Lord of the House

Although it did not take much effort to occupy Yizhou Island, the Huaidong Military Division still promoted it as a battle.

It's a pity that Lin Fu's intentions did not get a good response.

The Sun, Zhou and other clans, as well as the party forces in Huaidong and Dongyang Township, were not only not interested in developing Yizhou Island, but were not even interested in sending ships across Yizhou Island to explore the South Ocean.

For a long time, countries such as Goryeo and Fusang in the Haidong area have been closely connected with the Central Plains, and have been deeply affected. The recorded history of sea ships traveling between the two places can be traced back to six or seven hundred years ago. Also, because the Haidong area was deeply influenced by the Central Plains culture, it was developed earlier, and it was profitable to carry out maritime trade. Since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the Central Plains maritime merchants were almost limited to exchanges with the Haidong area.

Sun, Zhou and other maritime merchant families who moved south had very limited knowledge of Yizhou Island—it was still under the personal promotion of Lin Fu that Huaidong had only dispatched ships and people in the past two or three years. To explore the situation of Yizhou Island and the surrounding waters; the understanding of the Nanyang Islands and waters further south of Yizhou Island is even more vague.

Sun, Zhou and the local forces in Huaidong were not interested, and the Huaidong Military Division did not have any spare energy to develop Yizhou Island in a short period of time.

For the time being, Lin Fu only asked the military secretary to formulate a plan for garrisoning troops on Yizhou Island and for relocation and household registration according to the number of existing developed fields.

Yizhou is very desolate, and the county town built by the She family in the northwest corner of the island in the early years is only about two miles a week. In the city, there are only low and dilapidated houses, and even the county government offices are covered with thatched roofs. There are only two main streets that become muddy when it rains.

The extravagant family was exhausted by the war, and over the years, they only demanded from Yizhou but did not invest, which is also the main factor that Yizhou has become more and more unbearable in recent years. Yizhou City is also in a rainy area and the city wall is like an old man's mouth, and it is decadent. Otherwise, even if Shewenzhuang wants to give up Yizhou, it is difficult for others to follow.

Just like moving south to East Fujian and Guangnan and other places in the early years, it was regarded as a severe punishment for dereliction of duty officials. Although Huaidong occupied Yizhou Island, there were vacancies for magistrates and auxiliary officials, without Jiangning's consent. You can send people to fill in, 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 he really wanted to make personnel arrangements for the governance of Yizhou, he had a headache.

The few people in Huaidong who can recognize the strategic position of Yizhou Island like Lin Fu have important responsibilities, and Lin Fu cannot let them go out; People who moved out, even if they were forced to become officials in the past, most of them could not fulfill their duties.

The twisted melon is not sweet, so Lin Fu can only temporarily order Zhou Tong to lead the Chongcheng Infantry Camp to exercise military jurisdiction over Yizhou, temporarily delay the personnel arrangement of the political officials, and at the same time let Zhao Qingshan send a boat around the Jieyang area to contact Yu Wangao department.

Guangnan County cut off contact with Jiang Ning from the Jue Ridge Road. Jiang Ning had not received the exact news from Yu Wangao's department for more than a year. Yu Wangao's subordinates could not obtain supplies from Guangnan, and only relying on a corner of Jieyang to fight against the luxury family, the situation is not optimistic. However, in the past year or so, the forces deployed by the She family on the southern front have not been reduced on a large scale, which means that Yu Wangao's troops are likely to continue to resist in the Jieyang area.

In addition, let Zhao Qingshan dispatch ships from the first water camp to explore the Southeast Asia route.

In the next few days, Lin Fu mainly discussed with Liu Miaozhen about building a defense line in Huaiyang.

Although the Red Jacket Army was only 30,000 people, these 30,000 people were old soldiers selected from hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Huaisi refugee troops.

Because the refugee army has undergone two large-scale selection and downsizing, the red jacket army's armor and bow and crossbow assembly level are much better than that of the ordinary refugee army.

This was also one of the reasons why Lin Fu opened his mouth and the army of displaced people marched eastward.

In the past four or five months, Huaidong has exported about 40,000 shi of rice grain to Huaidong every month, a quarter of which is agreed to be used as military food for the Red Jacket Army. food supply.

By the standards of the Huaidong Army, this supply level is still a bit low, but without strong physical exertion, the monthly supply of more than 30 catties of rice is enough for the Red Jacket Army to get a full rest.

No amount of verbal and high-profile promises can make people completely let down their guard.

Even if they knew that Huaidong's ultimate plan was to use the Red Jacket Army to build a line of defense against the Donghu people's southward attack in Huaisi, the Red Jacket Army had been given a real chance to rest in the past four or five months after moving to the world for several years. The red jacket army went from top to bottom and had a good impression of Huaidong.

