The Huai Army's current actual control territory is the two prefectures of Shandong, Xuzhou, Huai'an, Yangzhou and Henan. Using the geographical concept of Lu Si's previous life, that is, the eight cities in Jiangsu north of the Yangtze River, plus two cities in Shandong Province and Henan.

It is also OK to talk about two provinces.

The territory is too large, and Lu Si cannot stay in Shandong all the time because his enemies are not just the Qing court.

For a long time, in addition to a series of regime constructions in Huai'an and Lu Si in Yangzhou, he was extremely devoted, and even carried out a cruel cleansing of the countryside to maintain the local rule of the Huai Army, as the war continued to progress and the territory continued to grow, it was difficult for him to undergo a thorough transformation like Huaiyang.

Now, it is more about repeating the past path of the rise of feudal warlords, that is, constantly accumulating the original ruling class and absorbing large numbers of surrendered troops, thus making the Huai Army grow continuously.

This is certainly because the Qing army made too fast after entering the pass, which led to Lu Si having to develop rapidly, and it is also determined by the characteristics of the times.

According to Lu Si, who has two provinces, it is impossible for him to carry out major reforms in the short term, and he is even more powerless, so he must form an institution similar to the "General Front Committee" on the North Line to replace him with his great power in coordination.

The establishment of the Shandong War Zone is based on this basis.

Lu Si decided to place the Huai Army in Shandong Province and the fifth town in Henan into the Shandong War Zone, and set up a Jiedushi to manage military and political affairs.

In terms of the army, in addition to the seventh town that crosses the sea and the sixth town that is about to go north, the Huai Army also has the first town in Shandong that is being reorganized and reorganized in Jinan, the second town on the Jiaodong Peninsula. In addition, there are flags, heavy armor, cavalry, artillery teams, and other local bandits who have recruited more than 60,000 armed forces.

Lu Si plans to include the first town, the second town, and the fifth town in Henan into this Shandong war zone, and then draw 1,000 troops from the flag and the second divisions of the heavy armor, together with the newly formed eighth town captured by the Tugang, Shun Army and Han Army.

Each town still has a staffing based on the original quota of 10,500 people, which is equivalent to the concept of "teacher".

The first town is located in Jinan, responsible for the three prefectures of Jinan, Dongchang and Dezhou;

The second town is located in Qingzhou, responsible for the three prefectures of Qingzhou, Dengzhou and Laizhou;

The fifth town is still stationed in Kaifeng, responsible for the two prefectures of Kaifeng and Guide.

The newly-edition Eighth Town is stationed in Jining and is responsible for Caozhou, Yanzhou and Yizhou.

The first town commander Xia Dajun, the second town commander Zuo Pan An, and the fifth town commander Zhang Guozhu, these three town commanders were not moved, and they were all trustworthy by Lu Si.

Although Zhang Guozhu did not achieve great results in Henan, he also annihilated the 3,400 Green Camp soldiers of the General General of the Qing Weihui, Zu Kefa, and also recruited and surrendered many local bandits. It can be said that the fifth town, a town mainly dominated by Liu Ze's Qing army, was brought on the right track. With time, Zhang Guozhu's military talent might achieve unexpected results Lu Si would.

The eighth town general Lu Si did not appoint surrendered generals, but handed them over to Monk Xu. This person is a good friend worthy of Lu Si's trust, and is also one of the "conspirators" within the Huai Army who strongly advocated the generals to "receive the dragon".

The position of the first brigade commander of the first town by Monk Xu was appointed by the surrendered general Bai Yongfu, and Bai performed very well in both battles in Maguantun and Majiahe.

"Except for the Eighth Town, all the more people from the other three towns will be transferred to Shandong Tonghui Yamen to local troops in various prefectures, prefectures and counties to maintain public order, crack down on bandits, renovate roads, ensure posts, and be dispatched by each town during the war."

Lu Si's arrangement was roughly the same as Huaiyang, that is, to establish local armed forces outside the main force, with a 100-person county, a 300-person prefecture and a 500-person prefecture.

When there is no war, these troops can also "escort" the operation of local governments, so as to ensure that local governments can strike first when there is something wrong, rather than mobilizing the main force to encircle and suppress the suppression whenever there is something happening.

Chen Buping's Shandong Tonghui Yamen organized a hasty census in various places. It is optimistic that the population of Shandong under the Huai Army may be about 2 million, of which Jiaodong region accounts for one-third, with more than 700,000 people.

