Compared with Anlong's gloomy clouds and trembling, Zhejiang's Ming army-occupied areas are now vibrant. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the end of the war, the Ming army had returned to its original posture on all fronts. In this month's time, the calculation of military merits has already been completed, and even the military merit rewards of the four battle battalions of Nantang, Shentang, Guards and Dongyang have been distributed for most of the time. Although the proportion of veterans in these units is relatively high, and most of them have more or less military achievements, the newly acquired land can also further improve their living standards, and the soldiers naturally hope that the more the better.

Due to the emphasis on seasonality in agriculture, this work must be done before the start of summer planting so as not to hinder the autumn harvest. However, judging from the current progress, there will still be a lot of military fields that will not be able to catch up with this year's summer planting.

The reason for this situation is actually that there are many reasons, and it is one thing to involve a lot of distribution, and in addition, the military achievements of previous years were all released in Jinhua Mansion, and the homes of those veterans were also located there. However, there are so many abandoned fields in Jinhua, and there are constantly people returning to farm, even if Chen Wen confiscated the land of some of the gentry who participated in the rebellion, and now a lot of it has been released, so this time the land is basically Quzhou Mansion.

Especially in Longyou County and Xi'an County, there are a lot of barren fields in the north and south of Qujiang, although the population damage in Quzhou in recent years is much lower than that of Jinhua, but there are also a lot of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and there are also some wasted fields, but most of the problems lie in this.

The home is in Jinhua Mansion, but the newly divided land is in Quzhou, and there is land in both places, which makes the soldiers not very satisfied with the military merit fields that are farther away from their homes, because it is impossible for them to cultivate in two places, and the land is easy to be encroached upon, and there is no one to supervise the collection of rent, which is very inconvenient.

After receiving the report from the prison officers and the officials of the health center below, Chen Wen thought about it for a long time, which was nothing more than the three methods of exchange, sale, and collection.

There are only so many fields in one place, and it is unrealistic to exchange them only to cause greater controversy; The sale of military land makes the land of military merit a kind of goods, which is not conducive to the original intention of raising strong men with land, and it must not be done; Historically, after Shi Lang conquered Taiwan for the Manchu Dynasty, he wantonly transferred the land opened up by the Ming army in Fujian and Tainan to the private property of their Shi family, occupying more than half of the reclaimed land in Tainan, and the Manchu government collected tenant rent on behalf of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was called "Shihou Great Rent".

The collection can solve the problem of the lack of skills of the soldiers, but the clan forces that were originally separated by the division of land will inevitably resurgce due to the re-cohesion of the population, and this is not something that Chen Wen can stop on the surface, and can only be carried out in other names and means.

In addition, who is responsible for the tenant rent collected on behalf of the government, and the health office is still the government, and the interests in this are very large, and it is not easy to solve.

Chen Wen has already begun to hold meetings with Sun Yu, Zhou Jingting and other relevant officials to discuss this issue, but it is not a solution that can be reached in a short time.

In contrast, the release of hereditary military posts is much simpler, even simpler than the promotion of officers, and there is no resistance among officers to issue hereditary military posts in place of part of military merit. After all, the military merit field is tax-free, but it must be cultivated before it can be harvested, which also requires the desire to have no natural and man-made disasters, and the hereditary military position can allow future generations to become officers without starting from small soldiers, even if they need to complete their studies in the martial arts academy, it is much easier for officers to have a family heritage than those ordinary people.

All in all, a few families are happy and a few are worried, and while they are not worried, Chen Wen feels that he still has to hurry up and solve the problem. However, after this big battle, it is not only this that needs to worry about him as a manager.

After this battle, the city walls of Jinhua Mansion City had to be rebuilt to carry out flood control and re-implement the old techniques, and the fortresses of Quzhou Prefecture, Anhua Town and Chuzhou were very little damaged, while the Qing army did not pay attention to Hulu Town at all. However, according to the captured officer of the Dinghai General Battalion, Hong Chengchou once asked Zhang Jie to send someone to investigate there, and he couldn't stop when he learned that there was a fortress there, and he didn't know if it was true.

There are not too many facilities that need to be rebuilt, but there are many new facilities, such as forts, military barracks and post stations in Yanzhou Prefecture, as well as Kaihua, Changshan, Jiangshan and Yushan County in Guangxin Prefecture in Quzhou, and most of the facilities in these places are to be newly built. In addition, in Yushan County, Chen Wen also planned to build one of his fortresses to face the Qing army's fortress in Guangxin Mansion, which was also an elegant thing.

