February of the seventh year of Taiping, Daliang, is the time when winter goes and spring comes, ice and snow melt and all things reviv.

As the new ruling area in Huainan Road, Huainan Road is the first area to see signs of spring.

In the slightly cool morning dew, the young man riding a red-skinned mule also took the lead on the patrol road, holding the musket with a slanted streak in one hand and the roasted corn with leaves, and eating breakfast-eating meals with both intentions.

Zhuomeng is a veteran who was disabled and retired from service the year before. He was an authentic Borneo. If it weren't for the fact that the Longzhou Tuan Zuo recruited soldiers in his hometown, I would have never seen any chance of ice and snow in my life;

As a result, while staying in Andong to Huanglong Mansion in the north, he accidentally went out to patrol in winter and broke his feet in the snow hole and recklessly delayed the rescue time. As a result, although the bones were brought back, half of his right foot was frozen and he had to be removed.

But he was lucky compared to other people who encountered him. There was a Henan man named Unbeliever. When he ran out to pee, he even had his life root frozen. Even if he was rescued with warm water, he lost his basic function and could not pass on the family line.

Therefore, he still has a little ineffective walking and cannot run with all his strength; so he finally had to retire to the rear, and work as a coach in the third and fourth line garrison regiments and patrol teams; and then when he actually received the military division under his name, he also had three choices:

One place is to go to Andong to settle in Kaituo Tun Village near Tieling Yitian. It is planned to give Zhongtian 357 acres, and you can recruit people to go there by yourself.

One place was to visit Danzhou, Henan, the west of Huai Town, and gave 290 acres of land to the middle and lower land, plus five servants who had been employed for fifteen years;

Another place is near Xianju County, Guangzhou, Huainan. As the local village head, he was appointed as the local village manager, and was equipped with 37 men and women. There were 52 vassal slaves who served as laborers.

In the end, he was afraid of the coldness of the ice and snow in the north, and no longer wanted to relocate it with great effort. He took the initiative to choose the position of governor of Xianju County, Guangzhou, Huainan, which is closer to the warm southern region.

But in fact, when he brought a group of men and women and more than ten caravans to prepare for re-explosion, he found that almost everything was ready-made, including land, houses, oxen, seeds and farm tools, and they were all prepared through the local area, and he didn't even have to worry about the specific distribution and planning of the heads. He just needed to move the clothes and quilts and household items in the brought ones.

In addition to urging his subordinates to complete the corresponding production plan and fixed quota for payment of public grain in accordance with the local season, he must train and organize these adult residents in accordance with the rules and regulations of the army. Therefore, in addition to the usual specific swords, guns, bows and crossbows, they even have more than a dozen firearms, mainly three-eyed guns and fine-mouthed bird guns that were eliminated from the army.

In this newly developed place, the men, women, young and old in the village must be able to adapt to these guys skillfully to the various situations that may be encountered in the place. Therefore, the first thing they settled down was to surround and protect their residence using locally sourced earth walls and wooden fences according to the unified standards of the Huai Army's garrison.

On the one hand, it is to prevent the appearance and harm of various wild animals from the mountains after the fields are deserted and sparsely populated. On the other hand, it is also to prevent human factors that are not very stable in the local area.

After all, many places near the west still cause various civil unrest and bandit chaos from time to time. Every time at a specific time, refugees fleeing famine on the road are the most common situation in these places. Before the Huai Army sent people to settle in and clear the territory of Guangzhou, even outside the county town or the suburbs of the prefecture, some people were doing the murder and robbery in broad daylight.

Due to years of turmoil and restlessness, many local people have left their fields and villages, fled to the mountains to seek life and avoid war, and even became a vicious cycle of new bandits and turbulent factors in the local area when they were hungry and had no food.

Therefore, before the official army completely pulled out his hands to send a large army to thoroughly sweep and investigate the local area, as Bei Kouwei, who had just entered the Xianju County, in addition to his fully armed garrison regiment, he could rely on the tentacles and extended execution ability, that is, the foreign garrison households who were allocated land and resettled thousands of units, as well as the patrol teams they had drawn up to serve and form to maintain order in the grassroots villages.

Then, after the grassroots order in these key areas is established, more manpower and material resources can be drawn out to form a management area with a larger scope of local butchers involving more household registration. Then, through the continuous expansion of the management area, the reliable villages and self-defense armed forces, the local bandits and the continuous increase and traversing soil will be eliminated one by one, and the land of increasing and traversing will be forced to come out of the mountains and accept the control and arrangement of the government.

