In the past, Shouchun City was built simply as a military fortress. Although many people lived in it, they really did not devote much energy to people's livelihood.

With the complete collapse of the slave army, the pressure from military affairs has slowed down, so the situation in Shouchun City has also been adjusted since the beginning of winter. Although the entire city is still in the pattern of inner and outer rings, it is no longer just for the garrison. The outer city has been completely opened to ordinary people, and the city has become more prosperous as a result.

In the early years, due to frequent attacks and wars in Huainan, there were almost no village buildings in the countryside except for some powerful walls. Moreover, the government affairs of the Huainan Neishi Government are extremely scarce, and the material savings do not support large-scale helping the people to rebuild their hometowns. However, the cold winter is approaching, and if the people are allowed to stay in the countryside, you can imagine that this winter will be wailing everywhere, which is especially the disaster.

Therefore, after the official war, Shen Zhezi reduced the garrisons in Shouchun City. Except for the inner city Jincheng, the other garrisons moved to the surrounding abbeys and forts to garrison to free up the city space to accommodate the people. At present, Shouchun City has gathered more than 30,000 households and tens of thousands of people.

If we look at the city capacity, even if so many households have poured in, they have not yet reached the limit of Shouchun City. You should know that Shouchun City was just a military fortress at the beginning of its construction, it left enough tactical focus. Especially when the Zu family was in charge here in the early years, almost half of the people in the town were gathered in Shouchun City.

If it is an ordinary season, so many households are influx, it will be a huge pressure on material use and order alone. However, Huainan is now very powerful. Even if there are some strong people hidden among the people, they dare not cause trouble in Shouchun City without knowing how to deal with it. The pressure on management is not great.

Nowadays, the Huainan Neishifu has more than 50,000 households and more than 300,000 households. Just from the people she has, it is no less than the Jiangdong County. You should know that even Kuaiji had only about 30,000 households in the early years. Of course, there are still some households in the countryside, but it is completely incomparable to Shen Zhezi when he entered the town. And these walls no longer have the power to compete with the Neishifu. As the local rule in the town is more systematic, it is only a matter of time before naturalization.

Therefore, Huainan is now extremely powerful. Relatively speaking, the pressure on management and operation has also doubled. It is very difficult to solve the vitality of these households.

If it is a normal year, these households will be directly replenished, and with the huge settlement foundation and arable land resources in Huainan in his early years, it can be completely digested. However, this rate of use of people's power still makes Shen Zhezi feel a little low. If all households are paid to the farmland, it will certainly make Huainan people's livelihood quickly on track, but the expected rate of return is relatively low. In this way, Huainan may be able to achieve self-sufficiency within two years, and accumulate food consumption for a large-scale Northern Expedition to the Central Plains in five years.

This cycle is still relatively long for Shen Zhezi. You should know that he plans to launch a large-scale military service in southern Henan next summer to completely recover several counties in southern Henan, and then look north to Luoyang. There is no doubt that large-scale external subsidies are still needed, especially subsidies from Jiangdong Wuzhong. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the attractiveness of Huainan, and relying solely on settlement is far from enough.

In terms of people's efforts, Shen Zhezi planned to invest in the military farming scale of 20,000 households. After the winter began, more than 10,000 households had arranged to move into the military farming area and sow a batch of crops that could survive the winter, such as wheat. After the spring of the next year, the remaining military farming households would also arrange to put into production one after another. Of course, as Huainan's situation improves, the scale of settlement will be further increased. Shen Zhezi planned that when he successfully gained a foothold in the Central Plains, he would use Huainan as one of the grain supply bases to replace Wuzhong.

The output of military farmland can only satisfy people's livelihood. As for the army with larger demand, it needs to purchase from outside. Therefore, Shen Zhezi should use the remaining people's strength to return more huge handicrafts and produce goods with greater value for trading.

For example, in his early years, he was placed in the smelting and casting base of Wujiang, Shen Zhezi planned to gradually transfer to Zhongluojian, Huainan Town, next year, and expand this most important military merit industry. In addition to its original scale, he would also add more labor investment from tens of thousands of households, and would not be capped, and the time would be determined according to the situation.

Luojian is closer to Huainan than Wujiang. Relying on the Huai River, it can not only connect to the towns in Jiangbei, but also directly connect to the Central Plains. In addition to meeting the needs of the Huainan headquarters, the military equipment produced can also be used to trade with Xuzhou and Jingzhou in exchange for materials.

In addition to simple military industry, civil affairs are also a profit point for excavation. Once a silk and linen textile, ceramics, industrial and agricultural utensils, cooking and drinking processing, poultry and livestock breeding, etc. are formed in a sufficient scale, the income will be much richer than simple settlement.

The reason why Shen Zhezi dared to suspend the most important settlement was, on the one hand, because Jiangdong is currently a stable grain exporting place. Today, Jiangdong, especially Wuzhong, has a very surplus grain production capacity, similar to the previous high-quality rice, which is purely due to the national war, and even so, people's livelihood has not caused great panic and turmoil.

Although the grain output in Jiangdong is currently limited by the season, with the recovery of Huaiyin and the entire Huai River is connected, and sea transportation is being tried, and a small part of the grain has arrived at Huaiyin by sea, on the way to Shouchun. Although it has been a lot of trouble, the consumption of transportation on land is still small, and you can also try to increase investment and expand the scale in the future.

