"This is a place that Chang Wenhou has personally set foot on." Qin Dongyang said with a smile: "There is no woodland left around, there are also many trees in the Hou Mansion, the back garden is very large, a lot ......of fruit trees are planted, peach, pear, apricot, apple and other trees are complete, there are many flowers and trees, but there are no ponds, and there are few pavilions and pavilions."

Xu Zixian smiled: "Jiayue likes this. ”

Liu Yi said faintly on the side: "I'm afraid it's true that Miss Chen San likes this." ”

Everyone snickered, Xu Zixian, the prince, had no business to discuss, but he was extremely friendly to his subordinates in private, because Liu Yi dared to speak like this, and others didn't care too much about Xu Zixian's attitude.

"That's true." Xu Zixian admitted frankly that there was indeed nothing to hide.

There are lanterns hanging everywhere in the courtyard, compared to the darkness outside, there are worlds of difference, the gate is open to five, this is the regulation of the Hou Mansion, if it is the public mansion, it is open seven, the palace is open eight, and the gate of the Son of Heaven is only open nine.

The inside is extremely grand, it may be because the Eastern Domain lacks everything, but there is no lack of land, or it may be that Changwen Marquis Chen Dujing feels sorry for his little daughter, anyway, this courtyard costs a lot, the regulations are grand and the design is exquisite, from the main gate to the main hall, the hanging flower door, the instrument door, the alley, the main courtyard of the inner house, the main hall, the back garden, including the wing room, the stove room, the stable and other various houses add up to more than 300 rooms, the scale is afraid that it is more than double the Hou Mansion of the Fuzhou Mansion City.

"I've made my home here ever since." The main hall is a place for meeting guests and discussions, and the regulations are quite grand, after Xu Zi sits down first, the civil and military generals also sit down on the left and right.

Fang Shaoqun sat first on the right, this was Chen Zuocai and others who recommended humility, this person was not polite, after sitting down, he looked at the generals on the opposite side calmly.

Qin Dongyang is the first on the left, followed by Liu Yi, Jin Baoyi and Lin Cunxin and others.

Li Yi, Kong He, Fu Qian and others set foot on the island to see the pastures and the sites of various factories, Kong He was even more busy, allocating payments, accounting costs, recording account books, and making records of the acres of land of each household, and dividing the cotton fields to the displaced people, and laying foundation piles...... This is the most basic core benefit of attracting displaced people, and the identity of the official household should also be recorded, put into the file, and at the same time reported to the Fuzhou pacification envoy Yamen, and then reported to the two prefectures of Beijing and Shi, and finally filed by the household department.

"How are the displaced people doing, and has the specific number of households been decided?"

Qin Dongyang is the first military attaché, and Li Yi will also inform him a little about civil affairs, which is also one of Xu Zixian's concepts, the garrison and the civilian system should communicate and understand each other's difficulties, for example, there will be an open day during the training period of the Nan'an regimental training, and the merchants will be allowed to enter, and the merchants will bring some reward materials, most of which are food, and the people will watch the training of the soldiers and understand the daily hard work of the soldiers.

When the war is over, helping to clean up the battlefield, treat the wounded, and bury the dead, can pass such an operation, and dissolve the distance between the army and the bureaucracy, as well as the people.

Qin Dongyang hugged his fists and said: "Li Changshi informed me that the number of displaced and immigrant households is 1,900, with 13,300 mouths, including 6,735 strong men. The original immigrants from the Eastern Domain were all incorporated into the official households of the Nan'an Hou Mansion, with 2,685 households and 18,911 households. The sum of the two is more than 30,000, which is not much different from the previous estimate of the prince. If, by June and July, as we estimated, the cotton fields are growing well, and there is a harvest of more than one stone per acre of burned land for planting, then we can re-emigrate from Penghu on a large scale, and in the autumn, again from Fujian Road, so that by the end of the year, the number of inhabitants of the Eastern Domain will reach 80,000 to 100,000. ”

Qin Dongyang did it in one go and told everything he knew.

Xu Zixian nodded slightly, which was not much different from the previous reports from Li Yi and Kong He and others.

In addition, the figures of the farmland that have been reclaimed, the length of the ditches, and the number of waterwheels and wells are all reported in detail.

For example, the number of horses was transported in six batches, totaling more than 2,100 horses, and there were more than 3,000 mules and donkeys.

In the current situation of the Eastern Domain, the number of donkeys and mules is quite large, and the number of horses is even more astronomical.

Tens of thousands of yuan were spent on these big animals alone, and some people in the Changwen Marquis Mansion had quite a few complaints.

In the eyes of many people, since the manpower is sufficient, there is no need to spend money on large livestock, these donkeys and mules add up to more than 3,000 heads, and they have to be fed with thousands of stones of concentrate every day, and dozens of people must take care of them, otherwise the grass and concentrate fill the trough, otherwise these livestock will lose weight and be unusable.

Mules and donkeys are much better, but pulling horses is quite difficult to serve.

There are hundreds of cows, many people agree with buying cattle, these big guys just eat grass, feed a small amount of concentrate is good, usually easy to take care of, after plowing the field put aside, cattle can eat grass slowly by themselves, soak in the pool, don't want humans to worry too much to take care of.

For Xu Zixian, pulling the horse and supporting tillage tools are the big killers, and the two horses cooperate to plough far more land in one day than the ploughing cattle.

Only with manpower, animal power, and the appropriate equipment can we accomplish the tasks of more than 500,000 mu of paddy fields and more than 1 million mu of cotton fields within two years.

