Chapter 659: Centaurs

Gu Zhun, who was stationed in the Kuizhou Prefecture, had been expanding his staff, and due to the increasing production of self-generated guns in the system, all the arquebuses were eliminated and became commodities sold to the Da Yue and Quang Nam countries in the Nanyang trade.

Nowadays, even the hot weapons of the guards are self-generated, and the proportion of Mini guns among the musketeers is close to 30%.

At present, the strength of Gu Zhun cannot be underestimated, there are three thousand mountain infantry, more than 3,300 people, and two general artillery have 60 one-pound furlong machine guns that can be disassembled and carried over mountains and mountains.

Only six hundred soldiers in this group of men and horses used cold weapons, namely pikemen, sword and shield men, and foot archers.

The regimental training armed branch under the command of Gu Zhun has 27 generals in nine county towns, and it is obvious that more ordinary people in eastern Sichuan can be trained to form an army, but considering the burden of the squires and common people in each county, it can only be moderate.

In principle, one county should maintain three general township warrior armies, two general generals should stay behind to participate in maintaining public order in the county town in peacetime, and one should unite the general and other county people's men and horses to go into the mountains and pull nets under the command of the regular soldiers led by Gu Zhun to eliminate bandits, bandits, and rogue bandits.

The number of county capitals and counties actually controlled by the white pole soldiers reached more than a dozen, and they also sent troops to organize township warriors and regimental training to strengthen public security, and the territory in their hands was larger, and they owned more acres of land, and the money and grain in the hands of Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin gradually increased.

Passive defense will be beaten sooner or later, and Gu Zhun got an order not to let his subordinates idle when Huang Han was leaving, as long as it is not the busy farming season, he must plan to attack.

Therefore, Gu Zhun's troops continued to encroach on the periphery, and fought with the rogues on the periphery as much as possible, making the central area of Kuizhou Mansion under the control of the "Red Banner Army" a royal paradise.

With the joint efforts of the "Red Banner Army" and the flag guards, coupled with the strong support of the friendly white pole soldiers, more than 1 million people in eastern Sichuan have been able to support themselves under the perseverance of Ma Xianglin and Gu Zhun.

Due to the large number of potatoes and maize planted in large quantities, grain yields have increased, and it is estimated that there should be more than 100,000 stone of surplus grain after this autumn to support other places.

In the continuous fight against bandits and bandits, relief for work is also in progress, and the organization of the people to repair roads and strengthen the passes is always in progress.

On the premise of obtaining geographical advantages, under the condition that there is artillery fire, self-generated guns, and Mini guns to assist in defense, the "Red Banner Army" and the white pole soldiers have joined forces to firmly hold the eastern Sichuan and Shizhu areas to ensure that the water and soil of Sichuan are not trampled by the rogues.

The "Wangchuan Fort" garrisoned by Zhao Kun is not only impregnable, but also thriving.

Because the rogue invaded Huguang, many landlords, old wealth, officials and nobles who trusted the "Red Flag Army" came here to buy houses to avoid bandits.

There are many wealthy people in the population, and consumption naturally increases, which drives the large-scale production of surrounding tunhuan, and vegetables, chickens, ducks, geese, sheep, and pigs can all be sold at good prices.

The "Yangtze River Detachment" now has more than 180 warships and more than 4,000 sailors.

The smallest sentinel ship had a crew of eleven, each with a self-generated gun, and a one-pound Furlong cannon in the bow and stern, and today's sailors are all-rounders, not only capable of sailing, rowing, and steering, but also firing the Furlong cannon.

The largest river warship had a displacement of less than 300 tons, a crew of 56 people, two three-pounder guns, four one-pounder furlong cannons, and one six-pounder Hongyi cannon.

More than 200,000 people belonging to the "Red Banner Army" system in Jingzhou have completed the joint defense of armor protection and established household registration books and grain books, which means that they can enjoy affordable grain and many official-priced commodities.

Homesteaders may be stripped of their land if they donate it to scholars, but from now on they will be able to earn half of their land by donating it to the "Red Banner Army," and the ownership of the land will remain unchanged.

Farming for the "Red Flag Army" naturally became a member of the system, and each family could receive five buckets of miscellaneous grains and six coins of silver every month as long as they contributed one to participate in the intensive training, and not only got the benefits of affordable commodities and so on, but also had a protective umbrella.

The local officials and officials will no longer come to send conscripts to collect exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the "Red Banner Army" will pay for all the reasons for asking for money and people.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the government exploited the people and made their lives miserable, was Chongzhen willing? No! No matter how you look at it, it is impossible to displace the people with a regular tax, and Chongzhen often gives relief and tax exemption to a certain place.

It will not be the feudal officials who forced the people to be cornered, but those low-level officials and officials.

It is normal for these people to carry the brand of doing things for the imperial court, doing misdeeds, and indiscriminately apportioning and eating cards to be saved, but these people are all masters who bully the weak and fear the hard, and they know that they can't exploit the situation in the name of skillfully on the table, how can they dare to talk crookedly with the "Red Flag Army"?

It was very easy to collect evidence of a crime against a servant and a servant for bribes, Zhao Kun only arranged two or three times, and more than a dozen officials and servants were thrown into the prison under the management of Xu Mingyang, and finally sentenced to be sent to Liaoxi, and no one dared to touch the tiger's beard after that.

Xu Mingyang has made meritorious contributions in organizing the military and civilians to defend the city, and he has been promoted to the governor of Jingzhou Prefecture the year before last, which is the result of the joint letter of Jingzhou magistrate and squire, otherwise Xu Mingyang will be transferred after being promoted.

In the past three years, Xu Mingyang has been really happy, seeing that hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in Jingzhou have lived and worked in peace and contentment under his own participation and management, and he has never worried about the court taxes that should be completed.

He became more aware of the importance of force, and he also encountered difficulties from his colleagues during his time in power.

Whenever he felt that the policy of reassuring the people and raising soldiers had been resisted, his confidants did not know who to contact, and then collected a basket of scandalous things about those disobedient officials.

There is no need for-for-tat, the officials who have been held have come to their senses, knowing that in Jingzhou, they still live in a proper manner, and they may die if they want to scrape the ground.

Now the local officials of Jingzhou know that being an official here guarantees that they can make political achievements, but they also guarantee that they will not get benefits, and they cannot have both, and the vast majority of officials have accepted this fact and no longer have wishful thinking.

In this fertile and beautiful place near the Yangtze River, as long as there is no man-made disaster, the power of natural disasters is not terrible, and man-made disasters are not only rogues and robbing houses, but also include the government's expropriation and expropriation.

Jingzhou now has a good official like Xu Mingyang and the strong backing of the "Red Flag Army", which can not only feed this people, but also save a large amount of grain to support Shanxi and Henan.

This is the ruling program of the Huang Han Dynasty after that, and the most important one is to strictly manage officials, officials, and officials.

These people are equivalent to civil servants in later generations, as long as civil servants do not eat and take cards, they must do things according to law, and do not be lazy or neglect government, the country will naturally flourish, and the people will definitely be able to live and work in peace and contentment.