Chapter 218: Steps Forward
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"The total number of tunpu as a civil skeleton is 493, the population of the tunpu tun is 1.05 million, and there are 420,000 people who have obtained the household registration of the Dengzhou army, most of them are concentrated in the soldiers, workshops, and service industries, and most of the tunpu around the communication line far exceeds the population of the tunpu itself, and small towns have developed around it, and the total number of people who have obtained the military household registration of Dengzhou town is 1.47 million, and the social population living on the Dengzhou town system exceeds 3 million."
Everyone in the conference room carefully recorded, but the content involved in this kind of high-level meeting was too confidential, and the records could not be written down, only the numbers could be written, and everything else could only be memorized in the mind.
Liu Minyou took the cigarette from Song Wenxian next to him, lit it and continued: "There are three cigarette factories that have been established, two ironworks, two large cotton factories, and the third large cotton factory is being selected in Qingzhou Mansion, one large shipyard, three large workshops, five private shipyards, five Tunpu United Machinery Factory, all the waterwheel windmills required by Tunpu in Qingzhou Mansion have been provided by these Tunpu United Workshops, and our own large-scale workshops mainly produce armaments and textile machinery. Next year, Qianzhuang will increase its support for the Tunpu Joint Workshop. ”
"In terms of cultivated land and grain, 493 tunpu covers an area of 2.4 million mu, 1.2 million mu of cultivated land with two buckets of grain, 820,000 mu of new land with one bucket of grain, 380,000 mu of newly occupied cultivated land temporarily exempt from grain payment, 320,000 stone of grain tax for all tunpu, 130,000 mu of hillside land along the mountain tunbao, corn and other crops are planted, and the average yield per mu is about one stone and two buckets. The rest of the cotton and other cash crops limit the interplanting area, which is not enough to meet the demand for cotton spinning, and there will be no major changes in the short term; In terms of other agricultural products, most of the old Tunpu had pig and sheep breeding. There are also side businesses such as beekeeping, and 23 fishing teams have been established in coastal tunpu, which can provide most of the meat consumption needs, and this part is also freely traded; In terms of education, 461 schools have been reimbursed, another 30 are under construction, three vocational schools are under construction, one is under construction in Qingzhou Prefecture, and one is a university hall. There are more than 870 students, and there are no plans to build new ones in the short term; In terms of transportation, the movement of people and goods has increased in various places, the roads from Denglai to the counties and the main health stations have been repaired, and there are spontaneous carriages and horses in the official road Tunpu to provide passenger and freight transportation services......"
Liu Minyou spoke for about a quarter of an hour. The Dengzhou Civil Department has said all aspects. Dengzhou's strong grassroots control capacity enabled them to effectively build water conservancy facilities and ensure food production everywhere, which was the foundation of Yiqiē. Stimulated by prosperous trade inside and outside, the social form of Dengzhou is changing, although a large amount of capital has entered Denglai, but under the control of Qianzhuang, Denglai has not seen a sharp rise in prices. Prices of major daily necessities have risen only slightly.
Chen Xin has enough confidence in his heart, the power of Dengzhou Town has expanded to the border of Jinan Province, and the next step is to expand to the northern part of Jinan Province, which was plagued by Kong Youde three years ago. The social stability was far less stable than in the southern part of Jinan, and the expanded Tunpu would become a support point and military station between Qingzhou and the canal, and the town of Dengzhou could project troops to the canal at a much faster rate, once these forts were built. The canal was within the ten-day or so distance of the Dengzhou army, and the town of Dengzhou could not only deter the imperial court. It can also exert more influence along the canal.
