Although it didn't take much effort to occupy Yizhou Island, the Huaidong Military Division still used it as a battle victory to publicize.

It's a pity that Lin Bin's intentions have not been well responded.

The Sun, Zhou, and other ethnic groups, as well as the Huaidong and Dongyang Township Party forces, were not only not interested in developing Yizhou Island, but also had no interest in sending ships across Yizhou Island to explore the South Seas.

For a long time, the countries of Goryeo and Fuso in the Haidong region had close ties with the Central Plains, and the impact was also far-reaching, and the recorded history of sea ships traveling between the two places can be traced back to six or seven hundred years ago. Also because the Haidong region was deeply influenced by the culture of the Central Plains, developed earlier, and it was profitable to carry out maritime trade, almost all the maritime merchants in the Central Plains since the founding of the Yuan Dynasty were limited to exchanges with the Haidong region.

Sun, Zhou and other maritime families who moved south had a very limited understanding of Yizhou Island - it was only under Lin Lian's personal promotion that Huaidong had only sent ships and people in the past two or three years to systematically explore the situation of Yizhou Island and the surrounding sea areas; The understanding of the Nanyang islands and sea areas further south of Yizhou Island is even more vague.

Sun, Zhou, and the local forces in Huaidong were not interested, and the Huaidong Military Division did not have the spare strength to develop Yizhou Island in a short period of time.

For the time being, Lin Jian only asked the military secretary to formulate a plan for stationing troops on Yizhou Island and relocating households according to the number of acres of land that had been developed.

Yizhou is very deserted, the county seat built by the luxury family in the northwest corner of the island in the early years, only two miles in circumference, is a low city wall built by rammed earth, and it is not even as good as an ordinary walled city. There are only low and dilapidated houses in the city, even the county government is covered with thatched, and only two main streets are muddy when it rains.

Due to the war attrition, the luxury family has only asked for and not invested from Yizhou over the years, which is also the main factor why Yizhou's situation has become more and more unbearable in recent years. Yizhou City is also in a rainy area and the city wall is like an old man's mouth, which is in a state of decay, otherwise even if Luxury's village wants to give up Yizhou, it will be difficult for others to follow so decisively.

Just as in the early years, when he moved south to Dongmin and Guangnan to take up posts, he was regarded as a severe punishment for dereliction of duty, although Huaidong occupied Yizhou Island, and there were vacancies in the number of magistrates and adjutants, and people could be sent to fill them without Jiang Ning's consent, but there were still very few people in Huaidong who were interested in these vacancies.

Lin Jian naturally attached great importance to Yizhou Island in his heart, but when he really wanted to make personnel arrangements for the governance of Yizhou, he had a headache.

Several people in Huaidong who can realize the strategic position of Yizhou Island like Lin Lian have heavy responsibilities, and Lin Lian can't let them out; Those who regard Yizhou Island as a barbarian land and regard the appointment of officials on Yizhou Island as a demotion are forced to become officials in the past, and most of them cannot fulfill their duties.

The twisted melon is not sweet, and Lin Jian can only temporarily order Zhou Tong to lead the Chongcheng infantry battalion to carry out military jurisdiction over Yizhou, temporarily drag down the personnel arrangements for political officials, and at the same time let Zhao Qingshan send a ship around the Jieyang area to contact Yu Wangao's department.

Guangnan County cut off contact with Jiangning, and Jiangning did not receive an exact message from Yu Wangao's department for more than a year. Yu Wangao's subordinates could not get supplies from Guangnan, and only relied on a corner of Jieyang to confront the luxury family, and the situation was not optimistic. However, in the past year or so, the troops deployed on the southern front have not been reduced on a large scale, which means that Yu Wangao's troops are likely to still insist on resisting in the Jieyang area.

In addition, Zhao Qingshan was asked to transfer sea ships from the first water camp to explore the South Sea route.

