Moreover, although the Juyi Hall behind Su Zedong is not as powerful and wealthy as the Xiang family behind Xiang Feng, the Ming Sect to which the Juyi Hall belongs is very powerful in the entire Central Plains, and many rebel armies with heads and faces are under the banner of Ming Sect (or White Lotus Sect), and it still has a large mass base among the people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Therefore, they have "bet" one after another, and most of them have chosen not to speak for Zhang Shide, Zhang Shixin and several other Zhang Shicheng's cronies, and a small number of big officials who have been friends with Su Zedong before have come forward to express their support for Su Zedong, which makes the voice of the opposition as small as a grain of sand.

Now that the overall situation has been decided, and everyone has echoed it, Zhang Shicheng took the boat to determine Su Zedong's case, and handed over all the relevant matters of firearms production to Su Zedong and his Dongzhen Company to complete, while he ordered that 3,000 militiamen from all over the country be dispatched to cooperate with the family members of Dongzhen Mansion to clean up the evil forces in Gaoyou City.

At this point, a wind of change in Gaoyou City has quietly blown......

Su Zedong did not wait for the 3,000 people sent by Zhang Shicheng to Dongzhen Mansion to be in place and started to act.

He first opened all the stores of the thirteen houses he had purchased on West Street, and all the items he sold corresponded to the shops opened by Xiang Feng on West Street, namely five clothing stores, three taverns, and five blacksmith shops.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to selling daily iron farm tools and knives, the five blacksmith shops on West Street also sold a small number of firearms and steel knives!

Su Zedong considered that the hot business of the blacksmith shop on East Street in the past few months has saturated the ironware business in Gaoyou City, and the products produced by more than 30 blacksmith shops on East Street were mostly sold to various places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces using the caravan of Juyitang a month ago, and now the blacksmith shop is opened on West Street just to attract a new and regular customer.

Its real marketing purpose is to turn to the buying and selling of firearms and tempered materials.

As for the large-scale restaurants and the promised acquisitions, Su Zedong believes that these are secondary rather than in response to the rigid needs of the people, and can be put aside for the time being, so as to draw out more manpower and material resources to invest in the research and development and production of firearms.

In addition, although most of the production of copper coins and silver was not the responsibility of Dongzhen Company, it was still necessary to send some people to supervise and assist the craftsmen to complete the work, and at the same time, Su Zedong also planned to expand the caravan and change the route of the caravan, so as to complete the procurement and transportation of grain in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces as much as possible.

And changing the route of the caravan means cutting off the commercial trade between the north and the south, and when Su Zedong talked to everyone in the plenary meeting, he was met with unprecedented unanimous opposition!

Liu Zhenming and Song Jiwen, as veterans of Dongzhen Company, represented everyone's position and opinions, pointing out that the harm of this is that once the trade route of north-south transportation is cut off, it will be difficult to restore or open up again.

Second, if the north-south trade road is cut off at this time, it will be very difficult for Old Man Xu, Wu Zhennan, Lu Changxin and others to go to Dadu.

Moreover, cutting off the trade route between the north and the south may not not arouse the suspicion of the Ming sect masters who are far away in the capital, even if the sect leader and the sect leader's daughter trust, but those elders, those who are still hostile to the Juyi Hall, they will not easily give up on this, so they will leave the handle, which will make the sect leader in danger.

This time, Su Zedong thought about it inappropriately, he was bent on doing his best to do a good job in Gaoyou City, and wanted to get rid of the relationship with the religious forces, even if he broke with Qin Xiaoqing because of this, he had to do it, because he didn't want the religious forces to be too large, so huge that they could interfere with the imperial power in the feudal society.

Compared with the imperial power, the religious power is more terrible for the bewitchment of the people's hearts, because its foundation lies in the people, and as long as the sect leader has selfish intentions, then this land of China must be a large area of corpses all over the field, such a tragedy has been staged once when the Five Chaos was in China, Su Zedong does not want to let the religious forces rise here because he wants to change this history!

The caravan diversion can be rerouted, but not all of them, it is still necessary to take into account the interests of many groups, and ordinary post house horsemen also rely on this to eat, without the bulk of Dongzhen Company, they are in the wilderness, it is estimated that there are not many caravans passing by for more than half a year, and the officials or robbers are so mean that they have to let them do small business and spit out money!

Seizing Xiang Feng's business on West Street and concentrating on the development of Gaoyou City is the first step in the transformation of Dongzhen Company; The second step is to wait until the 3,000 militia arranged by Zhang Shicheng for him are in place before proceeding to the second step.

As for the research and development and manufacturing of eight artillery pieces and 300 firearms, Liu Zhenming and Su Liangsan have been fully handed over.

