Chapter 404: Preparing for war is tedious

Lin Xiao decided to take one step and directly set up their own local political power in these areas, and carried out the land reform work of "fighting local tyrants and dividing up the land" on a large scale.

At present, borrowing the banner of "opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty," they have successfully obtained a legal identity and won the approval of the people of the motherland, so the first stage of building a united front by unscrupulous means and on a wide scale can be declared over.

Next, taking advantage of the fact that the small court people who can't support the wall with mud can't support the wall, they are temporarily unable to control the major warlords, throw off their arms and go it alone, and build a new Chinese empire in their own way, the time is ripe.

After judging the hour and sizing up the situation, Lin Xiao has made up his mind that it is time to vigorously promote the "division of land and land" and "rent reduction and interest reduction" in the liberated areas, fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the broad masses of peasants with the advanced social system, and win the support of the common people.

In the future, for a period of time, except for the territory of Li Dingguo, Zheng Chenggong and other friendly forces, as well as the few areas occupied by the rest of the Ming army, which were not suitable for the time being, all the territory that they conquered by the captive army alone must be firmly in their own hands.

Lin Xiao believes that in time, whose land has a better material life and a higher economic level, whose centripetal force will be greater, and at that time, it will be clear who is superior and who is inferior.

"Since you can't make up your mind to wage war against them, let's speak with their respective governance achievements through practical actions!"

Lin Xiao hoped from the bottom of his heart that Li Dingguo and Zheng Chenggong would be able to take into account the overall situation when the time comes, and the good birds will choose trees to perch on, so as to become his true allies, instead of going to the opposite.

After careful consideration, Lin Xiao entrusted all the affairs of local administration to Li Tao, who was born as an intelligence officer.

Lao Chen is gone, and none of his special combat team brothers can handle such an important job, and it is even more unthinkable to hand it over to the locals of this era.

At this time, Lin Xiao was relaxed and was able to focus on military affairs, but Li Tao, who had stayed in Guangzhou to enjoy Qingfu, was too busy.

Half a month ago, as soon as he accepted Lin Xiao's entrustment through the radio, Li Tao embarked on a journey and took people to western Fujian.

Not long after, he also had to go to Hunan via Jiangxi, and Zhu Yu Jia found a suitable place for Yu Jifan to build a pharmaceutical factory in southern Hunan, and the recruitment and security work had to be operated by Li Tao, a big man.

After he was done with this matter, he would go directly to Zhejiang and take people to take over the new liberated areas......

"This guy, he's busy......"

Lin Xiao thought darkly, his heart was extremely warm, but he was somewhat gloating.

Li Tao and his colleagues also thought about the appointment of magistrates at all levels, and they mainly selected officers from the army who could read and write and hyphenate, were too old, or had been seriously wounded.

In addition, Li Tao felt that in some special areas, enlightened gentlemen from some places could also be appropriately hired to serve as officials below the county order.

However, there is a principle in this, these people are only responsible for civil affairs and cannot delegate the right to transfer garrisons to them; after all, the main targets of the land reform work are these wealthy gentry and big families who have annexed large tracts of fertile land, and if they are not overturned, the vast number of poor peasants will not be able to turn over.

Lin Xiao also believes that unless the reputation is particularly good, all the big landlords who employ more than 1,000 tenant farmers, or the old and young who have held important positions in the Ming court, are not allowed to be reused, and they must not be allowed to change their skins and become celebrities of the new government.

In terms of public security, Lin Xiao planned to follow the example of later generations and transfer part of his troops to be reorganized into a public security force, temporarily acting as a security force and public security police to stabilize the rear.

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It's just that, militarily, they have encountered some problems.

According to Lin Xiao's meaning, Xia Bomin had already sent a mixed regiment of troops north to Zhejiang to assist Liu Xulei in the Jiangsu-Zhejiang campaign.

With the joining of the new force, Liu Xulei has enough troops at hand, and the Hangzhou government is just around the corner, and within a month, he can drink the Yangtze River, and even come to Nanjing.

However, as a coordinated combat force, the Ming army on the Western Front, which was fighting in the Anhui area, was unable to break through the situation for a long time, and its progress was slow.

The fierce general Jiao Lian's injuries have not healed, and his men and horses are still recruiting troops and raising food in the area of Poyang Lake, while the main force of the battle, Zhang Tongchang's Ming army, is weak in attacking the city, often more than 10,000 people besiege a small city for a long time, and the lack of food and grass, tens of thousands of people have been circling around Huizhou.

The Feng Suqin Independent Battalion, which was trapped in Jiujiang, was also short of food, coupled with weak troops, and had to guard against a sneak attack by the Qing army in the Huangmei area of Jiangbei.

Lin Xiao was a little worried, according to this situation, Hong Chengchou, who was entrenched in Nanjing, was very likely to fight back to the west with all his might, pinching soft persimmons, or taking the opportunity to calmly cross the river and slip away.

Therefore, Lin Xiao was anxious, hoping for a quick victory and going north as soon as possible after winning the big man.

Right now, what he lacks most is time.

However, on the date of the expedition, he and Zheng Chenggong had a disagreement - Zheng Jun's preparation for war was too slow.

Seeing that it was late June, the date for Zheng Chenggong's pledge to go on the expedition had not yet been set, and Lin Xiao was so anxious that he was like an ant on a hot pot - turning around.

In fact, Zheng Chenggong has worked very hard, but Lin Xiao really underestimated the cumbersome preparation of the army in this era.

First of all, Zheng Chenggong believed that if he wanted to recover the whole island, it would not be enough to have 10,000 troops, but his main force was scattered and stationed all over Fujian, and at present, his total strength in Jinxia was only six or seven thousand.

It takes time to select elite soldiers from all over the world, right?

On the territory that has just been recovered, there are countless complicated and trivial matters, and the generals from all over the country are so busy that their buttocks are smoking every day, and there are really words of suffering.

Secondly, in this era, an army of tens of thousands of people went out to fight, raising food and salaries, repairing ships, and procuring military supplies is not an easy task.

In fact, in the past few days, the quartermasters under Zheng Chenggong have long been busy, not to mention the grain, grass, flags, and horses, just the firearms, wood and stones, ropes, hooks, knives, guns, bows and crossbows and other weapons for the soldiers, as well as the procurement of necessary items such as pots, water tanks, fire sickles and flints, dishes, salt vegetables, and flint plants, can not be completed in just a few days.

In addition, Zheng Chenggong also has to do a good job of intelligence work.

Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent and winning all battles is not an empty phrase, and if such a big action fails, the blow to the confidence of officers and men is immeasurable.

Fortunately, a cronie named Guo Bin sent by Guo Huaiyi has stayed in Anping, and recently, Zheng Chenggong has asked him every day about the situation of the senior member.

Guo Bin naturally represented Guo Huaiyi's opinion, and strongly advocated that the "national surname lord" send troops, and he said more than once: "Dayuan is fertile for thousands of miles, if you get this land, so that people can cultivate, they can have enough food...... Up to the chicken coop and fresh water, there is a lot of nitrate...... And across the sea, wantonly to foreign countries, to buy ships and sell, mast rudder copper and iron are not useless......"

Of course, Guo Bin is not just empty talk, Guo Huaiyi specially asked him to bring a map of the staff, and explained the situation of the residents everywhere and the changes in the waterways many times.

Guo Bin emphasized that Taiwan's abundant food and military supplies, ideal trade location, and natural dangers in the strait are all urgent needs of Zheng Jun, which makes Zheng Chenggong very excited.

(End of chapter)