Chapter 280: Slums
The scale of Yuncheng is actually not too small in the Great Song Dynasty, only slightly smaller than the legendary "Three Mile City and Seven Mile Guo". The www.biquge.info castle refers to the inner and outer castles.
The old city walls are not strong enough and are on the low side, and the main structure is made of loess. Such a scene not only does not look mighty, but also a little cold, and it can't be compared with Chen 1 Liuxian at the foot of the Son of Heaven.
The only thing that looks mighty is the cavalry "Yongle Army" patrolling around the county, which makes the people of the Great Song Dynasty, who are most affected by the scourge of bandits, feel very safe, so people in the vicinity are now circulating, and the real place to live is in Yuncheng.
Coupled with the unspoken rule of not strangling escapes, more and more people have gathered in the Yuncheng Economic Circle. There will be more in the future, so the plan to expand the city is about to be put on Gao Fangping's agenda.
When Liang Hongying followed Xiao Gao Xianggong to inspect the outside of the city, her eyes were red and she was very emotional.
The exterior of Yuncheng is the Great Song Dynasty Wonders, like the legendary gathering of refugees after the disaster, but they cannot enter the city. Grizzled against the walls of the outer city, large and small tents were in disarray, and more and more people were gathered.
These are not real refugees, but fugitives, and some of them who are more courageous and under greater pressure to survive are now living openly outside the city. The soldiers of the Yongle Army looked noble, so they didn't bother to arrest the fugitives, at most they were disgusted with being too dirty and messy, and after annoying these military masters, they rushed over and beat the chickens and dogs.
Wang Qinfei and the others loved the untouchables gathered outside the city, because they were a group of people with huge needs, and their needs were huge business opportunities for Wang Qinfei. So bags and packets of salt were organized by Wang Qinfei and other big villains to be loaded into trucks, shipped outside the city, and sold at a relatively low price to those fugitive black households, which were illegal salt, and there was no seal of salt and iron affairs on their pockets, which meant that they were "unpaid smuggled goods".
The guys in the "Yuncheng Office" of Yantie Field Affairs were red-eyed all day long, and even wanted to cry to investigate and deal with these crazy corrupt officials, but they couldn't intervene at all. After the smuggling of salt was tacitly approved by the Great Demon King, almost every time the Yongle Army escorted it, and every time the officials of the salt and iron affairs went to inquire about it, they got the same answer, saying that it was a strategic military fund, and no other institutions except the Privy Council and the Jeju Yamen were allowed to interfere.
In other words, there are a considerable number of lewd uncles in the runaways, and lust is basic, some have no wives, and some have died of their wives due to the harsh conditions in the mountains, so their "special needs" are great. In the early days, there were many incidents of indecent assault in the "refugee camps" outside the city. Later, Gao Fangping was annoyed and issued a strict order that public security incidents must be taken as indicators and strictly controlled.
So Lin Chong's cheetah battalion was stationed in the "slums" outside the city to strictly manage public order issues. What Lin Chong hated the most was the obscene uncle who was not a courtesy woman, so the main general decided the temperament of the army, so his cheetah battalion was the most angry when dealing with non-courtesy cases, and there were twenty-six people who were beheaded for indecent assault in the slums of more than 3,000 scales.
Since then, the law and order problem has stopped. The slums, known as the cancer of law and order, have finally taken on a preliminary order. For the first time, those miserable people had a real sense of security after being displaced.
Sometimes, security is even more important to them than food.
The reason why he is willing to take the risk of gathering in the county town again from the identity of a black household is to pursue the sense of security generated by the group. People who have not experienced the pressure of escaping will not understand how important it is to feel safe. In fact, food was not difficult to obtain in this era, there were a lot of animals and wild vegetables in the wild, and there were so many fish in the river that I couldn't catch them, but once no one around me could see them, but everything that could be seen could be eaten, but it was also very deadly.
Either people eat them, or they eat people.
Sometimes wild people can catch insects and eat well, and the nutrition is good, but if they are not careful, they can be sucked dry by a hundred spiders crawling on their bodies while sleeping. Yes, that's how the law of the jungle lives. It is definitely not a good thing to see people once in a while, and the good people and caravans of this era rarely set foot in the mountains. Therefore, when you see someone, you should quickly hide, because most of the people who appear in the mountains are outlaws who have run away from major crimes, or officers and soldiers who have arrested outlaws and escapees.
In fact, in the original world, it is definitely not like YY in later movies, you can find a cave to hide, and you can't find it when you look at the people outside. In reality, there is really that kind of cave that no one else can find, hiding in it is definitely worse to die, all kinds of poisonous snakes, miasma will teach them to be human in minutes, and sometimes they will be bitten to death by countless big spiders bigger than eggs and full of evil patterns on their bellies.
While thinking about it, Gao Fangping continued to inspect the situation in the slums with his hands behind his back.
Once the order was in place, the inhabitants of the city also had some full-time vendors, who brought some of their specialties to the slums to sell. The fugitives don't have much money, but they have a lot of things in their hands, and sometimes they exchange all kinds of mountain goods they get in the mountains for the hawkers.
The cries and noises of children were everywhere, and sometimes dozens of children would be followed by dozens of children who came to sell the bread, "Okay, okay, give me something to eat."
