Chapter 241: Rebuilding the Xiong Cliff

Given that the original leadership of Xiongya Institute had all collapsed, the current Xiongya Institute is a typical anarchy. Zhang Zhun decided to re-establish the management agency here: Xiongyacheng Urban Management Department, referred to as Xiongyacheng Urban Management Department for short.

On the fourth day of the ninth month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Zhang Zhun sorted out the Shengxia Zong under his command. The original Shengxia Zong was of an organizational nature and administrative management nature, with the intersecting personnel, which made it awkward to see it. After Zhang Zhun thought about it, he established a special Urban Management Department to be responsible for urban management. The Urban Management Department and other departments were directly affiliated with Zhang Zhun and no longer passed through Shengxia Zong.

In this way, the Shengxia Sect restored its pure organizational function and was not responsible for administrative affairs. The members of the Shengxia Sect are just an identity and have no special power. Its purpose is to attract the best talents to the Shengxia Sect. At the same time, the personnel within the Shengxia Sect communicate with each other, learn from each other, improve each other, and enhance cohesion.

After the establishment of the Urban Management Department, its main function was daily administrative affairs. After taking down Xiongya, Zhang Zhun had a total of five urban management departments, namely Fushan City, Lingshan City, Xiahe City, Aoshan City, and Xiongya City. Each urban management department had a manager, and two deputy managers were responsible for specific affairs. Below the manager, there were corresponding deacons.

Regarding the specific situation of Xiongya Institute, Zhang Zhun selected three people, serving as managers and deputy managers. These three people were Lu Lancheng, Wang Yang, and Tian Boguang. They were all the first group of people to come back to Xiongya Institute. In a certain way, they were the people who were most familiar with Xiongya Institute and the group with the deepest feelings for Xiongya Institute. Their decisions would fully consider the actual situation of Xiongya Institute.

Among them, Lu Lancheng, who was appreciated by Zhang Zhun, took the initiative to return to Xiongya Institute from Aoshan City. He had already settled in Aoshan City and also served as a deacon of the Aoshan City Urban Management Department. Later, he heard that Xiongya Institute had been recovered, so he took the initiative to give up the fields in Aoshan City and voluntarily returned to Xiongya Institute. Compared with the deacon of the Aoshan City Urban Management Department, the management of Xiongya Institute Urban Management Department is actually a chore, a very dangerous chore.

The reconstruction work of Xiongya Institute is urgent.

First, the city wall is built.

Without a city wall, it doesn’t look like a city no matter how you look. Ancient cities were incredible if they had no city walls. Even villages with stronger strength had their own city walls. If there were no city walls, the people living in them would not feel safe. It was also a great challenge to the management of the city’s public security order. Although the Tartars on Tianheng Island had no chance to make trouble and could not threaten Xiongyao again, there may be other variables.

For example, a thief.

Now the world is in chaos and thieves are rampant. Maybe one day Xiongyao will be attacked by thieves. Some thieves take up weapons and put down weapons and become civilians. If they find that there are targets that can be robbed, they will gather together and rob. After succeeding, they will flee everywhere. Faced with such thieves, the government is powerless. The leader cannot catch a few shrimp soldiers and crab generals, which is useless. Once the opportunity is right, these people will reappear.

It seems that there are a large number of thieves around Pingdu Prefecture in the abdomen of Laizhou Prefecture. According to information, these thieves have a small number of people, only a few dozen people, and a large number of people, hundreds of people. Some thieves even have horses and muskets. Their whereabouts are floating and coming and going, which makes people feel very troublesome. Originally, the people of Fushan City also had thousands of acres of land near Pingdu Prefecture. However, due to the influence of thieves, these fields are basically not allowed to be cultivated normally.

What's even more terrible is that information shows that many of these thieves near Pingduzhou are composed of some wealthy families. The thieves have public identities and are guarding the houses of wealthy families. They are doing murder and robbery behind their backings. Some wealthy families have accumulated a lot of wealth through such bloody means. Because of their wealth, food, and backing, the equipment of these thieves is quite excellent. The ancient city and Tingkou Town are all areas of severely affected by thieves.

In addition, the incense smelling is also an unstable factor. The name of the incense smelling is really well-known in Shandong. Because people from all over Shandong have a general life difficulties, many people want to change their current situation. Therefore, many people voluntarily became believers of the incense smelling sect. As long as the appropriate time is right, the incense smelling sings and shouts, and there are still many people who respond to the call. Last year's Jinxiang Uprising, at least 150,000 people participated, which shows that the incense smelling sect is deeply rooted and complicated.

