After completing the suppression and purging inside and outside Youzhou City, it regained some popularity and hustle and bustle with the return and resettlement of the population;

The big tent of the Chinese army that I sat in the city gate tower was officially moved to the more convenient and spacious Baiqu Garden in the inner city, which was formerly the Zhuojun Linshuo Palace built by Emperor Yang of Sui during his expedition to Goguryeo

Of course, I did not come here for the sake of pleasure and temporary comfort, but for the convenience of political affairs and the giving of orders, and a little symbolic significance; After all, compared to the dilapidated and deserted rest of the inner city, there are ready-made large functional public buildings and large halls and places for meetings, deliberations, and even celebrations and group meetings.

Therefore, you can settle in the office without building a large amount of construction, and by the way, you can place many subsidiary departments for follow-up management and disposal.

As for the strategy of dealing with the aftermath, Huaizhen has already completed a case today; It is nothing more than "arranging households and gathering the people", "clearing acres of land", "governing rivers and rivers", "building roads and opening up wasteland", and so on, with priority on resuming production and self-help, and there is a set of skilled officials trained from Huaidi to take over and promote it.

The well-established management system is also a good method, and it is worth continuing to promote in the newly occupied land; At least until the remnants of the soil where there is resistance and resistance are gradually screened and filtered out, restricting the personal freedom of the majority of urban residents, and carrying out collective labor reform and gradually branding it with the unique brand of Huaizhen is always a tried-and-true panacea.

After all, most foreign wars and expansions throughout the ages have sought nothing more than the various social resources represented by population and land and their derivative products; For Huaizhen, which has initially achieved the foundation of primary industrialization and the self-replication of the jade cycle of the primary production system, this time is no exception.

Population means more low-end labor and a potential military base that can be invested in industrialization, and land represents the output of resources such as food, livestock, and minerals, and the accumulation of raw materials for production.

Therefore, the harvest from this battle is far more than that, except for the population in the city of Jicheng in Youzhou Prefecture; The population scattered in the ten counties under the rule of Youzhou, Liangxiang Township, Anci, Zhuoxian, Zhuozhou City, Gu'an, Yongnuzhi, Jinwuqing, Changping, Huairong, Zhuolu, Southwest of Zhuolu, Hebei, and Tongzhou District, Beijing, can probably be summarized to more than 200,000 (although most of them are old, weak, women and children), and it is said that at the peak of Youzhou Town, the military and civilian people in the territory could even reach one million.

Then, judging and estimating through the household books obtained in Youzhou City, there are at least one million remnants of the local population in the former Kyushu of Pinglu Daoshan, which has just entered the control of the Huai army, waiting for the detailed inventory and listing after the establishment of political power at all levels in the next step;

And this does not include the unregistered population that occupies the fertile fields and the names of the wealthy families, hidden and shaded; This part is also the main source and basis of the private armed forces such as generals, subordinates, and private soldiers inherited from their time, and is expected to reach one-fifth to one-third of the daily registered population.

In addition, there is a relatively special population under the name of the Youzhou Jiedu Envoy and the Ludu Governor's Mansion, which is the tunhu in the Yanbian military tun and the rear camp resettlement area inherited from the Northern Dynasties, because they have to undertake various military service and military-related transfer affairs, as well as raising war horses and cattle and livestock, providing forage and armor leather materials, horn tendons and other miscellaneous offerings, so this part of the population belongs to a special group that only has conscription and no taxes, and at its peak it reached dozens of places and was registered for nearly 200,000 or 300,000.

In Youzhou alone, there are 14 places in Luping, Zhuocheng, Dewen, Lucheng, Leshang, Qinghua, Hongyuan, Liangxiang, Kaifu, Zhenghe, Zhuli, Zhehe, Liangdu, and Xianning, with the military government as the predecessor for daily management.

However, due to the years of offensive warfare and continuous requisition, a large number of military families have lost their young and strong labor as economic pillars, and can no longer undertake the corresponding military service and have gone bankrupt and fled and fled one after another. In addition, after the decline of the authority of the Northern Dynasties and the gradual re-suppression of local feudal domains, the local generals and wealthy clans privately invaded and even forcibly seized them, and turned the corresponding land and personal relations into their own names by means of power and economic oppression; In fact, except for a few areas close to Yanbian, most of the military cantonments have been abandoned for many years, and only a few thousand households here and hundreds of households there are left on the books of the states, but there are no symbolic shorts.

