Hundreds of miles west of Xinzhou, Zhou Huaian, who had accidentally missed an important historical event and node, was still busy with many matters in the aftermath of the Battle of Jiangling.

Of course, it is a pity that there is no need or room for good article copying formulas to show off when Jiangling was beaten.

Afterwards, it was found that there are only more than 86,300 people left in Jiangling City today, most of which are the weak, women and children. You should know that Jiangling, at its peak in history, was a Wangyao Dayi, which had a household registration of tens of thousands. It once served as the capital of Chu, Southern Qi, and Nanliang.

When the first year of Baoying in Emperor Suzong (762), "the month of the Mao period (February) was established, the world was pardoned; Jingzhao was also used as the Shangdu, Henan was the Eastern Capital, Fengxiang was the Western Capital, Jiangling was the Southern Capital, and Taiyuan was the Northern Capital." Since then, Chengdu Jinguan City has been replaced and ranked one of the five capitals in the world, and the eight counties under its jurisdiction are also major counties known as the capital.

The local area is one of the world's famous weaving production areas. It is famous for its abundant production of square silk silk, cloth and other silk fabrics. Jingsai is as famous as Shu brocade, Yangluo and Su Ling. Li Bai's "Jingzhou Song" contains the poem "Jingzhou wheat is ripe and cocoons become moths, and the silk is reminiscent of you." In addition, there are tangerines, oranges, oranges, tangerines, white fish, sugar crabs, gardenia, fritillaria, raspberry, black plum, stone dragons and other tributes.

On the other hand, this place is also a world-renowned fireworks place that is as famous as Yangzhou and Chengdu. The boat crafts in Jiangling are known as Yangzhou pony, Chengdu Huansha Niang, and Jingzhao Girls. Many works of the past have been left behind, such as Li Du Wang Liu, but now all of this has been beaten by the wind and rain.

However, Zhou Huaian was not completely rewarding. As the other side of the prevalence of Xingyuan culture, this place is also a place where Jianghan culture and education gather and flourish in Tanzhou and Yuezhou. The number of folk schools and literacy rates are much higher than other places;

The eight counties of Jingzhou are also quite complete in all walks of life. Although they still have a considerable foundation after searching for the previous few times. Now a large number of craftsmen, apprentices, etc. are in a general vision because of the destruction of the war. Therefore, the price of soliciting and recruiting them at the bottom is also outrageous.

In addition, although the large number of orphans and widows born in Jiangling City due to war are undoubtedly a waste of money and burden for rulers in the usual sense; but compared with the deep-seated human resource management methods in later generations, Zhou Huaian, who claims to be able to make oil from stones, is a potential resource expectation.

Therefore, while separating troops to guide and recovering counties in Jingzhou, while helping the suffering and attracting refugees, and promoting the Taiping Army's propositions and slogans, he also recruited and hosted these lonely and widowed people who had no food and clothing inside and outside Jiangling City, and then loaded ships and transferred them to Guangzhou in batches.

At least most women in this era do not have the odor of later generations that are actually social parasites, and can participate in collective production labor like men; and Jiangling is a city dominated by the textile industry, and almost every household has relevant experience and skills;

It can fully enrich the production positions of many logistics departments such as weaving, dyeing, paper, clothes, quilts, shoes and hats. In the future, it can even be regularly selected to veterans who have reached their service period, and form a new family to settle down.

As for orphans, it is even simpler. As long as you concentrate on raising (brainwashing) for a few years, you can use it as half a labor force to the grassroots or potential reserves; it is also the most stable basic foundation for the Taiping Army in the future.

However, such actions, which are "unintentionally planting willows and willows to form shade", further proved and enhanced the various persuasiveness of the Taiping Army in the local area to relieve hunger and propaganda. Then, the routine survey and liquidation of local wealthy households also received a lot of convenience and cooperation.

In addition, the Taiping Army attacked all the way, in addition to the various goods that could be sent to Guangzhou to cash, it also seized a lot of food and supplies. Even if it did nothing, it would not require the Canton to continue to transport it, which was enough to support the current half-year use.

Therefore, in Zhou Huaian's plan, the preliminary rectification and cleanup of local forces in Jingzhou will be completed, which is to send people to further enclose land and supervise the local production recovery needs.

With the spoils and other confiscations transported back in advance, various farm tools, seeds, compressed rations and technicians needed for military farming, as well as the livestock collected along the way, were continuously transported to the return ships. They were successively put into agricultural reclamation production in Tanzhou, Yuezhou and other places along the way.

Although I have missed the normal farming season now, under the guidance of the farmer in Ling's area, I have a combination of fast-growing and fast-growing melons and 100-day rice, and there are still some harvests that can be used as a supplement to the grain;

On the other hand, it was also used to force the young and strong laborers from the Xiang River to local cities along the Yangtze River to forcefully organize and utilize them so that they have no chance to live in the place and become a social problem and a public security risk.

The main force of the Taiping Army stationed in Jiangling City was not idle either. The first one was rebuilt and expanded was the Jiangling Navy under the name of the Taiping Army, which was temporarily organized into five battalions and about 4,000 military orders; most of the officers and non-commissioned officers who were backbone and had a certain degree of water were from the Taiping Army; and the principle was to be the owners and fishermen near Jiangling.

