The southwest direction of Taiping County is not only Xianju County of the Qing army, but also the two military towns of Chuzhou Town and Jinhua Town in that direction, even if nearly half of the troops in Chuzhou Town are pinned down by the Red Turban Army in the direction of Wenzhou, but the main force of Jinhua Town has not moved, and thousands of troops can be dispatched at any time to sweep in.

And in the north of Taiping County, that is, as the main force of the Qing army in Taizhou, Huangyan Town, there are still more than 5,000 soldiers, plus the temporarily recruited Tuyong, may go south at any time, Ningbo, Shaoxing direction of the Qing army can organize several waves of reinforcements in the direction of Taizhou, and in the direction of the north-northwest, Dinghai Town in Zhoushan can cross the sea at any time to the south of Yuhuan Island, although the Yuhuan camp has been crossed twice by Ye Niangzi and Ge Wu, but a small amount of its remnants are still entrenched in Yuhuan Island, Ye Niangzi promised Liu Chang that both land and water will be launched at the same time, But now Ge Wu and Ye Niangzi are still holding their troops, and Yuhuan Island is still under the control of the Qing army.

However, Liu Chang didn't want to dwell on the issue of Ge Wu and Ye Niangzi's missing date, as long as Ge Wu's fleet was willing to go out to capture Yuhuan Island, he could attract most of the pressure of the Qing army on the sea for Liu Chang, so that Dinghai Town could only give priority to dealing with Ge Wu, an anti-Qing force on the sea.

Under these circumstances, Liu Chang used the method of staking land and gradually expanded the control area starting from Taiping County, and on the other hand, he tried to take administrative measures to win the hearts and minds of the people.

In this regard, Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei gave him a lot of help, not how capable they were, but because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had made too many mistakes in administration, and some mistakes had not been corrected until now, if it weren't for so many mistakes, why should the Taiping Army be confined to the half of the south of the Yangtze River.

For the example of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Liu Chang naturally had to absorb their mistakes, especially Shi Tinglan's suggestion of setting up township officials and organizing and training the people, and gave great affirmation.

As long as the people are organized, these two places in Huangtai are the impregnable rear bases of the entire Hong Army, but Shi Tinglan put forward a lot of opinions, and handed Liu Chang a piece of paper: "These are a few keys to winning the hearts of the people in Taiping County, look at it!" ”

Liu Chang picked up this piece of paper and took a closer look, and saw that Yu Ji was very silky, but it was written in a horizontal row from left to right according to Liu Chang's usual reading habits, and it was no longer a vertical row from right to left that Liu Chang felt very painful: "This is good, our Hongjun is writing according to the format of the stone girl." ”

He looked at the first line carefully, and it read: "Rebuild the Golden Clear Gate." At first, he was a little puzzled, and then praised repeatedly: "That's right, we immediately put up a notice to prepare to rebuild the Jinqing Gate, open up the way of speech, and ask the people of Taiping County to express their opinions." ”

If you want to say that one of the things that the Taiping people are most concerned about, it is the matter of Jinqing Gate, which is a matter of life and death related to the people in the entire Jinqing River Basin.

This kind of coastal area in Taiping County is particularly sensitive to water conservancy projects, Qianlong built the Muyu Gate in 45 years, although it took five or six years to complete, but since then the water has been discharged and stored in drought, and half of the county's benefits can be harvested, and the Jinqing Gate is also a large-scale water conservancy project related to almost the entire Taiping County, but this Jinqing Gate is not only a water conservancy project that benefits the entire Wenhuang Plain endlessly, but also a super water disaster project that makes the Taiping people entangled.

In history, the Jinqing gate has been repaired many times, to the Qing Dynasty Yongzheng eight years and rebuilt the Jinqing Dam, ten years to build Jinqing, Yong'an, Xingping three gates, eleven years, the rain for ten days, the flood became a disaster, the government did not open the gate to drain the waterlogging, thousands of people held hoes to destroy the Xingping gate, the dam, this time the rebuilding of the Jinqing gate only lasted one year to be destroyed.

