Chen Xi was preparing to form a soldier who was completely commanded and dispatched by him.

Although the soldiers' salaries are not to worry about, he is fully responsible for the weapons, equipment, etc. needed to support this army, so that Chen Xi does not want to make the scale too large... With about two thousand regular soldiers, plus the four or five thousand troops who obey the dispatch, basically, any war can be easily dealt with.

Even in the Battle of Tumu Fort, Chen Xi only used less than 10,000 soldiers to deal with the Tatars. In this Huguang land, cultivating two thousand elite officers and soldiers was enough to deal with all challenges.

Chen Xi planned to recruit military backbones from his guards, train them first, and then allocate the soldiers with the best quality in Huguang to his command, equipped with muskets and artillery, and build an iron army according to the methods of later generations. When not fighting, they will protect their own safety, and when fighting, they will be destroyed and invincible.

Chen Xi's idea was strongly supported by Su Jingyang. Su Jingyang had provided some officers and soldiers to Chen Xi before, and also called the commander of the guards around Wuchang Prefecture, Qianhu, Qianhu, Qianhu, and visited Chen Xi, and asked someone to go back to select soldiers and send them to Wuchang Prefecture to obey Chen Xi's orders.

Before the model soldiers officially formed an army, Chen Xi's main focus was on the industrial park.

After many tests, the flintlock rifle is gradually taking shape. To put it bluntly, this gun turns the fire message that ignites the gunpowder into the flint that pulls the trigger to ignite. Although the sparks splashed out from the flint are not effective every time, pulling the trigger twice will always ignite the gunpowder in the musket.

Now, the blacksmiths are trying to find a way to bayonet the flintlock rifle, so that even if there is no gunpowder, the troops will have the power to fight again.

The next step is to seize the time to produce the flintlock rifle.

Chen Xi planned to produce two thousand flintlock rifles in one year and then equip the troops... This would be the first army in the history of the Ming Dynasty to be equipped with firearms. If it is supplemented with the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, Chen Xi believed that it would become a sharp sword in his hand.

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After seeing off Zhu Houzhao, Chen Xi was always in the two-point and one-line lifestyle of the industrial park and the Governor's Office.

The yamen of the governor and the yamen of the governor have sent letters to urge Chen Xi to take the initiative to take the initiative to take the initiative to take on the flood control matters.

The commander Su Jingyang of the city commander wanted Chen Xi to lead the troops to quell the rebellion of local ethnic minorities, while Ma Zhongxi was determined to ask Chen Xi to help prevent floods and disasters.

The batch of money and grain that Ma Zhongxi had obtained from Chen Xi before had been transported to the capital to supplement the empty treasury after the Battle of the Capital.

Ma Zhongxi became a good man, but he had no silver at hand that he urgently needed to manage the rivers.

Even if the local area is full of manpower, it always costs money to buy sacks and gravel. It is okay to owe money if you don’t pay it. But when ordinary people come to fight floods and disaster relief, they always need to take care of food? Where does the money for purchasing food come from?

Chen Xi originally didn't want to pay attention to flood control and disaster control, but he lived on the edge of the Yangtze River in Wuchang Prefecture. If the dike collapsed, he would not escape by himself, and the industrial park would also suffer.

It is related to one's own stability and also to the technological progress of the Ming Dynasty. Chen Xi could only go to the Yangtze River embankment to inspect the Yangtze River embankment and gain a further understanding of the Yangtze River flood control situation.

After inspecting the river embankment in Chenxi, he found that the quality of the dam in this era was very low. The foundation of the embankment was a gravel foundation. There were ponds formed by the collapse of the embankment after the previous collapse. The embankment foundation was severely damaged. There were no beaches or few beach embankment sections on the water surface. Termites, snakes, badgers, rats, etc. made many holes, posing a great threat to the embankment.

Once a breach occurs, there will be an endless plain behind the dam and floods will be unstoppable.

Because the summer flood is coming, Chen Xi, as the governor of Huguang, cannot help but put flood control as the top priority. He can only hope that the flood this year will not come too fiercely, and give him a certain amount of time to strengthen the dam and prevent floods and treat disasters.

