Hundreds of miles west of Shinshu, Zhou Huai'an, who had inadvertently missed an important historical event and node, was still busy with many matters related to the aftermath of the Battle of Gangneung.

Of course, it is a pity that with regard to the beaten and dilapidated Gangneung, there is no need or room for copying formulas to pretend to be forced.

According to later statistics, there are only more than 86,300 people left in Gangneung City, most of whom are old and weak, women and children. You must know that Jiangling at the height of history was known as the Wangyao Dayi with a household registration of tens of thousands, and it was once the capital of Chu, Southern Qi and Southern Liang.

Wait until the first year of Suzong Baoying (762) "Xinhai Shuo in the month of Jianmao (February) and pardon the world; Jingzhao is the upper capital, Henan is the eastern capital, Fengxiang is the western capital, Jiangling is the southern capital, and Taiyuan is the northern capital". Since then, it has replaced Chengdu Jinguancheng and ranked as one of the five capitals in the world, and the eight counties under its jurisdiction are also known as the large counties of Ciji.

The local area is one of the world's famous weaving production areas, famous for its abundance of silk fabrics such as Fang Wen Aya, and silk cloth, and the silk satin and Shu brocade, Yangluo, Su Silk and the same name in the world; Li Bai's "Jingzhou Song" has the verse "Jingzhou wheat ripe cocoon into a moth, reeling silk reels remember Jun has a lot of clues". In addition, there are citrus, oranges, oranges, liners, white fish, sugar crabs, gardenias, fritillary, raspberries, black plums, stone dragons and other Tugong production.

On the other hand, it is also the world's fireworks festival with Yangzhou and Chengdu, and the boatmen of Jiangling are called the first generation with Yangzhou pony, Chengdu Huansha Niang, and Jingzhao Nuguan, and they have also left a lot of heirlooms such as Li Du and Wang Liu, but now all this is going through the storm.

However, Zhou Huai'an is not completely ungained. As the other side of the prevalence of the academy culture, it is also a place where Tanzhou and Yuezhou generally gather and flourish Jianghan culture and education, and the number of private Mongolian schools and literacy rate are much higher than those in other places;

The eight counties of Jingzhou are also quite complete in all walks of life, although there is still a considerable foundation after several previous searches. Nowadays, a large number of craftsmen, apprentices, etc., are in the general field of vision and have no livelihood because of the devastation of war, so the price of trying to recruit and recruit them is also outrageously low.

In addition, although the large number of orphans and widows in Gangneung City who were newly born due to the war, it is undoubtedly a kind of chicken ribs and a burden for the ruler in the usual sense; However, compared with Zhou Huai'an, who is deep in the way of human resource management in later generations, and is known as the oil that can be smashed out of the stone, it is a potential resource expectation.

Therefore, while dividing the troops to attack and recover the counties in Jingzhou, while providing relief to the sick and recruiting the displaced people, and propagating the ideas and slogans of the Taiping Army, they also wantonly recruited and sheltered these lonely widows and widows who had no food and clothing inside and outside Jiangling City, and then loaded them on ships and transferred them to Guangfu in batches.

At least most women in this era do not have the stinky problems of later generations who are read as feminist and are actually social parasites, and can participate in collective production and labor like men; Gangneung is also a city dominated by the textile industry, and almost every household has relevant experience and craftsmanship;

It can be fully enriched to many production positions in logistics departments such as weaving, dyeing, papermaking, clothing, shoes, hats, etc. Even in the future, veterans who have reached the end of their term of service can be selected on a regular basis, and a new family can be formed and settled.

As for orphans or something, it is simpler, as long as they are raised (brainwashed) for a few years, they can be used as half a labor force sent to the grassroots level or a potential reserve; It is also the most stable foundation of the Taiping Army in the future.

However, such an act is "unintentionally planted in the willows and willows", which further proves and strengthens the persuasiveness of the Taiping Army in the local relief of the hungry and propaganda. Then there is the routine investigation and liquidation of local wealthy and powerful households, which has also received a lot of convenience and cooperation.

In addition, the Taiping army attacked along the way, in addition to all kinds of goods that could be sent to Guangfu to be realized, they also captured and collected a lot of grain and grass materials, even if they didn't do anything and didn't need to continue to transport them from Guangfu, it was enough to support most of the current needs for more than half a year.

Therefore, in Zhou Huai'an's plan, the follow-up plan to complete the preliminary rectification in Jingzhou and clean up the local forces is to send people to further enclose the land and supervise the local resumption of production.

Along with the booty and other seizures that had been brought back in advance, the various farm tools, seeds, compressed rations, and mechanics needed for the cantonment, as well as the cattle collected along the way, were also brought in by the returning ships. It was successively put into the agricultural production of Tanzhou, Yuezhou and other places along the way.

Although it is now a normal agricultural time, under the guidance of the farmers in the mountains, some fast-growing melons and vegetables and whooping rice are planted uniformly, and there is still some harvest that can be used as food supplements;

On the other hand, it is also to use this to organize and use the young and strong laborers in the local cities along the Yangtze River from the Hunan River to the Yangtze River, so that they will not have the opportunity to live in the local areas and become a social problem and a hidden danger to public security.

And the main force of the Taiping Army stationed in Jiangling City was not idle. The first to be rebuilt and expanded was the Jiangling Navy under the name of the Taiping Army, which was tentatively organized into five battalions of about 4,000 troops; Most of the officers and non-commissioned officers who are the backbone of the Taiping Army are sergeants with a certain degree of water nature; In principle, boat owners and fishermen from the vicinity of Gangneung belong to the family.