To the eighteenth year of Daoguang, and rebuild the Jinqing gate, which lasted three years to complete, the gate is seven holes, but the Lang silkworm gate of the upper reaches of the gate is two or three feet, the hole door is narrow, and the water is not smooth, and Liu Xu, who is the county governor at that time, has the courage to do things and is rigid for his own use, thinking that the Jinqing gate has become, and it is convenient for the old port to build a dam to save money, and since then the water is more unsmooth, and it has become a super flood disaster project in case of heavy rain, causing a large-scale fight between the people inside and outside the gate.

First of all, on the fifth day of the seventh month of the 28th year of Daoguang, there was a big flood, and the water on the flat ground was eight feet high. In the eighth day of the first month, the villagers gathered in the rain to coax to the county office, and the official opened the gate but failed. On the 12th, more than 50,000 people from the water township went to destroy the Jinqing Gate and Dam with hoes, and Chen Meiwu, a supervisor outside the gate, actually fired artillery at the people inside the gate, killing many innocent people.

Then there was a big flood in the summer of the first year of Xianfeng, the villagers went to destroy the gold and clear the gates, the garrison led the troops to arrest, many people fell into the water and died, and more than 40 people were arrested to relieve the province, and then they were all released.

Then in another time and space, in the May flood of the sixth year of Xianfeng, the Jinqing gate was not opened, and tens of thousands of people gathered in the water town to dig the dam and destroy the gate. The crowd outside the gate gathered to refuse, and guns and artillery bombarded it, killing dozens of people and drowning people.

Such a water hazard project related to the vital interests of the people of Taiping County will naturally attract great attention from the people concerned, and for the sake of the relevant interests of the sluice, there will naturally be countless most reasonable plans, and countless nail households and countless hardcore supporters will emerge.

Of course, Liu Chang is now unable to completely rectify the Jinqing Gate, you must know that the rectification of the Jinqing Gate is a large project with a huge investment, which lasted for more than 100 years, and finally ended at the end of the 90s of the 20th century.

First of all, in the fifteenth year of Guangxu, the Yujie Gate was built to help the gold clear the gate and leak holes, but this was only a symptomatic policy, since the fourth year of Tongzhi, it was proposed to repair the new gold clear gate, but it was not until 1932 that it was implemented, and it was completed in 1934, costing 380,000 silver yuan.

But this one of the very expensive Jinqing Gate still has the problem of poor drainage, in case of heavy rain, the Wenhuang Plain is seriously waterlogged, although the port road has been renovated many times, in the end it can only be moved out of the Jinqing Gate, the project was finally put into practice in the nineties of the twentieth century, called the new Jinqing Gate, which took seven years to be formally completed, and the investment was as high as hundreds of millions of yuan.

However, there is still some possibility of temporarily building a palliative project like the Yujie Gate, not to mention that what Liu Chang needs is not to rebuild the Jinqing Gate, but to focus the attention of the people of the county on the matter of rebuilding the Jinqing Gate, so that they can quarrel for the sake of interests, and have no time to make trouble with the Hongjun.

As long as they don't fight against the Hong Army, let alone rebuild the Jinqing Gate, no matter how heavy the promise Liu Chang makes, it is temporary, and Shi Tinglan's second suggestion is also very practical: "Prohibit Fujian salt from crossing the border and traveling north!" ”

Wenling is a salt-producing area, the stove households are very numerous, but in recent times it has been seriously impacted by the salt production in Fujian, the quality of Fujian salt that crosses the border is good, the price is low, and through the salt merchants from the official quasi-legal gray identity, the livelihood of Wenling stove households has been strictly impacted, from the late years of Daoguang to the Tongzhi years, the salt people often have the worry of unemployment, and there have been repeated incidents.

