In October, the Tianjin Navy successively withdrew to Chongzhou for rest.

Before the battle in the Tianjin Navy, the Tianjin Navy had 10 battalions and 6,000 soldiers, and during the war, the recruitment of the people was once expanded to 30 battalions and 18,000 people, and the brutal defense of the city made the Tianjin Navy bear the heavy price of more than 4,100 killed and more than 6,300 wounded.

Lin Jian decided to set up two additional divisions of the Jinwei Special Battalion and the Jinhai Battalion in the Huaidong Military Division.

Based on the remnants of the two battalions of the original Tianjin Navy, the Jinwei Special Battalion was commanded by Yang Yihang and Chen Enze as the commander, and the first battalion of the Navy's remnants was transferred from Huaidong to supplement the first battalion of the Navy, and the water step was mixed, stationed on Jinwei and other islands, responsible for disturbing the Yanji coast, containing the Yanhu troops, and guiding the refugees to escape from Yanji and Hebei by sea; It was responsible for occupying Beihuangcheng Island at the Bohai Sea between Dengzhou and Jinzhou, and building an island as a military base......

Based on the remnants of the 12th Battalion of the former Tianjin Navy, the Jinhai Battalion was supplemented by the transfer of troops from the 15th Battalion of the Workers' Battalion, and 9,000 soldiers of the 15th Battalion were added to Chongzhou to carry out physical reorganization and training.

The dead were buried on the island, and more than 6,000 wounded were scattered and evacuated to the military medical battalions in Hecheng, Shanyang, Chongcheng and other places for centralized treatment. Except for a small number of severely disabled soldiers, most of the wounded soldiers can recuperate, and a group of qualified veterans and grassroots military attaches will be provided for Huaidong.

From the outbreak of the Battle of Jinhai to the final withdrawal, the battle lasted for about half a year. In half a year, the old pawns whose will has not been destroyed are all rare and precious treasures.

Chen Dingbang was transferred to the Military Intelligence Department as a commander and joined the army.

The next step is the casualty compensation and military merit rewards, Huaidong admitted that the Tianjin Navy held the Tianjin Sea for half a year, which was a difficult and outstanding contribution to Huaidong.

During the Tianjin Naval War, the casualties and military exploits of the Tianjin Navy officers were all carried out in accordance with the standards of the Huaidong Military Division.

Huaidong took out 200,000 mu of official land at a time to provide bereavement and reward meritorious service, ensuring that the families of soldiers who died in battle, were seriously disabled, and who had won military merits could directly receive about 15 acres of water and dry land and a certain amount of silver money and rice grain subsidies after arriving in Huaidong, instead of being resettled as displaced households.

Over the past few years, the continuous influx of displaced people has caused grain and land prices to continue to rise in areas of Jianghuai that have not been affected by the war, and 200,000 mu of fertile land in the suburbs of Jiangning is worth more than 3 million taels of silver at least, and even in Chongzhou, where grain prices are relatively stable, it is worth more than 2 million taels of silver.

Jiang Ning affirmed the military exploits of the Tianjin Navy in the north, sent envoys to Chongzhou to announce the reward, and also sent 20,000 taels of silver to show the emperor's great grace.

The combat power of the imperial army is getting worse and worse, not that the previous Yanjing and the current Jiangning can't make up the basic money. The key reason is that after the war, the disabled and the dead basically adopted an attitude of abandonment, and the financial situation could not afford the bereavement expenses of the disabled and the war-dead.

In the world, from ordinary people to gentry and wealthy families, the most profound and longing demand was land.

The new policy implemented by Lin Tie in Huaidong was not as complicated as it was, liquidating acres of land, ensuring the interests of small and medium-sized tenant farmers, mainly tenant farmers, reclaiming wasteland, clearing official land, recruiting displaced households to cultivate as military households, and rewarding acres of land for military merit or casualties.

After an army has suffered more than half of its casualties, it is rare for an army to recover its strength in a short period of time, if not to collapse. In the end, the Tianjin Navy had to abandon the city and withdraw, and the damage to morale was even more serious, and it was not a simple reorganization that could restore combat strength, but after the compensation and military exploits, the Jinhai Battalion basically swept away the frustrated depression and restored its morale.

Those wounded soldiers could choose to be naturalized and resettled on the spot after being cured, and most of them asked to be reassigned to the Huaidong Army as generals.

Of course, the price paid in Huaidong was that after Yudong Gongzhuang was withdrawn from Zhuang and placed in the county, more than 200,000 mu of fertile land owned by the government was requisitioned and distributed almost all at once.

