Compared to the Pingmachuan River, which is still in its infancy, the castle was finally completed under the auspices of several disciples of Carpenter Tan before winter, and the influx of a large number of people brought endless vitality to this new city.

Moreover, because Changzhou City is located in the superior geographical environment between Changzhou Island, Xiadu Island and Qinjin Island, it has become an important base for the transit of materials in the three places, making the originally sparsely populated Changzhou City attract a large number of foreign population.

There were even a large number of foreign merchants who came here, most of them merchants from Nam-Chen, and since Wang Ze only kept Son Heung and Jong Li to maintain the suppression of the surface power of Baekje and Silla, there was no further land attack on Baekje and Silla.

Therefore, businessmen with a keen sense of smell from various countries brought a large number of materials to the two countries, and these businessmen gave full play to the nature of businessmen in a timely manner, raised the prices of the two countries a lot, and bleed the two countries silently, which also made Wang Ze feel secretly refreshed, without him, because there are many things in it that he snatched from the two countries and sold them back.

The heavy snow in Choshu City had just ended, but the streets were clean, and the snow on the roads outside had not completely stopped, so the slaves worked hard to clear all the snow in the city.

Most of the snow is shoveled into the roadside green belt, and by the beginning of spring next year, the snow melts and becomes a good source of irrigation.

The streets are bustling with traffic, and teams of vehicles are pulling horses along the planned roads in an orderly manner, most of which are goods brought from other places.

However, there were also many young men who left the city with their families in horse-drawn wagons, most of whom had made meritorious contributions to the front line and acquired large tracts of land, and these people wanted to move their families from Changzhou to their new homes further north.

Fortunately, they have only been in Changzhou for a year, and they have not yet regarded this place as their hometown of life and burial, so although they are a little reluctant to leave Changzhou, they can also accept it.

Compared with the bustling city, the Changshu County Guard Mansion seems quite quiet, and the snow in the courtyard adds a little quietness out of thin air.

Except for a few roads that have been swept out for four people to walk side by side, the snow in other places has not moved at all, it is white and clear, and even the snow on some trees in the yard is still intact.

"Alas, the snow is like flowers in winter, and the flowers are like snow in spring!"

Looking at the bare cherry blossom trees in the courtyard, Guan Yu sighed and tightened the lambskin jacket on his body, the temperature in the courtyard was obviously much colder than the indoor with the stove, and it was really cold.

The snow in the yard only swept out two roads for people to walk, and it was his idea that the snow in other places was still retained, after all, it was winter, if there was no snow at all, where would there be any winter feeling, and Guan Yuyu felt that the white snow everywhere was simply beautiful, if these beautiful scenery were swept away, how could he be in the mood to work?

It's just that Guan Yumei is very depressed, not because of anything else, but just left a top boss Yang withered, but the boss Wang Ze came again, I heard Wang Ze say that he would only stay here for a few days before leaving, but now the little marquis has stayed for two months and has no intention of leaving.

Guan Yumei, who made the pressure on the leaders around him, extremely depressed, and a large number of people in Changzhou County inside and outside the city also made Guan Yuyu feel depressed, and he couldn't stay in the house, so he simply went outside to blow a cold wind, so that he could lower the fire.

After turning around in the courtyard, Guan Yuyu was about to return to his small courtyard, when he turned around and saw a figure coming in from outside the gate of the county guard's mansion, and looked at Li Jie, who was in charge of the specific affairs of the East China Sea Sect, that is, the third disciple of Liu Qing, a Taiqing Taoist, and didn't know how he came here.

As soon as Li Jie entered the door, he also saw Guan Yu in the courtyard, and immediately smiled and saluted: "Guan Junshou, I haven't seen you for many days, don't come to harm?" The elegant and natural movements, combined with Li Jie's dignified appearance, are more chic, and he has more and more of a master.

Li Jie, as Liu Qing's third disciple and the specific person in charge of the Haotian God Sect in the East China Sea, is of course not contemptuous of others like some brain-dead people, and only if others are flattering and bent their knees, respect is originally mutual.

Therefore, after Li Jie took the initiative to say hello, Guan Yuyu also hurriedly returned the ceremony and smiled: "I don't know how Daoist Li has the kung fu to come to me today?" But you want to talk to me about it? Saying that, he invited Li Jie to his courtyard, "I got some good Jian'an tea from Xiaohou Ye some time ago, why don't you come and taste it?" ”

Regarding Guan Yu's invitation, Li Jie smiled dumbly: "Guan Junshou is joking, if you want to talk about a game, you have to talk about it, but today I want to talk to the little marquis about something important, why don't you come back to Guan Junshou another day to have a game, what do you think?" ”

Li Jie came here today to discuss something with Wang Ze, where did he have time to drink tea and play chess, so he immediately politely refused.

