Although he was in Quzhou, Chen Wen still heard of the revival of the people's hearts in the southeast to resist the Qing Dynasty, and this was fully reflected in the mental state of all kinds of people who came to serve and curry favor with the two prefectures of Jinhua and Quzhou every day.

The situation began to improve, but Chen Wen, who always had hidden worries about the future, did not dare to take it lightly. The siege of Quzhou is still ongoing, and according to the current progress of the project, the water of the moat can be drained in the last two days of September, and then it will be able to attack and blast in a few more days. If nothing else, it could be a few days sooner than expected.

At present, nearly half a month has passed since that great victory, and since the occupation area is about to change from one prefecture to two prefectures, or more, and Lu Jianguo has already removed the prison country number, the envoy of the Yongli system may also be coming. Cao Conglong's rebellion was not far away, so Chen Wen used this time to rethink his thoughts, and was determined to concentrate all the civil and military power in the entire occupied area. Form a team headed by the "Linhai Bofu" and divided into two sets of people, civil affairs and military affairs, to completely overthrow the supervision of the army and put an end to the possibility of rebellion.

Preliminary preparations have already begun, training is underway for the supervising forces, and they will set up a separate department in parallel with the Judge Advocate General's Department to maintain the ownership of the military. In addition, some departments of the original Jinhua Town will also be upgraded, and together with some newly built departments, they will form an organization responsible for handling military affairs, and the original Jinhua Town will completely evolve into a military town that is only responsible for the defense and combat of the jurisdiction like the upcoming Quzhou Town.

These preparations will begin to be formalized after the capture of Quzhou. According to the reconnaissance of Tanma and the reports of some people who came to surrender and show goodwill, among the several generals who escaped from the Qing army in the previous battle, Jiangxi Governor Liu Guangbi and about 1,000 people, including cavalry, had fled back to Jiangxi, and Hu Laijing, the deputy general of Wenzhou, fled back to Wenzhou with only his own soldiers. As for Wang Zhigang, the chief soldier of the left road in Fujian, and Zhang Guoxun, the deputy general of the supervision battalion, although they each lost about 30% of their soldiers and horses, they did not cross the Xianxia Pass when they fled south, but temporarily stationed in Jiangshan County. It is said that they are robbing the local people and wealthy households, and by the way, they are pulling Zhuang Ding to make up for the shortfall.

These two guys probably ate the sweetness of the Mandarin Duck Formation, and they were not discouraged by that fiasco. However, Chen Wen's army was not many, and it was probably not enough to carry out another siege battle at the same time in the process of besieging Quzhou.

However, Chen Wen is not in a hurry about this, after the defeat of the Qing army, he will definitely try to understand the tactics of the Ming army, what should come will always come, no matter how much he blocks and defends, it will not help, it is better to strengthen his own strength as soon as possible, so as to deal with all kinds of changes.

Chen Wen's army can have such morale and tactical level, and it is not just as simple as Qi Jiguang and the Mandarin Duck Formation. It is mixed with many ideas of modern and modern military ideas, and has begun to gradually play an effective role. If you add the land division and military merits, this is no longer something that the Qing army can imitate if they want to. Moreover, it seems that the mandarin duck array of the superintendent camp does not seem to have completely imitated even Qi Jiguang's original.

"Mr. An Qian, you have read your report and written it very thoughtfully."

There is a way to hurt the tendons and bones for a hundred days, and An Youfu's hamstring in his right calf was broken, and he was connected, but it still took a lot of time to recuperate. With nothing to do, he took advantage of this time to record his feelings of personally facing the Supervising Battalion on the battlefield, and for this purpose, he also specially found some prisoners of the Supervising Battalion, and summarized the content of their training of the Mandarin Duck Formation in the Qing Army, as well as the before and after, and finally handed it over to Chen Wen yesterday.

"Tiao Chen was ghostwritten by Yao Shu, and he was illiterate and couldn't read, so he was really ashamed."

Saying that, An Youfu blushed. Since the beginning of the literacy eradication in Tiantai Mountain, many of them have been able to write relatively simple family letters on their own, especially Wu Dengke, who can now not only write, but also be able to read some military letters independently. But in comparison, An Youfu is different, he has no desire to be promoted and make a fortune, and he is not like Wu Dengke who has a dream of becoming a famous general who is not inferior to the clansmen, so he has always been half-hearted in terms of literacy, and now when it is time to use it, he can only find someone to write it for him, which makes him a little embarrassed.

In the Ming Dynasty, the south was more affluent and had a higher literacy rate than the north, but this theoretical probability did not include the army.

Most of the army in the Ming Dynasty were military households, followed by prisoners who filled the army, and there were also some recruits, all in all, they were "untouchables" in the eyes of some scholars, and their literacy rate was even so low that many general soldiers and deputy generals could not read a basket of words. Although the army under Chen Wen's command has been strictly eradicating illiteracy for nearly two years, almost all of those who are really literate are working in the logistics department, and in addition to the staff members accompanying the army, only the proportion of staff officers and military judges in the frontline is relatively high, but the literacy rate is also much lower than that of the logistics department.

