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"Yes!" Gu Jianshan said quickly.

Zhao Han asked, "Do water trainers need firearms and crossbows?"

Gu Jianshan said: "Firearms and bows and crossbows are the best. If you don't have them, you can fight. If you encounter water battles, you can charge directly to the board. First throw lime, then javelins, and use long spears to cover boarding. If There is a trebuchet, which can throw earthen pots at close range, and the earthen pots are filled with lime and stones, which can better help connect the ship."

Zhao Han asked: "Does Wang Siren's navy have many firearms and crossbows?"

Gu Jianshan said: "There are no firearms, only a few bows and crossbows."

The weapon manufacturing department in the Ming Dynasty was mainly the Military Weapons Bureau of the Ministry of Industry, and the Military Warfare Bureau under the jurisdiction of the Inner Government.

These two departments were finished as early as the Jiajing Dynasty, and the right to manufacture weapons was delegated to the local guards.

Zhao Han asked Li Banghua carefully that the only place in Jiangxi where weapons can be produced is the Weapons Institute under the jurisdiction of Nanchang Wei-probably producing two or three sets of armor, more than ten bows and crossbows, and hundreds of long spears every year.

As long as they can afford a high price, they are even willing to sell to the rebels!

Zhao Han asked again: "How many soldiers should a warship have?"

Gu Jianshan replied: "For the Inland River Navy, 50 warships are the limit. If it exceeds 70 warships, it will be difficult to operate. [-] warships, in addition to the boatman, can be equipped with [-] to [-] soldiers. Smaller Depending on the size of the warship, there may be twenty or thirty soldiers, or thirty or fifty soldiers."

Zhao Han said: "After I defeated Xie Xuelong, I captured a batch of ships, and I will hand them over to you to control from now on."

"I will do my best!"

Gu Jianshan was very excited, he just came to offer advice and suggestions, he really never thought that he could be the commander of the navy.After all, he and Zhao Han were only meeting for the second time, and it was a normal reaction not to be trusted.

Now, Zhao Han asked him to be the commander of the navy, and Gu Jianshan was very grateful for this letter.

In fact, it's not so mysterious, Zhao Han's own prestige is very high, even if Gu Jianshan wants to mess around, the ship's officers and soldiers will not be completely obedient.

Zhao Han urged: "I'll give you some carpenters and blacksmiths, and you command them to continue to renovate warships. After all, they used to be merchant ships. You can also try to make trebuchets. If it doesn't work, go to Nanchang to hire craftsmen. The training of sailors Besides, I also need to help deliver the goods, I only have the boat in my hand."

"As ordered!"

Gu Jianshan was appointed as the commander of the navy. In fact, it is more like a water transport team. At this stage, the main job is to transport materials, and it is still a long time before it can truly form combat effectiveness.

Zuo Zong, who was born as a fisherman, was in charge of transportation before, but later became the deputy commander of the navy.

Li Huai, Chen Maosheng's right-hand man, served as the head of the navy's missionary, and each warship must be equipped with a missionary officer.

After Gu Jianshan left, Xiao Huan came in again immediately.

Xiao Huan is vicious and vicious, and he is actually more suitable to be the head of intelligence, but this position is too important, and handing it over to Xu Ying can make Zhao Han feel more at ease.

At present, Xiao Huan has two systems in his hands, one is the spies on the Fucheng side, and the other is the supervision inside the site.

It sounds awesome, but in fact he only has a dozen people under his command.

After entering the house, Xiao Huan said in a low voice: "There is news from Fucheng that the rebel army in Pingxiang is gone."

"When did it happen?" Zhao Han asked in surprise.

Xiao Huan said: "It's been almost two months. Tian Younian, the prefect of Yuanzhou, has recruited troops to quell the civil unrest in Pingxiang."

Zhao Han sighed: "Oh, there are still many capable officials of the Ming Dynasty."

The rebel colleagues in Jiangxi are really weak.

The rebels in Pingxiang are gone, and the rebels in Duchang are almost finished. The next target is likely to be Zhao Han.

Moreover, under the deployment of the governor, Zhao Han is likely to be flanked by left and right, and the prefect of Yuanzhou probably wants to cross the border to stab Zhao Han's chrysanthemum.

