Compared to An Long's bleakness and fear, the Ming army occupied area in Zhejiang is now full of vitality.

At the end of the war, the Ming army had returned to its original state on all sides. In this month, the calculation of military merits had been completed, and even most of the military merit rewards from the four war barracks of Nantang, Shentang, Jingu and Dongyang had been distributed. Although the proportion of veterans in these troops was relatively high and most of them had more or less military merit fields, the newly obtained land could further improve their living standards, and the soldiers naturally hoped that the more they would be better.

Due to the seasonality emphasized by agriculture, this work must be completed before the start of summer planting, so as not to hinder the autumn harvest. However, according to the current progress, there are still many military fields that cannot catch up with this year's summer planting.

Especially in Longyou County and Xi'an County, there are many deserted fields in Qujiang, north and south. Although Quzhou's population damage in recent years is much lower than that in Jinhua, there are also many taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and there are also some wasteland, but most of the problems lie.

My home is in Jinhua Prefecture, but the newly divided land is in Quzhou. Both places have land, which makes the soldiers not very satisfied with the military fields farther away from their homes, because they are impossible to separate them into two places to cultivate. The land is easily occupied and no one supervises the rent collection, which is very inconvenient.

After receiving reports from the military supervisor and military officials below, Chen Wen thought about it for a long time, but it was nothing more than three methods: exchange, sale and collection.

There is only so much land in a place, and the exchange will only cause greater controversy, which is really unrealistic; selling makes military merit land a kind of goods, which is not conducive to the original intention of raising heroes with land, and it is absolutely impossible to collect this method. Historically, after Shi Lang captured Taiwan for the Qing Dynasty, he converted the land cleared by the Ming army in Tainan and Fujian into the private property of their Shi family, occupying more than half of the land that has been reclaimed in Tainan. The Qing governments collected tenant rent on their behalf, called "Shihou Da Rent".

Collecting on behalf of others can solve the problem of lack of clones in soldiers, but the clan forces that were originally separated by dividing the land will inevitably regain their tide due to the recongregation of the population. This is not something that Chen Wen can block on the surface, but can only be carried out in other names and means.

In addition, who is responsible for the tenant rent collected on behalf of others? The garrison is still the government. The benefits there are very great, and it is not easy to solve.

Chen Wen has already started meetings with Sun Yu, Zhou Jingting and other relevant officials to discuss this issue, but it is not possible to reach a solution in a short while.

In contrast, the other item of military merit reward is much simpler to issue hereditary military positions, even simpler to promote them than to promote them. Moreover, the officers have no resistance to issuing hereditary military positions to replace some military fields. After all, military fields are tax-free, but they have to be cultivated before they can harvest them. This also requires the desire for no natural disasters or man-made disasters. Hereditary military positions allow future generations to become officers without starting their efforts from small soldiers. Even if they need to complete their studies in martial arts schools, it is much easier for officers to have a family background than those of ordinary people.

In short, some companies are happy and some are worried. While they are not as worried, Chen Wen feels that he still has to hurry up and solve the problem. However, after this battle, this is not the only thing that needs him as the coach to worry about.

After this battle, the walls of Jinhua Fucheng had to be rebuilt to prevent floods and Chengchou's old tricks. The bastions in Quzhou Fucheng, Anhua Town and Chuzhou were extremely damaged, while the Qing army was not under the jurisdiction of Hulu Town. However, according to the captured officers of the Dinghai General Bian Battalion, Hong Chengchou once asked Zhang Jie to send someone to investigate the place, and it was left unresolved when he learned that there was a bastion there, and he didn't know if it was true.

There are not many things that need to be rebuilt, but there are quite a few new facilities, including the forts, military camps and post stations in Yanzhou Prefecture, as are the same in Kaihua, Changshan, Jiangshan, and Yushan County in Guangxin Prefecture. Most of the facilities in these places are to be newly built. In addition, in Yushan County, Chen Wen also plans to build one of his bastions and the Qing army's bastions in Guangxin Prefecture, which is also an elegant thing.

