In the early morning, Yao Xishui and Yun Puzi escorted Li Yu, who was in extremely poor health, to Guangde Village.
Zhang Ping and Feng Yi went to Langxi to meet Gu Zhilong early in the morning. Han Qian left Zhao Wuji and his cavalry battalion to rest in Nantangzhai with 5,000 elites led by Lin Haizheng. He wrote a letter in the morning and sent a secret agent to deliver it as quickly as possible.
Yue Yang, surrounded by the guard camp, rushed back to the remaining city of Guangde without stopping before noon. At almost dusk, he caught up with Yao Xishui and others who had gone out in the early morning six or seven miles west of the remaining city of Guangde.
Han Qian slowed down, held the reins, and walked parallel to the carriage ridden by Li Yu, Yun Puzi, and Yao Xishui.
Although the children of the Chishan Army evacuated to the south of Jieling Mountain as quickly as possible, the evacuation to Fuyu Mountain was not fast and could not be too hasty. At this time, there were still a large number of temporary camps outside the remaining city of Guangde.
There were women and children in ragged clothes and sallow faces everywhere.
Although the village officials took the lead and the members of the women's camp and the youth camp dispersed and joined the small groups of slaves, the dilapidated camps of all sizes were able to maintain basic order and no chaos, but the weakness caused by long-term hunger,
The fatigue caused by the long journey and the confusion or numbness about the future are clearly visible.
When entering Guangde's remnant city (Guangde Village), Yun Puzi also saw the troops and horses of the Chishan Army's third capital stationed inside and outside Guangde Village. The soldiers and armor were so crude, and most of the generals were in ragged clothes.
It is quite weak, far from being comparable to the most elite Chishan Army's First Capital, and much inferior to the Second Chishan Army's where Gao Shao is the general.
This also directly reflects the lack of material supplies for the Chishan Army.
The dilemma faced by Han Qian was actually more serious than they imagined.
Just as Li Yu said, the Qiuhu Army really couldn't let Han Qian lead them by the nose several times and become extremely discouraged.
Ten years ago, Guangde City was destroyed by war. Numerous gaps were opened in the rammed-earth city wall by catapults. After the county was abolished, no one repaired the city wall. After years of exposure to wind, sun, and heavy rain, it became even more dilapidated.
, as if dense weeds were growing on each section of the mound, or forest birds were flying.
"Master Han is one of the top three or five people in planning. I think how heart-warming it was for the Chuzhou Army to win the great victory of Jingshan Nunnery, but I don't dare to test Master Han's truth." Yun Puzi couldn't help but follow Han Qian when he entered the city.
He said in conversation.
Han Qian smiled slightly and had no intention of paying attention to the former military supervisor of Shengzhou Jiedu Envoy. Yun Puzi's words were nothing more than saying that he was bluffing and had a fierce appearance but was actually vulnerable.
If they think this way, they will feel better about themselves, so let them do it.
Within the ruined city, the people who live here have not abandoned it. Many new houses have been built in recent years, and the population is not as dense as before. Many vegetable gardens have been cultivated in the open spaces, and you can still see the old days.
There are mulberry and jujube trees planted next to the streets and alleys. At this time, the shade is thick and the cicadas are chirping.
The house arranged for Li Yu to recuperate was from a wealthy family who had fled with their family before the Chishan Army came over. The courtyard with three entrances was located within the streets and alleys, but it looked elegant. There was a ginkgo tree in the courtyard that had been growing for hundreds of years.
In midsummer, the yard is also shaded and not so hot.
Han Qian sent Li Yu to the courtyard and said goodbye. Li Yu reluctantly stood up and said: "Failure is a person's heart, and success is a person's heart."
"What the prince said is true," Han Qian said, cupping his hands.
Yao Xishui looked at Li Yu and Han Qian suspiciously, unable to guess what kind of attack they were making.
Watching the carriages and horses of Li Yu and his entourage enter the house, go out to greet Han Qian, and accompany Feng Liao to escort Li Yu into the house, he said with emotion: "But it is the county prince who sees it best. It is a pity that his physical condition is so bad."
