Chapter 227 Enriching the people, strengthening the army, the reform of Beibinghe Town!

The world is in chaos, and monsters appear frequently.

Many people think that their knowledge is broad enough because they have read poetry and traveled all over the world, but they are still refreshed by the things that have happened in these years.

As the war between the six countries becomes more and more intense, new things that have never been seen before are happening everywhere in the world.

Of course, with the war comes the separation of wives and children, the destruction of families and the death of people.

The world is full of people fleeing from famine.

However, all countries are at war, and the whole world is like a pot of boiling water. Who can escape the flames of war?

There may be some places far away from the war.

But compared to the hundreds of millions of ordinary people in the world, they are too few. The lives of the vast majority of people are like a piece of duckweed floating with the waves in the flames of war. No one knows whether the next wave will come when it hits.

Able to continue floating on the water.

At this time of turmoil in the world, Beibinghe Town should be one of the rare paradises, because the north of Beibinghe Town is directly adjacent to Shiwanda Mountain, which is the territory of the Little Fox, an ally of the Star-Moon Army.

The neighboring country to the south is Dazhou, but Dazhou has just been repelled by Li Yueming's army. In addition, Daqi is causing trouble on the border and has no energy to care about the affairs of Beibinghe Town.

Needless to say, the west side has the Western Suppressing Army guarding the Renhuang Pass. As long as the Qin army does not move in full force, the west side can be guaranteed to be relatively stable. Da Qin is also busy with itself at the moment. The last time it captured Da Zhou

The plundered materials have not been digested yet, and there is no plan to start a big war in the short term.

It was under this situation that several other countries were in chaos, but Beibinghe Town rarely regained its calmness in these troubled times.

According to rough calculations by the upper echelons of the Star-Moon Army, this hard-won war window may last for twenty or thirty years. This should be the last critical golden development period for Northern Glacier Town before the next catastrophe that will affect the entire continent.

Whether they can conquer the Central Plains and change their destiny depends on how North Glacier Town and the Star-Moon Army can develop in the past thirty years.

In short, you must not miss any opportunity.

After making up their minds, the Star-Moon Army began to expand on a large scale.

The first is the actual amount of land occupied. In the past, except for Beibinghe Town, a city built along the water of Beibinghe River, although other cities were related to the Star-Moon Army, they still dared not openly communicate with the Star-Moon Army.

bound together.

The northwest and northwest were only nominally controlled by the Xingyue Army and the Zhenxi Army, but in fact it was only in name. Most of the land in the northwest still belonged to the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Now, the Xingyue Army has defeated the arrogant army of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and many forces in the northwest and the northwest have immediately responded positively to the call of the Xingyue Army and begun to merge into the territory actually controlled by Beibinghe Town on a large scale.

This time the merger is no longer as nominal as it was a few years ago.

Instead, they really changed the course, including the payment of taxes and the appointment and dismissal of official positions. Everything was based on Beibinghe Town.

The reason for this is naturally caused by many factors.

One is naturally that the Xingyue Army has worked hard in the Northland for so many years and won over a large number of people's hearts.

After all, in the past, although the Zhenbei Army and the imperial court would guard the passes, they were unable to protect the interests of most ordinary people and small and medium-sized families.

In other words, when the Qin army invaded the Northland in the past ten years or so, the people who suffered the most were not the farmers at the bottom, but this group of ordinary people and small and medium-sized families.

After all, the farmers at the bottom have no land themselves, and even if they are not affected by the war, they still go hungry from time to time.

The ones who are really suffering are the group of land-owning farmers and the small and medium-sized landowners entrenched in the countryside.

Their fields were destroyed by the Qin army, so they could only wander around like refugees, living a life away from their hometown.

Under such circumstances, the arrival of the Star-Moon Army provided them with a shot in the arm.

Unlike the Zhenbei Army, which was stationed in important passes, most of the Xingyue Army was stationed in some small and medium-sized towns. They were well-trained and high-spirited, and could fight the Qin Army head-on without falling behind.

In the past ten years or so, I don’t know how many people in small and medium-sized towns have been protected.

Later, all twelve cities in the north were conquered by the Qin army. Under the Qin army's iron cavalry, basically no force in the more important passes could survive.

I'm afraid ten of the twelve cities in the North have become empty cities.

And because attacking poor small and medium-sized towns is not worth the gain, the Qin army does not have much energy to seize the resources of small and medium-sized towns.

With the influence of large towns plummeting, as long as they have the support of the people in these small and medium-sized towns, no other force in the entire North can stop the rule of the Star-Moon Army.

After spending two years bringing the entire Northland under the management of North Glacier Town.

The Star-Moon Army officially became a powerful military force that divided the two regions.

Because the Zhenxi Army had a small population and was not capable of quickly annexing the Western Frontier, after much hesitation, it finally chose not to go out and annex the Western Frontier, but instead gave up all of this territory to Li Yueming.

It must be said that this generation of King Zhenxi is also a very courageous hero.

