Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 221 Brothers Are For Selling

All actions in war or investment come from news.

It is now the fifth day of Wang Xiu's siege. It is mainly in a confrontation. There is too little news for all parties, so it has temporarily entered a calm state.

Before there was more news, Zhao Cheng didn't know what to do, and Wang Xiu didn't know what to do.Perhaps, that Bai Chenxiang didn't know what to do.So we all pulled together.

Since the days when the rebels besieged the city, Zhao Cheng only climbed to the top of the city for a quarter of an hour at the end of each day to observe the situation of Wang Xiu's team. Other than that, he was usually busy with internal affairs and no longer went to the city.

It can be seen that Wang Xiu's team is not in a hurry, they have enough firewood, charcoal fire, wine and meat, and because of the great victory at Shiliting, their morale is relatively high.This can show that for this war, Wang Xiu was very well prepared in the previous few months.

It's just that Zhao Cheng, who is good at observing, discovered some unusual things:
Although Wang Xiu was a smart man, he should have calculated that the time for the imperial army to enter Jiangnan East Road would be after three months at the earliest. He had plenty of time to wait.However, as the rebel attacker, he only attacked the city twice on a small scale on the first and second days. Liu Qishan only threw a few rocks and wood, and the war was over.

This didn't even count as trial and error, so Zhao Cheng subconsciously believed that there was a reason behind Wang Xiu's move. It might be that Bai Chenxiang's team had taken advantage of the opportunity to fully evacuate Yangshan and entered Jiuhua Mountain, causing Wang Xiu to miss. Bai Chenxiang was not caught.

So he, Wang Xiu, has worries about his future and is unwilling to let go of his hands for the time being.

Whether this is true or not only God knows, Zhao Cheng can only make this judgment temporarily based on the existing phenomenon.

If this is the case, then anything is possible...

The details are the devil, and the premise of being able to do one thing well is the details.

Even if Zhao Cheng's prestige is great, it doesn't mean that there will be no conflicts in the city.In fact, even the people at the bottom, they and the refugees who were put into the city and had no place to live were basically two groups.An implicit confrontation has been formed, and the contradiction is not too small.

The greater the internal conflicts, the more the government will lose, so Zhao Cheng is not taking it easy and is trying his best to solve these things.

So Zhao Cheng went back to his old job: Gongjian.

Zhao Cheng hurriedly mobilized the county government's information to inquire: Which land in the city is owned by the government?

Now, as long as the land held by the government meets the conditions, Zhao Cheng personally takes care of the sanitation problem, taking the masons he was familiar with at the time to dig pits all over the city, and collecting "toilets" by the way, in order to solve the feces and urine problem of the refugees.

Zhang Ji almost couldn't understand, the commander of the Chizhou campaign who was re-activated and ordered in the face of danger, he is now leading the team to dig latrines by himself in the cold weather?
But in fact, don’t ignore small things. Sometimes small problems can lead to big conflicts.

Zhao Cheng went deep into the grassroots to observe these days and found that the issue of feces and urine was one of the reasons for the contradiction.For this reason, there have been more than one frictions, without exception, they have developed from quarrels, to pulling, and then to hands-on.

The last thing is "everyone has relatives and friends". Once they start fighting and shouting, it will basically form a movement for refugees and aborigines to open films.People died for it.

Emotions were almost out of control.

The so-called heavy codes in troubled times, Zhao Cheng's way of handling it is that the leaders of both sides will be sentenced to prison and locked up.

Although the first wave was temporarily suppressed, the root cause has not been resolved, and there are great hidden dangers.

To put it simply, it is simple, because of the problem of feces and urine.Although they are the same people at the bottom, their living habits are completely different.People who are used to living in the suburbs behave differently from those who are used to living in the city.What's more, their homes are not in the city.

