"Shouchun Jiang Qin/Xia Cai Zhoutai, meet the lord!" Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai took back their armor at the same time and bowed down.

"Get up quickly...... With the help of Youping and Gongyi, he won the four counties of Jiangdong! Bai Tu didn't want money to praise him.

Gan Ning pouted from the sidelines.

Although everyone is a water thief, there is still a difference - if Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin are not good water thieves, they will either go home and be honest, or gamble to vote for a prince, if there is no special opportunity, I don't know how long it will take to become a school captain...... And if Gan Ning doesn't work hard to be a water thief, he can only go back to his hometown, accept the recommendation of his family, and be a county officer with a rank of 600 stone or something, and maybe he can be a Taishou after a few years, but he is not happy at all.

It is this difference that makes Bai Tu's appreciation completely different in their eyes.

However, Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai did not kneel unconditionally immediately, and also asked Bai Tu about their old subordinates.

Gan Ning also mentioned before that not everyone may be able to join the army, but it will definitely be properly arranged - this is what Bai Tu promised, and Gan Ning doesn't know how to arrange it.

Anyway, if these people are directly put back to free-range, not to mention being traitors, but most of them will be idle and disturb the masters of the township after spending all their severance pay.

"The two of you can rest assured that in the future, my Yangzhou State Pastoral Office will have a Ministry of Industry, which will require a large number of workers, and all the treatment will be preferential, hundreds of people...... It's just a drop in the bucket. Bai Tu said.

"Ministry of Works? The lord means...... Do you want them to be craftsmen? Jiang Qin was still a little worried, these guys were clumsy, and they would end up working as coolies.

"Don't worry, you can't learn, it's like papermaking and printing, and others won't ...... it before If you can't learn how to do it, you will have a job, and the Ministry of Industry will be a very important department in the future...... Ahem, a very important yamen, the kind that distributes 'servants' in short supply. Bai Tu said.

"Thank you, Lord!" Jiang Qin said immediately.

At this point, the first fight with Yuan Shu can be regarded as a complete end.

Bai Tu also talked about the reward of meritorious deeds, Chen Gong and Lu Bu were the first, Gan Ning was second, Ding Feng, Zhou Tai, and Jiang Qin ...... They all have their own rewards.

At the same time, plus the prisoners brought back by Gan Ning and others, Zhang Xun brought 20,000 troops to Jiangdong, Baitu captured more than 10,000 prisoners, and there were also ...... that were searched back

As for the Ji Zao soldiers who can't be searched and didn't die on the spot, they will dissipate after a while, but the Ji Zao soldiers who died in battle need to be dealt with.

For this more prisoner than all the troops under his control, Bai Tu and Chen Gong discussed it and decided to appoint them - otherwise they could choose to split them into servants.

When the captured army is commanded, the officers will not immediately be like a finger, and they are more likely to be agitated due to the influence of their place of origin, for example, Bai Tu will immediately use them to attack Huainan, and it is easy to be instigated by the opponent's generals.

However, now Bai Tu is eager to take advantage of Yuan Shu's time when he is hurt to subdue the four counties of Jiangdong as soon as possible, so he doesn't want to waste these troops.

All the officers below the rank of Dubo in the army were all demoted and appointed, and the commanders who could not be demoted, as well as the generals above the Dubo who could not be trusted, were dismissed-killing prisoners was absolutely impossible to do in the eyes of Bai Tu, so they all went to Chengjina, directly overdrew manpower, broke the military talisman, and then ...... Handle Qu'a's household registration and be an ordinary person in the future.

Of course, the grassroots generals above Dubo, Bai Tu looked at the list several times and confirmed that there were no familiar ones in it......

After that, there were hundreds of water thieves brought by Gan Ning, who could be from the army...... No, soldiers, Bai Tu also directly mixed them into the army, and he was not afraid of the grassroots level, which accounted for less than one-third of the people, to do things.

Bai Tu was also in the army, and declared to the Huainan Descending Department - don't miss Huainan, it won't be long before Jiujiang and Lujiang, which should be part of Yangzhou, will also return to the rule of the state pastor!

