The fifteenth year of the Apocalypse was an unstable year, especially in the eastern continent where droughts occurred, and the Qin Empire also encountered large-scale droughts. In addition to the Jiangnan with dense river networks, even the "imperial granary" supported by several huge lakes could only barely maintain the farmland water use in the areas around the lake. In most areas, large and small agricultural harvests encountered rare harvests in decades, and even lost harvests.

From the south to the north, countries also encountered droughts of varying degrees. All their energy seemed to be focused on how to overcome difficulties and maintain normal production and life. On the one hand, governments of various countries increased their tax collection, and when they were put on the side, they tightened their belts and tried to survive this difficult year. All military operations were automatically stopped, and news of starving people were constantly coming from all over the country. The rulers were facing the dissatisfaction of the people and even uprisings, and they had no intention of thinking about anything else.

Due to the completion of the water conservancy project, Tokugawa County, which is the northwest region under Qin Mu, will introduce various irrigation ditches from the Miluo River, Taiping River and other rivers formed by the melting snow water in the Dahengduan Mountains into various irrigation ditches. The harvest is not only unaffected, but also has a bumper harvest in the spring, and the spring will definitely be a bumper harvest.

Because the Northwest County Government is close to the Hengduan Mountains, many small streams and rivers formed by snow have been introduced into the farmland. In addition, the farmlands in the south and central areas have gradually entered development, so the crop harvest will be greatly improved compared with last year. Qin Mu estimated that only a small amount of food needs from Tokugawa County can meet the needs of the entire Northwest County Gaoshan people. Of course, they must also provide the government with a large amount of high-quality and precious wood for exchange.

The northwest county of Meishan County and Longdong County were not the main sources of food. In addition, social security was chaotic and drought, many hungry people and mobs took advantage of the situation to rise up, colluded with the already rampant bandits and bandits, and looted large merchants in the market towns of the two counties. The situation was precarious, and the security forces of the two counties were insufficient, and they were exhausted to put out fires everywhere, unable to prevent them. Instead, they were attacked by the bandit army. The losses were quite large, and they had to retreat to their respective cities to defend, and they would never dare to leave the city easily.

The riot army was even more like a prairie fire, and the riots in the two counties were one south and one north, echoing each other. Affected by this, even Lishan County, which is close to the center of the empire, began to show an unstable trend.

Although there was no sign of Qin Mu's rule in the area, in order to prevent it, Qin Mu also arranged the First Division and the Second Division of the First County of Tokugawa County in the border areas of Northwest County and Meishan County. Given that the army of Northwest County had not yet been trained, Qin Mu ordered Ding Daniu, deputy commander of the Cavalry Division, to lead the Second Cavalry Brigade of Xiao Yongzhong and Li San's Third Cavalry Brigade to station the border areas of Northwest County and Longdong County to strictly prevent the infiltration of the mob.

At the end of August, Qin Mu went to Northwest County Government to escape the summer heat again and inspected the work of the Northwest County local government in the past few months. Sima Qingqing, Dilena, Xiao Cherry, Mu Ya and other girls also walked with Qin Mu.

Over the past few months, these girls have become good friends who can talk about everything. Dilena has a very harmonious personality. After Sima Qingqing surrendered to Qin Mu's crotch, the girls were about the same age and soon became familiar with each other.

By the end of August, the population of Tokugawa County had soared to more than 5 million, becoming the population base of the major counties in Jiangnan. The drought in various places also promoted the migration of the population to Tokugawa and Tokugawa and Tokugawa counties in disguise. However, Qin Mu was cautious about the population entry of the other counties in the northwest. First, he was worried that mob spies would take the opportunity to infiltrate. In addition, Qin Mu had already included the other counties in the northwest into his own sphere of influence. Sooner or later, it would be his own pocket, so there was no need to move to Tokugawa and Tokugawa counties.

He stroked the pretty face snuggled beside him and teased Sima Qingqing. "Qingqing, why do you explain to your grandfather when you go back this time?"

"Hmph, I'm so embarrassed to say it, go and tell my grandpa yourself."

Although he was already a member of Qin Mu, Sima Qingqing was always a little embarrassed. After all, without the clear consent of his elders, he would lose his body. If the elders pursued him, how could he be embarrassed?

Looking at Sima Qingqing who was a little worried, Qin Mu couldn't help but comfort her: "Anyway, the raw rice has been cooked, and it's useless if your grandfather opposes it. At worst, you can just go back to Tokugawa County with me. What's more, I don't think your grandfather will have any objections. He agrees that you should be prepared for this when you go with me. I'm not a saint."

"Bah, you're so thick-skinned."

He smiled as a shy smile and twisted Qin Mu. Qin Mu dragged her into his arms, and his other hand penetrated into her bust, rubbing the firm bulge freely. Sima Qingqing suddenly collapsed into Qin Mu's arms.

"Master, this is in the carriage." Sima Qingqing gasped and said softly in my ear, "Dilena and the others are watching."

"What's the matter? This carriage has a very good sound insulation effect. As for them, they can't escape after a while."

The girls who had already been moved naturally could not escape Qin Mu's claws, and eventually surrendered to Qin Mu's tyranny. The whole journey was like a romantic journey of love.

