Time unknowingly slipped into November.
The cold northwestern wind howled down from the northern Snow Plains, instantly leaving the bustling Chongshan Town much quieter.
The peak of refugees pouring into Chongshan Town had already passed. From early August to the end of October, in just Three Months, more than eight hundred thousand refugees had poured into Chongshan Town.
Eight hundred thousand refugees were settled in the Northern Territory, adding some signs of human habitation to what had once been a desolate stretch of land.
However, compared to the vast Northern Territory, a population of eight hundred thousand was still far from enough to fill it.
Liaodong had always been broad in land and sparse in people, and the Northern Territory was now the same.
A population of eight hundred thousand sounded like a lot, but spread around two cities and three official roads, signs of people still appeared very scarce.
From Chongshan Pass to Heiyun City, from Heiyun City to Fuzhou City, and from Fuzhou City to Songzhou City—these three official roads and the area enclosed by Chongshan Town's former borders were the most fertile stretch of land in the Northern Territory.
Not only was the land fertile, the water sources were abundant as well. Among them were more than a dozen rivers of all sizes, including the Yinghe and the Songyuan River.
Its area was much larger than Pingyuan Province.
Therefore, the eight hundred thousand refugees who had moved into the Northern Territory could actually only develop a small portion of its land.
They could not even reclaim all of this most fertile land, Let Alone the boundless grassland west of Heiyun Mountain.
As the weather grew colder and colder, the number of refugees entering Chongshan Town also became fewer and fewer.
The long lines that had once stretched