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While Cui Wenxiu was anxiously waiting, a burst of hurried footsteps came from far away.

"Huh~!"

Although he forced himself to calm down, his expression did not change at all.

However, Cui Wenxiu's breathing became a little heavier.

After a while, someone came to the main hall quickly.

"Master, I have found out clearly."

"What happened? Is there anyone attacking the city? Have they been repelled?"

Although he tried his best to maintain calm on the surface, from his successive questions, it can be seen that Cui Wenxiu's heart was surging.

"Master, it was the Salvation Army, the Salvation Army broke into the city."

"What was the final result? Were they driven out?"

"No, Master.

The Salvation Army has posted a notice to reassure the people and took over the city defense of Lintao Prefecture."

After hearing this, Cui Wenxiu's expression suddenly changed, and he murmured in disbelief.

"How could this happen? They were just a bunch of bandits and low-class people, just a bunch of mud-legged people. How could they occupy the city so easily?"

This was really hard for him to believe.

In the eyes of everyone, the Salvation Army, which was originally just a group of slightly more powerful bandits, actually directly captured the city, and in such a short time.

Is this probably the most serious rebellion that has occurred in recent years?

Compared with them, Wang Er is completely a small witch meeting a big witch.

Even if it is three or five county towns, how can it be compared with the city?

In recent years, in addition to the Later Jin Tartars outside the pass, who would constantly attack the border and occupy cities, this is probably the largest city lost by the Ming Dynasty, right? And it is a hinterland city.

If this is spread to the central court, it will inevitably cause a shock to the entire court.

I just don't know how many troops the court will send to encircle and suppress them.

He just hopes it can be faster.

Otherwise, they are under the enemy army, which is a bit dangerous after all.

As for joining the Salvation Army, he has never thought about it.

Before the Salvation Army had completely stabilized its foundation, it was impossible for a big family like theirs to bet on the Salvation Army.

No matter how the big families, wealthy merchants, or landlords who moved into the city later did not believe it, it was an indisputable fact that Wang Chao occupied Lintao Prefecture.

As for the counterattack and encirclement of the court, Wang Chao had already anticipated it.

However, with the extraordinary army, he still had some confidence that he could stop the encirclement of the court army.

On the second day, in addition to arranging 500 people to garrison, Wang Chao sent the remaining people to patrol various parts of the city. Once any criminals were found, they would be thrown into the cell.

After a simple trial, as long as no lives were involved, Wang Chao sent them all to the labor reform team.

Together with the captured Ming army, they repaired the city streets, etc.

Even Wang Chao was preparing to build official roads connecting the counties under his jurisdiction.

Isn't there a saying in later generations?

If you want to be rich, build roads first.

This is enough to illustrate the importance of roads.

For the current Salvation Army, good roads can make them more closely connected, reach various places faster, improve war efficiency, etc.

In short, road construction is very important.

Therefore, there is a shortage of people who build roads.

After the Salvation Army occupied Lintao Prefecture, if there were still crimes, Wang Chao would immediately send them all to labor reform without hesitation.

For a while, countless hooligans, gangsters, and gangsters were all arrested and sent to labor reform by the Salvation Army.

Even if there were still some who were not arrested, they all restrained their behavior at this time. Some people even stayed at home and did not go out, for fear that they would be arrested by the Salvation Army to build roads if they were not careful.

After the absence of these hooligans, gangsters, and gangsters, the public security of the entire Lintao Prefecture was instantly improved.

Perhaps it could not reach the level of not closing the door at home and not picking up lost items on the road.

But in terms of public security alone, it can be compared with later cities.

There is no other way. The cost of committing crimes is too high.

Maybe just because you didn't pay for a meal, you will be arrested and sent to labor reform for ten days or half a month, and you have to pay for the meal.

The cost of eating a free meal is too high, so naturally no one does it.

Then, Wang Chao posted a recruitment notice. In addition to trying to recruit civilian personnel, he recruited more police officers, recruited new soldiers, recruited migrant workers, etc.

The most important thing now is to let the Salvation Army, which maintains the city's public security, take time out to do what they should do.

Naturally, new police officers are needed to maintain public security.

As for the previous government officials, Wang Chao looked down on them.

Of course, if they are interested, they can also participate. As long as they can pass the assessment, they can join the Inspection Office after simple training and become a glorious police officer again.

And their task is to patrol various urban areas and arrest criminals.

Then, Wang Chao divided Lintao Prefecture into five urban areas, east, west, south, and north, plus the central urban area where the government office is located.

The patrol inspection department is also divided into five parts, namely the East City Patrol Inspection Department, the West City Patrol Inspection Department, the South City Patrol Inspection Department, the North City Patrol Inspection Department, and the Central City General Patrol Inspection Department.

Each of these patrol inspection departments has two people-saving soldiers as patrol inspection department heads, leading a dozen or so constables to patrol their respective districts.

At the beginning, except for some ruffians who wanted to take advantage of the situation and make a fortune, there were really no people who signed up.

