Chapter 202: Past Events in YangzhouGuan Shan saw Xiping as soon as he walked out of the office building. Xiping is now much more mature than in previous years. When Guanshan saw him like this, he knew that he had returned from Jingzhou. Guan Shan nodded to him and said, "The dean is upstairs!" "Thank you, Brother Guan!" Xiping said with a smile. When Xiping went upstairs, he saw Shi Feizhe holding the iron block as if he was constipated and changing the shape of the iron block. There were other strange-shaped iron bars next to him. "Dangdangdang" Xiping knocked on the door. Shi Feizhe heard the knock on the door and saw Xi Ping. He knew that Xi Ping must have something important to do at this time. "Master Sanjin, you fight first, I'll go take care of other things!" Shi Feizhe said to Taoist Sanjin very apologetically. "It's nothing, it's nothing. Just go ahead and do your work! I'll apply some oil and try how this thing works!" said Taoist Sanjin. Such a milling machine needs to be driven by water power, but real warriors can drive it with their arms and hard shaking! Sometimes when the engine of his plane broke down, he would crank it by hand.
I can only say that warriors are incredible! "What happened in Jingzhou?" Shi Feizhe came to the office and said bluntly. In the past few years, if Yangzhou hadn't been too weak, he would have gone out to destroy those stupid sects and chambers of commerce in Jingzhou and taken over another state. When he just pacified Yangzhou, many sects and clans came to pick peaches and grab land. Can Shi Feizhe indulge them? After that... no one dared to come. It’s just that Yangzhou was in such a miserable state that Shi Feizhe couldn’t bear to ignore Yangzhou and go to attack Jingzhou. Also, because Yangzhou is too big, with many mountains and rivers, many people are hiding in the mountains, and it is also a mess that was ruined by the Sacred Heart Church, so the situation is more complicated. This has lasted for several years, and now he finally has the opportunity to free up some time to target Jingzhou. "In order to prevent the people from migrating, the Jingzhou Alliance did a lot of inhumane things, which caused great resentment among the people!" Xiping explained in detail, such as collective punishment, children as hostages, and daily reporting. He did everything except human work. In order to encourage people from the west of Yangzhou to migrate to Yangzhou and fill the population of Yangzhou. Shi Feizhe offered many generous conditions, including free rent for the first three years, an 80:20 split of land rent thereafter, and a policy of giving houses to those who have more children, which attracted many people. At the beginning, these local sects didn’t care about the loss of civilians at all. As for the common people, they are as numerous as weeds and as numerous as leeks, growing one after another, inside and outside the city! As a result, there are fewer and fewer people. Without people, there is no one to grow crops or vegetables, raise pigs and sheep, set up stalls, or buy cloth or anything like that. The whole city was in a state of depression. These city lords, sects, and gangs have just begun to control the outflow of population. Naturally, they will not offer conditions to retain the people, so the method they use is naturally force. Because they don't need to care about what these people think. It is easy to capture a city, but it requires a lot of manpower to manage a city. If it is taken down, don't worry about it. Since the previous city lord was replaced by Shi Feizhe, but he did not carry out in-depth reforms of the city, wouldn’t Shi Feizhe’s actions have been in vain?
Such a reform requires a large number of manpower, and Shi Feizhe's men... There are not many people. After all, Jianghu is not a strategy game. Once you issue a few instructions and orders, others will be loyal and meticulous in their execution. Yangzhou often has problems with policy implementation, so much so that Shi Feizhe occasionally has to clean up the mess for his subordinates. But that's the reality. Only those who have actually done things know how difficult it is. In particular, the system promoted by Shi Feizhe is somewhat different from the existing underworld system, making it difficult for many people to understand. When it comes to implementation, everyone naturally uses their own unique methods. "Each showing off his unique skills" is an adjective, not an exaggeration. Compared to them, bureaucracy is conscience. It is too difficult to rely on this existing group of people! When Shi Feizhe first came to Jicheng, there were forty or fifty warriors in Jicheng. Now there are still seven or eight alive, and the rest were killed by Shi Feizhe and other people from the Sacred Heart Sect. Among the seven or eight people, two or three, led by Yang Wei, were arranged to go to the mine to watch people mining. Warriors certainly cannot be relied upon, so we can only recruit literate ordinary people to enrich the existing system. Of course, the problem is not small, but it can be used as is. The only thing Shi Feizhe counts on are the elementary school students he has worked so hard to train. Primary school students refer to those whose course content is for primary school students, but the students start school at around ten years old, and are sixteen or seventeen years old when they graduate. After graduation, you will intern in various departments, and after one or two years of work experience, you will be able to fully operate the entire administrative system. Haha... when those elementary school students graduate, and they dominate the martial arts world with their sword energy in one hand and the Jicheng method in the other, they will definitely shock these fools in the martial arts world. After that, it will be a continuous accumulation of education from generation to generation, and it will take about twenty years or more before one can completely control the world! Although such changes are slow, they are permanent and will completely change the world! Listening to Xi Ping talking about Jingzhou, Shi Feizhe said: "The people's hearts can be used, and their contradictions have intensified. They have always demonized us in Yangzhou, but they cannot demonize the wishes of ordinary people to live a good life. Everyone has sharp eyes!" "We can seize this opportunity to take over these places, but we must first send people to publicize our policies to them and collect and sort out the sects that have bullied them. Once we take them over, we will settle accounts with all those sect bullies!" "Okay!" Xiping said. "You go and take care of this matter!" Shi Feizhe said. "Me?" Xi Ping couldn't believe it. He knew that Dean Shi didn't like martial artists, especially those from the Sacred Heart Sect. "You are different from them, Xiping." Shi Feizhe looked at him and said again seriously: "You are different from them. You can understand the difficulties of ordinary people better than them, and you are full of sympathy and patience for ordinary people." Xiping thought of his adoptive father who was a fisherman when he was a child. "Although you are a Zhoutian warrior, you have been unable to break through the True Person Passage because you are different from the other people in the Sacred Heart Sect who are obsessed with killing. You are full of confusion and don't understand why the martial arts world is like this." Shi Feizhe said again: "Many people find it difficult to understand what I do and think it is a castle in the air. But I believe that one day, you will understand it." "When you go to Jingzhou and really think about them, maybe your confusion will disappear." After a moment of silence, Xi Ping nodded and said, "Okay!"
"Well!" Shi Feizhe stood up and said to him, "I won't see you off. I still have to go to the lab next door!" After saying that, he hurried to the next room to continue discussing the milling machine and other things with Taoist Sanjin. Xiping looked at Shi Feizhe. Sometimes, he really found it hard to understand why Shi Feizhe was so busy every day, and he also found it hard to understand why Shi Feizhe asked them to learn to read and write. He looked in the direction of Jingzhou, then went home to pack his things! (End of this chapter)