In March, when the various units of the Zhendong Army entered the Mutsu area and attacked the county towns and gates of Mutsu with battalions as units, Fu Qian led the 200 archers of Xuanfu to set out from Xiongsheng Castle (Tianxiong Castle) and rushed southeast for 300 li to conquer Taga Castle.

Subsequently, Fu Qian was appointed as the lord of Tianxiong City, Taga City was renamed New Qi City, and set up a stone stele, the stone tablet on the clouds, Qi people in order to solve the trouble of pirates, educate Ezo, not far from the east to cross the wild land, Kuang Shi to help the world, so set up a stele with this, to show future generations.

Subsequently, Lu Ning moved to Xinqi City.

As most of the prefectures of Dewa Province and the prefectures north of Shinqi Castle in Mutsu Province changed hands, the offensive of the Eastern Expeditionary Army gradually stopped.

Because they were all newly conquered lands, the Zhendong Army also had to assign troops to garrison in various counties to defend the city and the county guard.

The position of Donglai Castle (Akita) was important, and it was also the retreat of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, with two battalions and 1,000 troops and horses stationed.

Each of the six counties of Tenxiong Castle, Tanba Castle, Iji Castle, Gallazawa Castle, Tokutan Castle, and Momo Castle was stationed with a battalion of soldiers.

The other counties guard the gate, that is, the population of the gate, most of them are stationed in one city with hundreds of soldiers, and a few are stationed in two or even three capitals.

Of course, the city and gate of Xinde County have also been renamed for it.

And each city appointed a lord for his exploits.

At present, the military forces stationed in each city and each gate naturally adopt a high-pressure posture to make the residents of the He tribe and the cooked Ezo and the prisoner group submit, and the city lords of each city will recruit their own security forces from the local natives, and wait for the new structure under the rule of the Qi people to stabilize, except for the urgent place where the officers and soldiers are still needed, the rest of the cities and gates will be taken over by the armed forces of the city lords, and even in the future, once the southern expedition is made, the city lords can also be recruited as auxiliary troops and even the brave ones are incorporated into the official army.

In this way, it will not be a war of attrition of the Zhendong Army, and the soldiers will not become fewer and fewer as they fight.

Two battalions were also stationed in the Tsugaru area, the northernmost part of Honshu Island, near the Gulf of Hokkaido, to deter the uncultivated barren Ezo in the northern part of Honshu Island.

In this way, there are five mobile battalions left under Yang Ye's command, and the soldiers of the five battalions are stationed in the northernmost upper gate of the Dewa country, echoing the east and west of Taga City.

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Shinki Castle is modeled after the layout of the former Tang Dynasty, and the layout of these large cities on Toei Island, including Heiankyo, is the same, and of course, over time, various municipalities with local characteristics of Toei have gradually formed.

In fact, with the northward movement of the Japanese tribe's crusade against Ezo, the original military stronghold function of Shinki Castle gradually weakened, but the population became more and more, and gradually formed a grain production and animal husbandry center with the surrounding villages, which was later called the Sendai Plain, and the population of this area is now as high as 40,000 or 50,000, and the population is densely populated in the area of Mutsu Dewa, which can be called the first.

In addition, as the political and economic center of the northeastern part of Honshu Island, trade is also very prosperous.

Lu Ning is now in a town more than 30 miles away from Xinqi City.

The formation of this town can be called both a shukuba town and a monzen town.

The so-called shukuba town is a post system that learned from the Tang Dynasty in the Nara period, and post stations were also set up in various places, and some large post stations were located, and the population gradually gathered to become a shukuba town, and usually shukuba towns have facilities such as inns, horse houses, and shops.

In Monzen Town, the market in front of temples and shrines slowly forms into markets and settlements.

Lu Ning is in this town, is the Nara period in order to convey the Tohoku conquest of the Ezo military information set up a post station, was abandoned, but became one of the transit stations into the Tohoku region of the business, and more than 100 years ago, the great monk Jijue built the temple here, near the new Qi City, pilgrims come to worship continuously, the market in front of the temple is also prosperous, but also an important reason for the gradual formation of this town.