Occasionally, the children will ask for success, so the children who get the cooking cakes will have a different personality, some will immediately gobble up the food, and some will be like treasures, running back to the simple tent to give their sick mothers.
Before the Cheetah Battalion was stationed in strict policing, in fact, it was also the law of the jungle, and those who had things would be robbed. There have even been cases of children who got food and were killed before they could run back to the tent to hand over the food to the old lady.
The person who feels most sorry for these things is Sister Liang, so after she reported to Gao Fangping, Lin Chong took the cheetah battalion to fight hard against "theft and robbery cases", which is more violent than non-1 etiquette, and theft, especially robbery, were all executed in this special period.
Many people are attacking Gao Fangping's cool official policy, but Gao Fangping's response is: they are not registered citizens, and if they want human rights, don't lose their household registration.
Speaking of which, this is indeed very unfair, the registered emperor's people in the city, stealing some needles or threads or cakes, the county government will not accept it, at most they will be slapped and kicked away by Fu'an, and those who rob and rob without causing bad consequences will be sentenced to ten killing sticks by Gao Fangping at most, and then throw the small black house and lock it up for ten days and eight days.
But in the slums outside the city, more than 60 people have been beheaded for stealing inconspicuous small items, and once when Lin Chong was executed, Liang Hongying watched with tears in his eyes, it was a 14-year-old child, his mother was sick, so he stole other people's food. Yes, Gao Fangping personally signed and approved the execution.
Stability and order are overriding all else, this is Gao Fangping's law enforcement instructions. There was no discussion about the conflict with it. If he couldn't seal this opening, Gao Fangping knew that the next thing would be the slow death of all the little girls, because they were the weakest group of people in the slums, and once the law of the jungle in the slums was allowed to prevail, the first to die would of course be the weakest.
"If the weakest one dies, where is the law of the Great Song Dynasty, where is the fine tradition of Hanwa, what is the difference between it and the barbarian killing the old, weak, sick and disabled in order to save food during the winter."
This sentence was Gao Fangping's simple and crude explanation of the rule at that time.
Once again, Gao Fangping's policy is correct, and security is indeed more important to them than food. After Lin Chong cut off the heads of countless people, the order was there, everyone was at peace, and they no longer had to worry about the old lady being bullied in the camp, so sensible children, or men with some strength, were relieved to leave the camp and do something around, so they could pick up some wild vegetables and come back, and sometimes catch some fish back.
There are also people who pick up some herbs that are easy to distinguish, and Lang Zhong from the city comes here to buy them, and the purchase price is very low, but they can already have food.
The naughty slum children sometimes pick up some beautiful rain flower stones, and they don't have to worry about being snatched away, so they can be sold to the shops in Yuncheng that make art, and Liang Hongyu sometimes buys some of these stones as knick-knacks.
Once there is an order, there will be no one to loot, and there will be city vendors willing to come and sell things.
The safety of the family members has been guaranteed, and some people who are young or have some skills can go to work with peace of mind. Because Wang Qinfei and other gentry are recruiting workers on a large scale, the wages are very low, but the advantage is that they do not check their household registration, and they are barely enough to support their families.
As a result, with the support of Gao Fang's relentless and ruthless policies, these "primitive people" have a tendency to once again transition to a feudal civilized life -- living in groups and being stable.
Yes, they are being exploited by a group of crazy sharks led by Gao Fangping and Wang Qinfei, but for the time being, it can only be like this. It's not the most perfect, but it's already a silver start between the slums and Gao Fangping. They will naturally lose some rights if they don't pay the household tax, but they can already exchange their things for some salt and some security.
At least there is a head, to a certain extent, they also have the same thinking as Master Shi Wenbin, who has just left Yuncheng, thinking that there are traitors and corrupt officials all over the world, and Gao Fangping is undoubtedly one of them. But in Yuncheng, you can already see a glimmer of light in the future, if there is hope, it is always good, and if there is hope, you don't have to go to Liangshan to shame your ancestors.
Having said that, the special needs of the lewd uncles in the slums will always exist, but the "fault tolerance" of the people will spontaneously meet this process.
The beauties in the green buildings in Yuncheng look down on those guys and don't do their business by themselves. But the second-class Hu people and the third-class Japanese people don't think so.
So yes, the slums under Gao Fangping's rule, just like Tokyo in the past, gathered some Hu girls to peddle their "1 buttocks" in the slums. There are more Japanese women, and the price is a little cheaper.
Sweat. Liang Hongying was especially unaccustomed to seeing these people, and instigated Gao Fangping to arrest them and lock them up in a small black room.
Gao Fangping was speechless about this, people came here to sell across the ocean, thousands of mountains and rivers, is it easy for them, let them make money while making money for the journey, it is also a place where the Great Song Dynasty is tolerant and elegant.
So Gao Fangping ordered: "Foreigners need to apply for a license to do business in Yuncheng, and one of the qualifications of the permit is to use the money bank of the Great Song Dynasty." ”
This policy was evaluated as lowly by Wang Qinfei and others, and the county lieutenant also followed suit. Because these two villains are also the major shareholders of several Qinglou in Yuncheng, they are very resistant to this batch of imported ...... (To be continued.) )