Early in the morning, Yao Xishui and Yun Puzi escorted Li Yu, who was in extremely poor physical condition, to Guangdezhai first.

Zhang Ping and Feng Yi went to Langxi early in the morning to see Gu Zhilong, Han Qian left Zhao Wuji to lead the cavalry camp to rest in Nantang Village with the five thousand elites led by Lin Haizheng, he repaired a book in the morning, sent the secret room to Yueyang as soon as possible, and also rushed back to the remnant city of Guangde in the early afternoon surrounded by the guard camp, and rushed back to the remnant city of Guangde non-stop, almost at dusk, six or seven miles west of the remnant city of Guangde, catching up with Yao Xishui who went out early in the morning.

Han Qian slowed down, held the reins, and walked parallel to the carriage that Li Yu, Yun Puzi, and Yao Xishui were riding.

Although the Chishan Army's family retreated to the south of Jieling Mountain as quickly as possible, the speed of evacuation to Liyu Mountain was not fast, and it could not be too hasty.

Although the village officials took the lead, and the members of the women's camp and the youth camp broke up and joined the slave and maid families, the dilapidated camps, large and small, were able to maintain basic order and were not in chaos, but the weakness caused by long-term hunger, the fatigue caused by long journeys, and the confusion or numbness about the future were clear at a glance.

And entering the remnant city of Guangde (Guangde Village), Yun Puzi also saw the soldiers and horses of the third capital of the Chishan Army stationed inside and outside Guangde Village, the armor was so simple, most of the generals were ragged and quite weak, and the most elite Chishan Army was far from being compared, and it was also a big cut off Gao Shao as the second capital of the Chishan Army.

This is also a direct reflection of the lack of material supplies for the Chishan Army.

Han Qian's predicament was actually more serious than they thought.

Just as Li Yu said, the Qiuhu Army really couldn't be led by Han Qian's nose several times, so he was so discouraged that he couldn't do it.

Ten years ago, Guangde City was destroyed in the war, the rammed earth city wall was thrown stones to smash countless gaps, after the abolition of the county, the city wall was not repaired, and after these years of wind and sun and heavy rain, it was even more devastation, as if a section of the mound grew dense weeds, or there were forest birds flying.

"Lord Han is really one of the three or five people, thinking that the Chuzhou army won the great victory of Jingshan Nunnery, how hearty it is, but he doesn't dare to test Lord Han's reality." Yun Puzi couldn't help but talk to Han Qian when he entered the city.

Han Qian smiled slightly, and had no intention of dealing with the former military envoy of the Shengzhou Jiedu Embassy, the meaning of Yun Puzi's words was nothing more than that he was bluffing, and he was actually vulnerable.

If they think so, they feel better about themselves, and it's up to them.

In the ruined city, the people who inhabit and live here have not abandoned it, many new houses have been built in recent years, the population is not as dense as before, and a lot of vegetable gardens have been reclaimed in the open space, and the mulberry trees planted next to the streets and alleys that can see the old appearance can be found, and the green shade is dense at this time, and the cicadas are chirping.

The house arranged for Li Yu to recuperate is a wealthy family that has fled with his family before the Chishan army came, but the courtyard of Sanjin is elegant in the streets and alleys on the left and right, and there is a ginkgo tree that has grown for hundreds of years in the courtyard, but in the middle of summer, the yard is also shady and not so hot.

Han Qian took Li Yu to the courtyard and said goodbye, Li Yu barely stood up, and said: "Defeat is also the people's heart, and the establishment is also the people's heart." ”

"What the prince of the county said is very true." Han Qian arched his hand and said.

Yao Xishui looked at Li Yu and Han Qian suspiciously, and couldn't guess what the two of them were fighting.

