Chapter 211 won the hearts of the people

After receiving this telegram, Fang Xiaoyu and Huadong Xing studied it and believed that if they could not appease the people, their intervention would be doomed to failure, so the Chinese Consulate must come up with a way to ensure local stability and provide a reliable logistics base for Qiu Yu'an's attack.

In addition, some officials were dispatched there to supervise and improve government operations, and to distribute relief food to the local people to buy people's hearts.

In order to ensure the normal implementation of these tasks and not to hold Qiu Yu'an back, Fang Xiaoyu asked the two Marine Divisions that had already assembled in the Ohu Kingdom to move their garrison from Honolulu Island to Hawada Port to protect the officials and police forces who were about to arrive there.

During the time to ask for help, Qiu Yu'an would not sit and wait, and do nothing. In order to facilitate the upcoming officials and police force, Qiu Yu'an began a series of policies to buy people's hearts.

"Your Excellency, Major General Gimmel is the supreme commander of the army in the port of Hawada, how can you arrest him if you are just a guest?" The mayor of Hawada, Mr. Caccia, was surprised to hear that Qiu Yu'an's troops had arrested a number of officers of the Imperial Army of San Martin, led by Major General Guimmel, and in order to find out the situation, he immediately took a carriage to Qiu Yu'an's barracks and made inquiries.

Qiu Yu'an smiled and said: "The reason why there are so many rebels in your country is because of the problem of officials, and only by eliminating the officials can your country settle down again." ”

"But......" Mayor Kacha waved his hand angrily, "these are our internal affairs, and you don't need Your Excellency to take care of them." ”

Qiu Yu'an said: "I have received authorization from the emperor of your country to take cheap measures against all factors that undermine local stability. ”

Qiu Yu'an smiled and said, "And you, Mayor Kacha, your foundation is not very clean." I have received reports that you have smuggled and sold relief food for the poor, causing many people to starve to death. ”

"What do you mean?" Looking at Qiu Yu'an's smiling eyes, Mayor Kacha shuddered.

Qiu Yu'an smiled: "I need to examine you and a group of officials under you to prove the innocence of Mr. Mayor. After saying that, Qiu Yu'an waved his hand, and two guards walked in and took Mayor Kacha out of the city.

Mayor Kacha's face turned pale, and he shouted while being dragged away: "I want to protest, you are breaking the law, and I will accuse you to the emperor." ”

Looking at the mayor of Kacha, who was gradually moving away, Qiu Yu'an spat and said, "Do you still think this is the territory of the Emperor of the St. Martin Empire?" Now in my hands is the land of the Chinese territory, accuse? I'll wait until you can get out of the cell. ”

A man flashed through the door and smiled, "What is my idea?" These corrupt officials and military officers were arrested and tried, and then executed in public. In this way, we have bought the hearts and minds of the people, and we have seized power. ”

Qiu Yu'an lit a cigarette and said with a smile: "Liu Yu, I just found out now that you are a group of bastards in the intelligence bureau. I really don't know if I'm going to be trapped by you one day. ”

Liu Yu smiled: "How come? If we make a move on our own people, if we don't say anything else, the young master will take my life first. ”

Qiu Yu'an said: "This is the best. As long as we don't fight among ourselves, no one can defeat us. Liu Yushen nodded approvingly: "That's right, unity is our best weapon, as long as we have it, we will be invincible."

Almost all the officials of the port of Hawar and the officers of all ranks of the imperial garrison of St. Martin were arrested, and this situation caused panic throughout the port of Hawar for a time. However, the panic did not last long, and Qiu Yu'an immediately announced the imposition of military control over the area, not only disarming and controlling all the restless St. Martin's army, but also sending patrols to the streets to maintain law and order.

Seeing that the army of the Chinese Collar did not commit any crimes in the autumn, the people gradually settled down and soon returned to normal life. A month later, the gendarmerie of the Chinese Consulate, having collected sufficient evidence, temporarily assumed the role of a court and held a public trial of more than 100 military officers, headed by Major General Guimel, and more than 80 officials, led by Mayor Kacha.

In the face of conclusive evidence, the men had to bow their heads and confess, and eventually the gendarmerie publicly executed most of them, and the remaining less culpable were taken into custody. This move of the Chinese army won the hearts of the people, and the people of the Saint-Martin Empire began to look at these foreign soldiers as liberators.

With the support of the local people, Qiu Yu'an struck while the iron was hot and immediately announced that all the people in the areas controlled by the Chinese army would be registered, and they would use their own military rations to help the people, and distribute them according to the number of registered people.

As soon as the news was announced, the people of the Empire of St. Martin, who had not eaten for months, boiled, and they flocked to hundreds of registration points in the city to register their names and home addresses, as well as in the rural areas controlled by the Chinese army.

