Han Zuo Gaomen

Chapter 1406
Although Huan Yi doesn't have much experience in governing, but he has traveled in front of Hebei in the past few months, and he has also read some letters and manuscripts from the eminent scholars, many of which have experience, so he is not afraid to accept it. Down will face the situation.

On the political side, especially in places like Quzhou, where the system is barren and still in wartime, there is actually no established law, and each has its own subtle differences and varies from person to person.But there are also things that are always changing. One is money and food, and the other is human population. As long as these two can be controlled, no matter how complicated the situation is, it will not get too out of control.

In terms of population, Jin Xuangong has helped to lay the foundation, and the household registration reorganization has been initially completed.Of course, this result is definitely not the final result. There are still a large number of exiles scattered in the countryside, and effective integration has not yet been carried out. What's more, Xingtai also has requirements for the population of a county. If the number of households is less than [-], it will not be a county.

Therefore, if Huan Yi wanted to preserve the Quzhou county government instead of a temporary structure, he had to find a way in terms of population.He has just arrived, and this kind of thing must rely on the efforts of the locals.

So after dinner, Huan Yi was not in a hurry to rest, and summoned several county officials appointed by Jin Xuangong to learn more about county affairs.

Jin Xuangong appointed a total of five county magistrates, except for one who happened to be ill, the other four all came.What is more interesting is that all the five temporarily appointed county magistrates are all surnamed Pan. Not only that, just now Huan Yi looked through the registers sent by Jin Xuangong, and found that most of these registered township households were surnamed Pan. Obviously, this Pan family should be Large households in the county.

This kind of phenomenon is very normal in Hebei. The big clans live together, with a population of thousands or even tens of thousands.Compared with the real powerful families such as the Xue family in Fenyin, Hedong or the Zhang family in Dongwu City, the Pan family in Quzhou is not worth mentioning.

Several Pan's county officials walked in, although they were surprised by the county lieutenant's youth, they didn't dare to be rude, and they behaved somewhat cautiously, and it was rare to say a whole sentence.

"The sages of the village don't need to see outsiders. From then on, I will guard the homeland with you and abide by the decree of Xingtai, so that there will be no more disasters in the county to disturb the people."

Huan Yi motioned for a few people to sit down, chatting and inquiring about some customs and customs, and from time to time he picked up a pen to draw and mark on the paper.Seeing that the young county lieutenant appointed by Xingtai was not arrogant, the restrained posture of those people gradually faded away, and their speech became more fluent.

Through the conversation, Huan Yi learned more about the county.

Although Quzhou is not a thoroughfare, it is located in the heart of Jizhou, and it was quite large in the old days.In the county, Pan, Zheng, and Meng lived together in large groups. Last year, Shihu, the lord of Jie, moved his capital and ordered the counties and counties to follow Dazong. As a result, seven or eight out of ten villagers in the county were expelled or robbed by Jie Zu, and all that remained were Some remote suburban residents.

As for the households who are currently staying in the county, they should also have to migrate to Xindu, but when they were driven from their respective villages to the county seat, there was no follow-up.This is not surprising, Hebei's countryside has long been out of control, and Jie's current method of maintaining governance is nothing more than strong troops, and the military orders are already chaotic, so it is not surprising to lose a group of villagers in the wild.

What's more, Master Wang will go north in May, which naturally makes the interior of Jie country even more chaotic.

According to the narration of these county officials surnamed Pan, after the country of Jie forgot them, the villagers were also at a loss, not knowing what to do.The original cottages and villages have been destroyed, and there is little livelihood when they go home. It is much safer for a group of people to gather together, at least they will not be easily harassed by thieves.

Originally, there were thousands of households gathering in the county, but all the resources and food were taken away by the Jie army. Under the difficult situation, friction was inevitable, and there were several vicious fights in the middle, and naturally they were all based on surnames.In the end, the people with the Pan surname won out, and the rural households with other surnames could not gain a foothold, so they were expelled outside the city, because this Quzhou county town seemed to be the land of the Pan clan.

This situation continued until Wang Shifeng arrived here, and the villagers of the Pan family naturally did not dare to resist and obediently sacrificed their city.

After understanding the situation, Huan Yi lowered his head and pondered.Qu Zhou’s situation was both good and bad for him. Almost all the big households were taken away by the Jie Kingdom, and almost no villages existed. It seemed that the Pan surname was the largest in the city, but in fact even these few Pan Huan Yi could also tell that they were not very familiar with each other.

