In late April, Zhu received a long letter from Li Chongwen in Renshou County, as usual.

These days, habit has allowed Zhu Pingjin to quickly return to the plain and regular life he had when he worked in an agency in his previous life. Wake up on time in the morning, clean your personal hygiene, eat, and then head into the office to start your day's work. In the evening, I went to the princess's place to sit and talk, and exchange information and thoughts. Every five or six days, he would put down his affairs and accompany the princess to walk around.

The princess loved this only son, who was growing up and maturing day by day. The mother and son often went in and out hand in hand, so that the concubines of the county prince's mansion saw it, and they were so jealous that they couldn't do it, and when they went back, they arrested Zhu Pingjian's cousins who were fighting horses and dogs and playing with women.

Because there are too many things to deal with every day, especially too many words, Zhu Pingjin has further improved his secretarial team and official document processing process.

The little eunuchs who were sent back to their homes by Luo Yuhong from the Shuangliu Rent Collection House were reconvened and assigned to work as copywriters under Li Sixian.

Ordinary documents and confidential documents are classified: ordinary documents should be abridged, which is equivalent to the key words of later generations; Confidential documents should be classified according to their contents.

Miss Luo's letters and top-secret confidential documents are always reported. Zhu Pingjin made the document of the instructions and passed it to Cheng Xiangfeng, and Cheng Xiangfeng will prepare a reply or reply letter according to the spirit of the prince's instructions, and report it to the prince for approval.

Archival management of documents has also followed. Zhu Pingjin selected a few palace maids from Changchun Palace who were not too young and could read and write to be responsible for the classification and storage of documents.

Liu Mingsheng's Intelligence and Communications Bureau was responsible for the post communication between the Shizifu and the Wangzhuang, Wangdian, and military units. In the future, Zhu Pingjin also plans to set up a separate confidential communications department according to the level of information confidentiality.

Zhu Pingjian's strengthening of the leadership organs made the Shizifu the center of the various units of the palace scattered within a radius of several hundred miles. Zhu Pingjin is like the dormant spider in the center of the huge spider web, as soon as there is movement in the whole web, he can immediately sense it and make a decision:

Do you pounce on it immediately, or wait a little longer and let your prey stop breathing while it struggles.

At this time, Zhu Pingjin was sitting at his desk, leaning back against the chair and squinting to listen to the little eunuch's letter.

Li Chongwen would write a letter every six months, giving a detailed report on his work and the difficulties he had encountered. Renshou County is a traditional agricultural county, with a large area of cultivated land and a lot of wasteland that can be cultivated. After Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered Renshou, the population plummeted, a large number of fields were barren, and the crops in the fields were unmanaged, so Li Chongwen has recently taken the management of winter wheat that had been planted as his top priority.

Li Chongwen said in the letter that more than 50,000 mu of winter wheat has been harvested, and the preliminary estimate is that there will be a harvest of nearly 80,000 stones, and the average yield per mu is close to one stone and a half. 60,000 acres of rice have been transplanted, and the seedlings are growing well. If the sky follows people's wishes, it is estimated that it will be a bumper harvest year, and one acre and two stones are not a big problem.

After the winter wheat has been harvested, the autumn grain will be sown on the idle fields. He plans to plant some corn (corn), millet (sorghum) and rapeseed, and the sown area is expected to be no less than 100,000 mu. At present, his difficulties are: first, many farmers have never planted baogu and lack of planting experience; Second, there is an extreme shortage of cattle, so please ask Zhu Pingjin for support.

After the land distribution was carried out in Wangzhuang in Renshou County, not only did a large number of tenants in the county flee to Wangzhuang, but even the surrounding Jianzhou, Ziyang County, Zixian County, Jingyan County, Rong County, and Meizhou had escaped peasants. The farthest peasant family came from Qianwei County, which is under the jurisdiction of Jiading Prefecture. But the main tenant farmers are the population of the poor areas in the surrounding mountainous areas. They fled to Wangzhuang, not only because of Wangzhuang's light rent and thin labor, but also because of the good land on the shallow hill of Pingba. The existing arable land in Renshou County is no longer sufficient, and Li Chongwen has contacted Liu Hongting in Pengshan to prepare to transfer some of the population there.

In addition to the Dazhuang steward of Renshou Wangzhuang, Li Chongwen is also the captain of the village protection brigade in Renshou County. In his letter, he said that more than 130 people in the three platoons of Song Zhensi's Fourth Company, 500 people from Wang Daniu's spy company, and 300 reinforcements from Tianquan Tusi have all arrived in Renshou, plus more than 200 Tusi soldiers who were repairing and recuperating from Xu Hanqing's injuries, more than 400 Zhuang Ding who were trained by He Zengshan, and 200 people from Liu Lian's promotion department, the left guard of the palace, and there are currently about 1,900 soldiers near the county seat. It can be described as overcrowded.