In the next few days, Lin Jian mainly discussed with Liu Miaozhen about building a defensive line in Huaiyang.

Although there were only 30,000 people in the Red Jacket Army, these 30,000 people were selected from the hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Huaisi Liumin Army.

Due to the two large-scale selection and downsizing of the Wandering Army, the armor and crossbow assembly level of the Red Jacket Army was much better than that of the ordinary Wandering Army.

This is also a factor that Lin Jian opened his mouth at the beginning, and the people's army marched eastward, and Liu Miaozhen led his troops to guard the Huaiyang Palace, Chen Zhihu did not dare to rashly lead his troops to chase and slaughter.

In the past four or five months, Huaidong has exported about 40,000 stone of rice grain to Huaidong every month, of which a quarter has been agreed to be used as military food for the Red Jacket Army, and almost every person can get more than 30 catties of rice grain per month.

Taking the standard of the Huaidong Army, this supply level is still a little low, but in the absence of strong physical exertion, the supply of more than 30 catties of rice and grain per month is enough for the Red Jacket Army to get a full rest.

No amount of verbal promises, no matter how high-profile they are, can make people completely let down their guard.

Even if he knew that Huaidong's ultimate plan was to use the Red Jacket Army to build a defense line in Huaisi to resist the southern attack of the Donghu people, the Red Jacket Army had a real opportunity to rest and recuperate in the past four or five months in the past few years, which was enough to make the Red Jacket Army have a good impression of Huaidong from top to bottom.

After the Red Jacket Army accepted Zhao'an, it would be reorganized into a Huaiyang Military Town and accept the control of the Huaidong Military Division. Jiangning, through the Huaidong Army Commander controlled by Liu Tingzhou, will supply Huaiyang with 8,000 stone grain and 6,000 taels of silver every month - in addition to this, Huaidong will supply an additional 10,000 stone grain and a certain amount of meat to Huaiyang Town to ensure that the Huaiyang soldiers return to the material supply standard of high-intensity combat training.

Huaidong will also secretly promote Huaiyang, Suining, Suyu and other counties through Li Wei and others to use the newly reclaimed and copied government-owned fields to house the families of the soldiers of Huaiyang Military Town.

Huaiyang, or Huaisi defense line, is inseparable from the words "strong wall and clear field".

The strong wall, that is, to take Huaiyang City as the core, to build a frontier city fortress defense line.

Huaidong will provide sufficient materials and necessary manpower support to ensure that Huaiyang can burn clay bricks before winter, and cover Huaiyang Tucheng with bricks and stones. It is also necessary to rush to build a slightly smaller brick city on the west bank of Bianshui between Huaiyang and Suining before winter. While stabilizing the Huaiyang defense line, it is also controlling the Bianshui to ensure that Huaidong can smoothly transport material resources through the Bianshui to the Huaiyang defense line in wartime.

On the periphery of Huaiyang, it is necessary to resolutely clear the wilderness, withdraw the population to the south of the defense line and resettle, and destroy the villages and houses, so that the Donghu cavalry can enter the periphery of Huaiyang without the possibility of supply and rest.

On the inner line of Huaiyang, it is also necessary to repair and strengthen the original Tuweizi Tun Fortress or build a stronger small fort according to local conditions, and concentrate on the resettlement of displaced people, so as to increase the resistance to the small-scale Donghu cavalry infiltrated from the defense line.

In order to ensure that many defense line construction affairs, such as taking soil to make bricks, cutting wood, building cities and walls, and importing a large number of materials, can be carried out smoothly, Huaidong will recruit strong men in Huaisi and organize a labor battalion of about 30,000 people; This can also ensure that the reorganized Huaiyang Town of the Red Jacket Army is fully trained.

In addition, Huaidong will open up the supply of iron to Huaiyang, but it will be necessary to recruit a large number of craftsmen from the Huaisi refugees and concentrate them in Shanyang County to build armor, agricultural tools and other iron tools and even various chariots to supply Huaiyang.

