Shi Yiming wore a felt hat and crossed the river with several people, and walked towards the Caoshi not far away. Although the Juma River was the border between the Song Dynasty and the Khitan, for the local people, it was just a river. The two banks of the river were theoretically under the jurisdiction of the same county.

The south bank of the river is the two counties of Guixin and Rongcheng under the rule of Xiongzhou in the Song Dynasty. Both counties are attached to Xiongzhou, and the magistrate is the same person, and the county name is just a political declaration. The north bank of the river is the two counties of Guiyi and Rongcheng in the Khitan. Rongcheng has a county town, and Guiyi is attached to Xincheng County. Because this is the Guannan area taken by Emperor Shizong of the Later Zhou Dynasty, and the Khitan did not recognize it, so it set up prefectures and counties like the Song Dynasty. A large number of Song Dynasty people in Xiongzhou actually paid taxes to the Khitan, which is what they call the two households. The servants of the people under their rule were divided into proportion. This has been like this for decades, and the people have long been used to it.

When we arrived at Caoshi, a man said to Shi Yiming: "Brother, what are you buying today? We will bring two chickens there and sell them."

Shi Yiming said, "You can take care of it. I'll go to Caoshi to take a look, and then gather under the big willow tree there in the afternoon."

After saying that, he took a big strode and headed towards the grass market.

Several people came together and were not very familiar with them, and others didn't care about him.

After entering Caoshi, Shi Yiming looked left and then looked again, and did not buy anything. In a short while, the small Caoshi had already finished shopping.

After buying a cake and eating it, Shi Yiming looked at the people in Cao Market and thought of his ideas. Seeing a fish seller, he sold his goods and went to a tea shop next to Cao Market to have tea. Shi Yiming followed him.

Sitting down next to the fish seller, Shi Yiming ordered a pot of tea, took a sip, and said, "This tea is a little astringent."

The fish-selling man saw that there was no one around and said, "This brother, drinking tea in the grass market is just to quench his thirst. Where can I get good tea?"

Shi Yiming nodded: "That's right. Even if there is good tea in a grass market, few people can afford it."

After saying that, he bowed and said, "I don't know what my brother is called? Where is the man?"

The fish seller said: "I am Zhang Fang, a local family, who cultivates the fields in the south to make a living. I wonder if my brother's surname is Gao?"

Shi Yiming said: "When I was in the next surname, I had a single name called Tai. I met my brother today, which is really a blessing in my life."

These are all polite words, and Zhang Fang didn't care. He asked Shi Yiming to move a stool to sit with him and talk about gossip. Today, the fish buyer was a bit slow, and Zhang Fang was happy.

Shi Yiming sat next to Zhang Fang and said casually: "I wonder what kind of business my brother is here to go to Caoshi today?"

Zhang Fang said: "Yesterday, a water pit near my home was on a whim. I caught a few fish inside. There was no market on both sides. Today I went to the grass market and bought some tea vinegar. Don't laugh at me in the countryside."

Shi Yiming said: "Brother, good luck! We will farm like this, who will laugh."

The two of them talked for a while, and Shi Yiming said, "Does my brother live in the south? I heard that two months ago, there was a group of Khitans who escaped from the service there and escaped. The yamen was placed on the south bank of Nanyishui."

Zhang Fang laughed and said, "This is a good thing. I am a farmer and I didn't know about this either. It happened that I had some interaction with them a few days ago and only learned about this. These Khitans escaped, so they were really lucky."

When Shi Yiming heard this, he was secretly happy and said hurriedly: "Why did my brother say that? I heard that these people fled, and the Khitans in the north were earthquakes. The Khitans were exempted from taxes and stopped building cities. In this way, weren't they in vain?"

Zhang Fang said: "Brother has a little knowledge. For the court, these people flee south, they naturally have to gather together. The south of Nanyishui has set a lot of free land for them, and they have waived three years of money and grain. Not counting this, they have loaned them farm tools, oxen, seeds, and no profit. You don't know that the farm tools of these people are all carefully made by the Xiangzhou Iron Supervisor in the south, which is not common. I have seen them a few days ago, and they are really sharp for digging, and I don't know how much effort it has been saved. You must know that only in the shopping malls in Hejian Prefecture in the south can these things be sold. Where have we, the country people, have seen them? Just these, you know that these people are all lucky."

"So that's it! These people are lucky." Shi Yiming nodded, not knowing what Zhang Fang was saying. Those new farm tools were not new in the Song Dynasty, but they were made of good steel and were forbidden to be sold abroad. Xiongzhou is on the border, and it is a remote countryside, and farmers have never seen them. Shi Yiming, opposite the Juma River, didn't know what it was.

Zhang Fang said: "In my opinion, there are government agencies who lend farm tools and plow oxen to these people. They will be able to grow food next year. They will be exempted from taxes for three years, but from next year, how profitable! You said these people will suffer good luck?"

Shi Yiming said repeatedly: "What my brother said is that these people still have this blessing. I heard from people that after they fled, the Khitan stopped the service and thought they had just left and memorized. By the way, brother, where do they live?"

Zhang Fang said: "This Cao City goes south and reaches the edge of Nanyi Water. More than ten miles away from Xiongzhou City, there is a small ferry. After passing the ferry, three or five miles southwest, they live. I heard that there are more than 300 people, divided into five villages, where they reclaim fields."

Shi Yiming was ecstatic when he heard this. He only knew that the Khitan people who fled south were placed south of Nanyishui, but he didn't know. He received a reward from the government, and as long as he found out the news, he would have a reward of ten cents. It was because of the money that Shi Yiming crossed the river and came here to inquire about the news.

Yiming had been here twice a few days ago. However, the news in this era is really not well-informed, and no one knows about things dozens of miles away. But I didn’t expect that I finally met today, and someone knew where they were. The route was so clear. When I went back to report to the government, I would get ten coins of money.

This is even more true for all kinds of people in the world, even more so in Youzhou. Since the Anshi Rebellion, it has been independent and the court has no control over the place. It is even more true for Shijingtang to offer it to the Khitan. After a hundred years, it has no relationship with the Central Plains court, and the people under the rule are different. Some people who are interested in the Central Plains court, some are only concerned about their own lives, and of course some are also interested in the Khitan. But the most is that they only care about their own lives and ignore what court belongs to. Which one can give money to make them live a good life is a good court.

Shi Yiming had no concept of family and country. He only knew that the current government was Khitan, and he could get rewards for their work. Zhixing was originally a Han Chinese, so he should be interested in the Song Dynasty, but Shi Yiming was bullshit in his ears.

It is summer and autumn, and the water of the Juma River is huge, and the Khitan has no choice. But he has always kept the matter of more than 300 people in his heart. He asked the Song Dynasty many times but failed, but the magistrate Yang Ji thought of taking it himself. He just waited for winter, after the Juma River freezes, and sent thousands of troops across the river and took these people back.

Now August is approaching, and winter is approaching. Yang Ji ordered his subordinates to inquire about the news about the Song people. However, the Song Dynasty made extremely strict defenses in the border areas. I only heard that it was south of the Nanyishui River, but I didn't know the location.
Chapter completed!