Chen Wen had already learned about the news that Qingtian had not been released. The day he accepted the title of Marquis of Anyuan.

His Zhejiang Ming army's defense line in the east has always relied on Dapanshan and Xianju Mountain between Jinhua and Taizhou. He used his geographical advantages to use the terrain to prevent the infiltration of the Qing army in a key position and eliminated the threat from the east. After beginning to recover Chuzhou, due to the existence of Nantian Mountain, there was actually a natural barrier between the Ming army and the Qing army in Wenzhou. However, this time it was not the Ming army who wanted to rely on this defense, but the Qing army in Taizhou and Wenzhou.

Today, from north to south, Dapan Mountain, Xianju Mountain and Nantian Mountain, these mountains separate the occupied areas of the Ming army in Zhejiang from Taiwan and Wenqing army. The best route to send troops is to flow down the Oujiang River from the Fucheng of Chuzhou, and the key point of the competition between the two sides is Qingtian County.

The Qing army gathering station, Wenzhou, Taizhou and the navy were the right way to intercept the Ming army in Qingtian. Because Wenzhou lacked geographical depth, all counties in other counties except Taishun County were distributed along the coast. As long as the Ming army broke through Qingtian's defense line, the next one was Wenzhou's prefecture. Once the Wenzhou prefecture was not protected, even Taizhou would be under the military front of the Ming army.

However, the war has been going on for eight months, and the soldiers have begun to take vacations in batches, and he does not have much mobile force. If Chen Guobao was defeated in Qingtian, the newly recovered counties in Chuzhou may not be able to be preserved. Now, Chen Guobao withdraws his troops at the right time, although he has not been able to achieve his full results in the battle, but the Ming army can rest assuredly take the counties that have already eaten.

As for the subsequent situation, Chen Guobao said that he would send three small troops to receive Longquan, Yunhe and Jingning counties upstream of Huixi and Biaoxi. And Qingyang, which is farther away, is too close to Songxi and Zhenghe counties in Fujian, which is already the sphere of influence of the Qing army in Fujian. It is not conducive to defense, the distance is too far and there is no water transportation to directly reach, so it is not easy to assist in defense, so he has not yet decided and wants to ask Chen Wen for instructions.

From the eight counties of Jinhua and the nine counties of Jinyun in Chuzhou to Jinhua, the number of 18 counties in Quzhou and Chuzhou has doubled, and the land area has even doubled, including two prefectures in Quzhou and Chuzhou.

Due to the outbreak of the Cao Conglong Rebellion, the Ming army in Zhejiang, which originally had sufficient resources for this article, had indigestion for a while. At least before the rule of these counties was completely established, Chen Wen still had no desire to continue talking before the new batch of war soldiers was trained.

Since the Qing army in Qingtian did not pursue it, they chose to speed up the time to renovate, expand the city, and buy guard equipment. In addition, the Qing army in the North Line of Jinhua and Quzhou also retreated to their nests to recuperate, and this year there will be no more war. Since this is the case, it is better to speed up the time to expand their own strength.

Currently, Chen Wen is locating southwestern Zhejiang, occupying large mountainous areas of Jinqu Basin and Chuzhou. The grain production in Jinqu Basin, Jinhua and Chuzhou have a variety of minerals and strong folk customs. Although Quzhou's folk customs are not as good as it is, its geographical location is crucial, and the potential energy of the Longyou Business Group is also very large.

Food, raw materials, soldiers and wealth are all available in this area, but it takes more effort to stimulate these potential energy.

The autumn taxes in the eight counties of Jinhua Prefecture and the five counties in Chuzhou have already begun to be collected, while the three counties including Longquan have to wait until Chen Guobao collects them before they can start collecting taxes. Quzhou is the hardest hit area of ​​the war this year, so it is exempted from taxes. In short, it will take until the autumn tax collection ends in February next year to know. However, the expansion of troops this year is a bit large, and the collection has begun, and it is naturally for the sake of next year's war.

In terms of commercial taxation, there will be no improvement in the presence of the tax exemption order for the time being, but this year there will be three additional income.

