Chapter Ninety-One: Stabilizing the Base Area
The two highest military and political governors of Linzhou Mansion reached an agreement, and soon the Linzhou landlords, who were concerned about the development of the situation in Juxiang City, learned with some vomiting blood. Those Xu Jiajun who captured Orange City actually accepted Zhao'an somewhat 'shamefully'. Becoming the de facto ruler of Orange City, the confiscated wealth of the landlords they had contact with there may not be able to get it back.
After getting the official appointment, Xu Bin quickly picked up the military and political chiefs of Juxiangcheng and hired some corresponding government managers from the Xu Jiajun and the big families with good reputations in Juxiangcheng. He soon summoned the township officials, who had been in a state of terror, and announced the first decree he had issued since taking office.
From now on, many unreasonable taxes imposed on the people will be abolished in the city of Orange, and only the corresponding grain taxes will be collected from these toiling people. Moreover, after putting these local tyrants and inferior gentry on the ground of Orange City into a pot, most of the land deeds that originally belonged to the people in these towns below were confiscated by Xu Bin.
After having these land deeds, Xu Bin naturally became the largest 'landlord' in this orange city. He let the township officials who had collected the confiscated fields be screened out separately and had good character to redistribute the fields to the people under his rule. And these people only need to hand over 30% of their income to the township every year. The remaining seventy percent of the income is all handed over to the people themselves.
Of course, if they want to sell these grains, they can only sell them to Xu Jiajun, and the price will not be disadvantaged to these people. In addition, businessmen who do business in Juxiangcheng only need to pay some relatively preferential commercial taxes to Xu Jiajun, and other taxes that were previously apportioned will also be cancelled.
As soon as these decrees were announced, the people of Orange City immediately ran with joy to tell each other. For Xu Jiajun, who started as a bandit, the people also became supporters of Xu Jiajun from the initial worry. Especially with the example of Baofeng Town, these people know that the words spoken by the leader of the Xu family army will not be easily changed.
This time, with Xu Jiajun in charge of their house, they finally have a good life to live. Seventy percent of the income is undoubtedly very different from the people who were busy all year in previous years and could only get one to twenty percent. Moreover, in addition to this agricultural tax, the rest of the taxes apportioned to them will be abolished from this moment onwards.
Even the merchants, who didn't like bandits controlling Orange City at first, quickly became embraced after seeing this commercial tax policy. The bank in Orange City protested at first. When they saw Xu Bin, they deposited most of the seized property in their bank. These shopkeepers with a foreign devil background also smiled at Xu Jiajun.
Especially when he learned that Xu Bin intended to deposit all the allowances of his soldiers in the future into their bank, so that when the soldiers received the allowances, they would go to the bank to collect them by themselves with the documents issued by Xu Jiajun. The bosses of these foreign banks are eager to confess Xu Bin. You must know that with the current number of soldiers in the Xu family's army, the amount of money circulating every month is not a small amount!
What's more, they already know that this orange city will be the final word of Xu Jiajun in the future, and the monthly taxes will be a lot! It's all money, and it can bring them a lot of wealth.
To appease the remaining squires and people in Orange City, the Gannan Governor's Palace, which got the news, also had an ambiguous attitude and did not do anything to deal with it. Qin Yidao, who had been worried for a few days, and the head of the security regiment did not reprimand him when he saw it. I knew that they had guessed the judgment of the situation in Gannan before, and there was no mistake.
The biggest threat facing the current governor of Gannan is still from the outside, as long as he does not make too much influence under his rule, this usually strong governor can only temporarily let the Xu family army go free for a while. This also means that the forbearance of Orange City still waited for the tacit approval of the governor.
Even the governor acquiesced in Xu Jiajun's occupation of Orange City, and those decrees about Orange City were completely contrary to Linzhou, and these two military and political chiefs didn't have much to say. After all, the strength that Xu Jiajun showed last time did make them a little afraid. If they really have a thief's heart for Linzhou City, then their current good life is probably going to disappear.
If the strength of Xu Jiajun scared these corrupt officials and local tyrants and gentry, then the public trial in Juxiangcheng scared them even more. As long as the corrupt officials and local tyrants who are extremely angry with the people, after being verified by Xu Jiajun, they will not talk about their wealth except for checking their family wealth. was also regarded as a monkey and became the target of Xu Jiajun's horror.
The county magistrate, the city defense battalion commander and several local tyrants who committed the most heinous crimes were all shot in public, which greatly enhanced the prestige of Xu Jiajun in the local area, not to mention, but also frightened the landlords who also used to oppress the people to accumulate wealth. Even the rich people who were not caught, after learning the news. They sold their wealth one after another and hid outside the orange city.
