Although it did not take much effort to capture Yizhou Island, the Huaidong Military Division still promoted it as a victory.
It's a pity that Lin Fu's intentions did not receive a good response.
The Sun, Zhou and other tribes, as well as Huaidong local and Dongyang Township party forces, are not only not interested in developing Yizhou Island, but also have no interest in sending ships to cross Yizhou Island to explore the Southeast Asia.
For a long time, countries such as Goryeo and Fuso in the Haidong region have had close contact with the Central Plains, and their influence has been profound. The recorded history of shipping ships traveling between the two places can be traced back to six or seven hundred years ago. This is also due to the influence of the Central Plains culture in the Haidong region.
It is very deep and developed early, so it is profitable to carry out maritime trade. Since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, almost all maritime merchants in the Central Plains have been limited to dealings with the Haidong region.
Sun, Zhou and other maritime merchant families who moved south had limited knowledge of Yizhou Island. Only under Lin Fu's personal promotion did Huaidong send ships and people systematically in the past two or three years.
To explore the situation of Yizhou Island and the surrounding sea areas; the understanding of the Nanyang Islands and sea areas further south of Yizhou Island is even vaguer.
Sun, Zhou and the local forces in Huaidong were not interested, and the Huaidong Military Division did not have the energy to develop Yizhou Island in a short period of time.
For the time being, Lin Fu only asked the military commander to formulate a plan to station troops on Yizhou Island and relocate the residents according to the number of acres of land that had been developed.
Yizhou is very wild. The county town built by the She family in the northwest corner of the island in the early years was only about two miles wide. It was a low city wall built with rammed earth, which was not even as good as an ordinary walled city. There were only low and dilapidated houses in the city.
The houses and even the county government offices are covered with thatch, and there are only two main streets that become muddy when it rains.
Due to the war, the She family has only taken from Yizhou without investing in these years, which is also the main factor why Yizhou's situation has become more and more miserable in recent years. Yizhou City is also located in a rainy area and the city wall is like an old man's mouth, and is in a state of decay. Otherwise, Sheji
Even if Wenzhuang wants to give up Yizhou, it will be difficult for others to follow suit so decisively.
Just as in the early years, moving south to serve in places such as Eastern Fujian and Guangnan was regarded as a severe punishment for dereliction of duty. Although Huaidong occupied Yizhou Island, there were several vacancies for county magistrates and assistant officials, without the consent of Jiangning.
We can send people to fill them, but there are still very few people in Huaidong who are interested in these vacancies.
Lin Fu naturally attached great importance to Yizhou Island, but when it came to making personnel arrangements for the governance of Yizhou, he had a headache.
The few people in Huaidong who could realize the strategic position of Yizhou Island like Lin Fu all had important responsibilities, and Lin Fu could not let them go; those who regarded Yizhou Island as a barbarian land, and regarded it as derogatory to serve as an official on Yizhou Island
Even if they are forced to move over to serve as officials, most of them will not be able to perform their duties to the best of their ability.
Lin Fu could only temporarily order Zhou Tong to lead the Chongcheng Infantry Camp to take military jurisdiction over Yizhou, temporarily delay the personnel arrangements for political officers, and at the same time ask Zhao Qingshan to send a ship to go around Jieyang to contact Yu Wangao.
department.
Guangnan County cut off contact with Jiangning due to Jueling Road. Jiangning did not receive any definite news from Yu Wangao's tribe for more than a year. Yu Wangao's troops could not obtain supplies from Guangnan, so they only relied on a corner of Jieyang to fight against the She family. The situation
It is not optimistic. However, in the past year or so, the troops deployed by the She family on the southern front have not been significantly reduced, which means that Yu Wangao's troops are likely to still resist in the Jieyang area.
In addition, Zhao Qingshan was asked to dispatch sea ships from the First Water Camp to explore the Nanyang route.
In the next few days, Lin Fu mainly discussed with Liu Miaozhen the matter of building a defense line in Huaiyang.
