The problem in Quzhou Fucheng is not just hunger, the key is that the order has been damaged to a certain extent. At the same time, due to the large number of shops being searched, the wealthy households have been wiped out, and the business in Fucheng has almost stagnated.

Due to its geographical location, Quzhou has always been a place of prosperity for trade. The local Longyou Business Group is one of the "Top Ten Business Groups" in the traditional Chinese sense. It mainly operates in jewelry, development, papermaking and book printing industries. Its footprints and business areas are spread all over the country, and there is even a saying that "longyou Business Groups everywhere".

The wealthy families in the Fucheng City of Quzhou were devastating this time, and most of them were local merchants. After Chen Wen determined the plan, he sent people to spread news in the direction of the other four counties, and welcomed local merchants to return to the Fucheng City to restore business order, which can be regarded as a small-scale "attracting foreign capital."

At the same time, Chen Wen also ordered the exemption of Xi'an County's autumn tax and commercial tax this year in order to accelerate the restoration of Fucheng's commercial capabilities.

Although tax reduction and exemption can accelerate the recovery of people's livelihood, for Chen Wen, who was surrounded by the Qing army and whose tax revenue was not enough to support his army, it would lead to his economic collapse. Fortunately, the various treasuries in Quzhou and Chen Jin's Governor's Mansion had a lot of savings. After they wiped out the wealthy families in Quzhou, about a half of these property was given to these officials, and the others were all in Chen Jin's pocket.

There were almost no officials in the city who could slip away from the Ming army, and they were willing to use a large part of their family resources to buy a way out for themselves and their families. On the contrary, Chen Jin, who was already dead, had a lot of his wealth disappeared, and some of Chen Jin's close servants and aides, such as Zhu Zhixi, Ji Zhenyi and Li Zhifang, were gone.

The wealth gains are indeed quite good, but the characteristics of the Longyou Business Group have led to many Longyou Business Group's industries being mostly in other places. When they return to their hometowns to buy houses and land, they are all in the Fucheng towns and towns outside the county town. This war has indeed caused considerable damage to the Fucheng, but the blow to the Longyou Business Group is actually not as big as they seem, and Chen Wen's income is also not as much as he imagined.

Now, Chen Wen has occupied Bawu in Jinhua, Longyou in Quzhou, Xi'an in Chuzhou, and Jinyun in Chuzhou, and has territories across three prefectures and eleven counties.

However, most areas of Chuzhou are mountains and have always been poor, and the Jinyun occupied by Chen Wen was also a small land and few people. Due to the Jinhua massacre, the battle between the Qing army and the Baitou army and the existence of Ma Jinbao had been ruined. It has been a year since Chen Wen restored the place, and it has only just begun to recover some vitality. It is still a long way from returning to the level of the late Ming Dynasty. As for Quzhou, the tug-of-war in the past six months and the small-scale war that has begun since Chen Wen recovered Jinhua Prefecture have caused great damage to people's livelihood. In addition, the three counties in the west are still in the hands of several Green Camp Army, and the trade routes leading to Jiangnan, Jiangxi and Fujian have been cut off, and future tax revenues are difficult to guarantee.

Currently, Chen Wen's command is under his command, Nantang, Dongyang and Yiwu, as well as the town-level battalion and the infantry teams of four bureaus drawn. Most of these field troops are in Quzhou, and only half of the Dongyang battalion is still with the garrison troops of each county as a defensive and deterrent force.

The three battle barracks each have four infantry bureaus, a cavalry brigade of 100 cavalry and artillery, engineers and other affiliated personnel of the battalion. Each battalion has nearly 2,000 personnel; the town-level battalion is different from the battle barracks, with more than 1,000 cavalry and fewer infantry, with a total of less than 1,600 combat soldiers; the four bureaus drawn have no cavalry, artillery, engineers and affiliated troops; there are less than 1,600 people in total; among the garrisons of each county, there are more than 600 people in Dongyang County, more than 400 people in Anhua Town, more than 200 people in Yongkang County, and more than 200 people in Jinhua Fucheng, the other counties have a sentry infantry equipped with more or less artillery groups and horses, and there are also two thousand people in total.

These troops have exceeded 10,000 people together. If we include the personnel of each prefecture, county government and garrison, even if we only consider the color discounts every month, we will have to have more than 200,000 taels of silver. This has not yet been calculated, as well as the various military consumption, raw material consumption and the maintenance costs of military facilities.

There is a saying that when a cannon fires, it costs tens of thousands of taels of gold. Nowadays, even if the cannon doesn’t sound, the money spent is already an astronomical figure. After expanding the occupied area, new war barracks, garrisons and various military facilities are needed. Chen Wen used Ma Jinbao’s vacant bags and house search operations in Jinhua Prefecture. Even if the autumn tax and commercial tax that were severely damaged in Quzhou were not reduced or exempted.

