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When he got up in the morning, Xu Xingxia carried the iron-backed bow, carried the iron quiver and thirty black feather arrows behind him, and quietly went out. He got up very early, and his younger brother Dongzi and sister Niuniu didn't wake up. It had been a long time since they had slept soundly like this, and today was the first time. Xu Xingxia just wanted them to sleep, not wanting to wake them up.

Xu Fuqing has woken up. In fact, he didn't sleep at all last night. However, he did not appear. He just looked at his son silently through the cracks in the earthen wall. He knew that since yesterday, his son has grown up and become the pillar of the family. In the future, this family will be decided by his own son.

Wang had been guarding the door, and when he saw Xu Xingxia coming out quietly, he came up and handed Xu Xingxia a bag of steamed buns. This is a real white-flour steamed bun, which is completely different from wowotou. Even through the cloth bag, you can smell the fragrance of steamed buns. The cloth bag for the steamed buns is also brand new, very white and very white. If outsiders see it, they must be very envious.

In order to see off his son, Wang got up earlier than his son and quietly steamed the white-flour steamed buns. Stuffing the steamed buns into his son's hands, Wang said in a low voice: "Xia'er, you take this and divide it evenly among the people in the pier." If they accept your affection, they will not embarrass you. Your dad is right. Everyone is a brother in the same mound, and there is no unsolvable hatred. You have to have a good relationship with everyone, don't get angry with people......"

Xu Xingxia nodded, indicating that he knew, but he didn't think so. He understands that his parents are the kindest people, and they have never been bullied, and they have never thought of bullying others. However, he Xu Xingxia is different. He Xu Xingxia wants to protect his relatives, bring them safety, and bring them happiness, only kindness is not enough. He also has to show his means and courage.

The town of Ningxia is not a peaceful Jiangnan, it is a frontier front, where Tatars loot everywhere, and there are mutinies from time to time. Can a blind kindness defeat the murderous Tatars? No way. Only more bullied. The chaotic town of Ningxia will not become calm because of kindness. On the contrary, with the development of the situation at home and abroad, the situation in Ningxia Town will only become more and more chaotic.

He Xu Xingxia will have a good relationship with the people in the dun, and will unite them to fight against the Tartars as much as possible, but it is definitely not this kind of low-voiced way of flattering. He has his own ideas, he has his own means. In the coming troubled times, kindness is the most hurt. Cowardice is the deadliest. If you want to keep the kindness of your surname from being erased, you must put on a ferocious cloak on the appearance of kindness.

"Mother, stay at home with white-flour steamed buns, I don't need them."

Rejecting his mother's steamed buns, Xu Xingxia carried a bow and arrows on his back, walked out of the house, and strode towards Niujiaodun. At this time, the sky was not completely bright, and the sky and the earth were still a little dark. The whole Weizhen Fort seems to be very quiet. There was no one in sight on the streets, and there were no lights, and the whole Fort of Willtown felt like a dead city. It was only when he walked to the location of the fort gate that Xu Xingxia met a person. This person is actually Liu Guangliang.

It turned out that every household in Weizhen Fort had to take turns on duty, that is, near the fort gate, standing guard. If something unexpected happens, ring the bell immediately to warn you. After all, this is the front line, and at any moment there will be the arrival of Tartar cavalry. If the Tartar cavalry came suddenly, but Fort Weizhen was not prepared, the consequences would be very tragic.

"Natsuko, so early?"

"Well, I want to go back to Dunli sooner."

Liu Guangliang and Xu Xingxia greeted each other and opened the fort door vigorously. The gate of Weizhen Fort is a wooden door with iron plates inside, which is quite heavy. The Tatar cavalry repeatedly attacked and harassed southward, posing a great threat to the people of Weizhen Fort. For the sake of safety, the fort gate of Fort Weizhen was constantly thickened and reinforced, and the weight became larger and larger. Due to the lack of adequate maintenance, the axes on both sides of the fort gate were also rusted and difficult to push. With Liu Guangliang's strength alone, it was obviously impossible to push the fort gate, so Xu Xingxia went up to help.

When pushing open the castle door, Xu Xingxia obviously felt that his strength was much greater than Liu Guangliang. He estimated that the caste of the game character was brought to this world by him. This is his capital to survive in this world, and it is also the only thing he can rely on now. Whether you can make contributions and get ahead in the future, whether you can protect the Xu family and protect your relatives, you have to rely on this skill.

After going out of the fort gate, Xu Xingxia and Liu Guangliang closed the fort gate again. The gate of Weizhen Fort has a fixed time for opening and closing, and it is not yet the time to be completely open, if it is opened like this, if something happens, Liu Guangliang's whole family will be implicated. The residents of Weizhenbao are all military households, and they all implement military law, which is much stricter than civil law, and it is common to hang their heads in public.

