After defeating this mixed foreign armed force, Zhou Huaian also got good news and bad news from it.

Let’s talk about the bad news first. The Turkish Army, which was originally gathered at Daluo City, had collapsed and scattered; after being robbed along the way, the defeated troops set their sights on Jiaozhou Port, which had gathered a large number of business travelers and wealth.

To make matters worse, the local Tuman and Shanyi also jumped out to join in the fun and began to cause chaos in the local area. Among the Tumen, the Tuman (cooked households) were naturalized and imprisoned, while those who were not transformed by the king and fled far into the mountains were Shanyi (shen households). This also means that the Tuman groups in the local states, whose strength was severely damaged, could no longer deter and suppress them, and the unrest that was originally limited to Jiaozhou began to spread to various places.

Today, the Annan Protectorate Administration has 13 prefectures, 39 counties, and 32 resident states (tribal settlements), among which Jiaozhi County (Jiaozhou) is the resident.

As the largest prefecture and capital of Annan Protectorate, Jiaozhou has eight counties under its jurisdiction. There are 24,000 registered households in the territory all year round, about 99,600. However, because the number of people in the confinement of households and famous households is hidden, and the number of minors and slaves is not considered household registration, and the population of Tu people under various rule is not included, so the actual number may increase by two or three times.

There are often 8,700 military personnel in the territory. In addition, there are several newly established soldiers of the Jinghai Army Jiedushi, forming basic regular armed forces. However, since the fall of Lingdong and the road was cut off, most of them fled northwards or went north to join the rebels. The local area mainly relies on those local troops, group training, and rural soldiers to maintain the situation.

In addition, there are some foreign troops composed of naturalized Tu tribes, which are divided into foreigners and people. The so-called foreigners are held by Han officials and are the governors; those who are attached to the army are placed next to the army town and are the governors. Most of them maintain the original tribe organization, and a large number of Ding and Zhuang are collected to join the army during the war, and do not give military pay and horse weapons. The court only bears the military rations and military pay for their wartime rations.

Therefore, in historical records, the military towns established by the Tang Dynasty on the border could easily pull out several times the basic military quota to carry out large-scale offensive battles. Now, even after the serious loss of regular military quotas, the local situation can still be maintained. However, the sudden emergence of Zeng Shi in Jiaozhou has broken the fragile balance that was finally maintained.

However, the good news is that when the families were destroyed and their strength was seriously damaged, the team they brought had become the only place to rely on, precious and important force. At least under the activities and calls of the party led by the Qu family, many wealthy families from other places who fled from other places expressed a considerable degree of support and active cooperation.

Of course, the main thing is to rely on the rebels under Zhou Huaian to march along the way, and to regain their homes where they had fallen into riots while advancing. For this reason, not only did they raise money and grain in a short time, and took out eight thousand stones of rice and three thousand pieces of silk cloth, but also brought their own armed forces to form a small army of 200 people willing to lead the way.

Therefore, after a brief rest and rectifying one day, Zhou Huaian had to lead his troops again on the road to Jiaozhou City. He also recruited 2,000 husbands and soldiers on the spot and several requisitioned cars, ships and animals. Because there will be many river systems in the areas that will be passed down the river, when he is traversing along the river, he can use water transportation to transport military supplies.

After all, this is the central part of the Red River Plain, the Honghe Delta where the largest grain production area of ​​the Jiaozhi regime in later generations is located; therefore, from the seaside, you can see all kinds of water networks, continuous paddy fields and villages everywhere. The ubiquitous ditch networks and fish ponds, the floating and floating buffaloes, and the pastoral scenery that even reminds people of the beautiful and exquisite scenery of the south of the Yangtze River.

However, most of these farmland and water conservancy facilities were developed and developed by immigrants and their descendants from the Central Plains and the South in the past dynasties; their arrival also greatly changed the local agricultural ecology.

As for the native Tu people in the local area, they have been in the primitive agricultural production that can still be harvested after slashing and burning seeds for a long time. Or they simply rely on the relatively abundant subtropical forest resources, and like wild monkeys, they will sleep in the open air when they are full by picking and eating.

