In the devastated wilderness, the original idyllic scenery has been replaced by chaotic ravines and large and small potholes. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing this scene from behind the gable, Zhu Ping, the deputy captain of the garrison regiment, as an old Liangshan tribesman who was once a homeless person, couldn't help but clench his fists heavily.

What a good field this is, the soil is thick and watery, and it is flat and boundless, all of which they have worked hard to reclaim and cultivate, and it is expected that they can produce at least three or five stones of chestnut wheat in fertile land;

Now the winter wheat seedlings that had been planted, and the vegetable beds, houses, fences, barns, and barns that had been built with easy hands, had been destroyed by the enemy who swept through them like locusts.

The ignition of the light and the rising plume of smoke in the distance are the best portrayal and background of all this. In this context, there are the cavalry that are on a rampage; They all have a distinct edge color on them:

Most of them had a fur trim on their hats and were wrapped in dark felt; And the officer's top is not the usual pheasant feathers or cherry blossoms, but a shaky yak tail or horsemane.

And those cavalry who roared and circled vigorously even planned to attack their camp centered on the walled city, but the smoke and dust that suddenly exploded from the ground and the spurting up of debris and earth were enveloped between them in an instant.

The sturdy cavalry was devastated like a hurricane swept through the woods, and countless stars, with blood or without warning, pierced their cloaks, armor, and hats, and flesh and blood;

Then the fire nest carts and rockets hidden behind the fence wall also began to exert their power, and the dense fire arrows that were fired were drilled everywhere after rushing into the cavalry group, and the gunpowder paper cylinders in front of the arrows also burst into flames, and clouds of smoke and dust exploded one after another on the tumbling horses and riders, and people turned on their backs, and there were human feet or horses' hooves rolling upside down everywhere.

However, this disturbing scene did not last long, and new challenges and tests arose, and the horizon was once again filled with a crowd of men, women, and children, who were unclothed and shivering in the cold wind.

Some of the sad and sad faces at the beginning, Zhu Ping can even recognize one or two; It was he who personally informed Qingye Jianbi to retreat to the city to protect himself, but it was difficult to give up that little belongings and was arrested outside the city.

Seeing them cowering and crying one after another, they also seemed to slowly let go of their footsteps and walked closer and closer.

Zhu Ping personally picked up the fire gun and knocked one of them down, and then it was like a chain reaction of random shooting, and the frightened crowd suddenly turned around and fled as if they had blown up a nest.

Then most of them had not gone far before they were intercepted again by the sabers and leather whips that had been cut off in the distance.

"It's really useless."

A general in a fur coat outside his armor snorted coldly.

"It's okay, so as to consume more medicine and energy inside"

Another general said

"By the way, finding out the arrangement of guns and artillery fire in various places is our goal"

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In the rest of the day, there is only one basic "buy, buy, buy" daily activity left;

The vast amount of property seized and confiscated by the Huai army from the local area and collected under various names was quickly spent as much as possible through various procurement activities in the market and the encouraged consumption of the soldiers, and turned into a boatload of all kinds of materials transported to Huaibei.

On the one hand, it is through the recirculation of these wealth in the local area to appease and buy people's hearts in disguise, and on the other hand, it is to compress and squeeze as much as possible, and the surplus resources and production capacity of the people in Yizhou are used to expand the reserve base of Huaizhen.

After all, in the long run, for the sake of the two Northern Expeditions that have lasted for several years, the Liang of the Dynasty can be said to be exhausted, even if this time Jiangning has a great victory and upper hand, and can quickly resolve the rebellion outside the ridge in the shortest possible time; But it is inevitable to enter a period of weakness for a longer or shorter period of time, and it takes enough time to recuperate.

In this case, compared with the money accumulated in the hand, it is not as good as a full warehouse of grain and forage, and other people's biological resources are more useful and valuable. As far as Huaidi, which has just begun to improve under my rule, the so-called preparations for war and famine have always been to seize the day and not too much.

All the goals of the war and the handling of the aftermath must be considered more or less around this basic point and focus. In today's world situation, as long as there are sufficient resources, it will be possible to absorb a larger population, maintain the deterrence and actual control of a larger army, and a series of collateral radiation and expansion effects.

There is also the promulgation of the land policy for the subsequent occupation of Yizhou and the appointment of full-time dispatched personnel; Through this short-lived pacification war, the Huai army directly or indirectly gained substantial control of more than 60% of the land in the main plains of Yizhou by nominally managing and confiscating the reverse property, as well as a series of actions of covert replacement.

Although these contiguous lands vary in color and output, in addition to the countrymen, subjects, tenants, and vassal slaves who already live on them, they can probably continue to be used to house two or three hundred thousand foreigners.

