Luodu in the north has just calmed down from a riot that has been intermittent for more than half a month.

In fact, the soldiers and horses of Luodu led by Zhang Shuye were not the remnants of the Southern Army who did not want to continue to send troops to pursue and calmly withdrew, but they were already unable to catch them.

In this harsh winter, following the trail of the defeated enemy army, recapturing and consolidating the repair one by one, protecting the eight locks of Dugi Road, and expelling and clearing those wandering and wandering horses, the boss's strength has been wasted.

In this short period of half a month, the homesickness of those Hebei soldiers who stayed in the city could no longer be curbed and suppressed after several petitions, appeasements, and repeated suppression. Even the generals' promises of rewards and seals didn't work.

So these Hebei soldiers, who were extremely disappointed again and again, began to run out of the camp in tandem on their own, and could no longer be suppressed by their respective generals, and were willing to stop them, they almost rushed into the dilapidated Hanjia City, wrapped up a large number of materials and equipment in the city, and then rushed out from the two city gates in the north.

These soldiers went all the way to the north and rushed across the Heyang Bridge within the same day, but they couldn't wait to return to Hebei on their own to find out the news of the township and their families.

And the city's last remaining local soldiers were neither able to stop them, nor determined enough to fight another civil war that would be a lose-lose affair, and continue to weaken the remaining forces for the future.

In fact, the local garrison, which was already exhausted, did not have the heart and strength to resolutely carry out Ouchi's request, and for these comrades who had been fighting side by side for a long time, they raised their weapons and fought again.

Uncle Zhang, who had recovered the passes, hurriedly led his troops back at night, leaving only a devastated and ruined Luodu City that had been ravaged again, and a few angry and corrupt superiors.

As the aftermath of the chaos, Yang Keshi, who was exceptionally released from house arrest with an obscure future, walked on the road out of the customs with a tired army.

In fact, Yang Keshi didn't expect that he would be sent out to take on the thankless task of recovering the lost territory. However, this is also the best condition that those colleagues and subordinates who have fought side by side can fight for him.

One of the biggest differences between the so-called imperial faction and the unification faction is whether to retain the emperor of Li Tang, the virtual monarch, as the nominal supreme symbol, and follow the dual government of the Southern Dynasty and pass on the power of the Zhang family regent from generation to generation. is still directly in charge of the general title.

Now, in the face of Princess Qinghe, who was raised to the supreme position by Lingbao Gong like a child's play, the Imperial Daoist faction no longer even has any ability to resist.

In exchange for some kind of compensation, he was also summoned by the empress in court in Da Nei, and was crowned Marquis of Bohai, Doctor of Jin Ziguanglu, Deputy Envoy of Dongtai, and Envoy of Huaixi Jiedu, but these titles did not substantially improve his situation.

Six thousand tired soldiers, enough food for several months, 10,000 pieces of armor and equipment, a stack of letters of appointment and blank confessions, I couldn't wait to send him, the leading general who was finally involved and implicated in the Imperial Dao faction, out.

And this qiē is the only way for him to be responsible for the recovery of Henan and Huaibei. And these 6,000 soldiers were also cobbled together by those big people who learned from the pain and decided that they were really not suitable to stay in the city of Luodu

Bringing people back from Liangshan, it was only a short time to settle down again, and I already felt that the city of Qingzhou Prefecture had undergone all kinds of big changes, although it was still under the military management of day and night bans, but the popularity and hustle and bustle of various gatherings made this city come alive with visible changes to the naked eye.

The streets and buildings along the streets were cleaned and tidy, the walls were repaired and the roads in the suburbs were initially hardened, and there were rebuilt camps, temporary post stations and grain stations on the bulldozed ruins outside the city. Let the original dilapidated and depressed atmosphere have been swept away.

Standing at the head of the city, you can see that groups of displaced people who have been escorted from all over the world, or who have fled from other places for a bite to eat, are being inspected and arranged here, and then assigned places and labor according to their physical condition and age.

Those who have the skills and the first level of writing will be selected by the other outsiders, organized into a team, and then sent to the city one after another, which can be regarded as a special treatment and appointment.

After all, my command doesn't accept people who eat rice, and although it is the minimum standard of maintenance, they have to do tedious and heavy physical work, but it is enough to get them through the last days of this winter.

In the city, several temporary large and small markets and grass markets outside the city gates have also been opened, although the things sold and circulated are still relatively simple, nothing more than some handmade local products and surplus materials obtained from several ports, and most of the active figures in the market are still soldiers, but they have created a certain kind of urban life, the atmosphere of prosperity that it should have.

Some of the abandoned workshops and workshops in Yidu City have also been able to reopen, restoring the non-stop fire and sound of fire and vibration day and night, including the iron works and hardware workshops under the original Qingzhou salt and iron officials, from the current point of view, can already provide some raw materials and daily tools for the construction of ordnance.

In addition, there are some dye mills, weaving and weaving bureaus, woolen mills, pottery mills, porcelain kilns, lumber yards, car shops, paper mills, bookstores, breweries, lacquered wood mills, and some other government-run and private industries under the state, all of which have been accepted by our army, and have been inventoried and repaired, but because of the different intact rates and the lack of sufficient craftsmen and skills, the institute has not yet been restored

In the days when there is no war, it does not mean that I can get some kind of leisure, but I have to take on the burden of several times, if not more than ten times the population of my army, and become more busy with all kinds of livelihoods and daily routines.

