"Husband, have you seen your father-in-law?" Xu Zhenzhen opened her mouth to ask, and seeing Zhao Jin's heavy nod, Xu Zhenzhen hesitated and said: "The concubine asked the familiar Langzhong, and they said that the father-in-law was not lightly ill this time, and it involved a lot of remnants of old illnesses and injuries, which was very troublesome. ”

Zhao Jin nodded sullenly and said, "I know, this time is very troublesome, do our best to take care of the treatment, and we have no other way." ”

After dinner, Zhao Feng and Zhao Long were coaxed to sleep, Mu Shulan was to take care of Zhao Qi, Zhao Jin and Xu Zhenzhen also rested together, the lights went out, the bedroom fell into darkness, Zhao Jin didn't make a sound, but he didn't fall asleep, countless things rolled around in his head, and it was calm for a while, at this time, Xu Zhenzhen, who thought he was already asleep, said: "Husband, when will we fight this time, can we win?" ”

Zhao Jin was silent for a while, but laughed sullenly: "What? Are you worried? ”

Xu Zhenzhen leaned closer to Zhao Jin's side, and said softly: "When the concubine married her husband, she thought that we were the number one Haoqiang in Xuzhou, and we were in harmony with other big households, so that the officials did not dare to move us, but I never thought that there would be today, and I actually fought with the imperial court several times, and I never lost, but the concubine thought, this imperial court has a population of tens of millions in more than a dozen provinces, and our current territory is less than a few million people in a province. ”

"Don't worry, we will win, even if the court still fights, we will win, it's just some trouble, it's just some trouble." Zhao Jin hugged his wife and said comfortingly.

Xu Zhenzhen didn't speak again, the husband and wife hugged each other and were quiet for a while, but Zhao Jin said: "Winning is a win, but I feel very uncomfortable." ”

These words made Xu Zhenzhen a little stunned, and before he could ask, Zhao Jin said in a sullen voice: "The imperial court uses troops in several places, Jianzhou Jurchen, grassland Mongolia and southwest Tusi, and then they have to fight against my side, if they continue to increase their troops, then the other places must not be taken care of, it is easy to be attacked by those few places, such a situation, it is like I collude with the Tartar barbarians inside and outside, and the inside should be combined with the outside, and it is uncomfortable to think about it." ”

Xu Zhenzhen was silent for a while, chuckled a few times and said, "It's good to win, the concubine was worried that she would suffer a loss if she fought less and more!" ”

"From the outside, it looks like less fights more, if you really have to calculate, our family regiment training is not less than that of the official army, or even more!" Zhao Jin didn't continue the previous topic, and explained a few words with a smile.

"Go to bed early, and I'll send a letter to Xiao Yong and Lei Zi tomorrow to ask them to arrange things for the north." After Zhao Jin said this, the husband and wife were speechless, and they fell asleep like this.

Now Liu Yong and Lei Cai are both presiding over Shandong, after the defeat of the Shandong official army in World War I, a large number of prisoners were captured, and the first brigade of the Zhao Zi battalion made temporary arrangements, hundreds of prisoners as a team, and went to various farms to work under the escort of the regimental exercises, but many of these prisoners were born in the Liaozhen army.

It was very easy to catch these people, and every survivor of the victim Grange, including Yao Qi, was transferred to Liu Yong and Lei Cai's men, and they would not forget the faces of these enemies, and after finding out these people, they would have to torture them, and they would explore the layout of the government in Yanzhou Mansion and other provinces in Shandong Province, and find out which gentry and powerful people were involved.

Tian Zhu and his cronies, who were originally banned and half-studied in Xuzhou, were also sent here, they were the head snakes of Lunan, and they had a thorough understanding of the local area, this time, Zhao Ziying would not leave any affection for the local forces, and would only do things according to the rules, and as long as they participated at that time, they would be uprooted.

The more than 3,000 soldiers and horses that had been gathered before led by Yang Guodong, the general soldier of Shandong, who had fled in the rout, did not return to Denglai Town, but retreated directly to the territory of Hejian Prefecture in Beizhili, and stationed in a place adjacent to the canal, directly under the command of Zhao Yan, the superintendent, and Wei Zhongxian, the superintendent, which was the gateway to the Guò Canal into Beizhili.

The current situation in Shandong is completely silent, Dengzhou Mansion and Laizhou Mansion are newly training the official army, which is not aimed at Xuzhou soldiers and horses, but that position directly faces Liaodong, and the local area has been turbulent because of the refugees in Liaozhen, if there is no official army to maintain, I am afraid that there will be chaos, in order not to let Zhao Jin misunderstand, but also deliberately found a lobbyist in Qingzhou Mansion to come to inform.

Dongchang Mansion, Jinan Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion bandits and horse activities began to run rampant, and even local scoundrels gathered to play the banner of Zhao Tianwang in Xuzhou, and began to do nonsense, while sending people to Zhao Jin to express their allegiance, asking for an official position of the new dynasty, while burning and looting, the only thing the local government can do is to guard behind closed doors, and the thieves can't enter the city, but it can only do this, because even the people and the regimental training can't be concentrated.

