Liu Xiang was no longer satisfied with the speed at which disaster victims arrived at his door. He began to send troops to patrol the countryside and persuade people to enter the city.
A soldier from the Shihu Army Camp will lead a team of 100 recruits, and a total of twenty teams will be sent out.
In order to prevent murder and robbery, he has extremely strict requirements on military discipline. If he violates military regulations this time, he will be executed without mercy.
Two teams of Tiqi were specially sent to supervise.
These people would patrol the leys, pavilions, and townships under the county seat one by one. If they encountered thieves, they would exterminate them. If they encountered refugees, they would bring them back. In the vacant places, they would demolish the houses and fill up the wells. If there were people living there, they would come to persuade them.
A group of soldiers armed with weapons and fierce looks blocked the door and said to you in a friendly manner:
"Dear, I think it's time for you to go into the city."
The people who met them would happily move to the county seat and burst into tears of gratitude.
When Liu Xiang heard Tiqi's report, he shook his head and smiled. He didn't think it was a big problem. The grassroots work of dealing with ordinary people was actually quite difficult.
Isn’t there an old saying: The bigger the forest is, the more birds there are.
The same rice feeds hundreds of people. When there are more people, there will be people with all kinds of temperaments and temperaments. No matter how strong the reason is, no matter how good your words are, you can't persuade the stubborn people.
As long as they don't hurt anyone, they will use some tricks and tricks, and Liu Xiang will be happy to see the results.
Twenty teams of soldiers went out early and returned late, clearing the countryside outside the county town bit by bit. They moved people, demolished houses, buried wells, and then cut down trees and burned grass, completely clearing the land outside the city.
The enemy cannot obtain labor from the local area, nor can it drive the local people to attack the city, nor can it use the people to shake the will of the defenders and consume the defenders' arrows.
All the enemy's needs must be transported from the rear, making it more difficult for them to supply and increasing their logistical pressure.
This is the purpose of clearing the field.
Take your time, don't be impatient, this is a big project.
When clearing the fields outside the city, the construction of city defenses did not stop. With the current amount of labor, it will take at least a month to repair the city defenses before it can be initially completed.
The progress on the small town of Baoding is faster, with a total of 400 meters of city walls, an arrow tower, a turret, two horse faces, two enemy towers, and two enemy towers.
Cement, wood, and stone were given priority, and there were also stocks of blue bricks to build the city. Ten thousand people worked overtime, and it is estimated that it will be completed in more than 20 days.
Liu Xiang promised these civilians that the faster they built the city while ensuring quality, the more rewards they would be given. Every hundred people were in a team, and they were divided into teams for assessment. Teams that did more work and did well would get more rewards.
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These civilians are full of motivation and have a strong sense of competition, and they are extremely involved in involution.
So, working overtime is never a problem. As long as you pay enough overtime, it doesn't matter if you work like a cow or a horse.
Liu Xiang no longer worried about the labor problem. The team that captured the criminals not only captured the family members of the leading felons, but also brought back the family members of the accomplices, totaling more than 13,000 people.
The commander who led the team responded very responsibly: "The general must strengthen the wall and clear the country. The general will capture all the family members of all the criminals. They have to be arrested anyway. The sooner they are caught, the sooner they will be finished."
This little comrade has a great future!
Liu Xiang rewarded him with three whips.
Arresting people indiscriminately, the young men almost rioted.
More than 4,000 young men, what a precious labor force it is, it would be a pity to lose it.
They had no choice but to build another camp to reunite them with their families, which finally calmed down the emergency situation.
There are more than 10,000 more workers.
Liu Xiang originally planned to move these people to other places directly after the city wall was repaired, but did not plan to capture them in the city. Now, let's make a mistake.
Beixin City has now gathered more than 70,000 people and more than 8,000 troops. It has almost reached the limit of this small town. The city and outside are overcrowded.
In order to prevent the outbreak of the plague, Liu Xiang established a cleaning team of 3,000 people. The personnel were the elderly and half-grown children who were selected from the families of the people who built the city. This was not a heavy job, so it was a good use of the people.