If the Zhenxi Army and the Xingyue Army separate themselves in the northwest, I am afraid that there will be various contradictions and conflicts between the two before long, and the alliance between the Xingyue Army and Beibinghe Town may be shaken by this.

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Besides, the Zhenxi Army is different from Beibinghe Town, which has a large population base and prosperous talents. It probably only has a population of 300,000 at all costs. If it wants to annex such a large piece of land in the west, it is really full of ambition but not enough power.

If the Zhenxi Army insists on annexing the Western Frontier Land regardless of the situation, it is not impossible to annex it. After all, the people of the Western Frontier Land still identify with the Western Frontier Territory very much.

But if this is really done, no one can guarantee that the Qin army will not take this opportunity to attack the city.

In the end, the Zhenxi Army ended up with a dissatisfied leader.

Now let’s give up the entire Western Frontier.

In addition to believing that Li Yueming was a good person and would not let the Zhenxi Army suffer, the main reason was that there was a very reliable marriage relationship between the two parties. Perhaps after a few generations, the connection between the Zhenxi Army and the Xingyue Army would fade.

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But at least for the moment, the alliance between the two parties is unbreakable, whether in terms of blood ties or interests.

In fact, Li Yueming did not cause the Zhenxi Army to suffer.

The Western Frontier Land is more barren than the Northern Territory, because in addition to the colder climate in the Northern Territory, which is not suitable for crop growth, most of the land is relatively suitable for farming, but the Western Frontier Land is different. Except for the southwest near the Great Zhou Dynasty

Except for the land on the side, most of the land to the northwest is yellow sand, and it is impossible to grow any crops at all.

The Zhenxi Army is located at the Renhuang Pass on the edge of the Western Frontier. There is yellow sand everywhere, and there is no land suitable for farming. Only careful artificial protection can expand some land that can be farmed.

The Zhenxi Army has been cultivating land at Renhuangguan for generations. After thousands of years of operation, they can barely obtain a piece of land that can make a living. Of course, the population cannot increase.

Therefore, Li Yueming took the initiative to send people to send the crop seeds improved by Qi Fan and others to the Zhenxi Army.

Many of them are crops with rough skin, thick flesh and drought resistance.

At the beginning, King Zhenxi didn't show too much joy for this gift.

But as these special crops were planted, King Zhenxi soon discovered the specialness of the seeds sent by Li Yueming.

Not only is the skin thick and thick, it is not easily affected by the outside world, but the output is about half higher than the grain output in Zhenxi Military City!

What is this concept?

For the same acre of land, the crops sent by Beibinghe Town can feed one-half more people than the crops currently cultivated by Zhenxi Army!!!

In other words, it means that the population of the Zhenxi Army can be increased by 50% on the previous basis.

With this 50% grain output, it is not impossible to double the strength of the Zhenxi Army.

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Through the exchange of interests between the two parties, the connection between Beibinghe Town and Zhenxi Army has become closer.

And land expansion is only part of the development direction of Beibinghe Town over the years.

While the land continues to expand, Beibinghe Town is still recruiting talents from all over.

After all, the vast land requires more managers, and although Beibinghe Town currently has a large number of talents, it still cannot meet the needs of development.

As for the recruitment target, there are no other countries around Beibinghe Town, so they can only poach Da Zhou.

Thanks to the conflicts between the Zhou royal family and other minor nobles over the years.

As soon as Li Yueming's recruitment order was sent out, many scholars in the Zhou Dynasty were interested.

It's just that due to the hatred between the country and the family, many scholars can't save their dignity and go to Beibinghe Town to develop.

Li Yueming had no choice about this.

There are many people with bottom lines in the world, but there are also many people without bottom lines.

Especially after the Xingyue Army promised high-ranking officials and generous salaries, many scholars still chose to go to Beibinghe Town to seek development.

In just two years, the number of scholars in the Xingyue Army has tripled. This is the result of the Great Zhou court finding something wrong and putting a stop to it. Otherwise, I am afraid that half of the scholars in the Great Zhou court would have been poached by Beibinghe Town.

With scholars who can read and write and have learned the principles of saints, other towns that Beibinghe Town has accepted can send people to govern them.

Li Yueming asked Tian Liang and others to jointly formulate a set of laws based on the laws of Beibinghe Town that could be implemented in the entire northwest. After promulgation, preparations for implementation began.

In order not to be suspected, Li Yueming did not write this content himself, but only added his own opinions after Tian Liang and others formulated the draft of the law.

As senior reincarnations, Tian Liang and others naturally have a way of formulating laws.

In fact, it only took them less than half a month to complete this task that required ordinary people to study for decades.

It's not that they have extraordinary talents, but that how to formulate laws in a fantasy world has already become a required course for reincarnations with powerful individuals.

Under Li Yueming's planning, Beibinghe Town released its first long-term plan.

In the past ten years, the Xingyue Army has focused most of its energy on expanding its territory, expanding the scale of food cultivation, and increasing the population of the northwest.
To be continued...