Both the court and the local government were worried that the army that Sun Yanzhou and other bandits would command independently after being recruited would be too large and would be too big to be defeated, but they were eager to completely eliminate the banditry in Dongting Lake before this autumn and winter.
Emperor Shaolong was also very concerned about this.
After all, this was a serious problem that the late emperor could not solve even when he was in power. He could completely eradicate it within one year of ascending the throne. In this way, he could write about his "great achievements". How could he not be enthusiastic about it?
Another thing is that no one wants to see Chushan have another opportunity to strengthen itself by suppressing the lake bandits.
However, no one can ignore Chushan's opinion on whether to suppress or pacify the Dongjing coalition forces, and how to suppress them.
The main force of the Nancai Navy had entered Sangchi Lake and established a water camp base in Chishan Bay. The soldiers and horses could quickly move south along the west coast of Dongting Lake, forcing the Dongjing Allied Forces to assemble a large army in the southern part of Shishou County to take precautions.
Chu Shan did not relent. No matter how tempting the conditions agreed by the imperial court were, the Dongjing Allied Forces did not dare to easily leave their home base and assemble in the designated city, let alone hand over hundreds of thousands of soldiers and families easily.
Who is not afraid that during the transfer of troops, the main force of the Nancai Recruitment Division will mercilessly thrust in like a sharp sword?
Isn't anyone alert enough to the collapse of Chishan Village?
Wei Chujun and Gao Juntang also knew very well where the deadlock lay. Faced with Xu Huai's tough demands, they both said they would send people to discuss with Sun Changyu and Ge Boyi before making a decision.
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As for the many details of the establishment of the Beijing-Xiangxiang Production and Construction Department, Xu Huai's many demands are not excessive.
Chushan governs the two prefectures of Rucai and Rucai to protect the enemies in the west of Beijing and Heluo. In addition to setting up Nancai County, the court also transfers more than 3 million guan of money and grain from Jinghu and other places every year to supplement the shortage of military resources. Now Nanyang, Xiangyang, Jing
The four counties in the north merged with the two prefectures of Ru and Cai to set up the Beijing-Xiangzhi System Construction Department. According to the books, there was no way to make up for such a huge shortfall.
Besides, Huaixi, Huaidong, Dongchuan, and Western Qin are all expanding their military establishments. It is impossible for the Chushan Army to continue to be limited to about 40,000 soldiers. If the expansion continues, the gap in military resources will be even greater.
After the imperial court established the Jingxiang Zhiji Department, if it did not want to subsidize additional military resources, it had to allow the Jingxiang Zhiji Department to be established in Nanyang and confiscate privately occupied land in Xiangyang to implement military garrison; of course, as of the money and food that should be allocated before the establishment of the Jingxiang Zhiji Department,
Xu Huai still had to reach out to the court to ask for it.
Post horses galloped between Changlin, Jiangxia, Yueyang and Jianye to deliver messages.
The Jingnan and Jingbei production departments finally decided to put more pressure on the Dongjing coalition forces. In addition to the further concentration of Jingnan soldiers and horses, Jingbei soldiers and horses also passed through Jingjiang and assembled at the Public Security and Shishou and other places on the south bank of Jingjiang River, forming a pincer attack.
The Dongjing coalition forces urgently bowed their heads.
The main force of the Dongjing Allied Forces headed by Sun Yanzhou is in Lizhou and the coastal area of West Dongting Lake in the east of Dingzhou has been completely blocked. Jingbei, Jingnan and Nancai Recruiting Division have assembled nearly 100,000 water infantry, purely as soldiers.
In terms of horse scale, it is no longer much lower than the Dongjing Alliance Army.
Sun Yanzhou and other thieves finally agreed to accept the recruitment conditions of reducing the number of troops and horses by 30,000 and dividing the garrison in late July. Emperor Shaolong issued an order to recruit a new army to the Germans and reorganize the Dongjing Allied Forces, with Sun Yanzhou as the commander. Hu Dangzhou and others
He was awarded the command of the capital and generals such as Du Yuhou, and moved to Guangzhou.
However, Xu Huai ultimately did not agree to transfer Luoshan to Guangzhou, because he still needed to be vigilant against the returning German troops at this time.
Luoshan is still the west gate of Shenzhou, and at the same time the north gate of Jinghu North Road. Before Chushan, great efforts were made to build the new city and improve the defense of the surrounding Wubao.
How could Huai be left to the defense of Sun Yanzhou, Hu Dangzhou and other surrendered generals at this time?
The court finally gave up.
At the same time, the Jingxiang System and Appeasement Department was formally established, with jurisdiction over Ru, Cai, Shen (Zhanzhou), Nanyang Prefecture, Xiangyang Prefecture and Jingzhou. Xu Huai served as the Jingxiang System and Appeasement Envoy, taking charge of military affairs.
The Production Department Office moved from Wuyang to Biyang County, Nanyang Prefecture.
In order to show his generosity, Emperor Shaolong specially gave Xu Huai the mansion that Zheng Huaizhong had previously built in Biyang City.