At the same time, focusing on the present, Bai Tu also ordered Lang to make Gan Ning the Taishou of Danyang, led an army of 5,000, and settled in Danyang County in order to completely control it, and then he could recruit 5,000 recruits in the spring and summer to train the navy in Wuhu.

Ordered Chen Gong to be the Taishou of Wu County, led the troops to surrender 5,000 troops, and 2,000 of Qu'a's old troops, attacked Yan Baihu in the south, and captured the entire territory of Wu County.

As for Yu Zhang and Huiji, Bai Tu is not worried, as long as Danyang can be recaptured and Yu Zhang can be reconnected with Bai Tuzhi, Hua Xin has no reason to oppose him, the state pastor who is also a "great Confucian" in the imperial court.

In the same way, as long as Yan Baihu of Wu County is eliminated, the famous Wang Lang should also come directly to vote - this is the benefit of Bai Tu's reputation, this kind of Confucian celebrity who has no heart of secession has no threat to Bai Tu.

As for Hua Xin's subordinates, who have elevated his county orders and other officials at all levels, Bai Tu has no better way for the time being, so he can only rely on his own strength to be more powerful than Hua Xin and deter them first.

In fact, this is also a constraint brought by the "family", these local officials in Yuzhang are not spies sent by Yuan Shu, but an extension of the local family's power.

They supported Yuan Shu, so there was a situation where Hua Xin's decree could not leave the office.

There is no better way to do it for the time being, but it will ...... in the future There is a way to make a white picture, and paper and printing are just an appetizer!

Originally, Bai Tu also hesitated to do the other way around - let Gan Ning go to Huiji, and then directly train the navy in Huiji, or the navy.

In this way, after success, whether it is going north to Liaodong or south to seek Yizhou, there are huge benefits in a strategic sense.

It's just that after a little hesitation, Bai Tu still postponed the naval plan - if you want to build a long-distance sea ship, you need a lot of manpower and material investment, even after the unification of Jiangdong, it is not that you can do it.

What's more, Bai Tu remembered something......

If you calculate the time, Yuan Shu should be the emperor next year, and after Yuan Shu became the emperor, a major event happened - in the winter of that year, there was a great drought in Huainan!

Moreover, it was a once-in-a-century drought, coupled with the man-made disaster caused by Yuan Shu's rebellion, which directly caused the population of Huainan to plummet, in the words of history books, that is, "cannibalism".

What is the extent of this great drought?

Not only were the common people empty, but even the army couldn't hold it in Huainan - the armies of Cao Cao, Lü Bu, and Sun Ce, who had originally besieged the puppet emperor Yuan Shu, had to withdraw from Huainan.

The drought has the effect of "clearing the wilderness", so that Cao Cao, who holds the heart of the Central Plains, can't support the consumption of grain and grass!

So in the end, Yuan Shu was not defeated and killed, but after fleeing from Shouchun, he died on the road with hardship and hatred......

Bai Tu was on the hard drive, and he couldn't find the specific information of the great drought, but if you simply speculate, this natural and man-made disaster that made Huainan, which is still quite prosperous, completely withered, and it was not until Deng Ai built Huainan as the granary of Wei that it could start to rejuvenate Jiangdong.

Moreover, Bai Tu's goal cannot be "alone", but also take the opportunity to subdue Jiujiang and Lujiang, and even ...... If the people of Guangling and Runan are also drought, Bai Tu will also help Liu Bei and Cao Cao share the burden.

It can be said that in history, whether it is Cao Cao, Lu Bu or Sun Ce, it is precisely because there is no food that Huainan is left for them to pick up for nothing, and they dare not move this "burden", so they can only take over Huainan in the next year, which has been ten rooms and nine empty.

Therefore, whether it is frying steel and filling steel, whether it is a sea ship heavy crossbow, or a divine soldier and iron armor, it is not as important as food at this time!

With the current agricultural technology in the Jiangdong region, it is generally rice-wheat rotation and two crops a year, and now spring ploughing has been carried out for most of the time, and if the drought begins next winter, there is not much time left for Baitu now......

Take the four counties of Jiangdong early, and then crazy grain storage is the only choice!