Seeing someone come out to speak, Fang Xiaoyu knew that things were easy to do, this person was obviously more prestigious in the city, Fang Xiaoyu said to him with a smile: "I brought a large army to prepare to exterminate the bandits, and give everyone a stable living environment." And I'm going to hire people to renovate the city and reclaim the wasteland, and I'll pay you food for it. ”

After listening to Fang Xiaoyu's words, there was another whisper in the crowd, and the middle-aged man asked again: "The previous officials ran away in less than a year, and I don't know how long Lord Lu Dao is going to live here." ”

This is the most important thing for the people, and there were officials who wanted to govern the local area and do a great job, but without exception, they were forced to leave in less than a year, and the people who helped them afterwards were ruthlessly retaliated against by the bandits.

Fortunately, the bandit knows that the population here is small, and if you kill too much, no one can rob them if they run out, so the revenge is just to beat people up, so there is no indiscriminate killing. Therefore, what the people are most concerned about now is how long Fang Xiaoyu can live here.

Fang Xiaoyu smiled and said, "I have already said just now, I am the lord here, not those ordinary officials who only have a five-year term. This is my place from now on, and I will always live here. ”

Fang Xiaoyu looked at the crowd who were whispering, pointed at the soldiers around him with his hand and said, "What's more, I brought so many elite warriors, they will sweep away the bandits." The people looked in the direction pointed by Fang Xiaoyu, and saw a soldier wearing a military uniform, standing straight, and holding a steel gun in his hand, and the hearts of the people suddenly settled down a lot.

Fang Xiaoyu smiled and said: "In a while, you will elect a few leaders to come to me and talk to me about work and wages, I can guarantee that as long as they work for me, I will not treat everyone badly." After everyone's discussion and recommendation, the middle-aged man and another old man walked into the mansion. The middle-aged man said: "Lord Lord, my name is Zheng Ming, I used to be a judge of the government, this old man is Gao Yu, he used to be a master, and we were elected by everyone." ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded to the two of them and said, "In this case, I will first appoint Zheng Ming as the prefect of Tongjiang Mansion, and first sort out the political affairs of this mansion, and the senior Gao Yu will be in charge of the construction of the city first, and I will find someone to cooperate with you." The two of them said, "Thank you, Lord Lord." ”

Gao Yu said again: "I don't know what the Lord of the Dao wants the people to do, and how much they will be paid. "I'm afraid this is the most important thing for everyone. Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "All the people over the age of fifteen and under the age of sixty can come to work, and I will pay two kilograms of grain every day as a reward." As for the workmanship, it was mainly to repair the houses and roads in the city for everyone to live in and to reclaim the wasteland around the city. ”

Gao Yu said happily: "The lord is really kind-hearted, and he pays for building a house for everyone, but some families have many old and young, and only strong laborers come out to work, I am afraid that they will not be able to support their families." Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "I haven't finished yet, in the future, all my subjects will have to be registered, and everyone under the age of fifteen and over sixty years old can receive one kilogram of grain every day, and I will first eliminate hunger in the territory." ”

Listening to Fang Xiaoyu's words, Gao Yu knelt down directly excitedly: "The lord is so benevolent, I thank the lord on behalf of the people." Fang Xiaoyu helped Gao Yu up and said: "The old man doesn't have to be like this, it is the lord's responsibility to let every leader have enough to eat." Zheng Ming on the side said excitedly: "Just by virtue of the words of the lord, my Zheng Ming's life can be regarded as selling to the lord." Gao Yu also said: "As long as my old bones can still move, I will definitely work for adults." ”

Seeing Zheng Ming and the others away, Feng Shichang asked, "Young Master, will there be a problem with letting them manage Tongjiang Mansion?" After all, they are not our people. Fang Xiaoyu said: "Seeing that their expressions and movements don't look like bad people, let them try it first, after all, the strong dragon does not suppress the ground head snake, we must unite these ground head snakes, so that we can stand in Tongshan County as soon as possible." What's more, the army is in our hands, and you are afraid that he will not succeed. Feng Shichang felt that what Fang Xiaoyu said was reasonable, and nodded.

