In the narrow valley, the wheeled wooden car was parked in a position where it could no longer continue.

A small group of people watched the simple post of the mountain with wood set up with wood, fluttering the flag of Shuntianan people from the car and unloaded the goods from the car and carried them on their bodies, speeding up their pace.

This is the rear of the rebels' most sparse defense. Walking south along this river, you can walk out of the valley and enter Derby County under the control of the Ming army.

There are more than twenty people, including middle-aged men, women and children. They look like several native families in England, but carry baggage that even donkeys and mules are hard to match, and they are moving towards the north step by step.

The man named Wade carried a canvas flour bag on his shoulder, and he also had to carry one on his hand on his other side; the woman carried a basket of supplies such as tents and cloths on her back, and held the child.

The child didn't hold anything on his hands, but he had three armed belts hanging on his neck that were full of ammunition on his knees.

Almost everyone in several families is like this, and they only carry more things than these, and there are no less than these, and some people are still holding horses.

They looked short and thin, pale and hungry, and looked almost dead. They didn't even have the strength to speak, but just marched silently.

When they were tired, they sat on the pebble beach by the river and rested for a while, staring at the flag of Shuntian An People on the hillside, and stood up again and still remained firm.

They were farmers from the barren countryside in the northern part of Derby County. I heard that Liu Ruguo from Shuntian'an Minister Army was trapped in the mountains by Drake and raised food and grass to the north. The armed belts hung on the child's shoulders were sent by the Derby County garrison when they saw them.

Although they were speechless, no one doubted their intentions.

These people are the first registered people in Derby County or today's Derby County.

It can be said that almost everyone who lived in the first batch of people was loyal to the Ming Dynasty.

Because they have no choice.

When the Scottish Legion went south, the villages and towns in various places were looted by the Scottish people, and the nobles raised their troops and forced them to strengthen their people, which greatly reduced the local population.

Then the Scottish Legion was defeated by the Ming army, and the pursued Ming army was killed back. Ying Ming appointed the Beiyang Banner General Banner, who was injured in the battle, to act as the magistrate.

With rough population registration, rough clearing of land and land distribution, peace did not last long.

Then the Drake rebellion once burned the war here, and the administration, economy and agriculture of Derby County suffered huge damage, and the greater harm was to these people who had already been ruled by the Ming army.

Because the Ming army said that the land was distributed to them, except for collecting grain taxes twice a year, as long as the land was not abandoned, it would always belong to them.

Fortunately, the land in the north of Derby County is barren and mostly mountainous. Many people who are afraid of war choose to flee to the mountains to take refuge.

Because they believed that the nobles would definitely let them hand over the land, and might even blame them for it, and that staying would be very likely to be involved in the war.

Not to mention the position of war, except for professional soldiers, most people do not have the courage to stand up in the face of war.

Some elderly people may not regard this as a matter and stay in the villages with expectations for the nobles.

Although the Queen surrendered, who was not angry? This is their country, and their country's army is back!

The war soon ended, and some of the nobles and monks followed Drake's defeated army to other places. Those who did not leave could only hide their names. The thorough military struggle completely destroyed the most traditional feudal rule.

The people hiding in the mountains returned to their hometowns, and there were very few people who stayed there.

Wade just walked step by step until he went deep into the mountains. He and his wife and children were about to starve to death. He finally saw the small leader of the Shuntianan Minyi Army and sent him to Liu Ruguo.

Liu Ruguo never thought that local people would come to deliver food to him.

The rebels did not have much food and grass, but they had not yet reached a shortage. They had a grain road in Sheffield, east of the mountains. The Ming Dynasty's official army would organize civilians to transport grain into the mountains. They also cultivated and planted the mountains, and even raised surplus grains to raise pigs and chickens.

They were just tired of the continuous battles before, and the soldiers needed some time to rest.

Wade didn't send much stuff, six hundred ammunition, more than eight hundred kilograms of grain, and some fragmentary supplies such as tents and cloth. Liu Ruguo's rebel army was short of.

But Liu Ruguo is very grateful, and someone feels very good to support him.

In fact, he wanted to know more about why Wade brought people to deliver food to him... Usually the people avoided them, just like in the land ruled by the English in the Kingdom of Ayland, he could not find any flags and recruit soldiers in the villages. He had to spend a lot of money to follow him.

Not to mention that people don’t spend money, they have sent the food here.

"We thought they would ask, they thought they would scold us and take the land back, they didn't," said Wade.

Liu Ruguo knew that what Wade said was referring to the nobles who fought back with Drake.

"They didn't ask or say, but one day the lord's cavalry suddenly appeared in the field, and used swords and spears to drive away everyone they saw."

"The lord gave the order to let the cavalry kill the peasants who had the dirty and lowly possessed the land."

"Dirty and lowly farmer, ha!"

When Wade spoke of these, he didn't have much sadness on his face, but just curled his lips: "Some survived, were recruited into the army by the lord, and then died in the battle with the Ming army; some people followed the lord to the north."

Wade shook his head, his eyes empty, as if he was recalling the scene he saw when he received the news of the war and fled back to his hometown from the mountain.

"The fields and roads were stained with blood and the bodies were stabbed to death by spears and hung at the entrance of the village gate, in the well and underground, and many people were killed."

These things made Liu Ruguo not know what to say. He thought in his heart that those dead were asking for it themselves - if they accepted the land given by the Ming Dynasty, they should stand with the Ming Dynasty; if they were willing to be loyal to the lord, they should draw a clear line with the Ming Dynasty.

No one could plant the land given by the Ming Dynasty, but followed the lord.

He even wanted to ask, could he enter other shops on this land, put a bunch of things in his arms without paying, and would like to have a good relationship with the owner?

But he could not say that he could not laugh at these English people because they had greed for the benefits of the Ming army and wanted to stand with the nobles again.

All this can only be experienced by them themselves. Although many people will become a price, people will eventually understand.

Liu Ruguo could only say: "The people obtained land, but the Ming Dynasty did not ask for it, but the Ming Dynasty drove away the nobles."

"Sir, please kill those nobles, and you must kill them."

"I have no more, but as long as I can kill the nobles, even if I die, I don't want the nobles to come back."

Liu Ruguo took a deep breath, he nodded slowly, and after a long time he breathed out, he said, "The nobles will not come back, and will never come back."
Chapter completed!