Time is like flowing water, in the midst of the hustle and bustle, half a year has passed, directly into the end of midsummer,

And on both sides of Wenshui, a tributary of the Cao River that has been dredged and strengthened again and has become clear and clear,

The green wheat waves are like wild, swaying in the air with the wind, mixed with the unique smell of the freshly turned soil being exposed to the sun, and it has a different feeling and longing.

During this season, when the millet is filled and topdressed, even the rows of peanuts or beans interplanted at the low ridges are lush and green, and it is the first blooming period of flower buds.

Therefore, whether it is lying low in the fields and canals, or tossing and turning between the overturned cart and the ox cart, it is like an ant coming and going.

Herds of ox carts brought silt, swill, aquatic weeds, and manure to accumulate and ferment the wet fertilizer, which was carefully sprinkled on the soil of the crop roots.

Seeing that the first harvest of the collective tuntian was imminent, the agricultural officials from the state capital were also like hard-working worker bees, repeatedly going back and forth with the fields near and far, supervising and inspecting the growth situation in various places over and over again.

Some even thought it was troublesome, so they simply moved the cover, ignoring the annoying mosquito bites and the noise of frog chirping, and directly built a tent to eat and live on the ridge.

This kind of diligent attitude and prudence of dedication and encouragement made the weavers in the fields, in addition to all kinds of fears and cautions Alexander, inevitably give birth to certain expectations.

After all, this is the first batch of food that they have grown after all these years of turmoil and displacement, and they have finally survived in peace, and when the local water, fertilizer, sunshine, rain and heat are not completely satisfactory, they have worked hard and carefully to feed until now.

After eating enough bark, grass, roots, and wild vegetables, and eating all kinds of pantothenic jicama potato tubers and biscuits, I was particularly eager to taste the taste of the new wheat harvested in the summer, even if it was boiled couscous rice that had not been carefully shelled and had no other taste.

Many people think so, but they can't help but mix up their tears and sweat, dripping into the dirt under their feet, but they think of those relatives who have been lost.

Whether it is a parent, brother or sister who is struggling in troubled times, a child who died of hunger and cold, just a wish to eat such a mouthful of new wheat rice, but it is a kind of luxury that they cannot realize and achieve in their short life.

And in the land of the Central Plains to the west of Xuzhou, there are still ruins and ruins everywhere, the barrenness and desolation in the road facing each other, compared with the whole lonely and depressed spring, in the summer, there are more wild grasses growing everywhere because of the lack of people to uproot and clean up.

Those who did not choose to return to the north, but continued to entrench and be active in the vast Central Plains, the Huma and the vassal armies gradually formed a compromise and tacit understanding between the invasion of the south and the confrontation with each other.

After they each divided the cities, market towns, villages and land, they drove the captured population on the land of Zhongzhou and began to graze and raise livestock on the spot, which can be regarded as a preliminary settlement of dogs.

For the Zhenfu Mansion and the Yamen, which have begun to see scale in Yidu City, it is the flow of various seals and numbers.

In addition to inspecting the local hidden households, and collecting and recruiting those displaced and fugitive people from Henan, Huaibei, and even Huainan, the household registration that has been registered under my rule and compiled into the tax and forced labor can also reach more than 340,000.

Of course, this is only the basic plate of the relatively stable dìng, the scale under the rule of the six prefectures of Qing, Yi, Zi, Mi, Hai, and Wei.

Xuzhou and Yanzhou in the east, Sizhou and Suzhou in the south, Binzhou and parts of Qizhou in the north, and even Denglai Prefectures in the west, which are being developed and purged, are no longer listed.

As a town magistrate, in addition to leading the army to secure the people, I also have incidental duties such as inspecting local officials, maintaining law and order, counting prisons, and recommending talents.

Nowadays, we adopt a three-zone gradual system for the territory under the control of zhì: first, the administrative area directly under the jurisdiction of the Zhenfu Prefecture.

