Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 701
Shen Zhezi had no time to pay attention to the personnel disputes in Jiankang City.After returning to the town, he quickly fell into a tense and busy life.

Although the battle is imminent, the atmosphere in the entire Shouchun City is still good.An important fortress like Shouchun has one advantage, that is, neither the army nor the civilians are afraid of fighting.In the most turbulent years, frequent wars have become the norm.

Moreover, in Shouchun today, the situation has greatly improved again. The situation is much better than in previous years.With the opening of the waterway, a large number of goods and materials have been gathered in the town, and Shen Zhezi's previous promises are being fulfilled one by one.

Now in Huainan, there are many warehouses set up at the waterways and ferry crossings.Especially in the area close to Hefei on the south bank of Shaopi, the accumulated grain alone has exceeded 50 hu, and at the same time, Jiangdong cargo ships are still coming here in an endless stream through Chaohu Lake.

And this area is an important supply area for the entire Huainan army, and it is guarded by Yu Yi, who moved to Hefei.With the Huai River and Shaopi layer upon layer of barriers, the possibility of the slave riding far away to kill the food road is basically abolished!

As for the relief for the food households in the middle reaches of the town, it is not just to directly give them money and food for consumption, but half is recruited and half is paid by work.

After Shen Zhezi returned to the town, Du He came to report on the internal affairs.It is probably because the people in the territory have been hungry and thirsty for a long time, and the effect of setting up warehouses for relief is much better than expected.

Prior to this, the town had been cleared by military forces, and order had been preliminarily established.Most of the docks in Huainan, except for a few that are located in remote areas or rely on their own strength, still maintain relative independence, the others are already under the direct jurisdiction of the county government.

Although the power of military self-defense was removed from these dock walls, the living and production organizations were still preserved, and the dock wall owners still maintained personal control over the people.

But as the relief began, this fragile balance was broken.Mountains of salty rice are more convincing and alluring than any rhetoric.So for a while, the people in the territory rushed to be naturalized, and even a large number of clans came together to rule, which caught the county government off guard for a while.

Especially Du He, who is in charge of internal affairs, has been busy day and night recently, and he has lost a lot of weight.The number of registered citizens has already approached the 20 mark.Although these people were under the control of the county government before, there was still a layer of dock masters in the middle. After naturalization, they became the real manpower in the town's hands.

"Daohui has really worked hard during this time."

Seeing Du He's tired face and yawning repeatedly during the report, Shen Zhezi couldn't bear it: "I'm working hard now, and it will last for a while. Guo Hou crossed the river to raise people, and there will be a lot of people in Huaibei in the future." The influx of swimming food must be settled properly at the first time, and it must not be left in the local area. If people have no food and clothing, they will definitely be full of hostility."

Du He took a sip of strong tea, then rubbed his tired brows and sighed: "Huainan is getting more and more peaceful, I am tired physically and heartily, and a little toil is nothing. It's just that there are too few officials in the town. Many times it is unavoidable to be powerless.”

After Shen Zhezi heard the words, he was also a little worried.The construction of official administration is by no means an overnight effort, and there is too little time left for him to prepare.

This is why he left more room before and was unwilling to push the Wubi masters to a corner. On the one hand, he wanted to maintain a general stability.

They have both local customs and organizational skills, and are an important force for maintaining local order.In any historical period, the appearance and name may be different, but they have never been absent.

It's not that Shen Zhezi never thought of enlisting talents to share internal affairs, but firstly, the time does not allow it, and secondly, his reputation is still not smooth.

If you followed the old customs of Jiangdong and directly recruited and placed the children of the aristocratic families in the local area, they would each have a large number of disciples following them, and it would be easy to form a control over the local area.However, these township sects in the local area are also good and bad, and it is not easy to distinguish them.

It's not that Shen Zhezi didn't think about it. The county government came forward to organize some inspections and reforms of the grassroots. There are many ideas, but they can only be gradually realized after the war.

And if he can win this battle, he will definitely control more than one place in the future. Even if the Shen family has been cultivating and reserving talents in general affairs over the years, his family alone cannot meet such a huge demand.

And even if you make the best use of your own family, you must set a clear and high-execution standard, otherwise the domestic slaves will not be far from chaos.

In fact, these reforms of grassroots government officials are equivalent to building a ruling order from scratch, and it is by no means a short-term achievement, nor can it be implemented directly by establishing the three heads of the township.

Although there is a word "chaotic" in Wuhu Luanhua, it does not mean that there is no order at all. Not to mention the aristocratic families in Jiangdong, the numerous Wubi masters in the North itself represent the organizational form of human and material resources at the bottom of this era. , and is much more stubborn and dangerous than Jiangdong Gaomen.

In the management of Huainan and the competition with the Wubi masters for population, it seems that Shen Zhezi has the upper hand, while those Wubi masters are powerless to restrain them.That's because Shen Zhezi holds the three major advantages of army, financial resources, and righteousness, and the two sides are not competing on the same level at all.

