On the third day of the first month of March, Li Zhi stood at the newly built Fanjiazhuang new barracks and inspected the 40,000 recruits who had just joined the army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After robbing North Korea, Ri Zhi's finances were greatly eased. Although the deficit is still very huge at present, with North Korea's 30 million taels of silver as the foundation, Ri Sik is confident that the fiscal deficit will be supported.

The biggest financial expectation for the future is Xintian in Liaodong. At the end of last month, more than 10 million mu of newly cultivated land in eastern Liaoning had already begun to be cultivated. The Great Plain of Northeast China is very friendly to all kinds of agricultural machinery, and this more than 10 million acres of new land only needs more than 100,000 strong laborers to cultivate. But the output of these 100,000 people is huge.

These more than 10 million acres of new land are all fields that have been repaired with water conservancy facilities, and all of them have been used as "public land" by Li Zhi. These public land Li Zhi were leased to the increasingly popular Liaodong "service team", and the large and small service teams were divided into four or six parts. The service team brought its own machinery and ploughing cattle, and got sixty percent. Li Zhi sat on the ground and collected the money, and got forty percent.

According to the current average yield per mu in eastern Liaoning, this more than 10 million mu of public land can bring Li Zhi more than 4 million taels of land rent income every year.

Of course, the output of newly cultivated fields in the first year is relatively low, and because the grain production in the northeast is getting higher and higher, the price of grain in the market is constantly falling. But on the bright side, with the use of guano compound fertilizer, the yield per mu of this 10 million mu of new fields will be higher in the future. Therefore, on the whole, on this more than 10 million mu of Liaodong public land, Li Zhi's income of three or four million silver a year can be obtained.

Moreover, the development of land in Liaodong Province continues, and although it is becoming more and more difficult to develop land in the future, the goal of obtaining another 8 million new fields next year can still be achieved. At that time, Li Zhi's ground rent income will be more.

The so-called cannon sounded 10,000 taels of gold, and although the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not grab much silver, they got the vast land of the three northeastern provinces, which was equivalent to getting a cornucopia.

And the income of the industrial side is also getting higher and higher. Li Zhi believes that the deficit will be eliminated within five years, and his own fiscal revenue will be able to support fiscal spending in the future.

With such financial support, Li Zhi decided to recruit another 40,000 recruits.

Now Li Zhi is indeed very short of troops, North Korea needs garrisons, Shandong needs garrisons, and it also needs to maintain sufficient troops to deter the Jiangbei Army. Only by expanding the total number of troops to 100,000 this time will the situation of being overstretched in terms of troops.

In the past, the recruits recruited by Li Zhi were all recruited in Tianjin. However, in fact, the town of Tianjin has a population of just over 2 million, and in recent years, Tianjin has provided too many young people to Taiwan, to Li Zhi's administrative team, and to the Tiger Ben Army, and it is no longer able to provide an excellent military population. So Li Zhi recruited 20,000 people in Tianjin and 20,000 in Shandong at the same time.

In the newly built huge barracks outside Fanjiazhuang, Li Zhi looked at the young soldiers standing in front of the barracks and nodded. Although these recruits have not been trained much, they are very well disciplined, and they obviously cherish the opportunity to join the Tiger Army.

Li Zhi walked in front of a tall thin man and asked loudly, "Big soldier, where are you from?" ”

When the soldier saw that the Duke of Jin Guogong was actually talking to him, his face was so red with nervousness that he was bloody. He said loudly: "Grandpa Guo, I am not from Tianjin, I am from Shandong." ”

Hearing the recruit's words, he seemed to have some inferiority complex about himself not being from Tianjin, Li Zhi smiled and said, "Tianjin is richer and more prosperous than Shandong. Tianjin's science and technology are more advanced and there are more new things. Even many officials and officials in Shandong are from Tianjin. ”

"But that doesn't mean that Tianjin people are one level higher than Shandong people."

"Tianjin was only a few years ahead of Shandong. In another ten years, Shandong will catch up and will be as prosperous and rich as Tianjin. ”

"In my eyes, Shandong people are the same as Tianjin people, they are all my people!"