The professional survey team sent by the army inspected large areas of terra nullius from the territory of the Qing and Yi prefectures, and then reorganized and recruited people to carry out large-scale collective production and labor in a simple model similar to that of the state farms and state factories of later generations.

Among them, according to the distance from the city and the convenience of transportation, it is divided into Rongyang Farm and Rongjun Village used to house disabled soldiers and military dependents; As a local reserve force, it operates on a daily basis in some suburbs and transportation points; A large number of displaced people and landless villagers were recruited, and contiguous people's tun areas were organized and managed in a semi-military manner.

These three constitute the basic plate of the core area of the town guard, and at the expense of some daily entertainment and economic and cultural activities, it can basically realize the prohibition of orders, and when necessary, through guò emergency mobilization, the corresponding manpower and resources can be squeezed out to the greatest extent.

Its scope is mainly in a number of key counties in and near Qingzhou, plus some key points where military stations are stationed.

The second is the so-called transformation area of a simple administrative system that was gradually rebuilt after the destruction of the relatively strict outer prefecture areas, and the town guard government sent people to organize the households and gather the people.

Many of the land that was also cultivated in Qingzhou had become a bad debt after years of war, so it was compulsory to register at the expense of acknowledging a fait accompli.

It is still in accordance with the basic structure of the prefecture, county, township, and li levels of the national dynasty, but there are only additions, subtractions, and changes in specific functions, because the destruction is relatively strict, so it is possible to screen and avoid using the old local personnel as much as possible, so as to complete the local administrative construction with the characteristics of the army.

In accordance with naturalization, at the lowest level of the new administrative system, in large villages with 500 households or more than 2,000 people, public offices composed of dispatched personnel were established to realize some of the functions of grassroots management and supervision.

According to the preliminary pilot and plan, the patrol officers who are mainly retired veterans are responsible for managing daily law and order; Interns from the junior government school take turns to take on the role, responsible for simple account management and daily reporting of the accountant; and the three officials of the public office who are sent by the county and are responsible for the assignment of taxes and servitude.

All three officials had official salaries and rations, as well as a certain quota of public expenditures to recruit some temporary helpers. As long as regular mobility is maintained, as well as multi-directional channels of communication between the upper and lower levels, it is enough to meet the needs of daily supervision and restraint, and will not become a small world of lawlessness and recklessness.

After all, the so-called lean and clear administrative system cannot be established in a day or two.

Although I have a sample of various administrative and bureaucratic systems in later generations, it is another matter to turn it into practical content. Moreover, in terms of the lessons and lessons of later generations, perhaps the most advanced may not be the most suitable, and the economic foundation represented by the contemporary productive forces is always matched with the corresponding superstructure in order to operate well.

If conditions permit, of course, I would like to be able to establish an administrative system similar to that in which later dynasties were directly mobilized to the streets and villages, but this is obviously unlikely, because the material conditions based on the productive forces of this era, the existing means of transportation and communication, and even the talent training system that I have just begun to take shape cannot meet or support the basic needs of such a huge system.

Therefore, we can only retreat to the next best thing and use the so-called three officials under the village to act part of the limited grassroots functions. However, the current three officials can only match a small part.

Fortunately, some time ago, Li Gefei, the newly arrived political envoy, brought me hundreds of new and old students from the two schools and three affiliated schools in Jinai, as a kind of greeting and goodwill, which greatly alleviated my urgent need.

On the part of the family, hundreds of new and old shogunate attachés were also sent, including the children of the clan and the countrymen who had been trained and advanced in Kinai very early, and the disguised talent reserve who were later recruited by the family; Others are from the relationship households that have deep friendships and stand in the same position, and the children of the disciples who have been recommended to come.

Although I know that there are many people among them, they will inevitably be mixed with sand and eyeliner or something, but their practical experience and insight are exactly what I need, and the key is to see what reward and punishment incentive mechanism is used to maintain normal circulation and order.