Before the officials sent to the east bank came back, Zhao Han immediately held a high-level meeting.

After explaining the situation, Li Banghua stroked his beard and said: "The situation is changing too fast, there is no need to wait any longer, you can take Ji'an Fucheng immediately!"

"I'm also in favor of seizing Fucheng," Pang Chunlai said. "Before, I wanted to be strong and strong, and not interfere with the government's well water, but now a few officials who can fight have come. Regardless of whether we occupy Fucheng or not, they will come this winter as early as this year. Later next spring, we will definitely send troops to encircle and suppress Luling. If so, we should take the initiative to take down the key areas of the prefectural city first!"

Li Banghua suddenly said: "Take Gucun."

Gucun is Li Banghua's hometown, which already belongs to Jishui County.However, this suggestion is both public and private, not just out of selfishness.

At this time, Zhao Han already had a simple map, which was brought back from the government office.Li Banghua pointed to the map and said: "The land under the jurisdiction of Jishui County to the west of the Ganjiang River must be taken completely, and then we will move westward to take Anfu County."

Pang Chunlai frowned and said, "Isn't this expansion too fast? Do we have enough officials?"

"It's enough, and it's more than enough," Li Banghua said. "Nowadays, there are too many officials at the village and township levels. It's just right when the land is divided, but after the land is divided, it becomes redundant. If we continue to do this, when our territory grows, the officials' salaries will be spent." It's pretty scary."

Zhao Han asked: "Mr. Li thinks what should be done?"

Li Banghua said: "The two towns are combined into one town, similar to a township before. This will free up half of the officials, and they can be arranged to go to Jishui and Anfu counties." As he spoke, Li Banghua stood up and pointed to the map to draw a Circle, "Take Anfu County, and then take Yongxin County. Send hundreds of soldiers to block the main road out of the mountain, so the prefect of Yuanzhou can't go around, so he can only go to the Ganjiang River honestly."

This is to make a strategic development plan, take Jishui, Anfu, and Yongxin counties, then Zhao Han's site will be surrounded by mountains, and the east will be a Ganjiang River - the south will not be considered for the time being, because there are no officers and soldiers.The west side can also be ignored, that is the border of Huguang, and the use of troops across provinces is very complicated, and it will take a year or two to go through the process.

The more Li Banghua said, the more excited he became: "If we win this battle, and take Taihe, Wan'an, and Longquan to the south, then the mountains and rivers will be victorious and as solid as gold."

According to Li Banghua's idea of ​​expansion, it is equivalent to occupying the entire Ganzhong Basin. At that time, there will be mountains in all directions, and only need to focus on defending the enemies from the Ganjiang River.

Zhao Han smiled and said, "And then."

Li Banghua pointed at the bottom of the map: "After consolidating the territory, immediately take Ganzhou to the south, and take down the entire southern Jiangxi. After capturing the southern Ganzhou, you can go north to attack Nanchang, and at the same time send partial divisions to take Fuzhou. Can occupy the entire province of Jiangxi!"

Chapter 133 [Soldiers without blood]

Although the decision to expand was made, Zhao Han did not mobilize troops immediately.

Because the autumn harvest is about to come, we can't miss the farming time.

Due to the influence of the climate of the Little Glacier, the rice harvesting time in Luling County is probably from the end of June to the middle and late July of the lunar calendar.

During the period, the administrative divisions were readjusted, and the previous two towns were merged into one town.

After careful calculation, Zhao Han found that there were indeed too many low-level officials, and the agricultural society simply couldn't support them.

In the early stage, the grassroots officials were full of enthusiasm by virtue of the land allocation and tax cuts, as well as a large number of promotion opportunities, and they were satisfied with a very low salary.However, this development model is deformed. It is necessary to increase the salaries of officials so that they can maintain a relatively good life without relying on land income.

And even if the two towns were merged into one, the number of officials would far exceed that of Daming. After all, Daming's base was in the county, while Zhao Han's base went deep into villages and towns.

At the end of July, the adjustment of administrative divisions was completed, and half of the officials were transferred out without any positions for the time being.

Not only did no one complain, but everyone was excited. Many people speculated that it was going to expand the territory.

Thanks to Jiangxi's prosperous literary style, there are a lot of scholars, students, and schoolchildren here.They have no hope of taking the imperial examination, are depressed, and many of them are still in poverty. Every month, there are scholars who "come out of the mountain" and want to assist Mr. Zhao in creating a great cause.

