With money, there is capital for development. With food, the hearts of all people are no longer worried. And Li Jingxuan's plan to achieve a good job was also able to continue without interruption.

The money will always run out, and the grain will be eaten little by little, so after having new funds and grain and grass, the first thing Li Jingxuan has to do is farming. Farming, producing food, only in this way can everyone feel at ease. Pingzhou City is a very classical square city, the city is boxy, there are no trees within three miles outside the city, but it is another flat land. Since the city defense army of the Tang River has begun to clear out the bandits in the range of five to ten miles, the illusion of public security around the city has been greatly improved, and the spring ploughing that cannot be started due to the influence of the bandits can finally be carried out.

Although there was not enough ploughing cattle in the city because the city was dilapidated and the trade routes were blocked, Li Jingxuan quickly thought of a way to solve the shortage of ploughing cattle.

"There are not enough cows, people come to make ...... Aren't there a lot of captives there? Li Jingxuan thinks.

Let these prisoners who used to be bandits atone for their past mistakes by working hard, this is Li Jingxuan's policy set very early. After a "grievance campaign", "three investigations", and "three rectifications" education, Li Jingxuan initially grasped the hearts of these captives. With their cooperation and the people of Pingzhou, the spring ploughing in Pingzhou City was finally carried out smoothly.

Spring ploughing was busy for more than a month before it came to an end. While the spring ploughing was going on, the army of the Tang River was also growing. After understanding how Li Jingxuan subdued the captives, Tang He copied Li Jingxuan's methods in a learned way. This way, not only did the original 500 people under Tang He greatly boost their morale, but even the strongest group of people among the bandit captives also absorbed a lot of them. During the spring ploughing, Tang He had completed the sweep of twenty miles around Pingzhou City, and expanded the number of troops under his command to about 1,500 people.

Although none of these soldiers had undergone any special training, they had all seen some blood because they had joined in the fight against bandits. This made them imposing, somewhat different from the original shelf soldiers.

With the end of spring ploughing, most of the manpower that Li Jingxuan had originally scattered was recovered. The busiest days for farmers have passed, and the rest of the season only needs to send some people to take care of them, but there is no need for so many people. This made Li Jingxuan have another toss.

So, Li Jingxuan discussed with Tang He and started a series of big moves. On the other side of the Tang River is the training of soldiers, not only the 1,500 city defense troops under him, but also the 500 sailors recruited and formed behind Li Jingxuan. After all, Pingzhou City is close to the sea, and it has suffered from being broken by pirates, and it is really reassuring that there is no naval army.

Of course, everything has to be done step by step. Now is the beginning of everything, and Li Jingxuan's navy has no warships available. In desperation, Li Jingxuan could only hand over these seeds to Tang He and let him train them how to become a qualified soldier first.

Don went to train soldiers. Li Jingxuan gathered the captives and divided them into two teams: one team built a cement yard and a brick factory according to Li Jingxuan's orders, and then became workers in these two factories, and the other team began to repair the once destroyed shipyard and began to build sea ships.

It's been a month of big construction. As the busy 30 days passed, the three factories that Li Jingxuan needed to build had their own outputs. The cement factory produces 500 kilograms of cement a day, and the brick factory produces 6,000 red bricks in a cycle, although this amount is not comparable to the production of small cement yards and small brick factories that will be shut down in the future, but it is already an amazing achievement in this era.

As for the shipyard that Li Jingxuan focused on, after it was completed, the construction of ships was also quickly launched. Now, five or six offshore walkers have been built, and according to Li Jingxuan's proposal, the first regular warship design has begun.

On the other side of the Tang River, he had already trained his 1,500 city defense troops and 500 sailors. After discussing with Li Jingxuan, he began a new round of conquest. This time, his goal is to sweep away all the villages and strongholds around Pingzhou and completely remove the isolation of Pingzhou City.

