The streets are still full of traffic and tourists, and it is completely impossible to see that this is a territory that has just experienced the "change of sun and moon" regime.

Having occupied such a large territory, it is not possible to effectively govern it without a certain number of grassroots officials.

Long Thirteen's method was to let all the wounded in the army come down, plus some of the "quasi-young and strong" in the old camp who had some knowledge, due to the lack of manpower, some places even let women become officials.

A castle like Chimei Castle, which is close to the county seat in size, is where the history of Neixiang County is based, and he used to be a pikeman of a small strong division from Suidezhou City.

In addition to him, there are also ten soldiers who also retired from the army due to injury and illness, plus twenty male and female teenagers who have received training in Shanxi to record the affairs of the army and join the army, this is all the people in the jurisdiction of Xiaoqiangshi in Chimei Fort.

Of course, this point of people is insignificant, and there are one or twenty elite families in many gentry families who remain in the city.

But when Long 13 walked on the street, he didn't see a scene of fish and dragons mixed, bullying and dominating the market, and running rampant.

In addition to the fact that after Xiaoqiangshi had just occupied this place, he had already carried out a cleanup of the city fox and rats, and the military presence of Xiaguan Town in the north and Neixiang County in the south was also one of the reasons.

Of course, for such a place, the strategy adopted by Long 13 to let the old farmers take turns to carry weapons to the city to guard is the main reason.

Thanks to the implementation of the collective farm system, 100 households can be stationed with 10 people in the presence of the "militia", otherwise it is the busy season for farming, and if all the fields are divided, these people will not have the opportunity to cultivate a piece of land for a long time.

At that time, even if you have feelings for Xiao Qiangshi, you will inevitably have complaints when you are transferred.

But collective farms are different.

There are 1,000 old farmers around Chimei Fort, and a hundred people can be transferred, although these 100 people are not the regular soldiers of Xiaoqiangshi, but they are also killed all the way from Shanxi to Henan from the sea of corpses in the sea of blood, not to mention anything else, they have all seen blood, and this alone is stronger than those who have never been on the battlefield.

After learning that Long Thirteen had arrived, Dian Shi and others hurried over to greet him.

After having a meal at the Dianshi's house, Long Thirteen hurriedly asked about the situation in the city.

"Big Boss", the famous historian was still a deputy sentry commander before retiring from the army, and he still retains the demeanor of the army in his gestures, and his waist is straight when he sits.

"At present, all the fields in my old camp have been completed for spring ploughing, and the big guy is also very understanding of the fact that the fields have not been allocated, and the fields that have been divided are almost planted, but there is a problem......

Long Thirteen's heart sank, he didn't need to say it, he knew what the problem was.

"Is it a drought?"

"Yes, there was only one snow last winter, and there has been no rain since the beginning of spring this year, although the rainy season has not yet arrived, but there should have been a few light rains at this time in the past, but now there is no rain, fortunately, the river in Nanyang Province is crisscrossed, and the snow on Bears Ears Mountain melts after the beginning of spring, and it also brings a lot of river water."

"If it doesn't rain again, this year's spring planting can barely be carried out, but the winter wheat will be enough to choke."

Long Thirteen nodded, he also knew this, Nanyang Mansion is one of China's familiar land, as a traditional high-quality farming area has been thousands of years, the ditches are vertical and horizontal, as long as the river is still there, it can be cultivated, but it also needs to be blessed by wind and rain, otherwise it will not be able to cultivate.

"Could it be that the effects of the Xiaoice River have finally reached the Central Plains?"

I am glad that I chose Nanyang Mansion, if this place is not good, you can continue to go south to Hubei, where it is a place where the water network is intertwined, and there are two big rivers of Han River and Yangtze River passing through, I have not heard of a great drought at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

I remember that before Li Zicheng went north to unify Guanzhong and then went north to Beijing, he relied on Hubei's grain and drought conditions, which should have little impact there.

If he chooses to stay in Shanxi, or in the north of Henan, I am afraid that it will not be enough to support his troops to settle down and start farming in peace.

"The rainy season hasn't come yet, winter wheat, let's talk about it."

Even so, he must also take precautions, and he must benefit

I used the merchants who stayed in Nanyang Mansion to buy more grain from Huguang.

"What about those people?"

The so-called people are naturally the gentry and merchants who own the fields around Chimei Fort.

"On the surface, he is naturally polite to us, but in private, he has some thoughts, or sit back and wait for our failure, or curse us for being muddy."

"Oh? What do you think?"

"Big boss, don't pay attention to them, if someone says this in front of me, I won't be angry, just push it back with a word."

"Oh?"

"That is, don't be angry, think that your Taizu was still begging for food."

"Hahaha", upon hearing this, Long Thirteen couldn't help laughing, and slapped him on the shoulder, making him almost sit still.

"It's good for you to think like this, at the moment it is still the government that has the advantage, we don't want to show weakness, and we can't offend all the people, otherwise, although these people are not enough to succeed, but they are more than enough to fail, although we are sure enough to extinguish them, but after all, it involves energy, right?"

