On October 13, Zhao Mengqi saw off an army outside the east gate of Lucheng that was about to march eastward, and the target of the expedition was mainly the Moli tribe.

In the first battle of Lucheng, the strong private soldiers and Haikou who stayed at home added up to more than 2,000 people, and nearly 1,500 people were captured after the war, and the total number of southern tribes was about 18,000, and more than 10,000 were captured after the war.

Most of these captives, regardless of the Han Dynasty, became hard laborers, and were sent to cut down trees and open up wasteland, build roads and water conservancy, etc., anyway, there was a lot of hard work waiting for them.

However, none of the more than 6,000 people of the Moli tribe were left alive, not only because they had a feud with the Taya tribe, but more importantly, they committed the original sin of cannibalism, which Zhao Mengqi could not tolerate.

These 6,000 people are only a small fraction of the Morri tribe, and there are about 70,000 or 80,000 people on the eastern coast of Liuqiu.

Zhao Mengqi decided to conquer the Moli tribe, firstly, to completely eradicate this barbaric habit, and secondly, to kill chickens to show the monkeys and deter other tribes on the island.

Another important reason was that for the purpose of military training, the troops were asked to abandon the sea route and cross the mountains and mountains from the land to cross the entire Liuqiu Island.

As a result, the difficulty and danger have greatly increased, so I have been preparing for a long time, and I only set off today, and the main force of the troops is more than 2,200 people directly under the brigade headquarters of the Fifth Brigade of the Eastern Guard.

The 456th Brigade of Dongwei arrived in Quanzhou on the 8th day of September, and immediately according to Zhao Mengqi's order, the 4th Brigade and 6th Brigade remained in Quanzhou, under the command of Chen Wei and the General Staff of Jiedu Mansion to continue to sweep away the chaos in Fujian, and the 5th Brigade was transferred to Liuqiu.

Now Fujian has the right army of Ma Xingsi led by Cao Lie, the first brigade of the Eastern Guard of Xue Jin, the fourth brigade led by Wang Zhengsuo, and the sixth brigade led by Xia Songsuo, with a total of more than 20,000 soldiers, which is more than enough to quell the rebellion.

Then Zhang Shijie arrived at Liuqiu with the Fifth Brigade, but in fact, he didn't catch the battle at all, and the Haikou ships anchored in Lukang were all solved by the treasure ship and the Dinghai Navy, and the battle in Lucheng ended after going ashore.

After resting for a few days, under the order of Zhao Mengqi, the 50 Second Regiment was sent to the north and the 50 Third Regiment to the south.

If it is said to be a sweep, it is most likely an armed parade.

The larger tribes in the north are the Dukas, the Kedaran, the Saixia, and the Gülan, all bordering the Taya, and as long as their brains are not caught in the door, they will definitely choose to submit.

And the southern tribe first sent thousands of people to Quanzhou, and lost another 18,000 strong men in Lucheng, so there was no resistance, plus so many clan leaders were under the control of the Song army, and it was only a matter of time before they surrendered.

There will be a fierce battle against the Morly clan, after all, it is a battle to exterminate the clan, and the Morli people will definitely not obediently stick out their heads and cut them off for you, so this battle is personally responsible for the brigade commander Zhang Shijie.

The Left Wing Army under the command of Zeng Ba was renamed the Fujian Road Town Garrison Brigade, and two battalions of nearly 1,000 soldiers were sent to fight with the 50th Regiment.

In the military system envisioned by Zhao Mengqi, the future army will be divided into three major parts: one is the field force, which is responsible for foreign operations, the other is the local garrison force, which is responsible for internal security and public security, and the other is the border garrison force, which is responsible for guarding the border.

The field troops will gradually be expanded on the basis of Dongwei, but now Dongwei is still very immature, and in Zhao Mengqi's view, it still needs to be tempered before it can officially become an army, so it has not yet set up an official number.

The garrison troops will be integrated and reorganized from the local forbidden army and the box army, and the border defense troops will be reorganized from the garrison army, and both may adopt a compulsory military system in the future, in which outstanding soldiers will be selected into the field troops and become professional soldiers.

Of course, this idea will take a long time to complete, and there is no urgency in the face of the Mongol invasion at the moment, Zhao Mengqi's first goal is to make Dongwei's combat effectiveness take shape as soon as possible.

The battle was accompanied by 5,000 Turkish troops, of which 3,000 were of the Taya tribe and 2,000 were of the Babuza, Pabra, and Bazehai tribes, which were led by Haru, Mahuo, and Wanxing.