When I arrived at Northwest County, I quietly came to the camp of the Second Army stationed in Yinshan Mansion alone. Although it was scorching sun, the four soldiers standing guard at the camp gate held long spears, motionless, and let sweat soak their whole body. From a distance, you can see in the big competition, flags covering the sun, killing sounds shook the sky, and the training was in full swing.

"Stop! Don't get close to you!" Seeing Qin Mu approaching sneakily, the soldiers standing guard were very alert and immediately rushed over with a fierce look.

"It's me!" Qin Mu was admiring the soldiers' vigilance in his heart while answering the soldiers.

"Ah! He is the county magistrate!"

The four soldiers immediately recognized Qin Mulai. They had all received Qin Mu's lectures. Of course, they would not forget the ruler of Tokugawa County and Northwest County, and immediately gave Qin Mu a standard military salute.

Qin Mu also replied with a greeting and told them not to report it, but to just take a look below and let them continue to perform their duties.

Entering the camp area, the eastern half is the training camp of the First Division of the Second Army, and the western half is the training camp of the Fifth Division of the Second Army, and other divisions are stationed in other prefectures and counties in Northwest County.

The First Division was conducting coordinated combat exercises between the infantry gangs. Their basic training was obviously much more skillful than the Second Division in the west. As the commander's small flag waved, the drum beat. The infantry divided into two combat groups launched a charge towards the other side with the cooperation of the cavalry. The formation also changed accordingly. The two sides continued to collide, entangle and then separated. The soldiers of the disrupted formation quickly assembled under the loud command of officers at all levels to re-form the battle formation.

Qin Mu hid under the shade of the trees beside him and observed carefully. Li Dadan did not disappoint his expectations. In just four months, it was not easy to train an army of a large number of new recruits to look like this, but this was also expected by Qin Mu, otherwise Qin Mu would not have handed over such a heavy task to him.

After a while, Qin Mu quietly turned to the west again, and the training here was as hot as the commander. Under the command of the commander, the spearmen kept waving their arms, and the waves were higher and higher, and the flying spears formed a dark cloud; while the heavy armored infantry carried a strong and huge shield in one hand and a sharp long halberd gun in the other hand, constantly repeating a series of movements, squatting, carrying shields, holding guns, and pushing the stabs.

The two weapons that ordinary people have very hard to pick up are so lightweight in the hands of the soldiers of the mountain clan, just like children playing with toys. The heavy and thick armor is not much different from ordinary clothes for them. From these alone, we can see how strong the physical fitness of the mountain clan is, far beyond other races. Not to mention their inherent running ability.

But they also have the same weakness, that is, they are not good at using livestock, especially not riding horses, which may be their biggest flaw, but Qin Mu only needs them to take on the heavy responsibility of starting infantry, as for cavalry, Qin Mu also has a large number of soldiers from other races to be competent.

With the rapid footsteps coming from behind, Qin Mu knew that it was Li Dadan, Wang Dahai, Luo Chen and others. If they had been here for so long, they would not know. Their control over the army was worrying.

At the report meeting held in the city guard's mansion, Zhuge Fang made a speech on behalf of various departments of the Northwest County Government.

Four established towns have been built in the western and southern plains, among which Woyuan Town and Rongchang Town are located in the central and southern plains. The largest settlement of the original Gaoshan tribe in the southern part was named Heping Town to commemorate the conclusion of an agreement there for peace. The western settlement is Jingpo Town. The four towns are guarded by the four elders of the original Gaoshan tribe, and most of the other subordinate staff are selected from the Gaoshan tribe.

More than 500,000 immigrants have moved in from other places, mainly distributed in the eastern and northern Yinong areas. There are also a large amount of unreclaimed wasteland in the northwest county, which is enough to accommodate millions of people to reclaim their lives. The highway from Northwest county to Tokugawa is very fast and is approaching its end. It is estimated that it will be completed in another month.

The road leading to Woyuan Town has been completed, and the road from Woyuan Town to Heping Town is being built. Since this section of the road is mainly mountain roads, the progress is relatively slow. However, once a section of the road is built, precious wood, medicinal materials, mountain goods, wild animals and even minerals on the eastern foot of the Dahengduan Mountains can be transported in a large amount of time, which will effectively promote the development of the south of the northwest county.

The roads from Yinshan Prefecture City to Rongchang Town and Rongchang Town to Jingpo Town have been designed and planned and will be started soon. The opening of these two roads will connect the western and central parts of Northwest County, and the economy of Northwest County will be further improved by then. Speaking of this, even Zhuge Fang, who has always been quiet, couldn't help but be full of enthusiasm, and even I was a little infected.

The economic development is also quite strong. Stimulated by the tax reduction, in the 400 large and small workshops, workshops and shops of all kinds opened in 400 large and small workshops, workshops and shops, and many have expanded production and operation scale.

The fiscal revenue has not only not decreased compared to taxes before, but has also increased, and the growth momentum is still quite strong. The basic construction of farmland water conservancy has been fully launched and is estimated to be completed after crop harvesting in October.
Chapter completed!