It has been months since I arrived in Sichuan, and Wen Anzhi has gradually adapted to life here.

In addition to stabilizing Chongqing's defense, the Wen'an delegation, Yuan Zongdi, and Liu Fangliang, took over Kuizhou Prefecture.

This move is of great significance to Wen'anzhi's view. It not only connects Chongqing Prefecture and Kuizhou Prefecture, but also has a greater strategic depth, but also makes the entire upper reaches of the Yangtze River relatively safe.

Fengjie was also listed by him as an important city second only to Ba County, and he sent heavy troops to guard it.

His Majesty entrusts the Sichuan affairs to him, so he naturally wants to do his best to do his best. Every step he takes is like walking on thin ice.

In Wen Anzhi's opinion, Zhang Xianzhong was not sure of Sichuan East. This gave him time to stabilize his defense.

On the one hand, Wen Anzhi ordered his soldiers to actively train, and on the other hand, he asked the people to reclaim wasteland and actively resume production.

Sichuan has been a bit too chaotic in recent years. After Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, he fought with the Ming army several times. The people were either arrested by the Western Army to be masters or arrested by the official army to be auxiliary soldiers, and even suffered serious losses to the young and strong army.

The first reaction of the people of eastern Sichuan when they saw the army was to escape. They ran to the mountains to hide and waited until the army passed through before they came out to live again.

Wen Anzhi experienced such an embarrassing situation when he led his army to Chongqing Prefecture.

It took him a long time to convince the local people that the government army was not trying to forcefully arrest their men.

With trust, many things are much easier to do.

Wen'an had two choices. One was to promote military camps in eastern Sichuan, which was the military household system implemented by Emperor Taizu when the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

This system is conducive to centralized distribution during wartime, but its disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the military households do not have much enthusiasm.

Anyway, it’s the same thing as doing more and less, so it’s better to be lazy and rest.

Another way is Mintun.

There are also two types of civilian villages. One is to distribute the land to the people to plant, but the ownership of the land is still the government. Every year, the people have to pay a considerable portion of the food to the government.

Another type is to encourage the people to reclaim wasteland, and the wasteland they reclaim naturally belongs to the people.

Wen'an's choice combines the two and promotes them.

Among them, the proportion of wasteland reclaimed accounts for a large proportion, which is conducive to mobilizing the enthusiasm of farmers.

Even for those high-quality acres allocated to farmers to rent and plant, Wen'anzhi tried his best to reduce rent and interest, so that the people could afford to spend more food.

Those who win the hearts of the people will win the world. This is what Your Majesty specially told him, and Wen Anzhi always keeps it in his heart.

Of course, in addition to military farming, Wen Anzhi was also responsible for handling the relationship between the old Ming army and the Shun army just surrendered.

Some contradictions are difficult to resolve easily.

Especially the prejudice between the government and the Shun army is difficult to eliminate in less than a year or two.

Wen Anzhi took the method to assign them to different defense zones and try not to let them meet.

For example, Liu Fangliang and Yuan Zongdi were sent to Kuizhou Prefecture to garrison.

Of course, the best way is to make both sides trust by fighting side by side, and this can only be waited for Zhang Xianzhong to take the initiative to attack.

At present, the Ming army in eastern Sichuan should still focus on defending themselves, and wait until they have enough grain reserves before cooperating with the chieftains in southern Sichuan and Duke Mu of Yunnan to attack Zhang Xianzhong.

Wen Anzhi attached great importance to the establishment of the navy. He formed a navy in Tongluo Gorge, Chongqing and Fengjie, Kuizhou. The navy was not large in scale, but it was very useful, and was more flexible than the navy of the original Ming army.

In addition to these Wen'anzhi's biggest change to the Ming army in eastern Sichuan is probably spiritual.

Before Wen'an came, most of the soldiers in the Ming army had a mentality that they could just live a day, and they could just live a day.

Anyway, if you put your head on the belt, you might not see the rising sun one day, so it would be better to have fun in time.

After Wen Anzhi came to Sichuan, he instilled a set of ideas in these old soldiers, especially the Shence Army.

Strictly speaking, this idea was proposed by the emperor himself, and Wen Anzhi was able to understand it because he was a close minister of the emperor.

Cooperating with this idea is naturally a new reward and punishment mechanism.

Wen Anzhi changed the situation in the old army where generals beat and scold soldiers and oppressed soldiers to drink blood.

Ordinary soldiers gradually realized that under Wen Anzhi's rule, they were no longer slaves to officers, but rather a living person.

If they train, they will be rewarded, and the officers will be rewarded without any ambiguity when giving the reward.

They felt that life had a bright future, and gradually changed their lazy style, and the atmosphere of the entire army was boosted.

What made them even more happy was that the governor introduced a literary and artistic team to the army.

It is said that this literary and artistic troupe was established by His Majesty today. It was first performed only in the Shence Army, and later some other armies also rushed to emulate it.

But the Ming army in Dongchuan never thought that he could wait for this day.

The members of the art team were recruited from the eastern Sichuan area. After the training of art soldiers brought by the governor from Shandong, they gradually began to rehearse some less difficult scenes.

Of course, the plays they rehearsed were usually against the Donglu. But in order to adapt to the needs of the situation in Sichuan, the governor ordered people to start rehearsing some violent and cruel scenes of Zhang Xianzhong.

The soldiers were relished in watching it, and their hatred for the thief unknowingly added a little.

They had just heard that Zhang Xianzhong was cruel before, but now they felt completely different after watching a few dramas.

After dinner, the soldiers would gather together to chat in groups, and life became more enjoyable.

"I heard that Zhang Xianzhong was a god-like eunuch, so although he had many wives and concubines, he had never had children. It was probably because God had seen him do too many evil things and specially punished him."

"Who said it was not? People say that offering thieves can prevent children from crying at night."

"After this thief took Chengdu, he slaughtered the Shu King's Mansion. All the Shu King's lineages were slaughtered, it's so miserable!"

"However, I heard that the adopted sons who offered thieves are quite talented. It would be great if the court could recruit them in the future."

"It's hard. The court will not invite them if they don't die. Don't forget that the ancestral tomb of the Emperor Daming was scattered by the thief."

"So what? Didn't the thief force Emperor Lie to death? Didn't the emperor still recruit them?"

"Shh, you didn't keep the door in your mouth, just a little bit! If someone hears it, you don't know how to gossip. Don't forget, there are many thieves in Chongqing Prefecture! Be careful that disaster comes from your mouth!"

The atmosphere suddenly became silent.

After a long time, one of them got up and patted his butt: "What do you think of this? We will watch our play. After watching it, we will go back to bed early. We will have to practice tomorrow morning."
Chapter completed!