Hong Chengchou built a fortress in Guangxin Mansion and gathered a large army, which made Chen Wen have to shift his strategic direction. At present, the entire four southeastern provinces have turned to the defensive against the Ming army in Zhejiang, so it is natural to try to pick up some soft persimmons and pinch them in order to further expand their strength.

The construction of these infrastructures was used by the coolies, but there were so many prisoners of war that Chen Wen's routine release of the auxiliaries was beyond the jurisdiction of the coolie battalion, so that he had to expand the coolie battalion. But if you don't have the money, you can't do it.

The amount of trade between the Ming army in Fujian was really a lot, and the prisoners of the Eight Banners of the Han Army alone had to sell more than 100,000 taels of silver, and this did not count the weapons, just these hammer sales could make up some infrastructure construction projects.

Moreover, it is impossible to sell the artillery set trained by the family, but weapons such as bird guns can be produced by the Military Industry Department itself, and goods such as cloth and medicinal materials are also long-term. In addition, Chen Wen also plans to continue to do the work of human traffickers, and those sharp soldiers in the green battalion can also be sold to Zheng Chenggong, but I don't know if this Fujian big money will be collected.

However, the current Zhejiang Ming army has not yet reached the sea, and these trades are still just flowers in the water, the moon in the well, and now is not a season where soldiers can be used, and the army also needs to be reorganized, so it can only wait until after the autumn to talk about it, at least the summer tax must be exhausted in order to have the capital to go to war again.

Before the suppression of the four provincial capitals, the Zhejiang Ming Army had seven combat battalions, plus more than 5,000 garrisons and a Zhejiang inland water division. After the war, the seven battalions lost a total of more than 2,000 soldiers, which needed to be replenished, and the garrison also lost hundreds, and the Zhejiang inland water division was almost wiped out.

According to the usual practice, the priority combat barracks were supplemented, so Chen Wen still selected sergeants from the garrison to supplement the combat barracks according to the old rules, and then the recruit training camp trained the recruits to supplement the garrisons in various places, and built new garrisons in the counties of the newly occupied areas. However, this time, due to the confluence of Zhang Zisheng's subordinates, Chen Wen had to postpone the replenishment, because there were at least two war battalions to be formed, one was used to house Zhang Zisheng's soldiers, and the other was to maintain Yanzhou Mansion.

As for the Zhejiang River Division, the captured ships, even if they are damaged, must be repaired as soon as possible, in addition to self-construction, Chen Wen has also agreed with Zheng Tai to buy some ships from the Zheng family.

The army needs to be expanded, and it is not difficult to build weapons, but the replacement of weapons has become a big problem.

The water conservancy workshop has been launched, in addition to the hydraulic boring machine, such as the hydraulic forging hammer and other machinery has also begun to be hand-built by those masters one by one, into the water conservancy workshop to start use.

This can undoubtedly greatly increase the speed of weapon manufacturing for the Ming army in Zhejiang, after all, the water resources in southwest Zhejiang are so large that in many places there is no need to build even facilities such as reservoirs. But such as the flintlock pistol bolt, or the rifling that Chen Wen was still pondering not long ago, these things are not something that can be done by the machinery he has, and even in his memory, it seems that these came out very early, but it took hundreds of years or even hundreds of years to popularize them, and it is impossible to popularize them now anyway.

The bolt of the flintlock pistol, now the Military Industry Department is still made by those masters, the manual manufacturing speed is slow, and there are still a lot of scraps, but there is nothing he can do. So much so that from the time Cao Conglong's rebellion was quelled, to the time when the four provincial capitals were suppressed, he barely completed the refitting of the firearms team of the Nantang battalion, adding up to only three hundred and twenty teams. And this is still done by raising wages, stimulating the enthusiasm of craftsmen, and bringing in locksmiths to change careers.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the handicraft industry in Jiangnan was extremely prosperous, but after so many years of killing the corpse mountain and sea of blood, the decline of the overall industry is inevitable, especially in the area occupied by Chen Wen today, there is no city with a thriving handicraft industry like Suzhou and Hangzhou, and it is not easy to have today's scale.

Chen Wen realized that this matter was no longer something he could meddle in, but he only offered a reward in the Military Industry Department to try to increase the manufacturing speed of the flintlock pistol bolt. However, during the suppression of the four provincial capitals, Chen Wen's idea of increasing the speed of the army's tactical maneuver had already begun.

The cavalry infantry battalion is still impossible for the Zhejiang Ming army, which has a small number of war horses, even if more than 1,000 war horses are captured this time, he would rather form a cavalry battalion than consider the cavalry infantry battalion. However, this does not mean that the idea is negated, Chen Wen has already made a plan for this matter, that is, to follow the mule army of the Caizhou people in the Tang Dynasty and use mules to replace the troops composed of some elite infantry. (To be continued.) )