The banquet ended successfully, and Kou Yan, who successfully accepted Jiang Wan as the main book, was satisfied, and he went to hand over affairs with Xu Shu and Ma Jing, and recruited small officials to form his own yamen.

For Kou Yan, who actually owns five counties, but holds only the position of the head of one county, the appointment of the chief secretary is of this milestone significance. At present, in addition to Changsha, the other four counties except Wuling are controlled by Kou Feng and his generals, Guiyang Taishou and Lingling, as well as Jianchang and Taishou.

Their positions are theoretically the same as those of Kou Yan, and each has its own set of leadership teams. Although Kou Yan regarded them as other departments, it caused the problem of unclear ownership of power and blurred fault between superiors and subordinates in management.

Now, Changsha has a master book, and this problem has been solved for the time being. The main book of Changsha manages all the documents and internal affairs on the territory under the name of Kou Yan, including Changsha County. The status is much higher than that of the master book in the system of local officials. As a result, the local secession regime headed by Kou Yan and centered on Changsha began to take shape.

In the future, if Kou Yan's identity goes one step further, she can appoint a new Changsha Taishou, and bring Xu Shu, Jiang Wan, Ma Jing, Huang Zhong, Wei Yan, Kou Feng, Gan Ning and others out, and open another mansion to override the Taishou. Of course, this qiē is just an intention now.

Jiang Wan quickly stepped into the role and found that Kou Yan actually had far more resources at his disposal than he had imagined. It's just that the territory is expanding too fast, but the population growth is limited, so the embarrassment of being vast and sparsely populated still exists. Spread her current total income over the five counties, and she's pauper again. The population is not abundant, the number of troops is insufficient, the land is largely barren, and the level of productivity is low.

The forces under Kou Yan's control are now short of gold or silver, and they are short of people. Although she did her best to build water conservancy, alleviate floods and control the spread of epidemics, Changsha's population base was already small, and the two wars a year plus natural disasters caused the population to wither even more, so that Jiang Wan felt that it was too extravagant to fill all the 20,000 Shanyue captives sent by Eastern Wu into the army, and it would be better to leave at least half of them to open up the wasteland.

But he also understood that these Shanyue captives were all blood-drinking people, and it was the best choice to send them to the military camp to be slowly consumed. However, this land is too short of people, and it has already affected future development. A solution to this problem must be found.

Ten days later, after sorting out the affairs and sorting out a few problems that he felt urgently needed to be solved at present, Jiang Wan held a few rolls of bamboo slips and begged to see Kou Yan, and happened to meet Huang Chengyan who was also there, and the three of them sat together.

Huang Chengyan proposed to Huang Yueying, but failed again, and Xu Shu rejected him. Although he foresaw that this would be the result, the old man still felt that he had been hit, and lived in Changsha for more than ten days, inquired in many ways, and even went to see Xu Shu's mother. Aunt Hu heard that someone was going to marry her daughter to her son, so she couldn't agree immediately at first, and drank her daughter-in-law's tea the next day, but after hearing Xu Shu's cause and effect, the old lady stood firm, stood on the same front with her son, and rejected Huang Chengyan's kindness.

Xu Shu is filial to the old lady, and the old lady also regards her son as the root of her life, and she gave birth to Xu Shu a single seedling in her life, which is also the only cigarette in her mother-in-law's family. The husband died for his son's marriage, leaving a psychological shadow on the old lady, and the more wealthy the woman, the more afraid she was, afraid that the other party was too strong, and afraid that her son would be bullied by others because of Gao Pan's family.

In the eyes of the old lady, her son is an honest person who can't be honest, and she would rather her daughter-in-law be an illiterate farmer and be in line with her own family, rather than her son looking for a young lady from a rich family. No matter how famous the son is outside, how can he do it, in the mother's heart, he will always be a child who needs to be protected.

Huang Chengyan never thought that his daughter would be unsalable to this kind of Cheng dù, he was extremely depressed, he had no intention of browsing any landscapes, and sighed for a few days before going to Taishou Mansion to resign.

Kou Yan saw that the old man looked like a frosted eggplant, and he was a little envious of Huang Yueying, who said that his fathers were patriarchal these days? Who said that the more he had a family, the more patriarchal he was? See? What kind of incense did Huang Yueying burn in her last life, she was reincarnated into the Huang family, and became Huang Chengyan's daughter, what does it matter if you don't have a beautiful appearance, it is enough to have such a good father.

Listening to Huang Chengyan, if his daughter really can't get married, the father would rather support her for the rest of his life than lower the standard of his son-in-law. Kou Yan smiled brightly: "Mr. Huang, don't be so arbitrary, Miss Huang hasn't reached yet, and there is still time to choose a son-in-law slowly, maybe if you don't deliberately look for it, the son-in-law will come automatically." ”

"Xiao Taishou is really comforting, Yue'er can afford to wait, I'm afraid I can't afford to wait, old man!" Huang Chengyan sighed. "If you think too much, in time, you will definitely find your fast son-in-law." Kou Yan said sincerely.

"Well, don't mention it. The old man has no hope now. Then again, you didn't even know that you took in the Cai family's daughter-in-law?" Huang Chengyan said speechlessly. "I didn't know it at first, but when I did, I could only pretend I didn't know. Kou Yan told honestly: "Miss Cai's identity is too sensitive, I don't care what her purpose is, in my place, I must not admit to the outside world that there is a Cai woman." ”

"Hey...... Cai Mao is also for her daughter's good, and she doesn't want her daughter to be ruined in vain. Huang Chengyan sighed: "It's a pity that he and Kuai Yue are bent on joining Cao, and they have no choice but to make this decision." Little Taishou, with all due respect, Changsha is not the opponent of Cao Thief, you must seek an alliance, and your father is the most suitable......"

"Mr. Xie Huang pointed out, this is my internal affairs in Changsha, and I have a long history and a group of civil and military personnel to discuss together, and this matter will not be mentioned today. Kou Yan interrupted the other party's words without giving face. Huang Chengyan didn't know the inside story, he was choked all of a sudden, he kindly admonished, how can this girl say that she will turn her face?

Just when the atmosphere was extremely awkward, and both sides were reflecting on whether they had said the wrong thing, Yaoqin came in outside and told Kou Yan that Jiang Wan was coming. Kou Yan's spirits perked up, and he said to Huang Chengyan: "Senior Brother Jiang is really diligent, it has only been a few days of hard work, and he has straightened out all his affairs, he really deserves to be your disciple." I don't know what happened to him when he came to see me now. ”

"Hehe, he was originally a county magistrate, and he still has a lot of experience in official affairs. I came to see you today, and I should be here to give you advice. Huang Chengyan saw that Kou Yan diverted the topic by himself, and immediately picked up the stubble: "Since you want to talk about business, the old man will leave first." "Sir, go slowly," Kou Yan got up to see off the guest.