Taoyuan County is in Shayang and Zhengyang. People in these places seem to be a poor countryside, but they were once prosperous. When the Qi people raided Zhaotou and defeated Luo Yishui, they planned to have the fertile land of Taoyuan, Wuling and Yiyang. Taking these three counties made Qianyue lose a large grain-producing area. This is one of the Qianyue grain-producing areas that are more beautiful than Zhengyang County, and one of the richest areas in Qianyue.

But the continuous years of war completely destroyed everything here, especially when Emperor Cao Tiancheng of Qi reached an agreement with Qin Feng to withdraw from these three counties, a complete destruction came. All the ones that could be taken away, and all the ones that could not be taken away were burned, and even the people almost swept away. What Qin Feng was left was a piece of extremely barren land.

No matter how good the place is, without people, it is not much different from the wilderness. But at that time, the Ming Dynasty was not strong enough, and its strategic direction was to plan for Qin first. In this case, Qin Feng could only knock down his teeth and swallow it into his stomach. He had to take on this huge burden.

But from another perspective, regaining the three counties of Yiyang was an excellent opportunity for the Ming Dynasty, which was established at that time. It can be said that it was precisely because the Ming Dynasty soon recovered the three counties of Yiyang from the powerful Qi State, thus successfully establishing an extremely tall image in the hearts of the people of the Former Yue people, thus stabilizing their own rule, and allowing the people of the Former Yue people to see hope and gain confidence.

Economically, the Ming Dynasty was burdened with a heavy burden as soon as it was founded, but politically, it was of great significance to the Ming Dynasty.

From that time on, the Ming Dynasty court began to provide a large amount of subsidies to these three counties, and after several years of operation, it only made Taoyuan County slightly improve.

The once majestic Taoyuan County City had been punished by a fire. Although the city wall has been built, the city wall is still empty, and large areas are like scars spreading on its body. This big city, which once had a population of tens of thousands, is now only 20,000 to 30,000 people, and it cannot stand the prosperous county under Zhengyang, Shayang.

In the county town, two yamen stand opposite each other, one is the Taoyuan County Governor's Mansion and the other is the Taoyuan Town Governor's Mansion. This is the location of the highest military and political leaders in a county. Compared with the other county government yamen, these two yamen in Taoyuan are shabby and weak, just two small courtyards.

Ben Kuan, the governor of Taoyuan County, came here to serve as the governor after taking back Taoyuan County. For several years, one of the things he had done to do was to try to increase the population of Taoyuan County. For this goal, he even did not hesitate to cheat, but it is not easy to attract people to a dilapidated place like Taoyuan County. He had to put his ideas on the Qin people like Ma Xiangnan back then.

From the initial use of human traffickers to bring a large number of people from Qin State traffickers, to the later personally going to Huzhu to offer a high price to recruit, it can be said that he is using everything.

In the eyes of the Qin people at that time, the most precious land was the least valuable thing in Taoyuan County. He could naturally promise these lands without hesitation. It is precisely because of this that he really deceived many Qin people in Hulao to follow him back to Taoyuan. Now, the Qin people account for at least one-third of the population in Taoyuan County.

After the Qin people from the bitter and cold land in the west arrived at the warmer Taoyuan, they indeed got the land, houses, farm tools, and livestock they wanted. They were naturally overjoyed. What made them even more happy was that the land that was distributed to them seemed to be raw land at first glance, but when they picked up the hoe and dug it, they found that it was not the same thing at all. After digging the top layer of floating soil, the fertile land below was overjoyed for these farmers, which was obviously mature land.

After several years of hard work, Taoyuan County finally has a new look.

As a border county town bordering Qi, the Ming Dynasty stationed two armies here, one was the troops of Wang Yun, the Fuyuan Camp in Taoyuan County, and the other was the cavalry battalion of Li Xiaoya, the only cavalry unit in the Wuling War Zone.

Overall, Ben Kuan's operation in Taoyuan County was successful. He gave up places like Changzhu and vigorously developed areas like Xiangxi, taking advantage of the Qin people's advantage of fighting, he built one fortress-style manor after another. Not only effectively reclaimed land, but also gradually established the power of the Ming Dynasty in the border areas.

With the successive victory of the Ming Dynasty in the Battle of Qin, the Ming Dynasty's national power grew and gradually became the most important enemy of Qi in the future. The various policies of the Ming Dynasty gradually spread, which directly led to a consequence, that is, many people in the three counties who were abducted back then tried to escape. After the first few large-scale escapes, the Qi people began to strictly control, making escape an extremely difficult and dangerous thing with their heads on their backs. This limelight was gradually killed.