The Winter Scent Sect is good at destruction, but not at construction. Therefore, after capturing the town, they always habitually plundered all the towns and then fled. Before, the Winter Sect was in Laiyang, but actually intercepted the soldiers dispatched by Dengzhou Prefecture. This shows that the number of the Winter Sect in Laiyang should be large. Even the Winter Sect is very likely to have important figures who are responsible for organizing the activities of the believers in Laiyang. Laiyang is very close to Xiong Cliff. If the Winter Sect attacks Xiong Cliff, there is no solid city wall, it is obviously unstoppable.

"Sir, if the fragrance scent comes overwhelmingly..."

Lu Lancheng was quite afraid of the incense smelling sect.

Once the Winter Scent Sect is launched, it will be in the size of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people. Tens of thousands of people are coming in a mighty way, and the scene can make most people's scalp numb. People without any courage cannot bear it. In fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that in the vast team of the Winter Sect, the elderly, weak, sick and disabled occupy the vast majority. These people have no combat power and there is no need to worry at all. However, after all, the other party's population base is too large, and even if calculated at a proportion of 10%, there are thousands of young and strong people. Once they are motivated, they will surge up like a tide, which is still very dangerous.

There is another special thing in Laiyang. It has just been completely ravaged by the Tartars, and most of its houses and buildings were burned by the Tartars. Of course, the people whose homes were destroyed had anger to vent. The fall of Laiyang City was entirely caused by the local government's ineffectiveness. Therefore, the people's anger towards the government can be said to have reached its peak. At this moment, Laiyang is a dry pile of firewood. As long as the smelling incense sect drops a little spark, it can ignite a huge fire that soars into the sky. Unfortunately, the Xiong Cliff is in their eyes, and they are also the representative of the government, and they are likely to be affected.

As a fortress-style building on the front line, the higher the city wall, the better, the stronger the city wall. It is best to be so strong that even the cannons cannot be blown up. Of course, Zhang Zhun doesn’t have to worry too much when facing thieves and the fragrance-smelling. There is definitely not many cannons. At the same time, the taller the city wall, the stronger the cost, the higher the cost. He does not have such capital to build it into a fortress like Jinzhou City. Just keep it one level.

Secondly, it is to clear out various dilapidated houses in the city.

After the ravages of the Tartars, the buildings in Xiongya City were basically abandoned. Rats appeared in it, but people could not be seen. Houses, including Qianhuguan Hall, were all shaky. If someone lived in it, they would be crushed to death before the house collapsed in the middle of the night. Instead of letting it rot slowly, it would be better to demolish it directly and rebuilt it.

Especially now, Xiongya City has a small population and is under great pressure, which is a good time to rebuild. Push down all the original houses and rebuild them, so that they can be planned better. Even if the original houses do not collapse, they will look messy. Many buildings that should be included are ignored. The space that should be fully utilized has been wasted. Renovation takes more effort than pushing down and rebuilding.

Again, it is to improve various protective measures.

It is not enough to have a city wall alone, and various defense facilities must be improved, such as urn city, city gate, arrow tower, arrow tower, shooting hole, female wall, etc., so that when the enemy launches an attack, it can effectively counterattack. If there are trenches, moats, etc., it will be even more perfect. Of course, considering the problem of garrison, the defense facilities do not need to be particularly powerful. Therefore, there is no need for trenches and moats. There is too much manpower, material resources and financial resources required.

Overall, all the above affairs are water-mixed and require a lot of time and energy. They cannot be achieved overnight. These tasks can only be handed over to the people of Xiongyacheng Urban Management Department to be responsible for the specific implementation.

While rebuilding Xiongya City, the implementation of four laws is also the top priority. In particular, the implementation of the "Jotian Order" is related to the issue of whether local military households are willing to live here for a long time. Of course, the most important thing is the core issue of whether they are willing to support Zhang Zhun.

The current population of Xiongya Institute is quite sparse. Two or three days have passed, and the military households who have returned one after another may have less than 200 households, only one thousand people. The work of dividing land and land can only be relied on these 200 households for the time being. Xiongya Institute actually has a lot of fields, with a total of more than 40,000 acres. Therefore, some people couldn't help but propose to send all these fields to the hands of each military household.

Zhang Zhun did not agree.
Chapter completed!