Chapter Twenty-Seven: Reinforcements Arrive

When the Southern Tang Dynasty and the Later Zhou Dynasty were in turmoil, there was still more excitement inside and outside Shouzhou City, because the Assassin Mansion launched a new wave of announcement offensive, and the content of this wave of announcements was more extensive and more detailed-

In terms of residence, the "Regulations on the Loan and Sale of Housing by Shouzhou Bank" was promulgated, which mainly stipulates that people in Shouzhou can go to the bank to purchase a house with a bank loan with household registration and work income certificate, and the Assassin Mansion will guarantee it; There is the "Interim Regulations on the Construction and Sale of Housing in Shouzhou City", which stipulates that each household in Shouzhou City is allowed to purchase only one house, and if there is a real need, it is necessary to submit an application to the street management representative and the Thorn Shi Mansion in turn. The regulations specifically stipulate that, in addition to public facilities, Shouzhou City will no longer be allowed to build residential buildings with an area of more than one-third from now on; There are "Interim Regulations on the Management of Low-rent Housing in Shouzhou City", which stipulates that the poor people in Shouzhou can apply for low-rent housing built by the Assassin Prefecture, and other people who have lived in Shouzhou for one year and have regular workers can also apply for low-rent housing. After living in it for five years, you can pay to buy the low-rent house you live in, but the property rights belong to the Thorn Mansion and the residents, and in principle, it is not allowed to buy and sell, and if it is sold, it must be sold to the Thorn House at the original price; There is also the "Shouzhou Housing Rental Management Regulations", which mainly stipulates that any landlord renting a house must sign a mutually agreeable rental agreement under the supervision of the street management representative, and those who break the contract without reason will be punished with heavy fines.

In terms of travel, the "Interim Regulations on the Management of Travel in Shouzhou" was announced, which formally stipulated the travel principles of "right-hand driving" and "pedestrian priority" for vehicles and personnel in the whole territory, and divided all streets into median lines, lanes and sidewalks.

In terms of time calculation, the whole territory of Shouzhou will officially implement the 24-hour system from now on, and the time will be reported on the hour. At the same time, Shouzhou began to build a separate building in the center of the city, called the "Bell Tower".

In terms of promoting credit, the implementation of information numbering began, the Southern Tang Dynasty 937 A.D. as the zero age of the year, and then according to the date of birth of each Shouzhou citizen with Arabic numerals for a unified number, all personal merits, faults, and dishonesty into the file management, anyone can inquire about other people's credit information as long as they apply.

At the same time, the "Long-term Planning Map of Shouzhou City" was also officially announced, and the opinions and suggestions of all the people were sincerely solicited.

When the people of Shouzhou once again had crazy discussions and debates around these announcements, the "Shouzhou Business Daily", which had replaced the new editor-in-chief, also began to exert its strength, and successively launched a series of special editions of "war", successively stating in simple and understandable words the large and small examples of winning the victory with less and uniting as one, demonstrating Lin Feng's invincible record with facts, and arguing the six reasons why the Southern Tang Dynasty must win from all angles, inspiring the people of the whole territory to bravely face the upcoming war; At the same time, each issue opens a battlefield knowledge column to disseminate knowledge such as "precautions for battlefield treatment", "tutorial on making rescue belts", and "how to warm up on the battlefield".

Several consecutive issues of "Shouzhou Business Daily" have increased the printing volume, a wide range of free distribution to the people, quickly passed on these knowledge to the hands of the people, and further stimulated the excitement of the people in the city, the first sentence of many middle-aged and elderly people to meet and chat is often to shake their heads and sigh "the whole city is crazy", and then began to carry out a new round of quarrels around the newly announced articles, and when it comes to excitement, they have all become crazy people in the eyes of others.

After September 12, soldiers from Chu began to arrive sporadically, and Lin Feng arranged to organize a large mobilization of the people of the whole city, and began to build an incomparably huge military camp one kilometer outside Xicheng, which suddenly turned Xicheng into a large construction site.

At this time, Lin Feng was only responsible for one thing: when the soldiers who arrived had gathered enough 2,000 people, he would personally lead the team across most of the city to the Shouzhou Army training camp. And the process that these people went through was basically exactly the same - first they visited the whole city's defense system such as the upper and lower city walls, the inner city protective ring of the west gate, the pulley ropes, and the support of the people, as well as the mountains of food piled up in the city, so as to give the newcomers confidence first. Of course, Lin Feng also intended to let the people of the city witness the steady stream of reinforcements by the way, and to strengthen their confidence in holding on.

The second is to give the soldiers a quarter of an hour of free time before entering the barracks, so that they can look around the two notices on both sides of the barracks, and someone will read the explanation aloud next to them.