These Turkish troops will be selected and officially become affiliated regiments of the Fifth Brigade, and the Fifth Brigade may be the first to be expanded into divisions and put into Zhao Mengqi's Nanyang Raiders.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Zhao Mengqi patted Zhang Shijie's arm, "Everything that should be said has been said, and there is nothing to advise, I wish the general success and victory!" ”

"On this expedition, the minister must guard against arrogance and rashness, take military training as the first priority, and live up to His Highness's expectations! Great Song Wansheng! Zhang Shijie beat his chest with his fist and gave a military salute.

Zhao Mengqi returned the salute, "Huaxia Yongchang, let's go." ”

"Yes!" Zhang Shijie simply turned around neatly and raised his arms to the subordinates who were waiting in formation, "Go out!" ”

After the order was given, the troops of nearly 9,000 men gradually turned into a long dragon and marched towards the eastern mountains.

After seeing the troops go away, Zhao Mengqi turned around and prepared to return to the city, but saw Zeng Ba's face a little lost.

"Yo, my brigade commander Zeng, why do you look like you have been robbed of your wife?"

Zeng Ba smiled, "Your Highness, the last general has not yet started a family, where is the wife?" ”

"Huh."

How could Zhao Mengqi not know Zeng Ba's careful thoughts, "Reluctant to be his own soldiers?" Or are you complaining that I didn't let you lead the army? ”

The troops under his command were changed to the town garrison brigade, and the official position was changed from the command to the brigade commander, although Zeng Ba was a little uncomfortable, he didn't have too many ideas.

However, after understanding the nature of the garrison force, and the fact that more than 2,000 people under his command had been transferred to the three regiments of the Fifth Brigade, and there was a high probability that they would be formally absorbed, he was naturally in a bad mood.

Of course, he didn't complain directly to Zhao Mengqi in a daze, "Your Highness said that you laughed, all the soldiers are from the imperial court, they are Your Highness, and the last general is just the commander of the belt, but he is trained by himself, and he always has some feelings when he gets along day and night, and he will inevitably feel a little melancholy in his heart when he suddenly separates, but the last general wholeheartedly supports any decision of His Royal Highness, and there is absolutely no complaint, as for this expedition, the last general really wants to go, it doesn't matter if he leads the army or not, he can go into battle......

"Heh, I didn't expect you guys with thick eyebrows and big eyes to play tricks on your lips now?"

Zhao Mengqi glanced at Zeng Ba and said slowly, "In the future, this kind of personnel deployment of soldiers and generals will become the norm in the army, whether it is the town army or the border army field army, the three have functions but are still a system, and the generals and officials will also flow to each other, just like civilian officials, who served in that county yesterday, may be transferred to other states today, today is this yamen, tomorrow they may go to another yamen, regardless of promotion or deprecation, and in the future, if they have the ability, military generals can also be transferred to civilian officials, and generals can enter and exit the prime minister." ”

This was not only said to Zeng Ba, but also to other civil and military officials on the side.

Seeing Zeng Ba's mouth wide open, full of surprise, Zhao Mengqi shook his head and continued, "There will definitely be few opportunities for local garrison troops to fight, and the most important responsibility is to train and select troops, and it is also a merit to do a good job in this, I see that you still have two times in training, if you are willing, you will continue to be the brigade commander, and you will be able to accumulate merit and be promoted in the future, to the Ministry of War, to the Privy Council, it is possible, if you want to fight, you can also be transferred to the Eastern Guard, well, originally the Left Wing Army had a naval army, you should also know something about water warfare, I'm planning to set up a Southeast Water Division, so if you're interested, you can try it. ”

In fact, what Zhao Mengqi wants to build is a navy, but it can't be achieved overnight, and he has to explore it slowly.

There is not much difference between the water warfare mode and land warfare in this era, and it is not nonsense to let Zeng Ba turn into a sailor, anyway, he learned the new model from scratch.

When the Celestial Empire Navy was first established, most of the officers and men were also transferred from the army.

"Sailor?" Zeng Ba scratched his head, "It's not impossible, it's just that there are no fights at sea except for some pirates......"

This is true, so the navy envisioned by Zhao Mengqi will mainly serve land warfare for a long time, but it will have a major strategic role.

"There's no fighting, am I using it to play!? Anyway, the opportunity is given to you, if you don't want to, you can go to Dongwei, but for the time being, you can only be the head of the regiment. ”

When Zeng Bazheng was weighing, Qian Long's eyes on the side turned, thinking that Zhao Mengqi had ordered many ships in Quanzhou, obviously attaching great importance to this sailor.

