Chapter 16 Freshwater Civil Affairs

Yu Xiaotian suddenly felt a little tired, in the past few years, he has almost never stopped, fighting with the shark gang, fighting with the mixed river dragon, fighting with Chu Cailao, now fighting with the government, and then it is likely to fight with the Spaniards, and he may have to fight with this Zheng Yiguan soon, how many battles will wait for him in the future, he himself can't predict.

But now he also knows that since he set foot on this road, there is no turning back, doing this on this sea is like sailing against the current and retreating, the slightest carelessness may lead to the destruction of his ship, and from then on sink forever on this sea, at most it can become a talking point that some people occasionally remember.

Now he is no longer fighting for him alone, not to mention the children who were adopted by him as righteous sons and daughters, now Lan'er and Xiu'er are about to give birth, and his two children will be born soon, even if it is just for these two children, he has to go on.

Thinking of this, he bothered his spirits, rubbed his face, got up and walked into the courtyard, and instructed Liu Wang to send someone to recruit Lin Yiyang, these things are really a bit complicated recently, he needs to have a smarter person by his side to help him analyze, and at present, Lin Yiyang is the only more suitable person, and others can't give him much useful advice on these things.

Lin Yiyang has been staying in Tamsui City for most of the year to do his civil affairs affairs, although this guy has never been an official, but he really has a little ability, and he has a few brushes for civil affairs.

After he arrived in Tamsui City, he took over the civil affairs from Fang An, and first built a relatively complete administrative management system, starting from the level of Tamsui City, setting up townships, and then setting up village level and three levels of management, and each village re-elected the village head.

In the old immigrant villages, most of them were family gatherings, so they used their patriarchs or people with high prestige in the family to fill the positions, and the new immigrant villages chose some elderly and virtuous people in the village to fill the positions, and the small disputes between the neighbors in the village were usually resolved by them on the spot, and if there was friction between the villages, it would be handed over to the township in the upper township to coordinate and solve, and if the township in the township could not be solved, then it would be handed over to the Tamsui City Governor for judgment.

Considering that the natives here are still a threat, and the sea wolf tribe alone is responsible for maintaining the safety of each village, it is obvious that the sea wolf members of Tamsui City are short of manpower, and the limited garrison is exhausted for this, not to mention that with the increasing number of immigrants, the villages in the resettlement area are expanding to the surrounding areas more and more, and they are getting farther and farther away.

Therefore, each village must compile the young people in the village, according to the words of this era, that is, the formation of group training, the young people in the village are called the village brave, and every month to spare a few days, the sea wolf soldiers send people to the villages to conduct training on the village bravery.

In addition, each township has organized a militia team, and this militia team must have dozens of village warriors on standby from time to time, led by two sea wolf personnel, and the source of the township warriors is drawn from each village, and each village must send several village warriors every month to the township to be assigned to the militia team to stand by, and deal with possible local attacks or small groups of pirates ashore at any time.

In this way, once Tamsui City encounters a large-scale attack by the enemy, each township can immediately dispatch a considerable number of townships to Tamsui City to participate in the defense, and the overall structure is basically the same as that of the local civilian armed forces in the Ming Dynasty.

As for the food of the permanent militia, each township and village is responsible for raising it, and Tamsui City gives each township a fixed amount of subsidy every month, so that those villagers who go to the township to stay in the township can receive a certain subsidy, and they are not allowed to stay in the township for a month in vain, so as to ensure their daily needs.

In addition, the selection of village warriors as members of the standing militia will drain the strong labor in their families for the current agrarian society, which will affect their farming to a certain extent.

Therefore, Lin Yiyang ordered each village to transfer the township Yong to the township as a standing militia, and the other villagers in the village should take care of the farming of the transferred Xiangyong's family, and help the transferred Xiangyong's family to complete things such as cultivating or watering the farmland, so as not to affect the production of their farmland.

In addition, when on land, although all townships and villages also have the habit of arranging and training village bravery, and the township will also organize regimental training for local defense, but all the townships and villages on land are all big households have the final say, and when there is such an errand service, the burden will be passed on to the heads of small families in the village, and they will have to bear the food and drink expenses themselves.

