Li Xuan has been heartbroken for the northern provinces recently, Nima, he didn't feel so painful to be an emperor before, but now, he feels the helplessness of many rulers.

In order to solve the problems of the north, he began to organize migration, and pulled out a large amount of money for disaster relief and helped local farmers to resume production.

But at this time, the problem came, because the rebellion was no longer a matter of one or two days, but had lasted for several years, and the Tang government had just pulled out the disaster relief funds to help the peasants resume production, and then within a few days, a wave of displaced people came, and then the places they passed were eaten and burned, and the people continued to move forward.

This makes the local officials quite depressed, these homeless or rebel troops, the combat effectiveness is not good, but the destructive power is very amazing, the regular army of the Tang Dynasty came, they immediately turned around and ran, continue to plague other places.

The local garrison was running around, and although the defeated rebels were numerous, these defeated rebels swept back in a few days.

At this time, the Privy Council also raised difficulties to Li Xuan, saying that it was no longer possible to rely on the Fourth Army alone to suppress the place while maintaining the battle with the Ming army, and it was necessary to increase the troops!

From this, we can also see how the situation in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan has deteriorated!

After thinking about it for a few days, Li Xuan made several decisions for the above-mentioned areas that had almost fallen into a dead loop, the first of which was to increase the number of troops!

Relying on the tens of thousands of regular troops of the Fourth Army alone is no longer enough, and it is necessary to increase the troops, but the additional troops are not the regular army, the regular army costs too much, and the strength is limited.

This time, the troops are increased by the second-line troops such as the reserve division!

Two reserve divisions were directly transferred from North Anhui Province and Jiangbei Province to Henan and Shandong, and at the same time, a total of five reserve divisions were transferred from Jiangxi, Jiangnan Province, South Anhui Province, Zhejiang Province, and other regions to the north.

At the same time, in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei and other provinces, recruits were recruited on the spot to form reserve divisions, and Li Xuan approved the establishment of a full ten reserve divisions in one go.

It is tentatively scheduled to recruit three reserve divisions in Hebei, three in Shandong, two in Henan, one in Shanxi, and one in Shaanxi, which is not yet fully controlled.

Although the pressure on military spending will increase in a short period of time, there is no way to suppress the localities, and when the localities are too peaceful, they can also be dismantled.

Increasing the number of troops is only one aspect of military preparations, and on the other hand, Li Xuan also approved the Privy Council to put forward a battle plan, that is, it is no longer the usual main force of the regular army to pursue a large number of rebels, but to completely eliminate them.

Entering the army from multiple directions at the same time, regardless of what traffic arteries, controlling one place is to clean up one place, and this clean-up is not just to deal with ordinary homeless armies and the like, but to thoroughly clean up public security, for all kinds of criminals who take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, needless to say, serious crimes, kill on the spot, and the light ones are directly exiled to Dayuanfu or Qiongzhou Mansion, or Yunnan Guizhou and other places.

High pressure must be used to maintain law and order on the ground!

If you encounter an army of homeless people, you will no longer be directly defeated as usual, and after killing the main first offender, let the homeless people return to their hometowns on their own, because then these homeless people will have nothing to eat, and they will still become an army of homeless people in a few days.

Therefore, after defeating the rebels, they were no longer let go, but directly captured as prisoners of war as ordinary combat, and then forcibly incorporated into various cantonment regiments.

Reclamation regiment, this kind of prisoner of war was specially used by the Tang Dynasty to house Ming prisoners, and now, it is ready to settle displaced people.

The destruction of the displaced people is too great, and if they are killed, they will not be able to kill, after all, they are just peasants who can't survive, and they will be killed directly, to be honest, even Li Xuan can't bear it.

If all the displaced people were to be incorporated into the cantonment group, the government would only need to pay their rations for the first year and let them farm, and by the time of the second year, they would not only have their own rations, but also be able to contribute surplus food to the government.

These policies can be regarded as a combination of military strikes and disaster relief!

The only thing that is more troublesome is that for funds, the consumption of food will be very large!

Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty is still rich, and in terms of grain, there have been no large-scale natural disasters in southern regions such as Jiangnan in recent years, and the output is quite considerable in this era, barely able to maintain.

In addition, Li Xuan also intends to take compulsory measures on immigration!

In the past, the immigration policy was still voluntary, but many people would rather starve to death, be bandits, and be thieves than immigrate, so Li Xuan planned to carry out forced immigration.

For areas with serious land annexation and natural disasters, a policy of forced resettlement was adopted, and large armies were directly escorted to send them to several southern provinces to prevent them from becoming new displaced people.

