After dinner, Luo Jian was in his tent dealing with all kinds of official documents, which were only delivered this afternoon.

"Wu Sangui has already left, bringing with him 2,000 Yangzhou Type 1 rifles, and a large number of farm tools and seeds." Luo Jian read softly as he flipped through the documents.

Wu Sangui seems to want to take root in North America, otherwise he wouldn't have brought so many farm tools and seeds, according to his previous character, where would he think of engaging in production? This is a good thing, Luo Jian thought to himself.

The promotion of chemical fertilizer has encountered some troubles, except for farmers near Yangzhou, people in many places really do not believe that these shiny snow-like things can be used as fertilizer, Shi Kefa has arranged for a large number of government officials to go to the countryside to do work, spring ploughing is imminent, this matter can not be delayed.

Shi Kefa is extremely concerned about this matter, he has basically been shuttling in the countryside during this time, and has run from Jiangsu to Zhejiang.

The policy has played a very good leading role, farmers can use chemical fertilizer first, and then use grain to buy fertilizer money after the autumn grain really increases a lot, if the farmer's grain does not increase income, then the fertilizer does not need money, if the farmer's grain production is reduced due to chemical fertilizer, the government makes up for the loss of farmers, this is the policy adopted by Shi Kefa in order to promote chemical fertilizer.

Construction of the railway from Zhenjiang to Changzhou has also begun as the weather warms up, and it is expected to reach Shanghai County in June this year.

"Shanghai?" Luo Jian saw Shanghai from this official document, since Wang Xiuchu was arranged to serve in Shanghai last year, how is Shanghai developing now, Luo Jian wants to know, but he has not found time to take a look. Thinking of this, Luo Jian wrote a sentence on the official document, "Please report the situation in Shanghai County as soon as possible." ”

After Lu Wei returned from North America, Zheng Chenggong led a fleet to cooperate with Huang Degong in the battle. He began to return to his old profession, to the Ocean Trading Company, and was recently organizing a large-scale trade in Southeast Asia.

"More than 300 factories have been registered?" Seeing this, Luo Jian was a little surprised.

In recent years, various factories have sprung up in the southern provinces, in fact, some factories have been forced out, with the gradual rise of large-scale production. Many small workshops began to face difficulties, in order to survive, many small workshops began to unite to produce, and it seems that they can resist for a while, but Luo Jian knows that with the continuous development and progress of technology in the future, these small factories that evolved from small workshops will be gradually eliminated.

And the Chinese like to rush up the problem is vividly exposed when starting a business, just like the original glass factory, many people see glass products are profiteering. Began to build factories one after another, as a result of this year, a large number of glass products have been unsalable, the Nanjing Chamber of Commerce has asked the government more than once to organize trade to Japan and Southeast Asia, many businessmen backlog of glass products are still waiting for the government to help them find a way to find a market.

Luo Jian did not study economics, and there was no way to solve these problems, so now he could only cross the river by feeling the stones, but Luo Jian thought that when these factories with low production efficiency began to be eliminated, the government had to find a way to solve the livelihood problem of the workers. This matter had to be prepared as soon as possible, and Luo Jian wrote a letter to Shi Kefa. He gave Shi Kefa a detailed discussion of his thoughts.

Just as Luo Jian was about to pick up another official document and continue reading, a report from outside the tent stopped him.

The person who came was sent by Ma Yingkui, and the Qing soldiers in front of the position today were very strict, and no Qing soldiers ran over since the afternoon, which made Ma Yingkui feel a little strange, and Ma Yingkui, who had been in the battle, felt that the situation was a little strange. Only then did he send someone to stand on a temporarily raised platform and carefully observe the camp behind the Qing army's defensive position with binoculars, and found that a large number of Qing soldiers were gathering.

"This is a night attack on us!" It was quickly concluded that Ma Yingkui was arranging for the troops to prepare while sending someone to report to Luo Jian.

"Tens of thousands?" Luo Jian asked the staff officer sent by Ma Yingkui carefully.

"Report to the Governor and see the scale of the build-up. The division commander judged that they would dispatch more than 30,000 men. The staff officer replied.

"There are too many Qing soldiers, and it's night, so it's probably a little difficult for your division to leave all these Qing soldiers behind, right? In this way, I will ask the Seventh Division to send two regiments to help your division cut off the back road of the Qing soldiers, and you should hurry back and tell your division commander. Luo Jian said.

The staff officer left happily, Luo Jian hurriedly asked people to call Wang Qiang over, Wang Qiang decided to personally take the two regiments forward, he had not fought a night battle, and he was a little curious about the night battle at this time.

When Wang Qiang set off with his troops, Luo Jian didn't sleep, and he and Yi Bang chatted in the tent and waited for the results, and the two talked about the night attack.

Night raid is an effective way to deal with superior enemies, the famous general Xu Da in the early Ming Dynasty once used a night raid to defeat the 100,000 army of the Yuan Dynasty king Baobao with inferior troops outside the city of Taiyuan.

The key to a night attack is to take it by surprise, make full use of the cover of the night, so that the opponent does not know how many people you have come, so that the enemy's camp is chaotic, becomes unorganized, and even has a camp roar.

However, according to Yi Bangcai, the Ming Dynasty army has not fought night battles for a long time, this is because most of the soldiers at the end of the Ming Dynasty have "blindfolded eyes", that is, night blindness, and most of the Han troops in the Qing soldiers are the former Ming army, and Yi Bang estimates that they also have night blindness.

