Wang Tong's team went out to Guihua City. From Wang Tong to the ordinary soldiers and chariots below, everyone revisited the old place and was very familiar with this road to victory.

But after all, it has been more than a year, and I am familiar with each other. Although I am close to the end of the year, after leaving the tiger's mouth, it is not at all deserted. The road is very lively, with a lot of people and cars.

Ma Dong is a general of the side. After receiving Wang Tong's companion in Datong Town for a few days, he returned to the town. The person sent was Ma Yong, who followed Wang Tong to conquer Guihua City last year. He was also an acquaintance. He is now the general of the left guard of Datong who knows the changes in this area very well.

"Mr. Marquis, now the area of ​​Guihua City is pacified. There are already more than a dozen large villages from Guihua City to Shahukou. Just by water, the harvest will definitely not be bad. Now, the Marquis looks at this scene in fact, because of the Chinese New Year. After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, people will have to be more intimate!"

Not only are there more people, but after coming out of the tiger's mouth, you can see a very obvious road. I guess there are more people walking, and there are traces of trampling on it. Last year, the carts and the army were walking on the grassland. Although they also knew the approximate route and direction, there were always weeds and ditches under their feet.

Originally, it was a day's distance, and when it was dark, a Mongolian tribe would be there to host business and travel, but now it is different. When it was almost dark, you could see a large village with a very simple cart shop on the side of the road.

"Last year, the Marquis led everyone to capture the land, and many people came out to reclaim the land. His Majesty's kindness has exempted the taxes in recent years. This year, although these people only have time to plant the next season of crops, the harvest is their own, and it is enough to eat..."

Wang Tong's physical recovery speed surprised everyone who accompanied him. After killing the tiger's mouth, Wang Tong could already perform martial arts on the road, which was no different from his previous physical condition.

Regarding the North of Datong and around Guihua City, it turned out to be the core area of ​​Altan's army, which was the territory captured by Wang Tong, and Wang Tong was very excited about the changes that took place here. Ma Yong also understood this and wanted to talk more.

"A few days ago, King Yi of Zhou and King Yi sent people to Shanxi and Datong to investigate the checkpoints. If anyone from Henan is working in Wangzhuang, he will be arrested and sent back, who will pay attention to them? So many people bring their families here, what can the Henan government do for food?"

Ma Yong said it directly, and Wang Tong also smiled at it. There are many princes in Henan, and there are a few princes, let alone princes and other princes. Such princes have a large amount of land in southern Henan. Tenants work hard on it and have to endure very harsh records. Even if ordinary scholars are mean, they sometimes have to take into account laws and reputations, and vassal kings and other princes, with great power. Who would care about this? Those tenants are really miserable.

Shanxi and Datong are different. The land here is not suitable for cultivation, and industry and commerce are relatively prosperous. When the city of Guihua is captured, a huge amount of land can be reclaimed and people need to cultivate it. On the contrary, there are not many farmers in Shanxi. Henan is close to Shanxi and has a large population, so it naturally has become one of the sources for recruiting farmers.

As for the farmer who wanted to go through it himself, or the Shanxi sent someone to recruit him, Ma Yong didn't say that, and Wang Tong was too lazy to pay attention to it.

Wangzhuang Real Estate in Henan covers a large area and looks at the tenant farmers who farm on it like animals. They don’t care at all, and they don’t care at all. However, these farmers can escape with their families and pass through the prefectures. It may be difficult for them to say that the wealthy merchants in Datong, Shanxi have not reached out to them.

The vassal king sent people to put pressure on him, but no one would pay any attention. Ma Yong's face was full of disdain when he spoke. What was the vassal king? He was just a pig trapped in the city. He could do whatever he wanted and tossed wildly, but he could only defeat the city in Guihua City. How many business opportunities there were and how many fertile fields there were? These business opportunities were all involved in Shanxi, from the officialdom to the people, from the people, and the stern and wealthy merchants.

These careers require a lot of labor, farmers, and guards. The people who come here will become immeasurable wealth and even power in one year or two years. With this relationship, who will come from Henan? The officials of the royal palace secretly stumbling in secret.

When it comes to interests, even the emperor has people who will fight with him without any inch, let alone those wealthy vassal kings in Henan.

"No one has classified these newly reclaimed fields along the road under their own name, right?"

Wang Tong asked this question. The tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land around Guihua City have been considered as the fiefs of the imperial village and Wang Tong, but the fields reclaimed along the way have no subordinates. If there is a powerful wealthy person who says it is his own land, I am afraid that the common people will obey.

