In Cangzhou, Chen Yuan, riding a big mule and walking in the salt cart escort team; I was looking up at the wild persimmons hanging on the branches, and the frosted persimmons were like the autumn pears grown locally, and they tasted sour and astringent, and they had a special sweetness. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In Cangzhou, Lizhou, and Dezhou in Hebei, because of the late ploughing, although the grain harvest was not obtained, a batch of melons and vegetables were also harvested through short-term planting of other alternative crops.

As autumn deepened and winter approached, the forces in Hebei became extraordinarily active again, like animals driven by the instinct of wintering, and attacked and annexed each other in the plains;

Therefore, in order to defend the fruits of the autumn harvest; In this month alone, Brother Pengju's command has taken the initiative to attack or defend and counterattack, or secretly set up ambushes, fighting more than a dozen battles, breaking and annihilating at least seven foreign armed forces.

More than 20,000 people were surrendered and captured, and the heads of various large and small leaders who were beheaded for public display were almost all hung on the heads of Cangzhou counties; Except for the young and strong who can be used as military candidates, the rest are filled into the construction sites of river control and road construction in various places, serving as coolies and miscellaneous labor.

As a result, the population base expected to be supported and maintained this winter has once again increased significantly. Therefore, Huaidong specially approved one-tenth of the output of the salt farm to support and subsidize the local maintenance costs.

Therefore, although the fight is inexorable, it is still necessary to do business as usual, but it is just necessary to be careful to guard against these local regiments and rebels who are swaggering and swaggering, and they are desperate to grab a handful.

In this place of Hebei, the best traded goods, in addition to grain, is the newly dried salt of these Changlu salt farms, after all, people do not eat salt and do not have the strength to work and pick up weapons, and Hebei to the vast majority of inland areas do not produce salt, and the coastal land, only the generation of Changlu in Cangzhou, can become a large-scale salt farm;

Therefore, not only the forces of Zhang Bangchang, the governor of Hebei, but also many affiliated and scattered local forces wanted to obtain salt on the Cangzhou side; For this reason, the means of trading and the types of barter provided are not numerous.

From the simplest gold and silver treasures, to grain and cloth, to mineral timber, and even young women and children, they can all be used as trade objects.

Therefore, in addition to the Silla maid given by the sister-in-law, he raised another woman in the local temporary station.

was originally a local powerful daughter with a deputy envoy of unity, but after being destroyed in Wubao in the local conflict, she could only be reduced to a commodity sold at will; This is a northland chick with a very straight waist and a big buttocks, which has a different flavor than the smaller and supple Silla maid;

Of course, the happiest thing for him is that Brother Pengju has been promoted again.

As a collateral effect of the phased success of the Second Northern Expedition, although there was no opportunity to directly participate in the war, because the work of operating and developing the enclaves in Hebei was done well, not only did it hold the basic area, but also generated income and increased production in the strategy;

Therefore, in the list of the latest batch of promoted generals, Brother Pengju also used the reason of excellent performance in protecting the border and guarding the border; The rising tide from the most ordinary governor under the state jumped in one fell swoop to the Ma Army, the Infantry Army, and the Ma Bu Metropolitan Supervisor and other changes and grinding orders,

He became the newly promoted two defense envoys, three regimental training envoys, one patrol envoy, and four guarding officers in Huaibei Province, and six soldiers and horses were all known, (directly under the central government) soldiers and horses, and Cangzhou soldiers and horses were at the end of the state soldiers and horses.

In this way, Chen Yuan is once again faced with a choice between life and career, whether to continue to stay with Pengju's brother as an assistant to help, or to come out to lead a group of troops to guard a county, seeking more qualifications and experience.

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Although there was pressure from Jiangning in advance, the negotiations with the representatives of the Donghai Society fell into a stalemate and a see-saw from the very beginning from the huge difference between the needs and asking prices of the two sides;

What Huaizhen wants is the considerable maritime transportation capacity and its allocation rights in the hands of the Donghai Society, as a cooperative force for Huaizhen's sea and land offensive and material circulation, and even use the circulation nodes of the Donghai Society in the south to distribute products in the north;

The Donghai Society not only wants to restore and establish a commercial branch in Huaidong, but also wants to obtain the right of first refusal to operate many large-scale projects, and even to get involved in and distribute exclusive projects such as pearl and golden sand fur in the extreme east.