Who knew that Guan Yu smiled and said: "Daochang Li, it's unfortunate that you are here now, this time the little marquis is afraid that he will not have time to see you, this time he is entertaining guests, I am afraid that it will be a while before I am free, it is better for you to arrange the name card to work first, and then go to the next game of chess with me!" ”

Hearing Guan Yu's words, Li Jie was very helpless, today's Wang Ze is no longer the genius child who can be seen if he wants to see in the cottage, now that the East China Sea has such a large territory and such a population, there will be many things to find Wang Ze every day.

Therefore, Li Jie had no choice but to hand over his name card to the guards outside the lobby, and wait in line for Wang Ze's reception, while he followed Guan Yuyu to his small courtyard.

While walking, Li Jie didn't forget to ask: "Guan Junshou, I don't know where the guests of the little marquis came from?" Could it be that there is important information in Pingmachuan again?"

Now the only place where Wang Ze's command is still engaged in large-scale wars is Pingmachuan, and often people here can see Wang Ze at any time without queuing, so Li Jie thought of this place for the first time, but Guan Yuyu shook his head and said: "It's Mr. Lu and Mr. Xiao!" ”

The guests who are talking to Wang Ze now are Lu Wen and Xiao Jing, who have just been asked by Wang Ze from Wang Yong, and they are also the two newly established county guards newly selected by Wang Ze.

Wang Ze has been staying in Cheongju City since he left Jeju Island and disembarked halfway, dealing with immigration and other matters related to the newly occupied territory, and he originally wanted to go to Pyeongmacheon to see how the development is there, but he has not had time to pass.

This time, some people from Jeju Island, Changzhou, Qinjin and other places were going to move to Pingmachuan, and Wang Ze originally planned to go by boat with them, but now because of the arrival of Lu Wen and Xiao Jing, he had to stay again, after all, this involved the establishment of two counties with a lot of territory.

The two newly established counties are Natsu-gun and Ko-gun, and needless to say, Natsu-gun is the original entire Natsudo Island, as well as many large and small islands around Hatsudo-jima, including Goshiki Island (Awaji Island), all of which belong to the territory of Natsu-gun.

Originally, Wang Ze wanted to keep Choshu County as it is, and set up a county in the area where the original Choshu front line was up to the Yamato River, and then set up a separate county in the southeast of the Yamato River including the entire Kii Peninsula.

Wang Ze's idea was very good, but later he found that he did not have so many officials to manage, and in the end Wang Ze simply expanded Choshu County, all the way to Bizen, Misaku, and Boqi, expanding the territory by one-third.

Then, Wang Ze set up a separate lake county centered on the Yamato River and Lake Biwa in Kyoto, and in addition to the Kii Peninsula, it has always included Omi, Ise, and Wakasa, but the Nobi Plain is not within this range, and has always bordered Choshu County.

Although there are still many Japanese people in the Kii Peninsula in the newly established Kogun, there are not many Wa people left in these areas in the northwestern part of the Yamato River, and it can be said that about half of Koguna is already accepting immigrants.

In particular, the fertile shores of the Yamato River, the Yamato Basin, and the plains around Lake Biwa belong to the Plain of Wakoku, which is already very fertile, and it attracts many people who are willing to move here.

At this time, after hundreds of years of turmoil in the Central Plains, the folk customs of the Han people were extremely strong, and they did not have any fear of the Japanese people at all, and they still felt that if the Japanese dared to attack them, it would be too late to be happy, and they were here to send slaves to themselves.

Wang Ze thought about it for a long time when choosing the officials of these two counties, and finally made a decision before separating from Yang Ku on the boat, first dividing the officials of Sanqi, and appointing some civil officials who were more related to him in Sanqi to come over and appoint them as county guards. Search the e-book

In the future, as the territory occupied by oneself increased, some officials of the Sanqi were gradually drawn out to come to the East China Sea according to the needs of the newly established counties, instead of transferring the officials of the Sanqi all at once, so that there would be a smooth transition period.

The first batch of civil officials favored by Wang Ze was the old military master Lu Wen in the former cottage, which can be regarded as an elder who watched him grow up, and the other was Xiao Jing, a submissive former Nanliang nobleman who had long been cleaned up by Wang Ze, and more than a dozen officials who served as ordinary clerks in Sanqi.

It's not that Wang Ze doesn't want to bring Pu Yangxun and Liu Xin over, but these two people can be regarded as the right-hand men of Wang Ze's father Wang Yong at present, and they are the pillars of the entire Sanqi, if they are asked to come, I am afraid that Wang Yong will have a big problem.