But if it is applied to the whole world, Huainan's model is just a special case.Moreover, in a situation of internal and external troubles, in order to get more help, Shen Zhezi had to compromise whether he wanted to or not.

Of course, these are too early to say, the most important thing right now is to be able to hold Huainan.

The naturalization of a large number of people brings not only the pressure of administrative management, but also the issue of organizing production and resettlement.Otherwise, even if you are naturalized for a million, you can only stare at the dry food, but you can't effectively put it into production, which is a great waste.

The war is imminent, so it is naturally impossible to spend all the money on the farm.Moreover, Shen Zhezi must also consider leaving enough resettlement space for the refugees who fled from the Central South during the war.Therefore, this part of the population will migrate to the south on a large scale later, and this is also one of the contents of Shen Zhezi's previous negotiations with the Jiangdong family.

"Later, there will be Lao Daohui, who will organize the recruitment of [-] households. At that time, Liang County will send people into the town to lead the southward migration."

Most of the people in Huainan are wandering and eating, and there is no such thing as the difficulty of leaving their homeland and the consideration of relocating to the land.Once these people go to Liang County, they will be able to invest in Jiangdong's ecological circle, which will create much greater value than staying in Huainan.

Of course, these populations are only in the form of rented workers. Not only are they registered, but the county government also has to collect taxes.

In addition to these, Shen Zhezi also told Du He to compile another craftsman's register.Craftsman households are more valuable wealth than ordinary Ding households, especially those related to military use such as smelting and casting.

Not to mention anything else, just Shen Zhezi's large smelting and casting base in Fengguo, no matter how many craftsmen are too many.Moreover, these industries must be in their own hands and no one else should be allowed to touch them.

Hearing Shen Zhezi's more detailed instructions, Du He couldn't help but look even more bitter. It took only one sentence, but his task was several times more difficult.If it wasn't for the sense of accomplishment that this kind of busyness could bring, and Du Heben hadn't been in Jiangdong for a long time, and he hadn't been infected with the mysterious and vulgar, maybe he would have retreated in the face of difficulties.

Du He had just left here, and all the generals who were still in the town came to see him one after another.

Now there are tens of thousands of people in the town, except for the 1 people who are stationed in Shouchun Township to support them, the rest are scattered in many fortresses on both sides of the Huai River.At the same time, there are hundreds of warships, large and small, forming a powerful navy, cruising and deploying defenses between Huai, Ru, Ying, Feishui and many other rivers.

After the situation in Shouchun was basically stable, Shen Zhezi gave up his previous conservative defense.Guo Song led [-] sailors up the Huai River, uprooted some Jienu garrisons at Yingkou upstream, and had penetrated deep into Yingshui.At the same time, Lu Yongbu attacked Huaixia and defended the vortex with the Xuzhou army.

At the same time, the size of the cavalry has also expanded to four thousand, but because a stable station has not yet been established on the north bank of the Huai River, only a few hundred rode across the river for scouting.

During the period when Shen Zhezi went south to Liang County, although most of the Jie slaves had not yet come south, local small-scale battles had occurred frequently.Most of these battles were won by the Huainan Army.

At present, there is not much difference between the soldiers of the north and the south, if only in terms of the quality of the soldiers. Even in terms of individual combat ability, the Jin army is faintly better than the slave soldiers.At least as far as the Huainan army is concerned, it is better than the slave soldiers in these places in terms of armament.

Jie Nu is not a brave devil who is invulnerable to swords and guns. He has moved inland for a long time, and most of them make a living by farming mulberry. Their living habits are not much different from those of Jin people.And before Yongjia, these miscellaneous beards were at the bottom of society.Or because they are more oppressed, once they gain power, they will be even more tyrannical, so they gradually have the name of demons.But in fact, it is only flesh and blood when it is hacked.

With or without the cooperation of boats and waterways, the Jin army is completely at two levels of combat.Jiangdong has few cavalry, which is a natural inferiority. Using pawns to resist the impact of Jienu Rangers naturally loses more and wins less.Therefore, in the absence of large-scale troop build-up and clear strategic goals, defense is often the main focus.

This time the Huainan army took the initiative to attack across the river, and the formation of chariots has repeatedly succeeded.As long as the navy gains a foothold on the river bank, they can advance with chariots, and soon form a strong camp on the opposite bank.At the same time, under the cooperation of the navy, boats and ships, they advanced steadily and expanded the results of the battle.

As for Jienu, the army is still gathering, and there is no orderly dispatch at the local level.Even if there is an established army, such as Zhao Shicong, who is currently in command of Qiaocheng, he is currently shrinking his defenses and rarely takes the initiative to attack.

Although these small-scale victories may not be enough to affect the final result of the entire war, it undoubtedly has a huge impact on the stability of the people's hearts, and it can also strengthen the running-in between the various departments of the Huainan Army, allowing more effective dispatch and cooperation during the war.

Moreover, while the Huainan army kept attacking, it also brought many Jin people from the north of the Huai River to the south.The arrival of these people can not only enrich the place, but also bring quite detailed information about the Northland.

(End of this chapter)