"We have two major goals right now."

"The first is to let the newly recruited soldiers take shape as soon as possible, once formed, my Xiaoqiang division will have more than 20,000 horses, which is enough to fight the enemy to the death and keep Nanyang Mansion."

"The second is to take the opportunity to train a man who is enough to take charge of government affairs, it is the first time for you to do such affairs, these things seem simple, but you have to deal with people in every detail, so it is not easy, you need to be cautious."

"But don't be afraid, after all, in Nanyang Mansion, we still have a big advantage, we must be careful from the bottom of our hearts, but don't be afraid to do things, just do it boldly."

"Yes"

"The ..... of the Masters"

Long Thirteen seemed to tremble faintly when he heard this, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Dian Shi said: "A few days ago, the old farmers outside the city came to report, saying that they seemed to have seen Wang Fuchen......

Long Thirteen's heart froze, "This guy still dares to stay in Nanyang Mansion?"

"Big boss, I was also shocked at the time, Wang Fuchen's subordinates have more than a dozen people who have been following him, and they are all from the righteous army, they have some means, and they have always been unable to deal with us, although there are only more than ten people, but if they are destroyed in the countryside, they should not be underestimated."

Long 13 nodded, "Although this is the case, but almost every village in the countryside has people from the old camp such as us, how can Ma Harrier be arrogant no matter how capable he is?"

He suddenly thought of something, and quickly asked, "Was it taken in by some people, or did you go somewhere else?"

Dian Shi shook his head, "I don't know, after learning about this, I quickly reported to the Investigation Department, presumably Xiao Shi already had a countermeasure, and the big boss was hunting in the mountains at that time, so he didn't bother."

"Have you seen him these days?"

"No, at least not in Chimei Castle, big boss, although we occupy Nanyang Mansion, we have not set up checkpoints along the way, at least not in the territory, the Ministry of Duties suggests......

Long Thirteen waved his hand, "Forget it, we and others are already short of manpower, if we do this, we will be even more stretched, Wang Fuchen, what can more than ten people do?"

"First of all, he can't come to the city, so he can only go to the countryside, and there are old camps like us around the manors of big families......

Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of someone.

Speaking of this person, I have to mention Tang King Zhu Yujian.

Zhu Yujian has only been the king of Tang for more than a year, and his grandfather has been on the throne before, and after his grandfather accepted a concubine and gave birth to two sons, he was very mean to him and his father, that is, the prince of Tang, at the instigation of the concubine.

In order to allow the son born by the concubine to succeed to the throne, the old Tang King even imprisoned Zhu Yujian's father and son!

During these more than ten years of captivity, Zhu Yujian's father and son were almost poisoned to death by that concubine several times.

Later, the old Tang King did not have the courage to let his concubine succeed to the throne after all, and admitted Zhu Yujian before his death

's hereditary status, but before that, Zhu Yujian's father was dead.

Therefore, after Zhu Yujian came to power, he must have hated the concubine and the two uncles left by his grandfather.

As soon as he came to power, he killed his elderly uncle, Zhu Qijun, the king of Fushan, in the name of "colluding with bandits" and "greedy and lawless".

Faced with such a situation, Zhu Qijun took the initiative to take refuge in Xiaoqiangshi, and Zhu Qijun was also one of the few people who did not imprison Long Shisan, or killed, or extorted money from the government as a meat ticket.

In Neixiang County, the county prince's mansion is still in Zhu Qijun's hands, although his field has also been divided, but he still left him a part of the land, if there is still someone who has the ability to take in Wang Fuchen, it will be him.

However, for Zhu Qijun, it was not easy to escape the clutches of his nephew Zhu Yujian, if such a major event as taking in Wang Fuchen was exposed, it would be a dead end in the end, and he would not do it easily.

There is also Wang Heizi, the richest man in Henan.

Wang Heizi's family property is all over Henan Province, Huguang area, the Ming Dynasty, compared with the eight masters in Shanxi, Yangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, and Huizhou giant merchants, Wang Heizi, who is "ordered to do business", is the largest pawnshop in the Ming Dynasty today, and the ticket number is a giant.

He has a large amount of family property in Nanyang Mansion City and Neixiang County, and it is very likely that Wang Fuchen hides it with him.

And right now, Long Thirteen has a big plan that must fall on him, if this person also secretly doesn't deal with him, his big plan may be in vain.

"Wang Fuchen can also go to Huguang, Runing Mansion, and Ruzhou Mansion through mountain roads and waterways."

Perhaps sensing a hint of melancholy from Long Thirteen, the classic history hurriedly said with relief.

"Hahaha", Long Thirteen laughed, he was laughing at himself, "Lao Tzu has an army of 20,000, more than 100,000 loyal to his old battalion, the wind and waves have come, what else can't be over? It's just unfounded."

He ignored him, and after dinner, he inspected the surrounding countryside accompanied by the canon, and when he saw that everything was as usual, he continued to sail south.