On June 1 of the third year of Chongzhen, a few days ago, Huangyang and several people had already arrived at Peach Blossom Castle, and everyone had no objection to their appointment. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

These people are all Xiao Yi's henchmen, and they are all hundreds of households, of course, there is no problem in managing the team.

On this day, Xiao also asked Dong Yinghua to be appeased, and ordered the official Zheng Zhong, the deputy Qianhu Chen Hao and some small officials to follow him to inspect the subordinate forts and villages, and Wang Dayong took more than a dozen people from the night team to guard.

Xiao also has two large forts under the jurisdiction of Changning Town and Yantai Fort, and Changning Town has Yong'an Fort, Huzhuang, Huatoubao and Lizhuang, and Yantai Fort has Hetou Fort, Black Fort and Maode Fort under its jurisdiction.

In addition to these two big forts, there are ten forts under the jurisdiction of Peach Blossom Fort, such as earth forts, tea houses, and Yuzhuang.

Among them, Yantai Fort and Yuzhuang and Tea House are important places, and the three forts under the jurisdiction of Yantai Fort are all along the Sanggan River, if possible, it will be the defense line to resist the entrance of Houjin in the future.

The tea house is located at the confluence of Yuanyang Water and Sanggan River, which is the westernmost part of Taohuabao and is located on the main road; Yuzhuang is in the northeast of Peach Blossom Fort, which is the main road to enter the territory of Peach Blossom Fort in addition to Mandarin Duck Water, and these locations are also the main inspection places of Xiao Yi's trip.

In the first two days, Xiao Yi inspected several small tunbao and villages back and forth in the territory, not to mention the flattery of the officers, and said that what Xiao Yi saw with his own eyes was enough to make him irritable.

The situation in the forts was very bad, the arable land was barren, the cattle were few and thin, and the soldiers and people in the forts and villages fled in large numbers.

On June 2, Xiao Yi and his entourage came to this Yantai Fort.

The location of Yantai Fort is important, and it is not unreasonable to be the first of the four forts along the river. This fort is located in the north of Peach Blossom Fort, northwest of Yuzhuang and Peach Blossom Fort and Yuzhuang is a triangle.

The circumference of the fort is one mile and one hundred steps, does not cover bricks, in addition to the black fort, the Maode fort, the river head fort in the territory of Yantai fort there are four piers, Yantai fort set up a hundred households to manage the team officer Dong Ze led one hundred and two people to defend, the remaining three forts set up a general flag to lead the army to lead the fifty garrison.

There is only one main street and a few alleys in the fort, low and dilapidated earthen houses, there are dozens of military households in the fort, and the people here are very poor, perhaps due to northerly reasons, they are poorer than the military households when Xiao Yi first arrived in Changning Town.

A main street, said to be a street, is actually just a dirt road paved with a few stone slabs, full of potholes, when it rains, everywhere is muddy and badly waterlogged.

There are mostly some men and women who are ragged and numb on the road, and there is only one shop in the fort, which only sells some grain, rice and groceries.

Dong Ze didn't expect Xiao Yi to come here to inspect in person, the best building in the fort is the 100 official halls, and Dong Ze didn't have anything to do, so he had to mobilize the whole castle to find a thin lamb and slaughter it to greet Xiao Yi and them.

Dong Ze didn't try his best to flatter like the rest of the officers in Tunbao, but just stood aside respectfully and waited for Xiao Yi to speak.

Xiao Yi didn't have the heart to listen to the sycophants of other junior officers, and asked as he walked into the official hall: "Lord Dong, are there any coal mines and iron mines near here?" ”

Dong Ze pondered for a long time and said, "This, there really isn't. ”

Xiao Yi sighed, originally he wanted to see if there were any mineral veins nearby, but he was very concerned about the issue of armor and equipment.

He also said: "Lord Dong, tomorrow I will accompany this official to inspect the three forts along the border. Dong Ze nodded again and again.

From June 3 to 5, Xiao Yi inspected the three forts along the border back and forth for the past two days, and found that although the four forts along the river were all in good geographical locations, they were all very poor.

There are not 200 military households together, the number of officers and soldiers is only about 100, and there are less than 30 cattle and no 2,000 acres of fields.

On 5 June, Xiao also left Yantai Fort to inspect the Yuzhuang and Chazhuang under his jurisdiction, which were as unoptimistic as the rest of the Tunbao, with a large number of military families fleeing, and the officers and soldiers were scarce and lacking in equipment and training.

This time it was not for nothing, at least Xiao Yi had a preliminary understanding of the territory.

According to his preliminary estimates, although there is less cultivated land in the territory, there are at least 60,000 or 70,000 mu of land that can be cultivated and recultivated.

Xiao Yice horse is located on a hill in the south of Yuzhuang, taking a deep breath of fresh air and feeling full of pride, feeling that if it is used properly, this will definitely be a good place to raise horses and collect medicine in the future.

Known locally as the Strange Rock Mountain, this hill is rocky and lush with trees, and there is a forest more than a mile long to the south.

It's like a wildlife park, with a variety of wild animals, beautiful scenery, and plenty of aquatic plants and herbs, and it's also an unexpected discovery.

Wang Dayong also rode his horse here, and he sighed: "What a beautiful river and mountain! ”

Xiao Yi nodded: "Yes." He was even more determined to change all this, such a great river and mountain could not be wasted, and the treasures of China would never be allowed to be stolen by the wilderness and barbarians.

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On June 6, Xiao Yi changed his previous gloomy face and returned to Peach Blossom Castle with a face full of pride.

That night, the official He Dapeng was in the house, and the warden Liu Wenchang was also there at this time, and the two were talking and laughing at each other, talking and talking about Xiao Yi.

I only heard Liu Wenchang say: "It is said that Xiao Yi came back with a smile? ”

said with some confusion: "This Xiao Yi walked around the castle with a sad face, but after going out to inspect for a few days, he became happy?" ”

"Is there something good out there?"

When He Dapeng mentioned Xiao Yi, he suddenly became unhappy: "No matter what he does, what can he do to you and me?" You and I are not comparable to the Qihai Sea, this is Peach Blossom Castle, and it is not the small town of Changning. ”

Liu Wenchang also nodded, this Xiao Yichu is still a military attache after all, and military attachés have always been a little shorter for civilian officials, even if the former defense Liu Yiming is mainly appeased to them, Xiao Yichu should be based on stability.

……

At that time, Lu Xiangsheng, who was in charge of the training of the three prefectures of Daimyo, Guangping and Shunde.

In the past six months, Lu Xiangsheng has not been idle here, and as soon as he took office, he dealt with the powerful and big businessmen in various places, and at the same time punished corrupt officials and corrupt officials with an iron fist, and killed more than a dozen generals and officials who were afraid of the enemy and did not fight.

Then he acted resolutely, rectified the military equipment, assigned fields to plough cattle, and recruited the new army to suppress bandits everywhere.

At this time, he was looking at the official newspapers in various places in his house, Lu Xiangsheng has been frowning and never relaxed since he arrived, and like Xiao Yi, he has been paying attention to the official newspapers and official documents in various places all the time.

There was a cup of tea on Lu Xiangsheng's table, exuding a faint fragrance of tea, and two servants stood respectfully on the side.

Lu Xiangsheng picked up the teacup with his left hand, opened the next official document with his right hand and was about to open his mouth, but his face suddenly froze, and he quickly put down the teacup and picked up the official document and looked at it carefully.

Then a smile finally appeared on his face, and he muttered: "Yong'an Jun, Xiao Yi, I really didn't see the wrong person." (To be continued.) )