"Qingqingzi Yin, leisurely my heart."

Hebei Province, in the noisy battle of guns and cannons, Brother Pengju, who was dressed in military uniforms and helmets, read out such words.

received a letter from Liaodong Chen Yuan, and he couldn't help but smile slightly, this little brother who had followed him from birth to death for a long time finally had his own future and opportunity.

Then, he returned his attention to the battle in front of him. This land of Hebei, which is full of plains and rarely dangerous mountains, is the place of four wars where all sides have changed their forces and acted unprovoked; Moreover, most of the time, the people and thieves are united in the unity of the locality, and when the soldiers come, they return to each other like the people, and when the army goes, they become thieves again. As the saying goes, "extinguish but not extinguish, suppress but not exhaust".

It also took him more than two years to find out the basic context here, and through targeted extermination, crackdown and support, infiltration and control, he cleaned up the surrounding forces properly; Instead of letting the enemy in the north rush all the way to the only city of governance, as it was at the beginning, and almost half of the early years of reclamation were lost.

Now, it is also one of his daily tasks to regularly sweep and clean up the forces of the Tutuan Township Brave Rebels on the periphery, and by the way, contain and harass the Pinglu Army, so as not to let them expand the territory occupied by the jokes with all their might.

As a result, he was able to train a small but capable assault cavalry, as well as a few large animals such as mules and donkeys, and the maneuver of the battle in array accompanied the battalion, galloping north and south and repeatedly breaking the enemy.

"Let's kill as many thieves as we can,"

He turned to a kind of soldier's voice.

"For the wedding period of the town marshal, I will offer a heart."

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Pengcheng, Xuzhou, Luo's back house

"It's been another good morning,"

I sighed and carefully pulled out of the pile of pink legs and feet, stretched hard, and then slowly looked at my results.

"One, two, three, four, five."

Well, I suddenly felt that something was wrong and counted again.

"One, two, three, four... Five"

Five, it will be five, what's going on, I hurriedly confirmed the past one by one again, holding my head and squatting, my sister Lu, snack goods cute, holding my head and squatting, how can there be two people holding their heads and squatting

Well, I reconfirmed that in addition to a little Jiajia who likes to hold a puppet toy and secretly crawls into bed in the middle of the night to play soy sauce and be a crowd of onlookers, there is indeed one more surprising object;

It's actually the little tail with a low sense of presence that squatting with his head up, the orphan of the royal family of the Northern Dynasty that I brought back, well, I have to admit that I don't usually feel much when I wear a dress, but after squatting with her head and stripped naked with the two of them, it seems to be a little similar.

I saw that her face was sleepy, there were tears hidden in the corners of her eyes, and she hugged her head and squatted intimately with her head in her sleep, looking at the situation, I was afraid that the places on her body that should have been used have been used.

However, this little episode did not delay me too much, because, today is also the day when I set off for Jiangning to welcome my relatives, all the halogen books and honor guards have been prepared, washing, bathing, incense, wearing a year, it is rare to use the last six chapters and five algae representative waiting for the great court dress, and then go out and get on the horse and ride slowly under the embrace of many strong armor and silver straight guards.

Although the morning breath was still shrouded in the rather cool morning breeze, except for the civil and military officials who remained in the city, most of the soldiers and civilians also waited in the streets early to see me off on my journey.

I even skimmed at some street corners, incense tables for worship, and faint drumming sounds, apparently in this way to express some kind of blessing and prayer, but it just made me feel a little weird.

After leaving Xuzhou City and boarding the boat to transport the south, there were still people gathered in groups on the river embankment and bank, and there were faintly people singing songs and drifting to the boat I was on in the wind.

"Yu Yi Caisu? Yu Marsh Yu Lan. ”

Someone actually sang the &1t; Cai Su in the "Book of Songs> gave me the right to see me off.

"What about it? The matter of the prince.

Yu Yi Caisu? In the middle of the stream.

How to use it? The Prince's Palace.

The servant who was was dreamed of staying in the public all night. ”

Then it became the "Long Song Xing" by Li Taibai, a great poet of the former dynasty

"The peach and plum are waiting for the sun to bloom,

Glory shines on that year.

The east wind moves all kinds of things,

The grass and trees are all they want to say. ”

It was not until the boat traveled far away that the crowd gathered on the shore gradually disappeared, and the daily scenery of "drunken spring smoke of the poplars and willows on the embankment" was restored. I was able to immediately take off this complicated and trivial outfit and put on a light shirt that was more suitable for summer; Then, while blowing comfortably with a cool and moist river breeze.