After Liu Minyou finished speaking, Chen Xin turned his head and asked, "How many folk muskets have been sold?" ”
Liu Minyou didn't remember this, he recalled it before saying: "It seems that 6,000 pieces were sold, mainly concentrated in Wendeng, Qixia, Laiyang and Qingzhou Mansion, Wendeng area is the old territory of Dengzhou Town, the people are relatively wealthy, and there are more veterans who have been discharged, some people have a special feeling for flintlock pistols, so they buy more, Qixia and Laiyang are mainly purchased by the Tunpu of the mountain, for hunting in the mountains, and the same is true near Daze Mountain in Pingdu Prefecture." Qingzhou Mansion is because of the new occupation of the short, and the surrounding countryside more conflicts, although most of the tun households are relatively poor, but I have increased the subsidy, and focus on increasing the number of cotton mills in Qingzhou Fu Tunpu, the economic income is gradually increasing, the current number of about 1,000 branches, the number of purchases will further rise. In addition, several policies discussed last time have been issued by the Tun Affairs Department to each Tunpu, and the effect will not be seen until a while. ”
Chen Xin sighed, it seems that the effect is not as good as he imagined, the number of purchases in Pingdu Prefecture and other plain areas is very low, mainly because there are no hostile forces around there, and the clans and gentry in the countryside have long been beaten to the point that they dare not take the lead, even if there is an occasional brawl, it is the tunbao that occupies an absolute advantage, and those reserve soldiers and guards also have weapons, and it is effortless to clean up some households, and there is no need to buy muskets by themselves, so the demand is indeed not high.
He couldn't think of any other way for a while, and after praising Liu Minyou's work, he named Song Wenxian's name.
Song Wenxian took out his booklet, bowed to Chen Xin and Liu Minyou, and said: "The Department of Foreign Affairs has completed the struggle for the Qingzhou general army and guerrillas this year, and the investigation of the senior members of the DPRK and the Central Committee has been carried out as usual in previous years, and contacts have been established with officialdom in various parts of Shandong. Solid relations have been established with all the generals of Dongjiang Town, and among the tasks assigned at the beginning of the year, only the plan to deal with Huang Long, the general army of Dongjiang Town, has not been realized. ”
Chen Xin waved his hand indifferently and said: "We promised Shang Kexi about this matter, but after the matter of Xuanfu, the emperor's chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, he knew that Huanglong was Sun Yuanhua's person, and he had always been at odds with his own official, and he would not change it lightly." This matter was not completed and abandoned, Huanglong from the last Phi Dao mutiny, prestige greatly reduced, now only control Zhangzi Island, the other islands are doing their own thing, Huanglong directly under the number of men and horses is only 3,000, the actual army is less than 1,000, the nearest Phi Island has no influence on the island, temporarily let go. The trading company can deliberately suppress his price when purchasing, so that his power over the island soldiers will continue to decline, and there will naturally be times when he can't hold on. ”
After Song Wenxian agreed, he recorded it in his booklet, and Chen Xin said to Liu Pojun of the Military Order Department: "Let's talk about the most important military affairs, you can talk about the army." ”
Liu Pojun stood up and saluted, then went to the front of the big map, pointed at the map with a thin bamboo whip and said: "The subordinates first said the fifth battalion, in August, Wang Mafu defeated Zhang Xianzhong, Sweeping King and other troops in Jingmen Prefecture. At present, the 5th Battalion should have approached the Wuchang area. Liukou wandered in Henan and Huguang, and some returned to Shanxi through Wuguan, and after being surrounded by Hong Chengchou, the Liukou went south to Hanzhong and Sichuan. In order to deal with the larger-scale convective Kou, the imperial court appointed two main governors, one of whom was Hong Chengchou, who was in charge of the Shanxi Liukou, and the new governor of the five provinces, Chen Qiyu, was in charge of the five provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan. Zhu Daichun ignored it, the trading company and the quartermaster department had already stockpiled enough grain in Wuchang, and all the cities along the river were establishing trading company strongholds, and Ding Ding, the former chief official of the trading company in Yangzhou, had gone to Jiujiang to preside over the supply matters, and the deployment of each point was completed. Zhu Daichun will be stationed on the periphery of Wuchang to protect the nearby production area, and the branch of the Tun Affairs Division will recruit displaced people to establish Tunpu locally, and Zhou Laifu will inherit the Shaolin abbot after the 80s to solve the logistics on the spot. ”
Chen Xin raised his hand to interrupt, turned to Song Wenxian and said, "Has the organization of the Department of Foreign Affairs been built in Wuchang?" ”
"It's already been built. Relations are being established with officials in various parts of Wuchang. ”