It was not until the settlements they lived in were successively conquered and conquered by immigrants from the Han area that they were incorporated into the relatively advanced civilization system and carefully cultivated agricultural production through migration, mixed living and intermarriage.

This is also one of the largest rice producing areas in Southeast Asia that were called granaries. According to later generations, on this natural impact plain, paddy fields, called high-quality land in Jiangnan alone, occupied more than 80% of the cultivated land area here.

The Chishui River from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau has turned into clear river water when it passes here, and it also precipitates a large amount of nutrient-rich organic matter, creating extremely fertile soil along the way; coupled with abundant light and rain; therefore, in later generations, the most common norm is the local area.

Zhou Huaian brought out several old camp leaders, including the most combat-capable and high-profile old soldiers, including front, back, left, right, and medium-sized ones; with the full range of military sprints, it was also a large-scale training move; and the remaining five camp leaders who were not equipped with equipment and personnel were named in the order of the new camp one, two, three, four, and five, and led by Wang Pan, who was left behind.

In the order of each battalion, there was a regiment of each battalion, and the Long March garrisons from Guiguan, Huguan and even Annan were mixed. They were also familiar with the local old corps. With them, they could avoid some unexpected situations and emergencies, resulting in non-combat reductions and delays.

Of course, there are not all noises and episodes in the meantime.

"Boss, why do we act with this generation?"

Looking at the messy armed forces walking in front of barefoot, bare-armed, wearing a straw hat, carrying swords and guns, and trying to speak but stopping, she still couldn't help but ask.

"I can't do it, he thinks...."

"Because these people can effectively reduce the damage and consumption of our army before they really fight against the enemy..."

Zhou Huaian explained to him without caring about it.

"After all, we are foreign tourists who are not familiar with the place. It is not impossible to rely on our own efforts alone. However, in many places, we are afraid that we will achieve twice the result with half the effort, and it is not as easy and effective as the people in these places."

"Besides, only by first solving the dual difficulties brought by the imperial court and foreign enemies and maintaining the stable output of this grain production area can we talk about future events..."

"This is the order in which the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction I have told you, we need to choose and resolve them one after another."

"Do you think it's important to be unpleasant and in the mood for the road? Is it more important to ensure that most of the rebels ahead have sufficient food and fodder supply..."

"What's more, are these land and properties of the other party not where our Han ancestors worked hard for generations, opened up little by little from the wilderness, and the military and civilians of all generations fought for one by one from the barbarians... "

"If we regard the enemy and our relatives as enemies without distinguishing themselves from each other, wouldn't it be a waste of money and convenience for those foreign barbarians for no reason?"

"The leader is far from worrying about... We feel ashamed of ourselves"

At this time, a voice couldn't help but respond, but Wu Xingchen with the small eyes of the commander of the Left Camp; in addition, Chai Ping, who was the deputy, Su Wuming, Su Fang, and other generals of the Right Camp, also looked like they were deeply moved or that they were like this, and even thoughtful expressions were different.

"You slim guy..."

Zhou Huaian then reacted and sighed to Xiaoqi.

This is obviously not just his personal question, but he used this opportunity to draw out all his doubts, making himself clear, and he also had good intentions.

To be honest, when I crossed the sea to fight in Annan this time, the ordinary soldiers under my command had no extra thoughts, and I just had to obey orders; but some of the generals from old rebels among my subordinates could not help but have some thoughts and doubts; after all, I was still shouting for fighting and killing these local families and wealthy families, and doing the raid of houses and property; now after changing places, I have to fight with similar existences.

It is quite normal for some people to be unable to turn around psychologically; Zhou Huaian can only put forward the theory of united front that unites all forces to the outside world, and the theory of primary and secondary contradictions to make them feel at ease. He also plans to expand the priority of the distinction between the two countries and the selection of principles in the evening to make up for this omission of details.
Chapter completed!