The personnel disputes in Jiankang City, Shen Zhezi had no time to pay attention to them. After returning to town, he quickly fell into a tense busyness.

Although the big war is imminent, the atmosphere of the entire Shouchun City is not bad. A fortress like Shouchun has an advantage, that is, both the military and the people are not afraid to fight. In the most turbulent years, frequent fighting became the norm.

And now in Shouchun, the situation has improved greatly, and the situation is much better than in previous years. With the opening of the waterway, a large number of goods have been collected into the town, and Shen Zhezi's previous promises have been fulfilled one by one.

Nowadays, in Huainan, there are many warehouses in the waterway Jindu. Especially in the area near Hefei on the south bank of Shaobi, the grain alone has exceeded 500,000 hu, and at the same time, Jiangdong cargo ships are still passing through Chaohu Lake in an endless stream to sail here.

And this area is the supply center of the entire Huainan Army, which is personally guarded by Yu Yi, who moved to Hefei. There are layers of barriers between Huaishui and Shaobei, which basically abolish the possibility of slaves and horses running away to kill and cut off the grain road!

As for the relief of the food households in the middle of the town, it is not just directly given to them for money and food, but half for recruitment and half for work.

After Shen Zhezi returned to the town, Du He came to report on internal affairs. Probably because the people in the realm have been hungry and thirsty for a long time, the results of the relief in the warehouse are much better than expected.

Previously, the town had been purged by military forces, and order had been initially established. The vast majority of docks in Huainan, except for a few who are remote or rely on their own strength, still maintain relative independence, the others have been under the direct jurisdiction of the county government.

Although these docks were relieved of the power of military self-defense, the organization of life and production was preserved, and the owners of the docks still maintained personal control over the people.

But as the relief began, this fragile balance was upset. Mountains of salt and rice are more convincing and tempting than any rhetoric. Therefore, for a while, the people in the realm rushed to naturalize, and even a large number of people were brought to the country, which caught the county government off guard for a while.

In particular, Duhe, who is in charge of internal affairs, has been so busy lately that he has been working day and night, and his whole person has lost a lot of weight. And the people of the nationality have already approached the 200,000 mark. Previously, although these people were under the control of the county government, there was also a layer of dock wall in the middle, and after naturalization, they became the real manpower in the town.

"During this time, it's really hard work."

Seeing Du He's tired face and yawning again and again during the reporting process, Shen Zhezi was also a little unbearable: "The current hard work will continue for a while." Guo Hou crossed the river to raise people, presumably there will be a large influx of food in Huaibei in the coming day, and it must be properly placed at the first time, and it must not be left in the place. If people have no food and clothing, they will be angry. ”

Du He took a sip of strong tea, then rubbed his tired eyebrows and sighed: "Huainan is gradually becoming more and more governed, I am tired, my heart is really excited, and a little hard work is nothing." It's just that the officials in the town use too little, and many times it is inevitable that they will be powerless. ”

After Shen Zhezi heard this, he was also a little worried. The construction of government officials is by no means an overnight effort, and there is too little time left for him to prepare.

This is also why he left more room before, unwilling to force the dock wall masters to a desperate position, on the one hand, to maintain a general stability, on the other hand, these dock wall lords and township sects are themselves candidates for grassroots officials.

They have both local feelings and organizational power, and are an important force in maintaining local order. In any historical period, there may be different faces, but they have never been absent.

It's not that Shen Zhezi didn't think about recruiting talents to share the internal affairs, but firstly, the time does not allow it, and secondly, the position is still not smooth.

If you follow the old customs of Jiangdong and directly recruit and install the children of the family in the locality, they each have a large number of protégés to follow, and it is easy to form a control over the locality. And these local village sects are also uneven, and it is not easy to distinguish them.

Shen Zhezi did not think that the county government would come forward to organize some grass-roots inspection and reform of the administration of officials, which had a lot of ideas, but it could only be gradually realized after the war.

And if he can win this battle, the place he controls in the future will definitely not be just one place, even if the Shen family has been cultivating and reserving talents in general affairs all these years, but his family alone will definitely not be able to meet such a huge demand.

And even if you make the best use of your own family, you must also set a clear and high enforcement standard, otherwise the house slaves will not be far away.

In fact, these reforms of the rule of officials at the grassroots level are equivalent to building a ruling order from scratch, and it is by no means a short-term effort, nor can it be directly implemented by establishing the three chiefs of the township with a slap of the brain.

Although Wuhu Chaohua has the word "chaos", it does not mean that it is completely disorderly, not to mention the family Gaomen in Jiangdong, the many dock wall owners in the north themselves represent the organizational form of human and material resources at the bottom of this era, and they are much more stubborn and dangerous than the Jiangdong Gaomen.

In the operation of Huainan and the competition for population with the dock wall owners, it seems that Shen Zhezi has the upper hand, while those dock wall owners are powerless to restrain it. That's because Shen Zhezi has the three major advantages of army, financial resources and righteousness, and the two sides are not at all a level of competition.