Chen Xin nodded and said to Liu Pojun: "You continue." ”
"Then there was Denglai, and the Guards Battalion, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions all returned to their garrisons, and in the Dengzhou area, the Standing Army and the General Military Office had a total of 24,000 permanent personnel. There are 92,000 reserve soldiers in the tunpu and workshop, and there are four training bases, of which 30,000 reserve soldiers have participated in the training for more than one month. The situation in Denglai is stable. Now that winter is approaching, in order to prevent Jiannu from suddenly attacking southern Liaoning during the freezing period. Preparations were made to dispatch the 1st General of the 3rd Battalion and the 1000th Headquarters of the Jimo Independence to Lushun, and the two divisions have now assembled in Dengzhou. Two days later, they boarded the ship and went to Lushun, and the stations in southern Liaoning were Muchangyi and Jingzhenpu, which served as a reserve for the winter defense of southern Liaoning. ”
Liu Pojun's bamboo whip moved to the position of southern Liaoning, "Since the Battle of Lushun last year, Jiannu has shrunk from southern Liaoning, Mao Chenglu's department occupies Xiuyan, the fourth battalion has established a series of pier forts and forts in the mountainous area northeast of Jinzhou, and after the cavalry is stationed in Fuzhou, defensive points have also been established along the official road from Fuzhou to Jinzhou, and the strategic shape of Jinzhou has been greatly improved." After the return of King Qin's battle group, most of the cavalry were transported to Jinzhou and incorporated into the fourth battalion, and the cavalry of the fourth battalion totaled two thousand one hundred, organized into two thousand thousand headquarters, twenty bureaus, and one thousand headquarters of dragoons. Since the end of August, Zhu Daichun launched an autumn offensive in Gaizhou, with more than 10 battles, a total of 327 heads of the Jin army, 37 Zhenyi people were captured, 631 people were captured, and the actual losses of Zhenyi and Mongolian people may be between 700 and 800, the cavalry of our town lost 317 people, and the infantry 130 people were lost. ”
"The autumn offensive is still ongoing, and the main point of its implementation is not to engage in a meeting with Jiannu, but to focus on cavalry guerrilla and skirmishes. In view of the severe drought in eastern Liaodong this year, a large amount of Jiannu grain has been underharvested, and the Jiannu Hongyi artillery has been completely lost in the battle of Lushun, and there are less than five remaining guns, the military order department believes that Jiannu does not have the ability to besiege in southern Liaoning for a long time, and the short-term offensive means are insufficient. The southern Liaoning side is ready to change the strategy of Fuzhou as a virtual son, urgently mobilize ten tunbao reserves in southern Liaoning to defend Jinzhou, and transfer the original Lushun and Jinzhou garrisons to and from Fuzhou. ”
Regarding the deployment of southern Liaoning, Liu Pojun said very briefly, after all, this is not a combat meeting of the Military Command Department, and he returned to his seat after hurriedly speaking.
Chen Xin looked around and asked Liu Minyou: "Does Minyou have any opinions on the military deployment in southern Liaoning?" ”
Liu Minyou shook his head and said: "I have no other opinions, but one thing is that the auxiliary troops in the original Lushun area, the number of this part is nearly 5,000, and most of them are the Dongjiang military households in southern Liaoning in the past." After the establishment of Tunpu in southern Liaoning, many of them entered Tunpu to become reserves, and they were also single-handed, these people participated in the battle of Lushun, and they were very good soldiers, but most of them were bachelors, if you want to mobilize them in the next batch, then no one will plough the land in their homes, although there is Tunpu mutual assistance, but after all, it is to cultivate other people's land, ordinary people will not be too careful, so this problem please pay attention to the Military Command Department and the Mobilization Division, and try to recruit those who have a family when recruiting, otherwise the newly reclaimed land will be abandoned and strictly zhòng. ”
The current director of the mobilization department is called Xiao Chengguo, who came to the Wendeng camp in the first year of Chongzhen, was born in Chen Xin's personal guards, and successively served as the deputy captain of the Wendeng training team, the captain, the commander of the peasant and soldier company, the director of the mobilization department, and the deputy director. He buried his head in his booklet and said: "This subordinate will pay attention, but when the Tun Affairs Division emigrates, can you transport more women, the southern Liaoning region is indeed different from Denglai, Denglai naturally has displaced people to come, and there are many women among them, so if you don't transport them to southern Liaoning, these thousands of people will not have daughters-in-law." ”
Liu Min scratched his head, and there were not many women in Denglai. The characteristics of the displaced people in Tunpu also caused the population to be mostly young and strong men, so Denglaitunpu could have so many reserve soldiers.