Since Zhao Cheng led the team to build countless latrines, Zhao Qingming took care of the cleanliness himself. In fact, this cousin can't do anything other than this kind of thing. I heard his chubby son tell Zhao Cheng's cousin , the first two nights when the rebels besieged the city, Zhao Qingming couldn't sleep, and was terrified all night long.

Everything seems to be in a hurry, and the efficiency is not very high. Fortunately, it is winter. The cold temperature and thick snow in the Little Ice Age can cover up many truths. Nature will let people know the truth about the disease through pest vectors such as flies and mosquitoes.

The first wave of Maokeng assault construction is coming to an end, and Chizhou City seems to have more order.

No one thought it was a kind of gift from Mr. Zhao to lead someone to dig a latrine. This was actually an inconspicuous daily task, which was accepted by everyone in a tacit understanding, which seemed to be taken for granted.

Cai You and Lao Pei are particularly concerned about this matter. The government property land used by Zhao Cheng is that they have conspired for a long time, planning to sell it to local tyrants in the coming year, and use the land transfer money to make up for the lack of government finances.Now it was dug into a latrine by Zhao Cheng.

Why fill up the latrine and sell it?

I'm sorry, I can't sell it, because everyone in Chizhou knows that those lands have been used as cesspit, so no one wants to buy them.People in this era are still very particular about these gimmicks and feng shui issues.

For Cai You, the land finance is only a small problem, not to mention the depreciation of the land caused by the cesspit incident, followed by Zhao Cheng's disaster, which needs to be dealt with by Cai You, because Zhao Cheng gave all the medicine halls in Chizhou City to him. communism.One of them is Zhu's medicine hall.

Regardless of who owns it, without exception, every household's medicinal material warehouse has now been affixed with a government seal, signed by the county captain Zhao Cheng.Every plant of medicinal material in Chizhou City is listed as a controlled strategic material in a state of war.

The use of each medicinal material needs to be recorded in detail and can withstand inquiries, otherwise the person responsible will be killed.

Now it's time to take turns, all the pharmacists are cooperating with the county clerks to check the inventory of medicinal materials for record.Similarly, after the records were recorded, these strategic materials were bought at a fair price with official IOUs.

There will always be some tricky loopholes, but this is not the point. Now that someone has already killed someone for this, Zhao Cheng believes that the loopholes will not be too big, within the acceptable "reasonable loss" range.

That's all right. During the war, you can't pay too much attention to anything.

Zhao Cheng also promulgated a ban on drug use, threatening that, except for Cai You, everyone who uses drugs alone must be approved.

As soon as the ban came out, the wealthy and wealthy people in Chizhou City were in an uproar!

Cai You is devastated by this, and non-stop leads the drug dealers to hold meetings to maintain stability, trying to solve this mess.

On the other side, the black market was officially born.

Just like in all war situations at home and abroad, medicinal materials are classified as strategic materials and require special approval for individual use. Some key medicinal materials that the local tycoons want can be sold for one tael of gold per plant on the black market.

Where there is a need, there is a market, and this market is the black market.If there is profit, some people will take risks. This process is called death for money.

On the sixth day of the rebel siege, a total of seven people who secretly embezzled medicinal materials and sold them at high prices on the black market were executed in half by Zhao Cheng's order.One of them was only 17 years old, and was a hero who followed Zhao Cheng in the Battle of Khe Sanh and the Battle of Lingyang Mountain.

Countless people were terrified and terrified!

It seems that everyone sacrificed a lot for this war.Outsiders don't know, only Zhang Ji knows that Zhao Cheng is really killing Ma Su with tears.There are gains and losses in every choice, and once you choose, there is a price.

Zhao Cheng betrayed a hard-core brother for the sake of the moths that would inevitably happen in this war.

If this young police officer named Yang Wenzhong is not killed, Zhao Cheng will never be able to kill anyone again.At the moment when conflicts are concentrated and dangers are everywhere, once people cannot be deterred by killing people, even Zhao Cheng cannot solve many remaining problems.

(End of this chapter)