After moving into the new city lord's mansion, Ding Kui learned all about Giant Sheep City under Fei Ze's introduction.
Juyang City has ten towns under its jurisdiction, namely Baini Town, Zhishui Town, Kumu Town, Feisha Town, Lengshui Town, Mingyue Town, Yudi Town, Hot Spring Town, Yeliu Town, and Yinye Town.
Each town has between 3,000 and 8,000 residents. Including the villages under its jurisdiction, one town has a population of nearly 30,000, and the ten towns add up to nearly 300,000.
This is a number that slowly recovered after the war. Before the war, there were just over 300,000. As one of the cities that was occupied for the longest time during the war, Juyang City's population recovery is considered the best.
In addition to the original residents, there are also a large number of refugees from other places. Most of these refugees lost their original homes due to the war. They chose Juyang City, where production and life were recovering the fastest. They came here and found a stable life. They simply stayed and chose to settle here for a long time.
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The five towns located in the north are relatively prosperous, namely Zhishui Town, Yudi Town and Lengshui Town on the south bank of Chunlu River, as well as Baini Town and Yinye Town on the road from Juyang City to Tuofeng Mountain Pass.
The five towns located in the south gate are relatively poor, including Kumu Town and Yeliu Town on the edge of the swamp, and Feisha Town, Mingyue Town and Hot Spring Town in the middle.
Starting from the south gate of Juyang City, you can enter the Great Swamp through Mingyue Town and Yeliu Town, and further south is Yongsheng Base.
The registered permanent population in the city is 150,000, and with the floating population from outside exceeding 200,000, it is considered to have reached the lowest standard for a county town. It is currently the most populous city in Nanqiu County outside of the county town.
Speaking of population, we have to mention the welfare home. The first welfare home in the world attracted many refugees from outside. Many desperate people heard that there was a place in Juyang City that could help the helpless people.
Come and find out.
Their idea is simple. Juyang City is a city full of opportunities. Even if they don't find opportunities, there is a welfare home at least they don't have to worry about starving to death.
Originally a small city with a population of less than 100,000, after the war, Ding Kui revitalized its trade routes and developed rapidly under the management of domestic and foreign chambers of commerce. Now it is comparable to a first-class city.
"What? The Juyang City Foreign Chamber of Commerce is expected to pay 600,000 gold coins in taxes this year!"
Ding Kui couldn't believe Feize's report. The tax of 600,000 gold coins was quite astonishing, equivalent to the total value of foreign imported goods reaching more than 6 million gold coins.
Since Juyang City is an occupied area, the country has tax exemptions for up to five years after liberation, but foreign chambers of commerce still have to collect taxes when they come to do business, which is calculated at 10% of the estimated value of the goods.
"This number does not include the smuggled part. However, Mr. Zheng brought the 300,000 gold coins back to Nanjing in the first half of the year. There are only more than 200,000 left in the warehouse. Tens of thousands more can be collected next month." Fei Ze has already said.
Calculate clearly.
"After Juyang City is returned to me, how will this tax be calculated? My God, half a year's tax is equal to one year's salary of the Protector." Ding Kui remembered the scene when he first went to Pingzhong County to receive salary.
"Under normal circumstances, the state pastoral council will calculate the average annual income in the past five years and require us to pay half of the commercial tax. However, Juyang City has built a new wharf and the commercial tax amount has just shown an upward trend. I believe that Nanjing City will require this city next year
Turn over 300,000 yuan." Fei went to Zhoucheng to investigate.
"If you pay half of it, I still have 300,000, dear. That doesn't include the taxes of local residents. No wonder Ouyang Chong and Cai Ran looked down on me when they were young. Their family's income is at least several times that of the Ding family."
Only then did Ding Kui realize how much a city lord's income was. The Ding family's salary was pitiful. You must know that a rank of marquis means that the income of a county is at least three to five times more than that of a city lord.
"The kingdom was exempt from local taxes before 4880, and the lord could impose no more than 10% tax.
The city includes ten towns with a population of about 450,000, excluding one-third of the people without income, leaving 300,000 people.
Calculated based on the per capita annual income of five gold coins, that is 1.5 million gold coins. Within three years, you can collect up to 150,000 gold coins per year." The fee was roughly calculated.
"No, I won't collect a single coin from local residents' taxes for three years. Population is the most pressing issue at the moment. We can also absorb more refugees, and we can't be blinded by the immediate benefits." Ding Kui was firm.
Fei Ze reminded: "But from now on, all expenses in the city will have to be paid by you."
"Those are not problems. The wool comes from the sheep." Ding Kui was confident.
Fei Ze murmured to himself: Of course wool will not come from a dog.
"What is the current situation of the city defense army?" Ding Kui asked.
"After verification by my subordinates, there are 2,400 qualified city defense troops. Ding Yu is temporarily in charge of the position of commander." Fei Ze did not believe others and persuaded Ao Yu to come out to manage the city defense troops.
Ding Yu's name was well-known far and wide. No one in Nanqiu County knew about the flying general's personal soldiers, and no officer or soldier dared to disobey him. When the great martial artist became the commander of the city's defense force, he was already condescending.
