In the past, Shouchun City was built more simply as a military fortress, although many people lived together, but they really did not put too much energy into people's livelihood.

With the complete collapse of the slave army, the pressure from the military side has eased, so the situation in Shouchun City has also been adjusted since the beginning of winter. Although the entire city is still surrounded by inner and outer circles, it is no longer just for the garrison, and the outer city has been completely opened to the common people, and the city has become more prosperous.

In the early years, Huainan was plagued by frequent wars in the territory, and there were almost no village buildings in the countryside except for some powerful dock walls. Moreover, there is an extreme shortage of talents in the government affairs of Huainan Neishifu, and the material savings do not support large-scale help for the people to rebuild Sangzi. However, the cold winter is approaching, and if the people are allowed to stay in the countryside any longer, it is conceivable that this winter will be full of wailing, especially the military disaster.

Therefore, after the official end of the war, Shen Zhezi reduced the garrison in Shouchun City, except for the inner city of Jincheng, which still had 3,000 defenders, the other defenders moved to the surrounding Acropolis forts to garrison, so as to free up space in the city to settle the people. At present, Shouchun City has more than 30,000 households and tens of thousands of people.

If you look at the capacity of the city, even if there are so many households, it has not yet reached the limit of Shouchun City. You must know that at the beginning of the construction of Shouchun City, although it was only a military fortress, it left enough tactical focus. Especially in the early years, when the Zu clan was seated here, almost half of the people in the town lived in Shouchun City alone.

If it is an ordinary season, the influx of so many households is a great pressure on the material use and order alone. But now Huainan is full of momentum, even if there are some strongmen hidden among the people, they don't dare to make trouble in Shouchun City without knowing whether they are alive or dead, and the pressure on management is not great.

Today, there are more than 50,000 households registered in Huainan Neishi Mansion, more than 300,000 people, purely in terms of the number of people in control, it is not inferior to Jiangdong County. You must know that even in the early years, there were only about 30,000 or 40,000 registered households. Of course, there are still some dock shade households in the countryside, but compared to the beginning of Shen Zhezi's entry into the town, it is completely different. And these docks are no longer able to resist the Inner History Mansion, and as the rule of the town's vernacrature becomes more systematic in the future, it is only a matter of time before they become naturalized.

So at present, Huainan is really full of people's power. Relatively speaking, the pressure on management and operation is also multiplied. It is not easy to solve the problem of the livelihood of these households.

If it is a normal year, these households will be directly filled into the reclamation, and with the huge reclamation foundation and cultivated land resources in Huainan in the early years, they can be completely digested. However, such a rate of use of civil power still makes Shen Zhezi feel a little low. If all the households are paid in Tuntian, it is true that the people's livelihood in Huainan can be quickly put on the right track, but the expected rate of return is low. In this way, Huainan may be able to achieve self-sufficiency within two years, and five years later accumulate savings to support the food consumption of the large-scale northern expedition to the Central Plains.

This cycle is still too long for Shen Zhezi, you must know that he plans to send a large army to southern Henan in the summer of next year, completely recover the counties in southern Henan, and then look north to Luoyang. There is no doubt that large-scale external subsidies are still needed, especially from Jiangdong Wuzhong. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the attractiveness of Huainan, and it is far from enough to rely on reclamation alone.

In terms of people's investment, Shen Zhezi plans to invest in 20,000 households in the tuntian, and after the winter, more than 10,000 households have arranged to live in the tuntian area and sow a batch of crops that can survive the winter, such as wheat. After the spring of the next year, the remaining tunhu households will also be arranged to be put into production one after another. Of course, as Huainan's situation improves, the scale of reclamation will also be further improved. Shen Zhezi planned that when he succeeded in establishing himself in the Central Plains, he would use Huainan as one of the food supply bases to replace Wuzhong.

The output of Tuntian can only meet the people's livelihood. As for the army that needs to be larger, it needs to be procured from outside. Therefore, the remaining people's power, Shen Zhezi is to use it in the handicraft industry with a larger return, and produce goods of greater value for trading.

For example, in the early years, Shen Zhezi planned to gradually move to the vicinity of Zhongluojian in Huainan Town in the coming year, and also to expand this most important military industry.

Luojian is closer to Huainan than Wujiang River, relying on Huaishui, not only can connect the towns in Jiangbei, but even directly to the Central Plains. In addition to meeting the needs of the Huainan headquarters, some of the military equipment produced can also be traded with Xuzhou and Jingzhou in exchange for materials.

In addition to the pure military industry, the civilian aspect is also a profit point that can be mined. Silk and linen textiles, ceramics, industrial and agricultural utensils, cooking and drinking processing, poultry breeding, etc., once formed on a sufficient scale, the income is much more abundant than that of simple reclamation.

The reason why Shen Zhezi dared to postpone the most important reclamation was because there was still a stable grain export area in Jiangdong at present. Today's Jiangdong, especially Wuzhong, has a considerable surplus of grain production capacity, similar to the previous high price of rice, which is purely because of the national war, and even then, there has been no huge panic and turmoil in people's livelihood.

Although the current grain export in Jiangdong is limited by the festival, with the recovery of Huaiyin, the entire Huaishui is through, and now it is also trying to transport by sea, and a small part of the grain has arrived in Huaiyin by sea, on the way to Shouchun. Although it is quite difficult to deal with this, it is still relatively small compared to the transportation consumption on land, and we can try to increase investment and scale up in the future.

