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Then Shen Bing received a letter from Ying Zheng, saying that he wanted to replace the people of the country and move back to the North.

Ying Zheng was thinking of going with Shen Bing, and Shen Bing's eyes were also fixed on Dai Guo, the people in the original Hetao area.

These people were originally Li Mu who moved to the North from Zhao Country...

At that time, Li Mu's difficulties when he was stationed in the north were very similar to Shen Bing's situation at this time. Li Mu's solution was to move the people north.

At that time, the people of Zhao State were equally unhappy, but Li Mu made promises of tax cuts and fiefdom, and only hundreds of thousands of people moved.

Therefore, the "border farming field" actually did not originate in the Han Dynasty.

The Han dynasty institutionalized and used "border farming" into a "art of war".

As early as in the Qin State, there were records of people migrating to feed the army.

Although the migration of people is different from "border farming", the essence is the same. Both increase the population and solve the problem of self-sufficiency of border troops.

At this time, everything that Shen Bing did in Beidi can be said to be preparing for the return of the people of the country to Hetao.

It's just that the transfer of the people requires the consent of Ying Zheng, otherwise Shen Bing would dare to act rashly.

Now that Ying Zheng gave an explanation, Shen Bing's hanging heart was half down.

The generation of the country at this time was not very good.

Daiguo is backed by the country of Yan and hugs the group for warmth, and hopes not to be destroyed by the country of Qin.

But even Yan Kingdom was defeated by Qin Kingdom and Yan Wangxi was so scared that he killed his son Prince Dan and offered his head for peace.

After that, they sent food to Qin again and again, which caused anger and resentment among the people of Yan.

Can such a country of Yan be reliable?

The answer is obviously no.

If Yan Guo is unreliable, can Dai Guo be reliable?

Especially after Chu Kingdom was destroyed, everyone was thinking:

Even as powerful as the Chu Kingdom, no one can escape the fate of being destroyed, let alone the Yan Kingdom and the Dai Kingdom?

So the people of the country are in panic, and many people regret that they fled here with Zhao Wangjia in the first place.

They even believed that they were confused by Zhao Wang.

The reason for saying this is because Zhao Wangjia was willing to move with him for the people, and threatened the people that Qin Jun would slaughter the city and kill Yunyun as soon as he came.

In the era of poor information and Zhao and Qin were feuds, there were precedents of Bai Qi slaying hundreds of thousands of troops, so the people were so scared that they could only drag their families to move with Zhao Wangjia to the country.

So this "moving to" should be replaced with "escape" and perhaps more suitable.

However, over time, the people gradually learned the truth:

"The Qin army did not slaughter the city even after occupying Handan.

"Isn't I being deceived by Zhao Wangjia? Actually, there was no massacre?"

"It is said that those princes who have insulted King Qin never asked the crime. I wonder if this is true or not?"

"Of course it is true. Those kings are locked up in the military camp in Handan, and they live in high-rise buildings for good food and drink. No one in Handan knows that no one knows."

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At this moment, they heard two heavy news:

One is that the Qin army gathered and protected Zhao Min in Yunzhong County, and repelled more than 100,000 of the Xiongnu army with 10,000 troops, and killed the Xiongnu's corpses everywhere...

The real situation is of course not repelling more than 100,000 Huns, but the people always exaggerate it by word of mouth: originally it was repelling more than 10,000 Huns, but after talking, it became 30,000, and a few more people would become 10 More than ten thousand.

Another news is that on the day of harvest, the Qin army will attack Dai Nation.

This made the people of the country almost cry.

Then suddenly one day, sheets of paper came out from somewhere, showing the grassland and the Yellow River in the Northland, and the simple paintings of the Xiongnu being beaten and the people farming.

The people on behalf of the country collapsed immediately:

This is because of homesickness...Although they moved from the south to the north, they have lived in the north for more than ten years and regarded the north as their hometown.

Seeing these sketches naturally brings back memories, so I feel like an arrow.

On the other hand, everyone knows that there will be no hope for the country on behalf of the country, and they should return to the North regardless of the angle of consideration.

So before this battle started, the same situation as Chu State appeared on behalf of the country: the people began to drain.

There is a saying in Confucianism, "Those who gain the hearts of the people gain the world, and those who lose the hearts of the people lose the world."

If the people want to escape secretly and need to be guarded, this country will not be far from extinction.

This is of course Shen Bing's tricks.

Although the method used is the same as that of the state of Chu, why not use paper as a propaganda weapon?

Then the Northland welcomed people returning home one after another.

Shen Bing is also generous, that is, he does not refuse to come, and he even prepared seeds according to the population.

At this time, these scattered returnees are still only a few. If one day Yan and Dai are destroyed, it is conceivable that more people will return to the city.

At that time, Yunzhong County will need to circle more areas to develop into Jiuyuan County.

But as the saying goes, "Everything is difficult at the beginning."

At the time of the climax of returning home, there must be "contradictions between people and land."

That is, there are too many people returning home and the land has been divided.

What will happen to the extra people?

Should they join the army to grab the land from the Huns?

Or let them wait hungry for the Liangjun to grab the ground?

These are unrealistic. Development is a step-by-step process, and it also takes time.

But these are not a problem for Shen Bing, because he is in need of labor.

Shen Bing circled another piece of land along the river in the area east of Yunzhong County, which was also five miles away.

There are fewer garrisons in this area, with only more than two hundred people in each city.

On the one hand, it was due to insufficient military strength. On the other hand, it was the supply route to the south of Yunzhong County, which had been patrolled and guarded by the Liang Army, so the possibility of attack was relatively small.

This area is different from the farming area to the north. Shen Bing intends to turn it into an industrial area, that is, an area for iron smelting, iron making, and cloth weaving.

This was planned early in the morning:

The industrial zone is suitable to be built downstream of the river.

The reason is that industrial water may pollute water sources, such as iron smelting, iron making, papermaking, etc.

If the industrial zone is upstream, then the river flows into the city when it goes down first, directly polluting the city's domestic water.

In addition, the industrial zone is also suitable to be built in the tangent or downwind position of the prevailing wind.

Iron smelting will emit exhaust gas, and there will also be burning coal, etc. It will definitely not work if it is blown into the city by the wind.

Yunzhong County belongs to the monsoon zone. The northwest wind prevails in summer and the southeast wind prevails in winter. This is perfectly staggered from the westward Yunzhong County.

Shen Bing planned like this:

Since there will be more people and less land in the beginning, why can't these more people be directly converted into workers?

During the industrialization of the modern West, in order to drive farmers out of the land and become workers, they also carried out the "land enclosure movement."

Shen Bing didn't even have to rush it.