The laughter of the prince made everyone in the hall laugh, and the gloom of frustration was swept away.

Even though Li Zicheng has also entered Sichuan, Zhang Xianzhong is still the biggest enemy in the minds of the Sichuan people. The defeat of Zhang Xianzhong Xinyang will inevitably give Sichuan, whose people's livelihood is withering, time to breathe, and Zhu Pingjin, who intends to accelerate development, to win time to pacify the whole Sichuan!

"As long as Zhang Xianzhong is not dead, he will come back! He came to Sichuan several times and tasted the sweetness. When he is coerced enough bandits, it is time for him to return to Sichuan! However, he has not had a chance in the last two years. Zhang Xianzhong returned to Sichuan, and at that time we would have no official army to help, and everything could only rely on ourselves! Therefore, the two teams of Shang and Zhuang must be expanded quickly! ”

Zhu Pingjin stood up suddenly, waved his fist, and made a final decision: "It's just that this is the time to attack the local tyrants, Zheng Changshi is right, this year's purge is still dominated by the official army, and we are supplemented." When the spring rice planting starts in March next year, we will do it again! The goal is directly aimed at Bazhou! Until then, we must be ready for everything! ……”

The time to attack at the time of spring sowing in March next year was indeed chosen, and everyone in the hall was nodding and applauding.

Without spring sowing, there can be no autumn harvest. More than ninety percent of the local tyrants were originally farmers, and they also had to farm. Otherwise, more than 100,000 local rioters would have survived by looting, and half of them would have starved to death. Chen Youfu captured Yang Bingyin's village and found that the village was surrounded by paddy fields, at least thousands of acres, and used the spring water of Dayi Mountain to irrigate. The local tyrants used Daba Mountain to fight guerrillas, but they could outrun people, not fields. If there is no land, there will be no food. They either came out to grab food and fight with the officers and soldiers, or starved to death. Of course, there is also a possibility, that is, the local tyrants return to Hanzhong to eat.

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The time and scale of the use of troops are the leader of all things, and once the prince makes a decision, the progress of other things can be based on the plan. The two departments immediately adjusted the previous military plan, and suggested that the focus of military construction in northern Sichuan should be temporarily changed from the caravan to the village caravan. In other words, the expansion of the caravan has been reduced, but the expansion of the caravan has increased significantly. The specific plans are:

Lin Yan's three battalions and one company were expanded into the third battalion of the caravan, and Yin Jialin's tenth battalion reinforced Xinzheng Dam.

Speed up the construction of a total of 21 Gozhuang brigades in 10 counties of Shunqing Prefecture, 5 counties in the south of Tongchuan, Langzhong and two counties in the south of Baoning Prefecture, and four counties in the east of Chengdu Prefecture. Because of their different geographical locations and different military values, these 21 prefecture and county brigades have the pressure to maintain and put pressure on their limited military resources to ensure the construction of key areas first.

The five counties of Langzhong, Nanfang, Pengzhou, Yingshan, and Quxian are a big network, covering the Daba mountain area and guarding the waterway of the Jialing River. The two counties of Dazhu and Linshui are sandwiched between several parallel mountain ranges of Huaying Mountain, like two fences before and after, blocking between the mountain roads that run through the north and south of Huaying Mountain. However, because they are separated from Quxian and Guang'an Prefecture by a mountain range, the two counties are isolated and helpless on the battlefield. Yilong County has penetrated deep into the Daba Mountains and is the forward base for attacking Bazhou. Therefore, the brigades in these eight prefectures and counties are the focus of construction, and at least two or three complete companies are ensured for each brigade to be protected.

Wang Xingwu's three battalions and three companies were expanded into the Yilong County Huzhuang Brigade and continued to defend the Jincheng Walled City.

The fourth company of Xu Shoucai's 1st battalion and part of Hejiazhuang Ding were expanded into the Southern County Huzhuang Brigade and continued to garrison the area around Xinzheng Dam.

Sun Deren's third battalion and fourth company were transferred to Pengzhou and expanded into the Pengzhou Huzhuang Brigade.

Liu Sangen's only battalion was expanded into the Quxian Huzhuang Brigade.

The second battalion of the caravan guard in Songlin Mountain has been training for a long time, and the recruits of the Dong Bu Department are about to enter the battalion, and the second battalion can transfer nine platoons to form a brigade to protect the village in the three counties of Yingshan, Dazhu, and Linshui.

Zhuang Ding, who stayed in Hejiazhuang in Langzhong, was reorganized into the Langzhong County Guarding Brigade.

The five counties in the south of Tongchuan and the eight counties in Shunqing and Chengdu are not the focus, and the order is naturally backward. The brigades of the five counties in southern Tongchuan have already set up a basic company and are recruiting troops, striving to become an army by the end of the year, forming a mobile force of five companies. Nanchong, Xichong, Guang'an, and Yuechi in Shunqing Prefecture and Jianzhou, Ziyang, Zixian, and Neijiang in Chengdu Prefecture should be dispatched as soon as possible to send competent cadres and veterans there, and strive to erect a backbone company by the end of the year.