In terms of material supply, Huaidong reserved a supply of one million catties of raw iron and 300,000 catties of refined iron for the Huaisi defense line before the end of the year.

Obviously, Huaidong can let the generals of Huaiyang Town control the military power, but it will not let Huaiyang Town have the possibility of separating Huaisi. However, once Huaidong's conditions are agreed, when the Donghu army rolls in and Huaiyang Town cannot support it, in order to ensure that the families of the Huaisi Workers' Battalion are not infringed upon in the Huaisi area, Huaidong will also send troops into the Huaiyang defense line to fight jointly.

Obviously, the Red Jacket Army struggled to survive from the line of life and death, and at this time, the vast majority of generals no longer had the ambition to stand on their own feet and claim the hegemony of the king, and they did not give up their military power, but they were just worried that the imperial court would rebel and liquidate them in the future.

In addition, according to this plan, Huaiyang Town and Huaisi Workers' Camp will absorb 60,000 warriors, plus recruit craftsmen from the homeless people, which can almost cover more than 300,000 people. As a matter of fact, the problem of the survival of the majority of the displaced people stranded in the Huaisi area will be solved, and the remaining 100,000 displaced people will either be relocated to other places or resettled on the spot, and the pressure will be greatly reduced.

Of course, to achieve this step, the amount of rice and grain imported from Huaidong to the Huaisi area will suddenly increase from the current 40,000 stone per month to more than 60,000 stone.

If it weren't for the fact that Huaidong could transport nearly 80,000 stone rice grains from the Haidong region every month, it would not be able to support such an intense consumption.

Regarding the replenishment of Huaiyang Town's armor, Lin Jian also promised that in addition to the ordnance factory established in Shanyang County, which mainly supplies Huaiyang Town, Huaidong's ordnance factories in Guanyintan, Jiangmen, and Hecheng will supply Huaiyang Town with 200 sets of armor and 200 pieces of high-quality bows and crossbows for infantry armor every month.

Liu Miaozhen left Chongzhou on the 21st and returned to Huaiyang, Huaidong still let Sun Zhuang lead a team of cavalry to escort along the way, and after Sun Zhuang arrived in Huaiyang, he still obeyed Qin Chengzu's dispatch.

The minutes formed by the discussion between Lin Jian and Liu Miaozhen in the past three days will be carried by Sun Zhuang and handed over to Qin Chengzu. On the basis of this summary, Qin Chengzu will improve the details with Huaiyang Town, and then order all departments to implement it.

Liu Miaozhen sat in the car, wearing a bronze mask, listening to the sound of ruts, and looking at the wheat fields being harvested by farmers on the inner side of Hanhai Road through the gauze curtain, and her mood was quite complicated.

Lin Jian said that her brother only had the ambition to harm the world and had no desire to reassure the people, and she was not convinced, but the fact that she had turned to the world for several years and became weaker and weaker and weaker, and the hinterland of the Central Plains became more and more chaotic, and a large number of people died and were displaced by the war, made her irrefutable. The more difficult it was to ride a tiger in the end, she also forgot her intention to rebel in the first place.

Liu Miaozhen came with vigilance, she was not afraid of Lin Tie and detaining her, but she always suspected that Huaidong was calculating and uneasy.

Huaidong opened her mouth and promised such sufficient material support, what position could she have to question Huaidong's intentions?

For the vast majority of the soldiers who rebelled with sharpened bamboo poles, it was just to avoid starving to death, and Huaidong did promise to live and work in peace and contentment.

At this time, Liu Miaozhen could also understand why Sun Gongzi gave up the improper position of lieutenant of Huaiyang Town, and was willing to join the army as an unimportant commander in the Huaidong Army.