After this series of measures, Li Xuan felt that he should be able to alleviate the plight of the above-mentioned provinces, otherwise, when would this turmoil end.

When the Tang Dynasty adopted these policies in the above-mentioned areas, one after another reclamation regiments appeared, and at first they were only rebel prisoners of war, but in the middle and late stages, they simply recruited many ordinary young people in the troubled areas, and then organized them to a certain place for reclamation.

There are more and more reclamation regiments, which indirectly allows the Tang Dynasty to increase more arable land and increase grain production.

However, many of the early reclamation regiments also ended their original missions one after another at this time, some were revoked, and some simply began to exist in name only, and there were few people left, while some had been transformed from the reclamation regiment into ordinary villages, and some were more special!

The 89th Reclamation Regiment, located in Lingao County, Qiongzhou Prefecture, is a very special one among the many Tunken Reclamation Regiments in Datang.

The 29th Reclamation Regiment, as the name suggests, is the 29th Reclamation Regiment in the Tang Dynasty, which was established in Guangdong in the third year of Xuanping, and at the beginning of its establishment, it was incorporated into about 3,000 prisoners of war of the Ming Army.

Although the 29th Reclamation Regiment arrived on Qiongzhou Island and came to Lingao County to cultivate the land, the first days were naturally very difficult, because the rations given by the top were insufficient, even if they did not have food for a few days, but they were often hungry.

The commander of the 29th Reclamation Regiment, Captain Lu Fangfang of the Tang Army Reserve, was also a bandit in his early years, he captured Liangguang in the Tang Dynasty, and after the army was gradually regularized, he was like many bandit-born officers, and gradually withdrew from the mainstream, some changed careers to become patrol officers, and some came to the Reclamation Regiment like him.

Although it is said that he has retired from active duty, the title of reserve captain is still good, and in the 29th Reclamation Regiment, he is the biggest officer!

In order to solve the problem of rations, Lu Fang also had a lot of thoughts, there were not enough rations on top, so he could only stand on his own, and he relied on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to eat, and this side is the sea, so naturally he can only ask the sea for food!

At first, he organized people to build a small fishing boat, and at first he wanted to catch a little fish for the more than 3,000 prisoners of war, but he did not expect that the catch would be beyond imagination.

This fishing net is thrown down and caught again, and slowly all kinds of sea fish are coming!

Then, he just saw the hope of a complete solution to the rations!

He asked for a big fishing boat, and then he also organized people to build a few small fishing boats, and began the fishing career of the 29th Reclamation Regiment.

In less than two months, there was no one in the 29th Reclamation Regiment who was hungry!

More than 3,500 people, although it is not enough to say that they are full of white rice every day, but at least they can barely eat enough.

Why?

Because they catch so many fish!

At first, they happily ate fish every day, but they couldn't eat it anymore, and then they began to take the fish they caught to the county and even the prefecture to sell, and then exchange it for ordinary food.

Half a year later, they already owned several large fishing boats, and the catch had begun to be sold to merchants from mainland areas, such as Lianzhou.

However, at this time, they found that the live fish could not be sold at any price, because the shelf life was too short, and it was easy to stink, so they began to salte the fish they caught, and then took them out to buy after salting, but they did not expect that the salted fish was more expensive to buy than live fish, and it was in short supply.

By the second year, the 29th Cantonment Regiment had not only solved the problem of rations and other daily necessities, but had even had spare money to pay subsidies to the prisoners of war, and these prisoners of war could even send money home!

Later, Li Xuan, the Holy Monarch of the Ages, issued an amnesty order, according to the special order, all the prisoners of war of the 29th Reclamation Regiment could be pardoned and returned home, but none of them were willing to be amnesty, so it was over.

By the time of September of the sixth year of Xuanping, the 29th Reclamation Regiment had already developed into a huge scale with two 100-ton fishing boats, more than 10 large fishing boats of tens of tons, and dozens of small fishing boats.

The prisoners of war have already become fishermen, not only do they have no worries about eating and drinking, but they can also receive subsidies ranging from one tael to each month according to different levels and different skills, even the lowest fishermen can also get a subsidy of about one or two silver per month.

The 29th Tun Reclamation Regiment also has a pickling factory, and all kinds of salted fish produced by it sell well in many places, and even in Sichuan and Hubei in the area controlled by Zhang Yue, you can see canned salted fish printed with the words "Erjiu brand salted fish"!

The current 29th Reclamation Regiment has long been out of the scope of the Reclamation Regiment, but is more like a fishing company!