"Metropolitan Governor, we're forcing Tan Tai to no tricks! Launching a night attack despite the fact that there were a large number of 'blindfolds' among the soldiers was simply a matter of inappropriate for the lives of the soldiers. "At this point, he was worthy of being the chief of the general staff of the Wehrmacht, and Yi Bang quickly concluded that Tan Tai was forced to launch this night attack.

"Yes, the battlefield is relatively transparent now, we are equipped with so many telescopes, and the distance between the two armies is so close, we can see every move of the Qing soldiers, and it is impossible to raid it. It is estimated that Tan Tai also understands this, and just wants to try his luck. Luo Jian said with a smile.

"Governor, I'm afraid our food is a little tight, and by tomorrow morning, we will have to increase by tens of thousands of people, and we can only eat food for seven or eight days." Yi Bangcai said with a smile, this is really a happy "trouble".

"By the way, we have to carefully screen the captives, and we can't let go of those who have done too much evil in the past. Those who should be killed should be killed, and those who should be reformed through labor should be sent to reform-through-labor. There will be more and more captives this year, and we will have to set up a special agency to take care of this. "Luo Jian is not worried about the food problem, there is a report in the document just now that the logistics transport ship will be able to arrive outside Texas City tomorrow.

I raised my hand and looked at my watch, it was already half past eleven in the evening, and it was already getting cold in the middle of the night. Luo Jian picked up his coat and put it on his body.

There was a sound of footsteps outside the tent, and slowly went into the distance, Luo Jian knew that this was the remaining troops of the Seventh Division preparing, although the Seventh Division did not find that the Qing soldiers on the opposite side had any abnormal behavior, but Ma Yingkui's camp was not far from here, only eight or nine miles away, in case the target of the Qing Army's night attack was the Seventh Division, this side could also be prepared.

"Let's go out and have a look." Luo Jian greeted Yi Bangcai. As he spoke, he put on his coat and walked out of the tent.

When I walked outside the tent, I realized that the footsteps just now were still far away, but the sound of the night was far away. Except for the two horse lanterns at the gate of the camp of the Seventh Division, there was no light at all night.

"The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the day of murder and arson, it seems that Tan Tai has chosen a good day today." Luo Jian said to Yi Bang, who had just come out.

"Tan Tai's day was well chosen, but the target of the attack was chosen wrong, and tonight will make him regret it for a while." Yi Bangcai said with a smile.

Suddenly, a shout of neighing came from the northeast, breaking the quiet night in an instant. Luo Jian and Yi Bangcai both subconsciously looked in this direction.

The first few looming lights were seen, and after a while, two rows of flames rose into the sky. From so far away, you can see the shadows of people and horses swaying in the firelight.

A dull gunfire rang out, mixed with some crisp gunshots, Luo Jian and Yi Bang both knew that this was the sound of Yangzhou type 1 rifles, and the crisp gunshots must have been fired by more than 1,000 people assigned to the horse division by the Seventh Division.

Luo Jian could feel the panic of the Qing soldiers who were about to sneak attack others when they suddenly encountered an ambush, not to mention that the opponent had strong firepower.

After a while, the shout of "surrender or kill" was faintly heard, which was shouted from an iron horn. After a while, Luo Jian vaguely heard, "If you surrender, you will have rice to eat." He turned his head and glanced at Yi Bangcai, who smiled heartily, obviously he also heard it.

"Chief of Staff. Go back to sleep! The situation told them to report back tomorrow morning. Luo Jian saw that the overall situation had been decided, and he didn't want to look any further, even though he put on his coat, it was still so cold outside the tent that people shivered.

"Governor, go and rest, I have to guard and figure out the situation, otherwise I will not be able to sleep!" Yi Bangcai said with a smile.

"Then you go to the command tent and keep guard, it's too cold outside." After Luo Jian finished speaking, he went back and stripped off and went to bed, lying on the bed Luo Jian did not feel sleepy, seeing so many official documents today, some ideas have to be brushed up again.

Although the First Army did not fight well in Henan, this did not affect the overall situation of the country, Luo Jian knew that it should not be a problem to defeat the Manchus within this year, and now it was the post-war affair that had to be considered.

The reason why the current government is called the Provisional Government is because it is only a wartime government, which was established to defeat the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and many of the institutions of the Provisional Government are not perfect, and these institutions must be gradually improved after the war.

Although there are already three administrative schools in Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Guangzhou, the shelves of these three administrative colleges are not large, and each college has only more than 2,000 students.

More than 6,000 people was obviously too few for the whole country, and once a large amount of territory was recaptured from the Manchus, a serious shortage of administrative personnel would become apparent.

Shandong is a more obvious example, the whole territory of Shandong has now been basically recovered, but from last year to this year, the Nanjing government has only arranged for Shandong to arrange more than 200 officials, and many prefectures and counties are still making extensive use of officials from the former Manchu court.

Luo Jian did not have any views on the officials who had defected to the Manchus in the past, these people did not have problems in the big festivals, and many lower-level officials in the prefectures and counties were completely coerced by their superiors to take refuge in the Manchus, which means that the Manchus had taken over the official government of the Ming Dynasty in its entirety.

The work ideas and work mode of the Nanjing government are fundamentally different from those in the past, the former government was called the official master, and the current Nanjing government is basically of a service nature, and if the previous officials are not adopted, I am afraid that the Nanjing government will soon be turned into an official by them. (To be continued.) )