Valley Emperor

Li Xuan has been worrying about the northern provinces recently. Nima, he never felt that being an emperor was so painful before, but now, he feels the helplessness of many rulers.

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In order to solve the problem in the north, he began to organize immigrants, pulled out a large amount of funds for disaster relief, and helped local farmers to restore production.

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But this time, the problem comes, because the rebellion is no longer a matter of one or two days, but has been going on for several years. The Datang government has just pulled out the disaster relief fund to help the farmers resume production, and then it will come in a few days. A large army of homeless people then devoured and burned all the places they passed, and continued to advance with the people wrapped around them.

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This makes the local officials quite depressed. These refugees or rebels are not very effective in combat, but their destructive power is very amazing. When the regular army of the Tang Dynasty came over, they immediately turned around and ran away, continuing to harm others. place.

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The local garrison was running around. Although there were a large number of defeated rebels, these defeated rebels swept in again within a few days.

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At this time, the Privy Council also raised difficulties to Li Xuan, saying that the Fourth Army alone could no longer defend the area while maintaining the battle against the Ming Army, and it was necessary to increase troops!

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It can also be seen from this that the situation in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan has deteriorated!

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After several days of consideration, Li Xuan made several decisions for the above-mentioned areas that had almost fallen into an infinite loop. The first was to increase troops!

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The tens of thousands of regular troops of the Fourth Army alone are not enough, and more troops must be added. However, the additional troops are not regular troops. The regular troops cost too much and their strength is limited. The Tang Dynasty is currently recruiting regular troops for the Huguang war. But not many extra troops were added to the Fourth Army.

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This time, it is the second-line force of the reserve division that has been augmented!

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Directly dispatched two reserve divisions from North Anhui Road and Jiangbei Road to quickly enter Henan and Shandong, and at the same time dispatched a total of five reserve divisions from Jiangxi, Jiangnan Road, South Anhui Road, Zhejiang and other regions to go north. Jiangbei Road is vacant after being transferred to the reserve division, and on the other hand, it is also preparing to send more troops.

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At the same time, in Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei and other provinces, recruits were recruited on the spot to form reserve divisions, and Li Xuan approved the establishment of ten reserve divisions in one breath.

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It is initially planned to recruit three reserve divisions in Hebei, three reserve divisions in Shandong, two reserve divisions in Henan, one reserve division in Shanxi, which is not yet fully controlled, and one reserve division in Shaanxi.

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Although the pressure on military spending will increase in a short period of time, there is no way to suppress the area. When the area is peaceful in the future, it can also be abolished.

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Increasing the number of troops is only one aspect of military preparations. On the other hand, Li Xuan also approved the battle plan put forward by the Privy Council, that is, the regular army is no longer the main force of the regular army to chase down the rebels. Mainly to completely eradicate.

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Marching from multiple directions at the same time, regardless of the major traffic routes, controlling one area is to clean up another area, and this clean-up is not just to deal with the ordinary refugee army or the like, but a thorough public security clean-up. The criminals who took the opportunity to make trouble, not to mention serious crimes, were beheaded on the spot, and the lesser ones were directly exiled to Dayuan Mansion or Qiongzhou Mansion, or Yunnan Guizhou and other places.

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High pressure must be used to maintain local law and order!

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If you encounter an army of refugees, instead of directly defeating them as usual, after killing the main offender, let the refugees return to their hometowns on their own, because these refugees will have nothing to eat and will become an army of refugees in a few days.

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So after defeating the rebels, they no longer let them go. Instead, they were directly captured as prisoners of war in the same way as ordinary operations, and then they were forcibly incorporated into various reclamation regiments.

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The reclamation regiment, this kind of prisoner of war system was specially used by the Tang Dynasty to settle Ming army prisoners, but now, it is ready to settle refugees.

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The destructiveness of the refugees is too great, and if you kill them, you can't kill them. After all, they are just farmers who can't survive. They kill them all at once. To be honest, even Li Xuan can't bear it.

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And if all the refugees are incorporated into the reclamation group, the official only needs to pay their rations for the first year and let them farm the fields. By the second year, they will not only have their own rations, but also be able to contribute excess food to the official.

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These policies can be regarded as a combination of military strikes and disaster relief!

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The only troublesome thing is that the consumption of funds and food will be very large!

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Fortunately, the Tang Dynasty was still rich. In terms of food, there have been no large-scale natural disasters in Jiangnan and other southern regions in recent years. The output is quite considerable in this era, and it can barely be maintained.

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In addition, Li Xuan also intends to take compulsory measures on immigration!

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In the past, the immigration policy was still voluntary, but many people would rather starve to death, be a bandit, or be a thief.

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For areas with serious land annexation and natural disasters, a forced immigration policy was adopted, and the army directly escorted them to several southern provinces to prevent them from becoming new refugees.