Chen Xin came over and asked, "Aren't there many women in Lin County, can they all be sent to Lushunxing?" ”
Liu Minyou frowned and thought, there are about 2,000 lone women in Lin County, and those women are ready to be used by him to open textile factories in Linqing and Liaocheng in Dongchang Mansion in the future. If it is sent to Lushun for thousands of miles, it will take up a lot of ship power. In the past, I was worried that the trading company and the sailor would have opinions, but now that Chen Xin has proposed it, as long as the sailor's ship comes, it can also be discussed.
"As long as the sailor is in charge of transportation, I have no other opinion, but if the sailor ship dares to go to Tianjin. I'm afraid that it is difficult for the imperial court to explain, if you want to mobilize the ships of the trading company or the Tunpu Ship Society, I am afraid that you will have to give silver, this is not a combat mission after all. ”
"Then Dong Yu will talk to them. Just give the bill. Chen Xin said to Dong Yu on the right, he is now wealthy, and he immediately set the tone, and he is not afraid to issue a little more currency.
After Chen Xin finished saying this. After looking at the people in the room, everyone was a little excited after listening to it. These core personnel in Dengzhou more or less know Chen Xin's ambitions. Many of these people were not the first to follow him, and the earliest people in Weihai may have died in battle or been eliminated, but the system of Dengzhou Town has allowed more capable people to enter the core team.
As a vigorous emerging force, everyone is looking forward to the further development of Dengzhou Town. For these core personnel, Chen Xin will also make some verbal hints in his daily communication, so that they can understand the grand vision of Dengzhou Town, so as to stimulate the enterprising spirit of these people.
After reading it, Chen Xin said lightly: "Thanks to your continuous efforts, Dengzhou Town is not what it used to be, and I would like to thank you for your hard work." ”
The people in the room were quiet, waiting for Chen Xin's next words, Chen Xin looked down at the desktop, thought for a moment and looked up and said, "It's still the same sentence as before, Dengzhou Town is not the official alone, it is for everyone here, all the officers and soldiers and the tunhuo." What we are fighting for is far from the glory of personal power, but the interests of each individual will also be guaranteed to be in line with your contributions. ”
The people at the round table all had a www.biquge.info of interest, Chen Xin stood up and walked to the map of the country behind him, and pointed at the position of Denglai: "Dengzhou Town is full of vigor and strength, but it is facing more and more opponents, Liaodong is still entrenched by Jiannu, and its core Liaozhong region has not been attacked by our army, its military strength is still strong, and the strength of the battle in Liaodong exceeds that of our garrison in southern Liaoning, and Houjin is still the primary enemy of my Dengzhou Town, The recovery of Liaodong is also the unshirkable mission of our generation of soldiers; The second is the rogue, whose brutality and destructiveness are a great threat to all places, and we must resolutely crack down on them whenever we have the opportunity; In addition, since the beginning of this year, the imperial court's defense of our Dengzhou has increased, and as you have heard, the imperial court may increase the strength of Shandong, and may also tilt the Liao salary towards Guanning again, so as to balance my Dengzhou town. In addition, the official also heard that the emperor may have plans to replace the governor of Denglai and the supervising army. ”
Chen Xin's words were very straightforward, and he directly regarded the imperial court as the opponent of Dengzhou Town, but no one in the room raised objections, not even a strange demeanor, Chen Xin turned to look at everyone: "So according to the changes in the surrounding shape, our combat goals and civilian goals will be adjusted to a certain extent, the most important thing is still our standing army, which will be expanded to 55,000 people in the first half of next year, focusing on strengthening southern Liaoning, the western part of Qingzhou Prefecture, and Wuchang, and the Tunpu system will be extended to the northern part of Jinan Prefecture. I hope that you will work with this official to make Dengzhou Town do more for the country. ”
Everyone in the room should be loud, and then Song Wenxian and Huang Side took the lead, everyone applauded together, the atmosphere in the room was warm, Liu Minyou also clapped his hands, he felt a little emotion in his heart, Chen Xin was very able to say when he held a meeting in the company before, but at that time he just said how much the company will increase its performance next year, and now it is indeed the goal of winning the world. Thinking back to the ridiculous feeling when Chen Xin first said about the world dominance in Tianjin, now there is a dream-like unreality.
Chen Xin was also a little excited, he waited for the applause to subside, raised his hands in front of his chest and said to everyone: "In the face of more resistance, Dengzhou Town needs to work harder every step forward. But this official firmly believes that as we have always done, we are a firm group, our stage is in a bigger place, and no one can stop the pace of Dengzhou Town. ”