empire wars

Chapter 49
"Notify the county magistrates and principal officials of Fanyang City and Tianshan City to come to Mingwu City to obey orders, and give them three days. If they don't come, they will be charged with rebellion."

Qin Yuan recruited two brothers, Shen Liwen and Shen Liwu, and ordered them again. "At the same time, the towns to which these two cities belong also convey my order. The city returns to the city, and the town returns to the town. They must obey the prefect's order and hand over all military and political power."

"Yes, prefect."

Shen Liwen responded quickly.

"How are the people in the city being settled?"

Qin Yuan asked.

"Now there are more than 40 people in the city, of which more than 20 are migrants from surrounding cities and towns, and there are [-] refugees and refugees. All arrangements can be made within two days at most."

Shen Liwen said, "However, the law and order has declined recently. There have been more than a dozen conflicts and almost killed people."

"In troubled times, heavy punishments should be used. From now on, any fights in the city, regardless of whether the two sides are right or wrong, will be punished with twenty big boards first, and the offending party will be punished twice as much, and will be sent to the city wall to build fortifications, or thrown into the military factory. As for crowd fights, use Weaponsmen, all of them will be dealt with as felonies, not one will be left behind, all will be killed."

Qin Yuan said coldly, paused, and continued, "It doesn't matter whether it's ordinary people, refugees, or family members, or family members of officials, it's all the same, understand?"

"I'm afraid this will cause dissatisfaction among the people."

Shen Liwen worried that too much population is not a good thing. If the governance is not good and a civil uprising occurs, the entire foundation will be destroyed.

They say they are the common people, but they are actually worried about the family power in the city. This is the biggest problem.

"I will ask Uncle Qinye to cooperate, and the [-] city guards will be handed over to you. If anyone refuses to accept it, he will be killed until he accepts it."

Qin Yuan stared at Shen Liwen.

The City Guard Army was originally formed by the various forces in Ming Wu City. At the beginning, there were 5000 people. As the towns were gathered, Qin Yuan asked every family to join the City Guard Army. Now the number has reached 1. .

It has become an army force that cannot be ignored in Mingwu City.

Qin Yuan still served as the chief general himself, and also sent Qin Qinye as the deputy general of the city guard army.

"If you can't do it, let Bai Qi do it!"

Qin Yuan glanced at Bai Qi who was doing nothing beside him.

"Okay, just let me gather some murderous energy to practice, but there are too few people and I don't like it." Bai Qi said with a smile. "Or, send some people to do something, and take the opportunity to kill hundreds of disobedient people."

"Yes, leave this matter to the subordinates, so I won't bother General Bai."

Shen Liwen had heard about Bai Qi's deeds, so he nodded quickly.

It's better to do it yourself than Bai Qi. If Bai Qi does it himself, I'm afraid the blood will flow like a river.

"If you have a population of 40, then recruit another [-] recruits. Not only will you recruit soldiers from the common people, each family will have to recruit people, not private soldiers and retainers, but their family children. These energetic young adults can also improve the law and order in the city."

Qin Yuan thought for a while, and said again. "The position of the county magistrate will be temporarily held by you, and the position of meritorious officer will be temporarily held by Shen Liwu. If it can't be done well, I don't mind changing someone."

"Xie Taishou, don't worry, I will definitely handle it well!"

The two of Shen Liwen were overjoyed, and quickly knelt down to thank them.

The county magistrate is much stronger than the county magistrate. He never thought about it before, but now that he has the opportunity, he will naturally take it.

As for the heavy code, it was aimed at other families and those who refused to obey the discipline. It would be good to kill them, so as not to cause trouble for oneself, and at the same time demonstrate the majesty of the prefect, killing two birds with one stone.

"The food relief will be officially canceled tomorrow, and it will be replaced by work. Breakfast can be provided first. As for the people who fled, a day's rations will be distributed."

"Now the Northern Qiang people are threatening to ask each family to contribute money and food for support. They don't force each family to contribute as much as they want. They will all be registered. I want to see it myself."

"Private soldiers of each family must go to the yamen to register. Once a war breaks out, they must obey the command. If they do not obey, they will be dealt with by military law. If they hide private soldiers, conceal the number of personnel, the same reason."

Qin Yuan issued political orders one after another, and the officials listened quietly. Mingwucheng ushered in another major reform.

As for food, although a lot of food has been collected through the fairy rice trade, the daily consumption of hundreds of thousands of people is huge.

And the food didn't fall from the sky. If you want to have enough food, you have to pay a price. Qin Yuan didn't plan to raise a bunch of idlers.

Several decrees were issued, one is not to waste the labor force in the city, the other is to allow hundreds of thousands of people in the city to have jobs and food, so as not to cause trouble everywhere, and the second is to consume the power and strength of the families in the city, so as not to be backlashed by them .

Today's Mingwu City is like a small dynasty.

If you have always maintained a strong state, you will be very stable, but once you are weak or defeated by the Northern Qiang people, there will be many unstable factors.

Qin Yuan didn't want to fight the enemy in the front and mutiny in the rear.

Of course, you can't be too ruthless. Driving these families to a dead end all of a sudden will cause them to resist fiercely, but slowly weaken their strength and let them spit out their benefits little by little.

As Qin Yuan's strength became stronger and stronger, their strength was continuously reduced. When they wanted to resist one day, they found that they had no comparable strength in their hands.

"My lord, with so many families, it's not easy to suppress them. It's better to find out one or two leaders, and then"

Bai Qi smiled and said, his right hand made a gesture of cutting his neck.

Everyone looked at him, and the cold sweat broke out on his body. Is this person really thinking about the security of the city, or is he simply trying to kill someone?

"Kill chickens to scare monkeys."

Qin Yuan looked around, then landed on Shen Liwen again.

"Don't worry, the prefect, it will be done!"

Shen Liwen wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied.

After the officials left, Qin Yuan summoned the generals above the centurion in the barracks, and planned to start sorting out the forces of the army in the next few days.

Each family in the city has received a notice from Qin Yuan. They must count the number of private military guards in the family and integrate them into the city guards. As the military force of Mingwu City, they can participate in wars with the Beiqiang people at any time.

Of course, this job is not easy, even if Qin Yuan is the master of Mingwu City and the new prefect of Wuwei, it is even more difficult to get each family to hand over their military power.

But Qin Yuan had no choice but to do this. Although he had recruited a lot of soldiers in the past few days, which was close to 4, it was still far behind the number of the Northern Qiang Ma clan.

Even if it causes a strong backlash from various families, Qin Yuan must resolve all this before facing the Beiqiang cavalry and the crisis comes, so that there is only one voice left in the entire Mingwu City.

(End of this chapter)