Hongzui Fort is actually quite far away from Jinzhou City. The distance between Jinzhou and Fuzhou is not far from Hongzui Fort. However, because the development of the eastern coastal area of Liaodong Peninsula has not been as good as that of the western part, there has been little in terms of administrative setup.
Attention was paid to it, and no large-scale town was formed. In the original organizational structure of the Ming Dynasty, this place had always been governed by Jinzhou Wei, so the current administrative structure was formed.
The situation here is similar to that of Jinzhou. It was an area that had a long-term back-and-forth between the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Even the fall of Hongzuibao was later than that of Jinzhou. When Mao Wenlong was passing through the Dongjiang River, Hongzuibao was close to Guanglu Island and other eastern regions.
***, so it has always been the bridgehead of the Dongjiang River on land.
Precisely because it is close to the original basic base of Dongjiang Town such as Guanglu Island, the situation here is more complicated. Wang Dabao and Huang Chao not only have to face the possible remnants of the Manchu Qing forces, but also face the forces entrenched in the outer sea.
some pirate forces.
Last year, the navy was ordered to recruit and suppress some remaining pirates off the coast of Liaonan. However, facing the vast sea area, they did not completely clear out the pirates in this area. From time to time, some pirates would still appear to harass places.
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"Brother Wang, how many police officers will be stationed in Hongzui Town in your state? Why do I see that there are not many police officers when you arrive?" The military commander stationed at Hongzui Fort was talking to Wang Dabao and Huang
When they were handing over work, Chao asked with great concern about the police establishment situation in Hongzui Town.
"It is true that there are not many police officers coming this time, but the state will send more police officers in the future. Due to the complicated situation here, the state is afraid that there will be too few police officers to suppress the formation, so the police officers who have finally been determined
There are more than fifty people in the establishment, accounting for more than half of the total number of officials in the town. There are more people than the platoon-level organization in the military!" Wang Dabao confidently introduced the size of the town's police establishment to the officers.
"Only more than fifty people? I'm afraid such a few people are not enough. Brother, I have a full regiment of troops here, which is a bit stretched to cope with the situation here. More than fifty people are simply not enough!"
"Captain Liu, you don't have enough troops for one regiment? How is this possible? The prefecture's roster says that there are only about 500 households here. No matter how unruly they are, 800 troops are enough to deal with it, right?
?Is it because there are often rebels here to cause trouble that the situation is so difficult to control?"
"Jianlu was driven to the Haizhou area long ago and will never appear here again. The main problem here is the pirates, and the scourge left by the den of thieves in Dongjiang Town continues to this day. We have joined forces with the Navy
We have suppressed them several times. Although they have been beaten so that they have not dared to show their faces in the recent period, they still have not done their best and have not eliminated their roots. After we go to the northern front in two months, I am afraid that those thieves will come again to harass the Red Army.
Mouth."
"Pirates? Isn't it possible for the army to eradicate them? If we find their base and wipe them out in one fell swoop, wouldn't the situation be controllable? In order to prevent pirates, occupying too many police personnel is not the solution." Wang Dabao said to himself
The understanding of the change in identity was well understood. Not long after he retired, his thinking became that of a government official, and he began to consider the issue of governance costs.
"Brother Wang! The situation at sea is not as simple as you think. These people are so cunning that they can settle down on any deserted island. It is really difficult to find their lair. Even if they find it, they can't surround it.
, they will escape easily. In addition, some pirates’ lairs are not even here, they have lairs in North Korea. Now I finally understand why Your Majesty and the imperial court do not like to see the Mao family and Dongjiang Town.
Look at the disasters they left behind. They either became traitors or caused trouble for bandits. They are simply a den of national thieves!" Commander Liu Zaixing's impression of the remaining forces in Dongjiang Town is currently the mainstream understanding of the officers and soldiers in southern Liaoning. Their view of Dongjiang
I don’t have a good impression of the town at all!
Coming out of Liu Zaixing's office, Wang Dabao and Huang Chao frowned. The situation was much worse than they expected! According to the situation Liu Zaixing said, not to mention fifty or sixty police officers, even one or two hundred police officers
Police officers may not be very useful. You can’t have a town-level government office with three to four hundred police officers, right?
"Knowing the town, how about we report it and ask the prefecture to send some soldiers from the security brigade to garrison in our town?" When encountering this situation, Huang Chao's first thought was to ask for troops from the prefecture. Apart from that, he really
I can't think of any other way to solve the problem.
"There is only one security brigade in the state, and it only has about 3,000 people if it is full. Jinzhou City needs troops, Lushun needs troops, and Fuzhou will definitely have troops next year. I'm afraid there won't be any extra people.
Send them to us."
"What should I do?"
"Right now, I don't have any good ideas to think of! Let's do this. Let's report it to the top. Just add one more thing to the report. If we can't garrison troops, it's best to expand the police establishment in our town to more than a hundred people. Police
With over a hundred personnel, we can at least deal with some incompetent pirates."
When Chen Dayou received the report from Huang Chao and others, his head was pounding! It was not just the town of Hongzuibao that wanted garrison troops and police officers, but all the towns on the east coast were calling for armed forces.
Where can we mobilize so many armed forces for them? According to their requirements, even if Jinzhou has four to five thousand armed forces, it may not be enough. The security brigade here in Jinzhou is already over-provisioned and needs to increase its strength.
, think about it and you know it’s unlikely. You can’t have nearly 10,000 armed personnel in a place with a population of tens of thousands, right? According to this standard, no matter how many soldiers and horses the imperial court has, it won’t be enough!
However, the real pressure of coastal defense forced grassroots officials to ask for help. After Chen Dayou thought hard, he could not come up with any good ideas. In the end, he had to learn the methods of the towns below and write reports to describe the situation to his superiors.
Sea defense is a long-standing problem that has been faced since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. This hidden worry has not been effectively solved from the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the destruction of the country. The solution that Comrade Lao Zhu came up with was to build a series of coastal defense stations along the coast to defend the country.
Maritime chaos, now that the guard posts have been cancelled, how to defend the sea in a low-cost way has become a big problem.
After receiving Chen Dayou's report, the military commander's hall and the cabinet quickly consulted Zhu Youjian on this issue. A thorny issue in a seaside town circulated throughout the Ming dynasty's bureaucracy until it alarmed the top leaders. It seems that the current situation
The ability to proactively find solutions to problems using a system is still not enough.
"It is definitely not possible to defend the sea by land. The mobility on land is inherently worse than that at sea, and people are roving around. If we solve the problem with the idea of land defense, the cost will be beyond imagination. To control maritime disasters, we must be based on
To control the sea! Chaos on the sea is caused by the complicated sources of the pirates and the uncertain drift of the pirates. I think that if you want to control the sea, you must first clarify the difficulties in maritime affairs and classify the pirates. Let’s look for problems.
Answer." Zhu Youjian didn't directly say how to solve the problem. He felt that the current administrative system was a bit mindless because of his habit. At least he had to let them use their brains first and come up with an idea.