Staying in the new City Lord's Mansion, Ding Kui got to know the Giant Sheep City comprehensively under Fei Ze's introduction. Eight and one Chinese ??? .?8 (VIII)

There are ten towns under the jurisdiction of Juyang City, namely Baini Town, Zhishui Town, Deadwood Town, Feisha Town, Lengshui Town, Mingyue Town, Yudi Town, Hot Spring Town, Yeliu Town, and Yinye Town.

Each town has between 3,000 and 8,000 inhabitants, and with the villages under its jurisdiction, a town has a population of nearly 30,000, and the ten towns together have a population of nearly 300,000.

This is the number that slowly recovered after the war, with more than 300,000 before the war, and as one of the longest occupied cities in the war, the population recovery of Giant Sheep City is considered to be the best.

In addition to the original residents, there are also a large number of displaced people, most of whom lost their original homes due to the war, and fell in love with the giant sheep city where production and life have recovered the fastest.

The five towns located in the north are relatively affluent, namely Zhishui Town, Yudi Town and Lengshui Town on the south bank of the Chunlu River, as well as Baini Town and Yinye Town on the road from Juyang City to Hump Mountain Pass.

The five towns located at the South Gate are relatively poor, with Deadwood Town and Yeliu Town on the edge of the swamp, and Feisha Town, Mingyue Town, and Hot Spring Town in the middle.

From the south gate of Juyang City, you can enter the swamp through Mingyue Town and Yeliu Town successively, and then south is the Yongsheng base.

The registered permanent population of the city is 150,000, and the floating population from outside the city has exceeded the 200,000 mark, which is considered to have reached the minimum county town standard, and it is currently the most populous city in Nanqiu County outside the county seat.

Speaking of population, we have to mention the welfare home, which was the first in the world to attract many displaced people. Many desperate people heard that there was a place in Giant Sheep City where they could help the helpless, and they came to find out.

Their idea is very simple, Giant Sheep City is a city full of opportunities, even if they don't find opportunities, there is at least no need to worry about starving to death if there is a welfare home.

A small city with a population of less than 100,000 experienced the Great War, and was revitalized by Ding Kui to revitalize the trade routes, and under the management of domestic and foreign chambers of commerce, it has developed rapidly, and now it is comparable to a first-class city.

"What? This year, the Giant Sheep City Foreigners Chamber of Commerce is expected to pay 600,000 gold coins in taxes!"

Ding Kui couldn't believe Fei Ze's report, the tax of 600,000 gold coins was quite staggering, which was equivalent to the total value of foreign imports of goods amounting to more than 6 million gold coins.

Since Juyangcheng belongs to the occupied area, the country has a five-year tax exemption after the liberation, but foreign chambers of commerce still have to collect taxes when they come to do business, which is calculated according to 10% of the valuation of the goods.

This figure does not include the part of smuggling, but Lord Zheng brought back the 300,000 gold coins in the first half of the year back to Nanjing, and there are only more than 200,000 left in the treasury, and tens of thousands can be collected next month. "The fee has been calculated.

"After the Giant Sheep City is mine, how will this tax be calculated? My God, half a year's tax is equal to one year's salary of the Protector of the Kingdom. Ding Kui remembers the scene when he first went to Pingzhong County to receive money.

"Under normal circumstances, the state pastoral council requires us to pay half of the commercial tax based on the average annual income of the past five years, but the amount of commercial tax has just shown an upward trend in the construction of a new wharf in Juyang City, and the subordinates believe that Nanjing City will require the city to pay 300,000 yuan next year. Fei went to the state city to investigate.

"I still have 300,000 yuan after paying half, obediently, I don't count the taxes of local residents, no wonder Ouyang Chong and Cai Ran looked down on me when they were young, their family's income is at least several times that of the Ding family. ”

Ding Kui realized how much income a city lord has, and the Ding family's salary is pitiful, you must know that a product of the marquis means that the income of a county town is at least three or five times more than that of a city lord.

"The kingdom was exempt from local taxes until 488o, and the lord could collect no more than ten percent of the tax.

The city has a population of about 450,000 people, including 10 towns, and 300,000 people are left without income.

According to the per capita annual income of hardware coins, it is 1.5 million gold coins, and you can collect up to 150,000 gold coins per year in three years. Fei then calculated an approximate.

"No, I won't collect a copper plate for three years as a tax for local residents. Population is the most pressing issue at the moment, and we can absorb more displaced people and not be blinded by immediate interests. Ding Kui was resolute.

Fei reminded: "But in the future, all the expenses in the city will have to be paid by you." ”

"That's not the problem, the wool comes from the sheep. "Ding Kui is confident.

Fei Ze muttered in his heart: Of course, the wool will not come out of the dog.

"What is the current situation of the city defense army?" asked Ding Kui.

"After the inspection of the subordinates, there are 2,400 qualified city defense troops, and Ding Yu is temporarily in charge of the position of commander. Fei Ze didn't trust others and persuaded Ao Yu to come out and manage the city defense army.

Ding Yu's name is famous far and wide, no one in Nanqiu County knows General Fei's personal soldiers, but no officer and soldier dare to disagree, and the great martial artist is already condescending to be the commander of the city defense army.