The establishment of brigades to protect villages in various counties in northern and central Sichuan was originally an important part of the military layout. There are only so many military resources that it is impossible to cover them all. If we want to fight this year, the field army caravan guard is the priority, and the construction of the village guard brigade is postponed; If it is a big fight next year, then it is more urgent to prioritize the establishment of a team to protect the village.

Shizi invited his cousin Shu Guoming to talk about the grim situation in the country, and the smart Shu Guoping and Sun Hong immediately made a thorough understanding. The old plan was to expand the caravan with five battalions and 20 companies, but the new plan quickly evolved into one battalion of the caravan, eight brigades with three basic companies, and 13 county key companies, which was 21 more companies with a total of 4,000 people than the original plan. That is, a whole double of the size!

There is also a mystery to this new scheme. Chongqing Prefecture is an important town in eastern Sichuan, with 20 prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction, and its importance is no less than that of Chengdu Prefecture; Kuizhou Mansion is the east gate of Sichuan, under the jurisdiction of thirteen states and counties and the Shiqi Propaganda Division. The two counties of Dazhu and Linshui are east of Huaying Mountain, and because of the mountain range, these two counties are actually closer to Dazhou and Chongqing in Kuizhou. Dazhu and Linshui counties are in the north, and Hejiang County in Luzhou is in the south, one north and one south just sandwich Chongqing Mansion in the middle!

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The new plan is fully in line with Zhu Pingjin's strategic intentions. In particular, the new plan focused on Chongqing, which made Zhu Pingjin stunned.

Chongqing is known as the natural risk, also known as the iron wall of the golden city. The prefect Wang Xingjian is a native of Yixing, Jiangnan, a ten-year jinshi of Chongzhen, a standard Donglin Party member, and the incoming first assistant Zhou Yanru is a fellow villager, and is also a friend of Wang Yingxiong and Wang Yingxi's brothers. This person is a rare civil and military talent among the Wenchen of Donglin, and the local rioters harassed the Chongqing Mansion several times, but they were all beaten back by him and Zhao Ronggui, a general from Chongqing Wei.

But this person was politically an enemy of Liao Daheng, and he was also extremely cold to Zhu Pingjin, the vassal king. Zhu Pingjin's uncle Qiu Zigong found a reason to visit him a few times, Wang Xingjian gave him enough face and accepted gifts, but he excused himself for further contacts, and he was clearly unwilling to have more contacts.

Since Wen's hand is not good, then Wu's hand must be prepared.

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The military apparatus needs a temporary adjustment plan, but the civilian officials do not. Zheng Anmin gave a hint, and Wang Bin, the bookkeeper, and Wang Kunshan, the deputy director of the Firearms Bureau, hurriedly stepped forward and handed over the two folds.

The adjustment of the Changshi Department corresponds to the six ministries and nine secretaries of the imperial court, and there are nine departments of the Officials' Household Rites and Criminal Workers, the Trial, the Office and the Audit Bureau.

The Firearms Bureau demanded that the scale be expanded, including steelmaking, machine tools, firearms, artillery and other workshops. In addition, they pointed out that the prices of steel, coal (including charcoal), wood, lime and other materials in Sichuan have risen because of the excessive amount purchased by the Firearms Bureau, especially the nitrate and potassium urgently needed by gunpowder workshops, and the market price has now tripled. Therefore, they not only demanded that the palace increase the allocation of funds from the Firearms Bureau, but also explicitly suggested that the nitrate pond projects in each Wangzhuang must be started immediately, otherwise it would be impossible to gather 30,000 catties of gunpowder by March next year.

In the end, the uninvited Master Shu finally opened his mouth. He asked the Shu Wangfu to establish a academy, and in the name of Zongxue, send the children and students of the clan who are interested in studying into this school, so as to continuously cultivate reserve talents for the great cause of protecting the country and the people of the Shu Wangfu. For this reason, Master Shu took the initiative to ask Ying and Mao Sui to recommend themselves and asked to be the first head of this school.

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It seems that this is the final conclusion of the court meeting.

Luo Yuhong, who was worried, glanced at Zhu Pingjian, who was still smiling, and kicked her toes angrily. All units are reaching out for silver, for good reasons and necessary, and it is the silver that she is difficult to talk about, because the books have been a little hard to turn around recently.

Since Luo Yuhong returned to Chengdu, she immediately carried out the long-planned major event, that is, immediately snatched the control of the silver from Zhu Pingjian.

