The problem of Quzhou's capital city is not only hunger, but also the fact that order has been disrupted to a certain extent, and at the same time, due to the large number of shops confiscated, the rich have been swept away, and the business of the capital city has almost come to a standstill. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Due to its geographical location, Quzhou has always been a prosperous place for commerce and trade, and the local Longyou Merchants Gang is one of the "Top Ten Merchant Gangs" in the traditional sense of China, mainly engaged in the jewelry industry, reclamation industry, paper industry and book printing industry, etc., its footprints and business areas are all over the country, and even have the saying of "Longyou Merchants everywhere".

After Chen Wen decided on the plan, he sent people to spread the news in the direction of the other four county towns, welcoming the local businessmen to return to the capital to restore business order, which can be regarded as a small scale of "attracting foreign investment".

At the same time, Chen Wen also ordered the exemption of Xi'an County's autumn tax and commercial tax this year in order to speed up the restoration of the city's commercial capacity.

Although tax reduction and exemption can speed up the restoration of people's livelihood, for Chen Wen, who is surrounded by the Qing army and the tax revenue is not enough to feed the army under his command, it will lead to his economic collapse. Fortunately, there were a lot of savings in the treasury of Quzhou and the treasury of Chen Jin's governor's mansion, and after they swept away the rich families in Quzhou, about half of these assets were given to these officials, and the rest went into Chen Jin's pocket.

Few of the officials in Fucheng were able to slip away from the Ming army, and they were willing to use a large part of their family assets to buy a way to live for themselves and their families. On the contrary, Chen Jin, who is already dead, has disappeared a lot of his share of goods, and at the same time, some of Chen Jin's cronies and staff members, such as Zhu Zhixi, Ji Zhenyi and Li Zhifang, have disappeared.

The harvest of goods is indeed a lot, but the characteristics of the Longyou Merchant Gang have led to the fact that most of the industries of many Longyou merchants are in other places, and when they return to their hometowns to buy houses and land, they are also in the towns and villages outside the county and county, and the damage to the Fucheng is indeed not small, but the blow to the Longyou Merchant Gang is actually not as big as it seems, and Chen Wen's income is also not as much as he imagined.

Today, Chen Wen has occupied Bawu in Jinhua, Longyou in Quzhou, Xi'an and Jinyun in Chuzhou, spanning the territory of eleven counties in three prefectures.

However, most of the areas in Chuzhou are mountainous and have always been poor, and the Jinyun occupied by Chen Wen is also a small number of people; Jinhua has long been dilapidated due to the massacre of Jinhua, the battle between the Qing army and the Baitou army, and the existence of Ma Jinbao, and it has been a year since Chen Wenguang recovered there, and he has only just begun to recover some vitality, and there is still a long way to go back to the level of the late Ming Dynasty; As for Quzhou, the tug-of-war in the past six months, as well as the small-scale fighting that had begun since Chen Wen recovered Jinhuafu, did not cause much damage to the people's livelihood, and the three counties in the west were still in the hands of several green camp guest armies, and the trade routes to Jiangnan, Jiangxi, and Fujian had been cut off, and it was difficult to guarantee future tax revenue.

At present, Chen Wen has three battalions under his command: Nantang, Dongyang, and Yiwu, as well as battalions directly under the town and infantry teams of the four bureaus that have been transferred, most of these field troops are in Quzhou, and only half of the Dongyang battalion is still existing with the garrison troops of various counties as a force for defense and deterrence.

Each of the three battalions had four infantry bureaus, a cavalry brigade of 100 cavalry, and artillery, engineers, and other ancillary personnel attached to the battalion, and each battalion had an establishment of nearly 2,000 men; The battalion directly under the town was different from the battalion in that it had more cavalry and less infantry, totaling less than a thousand soldiers; The infantry of the four bureaus was drawn without cavalry, artillery, engineers, or auxiliary troops, and numbered less than 1,600 men; Among the garrisons in each county, except for more than 600 people in Dongyang County, more than 400 people in Anhua Town, more than 200 people in Yongkang County, and more than 200 people in Jinhua Fucheng, the other counties were all infantry with a single outpost with more or less artillery groups and horses, and there were 2,000 people in total.

Together, these armies have exceeded the scale of 10,000 people, and if you count the personnel of various prefectures, county government offices, and health centers, even if you only count the monthly depreciation, there must be more than 200,000 taels of silver, and this is not counting the true colors, as well as the various military consumption, raw material consumption, and the construction and maintenance costs of military facilities.

There is a way that when a cannon sounds, there are ten thousand taels of gold. Nowadays, even if the cannon does not go off, the cost of silver is already an astronomical amount. After the expansion of the occupied area, it was also necessary to build new war barracks, garrisons, and various military facilities, and Chen Wen had relied on Ma Jinbao's eunuch bag and raiding his house in Jinhua Mansion before, even if Quzhou's autumn tax and the commercial tax that had been greatly damaged were not reduced, it was absolutely not enough.

