At the end of September, the final defense project was completed, and Xu Shiyang began to divert the newly gathered refugees.

He got about 3,000 people in total, most of whom were young and strong men and women (it was difficult for the elderly and weak among the refugees to survive). Xu Shiyang left 500 males who performed best in their work as auxiliary soldiers to supplement the defense system of 153, and all others were temporarily diverted.

All the dismissed refugees were only handed over to the forts under the second and third bedrooms, and there was no one in the long house. The division between the Shiwutun system and the long house system had already taken shape.

Subsequently, at the internal family meeting where Xu Shiyang did not attend, other fort owners in the Changfang system expressed strong dissatisfaction with him. The head of the family Xu Mujiang even proposed to confiscate the fort 151 and 152 on the grounds that he expanded the fort without the family's consent.

There was no penalty of 153, probably because a tail was sacrificed to calm the anger of the Tartars.

However, Xu Muhe, the second wife, Xu Muhai, and Xu Muhai, refused to punish Xu Shiyang.

In Xu Muhai's words, the family did not agree to Xu Shiyang's expansion westward, but did not say that he could not expand.

The two forts restored by Xu Shiyang to the west were not the territory of the Xu family, and this actually expanded the Xu family's sphere of influence and made no mistakes for the family.

In addition, Xu Shisong in the Changfang system also clearly expressed his opposition to the penalty resolution.

In a lonely way, the punishment decision was ultimately aborted, but in order to calm the anger of the head of the family, the family meeting also disagreed with Xu Shiyang's random distribution of refugees according to his own ideas.

To be precise, Xu Shiyang's approach to grasping thousands of new laborers but not wanting to give them to others is not passed.

The refugees who were diverted to other places were redistributed by the three masters. The specific distribution method was: the three masters took away one-third, the other fortress owners divided one-third, and the remaining one-third belonged to Xu Shiyang.

Xu Shiliu quietly informed Xu Shiyang of the decision of the family meeting. He did not say much about the relatives' practice of dividing his assets without his consent. He just wrote back to remind Xu Shiliu not to forget the agreement between the two.

Because the continuous influx of refugees brought news from afar - the Tartars are here.

In early October, 100,000 Jin troops arrived in Yanyun area and gathered with the Han people here Bojilie's troops, with a total force of 150,000. Then they swore to march south.

On the surface, the Jin army claimed that the strategic goal of this offensive was to flatten the Jiangnan, completely destroy the Great Zhou, and then unify the world.

Of course, neither the Jurchens nor the Han people of Yanyun did not have powerful navy. For them, the Yangtze River was an insurmountable natural danger. Unless the Yangtze River navy could change the junction, this goal would be just to scare the Great Zhou court.

The real purpose of the Jurchens was to loot Jiangbei region on a large scale, replenish the huge labor gap, and at the same time force the Great Zhou to increase the annual monies.

Since this is the purpose, the Jin army's offensive route seemed very scattered. In order to sweep more areas and loot more things, as soon as they left the Yanyun range, the Jurchens were like hornets stabbed in a nest, and they suddenly scattered everywhere.

Last year, the Great Jin Dynasty was robbed by the Tatars' Dayuan Yitong and suffered heavy losses. By the way, the high-pressure policy in the war triggered a joint uprising of slaves from all races within them. After the Jin soldiers suppressed the uprising, they were in great danger and killed hundreds of thousands of people in one breath. As a result, more than half of the fields on the Liaozhong Plain this year were abandoned, and the foundation of the entire Jurchen Great Jin Dynasty was severely weakened.

If it weren't for the invasion of Goryeo, the Jurchens wouldn't even be able to get the food for the trip south this time.

Nowadays, the Jurchens are hungry like wild wolves in winter. They want to bite everything and chew it and swallow it. In the past, the solid forts that would be spared as long as they hand over a certain amount of tributes were also beaten this year.

The population and materials robbed are generally sent directly to Yanyun generation to gather (the Han people there have many solid castles, which can prevent the Tatars from taking advantage of the main force of the Jurchens to be no longer in black), and wait for the large army to finish the robbery, and the whole army will go home together.

The Jurchens spread south like a tide, sweeping every target that caught their eyes along the way, but on average, in a county, there are actually one or two Moukes.

Only the way to attack the southwest of Qi Province is slightly different.

Before going to war, Meng'an Hailin Bao of the Great Jin Kingdom bribed his master. He Shilie Zhining Bojilie and asked him to preside over the robbery along the way.

After crossing the canal, he did not split his subordinates and let them plunder everywhere, but led his entire Meng'an 800 people, plus the 1,000 Han soldiers who were not worthy of the procession to move together, and advanced towards Juzhou.

Hailinbao is now in his fifties and his health is far from being compared with when he was young, but his personality seems to be more violent.

Some subordinates complained to him that the army was gathered together, that the attack targets were too few and there were insufficient spoils, and that he was whipped and even several Han Mouke, who were subordinate to him, were directly beaten to death.

The Han soldiers brought by the deceased were turned into slaves by Hailin Bao and distributed to the Jurchen subordinates, and they were regarded as compensation.

As a result, when they arrived near Juzhou, the Hailin Bao headquarters had reduced from the original 1,800 to less than 1,500, of which 400 Zhen Jurchen soldiers and 400 slave soldiers of various tribes were still intact, but the Han servant army dropped from 1,000 to about 700, and even Meng'an, the Han man who followed the action, was killed by him.

In addition to these 1,500 soldiers, Hailinbao also brought about 3,000 people (including hundreds of former Han servants) and a vast army of 4,500,000, which looked scary.

In late October, the Hailin Bao headquarters swept several forts near Yishui County, and then slightly southward to enter Juzhou.

"There is Xu Shiyang's fort in front of me, right?"

Hailinbao, whose beard and braids were mostly white, asked coldly about the old Han men kneeling on the ground in front of him.

"If you go back to your master, you will be there after walking more than ten miles."

A Han man in the lead answered tremblingly.

This man's surname is Xu, and he is the housekeeper of the Xu family's first village. He has been serving the head of the Xu family for more than 40 years, so he was given the surname Xu. His role in the eldest house is similar to that of Hulanshan in Shiwutun. In the past, Tartars and bandits came to rob, so it was also the old man Xu who came to negotiate the price.

This time the Jurchens went south, and Xu Mujiang sent him out to contact him again, trying to figure out what price could make Hailinbao let the Xu family go.

"Then Xu Shiyang is also from your Xu family, right?" Hailinbao asked coldly.

"This..." Butler Xu hesitated for a moment.

An old man named Fan next to him immediately interrupted, "Master is right, then Xu Shiyang is the owner of the Xu family's fortress! He has nothing to do with our Fan family!"

"Did I ask you?" Hailin Baobu said: "Who allowed you to speak?"

Old Man Fan opened his mouth, and all the rest of the words were choked back.

"Cut him." Hailinbao waved his hand, and immediately a strong Tartar stepped forward and drew his sword to slash Old Man Fan's neck.

The butler of Fanjiawu Fort, who occupied Juzhou County, was killed without even saying anything begging for mercy.
Chapter completed!