This time, Chen Wen did obtain a lot of money from Chen Jin's private warehouse, which can be regarded as blocking a lot of the upcoming big holes, but this is undoubtedly a drinking poison to quench thirst, at the cost of overdrawing future commercial taxes. Chen Wen has not done this before, but if he said that aftermath and the two loans for the capitulation were voluntarily drunk, then this time, the dead Chen Jin forced him to feed him.

In ancient times, Zhuge Wuhou devoted himself to his work and died; now, there is Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, who will leave a mess for his opponent even if he dies. For a moment, Chen Wen didn't know what to say.

Quzhou's aftermath loan will continue to be implemented, and those ownerless fixed-properties Chen Wen also plans to sell them. Only in this way can business be driven and the vitality of Quzhou Fucheng can be restored as soon as possible.

It takes time to restore business and cure people's livelihood, but Chen Wen did not intend to stop for this. He has now taken over Quzhou Prefecture City, and has also opened up a path to attack the three western counties of Quzhou, as well as ensure the safety of the rear road to Chuzhou in the south. Perhaps, it is also a good idea to return to the army to give Jin Li a slap.

Unfortunately, the military operation has lasted for half a year, and the soldiers have begun to think about their wives, children, and their families, and their families. The desire for war has begun to fade. For the time being, it is necessary to expand the occupied areas in southwestern Zhejiang and strengthen their own strength.

By moving westward to the three western counties of Quzhou, you can open up the commercial routes of Huizhou, Guangxin Prefecture and Jianning Prefecture through Kaihua, Changshan and Jiangshan, which is of great significance to breaking the encirclement of the Qing army. At the same time, you can also threaten the surrounding provinces and expand your own influence.

Going south to Chuzhou can not only expand the occupied area, but also enter Wenzhou on the coast, and obtain an outlet to form a semi-encirclement of Taizhou. Although the land of the mansion is small and the tax revenue is not much, it is better because of its strong customs. Unfortunately, the mountain people in Chuzhou are not as easy to train as Jinhua soldiers, and it will probably take more time to join the army. In addition, Songyangdan in Chuzhou is also an important transportation method for southeast coastal trade to connect the Qiantang River water system.

The goods traded from northern Fujian to northern Zhejiang are entered Chuzhou through Oujiang River and then transported out of the mountain by Songyang porter, reaching the Xi'anmen Wharf in Quzhou Prefecture, and then heading south along the Qiantang River to Hangzhou from the waterway. The whole journey passes through Qingtian, Lishui, Songyang, Suichang, Longyou in Quzhou, Xi'an, Lanxi in Jinhua, Jiande and Tonglu in Yanzhou, and finally reaching Hangzhou. Another trade route to trade from Wuyi Mountain is to leave from Nanping through a caravan, enter Longquan through Yunhe, Songyang, Suichang, Longyou, Xi'an, Chun'an, and finally arrive in Huizhou.

Although Chuzhou is poor, it plays a role as a transit station in commercial activities from northern Fujian to northern Zhejiang and southern Anhui. Songyangdan can be understood as a logistics method of this era. If you can intervene and integrate it to a certain extent, the energy that this mansion can dig out is much more than imagined.

In contrast, according to the summary of these days, Jiangnan Jiangxi Governor Ma Guozhu transferred some green camps in southern Anhui to Kaihua County, and mobilized the remnants of Jiangxi Admiral Biao Camp and the intact Houying to enter Changshan County, while Jiangshan County was still left behind by Zhang Guoxun and Wang Zhigang. In addition, according to rumors, Jiangxi Jiujiang General also transferred most of the troops that had entered Guangxin Prefecture as the backing of the Qing army in these three counties.

For Chen Wen, the Qing army had an overwhelming advantage in the southeast, and he did not use the island as the base camp like Zheng Chenggong, and used the advantages of the navy to isolate the Qing army. He was in the inland Zhejiang, and the Qing army was defeated again and again, but he could always use the advantage of military strength to surround his control area, forcing him to divide his troops to garrison various places, and divide the already extremely limited power in his hands.

The previous bloody battle was indeed a lot of casualties. It was a long-term state of military operations, and the soldiers' desire for war was reduced, and their morale during combat would be affected to a certain extent.

The Qing army had a large mobile force on the back, and it would definitely not be possible to divide the troops from three counties. If they attacked one county and the Qing army of other departments received orders, they would sit idly by and the Qing army in Jiujiang were responsible for the war. Since this is the case, they would only have to concentrate the army to attack one county first and lead the Qing army in Jiujiang out. As long as they could defeat it in one fell swoop, the Qing army in each county would be just a turtle in the jar.

Of course, in order to ensure the safety of the situation, Chen Wen still planned to send a small but sufficient force to achieve his goal to carry out another mission - to test whether the Chuzhou Prefecture, which is said to have reached the level of three shocks a day, still has the ability to stick to it!

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After a few days of rest, Chen Wen mobilized the entire army to fight again.