Even the rich landlord who was unwilling to leave his hometown, after the execution with the profound impact of this gun, showed his sincerity to Xu Jiajun. Not to mention the reduction of tenants' rents, more of them chose to sell their fields to Xu Jiajun at a low price, so as to transfer their money to the factory for investment. For a time, the entire Orange City could be said to have become Xu Jiajun's own place, and he didn't pay attention to the decree of the Linzhou Mansion at all.
With the consolidation of Xu Jiajun's rule over Juxiang City, coupled with the impact of the rent reduction order, Xu Bin arranged a main battalion of 500 people in the county seat. The rest of the large troops were still hidden in the Black Wind Ridge and the Training Mountain. And in order to cope with the upcoming Gannan Rebellion, Xu Bin began a new round of army expansion.
With the weapons and equipment that he bought last time that was enough to support a division, and the weapons of the Eagle Country as a reinforcement regiment, Xu Bin is not worried about having no weapons and equipment at all. Therefore, he recruited a regiment-sized recruit team again in the joint defense team of various villages in Juxiang City, and all of them were sent to the training mountain for training.
As for the units that had not received battlefield training, they adopted the same method as the training of recruit companies at that time, and adopted the method of bringing in the new ones after completing their regular training. Scatter them out to eliminate bandit units that are unwilling to lay down their arms and go down the mountain to be reorganized.
In the eyes of the people, the current Xu Jiajun is a good army born of bandits, but in the eyes of the former bandit leaders, they have become ungrateful betrayers. After they defected, the first people they chose to ask for were their former colleagues. In this regard, the people, who were deeply affected by the bandits, liked Xu Jiajun's policy of loving the people more and more.
But for these bandit cottages, in the face of the Xu family's army, who was born as bandits, they really couldn't get along on the ground of Orange City. If you don't want to be shot as a sinner, you can only stay away from the ground of Orange City and go to other counties to continue to be bandits.
For a time, the entire Orange City did not move except for the bandit circle of Baijiazhai, and the rest of the bandits went down the mountain to accept the reorganization, unwilling to be restrained and stay away. In this small county town, which was once full of bandits of all sizes, it is difficult to see the traces of bandits robbing the people.
As for the bandit cottage that dared to rob across counties, Xu Jiajun didn't need to hide any identity, and directly pulled the army out to conquer. With iron-blooded means, he suppressed several provocative bandit cottages, and dragged the leader who took the lead in killing the people to the victim village and shot him on the spot.
The bandits in the surrounding counties all knew that Xu Jiajun was a madman who could not be provoked, and even the people under his rule could not be provoked at will. Otherwise, it will bring death to the cottage, and gradually live in the village on the edge of the orange city, and also feel the difference in life between a city but a world of difference.
After stabilizing the situation in the first base area, Xu Bin handed over the affairs of the army to the officer corps that was gradually growing. He began to shift his attention to the industrial base that began to follow the Heifeng Village in Baofeng Town.
Watching a shipload of industrial equipment be loaded through the dock of Juxiang City to settle down in Baofeng Town. In order to appease the foreign technicians and Longhuaguo technicians recruited by Laura, Xu Bin found an easy-to-defend valley next to Heifeng Village and built brick buildings to give these families a comfortable accommodation environment.
It is clear that compared with the soldiers under him, most of these technicians have a lot of cultural literacy, and they pay more attention to the working environment and treatment. In terms of treatment, Xu Bin's salary is much higher than that of other factories in Longhuaguo, and at the same time, in order to let these factories settle here with peace of mind.
These haode houses were built at a lot of cost, and Xu Bin let the families of these senior technicians live in a free way. As long as these senior technicians have worked in Xu Bin's factory for ten years, these houses will be given to them for free. This kind of welfare treatment is undoubtedly full of temptation for senior technicians who come to eat well.
Many people come here and see the bright brick houses and the conditions that give them special treatment for high-level craftsmen. At first, the technicians who came to see it alone wrote letters or entrusted Xu Jiajun to bring their families here to settle down.
The same scene is seen at the relatively secluded Lianbing Mountain base, where Xu Bin will build his first arsenal and begin assembling a coal-fired power plant. And to these foreign workers, who are mostly skilled workers in Debangguo, Xu Bin also gives a very high salary, and even the cooks who cook for these jishu workers and experts are specially hired by Xu Bin from outside with high salaries.
After the defeat of the German state, these German national technicians and experts, who originally enjoyed a good salary in China, also felt Xu Jiajun's sincerity and began to devote themselves to the construction and assembly of the arsenal with great enthusiasm. As for the Jishu workers of Longhua who were recruited from all over the country, a separate area for the families of workers was built closer to the training town.