At the beginning, Zhang Fan planned to rectify the situation well, at least to be able to maintain a relatively good state for a long time after that. It's just that with Zhang Fan's wisdom now, it is easy to think of more things. Even if it can maintain its combat effectiveness for decades or even longer under the more reliable governance of himself or some other people, so what? Maybe it is still possible to eventually decay like the Dongyuan Kingdom in the past. Proceeding from human nature itself: if there is no poverty or even economic worries, and there are no external pressures and controls, such as a parent's very lenient attitude towards their children, then no one will work seriously, or will end up working only a few hundred hours a year on average. If there were no imminent threats and pressures, not many people would be seriously prepared. Or: one or two hundred hours of moderate-intensity errand training per year is already the sky. Eventually, this will be the case with groups where the population has a significant status, and this may not be effectively addressed through the system. The only way out may lie in the fact that no matter how slacking off a group is, it can crush its opponent to some extent, and the overall balance of power relations is already different. Thinking of this, Zhang Fan felt that the number of newcomers in Pingyang New Town was probably a little small, which only maintained about one million. There are about 3 million people who are out of work, and about 5 million people who are out of work in the near future. There are some aspects that can require the wisdom or quality of these people, but the standard of wealth does not have to be as high as before. Perhaps only with such a scale can it be possible to maintain at least 100,000 or so reliable chariot and horse groups or even craftsmen of a similar size when most people are slack...

When Zhang Fan remembered some gangs in the past that relied on the force of a few people and did not have much internal training and management, he felt that this scale was still not safe, and it was reasonable to double the above scale, that is, six million to tens of millions of people, not confined to one city, and inevitably need to rely on one area. Of course, in this way, many things cannot be as strict as before. But Zhang Fan thought about it and still planned to expand the scale to about five million.

To achieve this, it may not be necessary to set the requirements for literacy and culture as strictly, and after learning a lot of previous lessons, Zhang Fan also feels that more craftsmen with certain skills should also gather to a large extent.

Of course, correspondingly, the scale of demand for tribute by such a group may also be higher. Taking into account transportation losses, 23 percent of the population would probably need about 10 percent of the tax needs to maintain a semi-productive and productive scale to some extent. This is on the premise that the original standard of living is likely to be significantly reduced. The pressure on the states and counties of the world to divide the areas is not as dispensable as before.

But it is clear that this is also more practical to some extent: only in this way will the whole world not have the hidden danger of "too light head", and the central royal power will be able to balance the four sides to a large extent, so as not to be too dependent on itself to some extent.

In this way, after the conditions were guaranteed to be not too long, the power of Binh Duong New Town would at least have the power of self-preservation, Zhang Fan began to focus on the expansion of Binh Duong New Town.

The original plan, Zhang Fan was ready to adjust to a certain extent at the beginning, but if he did that, it was obvious that he would set a not too good example of "saying it doesn't count", which is undoubtedly unfavorable. Therefore, the "three-year examination" has not changed, but the content has changed to a large extent. There is no plan for major changes in the "ten-year war", but the direction of preparation has begun to develop from consolidating quality to expanding the scale first.

According to Zhang Fan's rough estimate, I am afraid it will take at least 20 years, maybe many things will be truly consolidated, and perhaps at that time, the entire system will have a real sense of anti-risk redundancy.

Of course, in this way, there is still an inevitable need for a set of management institutions that can be effective for at least a short period of time. In the past, Zhang Fan relied on his extraordinary mental power and voice transmission ability, and was able to directly save most of the administrative team within the range of about one million people. However, if he is faced with millions or more people, Zhang Fan will need at least a set of official communication teams, craftsmen and supervisors, and officer layers at the level of generals to replace the necessary needs outside of self-organization, such as autonomous courts, militia joint defense, and various chambers of commerce.

For those with extraordinary monitoring capabilities, it is not difficult to select just some people who transmit their will and official documents, and soon Zhang Fan selected more than 100 men and more than 400 women as another team similar to the communication and official document system. Among them, there are 100 people who are still somewhat talented, and they are in charge of some of the simplest things related to civil visits and intelligence. After all, there are many things that cannot be handled by themselves completely by the children of the Far Barbarian Department who still face great problems when they survive alone.

In this way, with the return of Zhang Fan, a new round of "winter levy" began again. All the prefectures and counties have had to contribute money and money to invest more food supplies and even manpower for the new large-scale construction of Binh Duong New Town.

In a situation where time is not as tight as the last time, many things are much looser, and there is no longer a need to be as simple as before. In addition to the residential areas that are not inferior to the previous ones, there are also many places in this special residential area that are specially prepared for future shops, workshops, campuses, playgrounds, etc. The entire Binh Duong New Town and its surrounding area within a radius of about 30 miles seem to have begun to turn into a large construction site again, and it is in full swing and busy.

If it is an ordinary person, it is inevitable that the management ability will still be carried out through many indirect ways, and there will be a lot of incompleteness, but for Zhang Fan, who has an extremely strong spiritual perception ability, there does not seem to be this problem. Under Zhang Fan's personal supervision, many things have been rewarded and punished as clearly as possible, people's work efficiency is not comparable to the past, and the progress is greatly ahead of the expectations of many craftsmen and supervisors.

