After seeing off Meng Honggong, Jiang Feng led all the soldiers in Muling Pass to pay homage to Shang Yi. According to the standard, the Muling Pass Inspection Department should have 300 soldiers, but Shang Yi checked them one by one according to the roster, and in fact there were only 140 soldiers. There are seventeen people, and the rest are all empty. The warehouse is even more empty, there is nothing. There are 237 households in the entire pass, most of them are military households. There are more than 4,000 acres of farmland outside the pass.
After Jiang Feng reported these situations to Shang Yi, he also lowered his head, not daring to meet Shang Yi's eyes. Since ancient times, new officials have always been the first to take office, and now with the situation at Muling Pass, he cannot escape no matter what. The blame, of course, was the first to be burned on him. It was inevitable that he would be reprimanded by President Xin Qian, and if he failed, he would be dismissed from his position.
Who knows that Shang Yi did not get angry after hearing the name, but said in a harmonious voice: "Inspector Jiang, how long have you been in office at Mulingguan?"
Jiang Feng said hurriedly: "Reporting to your lord, I have been in office at Muling Pass for seven years."
Shang Yi nodded and said: "I heard that Muling Pass is an important pass in Qingzhou and even Shandong. And I think the scale of this pass is not small. Why is it so dilapidated?"
"This..." Jiang Feng was also a little surprised, but he hesitated to speak.
At this time, Tang Zhen said on the side: "Does this need to be said? Naturally, it was the imperial court that cut off the food and salary of the officers and soldiers, which led to the defeat of this Guancheng."
Shang Yi asked Jiang Feng: "Is this what happened?"
Jiang Feng then summoned up some courage and said: "Reporting to your lord, it is indeed true. When I first came to Mulingguan to take office, there were more than 260 soldiers and more than 500 households. But since then, From then on, the imperial court's food and salary supply began to be in short supply. At first, it was only distributed once every two months, and later it became only once every three months. After the Tatar army retreated in the thirteenth year of Suizhen (1639), it became four months. It was only paid once, but now, our inspection department has not paid wages for half a year. Moreover, Mulingguan is no different from other guard posts. It is in the mountains and it is difficult to farm. Moreover, the price of rice is now high. The imperial court pays A little salary was simply not enough to support the whole family, so all the military households in the city fled the city one after another to find other ways to make a living. Now those who remain in the city are all people with no way out."
Shang Yi nodded and said: "Although Muling Pass is in the mountains, I still saw a lot of wasteland on the way here, which can be used to grow some food. Why didn't you open up wasteland for farming?"
Jiang Feng said: "Mr. Qian, it's not that we don't want to farm, but it's because of the lack of water sources. The nearest Shu River is more than ten miles away from Guancheng. We all rely on the few acres of fields planted by the Shu River to avoid farming." Strongly maintained."
Shang Yi asked again: "If this is the case, why don't you open canals to divert water or dig wells to draw water?"
Jiang Feng gave a bitter smile and said: "Sir, why don't we think about it, but digging canals and digging wells requires money. Now the whole Guancheng City can't even pay wages, so what about the remaining money to dig canals and wells? "
Shang Yi nodded again, pondered for a while, and said: "Okay, please inform me first. I am coming to Mulingguan to take office today. I can't take care of the previous debts. I can only provide each soldier with two months' salary." , In addition, each family will be given one stone of rice. From now on, the salary will be paid every month without any arrears. It will continue to support them through this year. After the spring of next year, I will pay for craftsmen to dig canals and wells, so that they can start to cultivate wasteland. You can support yourself now.”
Jiang Feng couldn't help but be overjoyed after hearing this, and hurriedly said: "Thank you, sir, thank you, sir."
Shang Yi continued: "You inform every soldier again that after receiving their salary, they must fulfill my requirements. I will give them one month. If they fail to meet my requirements after one month, they will withdraw from the military at once."
, the military pay was no longer provided, and they all went back to reclaim wasteland and work in agriculture to support themselves."
Jiang Feng couldn't help but have a sudden thought in his heart. He didn't know what the new Qianzong's request was? Is it difficult to achieve it? Suddenly he thought of the army that arrived at Muling Pass with him. Could it be that they wanted to achieve that?
Does it look like this? This is really difficult.
Feeling uneasy, Jiang Feng summoned all the soldiers and military households in Muling Pass and announced Shang Yi's request in public.
I heard that two months of military pay would be given out at once, and each household would be allocated one stone of food. The soldiers and military households couldn't help but become a little excited. They ignored the last request announced by Jiang Feng and everyone was eager to do it.
When will the food and salary be available?
Sure enough, after Jiang Feng made the announcement, he immediately started distributing money and food. Fortunately, this time Shang Yi came to Muling Pass to take office and also brought a batch of money and food for urgent use. Now it comes in handy. And Guanli
There were not many military households and soldiers. After all the money was distributed, only about half of it was used.
However, for the military households and soldiers in Muling Pass, this is something that has not happened for a long time. The soldiers have not received their pay for six months, and in the past, they were paid by the court, and it was through layers of deductions.
