When fighting in the battle formation, you are calculating this and that every moment, and time often passes very slowly. Once the war subsides and you enter a state of rest, time passes very quickly.
One moment we were in the joyful atmosphere of the first lunar month, and the next moment spring plowing had begun. By this time, it was already late March, and Youzhou was filled with wild flowers, herds of cattle and sheep in the mountains, and everything was full of life.
At this time, the defensive armies were gradually in place. The Tielin and Jinglue armies came in sequence. The Tianxiong, Yicong, and Wuwei armies went back to rest and recuperate. The Longxiang, Tujiang, Tiande, and Dingnan armies sent out additional troops.
He received a reward and spent almost all the money he got from Cangzhou and Youzhou.
The first batch of Kansai immigrants arrived almost at the same time as the troops were replaced.
The immigrants mainly came from Tong, Hua, and Yong prefectures, with a total of 6,000 households, of which 3,000 households scattered to Beiping, Ji, Ping, and Tan prefectures with 1,000 households each.
On March 20, 500 families of immigrants left the fortress via Beikou Road and settled in the newly established Ruping County.
Ruping was later known as Luanping. During the Tang Dynasty, the Eastern Army guarded the city and was subordinate to the newly established Ruzhou - the name of Ruzhou was taken from Rushui (Luan River).
Obviously, Ruzhou is a newly established state and county. Geographically it is still in the Yanshan Mountains, but culturally and psychologically it is in the area behind the mountains.
The establishment of state counties outside the Great Wall and the establishment of civilian settlements were rare in history. Most of them started in the Northern Wei, Northern Zhou, and Northern Qi. As a result, the number gradually decreased in the Sui Dynasty, and there were very few in the Tang Dynasty. From the Northern Wei to the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains imperial court established settlements outside the Great Wall.
Efforts have been in decline for a long time. Even though the Tang Dynasty achieved great military victory, they did not try to restore these former farming counties. Instead, they settled nearby tribes and subordinated them. Therefore, these ancient cities were slowly lost in the dust of history.
Already.
The Great Xia Dynasty has its own new atmosphere.
The establishment of Shen and Rouzhou was the first step, and the old places of Liangcheng County, Dai County, and Dingxiang County in the Northern Wei Dynasty were restored. You must know that this is Zhengzhou, not Jisizhou, and it is the place where Zheng'er Bajing sent officials.
Ruzhou is considered the third one. In the former Guangyang County of the Northern Wei Dynasty, there is currently only one subordinate county, Ruping, which will be gradually improved in the future.
Of course, these newly established Zhengzhous are also quite special, because there are still a large number of tribes in the jurisdiction, some of which can integrate households into the people, and some of which cannot. Because some lands are not suitable for farming in the first place, forcing them to use horses will only bring trouble.
Ecological disasters are coming, so we must adapt to local conditions and treat them according to customs.
The location of Ruping County is still very good. It is located in a mountain valley basin. The conditions may not be as good as those in the Youzhou Plain, but it is by no means without arable land. It can support a farming population of 10,000 to 20,000 people and a nomadic population of tens of thousands.
No problem at all.
Li Si led a group of people through Ruping again, heading to the Changxia Palace foundation site north of the ancient city of Yanle to build a palace. Along the way, he saw cars and horses everywhere, as well as unkempt immigrants.
"Here you go, take it and eat it." Seeing a child in a woman's arms crying with hunger, he sighed and asked someone to hand over two pieces of dried meat.
The man next to the woman saw her and thanked her profusely.
"Where are you coming from?" Li Siyi dismounted his horse and asked his servants to fetch water for cooking.
"Has the general ever heard of Chaocheng County in Tongzhou?" The man asked with a flattering look on his face, holding a crude spear in his hand.
"I've never heard of it." Li Siyi smiled awkwardly.
The man didn't take it seriously and said, "It's a small place, it's just a small place." "Is your family settled in Ruping County?" Li Siyi asked. "Ruping?" The man looked confused.
"You five hundred households are the first batch of households in Ruping County, and you have indeed settled here." Zhou Dalang walked out from behind a carriage and said.
Behind him were more than a dozen local warriors, standing on high ground at this moment, with the bows in their hands already strung, alerting the surroundings. The Luoyang man, after fighting for a year, finally looked somewhat capable.
"I see." Li Si added, "This is not a good place. There is too little land to support too many people." The man was a little disappointed after hearing this.
In fact, he has felt this way for a long time. Since leaving Beiping Mansion, he has seen mountains everywhere. There may be some broken basins in the mountains for reclamation, and some conditions are quite good. There are rivers next to them, but overall
It's really a little flat land, it doesn't look like anything
A wealthy place.
"It's not that bad." Zhou Dalang said: "They are the first batch, and they are still in the energy field. It is easy to have twenty or thirty acres of land for one family. It's hard to say for those who come later, they may not have so much land."
The man felt relieved after hearing this. With more than twenty acres of land, the pain he endured on the road was completely worth it.
"The saint still remembers us old people from Guanxi." The man sighed: "Chaocheng County did not allocate so much land to us." Li Siyi sighed inwardly when he saw the man's expression of sincere gratitude to Shao Sheng.
He was not lamenting these immigrants from Guanxi, but the natives of Youzhou.