An Youfu was the first member of the Nantang Battalion, and Chen Wen was able to name every one of those hundreds of people, and he knew much more about them than after the expansion. Which of these people is literate, which one is semi-literate, and which one is blind, he knows very well, and it is naturally impossible for An Youfu, the guy who has been named and reprimanded by the gentleman in charge of literacy three times and twice, not to know his level.

Hearing An Youfu's answer, Chen Wen nodded first, and then turned to say: "Having ideas and knowing to observe is rare, and it also proves that Ben Shuai is not wrong about you." But you must also pay close attention to the matter of literacy, otherwise in the future, when Ben Shuai gives you an order, will you have to find a document to read for you every time? ”

After taking Quzhou, a new round of army expansion is about to begin, which is a good candidate for battalion officers, especially after this article is delivered, Chen Wen has strengthened this view.

An Youfu was moved by the ardent expectations in Chen Wen's words, he was reckless on weekdays, and not only was he punished a lot for this, but even his colleagues around him were also offended. The deceased Ding Keji, his former old governor Liu Cheng, and the garrison when he was in Yongkang County later, these people were very good to him, so he was willing to take care of his widow and only son for Ding Keji, and he was also willing to speak for Liu Cheng and that guard.

"If you are lowly and know your mistakes, you will go back to Mr. to read and write."

After talking for a long time, An Youfu retired first, while Chen Wen continued to handle official business. It wasn't until a moment later that a herald returned to the big tent and told Chen Wen that they were reconnoitring around the city when they heard a burst of cheers from inside the city, faintly ......

At the edge of the cheers, Rong Qian was no different from the people around him, cheering at the slaughter of the hoarding profiteers, at least on the surface.

Quzhou has been besieged for half a month, and the price of grain has been higher day by day, even to the extent that it has doubled every day. But even so, the grain sold in those grain stores was not only moldy old rice, but also very small in quantity. These days, Rong Qian got up before dawn every day, and when the curfew hour passed, he ran to the grain store with his life, but he only bought food once, and that time he was the first to arrive at the grain store.

As a small person in this siege, he hated those profiteers as much as everyone else, but the experience of being a staff member in the yamen of the governor of Huguang for several years made him very clear that this was definitely the result of the collusion between officials and businessmen, because no businessman dared to ignore the existence of the government, and only by feeding the hungry wolves in the government could they slaughter the ordinary people fiercely.

Moreover, in the past two years in Quzhou, Chen Jin's behavior also shows that this governor is by no means a good person. When this guy was Hong Chengchou's deputy in Nanzhili, he had killed people so much that he was clearly a vicious beast that swallowed his belt and bones.

watched as the profiteers on the execution ground were pushed up, convicted in turn, beheaded for public display, and their families went directly into the camp as prostitutes, and the family property was directly confiscated. Rong Qian knew very well that this was not a verdict at all for the purpose of killing chickens and monkeys and preventing profiteers from continuing to harm the people, but to collect the merchants' family property into the hands of the government or Chen Jin himself, otherwise it would be impossible to slaughter all the grain merchants in the city in one go, and even implicate a few civil officials and officials.

But even so, although not a penny or a grain of rice fell into his pocket, and he didn't even know where to buy rice tomorrow, Rong Qian still felt very happy, at least for his whispering and insomnia for half a month.

"Profiteers harm the people, and the governor and boss are sympathetic to the people, and from tomorrow they will start to give porridge in front of the government and county offices. The Governor said that as long as the government still has food to eat, the people will never go hungry. ”

The thunderous cheers came and went, and in an instant, they spread throughout the entire prefecture city, and even floated outside the city, Chen Jin's reputation as the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian for many years was not as high as it was at the moment.

The next day, although the family had carefully stored some rice and grain, Rong Qian's family, like many people, rushed to the government to receive the soup kitchen, because none of them knew how long the siege would last, and it could save their own mouthful, which might be the boundary between life and death. Even if there are only one or two grains of rice in the porridge you receive, it is better to be hungry again as soon as you soak in urine than to consume your own food in advance.

It was precisely on this day that the Manchu government in Quzhou arrested several wealthy merchants and hastily dragged them to the execution ground to be executed like those grain merchants. It is said that they were complicit in the grain merchants, and may have been plotting rebellion against the imperial court in the city......

Chen Wen outside the city can be said to know nothing about the fattening pig slaughtering operation that happened in the city of Quzhou, but he didn't care too much. In the face of the absolute power gap, unless Chen Jin turned into a necromancer and turned tens of thousands of people in this city into skeleton warriors, with those thousands of routs, Chen Jin had no possibility of independently repelling the Ming army and relieving the siege of Quzhou.

At this time, two hundred miles away in Jinhua Mansion City, outside the gate of the government office, a group of people were standing outside the door, waiting for the gatekeeper who received the post to deliver the post to Sun Yu's table.

After a while, I saw Sun Yu, the prefect of Jinhua, who was very serious about people and himself on weekdays, ran out in three steps and two steps, and hurriedly invited people in. This courtesy was not even had by Cao Conglong, the civilian official of the prison army not long ago, and the old man who received this courtesy was indeed worthy of this rare meeting. (To be continued.) )