On the other hand, due to the current situation, the situation in Jiangdong is gradually stabilizing. However, the northern land was in turmoil, Shi Le's body died, Shi Hu was defeated, and the division of the entire kingdom was a foregone conclusion. Therefore, today's Huainan Army can be said to have completely grasped the initiative, as long as the Huainan Army does not take the initiative to attack, the forces of the slave country will never dare to attack Huainan without authorization. Therefore, the Huainan Army has sufficient time for mobilization and preparation.

As for the last aspect, it is due to the geographical location of Huainan. Huainan is close to the middle of the sky, and the Central Plains and Jiangdong can get good transportation links, if it does not have such excellent geographical conditions, there will be no confrontation between the north and the south, this place will become the focus. Such a place is simply a natural business distribution center.

Although the Northland is in turmoil today, it does not mean that there are no trading partners or no trading needs and capabilities. You must know that even in a place like Huainan, where soldiers must fight and are torn by war, there is still a lot of local power dormant in the countryside, and there will only be more in the north. Even southern Henan, which had just been trampled by the army of the slave country earlier, with the defeat of the slave army, those local forces were like waking up from hibernation again, ready to move.

The native forces of the north are not inferior to a secessionist regime in a more powerful way. Among them, the most representative ones are the Xue clan in Hedong, who gathered to block the river to protect themselves, and did not serve Liu, Shi, and Fu for decades. Tyrannical like a stone tiger, or as powerful as the former Qin, neither of them can conquer such a powerful clan that has a stronghold and self-defense, and you can imagine what kind of powerful self-preservation power this powerful sect has.

Although the current Huainan power is not enough to influence and radiate to Hedong, and the Central Plains cannot be full of powerful Haozong like the Xue clan in Hedong. However, there are also countless large township sects that live in clusters. In the early years, Shile plundered the Central Plains in the posture of a rogue and did not produce, and these township Wubi were its main targets. After the Northern Wei Dynasty settled in the Central Plains, it was also through beating and exterminating these rural sects that the national strength was thus victorious.

Before officially advancing into the Central Plains, Shen Zhezi regarded these township sect portals as trading objects, and first obtained a stable contact and exchange. When he officially arrived in the Central Plains, although he would not be like those foreigners to plunder and kill these township sects, if these people blindly wanted to contradict his intentions, he would certainly not tolerate them.

In the few days after Princess Xingnan entered the town, Shen Zhezi really put aside some affairs at hand and took the princess to play in the town for a few days. In fact, today's Huainan, in addition to the prosperity of Shouchun Town, the rest of the countryside is mostly a look of waste waiting to be revived, especially in the cold winter season, everything is lonely, and the scenery is really lacking. But the love between infatuated men and women is so strong, there is no reason to speak of it, no matter how boring things are, as long as they are done together, they feel relished and happy.

Although the climates of Huainan and Jiangdong are very different, Shen Zhezi is deeply afraid that Princess Xingnan will not adapt to the water and soil. But this girl's physique is much better than Shen Zhezi wants, she adapts to the climate very quickly, and after a few days of rest, she recuperates her spirits, and the pleasure is even much stronger than Shen Zhezi. What especially frustrated Shen Zhezi was that this girl was so happy that she was dressed in a hunting suit and traveled with her on horseback, and her riding skills were not even much better than herself.

"The princess has been thinking for a long time to ride and gallop with the lord of Lang in the Central Plains, and when she was in the capital, she practiced riding hard every day, worried that she would be bored by the lord of Lang and not be accompanied."

Hearing what the accompanying lady said, Shen Zhezi felt even more grateful that this girl's heart was tied to herself, and then she couldn't help but be more considerate.

"In fact, if you have this thought, let alone the princess ......"

Seeing Lang Jun and the princess chasing in front of her, Cui Ling's mother fell behind, hanging her head silently, but after a while, when she heard the princess happily calling her, she showed a bright smile and rode a horse to catch up, and her thoughts were gathered in the deepest part of her heart.

Back then, in the purgatory-like reeds on earth, she just hoped that she could survive with her grandfather who depended on her life until the next dawn. After being rescued, she just hoped to see the young man's high-spirited figure from time to time. Now he just sees himself as a witness, watching this joy, his heart is happy with this, and he has nothing to ask for for the rest of his life.

"Ah Ling's riding skills are much more exquisite than mine."

After a while, the princess gradually exhausted her strength, and was taken by Shen Zhezi to ride a horse, and after a while, she remembered something and said to Shen Zhezi: "I didn't deliberately leave the delicate little maid in the husband's room this time, but it's a pity that the little lady in Gua'er really lacks much understanding. Don't mistake me for some jealous woman! Actually, in fact, I also know the current position of my husband, and I can't force my luck, otherwise people will hurt me......"

"It's not something you should worry about, and I can't be fooled by others. I just don't want to hurt the hearts of my loved ones because of those inconsequential things. ”

Shen Zhezi lowered his head and saw that the girl's mood was slightly low, so he smiled and comforted her, and by the way, he pulled the big dan on her body: "The wind is up, let's play here today." If the weather is sunny tomorrow morning, I will take you to You Yingkou. ”

When Princess Xingnan heard this, Fu became excited again. For her, any place covered by her husband's fame is worth visiting a thousand times.