It will take some time for the manpower radio to be debugged, and although there are up to six points that can be arranged, it is already an incomparable communication advantage. Moreover, the puppet falcon with Jia Gang's divine thoughts can also fly and maneuver, and can follow the troops when necessary, which is a great benefit.

With this in mind, Zhou Qingfeng even wanted to recruit some more ghost cultivators to cultivate and set up a dense communication network. This matter was naturally handed over to Jia Gang, because Zhou Qingfeng directly appointed him as the director of the 'Revolutionary Army's Confidential Communications Bureau-Commander Guang Pole, and he was currently alone in the overall situation.

Zhou Qingfeng's Heavenly Eye and Yin Yang Gui were very helpful in exploring the operation of spiritual power, and he stayed with Wen Ruolan for a few days until Jia Gang was able to skillfully control the five puppet falcons, and commanded them to fly to Shandong, Lushun, Jinzhou, Gaizhou, Haizhou and other places. In this way, the high-level leaders of the 'Revolutionary Army' can communicate with each other at any time.

As soon as the communication network was arranged, Li Shuwei rushed to Tianjin by boat. He came in a hurry this time for one thing - to plant potatoes as soon as possible.

"Potatoes can be planted in Liaodong Peninsula and Tianjin for two seasons, and two seasons can be planted!" Li Shuwei wanted to be a general at the beginning, but he obediently went to take charge of the old profession of the Ministry of Agriculture. The Zhou Qing summit transmitted some reports on the analysis of the situation on the communication network, including the large-scale food shortage that will inevitably occur in the northern region in the second half of this year after the water transportation is cut off.

"My potatoes have been planted twice as seed potatoes last year and have been harvested at 500 tonnes. I don't plan to eat any of this, so I'm going to plant it again as seed potatoes. Spring potatoes are planted in February on the Liaodong Peninsula and can be harvested once in May. I plan to plant the harvest again as seed potatoes, and I am sure that there will be a good harvest in November.

It's too late to plant spring potatoes here in Tianjin. But as long as you are ready, autumn potatoes can still be planted. The potato yield is high, and the yield per mu is casually hundreds of kilograms, which can greatly alleviate the grain crisis in the second half of the year. By the way, I asked you to build twenty nitrate fields, have you done it? This 'crops and flowers are all dependent on fertilizer', and it can't be done without fertilizer. ”

The food problem is a major issue in that dynasty or generation. Tianjin has a flat terrain, dense water network, and good irrigation conditions, so it has natural advantages in developing agricultural production. The first thing the 'revolutionary army' did when it came was land reform, forcibly depriving the gentry of land ownership, setting up large farms, and recruiting displaced people from all over the country to cultivate.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a huge problem with land, and a large number of small peasants went bankrupt due to excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and land continued to be concentrated in the hands of wealthy households. At the same time, because a large number of peasants fled, a large amount of land was abandoned, resulting in great waste. This contradiction is particularly acute in the north. The gentry themselves have food to eat, and they don't care. But farmers who need farmland for their livelihood are often starving to death.

Individual farmers have limited capacity and cannot reclaim much land. Li Shuwei set up collective farms on the Liaodong Peninsula and concentrated resources to develop land. His Ministry of Agriculture had the largest number of people, and this time thousands of people were transported by ship to Tianjin to guide the construction of farms, and a large amount of land occupied by the gentry was reclaimed and planted with grain.

At the same time that Li Shuwei led people to replan the land and reorganize Tianjin's agriculture, an outsider arrived in Tianjin from Tongzhou pretending to be a trader. This man is in his thirties, wearing a square scarf like a scholar, but he is dressed as a businessman in Ayara, and his face is square with a bit of bureaucratic atmosphere.

The merchant took a few strong servants, only a little gold and silver, and when he arrived in Tianjin, he only said that he wanted to buy some cloth. Before entering the city, the swords carried by the strong servants were confiscated, and the soldiers defending the city searched them and let them go. It's such a simple process, but it makes a lot of difference for people from the north.

