After listening to Xie Sheng's explanation, Zhou Xian suddenly understood a little.

In this era, the productivity is low and the people who are truly able to move are basically rich. Those poor households who have nothing can not even get the money and food for moving, and most of them can only stay in the local area for slaughter.

Moreover, who can guarantee that moving to a new place will definitely be better than the original place. Also, there are thieves and bandits on the road, and the danger is sometimes far higher than staying in the local area.

In addition, the Chinese people have a peaceful and relocated personality. In the troubled times, most of the time they choose to passively accept it. They will not move unless they have to.

At this moment, the north was in chaos, and the number of people who were leaving their homes and homes in the south increased. However, the proportion of poor people here was less than 30% of the total number, and most of them were the people of Hejian Prefecture near Shandong.

The reason why they were willing to come to Shandong south was not entirely because of the war, but also because the situation in Shandong was much better than that in Hebei.

The regulations of the Shandong Governor's Office.

Anyone who is literate and willing to settle in Shandong will give them ten taels of silver to settle down. They will provide them with accommodation, choose the best of them, join the army, manage the military supplies, or teach in the newly established college.

Ordinary people who are willing to join the army will be given priority as long as they meet the standards. Even if these two options are not available, mines, salt farms, shipyards, road construction and canal construction, they are all their places to go.

The second most, the government will also provide them with a certain amount of rice and grain. Not much, but it is mostly unpalatable coarse grains, but at least it can barely keep them alive.

From the fall of the capital to the present, nearly one million people have entered Shandong from the north or Henan. Some of them only go to the south through Shandong, but due to geographical reasons, there are still many people left behind.

The resettlement of them took a lot of money and food, and the number of troops expanded has been reduced a lot.

Zhou Xian initially wanted to form an absolute advantage over the Qing army through large-scale recruitment, but now he can only take the elite troops route.

At present, in Shandong Liu Konghe, Tan Shimai, Yang Yan, and the four armies under the rule of 10,000 Yuan Ji, only Yang Yan's northern route is full, with more than 29,000 people. The remaining three armies have a total strength of more than 50,000. In addition, the scale of expanding new recruits has also been reduced, with only less than 20,000 new soldiers.

Xie Sheng said, "The people in Shandong are simple and kind, and they are not so resistant to outsiders. But it is inevitable that there are some conflicts between them. There are small fuss every three days and big fuss every five days, and the fuss every day is uneasy. Most of the people are placed in Enxian, Lingxian, and Pingyuan near Dezhou, and these places are all areas under the jurisdiction of Xiaguan."

Zhou Xian smiled faintly and said, "There must be a period of time to adapt. As long as you do things fairly and try to resolve the conflicts between them, I believe that there will be a peaceful world soon."

Seeing that Xie Sheng was still trying to say something again, Zhou Xian waved his hand gently, "Xie Zhizhou, the difficulties you are facing here have not been thought of. In fact, Chen Zilong has begun to organize the land left by King De and King Lu, and build houses there to build land. At most half a month, he will start to move people to Jinan and Jining. You should work harder during this period!"

Seeing Zhou Xian turn around and walk to the side, Xie Sheng sighed softly. At this moment, suddenly, his hands were placed on his shoulders. He turned his head and saw that it was Yang Yan.

"Xie Zhizhou, the supervisor considers big things, so there is no need to bother him. I will assign a thousand soldiers from the camp and call them as you want. At that time, whoever dares to make trouble will arrest them and clean up, and ensure that they will be honest."

Xie Sheng was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "It would be great if things were so simple. But the Xiaguan side was indeed short of staff. It would be great if Deputy General Yang could provide one thousand people. However, please ask Deputy General Yang to make an agreement to them in advance and everything must be followed by the Xiaguan's instructions."

Yang Yan nodded gently, "Okay." After saying that, he stepped towards Zhou Xian.

Zhou Xian looked at the soldiers on the opposite side of the rebels and suddenly pointed to the front and asked Yang Yan, "Mingda, if I want you to cross the river to attack, is it easy to take them down?"

Yang Yan was stunned for a moment, seeing that Zhou Xian was not joking, and he was silent for a while, saying, "After the Self-English Army sent a fleet to help carry them to sea, the thieves were less prepared for us, and even the three thousand elite soldiers led by Nanpi Li Laiheng were taken away. The opposite side and the surrounding ones were only one thousand thieves, and they could be cleaned up in a moment."

Zhou Xian nodded and continued to ask, "What if they can't be killed!"

Yang Yan replied: "It's easy. Let our soldiers cross the river at night. Only more than 2,000 people are enough to scare them away. Then more floating bridges can be built and the army can kill them directly. From here to the city of Tianjin, there are not many thieves. But the commander-in-chief, have we reached an agreement with the thieves and will not fight within five years?"

Zhou Xian smiled faintly and said, "I don't plan to fight with them, I just want to go to Tianjin. Let's not talk about this, the matter has not been finalized yet! Is there any new information about the war in the Northland over Ding Keze?"

Yang Yan said: "Li Zicheng and Dorgon fought several major wars near Shimen Town. Each had their own victory or defeat, and no one could do anything to each other. Li Laiheng led 3,000 elite soldiers to set off from Dagukou to intercept the Tartars' food route, went ashore to the east of Shanhaiguan and fought several small battles with the Tartars, burning some of their food and grass."

"Wait,..., east?" Zhou Xian looked puzzled.

Yang Yan nodded with certainty, "It's east, and there are not many people sent each time. The subordinates infer that Li Laiheng may have wanted to lure the Qing army out of Shanhaiguan, so that they can attack Shanhaiguan directly from the west."

Zhou Xian smiled and said, "Haha, Li Laiheng is not very old, but he has a lot of ideas. Are they staying there now? Has the army been staying on the ship?"

Yang Yan shook his head, "They have been scattered and hiding on several small islands far away from the coast. The Tartars have no navy and cannot find their whereabouts. And it is not far from Shanhaiguan, and it only takes half a day to get to the vicinity of Shanhaiguan. Our army's information about them will be sent back now."

Zhou Xian nodded, "Where are Wu Sangui, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen and others!"

Yang Yan shook his head, "They were like an agreement, and everyone was still holding on, just watching Li Zicheng and Dorgon fighting to the death there."

Zhou Xianxi smiled and said, "This is normal. These people are busy with each other. They will not easily vote on either side until the winner is decided."
Chapter completed!