After Zhang Bin led the army to capture the entire Kyushu Island, he did not immediately move his army to Shikoku Island or Honshu Island, not that he did not want to continue the raid, the main reason was that the population on Kyushu Island was too large, and he was afraid that his rear would be unstable.

At this time, the population of Dongying was very large, according to Chen Hao and Zheng Zhiyu's approximate estimates, Dongying has more than 60 feudal kingdoms of all sizes, with a total population of more than 20 million, and there are nearly 5 million people on Kyushu Island!

With so many people, if the shogunate or the vassal forces organized to resist, it would be a big trouble, so Zhang Bin decided to stabilize this place first before continuing to march.

His method is very simple, that is, to withdraw all the feudal states and change them to the states of the Ming Dynasty, and to withdraw all the counties and change them to the counties of the Ming Dynasty, and the entire island of Kyushu is a prefecture, the capital of Kyushu!

The state capital and even the provincial plan has long been there, all the officials have been fully equipped, Kyushu Island has just been taken, the officials equipped with the officials came by boat, Zhang Bin immediately ordered, ordered Sun Chuanting to divide the Shanxi army under his command into a city of 1,000 people, each county, prefecture, and prefect sent a team of 1,000 people to protect, go to their respective jurisdictions, survey the terrain, prepare to gather civilians, open mountains and quarry, cut down trees and trees, and build cities.

According to his meaning, the location of each county and state government, regardless of whether there is a city or not, all must be newly built, and the original none, then it is easy to say, the new construction is, the original city, all pushed, all the county seats, state cities, and government cities are built according to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, and the county government, state government, government office, and city wall are built!

The reason why he did this was naturally his own calculations.

On this day, the construction of Hirado New Town began, Zhang Bin specially brought a group of generals and officials to inspect, noon approached, he stood on a hill outside Hirado New Town, silently with a telescope to scan the busy Dongying civilians below, half a day later, he asked Hirado Zhizhou: "How many young men have you recruited?" ”

Hirado Zhizhou hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "Returning to the country, the lower officials have recruited a total of nearly 20,000 young people. ”

Zhang Bin nodded slightly, and asked again: "Have all the young men in the jurisdiction of all the state cities been recruited?" ”

Hirado Zhishu replied honestly: "Except for a few who are sick, they have all been recruited. ”

Zhang Bin thought for a while, and then asked, "Have you personally led someone to recruit?" ”

Hirado Zhizhou nodded again and again: "Go, I took a team of 100 people to recruit dozens of young people from dozens of villages." ”

Dozens of villages, he only took three days, it seems that this Zhizhou is still very diligent, Zhang Bin nodded with satisfaction: "Well, yes, when you led the team to recruit, what was the reaction of these civilians?" ”

Hirado recalled: "They were all scared and a little reluctant at first, but as soon as they heard that they were in charge of food and that they were full, they became extremely cooperative. ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he couldn't help but smile and nodded, and then raised his binoculars to look at the civilians who were demolishing the old city wall.

This is a clever trick of his, because he knows that the low-level civilians in Dongying have a very hard life, basically can't eat, such a small place, there is little arable land, and the population density is about five times that of the Ming Dynasty, it is strange that they can eat enough, not only civilians, but even some low-level warriors can't eat, and if they can eat, it is a great temptation for them.

It was almost noon, and with the sound of a gong, the civilians who were demolishing the city walls suddenly scattered and ran to their temporary huts, where the soldiers of the Ming army had prepared meals for them.

The rice is the worst double cropping rice in the south, some rough, some hard, and now the Daming disaster relief is almost all this kind of rice, because of its high yield, it can be planted two crops a year, which is naturally much cheaper than one season of rice.

The dish is fish caught from the sea, there is no seasoning, just put some salt and steam, but these Dongying people eat with relish, and even most of them have a happy smile on their faces.

What's going on, isn't Dongying surrounded by the sea, and the people still feel happy when they eat a fish, isn't it a bit too exaggerated?

In fact, this is also related to their salvage technology, because they can't make large-scale salvage boats at all, and even fishing nets of more than 100 catties are very rare in Dongying, and there are not many civilians in Dongying who have fishing boats, basically the kind of small boats that are less than one zhang, and they can't go to the open sea to fish at all, and can only catch some small fish and shrimp near the coast, so even if they are surrounded by the sea, many civilians can't eat fish.

Dongshengtang has known about this situation for a long time, so they deliberately transformed some lucky boats, and built some huge nets that can net hundreds or even thousands of catties with one net to go out to sea to catch fish, and then pull them back to Dongying to sell, this alone has brought a lot of profits to Dongshengtang.

However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty and Dongying were at war, and Dongshengtang could not dump sea fish in Dongying for the time being, and these fish could only be eaten by the civilians of Kyushu for free.

Zhang Bin looked at the smiles on the faces of those civilians, slowly put down the binoculars, and said with a smile: "Okay, you can continue to attack Shikoku, Jiandou, get ready, and march to Shikoku Island tomorrow morning!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng did not hesitate to bow his hand and said: "The lower official obeys the order." ”

The other civil and military generals were full of confusion, why did Lord Shoufu take a look at the Dongying civilians to tear down the city wall and make sure that the rear was stable?

In fact, it is very simple, Zhang Bin just wants to confirm whether the food can buy these civilians, and now it seems that the effect is very good, these people are recruited to work, not only are they not full of resentment, but their faces are full of happiness, which shows that they can be satisfied with a full meal, and it is difficult for the remnants of the Toei shogunate or local daimyo to incite them to resist.

Because they can't eat enough with the shogunate or the local daimyo at all, but with the Ming Dynasty, they can at least eat enough.

Zhang Bin then ordered: "Wen Zhao, order the Fu Guangjun and the Guanning Iron Cavalry to pack up, and tomorrow morning, we will march to Honshu Island!" ”

This is to destroy Toei in one fell swoop, because Toei has a total of four large islands, and Hokkaido, the northernmost part, does not have much population at this time, and the population is mainly concentrated on the three large islands of Kyushu, Shikoku and Honshu.

All the civil and military generals were full of excitement, and Cao Wenzhao did not hesitate to give his hand and said: "The last general will obey the order." ”

Zhang Bin thought for a while, and then said to Zhang Cha on the side: "Order someone to inform the Dongying envoy and ask him to wait in the tent." ”

What did he mean by this, since he had decided to continue the attack, why did he still receive the envoy from Dongying?

People must have sent envoys over to sue for peace, and you have made people continue to attack the next day, what are you talking about with others?

He wants to continue to paralyze the Toei Shogunate!

The two sides will initially list their respective conditions, and then organize people to negotiate before finally drawing up and signing the agreement, and this time, the Toei shogun himself did not come, so this peace talks must be a long process.

Dongying must have wanted to make him stop the attack or even withdraw his troops through peace talks, but what he was going to play was to agree to the peace talks on the surface, but in fact he continued to raid!

Peace talks, it is impossible to negotiate peace, even if Dongying surrenders, even if they are willing to be a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, he will not stop attacking!

The envoy from Dongying had actually come a long time ago, but Da Ming kept telling him that Lord Shoufu was busy with military affairs and had no time to meet him, so he had been waiting for several days.

He thought that the first assistant of the Ming Empire was spending him here and deliberately did not meet him, but as soon as he finished lunch that day, he received a notice that the first assistant of the Ming Empire was back!

What does this mean?