The spring of the 14th year of Jianxing in the Great Zhou Dynasty has arrived.

According to a popular saying on the Internet, the wheels of history are still rolling forward.

During the Chinese New Year, officials at all levels in Qingzhou were asked to visit their own areas: the governor Xu Muhe personally visited various prefectures, officials in the prefectures and cities asked to visit counties, county-level officials visited villages or forts, and village-level officials visited households.

For every household that has already registered all households, each household will give you a few liters of grain as a New Year gift from the Qi Zhengfu to the people.

This has several benefits: first, it can further unite the people and win over the hearts of the people before the war; second, it can establish a grassroots prestige and a people-friendly image through this kind of visit; third, the newly appointed grassroots officials of the Supervisory Office can have a rough impression of the population and land under their rule through visits, and can also make a statistics on the population directly under Qingzhou.

The low-level officials currently appointed by the Jieshuai Mansion mainly come from those families who joined the alliance earlier and who had the earliest abolished independence.

Usually it is young people from the children and nephews of these families, plus some veterans who were injured and retired in the new army, and militia captains who performed well in previous years.

Before, most of these people had not really been officials. They had just been appointed as grassroots officials and had not learned the messy things in the officialdom, so they seemed more energetic. The Jieshu Office ordered them to go deep into the grassroots level. These small officials who had already come out of the grassroots level were not vague and completed the task before the first month of the year.

According to statistics, there are a total of 180,000 registered households and 820,000 people under Qingzhou, of which 16 to 45-year-old Ding Zhuang and Banding have a total of 170,000.

Xu Muhe and his staff estimated that those wài    wéi Fort should still have hidden households with a population of about 80,000 to 100,000, and there are almost the same number of refugees and bandits on the mountains in various places.

If these people can be used, the total population of Qingzhou can exceed one million, and there is no problem with Dingkou 200,000.

Of course, this work is not urgent and cannot be completed before the Tartars attack.

The Qi Provincial Local Areas can only rely on the current 170,000 to resist the upcoming attack of the Tartars.

Preparation is still the most important task in the future!

For this reason, during the Chinese New Year, the military commander Xu Shiyang of Qingzhou only gave herself two days off to reunite with her sister Zhao Shan and Zhao Lin, and her son who had just learned to stagger around, and then she devoted herself to the intense preparations for the war.

According to the plan of the New Army General Staff, the Qingzhou Jiedushi mobilized 100,000 men and women to build large-scale defensive positions along the line of the Yellow River\\ Canal.

The position starts from the outlet of the Yellow River in Quanchengfu, and is built along the Yellow River to the vicinity of Anping Town, Yanzhou Prefecture, and then turns around and follows the canal to Weishan Lake.

The entire defense line is more than a thousand miles long, and the defense distance is almost impossible to expect to form a key defense.

This is also the trouble that Qi Sheng brought about - in the four battles, there is almost no geographical boundary that can be used to defend. The enemy can choose any position to launch an attack, and each position has a high possibility of a breakthrough.

For this reason, Xu Shiyang could not accept permanent fortifications such as building long walls that were too tall and thick. He did not have so much funds or manpower to build such fortifications, and there were not so many soldiers to fill the defense line. Even if there were soldiers, it would not be guaranteed not to be broken by the enemy.

Therefore, Xu Shiyang's choice is a large-depth defense that combines a low chest wall and a trench.

Xu Shiyang planned to dig five and a half meter wide and a half meter deep trenches on the west bank of the Yellow River\\ Canal. The digging of soil is directly piled up on the edge of the trenches. These are the five chest walls.

The thickness of the chest wall is only a few dozen centimeters, but it is enough to resist the direct shooting of heavy arrows from the Tartars.

There are also dense longitudinal traffic trenches between the five chest wall trenches and fortifications in the planned five-way chest wall trenches and a large number of small pits that are enough to fall into half a horse's leg. In this way, even if the previous few defense lines are broken, the troops can retreat to the next line of defense through the traffic trenches in an orderly manner without being chased by enemy cavalry, causing the entire army to collapse.

Of course, in Xu Shiyang's opinion, the biggest advantage of building such fortifications is that the cost of fortifications is very low, and the construction method is really suitable for the Han militia - anyway, it's just digging the ground. There is no nation on this planet that is better able to digging the ground than the Han people.

There are also planned fortifications east of the Yellow River\\There are also planned fortifications, most of which are still similar trench chest wall fortifications. However, due to the deep entry into the control area, there are many canals or Yellow River docks as support points on the east bank fortifications.

These support points can store a large amount of food, grass and other military supplies, as well as a new army as a mobile force.

Xu Shiyang and his staff believed that if the Tartars were really strong enough to not give up until they destroyed Qingzhou, then after they broke through the five defense lines on the west bank and crossed the Yellow River/Canal, the staff still could not accurately judge the position of the other party's main breakthrough point, so everyone might as well wipe their necks.

This is not a problem of the commander and the staff being unqualified. Such a command system is purely composed of fools.

Xu Shiyang felt that his staff team was very immature, but he was not so stupid.

The trouble is that spring is the busy time of farming, and large-scale mobilization of manpower will inevitably affect agricultural production.

After all, it is an agricultural society. If you don’t have food in your hands, you will inevitably feel panic.

Besides, Qingzhou has just unified most of Qi provinces. If there is a famine in the first year, it will inevitably seriously weaken the cornerstone of zhèng    quán. Therefore, Xu Muhe and Xu Shiyang convened a meeting of all senior cadres under their jurisdiction, requiring efforts to maintain agricultural production while ensuring the combat effectiveness of the troops.

At present, among the 170,000 males of Qimin, Qingzhou household registration, there are about 7,000 new troops who are completely out of stock, including 5,000 field troops and 2,000 new recruits in the new recruits battalion.

After the province was basically unified, the fleets under the coastal docks of Yuanqing, Lai and Deng were basically in the hands of Qingzhou. The Xu family gathered a fleet of more than 50 large and small sea ships, with a total of about 1,000 sailors.

There are less than 3,000 males in local officials, civil servants, and education and medical systems. There are more than 5,000 males in military factories, steel factories, salt companies, banks and other enterprises. {Textile factories are mainly young female workers, not included}.

According to this calculation, a total of 16,000 males under Qingzhou left agricultural production.

This ratio is not high, or even relatively low. According to common sense, it should not affect agricultural production.

However, the total population of Qimin is too small. Xu Shiyang estimates that the current territory under Qingzhou control is about 120,000 square kilometers.

With such a large area, only 820,000 people, it is definitely a vast land and sparsely populated one.

This creates a problem: except for part of the land controlled by the agricultural company, most of the rest of the arable land revolves around the previous docks, scattered all over the place in the east and west. Farmers spend a lot of time every day running back and forth on several pieces of land they cultivated themselves, which is so inefficient.
Chapter completed!