It was still in the chilly spring, and there was no sign of ice floating on the surface of Onozawa. On a big cloak boat frozen on the shore, in the hot cabin with few fires, there was a scene of drinking and drinking with cups and bowls intersecting cups and bowls.

Although we can take out the guests in the middle of winter, we can only take out frozen pears stored in the cellars in the room, air-dried persimmons, vinegar-soaked radish seedlings and potato strips, as well as salted peanuts and edamame pods bursting in the fire pit, plus a dish of fried lotus root slices from dried peppers, and frozen tofu cut into white sauce, which are their best dishes to serve.

In the words of the Ruan brothers, it is not too hungry if you eat too much water fish, shrimps and crabs, and it is still yellow and gray rice, flour, or water cakes, which is the most practical and nourishing person. Therefore, a large sieve of paste cakes made of shrimp skin fish sauce and noodles is their staple food.

The wine is made of reed wine made from reed roots and chestnut rice soil. The turbid wine is not filtered and it has a trace of thickness and bitterness;

As a representative of Yunzhou people, he is relatively promising and developed in the Huaizhen system; several generals from Yunzhou led by Song Gongming rarely took advantage of the winter leisure time to receive entertainment from fellow villagers represented by the Ruan brothers and served in the Yunzhou Water Camp.

It was just to avoid suspicion and criticism, and it was not placed in the camp or in the city. On the frozen boat, it was more like a common night talk around the fire.

Song Gongming, who was already a thief and the deputy chief of the prefecture, returned home this time in glory. Although his home in Juye County has long disappeared, the familiar fellow villagers have long become outsiders with various accents.

However, being able to continue to hear the accent of my hometown and eat the side dishes with the flavor of my hometown is enough to make Song Gongming, who is already in his forties, feel deeply touched.

Because the Southern Army's consistent and strict screening and identification policies for entering Huai land, except for a few local households who remained in place to show obedience, only after a series of transitional stages, a few groups of old immigrants who were soon to be completed in the test period, as well as relevant relatives of the army and government, as well as some people with specialties, can obtain the qualification and place of origin to live in cities.

The hometown of the city not only represents a stable life under the protection of the city wall, but also represents various conveniences in life and priority of material allocation, and more access to compulsory education and job opportunities, and even access to the military and government buildings.

For ordinary immigrants, the place of residence in this city is not so easy to obtain.

Unless you make corresponding contributions, accumulate enough excellent performance, or have expertise and characteristics that others do not have, you can end your collective life in Tunzhuang or industrial and mining early; however, the process in quarantine camps and labor labour fields cannot be discounted at all.

Although there are all kinds of in-and-out movements and various behaviors of making a living in the city, it is another matter to settle down. Under the strict household registration and neighborhood management of the Huai Army, there is almost no opportunity for people to take advantage of the loopholes.

Settling in the city does not mean you can rest assured. There are basically no opportunities for idle people or lazy people to survive under Huai Town. In the overall social service system and public facilities, even the elderly and children are no exception. Moreover, they have made mistakes or are slacking off and lazy. The result of repeated teachings is that they are distributed to remote places and re-accept different degrees of escort and management labor.

Yunzhou is an exception, because someone had joined the Huai Army early on, and in the subsequent series of attacks, he provided a lot of manpower and material assistance. Later, it was used as a key area in Yanbian, and the local personnel and resources were remitted and transferred.

Therefore, as compensation and reward, Yunzhou was also a little later than the six core states, and gradually relaxed the relatively strict local military control system, which allowed these local people to have more priority than others in the application and assessment of settlement in the city.

This also caused a wave of local men's favored market and subsequent marriage waves of marriages with immigrants; many foreign women were willing to take the initiative to marry local men in Yunzhou to get the opportunity to change their lives and even their families.

After all, the rationing system in the city is different from the rationing system at all levels in the suburbs, towns and villages. Although these rationing indicators are generally consistent, in the city, because of the crowding and gradual prosperity of all walks of life, you can undoubtedly have more convenience and choices near the water.

Song Gongming has both military status and a local origin in Yunzhou. In fact, there is no shortage of people who want to make him a small warm bed. However, after experiencing those betrayals and revenge, he was unable to make up his mind to rebuild his family...

On the land of Huainan Road, Li Xianzhong, who had just been transferred from Songzhou, was also patrolling the workers scattered in the river like ants.

Compared with the northern part of the opposite bank of the Huai River, where the wind and snow are mixed, it is warmer. Even the rivers have not had a few days of freezing period for a whole year. Therefore, after crossing the Huai River, it feels like you have come to another world.

But standing in the river and mud, it was still so cold that it was almost unbearable. However, these workers shouted one after another, waded naked in the legs-less mud, digging and carrying the mud hard, and then cleared out the deposited rocks, trees and other debris, until solid and dry sedimentary riverbeds were exposed below.

Then, wooden stakes are laid near the river bank, and the pieces of arrived stones are fixed under the support of the wooden stakes, and piece them into the outline of the edge of the embankment, and finally pour them into the blended mortar and sand, and finally solidify into a large hard piece.

After initially rebuilt the official road from the south bank of the Huai River to Yangzhou in Jiangbei, he has now begun to work and organize these foreign laborers, and has begun to dredge the Caohe River in the southern section of Huai River. All of this can only make people vaguely feel that the Zhenmao had a very big mind and dream, so big that even a warrior like him could feel something.

You should know that during the more than 100 years of the Yiwei Rebellion, there were no vassal states or local forces that had made such a large-scale or decent cleanup and repaired the canal transportation system; even in the prime of the Northern Dynasties, it seemed that some local dredging and repairing activities were done.

Now he vaguely heard that Huaizhen intends to re-open the main river of Hebei, Henan, Huaibei and Huainan into a front line of north-south routes, and this is just one of the construction sites. This makes him feel awe and shocked. What determination and strength is this.

Only the emperors and prime ministers in the previous dynasty who were most peaceful and prosperous in times could do this.

Of course, this thing is not always understandable and acceptable at the beginning. At the beginning, people fled almost every day in Huainan, and some people could not afford to fall, but now this situation has almost disappeared.

On the one hand, there is the terrible execution and desperate control from Huai land; on the other hand, the car and ship driven by the intimidating pot and mule machine dragged a large amount of supplies from the other side of the Huai River, including tools and other means of production, as well as grain, cloth and felt.

With no hope of escaping and basic guarantees, these resources or foreign populations who are unwilling to be controlled will have to rest assured and be forced to appoint and accept these seemingly endless labor.

In a sense, the population transported by Jiangnan is obviously not as hard-working or persevering as the refugees in the north, but they really cannot withstand the number of people large enough, and can be completely lost at a certain proportion.
Chapter completed!