Another aspect is that due to the current situation, the situation in Jiangdong is gradually stabilizing. However, the northern part is in chaos, Shi Le died, Shi Hu was defeated, and the entire Jie Kingdom was divided into a foregone conclusion. Therefore, the Huainan Army can be said to have completely taken the initiative. As long as the Huainan Army does not take the initiative to launch an attack, the forces of the Slave Kingdom will definitely not dare to attack Huainan without authorization. Therefore, the Huainan Army has sufficient time to mobilize and prepare for war.

As for the last aspect, it is due to the geographical location of Huainan. Huainan is close to the sky and can achieve good transportation connections with the Central Plains and Jiangdong. If it weren’t for such excellent geographical conditions, there would be no confrontation between the north and the south, and this place would have become the focus. Such a place is simply a natural commercial distribution center.

Although the north is turbulent now, it does not mean that there is no trading object or the need and ability to trade. You should know that even a military strategist like Huainan, where wars are strife, there are still a lot of local forces in the countryside, and there will only be more in the north. Even in the south of Henan, which was just trampled by the slave army earlier, with the retreat of the slave army, the local forces are awakened like hibernation and are ready to move.

The local power in the north is not inferior to a separatist regime. The most representative of it is the Xue family in Hedong. They gathered their clans to block the river and protected themselves, and did not serve Liu, Shi, and Fu for decades. They were as cruel as Shihu, or as powerful as Former Qin, and could not conquer such a wealthy family that defended themselves. You can imagine how powerful the Haozong had to protect themselves.

Although the power of Huainan is not enough to affect Hedong, and the Central Plains cannot be filled with powerful sects as powerful as the Xue clan in Hedong. However, there are countless Daxiangzong who live in tribes. In the early years, Shi Le plundered the Central Plains in a bandit manner, without any production. These villages and clans were their main targets of plunder. After moving into the Central Plains, the Northern Wei Dynasty also defeated these villages and clans, which led to great victory in national strength.

Before officially advancing into the Central Plains, Shen Zhezi treated these villages as transaction objects and first obtained a stable connection and communication. When he officially arrived at the Central Plains, although he would not have plundered and killed these villages like those foreign tribes, if these people were blindly trying to disagree with his intentions, he would certainly not tolerate them.

In the few days after Princess Xingnan entered the town, Shen Zhezi indeed put aside some of the matters at hand and took the princess to travel in the town for a few days. In fact, in Huainan today, except for the prosperous town of Shouchun, the rest of the countryside is mostly in a state of being in trouble, especially in the cold winter, everything is deserted and the scenery is really lacking. However, there is no reason to say that the infatuated man and the resentment of women is so strong that it is not easy to say. No matter how boring the things are, as long as you do them together, you will feel relish and enjoy it.

Although the climate in Huainan and Jiangdong is very different, Shen Zhezi was very afraid that the male princess Xing would not adapt to the environment. However, this girl's physique is much better than what Shen Zhezi wanted, and she adapts to the climate very quickly. After a few days of rest, she is much stronger than Shen Zhezi. What made Shen Zhezi slightly frustrated was that the girl was excited, wearing hunting outfits and traveling with her horse, and her riding skills were not even inferior to herself.

"The princess has been thinking about riding and traveling with the husband in the Central Plains. When she was in the capital, she practiced riding hard every day, worried that she would be bored by the husband and not accompany her."

Hearing the lady A Ling who was walking with him say this, Shen Zhezi felt even more moved by the girl's heart that was tied to her, and then she couldn't help but be more considerate and caring.

"Actually, there are more than just the princess who have this idea..."

Seeing the Langjun and the princess riding horses in front of her, Cui Ling fell behind and bowed her head silently. But after a while, she heard the princess happily calling her, and then she showed a bright smile and rode her horse to catch up with her, and her thoughts were restrained in the deepest part of her heart.

Back then, in the purgatory reed marsh on earth, she just hoped to endure the next dawn with the grandfather who depended on each other until dawn. After being rescued, she just hoped to see the young man's energetic figure from time to time. Now she just treats herself as a witness, observe this joy, and share this joy, and she will have nothing to ask for in the rest of her life.

"Miss A Ling's riding skills are much more sophisticated than me."

After riding, the princess gradually became exhausted, so she was taken over by Shen Zhezi to ride a horse. After a while, she remembered something and said to Shen Zhezi: "I went north this time but did not deliberately leave the beautiful little maid in the husband's room. It's a pity that Gua'er's little lady was really lacking in understanding. She fell from her home and was still in the city to recover from her injuries. Don't mistake me for being a jealous woman! In fact, I also know that husband's reputation is now, so I cannot force myself to be lucky, otherwise people will hurt me..."

"This is not something you should worry about, nor is it that I can be bewitched by others. I just don't want to hurt my closest relatives because of those irrelevant personnel."

Shen Zhezi lowered his head and saw that the girl was feeling a little depressed, so he smiled and comforted her, and then pulled her cloak on her: "It's windy, let's stop today's trip. If it's sunny tomorrow morning, I'll take you to Youying's mouth again."

After hearing this, Princess Xingnan became excited again. For her, any place where her husband's reputation is worth visiting a thousand times.
Chapter completed!