"General Dong ordered the entire army to mobilize, and most of the soldiers of the Fifth Division have returned to build!" Sun Chengren sat on the cashier of the newly opened "Sun Ji Nan Goods Store" in Penglai County (i.e. Dengzhou City), listening to the news reported by one of his descendants. ︾ It was early in the morning, and there were only a few people on the street, so both of them were a little bored and could tell some gossip.

The "Fifth Division" they mentioned in the two of them refers to the 4,000 soldiers in Dong Xueli's headquarters. The number was naturally given by Shao Shude. In the nearly one year after the retreat from Jinan, Shao Shude spent a lot of effort to rectify these servants: the older, young, with the habit of soldiers, weak combat power and other unqualified soldiers were eliminated one by one. Some of the eliminated soldiers were settled in Dengzhou. As the basic control of the East Coast people, the land they allocated was the land of the original gentry, which made a mortal hatred with the gentry, and from then on they could only follow the East Coast people to the black. Of course, some of the eliminated soldiers were diverted to Sakhalin Island and the East Coast people, accounting for about one third.

After reorganizing and decomposing these troops, Shao Shude gave them a number and garrison, such as: 4,000 soldiers of the First Division, Zhai Congyan as the division commander, and the garrison was Jeju Prefecture, Jeju Prefecture, 4,000 soldiers of the Second Division, Qin Shangxing, and the garrison was Jimo County, Laizhou Prefecture; 2,000 soldiers of the Third Division, Sun Shouzheng, and the garrison was Yin County, Ningbo Prefecture; 3,500 soldiers of the Fourth Division, and Chen Zhilong, the garrison was Ninghai Prefecture, Dengzhou Prefecture, 4,000 soldiers of the Fifth Division,

The chief was Dong Xueli, and the garrison was Penglai County, Dengzhou Prefecture; the 6th Division was 3,000 soldiers, and the division commander Xie Qian. The garrison was Weihaiwei of Dengzhou Prefecture; the 7th Division was 3,000 soldiers, and the division commander Ding Mingwu. The garrison was Ye County of Laizhou Prefecture; the garrison was 3,000 soldiers, and the division commander Du Chong was Zhaoyuan County of Dengzhou Prefecture; the 9th Division was 4,000 soldiers, and the division commander Niu Chenghu was garrison Huang County of Dengzhou Prefecture; the 10th Division was 3,000 soldiers, and the division commander Ding Weiyue was garrison Dinghai County of Ningbo Prefecture.

Ten divisions had a total of 33,500 people. It was much smaller than the huge scale of more than 55,000 people at the peak. However, after successfully "slimming down", the average combat effectiveness of each unit has improved, and limited resources can be devoted to the useful soldiers. As for what is not useful, it is naturally no longer possible to fill in the team and can only go home to farm.

After this rectification, the combat effectiveness of each unit has been improved. If it is pulled out alone, it can fight with the Qing army green camps in the north. A few troops who are good at fighting will even surpass the ordinary green camps. However, Shao Shude gave them the number "Second" (the internal system is still in the Ming Dynasty military system, that is, "Battle" as a unit), but they are not allowed to increase or decrease the number of troops at will in the short term. Unless Shao Shude himself approved, it is not feasible to disarmament or recruit troops in private. Violators will be severely punished by Shao Shude - his prestige is endorsed by more than 20,000 officers and soldiers directly led by the East Coast.

In addition, Shao Shude also stipulated that the government of the East Coast Blackwater Development Team will bear the military rations of each department next year, and then each department can raise food and money at its own resident locations. Of course, the premise is that it cannot cause grudges from heaven, otherwise the East Coast will interfere. The reason for doing this is that the burden of tens of thousands of servants is too heavy, and the territory that can be firmly controlled in the East Coast is only one Jiaozhou Fort in Laizhou Prefecture, besides the former Fushan County, Wendeng County, Dasongwei, and Chengshan Guard, there is only one Jiaozhou Fort in Laizhou Prefecture.

Among them, Jiaozhou Fort is a military fort. The people of the East Coast have cleared potential local opposition forces and seriously established governance institutions. The two counties have only Fushan and Wendeng. After years of rest and recuperation, the order of agricultural production has been greatly restored, local bandits have also been effectively eliminated, the population has increased to a certain extent, and the market has gradually flourished. In particular, Fushan County, which is closest to Yantai, has currently exceeded 60,000 people - this has exceeded the number of Chongzhen's fifteen years. The county has widely promoted the three-crop rotation system - for this reason, the people of the East Coast have almost brought over all the cattle and sheep left by the Koreans on Jeju Island. At present, some stallions have been left on the island, and the grain output has steadily increased in the past two years, and the soil texture has also been improved to a certain extent.

The people of the East Coast implemented the policies that the county had been vigorously and vigorously, which made the county look completely new. The great governance that the emperors had not achieved in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was actually achieved under the high pressure rule of the East Coast people. At present, the county is hiding at night, and everyone can survive. After seeing this change, people with insight also put away their different thoughts, and the people gradually obeyed.