According to previous expectations, the three-month work of 1.5 million people was to complete the new city system in a decent residential area. But under Zhang Fan's effective reward and even supervision, in less than 5 million working months, an unprecedented new city with an unprecedented radius of about 30 miles has been built to a large extent. In addition to the fact that the walls of the city are not yet completed, many of them, including water towers, drainage and underground works, are beginning to be completed. The population was not yet four or five million, but a new city with an unprecedented capacity of four or five million inhabitants was beginning to take shape at this moment.

Just when the busy situation was not really over, but some people began to return to their hometowns, according to Zhang Fan's arrangement, the first wave of people who came to supplement the test began to gather from all over Kyushu according to the new announcement.

This time, Zhang Fan's assessment is not as strict as before, and he will not be culturally nitpicky for his life experience. As long as you can write letters, and the typo code is less than 2% level, you can do it. Even if they can't do this, they have unique specialties in craftsmanship, arithmetic, and even other abilities. Of the more than 1.2 million people who came to apply, only about 400,000 were eliminated, and the proportion of those who were eliminated was significantly less than half, which many people did not expect before they came as agreed.

In the following year or so, things were not too twists and turns. Less than 4 million people, including their families, were left behind from the 6 million people recruited from all over the country to take the exam, and the population of Binh Duong New City increased to 5 million in one fell swoop.

Then, after another busy winter, the military defense system outside of daily life also took shape to a large extent. Including an unprecedented city wall system that stretches for 120 miles and leaves about 10 million earth and stones, and even a network of tunnels extending in all directions.

Perhaps for a master who is not much inferior to Zhang Fan in the real sense, such an unprecedented city defense system still does not have much significance, but if the other party does not only have a few Jianghu warriors to attack, but also a large army of servants, then it is obvious that this defense system will play a role to a large extent.

In the third year of planning, Zhang Fan also began to re-evaluate and eliminate the first batch of old residents according to the previous concept. Zhang Fan finally got through. Perhaps in the absence of oneself, some slackness will eventually occur, but at least while you are still and to a large extent have not lost the ability to dominate control, you should let some things become a kind of culture and culture, so that even if it declines in the future, it will not come too quickly, enough to make the nascent civil society system develop to a stronger and larger scale.

Of course, the annual worship of hundreds of millions of stone of grain and property, coupled with the expansion of the population, the proportion of people with various artisan skills and abilities is much higher than that of ordinary cities, and when everything starts to get on track, this new city, which has been carefully planned from the beginning, becomes unprecedentedly prosperous in this era. It is not the same as some of the big cities that were common in the East Plains before, and that kind of prosperity is not the atmosphere of fireworks in the ordinary sense, but also has a lot of atmosphere, discipline, cleanliness, and healthy atmosphere, which is rarely seen in any old city in the past. . .

Just when Zhang Fan has made the entire Pingyang New Town reborn in the past few years, the Xishan faction of the state capitals has also felt more and more unprecedented pressure. This is especially true when the amount of taxes to be paid seems to be increasing.

"In my opinion, at the beginning, Zhang Fan did not have any good intentions when he was resettled or even dismantled for the reason of separation! Look at it, sooner or later, one day we will be cleaned up, and the whole world will become a new Dongyuan country again... ”

"Yes, in the past few years, that man doesn't seem to be seeking too much local power, but the one thing he did was not sharpening his sword? ”

Although many people felt panic and dissatisfaction, looking back on many things in the past, there were still not too many people who dared to really have a showdown.

Just when the secret meeting seemed a little dull, someone finally broke the deadlock: "Well, let's see what that person means." We can barely accept a tax of about 10%, but 50% should be an upper limit. If it exceeds 10 out of 5, then if we are trying to extract some of the most basic needs, it will undoubtedly cause problems in people's hearts. ”

After such a reminder, many people have begun to realize some of the most critical problems: if Binh Duong New Town collects too much tax, there is no doubt that many people in the world will have no incentive to protect themselves.

is different from what Zhang Fan imagined, this time, when not too many people have the determination to conspire, there are still some stunned young people who have been pushed to the fore and take the initiative to test Zhang Fan's future plans through rumors.

In this regard, Zhang Fan has no intention of suppressing or not responding, and also expressed some of his general plans and ideas with the help of communiqués and other means: the taxes collected from various places will not increase significantly for the time being. However, in some special circumstances of bad years, it is still possible to increase the ratio to about 10 to 34 to ensure Binh Duong New Town. I also believe that there should still be a lot of room for development when the fields in the world still seem to have some spare power to a large extent. Reproduction should not be a problem in the coming decades. In a period of time, the final population of Binh Duong New Town, including those evacuated to the surrounding areas, may reach about 10 million people, but at that time, the population of the world will also multiply to the scale of 400 million, and the burden ratio will not increase to a large extent.

Zhang Fan's response, in addition to expressing that he would not increase the proportion of plundering the world's interests, also expressed a style that he was very reasonable and did not do whatever he wanted as a monarch. In this way, some people who began to be restless could only temporarily suppress their dissatisfaction, and most of them admitted it in this situation.

What made Zhang Fan hesitate a little and think about it was that in the face of some proposals to allow various localities to build fortresses freely, Zhang Fan did not completely ignore them, and also set some rules to limit them: that is, the central government's tax revenue can not exceed 105%. The various burdens on the local government, including the government-run business, should not exceed 1/5 percent. If you are reported or found to exceed this percentage, you have the right to hold yourself accountable to a large extent.

At this time, Zhang Fan didn't mind showing a strong side.