Nowadays, this town is called Seiryu Town, and there are two classes of samurai stationed to maintain order, and after the initial chaos, the town is gradually returning to peace, as if it is no different from before.

Lu Ning is now in the izakaya compartment of Yaijuku, the most famous lodging in this town, drinking the fine wine of the Central Plains and tasting the fresh sea, which feels good.

Ichiro Ohno Mori knelt beside him in a regular manner, but it was good that [Yoyo Reading fo] seemed to be a little guy waiting for Lu Ning to eat.

On the mat or opposite the tatami mat, kneeling sat a trade merchant of the East China Sea Baixing, called Jin Mori Xing, but he was a Korean, he had just joined the East China Sea Baixing not long ago, he had a very bright brain, and started by secretly smuggling merchants with the Dongying people on Tsushima Island, and was captured and imprisoned by the Goryeo government, and was originally sentenced to death.

The Tokai Hyakyoku had a very keen sense of smell, and soon after the Eastern Expeditionary Army conquered Akita Castle, the merchant ships arrived in Akita, and the traders who led the team used Kanemori, who was very familiar with the Dongying trade.

And Kanamori Xing was not afraid of hardships, not only wanted to stop at Akita Castle or Donglai Castle to distribute goods to Japanese merchants, but personally landed with a caravan, traveled more than 400 miles, and arrived at Xinqi City.

Of course, the overseas trade of the East China Sea Baixing was guarded by private soldiers, because the East China Sea Baixing belonged to the royal family, and its guards were usually called the Royal Sea Guards, and because they usually wore crimson cloth armor, they were also called Red Shirt Guards.

Generally speaking, the redshirts are mostly brave and ruthless, and they don't have to think about strategy and tactics, they are just bodyguards and sailors, in addition to dealing with pirates, sometimes landing in some unstable ports to protect the cargo before the transaction.

And because the line from Donglai City to Xinqi City is now nominally under the jurisdiction of the Qi Andong Protectorate, it will enter the inland for hundreds of miles, and even transport goods from the west coast of this Izuwa to the east coast of Mutsu.

When Lu Ning heard that the merchants of the East China Sea Baixing actually transported goods to Xinqi City, and heard that this Jin Sen did all kinds of things, he admired him very much, and came to this Qinglong Town to inspect, so he also brought him here.

Of course, the goods transported to here by the East China Sea Baixing are mainly cotton cloth, ceramics and other handicrafts with higher and higher production efficiency and extremely lucrative profits, this kind of wine is considered a treasure, but it can only be sold at a high price when it is sold to Heianjing, so there are not many that are transported to Donglai City, and there are luxury goods such as candy, and now almost all of them are bought by Lu Ning.

Jin Senxing is also extremely curious about this money-throwing Wen Zongyuan.

Overseas, Donghai Baixing can accept banknotes from the three places in the Central Plains in any country, regardless of how the banknotes come from, after all, the leading businessmen of Donghai Baixing, where can they not distinguish the authenticity of banknotes? The intention of this move is to build momentum for the credit of Zhongyuan banknotes overseas, of course, very few overseas traders will receive Zhongyuan banknotes today.

Lu Ning, who traded with Jinsen Bank, used Bianjing banknotes.

Jin Senxing was even more curious about what this Wen Zongyuan was doing when he brought paper money to Dongying, as if he had known that there was such a trade.

Originally, there were a lot of questions, but tasting wine and enjoying fresh food, the momentum of this General Academy of Literature was not angry and arrogant, so that Jin Morixing couldn't ask the words he wanted to ask, and in the end, he couldn't even eat fresh food, as if eating on the table with this General Academy of Literature was disrespectful to this General Academy of Literature.

Outside the curtain, there was a gurgling voice, it was the boss of Yaijuku, asking a few distinguished guests what else they wanted?

Lu Ning came here, although he didn't use the identity of the General Academy, but he and Jin Sen were dressed in the original clothes, which was enough to make the boss of Bajingsu doubly careful.

For them, the Qi people are more noble than those ministers of Heianjing.