Lu Wen and Xiao Jing did not have any objection to Wang Ze's coming to the East China Sea to serve by himself, and Wang Yong strongly supported this, after all, most of the land of Sanqi that he originally occupied was lost, and the remaining territory did not need so many assassins and county guards.

In the summer of this year, considering that there are only two states left in his territory, Wang Yong simply abolished the two state systems of Jiaozhou and Guangzhou, and the original Gaomi County, Changguang County, and Donglai County all became directly subordinate counties, Jiaozhou was changed to Zhucheng County, and the original Jiaozhou Port became Jiaozhou County independently.

In the end, Wang Yong also separated the three camps of Muping, Weihai and Chengshan, which originally belonged to Changguang County, and set up a separate Weihai County, so that the territory in Wang Yong's hands changed from the original six prefectures to six counties, and each appointed some officials to manage it.

After the local restructuring, Wang Yong also changed the system in the Xia Mansion with the assistance of Liu Xin, and Zhu Rui, who was originally the assassin of Gwangju, was also transferred to the prefecture to manage all agricultural production, Liu Xin was in charge of government affairs, and Pu Yangxun was Liu Xin's deputy.

After Lu Wen was rescued, he has been staying in Changguang County to recuperate, and Xiao Jing is a little bored, although Jiaozhou was not lost before, but during the battle of Jiaozhou, almost all the local people were moved to the East China Sea by Wang Ze, and there were very few people left in the local area.

After Jiaozhou was abolished by Wang Yong and changed to Zhucheng County, the people here were only tens of thousands of displaced people who had just migrated from the vicinity, Xiao Jing felt that it was boring to stay here, and agreed to Wang Ze's request, in addition, Xiao Jing was more afraid of this little marquis, for fear that he would not be found by Wang Ze to find a chance to clean himself up again.

Just last night, Lu Wen and Xiao Jing, who had been idle in the land of Sanqi for a long time, finally arrived in Changzhou on the clipper specially sent by Wang Ze to meet them.

Lu Wen, who was a little weak, couldn't work too hard, so he served as the county guard of Xia County, where the local widows had already been cleared since Zheng Kui launched the "Township Cleanup Movement" this summer, so there was no need to worry too much about personal safety.

The only bad thing is that because Wang Ze's occupation and development time is too short, and there are few plains and most of them are mountainous, so they can't accommodate too many people, resulting in a small number of immigrants and great difficulty in economic development.

The only thing to be thankful for is that there is currently a sericulture development plan carried out here by Yan Boss, and tens of thousands of acres of mulberry fields have been added to the entire Xiadu Island in the past year, and many Han people have begun to raise silkworms professionally, and even four or five silk reeling farms have been opened, which has also made many immigrants begin to feel that there is a bit of a rush here, and they have not left one after another like the people in Changzhou and other places.

In addition, the south of Xiadu Island is the vast ocean, and there are many fishing grounds near the sea, which are also very suitable for fishing and opening a fish processing workshop, which is also a very promising business, as for the gold, silver, and even copper mines, there are not many found on Xiadu Island at present, which makes Lu Wen a little disappointed.

Compared with the Xiadu County where Lu Wen was going, Xiao Jing's Hu County had a lot of unstable factors, because even after repeated purges and suppressions, there were still a few Japanese remnants in the newly established Hu County jurisdiction, and these people's hatred of the Han people could be said to be overwhelming.

From time to time, they would attack the villages of the Han people, even if more people died after the attack of the Japanese than the Han people, these circumstances made Huzhou the most dangerous county under Wang Ze's rule at present, not to mention the nearly 100,000 remaining Japanese people on the Kii Peninsula, so it was dangerous.

Fortunately, Wang Rui, the chief of the guard next to Xiao Jing, is strong in martial arts, although he can't show it in the battle array, but he is a master in melee, and Xiao Jing has no objection to becoming the county guard of Lake County.

I am also sorry for the two of them to change from the original state assassin history to the county guard Wang Ze, but the size of the territory of the Central Plains and the counties of the East China Sea is not much different, the only thing is that the population is much worse, and in a few years, these counties in the East China Sea will develop, and they will be more promising than the states in the land of Sanqi at the beginning.

Wang Ze looked at Lu Wen and Xiao Jing in front of him and said, "Da Lang also knows that there will be a lot of trouble in the early establishment of these two counties, but he still has to trouble the two elders!" ”

Lu Wen smiled, when he was in the cottage, he didn't expect that there would be such a day, a dog-headed military division turned out to be a country's feudal official, although everything in this country is still in the grass creation period, and he lives overseas, but Lu Wen is still very satisfied.

