When Qin Chuan arrived in Lancheng, Tang Linxian led a group of people to greet him outside the city, and everyone looked respectful.

It was really a bit of a surprise to Qin Chuan to be able to take Lancheng so smoothly, and he thought that he would use artillery to bombard it for three or five days.

He originally wanted to kill Tang Linxian, but seeing that he knew him so well, he took the initiative to take out most of the money he had collected in the past six months, so he waved his hand and let Tang Linxian continue to be the magistrate.

It's just that most of the people in the county government have to be replaced, and all those who are involved in those gentry and big families will be removed, and all those who are traitors and criminals will be taken down in the township.

All the gentry, profiteers, and ruffians in the township will be questioned and raided, and then they will be killed in front of the whole city on an auspicious day of the zodiac.

Lancheng's mass base is better than Jingle's, and when raiding homes and arresting people, it is much smoother than Jingle's.

Qin Chuan specially told Luo Daniu, Lao Huang and others, who led the team to raid the house, to carefully interrogate and investigate, not to arrest the wrong person, and let those who deliberately make false accusations succeed.

As a result, in just three days, more than a dozen people were arrested for false accusations, some because of old grievances, some because of trivial things in the neighborhood, some out of jealousy, or simply because they didn't like someone.

Among the dozen or so false accusations, two were dragged to cut off their heads, and the lightest aunt was beaten with twenty boards, and her fat ass was smashed.

The scale of Lancheng is nearly twice as large as that of Jingle City, and the population is much larger, and the villagers who fled into the county town before have all returned to their respective villages, and the Zhang family and other gentry and gentry, unscrupulous businessmen and scoundrels have also been killed, and there are still 1,200 households and more than 8,000 people in the entire Lancheng.

This population can only barely be regarded as a small town in later generations, but in this era, the northwest region can already be regarded as a large county.

Because there is no shortage of large households in Lanxian County, Lancheng is located in the traffic artery of Lanzhou to the south, so the business in the city was originally very prosperous, grain and oil shops, vinegar villages, cloth villages, blacksmith shops, pawn shops, restaurants, restaurants, tea shops, wine shops, green buildings, rouge gouache shops, carriage and horse shops, tooth shops, foot shops, inns, incense and candle shops, antique shops, jewelry shops, etc., etc., a total of more than 50 shops, and even a Taiyuan to open a dart bureau semicolon, the name is very recognizable, called Bafang Dart Bureau.

In addition to the shops, there are more than a dozen various workshops, such as vinegar workshop, pickle workshop, sake workshop, tofu workshop, paper workshop, etc.

The reason why it was originally prosperous was because most of the owners of shops and workshops were beheaded, and these shops and workshops did not prosper for a while.

When he was in Jingle City, Qin Chuan had a headache with the dozen or so shops and workshops he had obtained, and he didn't want these shops, because they were very unfavorable to commercial development, and even had a counterproductive effect, making the business of the two places regress and develop.

Commerce should follow the law of social development, let go of the people to develop, maintain a balance between supply and demand, put an end to monopoly, maintain a good competitive environment, promote the development of commercial technology, and promote consumption.

Business will only prosper if it is put in the hands of the people and reasonable regulation is maintained.

After being reminded by Luo Wentian, Qin Chuan decided to let out all the shops and workshops, one is to sell them directly, the other is to lease them, and the third is to contract, whether they are leased or contracted, they can be completely bought out with a certain amount of silver taels or grain within a certain number of years.

Now dozens of shops and workshops in Lancheng are also dealt with in this way, but with little effect, because the people are afraid that the imperial court will fight back, or transfer Qinchuan away, and when the time comes, the imperial court will settle accounts after the autumn, and forcibly take back those shops to the survivors of those large families, or directly return them to the imperial court, they will lose a lot of money.

It has been more than ten days since the notice in Jingle City was posted, and only three shops were rented out, and even more so in Lancheng, no one cared about the notice for three days.

