Chapter 393: Taking office
Song Yichen and others traveled all the way east, until after Jiujiang County, they crossed the river and entered Danyang County, which was considered to have really entered the Jiangdong region.
Yangzhou currently has a population of about 4.33 million, which is considered a populous continent. It has jurisdiction over Jiujiang County, Danyang County, Lujiang County, Huiji County, Yuzhang County and Wu County, of which Wu County is divided from the original Huiji County. The most populous is Yuzhang County, with a population of about 1.6 million, and Song Yichen's choice of Huiji County is a small county with a population of about 500,000, but the geographical area is large, under the jurisdiction of Shanyin, Yuji, Shangyu, Yuyao, Juzhang, Zhenxian, Yinxian, Zhuji, Yanxian, Wusheng, Damo, Zhang'an, Yongning, Dongzhi and other counties, but there are fewer plains and more mountainous areas, and it is also the focus of Shanyue to make trouble.
Why didn't Song Yichen choose a county with a large population, but chose a county with a small population, a large mountainous area, and a chaotic mountain!? This is not a game, choosing a game with a high degree of difficulty and challenge to play a game of hegemony, in fact, in Yangzhou, no matter which county Song Yichen chooses, it is the same...... Sun Ce can rely on more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to defeat the six counties of Jiangdong, and Song Yichen can do the same, and it is even more justifiable. And Huiji is the hometown of himself, Huang Rong, and Ji Yanran, and it is also a good choice to use it as a base. As for the fact that there are many mountains and plains in Huiji, and it is impossible to feed too many people, it is not in Song Yichen's consideration at all, and the current Huiji County is almost half of Jiangsu, Zhejiang Province and almost all of Fujian Province, and he wants to develop Huiji as a commercial city.
The seat of Huiji County is Shanyin County, a small city, which cannot be compared with the cities of the Central Plains at all, because of the previous rebellion of the Shanyue people, the city wall is broken...... Song Yichen looked at the low city wall and secretly encouraged himself that sooner or later he would build this place into an international metropolis......
"Who is under the city?" The city gate was firmly closed, and the general of the city saw someone coming with a group of men and horses, and hurriedly asked.
"A certain is the new Huiji Taishou Song Hao Song Yichen, please open the city gate quickly. Song Yichen said loudly.
"What kind of evidence?" When the generals heard that the new Taishou was coming, they didn't immediately believe it, what if the Shanyue people came to cheat the city?
"This is His Majesty's edict and the official seal of the Huiji Taishou. Song Yichen nodded, now is indeed the time to be cautious, so he took out the edict and the official seal and shook it.
"Then what's behind you?" The general hadn't seen the edict, but he knew it was a high-end product when he looked at it, but they knew the official seal, and the former Taishou also had one in his hand, but now it has been lost.
"This is Your Majesty's Yulin Army. Song Yichen naturally knew that he was not referring to Ren Hongchang, Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia and others, but the 500 Yulin soldiers.
The general of the "Yulin ......Army" narrowed his pupils when he heard this, yes, only the Yulin Army would have such equipment in the Han Dynasty, so he hurriedly asked people to open the city gate and welcome Song Yichen in. "The last general, He Qi, see Lord Taishou. ”
Hearing this name, Song Yichen was stunned, He Qi! It turned out to be him! That was a fierce general of Eastern Wu who was ignored by Luo Guanzhong, and his actual ability was not much worse than Zhou Yu! He actually appeared in front of him! After a closer look, it was really the current He Qi who looked only 16 or 7 years old, but his attributes were not bad, commander: 83, armed force 81, intelligence 78, politics 61, if he recruited and cultivated, he would be another fierce general!
Song Yichen hurriedly helped him up and asked, "How is the situation of the people in the city now?"
He Qi was relieved to see that Song Yichen was polite to him, and did not blame him for his previous disrespectful crime, and heard that he cared about the people, and had a good impression of him, so he hurriedly replied: "A few months ago, Huiji suddenly made a rebellion, Gongmiao organized Xiangyong to help the former Taishou repel them, Taishou promoted a certain to the Shanyin Order, the mountain rose a month ago, Gongmiao had the trust of Taishou, and was beaten into the city by them, with countless casualties, and Taishou Juncheng was killed by them......" He Qi said this with sadness on his face. Song Yichen wanted to comfort a few words, but he didn't know how to speak, in fact, he wanted to shout in his heart that it was good to die, if you didn't die, how would my brother get on the throne?
"How many soldiers are there in San'in now?" Song Yichen asked again.
"Less than two thousand. Hortz said. In fact, just looking at the numbers, how many soldiers are needed to administer a county? There is no great chaos in the world now! But this quality is indeed a little worse, otherwise it would not have been beaten into the city by the Shanyue people......
Song Yichen nodded, the quality of this must be uneven, but now is not the time to deal with these things, no one can guarantee when the Shanyue people will roll up and start over.
"What about the big families in the city?" Song Yichen asked as he looked at He Qi again.
"When the mountains struck, the major families suffered heavy losses, and since the death of Taishou, the main personnel of these big families have gone out to take refuge. He Qi said with some disdain, it was their group of people who ran the fastest.
Song Yichen made a small calculation when he heard this, maybe now is a good opportunity, most of the land is in the hands of the family, and he may be able to buy it cheaply by taking this opportunity...... The city was full of dilapidated houses, and the traces of the attack of the mountain Yue Yue were still there, and under the leadership of He Qi, they came to the county guard's mansion. The county guard was arguably the worst devastation, with half of the houses burned down and too late to repair them.
He Qi glanced at Song Yichen embarrassedly, wondering if he would be mistaken by him that he was deliberately snubbing him, there was really no way! The money and grain in the city were all robbed by Shanyue, and even the soldiers' rations were donated by the people, and almost all the officials of the Guild were dead, and no one had the right to repair this Taishou Mansion.
Song Yichen saw his concerns, waved his hand to show that it was okay, and said to Xi Zhicai: "Mr. Xi, it seems that you have to work part-time a lot in addition to being the main bookkeeper......
Xi Zhicai heard that Song Yichen was serious, they really didn't have many people, the original officials were all dead, and he had to resist Shanyue's attack, his task might really be very heavy...... However, he was still very confident in himself, although he was not as good as Xiao He and Chen Ping, he would not lag behind them too much, so he agreed.
"He Qi, those county soldiers were originally handed over to you to manage~" Song Yichen said to He Qi again.
"Yes, my lord!" He Qi hurriedly thanked him when he heard that Song Yichen still gave him his current official position. (To be continued.) )