On one side is the Tianjin Navy with low morale, half of the disabled and disabled, with a total of only 13,400 people, and on the other side is 200,000 mu of fertile land worth 2,300,000 taels of silver. Maybe most people want to get both, and they don't want to give up any of them, and they will think that the Tianjin Navy was not subordinate to the Huaidong Army before, and there is no need to take out so much fertile land for compensation and rewards.

But Lin Jian wanted to get an elite Jinhai battalion with available morale, loyalty to Huaidong, and fearlessness; Then, through the allocation of land, the people who moved south were encouraged to settle down in the south and take root; It is also necessary to draw another 40,000 Ding Zhuang from the people who have migrated south to be incorporated into the labor camp to engage in local water conservancy construction and other affairs; They will also serve as reserve soldiers and receive basic combat training and training, so that they can maintain their desire for war rather than fear.

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The Cao family made a surprise attack on Yinping in late September, and the army entered northern Sichuan.

Jiangning was out of control of the war on the Western Front, but constantly sent envoys into eastern Sichuan to reward the officers and soldiers gathered there, hoping that they could simultaneously exterminate the bandits and block the Cao army; Some people even suggested that the Eastern Sichuan Army should be transferred to Jingzhou and let the Liukou and the Cao family be killed.

After Jiangning supported the new emperor, as the center of the southern regime, although the efficiency was not too high, it was also successfully operated.

The household department headed by Wang Tian fully took over the taxes, levies and depreciation of silver in Jianghuai, Jiangxi and Lianghu prefectures; The revenues from the salt and silver of the two Huai, the tax and the municipal tax and the tax on tea, horses, iron, and wine were all incorporated into the inner government and directly allocated by the Yongxing Emperor.

Although the mountains and rivers are dilapidated, and the remnants of the land are also lined with feudal towns, there are actually quite a few resources controlled by Jiangning.

In addition to local expenditures and the money and salaries directly occupied by local military equipment, the household department can also control the summer tax and autumn grain revenue of nearly 4 million stone rice grains, of which Pingjiang Mansion, Jiangning Mansion, Weiyang Mansion, and Danyang Mansion contribute most of them.

In addition, the Inner Government was able to control the miscellaneous tax revenue of more than 2.5 million taels of silver.

Set up the Imperial Camp Division to govern the armies, organize the Imperial Camp Army as the Jiangning Janissaline, and set up a military consular division under the Imperial Camp Division to control the supply of money, food, and weapons to the armies.

In addition to the newly formed Imperial Battalion Army, the main combat forces under the direct control of Jiang Ning included the Huinan Army led by Deng Yu, the Changhuai Army led by Tao Chun, the Ning Navy led by Meng Yishan, and the Haiyu Army led by Chen Huawen.

With the efforts of Yue Lengqiu, Chen Xiyan and others, Deng Yu, Tao Chun, Meng Yishan, Chen Huawen and others all agreed that the grain, money and weapons should be uniformly allocated by the military commanders, and the money and grain taxes in Pingjiang Mansion and Huizhou Mansion were also uniformly supported by the household department.

In fact, it was also Deng Yu, Tao Chun, Meng Yishan, Chen Huawen and others who had weak control over their subordinates, and in the current situation, unanimously supporting Jiangning's rule was more in line with their own interests.

However, Jiang Ning's request for centralization of power was resisted to varying degrees in Huaidong, Ganzhou, Jiangzhou, Jingzhou, Qingzhou, Jinan, Hezhong, Tanzhou, and other places. It is easy to say that it is easy to send an envoy to watch the army, but the money and food support, and the local marshals all hope to requisition for their own use, at least to maintain the status quo.

Jiangning's side also knew the priorities, and if the local vassal was forced to be in a hurry, there would be no good fruit to eat, but the resources that could be mastered in his hands would naturally give priority to strengthening the army that could be directly controlled.

Jiangning strengthened the passage from Ningguo to southern Huinan, blocked the troops of the luxury family in western Zhejiang between Dusong Pass, Qianqiu Pass, and Yuling Pass, and it was difficult to do anything for the time being, and in addition to Huaidong and Jiangxi on the southern front, the main defense line of Dong Yuan, Deng Yu, Meng Yishan, and Chen Huawen was formed to jointly resist the soldiers and horses of the luxury family in western Zhejiang, and the total number of soldiers and horses was successively expanded to 80,000 people.

The total number of soldiers and horses in the imperial camp army guarding Jiangning has also been expanded to 60,000.

On the western front, with the Luzhou garrison as the core, part of the Northern Zhejiang Army and the Changhuai Army transferred to the west in the first half of the year were incorporated into the Luzhou Army, and a total of 30,000 Luzhou troops were obtained.