The queue at the gate of the city is quite amazing, regardless of the high and low, men and women, young and old, and people with temporary status wooden badges all have to queue up. Only the civil servants of the 'Revolutionary Army' and the Guards had the privilege of entering the city directly.

The scarf merchant watched the guards of the city search the people in front of him one by one, and sighed a few times 'insulting Sven', but what was even more surprising was that there were female soldiers at the city gate to search the bodies of the female relatives who entered the city - after a few battles, the ferocity of the female soldiers of the 'revolutionary army' had spread all over the world, and it played an excellent role in promoting the status of women.

This effect has stimulated more women to join the 'revolutionary army' as female soldiers in order to improve their status. This is a great rebellion in the eyes of the old literati, but there is nothing to be done.

It was the first time that the scarf merchant had seen a female soldier, but he had taken a closer look. These women have their heads held high, their faces solemn, and their postures calm. With a sturdy physique and a dress that is very different from that of ordinary women, it is indeed an unusual sight.

Men and women lined up separately, and the scarf merchant heard someone behind him laughing at the female soldier and commented: "Although these thieves are rough-handed, they are good-looking. Seeing that their faces were ruddy as if they had been smeared with rouge, and they spoke forcefully, they were really spirited, very different from my mother-in-law. I just don't know what it's like to be pressed in bed at night? ”

Men laugh at women, and it is indispensable to do those things on the bed, and always feel that what they can't get is the best. Someone in the team laughed and said: "The 'revolutionary army' has big rules, and it is said that the "Marriage Law" will be implemented recently, and it will also manage the common people to get married and have children. Both men and women must be at least 18 years old to be married, and below this age the woman's parents and the man must be arrested and sentenced to prison. ”

"Eighteen years old to get married? Isn't this an old girl, how can she get married? ”

"Isn't it? The people of Tianjin City are boiling with resentment, and they are all scolding that handsome man for meddling in things. ”

When the scarf merchant heard this, he thought about it carefully. Most of the marriage matches of folk women are fourteen or fifteen, and twelve or thirteen are also common. He thought about what would be the benefit of a woman if she was married at the age of eighteen - whoever said now that the 'revolutionary army' thieves had no brains and were a bunch of fools would definitely be scorned by the court bigwigs.

It's understandable. Before the two Opium Wars in later generations, Manchu officials said that the British barbarians would not bend their knees, and they could defend against artillery with black dog blood and the like. After being beaten violently, it is to exclaim that the heavenly soldiers of the great powers are invincible.

Now the officials of the Ming Dynasty have learned from the pain and there is a wave of reflection, and the brains that have been bombarded by the cannon fire should be enlightened. The so-called 'master thief's long skills to control thieves', there are not a few people who intend to learn from thieves to improve themselves.

The scarf merchant had a preconceived idea in his heart, and he decided that the marriage of this man and woman at the age of eighteen must have a wonderful point. He soon thought that 'the woman is a few years older, has a better physique, has easier childbearing, and has fewer human tragedies', and couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "It seems that the marriage is only a few years late, but this thief can understand the people's feelings and forcibly promote it, and has a long-term vision." This is good governance, and the court should promote it. ”

The merchant brought a hundred taels of silver, and when he entered the city, he was also spread out and inspected. He watched the soldiers keep checking it, and thought that the other party would definitely take some. The soldier who could inspect did not move, but asked, "Is this gentleman going into business?" ”

"Exactly. I heard that Tianjin cloth is cheap and good, and Sun came to buy it. The scarf merchant said politely.

"If we want to do business, our 'revolutionary army' has a special commercial market." The soldier also brought a pamphlet and even a newspaper, handed it out, and said: "This is a business manual, which contains the main points to be aware of when doing business with us." There are also the prices at which we have recently sold and acquired goods. This newspaper is full of news from all over my 'revolutionary army', and my husband will definitely gain something from reading it. ”

This soldier is neither arrogant nor humble, and his speech is calm and clear. The scarf merchant was quite surprised in his heart, and concluded that the other party was a scholar, not an ordinary soldier, "This 'revolutionary army' is full of talents, and a mere sergeant guarding the city seems to be ordinary, but it is so powerful. The most rare thing is that they are not greedy for money, and by extension, it is terrible! ”

Just entering the city, this scarf merchant was surprised several times. However, after he entered the city of Tianjin, he did not follow the sergeant's instructions to go to the newly opened market in the city, but instead looked along the streets into the alleys of the city, looking for an inn with the banner of 'Yunlai'. When he entered the inn, he walked to the counter and said a few 'incisions', and the shopkeeper quietly arranged a room for him to stay.

