The last group of recruited refugees, along with Qi San and their recruitment team, withdrew from the Shaanxi territory, and at this time Shaanxi was already ready to move, and it was almost a little spark.

In fact, the source of the spark has long been there, after the people of Baishui County, Wang Er and others rose up and launched a riot, because of their flexible combat methods, as well as the ears, eyes and prestige of the people at the bottom, until now they still have not let the Ming Dynasty be completely strangled, and even the scale has become larger and larger in the past two years.

Although the backbone of Wang Er's first initiation of the rebellion has died in the encirclement and suppression of the government in the past two years, the final brain of their riot team, Wang Jiayin, who was promoted as the leader of the alliance, is still alive.

This Wang Jiayin was originally just a deserter from the border army, and after returning to Fugu, as the leader of the local rangers, he had great prestige among the low-level people.

After Wang Er and others rebelled, they finally came north to seek refuge with Wang Jiayin, and took him as the leader of the alliance to lead everyone to resist the encirclement and suppression of the government.

Under his leadership, the ranks of the peasant rebel army have grown from more than 1,000 people at the beginning to more than 6,000 or 7,000 strong.

Hongmen recruitment team is also very lucky, at the end of March they completed the recruitment operation, with the last group of displaced people together to leave Shaanxi County, the back foot Wang Jiayin led the peasant rebel army in early April again launched a riot, more than 7,000 peasant troops attacked Shaanxi Sanshui, although there are more than 400 miles away from Yan'an City, but when the news came, it still made people panic.

After all, in this battle, the Ming guerrilla general Gao Conglong was defeated and died, and the Ming officers and soldiers lost more than 2,000 people.

It's just that in Li Tianyang's own unconscious recruitment action, there are a lot fewer people in the exile team in Yan'an Prefecture, although compared to the total number of exiled refugees, the recruited displaced population is not worth mentioning, but the chain effect brought by Hongmen's recruitment is something they did not expect.

In fact, there is not a complete lack of grain in Yan'an Prefecture and County, and the lack of food in the government does not mean that there will be a shortage of grain among the landlords and gentry families in the prefectures and counties.

The reason why they are reluctant to hand over grain to help the displaced people is, firstly, that they will never do loss-making business, and how can they use their wealth to help those irrelevant people without relatives, and secondly, they also hope to make a fortune in the country, hoping that through this large-scale drought, they will have more land in their hands, and they can adopt a group of capable hired farmers and long-term laborers at a lower price.

But the arrival of Hongmen, the recruitment action disrupted their plans of these wishful thinking landlords and gentry, watching groups of strong, skilled farmers and people being picked away by Hongmen, and there were fewer and fewer good players left, so that they were all secretly anxious in their hearts, cursing this Hongmen for not following the rules.

However, Hongmen has a deep background, and there is a Ming Tang and Tang Sanpin master behind him, perhaps in the eyes of some big families, Li Tianyang, the admiral of the water division, may not be able to suppress them, but they can't be hostile to Hongmen because of this point of exile.

But the landlords and gentry also knew that if there were no hired peasants and long-term laborers to help take care of the fields at home, even if they took advantage of the famine and annexed more land, it would not be able to transform it into tangible benefits.

Therefore, after the Hongmen recruitment finally entered the rear stage, the landlords and gentry in various prefectures and counties in Shaanxi could no longer hold back, and took action one after another to recruit strong laborers for their own use and help them take care of the large land in their hands.

Invisibly, this has reduced the number of displaced people in Shaanxi Prefecture and County by at least two-tenths or three, and the reserve force of the peasant army such as Wang Jiayin has been weakened, and it will no longer develop at the same speed as in the history of later generations.

Of course, even if Li Tianyang's joint influence had an impact on Wang Jiayin's peasant rebel army, with the continued inaction of the government and the continuous development of the drought, Wang Jiayin's rebel army still developed.

These are all afterwords, but it is said that Li Tianyang is in pain and happiness in the chicken coop town at this time, because this time their recruitment work is really too rewarding.

They have recruited more than 2,000 craftsmen for a long time, although most of them are ordinary craftsmen, but there are still a lot of skilled craftsmen; In addition, almost every craftsman in this era has some unique skills in his hands, which is very helpful for enriching the skills of the craftsman workshop and forming a bypass effect.

Among the remaining nearly 30,000 displaced people, more than 10,000 are strong, which makes up for the long-standing shortage of adult men in Hongmen.

In the event of a natural disaster, strong adult men have a better chance of survival than women, the elderly and children, so it is extremely normal for recruiters to have such a proportion of adult population.

The reason why Li Tianyang and his family are willing to recruit women who do not have a major labor force is also based on the fact that among the recruits, many adult men are basically lonely and have no relatives around, so they can re-form a complete family with these families who do not have strong men in their families.

In the face of survival, the so-called Cheng Zhu Lixue, the so-called Three Platforms and Five Constants, are so fragile and unbinding, whether it is for the surviving relatives in the family, or for the next person to be able to spend the rest of their lives together, these women no longer care about the world's eyes, and they have quickly formed families with other single male families under the spring water of matchmakers.

Of course, Hongmen is indispensable for this, and in the new Hongmen charter that has been posted by Hongmen and read aloud by members of the neighborhood committee every day, all families with adult men, healthy women, the elderly, and children in their families can expand the area of land they have cultivated, from the previous 15 mu to 20 mu, and the maximum can reach 25 mu.

Having lived in Hongmen for a while, the displaced people may not have too high a vision, but they can feel something that is relevant to their vital interests, and it is clear that Hongmen is a land of hope.

After the famine was gone, as new houses made of bamboo, wood, and unknown sturdy materials were handed over to their families, what the displaced people wanted most next was a piece of land of their own.

Before the famine, in fact, many of these recruited displaced people lived by renting the land of the landlord's family, and there was almost no land of their own.

Now it's a good thing, after being recruited into this fertile field by Hongmen, the people of Hongmen actually allowed everyone to open up their own land and cultivate a piece of land that belongs to them, and this alone has won the hearts of most of the people who recruited the homeless.

Immediately, the market mentality of the small citizens made them start to think about the various policies that Hongmen was propagating in their ears day by day, and when they understood that as long as the family was complete, they could get an extra five or even ten acres of land, and the common people and their little cleverness were suddenly revealed.

Single men go to marry single women and women, especially those who drag their burdensome relatives, and are even more popular with single men, after all, the wife is easy to marry, but the old man and the child cannot be conjured out of thin air.

A small ploy has made those single-parent women's families who were originally the most difficult to be resettled become hot goods, and they don't need Hongmen to do more, and someone has taken the initiative to help these families get through the difficulties together.

(End of chapter)