It's a good battle, and it looks like a bit of a hassle. After all, there are too many bandits around Pingzhou City, and there are not afraid of tens of thousands of bandits large and small. However, Tang He did not take these bandits to heart, he believed in his own strength, and also believed in the strength of these soldiers who had been trained. In Tang He's view, it is inevitable to bring these soldiers, who have been strictly trained for a month, to the battlefield to fight against those bandits on the other side, and to achieve victory.

And that's exactly what happened.

Although because of the efforts of Pingzhou City some time ago, many bandits were awakened and they were united in fear to protect themselves, but due to the silence of Pingzhou City for a month, the vigilance of these bandits was suddenly relaxed a lot. This gave Tang a very good start.

In three days, he traveled 220 miles, broke down villages, killed 1,326 bandits, captured 3,452 prisoners, liberated six villages, and terrified the rest of the bandits.

Frightened, they regrouped and organized a large coalition of thieves to try to defeat the Tang River Clearance Force. The two sides fought on the side of the Lei River, and the Tang River faced the 10,000 people with 2,000 troops and fought head-on with it. In a bloody battle, the Tang River beheaded eighteen bandit leaders, and the thieves coalition was defeated, and was finally chased by the Tang River for hundreds of miles, and most of the prisoners were captured, no longer arrogant at the beginning.

In the days that followed, they scattered and hid into the mountains and forests, trying to escape the pursuit of the Tang River, but they ultimately failed. Because they hurt the people too hard, the people of Pingzhou spontaneously denounced their location, so that Tang He could successfully exterminate them one by one.

Two months later, Tang He returned to the state capital, announcing the end of the banditry in Pingzhou City.

With the end of the banditry, the connection between Pingzhou City and the outside world has also been opened. For this reason, Li Jingxuan's high-profit goods that have been prepared for a long time have finally been sold in various places. Watching the truckloads of snowflakes and salt, and the truckloads of yellow copper coins and grain purchases, the treasury of Pingzhou City was finally further enriched.

That's right, table salt. The fine salt of those white flowers is Li Jingxuan's best main product. After having cement, opening up a salt farm by the sea and using sunlight to dry salt is Li Jingxuan's biggest achievement in the past two months.

No one has ever thought of using such a method to obtain table salt, and no one has ever seen a salt farm that can produce so much and such good salt at once. Therefore, when Li Jingxuan put these delicate snow-white things in front of Tang He, Tang He's eyes glared at the boss all of a sudden.

"Is this what you did, is it feasible even in reality?" Tang He asked eagerly.

Salt is too important, whether it is the ancient times of the country where Li Jingxuan lived in his previous life, or the Qianguo country where he lived in this life, it is all an official monopoly. The monopoly of salt and iron is such a policy.

In a sense, salt equals money.

With the fine salt of this snowflake, Li Jingxuan is equivalent to having a lot of money.

The abundance of the treasury made Li Jingxuan more and more extravagant. Factories were established one after another, and all kinds of novel commodities began to be produced, and the prosperous reputation of Pingzhou City once again resounded throughout the north and south of the river, becoming a place of attention.

The facts are there, the reputation is out, and Li Jingxuan will have a bit of the style that everyone expects to return to when he unfolds the banner of Laimin again. For a time, countless people dragged their families and brought their mouths, filling Pingzhou City to the brim. In order to solve the problem of these people, Li Jingxuan once again sacrificed the work for relief, and the two magic weapons of the collective meeting battle built houses in the city. It's just that this house is different from the previous one, it is a three-story building made of bamboo as tendons and cement mixed with soil as flesh and blood. They are homes for new populations, as well as offensives for future street battles in the city that may break out.

Although Li Jingxuan was bent on burning the flames of war into other people's territory, he still had to be prepared for what he should prepare. Unexpectedly won, first defeated, Li Jingxuan felt that it was still necessary for him to do a good job of his defense before attacking others.

So, Li Jingxuan started this big project, which is also a safe residence and a city defense.

At this time, he has always been very busy.

Not only is this the case, but so is the Tang River. As the population of Pingzhou City increased, so did the number of people of school age who could be conscripted as soldiers in the Tang River. This made Tang unhappy, and he began to expand his army, and his army suddenly expanded from a few thousand to tens of thousands—in fact, 25,000 men, 20,000 for the army, and 5,000 for sailors.