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They were given two bushels of corn every month, and their enthusiasm for work suddenly increased. They had to be enthusiastic. There were many people watching eagerly, ready to take their place at any time.
They are responsible for cleaning up the domestic garbage in the city and various camps, and the waste will be taken away by the fertilizer convoy.
A special inspection team of 200 people was also formed. They not only inspect the health conditions, but are also responsible for fire prevention work.
This is Liu Xiang's pilot project. How to form a professional fire prevention and fire fighting team? He needs to accumulate experience and see what problems he will encounter during the specific implementation.
Later, it will be extended to all counties.
The scribes responsible for registration and registering were also very busy. All the township pavilions under Beixin City were cancelled. They had to create new registers and register the identity information and land titles of the people entering the city. Liu Xiang promised these people that after the war ended or they moved to other places, they would
Compensation will be based on the original area.
With reference to the original Yellow Book, the progress is pretty good. Their first task is to give priority to families with widows and orphans.
In three days, more than 20,000 old, weak, women and children were selected and these people were to be moved to Guangyang County.
The time came on the third day of September, and Liu Xiang was about to execute the prisoners.
One hundred and eight people below Sun Yi, and fifty-six family members of the rebel powerful, a total of one hundred and sixty-four people were bound to the execution ground.
Construction sites in Beixin City were suspended for a day, and Liu Xiang asked people to come and watch the execution.
The feng shui of Beixin City is not good. The people here are screwed up and need to be shaken.
Because he is leaving.
Here, there will be a guard camp military commander, commanding 6,700 infantry, to supervise the repair project of the city defense, and also to defend the city.
In the small town of Baoding in the west, Shao Wei, the recently promoted military lord, led two thousand people to supervise the construction of the city and guard the camp.
Two military princes and 8,700 infantrymen guarded the south gate of Zhuojun.
Liu Xiang wanted to go north to Fanyang to continue the war against Zhuojun.
At noon, the prisoners were escorted to the high platform in batches. The person who supervised the execution was Tian Cheng, who had been conscripted into Beixincheng County Lieutenant.
This official position is in name only.
The troops stationed in Beixin City belong to the guard camp of the Chinese Army and are directly under Liu Xiang's regiment. How can a small county captain dare to stab them?
With this army, Tian Cheng couldn't make trouble. At most, he was in Liu Xiang's territory, had a good background, and had a better reputation.
Liu Xiang specially appointed him as the executioner, just to see how he would execute Sun Yi and others.
Although Liu Xiang didn't like him very much and felt that this man was not sincere, he had meritorious service and he would be rewarded for his meritorious service.
The principle of clear rewards and punishments cannot be made an exception just because of Tian Cheng.
Among the first batch of prisoners brought up were Sun Yi, Wei Li, and Liu Xiang, who looked at the expressions of these three people curiously.
Sun Yi was angry, Wei Li was depressed, and Tian Cheng was indifferent.
The passionate protagonist curses the villain and traitor before dying; or the villain, who sells out his friends for glory, taunts the protagonist before dying.
It's a pity that such a drama did not happen.
The prisoner had been hungry for several days and was almost out of breath. Sun Yi couldn't curse.
Tian Cheng looked like he didn't know Sun Yi and Wei Li, and had no sense of being a villain at all.
Liu Xiang thought it was a pity, so he asked Tian Cheng: "Aren't you going to say goodbye to your friends?"
Tian Cheng replied respectfully: "They once hunted me, but they are no longer friends."
Liu Xiang nodded: "Then let's execute him."
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Tian Cheng went to handle the beheading process.
Liu Xiang sneered. Of these three people, Sun Yi was unjust, Wei Li was rude, and Tian Cheng was dishonest. All of them were unworthy of their names.
He stepped back from the high platform and led the guards towards the cavalry formation outside. The beheading was continuing behind him.
After his identity was verified, the executioner took his place and carried out the execution.
Group after group of criminals were marched onto the high platform and beheaded one after another.
These people and these things have become a thing of the past, and Liu Xiang's footsteps will not stop for them.