Everything was prepared for the capture of Liyang, and everything had to make way for war preparations.

Now that the war has entered a buffer period, a large number of problems that have accumulated before need to be solved by Han Qian.

First of all, after a large number of officials were transferred to Tangyi, there were a large number of vacant official positions in Xuzhou, and it was necessary to immediately select reliable people to fill them, so as to ensure that the foundation would not go wrong and could continue to develop steadily.

Just as Han Qian transferred a large number of people to Tangyi, including Feng Yi, Guo Rong, Gao Shao, Tian Cheng, Feng Xuan, Lin Haizheng, Zhao Qi, Zhou Chu, Kong Xirong, Feng Zhang, and Feng Yi, a few years ago, Han Qian did not intend to completely select people from within Xuzhou, but considered selecting a group of people from the old headquarters of the Zuoguang German Army, as well as sending people like Qiao Weiyan who were talented, had their own ideas, and could accept the new policy of Xuzhou to Xuzhou.

In addition to accelerating the expansion of the scale of Xuzhou's generals, another factor is what Han Qian has been trying to do, which is to promote the integration of the southwestern border and the hinterland of Jianghuai, rather than closing Xuzhou.

In addition, the warships of the Lou Boat Army have gone south from the Huai River and entered the river network in the south of Shouzhou, the north of Chaozhou and the south side of Hongzepu, and the Tangyi soldiers want to continue to push the troops to the north, and at the same time they must firmly control the water network such as the Chuhe River, Chaohu Lake and the Zhegao River in the northeast of Chaohu Lake, and support the land shore camp.

In the future, the bulk material transportation between Xuzhou and Tangyi can only be handed over to the Chishan Society to take over.

At the same time, the Chishan Association will also be a link to strengthen the connection between Tangyi and Xuzhou.

If the transportation of bulk materials in these two places is undertaken by the fleets of the Xiang and Yang families, there may not be any problems in a short period of time, but after a long time, it is certain that the local surname forces will not have some thoughts about making a comeback.

Many things must be led by the guest nationality and integrate the local households, rather than the reverse process.

The Chishan Society will undertake its work, and will inevitably plant part of the foundation in Xuzhou, and after this foundation, Han Qian will be able to win over the transportation of grain, tribute and salt from all over the country above the court, and the Chishan Society will be responsible for establishing a more professional and efficient transportation system.

After leaving the dock, Han Qian rode back to Tangyi City on horseback and talked about some of his thoughts with Qiao Weiyan and Han Chengmeng one by one.

At present, the people who are staying in Xuzhou are mainly Xi Xunqiao, Xi Chang, Ji Xiyao, Chen Jitang, Han Dong, Zhao Jicheng and others, Han Qian is also patient, and talked to Qiao Weiyan about the ability and temperament of these people.

He will recommend Xi Xunqiao and Xi Chang to serve as the governor of Xuzhou, Shi and Sima, and assist Zhao Tinger to act in the military and political affairs of Xuzhou with everyone, hoping that after Qiao Weiyan arrives in Xuzhou, he can get familiar with everyone and Tan Yuliang as soon as possible to ensure that Xuzhou can maintain stable and rapid development in the future.

In this way, we can more effectively support the operation and construction of Tangyi.

If Xuzhou is not stable and chaos occurs, the problem will become extremely thorny, and Han Qian will become a dilemma at that time.

Listening to Han Qian talk about the many new policy ideas for governing Xuzhou, Han Chengmeng and Qiao Weiyan were unheard of, and they were ashamed of their self-proclaimed capable talents in the past.

Next, Han Qian told them about the balance and the Wuchuan River Valley.

Tan Xiuqun led the elite of the three battalions of Tianping Capital to serve the king of Zhaoqin, and after arriving in Tangyi, he did not hesitate and retreated to directly participate in the bloody battle at the western foot of Fucha Mountain.

Otherwise, even if the relationship with Xuzhou is harmonious after accepting Zhao'an, Tan Xiuqun will not be able to directly throw the elite of the lineage into such a vicious battle without reservation.

