It is precisely because the hearts of the people in Tai'an City are undecided, so a formal and solemn ceremony to enter the city is particularly important, otherwise, if it is changed in normal times, it is not necessary to spend so much time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Leon is indeed very clear that in this county town called Tai'an, not all the residents actually surrendered to the Xinghua Empire from the bottom of their hearts, so if you want to control Tai'an City, it is obviously not enough to take this county town militarily. How to use both soft and hard land, so that the residents of Tai'an County, finally clearly accept this fact, has become one of the problems that need to be solved after the Xinghua Army enters Tai'an City.

The geographical location of Tai'an City plays a vital role for the Xinghua Army, and if it can firmly control Tai'an City, it will naturally be an extremely critical cornerstone for the Xinghua Empire to further conquer Jiangzhou.

Only by truly grasping the aspirations of the residents of Tai'an can the Xinghua Army have the opportunity to manage Tai'an City well. Only by building Tai'an City into the base of the Xinghua Army in Jiangzhou will the Xinghua Army not become rootless water.

Seeing that the entrance ceremony of the Xinghua Army was successfully held, and the residents of Tai'an City were gradually accepting this fact, Leon could finally put his mind at ease. After thinking about it, it was time to report back to the Empire.

Leon then motioned to the communications officer who was following him, who immediately walked over to Leon's side. Leon smoothed his mind a little, and then motioned to the communications officer to write down his words: "Immediately send a telegram to the Imperial Ministry of Defense: Report to the Imperial Ministry of Defense that our department has completely occupied Tai'an City, Jiangzhou, and now ask the Imperial Ministry of Defense whether it is possible to establish an arsenal and a grain depot in Tai'an City, as well as transfer the Huguan warehouse to Tai'an City and create a base area." ”

The communications officer took the record and went to the radio station to send it.

Half an hour later, the Xinghua Army's entry ceremony into the city was successfully concluded.

During the ceremony of entering the city, the Taean Administrative Bureau has pasted the first public notice document of the administrative bureau after the establishment of Taean City on the notice board in the central area of Taean City.

The first proclamation was to announce the establishment of an institution similar to the county government in the Xinghua Empire, the Administrative Bureau, to take over the main work of the county government;

The second proclamation announced the establishment of the Taean Local Council, stipulating that if the people of Taean have any public opinion, they can go to the Taean Local Council to express their opinions, and express their opinions to the Executive Bureau through the councillors, and the officials of the Executive Bureau will give official answers according to the public opinion. Below the notice, the names of seven councillors were also announced;

In the third notice, the Executive Bureau announced the recruitment of joint defense team members, the formation of joint defense teams, the management of public security, and the severe punishment of criminal behavior.

After the entrance ceremony, the residents of Tai'an, who were originally preparing to disperse, happened to learn that the Tai'an City Administration Bureau posted a notice on the bulletin board for the first time!

Tai'an County has just changed hands, this function is similar to the Tai'an Administrative Bureau of the original Tai'an County Ya, the first time to post a notice, of course, it is easy to attract the attention of the people, especially, this period is particularly sensitive, any action of the Administrative Bureau, is closely related to the livelihood of Tai'an City. Since it is a matter of oneself and the future life prospects of the people of Tai'an City, the residents of Tai'an City are of course very concerned.

As a result, almost all the people of Taean went to the place where the notice board was set up, hoping to see the contents of the notice with their own eyes, because they could not wait to inquire about it from others later.

Soon, around the notice board, there was a dense crowd of people. Among them, the residents of Taean, who are slightly educated, have read and understood all the contents of the notices more than once, and there are many discussions, and they have not dispersed for a long time. Even those who don't know how to read and write don't care that they may be disliked and troublesome, and repeatedly ask the literate people next to them to read the notice for them repeatedly and explain the content of the notice.

For a time, the vicinity of this notice board was like a busy city, where people were repeatedly discussing and exchanging opinions, and some people were interpreting it, and therefore being believed or questioned, and these words were repeatedly intertwined.

It is obvious that these three announcements have firmly touched the hearts of Tai'an residents.

Among these three notices, the most surprising and strange for the residents of Tai'an City is none other than the Tai'an Local Council.

This institution is unlike any other government that has been known and understood by the residents of Taean in the past. If it weren't for the names of the seven members of the council who were well known to the residents of Tae'an, I am afraid that almost no one would be able to understand and understand this second notice.