After the Red Jacket Army accepts the recruitment, it will be reorganized into Huaiyang Military Town, and will be controlled by the Huaidong Military Division. Jiangning will supply Huaiyang with 8,000 stone grains and 6,000 taels of silver every month through the Huaidong Army headed by Liu Tingzhou. In addition to this, Huaidong will supply Huaiyang Town with an additional 10,000 stone grains and a certain amount of grain. A large amount of meat will ensure that the Huaiyang soldiers return to the material supply standards for high-intensity combat training.

Huaidong will also secretly promote Huaiyang, Suining, Suyu and other three counties through Li Wei and others to use the newly reclaimed and confiscated fields to resettle the families of the soldiers and soldiers of the Huaiyang Army.

The Huaiyang or Huaisi line of defense is inseparable from the four words "hard walls and clear fields".

The fortress means that Huaiyang City should be the core to build a frontier fortress defense line.

Huaidong will provide sufficient materials and necessary manpower support to ensure that Huaiyang can burn the earth to make bricks before winter, and cover the Huaiyang earth city with masonry. Before winter, a slightly smaller brick city should be built on the west bank of the Bian River between Huaiyang and Suining. While stabilizing the Huaiyang line of defense, it also controls the Bian water to ensure that Huaidong can smoothly transport material resources through the Bian water to the Huaiyang line of defense during the war.

In the periphery of Huaiyang, it is necessary to resolutely clear the fields, withdraw the population to the south of the defense line, and destroy the villages and houses, so that the Donghu cavalry can enter the periphery of Huaiyang, without the possibility of supply and rest.

On the inner line of Huaiyang, it is necessary to repair and strengthen the original Tuweizi village or build a more solid small fort according to local conditions, and resettle refugees in a concentrated manner to increase the resistance to the small-scale Donghu cavalry infiltrating from the defense line.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of many defense line construction tasks, such as borrowing soil to make bricks, logging and building walls, and importing a large amount of materials, Huaidong will recruit brave people in Huaisi to build a labor camp with about 30,000 people; Make sure that Huaiyang Town, which has been adapted from the Red Jacket Army, is fully trained.

In addition, Huaidong will release the supply of iron materials to Huaiyang, but it needs to recruit a large number of craftsmen from Huaisi refugees and concentrate them in Shanyang County to build armour, farm tools and other iron tools and even various chariots to supply Huaiyang.

In terms of material supply, Huaidong has reserved 1 million catties of raw iron and 300,000 catties of refined 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 also difficult to use up so many iron materials to build equipment.

Obviously, Huaidong can let the generals of Huaiyang Town hold military power, but it will not let Huaiyang Town have the possibility of separatist Huasi. However, once the conditions of Huaidong are agreed, when the Donghu army is swept in and Huaiyang Town cannot support it, Huaidong will also send troops into Huaiyang in order to ensure that the families of the Huaisi workers' camp will not be violated in the Huaisi area. joint defense.

Obviously, the Red Jacket Army was struggling to survive from the line of life and death. At this time, most of the generals had no ambition to be independent and become a king, and they did not give up military power. Go back on your word and liquidate them.

In addition, according to this plan, Huaiyang Town and Huaisi Workers' Camp will attract 60,000 Jianyong, plus recruiting craftsmen from the refugees, even if the family is small, it can cover a population of more than 300,000 people. In fact, the survival problem of most of the refugees stranded in the Huaisi area will be resolved, and the remaining 100,000 refugees will either move to other places or be resettled on the spot, and the pressure will be reduced a lot.

Of course, to achieve this step, the amount of rice grain input from Huaidong to Huaisi area will suddenly increase from the current 40,000 shi per month to more than 60,000 shi.

If it weren't for Huaidong's ability to transport nearly 80,000 shi of rice grains from the Haidong area every month, it would not be able to support such an intensive consumption.

As for the supplement of Huaiyang Town's armor, Lin Fu also promised that in addition to the ordnance workshops set up in Shanyang County to produce ordnance mainly for Huaiyang Town, Huaidong's ordnance workshops in Guanyintan, Jiangmen, and Hecheng would additionally produce weapons every time. Supply 200 sets of armor and 200 high-quality bows and crossbows to Huaiyang Town every month.

Liu Miaozhen left Chongzhou North and returned to Huaiyang on the 21st. On the Huaidong side, Sun Zhuang led a team of cavalry to **** him along the way. After Sun Zhuang arrived in Huaiyang, he still obeyed Qin Chengzu's dispatch.

The minutes of Lin Fu and Liu Miaozhen's three-day discussions will be handed over to Qin Chengzu by Sun Zhuang. Qin Chengzu will improve the details with Huaiyang Town on the basis of this summary, and then order all the ministries to implement it.

