Huangniling Village was originally a village with more than 100 families. It was only about ten miles away from Chen Shaowei's Hulao New Army's third battalion. When the war broke out, the villagers here fled and left, leaving only a huge empty village abandoned here. For the people here, the enemy's army was naturally as fierce as a tiger. If they did not escape, they would probably not even have bones left. After a few months, Huangniling Village disappeared. It was originally adobe thatched houses, with heavy snow for months. Most of the houses in the village that were of concern were crushed by snow.

When Qin Feng stepped into this village, he couldn't help but shake his head.

This place is not far from Shuanglian City and less than a hundred miles from Yongdu City. The lives of the people are so hard. If you don’t look at anything else, just look at these houses and the crude furniture in the house, you can imagine how hard the lives of these people are on weekdays.

This place should be considered under the feet of the emperor of Qin. They are so poor. Those Qin people far away from Yongdu can imagine their lives. If the people live like this around Yuejing City, the local people-friendly officials will probably lose their official hats immediately.

The green bricks and green tiles are small bridges and flowing water. The chickens are crowing, the dogs are barking, the old cows are carrying hoes and walking on the ridges of the fields. The dogs are running around and the chickens are jumping around. The blue smoke is curling in the house. This is the rural family in Qin Feng’s ideal, but all of this in front of him is basically nothing else to feel except dilapidated, decadent and desolate.

Standing outside a house with a collapsed roof, looking inside, there were basically no pieces of furniture. Heavy snow was piled up in the house with at least a thick ruler. On the table and on the bench, the long icy shimmered.

There was no pot on the stove, and a big black hole was left. For ordinary people, the iron pot was a very expensive property. When these people fled, they naturally carried it away.

"This is too dilapidated." Qin Feng stood on a stone mill in the village with his hands behind his back, looking at the entire village.

"Your Majesty, it looks a little dilapidated, but the foundation of the entire village is still there, and it's roughly still there, that's enough." Chen Zhihua's army Sima Sukan hurried over and explained. Chen Zhihua is the commander of the army and has endless things to do every day, so he naturally cannot accompany Qin Feng out for a walk, because he wants to resettle those refugees. Military Sima Sukan usually takes care of some logistics affairs, so he is naturally familiar with it.

"The last general has sent someone to inform Chen Shaowei. The logistics and supplies of the New Third Battalion will arrive soon. They will be able to make the village look old and make His Majesty's eyes shine."

Qin Feng laughed: "It's not easy to make my eyes shine."

The logistics and supplies of the Ming Dynasty were very different from the logistics and supplies of other countries, or they should be called engineers. The transportation of food, grass and weapons in the Ming army was contracted to merchants. The so-called logistics and supplies of the troops were not cared about these things. They also occupied the quota of the regular soldiers. Generally, they did not need to go to the front line to fight. But these people were all treasures in the army, and each of them was a skilled guy. When they were placed in the local area, they were skilled craftsmen, building roads and bridges, creating and repairing various equipment. If they stayed in the army for a few years and returned to the local area, they were all very popular figures. Because they had nothing else to do in the army, and the only thing they could do was to carefully study their skills. Their craftsmen were not more than a little better than those craftsmen in the local area.

Therefore, after the Ming Dynasty's logistics and supplies troops were only three years old, it was difficult for the army to stay. Except for those officers with military positions, these craftsmen returned to the local area after retirement, and in a few years, the army was a good place to improve their skills.

The army is not like local masters and still wants to keep a hand. In the Ming Dynasty, the best techniques are always applied to the army at the first time, and these logistics and baggage soldiers are the first to learn it.

It is not that no one has made any suggestions to Qin Feng, asking for the extension of the service period of these soldiers or even limiting the retirement of such soldiers, but Qin Feng refused without hesitation.

The best technology will of course be applied to the military at the first time, but then it will naturally spread to the people. These people have learned good technology and returned to the countryside, and can use their own skills to drive one side to get rich. This is a good thing, why should we limit it? What's more, the core technology of the Ming Dynasty, such as the skills of smelting steel, creating those crossbows and thunder fire, cannot flow out. These engineers can only practice at most.

The entire Huangni Village people are now busy except for Qin Feng who is an idle person. Su Kan is busy commanding the supplies transported from Pingtang to classify them. Ma Hou and the guards began to clean up the snow in the village. This village was almost buried by snow, so they had to clear a few roads first.

