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Chapter 282 Tragedy of the Commons
The story is divided into two parts. The imperial decree of Chongzhen will not be sent to Wuchang until the end of November, but Shen Shuren and his party returned to Wuchang before the end of November.

Therefore, before the decree arrived, Shen Shuren had more than ten days to deal with the government affairs and military affairs that he had accumulated for so long.

Let's briefly celebrate the previous great victory, reward the troops as soon as possible, adjust their status, change defenses, and prepare for the next attack.

After all, the army is not made of iron. It has just finished a bloody battle with Li Zicheng. After several months of fighting, the cumulative loss of casualties, infections, and diseases has reached nearly 2 people.

This is already because Shen Shuren's troops are elite enough, and the logistical support and medical conditions are good enough to suppress the loss to this extent.If any other Ming army were to fight, the losses would at least be doubled, or even several times.

More than 9 troops, with a total of [-] casualties and diseases, this loss rate is already close to a quarter. If these casualties did not appear in batches and over a relatively long period of time, but instead appeared concentratedly, the troops may have died early. It just crashed.

Therefore, what the army that participated in the Henan campaign needs most is to rest. Seeing that the twelfth lunar month is approaching, during the two months of the twelfth lunar month and the first lunar month, this army must not be used lightly, otherwise the soldiers will be renounced, and they will be engraved with kindness and power. The hearts of the troops who have risen will gradually complain.

Fortunately, before the Battle of Henan, Shen Shuren had a Huguang Army of 14 people, 9 people were drawn up, and 5 people were assigned to guard the area.

Among them, Zhang Huangyan's main force was in the hands of Zhang Huangyan, with a total of about 2 people. At the beginning, they intercepted Sun Kewang and others in Yiling Jingzhou area, and later they took the initiative to pursue Xiaoli.

Except for Zhang Huangyan, the other 3 people left behind by Shen Shuren belonged to the defense zone of Fang Yizhi, Shi Dun and others.As well as the Jiang Shoude and Jin Shenghuan tribes in Changsha and Hengzhou.

As for Zheng Chenggong's anti-tax armed forces and local self-protection township militias in Jiujiang, they are not included in Shen Shuren's 5-strong establishment.This is also considering that Jiujiang is already relatively close to the rear, so there is no need to arrange too elite troops.And Zheng Chenggong, as the eldest son of the Zheng family, will definitely be able to get subsidies from his family as an official, so it is impossible for Zheng Chenggong to help share the cost a little bit in this troubled world.

Shen Shuren's 5 troops left in the rear, after all, drove Zhang Xianzhong away from Hunan in July, and even if he added more than a month to suppress the bandits and clean up the remnants, they would be busy until the end of August at most.So from September to the end of November, these [-] people were in a state of leisure and rest.

After three months of vacation, these troops are now in good condition and their morale is high. If Shen Shuren really has to send troops in the twelfth lunar month, then first pull out these 5 people, and transfer the nearly 8 people who retreated from the front line to the defense take a vacation.

In addition, there are still about 2 peasants in the Yuan Shizhong that Shen Shuren conquered on the Henan battlefield, and the remnants of Li Jiyu who were incorporated and reformed after he was killed.

After a period of ideological transformation, with Liu Guoneng's personal experience, influence, kindness and power, and Yuan Shizhong's leadership, although these 2 people also contributed a little bit in the Henan campaign and suffered a little bit, they can definitely invest immediately. A new round of fighting against Zhang Xianzhong.

First of all, these people are all natives of Henan, and they have suffered enough from the thieves fleeing from Shaanxi. After the Battle of Kaifeng, the Henan soldiers who were able to surrender to Shen Shuren already had a certain hatred for the Shaanxi thieves. Zhang Xianzhong estimated that he would use his life to accept a certificate of honor.

They really need to play hard to prove their hearts.It has been used as a death camp several times, as long as the guarantee is sufficient, the military salary is sufficient, the food is excellent, and the supervision is strict, it can definitely play a good role.

After such a calculation, Shen Shuren's plan is very clear: only use the 7 people from five plus two, at least within the first three months, only use these 7 people to enter Sichuan to deal with Zhang Xianzhong.

If the problem has not been resolved after three months, then next February, after the Erlong raises its head and the busy spring farming is over, the main force of the previous Henan campaign will have almost rested, and then the new force will be drawn from the 8 people as appropriate to continue to invest.

