All preparations for the capture of Liyang had to make way for war preparations.
Now that the war has entered a buffer period, Han Qian needs to solve a large number of problems that have been accumulated before.
First of all, after a large number of officials were transferred to Tangyi, there were a large number of vacant official positions in Xuzhou. Reliable people needed to be filled immediately to ensure that the foundation would not go wrong and develop steadily.
Just as Han Qian transferred a large number of people including Feng Liao, Guo Rong, Gao Shao, Tian Cheng, Feng Xuan, Lin Haizheng, Zhao Qi, Zhou Chu, Kong Xirong, Feng Zhang, Feng Yi to Tangyi years ago, Xuzhou continued to hold official positions
For the selection and appointment, Han Qian did not plan to select people entirely from within Xuzhou. He considered selecting a group of people from the old Zuo Guangde Army, and sending people like Qiao Weiyan who were talented, had their own ideas, and could accept Xuzhou's new policies.
Served in Xuzhou.
In addition to accelerating the expansion of the number of generals in Xuzhou, there is another factor that Han Qian has been working hard to do, which is to promote the integration of the southwest border land and the Jianghuai hinterland, instead of closing Xuzhou.
Furthermore, the warships of the Lou Chuan Army have gone south from the Huaihe River and entered the river network in the south of Shouzhou, the north of Chaozhou and the south of Hongzepu. The Tangyi soldiers want to continue to push the front north and at the same time push the Chuhe River.
, Chaohu and the Zhegao River in the northeast of Chaohu are firmly controlled by the water network to support the landside camps. In addition to the more than 200 warships currently in force, a number of medium and large merchant ships must be transformed into warships.
Corresponding boatmen and sailors must be recruited into the camp.
In the future, the bulk material transportation between Xuzhou and Tangyi can only be handed over to the Chishan Society.
At the same time, the Chishan Society will also be a link to strengthen the connection between Tangyi and Xuzhou.
If the bulk material transportation between these two places is taken over by the Xiang and Yang fleets, there may not be any problems in the short term. But as time goes by, the Baobing native forces will no longer be ready to make a comeback.
thought.
In integrating native and foreign residents, many things must be based on Hakka registration and integrate native residents into the process, rather than the other way around.
The Chishan Society will be responsible for this, and it will inevitably plant part of its foundation in Xuzhou. With this foundation, Han Qian can then win over the transportation of grain tribute and salt from various places on the court, and the Chishan Society will be responsible for it.
, establish a more professional and efficient water transportation system.
After leaving the dock, Han Qian rode back to Tangyi City and discussed some of his ideas with Qiao Weiyan and Han Chengmeng one by one.
The people currently staying in Xuzhou are mainly Xi Xunqiao, Xi Chang, Ji Xiyao, Chen Jitang, Han Dong, Zhao Jicheng and others. Han Qian also patiently talked to Qiao Weiyan about the abilities and temperaments of these people.
He will later recommend Xi Xunqiao, Xi Chang as the governor of Syria, Sima, and others to assist Zhao Ting'er in handling the military and political affairs of Xuzhou. He hopes that Qiao Weiyan can get acquainted with everyone and Tan Yuliang as soon as possible after arriving in Xuzhou.
, ensuring that Xuzhou can maintain stable and rapid development in the future.
Only in this way can we more effectively support the operations and construction in Tangyi.
If Xuzhou cannot be stabilized and chaos occurs, the problem will become extremely difficult, and Han Qian and others will also be in a dilemma.
Hearing Han Qian talk about many new policy ideas for governing Xuzhou, Han Chengmeng and Qiao Weiyan had never heard of them before, and they were all ashamed of their past self-proclaimed talents.
Next, Han Qian told them about Tianpingdu and Wuchuan Valley.
Tan Xiuqun led the elite of Tianpingdu's third battalion to serve King Qin. After arriving in Tangyi, he did not hesitate and directly participated in the bloody battle at the western foot of Fucha Mountain. Qiao Weiyan and Han Chengmeng were able to confirm at that time that Han Qian was indeed responsible for the civil unrest in Sizhou.
Support behind.
Otherwise, even if the relationship with Xuzhou was harmonious after accepting the recruitment, Tan Xiuqun would not be able to directly throw the elite members of his direct line into such a vicious battle without reservation.