Because, according to the explanation of the notice, this so-called Tai'an local council, for the residents of Tai'an, it is difficult for them to think of the original Tai'an County Ya.

This is really a kind of "yamen" with a very novel form.

If it is said to be the same "yamen" as the Tai'an County Ya, the Tai'an County Ya in the past is not a place to accept the "voice" of ordinary people. At that time, if ordinary people approached the county government, most of them complained about grievances, and basically it was to resolve disputes between some residents.

However, as shown in the notice, the newly established Taean Local Council has another extremely important new function - any resident of Taean can express his or her public opinion to the Taean Council. Ordinary people also have a channel to express their voices to the government, they can submit a book, but they also don't need to submit a book, and they don't need to ask for help, and the commoners will come directly to the door to express their words, and there will be councilors to convey the opinions of the civilians, which is not the freedom and fairness that Tai'an residents can imagine.

More importantly, you must know that in the Xia Kingdom, there has always been an unspoken rule that the people do not sue the officials. As long as a civilian sues an official, regardless of whether there is evidence or not, the official can first punish the civilian for disrespect, beat it once, cane it ten times, and then ask the case. In the Xia Kingdom, there were clear class barriers. Therefore, for the residents of Tai'an, in the previous life, not to mention that they could be like the notice shown, in the future, the residents of Tai'an can go to the local council of Tai'an, speak freely, and have something to say, in the rule of the Xia Kingdom, they must avoid talking about any action of the government, whether it is right or wrong, in order to avoid getting into trouble.

In short, if what the notice says is not just the superficial efforts of the Xinghua Empire to win people's hearts, then in the future, the degree of freedom that the residents of Tai'an can have is really very different from the past.

"No wonder, the people of Yunzhou will accept the rule of Xinghua Kingdom. Among the onlookers, there were exclamations of exclamation because of this unimaginable announcement.

Jiangzhou and Yunzhou are adjacent to each other, and the two states have always maintained a certain amount of exchanges, so Jiangzhou people naturally have enough understanding of some of the situation of Yunzhou people, especially the big changes that have taken place in Yunzhou. Some people have always thought that tens of thousands of Yunzhou people joined the Yunzhou Army of the Xinghua Army, and it was the Xinghua Army that captured the strong men and forced the Yunzhou people to join the army. But now, after seeing the content of the Xinghua Empire's first public administration in Tai'an County, these people's views have suddenly changed a lot.

It's just that as soon as this person's words fell, another voice next to him immediately came out, but it was reminding this person: "Brother Zhang is cautious!"

It's no wonder that in any case, although the Xinghua Empire captured and controlled the real power of Tai'an County, for the residents of Tai'an, the situation is still unstable, as ordinary civilians, it is better not to publicly comment on the actions of the government, otherwise, in such a sensitive period, it is always easy to let yourself become the target of public criticism.

As soon as he reminded him, all of a sudden, everyone didn't dare to say more.

Many ordinary people did not dare to cause trouble, and they defended themselves in the battle between the Xinghua army and the Xia army.

A Xinghua intelligence officer who was hiding in the crowd also heard the discussion of civilians, and he carefully recorded some words of the onlookers with a voice recorder, carefully looked at the other party's expression at the time, and also remembered it.

The Xinghua Empire had a mature occupation plan, in which how to win the hearts and minds of the people was a very important task. Most managers of occupied territories are required to be trained. Without training, the Xinghua Empire would also issue an occupation manual that every manager would be required to study carefully.

Lyon arrived at the headquarters of the Xinghua Army in Tai'an County half an hour after the large army of the Xinghua Army entered the city.

The headquarters of the Xinghua Army is located in a military camp in Tai'an City, which was originally the military camp of the Xia Army, which can accommodate more than 8,000 people when squeezed.

Before Leon entered the headquarters, he learned from the soldiers that Wei Xiang and Feromeon were waiting for him in the tent of the headquarters.

Leon walked into the tent of the headquarters, Wei Xiang and Feromon took the initiative to smile and greet him, and said, "Commander Leon, congratulations on leading the Xinghua Army to attack Tai'an City and fight for a base for the empire. ”

"This is my duty! However, it is easy to fight the world, but it is difficult to defend the world. The next thing is to rely on you to establish the rule of the empire in Tai'an City and implement the imperial system, which is the most difficult. Leon took the initiative to shake hands between the two and said with a smile.

