In order to facilitate four-wheeled carts entering and leaving the iron yard in Dongshan, Liu Heng had people widen all the roads in Dongshan as early as the Dongshan Chamber of Commerce was established.
Especially the road from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain can accommodate two large vehicles running in parallel.
Yang Yuncheng led a team of people and quickly cleared half of the road down the mountain, leaving half of the road for the families of the miners to use.
After doing all this, some people were left behind to guard the road to prevent the family members of the miners coming down the mountain from unknowingly occupying the entire road again.
Yang Yuncheng arranged for one of his men to deliver a message to Du Yan, while he stayed at the intersection connecting Dongshan to the official road and waited.
The miners and miners' families who were preparing to evacuate to the grassland with the Tiger Flag did not stop because of the imminent arrival of soldiers and horses from the Lingqiu garrison camp, and continued to evacuate from Dongshan step by step.
"Chief of Staff, the second batch of evacuated miners is ready. Should we hit the road now?" the staff officer who registered the evacuees asked Ye Yuncheng.
Ye Yuncheng looked at the loaded four-wheeled carts in front of him and said, "Continue to evacuate as planned."
"Really evacuate? No need to wait?" the staff officer said hesitantly.
When the Foreign Intelligence Bureau personnel sent the news to Ye Yuncheng, he was at the side and knew that the Lingqiu garrison camp had been dispatched and was heading towards Dongshan.
Ye Yuncheng shook his head and said: "I know what you are worried about. Don't worry about it. Our task is to arrange the evacuation of the miners and their families as soon as possible. Others will naturally handle other matters."
"Yes, my subordinates will arrange for the convoy to leave immediately." When the staff officer heard that someone would solve the problem of the Lingqiu garrison camp, he felt relieved and began to arrange the evacuation of the second batch of personnel.
tread! tread! tread!
The sound of horse hooves came from the direction of the mountain.
Ye Yuncheng looked back when he heard the sound and saw several riders riding horses on the way down the mountain.
These riders are the cuirassiers of the Tiger Flag. They are wearing black half-plate armor and are very easy to recognize.
At this time, when these riders came down the mountain, he knew that they should be the sentry riders sent by Du Yan to investigate the situation of the garrison camp.
Just as he thought.
Not long after these horses left, a large group of soldiers and horses came down the mountain from the mountain.
A road down the mountain is divided into two halves in the middle.
On one side are ordinary miners and miners' families, on the other side is the new army camp formed by some of the miners' heavy troops.
Compared with the chaos of ordinary miners and their families on the road, the military camp going down the mountain on the other side was much more orderly.
Even though many of the newly established soldiers and horses camp were miners not long ago, with the establishment of the soldiers and horses camp, everyone put on soldiers' armor, and the team suddenly became more orderly.
Standing at the intersection going down the mountain and looking up, it seems like you can see two distinct streams.
"That boy is not the second boy from the third uncle's family. Why is he wearing a suit of armor? What is he going to do?" A woman on the way down the mountain saw a familiar face in the team on the other side of the road.
A miner walking with the woman said: "I heard that the second boy was left to join a military camp. I didn't expect it to be true."
"Master, you are not working in the same iron yard with the second boy, how come you are not left behind!" The woman looked at the miners beside her.
The miners on the side looked embarrassed.
He wanted to stay, but unfortunately they didn't want him.
"That's great. I heard that soldiers who become Tiger Flag soldiers have to eat and drink every day, and at the end of the month they will still have one tael of silver to pay." The woman said enviously.
The miner on the side said: "You have to work hard to be a soldier. Maybe you will never come back when you reach the battlefield. It is better to be a miner. At least you don't have to worry about losing your life."
"Miners are such shit. They work so hard every day and can't make much money. If it hadn't been for the tiger flag coming later, our family might have died on the mountain long ago." The woman glanced at the man next to her. .
Before Hu Ziqi came to Dongshan to build iron furnaces, the miners on the mountain were engaged in heavy physical labor every day, and they had no food or water, and the living conditions were very poor. Many miners could no longer survive after their prime of life, and they could barely survive. All diseases.
Moreover, after working as a miner for a lifetime, it is difficult to save a little money.
This situation did not begin to change until the tiger-character flag appeared in Dongshan.
First of all, in terms of food, it has changed from two meals to three meals, one of which guarantees the oil and water of the meal. Although it is often just some pigs and sheep, it is much better than the meal in advance.
In addition, the wages have also increased, and the miners' lives have become obviously better.
It is precisely because the iron yards of Hu Zi Banner treat miners many times better than those treated by the former iron yard owners that the miners are willing to go to the grassland with Hu Zi Banner.
After being used to living a good life, no one wants to live the precarious and miserable life before.
"You can farm the land if you don't want to be a miner, didn't the people in the Tiger Character Banner say that? On the grassland, as long as you don't want to be a miner, you can allocate land to us for farming." When the miner said this, his eyes were shining.
The allure of the land was too great for him.
The woman who heard this had a smile on her face and said, "That's right. We will never work as miners again when we go to the grassland. If we plant a few acres of land, we will live in such a beautiful life that even a god would not change it. "
Among the evacuated miners, there were also some who had the same idea as these two people. They wanted to work on the grassland for a while and live a life where their wives and children were on the hot bed.
No one would suspect that they went to the grassland and had no share of the land.
There is too much free land on the grassland. Although much of it is wasteland, it can still be turned into mature farmland after just two years of cultivation.
Moreover, miners have long gone to the grassland with the Tiger Flag.
Some of the first batch of miners to go to the grassland also sent news to people they knew well in Dongshan, telling some about the situation on the grassland.
Therefore, the miners here in Dongshan are not ignorant of the situation on the grassland.
We know that Tiger Character Banner also has an iron farm on the grassland, which also needs miners, and a large area of land, and the harvest from these lands does not need to pay taxes to the court.
More importantly, with the Tiger Flag, the Mongolians living on the grasslands no longer dare to bully the Han people as they did before.
The soldiers and horses coming down from the east mountain can go down the mountain faster than ordinary miners.
Soon, the soldiers and horses at the forefront had appeared on the official road after going down the mountain, and there was a steady stream of soldiers and horses coming from behind.
Du Yan followed the team to the foot of the mountain on horseback and said to Ye Yuncheng who was guarding the intersection: "Chief of Staff, you can arrange for the miners to evacuate. I am here at the garrison camp and will not delay the normal evacuation here."
"Okay, I will arrange for the evacuees to evacuate as soon as possible. You should also take care." Ye Yuncheng raised his fist towards Du Yan.
Du Yan nodded, then turned his horse's head and chased the team.
