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Half a year is neither long nor short, with the buffer of this half year, it just gives the Mawei Army enough time to digest the territory that has been defeated. Half a year is not a long time, but this half a year is enough for the Mawei Army to bring the local gentry and people to their hearts. And the practice of bringing the people to their hearts is also very simple, just do what is beneficial to the people, although this will inevitably touch some of the interests of the local gentry, but the Mawei army also tried to make some compensation.

The purpose of the state in later generations was to serve the people, and the people, especially the toiling masses, accounted for the vast majority, that was the most important thing, and the local gentry and powerful only accounted for less than one-tenth of the total population. The policy of the Mawei Army was also carried out in these places with this absolute force, and sporadic resistance was useless. Of course, this law is not the law of the Qing court, but the law formulated by the Fujian side. The mountain bandits and thieves in various places have also been swept back and forth several times, although the local area has not yet reached the point of not closing the door at night, but on the whole it is really stronger than in the past, I don't know how much.

The most important thing is the Mawei Army's vigorous investment in the local area, and the construction of roads and water conservancy is the two that can most impress the hearts of the people. Not to mention the road construction, Jiangxi and southern Zhejiang are also mountainous areas, many places are not easy to walk, this paving and building bridges are the local people think about how many years of things, the past government, even the Ming Dynasty no one will say the money to build the road.

As for water conservancy. That touches the hearts of local people. The people live on food. The people were digging out of the dirt. And if the land wants to grow crops, it is absolutely inseparable from water. This is true in both the South and the North. However, the rainy south and the dry north do not mean that the south does not need to build water conservancy, but the south needs to build even more. Rainfall is not always a good thing, too much water leads to flooding, and crops are not harvested.

This time, the newly appointed local officials took the lead, assisted by the troops stationed in the Mawei Army. A large number of local people were summoned to repair roads and water conservancy, and the positive response of the people from all over the country was extremely enthusiastic, and the registration was extremely enthusiastic, not only to earn wages issued by the new government or the road administration company, but also for themselves and future generations. These actions of the Mawei Army made the people see the future and understand that the Mawei Army really cares about the people, otherwise, who would be willing to invest so much money knowing that they will not get a return. This is not one thousand two thousand taels, but twenty or thirty million taels! However, for Geng Jingzhong and the Mawei Army. No matter how big the investment is, it is worth it, because they have really won the hearts and minds of the people. This is also the biggest gain of the Mawei Army.

This can be seen from the attitude of the local people towards the newly appointed local officials and the troops stationed in the localities, and there are often scenes of local people working in the army. And the local officials are no longer the role of fear, although the people still have a trace of fear in their instinct when they see the officials, but now they have abolished the prostration, and can talk cordially, which is already a great progress. In their spare time, the garrison took turns to help the villagers, especially to help the lonely and widowed elderly, in a word, it was to care about the old, weak, sick and disabled, although it was just some simple things such as cleaning and cleaning, picking up water, chopping firewood, etc., but it was the most touching to people's hearts.

In this way, the Mawei Army has been stationed in these state capitals for less than a month and has been favored and recognized by the people, and it can be said that the Mawei Army has been completely accepted in three months, and in half a year, they have seen the persistence of the Mawei Army, and they also know that the Mawei Army has always been sincere, not just three minutes of heat nor just superficial work, at this time it is also really completely accepted from the bottom of their hearts.

As for Fujian and Guangdong, it has been very stable in the past six months, and a major event that happened was that the fifteen merchant ships of the Kunpeng caravan and the twenty warships of the fifth squadron of the Mawei Army set off for Europe together, of course, this departure to Europe was led by the governor of Batavia, Nescas, and a small Dutch caravan also set off with it. This trip to Europe is to find out the real situation in Europe at this time, and the other is to open up trade routes with Europe and open up the situation for Fujian's ocean trade again.

The fleet had been on the road for three months, but it was a long way to go, and it would take almost five months to arrive. On this voyage, Geng Jingzhong also invested a large enough amount of money in order to prevent it, and the Fifth Fleet was accompanied by 20 large ships, including four third-class warships, six fourth-class warships, and the rest were all fifth-class warships. As for the smaller warships, they did not accompany them, and no matter how small the hull of the ocean-going ship was, it could not go. The fifteen large merchant ships of the Kunpeng caravan bound for Europe were all loaded with cargo, which was the main reason for the slow sailing. Otherwise, the entire fleet will only need another three months or so.

Of course, the battleship is fully armed, and the black hole in the cannon port on it will give a strong deterrent to the enemy who wants to invade them, although the gun port on the lower deck is not always open, but who can not understand it if they are begging for a living at sea all year round? Not only the warships of the Fifth Fleet, but also the merchant ships were physically equipped. The warship is equipped with all kinds of naval weapons, and even if they encounter a strong pirate team at sea, they are confident that they will defeat it. Come to think of it, such a large fleet is not even close to the average pirate.

The power of the cannons on the battleship is ahead of the whole world, and the range and accuracy are not the same concept as the cannons of European countries now, which is really half a century ahead! No, it should be a century ahead. And the thousands of soldiers on the battleship, the muskets are also equipped with young and old, with this, even if there is a group of pirates who want to get close to the jumping gang to fight, the naval soldiers of the Mawei Army can let them have no return.

European countries are still very unfamiliar with the situation in the far east of Asia, but in recent years, due to the strong rise of Geng Jingzhong's horsetail navy, Spain, Portugal, Britain, and the Netherlands all know that there is a navy in the far east that has not been weak, and the strength can defeat a Spanish fleet, which is really not weak. But the strength of the Mawei Army has nothing to do with them, except for Spain, which has a direct conflict with the Mawei Army, and the Dutch, who have established themselves in the East, other countries are indifferent to this.

The same is true of England, whose eyes are now drawn to the great battle with the Netherlands, and this small fleet in the ocean to the east has not been able to make any benefit for Britain so far, so the British king is about to forget about them. In fact, the Philippine side of the Mawei Navy handed over all the territory to them, which also includes two gold mines, although not large, but the annual output of gold is not small, but all of them go into private pockets. (To be continued......)