So he came out and said, "Your Highness, do you think it's okay for me to go to the water division?" ”

"You!?" Zhao Mengqi looked Qian Long up and down, and finally his gaze stopped on his big belly.

Qian Long subconsciously shrank his stomach, "I was born fat, Your Highness, you also know, I am more difficult to march, and I am still alive and well after the battle, so I think the sailor is just right for me, I take a boat wherever I go, and I may be able to lose weight after a long time at sea......"

Zhao Mengqi thought about it, it seemed that this was really the case, "Okay, otherwise if you continue to be so fat, I'm afraid that even elephants won't be able to carry you......"

"Thank you, Your Highness!" Qian Long didn't care about Zhao Mengqi's ridicule, he only smiled vigorously.

Zeng Bayi looked at it, his heart was open, the children of the family may not be as good as ordinary people, but their sense of smell in some aspects is much keen, and when they can't see the wind clearly, it is probably not wrong to follow the choice.

"Your Highness, the last general is willing to go to the water division."

"Are you sure?"

"Sure!"

"That's good...... The town brigade will be handed over to Luo Qian, and when the handover is over, you will move to the boat to eat and live, and you are also ...... By the way, a fleet should arrive in the afternoon, Geng Zhi, remember to meet me for you......"

By the afternoon, a fleet of ships carrying large quantities of supplies and immigrants from Quanzhou sailed into Lukang.

Today's Fujian Road is still in a state of war, but the coastal states and counties are not in the slightest chaos, but all industries are thriving.

The original workshops in Quanzhou, Fuzhou and other places are at full capacity, producing a large number of goods, and more workshops are in full swing.

The reason for this is not complicated, mainly because the new maritime trade policy launched by King Yan and the official launch of the development of Liuqiu have generated a great demand for various commodities, and when they see that it is profitable, countless gentry have taken out their accumulated wealth, converted it into monetary capital through the Royal Bank, and invested it in the construction and then stimulated all aspects of the industry, and the slowly continuing counterinsurgency action has provided abundant labor.

Fujian is a place with many mountains and few fields, and there are a large number of landless people, many of whom have been involved in this turmoil and become thieves, and then captured by the official army.

According to the traditional practice of the Song Dynasty, it is basically to extract the strong men among them and turn them into van troops, and most of the rest are given a little grain to be resettled on the spot, and they will fend for themselves to make a living, and at most they will reduce or exempt some taxes.

But this time it was different, most of the captives were first transferred to Quanzhou, Fuzhou, and under the unified management of the government, they were carried out 'labor reform', whether they had a skill or only had the strength to die, they could arrange corresponding work for you, but they would pay the wages.

There is no need to worry about the surplus of labor, because most of them will be immigrated to Liuqiu one after another, according to Zhao Mengqi's plan, at least 300,000 immigrants in one year, and one million in three years.

Since they have almost nothing, they will become employees of the development company for a few years after immigration, becoming 'wage earners'.

If you really can't adapt to this method, you can also get out of the company and buy or lease the ripened farmland from the development company after saving up for a few years, and become a 'free farmer'.

The aborigines of Liuqiu can farm, but they are basically slash-and-burn farming, and there are almost no really mature fields, so the most suitable way at present is to be led by the development company, provide sufficient material resources, and then collectively use labor, just like the military tun, reclaim wasteland to build water conservancy, and transform real fertile land.

After that, as long as the agricultural products can be planted smoothly, it doesn't matter whether it is a grange model or an individual farmer model, so the land can be rented and sold openly, after all, the development company is controlled by Zhao Mengqi, and the interests he pursues are not money.

Of course, in order to maintain the enthusiasm of investors, Zhao Mengqi also has to appropriately come up with profit points to stimulate them.

Before the development of agriculture matured, shipbuilding, fishing, salt, camphor, timber, animal skins, deer antlers, mountain delicacies, etc., were actually very profitable, which was enough to arouse the enthusiasm and confidence of investors.

In the short term, we can rely on the Fujian gentry to take the initiative or passively take out the grain stored in previous years, and then the fishery will provide some supplements, but at most it will only be enough to support two or three years, and after three years, the grain that will be in demand may not be self-sufficient.

Therefore, Zhao Mengqi naturally set his sights on the Indochina Peninsula, and Gu Qing, who was responsible for planning and implementing the preliminary action, came with the ship today.