It would take some time for the manpower radio to be debugged. Although six points could be arranged at most, it was already an unparalleled communication advantage. Moreover, the falcon puppets with Jia Gang's divine sense could also fly and follow the troops when necessary. This was a great advantage.
Considering this, Zhou Qingfeng even wanted to recruit more ghost cultivators to train and set up a dense communication network. This matter was naturally handed over to Jia Gang because Zhou Qingfeng directly appointed him as the director of the Revolutionary Army's Secret Communication Bureau — a commander without an army. At present, he was the only one in the whole situation.
Zhou Qingfeng's Third Eye and Yin-Yang Tablet were very helpful in exploring the operation of spiritual power, so he stayed with Wen Ruolan for a few days until Jia Gang could skillfully control the five falcon puppets and commanded them to fly to Shandong, Lushun, Jinzhou, Gaizhou, Haizhou and other places. In this way, the Revolutionary Army's several transmigrators could contact each other at any time.
As soon as the communication network was set up, Li Shuwei rushed to Tianjin by boat. He had rushed here for only one thing — to plant potatoes as soon as possible.
"Potatoes can be planted in the Liaodong Peninsula and Tianjin for two seasons, two seasons!" Li Shuwei originally wanted to be a general, but in the end, he obediently went to be in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture. Zhou Qingfeng would send some situation analysis reports through the communication network, including the large food shortage in the northern region in the second half of this year after the water transportation was cut off.
"I've planted potatoes as seed potatoes twice last year and have harvested 500 tons. I don't intend to eat them. I'll plant them as seed potatoes again. The Liaodong Peninsula will start planting spring potatoes in February and can be harvested in May. I intend to plant the harvest as seed potatoes again, and there will definitely be a big harvest in November.
It's too late to plant spring potatoes in Tianjin. But as long as the preparation is good, autumn potatoes can still be planted. The yield of potatoes is high, and the yield per mu can be a few hundred kilograms, which can greatly alleviate the food crisis in the second half of the year. By the way, I asked you to build 20 nitrate fields. Have you done it? As the saying goes, 'Crops are like flowers that depend on fertilizer'. It won't work without fertilizer. "
The food problem was a major issue no matter which dynasty. Tianjin's terrain was flat, the water network was dense, and irrigation conditions were good. It had a natural advantage in developing agricultural production. After the Revolutionary Army came, the first thing they did was to carry out land reform. They forcibly deprived the land ownership of the officials and established large farms. They recruited refugees from all over the country to farm.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a huge problem with the land. Many small farmers went bankrupt due to exorbitant taxes, and the land was concentrated in the hands of the rich. At the same time, because a large number of farmers fled, a large amount of land was abandoned, resulting in a great waste. This conflict was especially serious in the north. As long as the officials and gentry had their own food to eat, they did not care. But the farmers who needed farmland to make a living often starved to death.
The ability of a single farmer was limited, and they could not cultivate much land. Li Shuwei set up collective farms in the Liaodong Peninsula and concentrated resources to develop the land. His Ministry of Agriculture had the most manpower, this time several thousand people were sent to Tianjin to direct the construction of the farms. A large amount of land occupied by the officials and gentry was reclaimed and planted with grain.
While Li Shuwei was leading people to replan the land and reorganize Tianjin's agriculture, an outsider disguised as a peddler arrived in Tianjin from Tongzhou. This person was in his thirties. He wore a square headscarf like a scholar, but he was dressed like a merchant with a square face and a bureaucratic aura.
This square headscarf merchant brought a few strong servants with him and only brought some gold and silver. When he arrived in Tianjin, he only said that he wanted to buy some cloth. Before entering the city, the weapons carried by the strong servants were confiscated. The soldiers guarding the city searched them once before letting them go. It was such a simple process, but it made the people from the north feel very different.
The matter of lining up at the city gate was quite surprising. No matter how high or low, male or female, young or old, everyone with a temporary wooden identity card had to line up. Only the civil servants of the Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Guard had the privilege to enter the city directly.
