A few days ago, a major event happened in Ganquan Fort, that is, the government was established, that is, the Ganquan County Government was established. Whether it was resolving conflicts among the people, maintaining order, running schools, organizing production, etc., the government and the army were required to assist.
Chen Qing officially appointed Jiang Yanxian as the first county magistrate, Zhang Miao as the county magistrate, Lu Wei as the county captain, and Yang Yuanqing's brother-in-law Wei Qun as the chief registrar. He also recruited more than 20 young people from the common people to serve as clerks and allocated funds.
One hundred logistics soldiers serve as archers.
Chen Qing also turned the compound where the Jurchen family members were under house arrest in the north of the city into a temporary county government, and allocated a large amount of money, food and materials.
In this way, the human, financial, material and location requirements were all met, and Ganquan County Government was officially established.
The first thing the county government did when it was established was to register the population and compile household registers. At the same time, spring plowing was also put on the agenda.
This morning, the first meeting to start spring plowing was held in the county government meeting hall.
Chen Qing participated in the discussion as the governor of Qinzhou, while Yang Yuanqing attended as a military representative. Four county magistrates and three custodians also participated in the discussion.
Jiang Yanxian smiled and said: "In fact, our county government had discussed it last night. One hundred and twenty hectares of civilian land is quite a lot. I'm afraid the whole city needs to be mobilized, just like what happened in Chengji County the year before last, when the whole city
We are going to farm. The elderly and children who really can’t go are planting gourds and winter melons in their own yards. Please take a look at the plan we have drawn up.”
Jiang Yan first handed a plan to Chen Qing. Chen Qing looked at it and smiled and said: "The plan is good, but I will mention a few details and ask the county government to improve it."
"Please tell me, Commander-in-Chief!"
Chen Qing thought for a while and said: "The first thing is about the more than 300 rescued women, all of whose household registrations are in Ganquan County, and they are normal county residents. Then, Vice General Yang arranged for more than 300 young generals to
Their household registrations are also in Ganquan County, and then these more than 600 people were divided into thirty mutual aid societies, and they were arranged to work together. Do you understand what I mean?"
Everyone laughed. Isn't this just a trick?
Jiang Yanxian smiled and asked: "I understand what Dutong means, then how to allocate mutual aid groups specifically?"
Chen Qing said with a smile: "There were already 13 mutual aid groups for making briquettes before. The members of these 13 mutual aid groups remain unchanged. The newly formed 17 mutual aid groups will be decided by drawing lots, and let fate arrange their marriages. Everyone
Understand!"
Everyone agreed, and Jiang Yanxian said: "Please continue with the second detail, Commander-in-Chief!"
"The second detail is that mutual aid groups for ordinary people are best formed on a voluntary basis. If it is really impossible to form, the government will arrange it for them. Then I want to know, how many varieties are planted in the courtyard?"
County Magistrate Zhang Miao quickly said: "Currently, there are only two vegetable varieties: gourds and winter melons, and grapes are also available as fruits, but one difficulty is that there is no thin wood for gourd racks and grape racks."
"This is not a big problem. The first batch of logging teams will come back tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. This time they will bring back a large number of pine branches, from which they can select better branches to build the scaffolding."
"I understand the humble position!"
Chen Qing added: "There is another detail about farm tools and farm animals. In fact, the main force in farming is the army. Ordinary people only sow water and are responsible for daily farmland maintenance. This must be made clear to everyone. I think
Many people complained about the lack of oxen and plows, but it was completely unnecessary."
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The county government needed to improve the plan, so Jiang Yan first accompanied Chen Qing to inspect the well drilling site in the east of the city.
"Do you all think that the Jin soldiers will definitely attack Ganquan Fort?"
Chen Qing nodded, "Both Wanyan Wushu and Wanyan Chang regard us as a cancer. Especially after the failure of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Campaign, they will realize more clearly that as long as we exist, their Sichuan and Shaanxi will be destroyed.
The Shaanxi strategy cannot be realized. Unless they don't want Sichuan or the northwest, they will definitely regard us as their number one enemy and will do everything possible to annihilate us. They will arrive soon."
