The people of the four prefectures and seven counties in Datong Prefecture have all been under the command of Wang Zezhi, and these people have divided the fields and become free bodies, and each of them has a feeling of being reborn.

Wang Zezhi exempted them from a year's field tax, and gave them food every month to ensure that they would not starve to death, and the people were grateful to Wang Zezhi.

The reason why they are so grateful to Wang Zezhi is that the most important thing is that when Wang Zezhi incorporated them, each of them was given an acre of fertile land.

Although it is said that the people are poor and have a bad life, many of them are single and single-home.

However, there are also many people in the family, according to the officer who compiled the household, the largest number of grandparents and grandchildren in the family are all three generations, grandparents, sons, daughters, grandchildren, grandchildren, grandchildren, and grandchildren, and a large number of people add up to more than a dozen people.

This big family was divided into more than a dozen acres of fertile land at once.

When the people were free and had fields, they spontaneously built a temple of merit and enshrined Wang Zezhi.

After Wang Zezhi heard this, he immediately ordered the demolition of all the temples of merit.

If the people want to be grateful to him, they can set up a monument to record it, and there is no need to build a temple to worship him.

The people built a temple for him when he was alive, burned incense and lit candles to worship him, so that Wang Zezhi felt like he was holding a funeral for him.

At the beginning, the people didn't understand why Wang Zezhi demolished his temple.

When some people among the people said that Wang Zezhi's move was for the good of the people.

You must know that the emperor in the court is alive, and the people do not build a temple of merit for the emperor, but build a temple of merit for Wang Zezhi, if the emperor knows, not only Wang Zezhi will be unlucky, but the people who build the temple will suffer.

When the people heard this, they felt that what this person said made sense, so they erected a huge monument on the site of the Temple of Merit.

The inscription recorded what Wang Zezhi did.

Wang Zezhi was finally relieved when he heard that the people were no longer building temples, but he didn't be happy for long, and he couldn't be happy again.

It turned out that the people continued to burn incense and light candles under his merit monument to worship him.

When Wang Zezhi heard this, he held his forehead for a while, he knew that this kind of thing couldn't be reversed for a while.

In the end, I had to go with them.

After the people were settled, he began to arrange for the people to defend the city.

Four states, seven counties, thirteen guards, priority was given to the election of the first sergeant of the garrison department.

Wang Zezhi personally stamped them and issued them a letter of appointment and a sergeant's dress.

Without exception, these people are people of great prestige and good reputation.

After the appointment, Wang Zezhi waved his hand and distributed all the weapons and equipment used by the Garrison Department and the first month's salary.

These people never imagined that they would one day become officials.

After being appointed by Wang Zezhi, he received food, weapons and equipment, and Wang Zezhi's secret spies from Yu Zhong.

Of course, these spies were not assigned to them as secret spies, but as guard squads.

The Security Department has a heavy responsibility and must be impartial, and if these people are corrupt, Wang Zezhi will know about it as soon as possible and take measures.

The sheriffs went back to their posts in high spirits, and with them were the director of the Penal Division, who was selected by Wang Zezhi from among the instructors.

After the establishment of the Garrison Department and the Criminal Punishment Division, Wang Zezhi gave them the first order.

The 820 forts and 307 piers in Datong Mansion have been reduced to 413 forts and 168 piers.

Wang Zezhi divided these forts and piers into areas and put them under the names of the seven counties and the thirteen guards in the four states.

These forts and piers are divided into dispatch divisions and criminal punishment divisions, which are branches of the garrison division and the criminal punishment division, and are under the jurisdiction of the two divisions at higher levels.

Wang Zezhi ordered the first sergeant of the Garrison Department to recommend the director of the Dispatch Division.

If they recommend a treacherous person, the recommended sheriff will be implicated, demoted and punished to the police department, and removed from his post for investigation.

As for the candidates for the Penal Division, they don't have to worry about it, the candidates for the Penal Division are sent by Wang Zezhi.

The new sheriffs, with power in their hands, suddenly became active.

While selecting candidates, they kept in mind Wang Zezhi's requirements.

They didn't dare to recommend those treacherous people, they clearly remembered the scene when Wang Zezhi led the army to bombard the four states and seven counties.

If they are negligent in their duties, they are afraid that Wang Zezhi will bombard them to death.

The people were settled, and there were men and institutions to govern the city.

Next, Wang Zezhi is going to do something to the merchants.

Although Wang Zezhi arrested many businessmen, these businessmen were all problematic businessmen, and there were still businessmen and gentry who had no problems in Datong Mansion.

Most of these people are engaged in coal, cotton, cloth, bamboo, tung oil, lacquer, medicinal herbs, koji wine and other honest businesses.

They have nothing to do with money-making businesses such as iron and firearms.

Since these people are honest businessmen, Wang Zezhi can't continue to collect protection fees, because this is a bit of a bandit bully, so he changed his name to collect the toll.

At the border gate from Taiyuan Mansion to Datong Mansion, Wang Zezhi set up a road card, but anyone who entered Datong Mansion to do business must pay tolls.

This toll is levied on a percentage of what the merchants carry.

Those who do not pay are not allowed to enter, and if they are paid, they can get a pass, and they can do business on their own in Datong Mansion.

Then, Wang Zezhi strictly guarded the pass out of the customs.

Merchants who leave the customs must pay a customs exit fee, and after leaving the customs, they will be protected by steel armor.

The scope of the escort is as far north as Guihua City, west as the pastoral area of the Haranggu station, and as far away as the Quyechuan station.

In the east, Wang Zezhi also developed a new territory, which is the Xinghe Shouyu Thousand Households, which used to be the territory of Lin Dan Khan, and now belongs to Wang Zezhi.

For Wang Zezhi's right policy, the businessmen have little opinion.

Wang Zezhidu didn't need to explain to them more, and the merchants agreed.

That's because only they know how unsafe the original Datong Province was.

Not to mention that bandits are rampant in the territory, even the Tartars outside the gate often run in and loot in twos and threes.

Wang Zezhi defeated Lin Dan Khan and subdued the Saiwai Tatars.

Now his bandit brigade is constantly clearing the bandits in the territory, and they have never seen such a safe boundary after so many years of business.

In the end, the merchants agreed that tolls and customs fees could be paid and must be paid.

It should be a little hard money for the sergeants under Wang Zezhi's command.

For this money, the businessmen are not distressed at all.

It is very good for them to be able to buy life support with money.

In the eyes of the merchants, Wang Zezhi was collecting hardship fees for his soldiers.

In Wang Zezhi's heart, he was making a draft for the future collection of business taxes.

When the merchants got used to it, he changed the name of the toll and the customs toll to become the merchant tax.

However, Wang Zezhi knows that now is not the time.

The people were settled, the defenders of the city were there, and the merchants' affairs were arranged.

Next, he wants to find a way to make money for the people in Datong Mansion.

The demolition of abandoned forts and road piers has become a way for the people to make money.

Wang Ze ordered the recruitment of temporary workers, and the people in Datong Prefecture, who had just been freed and had been divided into land, heard the news and responded to his recruitment.

They were facing the loess with their backs to the sky, they were sweating, but they didn't cry out bitterly, and even a little happy.

Because, when they go to work, Wang Zezhi not only manages the food, but also the salary.