It is true that at this time, the majesty of the Ming Dynasty is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

As long as they are not forced into a desperate situation, or the Salvation Army has completely established its foothold, few residents in the city are willing to have anything to do with the Salvation Army.

As for those ruffians, Wang Chao did not treat them differently. As long as they could do things for him, he did not mind giving them a chance.

But it is obvious that there are very few who can really pass the assessment and complete the training.

Moreover, even if they become constables, they often have some bad habits that are difficult to change. They go to the stalls to take some food and tease young girls and wives. It is really a common thing.

And Wang Chao was naturally ruthless about this. He directly used military law to punish them ten times in the street, and then threw them all to labor reform.

And for this kind of thing, those who are involved are both happy and a little trembling.

This Salvation Army really cares about the people like them.

However, they are also afraid that this is just a superficial effort. What if they cause trouble for them behind their backs?

Also, what if these rescue soldiers were driven away by the officers and soldiers? Will those who were punished retaliate?

However, no matter what everyone thought, Wang Chao always did his own thing, rewarding and punishing.

Moreover, as time went on, the order inside and outside the city began to gradually recover, and the population circulated again.

After some farmers outside the city entered the city, they saw those recruitment notices, and immediately many people signed up to join the inspection department or become recruits.

There were also some refugees and beggars who signed up to participate.

In this regard, Wang Chao accepted everyone.

As long as they could pass the assessment, they could join.

As for the remaining refugees and beggars, Wang Chao waved his hand and took them all to build roads.

Three meals a day, porridge and vegetables, and they could also get twenty cents of wages that those prisoners did not have.

It was not much, but it was definitely not little.

The most important thing was that there was food.

The refugee beggars who were reluctant at first, after learning about this treatment, immediately followed with enthusiasm to build the road.

Even many civilians put aside their fears and looked for the soldiers of the People's Salvation Army to ask if they could also build the road.

They didn't even need wages, as long as they could have three meals a day.

Although after the People's Salvation Army and the agricultural cooperatives arrived and attacked those landlords, they all received food distribution.

They could even rent the land. The landlords who were taken away by the People's Salvation Army did not have to pay any other taxes except 30% of the rent.

However, this year is a famine year after all. Even if they got some food, they were panicked and didn't know if they could survive this cold winter.

And now, the People's Salvation Army is recruiting road builders, and they also provide three meals a day and even wages. Naturally, they are very excited.

Those beggars can do it, what are they lacking?

Even many people in the city are eager to move.

As for whether this is related to the Salvation Army.

Haha, they are not officials in the Salvation Army, they are just working for others.

Wang Chao also accepts all these people, and takes them all to build roads, and pays them the same wages.

As for food supplies, with 100,000 stones of food supplies and more than one million carts of gold and silver, it is still possible to recruit some civilian workers.

What's more, there are still many leeks waiting for him to harvest in the city.

In this way, in just two or three days, Wang Chao recruited nearly 20,000 civilian workers and launched a grand road construction project.

And the target is not Weiyuan County, but Lintao Guard Station to the west of Lintao Prefecture.

The guards of Lintao Guard Station were basically taken by the commander Zheng Wanchun to suppress bandits.

What else can be said, he must be taken down.

At that time, Wang Chao can completely rely on Lintao Guard Station to build a large new barracks, and move the newly recruited new troops there for training.

Well, Wang Chao this time, in addition to recruiting 20,000 civilian workers and more than 200 patrol officers, also recruited 10,000 new troops and assigned 100 people-saving troops to train them in a temporary military camp outside the city.

As for the regular army.

For a long time, they had to rush to various cities to defend the territory and open up the borders, and they did not need such a fixed military camp.

Their station is in each city.

Unless Wang Chao and his men completely occupy the two prefectures, the cities inside will gradually implement the separation of military and civilian rule.

Before that, most of the cities were under military control, and at most they were loose and tight.

However

Wang Chao sat in the government office, looking at the sky and thinking secretly.

As the territory became larger and larger, there were more and more problems.

Because he was in charge of Lintao Prefecture, he could use his spiritual power to detect what was happening everywhere, and naturally he could suppress all the bad signs.

However, if he leaves here, it is hard to say what will happen next.

What about other places?

What about other prefectures and counties occupied by Wang Dahu and his men?

Thinking of this, Wang Chao's mind moved slightly, and his mind used spiritual power as a medium, ignoring distance and space, and instantly projected where Wang Dahu and his men were.

At this time, Wang Dahu had also arrived outside Gongchang Prefecture and was sending people to explore the information in the city.

With the cooperation of the intelligence personnel of the Military Intelligence Department in the city, I believe that the situation will be soon understood, and then we can launch an attack.

Then, Wang Chao descended on other teams again.

Zhang County has been captured and is currently under the jurisdiction of Wuping, and military control is also implemented.

This is the countermeasure they have discussed in advance. Before there are enough government officials, all occupied cities will be subject to military control.

However, this is obviously not a long-term solution.

The best way is to recruit enough government officials, or find other alternatives.

In the final analysis, Wang Chao and his team have risen too recently, their foundation is too shallow, and they lack enough talents.

Otherwise, these problems will not be a problem.