"Congratulations to the Grand Duke, happy Lin'er!"

In these days, all the generals will come to discuss matters, and this will be the one that will be spoken.

"But it's not worth mentioning to add a plaything in your arms."

And Shen Zhezi always responds like this, but the undisguised joy between his eyebrows and eyes shows that this matter is definitely not worth mentioning. It is a great joy in life for anyone, especially for a person like Shen Zhezi, who is a high-ranking and powerful person who can influence the well-being of thousands of people.

Although for Shen Zhezi's current age, there is no need to worry about this at all, but the joy of his sister-in-law is also an excitement for the people around him.

Although there was good news from home, Shen Zhezi could not set out on the return journey immediately. Heluo's big mess really made it difficult for him to get out. It's not that he doesn't trust the general's abilities, but that many things can only be handled properly if he is present.

The first is the stability of the morale of the military. In fact, in the case of the successive victories of the Wang Division, there is not much problem in the morale of the army, and the soldiers are excited, even if the arrangements for some small things are difficult to fulfill people's wishes, they will not arouse any resentment. In this regard, the main thing is to make some guarantees for the generals.

Recently, Shen Zhezi has frequently summoned the generals, or met with someone individually, and conveyed the delay to everyone, telling them that the formal reward should not have any results before the year.

Although the generals are anxious to make progress, they also understand this. In fact, the unsatisfactory performance of the Jiangbei Jin army is largely due to the fact that the Jiangdong Imperial Court does not take the issue of military merits seriously enough, or reacts slowly, or does not match the merits, in short, it does not pay enough attention to these soldiers who escort Jin Zuo with their lives.

The reason why the Huainan Army was able to form a whole was that it had a portal backer like the Shen family that went directly to the center, and it was generally able to achieve meritorious service. But even so, even Shen Zhezi's reward has been delayed and suppressed, not to mention these ordinary generals.

Therefore, all the generals can also understand Shen Zhezi's approach, although it is so great that it is impossible to suppress and not appreciate, but in terms of details, whether the pen and ink are important or not can also determine the future of a single general.

For the generals, they are naturally more inclined to sort out a reward distribution plan internally, and then report it to Taichung, so that they can be regarded as a whole.

Of course, delaying the victory does not mean that everything is satisfied with the status quo, and Shen Zhezi still made certain adjustments and arrangements for the temporary ministry of the generals.

First of all, Hebei is still dominated by Han Huang and Xie Ai. Han Huang controlled the Hanoi region with cavalry and was in charge of Xie Ai in Ji County, and these two groups of men and horses were not only stationed in Hebei, but would continue to expand in the future.

As for Heluo, it is impossible for Shen Zhezi to sit in Luoyang at the moment, and he has more important things, that is, to return to Huainan and transport as much of Jiangdong's financial and material resources as possible to the Central Plains to support the post-war reconstruction of this region.

Therefore, the chief general guarding Luoyang, Shen Zhezi plans to temporarily appoint Sima Wuji, the king of Luoyang. King Chen, with the posture of a middle-aged person, has no eye-catching talents, but he is not a dumb and incompetent person, and he has the identity of a king, and because of the family feud in the early years, he has almost no close contact with the portals of the Jiangdong center, and he is the best candidate to sit in the old capital of Luoyang.

Now that Heluo has been decided, although the Guanzhong side has shown some signs of interfering in the situation in Heluo, the war in Heluo ended quickly, and it did not buy them enough time, even if they had any ideas, but they had not yet put them into practice, Heluo had already decided.

On the military side, Shen Zhezi planned to temporarily retain an army size of 50,000 horses in Heluo. One of the main military operations was to continue to expand westward, striving to extend the scope of influence of Wang Shi to Guhangu Pass, which was known as "Pill Mud", rather than just stopping at Xinhangu Pass, located in Xin'an County, not far west of Luoyang.

As for the north, it is a small-scale infiltration along the Taihang and Yiguan in the Taihang Eight Mountains to the northwest of Hedong and other places, and no large-scale military operations will be launched in the short term.

And the other armies will not return to their original garrison defense areas. Xingyang will still be used as a distribution point, handed over to Guo Yu to garrison, Lu Yong's naval army will be mainly active in the waters from the Yellow River to the chasm in the future, and Mao Bao will move east to the slipway and continue to hold and operate this Henan stronghold.

The more troublesome thing is the Xuzhou Army, of course, Shen Zhezi will not allow them to return to the Guangling base camp, but it is not enough to be completely integrated into the Huainan Army system. Therefore, Shen Zhezi planned to arrange Li Hong first in the area of Chenliu County, where Chen Guang's rebellious army was originally entrenched, and retain 10,000 troops. Leave another 20,000 people to cooperate with King Qian to sit in Heluo, and the rest will return to Huainan with him first in the name of food, and temporarily arrange in Huaiyin.

