The winter in Huguang is not extremely cold, and it is impossible to freeze three feet.

Moreover, the Yangtze River at this time is the dry season, which is more conducive to the excavation of silt to increase the height of the Jiangxinzhou, which is only less than 30 meters away from the north bank of the Yangtze River.

The fleet of ships organized by the "Sun and Moon Shipping" arrived at the port of Jingzhou on 18 December, with a total of more than 100 ships of various sizes with a displacement of 30 to 100 tons, half of which were hired ships, half of which were self-built new ships, and more than 20 were warships equipped with artillery.

Huang Kezao, one of the leaders of the "Sun and Moon Shipping" family, personally led the team, and after the formation of the "Red Banner Army" Shuiying Yangtze River detachment, the "Wangchuan Fort" was the home port, and the commander was Yu Quanzuo, who was born as a veteran sailor.

He was in his early thirties, Yu Fei's uncle and Yu Quanyou's younger brother, and he already had the title of Zhengwupin Qianhu, which turned out to be the pipe belt of a warship with a displacement of 400 tons.

The fleet brought with it sixteen six-pounder cannons, eight twelve-pounder cannons, thirty-two large and small furlong cannons, many self-generated guns and mini guns, and three thousand steel bars with the ship.

Huang Kezao again hired more than 100 river boats nearby, and three days later, 30,000 displaced people who had been following the "Red Flag Army" were given the opportunity to take a boat to Yangzhou to change to a sea boat to southern Liaoning, accounting for half of the total number of displaced people who followed from Henan to Huguang.

Another 30,000 people will next be involved in building embankments, castles, or crushing limestone to make cement, working to earn money and food while waiting for the next thousand-mile transfer.

Huang Han negotiated with Xu Mingyang, revealing his intention to resettle refugees in Tuntian near Jiangxinzhou, Xu Mingyang had already seen the results of Houjiazhuang's reclamation, and was very happy to see that Huang Han was also preparing to take root in Jingzhou.

Next, of course, the method of encroaching on terra nullius and wasteland and buying up the landlord's acres of land made the land near "Wangchuan Fort" contiguous, and the reason for this is still to facilitate the management of small watersheds.

There were too many gold and silver treasures seized, and there was no point in leaving this thing in your hands if you didn't spend it, and the price of the fertile land in Huguang was very high, and since most of it was rice fields, the transaction price was four or five times that of the dry land in the north.

Huang Han cultivated more than 100,000 mu of land, more than half of which belonged to the wasteland of the river beach, and there was no more than 20,000 mu of unowned land in the 50,000 or 60,000 mu of mature land, and he bought nearly 40,000 mu at a price ranging from 20 to 30 taels of silver, spending more than 1 million taels of silver.

Xu Mingyang took the lead in purchasing acres of land, did not overwhelm people with power, and basically traded fairly according to the market price.

After all, the Liukou border frightened many landlords who owned a large number of acres of land, and at this time the sale of land was basically unattended, and when he learned that the Marquis of Dongping, who had just rescued Jingzhou, was going to buy a house here, basically no landlord dared to have the heart to deliberately embarrass the general judge who came to coordinate.

Many dignitaries and nobles also thought that the Marquis of Dongping took out a huge amount of money to buy a large number of acres of land in the west of Jingzhou, and that it would be more important here in the future, and it would be much safer to live next to the Marquis of Dongping, who had a strong army.

Due to the large purchase of Dongpinghou, the inventory of all the brick kilns within a radius of dozens of miles in Jingzhou has been swept away, and now they are working overtime to produce.

At the same time as the construction of the "Wangchuan Fort", the construction of the water conservancy project has also begun, and the river connecting the river in the middle of the river where the "Wangchuan Fort" is located to the northern land will be built into a sluice with a width of only 20 meters.

The two sides of the gate are built with bamboo reinforced concrete, bricks and stones, and there is a water gate at the entrance to control the water supply, which can maintain a balanced flow rate of the four-mile-long gate, and flour mills and weaving mills driven by water will be built on both sides.

Close to the Yangtze River without worrying about irrigation, the need to solve is flood control and drainage, for which it is essential to burn cement to build a river embankment, in order to save steel, Huang Han made full use of Jingzhou's bamboo resources to make bamboo tendons.

The use of baked anti-corrosion bamboo bars in concrete instead of steel bars is a mature technology that has been demonstrated by later generations, and the bearing capacity is very good, and the strength is not as strong as reinforced concrete, which is enough to meet the needs of building river embankments.

Due to the fact that there were Tang kings, Xiang kings, Hui kings and many county kings within a radius of several hundred miles, civil officials and military generals were afraid of bearing the great sin of losing the feudal domain.

The notes they wrote to the imperial court were all exaggerated, so that the emperor could not imagine how many rogues were active in the north of Huguang and the Yangtze River and Henan Province.

Many civil and military forces in Xiangyang, Nanyang, Jingzhou, and other prefectures and counties have seen the combat effectiveness of the "Red Banner Army," and everyone wants to keep this army, which can fight and does not disturb the people, in their defense areas.

After being frightened, King Xiang also asked the Son of Heaven to ask for a strong army to defend the vassal country, and even King Hui, who was fasting and reciting Buddha, also wrote a note asking the emperor to leave the "Red Banner Army" for protection.

Chongzhen didn't know what to do, so he had to order Huang Han to clear the rogues in Nanyang, Jingzhou and other places as soon as possible, and arrange to encircle and suppress his own civilian and military generals to coordinate, and the short-term task of the "Red Banner Army" was to ensure that the three feudal kings and more than a dozen county kings were well-organized.

Unexpectedly, there was no need to play tricks to rely on Jingzhou, and the prince and the magistrates all took a fancy to the combat effectiveness and discipline of the "Red Banner Army", and they all rushed to leave this army in a stable place.

This is also the benefit of strict discipline, the "Red Banner Army" does not demand excessively, does not harass the localities, and also provides food to help the victims of the disaster, help the local officials maintain order, and clear up the remnants of the gangsters.

Such a good army is unique, and the magistrates and princes are not blind, and when there must be an army to garrison, they certainly do everything they can to leave the "Red Banner Army".

In order to fulfill the emperor's instructions to ensure the safety of his relatives, the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" patrolled around these prefectures and counties with the mansions of vassal kings and county kings during training.

When it was discovered that there was a large-scale gathering of rogues nearby, the "Red Banner Army" annihilated or dispersed them in time.

At the end of the year, Qin Yanyi always felt nauseous and often vomited, Huang Han judged that she was pregnant after asking for warmth, and it was estimated that she was secretly married during the same sex in Luwangfu.

Zhang Fengyi was extremely nervous when she heard the news, she personally managed Qin Yanyi's diet and daily life, and resolutely refused Qin Yanyi to ride a horse and dance with a gun and a stick.

Huang Han suddenly thought of Qin Yanyi's two maidservants Qin Yin and Qin Yue, who had no force value, and now these two girls also went to Jingshi to participate in the management of the Sleepless City project.

Now that Qin Yanyi is pregnant, she needs to be served by someone who is careful and knowledgeable, Huang Han wrote a letter and sent it to Jingshi with the official document of Baojie, believing that it will not be long before a boat will send them to Jingzhou.

From winter to spring, the "Red Banner Army" was stationed in the land of Jingchu for 70 days, during which time 20,000 or 30,000 regular soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, and miscellaneous servants were patrolling and training, helping the needy, taking in war orphans, relocating refugees, and giving porridge to the poor who had lost their labor force.

Millions of soldiers and civilians and eunuchs saw this high-profile roar: "Death of hunger will not rob the common people." The teacher of righteousness.

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