Without the existence of Xiangshi, it means that he has no constraints, and also lacks leverage.Of course, there are still Jin Xuangong's troops in the city right now, but they might have to leave one day when the transfer order is issued.Therefore, the most urgent task at the moment is to organize the township volunteer group training that belongs to the county office itself. Although it is not powerful against the Jie soldiers, at least it must be able to prevent thieves and suppress the mob.

Huan Yi didn't plan to replace these county officials, and it was obvious that Jin Xuangong chose Kong Wu to serve them, and gave them a bite to eat to appease them, so as to avoid inciting public disturbances.

What was more surprising was that one of them could read and write. Even if Huan Yidang selected this person as the head of the official, he ordered him to notify the village households to gather outside the county office tomorrow morning, with the focus on food management.

The county magistrate named Pan Jia Xi Zizi was appointed, and the faces of other Pan county magistrates could not help showing envy. They may not know what this appointment means, but the young county magistrate is very fond of Pan Jia. Even more appreciated, it's obvious at a glance.

There was nothing to say all night, before dawn the next day, Huan Yi was awakened by the chaotic noise outside the county office, and knowing that all the villagers had arrived, he lost sleepiness and got up to wash up.

The so-called county office is just a relatively well-preserved house in the city. In addition to basic living, there are chicken coops, dog kennels, and vegetable gardens in the yard. The so-called big family is only relatively speaking, born in such a world , everything must revolve around survival, how can there be any leisure to support.

The villagers responded enthusiastically to the new county lieutenant's decree, or it was uncertain which one would be more welcome.Most of them, the villagers who were abandoned by the Jie country, were extremely poor. Earlier, Xiangdou managed to occupy the county seat, and they only planted a season of womb and bean miscellaneous grains in the city. Afterwards, Quzhou became the front line of the war between the two countries. Dare to leave the city and search for food in the countryside.

Jin Xuangong also knew that Huan Yi's new official would definitely do something when he took office, so he sent soldiers to maintain order early in the morning. Dare to be presumptuous.Only some hungry urchins climbed up the wall to look in, worried that the county captain's words would mean nothing.

"Brother Lao Xuangong is here."

Huan Yi changed into the brand new official robe that had been stacked in the luggage, and thanked Jin Xuangong who had already arrived, and ordered people to open the gate of the official office, inviting Jin Xuangong to sit in the hall together.

"Envoy, envoy..."

The chief official, Pan Jia, walked into the court tremblingly and triumphantly, but the title made Huan Yi feel ashamed, and ordered him not to call him casually, and just call him an official position.

He ordered Pan Jia to select a few hard-working soldiers to clean up the messy buildings in the yard. He came to rule the people for the government, but not to raise chickens and dogs.

After the house was cleaned up, it was already high in the sun, and the villagers outside the door were hungry and shouted, and even Wang Shizhuang's soldiers gradually couldn't suppress the crowd, and it was only then that Huan Yi announced the start of the selection of Xiangyi.

The villagers have their own cunning and dare not trust others. Although there are many people who come, almost occupying several surrounding lanes, there are not many real strong soldiers among them, mainly old and weak women and children. He eats food in one bite, but refuses to give out dices.

To deal with this kind of cunning, Huan Yi also has his own skills. He is indeed in charge of food. Several huge bamboo buckets have been placed under the main hall corridor of the county office, steaming inside, and several large stoves are still cooking in the back room of the county office. soup.Huan Yi only took up the post, and Wang Shi also gave [-] Dendrobium ration support, which was directly paid by Jin Xuangong's garrison.

Wang Shijun's rations are quite distinctive, and they vary from place to place.The Yanzhou army used wheat, bean, etc. to grind it into powder, sprinkled salt and baked it, stirred the broth, mixed with minced meat and vegetables, dried the water, and hammered it into a brick shape with a water hammer.If it can be stored for a long time and transported easily, a single grain brick can provide food for a soldier for three days, and it is also convenient to eat, just smash it with the handle of a knife and boil it with boiling water.

Huan Yi and Jin Xuangong dined in the main hall, and they also ate this kind of military ration spoon. They couldn't help talking about the differences in military rations in different places: "A few years ago, the Engineering Institute had a wonderful method. The skin bag was filled with pork and mutton soup, and the big cauldron was boiled vigorously. Baked in the shade of the furnace, it is as hard as armored leather. It will not rot for three months after storage, and you can eat it whenever you pick it up. The magic is that the soft fragrance still remains in the bag..."

When it comes to Wang Shi's logistics, especially the supply of rations, Jin Xuangong can't help but be amazed.When he was in the Liaodong countryside last year, how could he have so many ingenious rations to eat, and it was common for him to kill horses and eat them alive during military emergencies.Master Wang's high morale is also closely related to his superiority in all aspects.