Hong Chengchou built a battalion in Guangxin Prefecture and gathered a large army, which forced Chen Wen to shift his strategic direction. Avoiding the real and turning to the virtual is the ultimate military strategist. At present, the entire four southeastern provinces have turned to the defensive force against the Ming army in Zhejiang, so naturally they have to try to pick up some soft persimmons to further expand their strength.

These infrastructure construction was used by those coolies, but there were too many prisoners of this war. Chen Wen put all the auxiliary soldiers back home as usual and exceeded the jurisdiction of the coolies, so he had to expand the coolies. However, if he had no money, these infrastructure construction could not be achieved at all.

The amount agreed on with the Ming army in Fujian was really quite large. The captives of the Eight Banners of the Han army alone had to sell more than 100,000 taels of silver. Before the weapons were calculated, these one-time transactions alone could bring together some infrastructure construction projects.

Moreover, the gun teams trained by themselves cannot be sold, but weapons such as bird guns can be produced by the Military Industry Department, and there are also long-term products such as cloth and medicinal materials. In addition, Chen Wen also plans to continue the work of human traffickers, and the rexes among the Green Camp soldiers can also be sold to Zheng Chenggong, but he doesn't know whether this Fujian tycoon will accept them.

However, the Ming army in Zhejiang has not yet reached the sea, and these trades are just flowers in the water and moon in the well. Now is not a season for military use, and the army also needs to be reorganized, so we can only wait until after autumn. At least we have to finish the summer tax before we can have the capital to start the war again.

Before the four provinces suppressed the capitals of the four provinces, the Ming army in Zhejiang had seven combat barracks, plus more than 5,000 garrisons from various places and a Zhejiang Inland Water Naval Division. After the war, the seven combat barracks lost a total of more than 2,000 troops, which needed to be supplemented. The garrisons also lost hundreds of troops, and the Zhejiang Inland Water Naval Division was almost wiped out.

According to convention, priority camps were given, so Chen Wen still selected soldiers from the garrison to supplement the camps according to the old rules, and then trained recruits to supplement the garrisons from various places, and built new garrisons in various counties in the occupied areas. However, due to the confluence of Zhang Zisheng's troops, Chen Wen had to suspend the replenishment, because at least two camps needed to be formed, one was used to resettle Zhang Zisheng's soldiers, and the other was to maintain Yanzhou Prefecture.

As for the Zhejiang Inland Waters Navy, even if the seized ships are damaged, they must be repaired as soon as possible. In addition to being built by themselves, Chen Wen has also agreed with Zheng Tai to purchase some ships from the Zheng family.

The army needs to be expanded, so it is not difficult to build weapons, but the renewal of weapons has become a big problem.

The water conservancy workshop has been launched. In addition to hydraulic boring machines, machinery such as hydraulic forging hammers have also been hand-made by the masters and entered the water conservancy workshop to use.

This can undoubtedly greatly improve the weapon manufacturing speed of the Ming army in Zhejiang. After all, there are amazing amounts of hydraulic resources in southwestern Zhejiang, and many places do not need to be built, even reservoirs and other facilities. However, such as flintlock guns, or rifles that Chen Wen was thinking about not long ago, these things are not something that the machinery he owns can do. In his memory, it seems that these were very early, but they took hundreds of years, or even hundreds of years to popularize them. Anyway, it is impossible to popularize them now.

The military industry department is still built by those masters. The hand-made speed is slow, but there is still a lot of waste, but he has no choice but to do so. So from the quelling of the Cao Conglong Rebellion to the four provincial capitals, he barely completed the replacement of the firearms team in Nantangying, which was only 320. This was done by increasing wages, stimulating the enthusiasm of craftsmen, and introducing locksmiths to change careers.

The handicraft industry in Jiangnan was extremely prosperous in the late Ming Dynasty, but after so many years of killing the sea of ​​corpses and blood, the decline of the overall industry is inevitable. Especially in Chen Wen's current occupied areas, there is no city with extremely prosperous handicraft industry like Suzhou and Hangzhou. It is not easy to have its current scale.

Chen Wen felt that he could no longer interfere in this matter. He just offered a reward in the Military Industry Department to try to increase the speed of the flintlock rifle bolt. However, during the four provincial capitals, Chen Wen's idea of ​​increasing the tactical maneuver speed of the army had already begun.
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