According to the data just counted in July, Fushan County had a bumper harvest of summer grain. The county harvested a total of 11,000 tons of wheat and nearly 100,000 tons of alfalfa. Such grain output can basically ensure that all the population in the county need to eat in one year and still have a surplus. Alfalfa production is not only more than enough to feed livestock (from Jeju Island, Northwest Reclamation Bank loans to the households), but the excess can also support the consumption of military mules and horses. Moreover, this is only summer grain. After collecting this crop, everyone can also grow another season of miscellaneous grains. The collected grain is purely profitable. Even if there is still a surplus after paying the tax, it can be sold to improve their lives. Unfortunately, the yellow-clad military general Shao does not allow the private family to hold more than 30 acres of land, otherwise everyone can use this money to buy land. Now they can only save it for emergencies.

The development of Fushan County (or "recovery") was so rapid that the former Denglai Capital, which was not far away, and the famous Penglai County, dwarfed. Penglai County was repeatedly fired in the late Ming Dynasty. After the Qing army entered the pass, it changed hands several times between the Ming and Qing dynasties, and its vitality was greatly damaged. In other words, during these three or four years, as the Qing army was expelled from Denglai, Penglai County had only had a few years of peace. That period was a very beautiful time in the memory of the peasants. The landlords and gentry died and ran away, and no one came to collect the land rent - except for the army on the east coast coming from time to time to collect some military rations.

However, after the county was "rewarded" by General Dong Xueli, who was surrendered to the west by General Dong (the Ming people generally understood the division commander as the general officer of a town), the county's good days came to an end. First, the civilians were repeatedly levied and renovated the city walls and built roads, and then General Dong also began to ask them about taxes. Although the taxes were not as high as the taxes in the Ming Dynasty, everyone was not rich, so the development of Dengzhou gradually slowed down. Even some poor people without land ran to Fushan County and Wendeng County, hoping to get a good place to divide the land, which made Dengzhou's population increasingly sparse. At present, the population of the county has fallen below 100,000. Although people's livelihood has slowly recovered from its decline, its speed is far less than that of Fushan, Wendeng and other places.

However, Dengzhou is Dengzhou after all, and its geographical location is still extremely important. Especially after Shao Shude sent people to dredge the "small sea" (ship anchorage, protected by city walls), the water city developed with its unique conditions and a large population in Dengzhou. Fur goods, mountain goods, sea goods, wood, livestock, pearls, medicinal materials, building materials and other commodities from HeiShui were transported to Dengzhou by sea. The grain, handmade products, gold and even labor in Dengzhou flowed into HeiShui through this route, and the trade between the two places started so hard.

Now the Sun family went to Dengzhou to open a branch, which was due to this intention. Dengzhou City was a big city. Although wars were repeatedly fired in the late Ming Dynasty, most of the city buildings were preserved. Therefore, in terms of pattern, it was far superior to the various prefectures and counties in Denglai Prefectures. In other words, no matter how declining the people's livelihood in the countryside of Dengzhou is, at least the population in Dengzhou is still commercial.

Especially after the arrival of 4,000 officers and soldiers of Dong Xueli's Fifth Division, the city's business developed rapidly. You should know that the thousands of officers and soldiers of the Fifth Division were in Qingzhou, Jinan, Dongchang and Yanzhou for one or two years. There were many cities that were broken, and the officers and soldiers had a lot of bags, so the demand for various commodities was quite considerable. The second store of "Sun Ji Nan Goods Store" was opened here, which was considered to be a right way. It would be able to develop in time - the premise is that Dengzhou is not threatened by war.

Of course, Dengzhou will not be threatened by war for the time being! Sun Chengren is extremely confident about this. Therefore, he quickly said to his descendants: "What gossip should I spread when I go out for a break? I can do my own job. Now, you should consider that the grain prices on the market rise three times a day, so you should make some preparations early. So, tomorrow you will bring money to the city's COFCO shop - yes, it's the newly opened store of Lord Dong's brother-in-law - to buy some rice and flour. After the Fifth Division goes to war, find out more information, make more preparations, and operate as usual. Don't panic, the sky will not fall!"

In fact, Sun Chengren was right. This time, the entire army mobilized not only the Fifth Division, but also the Niu Chenghu's troops stationed in Huang County. The 8,000 people of these two divisions were summoned to guard the border of Denglai, which was just a normal rotation battle. They will enter the Jiaozhou Fort to replace the first and second divisions who have been fighting abroad for a long time, and maintain their combat effectiveness.

Since the construction of Jiaozhou Fort on the east bank and the reconstruction of the Ye County wall, the Qing army extinguished the idea of ​​advancing east. While building a fortress in Qingzhou Prefecture and organizing a large group training, they also sent envoys to contact the east bank for the second time. It seemed that they were interested in peace, but was rejected by Shao Shude again.

Faced with such a situation, the Qing court was quite helpless, so it could only place the troops withdrawn from the Shanxi battlefield to various key nodes, and at the same time relocated the people of many coastal prefectures and counties to the mainland, which naturally caused local turmoil again. However, the Qing court was very determined and suppressed any voices opposing the relocation of the territory as soon as possible, so this matter was also carried out stumblingly. However, this was not very effective for the people of the East Coast, because they were not as combat-free as the Zheng army back then, and they also had strong ability to attack - of course this is a later story.
Chapter completed!