The Ming Dynasty dredged rivers and responded to floods, and put the Yellow River as the top priority. After all, the Yellow River is flooded every year, while the Yangtze River is "according to the rules" most of the time. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty only set up a river governor's office in Qilu, but did not set up a corresponding river management office along the Yangtze River.

The three-level yamen at the prefecture, prefecture and county level are the main flood control agencies in Huguang and Jiangnan. Local government recruitment of civil servants, loading sandbags, and transporting berths, are organized by the yamen at all levels.

As the highest administrative and military organ of the two provinces, the Governor's Office is not responsible for specific matters, but Chen Xi can use his "reputation" to raise disaster relief funds from the people and use them for river defense.

The Governor's Office released the wind, and all the wealthy families in Huguang tightened their pockets.

Everyone knows that this new governor is not easy to mess with. Before, Chen Xi just underestimated the idea of ​​traitors who poisoned Ma Zhongxi, so he took 800,000 taels of silver from the officials and gentry of Huguang, causing great families to suffer.

Now Shenxi has a word about managing the river, and it is possible that the place can donate a lot of money. Many families who had not had time to leave Huguang and migrate to other places before, and now they all regret it.

"I didn't think it was easy at that time. I thought I could gradually restore my former glory after staying. As a result, the business was snatched away by someone, but now I'm going to be cheated of it! It's so hard!"

Although Chen Xi let the wind out, he was quite polite and did not intend to let the local gentry pay the money because he knew that the gentry's life is not easy now, especially after many aristocratic families lost their franchise, they have changed from businessmen to landlords, relying on land and store to make a living.

Chen Xi means that Song Xiaocheng and Huiniang took out a sum of money to complete the local flood control work, and thus establish political connections for Song Xiaocheng and Huiniang to successfully unfold the local business.

Now Song Xiaocheng is doing business in Huguang, and Huiniang has arrived in Jianggan. If Chen Xi cannot provide more policy assistance to the two, it will be difficult for the two families to grow and grow in the next step.

Chen Xi made a preliminary calculation and took out 20,000 taels of silver to provide relief in the early stage.

Most of the money can be withdrawn from the Governor's Office, and the rest will be borne by Song Xiaocheng and Hui Niang. If there is any further deficiencies, it will be filled by local gentry.

Hui Niang arrived in Nanchang, and Chen Xi wanted to visit her... At this moment, the family had already started from the capital. If Xie Yuner and her daughter arrived at Wuchang Mansion, it might be even more inconvenient for him to go to Nanchang Mansion.

Under such circumstances, Chen Xi finally decided to take a trip to Nanchang before his family’s family arrived.

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The news that Chen Xi was about to inspect Nanchang spread quickly, which scared the officials and gentry of Jianggan.

The new governor of the two provinces was decisive and decisive, and his "bad deeds" had spread throughout the officialdom. Everyone regarded Chen Xi as a plague god and ventilated in Shen Xi in advance, saying that he was going to Nanchang to inspect military affairs and supervise flood control matters, many gentry in the local area were already scared and wanted to escape.

There is Ma Zhongxi in the Huguang Administration Office as the vanguard of Chen Xi, while there is no Ma Wensheng in Jianggan for the time being, and there is no Liu Jian and Li Dongyang faction.

There was not even a single official who could talk to Chen Xi, and the local governments at all levels were even more worried, fearing that Chen Xi would come to the previous "big cleaning" again.

Chenxi traveled eastward, and there were not many people accompanying him. He had to go down the river to Jiujiang Prefecture, then go to Poyang Lake to land to Nanchang Prefecture. Although the journey was not very long, it would take six or seven days.

Chenxi will not rush to travel. The focus is on inspecting the situation of the embankment along the river, and by the way, we will ask the local government for flood control and disaster control. The main focus is to understand the actual situation in various places.

After Chen Xi took office, he stayed in Wuchang Prefecture. Those who didn't know thought he had taken root in Wuchang City. However, the gentry at all levels in Jianggan had long been awakened. Chen Xi served as the governor of the two provinces and could never stay in one place. This time, when he came to Jianggan, he would definitely complete the reform of the local franchise system under other banners, and "competing for profit with the people" and would not be able to get along with the gentry.
Chapter completed!