Chapter 22: Recasting Pingyang City

A steady stream of displaced people began to converge towards Binh Duong City.

Tang Xidong had already seen a group of Ming officials waiting for Pingyang City to be destroyed under the onslaught of the displaced people.

Tang Xidong really does not have the strength to provide disaster relief to the hungry.

The Ming officials who set up the poison plan planned to do so, and he knew everything in his heart.

forced him to evacuate Pingyang City, so that he could regain Pingyang City without bloodshed.

Otherwise, if Tang Xidong blindly insists on not wanting to abandon Pingyang City, then he will face being wiped out in Pingyang City by the homeless riots.

But in Tang Xidong's view, there is a third way, that is, to abandon Pingyang City and recast a new city that truly belongs to itself.

And the displaced people in front of him will have nothing to do with him, and Pingyang City has nothing to do with Tangxidong.

Escorting a large amount of food and money, with the business alliance and management system he had formed, and 15,000 new troops, Tang Xidong left Pingyang City and came to Sanli outside the city.

Tens of thousands of people in Binh Duong still live in the old city.

Of course, Tang Xidong did not abandon everyone.

He gave everyone a choice, which was to follow or to survive.

Some of the new troops were still stationed in the city to prevent the displaced people from entering the city to cause chaos, and those who were willing to follow must contribute to the construction of the new city.

The martial arts arena, which is close to three miles outside the city, has become a real military camp.

In addition to stationing the new army, it also played a role in preventing the displaced people from coming to make trouble, and ensured the smooth completion of the construction of the new city.

20,000 young men were requisitioned from Pingyang City, most of these people were family members of the new army, and their sons were soldiers in the new army, so they naturally decided to choose to follow Tang Xidong, and a small number of them were poor peasants and hawkers who could no longer survive in the city.

Of course, this number of people is not enough to form a new city, but for the time being, it can only maintain this scale.

For all the young and strong people who participated in the construction of the new city, Tang Xidong promised that they could also receive a small bag of grain to go back to their wives and children on the premise that they could eat every day.

The newly built brick kiln factories outside the city began to burn bricks at full capacity, while other production was suspended on Luoliang Mountain, and all efforts were made to expand cement production to meet the needs of the new city construction, in addition to the work of cutting down trees, excavating foundations, leveling roads, and digging deep wells.

The layout of the whole new city is only the street and the two-storey building facing the street, and the area of each small building is controlled at about 150 square meters, and two households live on the upper and lower floors.

It is guaranteed to accommodate 100,000 people, and a part of the remaining land for expansion.

It is divided into commercial and administrative areas, residential areas and office areas.

All concrete roads, public toilets and bathhouses will be built, and urban pipelines will be introduced into the new city.

The walls were still needed, and the moat needed to be excavated.

The scale of the whole new construction project is too large to be completed in a short time and a half.

In the beginning, the construction progress was very slow, everything was started from scratch, and all kinds of raw materials needed to be mined and produced.

Moreover, the construction of the new city belongs to the category of modern cities, and everyone is not familiar with it at the beginning, so it takes time to adapt.

Fortunately, it is only the beginning, and the manpower is enough for the time being, and everything will slowly get better.

The time goes into June.

More than 30,000 displaced people have gathered outside Pingyang City, and many more are still rushing to Pingyang City.

Tang Xidong realized that he was thinking too simply, these homeless people had nowhere to go, and if this continued, a bloody conflict would break out sooner or later.

And there are many hidden agents lurking among them.

A solution must be found.

And find a way to solve it as soon as possible.

The solution that Tang Xidong thought of was the model of the refugee camp in later generations.

The premise of all solutions is to solve everyone's food, clothing, housing and transportation, as long as everyone can survive, everything is easy to say.

This requires a strong material guarantee, and Tang Xidong needs to mobilize the reintegrated caravan forces under his command to ensure that all the materials can be transported back from other places, the most important is food and cloth.

Fortunately, Tang Xidong has money in his hands, and second, he has people in his hands.

And the reason why Tang Xidong has to shoulder the responsibility for the survival of tens of thousands of people and hundreds of thousands of people, in addition to not being able to bear to see these homeless people die under Pingyang City, he also has other ideas.

For example, they do not want to see riots among displaced people, who are in fact a huge human resource.

If you can use it for your own use, then your strength will be greatly developed.

After everything has been thought through.

Tang Xidong brought Jia Huaizhong to him, and the soldiers and horses went first before moving the grain and grass, and the implementation of the decree must ensure that the supplies are comprehensive.

Jia Huaizhong is Han Yi's disciple.

Originally, Han Yi's attitude changed from friendly at the beginning to indifference and hostility after learning of Tang Xidong's intentions.

So much so that the former Shoufu of the Ming Dynasty, who has been staying in the mountains for a long time, has become an old man who has been imprisoned.

As Han Yi's disciple, Jia Huaizhong should have stood with his teacher, but obviously this middle-aged man's thinking has not been ossified to the point of eating the monarch and being loyal to the king, but after following Han Yi to live in Beijing for several years and seeing the real status quo of the entire Ming Dynasty politics with his own eyes, he has long been desperate for the Zhongxing of the Ming Dynasty, and began to think about the back road of the Ming Dynasty.

After coming to Luoliang Mountain, he saw all the changes in Luoliang Mountain, and as time went by, Jia Huaizhong became more and more recognized by Tang Xidong for everything he did in Daming, and gradually recognized the path taken by Tang Xidong in his heart.

So after the end of the defense battle of Pingyang City, Jia Huaizhong, who saw the powerful combat power in Tang Xidong's hands, felt that the young man in front of him could take himself to show his skills to realize his lofty ambitions.

Jia Huaizhong was the first talent to accept his subordinates after Tang Xidong came to Daming.

Tang Xidong knew that this was just the beginning, and soon there would be second, third, and more talents succumbing to his power.

Jia Huaizhong is a talent, but also a business talent, so he naturally filled the vacancy of business talents under Tang Xidong and became the minister of commerce.

After Tang Xidong, who found Jia Huaizhong, told his plan, Jia Huaizhong, who was middle-aged, was extremely excited.

Although he had chosen to follow the young man in front of him, the benevolence and wisdom shown by the other party at the moment made Jia Huaizhong feel that his choice was not wrong.

If you are willing to help the people of Lebanon, you must at least have a correct social outlook.

After agreeing to all of Tang Xidong's requests, Jia Huaizhong also raised a few questions.

For example, the caravan needs the protection of the armed forces, for example, it needs to disguise its identity, after all, the caravan in Pingyang City is already a rebel force for the Ming Dynasty.

Tang Xidong gave support for everything, and only hoped that Jia Huaizhong could transport back the materials he needed as soon as possible.

Then, Tang Xidong began to urge his intelligence department to start planting among the displaced people in advance, first, to conduct investigations, and secondly, to make preparations in advance.

It took ten days to arrange everything, waiting for the first batch of grain and cloth to be transported back from Jiangzhou in the south, and the intelligence work was completed.

On this day in mid-June, Tang Xidong rushed to Pingyang City, surrounded by displaced people, with a large number of new troops and full armor, to begin to implement his plan for a refugee camp.