The southwest direction of Taiping County is not only Xianju County of the Qing army, but also two large army towns, Chuzhou Town and Jinhua Town, in that direction. Even though nearly half of the troops in Chuzhou Town were restrained by the Red Turban Army in Wenzhou, the main force of Jinhua Town has never moved and can dispatch thousands of soldiers to sweep them at any time.

In the north of Taiping County, Huangyan Town, the main force of the Qing army in Taizhou, had more than 5,000 soldiers. In addition to the temporary recruitment of local brave men, the Qing army in Ningbo and Shaoxing could organize several reinforcements to Taizhou, and in the northwest direction, Dinghai Town in Zhoushan could cross the sea at any time.

In the south, although the Yuhuan Camp had been fought twice by Ye Niangzi and Ge Wu, a small amount of its remaining troops were still on Yuhuan Island. Ye Niangzi promised Liu Chang that both sides of the water and land should be launched at the same time. However, Ge Wu and Ye Niangzi are still holding their troops, and Yuhuan Island is still under the control of the Qing army.

However, Liu Chang did not want to bother Ge Wu and Niang Ye. As long as Ge Wu's fleet was willing to dispatch Yuhuan Island, it would attract most of the pressure on the Qing army at sea for Liu Chang, so that Dinghai Town could only give priority to Ge Wu, the anti-Qing force at sea.

In this case, Liu Chang used the method of land grabbing and gradually expanded the control area with Taiping County as the starting point, while attempting to take administrative measures to win the hearts of the people.

In this regard, Shi Tinglan and Yang Changmei gave him a lot of help, not because they were very capable. It was because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had made too many mistakes in administration, and some of them had not been corrected yet. If it weren't for so many mistakes, why would the Taiping Army be limited to half of the Yangtze River?

Regarding the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's lesson, Liu Chang certainly had to absorb their mistakes. In particular, he gave great affirmation to Shi Tinglan's suggestion of setting up township officials and training the people.

As long as the people are organized, the Huang Tai and the two places are the indestructible rear base of the entire Hongjun. However, Shi Tinglan made a lot of suggestions and handed Liu Chang a piece of paper: "These are some key points to win the hearts of the people of Taiping County, look!"

Liu Chang picked up the paper and looked carefully. He saw that the handwriting was very beautiful, but it was written from left to right according to Liu Chang's usual reading habit. It was no longer Liu Chang's vertical line that felt very painful: "It's good, our Hongjun wrote according to the format of Miss Shi."

He looked carefully at the first line and said, "Repair the Jinqing Gate". He was a little puzzled at first, and then praised him repeatedly: "That's right. We immediately issued a notice to prepare to repair the Jinqing Gate and open up the road of speech. We asked the people of Taiping County to express their opinions."

One of the things that Taiping people care about most is the Jinqingzha incident, which is a matter of life and death that concerns the people in the entire Jinqingjiang River Basin.

The coastal areas like Taiping County are particularly sensitive to water conservancy projects. Although it took five or six years to build the Muyu Gate in the 45th year of Qianlong's reign. From then on, water was discharged and drought was saved, and half of the county could be benefited from. Jinqing Gate is also a large-scale water conservancy project related to almost the entire Taiping County. However, this Jinqing Gate is not only a water conservancy project that benefits the entire Wenhuang Plain, but also a super water disaster project that makes Taiping people tangled.

In history, Jinqing Gate was repaired many times. In the eighth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, Jinqing Dam was rebuilt. In ten years, Jinqing, Yong'an and Xingping three gates were built. Ten days of rain, heavy floods became disasters. The government did not open the gate to drain water. The people held hoes to destroy Xingping Gate and the dam. This time, Jinqing Gate was rebuilt for only one year and was destroyed.

In the 18th year of Daoguang, the Jinqing Gate was rebuilt, which took three years to complete. The gate was seven holes, but the Langao Gate, which was two or three feet high above the bottom of the gate, was narrow and the water was not smooth. Liu Xu, the magistrate at the time, was both brave and stubborn. He believed that the Jinqing Gate had been established, which was convenient for the construction of a dam in the old port to protect the storage. Since then, the water was even more difficult. When a heavy rainstorm occurred, it turned into a super flood project, causing large-scale fighting among the people inside and outside the gate.

First, on the fifth day of the seventh month of the 28th year of Daoguang, the flood was flooded, and the water level was about eight feet high. On the eighth day of the lunar month, villagers gathered to coax the county office in the rain, asking for officials to open the gate. On the 12th, more than 50,000 people in the water town took hoes to destroy the Jinqing Gate Dam. Chen Meiwu, a supervisor outside the gate, and even set fire cannons on the people inside the gate, killing many innocent people.

Then there was a flood in the summer of the first year of Xianfeng. The villagers went to destroy Jinqing Gate, and the guards led their troops to capture them. Many of the people fell into the water and died. More than 40 people were arrested and released, and they were later released.

Then in another time and space, the flood was flooded in May of the sixth year of Xianfeng. The Jinqing Gate was not opened, and tens of thousands of people gathered in the water town to dig the dam and destroy the gate. People outside the gate gathered to resist it, and guns and bombarded it. Dozens of people died and drowned.

Such a water hazard project that concerns the vital interests of the people of Taiping County will naturally attract great attention from the stakeholders. For the gains and losses of the relevant interests of this sluice gate, countless most reasonable plans will naturally appear, and countless nail households and countless hard-core supporters will emerge.