Once, more than one million taels of silver and tens of thousands of taels of gold, as well as a large number of jewelry and calligraphy and paintings were confiscated from Ma Jinbao's private warehouse; once, the property of the rebel gentry was confiscated, and less than one hundred thousand taels of silver and a small amount of gold, as well as few jewelry and calligraphy and paintings were confiscated from it; and the other time, after capturing Quzhou, more than three million taels of silver and nearly one hundred thousand taels of gold were confiscated from the warehouse of the Governor's Office.

These extra incomes are indeed quite large, but the expenses of the Ming army are even more amazing now.

The monthly salary of the Ming army in Zhejiang is one tael of five cents per soldier plus one stone of food. Under the harsh military law to ensure that the salary of soldiers is not deducted, each soldier can use these to support his parents, wife and children. Perhaps he will save some, but he may still have the chance to do it as long as the family is not too large.

Under such salary standards, the Ming army was more inclined to reward military merits, which was an important reason why Chen Wen's army was able to fight bravely at the beginning.

However, for Chen Wen, Youdao is not in charge of the family and does not know that the firewood and rice are expensive. Each soldier has one tael of 5 cents per month plus one stone of grain, which means that each soldier has eighteen taels of silver plus twelve s of grain per year. If the reward is added during the holidays, he will have twenty-five taels of silver and eighteen s of grain per year.

One soldier is this number, and ten soldiers are ten times. Now, veterans in the battalion and new recruits in training can quickly exceed the number of 20,000 troops. Including the salary of officers at all levels who will increase a certain salary for each level and the salary of civil servants in various departments, next year, even if the army is no longer expanded, they will have to spend nearly one million taels of silver on their wages.

Fortunately, the rewards for military merits are now repaid by land and the pressure on money has dropped drastically, but most of the land distributed is tax-free. The increase in summer and autumn taxes will be very small or even decline in the next few years, and it cannot match the Ming army, which is growing stronger every day.

In addition, the expansion of Anhua Town Bastion has begun, and a duplex in Hulu Town, Dongyang County is also under construction. Chen Wen, in the direction of Chuzhou, does not intend to station too many combat camps, and uses limited troops as much as possible to attack, so a duplex will also be built near the capital city to form a corner. As for Quzhou, it will be Chen Wen's next direction of military use, not only for the strategy of the Three Bureaus of the Luping, but also for the confrontation with Li Dingguo in Jiangxi, so there will be no consideration for the construction of the bastion.

If this is the case, even in the past few months, even if a large number of Qing army prisoners are as coolies, the bastion madman Chen Furen will spend 700,000 to 800,000 taels of silver on the "Bunker" career.

As for weapons, armor manufacturing, expansion of ships and arbitrary facilities of the water camp and the land and other expenses, it is even more impossible to calculate. Especially when he went on the expedition, Chen Wen no longer wanted to think of the word "Golden Ten Thousand Taxis".

In the past, when I played real-time strategy games, I didn’t eat, didn’t get sick, and had no morale problems. Even the soldiers who had automatic weapons and equipment were really cute, but in fact, this kind of thing didn’t exist at all.

The occupied area of ​​the Ming army was covered with factories producing various products. Raw materials from surrounding areas were transported through official roads and rivers, and then processed and returned to various places to revitalize industry, supplemented by science and education, and formed commercial capital to harvest the surrounding economic zones, thereby realizing industrial modernization, commercial exportation, and grain importation...

Once he thought of this, Chen Wen, as a generation of "the shame of time travelers", was ashamed and wanted to find a crack in the ground. He probably never fought like him for two years and was still using the ancient techniques and tactics to fight the barbarians.

But he was not a senior official from a Republic, with strong political skills, nor was he an encyclopedia-like industrial devil. He was able to copy the industrial system of hundreds of years in just one or two years alone. It is extremely difficult for a small business that likes history to achieve today.

However, once connected with the business, Chen Wen suddenly realized that an opportunity was in front of him, which was within reach. (To be continued.)

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