Li Yu braved the wind and snow on the way back to Beijing on the occasion of the New Year, and Xue Maoxun, who was on the island of Taiwan, was even more difficult to swallow the failure of the Yilan Plain in the later generations of the Eastern Expedition.

In the eyes of the generals of the Governor's Mansion, in addition to Xue Maoxun, who was the commander-in-chief, was unable to command the defeat of the battle, more importantly, although the road from Taipei to the Yilan Plain was only more than 200 miles, there were lofty mountains and ancient wood wolf forests along the way. For the Tang army, which was unfamiliar with the terrain, everywhere could be an ambush on the island, not to mention that the Tang army had to cut down trees and build a passable road while walking.

Xue Maoxun was infected with malaria and was carried back to Taipei by his subordinates, and lay on the bed for more than a month.

Now Xue Maoxun wanted to vomit when he smelled the smell of Artemisia annua.

Thinking that he had returned from defeat for the first time since joining the army, and almost lost his life, Xue Maoxun was full of anger.

In the New Year, the generals of the Governor's Mansion either stayed at home with their wives and children, or the prostitutes of the Qinglou traveled through the mountains and rivers, so Xue Maoxun stayed in the official office of the Governor's Mansion and looked at the general terrain sand table in the northern part of Taiwan Island, planning the next attack.

As soon as the day passed, Xue Maoxun recalled the generals of the Governor's Mansion and announced in public: "Within ten days, 10,000 young men will be recruited from all cities and subordinate societies as soldiers, and after fifteen days, they will go east to fight for Magaland." ”

The generals and officials were surprised that there are currently no more than 70,000 people in the Taiwan Governor's Office, plus more than 50,000 people from the attached islands. 10,000 young men will be recruited as soldiers at a time, which means that half of the young and strong people under the jurisdiction of the governor's office will follow the governor to fight, not counting the soldiers and horses left behind in the cities.

"Dudu, there is no need to be so vigorous to deal with a Magalan."

Li Ji, who is the Governor's Mansion and the Chaos Guard, objected.

"Moreover, it will be a big problem to collect the food and grass needed for 10,000 soldiers and horses, not to mention that the Magalan tribe will hide in the deep mountains and dense forests when facing our army's attack, and it will take months to exterminate them. The demand for grain and grass is even greater. ”

"Gathering 10,000 soldiers and horses in ten days, the time is too short."

"It was also a problem that the attached societies would not obey the order to send troops, and the Governor's Office sent an army of 10,000 to the east to attack Magalan. It is also a cause for concern that those subjugated societies will not take advantage of the lack of troops left behind by the Governor's Mansion to collude with the Atayal in the eastern mountains to rebel. ”

A group of generals and officials put forward their opinions on this expedition, and they were not very satisfied with Xue Maoxun's move to mobilize the army.

At least half of the generals' families in the Governor's Mansion were taken to Taiwan to reclaim the large fields and distribute them to them, and the sugarcane was planted with the scriptures, waiting to be harvested. The other half also received a large amount of land according to the size of the merit, and although their families did not move, they moved their poor relatives or poor neighbors and rented their land to them to plant. The land allocated to them ranged from a few hundred acres to three or four thousand acres, and no one wanted to see the Governor's Office, which had entered a stable stage and was waiting for the harvest to benefit, suffer a mistake.

It's unlikely that the local people will rebel and storm the city, but it's okay to destroy their fields full of sugar cane. So, they didn't want too many troops to leave the garrison.

If Xue Maoxun proposed to transfer only three or four thousand people, not only would they not have objections, but they would also vigorously support them, after all, no one would think that they had too much land.

What's more, the Yilan Plain has been surveyed by scouts, and it is a river crisscrossing the city, showing a triangle facing the sea to the east, and three or four hundred thousand acres of fertile land can be reclaimed.

Otherwise, last time, Xue Maoxun was full of food and crossed the mountains to conquer the local Magalan people.

"There is also the epidemic, the last time our army conscripted, there were 180 people who did not die on the battlefield but died from the epidemic, and thousands of people were infected with the disease and lost their combat capability. What does this disease seem to be called? By the way, His Royal Highness called it malaria in the health precautions distributed to the various armies, and the pathogen is in the body of mosquitoes, and people will be infected after being bitten by mosquitoes. I don't know how His Highness knew how malaria spreads......"

Wu San and Gu Longdao, seeing that Xue Maoxun's eyes were not good at looking at him, he quickly closed his mouth, and looked like he was well-behaved and would hit wherever the governor asked.

Xue Maoxun listened to the objections of the generals with a dark face throughout the whole process, and after they finished speaking, he roared angrily with a ninety decibel roar: "Isn't Taipei storing enough food from Jiaolong Sea Shipping to supply 60,000 people for six months a year ago? Is this amount of grain and grass not enough to supply the needs of an army of 10,000 for three or four months? The cities under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Office are all located on the west coast of Taiwan Island, and the distance between north and south is only more than 600 miles. It's only 60 miles a day, and you can't catch up with Taipei from Pingtung City, the southernmost point, in 10 days, so what's the use of being so soldiered? As for the possibility of rebellion in those surrendered societies, don't you know that it is impossible for the societies to rebel if they are requisitioned from the young and middle-aged people of each society? If there were any people who did not obey the order, the governor of Pontus would destroy them first and then march east against the Magalans. ”

"If you open your mouth and close your mouth, it is an epidemic, and the epidemic contracted by Pontus has been cured by drinking Artemisia annua juice for more than a month......

When talking about the epidemic, Xue Maoxun almost sprayed at Wu Sanhe.

Hearing Xue Maoxun's statement that he would use the food stored in Taipei to supply the pre-harvest rations of the migrants carried by the two migrant fleets that would arrive soon, Changshi Li Ji was taken aback.

Xue Maoxun used up this batch of stored grain, and after the immigrants arrived, there was not enough food to cause a vicious death, and King Yan blamed it, and the governor's mansion couldn't eat and left.

The generals of the Governor's Mansion present were almost stunned by Xue Maoxun's roar, and no one dared to refute Xue Maoxun, who was on the verge of an outburst of anger.

Who here doesn't know that Xue Maoxun is the grandson of the famous general Xue Wanche who was not happy in trouble, and colluded with Princess Gaoyang, Fang Yiai and others to rebel and was cut off as soon as his brain was hot. The so-called grandfather must have his grandson, Xue Maoxun started a fire, and that was to draw people in public.

A group of generals and officials only said, "Let Xue Dudu dispatch ......"

According to the laws of the imperial court, the local governors have the military and political power of their own jurisdictions, and their subordinate officials can only persuade but have no right to stop them. If something really happened to the Eastern Expedition this time, Xue Maoxun, as the governor, would inevitably take the bar, and then they would not be polite.

After Xue Maoxun's loud voice was shocked, Li Ji's discordant questioning voice sounded again in the conference hall that had been reduced to a hall of words.

"Could it be that Xue Dudu wants to use the immigrant food in Taipei?"

Xue Maoxun's face fell, and he replied in a deep voice: "Not bad." ”

"Governor, do you know the importance of that batch of grain? What should I do if the immigrants who are about to arrive run out of food? At that time, His Highness will blame ......"

"Li Changshi is worried about the Governor of Pontus, doesn't he know? That food supply was for 60,000 people for six months. The governor of Pontus temporarily spent 10,000 men with three months' worth of food to win the return army before there was a shortage of food. ”

Xue Maoxun is confident.