However, the disposal of Zhao Ziying relieved them, and the Xuzhou horseback riding family Ding and Xuzhou Yiyong, as well as the local horseback warriors of Yanzhou Mansion, directly entered Dongchang Mansion and Jinan Mansion, and began to sweep away these bandits who took advantage of the situation.

Many farms in Dongchang Mansion have begun to spend money to train self-defense armies, but the number of these escorts is not large, and they are uniformly deployed by a certain trading house, and these guards are also maintaining local law and order.

Qingzhou Mansion is better, when it was known that these "Xuzhou precursors" had nothing to do with Xuzhou, the Qingzhou Prefecture officials and local armed forces began to take action, and they quickly cleaned it up.

Zhao Ziying's statement made the frightened Shandong officialdom relax a little, and some people began to wonder if it was possible to recruit An, since the other party did not have the movement of tearing his face to the end, and he was so reasonable, so why use swords and soldiers in vain!

But no one dared to mention this, the soldiers and horses concentrated on the side of Hejian Mansion have exceeded 30,000, and after the Beijing camp came here, the officers and troops of the Xuanfu border army, Baoding Town and Zhending Mansion also began to gather here, and the large army gathered, and Xuzhou was not a fool, so he couldn't say anything about this appeasement.

Now every farm manor in Zhao Ziying is extremely busy, the Zhuang Ding who had avoided before have returned, and began to prepare for spring ploughing, the Zhuang Ding are a little nervous, but there is a death order above, as long as it does not hit the door, then it is necessary to settle down and cultivate the land, and would rather die in battle than starve to death, this is what makes the Zhuang Ding listen, the reason why everyone is in exile is not forced by the desperate hunger.

Now the guards of the farm are called alternate regimental training, each farm is more than 140 people, these Ding Zhuang are not out of production, but the daily labor time is half shorter than others, and the rest of the time is used for drills, and the original regimental training is concentrated into the size of a regiment, garrisoned at various points, and now there are nearly 50 regimental training companies under the direct command of Chen Sheng, and the regimental deputies of the first brigade are arranged to lead the command in the past according to the scale of a regiment.

These 50 regimental training companies do not include the teams in Feixian and Yizhou in the eastern part of Yanzhou Prefecture, and there are also 20 companies in total.

From the recent recruitment, it can be seen that the first brigade will increase six companies of firearms, and the recruitment and selection of firecrackers are not limited to the family team, and there are also opportunities for regimental training.

So many full-time young and strong people were transferred, and Zhao Ziying's Yanzhou side also felt very difficult, but fortunately, there were prisoners to replenish the labor, and then the wealthy merchants in Jining were more energetic than Qingjiangpu to sell grain, and there were many even entire warehouse transactions, and the grain and the warehouse itself could be taken away, but the trade and agricultural reclamation were all sad, no matter how to move the calculation, I am afraid that there is no way to hand over too much to Xuzhou this year, and it is very good not to let the subsidy over there.

Shandong's regimental training consumes a lot of materials, but there are already 30 full-time regimental training companies on the Guide Mansion, but this has not caused any burden on the finances of Zhao Ziying, because the food and salary of these companies directly fall on the Guide Mansion.

This time, more than 30,000 captives were caught, among which the wealthy generals had a slightly better way out, as long as the family gave enough silver, they could live more comfortably, and it was impossible to redeem them? However, you don't have to participate in labor, you can live better, eat better, you can still do it, and you can reunite with your family, but you have to reunite and live in the area controlled by Xuzhou, and the rest have to go to work everywhere to do hard work, and then decide on the future after adapting to the rules here.

But there is also good luck, for example, there is a skilled soldier, carpenter, stonemason, blacksmith and other crafts, as long as there is a craft, will be drawn out to work directly, now several major workshops in Xuzhou are rotating in a row, especially the workshop of casting weapons and forging firearms, to build a large number of firearms and equipment, to cast cannons, to have swords, guns and iron armor, all of which have to be manual, and many prisoners are sent directly to the side of the mountain, digging coal and smelting iron, how much hard work is waiting for them in the mine.

From an outsider's point of view, Xuzhou is calm at this time, and Beizhili is tense, but based on the news from all over Xuzhou, you will find that Xuzhou is also mobilizing troops and horses, and it will shock and shock people if you study it carefully, Xuzhou can mobilize such a big force, and can come up with so many people at any time, and it doesn't affect supplies and other affairs too much.

Compared with the tension in Xuzhou and Shandong, it is very relaxed in Huai'an and Yangzhou, after arresting the people who should be arrested, the remaining officers and soldiers have shrunk back into the camp, and the rest are in a hurry to do business, although the imperial court has a will, and the military department has an urgent order, but there is no big action in various places in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is not even any action, Songjiang is very anxious about the use of troops, and even has to donate military funds, but it was quickly suppressed.

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