However, the foundation and planning they left behind are still very good, so as long as the reclamation regiments and immigrants from Huaidi are slightly repaired, they can immediately come in handy. In addition to the expected population, the other largest acquisition in Pinglu Road is land, or a large area of fertile land and its supporting ready-made water conservancy facilities located on the Yanshan Hebei Great Plain, which is known as fertile fields for thousands of miles;

The acres of land recorded in the tax books of the past dynasties in the 41 counties of Kyushu in the former Kyushu add up to nearly 3 million tons. Moreover, they are mainly cooked land and irrigation areas with a high degree of development, among which at least a quarter of them are fertile and ripe fields because of the vertical and horizontal distribution of cross-currents and developed water conservancy; The lower sand fields, sloping fields, gravel fields, and stables used for raising horses and cattle accounted for only a small proportion, and the rest were almost all relatively stable middle fields.

It was precisely by relying on the stable and rich resources of the relatively balanced water and drought in the piedmont area that the many feudal towns of Pinglu Dao in the past dynasties were supported and maintained, as well as the daily needs of the long-term garrison army under the command of Andong Xingying, and the deformed system of emphasizing military affairs over people's livelihood; The Khitan people who rose from the grassland in later generations really completed the transformation from nomadic to agricultural feudal dynasty because of the land population of the sixteen states of Yanyun ceded by Shi Jintang, and became a strong enemy and evil neighbor for a lifetime on the head of the "iron-blooded Great Song Dynasty" who claimed to be the crown.

Now, it will become an important part of the new militarist system that integrates farming and warfare in Huai Town.

However, what surprised me more was that there was no movement or reaction on the Hebei side, not even a little redundant tentative small action; It's like completely accepting the reality or becoming a shrunken turtle, and all kinds of people and materials from the south bank of the Yellow River are also continuously transported to Pinglu Road through Cangzhou.

On the contrary, a garrison and a few patrolling water battalions that kept me on standby in the local area were never able to be of any use or excuse. You must know that from Jizhou to Cangzhou and Dezhou, there is a flat terrain as far as the eye can see, and if there are enough troops, it is completely possible to carry out long-term German harassment, front-loading and destruction.

But if the other side is so able to be patient, I can only let it go and expand the scale of the war, and give priority to digesting the newly acquired territory.

It's just that simple.

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meanwhile

Far away in Pengcheng, Xuzhou, Huaibei, just passed through a spontaneous Qingsheng parade, and was still quiet in a certain joyful aftertaste; Even the city squares that are responsible for sweeping the streets and cleaning up the debris afterwards are equipped with labor teams, and they are particularly hard and brisk in their work.

Because in the follow-up propaganda and indoctrination of Huaizhen, the phased victory of this punitive war also means more land that can be used for distribution and resettlement, more positions for promotion and assignment, and greater and higher development space; broader business opportunities and soil for business and real estate; Almost all the sectors of society that can participate in it directly or indirectly benefit or feel the benefits and opportunities.

And in the back house that has been renamed the Grand Governor's Mansion, in the corner of the courtyard full of flowers, a petite figure is burning incense and praying devoutly.

It's just that on the incense table is a stack of unfolded screen fan-like portraits, but the gilded silver looks lifelike. And the smoke that accompanies the precious dipterocarp is the sound of prayers that are pious.

"Tell Nagato that the god is above,"

"I would like to tell you all the great and small gods of Dongfang Heavenly Fantasy Township."

"Respect the Natal Protector of the Great Penglai Mountain Kaguya Divine Princess."

"Changyou Langjun is prosperous in martial arts, and he is invincible. Misfortune can't help it. ”

"I wish that the faithful girl would grow up in good health, and that she would be favored for a long time and that the branches and leaves would be continuous."

At this time, a figure standing far away came over and asked for instructions

"Lord Jin, the left hall (Xiao Yuwen's family) has a word from there."

"There are relatives and relatives from the south, and I hope that your majesty can meet with you."

"By the way, I'll hand over some of my own things...