Xia Nan was about to answer Huang Hansheng's words, but Sun Yuanhua interjected: "It is important to expand the army, but it is also important to organize the reclamation of refugees. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Otherwise, there will be tens of thousands of more mouths out of thin air, even if we save some grain after taking over the grain supply of the three counties, it is not a way to sit and eat empty! ”

When Xia Nan heard it, it was also necessary to expand the army, which is also one of the most important purposes of immigration, but first of all, he had to solve the problem of food. With the current grain stock of the Qiongzhou battalion, there is no problem in feeding the two or three thousand troops who are out of production, but when this number is expanded to tens of thousands, it is somewhat unbearable. Then organizing refugees to reclaim the land and be self-sufficient is the right path for a virtuous circle.

When he was hesitating whether to expand the army first or to reclaim the famine, Sima De proposed: "Why not combine the two into one and carry out the military cantonment?" ”

Xia Nan was stunned: "Juntun? ”

Sima De replied, "Exactly." After selecting and selecting sturdy young men, they were assigned to the Qiongzhou battalion, and then they were organized to reclaim the wasteland and cultivate the land, and the cultivation areas were divided according to the establishment of the company and battalion, and the cultivation was substituted for training. ”

Sun Yuanhua hesitated and said: "But the imperial court's guards and tuntian have been rotten, and we picked up this set again, is it wrong for us to miss the future?" ”

Sima De retorted: "The reason why the imperial court's guards were corrupted was because the officers wantonly occupied the fertile land for themselves, and the sergeants became tenants, and there was a shortage of food, clothing, and food, and a large number of people fled, which caused today's predicament." It is only an expedient measure for us to wait for the fields to be reclaimed and the grain produced is enough to feed the sergeants, and then we can return to the barracks, and the acres of land can be handed over to others for tenant farming. What is the mistaken future? ”

Xia Nan interjected: "Everyone expresses their opinions, but don't have disputes. I think that's a good idea. Although the imperial court's guard system is declining and exists in name only, our Tuntian is different from this one, so you can give it a try. Otherwise, it is a pity that we have worked hard to recruit refugees to come back, and all of them will go to farming, although the fields and grain are the foundation, but the army is the foundation of the Qiongzhou battalion, in the final analysis, we are still in order to expand the army, and reclamation is only a means. Mr. Sima's method solves this difficult problem by combining land reclamation and army expansion into one. While cultivating wasteland and cultivating land, these people were able to receive the most basic training, and they were peasants when they picked up hoes, and they were soldiers when they walked into the barracks, and the problem of food and clothing and the problem of expanding the army was also solved. ”

Sun Yuanhua asked: "Since this is the case, then the military tun will be implemented." It's just that when the first batch of troops enters the barracks, who will plant the land in the coming year? Zhong Da (Sima De's character) said that it would be handed over to others to share the seeds, but where did Qiongzhou Mansion get so much labor? "Qiongzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and if the local labor force is sufficient, there will be no immigration.

Xia Nan replied: "This problem is not big, when the first batch of tun soldiers becomes full-time soldiers, there will naturally be the next batch to take over." After we pass Xie Xun, oh, it is estimated that it will be Governor Xie and control the Denglai area, and the refugees in Shandong can continue to go to sea through Dengzhou and be transported to Lingao. ”

His ancestors were all in Lingao, and Tan Shan, who had never been out of the island, couldn't help but be curious, and asked: "General, there are really so many people in that place in Shandong, can't they be transported?" Could it be that there are more homeless refugees than the entire Qiongzhou capital? ”

Lin Weiye, who is from Shandong, and Sun Yuanhua, who used to be an official in Shandong, both laughed, and Xia Nan also smiled: "Old village chief, I won't tell you, although I don't know the exact number, it is a sure thing that the refugees caused by the mutiny are more than the entire population of Qiongzhou Prefecture." ”

Xia Nan also knew that in the 11th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army detoured through Qingkou Mountain in Hebei and Miyun Qiangziling in Beijing to enter the customs, and the population taken from Tongzhou, Jinan and other places would reach more than 400,000, of which Shandong accounted for most of them, and these captives alone exceeded the population of the entire Qiongzhou Prefecture several times.

He said to Tan Shan: "I just want your name, and I have something to tell you to do." You have always done the work of tenanting land and collecting taxes and grain, and you will also arrange the affairs of the military camp this time. The matter of selecting and training soldiers is left to Han Sheng, and you are responsible for arranging the location and area of the tuntian reclamation. ”

Tan Shan said: "The general's subordinates must do their best. It's just that there are not so many places in Lingao that can be cultivated, and it must be expanded outward, which may involve neighboring Chengmai County and Li people's settlements...... The things on the official side of Chengmai are easy to do, but when it comes to Shengli, it is a little tricky, and those barbarians don't recognize the government......"

In the past few years, the Qiongzhou battalion has risen rapidly, from the prefect's yamen to all prefectures and counties, they have been lying under the might of the Qiongzhou battalion, not daring to have the slightest disobedience, but there is no intersection with Shengli in the depths of Wuzhi Mountain.

The topography of Qiongzhou Mansion is a shape of high in the middle and low in all sides, and the highest mountain range in the middle is Wuzhi Mountain. The land suitable for cultivation is concentrated on the periphery, and most of it is occupied by Han Chinese and Shuli, while Shengli, who are mainly hunters, gather around Wuzhi Mountain. If you want to find wasteland that can be used for tuntian, you must expand in the direction of Wuzhi Mountain, and dealing with Shengli is unavoidable.

Xia Nan asked Huang Mengjia: "If the Han people reclaim the land and enter the scope of Shengli, how will they react?" ”

Huang Mengjia replied: "Except for a few villages that are too small in number and too weak, most of them will attack - they generally regard this as an invasion, and in their eyes, the place where their ancestors have lived for generations, from the clouds in the sky to the soil on the ground, is theirs. ”

Xia Nan thought for a while and said: "With our expansion, it is only a matter of time before we control these areas inhabited by Shengli, and we have to hold the entire Qiongzhou Mansion in our hands, not to mention these uncivilized Shengli." In order to clear the obstacles in Tuntian, Mengjia, you lead people to sweep the place two hundred miles south of Lingao, and clean up all these villages of Shengli. "In the future, refugees from Shandong will come here to Tuntian, and they will not be able to adapt to the mixed terrain of mountains and hills near Wuzhi Mountain and the hot subtropical climate. In order to avoid unnecessary population losses, it is necessary to clear a "no man's land" in advance.

Huang Mengjia asked: "General, what is the clean-up method?" Is it to expel or to kill outright? ”

Xia Nan did not answer directly, but continued to ask Huang Mengjia: "Are these Shengli easy to tame, can they enrich the army?" ”

Huang Mengjia shook his head: "Most of the Shengli can't even speak Chinese, and even our Shuli has some difficulty communicating with them, let alone the Han people." Moreover, these people basically do not farm, and live entirely on herding dogs (concentrated hunting), and they are used to being free, and it may be difficult to trap them in the barracks for day after day exercises. ”