Here in Tamsui City, Lin Yiyang will never allow such a thing to happen, the sea wolf will not let the big families in these immigrant villages take advantage of such an advantage, after he arrived, he immediately conducted a big survey of the population of each village, all the villagers of the immigrant villages, according to the household registration, the strong labor of the appropriate age will be clearly marked on the household register, when the Ding is drawn, according to the proportion, everyone will not be able to transfer this kind of dispatch to the small family of the small family.

Moreover, sometimes there will be some large families and wealthy gentry families on the land, who are unwilling to give out, so they will privately spend money to ask the poor families in the village to pay for them, and deal with such dispatches, which are also completely forbidden here in Tamsui City, and once anyone is found to have evaded such a dispatch, they will be fined a large sum of silver, or at worst, most of their land will be confiscated, and those who escape from business trips will be sent to a hard labor camp for half a year to a year.

Therefore, many ills on land are basically banned here in Tamsui City, making the civil affairs here fairer.

As for the formation of militia units and the formation of regimental training in various villages, all villages have gained the basic ability to protect themselves, and even if they encounter something that cannot be dealt with in the village, the militia team in the township will rush to the place of the accident to reinforce them within a very short time.

As for the training of these township brave militiamen, Fang An was responsible for them, and the soldiers were sent to various townships and villages to conduct drills on these village warriors.

In terms of weapon configuration, cold weapons are the mainstay, mostly single-knife spears and shields, and some bows and crossbows are also assigned to them, so that they have a minimum combat effectiveness.

This has a great advantage, that is, through this method, the immigrants here are basically all soldiers, almost all the strong laborers of the appropriate age have to undergo a certain degree of militarized training for a certain period of time every month, once the sea wolves need it in the future, they can recruit new soldiers from among them, and after only a short period of training, they can be used.

This practice is actually to raise soldiers in the people, so that the sea wolf in peacetime, no longer need to raise a large number of regular soldiers, can save a lot of money and resources, but once needed, in a short time, you can obtain a considerable number of basic militia from the immigrants, and integrate it into the regular war barracks, only need a short time, you can put it into battle.

And these militias usually have the opportunity to fight, with the increasing number of immigrants in Tamsui City, the area of the pioneer is getting larger and larger, it is inevitable that there will be conflicts with the natives, squeezing the living space of the local aborigines, although the aborigines have been beaten by the sea wolf several times, the behavior has been restrained, but with the increasing number of immigrants and the new immigrant villages built by the sea wolves, there will still be many contradictions between them, and skirmishes often occur.

Therefore, the militia of various townships and villages often participate in some skirmishes with the natives, although these conflicts are sometimes just petty fights, and even human lives cannot be injured, at most they break their heads, but after a long time, they can still effectively temper these militiamen.

In addition, as the scale of Tamsui City is getting bigger and bigger, the number of ships coming and going here is also increasing, so it has caused some small groups of pirates to covet this area, and some small groups of pirates from Fujian or Guangdong or even the Japanese people found that there are large immigrant villages and pioneering farmland on this side of Tamsui, so they still came here to try their luck knowing that this is a forbidden place for sea wolves.

Although Tamsui City was developed on both sides of the Tamsui River, it was relatively close to the sea, and there were not too many dangerous places on the seaside.

Most of the time, the villagers of the migrant village can deal with the attack of such a small group of pirates, even if they can't withstand it, they can run back to the village to let the wolf smoke for help, and the militia team in the township will immediately rush to help.

In addition, with the completion of Tamsui City, Yu Xiaotian also tilted his manpower and material resources to this side, adding a few patrol ships here, and strengthening the patrol intensity on the sea outside Tamsui City.

By the end of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, all kinds of situations on the side of Tamsui City had basically stabilized, and Lin Yiyang basically ended his mission in Tamsui City, handing over the affairs of the civil affairs manager of Tamsui City to a friend of his classmate named Tian Fengjiang, who was recalled by Yu Xiaotian to Nanri Island and continue to be his staff officer.

After Lin Yiyang returned to Nanri Island, he made a report on his work in Tamsui City in the past six months in the council hall, stating his work there during this period and some of his achievements.

In this regard, these leaders of the sea wolf have another understanding of Lin Yiyang's ability, which can be regarded as a complete affirmation of Lin Yiyang's ability, and also makes Lin Yiyang's position among the sea wolves more stable.