Not long after entering the house, there was a few knocks on the door, and a young man covered in greasy came in. It looked like a guy in this inn, and as soon as he saw the scarf merchant, he bowed his head and said, "The little one is going to meet Master Sun." ”

"No need to be polite, get up quickly." The scarf merchant also waited for the young man to finish saluting before stepping forward to help him up, "You and other strong men can show the sun and the moon in their loyalty, and it is really hard to go deep into this tiger's den and wolf's lair, and this official admires it very much." ”

The innkeeper got up and said politely, 'It's not hard', and asked if the scarf merchant had gone well all the way. The latter talked about what he saw and heard when he entered the city gate, and he was quite touched by the details of the management of the city by the 'revolutionary army'.

The innkeeper hurriedly explained: "There are a lot of rules for this anti-thief, and everyone likes to break the trap, and it is really powerful to study it carefully." It seems absurd that a woman is a soldier, but the woman raises her eyebrows because of this. If there is a woman in the city who has been wronged and goes to the court, it is absolutely permissible to sue her. The anti-thief said that 'a woman can set half the sky', which made the man feel suffocated. ”

"No man resents it because of it?" The scarf merchant asked.

"Yes. There was a family outside the city who had a quarrel with their father-in-law because their daughter-in-law was instigated, and beat their daughter-in-law to death. This was known by the thieves, and they immediately arrested and hanged all the men of that family, not even a few years old. ”

The innkeeper also took out a newspaper from his body, "Look at the ......, it is written in the news, and the whole family will be killed directly, and no one will be left." He also shamelessly said that 'it is better for a family to cry than to cry all the way, it is better to cry all the way than to cry in a city, and it is better to cry in a city than to cry in a country'. Under the rule of the 'revolutionary army', it is necessary to change its thinking and keep pace with the times. ”

Newspaper?

The scarf merchant took the newspaper and looked at it, although the simplified Chinese characters seemed to him to lack pen and drawing, but he could still read them even with a guess. He read in a low voice: "The Tianjin Municipal Police Department announced the facts of the case,......, in order to protect the rights and interests of women and children, improve the status of women, and follow the spirit of the marshal's 'overcorrection must be overcorrected', and it is hereby handled." "He exclaimed at the end of the sentence 'Police Chief Marcose'?

"Yes, it's the thief." The innkeeper gritted his teeth, "This Marco was originally a eunuch, deceived the emperor to gain power, and he was a person from Dongchang in the capital, and the disaster was very great." Not long ago, he was releasing grain in Tongzhou, and the courtiers praised him as a 'righteous eunuch'. Whoever wants to fight against the thief will immediately reveal his true colors as a jackal.

This person was originally the deputy minister of the anti-thief security department, and he co-opted more than a dozen court traitors as minions. He is good at detective torture, surveillance and search. In order to flatter the leader of the anti-thieves, after he took office, he arrested and slaughtered hundreds of righteous people who fought against the thieves in Tianjin. Now there is no one in the city who dares to fight against the thieves.

Marcose was fortunate enough to become the 'Chief of Police', and then he began to engage in the 'New Life Movement'. Now that there is a lot of construction in the city, it is a good thing for him to make the people miserable. It's just that this person is extremely cruel, and he kills the whole family with overcorrection at every turn. Now the people have no choice but to obey the road. ”

The scarf merchant listened to it with a heavy heart, and it sounded like this Marco was in a high position and power in the 'revolutionary army'. He asked rhetorically: "What is the position of this police chief, and how many are it?" ”

"Hey...... it's just a fast catcher. No taste! ”