Qin Chuan is not in a hurry, waiting for the imperial court to restore his status as a Ming military general, and when the war subsides, a large number of people are rushing to ask for it.

For the government affairs of Lancheng and Jingle, Qin Chuan did not make too much mess, and still continued the county government management system of the Ming Dynasty, knowing the county and managing the ownership, and the county Cheng and the lord Bo were deputies, in charge of money, grain, taxes, etc., and there were six rooms for officials, households, officials, soldiers, criminals, and workers, which were the epitome of the six departments of the imperial court, and were in charge of specific corresponding government affairs.

There are also three classes of officials in the soap class, the fast class, and the strong class, among which the soap officer of the soap class is in charge of the order in the county office, the order of the court trial, and the county magistrate and other officials are responsible for the protection of the guard when they travel.

The fast squad is responsible for investigating criminal cases, arresting criminals, etc., and the strong squad is in charge of city defense, guarding city gates, warehouses, etc.

In addition, various departments such as inspection, grain and water control are also set up in places where there is a need.

Generally speaking, the administrative and public inspection systems of the Ming Dynasty had a clear division of labor, each performing its own duties, and it was relatively perfect.

Qin Chuan neither abolished nor added any administrative units, only vacated the barracks, and the defense of the soldiers and horses was taken over by the Guan Di army, and the Zhuang squad officials also obeyed the dispatch of the Guan Di military camp officer.

In terms of civil affairs, the Lijia system was still retained, but the grain chief was abolished and replaced by the village head, and the forced labor system was also abolished and replaced by paid conscription of migrant workers.

The biggest problem he faced was the lack of talent, a serious lack of grassroots management personnel, and he relied on himself and Wang Jizong to lead a group of improvised grassroots officials to run around.

Lancheng and Jingle City are fine, because -->>

There has not been much change for the aborigines, and it is relatively calm, but the eight villages in Lan County and the three villages in Jingle are in chaos.

Some people want to live in the blue brick houses of large families, some people want to live in fertile fields adjacent to water sources, and basically every village has quarrels and even fights.

Qin Chuan never thought of absolute fairness, this thing does not exist, and it does not conform to the law of social development.

To quickly establish a new social order, we can only rely on might, absolute power.

As a result, the villagers who were arguing fiercely were dragged to beat the board, and those who fought and fought not only beat the board, but also had to be locked up in a small black house, which was called "imprisonment".

Emperor Guan's operation was as fierce as a tiger, and those villagers quickly became obedient.

Then, Qin Chuan and Wang Jizong adjusted it slightly according to the situation, for example, those who were assigned to blue brick houses had to help people without houses build houses, those who were allocated fertile fields would be reduced accordingly, and those who were allocated to barren dry land would be increased by a certain amount.

After beating the board first, and then dealing with it as fairly as possible, most of those villagers were convinced.

Unconvinced by those, keep fighting.

When the situation basically stabilized, Qin Chuan threw all the government affairs to Wang Jizong, Tang Linxian, and Chen Congzhi, the two magistrates.

Among them, Wang Jizong was equivalent to the governor of Qincha, reporting directly to Qinchuan and guiding Tang Linxian and Chen Congzhi, the two magistrates, to implement specific government affairs.

Qin Chuan continued to be busy with his military defense.

Since Wang Dehua, Wang Kun and others fled back to Xuanda, the Ming army has never come, and it should be waiting for Zhu Youzhen and the civil officials in the court to discuss the reason, and then decide whether to continue to attack Qinchuan.

This also has the credit of Jiannu, after the Jiannu in the Qingshui River area outside the head pass set up the camp tent, they will not leave, and the Xuanda border army does not dare to divide the troops to the south at this time.

Even so, Qin Chuan didn't dare to take it lightly.