One of these two notices is the "Shouzhou Meritorious People System" that has been announced, and the other is the newly introduced "Shouzhou Military Merit System", which clearly tells these newcomers that the Shouzhou army has always been fair, and it is absolutely rewarding meritorious deeds, and the more enemies you kill on the battlefield, the more money you can receive, and you have achieved a certain military merit, and at the same time have the qualifications of honorary lords, equity investment, pension insurance, and retired officers. Of course, the last sentence of the notice also added a horizontal line to emphasize: "Anyone who is ineffective in combat, takes the lead in military merit, does not obey commands, and retreats in fear of battle, once confirmed, shall be punished with the corresponding military law and cancel any military meritorious treatment!" ”

Subsequently, the new soldiers were gathered to observe the special soldiers and Shouzhou soldiers to conduct field drills such as climbing, wall rushing, surprise raids, and fully armed long-distance running. The purpose of this procedure is obvious, on the one hand, to enhance the confidence of these soldiers in the military strength of Shouzhou, and at the same time to give them a disadvantage.

Needless to say, many of the Chu soldiers who arrived one after another were the best of the Wuchang army, the original Chu army, or the tribes of Chu, and they were too arrogant on the surface or in their hearts when they first arrived in Shouzhou. However, when they had seen the vigorous and energetic Shouzhou soldiers, especially those special soldiers who did not smile but had amazing combat power, they naturally quietly retracted their high-pitched tails.

Of course, there are still people who are not convinced, Lin Feng has already thought of it, and he also has a trick to deal with: on-site challenges!

The special fighters on the scene can choose one at random, archery, hand-to-hand combat, weapon competition, long-distance running, any military project can be, as long as you win, you can choose one of two yuan or a high-quality steel knife produced by the Datang Academy of Sciences.

Lin Feng asked people to write down their names, and arranged an excellent special soldier to serve as the deputy general of the recruit thousand-person team on the spot, and let these outstanding people serve as instructors and captains of the team, and soon established the core skeleton of these recruit teams.

The last activity is arranged, and the real thing begins!

Standing motionless for an hour, running five miles in full gear, and resisting the attacks of three soldiers at the same time, anyone who could easily pass three tests in a row was immediately promoted to the head of the capital or squad leader, and the basic skeleton of the army was also established.

During this period, Lin Feng also specially selected soldiers who were more than six feet tall and had great strength from all the soldiers, and Suo Chao, the deputy general of the Shouzhou Army, was in charge and took them to a closed place for secret training.

After all the processes were completed, Lin Feng also successfully grasped the basic situation of the new soldiers, quickly controlled the entire team, and then pulled these people back to the new camp in the west of the city, and worked together to help carry out the construction of the camp, conscientiously organized collective discipline drills and team operations, and was familiar with all kinds of flags and drums.

On 14 September, two groups of non-Chu reinforcements rushed to Shouzhou, triggering another wave of cheers from the people of the city.

The first wave of the morning was the overseas Fang family, twelve identical big ships loaded with grain rushed to the north wharf of Shouzhou City, Fang Hongxing, the head of the Fang family, personally formed a team, leading a thousand swarthy and shiny sturdy men to pull a cart, carrying grain bags and preparing to enter the city.

Lin Feng was overjoyed when he heard the news, and led a group of cronies out of the city to greet him in person.

In front of the onlookers, Lin Feng and Fang Hongxing put their arms on the four-wheeled carriage and loudly announced on the spot that the Fang family was the honorary citizen of Shouzhou and enjoyed all the treatment of the people of Shouzhou City, which immediately aroused the cheers of the strong men of the Fang family and the onlookers.

The second wave was even more lively, and it was the real "foreign aid" personally led by Shi Zhizhi, the chief of the Persian tribe in Quanzhou! Although there were only 300 of them, the soldiers of these sergeants with very different appearances were all dressed in white robes, wrapped in white scarves on their heads, and wore curved steel knives around their waists.

This time, Lin Feng led six "pioneers" of the Persian tribe such as Gazi out of the city to greet them, and also announced the Persian people of Quanzhou as the honorary citizens of Shouzhou City in a high-profile manner, hoping that the people at the scene would welcome these "international friends" who came from thousands of miles to help with warm applause!

Hearing Lin Feng's explanation, the onlookers, who were originally a little surprised, relieved themselves and began to applaud to welcome.

At noon on September 16, a piece of news was urgently transmitted to Lin Feng, there were 5,000 elite soldiers who had just arrived at the westernmost border of Shouzhou, and the leader was a "big man"!

Lin Feng, who had just received this information, was overjoyed when he heard the news, thinking that it was Panlong and they were coming, and he didn't go to his heart, and was about to arrange for Zhao Zan to support them to greet them, when Xi Mucheng quietly leaned over and whispered that the leader was Li Congqian, the king of Ji who guarded Chudi.

Lin Feng's whole body trembled, he felt his scalp tingle, threw down the pen in his hand and ran out.