Once the scale effect is formed in the local population, the tunwei and villages inhabited by these displaced people from the mainland will also become an important means and safeguard measure for Huaizhen to mix sand on the spot and consolidate the foundation of subsequent rule with the attributes of potential vested interest groups.

On the other hand, under the momentum of victory and sufficient force to deter, a round of clean-up and rectification was carried out for the original residents and household registration on these lands, and even compulsory transformation and rational distribution.

Of course, the first step is not so drastic, and it is treated differently according to the different classes and identities of the population;

For example, those people who have a constant production mainly advocate and popularize advanced agricultural technology, tools and excellent seeds from Huaidi, and guide and naturalize their planting trends as a whole.

For tenants who have no land and are more dependent on their personal dependence, or vassal slaves who have no personal freedom and are like two-legged animals, it is necessary to take greater steps to reform the management system, that is, to replace the mature management system that has been operated in Huaidi by purging the middle and upper management of those whose interests are intertwined, and to improve the corresponding labor production and output efficiency with collective organization and incentive system.

As a result, while these places have been devastated by the war, the outlook for output in the coming year is quite optimistic.

Another side good news is that as a by-product of the development of ammonia for military use; The ammonia chemical plant near Qingzhou has been able to synthesize something similar to virgin fertilizer in small batches from diluted waste and residue by mixing other ingredients such as salt brine, gypsum, and white.

Although the scale of output is still very limited, compared with the traditional use of natural fertilizers such as bone meal, green manure, struvite, etc., the advantages of cost and process are not obvious, and it is not of great significance for the promotion of agricultural production in a broad sense. However, through the practice and application of the agricultural government departments, initial results have been achieved in some special cash crops and special planting with high added value.

It means that under my persistence and guidance, I have been pouring resources into industrial production and R&D for a long time, and finally being able to directly feed back agricultural production in addition to the military and commercial fields, and form a primary system of some kind of linkage; This is the prospect and dawn of the primary industrial revolution, or the charm of it.

In addition, there is good news that the Ma Zheng of Huaidi has been able to further expand its scale.

Mainly because the agricultural production based on grain has gradually shifted to the more suitable Huanghuai Plain, so after obtaining more grazing land, the slaughter rate before winter this year has reached a new high, which has reached more than 37,000 horses;

In this way, except for the few who remain as stallions and high-quality mothers, it is possible to realize the replacement of the five military orders in Huaibei Province today, and most of the mules and horses. Of course, because of the water, soil and provenance, the proportion of military pack horses and mounted military horses is very large, but the mount war horse suitable for charging cavalry is less than one-tenth.

After all, unlike other large and small livestock such as pigs, cattle and sheep, the starting point and threshold for raising horses are relatively high, and the cost of food and daily needs are even higher than those of ordinary people.

Therefore, it is really not suitable for the kind of subcontracting to households adopted by the government in the past, allowing several families to raise a horse together, and the risk probability and cost performance of output are really not high;

Moreover, although it is said that a herdsman has experience in raising horses on the grassland, it is one thing to barely feed a horse, and it is one thing to ensure that the military horses and even war horses with sufficient health and comprehensive quality, and to be able to stably breed large quantities of improved breeds, is obviously a system engineering with a lot of technical content and a long cycle.

Therefore, in the past few years, although two or three hundred thousand units of mules and horses have been obtained through the captives and Luo Scrape of foreign conquests, they are basically grassland species and Henan local species, and the high-quality cavalry war horses with relatively high requirements have to be obtained and supplemented from Andong and other places.

Fortunately, although the princes of Andong, as a traditional trade object, have no time to take care of themselves, whether it is the five prefectures of western Liaoning or the three prefectures of eastern Liaodong under the control of Huaizhen, there is no shortage of suitable places to raise horses, which gradually stabilized the supplementary source of cavalry mounts.

As for the persuasion and support of the Huaizhen civil and military forces headed by me, the newly established shogunate in Jiangning also reacted quickly.

It's just that in addition to the newly added 500 households and a special rank of honor, the base camp also issued me a second official document, so that after solving the problem of Yizhou, I can wait for the opportunity to lead troops into Fujian to carry out the trouble.

Of course, although the main force of the Great Cloud Thieves has gone out to wreak havoc on Liangzhejiang, if I really lead the troops, with the geographical characteristics of Fujian with mountainous and poor land and dangerous roads, there is still a high probability that I will fall into the big quagmire of the long-term security war;

However, this is a justifiable opportunity and reason for me to attack the remnants of the national dynasty in the coastal states of Fujian. (To be continued.) )