After taking over Fanjiazhuang from Yan Yue, Li Zhi officially took office and became the official of the Hundred Households in charge of the team.
As the saying goes, there are three things a new official does when he takes office. The first thing Li Zhi did when he took office was to clean up the fort in Fanjiazhuang and remove the garbage and human and animal excrement in the fort.
Li Zhi traveled to this era, and what he was most unaccustomed to was the poor hygiene in the Ming Dynasty. In the past, Li Zhi was a businessman who could only manage factories and workshops, but now Li Zhi is the chief official of a village and has the ability to change Fanjiazhuang.
Of course he would start with Fanjiazhuang to improve sanitary conditions.
It was July, not a busy farming season, so all the soldiers and civilians in Zhuangzi were mobilized by Li Zhi to participate in the cleanup.
Li Zhi organized Zhuang Ding to dig a big pit outside Zhuangzi, and he wanted to transport all the cleaned garbage into this pit. There was no plastic in the Ming Dynasty, so there was no need to consider degradation issues. It would all rot after being buried underground for a few years.
Li Zhi took the lead, and everyone in the village worked hard for a day, clearing out more than a hundred carts of garbage in the village. There was so much garbage that the big hole was filled in only half of the time. Li Zhi could only organize people to carry out more garbage next to it.
A hole was dug.
After cleaning up the existing garbage, Li Zhi made an agreement with the military households, strictly stipulating that military households were not allowed to litter in the future. All garbage was thrown into the twenty large trash cans that Li Zhi arranged throughout the village.
Arrange for special personnel to clean the plant.
Those who litter will be punished with ten strokes of the cane!
Not only that, in view of the fact that most military households in the village did not have toilets, Li Zhi organized the military households to renovate 20 abandoned houses and dig them into public toilets. On average, every fifteen people use one public toilet. These fifteen
People who share public toilets take turns cleaning the public toilets. If a designated person finds that the public toilets have not been cleaned during inspection, the person who cleaned them the day before will be given ten canes!
Every public toilet is equipped with a septic tank for base fertilizer.
After doing these things, the entire Tunpu suddenly had a new look, and even the disgusting stench disappeared. Walking on the road in the village, the road was very clean, and no garbage could be found.
The garbage and feces on both sides of the road were cleared, and Li Zhi led people to dig drainage ditches on both sides of the road to prevent the road from becoming waterlogged and impassable on rainy days.
The sanitary conditions in the village suddenly improved. The military households were very happy and looked at Li Zhi with a little more expectation. To be honest, the military households were also normal people and did not want to be like pigs and dogs in the garbage dump.
However, the most lacking thing in the late Ming Dynasty was organizational power, and everything was ruined by one's own administration. The former team officers did not care about this, and the people had no one to organize, so garbage and feces could only be thrown around. Li Zhi organized a little bit
, the cost is nothing more than hiring two people to collect garbage every day, and the village will look completely new.
After cleaning up the village's hygiene, Li Zhi began to deal with the village's human relations.
Li Zhi observed the village in the past few days and found that the biggest corrupt official in the village was the former team officer. Not only did he deduct the military pay and rob the soldiers of their pay, but he also occupied the soldiers. The deduction of military pay is easy to explain, it is to defraud the soldiers of their monthly pay. The so-called
Eating empty pay means that the commander does not re-recruit the soldiers after they flee, but pockets the wages of the fleeing soldiers. The so-called occupation of soldiers means using soldiers as serfs and letting them work on the private fields of hundreds of households.
The monthly salary of the soldiers is paid by the team leader personally. The general banners and minor banners of less than 100 households can't interfere with the military salary. However, if the money cannot be moved, they will move. The two general banners who serve as commanders also occupy soldiers.
The soldiers were exploited at all levels in this way, and the life of the soldiers was very difficult. No wonder the soldiers in Fanjiazhuang fled so seriously. Except for the old, weak, sick and disabled who couldn't escape, almost all the young people fled.
The first thing Li Zhi did was to find the two commander-in-chiefs of the seventh rank and draw a red line to them.
After the two general bannermen knelt on the ground to salute, Li Zhi deliberately asked them to wait on the ground for a while, and then said: "No ceremony!"
When the two general flags got up, Li Zhi sat on a chair and let the two of them stand and listen to his words: "I don't know what the previous team officer told you, but now that you are here, there will be no more
It’s a matter of conscripting soldiers. Zhuang soldiers are soldiers and will not be allowed to participate in private farming in the future. Do you understand?"
The two captains looked at each other, and the older one spoke up: "Master Guan, this is a routine for the soldiers to plow the fields, and the soldiers are used to it. This is the only difference between our two captains.
It’s all good, why does the team leader have to embarrass us?”
Li Zhi knew that these middle-aged people had deep old habits and it was almost impossible to change their style in officialdom. He had no intention of talking to them. He just said coldly: "Now that I'm here, I will work hard to build Fanjiazhuang."
Build a fort capable of raising and training troops! Today I am warning you once, if you knowingly violate the law again, you will be dealt with according to the military law!"
Hearing this, the two commander-in-chiefs trembled and anger appeared on their faces.
The younger general had the courage to raise his hand and said: "Master Guan Guan, didn't the Defense Master tell you? I'm an old acquaintance with the Defense Master You Huachao. Hehe! The Guan Guan can't push us too hard.
Got it!"
Seeing that Li Zhi was fierce, the young commander-in-chief brought up You Huachao from a thousand households to suppress Li Zhi. The so-called old acquaintance probably meant that he went to You Huachao every year to pay tribute and send a few taels or more than a dozen
Two taels of silver. The young general thought that if Li Zhi moved his interests, he would move You Huachao's interests.
Official corruption in the late Ming Dynasty was not an isolated phenomenon, but was like a net that connected each other from top to bottom. How could an ordinary 100 households enforce the law impartially for the benefit of soldiers and cut off the wealth of thousands of households? What if?
As an ordinary person, he has no power to break this network of relationships.
However, Li Zhi is a time traveler and possesses powerful strength brought by future technology. This kind of strength can destroy this network of relationships little by little.
"You Huachao? You dare to complain!" Li Zhi snorted coldly and said, "Have you seen my Wusun BMW? That was given to me by the governor himself!"
Hearing Li Zhi's words, the two commander-in-chiefs turned pale with fright. The governor sent horses, what a big deal this is, you can crush You Huachao to death with just a few fingers. In the face of such a background, You Huachao is nothing.
Huh? The two of them were frightened, and they knelt down again with a pop, shouting: "Master in charge, we understand."
"We will never ask soldiers to do anything from now on!"
Li Zhi glanced at the two general banners, who were deeply angry, and secretly said that these two people could not be reused, so he asked them to retreat.
After finishing the chores in the village, Li Zhi began to think about the weapons for his future army.
The first thing Li Zhi wanted to build was a Mini rifle.
The Minie rifle is ignited using a flintlock bolt, without the need for a match rope, which greatly improves the operability of the rifle. The barrel is engraved with rifling, and Minie lead bullets with a tapered hollow tail are used for front-loading shooting. Due to the pressure of the rifling, the lead
After the bullet is fired, it spins at high speed and flies very stably. The range is increased. Such a rifle can hit targets four or five hundred meters away. It is definitely a big killer in this era.
As a time traveler, Li Zhi imagined that his army would be a hot-weapons army equipped with rifles and a large number of light artillery. Such an army could basically blast the cold-weapon armies of this era into rubbish.