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After taking this series of measures, Li Xuan felt that it should be able to alleviate the plight of the above-mentioned provinces. Otherwise, when will the turmoil end?

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When the Tang Dynasty adopted these policies in the above-mentioned areas, one after another reclamation regiments appeared, and at first they were only revolting refugee prisoners of war, but in the middle and late stages, they also recruited many ordinary young men from the turbulent areas. , and then organized to a certain place for reclamation.

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There are more and more reclamation groups, which indirectly allows the Tang Dynasty to increase more arable land and increase grain production.

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However, at this time, many of the early reclamation groups also ended their original missions one after another, some were revoked, and some simply began to exist in name only, with few remaining members, while some had already left the reclamation group. Transform into ordinary villages, and some are more special!

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The 89th Reclamation Group, located in Lingao County, Qiongzhou Prefecture, is a very special one among the many reclamations in Datang.

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The 29th Reclamation Regiment, as the name suggests, is the 29th Reclamation Regiment in the Tang Dynasty. It was established in Guangdong in the third year of Xuanping. At the beginning of its establishment, about 3,000 Ming army prisoners of war were recruited.

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Although the twenty-ninth reclamation group arrived at Qiongzhou Island and came to Lingao County to reclaim wasteland and cultivate land, the first days were naturally very difficult, because the rations provided above were insufficient, even if they did not go without food for a few days, But it is also certain that you are often hungry.

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The head of the twenty-ninth reclamation regiment, Captain Lu Ping of the Datang Army Reserve, was also a bandit in his early years. He captured Guangdong and Guangxi in the Datang Dynasty. After the army was gradually regularized, he was like many officers from bandits. Gradually withdrew from the mainstream, some changed careers to become patrol police, and some came to work in the reclamation group like him.

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Although it is said that he has retired from active service, the title of Captain of the Reserves is not bad. In the 29th Reclamation Regiment, he is the biggest officer!

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In order to solve the problem of rations, Lu Pingping also spent a lot of thought. If there is not enough rations above, then he can only stand on his own, and rely on mountains to eat mountains and water to drink water. This side is the sea, so naturally he can only go to the sea. Beg for dinner!

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At first, he organized a small fishing boat. In the beginning, he wanted to catch a little fish for 3,000 prisoners of war, but he did not expect that the catch was beyond imagination.

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This fishing net is thrown down and caught up again, and slowly it is filled with all kinds of sea fish!

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Then, he saw the hope of completely solving the rations!

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He asked for a large fishing boat from the top, and then he also organized the manpower to build a few small fishing boats, and started the fishing career of the 29th reclamation group. the same life!

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In less than two months, no one in the twenty-ninth reclamation group was hungry!

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There are more than 3,500 people, although it is not enough to say that they are full of white rice every day, but at least they are barely enough to eat.

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Why?

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Because they caught too many fish!

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At first, they happily ate fish every day, but they couldn't eat it any longer. Then they started to take the fish they caught to the county and even the prefecture for sale, and then exchanged them for ordinary food.

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After half a year, they have owned several large fishing boats, and the catch has already begun to be sold to businessmen from mainland areas, such as Lianzhou and other places.

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However, at this time, they found that the live fish could not be sold at any price, because the shelf life was too short, and it was easy to stink, so they began to pickle the fish that was caught, and then pickled it with salt before taking it out. I went to buy it, but I didn't expect that this salted fish is more expensive than live fish~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and the supply is in short supply.

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By the second year, the twenty-ninth reclamation regiment not only solved the problem of rations and other living materials, but even had spare money to give subsidies to the prisoners of war, and these prisoners of war could even send money home!

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Later, Li Xuan, the sage of all ages, issued an amnesty order. According to the special order, all the prisoners of war in the 29th Reclamation Regiment could actually be pardoned and go home, but no one was willing to be pardoned, so it was impossible. That's it.

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By September of the sixth year of Xuanping, the twenty-ninth reclamation group had already developed into a huge scale with two large fishing boats of 100 tons, more than ten large fishing boats of dozens of tons, and dozens of small fishing boats.

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The prisoners of war inside have already become fishermen. They not only eat and drink without worry, but also receive subsidies ranging from two to two every month according to different levels and skills. You can get a subsidy of about one or two silver.

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The 29th Tun Reclamation Group also owns a pickling factory, and its various salted fish are sold well in many places. Even in Sichuan and Hubei in Zhangyue's control area, you can see the "Er-Nine Brand Salted Fish" printed on it. The words canned salted fish!

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The current twenty-ninth reclamation group has long since broken away from the scope of the reclamation group, and is more like a fishing company! Ps: Book friends, I am raining when it rains. I recommend a free novel app that supports novel downloads, listening to books, zero ads, and multiple reading modes. Please pay attention to the WeChat public account: dazhuzaiyuedu (long press for three seconds to copy) Book lovers, please pay attention!