However, they were still deeply shocked when they heard Han Qian talk about more inside information about the Wuchuan Valley, especially the fact that the output of well salt in the Wuchuan Valley this year may be 60,000 to 70,000 shi higher.
According to old information, there are two salt wells in the Wuchuan Valley, but they only produce one or two thousand rock salt every year. Who can imagine that Xuzhou produced so much rock salt in just one year after taking control of the Wuchuan County Salt and Iron Supervision Institute?
From the salt well?
There are only more than 20 newly opened salt wells in the valley east of the Wuchuan River Valley, which is not as many as expected. However, when digging small deep wells, a fire well (natural gas well) was opened by luck, which directly solved the problem of more than 20 salt wells.
The fuel problem for boiling salt with Yan Arai brine reduced the actual manpower investment by more than half than expected.
The actual cost of the well salt produced in Wuchuan County after being shipped out of Xuzhou was less than a hundred yuan.
In other words, Wuchuan County's annual salt profit is as high as 200,000 yuan, and counting the output of the seven counties in Xuzhou, it can provide Tangyi with a total of nearly 500,000 yuan of grain support every year.
In addition, the Privy Council allocates 400,000 yuan for food and military supplies to the 20,000 Imperial Guards each year, which means that Tangyi may spend millions of yuan on military supplies every year in the future, and the gap is far less big than they thought before.
Of course, Tangyi’s initial expenses are still too high.
In the previous fierce battles, Xuzhou's savings over the past few years were completely depleted. Even the more than 300,000 yuan of money and food raised by the Han family disappeared as if they were thrown into a bottomless pit.
Not to mention that the Shouzhou Army does not have the strength to fight another vicious war, the Tangyi Army does not have the ability to launch another offensive like the Liyang War. Currently, it only relies on the more than 20,000 yuan of food allocated by the Privy Council every month to maintain normal expenses.
Large-scale construction will be carried out in the future, and additional money and food will need to be raised.
At present, Tangyi has a total of 120,000 soldiers and civilians. In addition to 20,000 generals, the remaining 100,000 subordinates are almost all generals and soldiers.
According to the lowest relief standards, one hundred thousand generals and their small families can barely make ends meet with only more than 30,000 shi of food per month. But if they are to be used to dig ditches, build embankments, build houses, walled cities, and cultivate new fields
, participating in the construction of the Jiangfang Mine, even if no additional wages are paid, it is just to let them eat enough and ensure a certain amount of nutrition, which requires at least 100,000 stones of food per month.
This does not include the consumption of a large amount of manufacturing tools.
Based on these two points, an additional 600,000 to 700,000 yuan may be invested in the next year; in the short term, we can only rely on the Han family to continue selling fields and houses in Xuanshe and other places to raise money and food.
After all, this is still the cost of the initial resettlement of 100,000 subjects.
In the future, we want to build a remote embankment between Liyang and Tangyi to block the river water, and we also need to develop and build on the east bank of Chaohu Lake to the west of Liyang, which is the newly established Donghu County, which will require money and food.
Even more days.
Of course, if Mrs. Qiao and Mrs. Chen are willing to spend more than 100,000 yuan, the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau and the Bureau of Industry and Construction can open the door for them to participate; Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Qiao can also recommend their children to go to Xuzhou or
He was appointed as an official in Tangyi.
These will require Qiao Weiyan and Chen Zhiliang to do the work of their respective families, and Han Daochang will also do their best to lobby.
With the secret support of Lu Qingxia, Li Zhigao could not really control the Zuo Longque Army. The problem was money and food.
In recent years, the Xinchang Hou Mansion has secretly maintained a huge espionage system, which consumes a lot of money. No matter how well it is managed, its savings are extremely limited.
At that time, the Taowu Army Mansion gathered the hungry people affected by the epidemic and organized and trained the Longque Army. An additional two to three hundred thousand yuan was invested in food, which almost wiped out their family wealth.
After that, the war continued. In addition to normal military expenses, Li Zhigao never received additional money and food support, so he couldn't do many things.
At this time, Li Zhigao nominally controlled the military power of the Huaixi Forbidden Army in Shuzhou. However, Shuzhou, where he also served as governor, had only more than 200,000 residents, more than 1.5 million acres of cultivated land, and state and county land taxes and taxes.