"Shi Niang. Rub my shoulders for me. ”

I didn't look back, and then a warm and plump body came up and gently pushed it on my shoulder.

This time, the mysterious creature who was on vacation and relaxed, before leaving, specially sent Li Shiniang over, but on the grounds that she was well-informed and most suitable to treat people on behalf of her family, she played the role of my praise, and Sanmei continued to act as the leader of my honor guard, and since then I have been gentle and happy all the way night without saying.

When the fleet full of all kinds of dowries and gifts, and the guards of honor, crossed the Huaishui and arrived in Huainan, it was as if the style of painting had suddenly changed and entered another world;

Along the banks of the river, there are new land and various construction sites under construction; The burned and harvested reeds on the riverbanks, large and small, are littered; and sparsely planted willow saplings on the banks of the river that have been dug and flattened and reinforced; Even the mud in the potholes and the hardened roads that were filled with soil and paved with gravel and cinder are still still fresh in mind.

That feeling is as if I have returned to the difficult years when I first started to gain a foothold in Huaishang;

Except for a few sergeants and managers who were in charge of supervision and inspection, there were people everywhere with vegetables or yellow muscles in their faces, silently and tiredly buried in the construction sites of various labors; It is only among some people who are obviously from the Huaishang resettlement sites and settlements that there will be loud labor trumpets and songs, faintly coming out one after another.

Looking back at the situation of that meeting, it can be said that apart from the army and officials, there were also a few craftsmen with some expertise and skill, who could ensure that the basic supply was sufficient, and the other people of all kinds could only maintain a half-starved level; After all, in the case of extremely limited resource reserves and relatively backward resource output, we can only give priority to ensuring the most needy key groups, sacrificing some minor aspects to ensure the stability of the overall situation.

And I have also worked hard and hard, from scratch to now, and I have been constantly fighting to grab all kinds of resources and animal power, and have organized countless collective labor and infrastructure construction; Only then did this kind of poor and weak daily situation slowly turn around, and now the military and civilian people under the rule of Huaidi slowly have a very good complexion and a long-lost smiling face.

It was first realized in Qingzhou, which was the seat of governance, and in Yizhou, a key area of garrison; and then gradually spread to most of the six states of Huaidong; Then there was a spread to the eleven states of Yanbian and became, and now the vast majority of areas in Huaibei Province can make everyone have enough to eat, everyone has something to do and perform their duties, even in the disaster year, under the adjustment and protection of the government, there is no bumpy and difficult life of the road.

Of course, in a sense, a large part of this relatively stable and sufficient daily life in Huaibei is actually based on the dividends of foreign conquest and plunder, as well as the oppression and exploitation of these subordinate and vassal peripheral forces and peripheral areas;

The only difference is that in places such as Andong and Silla domains, indirect extraction was carried out in the guise of local vassals and vassals. In the marginal areas of these Huai towns, it is just a more organized and efficient collective management of direct exploitation.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, it is only possible to ensure that they are fed and clothed, and no matter how heavy the work is, it is often accompanied by accumulated pain and fatigue, and there are many cases of death from overwork or illness from overwork.

Of course, what makes people talk about ** or can be used to deceive people is that if there is no intervention of the Huaizhen forces, their ending and fate may be much worse than the current result, and they may not even have a chance to die of overwork after eating a full stomach;

Either they were starved to death in their homes in natural disasters**, or they were exhausted and died on the way to escape, or they were frozen to death in batches in the not too harsh winter in Huainan, or in the madness of cannibalism of starvation, and gradually went to extinction; At least to my men, and gave them some opportunities and reasons to continue to survive.

Moreover, as long as it can persist under the selection system of Huaizhen, after reaching a certain number of years, there will also be a relatively upward channel and the opportunity to change the situation and identity, which is also a vigorous and upward emerging force, which can have the characteristics of vitality and inclusiveness.

Since I strictly prohibit the waste of man-hours and material resources in the local area, we will carry out the so-called ushering and sending scene. As a result, most of the local trips in Huainan are carried out relatively quietly, and only the occasional crowd of people who gather in the river to carry out dredging and reinforcement works will come forward to stand on the deck to say hello and enjoy their untidy cheers.