On the way here, he heard that Yanle County had been abolished. The descendants of the Mohetu Diji tribe scattered there, as well as more than a thousand tents of Goguryeo and Xi people, had been relocated as a whole, and they didn't know where they were going.
Perhaps, some of them will be resettled in the newly established Ruping County. But with their good luck, can one family be allocated twenty or thirty acres of land? Not necessarily.
The saint is still partial after all!
There were so many tribes in Youzhou - now called Beiping Prefecture - some were killed, some were demoted as slaves and moved out, and the space left by them was occupied by these Guanxi people.
Li Si really did not dare to rebel, and even led the way for Master Wang, but after all, he was from Yan, and his emotions in his heart were no less than anyone else's, but he just couldn't express them openly.
He vaguely heard that when the sage first entered Luoyang, the local population was sparsely populated and the fields were barren, so he went out to the people of Guanxi and crowded the five states of Meng, Huai, Luo, Ru, and Zheng. Later, he even extended his black hands to the people who had been Huang Chao
, Qin Zongquan had been wreaking havoc, and he had been at loggerheads with Zhu Quanzhong for many years, and the Tang and Deng states were almost in vain. In fact, the main one was Zhili Road.
You can say that the people of Zhili Province are from Henan, because they do live in Guandong, that is, the old land of Henan Province. But they are also authentic Guanxi people, and many of them have obtained inheritance for the first time.
The land is so devoted to Shao Sheng that it is like creating another Guanxi.
Will Youzhou Town also experience such a process?
Li Keyong killed many people, and Shao Sheng also killed many people. The entry of Jin and Xia forces into Youzhou brought drastic changes. Once upon a time, Jin people with Hedong accents were superior to others in Youzhou City. Now they probably have to
Do the Kansai people have the highest status?
This newly established Ruping County is nothing more than a magpie's nest.
"Let's go, less than ten miles away. Try to arrive at noon. We don't start in the afternoon. If you want to eat, you have to wait until evening. Get on the road quickly!" Zhou Dalang looked up at the sky and saw that it was not early, so he hurried.
The couple held their children in their arms, saluted Li Siqi, and then set out on the road. The convoy moved forward slowly, with large and small bags, making the road bumpy.
Li Si looked up to the south again. On the winding post road, there were vehicles and pedestrians as far as the eye could see. On the mountain path, there were shepherds leading their horses, carrying knives and bows, heading north quickly.
Their destination was the same as Li Si's: the Changxia Palace - although the palace was not there yet, the place name was already there. "We also eat." Li Siyi stopped thinking about anything and sat cross-legged in the grass with his knees bent, chewing heavily.
Started cheese.
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On the last day of March, Li Siqi arrived at Changxia Palace with his motorcade.
The construction site of the palace was in full swing. Tens of thousands of people were sweating profusely, digging into mountains, collecting rocks, and cutting down wood. They were very busy. In the wilderness in the distance, people were already grazing cattle and sheep.
The young man mounted a horse, held a bow in his hand, and stared into the distance with bright eyes, full of vigilance.
Behind the mountain, it has changed hands repeatedly between Youzhou and Khitan. Now it has a new owner, and I don’t know what the future will be like. Hundreds of horses galloped from the southeast of Changxia Palace.
Looking at the tall war horses under their crotches and the sophisticated weapons in their hands, Li Si thought with his toes and knew that they were the King of Great Xia's army, perhaps the Difficult Army.
Spring is warm, flowers are blooming, pastures are growing, and the grassland has become a place for cavalry. The king of Daxia comes here to herd horses, and if he is not careful, he will clash with the Xi people and Khitans in the east. No one knows how it will end.
"But please don't start a fight." Li Si climbed up a hillside again, built a pergola with his hands, and stared into the distance. What a land of lush water and grass!
There are flat grasslands, deep and dense forests, and a cool climate in the mountains. The saint took great pains to choose this place for his palace.
The saint loves hunting, and I heard that after the palace is completed, he will come here to hunt in person. This is not a good sign, because it almost certainly means that the King of Daxia will fight with the Khitan people, at least to move the Khitan and Xi people's pastures eastward.
, pushed hundreds of miles northward, all the way to the depths of Liaoze.
After sighing, Li Siqi went down the mountain again and began to inspect the construction site.
His tribe has a large number of people, at least half of them have come over now, more than 20,000 people.
This group of people also participated in the construction, but it was only auxiliary work. The real heavy physical work was still done by prisoners, and their number has been increasing, and now there are 30,000. Li Siqi's department actually has the obligation to supervise the work.
Considering that his tribe and the coolies already knew each other, he was scolded badly during this period.
And after being scolded a lot, many of the warriors who oversaw the work became impatient and did not take any serious action. As time went by, the tribe's reputation became even worse, and it simply stinked.
"We can never go back to the past." Li Siyi sighed softly, his expression full of melancholy. Another large group of knights came from the south.
The leader was wearing a green robe and official uniform, with huge silver earrings hanging from his ears. He looked like a Tibetan official. Li Siqi hesitated for a moment, but still went up to him.
"Who is the envoy of the Changxia Palace?" Before the green-robed official could speak, a follower beside him shouted loudly. "That's me." Li Siqi puffed up his chest and said.
"This is Changxia Palace Supervisor Absi Wanhu." The attendant said loudly with an unruly look on his face: "What are you doing standing around here? Why don't you get ready to eat quickly?"