If the rural households want to receive food, they must have Ding Li from the household to enter and feed each household.So there was another series of shouts outside the door, and the selection didn't officially start until noon.

The selection criteria are also very simple, the first is a mighty physique, a good appearance, holding a stone pier in one's arms, drawing a string and drawing a bow.The villagers of Quzhou were not considered the most miserable group. This place was the confidant of the Jie country in the old year. Before the Lord of Jie moved the capital, they could still guarantee a certain degree of stability, because nearly 300 people were quickly selected as candidates.

Anyone who participates in the selection can get a bite to eat, and those who join the alternative selection will be more generous.Huan Yi originally planned to select a few literate villagers to train as scribes, but unfortunately, apart from the chief official, Pan Jia, there was only one gray-haired old man who could barely read a dozen characters, so he decided to adopt this old man as well. .

If you are not in charge of your family, you don't know how expensive salt and rice are. This half-day noise alone consumed more than 40 hu of food rations, but at last a team of rural volunteers was organized.

There are nearly 80 township members, and Huan Yi selected more than 20 people from among them, who are regarded as official team training members. Among them, there are more than [-] hunters practicing archery. Jin Xuangong generously supported ten bows and hundreds of scraps. arrow.

Taiwan's military and government are separated. Although they are all on the front line at the moment, they belong to different groups after all, and special materials cannot be used universally.

But it's not without flexibility. Except for the more than ten regiments training the township men, the rest of the townships were incorporated into the official households by Huan Yi, and they were assigned some military affairs, such as feeding horses, reorganizing Equipment, camp repairs, etc., in exchange for work.

It was only later that Huan Yi began to really sort out the county affairs. The city of Quzhou was not very big. The so-called city walls were just adobe walls less than half a foot high. In fact, there was no strict division between the inside and outside of the city.

The rural households themselves have no assets, and the houses they currently live in were seized by Xiangdou earlier. Among them, the northeastern part of the city has been requisitioned by the garrison of Wang Shi. The curfew and all kinds of order were ordered to be maintained by the village volunteer group.

The so-called ruined family is worth tens of millions, and the rural households are already so impoverished that they have almost nothing. If they continue to think about their meager wealth, it will drive people to go crazy.In order to make people obey and abide by the law, in addition to prestige, they have to be consolidated with interests.

Huan Yi's current capital was also lacking, so he simply took out the remaining rations supported by Master Wang. Hundreds of dendrobium army rations were stuffed with weeds, and a dozen or so carts were loaded to go around the city and transport them to the county office. In the process, let the villagers see that there is food in the warehouse, and they don't panic, and they can have a stutter with the county captain.

After that, Huan Yi organized manpower to set fire to the surrounding area of ​​the county seat and the left and right hills near the fortress, and opened up dozens of hectares of barren land.Although it is now late autumn and the cold winter is approaching, it is difficult to cultivate any more, but the fields mean hope, and these actions also give the villagers a faint hope for the future.

The barren land was opened up, but it could not be divided equally according to households. First of all, it was necessary to satisfy the households of Xiangyi, Xiangyong and county officials.Although he was still hungry, having a field under his household registration name also gave these township volunteers and official households a preliminary sense of identity with the so-called county office.

All these chores were done smoothly, but Huan Yi's most important task was actually to wipe out the villains hidden in the village households.

Quzhou is only a few tens of miles away from Shangbai, and the Jie army often rides on horseback. Once they really want to attack Quzhou City, they can reach it in half a day.The defenders in Jin Xuangong's city were only a thousand, and even with the reinforcements who came with Huan Yi, there were far less than 2000, and most of them were infantry.

The reason why the Jie army left Quzhou City and did not attack it was mainly because they were greedy for the logistical supplies of the king's division along the way.As long as there are troops stationed along this route in Quzhou, Master Wang will have to continuously provide supplies, which will provide opportunities for the Jie army to plunder.

Previously, the general Hu Run was greedy for meritorious deeds, but after capturing Qu Zhou, he was unable to succeed under the pressure of the Rangers of the Jie Army. Continuing to keep the transportation, there is a sense of shame of spending money to buy safety.

Although Jin Xuangong has not been here for a long time, he is still ashamed and angry when talking about these situations.

"The Jie army threatened the lives of thousands of people in the city, forcing the governor to feed again and again. And as soon as our army showed signs of retreating, the Jie army would rush in and force me to return to the city. The former Zhou Banzhu fought hard during the breakout and retreat. Instead of..."

Master Wang has an advantage in the overall situation, but it does not help to reverse the disadvantages in this specific battle situation.The Yanzhou army lacked mobility in the early days, and even if they came to aid in a large scale, they would be infantry. Probably, the Shangbai Jie army also hoped that the Wang division could make a large-scale reinforcement, and then use its ranger advantage to give it a hard blow.