Despite this, every day when the boat is anchored along the river to rest, some of the supplies I brought with me by the way will be unloaded from the boat, which can be regarded as a little welfare for the military and civilian people under the management of Huaizhen along the way, ensuring that everyone has at least one egg or half a canned meal to commemorate Yunyun.

After entering the hinterland of Huainan, I also received a new piece of good news, that is, the salt works located in Taizhou (now Taixing City, Jiangsu Province) on the coast of Huainan have finally begun to generate profits; You must know that this is originally a traditional salt pan area, and since the Wuyue struggle for hegemony in the Spring and Autumn Period, there has been a record of boiling salt for national benefits.

The salt and iron officials of the Tang Dynasty in the former dynasty also set up ten prisons and four prisons along the coast, including Lianshui, Huzhou, Yuezhou, and Hangzhou, and Jiaxing, Hailing, Yancheng, Xinting, Linping, Lanting, Yongjia, Dachang, Houguan, and Fudu Ten Prisons, known as more than 100,000 yuan of money per year, in order to be the endowment of more than 100 states.

Among them, the output of Hailing County, Taizhou, Huainan is the largest in all places; Under the rule of one prefecture and five counties under Taizhou, half of the population of Thailand make a living from it, and countless businesses in the surrounding states are also closely related to this.

It's just that in the nearly 100 years after the Yiwei Rebellion, because of the long-term war, the dispersion and loss were serious.

In particular, the protracted rebellion of the Great Cloud Sect that swept through the Jianghuai River decades ago made the local area almost empty, and the local officials were full of officials, heroes, gentry and salt merchants, etc., and the salt households who were repeatedly pressed were among the hardest hit areas. The local salt industry, which was once prosperous, also plummeted and fell into depression and decline.

However, the threshold for this industry is actually quite low, as long as there are enough manpower and skilled craftsmen, as well as simple salt cooking utensils, you can easily obtain a large amount of output, after all, the local reeds stretching for hundreds of miles are the best salt cooking firewood;

In the past, one of the Huainan Domain towns belonging to the camp of the Northern Dynasties, the Taixing Army, relied on this to make armor, train troops and build ships for its advantage, and fought against the deputy governor of Huaiyang, which owned Yangzhou and other places, for a long time, without falling behind.

Later, the Taixing army made Wu Xingding in the Northern Expedition before the army pressed, because he decided to unite with the old enemy Huaiyang deputy governor and insisted on resisting to the end, was assassinated by his subordinates to sacrifice his land, the territory has been in chaos since then without a fight and collapsed, and after the army of the southeast division took over, there were not many people left in the salt fields along the coast.

Either they became salt barons and smugglers, or they became bandits along the local river network, and continued to be chaotic for a long time, until the army of the country was cleared and new officials were appointed. Then, because the new officials at all levels and their attachés were unscrupulously oppressed and looted, riots and radical changes broke out repeatedly.

After the complete collapse of the First Northern Expedition, the appointed officials in these places also began to flee with each other, and the local area once again fell into a chaotic and intractable window period, until the governor of Ning cleaned up the mess in Jiangbei and gradually pushed the battle line back to the edge of Huaishui.

But in any case, once these places are stabilized, this is undoubtedly the industry with the shortest investment time and the fastest results;

In the past, when the Huainan camp was based on the local area, it was also the idea of reopening the coastal salt works, but it took long for the United States to burst the Huai River, and later it was constrained by the lack and lack of manpower and material resources, and the progress of the corresponding preparations was slow, and finally had to end up in vain under the continuous transfer of the national dynasty.

Now Huaizhen has invested a lot of manpower and material resources, and after reopening the salt pans and drying fields along the coast of Taizhou, it has naturally become the fourth largest salt field after Huaizhen under the control of Liaodong Peninsula, Jiaodong Peninsula and Cangzhou, Hebei. Moreover, as a civilian commodity second only to food, salt has no concept of surplus and overflow.

In addition, there is also the harvest of Huainan coastal fishery resources, which is also part of the extension of the Zhoushan fishery in later generations; For those local fishermen who only have small boats and small nets, there is no doubt that they have no treasure mountain and can only sit in trouble for a while; But for the offshore fishing team from Huaidi, this is not the case at all, it is simply a rich and rich maritime pastoral;

Since there is fish and salt in Huainan, this also means that an industrial chain that can support each other for a long time has taken shape. Since then, the operation and development of Huainan Province is no longer pure investment and negative growth.

This is also a good news before I welcome my wife.

(End of chapter)