my wonderful zoo

Chapter 101 Governance
Looking from a distance, the defenders on the Dongguan City Wall are all in fear.

It can be seen from their frightened expressions that these people must be young men recently captured by Dongguan County.

In the previous two sieges of Chenjiazhuang, Dongguan County paid its dues to support them. In the end, the city was unable to even recruit some veterans to defend the city.

Following Lu Hui's orders, they were issued one after another.

Ten bronze cannons began to roar.

Mud and gravel were spattered at the north gate of Dongguan County, and the city walls were cratered by solid artillery shells.

The city gate that had just been closed from the inside could not withstand the devastation of the solid bullet and directly broke a big hole.

The second and third waves of shooting continued.

There were more and more holes in the city gate, and eventually the bolt couldn't hold up and broke in the middle, leaving the gate open.

"Suppress the tower!" Lu Hui ordered.

The crossbowmen began to advance, shooting at the gate tower and the nearby walls.However, since it is shot from bottom to top, the effect is not good.

"Should have brought some small trebuchets here, which can directly throw incendiary bombs on the top of the city." Lai Qingyun said with some regret.

"Now that we have found a problem, let's solve it." After Chen Xun said this, he directly called the guards over and asked them to send a letter to Chenjiazhuang and send the trebuchet.

We will attack other cities later, so it will definitely come in handy.

"Send your men up and throw grenades on the tower." Chen Xun ordered.

"Yes!" Lai Qingyun took the order and went down to take command.

Lu Huizheng hesitated whether to let his infantry enter the city despite possible attacks on the city, so he received support from Lai Qingyun.

I saw a dozen heavy infantry in full body armor walking under the city wall with a bunch of grenades.

These heavily armed heavy infantry were not worried about the attack on the city walls at all, and they started to light grenades under the city wall.

Light one and throw it directly onto the city wall.

boom!boom!boom!
The continuous roar sounded from the gate tower, directly cutting off the scattered counterattacks of the defenders.

"Enter the city!"

The Miao Dao team took the lead, followed by the infantry guards, and entered Dongguan County directly from the north gate.

"This is too simple." Lu Hui sighed.

"Yes, but it's rare to be behind." Chen Xun poured a basin of cold water directly.

Since ancient times, it has been easier to conquer a country than to defend it. After that, managing the occupied territory will be a very difficult challenge.

Chen Xun was not the leader of the rogue bandits. He captured a city, directly ensnared the civilians, and then continued to attack the next city.

Since he decided to occupy these cities, he had no intention of giving them up easily. He had to take root and manage them to digest all the lands and the people on them.

"Enter the city."

The battle after the guards entered the city was devastating.

No wonder later generations described that Japanese pirates were able to run rampant along the coast, and a dozen Japanese pirates could scare a city to the point where all vegetation and trees were covered with soldiers, and the city gates were closed and they became shrinking turtles. .

These cities, which have not experienced war for decades, are really weak in combat power, and the people are not very bloody.

In the Song Dynasty, the soldiers who had been serving as soldiers under low names for a long time had caused the city to be in danger, and the temporary soldiers who were captured had no intention of "defending their families and the country".

By the time Chen Xun led the Chinese army into the city, all the resistance in the city had been suppressed. Only some ruffians in the neighborhood were left to take advantage of the chaos to do evil. However, they would not have good results. As long as the personal guards freed up their hands, , which is when they confer heads.We attacked the city in the morning, and by lunch time, all four gates of Dongguan County had been controlled by personal guards.

Auxiliary soldiers are posting notices to various neighborhoods.

The content of the notice is mainly to reassure the people, saying that the soldiers in Chenjiazhuang will not disturb the people, ordinary people and traders can live a normal life, and the city gates will not prohibit entry and exit.

In addition to the notices for peace of mind, there are also recruitment notices and recruitment notices.

Recruit laborers and craftsmen to repair the roads and bridges from Dongguan to Chenjiazhuang, and expand the ports in the north and west of Dongguan.

Payroll is settled daily.

Chenjiazhuang's current transportation within Guangzhou mainly relies on water transportation, and the need for high-quality official roads is not very urgent.Recruiting workers to build roads, road construction is actually secondary, the main purpose is to build trust through "daily payment of wages".

The recruitment notice was to tie some people in Dongguan City to Chenjiazhuang's carriage.

There shouldn't be many applicants, but there will definitely be. As long as these locals join Chenjiazhuang's team, it will be much easier to govern Dongguan County in the future.

Sure enough, on May 40th, there were not many people who applied for labor and were willing to serve as soldiers. In the end, only more than [-] people were recruited, most of whom were laborers.

Some military officials took their labor to repair the damaged north gate in the morning, and just after Shen Shi in the afternoon, they paid them a day's wages and let them go home.

The new recruits were brought into the military camp, and a Dongguan battalion was specially formed to begin preliminary training.

The next day, the number of people who came to apply for labor increased sharply, and even craftsmen came to apply. Even the number of people willing to serve as soldiers increased slightly.

The situation improved, and Chen Xun was ready to take action on the big families in the city, and changed the original Dongguan County Government Hall into the Dongguan Court, where people could submit complaints and redress their grievances.

For the first half of the day, no one dared to come, but at noon, an old farmer came and sued the landlord, Yuanwai Liu, for selling his daughter to a county brothel for prostitution.

Chen Xun attaches great importance to the first case. It is the key to establishing a reputation and must get off to a good start.

The guards quickly brought Liu Yuanwai over.

Member Liu was also very tactful. As soon as he entered the house, he started to complain, saying that the old farmer refused to repay the money he owed him and was acting like a rogue. It was the old farmer who sold his daughter to her.

"You fart, it's obviously you who sent your servant to my house and took my daughter away by force. She's only 13 years old." The old farmer started crying and knelt down and kowtowed: "High officials must do this for me." The old man needs justice!"

Chen Xun basically understood in his heart that it was most likely a tragedy caused by a loan shark.

Sure enough, after interrogation, it was learned that the old farmer asked Liu Yuan to borrow a bucket of rice when he was in lean years. From this bucket of rice, the farmer fell into a bottomless pit of loan sharking. Now the debt has accumulated to more than 100 taels, and he has sold his daughter. Not enough interest.

"Officials, don't listen to this unruly man's words. I have an IOU signed by him personally. The money he owes me is 100 taels." Liu Yuanwai was prepared and took out an IOU from his sleeve.

"Submit it." Chen Xun ordered.

The officer was a little hesitant, worried that Chen Xun would destroy the IOU, but looking at the circle of tall and strong soldiers and the hundreds of people watching outside the gate, he finally gave the IOU to the guard next to him.

Looking at the IOU in my hand, I found that the principal amount owed was indeed 100 taels. There was no signature from the old farmer, but there were red Indonesian fingerprints. This must be because the old farmer was illiterate and could not write.

This IOU is very detrimental to the old farmer.

Liu Yuanwai must be a veteran of lending. Every time he pays interest, he will ask the old farmer to write a new IOU, and the interest will be compounded, and the interest will be calculated into the principal.

The old farmer said that he had never borrowed so much money, but his signature was on the IOU.

"Can my husband be literate?" Chen Xun asked.

"The old man can't read," the old farmer replied.

(End of this chapter)