When there are more troops, military rations become a big problem. Now Song Zhensi and He Zengshan are being combined according to the will of the prince, part of the Zhuang Ding is added to the fourth company, and the second company and the remaining Zhuang Ding left in Niujiaozhai are organized into a backbone squadron and eight backbone squads. The backbone squadron was stationed in the county seat, the seven backbone squadrons were stationed in seven Zhongzhuang, and one squad continued to be stationed in Niujiaozhai. Li Chongwen complained that it was the busy farming season, and there was a shortage of manpower everywhere, so he wanted to temporarily disband the village guard team and go to work in the fields. He Zengshan didn't do it, and the two had a dispute, and he asked the prince to make it clear.

The little eunuch's belief was here, but was interrupted by Zhu Pingjian's gesture.

Zhu Pingjin took out the report submitted by Song Zhensi a few days ago from the table and looked through it. Song Zhensi, like his brother, is coarse and ink. Its articles are short and straightforward, with a typical military style.

He reported that Luo Jingyun and Wang Daniu recruited troops in Feixian Pass, and they recruited nearly 500 people at once, which was completely beyond his expectations. In addition to the Han people, there are more than 100 Dong Buman. These Dong Buman belonged to the same tribe, led by a young leader named Jianshenida. According to Wang Daniu, Lushan County and Dong Buman encountered hail (hail) last year. Overnight, the hailstones knocked the fields to the bare poles. Wang Daniu and Luo Jingyun went to Lushan County, and as soon as the recruitment flag was erected, more than 1,000 people signed up. They were worried that the palace would have no money, so they didn't do much.

Dong Bubu is still a slave system. As long as I subdue the leader, then the whole tribe will be used by me. Zhu Pingjin secretly thought to himself, this Jianshen Nida is worth thinking about in the future.

"Mr. Cheng, please record!" Zhu Pingjin opened his mouth.

"The 4th Company of the Caravan Guards and the Special Service Company were combined into the 2nd Battalion of the Caravan. The number of the fourth company remained unchanged, the special service company was dismantled and reorganized into the first and second companies of the special service, and Song Zhensi was promoted to the commander of the second battalion, and the battalion supervisor was ......"

Speaking of this, Zhu Pingjin paused and thought about the candidate for the camp supervisor. Qualified battalion supervisors are more lacking than qualified battalion commanders, He Youyi and Cheng Xiangfeng can't leave the center, Luo Jingyun has just been promoted to the deputy battalion position, and it is not a good thing to be promoted too quickly.

"The second battalion supervisor was temporarily replaced by Song Zhensi. Wang Daniu is the deputy battalion commander and the commander of the first company of the special agent, and Xu Shoucai is the deputy company commander; Liu Lianpeng is the deputy company commander and acting company commander of the second company of special agents. The rest of the officer candidates were selected according to the old rules and reported by Song Zhensi. The Jianshen Nida Division was reorganized into the Dong Bu Independent Company, which was temporarily under the command of the 2nd Battalion. ”

Liu Lianpeng is Liu Liansheng's younger brother. There are elders in the house, only twenty years old, and in terms of seniority, he is still the uncle of Liu Fatzi, the commander of the left guard. Song Zhensi recommended him in Tianquan, and Zhu Pingjin also observed him in the Battle of Yahe, and he was a very handsome and calm son of a military family. At that time, Song Zhensi also recommended a few people, and Zhu Pingjin was used in various units for inspection.

Xu Shoucai was a tenant in Qiongzhou who originally followed Wang Daniu out, and participated in the unsuccessful night attack on Feixian Pass. He fought bravely and was a fierce general who dared to rush and kill.

The little eunuch continued to read the letter.

Li Chongwen reported that after a field investigation, Lü San found a place at the western foot of Longquan Mountain, called Songlin Mountain, which could be used as a training base for the caravan.

There is a Longquan mountain range between Songlin Mountain and Niujiaozhai. Surrounded by mountains, it is very well hidden, and in the middle is an open shallow valley, about five miles wide and eight miles long, which can be used for thousands of people to train. It is only more than ten miles away from the official road from Chengdu to Renshou, and it is very convenient to enter and exit Chengdu. Once attacked by a strong enemy, you can also go up the mountain and enter Niujiaozhai, which is a place that can be attacked and defended. Originally, there were a few hunters in Songlin Mountain, but after being plagued by bandits in Niujiaozhai, there was no population here, and only a large pine forest remained.

