Lin Ziran's control of Sanyang Town did not cause too many waves, mainly because Lin Ziran chose the timing and method more ingeniously.

He didn't just go into Sanyo Town with his troops, although he had intended to do so in the first place.

However, the actual situation was that after the Sixth Brigade and the Provisional Brigade fought to the death, and by the way, the local town guards were also killed, and they entered Sanyang Town when it was completely empty.

The whole process was met with no resistance, and even the support of the locals.

In the follow-up, Lin Ziran did not say that he would directly rule Sanyang Town in too many ways, such as replacing one of his own people as the town guard and completely controlling the local civil affairs.

Lin Ziran didn't even collect expenses such as defense fees.

Instead, it was indirectly controlled in the name of rebuilding the town guard.

In this way, for the people of Sanyang Town, that is, there are hundreds of troops stationed at the kerosene wharf outside the town, and they don't even enter the city, and it is still the local town guards who guard Sanyang Town.

For the people of Sanyang Town, the subsequent changes in Sanyang Town are not big, and they have also maintained the local situation after the war, especially law and order.

If they had to say it, they hated the Sixth Brigade and the Provisional Brigade even more for using Sanyo Town as a battlefield.

The smooth handling of Sanyang Town made Lin Ziran more confident.

He plans to do the same in his subsequent expansions.

Directly entering the local area in the name of the regular army garrison, and then using various means to incorporate the local militia group, there may be some resistance in the process, so Lin Ziran must deal with it more carefully.

This is not to say that there is a fear of military defeat, which is actually unlikely.

What Lin Ziran was worried about was the political reaction, such as the reaction of Feng Haozhong of the Third Division, the reaction of the towns and the county, and more importantly, the reaction of the Cheng family and the Jian family.

Before, he was just neutral, and neither the Cheng family nor the Jian family said anything, nor did they force themselves to favor either side of them.

However, now he has begun to expand, even in the name of the regular army garrison, but any discerning person can see that he Lin Ziran is going to expand his territory.

After the Cheng family or the Jian family won the struggle, would they admit or acquiesce to their expansion?

Instead of taking an overreaction?

This is what Lin Ziran is worried about, and at the same time, this is why Lin Ziran is ready to take a more moderate and indirect approach, for example, Lin Ziran plans to retain the local town guard after capturing several surrounding towns, and he is not ready to meddle in local civil affairs, and even taxes are still paid to the top.

What Lin Ziran needs is only to incorporate local militia groups from all over the country, and then raise the army in the name of famous regiments, and at the same time, it is also to expand the defensive depth of Qingshan Town, and take down several surrounding towns, so that he can push the defense line outward, not that once the enemy kills him, he can directly kill the oil field area.

With this mentality, Lin Ziran began the road of outward expansion.

After returning to Qingshan Town from Sanyang Town, Lin Ziran let the troops rest for a few days, and then he took the troops out again, this time with not many troops, only more than 700 people, anyway, the local militia groups in the surrounding towns are very small, as few as dozens, and as many as one or two hundred.

After all, they are all poor and remote areas, no different from the previous Qingshan Town, and it is impossible to maintain too large a local militia group.

And his first, no, should be the second target, the first target should be the Sanyo Town that has been taken.

The second target I am going to go to now is a town southeast of Qingshan Town, called Xinmu Town.

According to Lin Ziran's previous understanding, the area under the jurisdiction of the town is not small, but a considerable part of it is hilly and mountainous, but in an area close to Qingshan Town, it is a small plain, and the population of the town is mainly concentrated in this place.

The town has a permanent population of about 1,000 people, and the main economy of the town is not agriculture or other industries, but the wood processing industry.

In the past, some of the large number of barrels purchased by the Castle Peak Oilfield Company were purchased from the town of Shinki.

The local people take advantage of the relatively rich forestry resources in Xinmu Town, start cutting wood for a long time, and then export the wood to make money, and at the same time, it is also to process it into some ordinary furniture or something to make money.

However, because of the inconvenient transportation, they are more than 20 kilometers away from the Luohe River, which is more troublesome to transport, so although there are rich forestry resources, they have never been able to develop.

According to the development of Daheng in recent decades, whether a place is rich or not depends on the local terrain, transportation and resources.

For example, some places have flat terrain and a large amount of arable land, even if such places are inconvenient and have no other special resources, but they are generally rich places, well, this wealth only refers to the place, or the local feudal town, not how many local farmers live.

In fact, these places with large grain production are often the most exploitative places in the feudal towns, and many peasant families still do not have enough to eat, even though they have tens or hundreds of acres of land, because most of the food they produce needs to be used to pay taxes.

If a place is not suitable for farming, but there are some special resources, and at the same time the transportation is convenient, then it will also develop very well, for example, next door Pingdan County, which is more mountainous than Lianguan County, but the economy is good, and the tax revenue contributed every month can be among the top five in Luo'an County.

Why?

Because people have coal, but there is also the Luo River passing by, and the coal is easy to transport.

If a place has convenient transportation, a lot of arable land, and mineral resources that are easy to exploit, then it is a good place.

Luohai County, where Luohai City, the city of Nanhai Prefecture, is located, is such a place, with a large area of plain arable land, the main stream of the Luo River and several rivers, and a coastal area.

What's more, there are also abundant coal mines and iron ore mines that are easy to mine and are in particularly good condition.

If it weren't for these advantages, it would not have been possible to have such a big city as Luohai City.

In this Xinmu Town next door to Qingshan Town, in Lin Ziran's opinion, it is actually a good place, although the place is a little remote, and it is not a major grain producing area.

But how to say it, in fact, even if the terrain of Qingshan Town and Xinmu Town is quite hilly, but there will be more or less plain areas, and there is no problem at all with food self-sufficiency, and even because the population is relatively small, the food is still rich.

It was self-sufficient in food, and because it was remote and far from the main transportation routes, it was very unaffected by the war.

Moreover, there are abundant forest resources, even if the cost of foreign transportation is higher, but it can make money anyway.

Taking down such a place can allow Lin Ziran to obtain a more stable rear.