On the tenth day of February in the twenty-second year of Chongzhen, Li Zhi rode to the school field outside Kaifeng City. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Lü Hu followed Li Zhi and reported to Li Zhi the results of his trip to South America.

Lu Hu has found the rubber tree fruit, loaded three boatloads of fruits at one time, and transported them all to Qiongzhou Mansion. Qiongzhou Mansion is the future Hainan Island, the western part of Hainan Island is moist and fertile, and because of the protection of the mountains, there is no typhoon that rubber trees are afraid of, and it is an excellent breeding ground for rubber trees.

Lü Hu bought hundreds of thousands of acres of virgin forest in Qiongzhou and began to hire people to plant the first batch of rubber trees. These primeval forests basically didn't cost money, and Lu Hu bought them in the name of the king of Tianjin. Lü Hu hired local manpower and began burning the woods, then planting rubber trees on the burned land.

Everything went according to plan, nothing was a problem.

The only thing that makes Li Zhijie pregnant is that the rubber tree takes a long time to mature. Once the rubber seeds are planted, it takes six years to tap. This long time made Li Zhi a little unacceptable.

Li Zhi asked tentatively, "Is there a lot of wild rubber in South America?" ”

Lu Hu nodded and said, "It's quite a lot, there is a large rubber forest near the fifth camp, I went to take a look, and found that there are quite a lot of rubber trees in the jungle within a radius of dozens of miles. ”

After estimating, Lu Hu said: "I'm afraid there are more than 10,000 wild rubber trees in that area. There are many more places we haven't explored. ”

Hearing Lu Hu's words, Li Zhi felt that before the rubber plantations in Hainan became mature, it seemed to be a good choice to go to South America to cut wild rubber. However, if you go to South America for a long time to obtain raw materials, it is impossible to solve the problem as quickly as this seed, and there will inevitably be a conflict with the Portuguese. Li Zhi's current fleet seems to be too weak, and if he wants to fight the Portuguese in South America, he needs to expand his navy.

The Navy is very expensive.

Or did they not buy directly from the Indians, but from the Portuguese at a high price?

But that's all for later, Li Zhi left this problem behind and rode his horse to the school field outside the city.

Li Zhi is going to inspect the 50,000 veterans in Henan today and send troops to Huai'an to attack the Jiangbei Army.

On the school field outside Kaifeng, Henan, 50,000 veterans had already lined up in a neat line, standing there waiting for Li Zhi. Li Zhi entered the school field from the north, looked at the 50,000 veterans with high morale, and nodded.

The work of inspecting land in Henan, which 50,000 veterans are responsible for, has come to an end.

The land ownership in Henan Province has been completely demarcated, and all the land that was stolen by the thieves and which was the land owned by the peasants has been completely investigated. The 50,000 veterans are not only literate and can do basic clerical work, but they are also powerful armed forces with strong deterrent power, and it is easy to get twice the result with half the effort when they start an investigation.

Now all the "spoils" of the peasants from the thieves have been classified as "public land" by Li Zhi, and the peasants must pay a high rent to rent the public land. In this way, no one will think that following the robbers is a shortcut to making a fortune, and will realize that only by working in accordance with the law can they reap the benefits.

In fact, Henan has not been quiet this year. Although Li Zhi's policy was implemented very strongly by relying on the army, some peasants were still dissatisfied and caused trouble. There were more than a dozen incidents of violent resistance in southern Henan, and the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army forcibly suppressed them, arrested more than 100 people, and shot more than a dozen people before they settled the matter.

However, these are all small storms, and on the whole, the people of Henan still accept Li Zhi's policy arrangements.

By the 22nd year of Chongzhen, Henan's land discipline had been reorganized. Next, it is necessary to collect the rent of private land and public land in a step-by-step manner. These tasks only need to be operated according to the Yellow Book of Taxes, and do not require 50,000 soldiers to carry out strongly.

In fact, after a year of surprise training, Henan provincial government officials, court clerks, and police personnel have also been established to cope with these tasks.

Although Li Zhi is now short of civil servants, he still prioritizes Henan's needs when it comes to choosing between North Korea and Henan.

After Li Zhi's administrative staff settle in, the legal environment of fairness and integrity in the whole society will be maintained, and the people will take the initiative to develop agriculture, animal husbandry, and traditional industry and commerce, and their lives will become better and better.

At this point, Henan is on the right track and has become an ordinary province in the Li Zhi system.

Li Zhi glanced at the soldiers on the school grounds.

After a year of land inspection work in Henan, the veterans did not abandon military appearance and military discipline. Standing on the school field at this time, the veterans stood upright, and they were all very energetic.

Although the veterans have been busy with government affairs this year, they have not fallen behind in the three-day queue and target shooting. Although the three-day training cannot make the combat strength increase by leaps and bounds, there is no problem in maintaining the original combat strength.

Li Zhi next wants to put these veterans on the battlefield in Huai'an and defeat the Jiangbei army that is pestering Huai'an like kraft candy.

Then he waved his army south, controlled the entire Nanzhili north of the Yangtze River, and established Jianghuai Province.

At that time, Li Zhi's Tianjin, Shandong, Henan, and Jianghuai will be connected and become a huge territory with a population of 40 million.

Li Zhi stood on the high platform in front of the school field for a while, and the leaders of each regiment came up and saluted Li Zhi.

"Jiang Chong, the commander of the first regiment of the trapping division, reported to the king of the county that the 6,000 combatants of our regiment have all been assembled, ready to go out at any time. Our regiment is an old regiment with rich combat experience, and I hope that the king of the county will use the soldiers of our regiment on the front line and make meritorious contributions to the king of the county! ”

"Zu Dashou of the Cavalry Regiment of the Dangkou Division reported to the king of the county that the 6,000 people of the cavalry regiment are now all equipped with new sniper rifles, which can be attacked and defended, and have extremely strong mobility. After the last general pleaded with the king of the county to use our regiment to intercept the enemy's flank, the officers and men of our regiment must sacrifice their lives and fight with all their strength once they receive the order, and make a reputation as a cavalry regiment! ”

The regiment commanders came up one after another and asked Li Zhi to fight.

Li Zhi nodded.

Standing on the high platform, Li Zhi said loudly: "When we attacked Tartar, the Jiangbei army stabbed us in the back. ”

"When we entered Henan to sweep away the thieves, the Jiangbei Army contacted the deposed king of Korea and attacked our rear again."

"The Jiangbei Army is the private army of the gentry, and these gentry are extremely shameless. In their eyes, there is no country, no home, only their selfish interests. They can join forces with the Tatars to attack us, or they can join forces with the DPRK to attack us. As long as they can keep their tax exemptions, as long as they can continue to suck the blood of this people, they will do whatever it takes. ”

"Can we tolerate such an army continuing to control the rich Nanzhili, oppressing the small people of Nanzhili, and using Nanzhili's manpower and material resources to attack us?"

Li Zhi's words were brief, and the regiment commander passed the words to the battalion commander, who passed the words to the company commander and platoon commander, and then to the squad leader and soldiers. Officers at all levels passed on Li Zhi's words, and soon, the sound of soldiers shouting and tsunami sounded throughout the school field.

"Can't!"

"Can't!!"

"Take down Nanzhili!"

Li Zhi waved his hand and said loudly: "Send troops!" Target Minami Naoli! ”