Fang Xiaoyu asked, "Are all the army commanders here?" Feng Shichang said: "They are all waiting outside." Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said, "Let them in." The chief officers of all the units at and above the regimental level walked in, Fang Xiaoyu was stunned when he saw a few more people, and he smiled at Feng Shichang: "It seems that there are too many people." Feng Shichang said: "Young master, you haven't asked me about the reorganization, and I haven't said it, some officers here are temporary, and they are still waiting for the young master to get them." Fang Xiaoyu said: "Forget it this time, you must report to me immediately next time." ”

"Yes, young master." Feng Shichang wiped the cold sweat on his head, and he also felt that he had done something a little recklessly. Fang Xiaoyu also had to knock and beat them, he couldn't let them become arrogant generals, from this matter Fang Xiaoyu also felt the urgency of decentralization in the army, after all, most of the current generals in the army came from the 29th Army, although they were all his father's old subordinates, and there was absolutely no problem in loyalty, but if they were allowed to form a circle, it would be difficult to control.

Feng Shichang saw that Fang Xiaoyu didn't blame him anymore, and hurriedly stepped forward to introduce Fang Xiaoyu: "This is Xiao Jun, who is now the temporary commander of the artillery brigade, and he turned out to be the commander of the artillery regiment of the Thirteenth Army. Xiao Jun stepped forward and saluted: "Young master, the Thirteenth Army is also under the command of the Fang family. The three regiment commanders of our artillery brigade are also from our Fang family, one is from the 15th Army and the other is from the Eighth Army. Fang Xiaoyu nodded, it seemed that he was a little wrong to blame Feng Shichang, he had already avoided suspicion very much, none of the senior officers in this newly added artillery brigade were from the 29th Army.

Feng Shichang explained on the side: "Young master, I have read the tactical report you wrote about the concentrated firepower of artillery, it is really well written, so when the young master asked me to reorganize the troops, I saw that we had so many artillery and independently formed an artillery brigade, so that our first division has four brigades. Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said, "Your thinking is good, this kind of reorganization is very good." I plan to implement a two-commander system in the future, and assign a deputy to each of you to assist you in your work, and the manpower will be transferred from the Iron and Blood Army, and everyone has fought side by side, so they should be able to cooperate very well. ”

Fang Xiaoyu This is obviously planting cronies in various troops, but everyone also knows that Fang Xiaoyu is just taking precautions, anyway, everyone is very loyal and will not care about this. What's more, the people who are going to come are brothers who have fought side by side with them, and they are also familiar with each other, so there will be no barriers.

Lin Yangchun said: "Young master, let's just stay in Tongjiang Mansion like this?" What about the other four provinces? Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "We have too few people now, and there are only more than 10,000 people when we are full, and it is not enough to control a county." Tongjiang Province is the grain-producing area of the entire Tongshan County, so let's use this place as a base to lay a good foundation and then spread outward. All the officers nodded in agreement. Fang Xiaoyu said again: "The first batch of immigrants will arrive here in two months, before that, your task is to suppress bandits, and after two months, I don't want to see any bandits in Tongjiang Mansion." Su Zhizhen said: "Young master, suppressing bandits is a trivial matter, as long as our regular army is on the line, they are all unlucky, but can you give us a change of weapons." Zhang Zhonglin answered: "Yes, it should be replaced, we are all the young master's private army, how can we be replaced by the iron-blooded army." "The officers' hearts heat up at the thought of the extremely fast rate of fire of the lever-operated rifle. The corners of Fang Xiaoyu's mouth curled slightly: "It's okay to change clothes, but this kind of gun is not easy to produce, and the manufacturing speed is very slow, so you can only change clothes one by one." ”

Feng Shichang hurriedly said: "Young master, then which unit to change clothes first?" Fang Xiaoyu said: "From tomorrow, the people of the artillery brigade and the iron-blooded army will stay in Fucheng, and the other three brigades will go out to suppress bandits in regimental units. ”

Fang Xiaoyu's lure policy was absolutely effective, and early the next morning, the nine regiments all set off to suppress the bandits, and even Feng Shichang and the other three brigade commanders followed the team. Fang Xiaoyu had no choice but to let Brigade Commander Liu Yaqing of the Iron and Blood Army be in charge of the city defense work, and as for the artillery brigade, Fang Xiaoyu formulated a new training plan for them. In the past, the artillery of the Lanfang Empire only trained in artillery bombardment, but Fang Xiaoyu added physical training and rifle shooting training to them this time. On the one hand, it is to strengthen their melee ability, and on the other hand, when their physical strength is good, they will be able to move shells faster, which will naturally increase the rate of fire of artillery.

The people of Tongjiangfu City were divided into two groups, one followed Gao Yu to open up wasteland outside the city, and the other part built houses in the city. Of course, they are just building emergency bungalows, and other engineering Fang Xiaoyu has already urgently dispatched the construction team of the Fang family and the Xia family over. Fortunately, it is not far from Luhai County, where there is also a cement factory by Fang Xiaoyu, and he saves a lot of time by transporting cement directly from there.