Hejian Province, Baokang County. This is a county that borders the grassland under the control of the Xiongnu, although it is called Baokang, but in fact it is a place with many disasters and difficulties, the Xiongnu people used to be like harvesting and marrying, they always have to come once a year, for a long time, the Baokang border line is nearly 100 miles away, it is uninhabited, the fields of the good Lu, are completely deserted, only close to the county seat around dozens of miles, you can see one village after another, once there is something, the people here can go straight to the county seat to take refuge.

But for many years, the Huns have only attacked on the border, but they have not traveled hundreds of miles to fight Baokang County, which also makes Baokang County around a prosperous scene.

This autumn, the situation is much better, the Huns in the summer in the Qin people's scheme, was killed and defeated, even the Hun king was cut off his head, the Huns are no longer prosperous, there are more and more people began to expand outside, after all, the land around the county, the price has been too high, and more and more concentrated in the hands of some rich and powerful people, don't look at the densely populated villages one by one, but in fact, most of the people here are tenants, renting other people's fields, hard work for a year, paid the rent, finished paying taxes, There is not much left, and if the family has a large population, it will definitely not be able to eat enough.

It is not for nothing that the landlord forcibly seizes the land of the tenant family and leaves the tenant family with no way out, or that the tenant family is forced to take a risk, kill the owner and seize the wealth and then flee.

In this context, Wu Ci'an, the county magistrate of Baokang County, issued an order to reclaim the land from within fifty miles of the border with the Xiongnu. Whoever reclaimed the land will own it, and the county government will give him a new title deed and recognize his ownership.

Those lands have been barren for many years, but they used to be fertile fields, and if you are willing to work hard, at most a year, you can turn them into fertile fields again.

As soon as this order was made, the landless tenants in Baokang County were all excited, and they didn't dare to go before. That's because the Huns are constantly coming to plunder, where to go, basically it is a job of playing with their heads, and the common people of small households do not seek wealth and nobility, do not seek accessibility, but only seek to be able to adjust the wind and rain, be safe and secure, and would rather be poor. If you are a little bitter, you don't dare to go anywhere, but now it's different, the Huns have been defeated. There will be no more large-scale looting.

But just when countless tenants packed up their belongings and prepared to reclaim the wasteland, and at the same time changed their fate, a bad news came, and the three thousand Hejian elites led by Chen Ying were wiped out on the grassland. was killed all of them, and none of them ran back, this news is like a basin of cold water. The enthusiasm of these tenants was all extinguished, the packed salutes were dispersed again, and the packed clothes were put back in their original places, and it turned out that on the grassland, those vicious Huns were not completely destroyed.

When the news came, Wu Ci'an was also so shocked that he jumped three feet high, but what happened next was greatly unexpected, the mysterious team that wiped out Chen Ying's 3,000 troops disappeared without a trace, whether it was him, or the envoy sent from Hejian County in the last round, he did not find any clues, but from the analysis of the wounds on the dead soldiers, it was the hands of the Huns.

Although that force never appeared again, Hejian County still re-sent 3,000 soldiers to be stationed in Baokang to avoid trouble, half a year passed, nothing happened, and the 3,000 soldiers were transferred back to 2,000, so for this, Yan Shenghao, the lord of Hejian County, already had a new goal, he needed to concentrate his elite to demonstrate to someone.

But after such a toss, Wu Ci'an's painstaking meditation came up with such a strategy to reassure the people came to naught, no matter how much he persuaded him, no one was willing to take the risk. Seeing that winter was coming, and there were more and more homeless people in the city, the wrinkles on Wu Ci'an's face became deeper and deeper.

He could not drive these people out of the city, because these people were also his people, but when winter came, they had nowhere to shelter from the cold and no place to beg, so they had to come to the more prosperous county towns to survive.

When there is something to do, these people will go to odd jobs to earn some food, if there is nothing to do, they will naturally steal chickens and dogs, extortion, because at this time of year, it is the worst time of public security in Baokang City, and this situation will continue until the weather warms up tomorrow in spring.

But this year things are different, because there are still a thousand soldiers in the city.

Baokang is a border county, the city is built taller and taller, the same as Fufeng, it is impossible to attack hard, Baokang originally had 500 county soldiers, plus 1,000 county soldiers stationed, Baokang is safe on top of security, not to mention that the Xiongnu are in danger now, that is, when the Xiongnu are strong, if you want to attack the city, it is impossible not to pay a huge price.

"Wu Gang, in the past few months, you have to cheer up, you must ensure the security of the villages in the city and outside, this time of year is the most difficult, when it snows heavily, life will be sad, there are always some people who can't get by, they will take risks." Looking at his nephew, Wu Gang, who is also the lieutenant of Baokang County, Wu Ci'an advised.

