In April of the third year of Chongzhen.
It had been four months since Houjin entered the pass to plunder, and everything was as expected by Military Advisor Xun, and even more smoothly.
The Western Route Army went to Baoan Prefecture and Yanqing Prefecture. The city gates were wide open, and there were only some old and weak people in the city. I heard from the soldiers over there that there was no one inhabited for more than ten miles.
The two states are only more than two hundred miles away from the capital. It is really amazing that such a thing happened.
Xuanhua Mansion took some effort, but in the end it was captured quickly.
This thing is even more surprising.
You must know that Xuanfu is one of the important towns on the nine sides, and it was captured by 10,000 people sent by Han Xi. How can it not be shocking?
What surprised Han Xi most was the fact that Guan Zongbing surrounded the three guards of Tianjin and 20,000 people defeated the Ming Dynasty's 200,000 King Qin's army.
This made Han Xi realize that his imperial soldiers seemed a bit weak in this era of inferiority.
After the 200,000-strong Ming Dynasty King Qin's army was defeated, they retreated to Baoding and Hejian. Then Emperor Chongzhen ran south overnight, and all the prefectures and counties in Shuntian Prefecture fell one after another.
Even Tongzhou, which Hou Jin had never captured, was captured.
Going to Yongping Mansion on the East Road went more smoothly than expected. After Qian'an was captured, the other state capitals surrendered one after another.
So far, most of the three prefectures and two states have been captured.
That's right, we just captured most of them, and some states and cities were not captured.
Such as Shanhaiguan.
Shanhaiguan is indeed the most powerful pass, but without logistics, being captured is an inevitable outcome.
Jizhou Town, one of the nine sides, was not captured at this time.
These are all cities that have survived the baptism of the Later Jin Dynasty, and they still have some strength.
However, in March, the northern defense line was already fully constructed.
At this time, all the city guards had been transferred out to garrison the city.
The city defense of the capital was taken over by the Black Wind Army directly under Han Xi. With 50,000 troops and 10,000 government officials, there was no problem in defending the capital.
The Tiancha Army also freed up its hands to clear out the remaining prefectures and counties, and finally surrounded Shanhaiguan.
In a main hall of the royal palace.
Han Xi sat on the chair where Chongzhen usually worked and began to review the memorial.
Next, there are two middle-aged literati who are also reviewing the memorials submitted from various places.
Looking at these memorials, Han Xi couldn't help but feel a little sleepy. Fortunately, the memorials were all in vernacular and separated by commas and periods. Otherwise, he might have fallen asleep directly.
But if I don't come here to read the memorial during the day, there seems to be nothing to do.
You can't show off your prostitution in the daytime, right?
Han Xi couldn't bear it. After all, there were too many beauties for him to serve alone.
I took a few glances at the system panel.
City: Shuntianfu
Population: 2,551,002
Maximum troop strength: 160550/127550
Currency: 2,516,200 taels/silver
Popular support: 0
Grain: 1,756,600 shi
Supplies: 96,000 pieces of cloth, 120,000 cotton...
In the past four months, the population has been jumping repeatedly. Now four gates of the capital have been opened, two gates of the outer city have opened, and two gates of the inner city have opened. Many people are running to the south.
It's a good thing that these escapees were not caught. If they were caught, they would work for free and they would all be used to cultivate the fields.
The number of free laborers who only provide meals is now over 100,000.
Most of them were captured by the defeated 200,000 King Qin's army, as well as the nobles and bureaucrats in the city, eunuchs, royal guards, and people from the Beijing camp.
More than 100,000 people were divided into thirty reclamation teams of 5,000 people.
Military Advisor Xun expected to cultivate 5,000 hectares of land for the military settlement, which would be divided into 30 reclamation teams, or about one reclamation team, with 170 hectares of farmland, and almost no one would cultivate two to three acres.
It seems that Military Advisor Xun is not very optimistic about these people's ability to farm.
After all, an old farmer can look after twenty acres of land alone, which is more than ten times the difference.
Thirty reclamation teams were guarded by 3,000 people, roughly one soldier guarding five people. Originally, Han Xi wanted to send 40,000 to 50,000 troops, but was finally stopped by Military Advisor Xun.
Therefore, Han Xi's military strength at this time has been maintained at around 15, and there are still 10,000 reserve battalions, plus 25,000 government officials and 20,000 surrendered soldiers recruited, there are about 200,000 troops.
I looked at the system for a while and then read the memorial.
At this time, the memorial that Han Xi was looking at was the situation of farmland reclamation in various places.
Xuanhua Mansion reclaimed 2,000 hectares.
Baoan Prefecture and Yanqing Prefecture each reclaimed 500 hectares.
Shuntian Mansion reclaimed 20,000 hectares.
Yongping Mansion reclaimed 1,500 hectares.
Altogether, there are 24,500 hectares.
Seeing this, Han Xi asked: "Commander Xun, is there too little cultivated farmland? Only more than 24,500 hectares?"
It's no wonder that Han Xi said this, after you know that Shangou County in Yichuan County has cultivated 1,600 hectares of cultivated land.
Although Han Xi did not count the three prefectures and two states currently occupied.
However, there are still some guard cities in more than 60 prefectures and counties. Sixty of them have reclaimed 1,600 hectares of land, so there are still more than 96,000 hectares of land.
Looking at the population of his subordinates, which is more than 2.5 million, there are 400,000 households. Each person cultivates ten acres of land, so there are still 40,000 hectares.
"Your Majesty, you are only looking at the cultivated land for food! Including the cultivated land for military camps, captive cultivated land, and cash crop cultivated land, the number of cultivated land we have reclaimed this year is 57,600 hectares." Military Advisor Xun stopped writing and explained.
"Oh! It's okay. You can continue your work." After Han Xi finished speaking, he looked at the other memorials.
That's right, Han Xi's 160,000-strong army was not a completely off-the-job army.
Among them, 60,000 troops are engaged in military production. As for what to produce?
Of course, potatoes and corn are produced.
Calculated in this way, the 60,000 troops cultivated more than 25,000 hectares here.
This is almost forty acres of land managed by one person.
But there is only one person, can he manage it?
Han Xi knew that these people were good at fighting, but they shouldn't be that good at farming, right?
"With 60,000 people and one person managing nearly forty acres, can it be managed like this?" Han Xi asked, expressing his doubts.
Military Advisor Xun seemed to have expected that Han Xi would ask this question, so he replied with a smile: "It's not 60,000, it's 260,000. After the Jin Dynasty entered the country, there were many more women without husbands. These people were distributed to these farms." The sergeant."
"One soldier and three and a half wives?" Han Xi said in surprise.
This is too luxurious.
After hearing Han Xi's words, Military Advisor Xun was stunned for a moment, and finally laughed and shook his head.
Military Advisor Guo, who was sitting opposite Military Advisor Xun, also stopped writing at this time and explained with a smile: "Some of these women have children, some are girls who are waiting to be married, and have been humiliated by slaves. Some of these women also have some children. Siblings, or parents.”
"Oh oh oh!" Han Xi looked strange after hearing this. Then don't all these field soldiers have the legacy of Wei Wu?
Thinking of this, Han Xi couldn't help laughing.
"Yes! Two military advisors, have you seen any changes in the Ming army recently? Do you need tens of thousands more troops to come out?" Han Xi said.
When the two military advisors heard this, they both laughed helplessly. I don’t know why my king asks this question every day.
As for why Han Xi asks this every day?