"I only need to be elite, only those with level 4 or above combat power will be trained for me. The 2,400 people can be divided into three teams, and they will be handed over to the Xue team for training in turn, and those who can't stand it will all be returned to the Public Security Bureau. ”

Ding Kui wants to use the money on the blade, and the troops who are not elite enough would rather not.

"But where are there so many combat power above level four?" Fei Ze felt embarrassed.

"Now there is no way to cultivate without us. By the way, do you think this city can do without walls?" Ding Kui suddenly threw out a strange question.

"Don't want walls?"

Fei belongs to the regular military system, and is not very familiar with those deviant ideas.

"The city walls are the most solid support of a city. The perimeter of Juyang City is basically a plain, there is no city wall, once it is invaded, there is no danger to defend, and it can only rely on the troops defending the city to fight head-on. ”

Ding Kui shook his head after hearing this, and said: "The biggest danger in this city comes from the river, there is my royal outpost in the west, as long as you guard the ferry in the north, and Yongsheng base in the south.

Once the enemy comes from the east, it must be an unrivaled number. Based on the experience of the last time, the city is of no value to hold, and the enemy army can go around the city and directly attack the passes and ferries.

We only need to ensure the time for emergency evacuation, and when the enemy is now attacking, there will be enough time to evacuate the people who want to escape, and those who do not want to flee can stay.

The garrison in the city can retreat to the pass or base, and the ferry side will be handed over to the county town for defense, so that we can leave a living force to better contain the enemy. ”

"Understood, what the master means is that there is a need for early warning time, and the city wall here can hold on for ten days and half a month at most during the war, it is better to guard the pass and base, then our imaginary enemy can only be Meng. Fei ignored Cao Guo.

It was more difficult for Cao Guo to directly attack Giant Sheep City, and they had better targets.

"No," Ding Kui raised his right index finger and shook it from side to side, "and my own country." ”

"Your own country?" Fei Ze never considered this friend.

"Well," Ding Kui nodded, "Don't look at your own country as a friend, their performance in the last war was very dangerous, if they didn't have a plan, they wouldn't have stayed in Chunluwan Water Village for so long." ”

Fei Ze came to his senses and said, "Okay, whether it is Meng or their own, their main means of attack is to board the medium warship6.

The best place to do this was two piers, and we could have stopped them by fire and shipwrecks, but the length of the riverbank was more than fifty miles, and it was impossible for us to hold them all. ”

"Shipwreck? By the way, you reminded me. We can defend the riverbank, as long as we set up obstacles to prevent the warships from landing, and we don't need to defend them all, but about 15 miles from the north and south. ”

Ding Kui flipped open a military map and marked it along the river bank with a pen.

"It will take more than an hour for the enemy to march to the city after we have landed on the 6th, right?"

"Yes! It's easier to build a barrier than a wall. Fei Ze's train of thought was opened, "If we get the information in advance and make preparations in advance, we can delay the enemy army for more than two hours." ”

"Intelligence! An attack on crossing the river requires a lot of preparation, and we spend the money on building the city wall on intelligence work, and the early warning time can be greatly advanced, even if the intelligence contains a large number of uncertain factors, as long as the patrol of the Tongyuan River is strengthened in a short time, we can win half a day's early warning time. "Ding Kui found the key to solving the problem.

"Riverbank barriers and intelligence really seem to be a substitute for city walls. Fei Ze stood up excitedly.

"Well, don't worry, take some time to deduce this matter, wait for Mr. Liu to come back and discuss it carefully, and temporarily determine the option of using riverbank obstacles and intelligence as an alternative to the city wall. Ding Kui moved his attention to the layout of the city's defense, "Now you can plan the future layout of the city." ”

One of the more important aspects of urban management is planning, and Juyangcheng is facing new opportunities, and his current idea is to do a good job in planning.

"Security without the city wall is also a big problem, the security department currently has 500 people, and after the city wall is demolished, it will definitely not be enough, and the 3,000 city defense army will not be able to guard all the entrances and exits. "Fei is a new problem.

"The city defense force cannot be used to maintain law and order in the city, nor can it rely entirely on the sheriff's office, but an auxiliary agency can be added, and I have already arranged for the first hand before that. Ding Kui smiled mysteriously.

"Shi Jihui?" Fei Ze thought of it as soon as his mind turned.

"I gave the new organization a name called 'chengguan', which can convert the people who are relatively clean in the almsgiving committee into chengguan. ”

"Chengguan means the manager of the city?" Fei Ze heard the name for the first time.

"Almost, the man who assisted the city management, a semi-official, semi-armed force. There is still a need for the almsgiving to exist, we can't contact the gangs directly, there are some things that are better for them to do. ”

Ding Kui thought to himself: chengguan has a positive effect, it is helpful to urbanization, although their reputation in Chinese society is not very good, but it mainly depends on the people and regulations who do things, and the most important thing is that they are cheap.

The sheriff's office belongs to the public officials of a city, and the chengguan under his definition belongs to the auxiliary personnel, and there is a difference in salary between the two.