However, they were still deeply shocked to hear Han Qian say more about the Wuchuan River Valley, especially the fact that the salt production of the Wuchuan River Valley may be 60,000 or 70,000 stone higher this year.

In the old information, there are two salt wells in the Wuchuan River Valley, but they can also produce one or two thousand stone salt every year.

There are only more than 20 new salt wells in the valley east of the Wuchuan River Valley, which is not as many as imagined, but when digging small deep wells, a fire well (natural gas well) was opened by luck, which directly solved the fuel problem of boiling salt in brine for more than 20 new wells, so that the actual manpower invested was reduced by more than half than expected.

After the well salt produced in Wuchuan County was shipped out of Xuzhou, the actual cost was less than 100 yuan.

That is to say, the annual salt profit of Wuchuan County is as high as 200,000 yuan, and the output of the seven counties of Xuzhou is counted, and a total of nearly 500,000 yuan of grain can be provided to Tangyi every year in the future.

Coupled with the 400,000 taels of money and military funds allocated by the Privy Council every year according to 20,000 forbidden soldiers, this means that Tangyi may spend as much as millions of dollars a year in the future, and the gap is far less than they thought before.

Of course, the upfront expenses of Tangyi are still too great.

In the previous few fierce battles, the foundation accumulated in Xuzhou for several years was exhausted, and the more than 300,000 yuan of money and grain raised by the Han family were all thrown into a bottomless pit, and they were gone.

At present, not to mention that the Shouzhou army does not have the strength to fight any more vicious battles, and the Tangyi soldiers do not have the ability to launch an offensive like the Liyang War, they are only relying on the more than 20,000 yuan of money and food allocated by the Privy Council every month to maintain normal expenses.

In the future, large-scale construction will be carried out, and additional money and grain will be raised.

At present, there are 120,000 soldiers and civilians in Tangyi, except for 20,000 generals, the remaining 100,000 vassals, almost all of them are generals.

With the minimum standard of relief, 100,000 generals with small families only need more than 30,000 stone of grain per month to barely make ends meet, but if they are to dig ditches, build embankments, build houses, walled cities, reclaim new fields, and participate in the construction of craftsmen and mines, even if they do not pay additional wages, they only need to have enough food and ensure a certain amount of nutrition, and at least 100,000 stone of grain are needed every month.

And that's not counting the consumption of a lot of worktools.

For these two points, an additional 6.7 million yuan may be invested in the next year

Money; In a short period of time, they can only rely on the Han family to continue to sell their fields and houses in Xuanshe and other places to raise money and grain.

After all, this is still the cost of the initial resettlement of 100,000 vassals.

In the future, I want to build a remote embankment between Liyang and Tangyi to block the river, and I will also carry out development and construction on the east bank of Chaohu Lake west of Liyang, that is, the newly established Donghu County, and the money and grain required are even more days.

Of course, if Qiao's and Chen's are willing to come up with more than 100,000 yuan of money and grain, the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau and the Industrial Manufacturing Bureau can open the door and let them participate; The Chen family and the Qiao family can also recommend their children to serve as officials in Xuzhou or Tangyi.

Qiao Weiyan and Chen Zhiliang will do the work of their respective families, and Han Daochang will also lobby hard.

With the secret support of Lu Qingxia, Li Zhihe can't talk about absolute control over the Zuo Longque Army, and the problem is the word money and food.

In recent years, the Red Mansion and the Marquis of Xinchang Mansion secretly had to maintain a huge secret spy system, which consumed a lot of money, and no matter how well they operated, their savings were extremely limited.

At that time, the Taowu Jijun Mansion collected the infected and hungry people, organized and trained the Dragon Bird Army, and invested an additional 200,000 or 300,000 yuan in money and grain before and after, almost squeezing out their family funds.

After that, the war continued, and in addition to the normal military expenses, Li Zhihe has not been able to get additional money and food support, so many things cannot be done.

At this time, Li Zhihe nominally controlled the military power of the Huaixi Forbidden Army in Shuzhou, but Shuzhou, where he also led the history of assassination, only had more than 200,000 people, more than 1.5 million mu of cultivated land, and the state and county land taxes were 150,000 stone and more than 80,000 yuan in miscellaneous donations.

