Originally, there were about 200,000 troops in the five provinces surrounding the rebels, and there were 70,000 more people added, but everyone knew that the role of these more than 200,000 people in the vast mountains was limited, and many things could not be done well with a large number of people. First of all, it is difficult to guarantee their own food and drink after entering the mountain, if they encounter supply difficulties and enemy harassment, etc., it is difficult to guarantee that the defeat and killing of the former governor Wang Sanshan will not happen again, so everyone calms down for a while and understands that the encirclement of the camp step by step is the best plan to use this site.

Living first and then producing, Zhao Shujiao first pulled one-third of the people to build houses and villages, focusing on the selection of sites from the long-term planning, and building them on the principle of considering safety first and then convenience, and he asked these people to build more than 20 military stations on the road from Guiyang to Zunyi for more than 400 miles. In principle, one was built every 20 miles, but in the shallow and gentle water ferries, as well as the mountain passes ♀ where there may be enemy infestations, some additional military stations were repaired, and there were plenty of food and forage in them, and a few tiger squat cannons were placed on the front wall, plus several patrols a day, which were enough to prevent the enemy's sneak attack.

Generally speaking, if you want to garrison troops, you have to guard at dangerous places such as mountain passes, but Zhao Shujiao has no general ideas, his military station is a small fortress, all built on the road, he thinks that the construction of the road is convenient for defense and transportation. Behind the military station is a village, houses, livestock pens, farmland, wells, ponds, ditches, etc., as long as the family lives in it, they can take root and blossom on the spot≡ the meaning of this is obvious, he believes that the building of the mountain pass is purely used for war, and when the house of Taoist repair can also play a role in peacetime, this is the way to thrive.

If you want to get rich and build roads first, when the people who repair houses and build houses are in full swing, the people who build roads, bridges and rivers are not idle. With Zunyi as the center, they expanded the road to Yongning in the north, and the road to Guiyang in the south was also widened and flattened. The weather in Guizhou is very weird, it may be in the mountainous area, so it rains at two ends for three days, the road is not straight, not to mention that it is difficult to walk, when the weather is sunny, it is bumpy and uneven, and there are mud pits everywhere after the rain, Zhao led people to tamp the road surface, not to mention, but also intentionally made the road surface into an arc conducive to drainage, so that the road condition has improved greatly, and even the governor Cai Fuyi, who is not very good-tempered, nodded and said okay.

However, Zhao Shujiao did not praise him, Governor Cai just praised him for two sentences, and then asked people to make a suggestion, asking him to send people to repair the road from Guiyang to Anshun and Yongning to Zhenxiong in this way, Zhao Shujiao refused without thinking about it, the reason for his refusal is very simple, that is, these two sections of the road are not safe, and his people are easy to attack when they build roads in these two places. Governor Cai patiently explained that there were also Ming troops defending these two places, and there was no need to worry about security, and repairing the road early could also increase the mobilization ability of the officers and soldiers.

Gao Di asked Zhao Shujiao in order to take care of Cai Fuyi's face, to see if he could repair as many paragraphs as possible while ensuring safety, because the officers and soldiers in other places were beginning to be in a mood and needed to be appeased. Gao Jinglue still had to give a little face, but Zhao Shujiao only planned to give him a little, and he explained that the purpose of repairing to the north and south was to make the road from Yongning to Zunyi to Guiyang smoother, and the purpose was to facilitate the transportation of materials. The next step is to prepare three plans, one is to build the road to Luzhou and Chongqing to the north, the second is to horizontally repair or widen Zunyi to Tongren and then to Baojing and finally to Chenzhou, and the third is to repair from Guiyang to Zhenyuan and then to Liping and finally to Guilin, Guangxi.

Zhao Shujiao proposed three plans for the three decision-makers in Guiyang to choose, so that they could see where it is more convenient to transport materials from Sichuan, Huguang or Guangxi, because whether it is to repair houses or build roads and bridges, a large amount of materials are needed, and it is somewhat unrealistic for a province in Guizhou to provide alone in a short period of time, not to mention that Guizhou is suffering from a long-term rebellion≡ these questions seem to respect the superiors and let the superiors make decisions, but the potential meaning is also very clear, that is, whether it is Zhenxiong or Anshun, it will not be considered for the time being. Unless there is a guarantee that the necessary supplies will be shipped out of these two places, it is not necessary.

Gao Di and Cai Fuyi and Zhu Xieyuan discussed for a while and expressed their understanding of Zhao Shujiao's difficulties, but they did not choose any of Zhao Shujiao's three suggestions, they thought that since the previous bad road could transport materials, then let people continue to transport on the bad road, and when the road was almost repaired, they would repair the small road, so that the new type of farm that was built into a line would be translated and copied to the east, because now not only the officials and soldiers expressed envy for the new type of farm, but even the ordinary people also had a strong interest. These ordinary people include the Yi people who are surrounded by the encirclement.

Zhao Shujiao divided the people into three parts, one part of the people built houses and farms, first settled themselves, and then said to stabilize the others, the other part of the people built roads and bridges to ensure that the roads were unimpeded, and the third part of the people was patrolling and reconnaissance and coordinating the relationship with the outside... The purpose of the propaganda is nothing more than saying that there is no future for following Xuan Chongming and An Bangyan, and that happiness can only be ♀ enjoyed by being a submissive person under the rule of the imperial court.

