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It is now the fifth day of Wang Xiu's siege, and it is mainly in the midst of confrontation, and there is too little news for all parties, so it has temporarily entered a calm.

Before there was more news, Zhao Cheng didn't know how to do it, and Wang Xiu didn't know how to do it. Perhaps, that white agarwood doesn't know what to do. So everyone pulled together.

Since the days of the rebel siege, Zhao Cheng only climbed to the top of the city at the end of every morning to watch for a quarter of an hour, which can be regarded as observing the situation of Wang Xiu's team, but in addition, he is generally busy with internal affairs and no longer goes to the city.

It can be seen that Wang Xiu's team is not in a hurry, there is enough firewood, charcoal, and wine and meat, and because of the victory in Shili Pavilion, their morale is relatively sufficient. This can show that Wang Xiu was very well prepared for this war in the previous months.

It's just that Zhao Cheng, who is good at observation, found something unusual:

Although Wang Xiu was a smart man, he should have calculated the time when the imperial army would enter Jiangnan East Road at the earliest, and it would be three months later, so he had plenty of time to wait. However, as the attacker of the rebellion, he only attacked the city twice on a small scale on the first day and the second day, and Liu Qishan only threw a few stones and wood, even if the war was over.

This is not even trial and error, so Zhao Cheng subconsciously believes that there is a reason behind Wang Xiu's move, which may be: Bai Agarwood's team has taken advantage of the opportunity to fully evacuate Yangshan and enter Jiuhua Mountain, causing Wang Xiu to pounce on the air and not catch Bai Agarwood.

So he, Wang Xiu, had worries about the future, and he was unwilling to let go of his hands for the time being.

Whether this is true or not is only God knows, Zhao Cheng can only make this judgment for the time being with more existing phenomena.

If that's the case, anything is possible......

Details are the devil, and the premise of being able to do a good job is the details.

No matter how great Zhao Cheng's prestige is, no matter how much he can speak, it doesn't mean that there are no contradictions in the city. In fact, even the people at the bottom are basically two groups of refugees who have been sent to the cities and have no place to live. A hidden opposition is formed, and the contradiction is not small.

The bigger the internal contradictions, the more the government loses, so Zhao Cheng is not easy and is doing his best to solve these things.

So Zhao Cheng went back to his old job: engineering construction.

Zhao Cheng hurriedly mobilized the county government to inquire about the information: Which land in the city is owned by the government?

Now, Zhao Cheng personally grasped the sanitation problem of all the land held by the government and met the conditions, and took the masons he was familiar with at that time to dig pits all over the city, and by the way, he also collected "toilets", in order to solve the problem of feces and urine of refugees.

Zhang Ji almost couldn't understand it, this Chizhou campaign commander who was once again activated and ordered to be in danger, he is now leading the team everywhere to dig pits in the cold weather?

But in fact, don't take small things and fail to do nothing, sometimes small problems can create big contradictions.

Zhao Cheng went deep into the grassroots to observe these days and found that the problem of feces and urine is a source of contradictions. For this reason, friction has occurred more than once, without exception, from quarrels, to pulling, and then to hands.

Finally, "everyone has three relatives, six relatives and friends", once the fight is started and shouted, it will basically form a movement of refugees and aborigines. And for this there are also deaths.

At one point, emotions almost got out of control.

The so-called troubled times use heavy codes, Zhao Cheng's way of dealing with them is the major fifty boards, and the people who took the lead in making trouble on both sides were sentenced and locked up.

Although the first wave was temporarily suppressed, the root cause was not solved, and the hidden danger was great.

If you want to say that it is simple, it is also simple, because of the problem of feces and urine. Although they are also people at the bottom, their living habits are completely different. People who are used to living in the suburbs have different ways of behaving than those who are used to living in the city. Moreover, their homes are not in the city.

Since Zhao Cheng led the team to build countless pits, the problem of cleaning was personally handled by Zhao Qingming, in fact, this cousin would not do anything else except do this kind of thing, listen to his fat son said to Zhao Cheng's cousin, the first two nights of the rebel siege, Zhao Qingming couldn't sleep, and his heart was beating all night.

