The old patriarch is responsible for farming and irrigation in Anxin, which is the most important.

You must know that the most important material in ancient times was not silver, but food. Many ancient farmers may have never seen silver in their lives, because they were self-sufficient and had to exchange all their daily necessities. Food was the only guarantee for their survival.

He looked at everyone, and finally rested his eyes on Li Yi, showed a loving smile, and slowly told An Xin's mother's situation.

The situation of the farmland is indeed better than expected, because Anxin is close to Baiyangdian, with many rivers including the Zhulong River passing by, and the soil quality is very good. There are tens of thousands of acres of fertile land alone, plus wasteland that can be reclaimed.

It can reach tens of thousands of acres, and it will not be a problem to feed ten thousand people.

However, due to severe banditry all year round, some water conservancy facilities were abandoned and damaged, and many were unusable and had to be rebuilt.

The old patriarch led the craftsmen to rebuild the waterwheel and asked the villagers to dig canals, but it was barely usable.

After explaining the basic situation, Li Yi's thoughts were improved bit by bit.

Now that Anxin has a brave camp and the power to destroy the Black Panthers, a fierce bandit in Baiyangdian, the banditry is not a worry for the time being.

The construction of water conservancy measures has been steadily carried out under the supervision of the old patriarch, but it has not been long enough and the results are not very obvious.

Now the paddy fields have been transplanted, and even the dry land has been planted with beans by the villagers. It can be said that any land that can grow food has been planted by the people of Anxin.

So the busy rush to seed in the early stage has been completed, and now comes a relatively free time.

But Li Yi wanted to make good use of this free time and had a new plan for An Xin.

You must know that when I brought the refugees into Anxin, the village was completely ruined. They could only cut down wood to build houses, use hay to make beds, and live a simple life.

To this day, many refugees still live in a thatched hut with three families, and some live in thatched huts, which are exposed to wind at night and rain on rainy days.

These people know that Anxin's situation is very difficult, and they have never complained. But if they don't say it, they cannot live in such a house for a long time.

So Li Yi wanted to start burning kilns and building houses to fundamentally change Anxin's current poor living conditions.

But it is not easy to accomplish this. Manpower, material resources, and financial resources are all indispensable, and Anxin is poor and has no power.

Even now, with so much money and food, because of the large population, it can only be barely maintained to provide everyone with security.

If we use this material and money in such a risky manner, if something goes wrong, it is likely to cause irreparable and terrible consequences.

The villagers are really hungry and scared, and they have finally gained some sense of security. Doing this now will make them live a life of fear again, so they will not agree.

In their view, as long as they wait until the autumn harvest and have enough food, it is not too late to start such construction. Everyone has survived the hard times in the past and can still hold on until the autumn harvest. There is no need to start infrastructure construction now.

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But Li Yi would not agree, because if he remembered correctly, next year would be the day when the Manchus entered the customs for the first time.

In the second year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1629), the young "English Lord" Emperor Chongzhen had not yet awakened from the glory of using thunderous means to eliminate the Wei Zhongxian Group. An unprecedented catastrophe befell the old empire that had a "ZTE" atmosphere. Because

The Houjin Empire, which had annexed almost all the territory in Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty, rushed into the area within Shanhaiguan for the first time and marched directly to the capital city.

In October of the second year of Chongzhen, when Yuan Chonghuan was still arranging defense at Shanhaiguan, Huang Taiji personally led an army of 100,000 to break through Da'ankou north of Zunhua (today's Zunhua County, Hebei Province) by detouring through the Horqin Grassland.

The northern border), Hongshankou (the northeastern border of Zunhua) and Longjingguan (the northwest border of Qianxi County, Hebei Province) surrounded Zunhua, the important town of Emperor Ming's military affairs.

On the fourth day of November, Zunhua fell. Wang Yuanya, the governor of Shuntian, and Zhu Guoyan, the chief military officer of Jizhen, died.

On the eighth day of November, Emperor Chongzhen appointed Sun Chengzong, an experienced and highly respected former cabinet scholar and minister of the Ministry of War, as minister of the Ministry of War and a bachelor of Zhongji Palace to take charge of Tongzhou's defense.

On the first day of December, Emperor Chongzhen staged a good show of "entrapment", announcing that Yuan Chonghuan, Zu Dashou, Man Gui, and Hei Yunlong entered the palace. The four of them just entered the palace and tied Yuan Chonghuan to prison.

In May of the third year of Chongzhen (1630), the Hou Jin army, which had plundered countless people and property in the pass, finally withdrew. In this war, which lasted for nearly seven months, the Hou Jin army not only ravaged more than a dozen people from two prefectures near the capital of the Ming Empire.

The prefectures and counties were greatly enriched in population and property, and they also wiped out tens of thousands of Ming Empire troops at a small cost, including a minister, a governor, and three general military officers, and forced Chongzhen himself to kill the Minister of War, King

Qia, the governor Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao Liu Ce, the governor of Shanxi Geng Ruqi, the chief military officer Zhang Shixian, Zhang Honggong and a large number of senior civil and military officials. As for senior officials who were dismissed and exiled, even more senior officials were dismissed.

In addition to the economic and military blows, there was also a huge blow to human resources. Especially the unjust killing of Yuan Chonghuan severely damaged the morale of Emperor Ming's army. From then on, the troops surrendered in large numbers and the Jin Dynasty (Qing Dynasty)

) events began to occur frequently.

Among the hundreds of thousands of people captured by the Hou Jin Dynasty, there were a large number of lower-level officials, judicial officers, and students of the Ming Dynasty. Almost all of them received preferential treatment and appointments by the Hou Jin Dynasty, and became a powerful tool for the Hou Jin Dynasty to manage internal affairs.

Moreover, joining the invaders this time is like a long-term investment with a large return. After investing a small cost, you are waiting for a steady stream of returns. Kong Youde, Geng Jingzhong, Shang Kexi, Wu Sangui, Hong Chengchou, and a large number of elite soldiers and generals are all named Yuan Chonghuan.

Since then, I have sufficient reasons to be a "traitor".

This was the first time that Hou Jin entered the customs, and after that he was even more uncontrollable. He drove in four times, causing havoc in the entire north and Gyeonggi region, and plunging tens of millions of people into dire straits.

Baoding Prefecture, as the southern gate of the capital and the gateway to the prosperous areas in the south, experienced this terrible disaster.

What Li Yi has to do is to prepare early before this tragedy happens.

His goal was to build a fort that could withstand Houjin's cavalry in the Anxin area, relying on the terrain with the river in the north and south and Baiyangdian in the east, so that the villagers could live here safely.

Li Yi knew how much wealth this huge project in his head would require, but he had no choice.
Chapter completed!