Zhao Han, the rebel, has no shortage of talents, but the time is too short to transform these talents in batches.

All the officials who planned to be sent to the new site were called by Zhao Han for short-term training, mainly to let them deepen their understanding of Datong thought.

Believe it or not, in fact, it doesn't matter, the important thing is to obey the rules!

When Zhao Han graduated from the short-term training, he said to these officials: "You have all memorized the rules, and you know how to punish those who break the rules. From next month, the salaries at all levels will increase by [-]%. I will not treat you harshly." , don’t treat the people harshly!”

How to deal with corruption caught?

Demotion is certain, and the farm will also be fined.If caught for the second time, all the property will be confiscated and sent to the mountains to burn lime and charcoal!

In fact, there is really no room for corruption. Too much greed is not worth it, and too much corruption is easy to be discovered. Those who dare to be greedy now are all fools.Even if you want to be corrupt, you have to do it when you have a big territory...not to mention, there are missionaries and peasant associations watching.

In mid-August, when the autumn harvest was over, the troops set off in two groups.

Zhao Han personally led the troops, entered the Ganjiang River along the Heshui River, and took the Ji'an Fucheng directly.

Fei Ruhe led the way alone, heading for Anfu County along the Lushui River.Zuo Xiaoliang was appointed magistrate of Anfu County, accompanied by many grassroots officials, and many missionaries accompanied the army.

Pang Chunlai stayed in Yongyang Town, Huang Shunfu supplemented with literary affairs, and Jiang Dashan supplemented with military affairs.

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"Xianzun, Zhao thief is here!"

Wang Diaoding is studying in the county yamen courtyard, and now he can only study, there is nothing else to do.

As soon as he heard that the rebels were coming, Wang Diaoding got up immediately, raised his sword and went to the tower.

Officials such as Zhifu, Tongzhi, and Tongjuan climbed up the tower one after another, looking at the bandits outside the city and looking at each other in blank dismay.They are all unlucky ones, who came to take up their duties in spring, and bandits attacked the city in autumn, and there were no soldiers around them to defend.

"Fu Zun, open the treasury and recruit troops to defend the city." Wang Tiaoding said.

Yang Zhaosheng couldn't see the slightest nervousness, but said in a sly way: "The treasury? The treasury can run away with rats. The whole Ji'an mansion is full of unscrupulous people, and only a few summer grains have been collected. They must be deported to Nanchang before August. I As soon as the summer grain was sent out, the rebels came to attack the city before the collection of the autumn grain, so it was a good time!"

"Just waiting to die like this?" Wang Diaoding asked.

"Life is hard, and the only thing left is death," Yang Zhaosheng said calmly, "When the bandit Zhao breaks the city, the old man will die for the country."

This magistrate is really awesome, he has no ability to suppress thieves, and he has long been waiting to commit suicide.

Wang Diaoding was too lazy to talk to the magistrate any more, so he, together with the prefect of the government and the judge of the government, began to mobilize government servants to defend the city.He also went to persuade the wealthy households in the city to contribute money and efforts, so that the city must be defended no matter what.

Those wealthy households are even more interesting, they all shut their doors behind closed doors.

As we said before, most of the residents are outside the city, and there are very few residents in the city.Last winter, the wealthy households in the city had seen the rebels, and knew that the Zhao thieves would not rob food and money, but just force them to release their slaves.

Since there is no worry about money and food, why resist?

Filled with resentment and helplessness, Wang Diaoding returned to the city tower, only to find that the rebel ships had already headed north.

That was when Li Banghua led his troops to Jishui and returned to his hometown to divide the land. Zhao Han was selling face to Comrade Li.

Under the auspices of Li Banghua, those landlords in Jishui County would definitely not be killed if they could not be killed, provided that they honestly cooperated with the division of land.At the same time, inspired by Li Banghua's reputation, Huang Yao led troops to suppress the landlords, presumably many scholars would take the initiative to join in.

Of course, fearing that Li Banghua would soften his heart, Chen Maosheng and Xiao Huan also followed.

If Lao Li is unwilling to kill, the two of them can help.

