The Heihe City, Longjiang Province of Ming Dynasty, is the second largest city in Longjiang Province except Puhecheng. It is located on the west bank of Heilongjiang. It has a short history of building the city, less than half a year away. The entire city is not large in size, only a circle of twenty miles of earth walls, not high, and it is not the enemy to defend against it, but wolves, tigers, cheetahs and other beasts that may enter the city indiscriminately.

There are about hundreds of houses in the city, and 90% are simple tree houses built with wood. The tall and pointed roofs can effectively prevent the snow from crushing the house in winter. The outer walls of the wooden houses do not have any artificial decorations, exuding an original architectural style that belongs to the white mountains and black waters.

Fortunately, the layout is quite regular, without the messy feeling of east and west. And each house strictly follows the governor's orders, digging drainage channels in the house, and directly connecting to drainage ditches buried underground, leaving no dirty and messy situations of sewage flowing across the street.

Other families with a little financial resources will also install glass windows in the tree house. Compared with the people in Shangjing Prefecture who like transparent glass, the people in Heihe City like brightly colored stained glass. Although the light transmittance is worse, it makes the people who still retain the characteristics of aboriginal people feel festive and beautiful.

Among these houses, the largest, the largest area, and the most central one is the Heihe Governor's Office, the Zhaluhuchi Yamen, and the Governor's Office. In this way, the three yamen are integrated, and there will only be provinces such as Longjiang and Binhai, which are 90% primitive wasteland forests.

Not only that, the chief officials here are also governors, Zaluhuchi and the governor. They are also provinces that expand their destiny as border areas, and the authority cannot be divided as carefully as those of Jilin and Liaoning provinces.

Moreover, due to the lack of official paths and connections between the two parties are inconvenient. Therefore, many times, local officials need to make decisions alone.

At present, in Heihe City, Li Zhuang, the head of Heihe Province, rushed out of the city. Because half an hour ago, the people below came to report that more than a dozen naturalized people who were building roads outside the city were injured by big trees. In this poorly small Heihe City, one naturalized people died. Therefore, he had to rush over and take a look in person to show the care of the government.

As for this naturalized people, it is the general term for tribal people who are willing to accept Ming Dynasty living customs, take the initiative to register their household registration in the government, move into the city to live, and give up their original fishing and hunting customs. In order to increase their attractiveness, Li Zhuang has spent a lot of effort since he took office.

First, the government asked the government to send doctors from the Imperial Hospital and teachers from the school to support it, and to increase the favorable feelings of local tribes through doctors' treatment of illnesses and to allow the teachers to teach them the knowledge so that the tribes' livelihood will not be so ignorant.

In addition, we actively contacted the business to establish a material purchase base in Heihe City, collect deer skin, ginseng and other local specialty goods from local people, and then sell them salt, sugar, wheat flour, canned food, matches, sweaters, hemp clothes, silk fabrics, iron pots, clay pots, cups, bowls and other foods.

In this way, the lives of these people not only improved, but also gave them a preliminary impression of the wealthy situation of Ming Dynasty. The business also earned enough benefits so that they could stay in Heihe City for a long time.

Finally, we act as a mediator and actively mediate conflicts and disputes among various tribes so that they can turn wars into sacrificial power and maintain peace and stability in Longjiang Province as much as possible. This is also because the Ming Dynasty's power in Longjiang Province is still very shallow, so we can only use these gentle means to weaken the resistance of the local people. When they are used to the existence of the Ming government and relax their vigilance, they may suddenly change their faces and reveal their fangs.

Li Zhuang was actually looking forward to this day! Because Huairou's methods have very limited effects on the number of naturalized people in Heihe City. Even if the people at the bottom of the tribe are full of yearning for the life of Heihe City, the elders who control the power of life and death of the tribe will not watch the loss of the tribe's youth and strong.

Therefore, after taking office for so long, the number of people in Heihe City has only exceeded 2,000. Among them, there are nineteen households, nearly 200. They are sinners who moved from Shangjing, Jilin, Liaoning, Hailar and other places. In addition, there are about a thousand pioneers in Goryeo who forced them to move in, and there are less than 800 real naturalized people.

Of course, if two thousand garrisons were counted as the people in the city, the number of people in Heihe City could double. However, in the assessment of political achievements, the garrisons were not counted as Dingkou in the local government’s household registration.

Therefore, as the Heihe City, which is governed by Longjiang Province, only has two thousand permanent residents. This is not as good as a larger town in Liaoning Province. Among all the provincial capitals, Heihe should be considered the shabby city.

When Li Zhuang took the initiative to apply for transfer from the army and went to Heihe City to serve as the chief official, he also thought about making some political achievements. Although he guessed that things might not be as satisfactory as he imagined, half a year has passed, which still makes him a little disappointed.

Now passing by a short block, there are shops in groups of three or three by the roadside. Most of the houses are Han and Goryeo, and Bohai people are running in front of these shops, hoping to exchange them with the animal skins and ginseng from the shops.

When we arrived outside the city, a large area of ​​simple tents surrounded by wooden fences was the main place where tribes and people traded.

Many people who are unwilling to abide by the rules of Heihe City and give up their weapons to enter the city will find a vacant land in the field, place the goods they brought from the tribe, and wait for other tribes or Ming merchants to buy them. There are also naturalized people who do re-sale transactions to buy these merchants at relatively low prices, so as to sell them to Ming merchants in the city to earn the difference.

In order to maintain order in the field, there are also a small number of soldiers inside to maintain order. Although they are allowed to bring in weapons, they are strictly restricted from using them. If they violate and argue with others and hurt their lives, they will be punished immediately by the soldiers.

This also makes the order in the Quotation Field relatively well. However, because the Quotation Field does not include the fees and taxes, many tribes regard it as a market for irregular trading. Now it is the time of the year when the temperature in the Heihe River is relatively high. Therefore, there are many tribes who come to the Quotation Field to sell merchants and goods. When Li Zhuang left the city, he saw the lively scene inside and outside the Quotation Field.
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