Watching Li Yu and his entourage enter the mansion, go out of the village to greet Han Qian, and accompany Feng Yu, who sent Li Yu into the mansion together, he said with emotion: "But it is the prince of the county who can see it best, but it is a pity that his physical condition is too poor, I am afraid that he will not survive this summer and autumn, otherwise the current troubled times, the future of the Li family will be difficult to estimate!" This is also a day off Lee's! ”

Han Qian smiled slightly, did not take Feng Yi's words, and listened to him report to Ji Xiyao, Zhou Chu and others on the situation in Guangdezhai in the past few days since he left.

Guangde City was destroyed in the war between Chuzhou and Dong Chang, the king of Yue, in the eighth year of Tianyou, and Guangde County was withdrawn after that.

The main area of the old county of Guangde is located between Fuyu Mountain and Jieling Mountain, almost 60 miles deep.

In addition to the towering hills on both sides, although the valley between the two mountains is extremely open, covering an area of more than 1.5 million acres, but as an extension of the mountains on both sides, it may also be located in the topographic fold belt, this piece of terrain is particularly bumpy and low, the valley is full of low hills and mountains ranging from ten meters to thirty or forty meters, or several meters deep, more than ten deep mountain streams and ravines criss-cross, extremely densely distributed in the valley.

As a result, there is very little flat land that can be cultivated in this large area of seemingly flat valley.

At this time, although as early as before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were ancient Yue people who inhabited and multiplied, but in the past two or three thousand years, it is currently preliminarily estimated that there are only about 200,000 acres of arable land, and the township tyrants, slaves, tenants and small yeoman farmers are counted, and there are only about 25,000 people in the whole territory.

There are about 30,000 people in Dingkou in a county in Xuzhou, and the scale of Dingkou in Chenzhou, Sizhou and other counties in the southwest is even less, even less than 10,000 people, but in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, the scale of Dingkou in the old county of Guangde is quite small.

Therefore, after the county seat of Guangde was destroyed, the court simply demolished the old county of Guangde to Langxi and Anji counties, and saved the cost of rebuilding the remnants of Guangde.

After Han Qian controlled the entire territory of Guangde Old County, the first thing he did was to make Feng Yi and Ji Xiyao temporarily lead the affairs of Guangde County.

Although so many women and children were evacuated to Fuyu Mountain, it does not mean that they should be left alone, and even have to take care of so many old and weak women and children several times more carefully than before, so as not to have a large-scale famine and epidemic.

This requires Feng Yi, Ji Xiyao and others, who are good at official affairs, to put more meticulous input into it, so as to be comprehensive and not make too many leaks, and at the same time, Han Qian also wants Feng Yi and Ji Xiyao to promote the preliminary field granting work in the old county of Guangde.

On the one hand, it is necessary to fulfill his original promise to recruit slaves and maids into the army, and do everything possible to prevent the Chishan Army from becoming a homeless army, and it is one thing to have a place to stay, but more importantly, it is necessary to keep the people's hearts and minds unstrained and ensure that morale is not low under the current conditions of such a harsh material supply, so that everyone needs to have hope to see the light of day.

The slaves and maids who joined the army are so weak, so vulnerable, and so ragged, but they also have an advantage that is easily overlooked by the world, that is, these lowest, most humble slaves and maids, as long as they are given hope, they have endurance, tenacity and courage that ordinary people can hardly imagine.

This is what Li Yu said, "defeat is also the people's heart" and "standing is also the people's heart".

As long as Han Qian ensures that the hearts of the Chishan Army are not disheartened, and the Chuzhou Army and the Anning Palace are, he can ignore it for the time being.

However, the matter of granting land is extremely complicated, and it is by no means as easy as imagined.

Of course, those large households who fled could directly expropriate their farmlands, but they only had the appearance of 30,000 or 40,000 mu of cultivated land, which was not enough to give general land to the generals and families of the Chishan Army.

The interests of the indigenous people also need to be maintained, to avoid intensifying conflicts with the localities, and even to further win the support of local small and medium-sized landlords and middle- and lower-class poor peasants.

It's too deep.