Starting from Weizhenbao, walk north for about twenty miles, and you will find Niujiaodun. Niujiaodun is the distant outpost of Weizhen Fort, and it is also the outpost of the entire Pingyu Guarding Thousand Households and even the entire Ningxia Town, and the geographical location is very important. After the defenders abandoned Zhenyuan Pass and the Black Mountain Battalion successively, Niujiaodun was the forefront of the entire Ningxia town against the Tatar cavalry.

If the Niujiao Pier can find the trace of the Tatar cavalry heading south in time and light the beacon fire for warning, the various beacon piers and castles behind will have enough time to prepare and will not be attacked by the Tatar cavalry. People who work outside can also withdraw to the castle in time to avoid losses.

If the Horn Pier did not find the trace of the Tatar cavalry in time, or if it was discovered, but there was no way to light the beacon fire in time, the various beacon piers and castles behind would have been caught off guard. The people who worked outside the castle were even worse. This is how the tragedy of Wanli in the 30th year happened.

From Weizhenbao to Niujiaodun, most of them are flat roads, with only a few ups and downs. If you walk, it will take only an hour and a half. Although Xu Xingxia went out very early, he was actually not in a hurry. Chen Hai, the chief flag officer in charge of the defense of Niujiaodun, did not stipulate when he must return to Dunli.

Along the way, what Xu Xingxia saw was a vast and flat field. These fields are very neatly divided, as if they were tofu grids separated by a ruler. Among these fields, there are 20 acres of paddy fields of his Xu family. In fact, the Xu family's fields are not small, with an average of four acres per person. Twenty acres of paddy fields, if they can be cultivated normally, can ensure the food and clothing of the family, at least not starvation.

But, damn the Tatars, stunned, let these fields not be cultivated at all. Every time the spring plough or autumn harvest is held, the Tatar cavalry will inevitably move south, burning, killing and looting. For many years, ripe rice or wheat was set on fire by the Tatars or wasted with war horses. Anyway, it's just that you can't harvest properly.

Even in normal times, the Tatar cavalry would come to greet them every three days. They did not plunder anything, but shot the people who were ploughing with their bows and arrows, as if they were hunting. The arrows of the Tatars were fast and ruthless, and the people suffered great losses, so they had no choice but to abandon these fields. If it weren't for this, the Xu family would not have been so poor.

When passing a small dirt slope, Xu Xingxia looked eastward. At the end of the line of sight, there seems to be a white ribbon, which is the Yellow River. As the saying goes, the Yellow River is thousands of miles, and only one set of riches is rich. This set is talking about the Hetao Plain. In fact, the Hetao Plain we are talking about includes three adjacent regions.

The westernmost is the Ningxia Plain, commonly known as the West Loop, and the core is the Ningxia Plain. In Inner Mongolia, it is commonly known as Dongtao. The east set has a front set and a back set. To the south of Yinshan, Wuyuan, Bayannur and other places, commonly known as Houtao, the core is the Bayannur Plain. To the south of Hohhot, Helinger, Tuoketuo, and the Eilechuan Plain are the front set, and the core is the Eilechuan Plain. Three sets of clothes with water, closely connected.

The water quality of the Yellow River, which flows through the Ningxia Plain, is still very clear, and there is no yellow color at all. The Loess Plateau during the Ming Dynasty was rich in vegetation and dense forests, and soil erosion was far less serious than in later generations. Along the entire Yellow River, there are still many places that can be cultivated. If there was no Tatar attack, both sides of the Yellow River could be fully developed.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the desertification of the entire northwest region was not as serious as that of later generations. On both sides of the Yellow River, there are not so many deserts. Whether it is the Ulan Bu Desert or the Ordos Desert, the area is much smaller than that of later generations. Starting from Ningxia, along the way through Wuhai City, Koukou and other places in later generations, all the way to Bayannur and Wuyuan areas, rice or wheat can be grown. As for animal husbandry, that's even more to say.

Using the knowledge of later generations, Xu Xingxia briefly estimated that in the territory of Ningxia Town alone, north of Pingyu City, there were almost hundreds of kilometers of riverbanks that were abandoned. To the west of the riverbank, there are fertile fields, all of which can be used to grow wheat or rice. These neat fields, at the widest point, have close to a hundred kilometers, and in the narrowest places, there are more than twenty kilometers.

Xu Xingxia made a rough calculation and came up with the result. Due to the attack of the Tatar cavalry, the town of Ningxia had to abandon at least 2,000 square kilometers of fields. According to the calculation that 1 square kilometer is equal to 1,500 mu, it is 3 million mu. Such an area accounts for almost one-fifth of the cultivated land in the entire Ningxia region. In Ningxia in later generations, the land that could be developed was basically exhausted, and the total cultivated land area was about 16 million mu.

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