kingnovel Chapter 302 Xie Ling Arrives at Tonghua City
Chapter 302 Xie Ling Arrives at Tonghua City
On the second day after Xie Ling left, Gu Wei had no time to feel sad and quickly devoted himself to official military duties.
Although Guangwu and Sinan seemed peaceful on the surface, everyone knew that a war was about to break out.
Compared with them, Sinan’s soldiers are still too few, so they can only focus on quality.
Gu Wei himself joined the military training, going straight to the parade ground every afternoon to guide the soldiers' training.
The soldiers guarding Sinan today are completely different from those at the beginning, with a completely different mental outlook.
They all stood straight with sharp eyes, and they all resembled the generals of the Gu family.
A few days later, Ren Pingsheng and the last group of Gu family members arrived in Sinan.
The three thousand generals of the Gu family are all elite soldiers, capable of defeating a hundred with one. They are Gu Wei's secret weapon and also his confidence.
On the day when the Gu family general was returning, Gu Wei gathered all his confidants together and held a meeting.
That night, the lights were brightly lit.
The young people were full of confidence and pointed and drew on the map, vowing to change the world.
On the second day, Gu Wei incorporated Chang Shou into Sinan and officially began recruiting soldiers and horses, widely spreading the news that "Sinan is recruiting talents."
Gu Wei arranged five hundred spies, headed by Zhou Cisui, to go to various places in Beijiang to spread the word.
In troubled times, the four words "no worries about food and clothing" are too attractive.
There is an endless stream of people coming to Sinan every day, which keeps Sinan’s civil servants very busy.
Investigating, registering, arranging food and accommodation...being busy all the time.
There are two conditions for living in Sinan.
First, the family background must be clean and the five generations of the family must be clearly traceable.
The second is that you need to have a skill to support yourself.
Sinan does not support idlers. You can be a street sweeper, but you have to do your work.
When you first arrive in Sinan, if you don’t have money to buy a house, you will go to the resettlement area. On the first day, you will be given 20 kilograms of coarse grains, and after that you will have to rely on your own efforts.
There are infrastructure constructions everywhere in Sinan.
Commercial streets, canteens, schools, shops, resettlement areas, roads, public toilets... everywhere is recruiting people. As long as you are not lazy, you will not starve to death.
Most people in Sinan can achieve a comfortable life, but of course there are also a small number of people who prefer leisure to work.
Yang Laowu from Qingzhou is such a person.
When he was young, he relied on the wealth accumulated by the elderly in his family to marry a beautiful wife and have a son. Although his family was not rich, they were well off.
But as his son grew up, Yang Laowu became fond of gambling and squandered his money every day. The family's few properties had long been squandered, and they had to rely on his wife's embroidery to make a living.
After the refugees rebelled and seized Qingzhou, the family's situation became even worse and they could only follow their neighbors to dig tree bark and grass roots to fill their stomachs every day.
Just when I thought I was going to starve to death, my neighbor Wang the Butcher, who loved to travel, brought back a piece of news.
Sinan County in Lingnan is recruiting talents on a large scale. As long as you go there, you will be provided with food and accommodation, and you will never have to worry about food and clothing!
Old Lady Yang at the end of the alley narrowed her eyes and said, "What kind of talent am I? I'm just an old fool."
Butcher Wang raised his eyebrows: "Don't you know how to weave straw sandals?"
The widow in the alley wiped her tears and said, "I won't go. I'm just a widow."
Butcher Wang urged: "Don't you know how to embroider?"
Anyway, the situation couldn't be any worse. Taking advantage of the refugees' inattention, a group of people climbed over the dog hole in the city wall and headed towards Sinan in a mighty manner.
In just three days, the group of people from Qingzhou arrived in Sinan.
From afar, there were crowds of people and the streets were clean and prosperous. The group of people almost thought they had seen a fairyland.
When I walked in, I found that they actually provided food and accommodation, and even arranged work!
Butcher Wang was overjoyed and joined the breeding farm that very day. When it came to raising and slaughtering pigs, no one was more familiar with it than him!
Widow Yang joined the embroidery and weaving business, helping to make winter clothes.
Old Mrs. Yang was too old and thought she could not enter Sinan. Just as she was about to cry, a civil servant pulled her in warmly and said that we have a nursing home in Sinan!
As for Yang Laowu, he happily took his family and 20 kilograms of food to the resettlement area.
The twenty kilograms of food were soon eaten up, but he didn't want to work and started to fool around.
Get some free food from this company today, and beg for favor from the civil servant tomorrow. Civil servants are easy to talk to anyway.
Yang Laowu felt even more proud when he saw that no one cared about him.
Unexpectedly, one morning, he was dragged out of the Sinan city gate by soldiers.
Yang Laowu refused to accept the defeat and only began to beg for mercy after seeing the note issued by the soldier.
Everyone who enters Sinan has an ID card, and even if they break a law or do something bad, it will be recorded.
Of course, laziness also counts.
The severity of the case is scored from one to ten points. If it scores 100, you will be kicked out and can never come back.