There must also be a certain number of bean fields, followed by tea plantations, sugar cane fields.

Even if a considerable amount of pasture land is retained, the cultivated land that can be reclaimed is about 4 million mu, and this figure is enough to raise 100,000 male soldiers if it is managed properly.

If you add industry and commerce, and maritime trade, you can raise 300,000 soldiers.

There are 300,000 people, this is the capital of Xu Zi to fight against Donghu first, and even to dominate the world!

"What is the arrangement of the prince these days?" After Qin Dongyang finished speaking, he said to Xu Zixian: "If the prince has not yet made arrangements, it is best to train with the martial soldiers once or twice in the past few days." ”

There were two battalions of soldiers in the Eastern Domain, both of whom were new soldiers who had not experienced actual combat.

This is also the characteristic of the Nan'an Hou Mansion system, and those who have fought are old soldiers, such as the more than 1,700 military pawns before.

Those who have not experienced the battle formation, such as more than 3,000 recruits of six battalions, in fact, they have been in the regimental training for a long time, or Xu Zixian entered the battalion before he took office in Qizhou, and it has been more than two months now, but as long as they have not completely passed the three-month basic training period, the three-month formal recruit period, and then experienced a real bloody battle, they can only be recognized as new soldiers.

"Yes." Xu Zixian thought for a moment and said: "Tomorrow morning, we will run and eat with the new soldiers, and then summon Li Changshi and Kong Senjun and others to the barracks together, and we will discuss them together." ”

This is the first meeting of the Nan'an Hou Mansion in the Eastern Domain, and it is also Xu Zi's first decision to set the tone of the Eastern Domain and the Nan'an Hou Mansion.

Everyone present understood each other, but this kind of topic was not something they could mention at this time, so they got up and said goodbye one after another.

Fang Shaoqun finally withdrew, and when he walked to the door, he couldn't help but glance back.

Xu Zixian was also looking at him, the two glanced at each other, and suddenly laughed at each other.

"Gentleman, the name is right, and the words can be smooth." Fang Shaoqun finally said: "From now on, the court officials will be diluted, and the official position of the Hou Mansion will be above the court lords, which is the right thing to do." The long history, the recording of the military, the participation in the military, and so on, are all expedient measures, and there are many military generals who lead the positions of participating in the military, which is not appropriate. ”

"I'm thinking about it too." Xu Zixian said: "I originally wanted to practice in the name of the Eastern Domain, but I thought about it, but it was not suitable." ”

"Yes." Fang Shaoqun said: "Penghu didn't use group training, it was in the name of the Penghu Xiang Army. Junhou is the observer of the Penghu Sailor, and it is easy to take the Penghu place and the Sailor. In the Eastern Domain, the imperial court is an abandoned land, and with Chen Duzhong's ambition pattern, he will not mind what the prince does on the island, and the imperial court has no official position here, no supervision, as long as the prince finds an excuse at will, although he can't build a festival, but to expand the number of soldiers in the Hou Mansion, the court can't find any reason to oppose it......"

In fact, the number of troops in the Eastern Domain was not small, there were more than 3,000 people in Shangzhai, and there are still more than 7,000 people after several reductions.

This number, if the Xiang army is well equipped and well trained, it is okay to fight against a considerable number of pirates and mountain people, but the Xiang army is now weak and weak, and the money and materials allocated by the imperial court are seriously insufficient, and the Xiang army has no morale and training, at least in terms of the situation that Xu Zixian saw with his own eyes, the morale, equipment, and image of the soldiers of the Xiang army have fallen to the bottom.

Of course, such an army was useless, but Xu Zixian did not intend to drive the Xiang army away, as he did in Qizhou and Penghu.

There is a shortage of people on the side of the Eastern Domain, and the Xiang army has gone through a certain amount of military training and has a foundation, and a system is set up under the Hou Mansion, such as the Security Division, so that the Xiang Army is responsible for daily security patrols, only for civil and small bandits, and does not bear military duties, and it is estimated that it can still be competent and happy.

Of course, a certain amount of training must be carried out in advance, and some of the slippery people who are really unusable and have questionable character will be eliminated, and they will probably be usable.

"Only when the name is in harmony can the name be justified." Fang Shaoqun frowned, and suddenly said, "Mr. Wu, you must invite you to the Eastern Domain." ”

"I'm having a headache about this." Xu Zixian said: "The Mingtang over there is very good, and Mr. Wu has a teaching personality, if there is no big attraction, he will not come." I'm in a hurry, I'm afraid that even the current guest position will be resigned. ”

"Then the prince will think of a way to attract him to what reasons and things to use to attract him." Fang Shaoqun smiled and said: "Whether there is a great Confucian in the Eastern Domain, it is related to the image and status of the entire Great Wei, and it is very important, this is not a trivial matter in the Nan'an Hou Mansion, it is related to the reputation of the entire Eastern Domain in Shilin, it is not too important in the past two years, when the prince intends to intervene in the general trend of the world, Mr. Wu's important points will be more reflected." ”

Wu Shizhong is also a rare person admired by Fang Shaoqun, even in private, he is also called Mr. without a name.

Even Fang Shaoqun, an unruly, intelligent and conceited person, also respects Wu Shizhong so much, it is conceivable what kind of status and image he will have in the hearts of ordinary people in Shilin.

"I see." Xu Zixian thought of this, knowing that Fang Shaoqun's reminder was quite important, so he made a firm hand gesture and signaled that he would definitely do it.