After thinking about it, Du Zhongxiao said, "You are also people of the court. Life is difficult, and the court cannot sit idly by. However, the volcanic army cannot be restrained than a place. If you want to be attached, you cannot live in the same tent as before. There is indeed some idle land in the territory, but it cannot be grazed. It is better to be reclaimed as farmland. The families you attached to must be under the stewardship of the land and also serve as rural soldiers."

Xiangbu felt a little embarrassed when he heard this: "If this is the case, it is not a small person who can make the decision. Let's go back and discuss with the clan elders."

"It's okay, you can discuss it and find me at the yamen. This time, I came to Dongjiazhai and met a few businessmen I knew before and asked them to drink tonight. If you have nothing to do, leave a few drinks together and talk about gossip."

Xiangbu was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him. It was rare for him to have such an opportunity as a young leader of the foreign tribe.

In Du Zhongxiao's memory of his previous life, Shanxi and Shaanxi were absolute Han areas, and even became common sense. But in this era, there were not necessarily a large number of foreign tribes on the north side of Shaanxi Road and Hedong Road, mainly Dangxiang. In fact, from a bloody perspective, these people may not be Hu people, and there were a large number of Han people who were originally Huhua. In addition, Dangxiang was originally a Qiang people, while Han, Tibetan and Qiang originated from the same origin, and the tribes of these foreign tribes were unclear.

From the Han Dynasty to expand the Western Regions, from the Central Plains to Hexi, the Han people were the main ones. Later, the Jin Dynasty moved south, and a large number of Hu people went south, especially the Xianbei Northern Wei ruled for a long time, and slowly began to transform into Hu. By the end of the Tang and Five Dynasties, Shaanxi Road was dominated by Venerables except Guanzhong. In the north of Hedong Road and Hebei Road to the east, there was a region where Han and Hu lived in the mixed areas, with Han people dominating the plains and Fan Hu people in the mountains. The Song Dynasty always aimed at Youyan. In addition to geographical strategic reasons, Han people were the more important factor.

In Du Zhongxiao's previous life, the Volcanic Army was the core area of ​​the Han people, with very few ethnic minorities. But in this era, there were very few Han people. In addition to the population that came with the garrison, they were scattered farmers who were cultivated in the river valley area. The 3,000 households included many familiar households.

The Song Dynasty was one of the narrowest distribution periods of Han people since the Han Dynasty. Many things that Du Zhongxiao thought were taken for granted in his previous life were not applicable in this era. For example, the three routes along the border were the core areas of the Han people in the past life. In this era, the foreigners and Han people lived in mixed places, and most of the places were not mainly Han people. Yuan Hao rebelled with Yin and Xia states as the core. If the Song Dynasty wanted to attack there, it had to travel through non-Han areas hundreds or even thousands of miles. The small bodhis tribes in the middle surrendered and rebelled, and the situation was very complicated. The difficulty in attacking the Dangxiang tribes was not only caused by the inconvenience of transportation caused by geographical conditions, but also away from the core areas of the Han people. To solve the problem in this area, in addition to military victory, it also had to consolidate the sinicization of these small bodhis tribes.

The first problem that Du Zhongxiao faced from the Volcanic Army to explore north was the lack of manpower. For the foreign tribes, the policy of the Song Dynasty allowed it to have a certain degree of independence, conflicts followed the laws of the foreign laws and regulations, without the use of court laws. The problem caused was that the foreign people were not fully sinicized and difficult for the court to use.

Seeing that it was dark, Du Zhongxiao ordered Tao Shiqi to call Feng Yuan and others, and then set up a banquet at his residence.

Shisanlang mentioned a big carp and smiled at Du Zhongxiao and said, "Officials, we only found out that they have good fish from the volcanic army these days. I heard that this fish was the best when the Yellow River was iced in spring. The season is not right now, so I had to eat it barely."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "The Yellow River has always produced good fish, but I don't know how to cook fish here, so there are not many people eating it. I think the fish is fat. You can clean it, cut it into large pieces, and stir-fry it. Since we arrived here, we will eat some steamed cakes every day and stir-fry it, and we must not have a drop of oil in our mouths. It is really hard to bear."