As for Zhao Han, he personally sat in Bailuzhou and surrounded the academy tightly.

He also sent troops outside the city to maintain order, then paid money to recruit homeless people, and went to the west of the city to fill up the depressions.

The west of the city was originally a large school field for the training of thousands of households in Ji'an. Gradually, there were no soldiers left.Ordinary military households were all turned into serfs, and many residential houses were built near the school grounds. The places that could be used for farming were used for farming, and the places that could not be used for farming were silted and turned into depressions.

"What are the rebels doing?" Wang Diaoding asked.

The confidant official said: "Maintain law and order in the south of the city, demolish the houses in the west of the city, fill up the depressions and rebuild the school grounds. Many people have gone to the further west, it seems that they want to divide the land for military households. Bailuzhou Academy was also besieged, and the rebels I don’t intend to attack the city immediately, but I’m sure I won’t leave again.”

In fact, Wang Tiaoding also noticed it, but he didn't want to admit it.

Wang Diaoding quickly ran to the South Tower, and found that the pier outside the city was in order.Not to mention ordinary people, even merchants are not afraid of rebels, they know that Zhao Han will not rob indiscriminately.

Suddenly, cheers came from outside the city.

Wang Tiaoding sent people to investigate, and the spies came back and reported: "The county lord, the thief Zhao has posted a notice of safety for the people. And... and this year's business tax is free, and the door stall tax will be collected from New Year's Day next year, according to the tax amount in the first year of Chongzhen. Collection, abolishing the tax increases over the years since Chongzhen, and all miscellaneous taxes levied by merchants are also abolished."

"What a Zhao thief, he really knows how to buy people's hearts!" Wang Diaoding was powerless, and looked at the cheering merchants outside the city.

In the past, the land was divided to please the peasants, and now the door tax is lowered to please the merchants. Who would resist the Zhao bandits except the big landlords?

In fact, it doesn't matter to please, the door tax is already heavy enough, and it is very reasonable to abolish the increase of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

A few days later, the depression in the west of the city has been leveled out.

The nearby houses were also demolished. Zhao Han not only compensated according to the price, but also helped the demolished residents rebuild their houses further west.

Subsequently, the whole family of Ji'an Qianhu and Deputy Qianhu were sent to reform through labor and thrown into the mountains to burn charcoal and lime.All the military fields they occupied were distributed to ordinary military households, and all military households were converted into civilian households.

In this way, Zhao Han was not in a hurry to attack the city, but was training at the school field in the west of the city.

The sound of shouting and killing came from outside the city every day, which frightened the officials in the city so that they couldn't sleep.

The officials did not dare to surrender, and their wives and children were all out of town.The local officials, however, had no psychological burden, and began to secretly connect with the dedication of the city.

Finally, one night.

The confidant civil servants led the yamen servants and broke into the inner courtyard of the county yamen in the middle of the night: "The county lord, I'm sorry, our whole family has to survive."

Wang Diaoding seemed to have expected it, and said, "You don't need to tie me up, I won't escape. There are people from the magistrate?"

"The magistrates, the co-prefects, the judges, and the officials are all going to their houses." The official said.

"Wait until I get dressed." Wang Diaoding calmly got up.

On the other side of the government office, Yang Zhaosheng, the magistrate, was also unhurried when he heard someone breaking in from outside.This guy took out the rope he had prepared and hanged himself nimbly, just dying to report to the king.

It's nonsense, I am not afraid of death, but I don't want to do things, let alone recruit soldiers to suppress thieves.

The next morning.

Ding Dechang, the magistrate of Ji'an Prefecture, and Yang Lu, the Tuiguan, led officials at the prefecture and county levels to offer the city.The magistrate committed suicide, the general judge committed suicide, and an official who promoted him was missing, and the rest of the officials who had experience, care, inspection, and prison all surrendered.

Zhao Han led his troops to the gate of the west city, where a bunch of people had already knelt down, only Wang Tiaoding, the county magistrate, was still standing.

"Meet Zongzhen Zhao, and welcome Zongzhen Zhao into the city!"

These guys not only surrendered, but also knew Zhao Han's self-appointed official position.

Zhao Han glanced at the kneeling officials, and finally looked at Wang Tiaoding, and asked with a smile, "If you don't flee, surrender, or commit suicide, what do you think?"