In this case, Hurun has no good way.And Huan Yi's arrival was to make up for Master Wang's current insecurity.

Quzhou is not only full of ranger scouts from the Jie Kingdom, but also has rural eyes and ears, so it is difficult to hide any big moves by Master Wang.If it wasn't for worrying that Wang Shi would give up Qu Zhou altogether if he was too intimidating, he might not even be able to transport a team of luggage.As for sending the Quzhou garrison to raid the surrounding area, they will inevitably be sniped and killed by Jie country rangers.

"In order to keep the eyes and ears clear in this area, the Jie army did not indiscriminately kill the rural households. It is helpless to spy on the surrounding area and wipe out evil spirits with the righteousness of the village, but it should be able to achieve some results."

The Yanping camp has now been supplemented with a mobile force of at least [-] fine cavalry, of which more than [-] cavalry have been gradually replenished into some camps behind Quzhou, and are beginning to prepare for a counterattack.

But the current situation is that due to the initial suppression, Master Wang has no idea how the Shangbai Jie army penetrated into Quang Binh and the distribution of troops.Especially the frontline city of Quzhou, since entering the country, Master Wang has been suppressed in the city, and it can be said that he is deaf and blind after leaving the county.

If Jie Jun can see that Wang Shi already has the ability to fight back, then the existence of Qu Zhou's bait is of little significance, and Jie Jun will definitely get rid of it as soon as possible.At that time, not only Quzhou will be at stake, but even other camps similar to Quzhou will be full of danger.Therefore, even for self-help, understanding the enemy situation around Quzhou is a top priority.

However, both Huan Yi and Jin Xuangong are young and handsome with lofty aspirations, and they will naturally not be satisfied with just being able to protect themselves in a later counterattack.Quzhou was very close to Shangbai, if he could reverse osmosis and directly understand the situation in Shangbai, the base camp of the Jie army, then he would live up to the torture and anguish he had suffered in Quzhou during this period.

To achieve this, it is very important to find out the channels through which Jie Jun obtained information.Although the Jie army has its own scouts, it is difficult to control the surrounding areas of Qusi, especially the logistics and transportation routes, unless the Jie army is so big that thousands of riders are laid in Qu around the surrounding area, so there must be some dark whistle around the countryside.

Every once in a while, the Jie army would show off outside Quzhou City, not only to break the morale of Wang Shi's garrison, but also to disintegrate the hearts of the villagers and instill in them the wrong understanding that the southerners are weak and the Jie army is strong.

Now Huan Yi has a small team of volunteers in his hands. In order to encourage them to go out and visit the surrounding villages, Huan Yi will do everything possible, promising benefits and imposing orders.

Compared with the well-dressed Wangshi soldiers, these ragged, disheveled villagers are more concealed.Even if the Jie army scouts found them, they would not chase after them.

Of course, there is danger when going out of the city, not only the Jie army scouts, but also vicious bandits and jackals.It took Huan Yi a lot of effort to organize Xiangyi to go out of the city for inspection. This time more than 30 people went out of the city, but less than [-] returned.

In the selection of the township righteousness, in addition to their own skills, there is also a complete family of young and old, so as to minimize the possibility of them fleeing privately.Nearly half of the loss is indeed distressing, and it is not certain whether they fled privately or were killed by ferocious beasts or evil spirits.

In order to maintain the enthusiasm of the volunteers, Huan Yi naturally wants to improve the treatment of these volunteers, not only the preferential treatment of food, but for those who are lost in the wild, no matter what the reason is, their families, wives and children will make proper arrangements.

Human life is precious but worthless. These villagers born in troubled times have even less expectations for life. Seeing such an example, some people actively participated in it.

It is natural to gain something if this is the case, these villagers are gathered from the surrounding countryside, and their familiarity with the territory is far from that of the king's soldiers who passed through the Qianglong.Soon, the locations of several civilian strongholds in the outskirts of Quzhou City were found out.

While Huan Yi organized the investigation, Jin Xuangong did not sit idle, and suggested to the surrounding strongholds for transporting supplies to maintain the frequency of less transport and more transport, choose different directions for transport, and roughly lock the eyes and ears of the Jie army through the number of times the luggage was lost The direction of haunting.

After more than ten days of careful probing, with the cooperation of the logistics team, and Qu Zhou Xiangyi's investigation, they actually locked the eyes and ears of several Jie troops in the countryside.

　The test was very good, and it was even later when I got carried away. . .sorry sorry. . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)