Although the Red Coat Army only had 30,000 soldiers, these 30,000 soldiers were veterans selected from tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Huaisi migrant troops.
Since the refugee army has undergone two large-scale selections and downsizing, the Red Coat Army's armor and bow and crossbow assembly levels are much better than those of the ordinary refugee army.
This was also one of the reasons why Lin Fu opened his mouth and allowed the civilian army to advance eastward. Liu Miaozhen led his troops to guard the rear of Huaiyang Palace, but Chen Zhihu did not dare to lead his troops in pursuit.
In the past four or five months, about 40,000 kilograms of rice grains have been transported to Huaidong every month, a quarter of which was agreed to be used as military food for the Red Coat Army. Almost each person can get more than 30 kilograms of rice per month.
supply of food.
By the standards of the Huaidong Army, this supply level is still a bit low, but without heavy physical exertion, the supply of more than thirty kilograms of rice and grain per month is enough for the Red Coat Army to fully rest.
No matter how many words you pay, no matter how high-profile your promises are, it will never make people completely let down their guard.
Even if it is known that Huaidong's ultimate plan is to use the Red Coat Army to build a line of defense in Huaisi to resist the Donghu people's southward attack, the Red Coat Army has had a real opportunity to rest and recuperate after fighting in the world in the past four or five months, which is enough for them to
The Red Coat Army has a good impression of Huaidong from top to bottom.
After the Red Coat Army accepts the recruitment, it will be reorganized into Huaiyang Military Town and accept the control of the Huaidong Military Division. Jiangning will supply 8,000 stones of grain and 6,000 taels of silver to Huaiyang every month through the Huaidong Military Division controlled by Liu Tingzhou.
——In addition to this, Huaidong will supply an additional 10,000 stones of grain and a certain amount of meat to Huaiyang Town to ensure that the Huaiyang soldiers return to the material supply standards for high-intensity combat training.
Huaidong will also secretly push Huaiyang, Suining, Suyu and other three counties through Li Wei and others to first use the newly reclaimed and government-owned fields to resettle the families of soldiers in Huaiyang Military Town.
The Huaiyang or Huaisi defense line is inseparable from the four words "strong walls and clear fields".
The strong wall means building a frontier fortress defense line with Huaiyang City as the core.
Huaidong will provide sufficient materials and necessary manpower support to ensure that Huaiyang can burn earth to make bricks and cover Huaiyang's earth city with bricks before winter. It is also necessary to build a new building between Huaiyang and Suining before winter.
On the west bank of the Bian River, a slightly smaller brick city was built. While stabilizing the Huaiyang defense line, it also controlled the Bian River to ensure that Huaidong could smoothly transport materials and resources through the Bian River to Huaiyang during wartime.
Line of defense.
On the outskirts of Huaiyang, we must resolutely clear the country, evacuate the population to the south of the defense line, and destroy the villages and houses so that the Donghu cavalry can enter the outskirts of Huaiyang without the possibility of supplies and rest.
On the inner line of Huaiyang, repairs should be made according to local conditions, the original earthen forts should be strengthened or stronger small forts should be built, and refugees should be concentrated to increase the resistance to the small-scale Donghu cavalry that penetrated from the defense line.
In order to ensure that many defense line construction tasks such as collecting soil to make bricks, logging and building forts, and importing large amounts of materials can proceed smoothly, Huaidong will recruit brave men in Huaisi and organize a labor camp of about 30,000 people; this can also
Ensure that the reorganized Huaiyang Town of the Red Coat Army is fully trained.
In addition, Huaidong will liberalize the supply of iron materials to Huaiyang, but it will need to recruit a large number of craftsmen from Huaisi refugees and concentrate them in Shanyang County to build armor, farm tools, other iron tools, and even various tanks to supply Huaiyang.
In terms of material supply, Huaidong has reserved a supply of 1 million kilograms of rough iron and 300,000 kilograms of fine iron for the Huaisi defense line before the end of the year. In fact, Shanyang County will recruit craftsmen on a large scale from now on.