The silver earned a lot this year, and the biggest entry was the tea and horse trade in the spring and autumn seasons, which added up to about 1,700,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of gold, and also dropped nearly 1,000 war horses and pack horses. I also made a lot of money grabbing. In Fu Chongqi's house alone, more than one million were robbed. In the recent battle of Beiyuan Temple, nearly 50,000 taels of silver and more than 300,000 catties of salt were seized. Some of the newly built civilian industries, especially the Sichuan Weaving Bureau and the Sichuan Machinery Bureau are making money, cotton cloth is becoming a bulk commodity in the tea and horse trade, and the Machinery Bureau's orders are scheduled for next year, soap is a hot commodity, how much is sold, and only raw materials and oils are restricted by production.

It's just that you earn more and spend more. The rapid expansion of the size of the army, the huge investment in military science and technology, the vigorous development of civilian industry, and the competition for the hearts and minds of the people in the Shu Wangfu have all spent a lot of silver. But these are not enough to make Luo Yuhong worried, because she has the secret weapon of silver money, and the short-term position is not enough to deal with it. It's just that one of her recent policies has caused big trouble, and that is the requisition of surplus grain.

Food, which is the most important material resource in war, is often a source of soldiers and food. The policy objective of the surplus requisition is to store more grain.

Last year's nationwide drought also affected Sichuan. The price of grain in the winter and spring grain shortage season in Shu once exceeded three taels and five dollars of silver, and as a result, many people starved to death.

Luo Yuhong and her husband realized the importance of food at the same time with different experiences. She learned from the hard work and began to support agricultural production in her own way. For example, interest-free agricultural loans in the form of both in-kind and monetary forms will be implemented for the households of Wangzhuang, and grain and seed grain will be lent to the households to maintain their production and livelihood in the coming year; encourage farmers to reclaim famine, engage in household sideline business, and increase income; vigorously promote dryfed agriculture to increase resilience to natural disasters; Respect the farmers' business autonomy, strictly prohibit Wang Zhuang wanton interference, etc., for which he did not hesitate to spend all the money of the Shu Wangfu.

One pays, one gets what you get. These agricultural support policies have quickly paid off. This year's grain harvest in the Shu Wangfu can reach a record 2 million stones, and Luo Yuhong's agricultural support policy has contributed greatly.

However, Luo Yuhong's resolute and do-it-all style not only helped her success, but also foreshadowed her trouble.

Before the arrival of the Qin mission, she had discussed with Zhu Pingjin whether to implement a compulsory grain purchase policy. When Zhu Pingjin was still hesitating and calculating, she had already made a move.

She convened a high-level meeting, formed a downward text, let the local kings and villages open up to buy the surplus grain of the households, and used the power of the palace to force those large landlords to sell the surplus grain to the palace. According to the estimation of the small meeting, Wangzhuang in various places could receive 300,000 to 500,000 taels of grain, spending 500,000 to 700,000 taels of silver, plus the 450,000 taels of silver that Zhu Pingjin spent on collecting 300,000 stone of grain from his relatives, and the 150,000 taels of Zonglu for the repayment, the total cost was 1.1 million to 1,300,000 taels.

As soon as this document was issued, Wangzhuang in all localities immediately attached great importance to it, mobilized it in an all-round way, and used all means to purchase surplus grain. In the blink of an eye, Hong Qihui in Yazhou, Tang Mo in Leshan, Tao Xiansheng in Hanzhou and Wangzhuang near Chengdu have been reported frequently.

In Yazhou, Wang Guochen and Hong Qihui murderously invited the gentry to dinner, and during the banquet, the county guard announced: The master kept five stones, the slave four stones, and the rest of the grain was surplus grain, and all of it should be purchased compulsorily. Otherwise...... At one's own risk! After the Zhang Dahu incident, the Yazhou gentry were already frightened. In October, the three counties of Yazhou immediately reported a total of 400,000 stone of surplus grain;

In Hanzhou, on the edge of the Dujiangyan irrigation area, Tao Xiansheng's army all went to the city and went to the countryside, knocking on the doors of every big house, so frightened that the Hanzhou gentry did not dare to say a word, and the state official Cheng Dadian almost abandoned the official and fled. Three counties in one state reported a total of 300,000 stone of surplus grain.

As of today's court meeting, not counting the 300,000 stones of the Shu Sect, the total amount of surplus grain that Luo Yuhong received from all over the country has approached one million stones, and this number is still increasing!

prepared 1.3 million taels of silver, but the two million couldn't be stopped, and the people below still reached out to ask for money one by one, and if they didn't give it, they didn't want anyone to live! The most critical point is that she can't say it in front of her husband and all the ministers, saying that she has done a stupid and stupid thing.

Oh my God, I'm going to jump off the building! Master Shu had finished speaking, and seeing that Zhu Pingjin was about to make a decision, Luo Yuhong was so anxious that she grabbed her toes.

Suddenly, she noticed Hong Qihui, who was hesitant. Hong Qihui was her assistant in Yazhou in the past and will be her assistant in the future.

He should understand my current distress!

Luo Yuhong's clever head immediately took it into account. She picked out two thumbs from her sleeve and quietly twisted them on the tender flesh of Zhu Pingjian's thighs.