Send envoys to Qichun to recruit Anluo Cheng, ask Luo Xiancheng to cut the puppet Wang Zhili, Xu Feng Xiangyang Marquis, Xiangyang Town Guard, Xiangyang, Xiangyang City and the surrounding twelve counties of grain to be called. Luo Xiancheng demanded a sky-high price, demanding that the king of the county be crowned and the entire Jinghu County of the old Chu should be assigned to him. For a while, the stalemate could not continue, but the situation did not continue to deteriorate.

Before seeing any signs of a breakthrough on the Western Front by the soldiers and horses of Zhejiang and Fujian, Luo Xiancheng did not dare to use troops rashly. But fundamentally, Luo Xiancheng didn't believe Jiang Ning's promise of recruitment.

In addition to the southern front, Jiangning focused on strengthening the Changhuai army led by Tao Chun on the northern front.

After the fall of Yanjing, Xuanfu, Sanhe, and Jinhai, Yanhu's large-scale military operations in the north basically stopped. Yan Hu was in the south of Jin, facing the direction of Hezhong Mansion, and gathered more than 30,000 people on foot; In Yannan, in the direction of facing the Qinghe, Pingyuan and Yangxin, 60,000 people were gathered on foot; More soldiers and horses gathered in Yanjing and Jizhou to rest.

Judging from this situation, Yanhu seems to be more concerned with forming a stable defensive line on the north bank of the Yellow River in order to absorb the newly occupied Jin County, Yanji and other places.

On the surface, Jiang Ning would not hold King Lu accountable for his secret edict, but the actual sequelae were still very serious to the Liang and Gu families.

Jiangning first ordered Tao Chun to lead the Changhuai army to retreat from Qinghe to Daliang (now Kaifeng), and assigned the 5,000 soldiers who had been withdrawn from Dengzhou Town to the Changhuai army. The two Huai salt and silver were allocated to a part of the Changhuai army, from the planned 200,000 taels of silver per year to 400,000 taels, Tao Chun originally led the soldiers and horses of the king of Qinwang in the north to only more than 20,000 people, and after the Qinghe took over the exile and the Dengzhou town army joined, the soldiers and horses quickly expanded to 40,000.

Although Jiangning did not set up another envoy in Dengzhou, he made Liu Yefei go out of Dengzhou with the imperial history of the left capital, supervise the local military preparation and control the Dengzhou town army, and reclassified Laizhou into the Dengzhou capital, and on the basis of the original Dengzhou naval army, 10,000 water infantry troops were formed.

In fact, the total number of soldiers and horses under Jiangning's direct control increased to 220,000 by the end of October.

However, the total number of soldiers and horses not under the direct control of Jiang Ning was even larger.

Huaidong soldiers and horses aside, Ganzhou, Tanzhou, Jiangzhou, Jingzhou four systems of envoys, with the largest number of soldiers and horses in Jingzhou, up to more than 40,000 people, the total number of troops reached 140,000.

The Liang family gathered nearly 90,000 soldiers and horses in Hezhong Mansion, Pingyuan Mansion and Jinan Mansion. Because the Liang family was involved in the secret edict of King Lu, the two Huai salt and silver that were planned to be allocated to the Liang family were wiped out.

Liu Ye flew to Dengzhou Town, naturally to restrict the further expansion of Qingzhou's power to the east, and the additional two Huai salt and silver allocated to the Qingzhou army were suddenly reduced from the previous plan of 400,000 taels to 150,000 taels of silver.

The Qingzhou Army's takeover of the eastern part of Linzi Mansion was given by the Liang family, and it was almost possible to loot and dig it up, and the Liang family did not stay. The Liang family was also afraid that they would loot too hard in Linzi Mansion and arouse public anger, so they reduced the taxes of Linzi Mansion for two years before leaving.

In addition to the allocation of 150,000 taels of silver from the two Huai salt silver, the Gu family father and son could only intercept the taxes of Qingzhou.

After all, Qingzhou is far inferior to the land of fish and rice in the south, and the eleven counties under its jurisdiction, even the sum of Huai'an Mansion and Hailing Mansion, have as many as 8 million mu of registered fields, but there are many dry fields and few paddy fields, and the quota of summer tax and autumn grain plus Ding tax is only 500,000 stones, which can be used to raise the army, about 200,000 stones.

The Gu family and the people of Qingzhou severed their relationship with Huaidong, and the principal and interest of the withdrawal from Huaidong Qianzhuang were 170,000 taels, and the total amount of land and land added up to maintain the supply of 30,000 soldiers and horses in peacetime.

The key is to build a defense line around Yangxin to prevent the Donghu cavalry from penetrating and infiltrating, and the 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Qingzhou Army are only better than the Liumin Army.

Fortunately, before turning his face, Huaidong had already sent 100,000 catties of iron to Qingzhou, otherwise the iron materials for making guns, spears and arrows would have to be scavenged from places to make up enough.