Although there were only a hundred or so ships of all sizes, and the main requisitioned merchant and civilian ships were requisitioned, the main means of attack were a small number of crossbows and small stone cannons, plus bows and arrows fired by the soldiers on board; But this waterway is more than enough to deter and patrol it;

And unlike most troops, they were able to patrol and train on the water from the very beginning, and cooperate with the garrisons formed along the way to clear out the river bandits, water bandits, or part-time merchants and smugglers who had been suffering from the water for many years.

It is expected that two of the battalion heads will be stationed in Jiangling with Wang Chongba as a standby, one battalion head will be stationed in Yuezhou to patrol Dongting Lake nearby, one battalion head will be stationed in Tanzhou, and the remaining one battalion head will be stationed in Guizhou. In this way, the main nodes and hubs from Jianghan to Lingnan are connected.

Then there were 11 old battalions of soldiers, 16 temporary battalions, and 20 new battalions/supplementary battalions/garrison battalions of the Taiping Army.

The newly organized battalion sequence, which has a low degree of training and organization, is mainly used to cooperate with the "three detachments" of exploration, census, and work in the vicinity to deter and suppress the localities by force, so as to clean up the remnants of the old upper class, protect the process of enclosure and cantonment, as well as the restoration of agricultural production, and rebuild the local order under the leadership of the rebel army.

The temporary battalions with a large number of elements of the old rebel army were matched with the main old battalions, and were divided into east, west, and south directions to attack and sweep the periphery and surroundings of Jingzhou, and those local forces with all kinds of local forces based in their own townships. It is not only a process of medium- and low-intensity small-scale military training and internal running-in, but also a means to declare the Taiping Army's exclusive authority and dominance in Hunan.

Although the Taiping army has only controlled the major cities and nearby lands along the Yangtze River from Xiangshui to the Yangtze River, it will take time and time to further digest and deepen its influence in the local area. But it also needs to be asserted forcefully enough to ensure long-term peace and stability in these places.

After all, in the territory of the Hunan Observation Mission, there are also a number of inland prefectures and counties that are controlled by various local forces and local groups; It's just that the Taiping army didn't have time to take care of them for a while. Therefore, only the three directions of the attack to the south to Daozhou (now Hunan Daoxian) were the focus;

Because as long as this node between Hengzhou, Yongzhou, Chenzhou, and Guizhou in the Lingnan is opened, it is equivalent to most of the entire Hunan and Lingxi regions, which are connected by the water system, and have the ability to quickly mobilize and transport the strain and suppression.

As for the westward march, with the cooperation of the two newly built battalions of the Jiangling Naval Army, they swept all the way along the south bank of Dongting Lake to Longyang County in Langzhou on the west bank as the stopping line; In this direction, the first to bear the burden was from the old general Lei Man of Jingnan, who had a seizure of Langzhou, to the north was Xiang Zhu, the barbarian leader who occupied Lizhou, and to the south, the rebel Zhou Yue, who captured Shaozhou, and several local forces;

At least until the threat of the official army in the north is completely resolved, or the resources and manpower of the existing control areas are digested, Zhou Huai'an does not intend to prematurely clash and entangle with these local forces that have taken advantage of the situation.

The eastward march was to completely abandon Fuzhou, which had been broken in Jiangbei, and to transfer to Yuezhou by boat and advance eastward along the river to Puqi in Ezhou, which was theoretically a territory controlled by the rebels, but under the uncertainty of the staggered and complex situation of various forces, Zhou Huai'an was unwilling to intervene too deeply in the short term.

Therefore, for these myriad reasons, he had to continue to sit in this Jiangling land for a while, and he could only carry out limited remote control and command of the situation and affairs in the Lingling by delaying the land and water exchanges for several days.

However, with the construction of siding signal towers along the shores of Xiangshui and other branches, presumably these delays will be further reduced.

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Soon after the defeated Shannan Jiedu envoy Liu Jurong and his entourage returned to Xiangyang City, Song Hao, the Jingnan Jiedu envoy who had just been appointed by the imperial court, also led a group of cadres to slowly enter Xiangyang City in Xiangzhou under the escort of Duan Yanmo, the general of the Taining army.

This new envoy of Jingnan Festival was personally recommended to the imperial court by Yang Fuguang, the former commander of all the provinces and camps and the envoy of Jingnan Town; When Yang Fuguang's adoptive father Yang Xuanwei was the supervisor of the Zhongwu Army, he was promoted to serve as the former subordinate of Yu Hou of the Prison Military Academy.

However, because the territory of the Jingnan Jiedu envoy almost fell, even the Jiangling of the Lizhi was not able to be recaptured; So in the short term, he had to temporarily move to Xiangyang, and lived in the same city as Liu Jurong, who returned from defeat.

However, the arrival of Duan Yanmo, the general of the Taining Army, as a backup, invisibly angered another town commander who was using troops in Jiangbei, Cao Quanxi, the envoy of Jiangxi and the envoy of the Tianping Army. Originally, when he heard the news, he led the army to Xiangyang to rendezvous and assist in defense, but after hearing the news, he resolutely arrived in Zaoyang County, which arrived on the way, and turned around and rushed back to Anzhou in Huainan.

The news that Liu Jurong was defeated in Jiangling and could only surrender to Xiangyang, and the whole territory of Hunan and Jingnan fell to thieves again, also passed through the Jinzhou and Shangzhou lines north of Xiangzhou, crossed Wuguan and crossed Lantianyu to reach Chang'an City in the pass.

And Lu Xi, the prime minister of the current dynasty, who was proud of the spring breeze and arbitrarily in the political hall, also broke his ivory board in court.

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