Li Dingguo was reminiscing about the past, using wine to drown his sorrows, and he had no choice but to dig up the wall of the Southern Ming Kingdom, but the Huaxia Army gradually achieved results in Huguang and Hubei Prefecture.

As in the past, after the arrival of the Huaxia Army, they first sent troops to occupy various important places, and then stuffed people into many uninhabited villages, converted prisoners, prisoners who performed well in the prisoner camps to reach the age of detention, and did not want to be soldiers, and even some criminals in the hard labor camps whose crimes were minor and did not do any harm to the Huaxia Army were also released, disrupting the order, and mixing the people who had performed well under the rule of the Huaxia Army and accepted the rule of the Huaxia Army for nearly ten years, and were willing to contribute to the Huaxia Army. In the middle, some retired soldiers of the Huaxia Army, grassroots officers, and militiamen from Jiangxi Prefecture were mixed to form grassroots villages.

These grassroots villages were planted in no-man's land, in cities, and on the edge of towns, and then those soldiers who were willing to settle down for the people who had been captured by Li Guo's loyal battalion headquarters for minor crimes, as well as other people who were coerced, disrupted and formed other grassroots villages, and planted them at intervals with the grassroots villages that were more loyal to the Huaxia Army.

In the middle of these villages, some displaced people and refugees, as well as the people of Nanming from Guangxi Prefecture, as well as the local people of Huguang and Guangzhou, formed a grassroots village and placed them in the middle of the above two villages.

There is also a kind of village in which the deserted villages, or the pre-existing villages with small populations, are located in the areas where the wounded, the remnants, the elderly soldiers, and the families of the militia squads who have been trained are all located here.

This is the basic composition of a township, those retired militia and Qing prisoners, Ming prisoners, and militia squads are formed into a militia squadron and placed in the township to serve as a grassroots defense task.

The county seat put a garrison battalion, a regular garrison battalion, perhaps the garrison camp is understaffed and insufficient, but it is only a hundred households, more than 200 people, but this deterrent force is there, plus the officials sent to bring in the new officials and the local recruits of new officials and arrests, it has become the basic security guarantee of the county.

After the officials of the county seat were in place, the garrison battalion began to recruit soldiers, recruiting young and strong people from these villages and county towns, and forming a militia security team to be responsible for patrolling the county and defending the county seat, while the garrison camp only played a deterrent role, so that the regular garrison camp of about 200 people, plus the retired militia and the disabled field brigade soldiers, formed the local security force, which may not be enough to resist the enemy's attack, and may not be enough to suppress the rebels who have revolted, but it is enough to maintain law and order and ensure the normal operation of the civil administration in this area.

Moreover, there are field brigade troops patrolling in some key county towns, and some key county towns are garrisoned by field brigade soldiers and garrison regiments, and the large troops of the field brigade can transport troops to reinforce various places through the roads and rivers that are being repaired, and at the same time, the entire state is garrisoned by large units of regular troops of the field brigade on all sides, and the enemy or those who want to destroy it will not set off a wave in the state surrounded by large forces.

With the stability of Huzhou, Guangzhou, and Hubei, the people who went to Yunnan, Guizhou, Henan, and Shaanxi-Gansu also began to return, and a large part of the people who ran to the territory of the Huaxia Army were sent back, and the other small part was absorbed by Jiangxi and Guangxi prefectures.

Without the war, commerce soon began to operate, and at first the government caravans that came from the territory of the Huaxia Army brought urgently needed materials and grain and grass to distribute for free or supply the people with work relief, and later various caravans also arrived from the territory of the Huaxia Army, bringing all kinds of goods, and the two states began to prosper.

Later, the caravan of the Southern Ming Dynasty also came, as well as the caravan of the smuggling loyal camp, the caravan of Yungui, the caravan of the Qing army and the caravan of the Dajin Kingdom, and even the people in the mountains ran out of the mountains to trade some mountain goods.

Compared with these two states that have just recovered from the war, Jiangxi Prefecture, which has been out of war for a long time, is much more prosperous.

Jiangxi Prefecture is next to Guangxi Prefecture and Guangdong Prefecture of Nanming, and the business with Nanming has made Jiangxi Prefecture prosper rapidly.

The convenient and rapidly expanding road system has made Jiangxi a trade hub connecting the north and the south, and the east and west.

In comparison, the half of Anhui Prefecture, which was still at the forefront of the confrontation, was occupied by the Huaxia Army, but it was a little bleak, but because he had long since gotten rid of the war, the people were actually richer, and you could never eliminate the landlords and the rich, the landlords and rich people in these places quickly popped up, maybe compared to the period under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, these landlords and rich people were much more secure, but their wealth did not have to be less at that time, because there were many small workshops and medium-sized workshops, and even government-controlled factories.

The supplies here are quite abundant, and the people here are all red-faced, and the only thing they are afraid of is the Chinese army militia, garrison battalion soldiers, and regular army soldiers of the field brigade patrolling everywhere in new military uniforms.

The various fortifications let people know that the war still exists, and it is not far away, but it is only a few tens of miles away, and maybe one day the Qing army will fight again.

While people are enjoying peace, their hearts are still uneasy, and at the same time, those who have the ability still want to run to Zhejiangzhou, because there is absolutely no war there there, and there are even fewer militias and village guards than here.

Compared with here, Jinling Mansion, which is heavily stationed, is the front line of the war, where there are relatively fewer people, more troops, and most of them are elite troops, and you can still see marines wearing sea soul shirts, armor outside, and smoothbore flintlock arquebuses patrolling the towns and towns, and cavalry patrolling along the coast.

But none of this stopped the group, who quietly landed on the beach at the bottom of the cliff in a small boat at a dead end of the cavalry patrol in the dark night, and infiltrated a village at the junction of Hangzhou and Jinling under the help of the locals.

After changing into the clothes given by the locals and dressing up in disguise, they secretly went inland, and the accompanying people became fewer and fewer, and in the end there were only three people traveling together, one was a guy from a local shop, and the other two were a strong man, and the other was an old scholar.

"Shousuke-sama, why do we have to land from here, isn't it good to go directly from the sea? Do you have to travel thousands of miles and dress up in disguise on the territory of the Huaxia Army? The big man touched the dagger in his arms with his hand uneasily, looked left and right, and asked the old scholar next to him in a bit of a panic.

The old scholar waved his hand impatiently, "What do you know, don't ask too much, just protect the old man, you don't have to worry about the old man's affairs, and you have to pretend to be normal, hide your accent, if not, shut up, that little brother, how long will it take for us to reach the county seat?" ”

The guy dressed as a slave smiled and said: "My lord, you have to walk for two or three days, and when you arrive at the county seat, you try not to say more, everything will be handled by me, otherwise the Huaxia army will be very strict, and the forged documents and identities in your arms can not withstand the eyes of those officials, they rely on this to eat, don't hide it from you, the punishment of the Huaxia army is very severe, in the words of the governor, it is to let them "swing" or "fear my lord"."

(End of chapter)