The remaining population is Yanzhou Prefecture, with more than 500,000 people. The smallest population is Jinan Prefecture, which is less than 200,000. There are only more than 60,000 people in Jinan. The northern Dezhou Statistics Registration is zero, and the original population of tens of thousands has been moved to Jining and Tai'an.

The Denglai rebellion in the fifth year of Chongzhen and the three key attacks on Shandong by the Qing army since then, probably lost more than 4 million people in Shandong. Last year, when Abatai invaded, Shandong was abducted nearly 600,000 strong men and women, and more than one million livestock.

It is obviously very difficult to raise the main force of the four towns with a population of two million, plus local second-line troops and officials.

What's more, he had to supply some of the military rations in the Seventh Town that crossed the sea, so Lu Si had to leave Shandong and return to Huaiyang. Like the Qing Dynasty, he urgently needed to get money and food from Jiangnan now.

Except for Lu Si, the civil and military officials of the Huai Army were basically incomprehensible.

Lu Si simplified the meaning of the war zone, saying that it was to establish a senior official in Shandong similar to the governor and unified command of the troops of the four towns under the Shandong war zone.

"In other words, if I am the governor of Shandong, all matters in Shandong will be responsible for this war zone. All the troops under the war zone and the Shandong Tonghui Office must unconditionally obey the war zone's Jiedu dispatch."

After Lu Si finished speaking, he added, "The War Zone Jiedu is like me, the governor."

After hearing this, everyone discussed it for a while. Wen Yanjie stood up and asked, "But I don't know who will serve as the governor of Shandong War Zone?"

This issue is obviously the concern of the generals and officials.

Lu Si pondered for a moment and there were several candidates who were qualified to be in charge of Shandong. Xia Dajun could do it, Zuo Pan'an could do it, but both of them were illiterate and could fight, but they might lack the overall coordination. Chen Buping had the Shandong Tonghui talent, but he did not have military qualifications, so he would be unable to convince the public.

Therefore, there is only one candidate that can be accepted by both the military and political parties, that is, Lu Guangyuan, the nephew of Lu Si, who was appointed as the governor of the Three Prefectures of Huaiyang and Xu.

Chen Buping was the first to express his support, not only because he was recommended to the governor by the young governor, but also because the young governor was kind and righteous, respectful to scholars, broad-mindedness, and loved the people as much as his son.

"This kid in Guangyuan, yes, that's OK."

Zuo Pan'an and Zhang Guozhu are not there, and Xia Dajun and Xu Monkshang are representatives of the Shandong Huai Army. Both of them agree with Lu Si's arrangement.

"You two elders need to help more in the military affairs. After all, Guangyuan has been in the rear and has not experienced any major wars and government affairs. You, Chen Buping, was recommended to me by my nephew. I don't need me, the uncle, to explain more to you."

"The reorganization of each town is about to be carried out. The transfer of money and grain will be fully assisted by the Tonghui Office. Lao Wen is temporarily participating in the politics of my nephew."

After making some arrangements and deployments, Lu Si asked everyone to disperse and immediately started their own affairs. His nephew Guangyuan would go north to Jinan after he arrived in Xuzhou.

Seeing that it was getting late, I prepared to take a break early and set off for Jinan tomorrow. However, my nephew Lu Yiliang came in and said that there was a surrendered general named Chen De and asked for a meeting.

Lu Si picked up the cold tea bowl and yelled: "How much did he give you?"

Lu Yiliang was stunned, then shook his head and said, "No, no, how dare my grandson take other people's money."

"If you don't charge him money, what should you report to him?"

Lu Si didn't believe it, but even if Yiliang accepted Chen De's money, he wouldn't say anything.

Lu Yiliang blushed and urgently defended: "No, my grandson really confiscated other people's money, but the man said he wanted to present Kong Youde's wife and daughter to the governor, and I then called him."

"Kong Youde's wife and children?"

Lu Si was stunned. He remembered that Qi Bao seemed to have told him something, but he had never had enough to do it. He hurriedly wanted to ask Qi Bao what was going on, but he remembered that Qi Bao took someone to Gao Jie with Yan Zong.

"Um,"

Lu Si was a little sleepy and wanted to rest early, so he didn't want to see Chen De. The left and right were just surrendered generals, but hesitated for a moment and asked his nephew Sun Yiliang: "How is Kong Youde's wife looking?"
Chapter completed!