Chen Xian's attack not only occupied the entire Laiwu County, but also extended its tentacles into Xintai County.

He sent people along the valley road in the southeast of Laiwu through the small mountainous area south of Laiwu, entered Xintai County, and occupied a powerful Zhuangzi in Xintai County.

Here, Chen Xian's army finally encountered fierce resistance, and it was only with the use of artillery that the gates of Zhuangzi were blasted open.

In accordance with Chen Xian's order, the battalion commander who led the team carried out a brutal purge of Zhuangzi, eliminating several Haoqiang and big families in Zhuangzi, leaving only trembling tenants and a small number of honest homesteaders.

His behavior completely angered the Haoqiang and the government of Xintai County.

The local Haoqiang and the government did their best to organize a coalition of more than 4,000 people to attack the occupied Zhuangzi.

Chen Xian, who was somewhat surprised, had to send Yang Miaozhen to lead the cavalry troops to support.

Yang Miaozhen did not disappoint as always, she led the cavalry, cooperated with the second battalion that broke into Xintai County, and fought an ambush by the Xintai coalition army.

Arrived in Xintai and after reconnoitring the situation, Yang Miaozhen ordered the second battalion to meet the Xintai coalition army head-on and fight a positional battle with the opponent in the field, while Yang Miaozhen led the cavalry to detour behind the Xintai coalition army and launch a surprise attack.

She let the horse infantry attack first, rushed to a distance of 100 meters from the Xintai coalition army, dismounted and lined up, and fired a row of guns, this strange tactic will be a mess on the flank of the Xintai coalition army.

At this time, Yang Miaozhen seized the opportunity and led the lancers and her precious all-round cavalry to charge towards the chaos of the Xintai coalition army.

With a single charge, she completely tore apart the coalition formation, tearing and disrupting the coalition forces, and finally bringing them to a crumble.

What followed was a chase.

After this battle, the Xintai government and Haoqiang both shrank back.

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After gaining a firm foothold in Laiwu County, Chen Xian immediately launched large-scale construction.

The construction was mainly twofold, one was to reinforce the old forts in the county.

He built a ring brick kiln in each of the old forts, burning bricks with coal and reinforcing the original earthen enclosures with bricks and cement.

On the other hand, he chose a site on the river in Laiwu and built more than a dozen large and small hydroelectric factories.

As a result of the successful improvement in cement production technology, Chen's cement production has increased dramatically, allowing him to design and build larger hydroelectric plants.

These hydroelectric plants are mainly coking, ironmaking, cement production, forging and processing. They will be the basis for Chen Xian's next expansion.

Chen Xian intends to use steel and cement as the core, and the small but sturdy fortress as a chess piece, and operate the business territory step by step.

With these castles, Chen Xian's infantry was able to rely on the castles and use the phalanx to resist the Mongol cavalry.

As for the fortress, it is not necessary at the moment, the fortress was invented to fight against artillery, and it is more advantageous to deal with the siege of the cold weapon period, and the castle with high walls is more advantageous.

In Chen Xian's busyness, in the wailing of the people near Zhongdu, time passed unswervingly, and in the winter of the third year of Da'an, the Mongols finally plundered away.

During these six months, Chen Xian kept touring more than 20 large and medium-sized Zhuangzi in Laiwu, inspecting the progress of the work of each Zhuangzi, supervising the operation of various Zhuangzi administrative organs, and investigating and investigating corruption, dereliction of duty, and .......

With the expansion of the chassis, Chen Xian can no longer directly control the situation, and all he can rely on is the system.

At this time, the advantages of this decentralization and self-control model are revealed, without the intervention of external forces, every small town can form a self-sufficient, internally balanced ecological circle, what Chen Xian wants to check is whether there is anyone to destroy this ecological balance from the system.

In order to facilitate management, Chen Xian retained and strengthened most of the large and medium-sized Zhuangzi with a population of more than 3,000 people, and selectively expanded and strengthened the small Zhuangzi with less than 3,000 people.

In the plain area, a Zhuangzi can radiate about 30,000 or 40,000 acres of land, and no matter how far away, the time that the cultivator spends on the road is too long, and the cost performance is relatively low, and a Zhuangzi of 35,000 or 5,000 people cultivates 30,000 or 40,000 acres of land, which is just right.

Most of the forts in this era are of this size, and the population may be larger, but the arable land under control will not be more.

For some remote villages with poor locations, Chen Xian completely abandoned them through recruitment and forced relocation.

Those villages with a relatively small population and weak defenses were like meat on a chopping block in front of the Mongols, and in the course of the Mongol invasion, such villages were the biggest victims.

For every manpower under his rule, Chen Xian did not want to give up.

So, of course, he will not give up the county seat.

Chen Xian intended to use the county seat as a trading window for his territory.

After occupying the entire territory of Laiwu, Chen Xian personally went to the county seat, summoned the leading figures from all walks of life in the county and some powerful people who fled to the county seat, and proposed a set of self-made plans to them.

First of all, Chen Xianhui set up a Governorate in the town, and the big and wealthy families in the town were to elect a thirty-one Governorate.

Then the town mayor is elected by the supervision group, and finally the town mayor forms the town yamen, as for what institutions the town yamen has and what they do, this is proposed by the town mayor, and then reviewed and approved by the supervision court, and Chen Xian does not interfere.

But Chen Xian will send judges, prosecutors, and police chiefs to the town, and these people will set up courts, prosecutors' offices, and police stations, and of course these officials will not be left alone, they will bring a total of hundreds of subordinates to carry out their work, and at the same time, Chen Xian will send hundreds of militia to live in the county seat, and these militias will be the solid backing of these judicial officials.

Judges, prosecutors, and police chiefs hold the judicial power in the county as a check and balance against the county's self-made groups.

Chen Xian will also send a tax bureau to the town, consisting of a tax officer, 15 tax officers, and 30 tax inspectors.

Tax inspectors will be armed with mules and horses, arquebuses with bayonets, sabers, armor! The inspectors were all armed personnel selected from veterans and militiamen, and then trained and specially trained by horse infantry, and their main role was to check and collect taxes to ensure Chen Xian's interests.

Chen Xian will also send an audit agency to the county seat.

Regarding Chen Xian's proposal, although the big and wealthy households in the county did not understand it, no one dared to oppose it, and they all expressed their approval.

Chen Xian then elaborated on the methods of the election and the conditions for obtaining the right to vote.

In order to obtain the right to vote and to be elected, there are two conditions, the first tax amount must reach a certain amount, among which the amount of tax paid to obtain the right to vote is not large, and the average rich household can reach it, but in order to obtain the right to be elected, the amount of tax paid is quite a lot.

The government is about to be formed, but future tax revenues cannot be counted, and naturally it is impossible to count who has the right to vote and who has the right to be elected.

In order to solve this problem, Chen Xian asked each family to pay the tax in advance one year in advance, and the amount of the advance payment is completely voluntary.

The second condition is that one of the children of the immediate family must be sent to school in Nanzhuangzi, where Chen Xian is located, in order for his family to be eligible for the right to vote.

For Chen Xian's two demands, the big families in the town regarded them as blackmail and asking for hostages, but no one dared to say a word.

In the end, Chen Xian handed out an explanatory pamphlet to each of the representatives of large and wealthy households before letting them go back.