As for the weapons and equipment of the troops, of course it will take ten days and a half months to call them in rotation.After all, people need to rest, but muskets do not. As long as the quality inspection and maintenance can keep up, two groups of soldiers can use the same batch of guns to fight in rotation.

This will involve the refitting of 2 or [-] firearms. After getting used to it, half a month is definitely not a long time.

Since July and August, the ironworks and military workshops behind Wuchang Mansion have obviously been busy with production and research for four months. During this time, there must have been many new firearms, supplies, and new ammunition ordnance produced. Come out, maybe there will be some technological progress, and Shen Shuren also needs to take time to review and adjust the deployment one by one.

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Therefore, on the second day after returning to Wuchang Mansion, Shen Shuren didn't miss the gentle hometown of Chen Yuanyuan, Li Xiangjun, and Dong Xiaowan, so he dragged his tired and limp legs to Daye County.

Of course, the way to Daye County is from Jiangxia County along the Yangtze River for [-] miles, so it is the same way to send Lu Wang and Fu Wang to Hefei via Jiujiang Anqing.

Shen Shuren sent everyone in the Prince Lu's Mansion for sixty miles, had lunch together that day, and then parted ways in Daye, and landed for inspection.

Of course, Fang Yizhi, the prefect of Wuchang and Shen Shuren's good friend of the same year, also accompanied him.

Fang Yizhi is also considered a rare science and engineering talent in this era. He and Song Yingxing one is more theoretical and the other is engineering. Over the past year, they have cooperated perfectly.Therefore, every time Shen Shuren came to inspect metallurgy and military technology progress and engineering breakthroughs, he was willing to discuss with him.

All the way on the boat, Shen Shuren saw every stitch, and asked about the military, industry, and civil affairs in the past few months, and Fang Yizhi answered every question.

Considering the matter of weapons and armaments, after the ship arrives in Daye, you can watch and chat.Therefore, during the time on the ship, Shen Shuren gave priority to understanding the preparations such as military rations.

"I've been in Henan these days, how are you doing with the preparations for the autumn grain taxation? Over there in Hunan, after the defeat of Zhang Xianzhong's troops, have the grains taken back by the slaughtered innocent people been counted?
Can it support the needs of 7 people who will enter Sichuan immediately next month?Will it be necessary to send additional food requisitions to suffer the common people?I remember that potatoes can be planted one season before winter, and harvested before next summer's harvest, and corn will be planted at that time.Autumn plowing and winter planting cannot be delayed.

This time Kaifeng was rescued, Zhang Mingzhen estimated that 10,000+ strong people in Henan will be rescued one after another, and they will also be resettled. If there is time, let them arrange to plant potatoes as soon as possible. Not many. "

Fang Yizhi's head got dizzy when he heard it: "Stop looking for errands for these Henan and Shaanxi people to arrange farming. Wouldn't it be better to stay in Henan and settle down? One side of the soil and one side of the people, let the southerners take care of it, but it's not good.

A while ago you were besieged in Chen County, and something happened here. Thousands of soldiers from Changsha Prefecture, who were sent to reclaim official land, started arguing again, resisting taxes and rents, and refused to obey the government's management to build supporting water conservancy.

Especially when I heard that Zhang Xianzhong seemed to be on the rise again in Sichuan, some stubborn people even tried to kill the officials who supervised the reclamation and fled to join Zhang Xianzhong.I used the Wuchang soldiers stationed in Yueyang to suppress it.It was an emergency at the front line, and I didn't mean not to report it on purpose. "

After Shen Shuren heard this, he couldn't help being vigilant: "What's going on? Is the rent we set too high? How can the surrendered soldiers be so rebellious if they let them plant a field? It's because they have been bandits for a long time and refuse to farm. Is it?"

Fang Yizhi sighed: "It's not that simple. You don't know until you have done some things in depth. The difference in the management of reclamation between the north and the south is too great. A few years ago, when I read Sun Chuanting's notes lamenting the reclamation in Shaanxi, I still didn't believe it. Now I have experienced it myself, and that is the truth.”

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PS: Changing the map to deal with Zhang Xianzhong is a bit of a problem, and it takes time to go through the strategy deployment.

Today, I will be fooling around a few hundred words less than usual.

I feel that I am really tired of writing this kind of plot. Others don’t need to think about strategies when writing books. Why do I always think of so many strategies and strategies?

It's really easy to write a book that directly copies ready-made strategies without changing the general trend of history. I want to do that too, but unfortunately I can't do it.

(End of this chapter)