The grain amount is 150,000 dan, and the total amount of Ding Fu and miscellaneous donations is more than 80,000 dan.
Even if local expenditures are collected from the private sector, the land tax and Ding Fu are still far from enough to cover the annual expenses of the Huaixi Forbidden Army.
The Huaixi Forbidden Army is calculated as 40,000 regular soldiers. In addition to war damage pensions and merit awards, the imperial court will need to supply 700,000 to 800,000 yuan of grain to maintain expenses.
In addition, almost 20,000 state troops from Huangchi, Esu and other places gathered in Shuzhou, under the control of Li Zhigao. Fortunately, the states were responsible for the food and fodder supplies for these soldiers and horses, as well as post-war pensions and rewards.
Otherwise, Li Zhigao would still be stretched thin in Shuzhou.
At present, it is much more convenient for them to act in the name of the Queen Mother than in the past. However, if one day the Queen Mother loses power and Emperor Yanyou takes over the government again, the money and food supplies of the Huaixi Forbidden Army will continue to be controlled by the central government. If Li Zhigao wants to be unrestricted, it is also
impossible.
When Han Qian gave up the military and political power of Guangde Prefecture, it was mainly because the limited land in Xuzhou and the three counties of Guangde Prefecture at that time could not solve the survival problems of so many generals and their families using normal methods.
However, Han Qian was able to build his own team in Xuzhou because of the continuous blood transfusion and hematopoiesis of many years of operating Xuzhou. Otherwise, how could he have cultivated thousands of grassroots military attachés and subordinate staff in such a short period of time?
Come?
In addition to providing additional food support of nearly 500,000 yuan per year, Xuzhou's population has also entered a stage of rapid growth and will remain stable in the future, adding more than 10,000 adult labor force every year.
The population base has continued to expand at about the same scale.
Even if we only count the number of males, the annual increase of more than 5,000 young men is four to five times that of prefectures and counties of the same size that are not at war.
Among these five thousand young people, almost half have even gone through two years of primary school education.
Of course, Xuzhou is in a corner after all, and its development potential cannot be compared with Jianghuai.
Calculating only the fields that can be cultivated, Xuzhou has cultivated 24.5 million acres of cultivated land, which is already the limit, most of which is still sloping terraced fields.
The seven counties compiled by Tangyi at this time did not include the northern area of Chuzhou. As long as remote embankments can be built and river beaches can be reclaimed as scheduled, the potential for cultivated fields is as high as 5 million acres, most of which are paddy fields.
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Based on the current level of farming, if the population carrying limit of Xuzhou is 500,000, then the population carrying limit of the seven counties of Tangyi can reach 2 million or more.
At this time, the combined population of dozens of prefectures in Huaidong and Huaixi was barely 2 million, and the seven counties of Tangyi only had 120,000 soldiers and civilians.
The most important thing for Tangyi's future is to do everything possible to absorb new people; and the success or failure of Xuzhou's future depends on controlling the size of the population.
This is also an important role that the Chishan Society, which will extend its tentacles into various states and counties in the future, will play.
Xuzhou could even use part of the money and grain to buy slaves from the central areas of Guizhou and send them to Tangyi to supplement the population shortage.
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Returning to Tangyi City, Han Qian had just entered the dental tent set up in the county government office. Tian Cheng and Guo Rong walked towards each other from the other side.
Seeing Han Qian coming over, Tian Cheng said loudly: "Kong Xirong is back and was planning to ask you to call you!"
"Yeah, I was thinking that he could come over in the next two days." Han Qian said happily, striding into the courtyard with Tian Cheng and others, and saw Kong Xirong, Gao Shao and others standing in the hall talking about something.
From the end of the year, when the remnants of the navy were able to break out from Zhongli, Kong Xirong led his troops to stay in the Wijian Mountains. They did not see each other directly for three or four months. Compared with when he led his troops to the north, he was much thinner and his eyes were full of energy.
, his demeanor is also much more restrained and calm.
Compared to the fierce battles along the Chu River and Fucha Mountain, Kong Xirong stood firm in the Wujian Mountains, and his life was not necessarily easier.
