The Ming army's large ships were docked in Xuzhou, and Deng Ming had already left some of the large ships in Jiangling, but despite this, the Minjiang River was still too small for the huge Western Sichuan navy.

If the Ming army could invade the Jialing River and wipe out Li Guoying's navy, they would be able to siege Chongqing, and Li Guoying would have to hike back to Baoning. According to Yuan Zongdi's reconnaissance, the Qing army in Chongqing is now less than 20,000, and the armored soldiers are estimated to be around 5,000, which is worse than the strength of the last time they besieged Chongqing. Unfortunately, Deng Ming knew that his idea could not be realized, because there were no reconnaissance planes and the government did not have the ability to create precise hydrologic maps, so the Ming army had almost no way to obtain the waterway information of the Jialing River.

Since the Ming army knew nothing about the waterways, reefs and the terrain of the two sides of the Jialing River, although the western Sichuan navy was strong, they still did not dare to forcefully break into it. If you want to understand the terrain along the Jialing River, it seems that you can only wait until you occupy Chongqing before exploring, which means that the navy did not help conquer Chongqing.

In order to play the role of the navy, Deng Ming had ordered the search for old ship workers who were familiar with the geography of eastern Sichuan. However, after returning to Xuzhou this time, the Ming army reported that due to the war in Sichuan for many years, they had nothing to gain. Now Deng Ming can only ask his subordinates to try to bribe the Qing army's naval personnel, but this is very difficult. Chongqing is also a large area of ​​no man's land. There are no ordinary people except the military camp, so the Ming army cannot sneak into Chongqing City. Deng Ming did not have much hope for success. He ordered the collection of intelligence to be just about talking about personnel and soon continued to lead troops back to Chengdu.

In addition to continuing to collect intelligence, the Ming army defenders in Xiazhou also began to explore the Jinsha River. Deng Ming hoped to use this waterway to communicate with Jianchang and Yunnan. At present, Chengdu's ability to transport materials to Jianchang is very limited. If a waterway can not be found, it will not be able to help Li Dingguo on materials, let alone bringing a large number of military and civilians into Yunnan to help the war. However, the Ming army in Xiazhou told Deng Ming not to have too much hope for this, because the water flow of the Jinsha River is turbulent, the terrain between the two sides is steep, large ships cannot be navigated, and the danger of small boats is too great.

Before returning to Chengdu, Deng Ming heard a lot of complaints, Liu Jinge, Xiong Lan and others accused each other, and secretly reported to Deng Ming that the other party seemed to have violated the law and discipline.

However, factional struggles in Chengdu are not the most important thing. What is more urgent is how to deal with the recruitment requirements of the Qingchengshan Group such as Liu Yao and Yang Youcai. Originally, in order to maintain a certain degree of vigor, Liu Yao and Yang Youcai led their troops to Dujiangyan and retreated from Jiange and other places to Chengdu. The generals who also had similar ideas. Most of them followed them, thinking that the land there was enough to ensure their settlement, and thus formed the Qingchengshan Warlord Group. However, the development speed of Chengdu was unexpected. Now the living standards of the Tongxiucai in Chengdu have far exceeded the armored soldiers in the Dujiangyan area, which led to an imbalance in the psychological aspects of the Qingchengshan Warlords.

In terms of the determination to dismantle the Dujiangyan military, Lu Huan and other people who were originally from Chengdu auxiliary soldiers also played a huge role. With a simple mentality of "drinking water and remembering the source", they often sent food to their former superiors and those who brought them into the army. Seeing that the people in Chengdu's life is getting better and better, not to mention soldiers in the Dujiangyan area, even ordinary officers are unwilling to leave outside the Chengdu system.

Liu Yao and Yang Youcai were different from the generals of the Great Dong. They were from Qianzong and had never fought or enjoyed any power. They were more like warlords than warlords, and were former leaders of the former reclaimed peasant soldiers in Chengdu. The Ming generals who retreated from Jiangyou, Mianzhu and Jiange, like Liu Yao, had neither great ambition nor military control worth mentioning. Although they had the title of deputy generals and generals, they sounded very majestic, but they had very hard food and clothing on weekdays. They were much worse than Liu, who was busy farming in Chengdu. At least the latter two raised a few pigs and some chickens and ducks in the prefect of Chengdu.

The warlords in Qingcheng Mountain gathered together and farmed in Dujiangyan for more than a year. However, they started raising pigs and rabbits again. However, compared with Chengdu, which transported materials from the downstream, they lived similar to beggars. After Deng was under the name of Jiangnan, Yang Youcai first came to Chengdu to ask for military pay. After asking Liu Jinge for food subsidies, he asked his subordinates to transport the things back to Dujiangyan, and he stayed in Chengdu and never left. Because Deputy General Yang had not returned yet, other generals also came to Chengdu to visit in their spare time. Seeing that the lives of Chengdu people were rich, not only storytelling, but also folk art and acrobatics gradually recovered. One hundred of these generals were unwilling to go back to Dujiangyan.

The frequency of visits is getting higher and higher, and each time I stay longer and longer, half of the generals simply stay in Chengdu like Yang Youcai. Although Deng Ming instructed to entertain these old Sichuan generals, Liu Yao, the largest warlord leader of Qingchengshan Group, also became interested in moving to Chengdu. After remote control of Dujiangyan, Liu Jinge finally couldn't bear it anymore. After arguing, Liu Jinge and Qingchengshan Group agreed on a duty system, which was to ensure that half of the generals and officers stayed in Dujiangyan and were responsible for managing production and water control. The rotation was decided by Qingchengshan Group itself, as long as someone was always in charge of Dujiangyan's work.

