After everything was discussed, Wang Ju, Shi Zhen and others left first to make arrangements. At this time, it started to rain in the yard, and the raindrops gave off a cold sparkle in the dark twilight.
It was a cold spring day, and Liu Qiong'er walked in wearing a coat. She saw Xu Huai leaning at his desk and looking at various piles of documents, and asked:
"How is the situation in Shangluo?"
Xu Huai raised his head and said: "There is no big problem in Shangluo. After the fall of Shangluo City, the Red Husbands used cavalry to enter the Shangyu River Valley and massacred the refugees, but they did not rush to mobilize infantry to advance under Shangluo City. It should be because of the We are in awe of the rainy season in the East Qinling Mountains. What is more urgent for us now is to evacuate the 100,000 refugees from Shangzhou to the hinterland of Xiangyang and Nanyang for resettlement as soon as possible..."
"Why don't you just stay in Jingzi, Xixia, Wuguan and other places for resettlement?" Liu Qiong'er asked doubtfully.
"Resettling in Wuguan, Jingzi, Xixia and other places seems to be the most convenient, quick and labor-saving, but this group of refugees have just left their homes and their hearts and souls are still undecided. The will has not really been tempered, so it is better to move out first..." Xu Huai said.
Most of the people in today's world are struggling at the bottom, enduring all kinds of oppression and oppression. They have their backs to the sky and their faces to the loess all their lives, working hard like cattle and horses, but without enough food or warmth. Therefore, they do not feel too strong in their hearts. With a sense of family and country, after the war came, they were not too eager to leave their hometown and escape from their homeland.
For them, being invaded by foreign enemies may just mean that a new group of masters will sit on their heads and shit and urinate.
Therefore, this time, even though Gu made a lot of preparations in advance in Lantian, Shangluo and other places, the number of people who escaped in the end was only a little over 100,000.
These refugees are currently stranded in Shangluo City - there is no shortage of people on Dongchuan Road, and it is impossible for Gu to go to all the trouble to move these 100,000 refugees thousands of miles to Ankang and other places for resettlement.
Although Chushan has done everything possible to develop Tongbai Mountain in recent years, the resources and experience available in Funiu Mountain have been very mature. With these experiences, large areas of mountainous land can also be developed along the Danjiang River west of Fangling and Neixiang. Development and resettlement of people, but Xu Huai had no intention of resettling these refugees on the spot.
Mainly, Jingzi, Xixia, Wuguan and other places will be classified as war zones, where they will have to confront the enemy for a long time and engage in battle. All the newly added people will be mainly used as reserve soldiers.
However, these Shangzhou refugees had just left their hometowns, and a considerable number of them even lived in towns, or were members of the landlord class. They had not experienced much hardship and were not yet qualified soldiers.
In comparison, the refugees from Hehuai, Heluo and even Hedong who had been forced to flee their homes since the beginning of the Chihu people's invasion are the qualified soldiers and the people in Jingxiang who are truly worth cultivating and exploring. military potential.
Over the years, they have been homeless, watching their children and relatives die of hunger and disease one by one. They themselves have endured hunger and cold for a long time, struggling on the edge of life and death.
The suffering they experienced made them numb on the one hand, and on the other hand, their will became extremely tenacious and they took life and death very lightly.
They can withstand strict, even harsh, cruel training, and dare to enter the bloodiest battlefields. After recuperating their bodies and equipping themselves with sufficiently sophisticated armor and weapons, they can Grow into the most elite tiger and wolf teacher.
Including Xichuan, Nanyang, and the Eastern Qinling part of Xiangyang Prefecture will be classified as a war zone. Of course, Xu Huai will give priority to filling in the young people recruited from Dongjing.
Xu Huai is now holding his breath. Not only does he have no intention of sending troops from Shangluo City to counterattack and massacre the enemy forces in Lantian, Shangluo and other cities, he will also abandon Shangluo City and withdraw the western defense line to the Wuguan line. He even orders Ru Cai Shen San to be stationed there.
The soldiers and horses of the state are not allowed to take the initiative to send troops to attack the enemy base that is approaching step by step. On the surface, it is to prevent the red Hu people's attack focus from shifting to the middle at any time.
The main thing is to save all resources and resettle millions of Dongjing refugees.
As long as this step is completed, Jingxiang will not rely on the support of the imperial court and will have the ability to independently conduct large-scale battles with the Chihu people in the middle.
Although the resettlement of millions of refugees is by no means an easy task, initial success is already in sight.
The land clearing work in Nanyang, Xiangyang and other places has been carried out for nearly half a year. In Nanyang Prefecture alone, more than 1.5 million acres of privately occupied land were cleared.
Taking into account the sufficient privately owned land in Xiangyang Prefecture and the smooth progress of farmland construction in the four counties of Nancai and Jingbei, the scale of farmland directly controlled by the company in the hinterland of Beijing and Xiangyang has exceeded four million acres.
