Well, this attacking Dapeng Bird is really too capable of tossing, and it deserves to be the son of the era and the man of the year who is lucky in another plane of time and space; Just gave him a partial division, and he was able to drum up so many movements, but then again, under the change of the situation, he had to dispatch troops to rescue.

Because the originally expected war ended in a relatively short time, and at a very small cost, it was easy to seize the trails and key points of Taihang-Yanshan; So I have a relatively large number of mobile troops; In addition to the First Army, which was sitting in Pinglu Province, and the Third Army, which was advancing into Yago-Kyushu, there were also the Fourth Army, which was resting in rotation, and the Liaodong Domain, which was heading south from Ziyingzhou.

Immediately, I ordered the occupation of Yizhou and Zhuozhou in the southwest of Pinglu Road, and the six battalions belonging to the Fourth Army of Beiping, and then moved south along the edge of the Yanshan-Taihang Mountain; On the route from which the remnants of the Pinglu Army were withdrawn, they once again attacked the line of Guangxin Army-Ansu Army-Baozhou-Dingzhou in Hebei Province as some kind of countermeasure and containment.

Then the Second Army of the Garrison, which was originally stationed in Cangzhou and has now arrived at the front line of the Mozhou and Yongjing Army, dispatched a reinforcement army mainly with firearms to the west with the commander Luo Hussar as the Hebei crusade, waiting for an opportunity to break the encirclement of the Hebei Army. At the same time, it is also an insurance means to restrain and control those vassal armies and volunteers, and to unite their forces so that the situation will not be reversed and deteriorated.

After the Liaodong Domain Army gradually took over the defense, the remaining troops of the Fourth Army could also be assembled and withdrawn as a follow-up strike force against Hebei. The First Army, which was stationed in the area of Youyu and Ji, served as a general reserve for emergencies to meet the needs of the north and south routes.

In this way, in the short term, there will be no need to requisition and transfer forces from Huaibei Province, or to increase the input of more materials and civilian service, which will affect the efficiency and progress of the subsequent occupation and colonization of many newly occupied areas.

This is also the commander of the army hundreds of miles away, based on the situation and information at hand, he can make the most decent judgment and countermeasures.

The next thing that was delivered to me was a brief summary of the output and the latest population of the fifteen counties in Henan Province;

After two or three years of operation and colonization, the number of acres of land developed and recultivated in the five prefectures of Henan has reached 340,000, and the tax-paying population included in the registration has also reached more than 80,000 households, with more than 270,000 people.

Although it is still relatively vast and sparsely populated, and there are very few residents in the cities and towns, all industries are withering and the market is not prosperous, so that many resources needed for people's livelihood still rely on the local supply and marketing system at all levels to obtain adjustments and subsidies from Huaibei Province; However, as the results of early farmland cultivation and reclamation, as well as the construction of water conservancy, it has been able to produce a large amount of grain and other fruits, vegetables, oilseeds, poultry, livestock, etc., and the surplus of the most basic agricultural and sideline products.

Moreover, on the basis of the same output per mu and household labor, due to the lack of land rent and oppression of the original landlord and landlord as the head, and the exploitation and artificial amortization of costs by many traditional officials and overstaff; As a matter of fact, on the basis of the gradual evolution of the military management system and the administrative areas, as the most basic administrative staff and assistants of the government, they can already collect 60% of the basic output of the fields, and still make the corresponding peasant households barely able to live.

Compared with the traditional government, which is not inferior to the county, and the old-style government organization that is entrusted with village sages, strong people, and large households, can only get one-third to one-fifth of the actual expropriated materials, or even less of the proportion, which can be regarded as the result of diligent government and love for the people and the clear governance of officials;

The execution and efficiency of the Huai-style local government, which has been directly developed and evolved from the administrative area, can undoubtedly achieve more results with half the effort, and the final proportion of the goods in the warehouse can at least reach more than half or even seventy or eighty percent of the actual expropriated materials;

As for the remainder, it was not to be consumed or wasted, but to provide for the consumption of necessary food and labor, and to compensate for the use of labor, as well as to withhold 10% of the public expenses, according to the needs of the distance.

Of course, after such a large stall is laid, it is not that there is no excessive eating and taking or other personal frauds; However, under the system of random dispatch and rotation that avoided the local area, most of them did not last long, or failed to form an atmosphere and group, and they were already corrected by the place where they were organized, or the people of the anti-rebellion association were discovered.

Therefore, even if they encounter a newly occupied area, they will first start from the reclamation areas and administrative areas, and then spread to the remnants of the local households one by one.

Fortunately, a large base has been accumulated over the years, and the manpower with basic education in clerical reading and writing and arithmetic can be used as the tentacles of grassroots personnel and administrative execution, even if they are barely competent.

This is the most basic benefit and bonus brought by the expansion of the reproduction of monetary capital in the industrial society driven by primary industrialization, the relatively optimized and advanced distribution of social resources, and the surplus manpower and means of production that can be liberated, together with the popularization of educational resources.

In this chaotic external environment of disasters and famines, the large amount of grain and its derivative products that Huaizhen can control in his hands, as well as the stable output and income increase trend that can be expected on the basis of a large area of mature farmland and water conservancy, is itself the most powerful weapon of this era.

It's just that a message sent from Pengcheng's back house later made me a little annoyed and confused

"News about my origins?"

"What the hell is this?"

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meanwhile

On the vast field east of Tongguan, countless sweaty people are struggling to harvest and work in the golden wheat fields; And along the various river channels, the sharp stacks of wheat straw and ears of wheat are piled up, which represent the fruits of these days.

Some figures in helmets and armor cruising back and forth on the road, but it is difficult to hide their expressions full of expectation and joy; With these wheat harvests, they, the foreign guest army, will no longer be a tree without soil and fish without water between the northern lands, but can become a feudal town in a dignified manner.

Although they have already paid a lot of money for this, including using a large amount of goods, local products, and population, in exchange for all kinds of improved seeds, agricultural tools, and other assistance from Huai Town in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and even inviting people to come and guide the corresponding management of household registration and collective farming skills and experience.

Now, it's finally time to reap the fruits in full swing. Not only can it feed the bellies of the army and the locality for a whole year, but there is no need to go hungry in a specific month; You can also use this as a support to support the neighboring Shannan Province and Henan Province, Duqian Province, or Huaibei Province in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, in exchange for more good things, including guns and guns.

But the beacon fire that suddenly appeared in the sky broke most people's dreams and reverie. And this time the beacon fire was not in the west, to which they were accustomed, but in the north, where they had never heard of war.

And a few days ago, among the mountains of Hedong Road, a large army that had assembled and set out from Taiyuan and meandered southward was also marching in a hurry, twisting and circling along the mountains, or the ups and downs of the valley road, between the smoke and fire that came out from time to time, successively broke through and trapped a city fortress and fortress that walked between the mountain gorges and river valleys.

In the end, with the complete annihilation of the thousands of defenders in the north and south of Yangliang after desperate fighting, the southern end of the Fenhe Plain, which is sandwiched between the Luliang Mountains and the Taihang Mountains, was completely exposed in front of this army.

The train of thought suddenly got stuck, and that's all for the time being.