In the first month of the eighth year, more than 100,000 captured thieves gathered in Fengyang, and the trading houses had already transported a steady stream of sweet potatoes from Shandong, and hundreds of hot cauldrons were fake.

The aroma of sweet potato porridge was boiling in the cauldron, and the aroma of sweet potato porridge was extremely tempting to those thieves, and these captured thieves stepped forward one by one with bowls and chopsticks, and the soldiers of the baggage battalion in charge of the spoon quickly distributed sweet potato porridge to them.

Many of the thieves who ate the sweet potato porridge had happy smiles on their faces, and General Zhao had already promised them that he would soon give them the land to produce.

"Mother, sweet potato porridge is so delicious!" A child was held in the arms of his mother, and after the child finished the bowl of sweet potato porridge, he looked up and showed a smile.

"Huh! General Zhao said, in the future, we will plant sweet potatoes, and we can harvest thousands of catties per mu! At that time, Xiaobao will not have to go hungry. The mother looked at the child kindly, and when she thought of the lost child and his father, her heart ached again.

"Really?" The child asked excitedly, the mother touched the child's head and smiled, the difficult road ahead, the mother did not tell the child about her worries.

These thieves who surrendered, in Zhao Yan's opinion, were no longer thieves, after all, most of them were just peasants who were coerced or couldn't survive.

However, there is still a hint of worry in the hearts of these people, they are worried about whether the resettlement conditions promised by the officers and soldiers can be fulfilled, they do not know what kind of environment they are about to face, and they are a little hesitant in their hearts, but in general it is still much better than the wandering day.

On how to resettle these displaced people, Zhao Yan discussed with Zhang Buyun and Liu Heng for a while, and decided to send half of them to Shandong Tunken.

The remaining half of the people stayed in Yingzhou and organized reclamation in Yingzhou.

There is still a shortage of manpower in Shandong, so half of it will be divided. As for leaving half of the displaced people in Yingzhou, the main thing is to establish a supply base in Anhui.

After all, transporting grain from Shandong to Anhui is too far, and it takes too much effort.

Bandits are raging in the Central Plains, and the Central Plains will become Zhao Yan's training ground, and it is inevitable that troops will be transferred to the Central Plains in the future, and the supply problem must naturally be solved.

Yingzhou was conquered by thieves before, production has been deserted, many rich families have been killed, and a lot of borderless land has been vacated, which is very suitable for reclamation.

decided on the arrangement plan, Zhao Yan immediately asked people to transfer hundreds of tun commanders and regiments from Shandong to train over, one Yingzhou naturally can't use so many grassroots personnel, but not only Yingzhou needs to be reclaimed and fortified.

After solving the thieves in Anhui, Zhao Yan immediately convened the middle and high-level of the army to discuss the next move.

"In this crackdown on the thieves, our army has gained a lot, and the property seized from the hands of the thieves has reached more than 200,000 taels, and 130,000 people have been recovered." Zhao Yan said with a smile on his face, the war dividends obtained from the encirclement and suppression of the thieves this time are rich, this group of thieves jumped all the way from Shaanxi to Henan, and then attacked from Henan to Anhui, Xiayingzhou, and broke Fengyang. A lot of the property looted was most seized in this encirclement and suppression.

This is the so-called war dividend, and it is actually possible to make money by fighting a war. The reason why some people lose money when they fight a war is because they shake production for the sake of fighting, and naturally they lose money.

Zhao Yan dispatched very few people to fight the war, only 6,000 people were dispatched, and most of them were soldiers who were out of work, and they did not waver in their lives.

"Now the thieves in Anhui have been cleared, and the remaining thieves are concentrated in Huguang and Henan Guidefu. At the end of the sixth year, they returned to Sichuan and returned to Huguang in the autumn of the seventh year, with more than 400,000 people, but Huguang was suppressed by Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Yunyang, and it is estimated that these 400,000 thieves could not turn the sky. ”

Zhao Yan said and pointed to the Guide Mansion and said: "The thieves who are wandering in the Guide Mansion are Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, Zhang Xianzhong, and the general Li Zicheng, the number of which is about 300,000, and the department of Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, is the strongest among the thieves, and it is reported that the number of fine horsemen under it has reached 20,000. ”

Hearing this number, everyone couldn't help but gasp, 20,000 fine riders, this is definitely a relatively large number.

"Our next step is to march to Guide Mansion, drive this group of thieves northward, drive them to Handan and Xingtai, and then build forts and reclaim them in Handan."

