In the afternoon, everyone entered Nancai City. The newly built Nancai City was not as deserted or deserted as imagined, but was even quite prosperous and lively.
In addition to the fact that Zhufengtang built Nancai as the core commercial goods transit base, the tea iron porcelain produced in Chushan and the required cotton and linen herbs were mainly transited through Nancai, attracting a large number of merchants to come here.
While building the city, Cai also developed ironware manufacturing, weaving and other industries on a large scale.
The iron workshop facilitates the transportation of iron materials from Chushan. It is processed in Nancai into various iron products and sold everywhere. It even prepares part of the armor and diverts it to Nancai - this is better than making ironware in Chushan.
Shipped to various places in Jinghu, firstly, the transportation is more convenient and the cost is lower, and at the same time, it also plays the role of refugee craftsmen.
At present, Chushan, Ru and Caizhou are also facing the problem of less land and more people. The cultivated fields are mainly used to grow various grains. The scale of cotton and linen cultivation is extremely limited. A large amount of cotton and linen needs to be imported from the outside every year to solve the problem of soldiers and civilians dressing to keep out the cold.
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Among them, the Chushan Army alone requires two to three hundred thousand sets of uniforms every year.
In the past, a considerable part of the money and food given to Chushan by the imperial court was directly converted into cloth. After the cloth collected by the imperial court from various places was transported to Chushan, it was then sewn by quilt factories in Huaiyuan, Chushan and other places.
Produces various finished products.
Nancai has a lot of people but little land. Even if the three major towns are all built, it will only be able to cultivate 300,000 acres of grain fields, which is far from enough to support more than 200,000 people. In addition to finding ways to divert people, large-scale development will also require labor
The extremely high handicraft industry was also an effective way to accommodate the population and increase taxes that Xu Huai repeatedly emphasized.
Therefore, cotton and linen were purchased from Jinghu and other places, and were concentrated in Nancai to be spun into yarn, woven into cloth, or even directly sewn into finished quilts, and then shipped to Chushan. This was also the time when Nancai County and Zhuxiang Divisions were focusing on promoting
work.
The development of the Weaving Institute in Zhuxiang Division below has been relatively late and has just started. After all, the production of spinning wheel looms also takes time. However, the Weaving Institute in Nancai City, which is the focus of construction and development, has recruited thousands of weavers to operate it.
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In addition, candle-making, paper-making, engraving and other industries have also developed some prototypes. The Chengnan Shipyard has also begun to recruit craftsmen on a large scale. Together with the merchants who have gathered here, the residents and the families of officials who have moved in from the surrounding areas, Nancai is now
The city has a population of nearly 10,000 people.
This can be said to be quite prosperous for the newly established Qiao County.
Many county-level cities in the world today have less than a thousand residents.
Tens of thousands of Nancai soldiers and horses have also been assembled. At this time, they are all stationed in various camps in the city. However, at this juncture, it is strictly forbidden to leave the camps and move around at will, otherwise the city will be even more lively.
After Xu Huai entered the city, he did not go to Jingshenghou Mansion to rest, but went directly to the County Weisi Courtyard.
The sources of the soldiers of the traditional imperial army are complex and uneven. They usually use generous rewards and give the generals and military officials the right to live and kill their subordinates, and implement strict class laws to control them.
While this ensures that the Forbidden Army has a certain combat effectiveness, it also results in insufficient cohesion within the Forbidden Army and unsatisfactory combat resilience. When encountering a strong enemy, it is extremely easy for unstoppable rout and surrender to the enemy.
After Emperor Jianji ascended the throne in Xiangyang, he reorganized the left and right Xuanwu Army, Xiaosheng Army and other royal camps and forbidden troops, as well as the Shenwu Army, the Huai Palace Army, and the troops commanded by Gu Jiqian and Gao Junjun. In addition to Jianrui selected from the Taiyuan Army and Civilian Inspection
It was supplemented and a large number of deserters dispersed by the Red Husbands were also collected. Although the brutal and bloody war made great progress in the combat effectiveness of the armies, the military management could not completely get rid of the restrictions of the traditional class law.
