A simple meal was arranged for noon, and the afternoon meeting was held as usual.
We have basically finished discussing economic issues in the morning.
At the beginning of the afternoon, Song Yang mentioned military affairs.
Everyone knows about Ruichang's self-reliance incident.
Proclaiming itself a country within an empire is an extremely bad rebellion.
No matter what dynasty it is, no matter how large it is.
As long as they are discovered, they will be eradicated with all their strength.
"Thanks to the prince for killing the thieves in time, otherwise once they get bigger, it will definitely take a lot of effort to clean them up."
"Yes! If we let them persist until the autumn harvest, they will have enough food to win over the people."
"That Zhao Wenbin is really hateful! He should be captured and cut into pieces!"
When talking about what happened in Changlong Kingdom, everyone expressed their gratitude.
The same goes for Song Yang. He never thought that Ruichang would make such a fuss about establishing a country on his own.
Although Zhao Wenbin's machinations accounted for the main component here, and bandits like Wang Neng did not have any ambitions.
But the alarm bells were ringing.
"This time it can be considered a wake-up call."
Song Yang looked at everyone and continued:
"The current situation is special. Since there can be a prosperous country, there may be a second and third one."
"Although such small forces are not strong enough to support, we cannot allow them to develop."
"So it must be discovered early and solved early!"
"In the next period of time, we will increase our efforts to detect nearby state capitals."
"The state capitals under government management and the state capitals without government management will be clearly counted and registered separately."
"For those under government management, those who can be won over can be recruited in my name. Those who cannot be won over for the time being should always keep the communication channels open."
"For areas without government management, appropriate officials should be dispatched to maintain social stability."
"If thieves are found to be plundering, the rebellious and self-reliant people will be killed immediately."
Song Yang said this, which can be regarded as a complete explanation of the current development situation.
The territory must be continuously expanded and control over as many places as possible must be gained.
As for the imperial court, everyone now knows that the imperial court is gone.
Otherwise, there would be no news for more than a month.
Therefore, everyone here has placed all their hopes on Song Yang, the direct vassal king of Daqian.
Song Yang looked at Yu Ming and said to him: "Because of this matter, sir, I will promote you to guard Jiangzhou!"
The garrison is the largest military attache in the state capital, and the generals of Jiangzhou Guard are the garrison.
Yu Ming was overjoyed and wanted to clasp his fists in thanks, but Song Yang stopped him.
Song Yang pressed his hands and continued:
"In addition, in order to ensure the stability of social order in various places."
"All prefectures and counties must maintain a standing armed force, called the Renaissance Army."
"In proportion to the population, 10% of the able-bodied men will be selected to carry out professional military training."
"Master Yu, I leave this matter to you. Be sure to select experienced guards officers to be sent as officers."
"The military attachés in various places gave the post of one hundred households."
"We must ensure the food supply for the standing armed forces. If there is insufficient food and grass, report it to the king and have it dispatched from the Yangxin Granary."
Song Yang looked at Wang Ran again and said:
"Master Wang, your focus must be on Daye and find out the situation of the Daye mine as soon as possible. The mine must not be used by people with evil intentions."
Song Yang didn't give everyone any room to discuss this speech.
In military matters, I do everything myself.
Several county magistrates and Yu Ming had no objections. It was not suitable for them to bring up such a sensitive topic as the armed forces.
Finally, after Song Yang finished talking about the basic arrangements, everyone started to add their opinions.
Liu Huairen said it would be best to add a navy army, or a water transport team.
Now all counties controlled by Song Yang have water transportation conditions.
In the future, many dispatches such as personnel, food, grass, and materials can be completed by water transportation.
Especially the issue of grain and grass transportation that Song Yang mentioned just now. There are still 30,000 stones of grain and grass in Yangxin, which is enough to supply the consumption of various counties.
But if you use land transportation, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
It's much easier to travel by water.
From Fushui, enter the Yangtze River to Poyang, and Ruichang, Duchang, and De'an can also be transported by ship.
"This is a good note. Can you recommend a suitable person in charge?"
Song Yang confirmed Liu Huairen's opinion, then looked at everyone and asked.
Yu Ming is a landlubber, and the Navy will definitely not be able to control him.
Of course, even if he could take care of it, he didn't want to. He still knew how to avoid suspicion.
"Your Majesty, I have a recommendation from someone here." The person who spoke was Qiao Jinglong.
It turns out he was talking about one of his classmates.
Song Yang had also heard of this man.
At that time, Song Yang and his party arrived in De'an, and when they were in the refugee camp, they heard about a classmate of Magistrate Qiao from Jianchang.
This man is a yamen official in Hongzhou Prefecture and had served in the Caoyun Yamen before.
"Ma Cheng is indeed a suitable person. He had a lot of experience in shipping at the Jiangning Water Transport Yamen."
The speaker was Wang Ran, who also knew his classmate Qiao Jinglong.
"Okay. Then this horse is done and let him be the water transport manager."
"First make statistics on all our medium and large ships."
"Establish a water transport fleet as soon as possible to ensure a certain combat capability."
"In addition to water transportation, we are also responsible for the exploration and development along the waterways."
Now is the time to employ people. Someone brought it up and Song Yang immediately made the appointment.
At this time, conditions do not allow it, and an organization like the Water Transport Yamen cannot be organized at all.
So Ma Cheng was given a new position, water transport manager.
Afterwards, everyone added some military-related suggestions.
Such as the distribution of horses, the creation and search of weapons, the reopening of mines, etc.
In the end, except for the reopening of the mine, Song Yang supported everything else.
"We are not considering mining at this stage. Mining requires too much manpower and material resources. We will wait until after the autumn harvest to discuss this matter."
"We need to carefully search for various metal tools and ores in the city."
"Even the sky fire won't miss these things, right?"
"The metal we have in hand now is not at all the amount we should have in the city."
"Let's look for it, look for it first, and let the mining matter go first."
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After the military mission, there is another important content of this meeting.
Government reform!
The first is the matter of Pengze's reconstruction.
There is no doubt about this; this is the established policy.
Re-establishing Peng Ze can strengthen his control over Poyang Lake.
Zhang Heng became the acting county magistrate of Pengze and returned to Pengze with the people seven days later.
After all this trouble, the people didn't complain.
After all, if you have food to eat, it doesn't matter where you are.
In order to build Pengze's resources, Song Yang allocated five thousand stones of grain and grass from Yang Xin.
It was enough to feed Peng Ze's five thousand people until the autumn harvest.
As for the matter of grain and grass transportation, it was left to Ma Cheng, the water transport manager whom I had not met yet...
"The first priority after returning home is to let the people settle down," Song Yang warned.
"Your Highness, don't worry, I understand." Zhang Heng nodded confidently.
He still has a high reputation in the hearts of the people of Pengze, and he is confident that he can manage the people of Pengze well.
There were 4,500 Pengze survivors.
Song Yang also allocated 500 people from the refugees from Jianchang to go there, and collected a total of 5,000 people for them.
In this way, the reconstruction of Pengze County will be settled.
After settling Peng Ze's matter, it's time to talk about the administration of officials.
Every county now has this problem.
There is really a shortage of people at the yamen gate. Let’s fill the number with ordinary people. They can do errands, but they can’t do detailed work without education.
After everyone discussed it for a long time, Song Yang finally made the decision that the officials' affairs should be settled by each locality.
You will be given full autonomy to use whomever you want, and you can use them directly if you find good seeds.
Just send a report every month!
In addition, all localities should find time to develop county schools.
If there are no talents, we will train them ourselves!