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In the spring of 1341 AD, the main contradiction that Cheng Pan is now facing is the consumption of Cheng Pan's increasingly powerful troops and the contradiction between the lack of productivity in Cheng Pan's jurisdiction. One of the strictest is the production of soil nitrate. Cheng Pan now wants to fight a war with several neighboring counties for fecal resources. Of course, Cheng Pan can't go to war for. And what Cheng Pan lacks is more than just saltpeter.

Cheng Pan now has a total population of 23,000 people in the district. Among them, there were about 8,000 young and middle-aged men, and medical care was extremely unsuccessful in this era. Most of the people did not live to be 45 years old, so most of the adult men were young men who could afford to work, but it was not enough, and 1,000 of the 8,000 people worked in the factories of Cheng Pan, engaged in basic industries such as steelmaking, processing wood, and machine building. Another 500 people joined the village protection team. Cheng Pan really didn't dare to reduce the agricultural population anymore. Expansion must be expanded, if the population under Cheng Pan's jurisdiction reaches 200,000 and the population of the backbone industry reaches 10,000, Cheng Pan will dare to compete with the Mengyuan forces in the south of the Yangtze River.

However, the direction of expansion must have a certain number, and the southeast direction is absolutely impossible, where is the rice tank in Beijing, and Hangzhou and Nanjing each have a regiment of 20,000 or 30,000 people, Cheng Pan does not want to be killed. Then it would have to expand westward, but the provincial capital of the Yuan Dynasty in Anhui was Anqing, and its military power was not small. Don't mention Anqing, just talk about Tongling, which is a famous smelter. If you move there, it will also stimulate the Yuan Dynasty. Therefore, in the southwest expansion direction, you must not cross Wuhu, so you can only advance to the Chaohu area in the northwest.

Cheng Pan delineated the scope of the exhibition for the next two years. Now to start preparations, first after the end of spring ploughing, Cheng Pan led 4oo Nago Village Team, and 5ooo spear militia trained throughout the winter leisure season to start sweeping the large and small forces in He County. Chen Xianling hurriedly met Cheng Pan in person, and asked face to face: "Master Cheng, Your Excellency's actions have been too big recently, what do you want?" Cheng Pan said in a nonchalant tone, "Robbery, I want land." Chen County Ling hurriedly said: "Cheng Dangjia, you are going to wipe out all the gentry in this county." Cheng Pan said, "What's the matter, I won't be short of the food of the imperial court, and I won't be short of the county master's example, and I won't be short of money" Chen Xianling jumped up and said, "Among the people who raided your house, there are Mongolians, there are temple masters, these people have backstage that I can't even provoke, and now they all run to Shouchun to complain." Cheng Pan looked at Chen County's order seriously and said: "Chen County ordered you to go back to the county seat and close the city gate, and say whatever you want to say to the above, as long as you emphasize that I will pay the grain, and I will fight the officials and soldiers sent above." Chen Xianling looked at Cheng Pan like a monster, and stammered a little, "You-how do you want to fight." Cheng Pan gave a smile and said, "Fight like I beat you a few months ago." Chen Xianling trembled and said, "You are going to rebel." Cheng Pan waved his hand and said: "No, no, no, how can the rebellion still pay food to the court, we are robbers, lawless robbers." Chen Xianling walked out of the room where he was talking with Cheng Pan in a daze, and walked for a while before he said to himself in a stiff tone, "Crazy, a group of crazy."

After Chen County ordered him to return to the city, he immediately closed the city gate and at the same time issued an official document to Shouchun Mansion that bandits were rampant.

A day later, Mo Rigen, the supreme governor of Huainan West Road in Shouchun Mansion, received the official document and read it again, and said: "Hezhou bandits are rampant? Need help. At this time, an official below said: "Many people from Hezhou have been robbed by bandits recently. Mo Rigen smiled and pointed to the official document from Hezhou and said, "But what is said above is very interesting, although these bandits robbed the township, but the land they occupied gave the court a lot of grain." The people below said, "They may be afraid of the power of the imperial court." "So what will I do?" The following official said: "Among the robbers were the monks of the temple, and they were with" Mo Zhigen interrupted the staff and said, "These bald donkeys are usually very arrogant, and they come to me when something happens." The staff said suspiciously, "But it's not good for adults to make trouble like this." Mo Rigen smiled weirdly and said to the staff: "Han, there is a trick called dragging. Give Wuwei a report to the army, let them be fully prepared, and after the summer harvest, go to Hezhou to suppress bandits." The staff showed a look of understanding for a while, and then a playful look appeared on Mo Rigen's face, and he gave an order: "Give the county newspaper again, and urge this year's summer expedition."