Although there are only more than one hundred large and small ships, and the requisitioned merchant ships and civilian ships, the main attack methods are a small number of crossbows and small stone cannons, as well as bows and arrows fired by soldiers on board; but it is more than enough to deter and patrol this waterway;

And unlike most troops, they can patrol and train troops on the water from the beginning of their army, and cooperate with the garrisons formed by the places along the way to clear out those river thieves, water bandits, or part-time businessmen and private dealers who have been suffering for many years and have been roaming the water.

It is expected that two of the camps will be stationed in Jiangling with Wang Chongba as a standby, one camps will be stationed in Yuezhou and patrolled Dongting Lake, the other camps will be stationed in Tanzhou, and the remaining one camps will be stationed in Guizhou. This will connect the main nodes and hubs from Jianghan to Lingnan.

Then there were the eleven old battalions of the Taiping Army's main formation, sixteen temporary battalions, and twenty new battalions/supplement battalions/garrison battalions. Except for some of the more damaged units, they continued to stay in Jiangling City for repair and train new soldiers, the others were all assigned to perform various tasks as much as possible.

The newly compiled battalion sequence with low training and organization is mainly used to cooperate with nearby investigation, census, and work "three detachments" to deter and suppress local areas by force, to clear out old upper remnants, protect the process of enclosure and farming, as well as restore agricultural production, and to rebuild local order under the leadership of the rebel army.

The temporary battalion with a large number of elements of the old rebel army was paired with the main battalion, divided into three directions, east and south, and sweep the periphery and surrounding areas of Jingzhou. There are all kinds of local forces in the village. It is not only a process of medium and low-intensity training and internal running-in, but also a means to declare the Taiping Army's special authority and dominance in Hunan.

Although the current volume of the Taiping Army after many expansions has been controlled by the main cities and land nearby from the Hunan River to the Yangtze River and its surrounding areas, it still needs corresponding time and cycles to further digest and deepen its influence in the local area. However, strong enough force is needed to ensure long-term stability in these places.

After all, in Hunan Observation, there are also many inland prefectures and counties controlled by various local forces and local groups; it was just that the Taiping Army had no time to take care of them. Therefore, the three directions of attacking were the only one of the three routes, which went south to Daozhou (now Dao County, Hunan) was the focus;

Because as long as the nodes located in Hengzhou, Yongzhou, Chenzhou, and Guizhou within the Lingshan area are opened, it is equivalent to most of the entire Hunan area and the western Lingshan area, connected through the water system, and has the ability to quickly mobilize and transport response and suppress.

As for the westward march, with the cooperation of the newly established two battalions of Jiangling Navy, swept along the south bank of Dongting Lake to Longyang County in Langzhou on the west bank as the stop line; in this direction, it was the first to be from Lei Man, the former general of Jingnan who had separatist Langzhou, Xiang Zhu, the barbarian leader who occupied Lizhou, and Zhou Yue, the rebels from Shaozhou, and several local forces;

At least until the threat of the government troops in the north was completely resolved, or the resources and manpower in the existing controlled areas were digested, Zhou Huaian did not intend to conflict and entangle with these local forces that took advantage of the situation.

The eastward march completely abandoned Fuzhou, which was already broken in Jiangbei, and took a boat to turn to Yuezhou and advanced east along the river to Puqi in Ezhou. This direction is theoretically a territory controlled by the rebel army, but the complex situation of various forces intersecting is unclear, and Zhou Huaian is unwilling to intervene too deeply in the short term.

So for these complicated reasons, he had to continue to stay in Jiangling for a while, and could only provide limited remote control and command of the situation and affairs in the ridge through water and land that had been delayed for several days.

However, with the wall signal towers being built along the Xiangshui River and other branches near the coast, these delays are probably further shortened.

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Shortly after the retreating Shannan Jiedushi Liu Jurong and his party returned to Xiangyang City, where they were stationed in the north, Song Hao, the governor of Jingnan, who had just appointed the court, also led a cadre to slowly enter Xiangyang City, Xiangzhou under the escort of Duan Yanmo, the general of Taining Army.

The new Jingnan Jiedushi was an old man recommended by Yang Fuguang, the former general of the army and the commander of the Jingnan Town. When Yang Fuguang's adoptive father Yang Xuanzheng was once the supervisor of the Zhongwu Army, he was promoted to serve as the former subordinate of the military guard of the Military Supervisory Academy when Yang Xuanzheng, his adoptive father, was promoted to serve as the former subordinate of the military supervisor.

However, because the jurisdiction of the Jingnan Jiedushi almost fell, Jiangling could not be recaptured; so in the short term, he had to temporarily move to Xiangyang and live in the same city as Liu Jurong, who was defeated.

However, the arrival of Duan Yanmo, the general of the Taining Army, invisibly angered another commander who was using troops in Jiangbei. Cao Quanshi, the governor of the Tianping Army, was the commander of the Jiangxi recruitment and governor of the Tianping Army. He had originally led his army to Xiangyang to meet and assist in defense. After hearing the news, he turned to Zaoyang County, which had arrived in the middle of the journey, and flew back to Anzhou in Huainan.

The news that Liu Jurong was defeated by Jiangling could only retreat to Xiangyang, Hunan, and Jingnan had to fall into the thief again. He also passed through Jinzhou and Shangzhou north of Xiangzhou, crossed Wuguan and Lantianyu to reach Chang'an City within the pass.

And the prime minister Lu Xie, who was proud of the spring breeze and arbitrarily in the political affairs hall, also broke his ivory board in court.
Chapter completed!