The celebration of Shouchun is still going on, and the number of participants this year has more than doubled compared to previous years. Even many people from as far away as Jiangdong came to join in, and the atmosphere was bustling and noisy for a while.

The people are worried, and the people are thirsty for happiness. The way of the peaceful world, there is no lack of dry bones on the road; In the year of famine, Zhumen was full of wine and meat. The emergence of the Huainan Shangsi Day Celebration was originally an accident, and it was not deliberately promoted by Shen Zhezi or the Governor's Mansion.

Therefore, Shen Zhezi did not use it as a tool to whitewash the peace and boast of wealth, nor did he suppress and prohibit it because the national fortune was difficult and unsuitable for pleasure. Now that everything in Huainan is on the right track, the soldiers are fighting for themselves, the workers and peasants are producing for themselves, and the subordinate officials are performing their duties, if they can't display their ambitions and achieve their long-cherished wishes in this world, it is the dereliction of duty of Shen Zhezi and other officials, and it has nothing to do with the people. Therefore, there is no need to blindly make a bitter declaration, so that the upper and lower levels are immersed in an atmosphere of bitterness and hatred.

What the people need is beauty, hope, and the rest of their bodies, although they are soaked in a pool of blood, they are still willing to look up and reach out to pick up flowers. Therefore, the celebration of Shangsi Day in Huainan is also a slight response from Shen Zhezi to these hard-working people, hoping that they can maintain an optimistic and beautiful vision, and run towards the prosperous era of great governance with the Huainan Governor's Mansion, instead of indulging in the pathos of the world for a long time, the hardships of life, and the anger lingers in their hearts for a long time.

Huainan Shangsi Celebration, in addition to the inherent purification, banquet, there are also flower boat cruises, feasts for the elderly, young people go out to sing songs, grand township archery salutes, Shiliu through the righteous debate, many drama performances, as well as Huainan military exercises and many other items.

Among these many projects, the most popular among the scholars is undoubtedly the martial arts programs such as the Township Shooting Salute and the Huainan Military Exercise. After all, in such a world, only strong force can give people a sufficient sense of security. Huainan's prosperity today is closely related to Huainan's strong military strength and magnificent military exploits.

Of course, what is more important is that in this newly restored territory, the soldiers are no longer destitute and the like. At present, the various armies in Huainan, especially the front-line combat units, have already completed the reform of the armor and food. Where the enlistment of the day of the day of the fight rice, although this point does not seem to be much, but you must know that the Huainan Army's front-line combat troops are completely out of production, in addition to the basic armor of the day, where there is a war to use the public, if you count the accumulated merit, all the people who participate in three to five battles, the accumulation of a merit, a dozen stones per month are possible.

Such an income is already excellent at the moment, and it is more than enough to support the family. Moreover, in the entire industrial chain of the six counties of Huainan, it can also provide more job opportunities for other family members, and it is not difficult to make a living, so today's small civilian households in Huainan often take supporting a soldier as the core, plus the hard work of the rest of the family members, basically within one to two years, they can reach the living standard of surplus food for the family. And their family's surplus property can be invested in expanding production or cultivating fertile land through the way of Dingcang.

Although the vast majority of ordinary families in Huainan have not yet reached the level of surplus investment, there are also many veterans who followed Shen Dudu to fight at the beginning of the crossing of the river, and have completed the transformation from cold soldiers to small production.

The economic base determines social status, and this is true most of the time, at least in the six counties of Huainan today, the soldiers are no longer a despised class. It's a new type of group full of vigor and self-confidence.

In fact, regarding the Jiagong food in Huainan, the officials in the town, including a group of opposition people in Xinshiguan, have also conducted many discussions and reforms around this point, and some people have even proposed the distribution model of the Juntian system. Because Jiagong is a centralized distribution model based on cultivated land, the advantages and disadvantages of this model are not considered for the time being, but the management cost is extremely high.

In the past, the Huainan Army could still operate efficiently when there were not many meritorious soldiers, but now the front-line combat units of the Huainan Army have grown to more than 60,000, and in order to maintain the operation of this system, the number of accounting officers required has reached more than 2,000. With the expansion of the Huainan Army's rule and large-scale military expansion, it is conceivable that the supporting personnel required will undoubtedly be more bloated and huge.

On the one hand, there is a surge in military needs, and on the other hand, local government affairs are simplified, so it is necessary to mobilize local administrative forces to maintain military supplies and reduce the cost of maintaining the operation of the system. In addition, the transfer of food to land can also reduce the risks that the Governor's Office has to bear. After all, food is settled on grain, and grain is not a constant output at the moment, and it is extremely volatile, and natural and man-made disasters will be affected. A good year is acceptable, but in the event of a disaster year, the maintenance cost of the Governor's Office will undoubtedly surge.

Regarding this point, Shen Zhezi decided not to change it for the time being after thinking about it for a long time. Nowadays, the power of the local clan is still too great, and once the land is distributed to the soldiers too early, the responsibility of guarding the industry is implemented on every soldier, and it is difficult to curb the desire of those powerful people to annex.