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After receiving Zhang Shicheng's attention, the efficiency of officials at all levels was surprisingly fast.

On the fifth day of the passage of the bill, when the Dongzhen Company's shops on West Street were basically opened, the number of 3,000 militiamen reached 2,000, and the quantity was large and the quality was not bad.

And Su Zedong did not treat them badly, he took the initiative to raise the salaries of these militiamen, and provided them with a guarantee amount for personal safety, and at the same time improved the reward system;

On the one hand, Su Zedong did this to establish the symbol of Dongzhen's good welfare and humanized management to obtain people's livelihood, and the second aspect was to let them not have too many worries when doing things for Dongzhen Company!

As soon as 2,000 people are in place, the second step of Dongzhen's transformation has quietly begun!

First of all, Su Zedong first asked the Jiang brothers to lead 500 militiamen to be responsible for patrolling the East Street and West Street of Gaoyou City; Subsequently, Su Wuliang, Su Liuliang, and the Jiang brothers, at the request of Zhang Shicheng, set up barricades at the city gate to check the people who enter and leave the city every day, and strictly limit the number of people who go out of the city every day, and check the people who enter the city to prevent spies from coming and going.

There are too many interests involved in the investigation, and many unscrupulous businessmen will first bribe the soldiers who guard the city gate when they transport low-quality or prohibited hoards into the city, so Su Zedong arranged for the Su family to take 200 people to guard the east and north gates of Gaoyou City, and arranged for the Jiang brothers to be responsible for guarding the gates in the west and south directions.

The Jiang brothers and the Su brothers have relatively little pursuit of interests, and attach great importance to the word "loyalty", so while working hard for Su Zedong, their work ability and attitude have also been recognized by Su Zedong, so they arranged for each of the four of them to take a hundred militiamen to go to the town, and Su Zedong was still very relieved.

After the deployment was made in Gaoyou City, Su Zedong arranged for Song Jiwen and Zhao Youqian to lead 300 militiamen to several villages under the name of Dongzhen Company in the north of the city to continue to do a good job at the grassroots level.

After Song Jiwen and Zhao Youqian got this task, they also communicated with each other, and they believed that the current situation in the countryside was still quite grim:

First, the villagers have long been oppressed by the ruffians and hooligans, and dare not speak out about their various exploitation methods of coercion, inducement and cruel suppression.

The second is the problem of the livelihood of the migrant farming population, because the local peasants are bound by the inherent ideology, believing that they were born and raised in this land, and these wastelands naturally belong to them, but they do not have enough manpower and material resources to complete the work of clearing these lands, but they naturally reject the outsiders who work in agriculture, and most of them treat them as serfs.

This will invisibly create a contradiction between the migrant population and the local population, which will lead to a series of chain problems such as migrant population crime and the deterioration of the rural environment.

the third is the quality education of local villagers; Before they came into contact with Su Zedong, the leader, Song Jiwen and Zhao Youqian would not pay attention to this problem, and they believed that peasants should keep their duties and cultivate the one-third of an acre of land, and as for the ideological construction and cultural quality training, they could make way for agricultural construction!

However, in the past few months of contact with Su Zedong, such a concept is very backward and wrong, and if there is no ideological and cultural construction, the construction of agriculture will always be backward, and the value created by it will also be greatly affected by nature, man, and other aspects.

Therefore, in response to these problems, Song Jiwen also deliberately found Su Zedong after the meeting and said: "Master Su, can you arrange more militiamen who have gone to the school or have read the Four Books and Five Classics for a few years to come over?" Brother Zhao and I have noticed that the problem of rural construction is not only a problem of agricultural production, but also a problem of internal people! ”

Su Zedong is very happy, it is absolutely correct that Song can understand this article like this!

And even Su Zedong himself didn't think that the construction of rural areas and agriculture should start with the people's will and wisdom, but Song Jiwen, who had only been busy by his side for a few months, noticed this problem, which is really commendable!

After further discussion, the two decided not to be afraid of trouble to screen the 2,000 migrant workers who arrived first, and according to the requirements of Song Zhuwen's statement, to select suitable candidates to carry out the work in view of these major problems in the countryside.

The selection of candidates was carried out for three days, and after three days, the remaining 1,000 people were also in place, and more than a dozen people from the management such as Su Zedong and Song Jiwen selected these militiamen day and night.

And in the time they chose, all the 500 family members of Wu Mansion who were captured were released from prison, and more than 60 of them decided to join Dongzhen Company together after making money with each other.

Of course, Su Zedong was warmly welcomed, and like the militiamen, he was asked to conduct the written test and interview assessment.

And these more than 60 people turned out to be people from the Wu family, and their cultural quality was not bad, and their image was also correct, so they all passed the audit and successfully entered Song Jiwen's rural team.