Although it is inconvenient to directly entrust important tasks, based on these people, after merging the unjustifiable military camp school, the first joint government-run school was created in Yidu City, and it was temporarily divided into three separate schools: military equipment, affairs, and technicians.

I concurrently serve as Xuezheng, while the observation envoy Lu Wuguan, the transfer envoy Zeng Hua is the deputy Xuezheng, and Han Liangchen is the superintendent. Of course, at present, there are only venues and teachers, and standardized teaching materials and performance appraisal systems need to be slowly improved and supplemented. If there is a real result, I am afraid that we will have to wait until next year.

Finally, the so-called "reserved areas" will continue to maintain the status quo and temporarily use the old system and personnel system.

Mainly those villages and towns that are far away from the cities and towns, relatively remote and barren, in terms of the priority of administrative costs, do not change for the time being, and keep the status quo, and the villages and towns are all representatives elected by the local people, as long as they can provide basic levies and taxes to the cities under their jurisdiction on a regular and timely basis under the traditional system.

Although most of this series of grand blueprints are still on paper, except for those ready-made fields that have been developed over the centuries and a small number of workshops that need to be restored before they can continue to be used, there is at least a basic direction and plan that can be laid out and implemented step by step.

Destruction and killing are always easier than construction, and local reconstruction and resumption of production also require a relatively long period of continuous investment and cycle before initial results can be achieved. Among them, there are also worries about the interference of external factors such as wars and famines, and the previous achievements will be lost.

Fortunately, the large barren and vacant area along the coast of Qingzhou is a historical problem caused by the continuous invasion of land and sea over the years, and under my occupation, there is no such problem now, and the catch and salt production in the same coastal areas can be redeveloped from there, which can also be regarded as relatively good news

As long as the heavy troops hold a few key points between the western hills and lakes, they can expand into the peninsula area with relative ease, at least neither the Northern Korean military horses, nor those foreign feudal armies and Humar have enough naval strength to threaten the northeast-facing rear plains from the sea.

In addition, thanks to the devastation and cleansing of the war, the majority of the population under the rule of the six states is now immigrants, and the locals are obviously disadvantaged in proportion and composition.

In addition, as an important part of the local political ecology, the local Haoqiang Tu clan has also been destroyed in previous wars, and the remaining remnants have also been wiped out by my army. Therefore, there is simply not enough local stock to bring them together against our means of control.

On the other hand, some of the states under the rule of the states can be said to be borderless, and we are just allowed to redraw on a blank sheet of paper, so that it will not evolve into a new round of traditional Turkish-guest conflicts because the survival resources of the local people are squeezed by immigrants.

As a result, the new plan has met with much less resistance than expected. At least under the pressure of immigrants, in order not to be marginalized and vulnerable, the remaining natives have to make gestures closer to our regime. For example, in the labor camps, there are various kinds of positive expressions and job competitions that are characterized by geography.

As a supporting measure of the political and social system, it is the reduction of the size of the inferior army and the regularization of the construction, in addition to extracting the elite to supplement the three main battle orders of the right army of the imperial camp, the front army, and the marching battalion and the escort army.

The main task of the garrison battalion is to consolidate the Yanbian stronghold to guard against invasion, build fortresses and fortifications to provide early warning, and at the same time suppress and sweep away the old stubborn forces in the jurisdiction, and exterminate the nearby bandits, rogue bands, local regiments, and powerful private soldiers.

In wartime, it cooperates with the military order of the main battle battalion, carries out certain combat missions against the enemy's troops, and when necessary, dispatches soldiers to transfuse blood for the main battle battalion, upgrades when conditions are ripe, and even joins or forms new formed units such as the main battle battalion regiment. Probably continue to maintain the scale of ten battalions and more than 8,000 people, which is only about seventy percent of the daily treatment and military salary of the main combat battalion.