This trend of escape was naturally inseparable from Ben Kuan's secret manipulation. He, together with the head of the Eagle Nest in Taoyuan County and Wang Yun from Fuyuan Camp, formulated plans one by one, including promoting various policies of the Ming Dynasty to the Former Yue people in Changning County, the beautiful life of the Ming people now, and other publicity activities, formulated escape plans one by one, and built some escape passages. At the beginning, it achieved great results. Even though he was finally hit by the Qi people's border troops, large-scale escape was impossible, but small-scale escape still occurred from time to time.

Of course, this also has some negative effects. The people of Qi also took advantage of these things and sent many spies to Taoyuan County. Many of the former Yue people who were captured were also recruited by the Qi people. Some of them were joined the army, while others were recruited by intelligence agencies such as ghosts.

"Mr. Ben County, the dozens of people sent from Changzhu have passed the review. They have no problems. Tomorrow, our Eagle Nest will hand over everyone to the county magistrate's mansion and be placed by the county magistrate's mansion." Wu Zhengting, commander of the Eagle Nest stationed in Taoyuan, handed a stack of files to Ben Kuan and said.

"Okay, the resettlement department will give them the best placement tomorrow." Ben Kuan said happily. He was very happy whenever someone escaped from there and returned to Taoyuan County. In his opinion, every time someone came back, Taoyuan would have more crops, more angry, and more manpower." Commander Wu, I think you should increase your strength in this regard. The defense line of Qi people is not so tight. This time, dozens of people can escape on a large scale is proof."

Wu Zhengting spread his hands, "Now our manpower is collecting military intelligence from each other. You also know that with the end of the battle against Qin, the form of Qi Ming and the two sides will be even more nervous. A series of recent situations show that Xian Bisong in Changning County does have a trend of large-scale military operations. In recent times, we have indeed not been able to draw out more people!"

"The more we do this, the more we need to get back more people. If the war breaks out, these people will probably be forced to be conscripted as soldiers by Qi people. If they die like this, it would be a pity. And every time one more person comes, our strength will be stronger, and the power that the enemy can use will be smaller! There is not enough manpower, so you can discuss with General Wang and ask him to send you more people."

"General Wang's army is good at fighting, so it's not very good to do these things. Moreover, there are too many barbarian soldiers in his army, so it's even less suitable to do such things." Wu Zhengting spread his hands. "Minister, this matter is unhurried, take it slowly. I hope to fight a big battle. As long as one battle defeats Xian Bisong, then how many people do you want, how many people do you want?"

Ben Kuan frowned, "I'm afraid there will be no big war, right? There may be some local conflicts. The Qi people are not stable now. We have just conquered Qin, and it is not suitable to start another battlefield. The people need to rest and recuperate, and the army must take a breath. Fight after battle is not a blessing for the country."

"I hope!" Wu Zhengting said.

As the two were talking, there were suddenly a lot of footsteps outside, and then Wang Yun's voice came over: "Two, maybe you're going to have a big fight. I just received an emergency military newspaper from Xiangxi."

Ben Kuan looked up and Wu Zhengting was confused: "Xiangxi? How could there be a large-scale war there?"

Wang Yun raised a file in his hand and said with a smile: "You may not believe it. Xiangxi won a big victory, and a village there actually killed a general from the Qi people. Although it was just an ordinary tooth general, the identity of this tooth general is not simple, his surname is Cao."

"Is the surname Cao? Who is Cao Xiancheng?" Ben Kuan said.

"No, it's bigger than Cao Xiancheng!" Wang Yun shook his fingers.

Cao Xiancheng is the general of Qi people now, and even older than him, so he is the only relatives of the royal family." People from the Qi royal family?" This time, even Wu Zhengting widened his eyes.

"Yes, it's a royal family, called Cao Xuan. Originally, when they went to Xiangxi, they just fought the village and made military achievements. No one expected that there was a military officer named Bao An in that village who had sent him to make a powerful crossbow and hid it. What's more coincidental is that Bao An used to be a very good crossbow. As a result, Cao Xuan appeared outside the village in a very bad luck and commanded the army to attack. He was shot by Bao An and lost his body. He brought thousands of Qi troops. This battle was so good that the village had a very good combat power.

If the troops in Guoxiangxi County go a little later, the village will be gone. The thousands of Qi soldiers finally escaped back, which surprised the Xiangxi garrison. There were many such wars in the past, but they would just get in touch with each other. However, this time, the Qi people attacked the village like crazy, and finally found the identity of the tooth general from the mouth of the captured prisoners." Wang Yun said this in one breath, took a breath, and smiled: "Isn't Xian Bisong crazy this time? Even if he is still rational, he always has to express his opinion to the emperor, so there must be a big fight to fight."
Chapter completed!