The main force composed of the Nantangying Camp and the town's direct camp, as well as the two infantry bureaus assigned to the right-wing battlefield, was led by Chen Wen himself to attack Jiangshan County, which was adjacent to Chuzhou Prefecture and Jianning Prefecture.

By the same token, the half of the Dongyang Camp was facing the local green camps of those prefectures at that time, and the damage was even smaller than that of the Nantang Camp. Chen Wen decided that Chen Guobao, who was temporarily in charge of commanding this army, led his troops into Chuzhou Prefecture.

In contrast, the remaining Yiwu camp and two other infantry bureaus commanded by An Youfu faced the troops of Wang Zhigang and Zhang Guoxun at that time, especially the Superior Battalion that copied the Yuanyang formation did cause considerable damage with its military strength advantage. So, Chen Wen decided to draw some relatively complete infantry teams back to Jinhua Mansion to assist Yin Yue and Lin Zhongxiao in defense of the northern line, while the other troops were commanded by Wu Dengke to stay in Quzhou City to guard against the attack of the Qing army.

According to the situation of our own and the enemy, Chen Wenbing divided into four groups, two attacking, one defending, and the other returning to the aid. Needless to say, the key is that the two teams continue to launch attacks and expand the troops in the occupied areas.

The Qing army in Jiangshan County was Zhang Guoxun's governor camp and Wang Zhigang's subordinates, and was the strongest among the Qing army in these three counties. The force was about 6,000, and one-third of them should be recruited for only one month. They could only assume the role of auxiliary soldiers when they arrived on the battlefield. The remaining main forces must have suffered a lot in that battle, especially the system must have been destroyed, and their combat effectiveness should be far lower than that of a month ago.

In field battles, this Qing army no longer has an advantage in the number of combat soldiers. Even if the Qing army from Jiujiang merges with it, it will be at most a replica of the battle a month ago. At that time, without the Super Biao Battalion and the nearly 1,000 cavalry team, it would be too difficult for the Qing army to win.

But if they attack other counties, these two Qing troops and the Jiujiang general joined forces, they would inevitably pose a threat to the Quzhou Prefecture City that had just been recovered. The troops under Chen Wen were injured relatively little in that battle and were enough to protect themselves. So Chen Wen decided to attack directly, lead the Jiujiang general to appear, and come to besiege the city to fight for help. If he didn't come, he would take down Jiangshan County and eliminate the Dubiao camp with the courage to take the first crab!

Chuzhou has a vast territory, and from the Lishui where the Fucheng is located, there are ten counties of Songyang, Jingning, Jinyun, Qingtian, Suichang, Qingyuan, Xuanping, Yunhe and Longquan. Now Jinyun County is under the control of the Ming army, and Lishui County where the Fucheng is located is located is south of Jinyun County.

Chen Wen's plan was to go south with great fanfare. There was no need to attack. He just pulled up the tiger's skin and saw if the Qing army was doing what he had been doing these days. Chen Guobao's first goal was to approach Suichang County, Quzhou.

The troops returning to the aid set out in advance, and then the two detachments that continued to launch an attack set out towards their respective targets. Looking at the army going out of the distance, Zhao Qian, who was fully responsible for excavating and blasting Quzhou, was almost spitting out fire.

Like last time in Longyou County, he was responsible for the engineering blasting troops successfully dug the tunnel under the city. In contrast, this time it was more difficult, but it was a major project that required the moat to drain the water in advance to dig the tunnel under the city. He and his old subordinates brought out by him perfectly solved this problem with the help of thousands of Qing army coolies and auxiliary soldiers, and made complete preparations for the subsequent recession.

After digging the city, Zhao Qian personally went to the end of the three tunnels and found that there seemed to be a large number of Qing troops walking around two of them. Feeling the danger, he ordered the three tunnels in advance to put the coffin filled with gunpowder in, connected the leads, and built a wall to form the space needed for blasting. Just wait for the order to be issued, the city wall above can be bombarded into the sky, and the army can also directly enter the city.

The excavation speed is far beyond the normal level of the Qing Army, and gunpowder is used even more granular gunpowder, which is said to be more powerful. Although I don’t know why there are quite a difference in power between the same kilograms, the power has indeed increased a lot after the on-site experiment.

The acceleration of excavation speed was indeed confirmed by the officers in charge of the Qing army captives, and Chen Wen also praised them for this, but the assassination in the Governor's Office made the engineers' first achievements in breaking the city disappear again.

Of course, this is nothing.

The most helpless thing is that the moat water they had spent a month draining was to be re-consolidated to re-consolidate the city defense in Quzhou. In order to prevent the Qing army from using the three tunnels, they had to take coolies to re-film the tunnel before they were lured back to the moat water.

Is this still the work of engineers? It’s different to find a group of people who are digging food from the soil. If this continues, how can you be worthy of the word "transfer" in his name and the word "transfer" in his name!
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