Even if the local expenditure is collected from the people, this amount of land tax and ding tax is still far less than one-twelfth of the annual consumption of the Huaixi Forbidden Army.

The Huaixi Forbidden Army is calculated according to 40,000 soldiers, in addition to the battle damage pension and meritorious service rewards, the imperial court has to supply 780,000 yuan of money and grain to maintain expenses.

In addition, almost 20,000 soldiers and horses of the state soldiers in Huangchi and Hubei were gathered in Shuzhou, which was controlled by Li Zhihe, and fortunately, the food and straw supply of these soldiers and horses, as well as the post-war pensions and rewards, were all responsible for the states.

Otherwise, Li Zhihe would be overstretched in Shuzhou.

At present, it is much more convenient for them to act in the name of the Queen Mother than before, but if one day the Queen Mother loses power, Emperor Yanyou returns to take charge of the government, and the supply of money and food for the Huaixi Forbidden Army continues to be subject to the center, it is impossible for Li Zhihe to be unrestricted.

Han Qian gave up the military and political power of Guangde Mansion at the beginning, mainly because of the land in Xuzhou and Guangde Mansion at that time, and he could not solve the survival problem of so many generals and their families in a normal way.

However, Han Qian can build his own team in Xuzhou, which is also a continuous blood transfusion and hematopoiesis that has been operating Xuzhou Energy for many years, otherwise, where can thousands of grassroots military attaches and officials be trained in such a short period of time?

In addition to the additional financial and grain support of nearly 500,000 yuan every year, Xuzhou's population has also entered a stage of rapid growth, and it can maintain stability in the future, adding more than 10,000 adult labor force every year.

The population base continues to expand at about this scale.

Even if only calculated on the basis of men, the new replenishment of more than 5,000 young and strong people every year is four or five times that of the same size and non-war state of state and county.

Of these 5,000 young people, almost half of them have completed two years of primary education.

Of course, Xuzhou is a corner after all, and its development potential cannot be compared with Jianghuai.

Calculated only in terms of the amount of land that can be cultivated, the reclamation of 2.45 million mu of cultivated land in Xuzhou is already the limit, and most of it is still sloping terraced fields.

The seven counties compiled by Tangyi at this time do not include the northern part of Chuzhou, as long as they can build remote embankments and reclaim the river beach as scheduled, the potential for reclaiming fields is as high as 5 million mu, most of which are paddy fields.

With the current level of farming, if the population carrying limit of Xuzhou is 500,000, then the population carrying limit of the seven counties of Tangyi can reach 2 million or even more.

At this time, the combined population of more than a dozen prefectures in Huaidong and Huaixi was barely 2 million, and only 120,000 soldiers and civilians were absorbed in the seven counties of Tangyi.

One of the core things in the future of Tangyi is to do everything possible to absorb new population; And the future success or failure of Xuzhou lies in controlling the size of the population.

This is also an important role to be played by the Chishan Society, which will reach into Zhuzhou County in the future.

The Xuzhou side can even take out a part of the money and grain, buy Fanhu slaves and maids from Guizhou, and send them to Tangyi to supplement the shortage of population.

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Back in Tangyi City, Han Qian had just entered the tent set up in the county office, and Tian Cheng and Guo Rong walked over from the other side.

Seeing Han Qian coming over, Tian Cheng said loudly: "Kong Xirong is back, and he was about to call you to call you!" ”

"yes, I was thinking he would be able to come over in the next two days." Han Qian said happily, strode into the courtyard with Tian Cheng and others, and saw Kong Xirong standing in the hall with Gao Shao and others talking about things.

From the end of the year to meet the remnants of the Navy Division from Zhongli to break through, Kong Xirong has been leading his troops to stick to the Wujian Mountains, and he has not met directly for three or four months.

Compared with the several vicious battles along the Chuhe River and Fucha Mountain, Kong Xirong stuck to the Wujian Mountain Range, and his life was not necessarily comfortable.

