On June 5th, the Shanhai County whirlwind bandit suppression operation finally came to an end.
The ten-day bandit suppression campaign launched by the mixed brigade has yielded a lot. A total of 2,500 gold coins were seized, 3,000 people were captured, and a large amount of food, supplies, weapons and equipment were seized.
As for the special items, in addition to the heavy infantry talisman, he also got a territory characteristic scroll.
[Territory Feature Scroll] (3): After use, the crop yield will increase by 10%.
There are six scrolls in the territory characteristic series. Shanhai County has already obtained the second, third, and fourth scrolls, and the first, fifth, and sixth scrolls have not yet been obtained.
Among them, the first one is to increase the rate of attracting refugees, the fifth one is to increase the speed of upgrading soldiers, and the last one is to increase the success rate of territorial talents breaking through bottlenecks, all of which are very important.
The captured funds basically replenished the funds spent on the last military expansion. Of course, the greater expense is the continuous increase in military pay due to military expansion.
In Shanhai County, the military pay for the Pioneer Battalion is borne by Youyi Town, the military pay for the Beihai Fleet is borne by Beihai Town, and the Langshan Garrison Battalion does not pay military pay. Therefore, the base camp only needs to pay military salaries for the mixed brigade stationed in the north camp, as well as the city defense battalion and Shenji battalion stationed in the city.
Even so, the monthly military expenditure of Shanhai County has reached 2000 gold coins.
3,000 captives, including 250 water bandit captives, were sent to Beihai Town and transferred to the Beihai Fleet Reserve. As a result, the reserves of the third battalion of the North Sea Fleet are already full. Once Beihai Town is promoted to Beihai County, these reserves will be officially transferred to form the third battalion of the Beihai Fleet.
The rest of the captives, except for a small number who were selected by the Military Affairs Administration and recruited into the reserve service, were sent to serve in the second city wall project. After the project is completed, these people will be dispatched to work in brick kilns and pottery factories.
After the bandits were suppressed, the selection of the guards of the Lord's Mansion officially started. Before the selection, Ouyang Shuo had already announced that the salary of members of the Guards would be twice that of other troops.
No good man can resist the double temptation of honor and money.
Ouyang Shuo specially told Wang Feng that it is best to select some high-level elite soldiers who are not willing to transfer to junior generals. According to Ouyang Shuo's understanding, if the ninth-level elite soldiers do not choose to change jobs, then there is a certain probability that they will go one step further and become even more elite elite soldiers.
In the afternoon, Ouyang Shuo was reading a book when Tian Wenjing, who had just taken office, walked in.
"My lord, congratulations!" Tian Wenjing couldn't hide his joy.
"Oh, why do you like it?" Ouyang Shuo was very interested in this cold-faced Director who was very happy.
"News came from the Xuanniao tribe, saying that there is a small tribe whose life is really difficult, and they are willing to bring their families down the mountain to settle in our territory and establish settlements." Tian Wenjing said with a smile.
After the Gale Tribe was wiped out, Tian Wenjing was appointed by Ouyang Shuo as the lord's special envoy, fully responsible for the affairs of the mountain barbarians.
Some time ago, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was established and the Director of Material Reserve was replaced. This work was not handed over to Shen Zhui, the newly appointed Director of Materials Reserves, as usual, but Tian Wenjing continued to be in charge.
Ouyang Shuo considered that Tian Wenjing managed to get acquainted with the various tribes, and it was a waste of time to change people midway; the other was that the duties of the Internal Affairs Department included the management of floating population.
After the May Day holiday, Ouyang Shuo resolutely adjusted the barbarian policy. On the one hand, the relatives of the Shanman fighters were moved to Shanhai Town to settle down; on the other hand, the Shanman was encouraged to go down the mountain, either to settle down, or to work in Shanhai Town.
Now, a month later, the policy is finally paying off.
"Which tribe is it?" Ouyang Shuo asked.
"It's one of the third batch of eight tribes that agreed to cooperate with us. For this batch of tribes, because the mountain barbarian warriors and food subsidies are all one-off, unlike the previous Xuanniao tribe and the second batch of three tribes, You can also get paid through the Langshan Mine. Therefore, once the food we donated is exhausted, we will return to the original precarious state." Tian Wenjing explained.
Ouyang Shuo nodded, expressing his understanding.
The Xuanniao Tribe is the first Shanman tribe to cooperate with Shanhai County, and it is also the most profitable. The tribe not only occupies the majority of the miners in the Langshan Mine, but also gradually increases its influence in the surrounding tribes, replacing the Haifeng tribe that has been wiped out. Become the de facto leader of this area.
The second batch of cooperation with Shanhai County was three small tribes, and it was at this time that the Haifeng tribe rejected the friendship of Shanhai County, laying the groundwork for the future genocide. These three small tribes were also arranged to mine ore in Langshan, so their living conditions have been improved.
The third batch of cooperation with Shanhai County was after the Haifeng tribe was wiped out, and these tribes had to succumb to the strength of Shanhai County. This batch consists of two medium-sized tribes and six small tribes.