However, the mansion built by Zheng Huaizhong in Biyang City covers an area of more than 30 acres and has nearly 300 houses.
Xu Huai was not yet extravagant enough to occupy such a large house at this time, so he eventually divided the mansion and used the private garden in the northeast corner of the former county mansion as a private residence, where he lived with Liu Qiong'er and Wang Xuan.
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This private garden called Jingyuan covers an area of nearly five acres, with all pavilions, pavilions, and a small lake complete with rockery and rockery.
Xu Huaize put all other parts of the county government's residence under the jurisdiction of the government office instead of clearing another piece of land in the city for large-scale construction.
Including the samurai's residence, the original offices, ministries, and supervisory offices were not completely moved until late September, and it was only then that many messy affairs came to an end.
Xu Huai recommended Xu Wujiang to be the governor of Jingzhou, and he also led the military and horse supervision department of Jingzhou. He had jurisdiction over Zhangshan, Fantai, Changlin, Chishan, and Jianlidu Inspection Department. Jianli was the most affected by banditry, with more than 70,000 households in the county.
In the end, there were less than 20,000 left. The imperial court finally worked with Jianli to remove the county and establish the Inspection Department of the capital, and merged it under the rule of Jingzhou, Jingxiang Road; Chishan Bay was placed under the rule of the Inspection Department of Jianlidu.
The areas under the jurisdiction of the Capital Inspection Department implement military control of military villages and garrison operations, while the privately occupied fields identified in the three counties of Dangyang, Jingmen, and Jiangling are all transferred to the Capital Inspection Department for cultivation.
After Emperor Jianji ascended the throne in Xiangyang, in order to expand taxation, he conducted a thorough inventory of the privately held fields in Xiangyang Prefecture. However, in order to reduce conflicts, the privately held fields that were inspected were directly registered and registered, and the taxes were paid according to normal regulations.
The tax was levied and not confiscated.
Xu Huai recommended Cheng Lunying to the Xiangyang Prefecture and appointed Pan Chenghu as the Military Superintendent of Xiangyang Prefecture to reorganize and replace the Xiangyang Prefecture army of 10,000 people.
Apart from this, Xiangyang Prefecture needs some actions in terms of rent reduction and tenant reduction, etc., but everything else basically remains as it is.
The one who really needs major surgery is Nanyang Mansion.
Nanyang Prefecture governs fifteen counties in Tang and Deng states, with more than 700,000 households and more than 200,000 hungry people. In addition, Xu Huai also plans to move more than 100,000 excess hungry people from Jingzhou and Nancai to Nanyang for resettlement. This will be
An arduous task that lasts for several years to implement and improve step by step.
At the same time, the production department is located in Nanyang, which will also be the most important support for Chushan to resist the enemies in the west of Beijing and Heluo.
Nanyang Prefecture was headed by Shi Zhen, and Su Laochang was directly responsible for Qingtian affairs. In addition, Fan Yong was appointed as the Military and Horse Supervisor of Nanyang Prefecture. The Nanyang Prefecture Military and Horse Supervisor Department would basically set up an inspection department in every county.
The functions and powers of all the fully cleared fields, barren mountains, and river valleys, and the counties and counties were also consolidated under the control of the Metropolitan Inspection Department, and then the Inspection Department (Grain Warehouse) would be further established under the Metropolitan Inspection Department.
), taking over matters such as rural soldier training and tax collection from the hands of the local clan gentry.
In other words, Nanyang Prefecture General Magistrate Zhou Yunze and various county magistrates and other officials must be retained, and they will be transferred by the central government in the future. For the time being, Xu Huai can only control the county authority to the maximum extent through the Metropolitan Inspection Department.
The three states of Rucai and Shenzhou will implement the war zone system, and they will be divided into Ruzhou camp, Caizhou camp and Shenzhou camp. Wang Xian, Chen Zixiao and Xu Xin'an will serve as camp commanders respectively - in addition to the Tianxiong army's left, front and right towns' war troops
They were stationed outside the three states, each with a garrison of 10,000 to 15,000 men and horses; however, Wang Xian, Chen Xiao, and Xu Xin'an were mainly responsible for the defense of the theater, and for other matters in the three states, separate general judges and battalion commanders were appointed.
Officials are responsible.
After the Dongjing Allied Forces accepted the recruitment, the Nancai Recruitment Division was immediately disbanded. Tang Pan led the rear army and the Xuanfeng Army as the strategic general reserve force and transferred them back to Nanyang Mansion to station themselves; the Nancai Navy Army was also reduced accordingly, retaining one wing.
The men and horses were classified into the Jingzhou Military and Horse Supervisory Department sequence; part of the extra men and horses returned to Xinyang Water Army and accepted the control of Shenzhou's camp, and some were classified into the supply troops and garrison sequence.
In the Production Department, Xu Huai broke the old framework of the Cao Department, the Xian Department, the Army (Commander) Department, and the Cang Department, and established the Official Selection Department, the Duzhi Department, the Qingtian Department, the Criminal and Prison Department, the Military Information Counseling Department, and the Capital Water Prison.