Every once in a while, people from Shuixi, Zhijin and other places come to Guiyang to buy and sell things, after all, the mountains cannot be self-sufficient, although these people from the rebel stronghold are not necessarily traitors, but they have an inextricable relationship with the rebels, that is certain. Zhu Xieyuan has always suggested that these people should be propagandized, so that they can turn their hearts to the court after they are tempted, and it is best to quietly move their families down the mountain, so that Yu Chongming and An Bangyan and others will lose their foundation. The so-called propaganda is to make people feel that your words are trustworthy, and if you say it again, you don't let people see the actual benefits, who will change their minds and follow you?

The people of Zhao Shujiao were not very good at propaganda, they generally showed it with actions, and whenever a local soldier came to see a suspicious person arriving based on his accent, the person in charge of coordinating the relationship would come forward and take those people to a new type of farm. They detailed the details of the farm in the local dialect, saying that they could live in it and start a new life if they wanted, and they only needed to pay taxes on time and in the right amount. In order to make it more realistic, they also invited a few people to be the trustees, and the people who invited them would say where they were from, living a life of hunger and cold, and now they finally jumped from the chaff basket to the rice loa, and all of them had happy smiles on their faces when they spoke.

Looking at the neat, clean and bright new house, and listening to the chorus of chickens, ducks and geese in the circle, I heard a few loud and satisfied laughter in my ears from time to time, and the hearts of these traitors from the old nest were moved. People have the desire to pursue happiness and life, if the price is too high, maybe they will consider it, but the current conditions are very good, just say that they need to bring their families and more valuable family property to come, it is false to say that they are not tempted. Zhu Xieyuan's purpose is this, if your will is very weak, you can't stand such temptation, if your will is very strong and you want to be a bandit, then I will lure you a few more times to soften you, anyway, in the end, you will be conscious and draw a clear line with the rebels in thought and action, and return to the embrace of the Ming Dynasty as a submissive citizen.

Zhu Xieyuan succeeded, and within two months, some people couldn't resist the temptation to drag their families down the mountain, Zhu Xieyuan welcomed them on the spot and said that he knew that they were difficult to move, and that he was rent-free and tax-free when he farmed, and as for the house, he was only allowed to pay the rent after three years, and if he had money and was willing to do so after three years, he could buy the house and turn it into his ancestral property and pass it on from generation to generation. If there is one, there will be a second, and then there will be ten, hundred, thousand, and when a person who is not a core member but is also trustworthy goes down the mountain and does not return, An Bangyan is a little panicked.

An Bangyan lived in the area of Shuixi and Zhijin, and he and Yu Chongming's subordinates combined also had 100,000 horses, and it was nothing to escape a few thousand, but he was afraid that if he didn't stop it, he would not be able to restrain the many who escaped. Now the Ming court is still afraid of the people and refuses to do things, once the people run too much, let the Ming army think that the encirclement is full of heinous people, and any means can be used at that time. For example, as soon as the means of cutting off salt, water, and food are used, the people's hearts will definitely be dispersed at that time.

An Bangyan and Hao Chongming decided to counterattack the Ming army, but these two people were not reckless people, they first sent people to infiltrate Guiyang, Zunyi and other places to investigate the situation, and prepared to be prepared to strike a blow. However, several groups of spies sent back reported that the situation was not good, and found that there were strong fortresses along the river that could not be attacked at all, and if a large army were to be sent to attack head-on, the casualties would be very large. The spies also specifically mentioned that there were several cannons at the head of the fortress walls along the way, and the muzzles of the black holes made people feel chilling at a glance, and An Bangyan finally decided to find a breakthrough in a farther place.

When Zhao Shujiao received Gao Di's order to stop building the main road and build the side road horizontally, and to build more farms, he felt very unhappy. Now these farms are just for their own people, and after a while they have to bring their families in, so there are already a lot of problems, if you continue to build farms, the quality will be reduced more than the loss≡ Sujiao first said to obey orders, but he also mentioned the difficulties that he thinks will be generated, first of all, the problem of water.

Guiyang to Zunyi area is mountainous and river-ridden, but there is not much water, because the water flows into the big river and the field can not be saved, if each family farms to carry water from the river to the mountain, it is too troublesome, no one wants to do that to plant crops is most afraid of no water, when the drought walks, a few miles or even more than a dozen miles, just to pour two buckets of water on the mountain, this is not a normal person's thinking, when it rains, the water flows along the river all the way, looking at the heart is unwilling and there is no way. If you want to build a large reservoir, you must choose a suitable place to build it at a certain height, but labor and time do not allow such a large project.

Zhao Shujiao's meaning is to improve the farms along the way first, according to the topography of each household to dig some small ponds, planting lotus root and raising fish, not to mention the main can be watered ♀ to the dry land nearby, the sample can be seen in a short time, but it is necessary to put a little effort into the construction of small ditches and small ponds, so that there are not so many people to expand other farms horizontally.

Zhu Xieyuan had no choice but to agree with Zhao Shujiao's proposal, but he was curious about what Zhao Shujiao wanted to plant on the hillside.