Outside the Dayuncang, a major transportation center along the river in Xinzhou (now Shangrao, Jiangxi), was in the battlefield that had just ended, there were still corpses everywhere and soldiers scattered. Groups of official troops carrying swords and guns swayed by, supervising many civilians to clean up the mess all over the ground.

Zhang Lin, the Huainan vanguard commander and the commander of the camp, looked at the black prisoners kneeling on the ground with ease. Although the identified leaders and leaders were dragged aside from time to time, they were beheaded and then thrown away the bodies, the remaining thieves were even more irresistible and shrank into a ball on the ground.

He is a tall man with bronze skin, national face and thick eyebrows. In his ordinary appearance, he has a sense of standing like a mountain and steepness; and when he set foot on the battlefield, he has another style and demeanor; in his strong body, he is always in the terrifying force of the mountain collapse.

Therefore, even if he had a little color, not to mention the subordinate generals, even his direct subordinates and confidants would not dare to face or speak loudly with him.

After a long game and struggle in the court, after the compromise, the Tang Dynasty, which was deeply in the twilight, was also like a patient with a severe illness and slow response. Finally, the thieves responded to the situation where they had already deteriorated from Hunan to Jiangxi, from Jiangxi to Jiangdong, and Zhejiang. There were groups of thieves in various places, and the traitors claimed to be thieves, and the officials, military and civilians were busy running around, and they made sufficient responses and made full efforts to deploy.

Therefore, Liu Jiang, the newly appointed Zhejiang East Observer, was said to have taken office by sea and started to prepare for war. Although it still could not stop the spread of the raging corruption in the army of thieves; it at least ensured that the remaining cities in eastern Zhejiang would no longer continue to fall.

On the other hand, in addition to urging the Shannan Jiedushi Liu Jurong to recruit two armies in Jiangxi to step up the suppression and recovery of lost land; the court had already increased the money and grain and had allocated allocated "outboundary grain" and "packing money" from the center, and recruited Zhaoyi (Zelu) from the north, and influenced (Xu Si), Yicheng (Zhenhua) and other troops to assist the Huainan side in suppressing the thieves;

However, the order and meaning from Gao Linggong was that how could the primary achievement of destroying the thieves and quelling the chaos be easily allowed to outsiders? It would be better to let the Huainan army accept it alone; after all, the court officials were basically the same in their position on fighting the thieves and scheming the chaos, but who will dominate the process and the overall situation have their own disputes and a backup plan; and Huainan, which was the first to be the brunt, undoubtedly took the lead.

The least for the sake of ensuring the corresponding rehabilitation difficulties is mostly in the hands of the righteous brothers who have a connection with Ling Gong, Liu Jurong, Cao Quanzhi, Zhou Bao and others. However, it must not be cheap. They have always been close to Ling Gong's important imperial aid, the political enemies of Lu Xianggong, such as the Beidi military town on the other side of former prime ministers Wang Duo and Cui Anqian, became the authority and evidence for the other party to take the opportunity to return to the court.

On the other hand, the garrison soldiers under Huainan, which have many names and are intricately related to local relations, guard and capture soldiers, and train their children, and bring them out with legitimate reasons to consume more of them in the fight against the thieves;

Although Ling Gong's command now has a local training and a 70,000 guest army, it is just a group of soldiers who have been in charge of the army, and has been brought to the left and right Moyedu for many years and recruited Danyang's children on the spot. Most of the remaining ones are to recruit the troops of the Forbidden Grass troop troops who have been rebelled. After the old and weak are eliminated, they are still strong and brave.

However, while using wealth and power to gather together and control it, we hope to use the power of these thieves to deal with, run and exclude the local forces in Huainan Town; we must also be vigilant and prevent them from taking the opportunity to deal with the difficult situation; and we will give secret suppression and open support in everything, so that they will have mutual restraints with the troops in the Tusheng Town for a long time, so that the public security will remain firmly in the Southeast General Push (Yangzhou) and hold the situation in general.

Therefore, this time, the two hidden dangers in his heart can be effectively weakened and consumed by the thief, and gained enough credit and qualifications. That is the best of both worlds and even a great thing. For this reason, among the Huainan army he brought this time, except for the tens of thousands of camp soldiers from the balancing and the two guest cavalry from Pinglu, the others are guards, regiment training, and garrison soldiers from all over the country, which can be lost and consumed.

On the other hand, in the process of chasing the thief, he waited for an opportunity to slap the men under the command of the Gong and the Mu family to slap the absent positions of those who fell into the Fuzhou County; in order to form a big game of chess that would protect the entire Southeast under the leadership of the Prince.

Therefore, it is important to finally master the specific standards. It is neither the thief will be defeated in one go, but there is no buffer and room for the ease of laying out the government and the local army that is eager to make contributions. It is also necessary to maintain sufficient strength and advantage so that other forces that may be involved are justified and will be excluded, and become an important basis and trust for the government to negotiate more pros and cons with the court.

Therefore, he must severely attack the thief to maintain sufficient pressure and advantage to achieve achievements and reputation; he must also relax the other party at the right time for a while to avoid the thief from scattering away from this and let himself fall into a dilemma without thieves; that is really not worth the loss.