, Engineering and Construction Supervision, Coal and Railway Supervision, Academic Affairs Department and other departments are headed by Shi Zhen, Su Laochang, Han Gui, Zhou Jing, Guo Junpan, Xu Wukun, Xu Wuliang and others.
Zhufengtang was officially included in the Zhisi Yamen, alongside the supervisory departments.
Although as of now, the production company's money and food are barely enough for turnover, Zhufengtang's total loan amount of 1.5 million guan around Nancai has been completely exhausted - in addition to paying interest of hundreds of thousands of guan every year on this loan, in the end this
The big hole still needs to be filled by the production company.
In addition, as the main force of the red cavalry moves south again, the military expenditures of the three states of Ru, Cai, and Shen will rise again on a large scale. Nanyang will carry out large-scale garrison construction, and nearly 400,000 hungry people will need to be gradually resettled. More than 400,000 hungry people in Jingzhou will be resettled.
The work can only be said to be initially completed. The subsequent construction of a large number of villages, embankments, and large weirs will require continuous investment of money and grain.
If the reclamation is to be effective, or even to support the military, it will take at least three to five years of operation. However, in the next three to five years, the expenditure gap between Beijing and Xiangzhou will only become larger and larger.
This is without further expansion of military preparedness.
Emperor Shaolong was able to readily agree to the establishment of the Beijing-Xiangxiang system in the end, simply because he saw this.
In this regard, Shi Zhen, Su Laochang and others advocated coinage.
After the establishment of the Zhizhisi in Dongchuan and the Western Qin Dynasty, Gao Junyang and Gu Jiqian successively cast iron coins in the name of the Zhizhisi in order to raise money and food for the army. Even one iron coin was no longer just used as a copper coin.
, but "worth ten" and "worth a hundred", were forcibly promoted in Dongchuan and Xiqin Road, and were used to distribute military pay, salaries, and purchase materials from the private sector.
If Jingxiang wants to make up for the huge gap, the best way is to follow the example of Dongchuan and Western Qin and issue coins in the name of Zhisi.
"To put it bluntly, this is still robbery. The price of food, which has finally been stabilized, will skyrocket again soon." Xu Huai stood by the small lake in Jingyuan and listened to Shi Zhen.
He made the suggestion of minting coins, frowned and said, "After all, it's still drinking poison to quench thirst!"
Xu Huai had long heard about the Dongchuan and Western Qin cast iron coins. Although both systems used this to supplement the shortage of military resources, the large-scale casting of iron coins and the rapid depreciation of the losses had to be borne by both people.
"Although there are many consequences, it is impossible not to drink at this time..." Shi Zhen said.
"The borrowing method of Zhufengtang can continue to be implemented." Xu Huai said.
"It is almost impossible for Zhufengtang to lend money to other countries, but to lend money within the counties of Beijing and Xiangyang, other than forced apportionment, the progress will not be too optimistic," Su Laochang stood aside and said, "Next, in Nanyang and Xiangyang
, Jingzhou carried out large-scale land clearing, and also reduced rents and limited tenants. The clans and gentlemen who had a large amount of money and food in their hands did not dare to resist on the surface, but they were extremely resentful in their hearts. How could they take the initiative to lend money and food to the system?
We can’t borrow money and food from the middle and lower classes except for the clans and clans, right?”
"I think it's not a bad idea," Xu Huai has been thinking about this for a long time, but now he has the opportunity to bring it up and said, "The poor people in the middle and lower classes don't have much money left in their hands, but with the accumulation of sand, three or four hundred dollars from Beijing and Xiangzhou
If all the remaining money in the hands of thousands of common people were gathered together, it would definitely not be a small amount..."
"The poor people only have three to five guan or one or two guan to spare, so it's not like Zhufengtang will come to their door and lend money to each household, right?" Su Laochang asked with a headache.
To finance the construction of Nancai County, Zhufengtang borrowed money in Xiangyang, Jiangxia and other places. They all borrowed money from large local merchants and pledge stores run by large clans. Among them, the Wang family borrowed money in total.
There are more than 200,000 yuan, so borrowing is relatively simple.
If we ask for loans from the poor people of the middle and lower classes, and each loan is as small as three to five thousand yuan or even three to five hundred yuan, how many loans must be made if we want to raise one million yuan?
How many people with accounting capabilities will be needed to complete this?
"It doesn't need to be so complicated. Dongchuan and West Qin cast iron coins. We can directly cast interest-bearing iron coupons worth ten coins or a hundred coins?" Xu Huai said, "Compared to Dongchuan and West Qin, they cast iron coins
It is used directly to purchase money and grain, and to distribute military salaries and wages, which eventually leads to skyrocketing prices among civilians. After the cast iron coupons we cast are released for an agreed period of time, interest will be calculated for repayment - this also means how many iron coupons we cast,
In the end, it still needs to be calculated together with the finance and expenses of the production department. The essence is still borrowing from the private sector, and the interference to private prices will be minimal..."
"Your Majesty's plan is something we have never thought of, so I might as well give it a try!" Shi Zhen said thoughtfully.