First of all, he had to cooperate with Gao Chengyuan with the remnants of the water division, and with Li Xiu and Li Mo, to transfer from the northern section of the mountain range to the southern section of the mountain range.

After Gao Chengyuan's death, Kong Xirong wanted to reorganize the remnants of the demoralized sailors in the southern section of the Wujian Mountains, and resist the advance of the Shouzhou Army under extremely difficult supply conditions.

After that, more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians in Chuzhou City withdrew into the Wujian Mountains.

In particular, Wei Zhen withdrew with Li Xiu and Li Mo, and threw more than 20,000 civilians to Kong Xirong. Even if they couldn't bear it anymore, they could only slaughter more than 400 horses ruthlessly to make up for the lack of food.

During the Liyang War, Kong Xirong also had to lead his troops to contain the defenders of Chuzhou City to reinforce in the west.

Kong Xirong's responsibilities are actually better than those of a battlefield commander

Much more complicated.

Of course, this is also a great exercise for Kong Xirong, who only cared about fighting on the battlefield in the past.

Feng Yi happily grabbed Kong Xirong's shoulders and asked him to say something interesting about Wujian Mountain, Han Qian pulled Feng Yi away and said: "Xirong comes back this time, and he can only stay for a day or two before he goes back to Wujian Mountain, how can I have time to reminisce for you - if you want to reminisce about the old days, you can go to Wujian Mountain on my behalf to reward the generals." ”

"Lao Kong is thin and out of shape, the days in the mountains are not so easy, I still nest by your side." Feng Yi retreated and said.

"Guy who has no future," Han Qian scolded with a smile, calling Guo Rong, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, Feng Yi and others to come and sit around the table and discuss things.

The war has entered a buffer period, and no one has the ability to launch another large-scale war in a short period of time, and the Tangyi soldiers will also take this rare opportunity to recuperate to further improve the establishment, and the follow-up will be organized into a naval army, with Yang Qin as the naval army and Lin Zongjing as the deputy capital Yuhou.

The cavalry of the first capital was newly formed, Zhao Wuji served as the cavalry Du Yu Hou, and Han Donghu served as the deputy capital Yu Hou and the commander of the guard battalion.

The new four capital infantry battalions were formed, Tian Cheng served as the Marquis of Yu in the first military capital and the deputy head of the Tangyi camp, and Su Lie and Feng Zhang served as the deputy capital Yu Hou; Lin Haizheng served as the second step army capital Yu Hou, He Liufeng and Lin Jiang served as deputy capital Yu Hou; Feng Xuan served as the third infantry army Du Yuhou, and Xiao Dahu served as the deputy Du Yu; Zhou served as the fourth infantry army capital Yu Hou, and Dou Rong served as the deputy capital Yu Hou.

Tan Xiuqun will lead the balance to continue to stay in Tangyi to fight together, and organize an independent infantry army, with Tan Xiuqun as the Du Yu Hou and Dong Tai as the Deputy Du Yu Hou.

Tangyi belongs to the war zone, the military and political offices, in addition to Han Qian as the head of the Tangyi camp and the head of the Chuzhou assassin history, but also recommended Feng Yi to be the battalion commander and governor of the history, responsible for logistics supply, the recruitment of displaced people, the construction of reclamation and other things, Gao Shao served as the camp Sima and the state Sima, responsible for military intelligence spying, military discipline correction, soldier armor repair, military registration and military attache punishment and promotion.

Guo Rong served as the secretary and the chief secretary of the state, and shared the book and seal with Xi Ying.

The Military Intelligence Staff Department was established, and Guo was appointed to join the army.

In addition to the two counties of Liyang and Tangyi, five new counties of Puyang, Tingshan, Wushou, Donghu and Shiquan will be established, and the seven counties will be led by Feng Yi, Tian Cheng, Feng Xuan, Lin Zongjing, Lin Haizheng, Yang Qin and others.

In the eyes of many people, this is also an extremely unimaginable thing.

At the end of the previous dynasty, the feudal towns were divided, the martial arts were in power, or out of the generals, or rose in the battalion, and the brave and good fighters did not know how many, but those who were also in charge of political affairs could be said to be talented.

