Because of the inconvenient transportation that year, a month after the Ming army recovered Guangxi, the Ming army in Sichuan had just received the news that the Ming army had conquered Zhangzhou and entered Guangdong! At this point, more than half a year has passed since the Ming army recovered Fujian, and the Ming army in western Sichuan and the Kuidong righteous army learned that the Ming army had recovered Fujian. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Chengdu, Jiange, Yucheng, Chongqing, Wanxian, Fengjie, Kuidong Zhucheng, Jianchang, Lugu, and the cities of the Tusi in western Sichuan are connected together, there are Kuidong Zhujian City and Chongqing Jiancheng in the east to guard the Yangtze River waterway, and there are Yangping Pass and Jiange Tianwei in the north, and the Qing army cannot enter the middle of Sichuan from the east or the north; Wu Sangui in the south was vacillating and could not send troops to Sichuan, so the rich Chengdu Plain had become a safe rear for the Ming army.

The Chengdu Plain with a radius of 300 miles, also known as the West Sichuan Plain, is fertile and rich in products because of Dujiangyan. Once upon a time, after years of war in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, Sichuan's population plummeted, and the originally rich western Sichuan Plain became a desolate land with no people, overgrown weeds, and infested with wild beasts.

However, due to the great victory of the Ming army in Kuidong, Li Guoying was driven out of Chongqing, and Wu Sangui secretly supported the Ming army, sent food, and a large number of Qing army prisoners captured in the Kuidong War, providing a large number of labor force to the western Sichuan Plain.

The captured Qing soldiers became military households, cultivated military fields, opened army farms, ponds, dug ponds and canals in low-lying areas, raised fish and shrimp, and dug up the soil as fertilizer to fill the rice fields, which not only ensured the fertility of the rice fields, but also did not lead to floods due to the low terrain of the rice fields.

The reclaimed pond canals, which bring water from the rivers, can not only breed fish and shrimp, but also ensure the irrigation of rice fields.

In the high terrain, dry land was reclaimed and crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, corn, and vegetables were planted, which not only provided non-staple food for the military reclamation households, but also provided food for the livestock in the army's farms.

hillsides and hills, planted with tea and fruit trees; In the dense mountain forest, shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots and all kinds of wild meat cannot be eaten, which greatly improves the living conditions of local military reclamation households.

Chen Zhiwen, a former prisoner of the Qing army of the Green Battalion, had a good life in western Sichuan, and he alone cultivated ten acres of paddy fields, twenty acres of dry land and more than twenty acres of mountainous land. Twenty acres of dry land, when he first arrived in western Sichuan, according to the requirements of the village head Liu Qilin, everyone had to cultivate, and at the beginning all planted fast-ripening sweet potatoes to provide enough food for everyone. By the beginning of the second year, they will be able to cultivate their own paddy fields, or they can choose to grow other crops in the dry land.

When we first came to western Sichuan, we ate porridge made from brown rice, buckwheat, barley noodles, sorghum rice, rice bran, wheat bran and beans, mixed with wild vegetables.

Even after Wu Sangui's grain was delivered, everyone still ate porridge made of brown rice, buckwheat, barley noodles, and sorghum rice, but they no longer ate rice bran and wheat bran, and they could still eat dry food at noon, such as sweet potatoes and corn, potatoes roasted over the fire, and sometimes a little fish and shrimp caught in the river.

With the delivery of Wu Sangui's second batch of grain, everyone's life has improved a little, they can eat dry rice, miscellaneous grains, green onion cakes, pickles, and some people go up to the mountains to hunt, some people go down to the river to catch fish, hunt wild boars and roe deer, and catch carp, so as to improve the life of everyone.

Chen Zhiwen's 20 acres of dry land had a bumper harvest of sweet potatoes that year, and everyone will not be hungry in the future.

When your stomach is full, you want to live a better life. So Chen Zhiwen cultivated the rice fields, opened up another mountainous area, and planted tea and fruit trees on it.

There is more grain produced by himself, in addition to handing in, there is also excess grain, which can be exchanged for livestock with farmers, in order to plant a good rice field, Lin Erhu bought two buffaloes. Excess grain, fruits, vegetables, and tea can be exchanged for meat, fish, shrimp and turtles.

Lin Erhu, who originally came here with Chen Zhiwen, went to be a soldier, and the hard-working Chen Zhiwen also contracted Lin Erhu's farmland, paid Lin Erhu a certain rent every year, and cultivated the farmland by himself. Because there is more farmland, Chen Zhiwen also got some assigned hard labor.

Although there is so much farmland that everyone has land to cultivate, everyone is different, some are hardworking, some are lazy. At the beginning, the 20 acres of dry land requested by the village chief were not all planted with crops, and they were allowed to grow weeds, and after handing in the agricultural products that must be handed over, there were not many times left for them, and such people had more and more difficult times. However, in western Sichuan, it is forbidden to buy and sell farmland, because it is all military reclamation, otherwise the phenomenon of land annexation will occur, and some people will become landlords, some people will become tenants, and even hired farmers.