This square headscarf merchant looked at the soldiers guarding the city searching the people in front of him one by one and even sighed a few times. But what was even more surprising was that there were actually female soldiers at the city gate searching the women entering the city. After a few battles, the fierceness of the Revolutionary Army's female soldiers had already spread all over the world, and it played an excellent role in promoting the status of women.
Such an effect had even stimulated more women to join the Revolutionary Army as female soldiers to improve their status. In the eyes of conservative scholars, this was treason, but they could do nothing about it.
It was also the first time for the square headscarf merchant to see female soldiers, so he carefully looked at them. These women raised their heads and puffed out their chests with a serious face and a calm posture. Their physique was strong, and their clothes were very different from ordinary women. It was indeed an unusual scene.
Men and women were separated in the queue. The square headscarf merchant heard someone behind him laughing and commenting to the female soldiers, "Although these thieving old women are rough and big, they are very good-looking. Look at their rosy cheeks as if they've put on rouge, and they speak with strength. They're really arrogant, very different from my wife. I just don't know what it feels like to be pressed on the bed at night. "
When men teased women, it was inevitable for them to do things on the bed. They always felt that what they couldn't get was the best. Another person in the queue laughed and said, "The Revolutionary Army has a lot of rules. I heard that they're going to make some Marriage Law recently, and they're also going to control the people's marriage and children. Both men and women can only get married at the age of 18 or above. If they're younger than this age, the parents of the woman and the man will be arrested and sentenced. "
"Only get married at the age of 18? Isn't that an old lady? How can she get married? "
"That's right. The people of Tianjin City are boiling with resentment. They're all scolding that Grand Marshal for being a busybody. "
When the square headscarf merchant heard this, he thought about it carefully. Most of the women were married at the age of 14 or 15, and it was also common to see 12 or 13. He thought about the benefits of a woman getting married at the age of 18. If anyone said that the rebels of the Revolutionary Army were brainless and a bunch of idiots, they would definitely be sneered at by the officials of the imperial court.
This situation was easy to understand. Before the two Opium Wars, Manchurian officials said that the British barbarians didn't know how to bend their knees, and they could use black dog's blood to resist artillery. After being beaten up, they exclaimed that the heavenly soldiers were invincible.
Now, the officials of the Daming Empire had a wave of reflection after learning from this painful experience. Their brains, which had been bombarded by artillery, had to be more civilized. As the saying goes, 'learn from a thief, learn from a thief'. There were many people who intended to learn from the traitors to strengthen themselves.
The square headscarf merchant's first impression was the strongest. He believed that there must be something good about a man and a woman getting married at the age of 18. He quickly thought of 'a woman who is a few years older has a better physique, it's easier for her to give birth, and there are fewer tragedies.' He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "It seems that the marriage is only a few years late, but this traitor can understand the people's feelings and forcefully promote it. This is good governance, and the imperial court should promote it. "
The square headscarf merchant brought a hundred taels of silver, and when he entered the city, he was also checked. He saw the soldier constantly checking, and thought that the other party would definitely take some. But the soldier did not move, and instead asked, "Mister, do you want to do business?"
"Yes. I heard that Tianjin cloth is cheap and good, so I'm here to buy it. "The square headscarf merchant said politely.
"If you want to do business, our Revolutionary Army has a special business market." The soldier also took a booklet and even a newspaper, and handed it over, saying, "This is a business manual. There are important points to pay attention to when doing business with us. There are also the prices of our recently sold and purchased goods. This newspaper is the news of our Revolutionary Army. Mister, if you read it, you will definitely learn something. "
The soldier was neither overbearing nor servile, and his words were calm and clear. The square headscarf merchant was quite surprised. He concluded that the other party was a scholar, and not an ordinary soldier. "This Revolutionary Army is full of talented people. A mere city guard soldier looks ordinary, but he's actually so powerful. The rarest thing is that they're not greedy for money. Thinking about it more generally, this is too scary! "
Just entering the city, the square headscarf merchant was already surprised several times. However, after he entered Tianjin city, he did not go to the newly opened market in the city like the soldier said. Instead, he looked around and followed the streets into the small alleys of the city, looking for an inn with a 'Yunlai' banner hanging on it. After entering the inn, he walked to the counter and said a few words, and the innkeeper quietly arranged a room for him.