In the past half month since Yang Laowu came here, he has committed several bad things, including stealing, gambling in a group, and molesting decent women.
The soldiers drew their swords grimly and drove away the people who were expelled from the city.
Seeing that he couldn't go back, Yang Laowu wanted to take his wife and son with him and have them serve him.
But his wife had already found a job in the cafeteria and sent their son to school. How could she be willing to go with him?
In this way, there are fewer and fewer lazy people in Sinan, and even the lazy people have to work hard, otherwise they will be kicked out.
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There is also an inevitable disadvantage to recruiting people on a large scale - enemy spies may infiltrate.
All forces sent many spies into Sinan to investigate the situation.
Gu Wei was not very wary of this.
Anyway, most of those spies will turn against us in the end.
The people of Sinan live in peace and prosperity, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is a paradise on earth.
The spies have become accustomed to this kind of life, who would be willing to go back?
Even if there were some loyal people who returned to report, they would not be able to access the core part of Sinan.
At most, I can get in touch with the people and understand what the work point system is.
When those people found that so few spies returned, they thought they were killed by Sinan, and they became even more in awe of Sinan.
No one could have imagined that life in Sinan was too comfortable and the spies did not want to go back.
In Prince Guangwu's camp, the spy knelt on the ground and reported the news.
"My Lord, the school in Sinan is free. Children as young as three and as old as fifty can attend the class as long as they are willing. Children can also get an egg every day.
The road in Sinan is made of cement and is very flat, so a horse-drawn carriage hardly bumps along on it.
Sinan used honeycomb coal, which cost only a few cents a piece. Three pieces could be used for a whole day and were very warm.
Sinan also has a canteen, public toilets, and a large bathhouse..."
Only he came back among the group of spies. Prince Guangwu asked him a lot of questions and his eyes widened.
The spy answered with a dry mouth.
"Sinan was thriving, using the work point system, where people received food, clothing, and housing through work points."
Prince Guangwu pondered, "Work points? So Sinan's prosperity is due to this system?"
He glanced at the spy kneeling on the ground again. His face had become fatter in the past half month. It was indeed a prosperous time.
The staff member at the side offered a suggestion: "My Lord, how about we also follow this so-called work point system?"
Prince Guangwu recalled what the spy had just said about the grand occasion in Sinan, and a look of longing flashed in his eyes.
"Okay, starting today, Guangwu will also use the work point system."
Prince Guangwu pointed at the spy crawling on the ground and said, "You decide."
The spy was so scared that he was sweating profusely and answered cautiously: "Yes."
Only he knows how perfect Sinan’s work point system is. Can Guangwu really replicate it successfully?
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Prince Guangwu had a good idea. Once Guangwu's work point system was on track, he began to advertise and recruit people.
If Sinan is destroyed by then, who will still remember Sinan?
People all over the world would certainly believe that the work point system was created by him, King Guangwu. Maybe he would even go down in history and compete for the title of one of the Seven Kingdoms.
The more Prince Guangwu thought about it, the happier he became, and he couldn't help laughing.
King Guangwu had a strong execution ability. That afternoon, he gathered all the people and soldiers of Guangwu together.
As night fell, the air became chilly.
The yellow land in front of the military camp was full of people.
Ten aides in long gowns were standing in front of the people, spitting all over the place, explaining with gestures what the work point system was.
"Everyone please hand over your belongings first..."
"Division based on work points..."
“The more you work, the more you get…”
"Prosperity and well-being..."
The people didn't understand anything else, they just heard one sentence: "Hand over your property."
The crowd was noisy, with nearly tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of mouths. You said something, I said something, it was like a boiling pot.
"Kacha."
After killing ten people, the crowd fell completely silent.
King Guangwu's face was gloomy. "I am not discussing this with you. Those who disagree are like corpses on the ground."
On the second day, Guangwu's work point system was implemented in a hurry.
The soldiers spent one day collecting property and one day capturing people who could read and write to serve as civil servants.
On the third day, they began to build schools and canteens on a large scale.
Seeing the people working so enthusiastically, King Guangwu felt a fire burning in his heart as well, feeling very satisfied, as if he had already dreamed of becoming the greatest emperor of all time.
But this situation did not last for five days before it was forced to stop.
Because the warehouse is empty and there is no food.
There is always little food in famine years.
There are nearly 20,000 people in Guangwu, a large population.
Not to mention the soldiers and "civil servants".
Those civil servants are incomparable to Sinan. They have only read a little and know a few big characters.
Because he didn't know what to do, he ran around with pen, ink, paper and inkstone, recording the name of every citizen in Guangwu in a book.
Working so hard all day is like doing nothing.
Sinan’s work point system is based on abundant materials and a complete management system.
Imitating others will only result in a waste of labor and food.
King Guangwu listened to his subordinates' report, and his majestic face turned purple. "Didn't they say that the work point system can make Guangwu as prosperous as Sinan? Where is that spy? Drag him out and tear him into pieces. No! Lingchi death!"
The staff member responded weakly: "My lord, that man has committed suicide."
The spy knew Prince Guangwu's character very well, and as soon as he learned that the work-point system had failed, he quickly went to see the King of Hell.