Liu Miaozhen was sitting in the car, wearing a bronze mask, listening to the sound of ruts and rutting, looking at the wheat fields inside Hanhai Road where farmers were harvesting through the gauze curtain, her mood was quite complicated.

Lin Fu said that her brother only had the ambition to harm the world but not the people. She was unconvinced, but in the past few years, he fought in the world and became weaker and weaker. She couldn't argue. The more it got to the end, the more difficult it was to ride a tiger, even she forgot her original intention of raising an army to rebel.

Liu Miaozhen came here full of vigilance, but she was not afraid of Lin Bing detaining her, but she always suspected that Huaidong had a serious plan and was uneasy and kind.

Huaidong opened her mouth and promised such sufficient material support, what position could she have to question Huaidong's intentions?

For the vast majority of the army generals who took up sharpened bamboo poles to rebel, it was just so that they would not starve to death, but Huaidong had indeed promised to live and work in peace and contentment.

At this time, Liu Miaozhen could also understand why Sun Ganzi gave up the position of Captain Qingche in Huaiyang Town, and was willing to join the army as a less important commander in the Huaidong Army.

In order to repay the kindness of the old master, Sun Ganzi can abandon his life and wealth, obviously not something that can be bought by fame and wealth. What Huaidong convinced Sun Ganzi was not fame and fortune, but a dream of living and working in peace and contentment, peace and tranquility, which was vague before and perhaps only gradually became clear when he joined Huaidong.

Even Sun Ganzi has devoted himself to serving Huaidong, so the influence of the generals of the Red Jacket Army will be very scary, right? Liu Miaozhen didn't know whether to limit the spread of this influence in the army.

She could think that this kind of influence might be deliberately done by Lin Fu, but Huaidong's dignified and upright plan made her unable to resist; maybe at the moment when he decided to go east, he jumped into the cage that Huaidong had made up for a long time. You can't even struggle, can you?

After passing Siyang, Li Liang led his troops to greet him outside Siyang City. Obviously, he had completely relaxed his guard against the Huaidong Army. Liu Miaozhen didn't say anything, and just wanted to return to Huaiyang as soon as possible to build the Huaiyang line of defense. 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 the 11th day, that the Red Jacket Army officially accepted Zhao'an as the Huaiyang Town Army from the same day, accepted the control of the Huaidong Military Division, and It was agreed that Jiangning would send political officials to Huaiyang, Suining, and Suyu, as well as select subordinate officials from local areas to preside over civil affairs.

Liu Tingzhou did not know that Liu Miaozhen secretly went to Chongzhou, and he was extremely satisfied with the result of the recruitment negotiations that lasted for more than two months.

Like the people in Jiangning, Liu Tingzhou did not think much of the possibility that the Donghu people could penetrate the Hehuai line of defense and advance to the north bank of the Huaihe River. In his opinion, as long as the Huaisi area can settle down, and the Red Jacket Army can still be used by the imperial court~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The chaos in the Central Plains still has a chance to calm down.

Liu Tingzhou even thought of combining the Huaiyang Army, Chen Hansan's Xuzhou Army, Gu Siyuan's Qingzhou Army, and Liang's troops in the river and the plains plus the Changhuai Army led by Tao Chun to retreat into the Qinghe, adding up to almost 180,000. In terms of military strength, if Yanjing could support it for a longer period of time, it would not be impossible to transfer so many troops to the north, to drive the Donghu people out of the pass, and to relieve the siege of Yanjing.

But after thinking about it, Liu Tingzhou knew that this was impossible, and Huaidong would definitely be a hindrance.

Huaidong attacked eastern Zhejiang in the name of King Qin, which was actually a desperate attempt to solve the crisis in Jiangning, and even gave King Ning a chance to ascend to the throne in Jiangning, so Jiangning finally recognized 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 bullying the king lightly.

Liu Tingzhou also knew Huaidong's role in recruiting the Red Jacket Army, and perhaps Huaiyang Town would obey Huaidong more than Jiangning ever since. Chen Hansan occupied Xuzhou again and did not listen to the tune and the propaganda. The Qingzhou Army probably did not have a few soldiers who could fight hard battles. It seemed that 180,000 soldiers were deployed on the Hehuai line. The military force will continue to expand, but there are still many crises.

On the way to Jiangning to resume his life, Liu Tingzhou wondered whether to transfer Xiao Kuian's troops from Shuyang to strengthen the defense line in the west of Huaiyang? However, Xiao Kuian's department belongs to the North Army of Huaidong Military Division after all, and it is under the jurisdiction of Huaidong Military Division when it is transferred to the west. Will Jiangning agree to the continued eastward expansion of the Huaidong Military Division's defense area or will Lin Fu agree with Xiao Kuian? The department was completely separated from the Huaidong Military Division, but how to solve the provisions of Xiao Kuian's department after that?

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