When the soldier heard Li Zhi's words, he was so excited that he couldn't speak, but just nodded vigorously.

In fact, the soldiers of this platoon were all Shandong recruits. Hearing Li Zhi's words, the soldiers of this platoon were all excited, and their eyes widened.

The platoon commander next to him suddenly shouted: "Salute!" ”

Forty soldiers raised their right hands in unison and saluted Li Zhi.

This military salute was also invented by Li Zhi. It was really inconvenient to kneel around in the army, so Li Zhi brought the military salute of later generations. Seeing the chief saluting his hand to his head, it was simple and clear.

Li Zhi nodded, raised his right hand and returned the salute.

Li Zhi was walking forward when he suddenly saw Han Jinxin galloping over on a big horse. In front of Li Zhi, Han Jinxin turned over and dismounted, and said to Li Zhi: "Grandpa Guo, Heilongjiang Province has been attacked by Bai Yi. ”

Li Zhi was stunned and asked, "Where did Bai Yi come from?" ”

Han Jinxin said: "It is said that they were killed from the northwest. These baiyi had arquebuses and cannons. They used these firearms to massacre the Jurchens in Heilongjiang Province. ”

Although Li Zhi turned all the Jianzhou Jurchens into slaves, the Haixi Jurchens, Savage Jurchens and other tribes still existed. These tribes are now Li Zhi's subjects in the three northeastern provinces.

Li Zhi frowned and said, "Shameless Bai Yi, he dares to covet my land in China. ”

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On the eighth day of the first month of March, on the muddy official road in Henan, the baggage team that provided food for 160,000 officers and soldiers was struggling to advance in the mud.

It is more appropriate to say that it is forward, but rather to move. Every dozen or so baggage trucks transporting grain have to fall into the mud pit and cannot get out, and the people who need to transport it work together to push and pull. Not to mention that the heavy rain made the people who carried the grain chills, and the messy road alone was enough to make people despair.

Sun Chuanting rode a horse and stood on a mound not far from the official road, looking at the heavy rain on the land of Henan, so anxious that he couldn't speak.

Sun Chuanting really didn't expect that he would encounter such a heavy rain after only a month in Yu.

Henan, which has hardly rained in five years of drought, suddenly poured heavy rain, turning the wilderness in all directions into mud.

Sun Chuanting knew Li Zicheng's plan, and Li Zicheng made it clear that he wanted to cut off his own food channel. Therefore, Sun Chuanting was extremely cautious in entering Henan this time, and sent heavy troops to protect the road for transporting grain from Shaanxi. All the way to Jiaxian, Li Zicheng failed to interrupt the transportation of grain and grass for the official army.

Now Jiaxian County has won a great victory, and the official army has pursued and killed the army for 50 miles, killing more than 50,000 thieves. Li Zicheng led the remnants of the army to flee to Xiangcheng County. As long as Sun Chuanting attacked Xiangcheng, Li Zicheng could no longer gain a foothold in Henan.

However, at this moment, it rained heavily. The trucks and horses of the grain convoy were stuck on the muddy road, and it was difficult to move an inch.

Sun Chuanting also captured many cities of the invading army, but the invading army was extremely cunning and had already concentrated all the grain in the southeast of Henan. In the city that Sun Chuanting invaded, there was almost no food.

The food and grass on the front line have been exhausted.

Not to mention continuing to pursue the thieves, the actual situation now is that Sun Chuanting's army is going to return to the division and withdraw to eat next to the grain and grass team. However, the expedition of the army is "easy to advance and difficult to retreat", and when it retreats, the morale will be very chaotic, and it is easy to have accidents.

Sun Chuanting looked around anxiously. He held up Li Zhi's binoculars and looked at several nearby villages.

The doors of the villages were closed, and the earthen walls on the outskirts of the villages were filled with peasants armed with scythes and spears, staring hostilely at the baggage teams of the officers and soldiers.

The hearts of the people in Henan are completely on the side of the thieves.