In the hall, everyone dispersed, and Xi Zhi stayed, he thought about it, and still wanted to advise: "Lord, if you don't think about it, we may not have come to this point, as long as we can take the land of Yizhou as soon as possible, with the country of Bashu Tianfu, it is not a problem to raise 100,000 soldiers, maybe ......"

"How can there be so many possibilities!"

Mu Jing shook his head: "There can be no luck in everything!" ”

"I'm still worried that the soldiers of the various departments will be dissatisfied, and the good situation will collapse in an instant!"

"No, I have confidence in them, and I am also fully prepared, if I don't have Hanzhong, I don't dare to do this, but now I have the land of Hanzhong, so that the soldiers can have a place to rest and recuperate, they may not be unwilling to take off this military robe!"

Mu Jing said confidently.

"That makes sense!" Xi Zhicai stopped admonishing, and he began to think about how to minimize the impact of things: "If you follow your plan, you are too ruthless, and at least one-third of each department will be cut!" ”

"Zhicai, it's not that I'm ruthless, but the situation is like this, you don't want to think about it, in front of everyone's eyes, we want to get ahead, how difficult it is, only to be unprepared, and within a year or two, I am not ready to go out of Hanzhong, this soldier and horse, must be cut off, otherwise we will be consumed alive!"

Mu Jing smiled bitterly.

He didn't know that it was the pain of a broken finger, but there was no way, he had to do it.

Raising soldiers is not a simple matter.

Although this era is not as good as that of later generations, especially in troubled times, basically as long as you take care of food, you can find soldiers, but raising soldiers is still a very financially expensive thing.

The soldiers and horses used, weapons, armor, cavalry and war horses, and they should give priority to supplies during drills, after all, the young people who have bad influence cannot exert the strength of the prime of life, and the number of this pen is astronomical.

With the financial resources of the more than ten or twenty county towns in Nanyang, Hanzhong, they can only raise 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers at most, and they are already a bit of a poor army.

"You first tell the people below to do this, and tomorrow you go with me to Chuyang!"

Mu Jing instructed.

"Chuyang?"

Xi Zhicai was surprised: "What is the matter?" ”

"You'll know when the time comes!" Mu Jing smiled, stood up, shook his robe, and turned to leave.

………………

Following.

Early in the morning, Chen arrived in a military uniform, rode a horse and a spear, and led the most elite 1,000 parts of the Shuofang battalion, which was already waiting outside the city.

Mu Jing and Xi Zhi are late.

Everyone converged and went straight to the west of the city.

Xi Zhicai was calm, and he didn't ask Mu Jing what he was saying, but he came out of the inextricable atmosphere of the depressed, irritable and busy Nanzheng Guanya, and he had the meaning of visiting the mountains and rivers along the way.

"The scenery in Hanzhong is really good!" Xi Zhicai rode on horseback, and while walking, he lingered on the beauty of this scenery.

"It's just that there are too many mountains and rivers, it is difficult to open roads, the traffic remains the same, and it is impossible to communicate with each other, which has formed today's barrenness!" Mu Jing said.

"You're so disappointed!" Xi Zhicai pursed his lips and said, "I'm in such a good mood, you can't follow me, you have to say these brain-hurting things!" ”

"Knee-jerk reaction!"

Mu Jing smiled and said, "I also have a sense of responsibility!" ”

"Get out!"

Xi Zhicai's wonderful mood of contemplating the scenery was completely ruined by the brazenness of Mu Jing.

Arriving in Chuyang, it was before the evening.

It's June now, the weather is good, and there is no rain, the road is smooth, so naturally the road is much faster, plus they are all equipped with war horses, it was supposed to be two or three days away, and they arrived in one day.

They were stationed at the station.

Mu Jing personally came down to the rules, from top to bottom, must be stationed in the post station, this is also for the sake of Hanzhong Post Road, open up the post road, so that the nine counties of Hanzhong can be integrated and connected to form a whole.

The post station in Chuyang is well built, there are three courtyards inside and outside, which can allow hundreds of people to station, soldiers camp outside, and the Divine Guard army to defend inside.

……

The county government of Chuyang.

The county commander Yu Shen hurriedly walked in from outside, and a staff member came up to him and asked, "Lord County, have you seen the prince?" “

"It's time to see!"

After Yu Shen walked in, he knelt down, took a sip of the tea sent by the servant, and said in a deep voice: "But it's the same as not seeing it!" ”

"How?"

"He didn't summon me, but when he greeted me at the city gate, he gave me a heavy look, and then he went directly to the station!"

Yu Shen, the word is all over the world, thirty years old, young, brilliant, or local, Yu's family is a local squire, the largest landlord in Yuyang, as the eldest son of the Yu family, Yu Shen has practiced martial arts from primary school, and is quite literate in Weiyang.

In fact, he has been in office for less than a month, before he was the lieutenant of Chuyang County, and later because of the assassination of Mu Jing by the Hanzhong family, from Nanzheng to Chuyang, many families were swept away, which can be described as a river of blood.

The Zheng family is in the control of the Zheng family's sphere of influence from top to bottom, the Zheng family is uprooted, and this is naturally the most serious area to be cleaned.

