In February of the seventh year of Daliang Taiping, it was the season when winter turned to spring, when the ice and snow melted and everything recovered.

As the new ruling area in the south, Huainan Province is also the first area to see the signs of spring.

And in the slightly cool morning dew, the firm and cute riding a red-skinned mule also took the lead on the patrol road, holding the diagonal fire gun in one hand, pinching the roasted leaf bud rice, and eating the breakfast meal with two hearts.

Jian Bumeng is a disabled veteran who retired the year before last, he was originally an authentic Borneo native, if it weren't for the original Longzhou Tuanzuo recruiting soldiers in his hometown, I am afraid that I will never have the opportunity to see ice and snow in my life;

As a result, during the period of staying in Andong to the Huanglong Mansion in the north, because of the carelessness of going out to patrol in winter, he broke his foot in the snow cave, and recklessly delayed the rescue time.

But compared to other people, he is lucky, there is a Henan man who does not believe in evil, and when he secretly ran out to pee, even his life was frozen, even if he was saved by pouring warm water, he lost his basic function and could not pass on the ancestry.

As a result, he still has some difficulty walking, and he is unable to run with all his strength; So in the end, he could only choose to retire to the rear and serve as the head of the third and fourth line garrison regiments and patrol teams; Then when it came time to actually receive the military field under his name, he also had three options:

One is to go to Andong to settle in the pioneer tunzhuang near the Tieling generation, which is worth 357 acres of Zhongtian, and you can recruit people to go there.

One is to go to Shanxian, Henan, the westernmost part of Huaizhen, and grant 290 acres of land in the middle and lower fields, plus five slaves who are assigned to 15 years of hard labor;

The other is near Xianju County, Guangzhou, Huainan, as the head of the local tunzhuang, he received 409 acres of land, and 37 men and women were assigned to the tun people, and there were 52 feudal slaves who served as forced labor.

In the end, he was still frightened by the cold of the icy and snowy land in the north, and he didn't want to bother to relocate anymore, so he took the initiative to choose the position of the head of Xianju County, Gwangju, Huainan, which was closer to the warm region in the south.

But in fact, when he took a group of men and women and more than a dozen carts of belongings, ready to overcome obstacles and re-open the land, after arriving at the place, he found that almost everything was ready-made, land, houses, cattle, seeds and farm tools had been prepared through the place, and he didn't even have to worry about the specific distribution and planning of the head, as long as the clothes and quilts and household belongings brought by the bar were moved in.

And he, the cantonment chief, in addition to urging his cantonments to complete the corresponding production plans and pay the public rations in a timely manner in accordance with the local season, is to conduct drills and arrange the ranks of these adult cantonments in accordance with the rules and regulations in the army; Therefore, in addition to the usual specific swords, guns, bows and crossbows, they even have more than a dozen firearms, mainly three-eyed guns and thin-mouthed bird guns that have been eliminated from the army.

In this kind of newly developed place, it is necessary to make the men, women and children in the Zhuangzi skillfully adapt to these guys, so that it is possible to deal with the various situations that may be encountered in the local area. Therefore, the first thing they did when they settled down was to surround and protect their place of residence with earthen walls and wooden fences made of local materials in accordance with the unified standards of the Huai army's cantonment.

On the one hand, it is to prevent the infestation and scourge of various wild beasts that flow from the mountains after the fields become barren and sparsely populated, and on the other hand, it is also to prevent the unstable human factors in the area.

After all, in many places near the west, there are still various civil uprisings and banditry from time to time, and the most common scene in these places is the group of displaced people fleeing the desert on the road at a certain time. And before the Huai army sent people to settle in and clean up the territory of Gwangju, even outside the county seat or the suburbs of the state capital, there were people who did the murderous and overselling business in broad daylight.

Under the perennial turmoil, many people in the local area abandoned their fields and villages and fled to the mountains to seek a living and escape the war, and even a vicious circle of hunger and lack of food became a new factor of banditry and turmoil in the local area.

Therefore, before the official army completely withdrew their hands and sent a large army to thoroughly sweep and clear the place, as a reserve lieutenant who had just entered the Xianju County, in addition to the heavily armed garrison regiment under his command, he could rely on the tentacles and extended execution, that is, the foreign cantonments who had been allocated land and placed thousands of units, as well as the patrol team formed with the soldiers they had drawn out to serve, to maintain order in the grassroots township.

Then, when the grassroots order in these key areas is established, more manpower and material resources can be mobilized to set up a wider range of local butchers. Then, through the ever-expanding area of the area under the management of the area, and the reliable tunzhuang and its self-defense armed forces that are rich in the key points of Zhu Zhichong, one by one the soil for the continued increase and flow of local banditry will be eliminated, and most of them will even be forced to come out of the mountains and accept the control and arrangement of the government.