It is difficult to use up so much iron material to build equipment.
Obviously, Huaidong can allow the generals of Huaiyang Town to control the military power without leaving behind, but it will not allow Huaiyang Town to separatize Huaisi. However, once Huaidong's conditions are agreed to, when the Donghu army rolls in, Huaiyang Town will support
During this period, in order to ensure that the families and children of the Huaisi labor camp were not harmed in the Huaisi area, Huaidong would also send troops to join the Huaiyang defense line for joint operations.
Obviously, the Red Coat Army finally managed to survive the life-and-death struggle. At this time, most generals no longer had the ambition to separate themselves and establish themselves as kings and hegemons. If they did not give up military power, they were just worried about what the imperial court would do in the future.
If you go back on your word, just deal with them.
In addition, according to this plan, Huaiyang Town and Huaisi Workers' Camp will absorb 60,000 strong men, plus recruit craftsmen from the refugees. Counting small families, they can cover more than 300,000 people. In fact,
This will solve the survival problems of most of the refugees stranded in the Huaisi area, and the remaining 100,000 refugees will either be moved to other places or resettled on-site, and the pressure will be reduced a lot.
Of course, to achieve this step, the amount of rice grain imported from Huaidong to the Huaisi area will suddenly increase from the current 40,000 dan per month to more than 60,000 dan.
If Huaidong hadn't been able to transport nearly 80,000 kilograms of grain from Haidong every month, it wouldn't have been able to support such intense consumption.
Regarding the replenishment of Huaiyang Town's armor, Lin Fu also promised that in addition to the ordnance factories established in Shanyang County to mainly supply Huaiyang Town, Huaidong's ordnance factories in Guanyintan, Jiangmen, and Hecheng would also provide additional weapons every day.
We will supply Huaiyang Town with 200 sets of armor and 200 pieces of high-quality crossbows every month.
On the 21st, Liu Miaozhen left Chongzhou to the north and returned to Huaiyang. On the east side of Huaiyang, Sun Zhuang still led a group of cavalry to escort him along the way. After Sun Zhuang arrived in Huaiyang, he still obeyed Qin Chengzu's dispatch.
Sun Zhuang will bring a copy of the summary of the three-day discussion between Lin Fu and Liu Miaozhen to Qin Chengzu. Based on this summary, Qin Chengzu will refine the details with Huaiyang Town and then order all ministries to implement it.
Liu Miaozhen was sitting in the car, wearing a bronze mask, listening to the sound of ruts, and looking through the gauze curtains at the wheat fields where farmers were harvesting on the inner side of the Hohaidao Road. She felt quite complicated.
Lin Fu said that her brother only had ambitions to harm the world and had no intention of reassuring the people. She was not convinced. However, in the past few years, he had fought against the world and became weaker and weaker. The hinterland of the Central Plains became more and more chaotic. A large number of people died due to the war, and the fact that they were displaced made
She couldn't argue. In the end, she became more and more stuck, and even she forgot her original intention to rebel.
Liu Miaozhen came here full of wariness. She was not afraid of Lin Fu detaining her, but she always suspected that Huaidong had deep calculations and was not well-intentioned.
Huaidong promised such sufficient material support, how could she question Huaidong's intentions?
For the vast majority of the generals who took up sharpened bamboo poles to rebel, it was just to avoid starving to death, but Huaidong truly promised a peaceful and contented life.
At this time, Liu Miaozhen could also understand why Sun Ganzi gave up the general position of Qingche Captain in Huaiyang Town and was willing to join the army as an unimportant commander in the Huaidong Army.
Sun Ganzi was able to abandon his family and life in order to repay the kindness of his old master. Obviously, fame and fortune could not be bought. What impressed Sun Ganzi in Huaidong was not fame and fortune, but a life and work in peace and contentment that was vague before and maybe only gradually became clear after joining Huaidong.
Earth's dream.