In order to deal with those lazy guys, Wang Jinzhong had to use tough measures to raise the taxes on agricultural products and increase the taxes on lazy people.

With the order of the lazy tax, many people have become diligent. There are also some guys who are naturally lazy and lazy, but naturally the Ming army unceremoniously confiscated the military reclamation fields, sent them to the mines, and turned into coolies.

The mines were saturated with coolies, so a part of them was distributed to the industrious military settlers and became their hired farmers.

As the life of military households like Chen Zhiwen is getting better and better, a new problem has emerged: they need to marry a daughter-in-law, but now there are more men and fewer women in western Sichuan, and it is a luxury to marry a daughter-in-law.

Originally, there were more women and fewer men in western Sichuan, after many years of war, men were arrested by the Ming army, the Great Western Army, the loyal battalion, and the Qing army in turn to be soldiers or become people's strongest. After the victory in Kuidong, Sichuan stabilized, and many women came down from the mountains, and there were more women than men at this time.

However, after a large number of captives were sent to serve as military households, there were more men than women, and there was a big gap.

Western Sichuan was different from the coastal Ming army, which could obtain women from the interior by bringing people, buying people, and even bribing the magistrates of the Qing court, through abduction and kidnapping. However, the Ming army in Sichuan could not get women from Huguang and Shaanxi. In order to solve this problem, Wang Jinzhong ordered the military reclamation households to bring their own bride price and go to the western mountains to find their daughters-in-law.

Although the Tibetans in the western mountains were liberated by the Western Sichuan Army, and many serfs were freed, those places were too poor.

Chen Zhiwen also found a Tibetan girl as a daughter-in-law, although this little girl has dark skin and plateau red because of the sun, but her small appearance is still very cute, and she is also diligent, and she can do farm work like a man, which relieves Chen Zhiwen of a lot of burden.

The Tibetan people don't like to take a bath, because the climate is cold, the water on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is particularly cold, even in summer, people go into the water, the body is particularly easy to catch a cold after getting wet, in that kind of thin air place, a little illness will kill people!

After coming to the western Sichuan Plain, the climate was much warmer than the high mountains in the west, and Chen Zhiwen asked his daughter-in-law to take a bath frequently. After a while, the daughter-in-law's skin also turned white, and she was still a very beautiful little girl.

On the western Sichuan Plain, in addition to the development of agriculture and the provision of sufficient food for the army, the military industry is also developing simultaneously.

Near Chengdu, a number of ironworks were built, which allowed them to produce their own muskets. Although it is not yet possible to produce rifled guns, there is no problem in producing ordinary bird guns, and even a small number of flintlock guns can be produced. Artillery can also be produced by itself, fighting in mountainous areas, too heavy artillery is inconvenient to use, Chengdu Artillery Factory mainly produces light mortars.

Due to the production limit of gunpowder, there is no production of large killer weapons such as a swarm of bee vans that consume too much gunpowder, and at most a few rockets for individual use can be produced.

Sichuan has high reserves of saltpeter, but there are not many sulfur mines, because there is little sulfur, so there is no way to produce gunpowder in large quantities.

"My Ming King has recovered Fujian!" When the news came to Sichuan, the Ming soldiers here cheered, and everyone rushed to spread this exciting good news.

Wang Jinzhong said: "We just got the news of the recovery of Fujian, I'm afraid that Wang Shi has already taken Guangdong!" The commander has an order, he does not require us to go to Huguang, nor does he require us to go north to Shaanxi, we just need to guard Sichuan! Although Li Guoying was frightened, the brothers still had to be vigilant and not let the Tartars sneak attack! ”

Sichuan is not only a stable rear, but also an important place to cut off the Qing court's connection with Wu Sangui, as long as Sichuan is controlled by the Ming army, Wu Sangui's final outcome can only raise the banner against the Qing.

Once Huguang was attacked by the main force of the Ming army, it was difficult to guarantee that Li Guoying would not take the risk and lead his troops to attack Sichuan, in an attempt to open up a road to contact Wu Sangui.

In the Sword Pavilion, Xu Ming, who had been promoted to the rank of chief, and Lin Erhu, who had been promoted to the rank of captain, were stationed here. As long as there are more than 100 people stationed in the Sword Pavilion, it is impossible to capture the Sword Pavilion if tens of thousands of Qing troops attack. However, Wang Jinzhong still did not dare to slack off, in addition to strengthening the defense of Guancheng, he also set up a sentry post and a beacon tower in the mountains near the Sword Pavilion, so as to prevent the Qing army from sending a small force to attack in a roundabout way.

There are more than 1,000 Ming troops stationed in the Sword Pavilion, and the main weapons equipped are bird guns, flintlock pistols are used above the commander, and there are also a hundred killer teams and a hundred pikemen, which are used for close combat. In addition, there were archers consisting of fifty veterans.

The sound of the city was placed with various weapons to defend the city, such as rolling wood and stones, wolf's tooth slaps, yakshas, grinding stones, oil cans, lime bottles, etc., and there were two three-pounder cannons on each side and two sixteen-pounder mortars on the top of the mountain. With such firepower, it was difficult for the Qing army to capture Guancheng. (To be continued.) )