Not long after entering the room, the door was knocked a few times, and a greasy young man came in. He looked like the inn's waiter. As soon as he saw the square headscarf merchant, he cupped his hands and said, "This lowly one greets Lord Sun."
"No need to be so polite, quickly get up." The square headscarf merchant also waited for the young man to finish saluting before he went forward to help him up. "You warriors have a heart of loyalty that can be seen by the sun and moon. It's really hard for you to go deep into this tiger's den and wolf's nest. This official admires you very much."
The inn waiter got up and politely said, "It's not hard at all." Then he asked the square headscarf merchant if his journey was smooth. The latter talked about what he saw when he entered the city gate, and he was quite touched by the details of the Revolutionary Army's management of the city.
The inn waiter hurriedly explained, "This rebel has a lot of rules, and all of them like to break the mold. If you look closely, it's indeed very powerful. Women as soldiers may seem absurd, but women can feel proud and elated because of this. If a woman in the city is wronged and goes to complain, she'll definitely get what she wants. The rebel said something like 'women can decide half of the sky', but it makes men feel suffocated. "
"No men resent because of this?" The square headscarf merchant asked.
"There are. There's a family outside the city, because their daughter-in-law was instigated to quarrel with her father-in-law, they used the family law to beat her to death. When this matter was found out by the rebel, they immediately arrested all the men in the family and hanged them to death. They didn't even let the children of a few years old go. "
The inn waiter took out a newspaper, "Look … it's written in the news. They directly exterminated the whole family, not leaving a single person alive. They even shamelessly said something like 'one family crying is better than crying all the way, crying all the way is better than crying all the way, crying all the way is better than crying all the way, crying all the way is better than crying all the city, crying all the way is better than crying all the country.' They also said that under the rule of the Revolutionary Army, we must change our thinking and keep pace with the times. "
Newspaper?
The square headscarf merchant took the newspaper and looked at it. Although the simplified characters seemed to be lacking in strokes, he could still read it by guessing. He read in a low voice, "Tianjin Police Department announces the case, … In order to protect the rights and interests of women and children, to promote the status of women, in accordance with the Grand Marshal's spirit of 'correcting injustice must be excessive', this punishment is hereby given." When he read the last sentence, he exclaimed, 'Police Chief Ma Keshi'?
"Yes, it's this evil thief." The inn waiter said through gritted teeth, "This Ma Keshi was originally a eunuch's clique. He deceived the Emperor to gain power. In the capital, he was a member of the Eastern Faction Guards, a great scourge. Not long ago, when he was distributing grain in Tongzhou, the court officials praised him as a 'righteous eunuch'. Who would have thought that when the rebel thieves gained power, he immediately showed his true colors of a jackal and wolf.
This person was originally the deputy minister of the rebel thieves' security department, and he roped in more than a dozen court officials as his henchmen. He was good at interrogation, surveillance, and searching. In order to curry favor with the rebel thieves, after he took office, he arrested and slaughtered hundreds of righteous people who resisted the thieves in Tianjin. Now, no one in the city dares to fight against the rebel thieves.
Ma Keshi, on the other hand, was lucky because of this. He became the 'Police Chief', and then he started the 'New Life Movement'. Now, the city is carrying out large-scale construction, making the people have no way to live, and it's his good deed. It's just that this person is extremely cruel, and he often overcompensates and kills entire families. Now that the people have a way out, they can only obey. "
The square headscarf merchant's heart sank when he heard this. It sounded like this Ma Keshi was doing very well in the 'Revolutionary Army' and had a high position of power. He then asked, "What kind of position is this Police Chief? What rank is it?"
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