Zhang Lin was not from a famous family, but was just an orphan who was born in a military camp. However, he was valued by Ling Gong, who had early on in his career, and has since embarked on a magnificent life. It can be said that since Ling Gong, who was still young and strong, was caught stealing food and was caught by his side since then. Ling Gong, for him, was recreating his parents and the most trustworthy person in the world.

Therefore, even though he has now served as the General of the Guardian, the Minister of the Ministry of War, the vanguard of Huainan (Zheng) and the Military Envoy of the Southeast Camp, and the Military Envoy of the 300 households of Haimenzi; but for him, the title of the court's title was even worse than that of Ling Gong's temporary likes and dislikes. In a sense, this is also his greatest persistence and weakness.

It is said that Ling Gong had served in his life, and he had hundreds of generals under his command, but the ones who were most trustworthy were still following the left and right. Zhang Zhen and Liang Zan, who were called "two horses of high schools" in the left and right arms, were called "two horses of high schools", so he also felt that he had a long way to go and did not dare to let him down.

Therefore, in this rapid progress, even if there were any private disagreement and strange voices, they were quickly suppressed and became a one-man show that Zhang Lin had the right to say and prohibited.

"Reported that there were thieves Chang Hong's troops leading troops to attack..."

At this time, a small school carrying a flag rushed to the road.

"We are in the battle with the troops of Yang Xingmin, the governor of Luzhou who came out..."

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It was two days later when Zhou Huaian led reinforcements and set out again from Changsha City in Tanzhou. In such a short time, he also quickly cut off the mess and dealt with many aftermath and leftovers, and at the same time completed the corresponding supply and preparation work;

Finally, the corresponding garrison battalion was arranged at a ratio of 1:3:5. After the temporary battalion and newly recruited garrison forces were arranged; the power under his command also grew to more than 28,000 again; mainly because of the incorporation and reorganization of the remaining rebel armed forces in Tanzhou City.

You should know that the three military orders in Tanzhou City had a total of more than 17,000 posts; plus the five other troops who came to eat, recruit soldiers and repaired; from the books, there were at least 30,000 people; but because of this sudden civil strife and the heavy losses caused by the sudden attack of the government army; in the end, there were only four or five thousand people left, and after removing the injuries of the old and weak, there were only four or five thousand people still considered strong and powerful;

Moreover, Zhou Huaian cannot allow them to stay in their original garrison, so they need to bite the bullet and take them all on the way. Otherwise, without sufficient external force to suppress and supervise, the rifts and grudges caused by this unrest among them may become a new source of revenge and continue to cycle in the local area due to external influence and incitement.

Zhou Huaian's efforts were in vain to lay a relatively stable rear and supply line.

At least in Jiangling, there is also their common enemy - the official army, to divert the internal contradictions and overall hatred. In this way, after a few battles, it can effectively dilute the colors and traditions left behind in the old-fashioned rebel system, which had many disadvantages. It is also a cliché for internal problems to solve external problems.

However, this requires the corresponding battlefield rhythm and the ability to control the marching system. However, before departure, Zhou Huaian just received a good news from Lingwai.

However, Liu Xun, the former Guangzhou Sima, who took people to Yazhou, Hainan to attract local Liliao farms and conduct agricultural development and production practices, has successfully promoted the cultivation of cotton in the local area. As an old-school bureaucrat, he still has a stubborn spirit of seeking results in the field he focuses on.

Of course, the cotton varieties that can be obtained in Lingnan or Guangzhou are mainly grass cotton from overseas Kunlun Kingdom/Africa, short lint cotton from India/India, and kapok, the local native varieties of Hainan Island. As for the land cotton that occupies the world's main cotton varieties in later generations, it depends on transmission from the Western Regions; and the other best-quality long lint cotton native to the Americas, it will be beyond the reach.

As for the corresponding cotton textile industry, the manpower is ready-made. On the one hand, whether it is the refugees who escaped from Fujian or among the people of the Lingxi Guiguan generation, there are many folk experts who are good at textile white stacking (cotton cloth); on the other hand, in the area where Liliao, Hainan, they also produce another type of cotton fabric called Jibeibu;

You should know that later Huang Daopo learned the cotton making process here and promoted the rigs (cotton gins), cotton bows, spinning wheels, looms and other equipment in Songjiang and other places in the Jiangnan region.

So, coupled with the natural power bonus provided by the construction of a water conservancy workshop, as long as there is enough raw material sources, it is quite easy to explode production capacity.

It should be noted that cotton planting and its derivative products are good things. They can not only provide a large number of high-quality textiles to meet people's livelihood needs, but also serve as a key product for domestic and foreign trade and a growth point for new economic crops. They are also very useful in industrial raw materials. For example, after different degrees of nitration treatment, military products such as digesting explosives from the nitroscopic cotton launching duct can be obtained.

Therefore, another cornerstone of the early firearm industry was solved, which is undoubtedly a gratifying and exciting thing. Unfortunately, Zhou Huaian has long been no longer the object to talk to, and can only hold it in his heart.

But before leaving Changsha, he took time to a sandbank covered with orange trees in the Xiang River, leaving a monument and a poem, which was regarded as a souvenir and inscription for visiting this place.
Chapter completed!