Xu Shiyang didn't care about the thoughts of Tatar women at all, the more feudal they were, the better, and it was best to degenerate directly into a slave society, anyway, Xu Shiyang just wanted to use them to increase the population of his own nation.

Well, in their free time to give birth, they also have to bear heavy manual labor - or how to say that feudal society mutilates women.

However, he can't help but guard against the rotten "Female Virtue" ideology that imprisons the thinking of Han women.

Because the future envisioned by Xu Shiyang is inevitably industrialized, and large industry needs a large number of qualified workers.

At that time, men will either serve as soldiers to fight in wars or go to heavy industry factories, and women will have to support light industries such as the textile industry (there is already this trend in Qi Province now), and women can hold up half the sky, which is not a joke.

All trustworthy manpower of the nation is invaluable and cannot be wasted.

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In March of the first year of Longdao, the Qi army led by Xu Shiyang won the Lushun-Jinzhou Campaign.

Tactically, the Qi army annihilated more than 6,000 Jin troops, captured a large number of prisoners and captured a large amount of supplies.

Strategically, Xu Shiyang successfully closed the Jinzhou Isthmus, not only gaining a foothold in southern Liaoning, but also gaining a new Tuntian area.

From this day on, if the Jurchen Tartars still dared to enter the customs and rob, he would be able to use southern Liaoning as a base to launch attacks and harass the actual control area of the Tartars.

For the Jurchens, at this time, they were truly attacked on all sides, and they were completely passive strategically.

On the fifth day of the first month of April, the naval fleet ran back and forth, transporting a large number of prisoners to Dengzhou, and at the same time bringing in new reinforcements - the field brigade Laiyuan, and 5,000 militiamen.

At the same time, Xu Shiyang kept about 3,000 strong prisoners in southern Liaoning, and he began to use these strong laborers to build the Jinzhou defensive line.

Once the initial defense works are completed, the Tartars will completely lose the possibility of recapturing southern Liaoning.

Well, in fact, now they have no ability to recapture southern Liaoning, at this time the Qi army has 4 field infantry brigades and 1 mounted infantry brigade in Jinzhou-Lushun, plus Xu Shiyang's guards and trapped camp troops, the new army alone has more than 8,000 people.

Coupled with the auxiliaries and reinforcements from Dengzhou on the other side of the sea that could be reached by boat at any time, if the Tartars could not come with their whole division, they would definitely not be able to break through the Isthmus of Jinzhou, but if they came with their whole division, the surrounding Muguls, Shengjurchens, and even Goryeo would not mind jumping on them and taking a bite.

This strategic advantage made Xu Shiyang feel very happy, not to mention that he also captured more than 500 war horses.

In southern Liaoning, several brigade commanders: Li Jinghuai, Feng Sanhu, Xie Zhen, Xu Ning, Luan Tingyu, and even Zhang Mingyi, the transit envoy who came to Lushun with the Laiyuan Brigade, suggested that Xu Shiyang restore the regular cavalry system.

It's just that this suggestion was rejected by Xu Shiyang - these precious war horses can only first supplement the shortage of cavalry companies in each field brigade, and the remaining uncastrated stallions and most of the mares will be transported back to Qi Province and handed over to the military horse farm.

Xu Shiyang needs to prepare for the future, and it is impossible to get a few horses and throw them all into the front line.

Preparing for the future is also the issue of talent pool.

In the just-concluded Lushun-Jinzhou Campaign, a number of officers and men with outstanding performances emerged, among which Li Xiushen, deputy commander of the Jingyuan Brigade, and several grassroots officers under him were particularly prominent.

These warriors must be given enough recognition, and Xu Shiyang is determined to make them the idols of the whole army, the province, and even the whole country.

For this reason, on the eighth day of April, Xu Shiyang held a battle victory meeting in Lushun, at which Xu Shiyang personally awarded Li Xiushen the Silver Star Medal (the highest medal of the Qi Army is the Gold Star, but it has never been awarded to anyone, so Li Xiushen's Silver Star is the highest level of the medal that has been awarded).

Several company commanders, including Xu Shizhen, were all awarded the Order of Loyalty and Courage of the First Class.

All the four subordinate companies of the Jingyuan Brigade that participated in the blockade of the Tartar cavalry were awarded the collective third-class merit, and all 460 Jingyuan cavalrymen (including those who went to see the horses) were collectively promoted to one rank.

At the victory meeting, Xu Shiyang also said that he had ordered the propaganda team (the main members were the servants and opera troupes attached to the Heqin fleet) to compile songs, operas, allegro, and other opera programs that praised the incomparable courage of the soldiers of the Jingyuan Brigade.

Xu Shiyang arrogantly announced that these operas will not only be spread in southern Liaoning and Lushun, but also sung in the south of the Yangtze River, so that everyone in the world will know the prestige of the new army in Qi Province and the extraordinary bravery of the Jingyuan warriors.

With a three-pronged approach of spiritual encouragement, in-kind rewards and promises of a better future, Xu Shiyang naturally reaped the cheers of the soldiers of the whole army.

Xu Shiyang was pleased to find that his troops recovered quickly, both in terms of morale and physical strength.

As soon as the victory meeting ended, the next day Xu Shiyang's desk was full of letters of request from various field brigades, and all the officers and men kept asking for troops to attack Fuzhou in order to strive for a greater victory.

However, Xu Shiyang did not agree.

The main reason is that he still does not have the confidence to win a decisive battle with the main force of the Tartars - there are too few cavalry, and if he suddenly encounters the ...... of the main force of the Jin army during the attack on Fuzhou.

Hehe, when the time comes, what kind of destruction will be made of the core territory of the Tartars, such as the Mughure and the birth of Jurchen, he Xu Shiyang will definitely suffer a big loss.

Xu Shiyang didn't want to suffer this loss, so the attack on Fuzhou had to be slowed down a little, at least until the main movement of the Jin army could be determined.

However, he didn't mind taking the opportunity to do some preparations.

For example, occupy the three large islands of Changsheng Island, Xizhong Island, and Nakadao Island on the other side of Fuzhou Bay.

These three islands are not small in size, with dense primeval forests and very good flat land, and if these islands are occupied, Xu Shiyang can even directly feed tens of thousands of people on them.

According to the information obtained from the interrogation of the captives, at this time, the Tartars only had a garrison on Changsheng Island, about a mock man, and the appearance of 2 or 3 hundred soldiers, which was not vulnerable at all.

It seems that this force is only there to watch the more than 1,000 families of all ethnic groups on the island.

These inhabitants mainly relied on boiling salt for their livelihood, and the Jurchen Tatars collected 500 taels of salt from Changsheng Island as a tax (300 catties per cattle), which was one of the important salt acquisition bases for the Jurchens.

If they were able to occupy this island, the Tartars would lose 150,000 catties of salt income every year, which was an unacceptable long-term loss for the Jurchens whose economic conditions were extremely poor.

The greater the enemy's possible losses, the better the target for Xu Shiyang, not to mention that Changsheng Island is very close to Fuzhou City, if he can determine the movement of the main force of the Tartars, he can directly start from here and use the advantage of the naval division to attack Fuzhou across the sea.

If the Tartars counterattack is strong, Xu Shiyang can't hold Changsheng Island, he can also Shi Shiran can also leave by boat directly, anyway, it is impossible for the Tartars to always garrison the army on Changsheng Island, and after the main force of the Tartars leaves, he can go back.

This kind of goal that can be advanced and retreated, and it is almost impossible to miss is not easy to find, and of course it should be held in hand as soon as possible.