Another aspect is the environment in southern Henan, which is different from Guanzhong, which is a closed place, with little defensive pressure and a large degree of combat freedom. Putting production on every soldier too early is equivalent to placing the pressure of war on them in this land of four wars, and in the future, it will definitely be necessary to use troops frequently, and these soldiers will inevitably have the demand for shelter refugees in order to ensure that the land can have stable output. This is tantamount to taking the current system in Huainan a step backwards and creating a new group of population competitors.

Therefore, at least in recent years, Shen Zhezi does not intend to let go of the land, and still maintains this mode of centralized production and centralized distribution. In the future, when the territory is expanded and the military pressure and management pressure are increased, it is necessary to establish military governments at the local level and transition the current Jiagong to government soldiers. This transformation is also an inherent defect in the society of the basis of agriculture.

Of course, Shen Zhezi is not willing to stop there, Huainan's handicraft industry has been tirelessly carrying out technical research, but now the focus has gradually expanded from the use of local resources and environment to the frontier, such as the research on the by-products of fishing, hunting, herding and other industries.

Production technology can also determine the living space and prospects of a nation to a certain extent, three generations of the ancestors of the Xia Dynasty to expand the living space through farming, when the field of vision suitable for cultivation of the land is included in the bag, the external demand will inevitably decrease, and the aggressiveness will be appropriately weakened, so that when the territory matures, in terms of war tends to be conservative and less aggressive.

Especially in later generations, it even turned to a completely defensive posture for a time. It is not necessary to blindly say that the martial spirit is lost, but that there is no sufficient motivation for outward and enterprising, and war has become a pure attrition without sufficient replenishment, and if it is launched too frequently, it will more aggravate its own losses and intensify contradictions, and the gains will outweigh the losses. It's just weird, a group of poor neighbors around who are not competitive make people have no interest in grabbing it.

At present, the Central Plains has not been pacified, the enemy of the Hu is still in the midst of internal strife, and the follow-up Hu is also eyeing each other, and it is still too early to advance. Let Huainan study this kind of technology, Shen Zhezi is also in the spirit of humanitarianism, hoping to help those Hulu dig out their own value, and give them some time to transform it into benefits and nutrients, lest Huaxia face a group of hungry wolves after they are settled, and they will have nothing to gain from fighting.

Of course, this kind of operation is an afterthought, and it will not help the current situation. The Huainan Shangsi Festival was noisy for several days, and in addition to the celebrations, the people were most curious about what kind of battle the Huainan Army would be engaged in this year. Regarding this point, although the Governor's Office did not explicitly state it, it did not deliberately conceal it. In fact, there is no way to hide such a big move in the conscription and assembly of troops in the land of the six counties.

After Shen Zhezi came forward to preside over the village shooting ceremony, he directly announced that the focus of this year's business was the old city of Xuchang in Yingchuan. Although he praised Xuchang last year, he did not start to formally build the city, focusing on the operation like Runan Hanging Gourd, but only maintaining the garrison on the basis of the original ruined city of Xuchang, and at the same time recruiting you food and enclosing the land.

However, this year, Xuchang's operation has been put on the spot. First of all, the Chenjun garrison marched west to Xuchang, Yingchuan Taishou Guo Yu added the rank of general of Yangwu, and supervised the 20,000 Huainan Army to officially enter Xuchang, and at the same time the county levied and sent civilian forces to build Xuchang New City. At the same time as increasing the troops in Xuchang, the Huainan baggage team also advanced in boats and vehicles, and 500,000 Hu military rations arrived in Xuchang in advance.

After a few years, the Huainan Army once again put on such a big posture, which naturally made the enemies on the surrounding border look sideways. Although the goal of the Huainan Army is clearly laid out, it is still impossible to judge what the Huainan Army will do next. Because from Xuchang to move, up to Xingyang, straight to the Yellow River, the west can wade across the chasm, from the Yuyuan Pass to Luoyang, the east can go down the river into Yanzhou, sweep away the enemy of Chenliu.

And these three offensive lines were all offensive routes that the Huainan Army was very likely to choose in the eyes of the people of the time. If it goes straight to Xingyang and reaches the Yellow River, then the northward march of the Huainan Navy will be completely unblocked. Although the chasm water system is quite complicated, but in the early years, when the Qianhu army came south, it had been relatively thoroughly repaired, once the Huainan army occupied, as long as it was slightly repaired, then it could be unimpeded between the Huaishui and the Yellow River.

If the Chen Guangnu army in Chenliu is uprooted, then the tens of thousands of horses and horses set up by Huainan in several counties in southern Henan can take the initiative and no longer have to be trapped in the place, which is equivalent to the complete liberation of one arm that was originally bound, so as to exert greater strength.

As for the westward expansion into Luoyang, it is better to understand, Luoyang was originally the old capital of China and North Korea, and once it was recovered, it had great political and military significance.

Therefore, the Huainan Army's large-scale entry into Xuchang was like pouring a spoonful of boiling oil on the Central Plains, which instantly involved all the surrounding parties, either trembling or preparing for war, and the situation in the entire Central Plains became unprecedentedly tense.