Liu Heng took over and said: "We entered Guide Mansion this time to call it a thief, and the main thing is to snatch back those people who were coerced, and then recruit some hungry and displaced people, with a planned number of 200,000 people. Then the main force of the thieves was driven to Handan and Xingtai, and our army pursued it into Handan, and then reclaimed it in Handan on the spot. The most important thing is that there is iron ore in Handan, as long as we have a foothold in Handan, we can produce iron ore by ourselves in the future, and we don't have to spend silver to buy it from other places at a high price. ”

"Now the problem we are facing is how to snatch those people back from the hands of King Gao Yingxiang, what do you think?" Zhao Yan asked.

"Childe, I found that the speed of the march of those coerced people is not fast, and many of them are not sincere thieves, as long as their backbone troops are defeated, and then with our maneuvering speed, as long as we chase all the way, we can snatch back all those people, those thieves are carrying a large number of people, and the traces are difficult to hide." Lin Yi summed up the experience of this time when suppressing the thieves, and said: "It's just that this can't completely exterminate those thieves, if you want to completely exterminate them, you must have a large amount of military strength to encircle them." If you enter Guide Mansion, I am afraid that you will not encounter the terrain that can be enclosed like this time. ”

"That's right, although our soldiers are strong in combat, but after all, the number of people is too small to contain the thieves, if the military strength is doubled this time, it will definitely be able to block the fat and water impenetrable." Wang Wenyue nodded.

"Hmm!" Zhao Yan thought for a while and said with a wry smile: "We are taking the route of elite soldiers, I'm afraid there are not so many soldiers, if there are too many soldiers, I'm afraid the current finances will not be able to bear it." ”

At present, most of the silver in Zhao Yan's hands has been invested in the textile industry, and there is no profit in the textile industry and salt industry, and there is obviously not enough silver to expand the military on a large scale.

"My lord, we can develop second-line troops, and the reason why our troops spend a lot of money is mainly because of the large proportion of pensions and military salaries. The second-line troops directly snatched back the people from the hands of the rogue thieves, as well as the formation of the homeless people recruited by the Central Plains, were trained in the same way as the people of Zhaojiabao, and in terms of the combat strength of our Zhaojiabao's township, they were far superior to the officers and soldiers, and it was enough to encircle and suppress the thieves. Zhang Buyun said with a sudden inspiration.

"If all those people go to war, how will they produce?" Zhao Yan still values the problem of production, after all, the world will be so chaotic, or because of the waste of production.

If production is stable, where will so many thieves emerge.

Looking at the uprisings of the Ming Dynasty, only the northwest could make trouble, and most of the uprisings in places like the south did not last long.

The main reason is that the south is rich in natural products and has a much stronger ability to resist disasters than the northwest. Just talking about the grass roots and bark that saved lives in disaster years, the vegetation coverage rate in the south is much higher than that in the northwest, even if the disaster is severe, the last way for the victims to retreat is still there, and they can barely survive by gnawing on grass roots and bark.

The northwest is different, the ecological environment is too fragile, and in many cases, there is no grass root bark to gnaw.

Those people who follow thieves, the requirements are actually very low, it is better to die than to live, as long as there is a bite of food to eat, as long as there is a mouthful of food, most of them will not go to the thief, after all, the thief is full of danger to life.

"Production is easy to do." Zhang Buyun said: "We have sweet potatoes and corn, and sweet potatoes are planted in the ground, even if we don't care about it, we can harvest five or six hundred catties per mu." At the end of summer, the sweet potato field can also be interplanted with a season of corn, and the wheat field can also be interplanted with a season after harvesting wheat, and the yield per mu is also four or five hundred catties. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Buyun pointed to the map and said: "The most troublesome thieves are none other than Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Huguang, and Sichuan. With these second-line troops, as long as they cooperate with each other, it is enough to exterminate the thieves. ”

"These second-line troops will be paid one tael of military salaries per month, and their pensions can be reduced to 20 taels, so that military expenditures can be greatly saved, and at the same time, the establishment of these second-line troops can replenish the first-line troops, and the first-line troops can be selected from these second-line units when they are recruited."

"In addition, second-line troops are set up in the provinces where the thieves are most violent, and these second-line troops can recruit homeless people to produce while suppressing thieves. Not only can it block the thieves, as long as there are fewer hungry people and homeless people, it can also cut off the development space of the thieves. ”

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The second update! There's one more chapter at one or two o'clock in the morning! Tomorrow is Monday, and the book is also on the push, brothers, give some strength!

Let's go to the supermarket to buy some hoarding first, and we will fight with high intensity next week!

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