The situation of the residents in the vicinity of Port Hawar was quickly understood by Qiu Yu'an, and then he did not break his promise, and the soldiers of the Chinese Collar took the initiative to come to the door according to the registered address as promised, and distributed food door to door, and when they got the food, many hungry people kowtowed to the soldiers to thank them, and even shed tears of excitement.

The corrupt officials of the Saint Martin Empire never cared about the lives of the people, but only desperately oppressed them. Where have these people ever seen an army that cares for the people so much, and for a time the relationship between the army and the people has increased a lot, and the areas occupied by the Chinese army have begun to stabilize.

When officials and police officers from within the country arrived at the port of Hawada three months later, they were surprised to find that the expected chaos had not happened. The people here were still doing their own thing, and when they found out that a large number of yellow-skinned Chinese people had disembarked from the steamer, they all smiled at them, and some even greeted them warmly.

When Qiu Ruidong, the official in charge this time, found Qiu Yu'an, he finally figured out the situation here. With the eyes of his civil affairs official, he also had to admire Qiu Yu'an's means of buying people's hearts.

Since Qiu Yu'an has paved the way for the follow-up officials, these officials have easily taken over the local power, but the large number of police who followed were a little at a loss, seeing that the law and order here was already very good, they didn't know what they should do, but fortunately, Qiu Yu'an quickly handed over the patrol task in the city to them, freeing up a large number of troops to prepare to start attacking.

After Qiu Ruidong took office, he not only continued Qiu Yu'an's policy, but even did it more thoroughly. He announced that until the Chinese Territory withdrew from the Saint-Martin Empire, every citizen in the area under the control of the Chinese Territory would enjoy the same treatment as the Chinese Lord, that is, free daily rations according to the population.

I am afraid that only Fang Xiaoyu's Chinese Collar can carry out this order so easily, when they learned of this situation, the entire Hawada Port was jubilant, they never expected that the people of the Chinese Collar would have such a good treatment, and they did not expect that the officials of the Chinese Collar would be willing to let them enjoy the same treatment as the Chinese Collar people.

With sufficient grain reserves and a huge fleet of seaborne ships under the Chung Hwa Group Company, there is no need to worry about the lack of food supplies for the Saint-Martin Empire, not to mention the fixed-point transmission function of Xiaofeng.

Qiu Ruidong's policy of stabilizing the place continued to expand, and soon under the organization of the Chinese officials, the land and property sealed in the name of the corrupt officials who were shot by Qiu Yu'an were distributed to every citizen, and the people of the St. Martin Empire, who had never had their own land, immediately devoted themselves to the work of leveling the land and preparing for the next season's crops.

They soon got the free seeds distributed by the government, and these originally deserted land were planted with crops, and it was already a little late to farm, but these farmers who had just obtained the land were quite enthusiastic about production, and in order to plant the crops as soon as possible, these people got up early and worked in the fields at night, and finally planted all the land with crops within half a month.

Qiu Yu'an couldn't help but sigh after seeing this scene: "There are only corrupt officials, no lazy people. As long as there is good guidance, the people everywhere are industrious. Of course, corrupt officials are not without beneficial aspects, and if those corrupt officials were not tried and killed, the situation here would not have stabilized so quickly. ”

After the arrival of the marines, Qiu Yu'an began to gather all the troops scattered in various places, and with enough troops, he decided to advance eastward. In order to protect the logistical supply lines, the Second Army of the Defense Army was specially used by Qiu Yu'an to be responsible for supply delivery to prevent looting by the rebels.

However, Qiu Yu'an's worries were unnecessary, and the news that the Chinese officials had shot corrupt officials in the port of Hawada and regularly distributed food to the poor people according to the population had already grown wings, and spread in all directions at a faster speed than Qiu Yu'an's advance, so that the rebels had no fighting spirit against the Chinese army, and some local people even hoped that the Chinese army's army would come over and distribute food to themselves.

Food is worthy of being a big killer in this world, and it plays an irreplaceable role in subduing the hearts of the people. The Boston Empire and the St. Martin Empire are both immigrant countries, but the difference is that the Boston Empire is dominated by immigrants from the Thar Empire, while the St. Martin Empire has not had many pure whites in the country due to early immigration, but most of them are mixed-race descendants of immigrants from the declining Kingdom of Sero.

The ethnic composition of these two countries is complex, and there is no unified cultural background, so their loyalty to the country is not high, under the Chinese leader with a large amount of food and such a tempting policy, and there are corrupt St. Martin officials as negative teaching materials, the majority of the people at the bottom have begun to turn their hearts to the Chinese leader, so that Qiu Yu'an's military assault almost evolved into a marching exercise.