The main supporting role in this literary drama is Lord Qincha, who is from the imperial court and is responsible for investigating the matter.

Don't look at the title of the imperial court, it sounds very scary, but in fact, some of the officials are assigned to some drudgery that no one wants to do.

For example, this is the case this time, who wants to come from the bustling capital to a small dilapidated county town on the coast to investigate the matter of the great victory over the Japanese invaders.

This Qincha's name is Fu Gongming, and he is an editor of the Hanlin Academy, and he is a seventh-grade editor.

He was admitted to the Jinshi at the age of twenty-five, and he was also the successor of the first place in the second class, second only to the third place in the first class.

Originally, with his rank, he served in a noble place like the Hanlin Academy, so he should have a great future.

But the reality is that he has been in the Hanlin Academy for five years, but he is still an ordinary editor of the seventh grade, and he has almost never been promoted.

Most of the Jinshi who were at the same time as him are now mixed with more than six grades, and the worst ones are at least from six grades.

In this comparison, he, who won the fourth place in the exam that year, is a little too shabby.

The main reason for this is that Fu Gongming is relatively upright and extreme, and it can even be said that he is a little ignorant of current affairs, and it is easy to offend people when he speaks, which makes the relationship with colleagues and bosses not very good.

In addition, he has no background and background, so his career has been mediocre for so many years.

This time, Fu Gongming came to Huainan County to investigate as a messenger, which was a drudgery sent down by his boss. Because none of the others in the Hanlin Academy were willing to take this errand.

Because it was a hard job sent by his boss, Fu Gongming, who had to accept it, saved up a lot of fire at the beginning.

Coupled with the fact that the journey was really hard, he was full of resentment towards Jiang Ming, the magistrate of Huainan County, who was preparing to investigate.

Of course, at least half of this resentment is anger.

When he finally came to the county seat of Huainan County, he was told by the officials of the Yamen that Jiangzhi County was not in the county seat, and that he was patrolling the fields in various villages in the county at the moment to learn about this year's harvest.

As soon as he came, he was closed, and now all the new and old hatreds came together, and Fu Gongming was full of a strong sense of evil for this Jiangzhi County.

So when Jiang Ming returned to the yamen after his field tour, he was faced with such a Qipin Qincha with obvious malice.

As soon as he saw Jiang Ming, Fu Gongming asked him in a weird way, as a county magistrate, why did he leave his post without permission. In the event of an invasion by the Japanese at this time, the city will be left without a leader. If the county seat is attacked by the Japanese invaders, there will definitely be heavy casualties in the city, so what crime should he, the magistrate, be guilty of.

Jiang Ming saw that the other party was not kind and aggressive, so he simply replied with a straight face and said that he had already sent people to guard the nearby coastline, and once the Japanese invaders appeared, the city would close the city gates and ring the bell alarm.

In addition, someone would ride a fast horse to the edge of the field to inform him that it was only a tea time to rush back, and he had no time to deal with it.

The reason why he went to the countryside to patrol the fields was because the invasion of the Japanese invaders in recent years had made the local people miserable and natural disasters were continuous, so he wanted to know about this year's grain harvest in order to be prepared in case of food shortage.

Seeing that Jiang Ming dared to contradict him, Fu Gongming was suddenly so angry that he threatened to go back to join him.

Jiang Ming said proudly, he sat upright, he was not afraid of anyone's slander, and he wanted to participate casually.

After saying that, he turned around and left, stomping Fu Gong so angrily that he stomped his feet.

In this way, as soon as the two met, they directly fired at each other, which startled the onlookers, and they didn't expect that Lord Jiang would dare to contradict even Qincha. The matter also quickly spread throughout the county and even the surrounding counties.

In order to find out whether the previous Huainan victory was really a matter of this, Fu Gongming not only privately sent his subordinates around to inquire about the news, but also specially invited the local squire to inquire about the situation.

As a result, the news that his subordinates inquired about and the testimony of the local squire also confirmed that this matter was true, but Fu Gongming, who had already had a serious prejudice against Jiang Ming in his heart, still refused to believe it, wishful thinking that this was the result of Jiang Ming's manipulation behind his back, and the purpose was to take the lead in taking great credit.

After Jiang Ming fell out with Fu Gongming, he didn't bother to pay attention to him anymore, and devoted himself to training recruits.

Although he had won the battle against the two thousand Japanese invaders last time, Jiang Ming knew that it was just a narrow victory.

If the Japanese invaded the city from different parts instead of attacking the city in one fell swoop, it would have been difficult to say whether the victory would have been lost.

After all, the training time of the militia is too short to compare with the experienced veterans.

If you really want to fight separately with the pirates, you will only lose more and win less.

They were able to win last time, and although the Mandarin Duck Formation played a great role, the success of the sneak attack was also the most critical reason.

In order to prevent more Japanese from retaliating next time, Jiang Ming not only had to strengthen the training of the original militia, but also recruit as many new soldiers as possible.

However, when there are many people, food and military pay are a big problem.

Huainan County is a well-known poor county because it has suffered from the Japanese invaders for many years, the local people's livelihood has withered, and all industries have been abandoned.

Relying solely on the savings and offerings in the yamen, it is impossible to feed so many militiamen.

In addition, these are all militiamen recruited by Jiang Ming, not real officers and soldiers, so they do not enjoy the military salary issued by the imperial court.

In order to solve the problem of eating so many militiamen, Jiang Ming pondered for a long time, and finally came up with a way to establish a government army.

The so-called government soldiers are farmers who cultivate the land in peacetime, train in the agricultural gaps, and serve in the army to fight in wartime.

This would ensure self-sufficiency in production, and secondly, keep the militia in the area for a long time to defend against the Japanese invaders.

In history, the real government soldiers were not only half-peasants and half-soldiers, but also needed to prepare their own weapons and horses to participate in the war.

However, these militiamen had no resources, how could they afford to raise so many weapons and horses, so Jiang Ming changed this point and let the government provide weapons and horses.

The most important thing in order to build up the government army is to have a large amount of land for the militia to cultivate, otherwise everything is empty talk.

Fortunately, there are not many other places in Huainan County, but there are many borderlands.

The reason for this is that the local area has been victimized by the Japanese for many years, so there are no outsiders willing to buy land here to cultivate, so there will be a large area of borderless land.

Jiang Ming allocated 20 acres of wasteland to each militia in his capacity as a county magistrate, and promised not to pay any land tax for five years.

These recruited militiamen were originally all poor people who had no land and nothing, but now they got twenty acres of land at once, and they were immediately overjoyed and grateful to Jiang Ming.

In order to protect these farmlands that belong to them, the militia has worked hard to carry out anti-Japanese training during the slack time.

The practice of replacing militia salaries with borderless land soon spread, and many people of insight felt that this method was very good, and praised this Jiangzhi County as indeed a capable official.

Many counties that also suffered from the Japanese began to follow this method and recruit militia to defend against the Japanese invaders.

Under the influence and drive of Jiang Ming, a wave of large-scale anti-Japanese upsurge arose in many counties along the entire coastal border for a time.

Just as Jiang Ming's reputation was getting louder and louder, Qin Chafu Gongming felt very uncomfortable, and he looked at Jiang Ming more and more unpleasantly.

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