Li Ming and everyone from the group army headquarters came to the outside of the Naturalization City, Wang Yaowu and other leaders of the various detachments of the Southern Assault Corps were already waiting here, and when they saw Li Ming, they all came up to salute Li Ming.

After several days of marching, Li Ming was also very tired. He jumped off his horse and shook hands with everyone, and then they walked into the city of Naturalization together. At this time, there were also some people in the city wearing Mongolian costumes, who were going around to help the Far Eastern Army clean up the battlefield.

Wang Yaowu saw that Li Ming was a little puzzled, so he explained: "These people are all Han Chinese, and the political oppression and economic exploitation of the Ming Dynasty caused many bankrupt farmers, artisans and merchants in the Great Wall to flee to Tumochuan to settle down for a generation. At that time, the Ida Khan accepted all of them and implemented a policy of rewarding farming, which led to the rapid development of agriculture in Tumochuan.

We broke through Guihua City and found that there were tens of thousands of Han people in and around Guihua City, most of them were farmers and craftsmen, and some merchants from the Ming Dynasty. We left them in the city to help the troops clear the battlefield. After all, these people have been outside the mouth for many years, and I can't figure out their character, so I haven't thought about arranging them in the future. ”

When Li Ming heard this, he said with a smile: "Since they are all Han Chinese, let them participate in the winter training with the displaced people, and then arrange it as appropriate." In particular, those craftsmen will be of great use in our base areas in the future, and the peasants and merchants should also make full use of them. I estimate that there are more than a few Han people who can't survive from Daming and flee to the mouth. On my way here, I saw that there were a large number of Han slaves in many tribes that we had defeated, and we had to gather them and make good use of them. ”

Listening to Li Ming's words, Wang Yaowu nodded. He suddenly remembered something, and said to Li Ming with a smile: "Commander, I am a little surprised that we have seized a large amount of grain in the city. Later, according to the Han people in the city, they found out. The Mongol Nayan in the city of Naturalization collects a huge amount of land rent from the surrounding Han people every year, but the land here is vast and sparsely populated, and the grain cannot be sold at all. The merchants of the Ming Dynasty came to do business outside the mouth, all of them bought special products such as cattle, sheep, horses, leather goods and felt, and no one wanted to come here all the way. It took a lot of effort to pull back a bunch of worthless grain.

And those grains, the Mongolian nobles were reluctant to throw away, so they always existed there. Over time, the amount of grain stored in the city was enormous. It's just that the storage conditions are poor, I went to take a look, and a lot of grain is moldy and spoiled, and I have arranged for someone to deal with it. Since there is no record of the storage of grain, I am asking people to do the statistics. But I don't think the scale of the food in the city is small. I'm afraid that more than 100,000 stones can't be stopped. This is not only the case in Guihua City, but also in Tumochuan, Ulanqab and Baotou, as well as in nearby tribes. ”

When Li Ming heard this, he was also very excited. I didn't expect to have such an unexpected joy here, it seems that the grain in the early days of the base area has been settled. Moreover, it can gather so many Han people in the Tumochuan area, and there will be no shortage of people in the early construction of the base area.

Come to think of it. Li Ming said in a deep voice: "Yaowu, you go and arrange it immediately." Take a good count of the food seized in the neighborhood. This grain is very valuable, and it is the capital of our base construction. With this food, we don't have to rely on the company anymore for support. ”

Li Ming and his entourage came to the Southern Legion Headquarters in Guihua City and listened to the report of the Legion Commander Wang Yaowu on this battle. The whole process of this campaign went very smoothly and there was no fuss from everyone. After all, the Mongolian legion has long formed combat effectiveness after years of training by them. Even if Genghis Khan was reborn that year, the Mongol tribes in southern Mo could not escape the end of destruction.

At this moment, a communications staff officer walked into the war room and handed a telegram to Li Ming. Li Ming picked up the telegram and looked at it. Immediately happy.

It turned out that Ma Qing and Song Tao from the Luliang Mountain base area were riding in an airship that had already flown over the Naturalization City. Li Ming smiled and said to everyone: "Let's go...... We went to greet Song Tao and Ma Qing. ”

He couldn't help but be excited, he and everyone had worked hard in the Luliangshan base area for more than a year, and these people had been unconditionally supporting Li Ming, and they had established a deep relationship. Since Li Ming returned to Shenyang, he has always missed these brothers who share weal and woe.

Several airships slowly landed in an open space outside the Naturalization City, and Song Tao and Ma Qing walked down from the airship's gondola one after another.

When Song Tao saw Li Ming, he pounced and laughed: "Brother, I miss you to death......

Li Ming also hugged him, patted him on the back vigorously, and then hugged Ma Qing, Zhou Lin, Lin Jinghua and Lu Yongren one by one.

In addition to these several members of the Standing Committee of the Luliangshan Base Area, there were also the team members of the base area, and the board of directors of the company also knew the importance of the Hetao Base Area, and transferred Li Ming's original team to the Hetao Base Area with their handy personnel.

Hu Weihui and Liang Yujie and others will also come to the Hetao area one after another in the near future, and the Standing Committee of the company's Northern Bureau will be considered alive.

In addition, because Li Ming has made some achievements in the Luliangshan base area, some employees of the company have also paid attention to the Hetao area. Maybe it's because they have watched Lv Liangshan's documentary and are deeply infected, or maybe it's Lin Jinghua and Lv Yongren, two marginal figures in the company, through Lv Liangshan's work in the past year, they have suddenly become the company's most influential figures, which has made many people have some ideas in their hearts.

Moreover, Li Ming's future status in the company, everyone knows it, this time several Standing Committee members of the Luliangshan Base Area and a group of middle-level backbones below will inevitably be Li Ming's entrainment in the future, and the future is naturally needless to say.

Therefore, many people expressed to the company the idea of preparing to go to the Hetao base area to start a business hard. For these employees to take the initiative to work in the most difficult areas, the company must of course have an encouraging attitude, so the Hetao base area, which was originally short of soldiers and major generals, has now become a sweet spot.

After a period of time, Wang Haiyang, Wang Bo, Zhang Tiezhu, and other cadres and backbones of the Shanxi guerrilla detachment will also lead some of the non-commissioned officers of the detachment to leave the Luliangshan base area and march towards the Hetao area.

On the way to the Hetao, they will collect a group of displaced people, select a group of targets along the way, loot some grain and other materials, and prepare for the large-scale collection of displaced people in the base area.

Since the Yuan Dynasty, the word "Hetao" has appeared more and more in various books, and has a relatively stable connotation, used to refer to the east of Helan Mountain, the south of Wolf Mountain, Daqing Mountain, and the area along the Yellow River. And with the Wula Mountain as the boundary, the east is the front set, and the west is the back set. There are also those with the south of the Yellow River and the north of the Great Wall as the front set, which is symmetrical with the back set of the north side of the river. In the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the Hetao was dominated by animal husbandry, and after the Ming Dynasty, it was called "Tumo River".

In the late Qing Dynasty, some people from Shaanxi and Shanxi moved to Saiwai (to the west), and the Hetao area began to become the most important agricultural area in the northwest. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, eight major irrigation canals were formed. During the Anti-Japanese War, Fu Zuoyi, the general of the national army, was stationed here, and also built water conservancy in the Hetao area and carried out large-scale reclamation. (To be continued.) )

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