But if you put it all over the world, Huainan's model is just a special case. And in the situation of internal and external troubles, in order to be able to strive for more help, whether he wants to or not, Shen Zhezi has to compromise.

Of course, these are all premature, and the most important thing at the moment is to be able to hold Huainan.

The naturalization of a large number of people brings not only administrative pressure, but also the organization of production and placement. Otherwise, even if you are naturalized by one million, you can only stare at dry rice, but you can't effectively put it into production, but it is a great waste.

The war is imminent, and it is naturally impossible to pay all the tuntian. Moreover, Shen Zhezi must also consider leaving enough space for the displaced people who fled south in the war. Therefore, this part of the population will move south on a large scale later, and this is also one of the contents of Shen Zhezi's previous negotiations with Jiangdong people.

"Later, there will be Lao Daohui to organize the collection of 5,000 households, and then Liang County will send people into the town to lead the southward migration."

Most of the people in Huainan are homeless for food, but they don't care about the fact that their homeland is difficult to leave and they are relocated. Once these people go to Liangjun, they can invest in the ecological circle of Jiangdong, which is much more valuable than staying in Huainan.

Of course, these people are only tenants, not only registered, but also taxed by the county government.

In addition to these, Shen Zhezi also told Du He to compile another craftsman's book. The artisan household is a more valuable asset than the ordinary Ding household, especially related to the military aspects such as smelting and casting.

Not to mention anything else, just Shen Zhezi's smelting and casting base in the country, no matter how many craftsmen there are, there are not too many. Moreover, these industries must be in their own hands and not allowed to be touched by others.

Hearing Shen Zhezi's more detailed instructions, Du He's face couldn't help but become more bitter, and his task was several times more arduous. If it weren't for the fact that this kind of busyness can bring a full sense of achievement, and Du Heben has not been in Jiangdong for a short time, and has not yet been contaminated with the mystical customs, maybe he would have to retreat from the difficulties.

Duhe had just left here, and all the generals who were still in the town had also come to see him.

Now there are tens of thousands of horses in the town, except for 10,000 people stationed in Shouchun Town, in the center of the strategy, the rest are scattered in many forts on both sides of the Huaishui. At the same time, there are more than 100 warships, large and small, forming a powerful naval army, cruising between Huai, Ru, Ying, Weishui and many other rivers to defend them.

After the situation in Shouchun was basically stable, Shen Zhezi gave up his previous conservative defense. Guo Yu led an army of 3,000 sailors, went up from Huaishui, uprooted some of the Qinu forts in Yingkou upstream, and had gone deep into Yingshui. At the same time, Lu Yongbu attacked Huaixia and defended the vortex with the Xuzhou army.

At the same time, the size of the cavalry was also expanded to 4,000, but since a solid garrison had not yet been established on the north bank of the Huaishui, only a few hundred horsemen crossed the river for scouting.

During the period when Shen Zhezi went south to Liang County, although most of the slaves had not yet come south, local skirmishes had occurred frequently. Most of these battles were won by the Huainan Army.

Nowadays, if the soldiers in the north and the south are judged solely on the quality of the soldiers, there is actually not much disparity, and even in terms of individual combat ability, the Jin army is faintly better than the slave soldiers. At least as far as the Huainan Army is concerned, it is superior to these local slaves in terms of armament.

The slave is not an invulnerable brave demon, he has been moving in for a long time, and he mostly makes a living by farming, and his living habits are not much different from those of the Jin people. And before Yongjia, these miscellaneous people were the lowest level of society. Or because they are oppressed, once they gain power, they will double their tyranny, so they gradually have the name of demons. But in fact, when it is chopped, it is only flesh and blood.

With or without the cooperation of boats and waterways, the Jin army is completely at two combat levels. Jiangdong rode less, which is a natural inferiority, and resisted the impact of the slave rangers with foot soldiers, and naturally lost more and won less. Therefore, in the absence of a large-scale build-up of troops and a clear strategic goal, the defense is often the mainstay.

This time, the Huainan Army took the initiative to cross the river to attack, and the chariots formed formations and won many successes. As long as the navy gained a foothold on the riverbank, it was able to advance with chariots, and soon formed a strong camp on the opposite bank. At the same time, with the cooperation of naval forces and boats, they steadily advanced and expanded their results.

On the Karn slave side, the army was still gathering, and there was a lack of orderly dispatch at the local level. Even if there is a formed army, such as Hou Zhao Shicong, who is sitting in Qiaocheng at the moment, he is now shrinking the defense line, and rarely takes the initiative to attack.

Although these small-scale victories may not be enough to affect the final outcome of the entire war, the stability of the people's hearts is undoubtedly huge, and they can also strengthen the run-in between the various departments of the Huainan Army, and can be more effective in scheduling and cooperation in the war.

Moreover, while the Huainan army maintained its sorties, it also led many Jin people from the northern Huaishui region to the south. The arrival of these people not only enriched the place, but also brought with them quite detailed information about the Northland.