There were a large group of people moving towards here in the distance. The soldiers of the guards in the Fire Death Camp waved the flag and signaled that they were their own people. The guards in the village who had already raised their weapons began to work again.

Qin Feng was bored, so he went to see the supplies transported by Su Kan. There were all kinds of food, bedding, and clothes, but most of the clothes and bedding were torn and old, obviously some supplies recovered from the army. However, for these refugees, these were all very good things. Chen Zhihua did not call out the latest and best guys from the warehouse to please the emperor because Qin Feng was very concerned about this matter, which made Qin Feng very happy.

Saving people is saving people, but after all, there is still a difference between closeness and alienation. We can't let these refugees wear new clothes and let the soldiers wear shabby clothes and cover them with ripped quilts. After all, this is an emergency, and logistics have never considered such a thing before. Now we can only squeeze out the soldiers.

"What are your general's follow-up measures for these refugees?" Qin Feng asked casually.

"When you go back to your Majesty, the General said that the army cannot support these people for nothing, so after they are placed, they still have some work left to them. I, the Ming Dynasty, don't raise idle people, everyone can play a role, even for women and children, there are work suitable for them. We can only help the urgent, not to save the poor, let them survive. Next, we have to let them use their own hands to earn food for themselves." Su Kan replied with a smile: "There are countless tasks to do here for tens of thousands of military camps. With such people, we can free up a lot of people to do other things."

"This is the right reason!" Qin Feng nodded slightly. Chen Zhihua thought very thoughtfully. Even if these people can farm next spring, the food rations still need to be saved by the Ming Dynasty. This is a considerable expense. The key is that this is definitely not an individual phenomenon, but an extremely common thing. Without a constitution, I am afraid that it will be a mess at that time.

To promote Mien, to fight Mien. No matter who it is, they cannot feel that it is appropriate to help them. Using their own hands to earn a meal for themselves is the long-term solution.

The team in the distance finally approached, and the leader of the New Third Battalion was Chen Shaowei. Seeing that Qin Feng was also here, he immediately stopped the team and let the accompanying people stop outside the village. He rolled off his saddle and trotted into the village.

"Chen Shaowei bowed to Your Majesty!" Chen Shaowei stepped forward to salute Qin Feng.

Qin Feng glanced at the people outside the village, "Didn't you say last time there were only more than 500 people? It seems that there are thousands of people, right?"

Chen Shaowei felt sweat on his forehead, "Your Majesty, later, many refugees came over one after another, and some even came to our patrol and scouts themselves, and the number of people increased day by day."

Qin Feng laughed and said to himself: "It's interesting." Among the more than a thousand refugees, there are also many young and strong, accounting for about one-tenth of them.

"Your baggage soldiers are here, right? Let them work quickly. You have to clear out some houses before darkness and stuff people in, otherwise life will be difficult at night."

"Yes, Your Majesty. The logistics and supplies of the New Third Battalion have arrived. Oh, there are still five hundred people. The general asked me to dispatch it. This time, the only way is to escort these refugees over, and then hand them over to General Ma." Chen Shaowei said.

The horse monkey carrying a big wood happened to pass by here. After hearing this, he hurriedly threw the wood to the side, and pulled Chen Shaowei and said, "Take me to see what kind of people you give me. If it is not good, I will not rely on it."

"Of course it's the best." Chen Shaowei said quickly, but was dragged away by Ma Hou.

More than a dozen large carts gradually drove into the village. A hundred soldiers pulled the oil cloth on the cart and exposed all kinds of equipment inside. These people worked neatly. In a moment, the tools were put up and started to work quickly under the command of a captain.

The so-called professional expertise is specialized. With the addition of these professionals, the progress of renovating the village has been accelerated by the naked eye. Unlike before, although there were thousands of people working, they always seem a little messy.

"It will take about three days to make this village look brand new!" Su Kan walked to Qin Feng and said. "Your Majesty, this is a model village for us to resettle refugees. As long as he is done, the Qin people who fled in the future will not be disgusted by the Ming Dynasty. When we hear that we are coming, we will run away in a hurry. As long as we settle down such people, the local officials will lose a lot of trouble after conquering Yongdu in the future."

"Good words!" Qin Feng nodded with a smile: "Since it is a model village, of course we must do a better job. Well, we must find them some long-term work, not only to make them full, but also to make them live a good life."
Chapter completed!