"Commander is polite, our work will not be more dangerous than Xinghua's military life. Ferromon said.

"We are all for the rise of the empire, encourage each other!" Leon said, and after a pause, he asked again, "Is there anything you can do with me?"

"Commander, I am going to form a joint defense team to maintain law and order, and I hope you can send some officers to be responsible for recruiting and training some discipline in the joint defense team. Feromon told Feromon what he was coming for.

"Very good, your idea is very good. The fact that the joint defense team was able to assume the security of the city undoubtedly liberated a certain number of Xinghua troops, which could effectively save military strength. Leon affirmed Ferromon's behavior, he thought for a moment, and continued: "When the time comes, I will send you excellent officers to train the joint defense team and let them know what discipline is. ”

"Thank you, Commander Leon!" Ferromon said.

Leon nodded, tilted his head to Wei Xiang, and said, "Wei Xiang, what news did you bring me?"

"Report to Commander Leon, our intelligence agents lurking in the Xia Kingdom, and there is news. The emperor of Xia has already started war mobilization, and the armies of Zhongzhou and Dongzhou are mobilizing. It is expected that in six months, Jiangzhou will increase its army by at least 500,000, or even 1 million. Wei Xiang replied.

"Okay, I got it. Leon replied. This means that Lyon led the Xinghua Expeditionary Force, and it was best to control Jiangzhou within half a year and build a relatively consolidated defense line in Jiangzhou.

From the problem of the defense line, Leon thought of the gap in the wall of Tai'an City, and said: "I want to strengthen the city defense of Tai'an City, and I need your cooperation. ”

"No problem, the Administration Bureau has prepared a large number of gold coins, which can hire a large number of Tai'an people to repair and strengthen the city wall. Ferromon replied.

Every Xinghua soldier is precious, they are professional soldiers, and they have strong combat skills, so Lyon will never let the soldiers do the repair and reinforcement of the city wall. Feromon and other officials of the Xinghua Empire also understood this, and had already planned to drive the residents of Tai'an City to build a city wall.

"There's one more thing you need to fix as soon as possible. That is, there are a large number of refugees in the city of Tai'an, and you better drive some of them out and let them go home. Leon said.

Ferromon glanced at Wei Xiang and said to Leon: "We hope that the Xinghua Army can send a company to assist the administrative bureau and solve the problem of refugees. ”

"No problem!" replied Leon.

In Tai'an City, there is a group of special civilians, who were originally some civilians living in the towns and villages around Tai'an County. Because of the Xia army's strategic action of clearing the wilderness, these special civilians had to hide in Tai'an City to escape the war.

"I will give them a choice, whether to go out of the city and return to their hometown, or stay in Taean City. If they stay in Tai'an City, I'll hire them to build the Tai'an City Wall at a relatively low price...... "Feromon said.

Leon interrupted Ferromon and said, "You don't need to report these things to me. ”

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander. Ferromon nodded in reply, and he took his leave to Leon.

Leon nodded, agreeing to the two of them leaving, and gave them command of a company of the Xinghua Army.

Feromon and Wei wanted to leave, and Leon began to sit down, write detailed battle reports, and think about the next move of the Xinghua army.

It stands to reason that the next step of the Xinghua Army should be Yangcheng.

However, Lyon had the intention of building Tai'an City into a solid warehouse-type city to store the military supplies of the Xinghua Army, so the importance of Tai'an City is self-evident. Before Tai'an City did not have a certain ability to protect itself, Lyon postponed the attack on Yangcheng.

Leon sent telegrams to the Empire to report his plans, and then instructed his subordinate officers to arrange the defense of Tai'an.

"Renovate the walls and strengthen some of the defenses. Four walls, two gates. Two walls with gates, each with two machine guns......"

"Now that we have captured Tai'an City, the remnants of the surrounding Xia army will not be left behind. Leon took out the map and looked at the surroundings of Tai'an County.

Although the Xinghua army captured the city of Tai'an, there were still a considerable number of Xia troops around the city. Most of these Xia soldiers are still cavalry, and they come and go freely. If the Xinghua Army does not exterminate them, it will inevitably affect the next strategy of the Xinghua Army. (To be continued.) )