Chapter 384: Cleaning Up the Beggar Gang (Asking for Subscription)
In short, this visit to the blessed land was a successful conclusion, Li Xian and others got a lot of investment commitments, and the businessmen saw the blessed land and got the opportunity to do business.
When this group of people left the blessed land and returned to Guangzhou City, they depicted the scene of this day, and set off a whirlwind in the whole of Guangzhou, and it is worth mentioning that the prices of daily necessities such as grain, firewood and other necessities in Guangzhou City fell in response, which was much lower than before.
It turned out that many people who hoarded these materials suddenly understood that the Huaxia Liberation Army had blessed land in their hands and had huge resources, and it was useless to continue to hoard materials, and they might even be smashed in their hands, and they all began to ship them one after another, and then pondered whether they could join the blessed land development cause with the cash on hand.
Li Xian and Wang Jiuxuan are naturally happy to see this kind of thing come to fruition.
The first visit was very effective, the businessmen invested enthusiastically, Li Xian and Wang Jiuxuan were encouraged, and organized many groups of merchants and gentry to visit the blessed land, even if these people's family background is not as good as the first batch of people, but they are also very rich masters, it is worth wooing.
After several visits, the governance of the Huaxia Guangfu Army in Guangzhou City was finally on the right track, the prices of various daily necessities gradually stabilized, and the major families also began to understand that the Huaxia Army had a huge heritage, and the imperial court would definitely not be able to fight back for a while, so they all had a lot less careful thinking, and tried to survive under the rule of the Huaxia Army, and no longer openly challenged the rule of the Huaxia Army.
There are several things worth paying attention to about the governance activities of the Huaxia Army in Guangzhou during this period.
When the price of grain, firewood and other materials dropped, Xuan Zheng issued an order in the name of the Executive Yuan to dredge and renovate the ditches in the city of Guangzhou, so that they would not become muddy and spread all kinds of diseases in the summer.
At the beginning of Wang Jiuxuan's entry into Guangzhou, he could not issue a similar order, but these ditches had long been built into shops and other businesses, and many citizens gathered to oppose it.
This time, Xuan Zheng issued such an order, and also mobilized a large number of auxiliaries and strong men to assist, and there was still a lot of opposition from the citizens in the city, but the Huaxia Army had established a relatively solid foundation for governance in Guangzhou in the past six months, and the big gentry family had visited the blessed land some time ago, and they were a little afraid of the foundation of the Sanyuan Temple, and the opposition was not as loud as the first time.
However, there are still some families who secretly obstruct and secretly collude with beggars to protest and roll on the streets to oppose the dredging work.
The so-called beggar line is different from the beggar gang in martial arts, it was originally a guild composed of many begging people, and it was also recognized by the government of all dynasties, and it was a very serious line in the three hundred and sixty lines.
However, by now, the beggars have long since deteriorated, secretly forming gangs to demarcate the scope of their own begging, and beggars from other places are not allowed to beg in Guangzhou; more importantly, they are involved in gambling, fighting, and other businesses in secret, and there are even all kinds of unspeakable evils such as stealing children and forcing people to beg.
There are many beggars in Guangzhou, at least tens of thousands, all of whom are under the management of beggars, and they usually have the practice of beating others and making trouble on the streets, which can be regarded as a cancer in Guangzhou's public security management.
The first time Wang Jiuxuan issued an order to clean up the ditch, some big clans gave money to beggars and let them demonstrate on the streets, and thousands of people suddenly went to the streets to splash and roll, singing lotus flowers, so that Wang Jiuxuan, a battle-hardened general, was angry and unwilling to be too persecuted.
Unexpectedly, the beggars did not restrain themselves after this battle, but felt that Wang Jiuxuan was weak and could be bullied, so they were often hired to go to the streets to resist various orders of the Executive Yuan, and when there was an incident of officers killing citizens, many scholars and ordinary people marched in the streets near Wang Jiuxuan's mansion to demonstrate, among which there were very few real scholars and ordinary people, and more than eighty percent of the people were dressed as beggars.
Some time ago, Li Xian and Wang Jiuxuan invited the leaders of Guangzhou City to visit the blessed land, in addition to the family, the head of all walks of life is a must, that is, the head of the line who did not invite beggars.
If it is a clever person, at this time will guard against fear and restraint, and strive to improve the relationship with the Huaxia military government, never thought that the beggar head of this generation is also a strange person, regard himself as a character, and annoy others for not knowing himself, quite like Sun Wukong was angry that others did not invite him to the peach banquet.
Under the instigation of well-intentioned people, this time some big clans secretly gave money, and the head of the beggar line immediately arranged for tens of thousands of beggars to protest against the ditch control, thinking of giving Wang Jiuxuan and the military government a good look.
When they arrived on a certain street, they were surrounded by thousands of beggars, singing lotus flowers and crying that the military government had exterminated them, and that even some beggars could not tolerate them, and that they wanted to clear out the places where people lived.
Fortunately, Pan Wu, who had been appointed deputy director of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau not long ago, arrived with hundreds of policemen and repelled the beggars, but they could not disperse everyone, and a confrontation was formed for a while.
At the critical moment, Wang Jiuxuan issued another order to let the army assist in suppressing the chaos, and Li Xian took 5,000 soldiers and horses to personally attack, crushing all the beggars who were making trouble to the ground, and then tied them up and pulled them out of the city.
The junta's hand was extremely resolute, almost a day and a place compared to the previous connivance with the beggars, so that all those who were secretly watching the excitement shattered their glasses, if any.
Moreover, the matter was not over like this, after Wang Jiuxuan and Li Xian discussed, they characterized the incident of the beggar as a "rebellion", and directly ordered the army to continue to enter the city to search for beggars, and even arrested nine out of ten thousand beggars in Guangzhou.
The next day, when the citizens of Guangzhou were able to go to the streets, they found that there were hardly any beggars in the entire market, the whole street was much cleaner, and the law and order had improved a lot.
This time, the military government was also resolute, immediately interrogating these beggars, and encouraging them to bite each other, and even dug up thousands of charges against the beggars, who had been cut into the secret murder pits, and also picked up important ones and published them in newspapers and government bulletins.
One of the most hateful is to kidnap the children of good families to extort money, and other people's families pay back the money as required, if the poor can't pay the ransom, they will directly be crippled and begged to make money.
When these charges were announced, they immediately aroused great public outrage, and the demand for the execution of the beggars was so loud that the military junta took advantage of the situation to withdraw from the public trial of hundreds of the most heinous and execute them, which won a great deal of applause.
As for the rest of the beggars, those who were guilty and not so light were sent to hard labor, mining or logging, the rest of the sin was not guilty and able-bodied, they were also dragged to work in the labor camp, and the old and the weak and the disabled were sent to a designated place for the rest of their lives.