After a careful inventory, plus the previous two mountain villages of Lianghe and Hongye, during the encirclement and suppression of bandits, a total of nearly one thousand dan of grain, more than 700,000 coins, more than 70 pieces of armor, more than 600 weapons, and war horses were seized

There are a total of fourteen pack horses, ninety-seven bows and arrows, more than two thousand arrows, and more than a hundred various livestock and poultry. The sundries used in daily life are countless!

These things may not be bothered to take a look by the princes who will dominate the country in the future, but for Liu He and Huang Shuixiang now, they are a great wealth.

Especially these more than 600 weapons, plus the nearly 500 currently owned by the Xiangyong Team, totaling about 1,100, which I believe will be enough to cope with the expansion of the Xiangyong Team in the long term.

As for war horses and bows and arrows, they are also good things. Some of the captured bandits originally served as cavalry and archers. It is enough for them to continue to train rigorously with these equipment.

As for the numerous remaining materials, Liu He certainly could not just distribute them to the villagers for free, as that would not bring out the value of these materials at all.

After discussing with the three pavilion chiefs, including Liu Qian, Liu He decided to build several special granaries and warehouses to store the grain, grass and ordnance. He would then send people to guard them, and he would personally review the accounts and conduct them according to military needs.

Distribution, to a certain extent, can also be regarded as the food and salary you need to distribute to recruit an army. After all, if you have no money, who will work hard for you?

As for the animals, except for three cattle and some poultry, which were kept in captivity, the rest were all given to Xu and others to be slaughtered in preparation for adding vegetables to the celebration banquet.

On the fourth day, everything was finally done. Many village women stopped working in the fields. They all got up early and started washing vegetables and cooking pots. Villagers also took home-grown vegetables and hunted game.

, picked wild fruits and so on were sent over.

That afternoon, all the villagers in Huangshui Township gathered together in Liu He's village and had a feast, making the villagers in the neighboring township drool with envy.

It was precisely because of this grand banquet that the story of Huangshui Township's brave team breaking five cottages in a row became known to everyone. It can be said that it shocked the entire Langtiao County, the farmers in each township, and the people in the city.

People in the streets and alleys are talking about this matter.

Even the county government got the news, which really surprised several adults!

But surprise is nothing less than surprise. Now the county magistrate and the new county lieutenant have donated their official positions. They have done nothing at all. They only know how to have fun and never think about doing practical things. The rural brave team helped them wipe out the banditry, although there are fewer and fewer bandits every year.

They have gained a "grey income", but this is something they have always wanted to do, but did not dare to do or failed to do. Now that this credit has fallen from the sky, of course they will not extrapolate it.

Therefore, they basically did not praise or care about the brave team of Huangshui Township. In short, it had nothing to do with them and they were too lazy to pay attention to it.

Of course Liu He would not know about this, and even if he knew, there would be nothing he could do.

However, this does not mean that this "reputation" has no benefits to him. On the contrary, in the days that followed, this reputation brought him so many benefits that he and even the entire Huangshui Township were busy to the point of being unable to stop.

A few days after the celebration party that day, some villagers from the neighboring township began to move to Huangshui Township to settle down. At first, the number of people was not large, but within two months, more than a dozen families came, and the three pavilion chiefs dealt with it.

It's still more than enough.

In ancient times, the head tax was a very important tax. Therefore, the management of personal household registration was much stricter than in modern times. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, the management of household registration was still relatively strict. Under normal circumstances, ordinary people, if they were in large quantities,

When relocating, you will face many problems.

Nowadays, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, management is lax, but ordinary people still dare not move unscrupulously. Therefore, even though the living conditions in Huangshui Township are very attractive, there are not many people who have the courage and ability to move here in a short period of time.

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However, this does not include one kind of people, that is, refugees!

Refugees are people who have been affected by disasters in other places and cannot live anymore, so they are forced to wander around. The so-called household registration management system has no deterrent effect on them. All they want is to live!

There are countless refugees in all parts of Bingzhou, neighboring You, Ji, Liang, and Si states, those suffering from famines, those on the northern border who cannot bear the plunder of barbarians, and those unable to survive in their hometowns due to various reasons.

Liu He remembered that he had read the "Book of the Later Han" in his previous life, which recorded life in the first year of Yongxing Emperor Hengxing, that is, AD 154: "The people were hungry and poor, and the roads were crowded, and there were hundreds of thousands of households.

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Similar things could be said to be commonplace in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Nowadays, the world is even more difficult than in 154, and the phenomenon of refugees has become more and more serious.

Taiyuan County is relatively stable, and many refugees wander here, looking for food. Strictly speaking, even Guan Yu and Cheng Liang are refugees who have left their hometowns in a sense.

The same goes for most of the bandits in the Taihang Mountains.

After hearing about the deeds in Huangshui Township, these refugees in Taiyuan County felt as if they had seen a guiding light when they were lost. The people trapped in the desert discovered the oasis water source, and started heading towards it in groups.

Rushing towards Huangshui Township!

Even some small groups of thieves who were wandering around abandoned evil and turned to good, hoping to live a normal life in Huangshui Township.

More than nine months have passed, and by the end of this year, nearly a thousand households, more than 3,700 people, have moved to Huangshui Township. Most of them are refugees from various places. The total population of Huangshui Township has suddenly changed from

The number jumped from more than 5,000 to nearly 9,000!

A township of more than 5,000 people can only be considered a medium-sized town in Bingzhou. However, the current population of 9,000 people is enough to make Huangshui Township the largest township in Bingzhou. It is as if it can match the population size of a small county like Langtiao County.

compared to!

Suddenly there were so many people that the pavilion directors had to put down their farm work and were busy every day registering these people, arranging houses, and cultivating farmland.

Pavilion Chief Qian even roped in his thirteen-year-old son to help, but he did not expect that this boy, despite his age, handled these affairs in an orderly manner and got started quickly, which greatly impressed Liu Qian and Pavilion Chief Lu.

However, there are too many people. Although there is enough wasteland to be reclaimed, the original vacant houses in each village are far from being able to meet the living requirements of so many people.

Under the coordination of the three pavilion chiefs, Liu He and others, many villagers worked overnight and quickly built hundreds of tile-roofed houses so that the new villagers would not be homeless.

The people here were very busy and exhausted, but Liu He was so happy that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear.

In this troubled world, territory and population are the most important resources. Without territory and population, there is nowhere to recruit troops. No matter how powerful you are, there is no place to use it. What's more, you have sworn to restore peace to the people, so you have to start from
Chapter completed!