This group of tribes only received a one-time subsidy because the Langshan Mine was full, and they could only rely on going to the mountains to collect herbs and exchange some food with Shanhai County. Their lives were very unstable. In addition, the most elite fighters in the tribe were picked up by Shanhai County and recruited into the army, so hunting for the tribe was more difficult than before.
Therefore, it is understandable that the third group of tribes were the first to be unable to resist the temptation to go down the mountain. After all, no matter what nationality they are, they all have the idea of "don't worry about scarcity but about inequality".
If it was in the past, everyone was the same, living a miserable life, so there was nothing to complain about or envy. However, because of the existence of the Langshan Mine, these tribes were virtually divided into two parts, and the division between the rich and the poor began to appear between the tribes.
In addition, these tribes have tasted the sweetness, and the food subsidized by Shanhai County has allowed the tribes to live comfortably for a while, but now they are going to be beaten back to their original shape, and no one is happy about it.
Coupled with Tian Wenjing's constant push to the sidelines, finally a tribe couldn't bear it, and was willing to abandon the so-called barbarian traditions, and agreed to go out of the mountains and settle in Shanhai County.
After thinking clearly about the cause and effect, Ouyang Shuo became more and more confident in his barbarian policy. In this, there is not only a draw from the bottom, but also carrots and sticks. It really takes the alien policy to the extreme.
"How many people are there in this tribe?" Ouyang Shuo then asked Tian Wenjing.
"There are still more than 1,800 people."
Ouyang Shuo nodded. With such a small number of people, it is considered a small number among small tribes. "Let's put this tribe in Yushui Town, which is relatively close to their homeland, so the difference is not too big, and they can't adapt to it all at once. The mountain barbarian tribes who will go down the mountain in the future will also be mainly arranged in Yushui Town. The water town issued an official letter asking them to cooperate with the Ministry of Internal Affairs to do a good job in the site selection and construction of settlements.”
"clear!"
"Yangon, you have handled the mountain man's affairs very well. I am very satisfied. However, we cannot be satisfied with the status quo. We still need to continue to increase our persuasion efforts, especially taking this opportunity to lobby more mountain man tribes to go down the mountain , to settle down in Shanhai County." Ouyang Shuo finally said.
"Don't worry, my lord, I will live up to my trust!" Tian Wenjing solemnly promised.
After Tian Wenjing left, Ouyang Shuo began to write official letters to Zhao Dexian, the chief officer of Yushui Town.
Ouyang Shuo wrote in the official letter that the Shanman settlements were built directly according to the standards of first-class townships, and the settlements were positioned as purely agricultural settlements. It is necessary to plan a large enough farmland area for them and reclaim it in time so that they can sow the second season of rice by the end of July.
In addition, Swimming Town needs to provide enough agricultural tools for the settlements, and the existing cattle can also be temporarily leased to the settlements to reclaim farmland. It is also necessary to send experienced farmers to guide the mountain barbarians in farming.
These barbarians have no experience in rice planting. The Agricultural Department of Yushui Town must increase support and not slack off. We must build this settlement into a demonstration site to ease the difficulty of lobbying for the Interior Department.
Swimming Town is also responsible for the food supply of the Shanman settlements. In order to reduce the burden on Swimming Town, the Finance Department of the base camp will allocate a one-time financial subsidy of 1,000 gold coins to Swimming Town.
It coincided with the upgrade of water conservancy facilities and the construction of the city wall in Swimming Town, so these mountain barbarians could be recruited into the construction site, and paid labor remuneration to them according to the standards of the base camp.
In the end, Ouyang Shuo mentioned in the official letter that Shuishui Town should make an overall plan for the Shanman settlements, and make preparations in advance for the follow-up Shanman tribes to settle down the mountain.
In the official letter, Ouyang Shuo took every detail into consideration and explained everything in detail. This shows how much he attaches importance to this matter.
After finishing writing, Ouyang Shuo called the clerk, Bai Nanpu, and asked him to send this official letter to Yushui Town immediately. Shanhai County has a fixed yamen servant who is responsible for sending and receiving official letters between territories. There are four people in this group of yamen servants, directly led by the clerk Bai Nanpu.
After that, Ouyang Shuo got up and went to the Office of the Director of Finance next door, and mentioned to Yingyou about the allocation of financial subsidies. The funds were naturally paid by Ouyang Shuo.
After deducting the subsidy funds and the 500 gold coins spent on the territory renewal, there are still 2000 gold coins left in Ouyang Shuo's storage bag.
At six o'clock in the afternoon, Bing'er showed up at Ouyang Shuo's office on time. Calling her brother to eat after get off work has become a regular routine for the little girl. During this time, Bing'er has fully adapted to life in Shanhai County.
In the lord's mansion, no matter if it was officials at all levels or servants, they all loved and cared for her, the lord's younger sister. In addition, Bing'er is beautiful, cute, well-behaved and sensible, which makes her even more rare.
Especially Erwazi, as soon as the private school ends, he follows Binger, a complete follower.
Bing'er is wearing a Tang suit princess dress today, a pink skirt with peach blossoms embroidered on it, dignified yet cute and playful, not to mention how cute it is. This skirt was naturally made by Qing'er.