"I only want elites, those with level four combat capabilities and above. Train them hard. The 2,400 people can be divided into three teams and given to Team Xue for training in turns. Those who can't stand it will be returned to the Public Security Department."
Ding Kui wanted to use his money wisely, and troops that were not elite enough would rather not use it.
"But where are there so many combatants above level four?" Fei Ze felt embarrassed.
"Now there is no one for us to cultivate, there will be a way. By the way, do you think this city can do without a city wall?" Ding Kui suddenly asked a strange question.
"Don't want a city wall?"
Fei Ze is a person who came from the regular military system and is not very familiar with those deviant ideas.
"The city wall is the most stable support for a city. The surrounding area of Giant Sheep City is basically plains. Without the city wall, there will be no danger of being defended if it is invaded. The only way to rely on the troops defending the city is to fight head-on."
After hearing this, Ding Kui shook his head and said: "The biggest danger in this city comes from the river. To the west is my royal outpost. To the north, we just need to guard the ferry. To the south is the Yongsheng base.
Once the enemy comes from the east, they will definitely be in overwhelming numbers. Based on last experience, this city has no value in holding on. The enemy can circle the city and directly attack the passes and ferries.
We only need to ensure the time for emergency evacuation. When it is discovered that the invading enemy has exceeded the defense force, there will be enough time to evacuate the people who want to escape, and those who are unwilling to escape can stay.
The garrison force in the city can retreat to the pass or base, and the ferry side will be left to the county and city for defense, and we can leave effective forces to better contain the enemy."
"I understand, what I mean is that we need a warning time. The city wall here can only hold for ten days and a half in wartime. It is better to guard the pass and base. Then our imaginary enemy can only be Meng." Fei Ze ignored it.
Cao Guo.
It would be more difficult for Cao Guo to attack Juyang City directly. They have better targets for attack.
"No," Ding Kui raised his right index finger and shook it from side to side, "There is also Jiguo."
"My own country?" Fei Ze had never considered this friendly country.
"Yes," Ding Kui nodded, "even if our country is a friendly country, their performance in the last war was very dangerous. If they didn't have a conspiracy, they wouldn't have stayed at Chunlu Bay Water Village for so long."
Fei Ze came to his senses and said: "Well, no matter whether Meng or our country, their main means of attack is to land medium-sized warships.
The best locations are the two docks, and we can stop it through fires and shipwrecks, but the total length of the river bank is more than fifty miles, and we can't hold it all."
"Shipwreck? By the way, you reminded me. We can defend the river bank. We only need to set up obstacles to prevent the warships from approaching the shore. There is no need to defend them all. Just defend about fifteen miles from the north to the south."
Ding Kui opened a military map and marked the river bank line with a pen.
"It takes more than an hour from when the enemy is discovered by us to when they land on the beach and then march to the city as a whole team, right?"
"Yes! It's easier to build obstacles than city walls." Fei Ze's thoughts were opened. "If we get intelligence in advance and make preparations in advance, we can delay the enemy for more than two hours."
"Intelligence! A river-crossing attack requires a lot of preparation. We spend the money to build the city wall on intelligence work, and the warning time can be advanced a lot. Even if the intelligence contains a lot of uncertain factors, as long as we strengthen the patrol of Tongyuan River in a short period of time, we can
You can win half a day of warning time." Ding Kui found the key to solving the problem.
"River bank barriers and intelligence seem to really be able to replace city walls." Fei Ze stood up excitedly.
"Well, don't be anxious. We will take some time to deduce this matter. We will discuss it carefully when Mr. Liu comes back, and temporarily determine the use of riverbank obstacles and intelligence as an option to replace the city wall." Ding Kui turned his attention to the city defense layout, "Now we can first
Plan the future layout of this city."
A more important part of urban management is planning. Juyang City is facing new opportunities, and his current idea is to do a good job in planning.
"Security without a city wall is also a big problem. There are currently 500 people in the Public Security Department. After the city wall is demolished, it will definitely not be enough. Three thousand city defense troops cannot guard all entrances and exits." Fei Ze discovered a new problem.
"The city defense army cannot be used to maintain law and order in the city, nor can it rely entirely on the Public Security Department. We can add an auxiliary agency. Before that, I have already arranged for the first move." Ding Kui showed a mysterious smile.
"Alms Society?" Fei Ze suddenly thought of it.
“I gave the new organization a name, ‘urban management’, so that people with relatively clean foundations in the charity can be converted into urban management.”
"Chengguan? It means city manager?" Fei Ze heard this name for the first time.
"More or less, people who assist in city management, a semi-official and semi-armed force. The Alms Society still needs to exist. We can't contact the gangs directly. It's better to let them do some things."
Ding Kui thought to himself: Urban management has a positive effect and is helpful to urbanization. Although their reputation in Chinese society is not very good, it mainly depends on the people who do things and the regulations. The most important thing is that they are cheap.
The Public Security Department is a city's public employees, while the Urban Management Bureau under his definition is an auxiliary staff. There is a difference in salary between the two.