At the beginning of the Chushan Army, Xu Huai was determined to break the old personal control relationship between generals and soldiers, strictly prohibited lynching, focused on improving the social status of ordinary soldiers and low-level military officials, and focused on allocating fields and housing to the families of generals.
Measures were also taken to pay more attention to the training and education of grassroots military officers and military officials; in the early stage, Lifeng Academy was established, and in the later period, a special samurai studio was set up under the state school, and military officers and military officials at all levels were regularly selected for training.
The soldiers and horses of Nancai, as well as the grassroots military officers and generals, followed the tradition of the Chushan Army, but they mainly came from the refugees and hungry people captured after the victory of Panlongzhai.
The rebels still had great doubts and confusion in their hearts.
After learning that Xu Huai had officially obtained the Privy Council's order for recruitment and suppression, Zhou Jing, Fan Zongqi and others also immediately launched propaganda against the Nancai troops, but the effect was not very obvious.
Before the official departure, Xu Huai could not take into account the non-stop fatigue of the past few days. He rushed to the County Weisi to personally conduct a final inspection of the more than 300 team leaders summoned to the County Weisi compound, and they would all wait for the grassroots military officers and generals to conduct the final inspection.
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The team members recruited and selected from Nancai refugees will all be grass-roots generals. In the early stage, they mainly trained in the Nancai branch school. There is no chance to be included in the selected vanguard army for further training.
Xu Huai was not familiar with most of them, but the situation forced him to use this group of generals and military officials now.
Xu Huai and other people entered the county Weisi compound and first announced the official Nancai Bandit Suppression Control Department. Nancai County Weisi and Zhuxiangsi and corresponding personnel were all placed under the control of the Control Department.
Xu Huai took charge of the government himself, while Wang Ju, Guo Junpan, Zhou Jing, Zhang Xiongshan, Han Gui, Jiang Xie, Xu Sheng and others also took charge of the military affairs, and were in charge of orders, military information, baggage, supervision, and relays.
The soldiers and horses of Nancai were integrated into the Chushan Zuo Army. Fan Zongqi served as deputy commander and also commanded the Zuo Army's Sixth Chamber. Wuchichuan and Han Qihu served as Yuhou, the eighth and ninth Xiangdu of the Left Army; Wang Jun took over as Nan Cai's commander.
Caixian Wei commanded the navy under the jurisdiction of Nancai County Weisi, the county garrison and the rural soldiers and horses under Zhuxiangsi, and also commanded the labor camp.
In addition to the newly formed seventh, eighth, and ninth troops of the Zuo Army, the navy and county soldiers under the jurisdiction of Nancai County Weisi were also expanded to 3,000 people.
After formally conferring titles on the commanders, generals, team leaders and other military officers at all levels belonging to the three compartments, Xu Huai also personally gave a mobilization speech to all the generals and military officers:
"...Before the fall of Bianliang, although there were border troubles outside, exploitation by evil officials and evil gentry inside, and traitors and sycophants in the court who harmed the honest and good, the vast majority of the people generally lived a peaceful life where they worked at sunrise and rested at sunset.
.The red army invaded southward, completely breaking the peace. Countless old and weak women and children were brutally slaughtered. Countless villagers were forced to leave their homes and live in Jianghuai and Jinghu. They had no food to eat, no clothes to cover their bodies, and they were hungry on the roadside.
I don’t know how many people have been captured and frozen to death in the wind and snow——
"...Who is the biggest culprit that caused all this? Is it the officers and soldiers or the barbarians? If we don't resist, we will forget about the tragic deaths of millions of tribesmen and the occupation of tens of millions of people's homes. We will not think about regaining the Central Plains, nor will we think about it.