First, Gao Chengyuan and the rest of the navy must be brought together with Li Xiu and Li Qi to move from the northern mountain range to the southern mountain range.
After Gao Chengyuan passed away, Kong Xirong had to reorganize the remnants of the navy with low morale in the peaks and ridges of the southern section of the Wujian Mountains to resist the Shouzhou Army's attack under extremely difficult supply conditions.
Afterwards, more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians from Chuzhou City withdrew into the Wijian Mountains.
In particular, Wei Zhen withdrew with Li Xiu and Li Qi, leaving more than 20,000 civilians to Kong Xirong. Even if he couldn't bear it, he could only ruthlessly slaughter more than 400 horses to make up for the lack of food.
During the Liyang War, Kong Xirong also led his troops to contain the defenders of Chuzhou City and send reinforcements to the west.
The responsibilities on Kong Xirong's shoulders are actually much more complex than that of a battlefield commander.
Of course, this is also a great training for Kong Xirong, who used to only care about fighting on the battlefield.
Feng Yi happily put his arm around Kong Xirong's shoulder and asked him to tell some interesting stories about Wujianshan. Han Qian pulled Feng Yi away and said, "When Xirong comes back this time, he can only stay for a day or two before returning to Wujianshan."
Go, I don’t have time for you to reminisce about the past - if you want to reminisce about the past, you can go to Wujianshan for me to reward the generals."
"Old Kong is already thin and out of shape. Life in the mountains is not that easy. I'd better stay with you." Feng Yi retreated and said.
"Good-for-nothing guy," Han Qian scolded with a smile, calling Guo Rong, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, Feng Liao and others to come over and sit around the table to discuss matters.
The war has entered a buffer period, and no one has the ability to launch another large-scale war in a short period of time. The Tangyi soldiers will also take this rare opportunity to rest and reorganize, further improve their organization, and will subsequently organize a navy army, with Yang Qin as the navy commander.
The military capital was Yuhou, and Lin Zongjing was appointed as the deputy capital Yuhou.
The cavalry of the first capital was newly established. Zhao Wuji was appointed as the cavalry captain Yuhou, and Han Donghu was appointed as the deputy capital Yuhou and the commander of the guard battalion.
The four new infantry camps were newly established. Tian Cheng was appointed as the First Army Du Yuhou and the deputy general manager of the Tangyi camp. Su Lie and Feng Zhang were appointed as deputy capital Yuhou; Lin Haizheng was appointed as the second infantry army Du Yuhou, He Liufeng, and Lin Jiang.
He was appointed as the deputy capital of Yu. Feng Xuan was appointed as the deputy capital of Yu.
Tan Xiuqun will lead Tianpingdu to stay in Tangyi to coordinate operations and form an independent infantry army. Tan Xiuqun will be appointed as the Du Yuhou, and Dong Tai will be appointed as the Deputy Dudu Yuhou.
Tangyi belongs to the war zone, and the Military and Political Affairs Bureau. In addition to Han Qian serving as the commander-in-chief of Tangyi's camp and the governor of Chuzhou, he also recommended Feng Liao to serve as battalion commander and governor, responsible for logistics supplies, refugee recruitment, settlement, construction, etc.
, Gao Shao served as the Sima of the Camp and the Sima of the Prefecture, responsible for spying on military intelligence, correcting military discipline, repairing soldiers and armor, military registration, and the promotion of military attachés, etc.
Guo Rong served as secretary-general and chief registrar of the prefecture, and he and Xi Rong were in charge of writing, sealing, and other matters.
The Military Intelligence Staff Department was established, and Guo was appointed as the Marquis of Yu, the capital of the army.
In addition to the two counties of Liyang and Tangyi, five new counties will be established: Puyang, Tingshan, Wushou, Donghu, and Shiquan. The seven magistrates will be Feng Liao, Tian Cheng, Feng Xuan, Lin Zongjing, Lin Haizheng, Yang Qin, etc.
Concurrently.
In the eyes of many people, this is also something extremely unimaginable.
In the last years of the previous dynasty, the vassal towns were divided, and warriors were in power. They either became generals or rose up in the army. There were not many people who were brave and good at fighting, but those who were also good at political affairs could be said to be great talents.
