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East of Yunxi Prefecture, Tongshan Mountains.
More than two hundred burly and sturdy cavalry were surrounding Chen Ziang and his party as they walked slowly along the remote country road.
The scenery on both sides of the country road is beautiful, and the newly built canals criss-cross like spider webs, surrounded by endless fertile fields.
At this moment, groups of people in threes and fours are busy preparing the fields for spring plowing and sowing.
The Qinghe Army occupied Yunxi Mansion for a long time. Compared with the barren land of other prefectures, Yunxi Mansion is a thriving scene.
"With these irrigation canals, even if there is a drought, we will not be afraid."
Chief Secretary for Administration Qin An rode on a horse and introduced the surrounding situation to Chen Ziang as he walked.
? At the beginning, Chen Ziang used work as a substitute for relief, and asked to build a large number of irrigation canals while building roads.
Qin An also followed Chen Ziang's instructions to build water canals in the three counties under Yunxi Mansion, which can be said to have achieved good results.
Now with these watering canals, many barren places have been turned into good fields, which will greatly increase the harvest and improve the ability to resist drought.
"Is there enough food for each cottage now?"
Seeing the people busy in the fields, Chen Zi'ang rode his horse and asked Qin An, Chief Secretary for Administration.
"General, to tell you the truth, although we allocated some military rations for emergency response, years of wars and natural disasters, the food for the people in the villages can only last for a month now." Qin An sighed.
After Chen Zi'ang and the others occupied Yunxi Mansion, although they relied on the previous and successive wars to capture them, in general, they still couldn't make ends meet.
Because they now not only have to feed a hundred thousand troops, but also tens of thousands of people.
They are also facing great food pressure, because this situation may continue for several months, and it will not be relieved until the first batch of self-produced food is harvested.
"Director Liang, how long will our military rations last?"
After hearing Qin An's words, Chen Ziang also turned his head to Liang Guanlin, Director of the Military Supplies Department.
Liang Guanlin also said in a difficult way: "Reporting to General, although we captured a lot of spoils in this battle, we didn't have much food, and recently we have allocated a lot to other prefectures and counties, and now the military food in stock can only support two It's been a month."
"However, I have sent people to the surrounding provinces to secretly buy military rations, but now that there are wars everywhere, it is unknown how much I can buy back." Liang Guanlin added.
Seeing that Liang Guanlin, the director of military supplies, is also actively trying to find a solution to the food shortage problem, Chen Ziang also nodded in satisfaction.
"The southern provinces have good weather, fertile land, and few wars. It is estimated that there is more food. Go to the southern provinces to buy as much as possible." Chen Ziang ordered.
"No!"
Liang Guanlin, Director of Military Supplies, agreed.
"Do you still have any difficulties now?" Chen Ziang asked Qin An again.
Qin An also knew that the Second Army of the Qinghe Army was poor and useless, had just fought a battle, and urgently needed to recover.
"There are many difficulties we face, but most of them we can solve by ourselves."
"What we can't solve now, apart from the lack of food, is the lack of cattle, farm tools and young adults."
"The Jiangbei province was in chaos before. The rebels and the imperial army fought against each other, resulting in more deaths among young and old. Now most of the villages are old, weak, women and children."
"Although the land has been distributed to them now, they are still powerless."
"And there is a lack of cattle and agricultural tools, and many places even have to use manpower to plow the land."
After hearing Qin An's words, Chen Ziang also felt heavy. The wounds caused by the war to the people will not be able to recover in a short time.
"When you go to buy grain, you can buy farm cattle as long as you can, and it doesn't matter if the price is higher." Chen Ziang instructed Liang Guanlin, the director of military supplies.
"No¡ª¡ª"
"Yunxi Prefecture lacks farm cattle. It is estimated that the situation in other prefectures and counties is even worse. Your Secretary of Government Affairs will come up with a solution as soon as possible, convening a meeting with the chief executives of each prefecture and county to adjust each other, and try to ensure that each village has one or two cattle. Cattle help with spring plowing."
"I will solve the problem of farm tools for you as soon as possible, and I will let the artisan camp be responsible for building them for you."
"You have to ensure spring plowing no matter what. This is related to whether we can have enough food at that time." Chen Ziang emphasized."If we occupy so many prefectures and counties, but there is no way to ensure that the people have enough to eat, then we will lose the hearts of the people."
Chen Ziang continued: "As for the shortage of young adults and the shortage of labor force, I will go back and study to see if I can get some troops to assist in the spring plowing."
"General, we are in short supply of food and other materials, can we slow down the recruitment of refugees?" Qin An suggested.
As soon as the war was over, Chen Zi'ang, in addition to asking Qin An and the Department of Administrative Affairs, immediately shifted their energy to resume production.
At the same time, he also gave Qin An a task, which was to vigorously recruit refugees from all over the place to enrich the population of the occupied area.
After all, Chen Ziang needs a lot of manpower to grow crops, expand his army, and open factories, all of which require people.
However, population is a very important resource. Due to various wishes, the population in Jiangbei Province has withered.
Therefore, Chen Ziang now needs a large number of people. They now have land. As long as the refugees are willing to come, they can distribute the land to them.
And now that their control area has become larger, once irrigation canals are built everywhere, the places that can be planted will continue to expand, and more people will be needed to be responsible for farming.
Although recruiting refugees can solve the problem of their underpopulation, the refugees need to build houses in the early stage, and they need to subsidize food to survive the initial period.
Now the Qinghe army is also facing the problem of food shortage, so Qin An suggested whether it is possible to suspend the recruitment of refugees.
"Although we have difficulties in a short period of time, the refugees can enrich the population and provide us with soldiers, so we can't stop. As long as they are willing to come to our side to settle down, they will all be accepted and given food subsidies."
For the sake of long-term consideration, Chen Ziang still rejected the suggestion of Chief Secretary for Administration Qin An, because he knew that population was too important.
If you are not in charge of the family, you don't know Chai Migui. Chen Ziang and his Second Army now not only have to fight wars, but also have to govern the local area.
Chen Ziang and the others walked and talked, facing Qin An's various difficulties, they also put forward some targeted solutions.
At noon, Chen Ziang and his group arrived at a small village at the foot of the Tongshan Mountains in the east of Yunxi Prefecture.
This village does not make a living by farming, but by hunting and blacksmithing.
Before Chen Ziang and the others entered the village, they heard the clanging of irons in the village.
Copper Mountain is under the jurisdiction of Yunxi Prefecture, and there is a three-member task force sent here by the government affairs government.
Because Chen Ziang and the others did not notify in advance, when Chen Ziang's bodyguard cavalry entered the village to inform them, they rushed out to meet them in a hurry. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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