Just when I came back from this trip to Liangshan, there was a backlog of affairs, nothing more than where a large number of buildings had collapsed by the snow and needed to be resettled, and a number of people had frozen to death there, and they needed to be asked for instructions on the aftermath and so on.

Because I and my subordinates obviously lack sufficient experience in civil administration, and we do not have enough internal affairs talents, and the few that are available still need to be tested and used with some restrictions. Therefore, I can only rely on me to copy and follow the ready-made experience and models of later generations one by one, and then experiment and verify little by little, and most of everything must have a beginning before it can be continued to be implemented according to the precedents.

Therefore, for the sake of efficiency and convenience, during this winter, I implemented a relatively strict military management and battalion system in the major cities and towns under my jurisdiction to ensure the survival rate of the population through the winter.

This kind of system of dividing camps according to age, gender and specific functions, in fact, there is no lack of prototypes in history, from the Three Kingdoms Cao Wei's military tun, Mintun, the old and new military system of the previous dynasty, and even the Ming Dynasty's guard system, can find some traces, but the closest is the practice of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in later generations.

At the very least, this system of separate camps for men and women according to the population of the occupied areas played a great role in the battles that swept half of the world in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's rebellion, and the Wei Heavenly Kingdom army provided a large number of laborers and soldiers. It was only after settling down that it deteriorated along with the extreme desire for poverty and luxury of the upper class and the collapse of the system of hardship.

At least under my hands, it was a collective management that made the most of and exploited the efficiency of labor, not a draconian system that completely forbade married couples or family members from interacting with each other. Just being limited to a specific day off, they can meet and meet briefly to exchange some daily situations, and this is enough to satisfy them.

In this troubled world, these people who have survived until now, and what most of the people want is very simple, nothing more than a simple order to bring stability, and a little warmth, which is enough for most people to keep to themselves under our drive, and run around as cattle and horses.

The surveying and mapping team headed by Du Shiyi, who joined the army, was given a new task by me, that is, under the escort of a large enough amount of armed forces, to start a pilot project near Yidu, and to conduct a rough survey of the arable land in the entire Qingzhou territory, and even in the nearby Yi, Yan, Zi, Bin, Wei, Mi and other prefectures, and the relatively stable part of the arable land in the control area.

The so-called people take food as their heaven, and unlike the highly developed and refined joint system of overseas plantations, processing workshops, and commercial circulation on land and sea, the foundation of people's livelihood in the north is still based on the traditional agricultural economy.

Therefore, only when we have a preliminary grasp of the specific situation can we transform the population of the sub-battalions under the military control into a new agricultural production group after the beginning of the spring.

Only in this way can my army, which is suffering from tinea disease, truly take root, rather than a temporary soilless tree and a rootless wanderer.

And in Canton, an undercurrent is still brewing

The Yan Mansion, Yan Gong, who has a childish face, is also making an exception to receive a visitor, but it is the old one, and Fan Dongliu, the proprietor of the Dachang, is recommended to the door.

"There is news that ,......"

"He had been missing for several years before, and it was said that someone had seen him in the Northlands,"

"Yes, I suspect that this person has been persuaded and bought by the Northern Dynasty,"

"After obtaining a high position in the army, he collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country in the Northern Expedition, resulting in the failure of the great cause of the dynasty."

"There are already former military commanders who have come out to testify, and there are also bigwigs who are promoting this matter......"

"It is the respect of Yan Gong and ...... categorically"

"Ridiculous ......"

What responded to him was Yan Gong's unbelievable expression,

"Do you know what you're talking about......

"You are testifying that the heir of a dynasty and a promising army general is a spy of an enemy country......

"How do you make people believe this kind of overly unnatural thing?"

"The words of chasing after the wind and shadows, Hugh will mention it again......"

"It doesn't matter if you chase the wind or not......"

The person who came was not in a hurry, and continued to persuade him

"The key is that the situation has been completed, and there is no room for him to recover......"

"My lord, I just hope that Yan Gong will not get into this troubled water......"

"After all, many of the families in this Northern Expedition have suffered heavy losses,"

He looked at Yan Gong earnestly and continued

"Everybody's counting on this reason there......"

saw that Yan Gong had already coldly served the tea, and motioned to the servant to send the guest out.

"Old Yan, why are you here......

Then Fan Dongliu, the proprietor of the Dachang who was the introducer, also walked in with an embarrassed expression and persuaded him

"But I didn't expect that you were also involved......"

Yan Gong shook his head at him

"As the saying goes, the ways are different and not the same...... Needless to say."

He still has a key sentence that he hasn't said, with this person's background, why do you need to be a spy of the Northern Dynasty.

And these people are obviously greedy for profit, and some of them are dizzy, and they are only afraid that they will not be able to get good when they get involved.

It's just that now there is no news from the other party in front of the army, and the family only relies on those women for fear that there will be some obstacles and troubles.

"Someone, send my name thorn, go to Luo's house on Willow Street in Xiacheng......"

"Let's just say that I have a few children who are not successful, and I hope to find a background and future in your mansion......"