Like Li Zhihe, there are also many generals who can fight well in battle over the years, but except for Li Zhihe himself, everyone else has grown up from the bloody battle on the battlefield, and they have no chance to leave the battalion, so they naturally don't know what it is to use it in the world, so Li Zhihe still has to use Zhou Yuan and Xu Jing to take care of government affairs for him, and he also has to be a corporal of Lixian to recruit talents from the outside.

In comparison, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, Feng Xuan, Lin Haizheng, Yang Qin, Zhao Wuji, Lin Zongjing, Guo Ke, Xi Fa'er and others all started from the end of the micro and were reckless, and Tian Cheng served as a general in the Shengzhou Army in his early years, while others could barely recognize a few big characters before following Han Qian.

It must be said that Feng Yi, Feng Yi, Kong Xirong, and Xi Xunqiao received a relatively complete Confucian education because of their background; He has also been trained for many years in Wuling County.

However, after the Jinling Incident, Lin Haizheng, Feng Xuan, Zhao Wuji, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, Yang Qin and others also led the government affairs of Zhou County, and they were extremely familiar with the people's livelihood and even the law.

Not to mention Lin Haizheng, not even the generals at the battalion command level, the middle and low-level military attaches at the sentinel level, almost more than half of them have to take turns to serve as township officials in the township inspection department.

It was also because of such a group of people that Han Qian dared to withstand such a great military pressure from the Shouzhou Army, and at the same time to carry out the construction of the inner line with 20,000 generals.

You must know that the defense line of the Huaixi Forbidden Army in the southwest of Chaohu Lake is less than 100 miles.

Of course, less than 20,000 generals had to hold the defense line more than 200 miles wide from Chaohu to Tangyi, and also to ensure that the construction on the south side of the defense line was not affected, and there was definitely a lot of pressure.

At present, more than 20,000 civilians from Chuzhou City in Wujian Mountain have been transferred out one after another, but there are still more than 1,000 people who persist in guerrilla warfare in Wujian Mountain.

Wujian Mountain is bounded by Mopan Valley and is divided into two sections, north and south.

From the northeast side of Fucha Mountain in the southwest, it extends to the northeast until Longyou Lake in the south of Zhongli City, and Wujian Mountain stretches for more than 200 miles, spanning the land of Chaozhou, Chuzhou and Haozhou.

In Han Qian's combat intentions, Wujian Mountain was an important passage to cut Chuzhou and disturb the northern part of Chaozhou and Haozhou.

Far from withdrawing Kong Xirong's subordinates, he will continue to recruit generals who are good at guerrilla warfare in the mountains to strengthen them, and he plans to organize this army into a guerrilla army separately, with Kong Xirong as the guerrilla army's capital and Xi Fa'er as the deputy capital Yuhou.

Subsequently, Kong Xirong and Xi Fa'er took Wujian Mountain as their base and attacked the inner line of the Shouzhou Army in four ways, so that the military pressure along the Chuhe River and Fucha Mountain could be effectively reduced.

Only by leaving the inner line of the Shouzhou Army without any time to take care of itself can it be possible to prevent the Shouzhou Army from taking the initiative to send a small group of troops and horses to infiltrate and disrupt and sabotage their internal line construction.

There are many things that are difficult to convey through letters.

Han Qian specially called Kong Xirong back, summoned Feng Yi, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, and others over, and chatted in depth for two or three days before they could explain some things thoroughly, and at the same time, everyone could get together and study more prominent and effective means of warfare, so that the guerrilla army could play a greater role on the outer front.

Qiao Weiyan was still in Tangyi for the time being, and Han Qian asked him to participate in such a discussion with Han Chengmeng.

It is not only the duty of the Military Intelligence Staff to study, predict and analyze the gains and losses of the war after the war.

Not only did there be staff officers at the battalion level who were responsible for reconnaissance, military intelligence analysis, and the formulation of combat plans, but Han Qian even demanded that sentinels and even squads should discuss operational plans during mobilization before the war, and make summing up and analyzing them in a timely manner after the war.

This is the most effective means by which military attachés at the grassroots level can grow rapidly......