By this time, Li Jingxuan's shipyard had already produced twenty main ballista warships, using crossbow arrows filled with gunpowder as the main weapons. Fifty sailors and a hundred sailors were needed for each ship. This is the main force of the naval division formed by Li Jingxuan, with ballista battleships as the main force, and with fifty escort warships, such a very powerful task force is ready.

"I'm going to send troops. Seeing that his sailors were becoming more and more proficient, Li Jingxuan finally made up his mind, he found Tang He, and directly proposed his decision to him.

"Now, that doesn't seem to be a good fit...... Our troops are expanding very much, they need to rest, they need to train, they need to run in. It doesn't seem good to go out and attack other cities now. Hearing this, Tang He glanced at his brows slightly, and objected in a low voice.

"I knew the troops were training, so I didn't expect to send them out. Li Jingxuan shook his head lightly and said with a smile.

"What do you mean?" Tang He was a little confused.

"Mariner, I'm going to use them. The soldiers on land are led by you, and they have all seen blood, but the soldiers on the sea are not! This is a big problem. Moreover, Pingzhou City is close to the sea, and I don't want another pirate to take advantage of the situation when we go out on an expedition and bring disaster to Pingzhou City. Li Jingxuan said the reason why he wanted to send troops.

"So...... Who is in charge of commanding the troops?" Li Jingxuan's reasons were very good and strong, and Tang He couldn't find any objections, so he could only remind Li Jingxuan in a timely manner.

"Commander, I can only go on my own. I designed the ship, and I still have some ideas about how to use such a ship to fight. And you don't know how to fight in the water. Li Jingxuan made such a decision.

"This ......" Tang He glared at him, looked at him for a while, and finally sighed helplessly: "Then what about here?" Tang He knew that what Li Jingxuan said was the truth, so he had no choice but to acquiesce to Li Jingxuan's approach.

"Is there anything wrong here? Everything is on track. I just need to give orders, arrange tasks, and give things to the political envoys. This is the phantom array, not the real world, and there is not so much bullshit. Li Jingxuan spread out his hand and said indifferently. In fact, he did this as a loophole in the phantom array.

Anyway, it's settled. After Li Jingxuan arranged the relevant work, he immediately set off with the spies under the imperial history. He already knew where the enemy's general position was, and he didn't need to bother to find it this time, just touch the fleet, put the enemy in his range, and fight a fierce battle.

Unlike the volatile landscape of land warfare, battles at sea are less fancy, at least for now. Just as Li Jingxuan knew in his previous life, Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general of the Ming Dynasty, summed it up: "There is no other way to fight at sea, the big ship beats the small ship, the big gun beats the small gun, the many ships win the widowed ship, and the many guns win the widowed gun." ”

Li Jingxuan's current fleet has not yet reached the point of using artillery, but its combat method is not much different from that of later generations of sail battleships.

The fleet set off for the north. After sailing at sea for about six days, Li Jingxuan encountered the pirates' southbound fleet in the channel of a strait. Just as Li Jingxuan learned about the location of the pirates' lair through spies and was ready to attack them. The pirates also learned through their spies about Li Jingxuan's actions to go north to destroy them. As a pirate with a fleet of fifty or sixty thousand people, they were very confident in their own strength, so they naturally decided to give Li Jingxuan a good look, so that he could know what a tiger's ass could not touch.

At that moment, they led the fleet to block in front of Li Jingxuan, looking fierce and domineering. Hundreds of warships, large and small, were connected together, but the sails were overwhelmingly undulating.

"It's a pretty good posture!" Li Jingxuan looked at the other party's array from afar through the telescope made of crystal, and said noncommittally. At this moment, his tone was faint and full of noncommittality.

In fact, he didn't pay much attention to the other party's huge fleet. How to defeat them, at this moment, Li Jingxuan already had a corresponding plan.

"The fleet is rampant, sorties...... Everything is according to our training rules!" the cold Li Jingxuan gave an order. (To be continued.) )