Shisanlang agreed loudly, carried the fish in one hand, and ran to the kitchen with Tao Shiqi.

Watching the two left, Du Zhongxiao preached to Feng Yuan and Xiang: "The food in the north has always been rough and not as fine as the capital. Even if there are good things, they cannot make delicious food. Today you are blessed. I have prepared some good noodles and good stir-fry here, so I will be drunk."

Feng Yuan said: "What the officials said is that the young man had never been to the capital and was only in Bingzhou, so he felt that the food there was really delicious. When he arrived at the Khitan, he only had soup cakes and meat, which was really crude and difficult to swallow."

Du Zhongxiao nodded: "Whether the place is prosperous or not, it depends on the food first. When the people live a good life, they must be particular about food and make it fine. Of course, like the capital, they often use silverware and eat dozens of dishes at a time, which is too extravagant."

Xiangbu couldn't help but smacked her tongue: "My God, how can I finish a meal with dozens of dishes? I heard that the Han people eat less, why are there all big belly men in the capital? We usually eat, and it's great to cook a few pieces of meat."

Du Zhongxiao said: "There are more dishes, just a fewer dishes, but they are made fine."

Xiangbu shook his head repeatedly, unable to imagine how many dishes would be available in a meal. He lived for decades and had been to a prosperous place like Dongjiazhai. The dishes he had eaten were only a dozen of them at most.

Not long after, the entourage set up a wooden table in the yard and brought out wine and vegetables. These days, they had eaten too monotonously, and Du Zhongxiao felt the corners of his mouth were dry and cracked, and his body was inflamed, and he couldn't bear it. Dongjiazhai is a big place in this area and could buy wine, meat and vegetables. Du Zhongxiao specifically ordered that today be made more refined, especially a few vegetables.

People who live here all year round do not think that if people from the Central Plains eat less vegetables, they will suffer from small problems such as the corners of their mouths due to lack of vitamins. Du Zhongxiao's mouth has become ulcerated these days, so he knows that he should eat some fresh vegetables and supplement vitamins.

The first served was a large pot of noodles. There were also noodles in this era, which was a kind of soup cake, but it was made too rough. There were no varieties that were dazzling in later generations, and the noodles were not good, and they were also light soup and no noodles, which made people feel afraid. The noodles were fine and even, especially when served in a bowl and added a spoonful of large bones, which was extremely delicious. In this place, noodles are the most suitable food, with enough pasta to fill the stomach, and you can also add vegetables and meat, which is both simple and quick and delicious.

Xiangbu looked at a large bowl of noodles placed in front of him, soaked in thick soup, with a few large pieces of meat on it, and decorated with chopped green onion and coriander, and couldn't help swallowing. He couldn't help but pointing to Du Zhongxiao and said, "The young man has lived for decades and has never seen such exquisite food. To be honest, with this bowl of soup cakes, the young man will eat and drink."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and said, "This is just a normal food. First, I can drink it. You can see this, but you have never eaten any other foods. If you are used to eating this noodles, you will want to eat other foods, buns, wontons, and delicious foods."

Xiangbu sighed: "After all, the Han people can do their life. How can we, the villains in the mountains, have such careful thoughts? It is a day like heaven to eat when you can eat it every day. There is no way, the mountains are barren and poor, and occasionally there are some grains on flat land, but I can't harvest much. A family of cattle and sheep that rely on raising livelihoods to change their salt and clothes, but they are reluctant to eat them."

Du Zhongxiao said: "It's the same, it's not easy to do anything. But no matter what, it's always easier to farm. In places like this, where there are a wide range of land, as long as you are diligent, you won't go hungry."

Xiangbu nodded repeatedly, thinking about moving to the plains even more. The life of herders is very hard. Seeing that there are many cattle and sheep, there are not many families who can afford it. If the cattle and sheep had not died accidentally, they rarely slaughtered meat. They all went to the plains to exchange food and clothing with farmers to survive the long winter. Xiangbu was a young leader and could not eat meat a few times a year, and his life was not as good as that of the farmers in the Central Plains.
Chapter completed!