Retake our occupied homeland from the hands of the Huru, and ignore the folks who are still living in Hehuai, Hedong, Hebei, Guanshan and other places, struggling under the iron heel of the Chihu people, but the Chihu people
Will you be satisfied after occupying the Central Plains? Will the Red Iron Shoes continue to go south and just sit and watch us hold on to this half of the country and linger? Everyone knows very well that nothing in the world is so cheap..."
"...Many people are thinking, let's go north to fight against the Hulu. Most of the generals are willing, but why do we send troops to suppress the Dongjing bandit army? Many of them, like everyone else, have no livelihood.
, they were all forced to turn into bandits before they starved to death, fighting for the last chance of survival..."
"...Have you ever thought that a person is already a little weak? Facing a big man, he needs to use all his strength to be able to withstand it. At this time, there is someone behind him, tugging at the hem of his robe and dragging him behind.
Legs, does he still have hope of resisting the powerful enemy? Now that the emperor has been assassinated and the new emperor has not yet ascended the throne, we finally have a little breathing space. What is more urgent for us is to solve the problem that is holding us back first.
After this trouble, can we do our best to resist the powerful enemy?"
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"...Whether we are talking about the Dongjing Thief Army or the Dongjing Alliance Army, I know better than you here that the vast majority of them are forced to make a living, and I know better than you here that the vast majority of them are just for the sake of hunger.
Fighting for a way out before dying or freezing to death is like a drowning person trying desperately to grab anything he can before sinking to the bottom of the pond. But when drowning people appear around us, what should we do? Let them drag us along with them.
At the bottom of the pond, should you kick them aside and ignore them, or knock them unconscious with a stick, and then find a way to drag them ashore? You have to believe that the coalition forces entering Dongjing this time are not going to cause more killings.
What kind of military exploits can I get in exchange? I, Xu Huai, don't care about these military exploits - in the battle of Panlong Village, did I, Xu Huai, kill any innocent people indiscriminately?"
"... We are entering to suppress the Dongjing coalition this time, but our ultimate goal is to rescue more old, weak, women and children who are unable to extricate themselves from the chaos. Therefore, we have repeatedly emphasized our military discipline. First, we
It is strictly prohibited to kill indiscriminately and abuse prisoners of war. Secondly, we not only strictly prohibit looting and harming old, weak, women and children, but also provide every possible rescue. Thirdly, we must deal with those bandit leaders and stubborn people who commit heinous acts of rape, murder, robbery and kidnapping.
Followers, we must also attack them severely and not be merciful. The smoother and faster our campaign is this time, the harm to the real innocent people will be minimized..."
"... Time is very tight this time. In a hurry, I can only lead the troops and gather the above military officers and military officials to tell you the purpose and purpose of this campaign. After you go back, you must not only do it now
Tell your generals these thoughts. When setting off, marching, and during the battle of the Dongjing Allied Forces, remember to preach to your generals at all times. You should also think about these thoughts at all times.
The truth inside.”
No matter how displeased Xu Huai was among the officials, the generals of the Western Army represented by Gao Junyang and Zheng, and the generals of the Huai Palace, Xu Huai had won many victories since the Tongbai Mountain Bandit Rebellion.
Jun has already established an almost legendary image.
Although the training of soldiers and horses in Nancai was short-lived, only nine months, and the selected grassroots military officers and generals were mainly trained in the Nancai branch school, the battle of Panlongzhai and various rumors circulated among the people.
The officers in the prefectural branch offices, county bureaus, and township bureaus (inspection bureaus) are all direct descendants of Chushan, and they have subtly consolidated his status in their hearts, and even become more legendary.
Xu Huai summoned the grassroots generals and mobilized them personally. The effect was certainly beyond the reach of Zhou Jing, Fan Zongqi and others.
At night, dozens of bonfires were set up in the county Weisi compound, and more than 30 lambs were skinned and roasted on the bonfires in batches. Xu Huai and the generals happily sacrificed to the five internal organs temple in preparation for the start of the battle.