For example, Li Zhigao has had many direct generals under his command in recent years who are good at fighting. But except for Li Zhigao himself, everyone else has grown up from fighting bravely on the battlefield. They have no chance to leave the army. Naturally, they don’t know what it means to be effective in the world.
Why, so Li Zhigao still had to use people like Zhou Yuan and Xu Jing to handle government affairs for him, and he also had to treat virtuous corporals and recruit talents from outside.
In comparison, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, Feng Xuan, Lin Haizheng, Yang Qin, Zhao Wuji, Lin Zongjing, Guo Que, Xi Fa'er and others all started from the humble beginnings and lived in the rough. In other words, Tian Cheng served as a general in the Shengzhou Army in his early years.
, and before others followed Han Qian, it was already quite remarkable if they could barely read a few big characters.
It must be said that Feng Liao, Feng Yi, and Kong Xirong received a relatively complete Confucian education because of their background before Xi Xunqiao; Zhou Chu also had many years of experience as a captain in Wuling County.
However, after the Jinling Incident, Lin Haizheng, Feng Xuan, Zhao Wuji, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao, Yang Qin and others also took charge of state and county government affairs. They were all very familiar with the management of the world, people's livelihood and even the law.
Not to mention people like Lin Haizheng, not to mention the generals at the battalion command level, and the middle and low-level military attachés at the sentinel level, almost more than half of them have the experience of serving as township officials in the township inspection department.
It was also because of such a group of people that Han Qian dared to withstand such heavy military pressure from the Shouzhou Army and use 20,000 generals to stretch out the defense line while simultaneously carrying out internal construction.
You must know that the defense line of the Huaixi Forbidden Army in the southwest of Chaohu Lake is less than a hundred miles.
Of course, less than 20,000 generals have to defend a defense line more than 200 miles wide from Chaohu to Tangyi, and they also have to ensure that the construction on the south side of the defense line is not affected. There is definitely a lot of pressure.
At present, more than 20,000 Chuzhou City civilians in Wijianshan have been gradually transferred out, but there are still more than 1,000 people persisting in guerrilla warfare in Wijianshan.
Wujian Mountain is bounded by Mopan Valley and is divided into two sections, the north and the south.
Extending from the northeast side of Fucha Mountain in the southwest to Longyou Lake in the south of Zhongli City, Wujian Mountain stretches for more than 200 miles, spanning the three states of Chaozhou, Chuzhou, and Haozhou.
In Han Qian's operational intention, Wujianshan was an important passage to cut through Chuzhou and harass the northern part of Chaozhou and Haozhou.
Not only will he not withdraw Kong Xirong's troops, he will continue to recruit generals who are good at mountain guerrilla warfare to strengthen them. He plans to organize this army into a separate guerrilla army. Kong Xirong will serve as the guerrilla army's capital Yuhou, and Xi Fa'er will serve as deputy.
Du Yuhou.
Subsequently, Kong Xirong, Xi Fa'er and others used Wujianshan as their base to harass the Shouzhou Army's inner lines. The better they performed, the more military pressure they endured along the Chuhe River and Fucha Mountain could be effectively alleviated.
Only by ensuring that the Shouzhou Army's internal lines have no time to take care of themselves can it be possible to prevent the Shouzhou Army from taking the initiative to send out small groups of troops to infiltrate, harass and destroy their internal line construction.
For many things, it is difficult to convey the meaning clearly through written communication.
Han Qian specially called Kong Xirong back, summoned Feng Liao, Tian Cheng, Gao Shao and others, and had an in-depth chat for two or three days before he could explain some things thoroughly. At the same time, everyone could get together and maybe study more.
Prominent and effective combat methods allow the guerrilla army to play a greater role on the outside.
Qiao Weiyan was still in Tangyi for the time being, and Han Qian asked him to participate in such discussions with Han Chengmeng.
It is not only the responsibility of the Military Intelligence Staff Department to conduct research on war, predict the outcome, and analyze the gains and losses after the war.
Not only did the capital and battalion levels have staff officers responsible for reconnaissance, military intelligence analysis, combat plan formulation, etc., Han Qian even required sentries and even squads to discuss combat plans during pre-war mobilization and make timely summaries after the war.
analyze.
This is the most effective way for grassroots military attachés to grow rapidly...