In order to repay the favor of the old master, Sun Gongzi can abandon his net worth and life, which is obviously not something that fame and fortune can buy. Huaidong convinced Sun Gongzi not of fame and fortune, but of a dream of living and working in peace and contentment and peace of mind that may have become clear before joining Huaidong.

Even Sun Gongzi has served Huaidong wholeheartedly, and the generals of the Red Jacket Army are only afraid of the impact they will be very afraid, right? Liu Miaozhen didn't know whether to limit the spread of this influence in the army.

She could think that this kind of influence might be deliberately done by Lin Bin, but Huaidong's upright plan made her powerless to resist; Maybe at the moment when he decided to go east, he jumped into the cage that Huaidong had already made up and couldn't struggle anymore, right?

After Siyang, Li Liang led his troops to meet him outside Siyang City, and obviously had completely relaxed his vigilance against the Huaidong Army - Liu Miaozhen didn't say anything, just wanted to return to Huaiyang as soon as possible and do the work of building the Huaiyang defense line.

Liu Miaozhen secretly returned to Huaiyang on the 23rd, and sent someone to formally inform Liu Tingzhou, who had been stranded in Huaiyang for 11 days, that the Red Jacket Army would officially accept the recruitment of an army as the Huaiyang Town Army from that day, accept the control of the Huaidong Military Division, and agree that Jiangning would send political officials to Huaiyang, Suining, and Suyu, and select officials from the localities to preside over civil affairs.

Liu Tingzhou did not know about Liu Miaozhen's secret trip to Chongzhou, and he was extremely satisfied with the results of the Zhao'an negotiations that lasted for more than two months.

Like the people in Jiangning, Liu Tingzhou did not think that it was possible for the Donghu people to break through the Hehuai defense line and enter the north bank of the Huai River. In his opinion, as long as the Huaisi region can settle down, and there is still an elite combat force like the Red Jacket Army for the use of the imperial court, the chaos in the Central Plains still has a chance to be calmly lost.

Liu Tingzhou even thought of bringing the Huaiyang Army, Chen Hansan's Xuzhou Army, Gu Siyuan's Qingzhou Army, and the Liang family's soldiers and horses in the river and the plains, plus the Changhuai Army led by Tao Chun to retreat into the Qing River, adding up to almost 180,000 troops.

But thinking about it, Liu Tingzhou knew that this was impossible, and Huaidong would definitely pull back.

Huaidong attacked eastern Zhejiang in the name of King Qin, in fact, it completely solved the crisis of Jiangning in a desperate situation, and even gave King Ning a chance to ascend the throne in Jiangning, so Jiangning finally recognized Huaidong's behavior of attacking eastern Zhejiang. And if the siege of Yanjing is resolved, the people of Yanjing will never spare Huaidong's crime of bullying the monarch if they have the opportunity.

Liu Tingzhou also knew the role that Huaidong played in recruiting the Red Jacket Army, and perhaps Huaiyang Town would be more obedient to Huaidong than Jiangning from now on. Chen Hansan occupied Xuzhou again and did not listen to the tune or listen to the announcement, and the Qingzhou army probably did not have a few soldiers who could fight a tough battle, and it seemed that 180,000 soldiers were deployed on the Hehuai line, and then they were supplemented by two Huai salt and silver, and the strength of the Hehuai line will continue to expand, but there are still many crises.

On the way to Jiangning to restore his life, Liu Tingzhou wondered whether to transfer Xiao Kuian's troops from Shuyang to strengthen the defense line west of Huaiyang? But after all, Xiao Kuian's department belongs to the Huaidong Military Division's Northern Army, and if it is transferred to the west, it will be under the jurisdiction of the Huaidong Military Division, will Jiangning agree to the Huaidong Military Division's defense area to continue to expand eastward, or will Lin Jian agree that Xiao Kuian's headquarters will completely break away from the Huaidong Military Division, but how will Xiao Kuian's supply be solved after that?

Liu Tingzhou felt that this kind of thing was entangled, which made people confused and headaches.