Now Wenzhou Mansion has fallen into the hands of the Red Turban Army, although the source of Taizhou Fujian salt has not been cut off, but those who dare to take the risk of transporting Taizhou north have greatly reduced their profits, and now they propose to ban Fujian salt from crossing the border in the north, which is not only an empty promise, but also a moral policy.

The next few suggestions put forward by Shi Tinglan, Liu Chang looked at them one by one, and they were all very feasible: "Thank you Miss Shi!" ”

Yang Changmei covered her mouth and smiled: "Our sister Shi Tinglan was a famous female Zhuge when she was in Tianjing!" ”

Shi Tinglan said indifferently: "It's just that I have seen some of the world from my brother. ”

Liu Chang thinks that this is not something that Zhiji Eryu can describe, and he has to know the situation in Taizhou extremely well to put forward such a suggestion: "The good strategy of the two princesses, I will bring it back and think about it, and then notify the Hongjun soldiers to implement it, the two sisters are short of people to take care of, I asked the Panshi Village to send the few sisters left behind to take care of the two sisters, and then recruit a few clever big-footed girls from Taizhou to send them to the two national emperors." ”

This can be regarded as a return for the peach, and now return Yang Changmei and Shi Tinglan's female guards to them, and still have a few of their own people by their side, presumably they can't make any waves.

Shi Tinglan took advantage of the situation to propose: "Among the brothers who came with me, two or three have served as Heavenly Country officials, and they may be able to help a lot." ”

"Township officer?" Liu Chang lacks administrative talents, the Rainbow Army is not like the Red Turban Army, there are a large number of middle and lower-level local officials involved, and what he can use in his hands, except for some Taiping County officials who are retained, is only a handful of personnel under his own hands: "It's okay, let them come over to help first." ”

It's just that in the bottom of his heart, he can only isolate these township officials from Yang Changmei and Shi Tinglan, and Yang Changmei and Shi Tinglan don't want to make any waves.

Shi Tinglan saw that Liu Chang agreed to her request, and immediately said goodbye with Yang Changmei: "Although those brothers are young, they are extremely reliable in doing things locally!" ”

But after Shi Tinglan left, Liu Chang re-reviewed Shi Tinglan's manuscript and sighed: "Now I don't even have a working secretary team around, it's a pity!" ”

He couldn't help but think of the famous Internet joke, and sighed again, but shouted outside: "Is Company Commander Shi here for Shi Huiji?" ”

Shi Huiji, the former leader of the militia who rebelled in the Ruian Hai'an Fire Line, is now a core member of the Rainbow Army system, and even the dress is pure Rainbow Army, with a red turban and a white armed belt, which is no different from the old Rainbow Army like Huo Qiu and Sun Huzi.

As soon as Shi Huiji came in, he knelt down and gave Liu Chang a big salute: "I have seen the inspection point under the mark!" ”

"Don't be so polite!" Liu Chang asked him to sit down: "I have something to discuss with you, I don't know if you are willing to agree." ”

Shi Huiji knew his weight in the Hongjun: "Please check the point, and you will definitely do it." ”

Liu Chang asked him not to be so restrained: "Your An Hai Lian fought well in Taiping this time, among all the companies, your company suffered the largest casualties, but the casualties were close to thirty, and you still insisted on not retreating in the line of fire, I am very pleased, your An Hai Lian can be regarded as fighting." ”

Shi Huiji was overjoyed in his heart, but he sat on the opposite side of the official table and said: "Our An Hailian is just a character who waives the flag and shouts, and it is the Dragon Lance Company and Nanxi Company who really sing the big drama.

It's just that Liu Chang didn't see it that way, he casually handed over a revolver: "If you hit it, you will hit it, don't be modest, take it!" ”

The revolver is a special reward for those company commanders with special honors, and Shi Huiji took it happily, but before he stuffed the revolver into the armed belt, he heard Liu Chang say: "Are you interested in being a battalion commander?" ”

m: I'm sorry for the late update, I ask for a monthly pass as usual (to be continued)