He was promoted by the firing line of the Taishou Mansion in Hanzhong and directly served as the county commander.

"Lord Xianzun is worried that the prince is coming for us this time!" One of the staff members said in a low voice.

"Hard to say!"

Yu Shen said: "The blood of this Yang is not yet clean, if he wants to add a little more, none of us can do anything about him!" ”

He thought for a moment and said, "Don't guess, you'll find out tomorrow!" ”

……

One night has passed, it is very calm, and now Hanzhong has already entered the era of the rule of the Ming Marquis's Mansion, and since the previous killing, many people have settled down a lot.

Mu Jing slept very steadily, but he was a drama Zhicai, and when he got up, he still had two dark circles under his eyes.

This made Mu Jing quite surprised, he stared at Xi Zhicai's two dark circles, and asked in a chirp: "What's wrong with you, did you go to be a flower thief last night?" ”

"Get out!"

Xi Zhicai glanced at Mu Jing, this person didn't look like a lord, he moved his muscles and bones, and said: "I have something to do, the environment of this post station is not very good, it's better to go back early!" ”

"Delicate and expensive!" Mu Jing said disdainfully: "It's useless to be a scholar!" ”

"Aren't you upsetting by that?"

Xi Zhicai said angrily: "If you didn't support you from our useless scholars, it would be difficult for you to let those martial artists manage it well!" ”

"Hahaha!"

Mu Jing laughed: "What I said is really inseparable from you!" ”

After the two washed up, they had breakfast, a bowl of white porridge, two rice crackers, and the morning meal was completed.

The two walked out of the post station, Chen Zhi did not follow, he just released the soldiers of the Shuofang battalion and secretly watched them in the city, but where the military camp and the place where the soldiers could be hidden, he sent people to keep an eye on it, and it was the Divine Guard who guarded Mu Jing and Xi Zhicai.

Zhang Ning, the commander of the Divine Guard, was dressed in a Confucian robe and white, with his hair in a male bun and a sword at his waist.

"Subordinate Yu Shen, meet the prince!"

Yu Shenrate County Ya people were waiting outside the post station in the morning.

"Subordinate Zhao Yu, meet the prince!"

"Subordinate......

Zhao Yu, the county governor, Fang Yi, the county director, Bai Hua, and the officials of various ministries are all among them.

"No need to be polite!"

Mu Jing waved his hand: "I'm just a whim today, look at this Xunyang City, Yu County Ling and Zhao County Cheng stayed, you can go and get busy, you don't have to delay the affairs of the county government, now in Chuyang, all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, don't mess up because of me!" ”

"No!"

Everyone nodded, except for the county order and the county magistrate, they all seemed to be relieved, turned around and left, returned to the county office, and started working diligently, not daring to be lazy at all.

"Yu County Order, Zhao County Cheng, Ben Hou is not very familiar with Chuyang, can you accompany Ben Hou to walk around?" Mu Jing's eyes examined the two of them.

Yu Shen is a local faction, and in order to stabilize Weiyang, he was promoted to the top leader.

Zhao Yu was put down by the Taishou Mansion, about forty years old, born in a poor family, he was depressed before, he was just a clerk in Nanzheng County, and Ye Mingsheng was heavy, and he ascended to the sky in one step and became the Cheng of Chuyang County.

"No!"

The two nodded, although they were still confused, but whatever Mu Jing said, they would not be wrong to think about it.

Everyone walked up the street, and the guards of the Divine Guard scattered in all directions, forming a circle, about ten paces away, but nothing was visible, as if it was just a group of boys.

"Chuyang is also a rare big city in Hanzhong!"

Mu Jing looked at the surrounding houses, the people on the street were in tattered clothes, and some children looked at them with ignorant and fearful eyes, and he sighed: "But now it seems that the people are not as good as Shangyong Xicheng!" ”

"Dereliction of duty on the part of subordinates!"

Yu Shen hurriedly confessed.

"Yu County Commander has just taken office, no wonder you, but if I come back in the future, if this is still the case, then you are indispensable for a crime of dereliction of duty!" Mu Jing said with a smile.

"Yes!"

Yu was cold and sweaty.

The group walked to the West Market, there is a big market in Weiyang, this is the West Market, which is established by the shore of the water, and after coming in, I immediately felt the atmosphere of the flow of people.

"There is a market of this scale in Chuyang, I'm afraid it's not much worse than Nanzheng?" Xi Zhicai was a little surprised, according to what he saw just now, although Chuyang is a big city and has a large population, it is obviously not doing well.

"You're wrong, it's more lively here than Nanzheng!"

Mu Jing looked ahead, his eyes were shining, and he couldn't help but smile and said.

Xi Zhicai looked along Mu Jing's line of sight, and what he saw was several Qiang men wearing tigers, leopards and animal skins, who were trading with the things in their hands at a grain stall.

The two sides of the transaction are ripping skins, a few Qiang people speak Chinese thieves, after half a ring they reached a deal, three Qiang strong men, with the animal skin in their hands, in exchange for three bags of rice, and then each carried the rice and swaggered away from the market.

Xi Zhicai had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly said: "It turns out that you are here for the Qiang tribe!" ”