be a surprise soldier to unseat our siege!" The personal guard said with some uncertainty.

Gao Mingshi was also puzzled, "The surprise soldier is the surprise soldier, and he can't even reveal anything to them."

"Hey! Dig two more trenches! All the people in the town will move away. Whether they can survive depends on God's intention!" Gao Mingshi said in a tone of giving up.

So there was a burst of crying sound in Huangshan Town. It was also in this era of endless wars that the villagers of the town fled in early years. After finally taking root and living a safe life for a few years, they were about to escape again. It was really unbearable to feel sad.

"Dear fellow villagers, this is really not a escape! After leaving here, our East Mongolia will divide the land and let you live a good life. The war is coming soon, and it depends on God's intention to stay in Huangshan Town. Perhaps even if we soldiers are not in trouble tomorrow, we soldiers will be taken away by God! If you stay here, you will only die with us in vain!" A soldier who looked down upon him at the age of a young man helped the people move their homes while advising him earnestly.

"Hey, soldier, how do I know if you seem to be lying to me?" An old man with gray hair, who was old and gray, relied on his age and didn't have much life anymore, so he was not afraid of offending anyone, so he asked.

This asked the thoughts of many townspeople who were forced to move. They couldn't help but raise their ears and slow down their movements on their feet.

"Old man, my name is Wang Zhouzheng. Originally, my name was Wang Heidan. When he joined the army, the recruiter saw that my name was ugly, so he gave me a new name. The matter of dividing land and land was really not a fool. Our family was also from Dengzhou before, and we were not in trouble in the early years. The Mongolians came to snatch it, and the Jurchens also came. Later, the rebels came, and my father led our family and fled to Liaodong opposite the sea.

The land was not peaceful. Not long after my father got off the boat, he was attacked by the bandits. My mother was also robbed by the bandits, leaving me with a brother/two sisters. This life is getting harder and harder. It is even more common for me to endure hunger. One of my sisters stole a bun from the Jurchen landlord’s house because she couldn’t stand it and was beaten to death.”

Speaking of this, the new recruits who called Wang Zhouzheng couldn't help but turn red. The villagers present were also worried. The days of hunger were not far from them. They empathized with the chaos in the early years.

Otherwise, he would not have fled from all over the world to Huangshanguan Town.

Especially the Jurchen landlords, the Jurchen masters were indispensable in the Shandong territory. These Han slaves were also bullied by these Jurchen masters. If the only benefit brought to them by the war was that there was no Jurchen master bullying them in the Shandong territory.

But without the Jurchen masters and the Han masters, the new owners of Shandong, although they also started out as ordinary people, they would not give any preferential treatment to ordinary people other than themselves. No one should be missed for the heavy taxes that should be paid.

Even because Shandong has been constantly going to war with neighboring forces in recent years, it is necessary to pay more war food.

If life wasn't too hard, the people of Huangshanguan Town would not want to collude with the smuggling maritime merchants. After all, it was a matter of losing their heads, so who wouldn't be afraid?

At this time, Wang Zhouzheng also adjusted his emotions and continued, "I thought life would be like this, but I might have to go to the underworld to accompany my sister to walk there. But the Eastern Mongols suddenly came, and the wise and kind King Ulutus pointed out the way to all the poor families who had no way to live.

We have no land to divide the land. We have exempted all taxes for three years. We will only pay 30% of the harvest from the fourth year. Even if we don’t farm, we can arrange to work in the workshop. We also provide low-rent housing for us homeless people to live in. When we make money from work, we can still buy the house at a low price.

Now my brother works in the steel workshop and earns three silver dollars a month. When I served as a soldier, I also had at least two gold dollars a month to supplement the money. My youngest sister also went to school and provided free food at noon.

Our family can be said to have really lived a good life! But my parents and my third sister didn’t have the blessing, and they couldn’t wait for the gift of King Ulutus, and they couldn’t live such a good life!"

Although such plain and straightforward words do not have gorgeous rhetoric modifications, they can best bring them closer and touch people's hearts. Although there is still less convincing evidence, most of the people still choose to believe it.
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