Poor, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive this summer and autumn, otherwise in the current troubled times, the future of the Li family will be difficult to estimate! This is also a fake Li family!"
Han Qian smiled slightly and did not take up Feng Liao's words. He listened to him, Ji Xiyao, Zhou Chu and others report on the situation in Guangde Village in the past few days since he had been away.
Guangde City was destroyed in the war between Chuzhou and the Yue King Dong Chang in the eighth year of God's Blessing. After that, Guangde County was abolished.
The main area of Guangde Jiuxian County is located between Fuyu Mountain and Jieling Mountain, almost sixty miles deep.
In addition to the towering hills and mountains on both sides, although the valley between the two mountains is extremely open and covers an area of more than 1.5 million acres, as an extension of the mountains on both sides, it may also be located in the terrain fold belt. This terrain is particularly
There are many pits and pits, and the valley is filled with endless low hills ranging from ten meters to thirty to forty meters, or mountain streams and ravines several meters deep and tens of meters deep crisscrossing the valley, extremely densely distributed in the valley.
This leaves this large seemingly flat valley with very little flat land that can be cultivated.
Although the ancient Yue people lived and multiplied before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the current preliminary estimate of the arable land in the past two to three thousand years is only about 200,000 acres, including the wealthy landowners, slaves, tenants and small farmers.
, there are only about 25,000 people in the whole territory.
The number of Dingkou in Xuzhou County is only about 30,000 people. The number of Dingkou in Chenzhou, Sizhou and other southwest Jizhou counties is even smaller, even less than 10,000 people. However, in the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, the old county of Guangde
The size of Dingkou is quite small.
Therefore, after Guangde County was destroyed, the central government simply transferred the old Guangde County to Langxi and Anji Counties to save the waste of rebuilding the remaining city of Guangde.
After Han Qian took control of the entire Guangde County, he first sent Feng Liao and Ji Xiyao to temporarily take charge of Guangde County affairs.
Although so many women, children, the elderly and the weak have been evacuated to Fuyu Mountain, it does not mean that they should be ignored. We must even take care of so many elderly, weak, women and children several times more meticulously than before, so that large-scale famine and epidemics will not occur.
This requires Feng Liao, Ji Xiyao and others who are good at official affairs to put more energy into it so that they can cover everything without making too many mistakes. At the same time, Han Qian also wants Feng Liao, Ji Xiyao and others to promote the preliminary work in Guangde Old County.
Farming work.
Fulfilling his original promise of conferring land to the slaves and enlisting in the army is on the one hand, doing everything possible to prevent the Chishan Army from becoming a refugee army, and having a place to stay, but more importantly, it must be under such harsh material supply conditions.
, to keep people's hearts from being distracted and to ensure that morale is not sluggish, then we need to give everyone hope of seeing the light of day.
The slaves who surrendered to the army were so weak, so vulnerable, and so ragged, but they also had an advantage that was easily overlooked by the world, that is, these lowest-level, most humble slaves, as long as you give them hope, they will
He has unimaginable endurance, tenacity and fearless courage.
This is what Li Yu said: "Failure is the basis of people's hearts" and "establishment is the basis of people's hearts".
As long as Han Qian ensures that the Chishan Army's people are not distracted and the Chuzhou Army and An Ning Palace fight, he can ignore it for the time being.
However, the matter of land transfer is extremely complicated and not as easy as imagined.
Of course, the land and houses of those large families who escaped could be expropriated directly, but they only had about 30,000 to 40,000 acres of cultivated land, which was simply not enough to carry out widespread land transfer to Chishan Army generals and their families.
The interests of the indigenous people also need to be maintained to avoid intensifying conflicts with local governments, and it is even necessary to further win the support of local small and medium-sized landowners and middle- and lower-class poor farmers.
The research here is too deep.
Based on the practice of measuring land acres and changing land taxes in Xuzhou, as well as the general ideas given by Han Qian a few days ago, Feng Liao worked out a plan with Ji Yaoxi and others, and waited for Han Qian to return to Guangde Village for further work.