This time, Chen Wen did obtain a lot of assets from Chen Jin's private treasury, which can be regarded as plugging a lot of the upcoming big hole, but this is undoubtedly drinking to quench his thirst, at the cost of overdrawing future commercial taxes. Chen Wen has not done this kind of thing, but if it is said that the two loans of the aftermath and the requisition were consciously and voluntarily drunk by him, then Quzhou was forcibly fed to him by the dead Chen Jin this time.

In ancient times, Zhuge Wuhou did his best and died; Today, there is Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, even if he dies, he will leave a mess for his opponent. For a while, Chen Wen didn't know what to say.

Quzhou's aftermath loan will continue to be implemented, and those ownerless fixed property Chen Wen also intends to sell, only in this way can the business drive and restore the vitality of Quzhou's capital as soon as possible.

It will take time for business to recover and people's livelihood to heal, but Chen Wen does not intend to stop for this, and now he has taken the capital city of Quzhou, and at the same time opened up the passage to attack the three counties in the west of Quzhou, as well as ensured the safety of the back road to Chuzhou in the south. Perhaps, it is also a good idea to go back to the teacher and give Jin Li a dull stick.

It's a pity that the military operation has lasted for half a year, and the soldiers have begun to worry about their wives and children, as well as their families and their families, and their desire for war has begun to fade.

Advancing westward into the three western counties of Quzhou could open up the trade routes of Huizhou, Guangxinfu and Jianning through Kaihua, Changshan and Jiangshan, which was of great significance for breaking the encirclement of the Qing army. At the same time, it can also use it to threaten the surrounding provinces and expand its influence.

Going south to Chuzhou can not only expand the occupied area, but also enter Wenzhou on the coast, obtain access to the sea, and form a semi-encirclement of Taizhou at the same time. And although that government has less land and less tax revenue, it is better than the people. It's a pity that the mountain people in Chuzhou are not as easy to train as the Jinhua soldiers, and it probably takes more time to enlist in the army. In addition, Songyangdan in Chuzhou is also an important mode of transportation for southeast coastal trade to connect the Qiantang River system.

The goods traded from northern Fujian to northern Zhejiang entered Chuzhou through the Oujiang River, and then were transported out of the mountain by the porters of Songyang, arrived at the Xi'anmen Wharf in Quzhou Prefecture, and then went south along the Qiantang River to Hangzhou by water. The whole journey passes through Funing Prefecture, Wenzhou, Qingtian, Lishui, Songyang, Suichang in Chuzhou, Longyou and Xi'an in Quzhou, Lanxi in Jinhua, Jiande and Tonglu in Yanzhou, and finally reaches Hangzhou. Another trade route from Wuyi Mountain to Huizhou was to enter Longquan from Nanping through caravans, pass through Yunhe, Songyang, Suichang, Longyou, Xi'an, Chun'an, and finally reach Huizhou.

Although Chuzhou is poor, it is in a transit station in the commercial activities from northern Fujian to northern Zhejiang and southern Anhui, and Songyang Dan can be understood as a logistics mode in this era. If you can intervene in it and integrate it to a certain extent, the energy that this mansion can tap is far more than you imagined.

In contrast, according to the summary of the past few days, Ma Guozhu, the governor of Jiangnan and Jiangxi, transferred part of the green battalion in southern Anhui to Kaihua County, and mobilized the remnants of the Jiangxi Governor's Standard Battalion plus the intact rear battalion to stationed in Changshan County, while Jiangshan County was still guarded by Zhang Guoxun, the deputy general of the Governor Battalion. In addition, according to rumors, most of the general troops of Jiujiang, Jiangxi have also been transferred to Guangxin Mansion as the backing of the Qing army in these three counties.

For Chen Wen, the Qing army had an overwhelming advantage in the southeast, and he did not use the island as a base camp like Zheng Chenggong, relying on the advantage of the naval division to isolate the Qing army. He was in the interior of Zhejiang, and the Qing army was defeated again and again, but he could always rely on the superiority of troops to surround the area under his control, forcing him to divide his troops and garrison them in various places, and thin the already extremely limited forces in his hands.

There were indeed a lot of casualties in the previous bloody battle, and together with the long-term state of military operations, the morale of the soldiers was affected to a certain extent.

If the Qing army stormed one county, with the orders received by the Qing troops of other departments, there was a good chance that they would sit idly by, and the Qing army in Jiujiang would be responsible for leading the battle. Since this is the case, the only way to concentrate the army is to attack a county first and lure out the Qing army in Jiujiang. As long as it can be defeated in one fell swoop, the Qing army in each county will be nothing more than a turtle in an urn.

Of course, in order to be safe, Chen Wen still planned to send a slightly smaller but sufficient force to carry out another mission - to test whether the state capital, which is said to have reached the level of three shocks a day, still has the ability to hold on!

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After a few days of rest, Chen Wen once again mobilized the whole army to go out.

The main force of less than 4,000 troops composed of the Nantang Battalion and the battalion directly under the town, as well as the two infantry bureaus assigned to the right flank battlefield, was led by Chen Wen himself to attack Jiangshan County, which was adjacent to the prefecture capital and Jianning Prefecture.

