While preparing to travel south, I also got a new round of summary of the front and rear news.

As the main battlefield and basic plate in the north,

There were no major wars in Huaidong during this time, but on the line of Mangyang Mountain from Yunzhou to Songzhou, the continuous small and medium-scale conflicts were still continuous.

Mainly only affected and persecuted by the flood, and all kinds of huma and rogue armed forces were running around fighting the autumn wind. As an opponent, the Northern Army has shrunk a little, and has opened up a lot of distance and buffer.

Among them, the more famous record is about a team general Quduan, in a baggage team in charge of escorting, collided with a Huma light horse that penetrated the defense line on the north shore of Zhaoyang Lake.

As a result, he took the opportunity to react in the baggage team, using the smoke canisters and firecrackers he had collected, and disguised the smoke and sound of firearm shooting, to scare off the superior Humaer in front of him, and also took advantage of the situation to capture dozens of horses.

Therefore, it can be regarded as brave and resourceful, and it is especially included in the selection list.

Then it took me a lot of effort to suddenly remember that Qu Duan also seemed to be a well-known figure in history.

In another time and space, he was born in the Western Army of the Northern Song Dynasty, and was known as a wealthy and knowledgeable scholar, and served as the commander of the Jingyuan Road Strategy Division of the Southern Song Dynasty, commanding the remaining Western Army in the northwest, and defeating the Jin soldiers many times in the Guannei.

But in the end, because of discord with Zhang Jun, the minister of power, he was framed by Zhang for rebellion, and was tortured by Yousi and finally died of torture, just 41 years old, compared to Yue's unwarranted turmoil pavilion, but much earlier.

Therefore, there is a saying in later generations that Qu Duan's death is more like a rehearsal of the main battle faction led by the commanders of the Southern Song Dynasty in order to cut off the weakened.

It's just that because he has a poor relationship with his colleagues and bosses, there are not many people who intercede when he dies, and he is not as well-known as Brother Wu Mu, who wrote down Manjianghong.

It's just that in this time and space, he quietly appeared among my subordinates, but it was a little surprising, if it wasn't for the agreement to ask for credit, I might not know that there was such a number one person under my command.

Fortunately, my habit of taking notes anytime and anywhere, some names of people in my memories and occasional thoughts are all collected in it, and then arranged into a small notebook, which also avoids and prevents some key things that I have inadvertently missed.

In addition, in the construction of internal affairs, it is still proceeding in a step-by-step manner, and the relatively big change in the recent past year is a policy that has been in place since the beginning of winter last year, and it has finally seen its timeliness.

Today, under my rule, the need for wood and charcoal burning has been largely eliminated, and the use of coal at all levels has been gradually promoted. Relying on several new and old mines in Yanzhou and Yizhou, the distribution network of large and small coal processing plants and coal supply stations has been preliminarily completed in more than 20 cities under the rule of each prefecture.

In this way, while further monopolizing some of the needs of the people's livelihood economy, changing the local military and civilian fuel use habits, it can also preserve enough local trees and vegetation.

After all, although there are many mountains and forests in the Huaidong area, as a source of timber for important war materials, it also needs to be strictly distributed and managed.

On the other hand, the good news related to it is that the trade through the Guò sea route has just received the first batch of Tohoku Daiki,

A considerable part of them were specially selected by the Gongcao and the Military Manufacturing Institute and hoarded on the spot for retention.

As long as it has been dried and blown by the wind for a whole year, it is especially suitable as a key structure for large buildings, or as a raw material reserve for repairing ships near the coast, or even for on-site shipbuilding in the future.

The rest is slowly dragged back to the south by sea, which is also a matter of several times more profitable, but the efficiency is slower and more difficult. And most of them were bartered with canned food.

A whole log of more than two or three feet with a belt branch, as long as a hundred of the most common, soybean pig blood canned meat substitutes, can be lightly changed. If it is a relatively rare canned fruit and vegetable candied fruit in the north, the price is higher, and you can even exchange it for some more precious ash, walnut, barberry or other precious materials.

At present, I am the only one who has the ability to do this business, and other forces may have a way, but there is no corresponding channel and next home; or have the strength to do so, but lack sufficient credibility and connections; or lack of adequate security and capital. Or the lack of a suitable location and a low-cost entry point.

Although this kind of trading within a year, only? I have only done it a few times along the tide of the sea, but the difference between the two ends of the price of this entry and exit is enough to bring me a lot of benefits under my rule.

Not to mention, it has also created a considerable industrial scale and corresponding daily livelihood, which is also one of the few public businesses that can be placed on the table under the guidance of the six states under my control.

Echoing the news from the south,

Some time ago, my family was quite generous, and ate 23 canning farms and related industries in one go. Therefore, the enigmatic creature swears in the letter that as long as there are sufficient raw materials, tens of thousands of units per day will not be a problem at all.

Among them, the relatively cheap raw materials are mainly provided from the nearby Tiannan Prefecture, which has been in the war for a long time, and is closely related to the Borneo Guild Hall, and is provided in a large number of new farms.

Coupled with the relatively high local labor in Guangfu, the labor required for these processing was on the outer islands, and the people bought by the Northern Expedition were responsible for the local responsibility through the guò sweatshop, so the relative cost was quite low.

Although these canned food are basically unprofitable and lack a sufficient market for local sales in Guangfu, it is quite a good supplement to buy them in the north in the name of military transportation.

This kind of fruit, vegetable, grain and meat products that can be stored for a long time are very popular special products among the front-line soldiers and even the local soldiers and civilians in Lianghuai, and not only have become relatively strong circulation in the underground black market, but also have completed the process of laundering unknown sources of wealth in a certain sense.

The day of departure is coming soon,

Jiang Ning, Changtingyi, and the crowd of people who saw them off, although I didn't know most of them, they didn't affect me in the slightest, and they had all kinds of envious and jealous expressions for me, a freshly baked celebrity in front of the prison country, and all kinds of thoughts trying to cling to make friends with Bawang.

The mouth is full of nonsense and flattering words, like the surging river not far from here, which keeps coming and flowing to the sea and never returning. It makes people feel that their officialdom skills are all practiced in these two mouths.

However, the people who can put down their skins and gather here are mainly my nominal subordinates, of course, they don't have to actually go north to perform their duties, they just need to take a job from afar, and continue to stay in Jiangning's flower world drunk and dreaming of death.

In addition, there are some officials who only have official bodies, but have not yet been vacant, and can only wait for their eyes to be transferred to themselves, the so-called internal officials. The daily expenses of staying in Jiangning are not small, and in the long run, they will inevitably be a little shy, so they want to take this opportunity to hope that there will be some benefits and rights here.

Under the influence of the introduction and bait called fame and fortune, the various strange forms described in the trilogy of the late Qing Dynasty, "The Appearance of Officialdom", "The Flower of the Sea of Evil", and "The Travels of the Old Remnant", seem to be reflected in them, through all kinds of sincere and enthusiastic words and expressions.

However, after drinking the practice wine, I was finally able to get rid of them.