This system was barely implemented for two months and could not continue. The officers assigned to Dujiangyan were all full of resentment. When they returned, they still delayed and refused to set off. The rotation officers and their personal soldiers arrived happily early in the morning. In the end, Liu Jinge had to compromise again and reduce the number of officers on duty to one-third, which means that they have two-thirds of the time they can stay in Chengdu a year. However, before the replacement officers returned to Dujiangyan, the people on duty were not allowed to leave their posts.

However, this compromise policy was still not implemented. The officers began to claim that they were sick and stayed in Chengdu and refused to go to work. The people who went to work complained, and their personal soldiers also muttered, and from the moment they stepped out of the Chengdu gate, they began to count when they could come back.

Before the Chinese New Year, the situation further worsened. Yang Youcai, who was supposed to go to Dujiangyan to replace Liu Yao, claimed to be seriously ill and refused to leave before the Chinese New Year. Other rotating officers took Yang Youcai as an example and refused to go to Dujiangyan to work during the Chinese New Year. There are all kinds of reasons from headaches to foot disease.

On New Year's Eve, Liu Yao brought a large group of left-behind officers from Dujiangyan to rush back to Chengdu angrily. At that time, Yang Youcai and other officers were happily eating meat buns and watching opera on Chunxi Road. The two groups quarreled. Finally, Liu Yao and Yang Youcai, the old comrades-in-arms, grabbed each other and ran to the yamen of the Criminal Office, asking Yuan Xiang to give him a comment.

During this internal strife, the warlords of the Qingchengshan Group also exposed each other, telling Liu Jinge and Yuan Xiang that the military pay and water management funds allocated to Dujiangyan in Chengdu were spent by them in Chengdu - everyone had a share; the farm tools and oxes allocated to Dujiangyan in Chengdu were also sold to the commercial banks in Chengdu. Now the military camps in Dujiangyan are almost abandoned. When the officers enjoyed the funds in Chengdu, many auxiliary soldiers there also fled and ran back to Chengdu Prefecture to reclaim their own land.

Although Liu Jinge is quite dissatisfied with the behavior of Qingchengshan Group, Deng Ming had long explained that Liu Yao and others should be regarded as the ** forces of the Dongdong and should not interfere with their power of governance.

When Liu Jinge learned that Dujiangyan had not done any water control work, he had to spend another money to hire a group of fellow scholars to Dujiangyan to make up for the work. Although he could not investigate the "corruption" behavior of Liu Yao, Yang Youcai and others, Liu Jinge refused to distribute water control funds and related subsidies to Dujiangyan.

The military camp was abandoned. If Chengdu did not provide subsidies, the lives of this large group of people would not be maintained. The warlords in Qingchengshan made a big fuss about the Chengdu prefecture and wanted to ask Liu Jinge for an explanation. Liu Jinge was furious and simply fought with them one-on-one. Unfortunately, whether it was Liu Yao, Yang Youcai, or the warlords in Jiangge, Jiangyou and other places were mostly lower-class soldiers from small soldiers, and none of them could beat the prefect of Chengdu.

After being beaten to the throne by the prefect, the warlords failed and made another plan. They began to sit quietly in front of the prefect's office, which attracted a large number of scholars to watch. In order to gain sympathy, Liu Yao and others brought out all the support of that year, causing an extremely bad impact.

Due to Deng Ming's confession, Liu Jinge could not dispatch the pavilion soldiers to disperse the protesting warlords, and the prefect Liu could not rush out to beat people in person in front of everyone. He had to give them pocket money and living expenses every day. Until Deng Ming came back, the two sides were still in a stalemate.

"Since they want to accept the incorporation, then don't you accept it?" After hearing Liu Jinge angrily narrate the incident, Deng Ming was amused and crying: "Don't they just want to retire? Let them retire."

Now, except Deng Ming, the only major in the Sichuan Army is the highest rank. Liu Yao and the others pointed out that Deng Ming once promised to give them retirement benefits at the general level, so they would not give in on this issue.

"Liu Yao and Yang Youcai all demanded the retirement benefits of the general! The others also required the lieutenant general's treatment!" In Liu Jinge's opinion, Dujiangyan and other people had completely lost the face of the warlords. If they were not afraid that the other party would sit quietly outside the yamen, Liu Jinge would not even want to pay living subsidies, let alone give them pensions: "Admiral, you also said that the retirement subsidies were established to make soldiers grow old and have no worries about food and clothing after they get old, but are they old? I think they can't even go farming. Now they don't do things well, and they actually want to retire!"

"The problems that can be solved with money are not a problem... Well, but what you said makes sense." Deng Ming felt that the handling of Qingchengshan Group must be cautious, especially Liu Yao and Yang Youcai. These two people not only made contributions, but also were the original owners of Chengdu. Now there are more than 200,000 males in Chengdu, and there are only more than 10,000 people. In addition to other Qingcheng Group people, there are only 200,000 or 30,000 people in the eyes of outsiders. But in the eyes of outsiders, Chengdu is indeed their foundation and they dedicated it to Deng Ming.
Chapter completed!