It is planned that all the 34 scattered regiments will be scattered and reorganized, and those who are powerful will be concentrated and organized into more than a dozen local garrison regiments, which will continue to follow the establishment of regiments, teams, fires, and silts, and will mainly be equipped with cold weapons, with officers and non-commissioned officers selected separately, and the repatriated veterans from the main battle battalion and auxiliary army brigade will be used for the defense of cities and towns in the rear, as well as for the maintenance and suppression of the occupied places during the right to fight.

At the same time, it is also the basic unit of the military service organization, as well as the basic defense force of production and construction, and all the civilian households and military dependents within the organization and management, and the reserve force that is selected and composed of elite members, must serve in the garrison regiment for half a year. During this period, only rations and miscellaneous clothing were distributed, and only when they entered the battlefield state could they receive half of the salary of the main battle battalion.

According to my ingenious name, it is called the Construction and Production Corps, or Jiansheng Corps for short, and there is currently a temporary army, with a planned establishment of 16,000 men and 18 battalions on the left, center, and right.

It is mainly responsible for the repair, maintenance and construction of local infrastructure, as well as the needs of wartime engineering construction, and then from a small amount of conscription during the agricultural slack season, as a temporary supplement to simple and heavy work, so as to avoid disturbing the people and affecting normal production to the greatest extent.

In normal times, it is hung under the name of the patrol soldiers of the Huaidong transfer deputy envoy, and the department of the establishment department regularly sends special personnel to carry out the training and management without taking time off. In this way, there is a new name and reason to ask the Jiangning side for a part of the establishment and treatment.

As a result, with the Jiansheng Army as the auxiliary, a relatively concise three-level military service mobilization system was initially established, from the garrison regiment and the garrison battalion to the three major regular military ranks.

At such a scale and standard, the monthly military salary expenditure, plus training and maintenance expenses, will probably cost 3.78 million yuan, which can roughly meet about 70 percent according to the official quota given to us by Jiang Ningxing, and the rest will have to be subsidized in my own private pocket.

And the amount of grain and grass that people eat and horses chew is not among them. Plus the variety of materials that I buy and customize from the back. Equipment and materials were also spent more than one million yuan in one go during this time.

Therefore, on my books, there is still a rising red deficit and negative growth. The total of the items that represent income is less than a fraction of the expenditure. No matter how thick the foundation I have gained from the war, I can't stand such a sitting and eating nothing.

Therefore, I can't wait to restore the trade routes to the north, although the whole north has withered due to the influence of the Northern Expedition, but as the princes of the three feudatories of the East China Sea and the protectorate of Andong, it is still a good economic foundation and a good trade object.

For this reason, I have recalled the grain station in Jiangdu to prepare Zheng Boat Zheng Zhou, since our army has an exclusive grain station all the way under the name of the Jianghuai transfer envoy, it is no longer of much sense for them to stay there.

What happened there at one time is not a secret to me, but he was originally halfway to the end, and his hesitation and vacillation in the predicament did not turn into a real betrayal in the end, compared to the appearance of some other people in the family, but it has not yet reached the unforgivable Cheng dù.

So I'm willing to give him another chance.

His new position was the ambassador of Yizhou, and he used the port of Taoshan as his base to hold the banner of our army, and obtained a stable supply channel of grain, fruits, vegetables and minerals from the local feudal and state capitals of Yizhou for me, while continuing to supervise this important transit point of trade on the northern route.

As the person in charge of the Qingzhou Commercial Bureau, if there is no accident, he who has received the corresponding education in the literature of the Zongfan Academy, will establish a rural supply and marketing system at all levels similar to that of later generations, so as to gradually realize the control and monopoly of the main commercial activities and distribution channels in the territory.

In addition, in the list of merchant groups that organized to go to the Northland, in addition to the newly joined Ke Shanmeng and others, there was also a new face of Fat Kong, which was also his compensation and reward for working thousands of miles away from the front of our army as a foreign merchant.

Although his motives and positions, there is no lack of suspicion. But since it is still useful to me, then let's look at the effectiveness of his words and deeds.