Of course, Liu Chang is now unable to completely rectify the Jinqing Gate. You should know that the rectification of the Jinqing Gate is a large-scale project with great investment, which lasted for more than a hundred years, and finally ended until the end of the 1990s.

First, in the 15th year of Guangxu, the Yujie Gate was built to help clear the metal gate and discharge holes, but this was only a symptom treatment. It was proposed to repair the new Jinqing Gate since the fourth year of Tongzhi, but it was not implemented until 1932 and was completed in 1934, with a cost of 380,000 silver dollars.

However, this extremely expensive Jinqingxin Gate still has the problem of poor drainage. When it rained heavily, the Wenhuang Plain was seriously flooded. Although the port road was remediated many times, the Jinqing Gate could only be moved outward. The project was finally implemented in the 1990s and was called the New Jinqing Gate. It took seven years to be officially completed, with an investment of over 100 million yuan at that time.

However, it is still possible to temporarily build a symptom treatment project like Yujie Gate. What Liu Chang needs is not to rebuild Jinqing Gate, but to focus the attention of the people in the county on rebuilding Jinqing Gate, so that they can have a good time to make trouble with the Hongjun.

As long as they do not fight against the Hong Army, let alone rebuilding the Jinqing Gate, Liu Chang will make temporary promises, while Shi Tinglan's second suggestion is also very practical: "Ban Fujian salt transits the border and transports north!"

Wenling is a salt-producing area with many stove households, but since modern times, it has been severely impacted by Fujian's salt production. Fujian salt that crossed the border is of good quality and low price. It also obtains a quasi-legal gray identity from the official through salt merchants, which strictly impacts the livelihood of Wenling's stove households. From the later years of Daoguang to the Tongzhi period, salt residents often worry about unemployment and have repeatedly incurred trouble.

Now Wenzhou Prefecture is in the hands of the Red Turban Army. Although the source of Taizhou's Fujian salt has not been cut off, the profits of those who dare to take the risk of moving to Taizhou in the north have been greatly reduced. Now the proposal to ban Fujian salt from the north is not only an empty promise, but also a virtue policy.

Liu Chang looked at the next few suggestions made by Shi Tinglan, and they were very feasible: "I thanked Miss Shi!"

Yang Changmei covered her mouth and smiled: "Our sister Shi Tinglan was a famous female Zhuge when she was in Tianjin!"

Shi Tinglan said calmly: "I just followed my brother to see some world."

Liu Chang thought this was not something that could be described by the word "wisdom". He had to understand the situation in Taizhou very well before he could put forward such suggestions: "I will bring back the good strategies of the two princes to consider, and then notify the Hongjun soldiers to implement them. The two sisters were short of people to take care of them. I asked Panshizhai to send the remaining sisters to take care of the two sisters, and then recruit a few smart big-footed girls from Taizhou to give them to the two Guozong."

This is a reward for your favor. Now that they have returned all the female guards around Yang Changmei and Shi Tinglan, and have a few of their own people around them. I believe they can't cause any storm.

Shi Tinglan took advantage of the situation and proposed: "Among those brothers who came with me, two or three of them had been the townsmen of the Kingdom of Heaven, and they might be able to help the inspection."

"Groupe Official?" Liu Chang lacked administrative talents. The Hong Army was not like the Red Turban Army. There were a large number of middle and lower-level local officials involved. In addition to some of the remaining Taiping County officials, there were only a handful of people under his command: "Okay, let them come together to help first."

But in his heart, he could only isolate these town officials from Yang Changmei and Shi Tinglan, Yang Changmei and Shi Tinglan, and no one could make any waves.

When Shi Tinglan saw Liu Chang agreeing to her request, she immediately said goodbye with Yang Changmei: "Although those brothers are young, they are very reliable in doing things in the local area!"

But after Shi Tinglan left, Liu Chang reviewed Shi Tinglan's manuscript again and sighed: "Now there is a useful secret nine astronomy network joke around him. He sighed again, but shouted outside: "Is Company Commander Shi Tui Ji Shi coming?"

Shi Tuiji, the former militia leader who revolted on the Hai'an Fire Front in Ruian, is now a relatively core member of the Hongjun system. Even his outfit is purely in the Hongjun, with a red turban and a white armed belt. There is no difference between him and the old Hongjun like Huo Qiu and Sun Huzi.

As soon as Shi Tuiji came in, he knelt down and gave a big gift to Liu Chang: "I have seen the inspection point under the mark!"

"Don't be so polite!" Liu Chang asked him to sit down: "I have something to discuss with you, but I don't know if you are willing to agree."

Shi Tuiji knew his weight in the Hongjun: "Please check and indicate the price, and the price will be as follows."

Liu Chang told him not to be so despicable: "You Anhai Company played well in Taiping this time. Among all the companies, your company suffered the most casualties, but there were nearly 30 casualties, and they still insisted on not retreating on the front line. I am very pleased that you Anhai Company has played."

Shi Tuiji was delighted, but sat opposite the office desk and said in a whisper: "Our Anhai Company is just a character who waving flags and shouts. The ones who really sang the big show are the Dragon Gun Company and Nanxi Lian and the others."

But Liu Chang didn't think so. He handed a revolver casually: "If you shoot it out, you will shoot it out. Don't be humble, take it!"

The revolver was a special reward for those company commanders with special merits. Shi Tuiji happily took it over, but before he could stuff the revolver into the armed belt, he heard Liu Chang say, "Are you interested in being a battalion commander?"
Chapter completed!