In Li Chongwen's letter, he also specifically mentioned Ding Yuan, a little eunuch who went out of the palace.

Na Ding Yuan was only seventeen years old and was assigned to serve as a steward in a Zhongzhuang in the northeast of the county. The northeast of the county border is adjacent to Jianzhou, and it is close to Niujiaozhai, and the population flight is particularly serious, and there is wasteland everywhere. The terrain is rugged, and although there are several large rivers running through it, the fields are short of water for many years.

This little eunuch is shrewd and capable, and he is very responsible. As soon as he took office, he risked the mutiny of the prisoners, and mixed the more than 200 Yazhou prisoners assigned to Zhuang Shang with Wang Zhuang Jingzhuang, and specially formed a reclamation team of three or four hundred people. In four months, this professional reclamation team has reclaimed 3,000 acres of wasteland. He also took advantage of the topography to build a dam to hold back water in the narrow part of the mountain valley and build two small weir ponds to store water.

Li Chongwen said in the letter that he had personally visited the weir pond. The dam was built with stones and rammed earth. A sluice gate was built on the dam, and the sluice gates were made of bricks and thick wooden planks. Although the dam is only seven feet high and nine feet thick, it looks simple compared to several weirs in Dujiangyan, but with the favorable topography between the deep hills, the water surface is dozens of acres. Now, Ding Yuan has taken in the largest number of fugitives, and the rations are very tight, and Li Chongwen hopes that the palace will lend him some more food.

After listening to Li Chongwen's letter, Zhu Pingjin immediately grasped the main point:

Priority must be given to resolving the issue of military construction in Inju and the contradiction between the military and political chiefs.

Zhu Pingjin believes that the controversy between Li Chongwen and He Zengshan is mainly due to the different angles from which the two look at the problem.

Li Chongwen mainly looked at the problem from the angle of civil affairs and hoped to invest all resources in agricultural production. He Zengzhi mainly looked at the problem from a military point of view, hoping to retain a strong military force in Renshou County that could be reinforced. The essence of the controversy lies in the positioning of the Zhuang team.

The village guards are local soldiers, not township soldiers, and there is a big difference between the two. The local army is a regular army that stays in the locality and can be mobilized to fight in distant places; The township soldiers are the combination of soldiers and the people, and the soldiers are also the people, and the gathering is a soldier, and the scattering is for the people, mainly to defend the township and the land. The view that the village guards stationed in Wangzhuang and positioned themselves as township soldiers is wrong. You must know that the power to dispatch the Zhuang team is always concentrated in the Shizi Mansion!

Why is He Zengshan so insistent? He was clearly influenced by He Youyi. He Youyi followed Zhu Pingjin and had a more comprehensive understanding of the current complex situation in the provincial capital and even in Sichuan Province. As the scholar who took the lead in dedicating himself to the palace, Zhu Pingjin arranged for He Youyi to do a few dirty jobs, and he knew Zhu Pingjian's thoughts better than ordinary people.

He Zengshan can't continue to stay in Renshou, and it is taboo for the generals to be incompatible. After He Zengzhi was transferred, he wrote back to correct Li Chongwen's erroneous thinking. Replying too early may damage Li Chongwen's authority. It may also make Li Chongwen estranged from the He family.

Zhu Pingjin thought for a while and said to Cheng Xiangfeng: "Mr. Cheng, please draft a will to appoint He Zengshan as the deputy captain and acting captain of the Wangzhuang Huzhuang Brigade in Huayang County." Draw a hundred people from the Renshou County Guardian Team to him. His son He Gui was transferred to the prince's mansion, and the son of this family was appointed separately. He Zengshan's vacancy was succeeded by He Tingda and Lu San...... Simply, transfer He Qiukou's son He Huan to the Shizi Mansion together! ”

Huayang County and Chengdu County are the first counties of Sichuan Province, Huayang County in the southeast, Chengdu County in the northwest, and the two counties are bounded by the Department Socks Street and Qingshi Bridge, roughly dividing Chengdu City.

However, the county borders of Huayang and Chengdu counties are not only urban areas wrapped in city walls. There is also a large piece on the outskirts of Chengdu. For example, the jurisdiction of Huayang County is in the east of the city until the foot of Longquan Mountain, bordering Jianzhou. Longquanyi, an important post station on the Avenue from west Sichuan to east Sichuan, is on the edge of Huayang County.