, fell into the hands of each soldier, and at most only half was left. But Shang Yi paid out the full amount, which has never happened before. Du Ran only received two months of compensation, which is actually equal to four or five months.
The salary is gone.
When they received the white silver and the pockets full of food, many people cried with joy. Some even put the silver in their mouths and bit it to see if it was real. Others asked Shang Yi.
Kneel down and kowtow to express your gratitude.
After the money and grain were distributed, Shang Yi immediately asked Tangzhen to return to Qingshui Village overnight, and brought a batch of silver grain, supplies and manpower to Muling Pass. Because the situation at Muling Pass was worse than Shang Yi expected, and he was completely destitute.
It requires a lot of manpower and materials to build.
That night, the militia set up tents in the city to rest. Shang Yi also thought about it all night and finally came up with a comprehensive plan to rebuild Muling Pass. In fact, the current situation of Muling Pass is not necessarily all bad.
At least the overall planning can be carried out completely according to Shang Yi's own wishes without considering demolition and resettlement of residents.
So on the next day, Shang Yi gathered all the residents and soldiers in the city and officially announced that a city-wide sanitation cleanup would be carried out to clean up all the garbage in the city and the feces on the roads. Because there was an incident yesterday.
Stimulated by the salary and food distribution, and every household had a full meal yesterday, the residents and soldiers of Mulingguan were very motivated, and men, women, old and young all started working together. In addition, Shang Yi also made an arrangement for group responsibility, and first
The team that completes their assigned area will be rewarded, while the final finisher will be punished by having to dig a hole to fill the dumped garbage.
In the afternoon, the entire city was cleaned up. A total of more than a dozen trucks of garbage were emptied out, and they were all buried outside the city. Only then did the residents and soldiers discover that although the city was still very dilapidated, the streets were cleaned.
After cleaning, you will still feel much more comfortable.
Shang Yi then announced that starting from tomorrow, littering and urination in the city will be strictly prohibited. Garbage will be packed into barrels, collected at designated points every day, and transported out of the city for landfill. Places for urination and urination will also be designated and constructed.
A simple toilet was built to collect the excrement. Not only can it be used to make nitrate in the future, but it can also be used as fertilizer for planting after the beginning of spring. They also assigned personnel to search the streets and fined those found littering.
If someone works as a cleaner to sweep the streets and defecates in the open, he will be punished by cleaning the toilets.
Because Shang Yi knew that a clean environment is not only conducive to the good mental outlook of the city and residents, but also can reduce the occurrence of diseases and plagues. Therefore, after the construction of Muling Pass is completed, a clean environment must be maintained, so from now on
From now on, we must force the villagers to develop hygiene and cleanliness habits.
Just the day after the general cleaning, Shang Yi also began to re-plan the Muling Pass. According to Shang Yi's plan, the future Muling Pass will still adopt the most popular cross-shaped layout in ancient times, with four gates in the southeast and northwest as seats.
The city is divided into four major areas: northeast, southeast, southwest and northwest. Each area is about 20,000 square meters, separated by four nine-meter-wide avenues.
The southwest and northwest districts are both residential areas. Each household is designed in rows back to back to make full use of the space. A three-meter-wide walkway is left between every four or five households. Between each row, there is a walkway.
A six-meter-wide walkway divides it into three levels of roads. Each household covers an area of two feet in length and width, which is thirty-six square meters in metric terms. The population of a household in the Ming Dynasty was generally between three and five.
, although the area of each household is not large, it is basically enough. If it is a large household, several households can be combined to build a house.
In addition, on the side facing the street, Shang Yi plans to build buildings with more than two floors. On the one hand, it can expand the residential population, and on the other hand, it will also facilitate the conversion of the houses facing the street into shops in the future. In this way, each district in the southwest and northwest
Each can accommodate nearly 400 households.
Shang Yi's own Qianzong Yamen will be located at the southeast corner of the city's crossroads. It covers a total area of more than 3,000 square meters and is divided into three parts: the main hall of the Yamen, the back house and the warehouse. The street frontage is also made into two parts.
On the first floor, some of the future offices of the Yamen will be arranged here. The rest of the area will also be divided according to the planning of the southwest and northwest districts, which can roughly be divided into more than 300 households.
Only the southwest district does not have residential buildings, so half of the area facing the street and opposite the Qianzong Yamen is set aside as a venue for military units, gatherings, gatherings, or temporary organization of various activities. It can also be used for Cuju competitions.
The other half of the southwest area is arranged with various craftsman workshops and barracks. Considering that most soldiers will move their families to live in the city, the size of the barracks is within 1,500 people.
Calculated in this way, Muling City can accommodate more than 1,100 households. Including soldiers, the total is about 5,000 people, which can almost catch up with a small county town. However, considering that there must be some large households occupying more than one private house
Therefore, Shang Yi expected that the population of Muling City would be less than 1,000 households in the end, and most of them would be family members of the army.
At the same time, Shang Yi also considered that in the future, it would be enough to expand one city to the north and south of Muling City to expand the size of Muling City by more than one section and use it as his future base.