But in Senei, they have to be tenants for landlords and wealthy families. If they go to the Continental, they are still tenants, then there is no need. These people will have to go back sooner or later.

"At that time, I told you to keep people at first and you can't do this. My general was keeping a close eye on what the marquis said. Who dares to hold power and occupy territory? My general's sword will not agree."

Ma Yong said it firmly. Seeing Wang Tong nodding, Ma Yong smiled and said, "The Marquis is really clear. The shopkeeper of the Grand Marshal has calculated that when the people of these villages have settled, they will definitely need the protection of soldiers. They are willing to pay taxes at that time. This is a small head. At that time, the merchant warehouse will purchase specialties in these villages and sell salt and other specialties, which will be a large amount of income. Their grains and other things will definitely be bought and sold. This is another transaction, and they will have a reputation of being generous. But these places are hens that lay golden eggs!."

In the Battle of Guihua City, Ma Yong also led the cavalry of Datong and Wang Tong to live and die. The warriors paid the most attention to this friendship, so they spoke much more casually. Many of them were originally spoken by their own family, and Ma Yong said it without caring.

What Ma Yong said was consistent with what Sanjiang Commercial Bank in Shanxi reported to Wang Tong, and this was similar to Wang Tong's prior arrangement.

However, the people who brought their families to the grassland, their farm tools, their houses, and even the seeds they sowed, will give a batch of them, but more of them are borrowed by wealthy merchants and wealthy merchants in Shanxi, and the Ma family must be the big ones in it.

With such a borrowing relationship, the repayment process must first make a profit. Next, these people have taken root here, and the dependence relationship already exists. Now make small money first and slowly make big money.

Wang Tong was not against recording and making money, but he could not do too ruthlessly in the early stages of developing the naturalized area. Otherwise, without the Han people coming from everywhere, the area of ​​Guihua City will be unstable and untenable.

Compared to Wang Tong’s 1,000 people, who traveled around the world again, Zhai Xiuer and Lu Ruomei from the south were not used to this bitter cold and dryness. When they first arrived at the grassland, they looked at the boundless surroundings and felt a little fresh, but their hands were cracked and their faces were so cold that they felt so painful. They hid in the carriage.

The van dragged by Sima also has a special charcoal stove inside, which is very comfortable to arrange. The craftsmen who are riding in the big carriage are all specially designed. Two layers of thick wooden wrench, the wooden wrench is padded with cotton and fur, the gap is smeared with mud, and the ventilation duct is designed with smoke and white, which is indeed warm and comfortable.

The road was smooth and there were settlements along the way to rest. In addition, the land was frozen hard in winter, so Wang Tong and his party had a much faster schedule than the marching at that time. There were no more sneakers coming to stop them on this road. He planned to enter Guihua City on New Year's Eve.

On New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival, Wang Tong's side is nothing, but I still see the girl and the guards below. Guihua City is still a big city with a population of over 200,000. This year's Spring Festival is the first Spring Festival since the Ming Dynasty occupied it, and it must be very lively.

Along the way, I saw about twenty villages, all along the sides of the main road between Guihua City and Datong Town. It is said that there are settlements on both sides of the road to east and west, but the scale and prosperity are not as good as those on both sides of the main road. This is understandable. Caravans walk frequently on the main road, and transportation and supplies are convenient, and the government army can rescue them very quickly. If they go deeper, they will not be so convenient.

According to Ma Yong, there were also small groups of horse thieves and horse bandits. They dared not touch the caravans with firearms in Guihua City, but these villages were powerful and had no effect after several clearing and chopping. They all doubted whether the villagers colluded with the horse thieves, but it was also a disease of scabies and could not make a big difference.

On the road and in the village, Wang Tong also saw the Haogu people who raised livestock, but they were not from the Wei tribe, but also based on family.

The Han people also needed livestock, cattle and horses to plow the fields, ride, and eat meat. They were naturally not as good as the Haogu people who lived on the grassland for a long time. The Haogu people had supplies for food and various items, so they naturally were not willing to wander around nomadicly, and the two sides were also complementary.

However, Wang Tong learned something from Ma Yong's introduction. He cared very much. Even if he prepared a village, he organized a team of villages according to Wang Tong's words. However, most of the people who participated in this team were rich people. The Han people thought that it was better to farm and work at that time. Why bother?

"It must be forced to draw people according to Dingkou. If the wealthy people are willing to do it and the Han people are unwilling to do it, what will happen in the long run? These villages will become the territory of the miserable people and will be protected by them. I will go to Guihua City to tell General Tan about this matter, and you will also go back to explain to your general, and you should not ignore it.
Chapter completed!