In this way, without foreign invasion or large-scale bandit chaos, it can be completed with less cost and investment in just two to three years to complete the basic sorting of the newly occupied land and the basic execution of the government.

When I was not cute in my first year of arrival here, I felt that I had ruined such a good place and output in vain. You should know that the place where he settled is not far from the official road, the land is fertile and the climate is not cold. There are rivers not far away, which are very suitable for canal irrigation and relatively abundant fish. There are tea gardens and orchards that were opened before on the undulating hills on the opposite bank of the river.

Moreover, because it is located in a convenient transportation place for all the villages, it has developed into a trend and pattern of market towns before; but now it has been abandoned for a long time and has turned the fields covered with weeds into a paradise for various birds and beasts to travel.

Therefore, after the initial completion of the first garrison project, the following collective activity was to abandoned fields, piece by piece, set fire to the fire, and then use crossbows and muskets to kill the birds, rats, badgers, etc. that were scared out of them. After a good tooth sacrifice, it also reserved a lot of jerky and skin.

Then, after more immigrant households and supplementary production materials arrived one after another, the joyful and lively first New Year atmosphere also made most people completely abandon their melancholy about the past and their last little reverie and sorrow.

Then in the next year, when they plowed and drank water on the fertile land, the rapeseed, peanuts, soybeans, corn and rice seeds they had grown taller, he suddenly found that his subordinates had a lot of extra population. It turned out that it was when the local area was not connected, and the villagers from nearby places ran out to find food one after another.

Then many things happened. During the conflicts of all sizes, some fields that had not yet grown into harvest were ruined. In the subsequent revenge and punishment activities, some people lost their lives in the confrontation, but more people were caught on the spot by organized farmers because they tried to steal crops, and even raided the wild settlements and captured them on the spot.

In the end, only women and children will be left behind, and as limited helpers, they will get a bite of food, and then the men will be taken away by the garrisons from the county to be taken away and managed separately. Moreover, most of the people who were left will not leave again. Because, relying on the adjustment and flow of resources within Huai Town, even the animals being fed in the village must eat better than those of them, the local villagers with bark and grass roots.

Just like the two women who are not cute around them, who are named sisters and sisters, are not named after their sisters. They were caught first when they were stealing mule soybean meal cakes and tofu dregs, and voluntarily used another method to compensate, and then pulled another relative into the water in the name of help.

Through these almost one-sided battles and conflicts, their foreign households also completely gained a foothold in the local area and completed the suppression and deterrence of the remaining residents and their settlements in the surrounding areas. Then, using limited materials as temptation, they turned them into extra-staff targets one by one.

After the first batch of crops are produced next year, food that can be filled with food will no longer be the issue they need to care about, and they will start to seek local specialties and land supply for increased production and property purchases.

Once it is confirmed that it can be implemented as a small-scale industry, more labor positions suitable for the management and management are born. This is also a disguised governance method that lasts for a long time.

According to the "Tea Classic" by Lu Yu, the tea saint of the previous dynasty, it is as the saying goes, "Huainan tea is the best, Guangzhou is the best", and Xianju is the leader, and once in the local hills, there were all kinds of tea mountains; it was just that because of the chaos of war, it was abandoned for a long time, and this crop that could not be filled or burned as firewood was in a wild environment where one could live and fend for itself;

Therefore, his patrol this time was to ensure that the new tea mountains, which were important side businesses in Tunzhuang, were not damaged or damaged by unexpected factors such as the evacuated population.

Although Xianju County has basically settled down, it cannot withstand the disorderly behavior of those small hungry people who have fled from other places, or those who have fled from the west, climbed mountains and ridges from the west, and their hunger and food.

Especially on Baixia Hill near their Tunzhuang, the small piece of old tea tree that survived the war was a high-end specialty that belonged to Xianju County to generate income.

But last year, they added new patrol areas and targets of defense; they were the scattered Western Army who followed the famine route of hungry people and passed through the wild gaps in the Tongbai Mountains in winter, and the paths were scattered;

Although their number is extremely limited and there is no order, the damage and damage caused by these guys who have been on the battlefield until they seek profit and avoid harm are even worse than those of the hungry and cold refugees.

Just because he was not cute, he had encountered an attack in person, killed two of them in person, and participated in at least three searches in which each village mobilized to form a mountain and a field;

Then, recently, on the blacklist that needs attention and precautions, there were also water thieves and lake thieves from the south near Yunmeng Daze. Due to the continuous drought, floods and famine in the local area and the abnormal rage after the Western Army headed south, even these guys who had been hiding in the Daze in the water town for a long time could not survive and ran to the land to avoid disaster.

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Chapter completed!