Everything seems to be rushed, the efficiency is not very high, fortunately it is winter, the cold temperature and thick snow during the Xiaoice River period can cover up a lot of truths, otherwise the environment where refugees are piled up and covered with feces and urine, nature will let people know the truth about the epidemic through pest vectors such as flies and mosquitoes.

The first wave of Maokeng assault construction is coming to an end, and Chizhou City seems to have some more order.

No one thinks that Lord Zhao leading people to dig a pit is a gift, this is actually an inconspicuous daily matter, which is accepted by everyone in a tacit understanding, and it seems to be taken for granted.

What is especially concerned about this matter is Cai You and Lao Pei, and the government property rights used by Zhao Cheng are those who have been plotting for a long time, planning to sell them to local tyrants in the coming year, and use the land transfer money to fill the lack of government finances. Now it has been dug into a pit by Zhao Cheng.

What fills in the pit and then sells it?

I'm sorry, I can't sell it, because everyone in Chizhou knows that those lands used to be manure pits, so no one wants to buy them. People in this era are still very particular about these gimmicks and feng shui issues.

For Cai You, land finance is only a small problem, not to mention the depreciation of land caused by the manure pit incident, and then there is Zhao Chengchuang's disaster that Cai You needs to deal with, because Zhao Cheng gave all the medicine halls in Chizhou City to the communists. One of them is the Zhu family's medicine hall.

First of all, no matter whose family it is, without exception, the medicinal herb warehouses of every household have now been affixed with the seal of the government, and the county lieutenant Zhao Cheng has signed it. Every medicinal herb in Chizhou City is listed as a strategic material for control in a state of war.

The use of each medicinal material needs to be recorded in detail and can withstand inquiries, otherwise the person responsible will fall to the ground.

Now they are taking turns, and all the guys from the pharmacy are cooperating with the clerks of the county government to count the inventory of medicinal materials for the record. Similarly, after the record was recorded, these strategic materials were bought at a parity price with the government's white slips.

There will always be some loopholes, but this is not the point, at the moment when someone has already landed on the ground, Zhao Cheng believes that the loopholes will not be too big, within the acceptable range of "reasonable loss".

That's fine, nothing can be grasped too carefully during the war.

Zhao Cheng also promulgated a ban on drug use, threatening that except for Cai You, everyone must be approved for the use of drugs alone, and in principle, it is necessary to try to put an end to the behavior of opening small stoves, and change the treatment of diseases to "big pot medicine for disease prevention" under the guidance of the government.

As soon as the ban came out, the rich and noble tyrants in the entire Chizhou City were in an uproar!

Cai You is anxious about this, and he has taken the lead in organizing a meeting of pharmaceutical companies to maintain stability in an attempt to solve this mess.

On the other hand, the black market was officially born.

As in all ancient and modern Chinese and foreign wars, medicinal materials are listed as strategic materials and require special approval for their separate use, and some key medicinal materials that local tyrants want can be sold for one or two gold plants on the black market.

Where there is a need, there is a market, and this market is the black market. If there is profit, some people will take risks, and this process is called the death of people for money.

On the sixth day of the siege of the rebels, a total of seven people who embezzled medicinal herbs and sold them at high prices on the black market were ordered by Zhao Cheng to be beheaded in the city. One of them was only seventeen years old, and he was a hero who followed Zhao Cheng to participate in the Battle of Xishan and the Battle of Lingyang Mountain.

Countless people are frightened and frightened!

It seems that for the sake of this war, everyone sacrificed a lot. Outsiders don't know, only Zhang Ji knows that Zhao Cheng is a real tearful horseman. Every choice has gains and losses, and once you choose, there is a price.

For the sake of the moth that will inevitably happen in this war, Zhao Cheng betrayed a hardcore brother.

If he didn't kill this young man named Yang Wenzhong, Zhao Cheng would never be able to kill anyone in the future. At the moment when contradictions are concentrated and crises are lurking, once you can't kill people and deter you, even Zhao Cheng can't solve many of the remaining problems.