Elaborate and improve.
Except for the large families who fled, whose fields and houses were expropriated, the other people who stayed in the local area were already large and small landowners who owned their own fields and houses. The draft decided to ensure their private ownership of their own fields and houses; the slave household registration was abolished throughout the territory, but tenants were allowed to be hired.
The servants worked hard, served, and spread the taxes and miscellaneous donations into the fields. The extra grain and grain collected were all borrowed in the name of the Chishan Army.
The real estates and houses of large households that could be confiscated amounted to more than 40,000 acres of farmland and 2,000 houses.
Since there is mostly dry land in Guangde, if it is really necessary to allocate farmland, each household will have to be granted approximately fifteen to twenty acres of land to barely maintain food and clothing for the whole family. In fact, this can only allow the nearly 50,000 households of slaves who actually surrendered.
At most, only one-twentieth of the population can be granted land in Guangde Old County.
Of course, the most important thing is to give demonstrative hope to the surrendered generals.
In addition to the confiscated fields and houses that can be used, there is still a large amount of land resources between Fuyu Mountain and Jieling Mountain that have not been developed.
This is mainly because for thousands of years, the population of Jiangnan East Road has not multiplied to the point of overcrowding.
In addition, the main reason is that the plains on both sides of the Yangtze River are open enough and rich in land resources.
Even if we want to develop new land resources, we can develop the tidal flats along the Yangtze River, develop the tidal flats along the Taihu Lake, and develop the tidal flats along the coast that continue to extend eastward with sedimentation.
These are more time-consuming and labor-saving than reclaiming sloping terraces; the paddy fields that are reclaimed are mainly paddy fields, which produce more grain than sloping terraces.
Especially to the east of Guangde is the fertile plain on the southeast coast of Taihu Lake.
However, under the current conditions in Guangde Old County, Han Qian has to cultivate sloping terraces on the low hills that are tens to thirty to forty meters high. There is also a hillside deep in Fuyu Mountain and Jieling Mountain.
A small undeveloped valley basin can be reclaimed.
There is too much tedious work to do in the early stage, and the progress will be quite slow.
Fortunately, although there is no way to transport the fine soldiers and armor from Xuzhou on a large scale, the Chishan Army's 30,000 generals, soldiers, armor and war equipment are seriously lacking, but iron farm tools are still sufficient after searching Lishui, Pingling and other places - even if the wealthy family
No matter how harsh and exploitative you are, you still have to give the slaves at the bottom enough tools to engage in production.
Everything must be advanced step by step, so that the generals and children who have been struggling at the lowest level can see hope and see the dawn, so that the hearts of the Chishan Army will not be distracted.
Of course, in addition to cultivating sloping terraces, utilizing surplus labor and organizing the production of more other primary industrial products that can be traded with the outside world such as grain, cloth, salt, etc. (not plundered) are also core means of production self-rescue.
In addition to the more than a hundred craftsmen and engineers who have followed Ji Xiyao eastward, the reinforcements sent from Xuzhou to Guangde will also be dominated by craftsmen and engineers.
Guangde County also needs to establish extensive township inspection departments within its borders and in the depths of Fuyu Mountain. It will combine the traditional township service system and the practice of the inspection departments in Xuzhou to promote the integration of military and political affairs at the township level.
1. The township official system that combines production with war preparation and training to strengthen the reclamation of new fields, strengthen the construction of mines and workshops, and focus more on strengthening the protection of women and children evacuated into the mountains.
After dinner, Han Qian took the articles drawn up by Feng Liao and Ji Xiyao and revised them under the lamp. He blew out the oil lamp at dawn and fell asleep at his desk for a while. When he heard someone's voice in the yard, he looked up and looked out the window, but it was Wang Jun wearing a uniform.
Wearing an aqua-green skirt, Bai Xi's face was as clear as the first snow under the morning light, but at this time, she was blocked from the yard by the guards.
Han Qian rubbed his face and motioned to the guards to let Wang Jun come over.