Cheng Pan was always ready to fight after the official document with the county order, but a few days later, the surrounding county towns, especially Cheng Pan, paid special attention to the movements of the Wuwei military households. At this time, Chen County ordered the arrest to hand over a piece of official documents to Cheng Pan, and Cheng Pan opened it and breathed a sigh of relief. handed over a quick catch to a tael of silver and a reward to beat him. The official document given to Cheng Pan by Chen County Order was the official document from Mo Rigen. The above means that He County insists on until after the summer harvest to ensure the collection of summer grain. Of course, Cheng Pan knew what this meant, and the people above wanted to see if the bandits in Hexian County were strict or not. The definition of strict zhòng depends on the amount of grain levied by the county. Cheng Panjue is safe for the time being, but Cheng Pan will not take it completely lightly, and it is likely that he will have to fight again after the summer harvest.

Now Cheng Pan can safely integrate the new territory and population. The first focus is on the construction of the village protection team. Cheng Pan directly expanded the team to 2ooo people, and equipped it with 100 people and 33 Type 1 guns. In order to gather gunpowder for training, Cheng Pan not only sent people to buy it here in the name of collecting medicinal materials, but also Cheng Pan once again came to several major cities in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, specially selected important military towns, and stole gunpowder from warehouses at night. In order to ensure the training of the army. In order to allow the army to overcome the phobia of the first time on the battlefield, on the one hand, the training of order obedience has been strengthened. On the other hand, the use of living people to train bayonets, all kinds of death row prisoners, and the most vicious landlords and doglegs caught in the raiding of the house were executed by the recruits, and after the crimes of these people were explained to the recruits, in a frenzied atmosphere, everyone saw blood. Although most people are ugly after stabbing a bayonet into the human body. But Cheng Pan believes that they will all get better after passing this hurdle.

The second is the production of agricultural tools, due to the increase in population, Cheng Pan's workshop has also begun to turn to the factory level. Mold making, casting, grinding and installation are all streamlined operations, and the reason why we couldn't afford streamlining was because there were few people, and there were only twenty or thirty people in a manufacturing workshop. In terms of steel, twenty blast furnaces have been built, and 1,000 people work in the steel plant, and the black smoke billowing makes Cheng Pan feel a little proud. First, the iron ore mined on Ma'anshan was transported to the wharf by four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage, and then unloaded by ship to the Xiaohuangzhou Iron and Steel Base, and the coal carriers from upstream went down the river. During the three months from March to June, not only steel mills were built, but also simple cement kilns and brick kilns. The number of workers of all categories reached 1oooo, and every literate worker was promoted to stewardship.

At the time of this expansion, Cheng Pan's commune was no longer so generous, and a set of iron farming tools was divided into the same but changed to loans, which were repaid with one-tenth of the harvest after the autumn harvest, and the food sown to the harvest in the commune for the first time was not covered by Cheng Pan, and the same had to be repaid with one-tenth of the harvest. In addition, Cheng Pan set the 30 percent tax of the commune that had paid grain once at 40 catties, and if 40 catties of grain was greater than 30 percent of the harvest, it would be calculated at 30 percent.

After careful calculation, Cheng Pan is still doing a loss-making business. Cheng Pan's purpose in doing this is not only to save a few grains, but also to make the people in the jurisdiction realize that the pay and return are equal.

Because of Cheng Pan's prestige in running away from the official army last year, it spread all over the four fields. At the same time, the county magistrate did not declare that Cheng Panshi had rebelled. Cheng Pan's transformation of society was not opposed by other forces (all those who opposed it died), and under the leadership of Cheng Pan's strong force, most people followed suit. And the masses of the state are very cooperative. Since there is no damage to themselves, there are some small profits, and at the same time, seeing that everyone does this, most of them will follow the crowd. Some of the small landlords who were really harmed (the definition of a small landlord has an average family population of 3o acres of land) were forcibly reduced to the bottom line of 3o acres of land per person. There are also some clan forces, but because Cheng Pan does not recognize the concept of clan field, coupled with the threat of muskets, there is a lot of trouble within the clan for the division of fields.

By June 1341, Cheng Pan had finally taken control of three-quarters of Hezhou (the other quarter was close to Wuwei County, which Cheng Pan used as a buffer zone), with a jurisdiction of 2ooo square kilometers and a population of 250,000 people. Although Cheng Pan still had some indigestion of the land under his new jurisdiction, a new order had been established.