It is expected that after the summer grain harvest is completed this year, not only will the millions of resettled refugees be able to initially solve their food problems, but inspections in each capital and township officials will be able to retain part of the savings to promote the subsequent construction of farmland, water conservancy and villages.
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Next, the production department can significantly reduce direct investment in refugee resettlement and other aspects, and invest more resources in the casting of armor and weapons and the expansion of a larger-scale standing combat force.
Speaking of resources, in addition to a sufficient scale of qualified reserve troops, the construction of the company's financial resources has also been a top priority since its establishment.
As the saying goes, soldiers, money and food serve you well.
After the establishment of the Production Department, the imperial court will no longer allocate additional money and grain. All expenditures need to be raised by the Production Department itself. Last year, because the Production Department was established late, the imperial court allocated an additional two million yuan of money and grain to serve as support.
Military resources.
What Shi Zhen is currently most busy with is cooperating with the work of clearing the fields, spreading all the Ding taxes other than the original grain taxes such as Ding's body money, exemption money, etc. into the acres of land, merging them into the most basic field tax, and making preparations for the collection of summer grain and autumn taxes.
Prepare.
The previous summer grain and autumn taxes were directly linked to the acres. In addition to further suppressing land annexation, restricting landlords, and rich farmers passing taxes to the middle and lower-class poor peasants, it also made it no longer meaningful to hide household registration. Jingxiang Road governs four prefectures and two
There are 51 counties in the prefecture, with a population of 4.12 million, more than 22 million acres of registered land, and more than 5.1 million acres of farmland. The total land tax that can be estimated at present is very large, but the prefecture (prefecture)
) County and township bureaus need to withhold a large amount of land tax to maintain their own operations, as well as local farmland water conservancy and repair of roads and walled cities. In the end, only a limited amount can be paid directly to the bureau.
It is currently estimated that the land tax that can be directly paid by the prefecture, county and township bureaus, plus the salt and wine that Nanyang, Xiangyang and Jingbei counties could collect before, the sales tax, customs tax (over-tax), and store tax, total about 500
Wan Guan or so.
Even though this figure is much higher than what the 51 counties on the Jingxiang Road could turn over in the past, this figure alone is still far from enough to support the large-scale battle between the Zhisi and the Chihu people in the middle road.
Of course, a considerable part of the production company's income is hidden and cannot be reflected in the accounts.
For example, the income of coal and railway supervisors is difficult to measure using accounts, money and food.????????????????p
In addition to the original three major iron-making bases, the Coal and Iron Supervision Bureau also took over the iron yard established by Xiangyang Prefecture at the northern foot of Jingshan Mountain and transformed it after the formal establishment of the production department. Currently, the annual production capacity of raw and wrought iron materials has exceeded 2,000
Five million catties.
Since the Production Department is responsible for promoting the construction of weirs, villages, river channels, etc., a total of nearly 2,000 kilograms of iron materials were directly transferred from the Coal and Railway Supervision. From a purely accounting perspective, the Coal and Railway Supervision has always been unable to make ends meet, requiring additional subsidies from the Production Department.
A large amount of money and grain were invested to maintain production, but the actual output was very huge.
Because the tools used on a large scale to reclaim wasteland, build embankments and walled cities were directly forged from fine iron, they were much more sophisticated than the pig iron tools used by ordinary farmers.
This is also a core reason why the resettlement of millions of refugees and the construction of canals and embankments went much more smoothly than expected.
It is also because of the existence of the Coal and Iron Supervision and Ordnance Institute, whether it is the previous camp or the current manufacturing department, that such a huge armament can be maintained with limited military resources.
At present, the Ordnance Institute can produce 10,000 sets of finely forged armors, more than 40,000 pieces of weapons such as swords, spears, and halberds, more than 4,000 pieces of various bows and crossbows, 200 bed crossbows, and 500 fine iron shield vehicles each year.
With an investment of more than 500,000 yuan of money and food, six thousand craftsmen can successfully operate it.
If the general was in charge of the prison in Jianye, it would be impossible to maintain the production of 10,000 sets of finely forged iron armor every year without a million dollars of money and food.
Next, Xu Huai mainly wants to promote the development of various workshops and workshops. Ordnance production, ironware, weaving, shipbuilding, porcelain burning, papermaking and other industries will also occur in Nanyang, Xiangyang, Jiangling and other places - evacuated from Shangluo.
There were 100,000 people, and there was not much land to accommodate them in a short period of time, so they wanted to use their young and strong labor force to expand the production scale of major workshops.
Xu Huai thought that after these tasks were initially sorted out, after autumn, he could go to Rucai to supervise the battle and welcome the upcoming battle in the middle...