But I'm not in a hurry, Huai Zhen is the one who has time to wait slowly, but the other party may not be.

Although Huaizhen's sea and land trade with the south has been shrinking continuously, the income of various imported materials and projects is also decreasing; However, the basic market operated locally in Huaibei has initially achieved most of the demand self-sufficiency, which is also the basis for supporting our long-term rule and foothold.

And in these two days,

The first version of the newly surveyed and mapped a relatively high proportion of the large map of Huaibei Province, together with the "Map of the Deployment of Defenses and Towns" in the territory, was also sent to the Map and Public Opinion Department. I was also able to stand on the corridor inside and take a closer look at it.

After moving to Xuzhou, the newly renovated Tuyu Hall became much larger because of the sufficient space, and the original site of Qingzhou was not abandoned, so it became a backup and archive in a sense.

Because from the two-story pavilion of the hollow corridor of 100 steps in length and width, it has become a four-story pavilion covering an area of one acre of ring corridors at all levels; As a result, maps hung on the wall in one direction can be made larger and more detailed.

It's just that you need to climb more floors and stairs to check it out.

After changing from Huaidong Road to Huaibei Road, not only did the nominal jurisdiction area expand by half times, but the rank of the joint defense system also changed significantly.

However, this process is much more complicated than the changes and adjustments of the local administrative structure, so it is only now that the preliminary sorting out has been completed. and built into a catalogue.

The two permanent defense envoys in the east and north of it, as the garrison force of Yanbian, each controlled more than a dozen main battle battalions and garrison battalions; In the Jiaodong Peninsula in the rear, Yunzhou in the northwest, and Sizhou in the south, second-class regimental training envoys were set up as second-line garrison and military service management organs.

On the main stream of the tributaries of the Cao River, patrol envoys were set up to manage waterway defense and train inland water battalions; In Jeju, Qizhou, and Suzhou, which are close to the frontier, they were placed to guard and arrest officials to take charge of the development of Tuntian and the key points of arresting and preventing thieves;

In addition to the 14 old and new soldiers and horses stationed in various places, as well as the pirate catchers from the five northwestern prefectures, and a standing armament of nearly 80,000 horses and hundreds of battalions, the garrison network formed by this has already taken shape.

Of course, because Zhao Long led the troops to the expedition, the closer they were to the hinterland centered on Xuzhou, the establishment of the corresponding garrison began to be a little incomplete, and even only an empty shelf remained, or it was simply vacant.

It's just that on this general drawing, there is no logo of the Yaqian soldiers and the left and right Yu Hou troops directly under me; This part is used as the general reserve and emergency mobile force under the command of Huaibei Liuhou, which is roughly divided into more than a dozen numbers and formations in fragments; Data such as the specific location and size of the garrison are only partially in the hands of a few people at the highest level.

Of course, the rearmament plan for the armed forces at all levels under his rule continues with the production of the monkey version of the three-type firecracker; Although the Northern Dynasty seems to be finished, for a period of time in the future, the demand for various military launches and long-term existence will still be quite strong.

On the other hand, once such a thing as military production capacity is activated, it is not immediately stopped, but can be stopped.

Even in normal times, it is necessary to have a sufficient scale of production capacity to ensure the basic state of the production line and skilled workers, otherwise it will easily become rusty or even abandoned.

For example, blast furnaces, forging workshops, and even the corresponding hydraulic and steam power, these temporary increases in production capacity and production lines, from the start of construction to the run-in period, into the best state also requires different cycles.

This is also a certain limitation of the preservation and maintenance of technology on the basis of primitive primary industry; Unlike later generations, when scientific research has been greatly improved, it can be maintained in the laboratory in the form of data, and even on the basis of sufficient data, supercomputers can be used to simulate experiments and calculations.

When I came back out, someone else reported something new to me.

Jiangning unexpectedly rejected Huaizhen's suggestion to send troops south to help suppress it, but ordered to manage the local situation well and make various preparations to welcome the official army to the north to attack Hebei in the future. (To be continued.) )