According to the practice of measuring acres of land and changing the field tax in Xuzhou, as well as the general idea given by Han Qian a few days ago, Feng Yi and Ji Yaoxi and others formulated a plan, waiting for Han Qian to return to Guangdezhai for further deliberation and improvement.

Except for the large fugitive households, whose land houses were expropriated, the other people who remained in the local area were already large and small landlords who owned their land houses, and the draft decided to ensure that they owned their own land and houses. The whole territory abolished the slave household registration, but allowed to hire tenants and servants to work and serve, and spread the miscellaneous donations into the fields, and the additional grain levied was borrowed in the name of the Chishan army.

The Otoda house that can really be confiscated has about 40,000 acres of land and 2,000 houses.

Due to the large number of dry lands in Guangde, each household has to be granted almost 15 to 20 acres of land to barely maintain the food and clothing of the family, and in fact, it can only be actually attached to nearly 50,000 slaves and maids, and at most only one-twentieth of the population can be granted land in the old county of Guangde.

Of course, the most important thing is to give exemplary hope to the surrendering generals.

In addition to the confiscated farmlands that can be used, there are still a large number of land resources between Fuyu Mountain and Jieling Mountain that have not been developed.

This is mainly due to the fact that for thousands of years, the population of Jiangnan Dongdao has not reached the point of overcrowding.

In addition, the plains on both sides of the Yangtze River are open enough and rich in land resources.

Even if new land resources are to be developed, the tidal flats along the Yangtze River, the tidal flats along the Taihu Lake, and the tidal flats along the way that continue to extend eastward with sediment precipitation can be developed.

These are more time-saving and labor-saving than reclamation of sloping terraces; The reclaimed fields are mainly paddy fields, which produce more grain than the terraced fields on the slopes.

In particular, to the east of Guangde, it is the fertile plain on the southeast coast of Taihu Lake.

However, under the existing conditions in the old county of Guangde, Han Qian wanted to reclaim the slope terraces of the low hills that were tens of thirty or forty meters high, and there were also small undeveloped valley basins in the depths of Fuyu Mountain and Jieling Mountain that could be reclaimed.

There is too much tedious work to be done in the early stage, and the progress will be quite slow.

Fortunately, although there is no way to transport the excellent armor in Xuzhou, there is no way to transport it on a large scale, and the 30,000 generals of the Chishan Army are seriously short of armor and weapons, but the iron farm tools are still sufficient in Lishui, Pingling and other places - even if the township and wealthy clans are harsh, they still have to give the low-level slaves and maids enough tools to engage in production.

Everything must be pushed forward step by step, so that the generals and families who have struggled at the bottom can see hope and see the dawn, and the hearts of the Chishan Army will not be discouraged.

Of course, in addition to cultivating terraced fields on sloping land, the use of surplus labor to organize the production of more other primary industrial products that can be traded with the outside world such as grain, cloth, salt, etc. (not plundered) is also the core means of self-help in production.

In addition to the more than 100 craftsmen and engineers who have already followed Ji Xiyao eastward, Xuzhou will send reinforcements to Guangde next, and they will also be mainly craftsmen and engineers.

Guangde County should also extensively set up a township inspection department in its territory and in the depths of Fuyu Mountain to take charge of the villages, and in combination with the traditional township service system and the practice of the inspection department carried out in Xuzhou, the township official system at the township level should be implemented at the township level, which integrates military and political administration and combines production with preparation for war and training, so as to strengthen the reclamation of Xintian, strengthen the construction of mines and workshops, and pay more attention to strengthening the protection of women and children evacuated into the mountains.

After the meal, Han Qian took the strip Chen prepared by Feng Yi and Ji Xiyao and modified it under the lamp, only blew out the oil lamp at dawn, slept at the desk for a while, heard someone in the courtyard, looked up and looked out the window, but it was Wang Jun wearing a water-green skirt, Bai Xi's face was as clear as the first snow under the morning light, but at this time he was blocked by the guards outside the courtyard.

Han Qian rubbed his face and motioned for the guards to let Wang Jun come over.