Prince Guangwu was so angry that his teeth were chattering and he wanted to kill everyone.
A bunch of useless people, they ate his food, drank his water, built a bunch of useless school buildings, and finally accomplished nothing!
King Guangwu glared, "Go and kill Sinan directly. I don't care. Kill! Sinan only has 5,000 men, and I have nearly 30,000 men. I still can't defeat him!"
It turns out that it really can't be done.
Gu Wei did not even send out the Gu family generals. He only let Zhang Yong lead Sinan's 5,000 soldiers to fight, and he defeated Guangwu, and the rest surrendered without a fight.
There was no other reason. The soldiers and civilians in Guangwu were exhausted from repairing the houses and had little to eat, so they had no strength left.
From then on, half of Lingnan was in Gu Wei's pocket.
After the victory, Gu Wei went to Guangwu for inspection.
Even though he was so aloof, when he saw the half-built fake "school", "canteen" and "livestock farm" in Guangwu, his mouth twitched and he silently sent people to start the reconstruction.
Then let Zhou resign and take over the management with Ren Pingsheng.
Guangwu has a vast territory, which includes three county towns. It is larger than Sinan and Changshou combined. The people are uneducated, so it is extremely difficult to manage.
Of course, the most important issue is still talent.
Gu Wei frowned, looked at the list Zhou Cisui handed over, sighed deeply, and wished he and Si Nan's staff could be split into ten.
Sorting out the population, promoting the system, educating the people, abolishing and rebuilding...which one of these does not require talents?
But Sinan is already short of civil servants, so where can we find enough to send to Guangwu?
"A Ling, what do you think we should do—"
Gu Wei turned his head and wanted to ask Xie Ling questions as usual, but suddenly realized that Xie Ling had been gone for almost half a month.
It’s already been half a month.
He still wasn't used to it.
Not used to sleeping alone.
I get used to getting an extra basin of hot water every morning.
When she speaks, she always says "A Ling A Ling".
I always want to hug that person's petite body.
Gu Wei, who was always a gentleman, rarely showed his youthful mischievousness and said to the air: "A Ling, I miss you so much."
His thoughts came back to normal and Gu Wei returned to the main business, when suddenly an idea came to him.
The main task of civil servants is to educate the people, so can he allow the people of Sinan to be civil servants?
Sinan’s adult school has already taught five or six batches of students.
Nowadays, almost all the people in Sinan can read and write and do basic arithmetic.
The most important thing is to be familiar with the work point system.
Gu Wei immediately told Fengjian Qingli about this matter and asked him to promote it.
The boy's eyes sparkled and he ran out in a hurry.
Now that the big problem of talent has been solved, Gu Wei looked in the direction of Xie Ling and began to miss her again.
Gu Wei felt somewhat helpless, chuckled, took out a scroll from the desk, and began to paint.
The woman in the painting is dressed in blue and has a sweet smile.
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On the ship, Xie Ling sneezed.
She felt her own pulse and said, "Strange, I don't have a cold, why am I sneezing non-stop?"
Wanniang smiled meaningfully, "Someone must be missing you."
Xie Ling laughed, "Will we be able to reach Tonghua City soon?"
Wanniang nodded, "Master Zhubo must be careful. Tonghua City is located on the border of Beijiang, Nanzhao, Weizhao, and Dongling, and has always been a lawless area.
I will wait for you at the dock for three days. If anything goes wrong, run back and I will pick you up."
Xie Ling was surprised at Wanniang's thoughtfulness, so she didn't refuse her kindness, "Okay, then I'll thank Wanniang first."
That evening, Xie Ling arrived at the Tonghua City Pier.
The wind was so strong at the dock that it almost blew away people's bones.
Xie Ling wore men's clothes and put some powder on her face to darken her skin before she went down from the deck.
From far away, you can hear the noise from the distant streets and the voices of various vendors hawking their wares.
There was an endless stream of ships at the dock, with people coming and going. They were all large sailing ships with almost no place to dock, and the ships were piled high with wooden boxes.
There was a wooden box tilted, and Xie Ling saw with her sharp eyes that it was full of gold!
Xie Ling didn't know whether Tonghua City was too rich or Beijiang was too poor.
Xie Ling prefers the latter.
After all, this dynasty itself was one in which the gap between the rich and the poor was extremely large.
In a corner unknown to her, there was an aristocratic family that was as wealthy as a country and had great power.
Sinan is still too young.
Any larger force could crush them right now.
Xie Ling suppressed her inner turmoil, lowered her voice, and asked a random guy who was carrying goods, "Brother, do you know where to take the ship to Wei Zhaoguo?"
The eldest brother looked Xie Ling up and down. "Are you from outside? Our docks are divided into people and goods. People should go to the west of the city to get on the train. This is the east of the city! You have to go through the city!"
"Thanks!"
Upon hearing this, Xie Ling turned around and walked down the dock, intending to cross the snack street in front and go into the city.
She didn't know that the big brother just stared at her back for a long time and wanted to say something, but when he saw Xie Ling had walked away, he shut up because he didn't want to bother.