"Uncle, that is, you are too soft-hearted, catch such people, drag them to the city gate, cut off their heads and hang them, kill a hundred people, and see who dares to take the chestnut in the fire?" Wu Gang said: "But you only need to arrest it, and after a few days of arrest, you can release it, don't talk about the food, after they go out, you can't do it again?" ”

Hearing Wu Gang say this, Wu Ci'an couldn't help but sink his face and said: "You said it lightly, it's easy to cut off your head, but can you still grow back if you cut it?" These people are not some of the great traitors, they just can't live, in order to have a way to live, do you want to cut off people's heads? If you can live and work in peace and contentment, who wants to be a traitor, and the punishment is the main thing, understand? Let's go down on an errand. ”

Seeing Wu Gang go down the hall in frustration, Wu Ci'an turned around and looked at a military general with a helmet and armor sitting on one side, "Wu Gang is young and reckless and ignorant, but I call General Zheng You are smiling." ”

Zheng Shuang, who is in charge of the thousand people stationed in Baokang in Hejian County, listened to Wu Ci'an's words, he smiled and said: "I think that Wu County's method is neat, but Lord Wu, you grew up in your hometown, and you are all villagers, so it is understandable that you can't do it." ”

Wu Ci'an smiled bitterly, knowing that this military general would not have anything to think about. For them, raising a knife is the most neat, but what problem can just killing solve, killing a batch this year, and a new batch will come out next year, killing more people, and being angry for a lifetime, it will not be a small fight in the future.

For the sake of long-term peace and stability, we still have to find a way for these people to live and work in peace and contentment, and it was originally the best way to go to the border to reclaim the wasteland, but Chen Ying died like this, and blocked his own way.

"There are only a few hundred people under Wu Gang, and he has to go to patrol the villages outside the city, and the manpower in this city is inevitably tight, so I have to ask General Zheng to take a lot of trouble and help me!" Although he was unhappy in his heart, Wu Ci'an still had to beg Zheng Shuang in a low voice.

"That's fine!" Zheng Shuang waved his hand, "I have taken care of the security in the city, and there will be no thing to keep it, but Lord Wu, my thousand brothers want to eat and drink, and it is about to snow, and there are many people who don't even have thicker padded jackets. ”

Wu Ci'an took a deep breath, the logistics supply of the county soldiers has always been in charge of the county, and it was not his turn, but when Zheng Shuang came to the door, it was naturally clear that he wanted to fight the autumn wind, and he had to beg him, and the silver was allocated to him, but he was afraid that it would go into his own pocket in a blink of an eye. There's no way, even if you don't want to, you have to give, otherwise this guy connived at his soldiers to make trouble, and he really can't do anything.

"Please rest assured General Zheng, tomorrow, tomorrow I will send all the necessary materials and silver to your barracks." Wu Ci'an said.

"That's good, that's good!" Zheng Shuang was overjoyed, stood up and patted his chest, "Lord Wu, don't worry, with me, there will be no mistakes in the city." ”

"General Zheng, don't open the killing ring in vain!" Seeing Zheng Shuang's big package, Wu Ci was relieved, and at the same time, he didn't forget to tell him that if this military man launched a brute attack, his hard work would be in vain.

"Nature, Nature!" Zheng Shuang knocked on the bamboo pole smoothly, thinking that it is not easy not to kill people, I arrested someone and sent it to your county office, so that you will have a headache, I am still happy to be idle, and it takes no effort to cut off my head? At the moment, he hugged his fist towards Wu Ci'an and went happily.

Staying in Baokang, Zheng Shuang was originally a hundred unwilling, and the other two battalions returned to Hejian County to standby, but they didn't do anything else, but with the county guard Yan Shenghao to coerce and blackmail Ye Tiannan, the county lord of Langya, Ye Tiannan was originally the minister of state, and he didn't dare to provoke, but now that he has fallen, naturally the wall is down and everyone pushes, not to mention that when Ye Tiannan said that Yan Shenghao mobilized troops to support him to overthrow Linghu, he promised Yan Shenghao the territory of a county, and now Ye Tiannan has no right and no soldiers, so he naturally has to beg for it, a county in Langya, It's not comparable to a county in the river, it's a rich place! When my colleagues went there, they would make a lot of money one by one, and they stayed in this bitter cold place by themselves, and they didn't think about making some extra money, so I was really sorry for myself.

This Wu Ci'an also knows each other, since this is the case, he will send a few teams of soldiers out of Lu every day to patrol in the future, and it is good to have a reason to come to the door again to blackmail. (To be continued......)