In this way, in the absence of foreign invasion or large-scale banditry, it will only take two to three years to complete the basic sorting out of the newly occupied areas and the construction of the basic execution power submitted by the government with less cost and investment.

And the feeling of arriving here in the first year is that I really wasted such a good place and output before; You must know that the place where he settled is not far from the official road, the land is fertile, the climate is not cold, there is a river not far away, it is very suitable for irrigation by canals, and there are relatively abundant fish goods; On the opposite bank of the rolling hills surrounded by the river, there are tea gardens and orchards that have been carved out before.

And because it is located in the place of convenient transportation in Sili and Eight Townships, it has developed into a market town before this. But now it has been abandoned for a long time, and the fields overgrown with weeds have become a paradise for all kinds of birds and beasts to shuttle.

Therefore, after the initial completion of the first enclosure project, the next collective activity is to fence off the abandoned fields piece by piece and set fire to the wasteland, and then use bows and crossbows and fire guns to kill the birds, rats, badgers and civets that were frightened out, and after a good tooth sacrifice, they also stored a lot of meat and skins.

Then, after more immigrants and supplementary production materials arrived one after another, the joyful and lively first New Year's atmosphere also made most people completely abandon the melancholy of the past and the last bit of reverie and sorrow.

Then, in the following year, when the rapeseed, peanuts, soybeans, buds, and rice crops which had been planted on the fertile land which they had plowed and watered with water had grown to a high age, he suddenly found that he had at once a much more numerous; It turned out that it was the time when the local area was not green, and the villagers in nearby places ran out to find food

Then many things happened, and in the resulting large and small conflicts, some fields that had not yet grown into harvest were wasted, and in the subsequent revenge and punishment activities, some people lost their lives in the confrontation, but many more people were caught red-handed by organized farmers because they tried to steal crops, and even raided the settlements in the wild and captured and seized on the spot;

In the end, only the women and children would be left behind to get a bite to eat as a limited number of helpers, and then the men would all be taken away by the county garrison and put into separate care. Moreover, the vast majority of those who were left behind will not go back. Because, relying on the transfer and flow of resources within Huai Town, even the livestock that are being fed in the Zhuangzi have to eat better than their local villagers who are full of bark and grass roots.

is like the two women around Jian Bumeng, who are called sisters but are actually sisters-in-law and have no name and no points, which is so wrong; They were caught stealing mule soybean meal cakes and tofu dregs on one occasion, and volunteered to compensate in another way, and then dragged another relative into the water in the name of helping.

Through these almost one-sided battles and conflicts, these foreign tunhu also completely gained a firm foothold in the local area, and completed the suppression and deterrence of the remnants of the Tuhu and their settlements in the surrounding area. And then with the temptation of limited materials, they will become supernumerary labor objects one by one.

After the first crops are produced next year, they no longer need to worry about food to a full stomach, and they begin to seek local specialties and land supplies that can be used to increase production and purchase homes.

Once it was confirmed that it could be established as a small-scale industry, more labor positions suitable for the administrative area were born. This is also a disguised means of governance for long-term peace and stability.

According to the "Book of Tea" of Lu Yu, the former tea saint, it is the so-called "Huainan tea, Gwangju is the top", and Xianju is one of the leaders, once in the local rolling hills, there are all kinds of tea mountains; It's just that because of the chaos of the war and the long-term waste, this kind of crop that can neither be eaten nor burned as firewood is left to fend for itself in the wild environment;

Therefore, the purpose of his patrol is to ensure that the new tea mountains that have been opened up in various places, which are an important sideline business of Tunzhuang, will not be damaged and destroyed by unexpected factors such as the wandering population.

Although Xianju County has basically settled down, it can't stand the chaotic behavior of those small groups of hungry people who have fled from other places, or the sporadic people who have climbed mountains and mountains from the west, and are hungry and unprepared.

Especially on the white flawed hill near their tunzhuang, a small piece of old tea trees that survived from the war is a high-end specialty used to generate income under Xianju County.

But in the last year, they have added new patrol areas and prevention objects; It is the scattered men and horses of the Western army who follow the route of the hungry people to escape from the famine and pass through the gaps and trails in the Tongbai Mountains in winter;

Although they are extremely limited in number and have no order, the damage and destruction caused by these who have been in battle until they seek advantage and avoid harm are even greater than those who are hungry and cold.

He has personally encountered an attack, killed two of them in person, and participated in at least three joint mobilization of various villages to search and arrest all over the mountains;

Then recently, on the blacklist that needs attention and precautions, water thieves and lake bandits from the vicinity of Yunmeng Daze in the south have been added. Because of the continuous drought and flood in the local area and the wreak havoc of the Western Army after the southward movement, even these guys who had been hiding in the water town of Daze for a long time and were both thieves and civilians could no longer survive and ran to the land to avoid disasters.

。。。。。。。。。。。。。

In Guangfu, in the weather that has just become hot, there is a low pressure shrouded in the court.

(End of chapter)