As for Xiao Jingke's ability to accept Wang Ze's big gift, he was a little flustered and replied: "Since it is the order of the little marquis, how can you not do things seriously?" It's just that there are still more than 100,000 Japanese people in Lake County, and I'm afraid it's a good thing to send more soldiers and horses to exterminate them! ”

Seeing that Lu Wen and Wang Ze were both looking at him, Xiao Jing continued: "Now that our side in the East China Sea has an absolute advantage, the west of the Great Lake in Lake County needs to exterminate all the remaining Japanese people as soon as possible, and this will be our heartland in the future, and the north of Changzhou Island north of the Great Lake to Whale Island is best to adopt the strategy of dividing and encircling step by step!" ”

Wang Ze nodded in agreement and said: "What Mr. Xiao said is quite in line with me, I want to occupy all the plains and gentle hills along the coast in the north, so that I can not only connect with Whale Island and Sakhalin Island further north on the sea route, but also form support for these strongholds in the north of Changzhou Island!" As for Mr. Xiao, the widow in Hujun, don't worry, there is Jiang Chuan with tens of thousands of troops who are clearing up, and it is estimated that all the widows there will be solved next year! ”

In fact, there is no need for Xiao Jing to say that Wang Ze has always done this, and after the Pingmachuan (Kanto Plain) and Taizhou Plain (Sendai) are all occupied, these are the two central points of Wang Ze's rule in the north, and the center is used here to carry out rotational warfare against the Japanese and Ezo people who have been hiding in the mountains, so as to train the militia in various places.

Otherwise, if everyone lives in peace and stability, sooner or later they will become someone else's sword, China has experienced war since ancient times to become the most powerful country, and after a long time of peace, one by one became sheep, Mencius was born out of worry, and died in peace is really sincere.

Waiting for Lu Wen and Xiao Jing to leave, Wang Ze met with Li Jie, who had been waiting for a long time, and he smiled at Li Jie: "I just wanted to find Daochang Li today, but I didn't expect to see that Daochang Li has already been listed on the post, I'm afraid it will make Daochang anxious!" ”

Of course, Li Jie, who said politely to Wang Ze, would not say that he had waited too long, and he also smiled: "But I happened to taste a pot of good tea in the Guanjun Guarding Room!" ”

"Haha, I also have good tea here!" Saying that, Wang Ze poured a cup of tea for Li Jieye, and asked casually, "I don't know what happened to Daochang Li when he came to me?" ”

Li Jie found that the tea poured by Wang Ze was very different from the tea he drank at Guan Yuyu just now, Wang Ze didn't like the way he drank tea at this time, adding minced ginger, nonsense, salt and other messy things, drinking tea at this time is called tea soup, and Wang Ze's tea is the tea of later generations.

In fact, Li Jie also likes Wang Ze's way of drinking tea very much, Taoist people don't even eat much meat in order to maintain health, and they have always been light.

Hearing Wang Ze ask himself, Li Jie immediately replied: "Now the little marquis has made unparalleled achievements in opening up the territory and expanding the land, and now he is expanding the land for thousands of miles, and the family teacher means to divide the East China Sea into two pieces, and my second senior brother Zhou Cheng will preside over the sect affairs in the northern part of Changzhou Island all the way to Whale Island and Sakhalin Island, so let me specially come to ask the little marquis for his meaning!" ”

"That's a good thing!" Wang Ze thought for a while, "It turns out that Zhou Daochang is in charge of the teaching affairs of several states west of Qingzhou, but now that this place has been recaptured by the Qi State, he has nothing to do in Jiaozhou, so let's just come to the East China Sea!" ”

Wang Ze, the old Taoist priest who married his sister Xueying, was very indignant, but since Cheng Xueying likes herself, she can't help it, and she hasn't seen Cheng Xueying for a long time, Wang Ze misses it very much, and the affairs of the sect cannot be entrusted to one person, and it is a good thing that Zhou Cheng is here.

"By the way, I want to increase the number of Taoist priests in the army, and these will occupy some of the Daomen, I will tell you!" Wang Ze suddenly remembered something, Wang Ze had also talked about this issue with Liu Qing, a Taiqing Taoist, and Liu Qing had an agreement with it.

Wang Ze felt that the practice of sending Taoist priests with the army should be popularized, and at present, except for some Taoist priests in Jiang Chuan's department who served as doctors in the army, the other horse army and infantry army did not have Taoist priests with the army.

However, the navy is prone to problems because of long-term sea voyages, and at present, almost all the sailors are equipped with Taoist priests who accompany the army, and these Taoist priests in addition to serving as medical officers, they also have to do some health counseling for the sailors' hearts, and the feedback effect of the various sailors is not bad.

Sent Li Jie, Wang Ze began to meet Zhuo Ran who came from Qinjin again, no matter what, things were always messy, and before he knew it, Wang Ze ushered in the New Year.