"That's why the capital gave up Chengji County and stuck to Ganquan Fort!"
"Yes! If we cannot hold Ganquan Fort, we will have no chance to expand outward."
After a pause, Chen Qing said apologetically: "The county magistrate Jiang was the magistrate of the state ten years ago, and now he has to wrong you to become the county magistrate again. I am really sorry!"
Jiang Yanxian smiled slightly and said, "I will not serve as magistrate appointed by the imperial court, but I am deeply honored by the magistrate appointed by the imperial government!"
The two looked at each other and laughed understandingly together.
At this time, Jiang Yanxian thought of another thing and said to Chen Qing: "It seems that Wei County Lieutenant is a little emotional about his position. He has been depressed for the past two days."
Chen Qing thought about Lu Wei's performance in the meeting hall today. He was indeed silent and depressed. It seemed that he was in a mood.
"Why is he like this?" Chen Qing asked.
"Hongzhi felt that he wanted to be a county magistrate, and he wanted to be a county magistrate, but in the end he was appointed as a county captain, which made him a little disappointed. Maybe he felt that Zhang Miao was a little less qualified."
Chen Qing nodded, "I will persuade him. There are some things he hasn't seen through. Just point them out. You don't have to worry."
"I would like to ask the Commander-in-Chief to hurry up. There are many things in Spring Plowing that require his cooperation. If he doesn't cooperate, the mutual aid club will not be formed smoothly."
"I know, and we will solve it today. If he is still in such a mood, I will remove him directly!"
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There are a total of four deep wells in Ganquan Castle, all of which are more than ten feet deep. They existed before the castle appeared. It was because of these four wells that Zhe Kexing, then the observer of Qinzhou, decided to build a well to resist the Xixia army.
The large castle took ten years to complete. Zhe Kexing personally named it Ganquan Castle, but the people called it Sijing Castle.
In the past two years, Chen Qing has been hoping to drill more water wells. He has drilled five more wells, but all failed. It seems that he cannot escape the curse of being able to drill only four wells.
Chen Qing has been studying the characteristics of the four wells for the past two months. He finally discovered that the four wells were arranged in an arc, and this arc extended all the way to the outside of the city.
Chen Qing boldly judged that the four wells in the arc-shaped underground river below were all located on this underground river. If his judgment was correct, they could drill three more wells, one in the northwest and two in the southeast.
In the past few days, three hundred soldiers have been digging wells day and night, hoping that this time they will succeed.
There were still more than a hundred steps away from the well in the northwest, when suddenly there was cheering all over the place, and the surrounding people and soldiers rushed over.
Jiang Yanxian said excitedly: "Du Tong, maybe water has been dug out!"
Chen Qing nodded, it should be, otherwise he wouldn't be cheering so much.
They rushed forward and saw a group of soldiers hugging each other and shouting excitedly. One soldier pulled a bucket of yellow mud water from the pit.
Seeing Chen Qing's arrival, Hu Yanyun hurriedly greeted him and said excitedly: "Du Tong, the well drilling was successful!"
"Okay! Sure enough, we found the water vein."
Jiang Yanxian quickly asked: "Can we drill more wells?"
Chen Qing shook his head, "According to the direction of this underground river, we can dig two more wells in the southeast corner at most, and then there will be no more. Unless we dig wells outside the city, there is no point."
Jiang Yanxian added: "If the Jin soldiers also discover the direction of these wells, they will probably dig directly outside the city to cut off our water veins. Dutong, we must be extra cautious about this!"
"You are right. In fact, our predecessors have thought of this. They specially placed four wells in four rooms. Most people don't know where these four wells are? Unless Jin Bing had planned it before
A detailed diagram of the entire city, but from the mouths of the surrendering soldiers, the Jin soldiers did not think of this. Even if they really drew the drawings, they would never think of it being related to the direction of the underground river. I have been in Ganquan Fort for almost two years.
, I finally discovered this secret after careful research, how could Jin Bing have thought of it? So I am not worried."
"Du Tong is right, it's because of his humble position and excessive worries."
Chen Qing smiled again and said: "Go and have a look at the wheat fields outside the city."