In addition, Shen Mu, who is still sitting in Taishan County, Shen Zhezi does not plan to withdraw, this is the only commanding heights in East China must be in his hands, so he will continue to increase his troops in the coming year. If there are no other special needs in the future, Shen Mu will be mainly responsible for the military affairs of Xubei, Qing, Yan and other prefectures and counties, which can be regarded as the first relatively independent combat zone in Shen Zhezi's sphere of influence today.

However, in the next few years, the military center of gravity will still be in the west. After King Qian sat in Heluo, the Nanyang Defense Area was vacated, and Shen Zhezi planned to send Shen Yun to take over.

Nanyang is the key point of communication in the Hanchu region, and Shen Yun alone is a little reluctant regardless of age or seniority, so Shen Zhezi is ready to match the veteran Xu Mao.

As for the other young generals in the army, except for Xie Ai, who has already determined the location of Ji County, the others have not yet arranged a fixed garrison area. Young generals such as Xie Yi and Xiao Yuandong are still mainly trained and mainly arranged in the west and north of Heluo, responsible for the defense of Heluo and the specific military affairs of foreign strategy.

For example, Runan, Huainan, and other places, which were originally heavily garrisoned, will not be the focus of military affairs in the future, but will instead focus on internal affairs, and as for the needs of defense, they will be handed over to the tuntian soldiers.

The Wang division made great achievements in advancing north this time, and the loss of soldiers was not large. To put it mildly, this means that there will be a lot of pressure when it comes to rewards. Ordinary soldiers do not have higher political demands than generals, so their need for rewards and incentives for practical interests is more urgent.

But the problem is, not to mention that the Huainan Governor's Mansion has almost exhausted the thick reserves of the past few years in the past half a year, even if it exhausts Jiangdong's financial resources, it is difficult to meet such a huge reward group. What's more, Shen Zhezi didn't expect Taichung to come up with any practical and useful help in this regard, everything depended on him.

The direct reward of money, food and property, even Shen Zhezi has no way to satisfy, and the feasible plan in front of him is to reward him with land. Because of the meritorious award, it can not only solve the problem of great merit and hard to reward, but also quickly organize the resumption of production, which can be said to be counted in one fell swoop, and the Huainan Governor's Office has a very early discussion on the granting of land for meritorious service.

But after thinking about it for a long time, Shen Zhezi still does not intend to give up long-term potential because of short-term profits. In this war, one million people were obtained in Hebei alone, and although Heluo was broken, after careful search and rectification, it was not very difficult to obtain two or three hundred thousand people.

Once the income of such a large number of people can be completely digested and returned to the cantonment, the potential to be obtained in a few years is simply incalculable! If, for the sake of temporary hardship, we relinquish control over these populations and lands, we will face great difficulties and obstacles if we want to concentrate in the future.

Therefore, Shen Zhezi initially planned to open up the scale of only about 10,000 people, and it was mainly concentrated in the Heluo area.

In this way, it can form an incentive for the soldiers, and these soldiers who have been granted land will in turn become Shen Zhezi's most loyal supporters, and quickly resume production in the Heluo area, so that Shen Zhezi can move to Luoyang faster and plan a new round of the Northern Expedition.

As for the gaps in other military merits, Shen Zhezi planned to implement a decree of "retiring armor and returning to the tun", that is, calling on some old, injured and sick soldiers to return to their hometowns.

On the one hand, it is indeed to carry out a blood exchange for the front-line combat troops and replenish more young and strong elites, and on the other hand, it is also to affirm the attitude of the Governor's Office towards the resettlement of veterans.

Although the combat effectiveness of these veterans has declined, their obedience to the organization and combat experience are still a valuable asset, and it is a waste of resources to let them unload their armor and return to farming.

In the future, tens of thousands of people will enter the tun, and there is a very large shortage of organizational talents at all levels, and these veterans can make the best use of their talents. They may not be up to the mark at the intellectual level, but loyalty and organization are guaranteed. By managing the townships, they can spread the scale of the reclamation more quickly, and can effectively prevent the township sect forces from interfering in the affairs of the reclamation.

In the past few years, the Huainan Governor's Office has already organized a short-term grassroots training framework, which includes both literary and artistic propaganda and a unique knowledge carrier of simplified characters. All this is the premise of creating a special organizational structure, which can effectively avoid external interference. Moreover, in the future, it can also be used as a basis to build a military government with more clear functions, and accumulate armor for the people.

Such an ambitious goal cannot be achieved in a short period of time, but it is an excellent situation to see results within three to five years. And when these arrangements can be fed, Shen Zhezi will become more powerful than ever, and the resources he can master are even stronger, and he will continue to go north to restore Xinjiang in the future, and there will be no need for any compromises at all!

In addition to these big military and political plans, there is also an urgent task that is disaster relief, to find enough food and other materials for millions of people to survive the winter. This is the premise for all plans to be carried out, and if we can't do this, let alone take a bigger picture, even if we just digest what we have now.