Even Sun Ganzi served Huaidong wholeheartedly. I'm afraid the influence on the generals of the Red Coat Army will be very serious, right? Liu Miaozhen didn't know whether to limit the spread of this influence in the army.
She could think that this influence might be intentional by Lin Fu, but Huaidong's upright plan made her unable to resist; maybe the moment she decided to go eastward, she would jump into the cage that Huaidong had prepared long ago and then
You can’t fight your way out, right?
After passing Siyang, Li Liang led his troops to greet the Huaiyang City. Apparently, he had completely relaxed his guard against the Huaidong Army. Liu Miaozhen didn't say anything. He just wanted to return to Huaiyang as soon as possible to build the Huaiyang defense line.
matter.
Liu Miaozhen secretly returned to Huaiyang on the 23rd, and sent someone to formally notify Liu Tingzhou, who had been stranded in Huaiyang for eleven days, that the Red Coat Army would officially accept the recruitment and establishment as the Huaiyang Town Army from that day on, and accept the control of the Huaidong Military Division, and
Agree with Jiangning to dispatch political officers to Huaiyang, Suining, and Suyu and select subordinate officials from local areas to preside over civil affairs.
Liu Tingzhou didn't know about Liu Miaozhen's secret trip to Chongzhou. He was extremely satisfied with the outcome of the recruitment negotiations that lasted for more than two months.
Like everyone else in Jiangning, Liu Tingzhou didn't think much of the possibility that the Donghu people could penetrate the Hehuai defense line and advance to the north bank of the Huaihe River. In his opinion, as long as the Huaisi area could settle down, they would still have an elite fighting force like the Red Coat Army.
If the power is used by the imperial court, there is still a chance to calmly recover from the chaos in the Central Plains.
Liu Tingzhou even thought of adding the Huaiyang Army, Chen Hansan's Xuzhou Army, Gu Siyuan's Qingzhou Army, and the Liang family's troops in the river and plains plus the Changhuai Army led by Tao Chun who retreated into Qinghe. The total number was almost 180,000.
If Yanjing could sustain its military strength for a longer period of time, it would not be impossible to mobilize so many troops and horses to the north, drive the Donghu people outside the pass, and relieve the siege of Yanjing.
But thinking about it carefully, Liu Tingzhou knew that this was impossible and Huaidong would definitely hold him back.
Huaidong's attack on eastern Zhejiang under the guise of King Qin actually put Yanjing in a desperate situation and solved the crisis in Jiangning, and even gave King Ning a chance to ascend the throne in Jiangning. Therefore, Jiangning finally approved Huaidong's attack on eastern Zhejiang.
.And if the siege of Yanjing is resolved, the people of Yanjing will never forgive Huaidong's crime of deceiving the emperor lightly if they have the chance.
Liu Tingzhou also knew the role Huaidong played in recruiting the Red Coat Army. Maybe Huaiyang Town would be more obedient to Huaidong than Jiangning from now on. Chen Hansan occupied Xuzhou again and refused to obey the orders or propaganda. The Qingzhou Army probably did not
A few soldiers capable of fighting tough battles seem to have deployed 180,000 soldiers on the Hehuai front line. Later, they will be supplemented by salt and silver from the two Huaihe areas. The strength of the Hehuai front line will continue to expand, but there are still many crises.
On the way to Jiangning to resume his duties, Liu Tingzhou was wondering whether Xiao Kui'an's troops should be transferred out of Shuyang to strengthen the defense line in the west of Huaiyang? But after all, Xiao Kui'an's troops belonged to the Huaidong Army's Sibei Army establishment, so they would be transferred westward.
Under the jurisdiction of the Huaidong Army Division, would Jiang Ning agree to the Huaidong Army Division's defense area continuing to expand eastward, or would Lin Fu agree that Xiao Kui'an's troops would completely separate from the Huaidong Army Division, but how would the supplies of Xiao Kui'an's troops be solved in the future?
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Liu Tingzhou felt that all these things were so entangled that it was confusing and giving him a headache.