The defense of Jingle City and Ninghua Institute was in charge of Li Dingliang and Ren Liang, with a total strength of 1,000, and the defense of Lancheng was in charge of Liu Youzhu and Feng Yilong, with a total strength of 1,000.

The threat of Jingyou Town has been basically lifted, so there is no need to hoard too many soldiers and horses, Qin Chuan only put a division there, a total of one hundred and eight troops, and the dozen or so villages also put one flag and thirty-six troops each, just be responsible for maintaining law and order.

Chijianling also only put two divisions and more than 200 troops.

Donghuluchuan Dazhai was demolished, and all the money, grain and finance there were moved to the three cliffs, and Qinchuan only left the troops of one division to garrison the three cliffs, so that they could strengthen the fortifications and prepare more firewood, stone and rolling wood and other defense materials.

The rest of the troops were all left in Lou Fu and stationed in the base camp.

Qin Chuan recruited 500 miners from the two mines of Black Mountain and Hongli Mountain, and posted notices in Jingle and Lancheng to recruit soldiers, including the surrendered Ming army and the Xiangyong Nursing Yuan, as long as they did not do anything harmful to heaven and reason, they could enlist in the army.

Although the monthly salary of the Guan Emperor Army was not higher than that of the battalion soldiers of the Ming Army, it was better than the good food, ensuring two dry and one thin every day, as well as a small piece of meat, adding broth from time to time, and rewards for winning battles and bloody battles, and a large amount of bereavement for being wounded or killed.

Therefore, as soon as the recruitment notice came out, the two places in Jingle Lan County became lively.

Qin Chuan picked and chose and raised a total of 1,600 troops, bringing the total strength of Emperor Guan's army to 5,000.

5,000 troops is a lot, more than the total strength of Cao Wenzhao and Zhang Quanchang, but they have to be stationed in various places, and there are not many who can really pull out to fight.

The newly recruited recruits had to be trained by Qin Chuan, Luo Daniu, Zhao Wu and others in Lou Fu first, and used them as guinea pigs for the students of the martial arts hall, and after practicing for ten days and eight days, they were replenished to the heads of each battalion.

After replenishing the troops, Luo Ba's Shifang Battalion, Luo Daniu's Xiandeng Battalion, Li Dingliang's Trapping Camp, and Liu Youzhu's Wudang Battalion, each of these four battalions had 700 troops, and Ren Liang's Longwu Battalion only had 500 people for the time being.

Qinchuan set up a new battalion head, with Feng Yilong as the battalion officer, called Feng Shan Battalion, with a total of 500 troops, composed of Feng Jiazhuang's sons as the backbone.

In addition, there are three hundred tiger and leopard battalions, and one hundred red-clothed attendants of Qin Chuan.

The battalion officer of the Haw Par Battalion has always been concurrently served by Qin Chuan, first, he could not find a suitable candidate to serve as the battalion officer for the time being, and second, the Haw Par Battalion was originally his guard, which was regarded as the most direct unit, and it was convenient to manage it himself.

More than 80 of the Mongols who went out of Qinchuan to kill Jiannu were incorporated into the Tiger and Leopard Battalion, and Batu also served as the head of the Tiger and Leopard Battalion.

After the expansion and reorganization of the army, the defenders in various places also increased accordingly, and Li Dingliang began to expand the Ninghua Institute, increasing the height of the city wall by six feet, increasing the thickness by three feet, and expanding two horse faces and two arrow towers.

On the side of Lancheng, Liu Youzhu also led the Guan Emperor's army to transport various materials to Luya Mountain, and began to build a military fort on the most dangerous Xiaomukou of Luya Mountain Road, holding the passage of Luya Mountain, so as to achieve the effect that 1,000 troops could block at least 20,000 enemy troops.

Qin Chuan estimated that he would need at least two years of recuperation before he had enough capital to expand outside Luliang Mountain.

Therefore, he had to first build the hinterland of Luliang Mountain into an impregnable mountain kingdom.

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