In the same way, the half of the Dongyang battalion was facing the local green battalion of those provinces at that time, and the damage was even smaller than that of the Nantang battalion, so Chen Wen decided that Chen Guobao, who was temporarily in charge of commanding this army, would lead his troops into the state capital.

In contrast, the remaining Yiwu battalion and the other two infantry bureaus commanded by An Youfu faced Wang Zhigang and Zhang Guoxun's troops at that time, especially the supervising battalion that copied the Mandarin Duck Formation, which did cause a lot of casualties by virtue of its superiority in strength. As a result, Chen Wen decided to send part of the relatively complete infantry team back to Jinhua Mansion to assist Yin Yue and Lin Zhongxiao in defending the northern front, while the other troops under the command of Wu Dengke stayed in Quzhou to guard against the attack of the Qing army.

According to the situation of his own side and the enemy's army, Chen Wen's troops were divided into four routes, two to attack, one to defend, and the other to return to support. Needless to say, the key to defense and reinforcement lies in the two forces that continue to attack and expand the occupied area.

The Qing army in Jiangshan County was Zhang Guoxun's supervision battalion and some of Wang Zhigang's subordinates, which was the strongest of the Qing army in these three counties. The strength of the army is about three to five thousand, and one-third of them should be recruits who have been forcibly recruited for less than a month, and they can probably only assume the role of auxiliaries on the battlefield. And the remaining main force must have suffered a lot of damage in that battle, especially the establishment must have been destroyed, and the combat effectiveness should be much lower than a month ago.

In the field, this Qing army has no advantage in the number of soldiers, even if the Qing army from Jiujiang merges with it, at most it is just a copy of the big battle a month ago. And at that time, without the Governor Battalion and the nearly 1,000 cavalry, it was too difficult for the Qing army to win.

However, if they attack other counties, these two Qing armies will join forces with the Jiujiang general army, which will inevitably pose a threat to the capital city of Quzhou, which has just been recovered. The armies under Chen Wen's command suffered relatively little damage in that battle, which was enough to protect themselves. Therefore, Chen Wen decided to attack there directly, and lead the Jiujiang general army to appear and besiege the city to send reinforcements; If he doesn't come, then take down Jiangshan County directly and eradicate the battalion that has the guts to be the first to eat crabs!

The territory of Chuzhou is vast, from the Lishui where the capital city is located, there are ten counties of Songyang, Jingning, Jinyun, Qingtian, Suichang, Qingyuan, Xuanping, Yunhe and Longquan. Now Jinyun County is under the control of the Ming army, and Lishui County, where the capital is located, is just south of Jinyun County.

Chen Wen's plan was for Chen Guobao to go south with great fanfare, and there was no need to storm it, just pull up the tiger skin and see if the Qing army was as it had been in these days, and Chen Guobao's first target was Suichang County, which was close to Quzhou.

The returning troops set off first, and then the two detachments that continued to attack set off towards their respective goals. Looking at the army from afar, Zhao Qian, who was drawn from the staff department and was fully responsible for excavating and blasting Quzhou, was already about to burst into flames.

As in Longyou County last time, he was in charge of the engineer demolition unit and successfully dug the tunnel under the city. In contrast, this time it was more difficult, it was a big project that needed to drain the water of the moat in advance before digging a tunnel to the city, and he and his old subordinates who were brought out by him solved this problem perfectly with the help of thousands of Qing army coolies and auxiliaries, and were fully prepared for the next collapse.

After digging under the city, Zhao Qian personally went to the end of the three tunnels and found that there seemed to be a large number of Qing troops walking around near two of them. Sensing the danger, he ordered the three tunnels to put the coffins filled with gunpowder inside, connect the leads, and build a wall to create the space needed for the blasting. Just wait for the order to be issued, the wall above can be blasted into the sky, and the army can also directly enter the city.

The speed of the excavation far exceeded the normal level of the Qing army, and the gunpowder was said to be more powerful granular gunpowder, although I don't know why there would be a big difference in the power of the same catty tael, but the power was indeed improved a lot after the on-the-spot experiment.

The increase in the speed of the excavation was indeed confirmed by the responsible officers of the Qing prisoners, and Chen Wen praised them for it, but the assassination in the governor's palace caused the sappers to lose their first hand in breaking the city.

Of course, that's not all.

The most helpless thing is that the moat water that they spent a month draining has to be brought back to re-consolidate the city defense of Quzhou. In order to prevent the Qing army from using the three tunnels, they had to refill the tunnels with coolies before bringing back the water from the moat.

Is this still the work of a sapper? It's different to find a group of people who dig in the soil, if it goes on like this, how can it be worthy of the word relocation in his name, the word relocation of demolition!

The army had already gone away, and the depressed Zhao Qian had to continue to instruct the people below to fill in the tunnel that was about to be refilled. This time it was already like this, and now he could only hope, hoping that the next siege would not have such an unexpected situation, and that all the steps must be completed before it can be considered a real explosion. (To be continued.) )