"PS: This chapter is actually not finished, I'm really sorry, there is something delayed at home today."

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A day later, Qin Yu also received a decree from Yingchuan County, and after a little thought, he decided to accept the position of 'Wuyang County Lieutenant'.

Wuyang is located in the south of Dingling County about 20 miles, the scale of the county is not large, it is about the same as Kunyang County, it is about thirty or forty miles to the south, that is, the mountains of Woniu Mountain, compared with the Ying Mountain, the range of the mountains of Woniu Mountain is larger, almost including Nanyang County Biyang, Fuyang and other counties, Yingchuan County Wuyang, Dingling, and Runan County of Xiping, Suiping, Shangcai, Pingyu, panic hundreds of miles.

Last year, the Changsha Yishi led by Guan Shuo crossed the valley of the Woniu Mountains from the area of Wuyang County, and took advantage of the defenselessness of the Nanyang Army to capture Biyang and Fuyang counties in Nanyang County in one fell swoop, announcing that the Changsha Yishi under his command officially participated in the war in Nanyang County.

But it's a pity that Changsha Yishi still suffered a defeat in Nanyang County after all, and even Guan Shuo, who took Qu Shuai, died.

After learning of Guan Shuo's death, Qin Wei mourned in silence...... Three breaths or so.

Yes, Guan Shuo's death did not make him feel too sad or sad.

First, when they were in Kunyang County, they had already been given up by Guan Shuo, or rather abandoned-although Qin Wei also understood that this was Zhou Hu's trick, but Guan Shuo did not hesitate to give up them in order to prevent Kunyang from supporting Ye County, which inevitably made Qin Yu feel a little cold.

At that time, he finally understood what Ju Sheng told him: the righteous teacher may be righteous, but Guan Shuo, as one of the righteous teachers and commanders, may not.

Of course, all this has passed, and the comprehensive rout of the righteous master is a foregone conclusion, rather than feeling unwilling and sorry for the rout of the righteous master, Qin Yu values his subordinates even more.

He did not forget that he still had at least 3,000 of his former subordinates who worked as 'prisoner peasants' in the Kunyang Reclamation Army, toiling in the fields with hoes and bare feet.

He wanted to bring back these old minions and free them from their status as prisoners.

In the past, he didn't have this power, but now, the appointment of the 'Wuyang County Lieutenant' made him see an opportunity, because that Zhou Hu wrote clearly on the paper, in order to prevent the thieves in Woniu Mountain, Wuyang and other counties were allowed to expand the county army on merit.

As the name suggests, the county lieutenant has the right to choose on his own, which makes Qin Wei's breathing a little short.

To put it simply, he can take his old soldiers out of the Kunyang Liken Army and bring them to Wuyang in the name of 'encircling and suppressing the thieves in Woniu Mountain', after all, those are all his soldiers, and they are all righteous soldiers who have fought in the past-is there any problem with using these old soldiers to supplement the county army?

This reason is completely valid, and the only problem is that Kunyang County is willing to release people in advance.

After all, the 'five-year period' agreed at the beginning is only in the third year, and if Kunyang County refuses to release people, Qin Yu has no choice.

As for putting pressure on Kunyang County, it is even more stupid, you must know that the one who sits in Kunyang and manages the army under reclamation is the henchman of Zhou Hu, Chen Mo, the commander of the department.

Although Qin Yu is also a subordinate of Zhou Hu now, fools can see that there is a difference between intimacy and intimacy, how can their group of 'righteous teachers join the Cheng faction', how can they compare to that group of 'Black Tiger Village faction'? Those are the real henchmen of that Zhou Hu.

"Well, let's take a closer look at these two decrees......

With a slight breath, Qin Yu once again focused on the decree in his hand.

The two decrees promulgated by Yingchuan County this time are 'Guantian Raising Army' and the other is 'Expanding the Army and Preventing Thieves', and the two complement each other.

Generally speaking, Yingchuan County ordered each county to hand over half of the official land to the local county lieutenant to help the county lieutenant raise the army, and at the same time, out of the need to prevent the thieves in Woniu Mountain, the county army was expanded to a maximum of 3,000 people.

Based on these two decrees, Yingchuan County also granted the county lieutenant the authority to appoint a field official, and this field official served as an auxiliary officer to the county lieutenant and assisted the county lieutenant in managing the official field.

I have to say that when he first saw these two decrees, Qin Yu was simply stunned.

Army...... Arita got it?

How did this decree come about? Dynasties and dynasties would not allow the army to take control of the fields......

Well, strictly speaking, it is not absolute, for example, in remote national borders and borders, in order to resist foreign invaders, successive dynasties have also allowed border troops to settle fields, but that is at the border, it is forced by the pressure of foreign tribes, how can the thieves in Woniu Mountain be compared with the pressure of foreign tribes?

That's just a bunch of bandits.

Although the Black Tiger Thief used to be only a bandit, but compared to the Black Tiger Thief, the Woniu Mountain group of thieves is too weak, a while ago, he Qin Yu only took 500 county troops, and killed more than 200 Woniu Mountain group thieves, this kind of guy, is it worth the southern counties of Yingchuan County to expand the county army to resist?

『…… I guess this was just an excuse for the Tiger to expand the army that week."

Qin Wei frowned and thought secretly.

In all fairness, he still hasn't seen through that Zhou Hu, and he can't tell whether Zhou Hu is loyal or traitorous.

Let's say that Zhou Hu is an ambitious traitor, this guy treats civilians, refugees, and prisoners well, and what he does, even if he Qin Yu can't find any fault, he can simply serve as an example for officials in the world.

It is said that even Chen Zhong, the Taishi of the Jin Kingdom and the Tiger of the Sun, admired this Zhou Tiger very much, and accepted this person as his righteous son a while ago.

It can be said that this Zhou Hu is a loyal minister of the Jin Kingdom, this Zhou Hu has secretly had dealings with his righteous teacher from the beginning, and the righteous generals he caught are basically not killed, and even Zhou Gongna and other generals have been saved.

What's more, Zhou Hu even ignored the private collusion of their group of 'righteous teachers and Chengcheng faction', and did not react to their attempts to borrow the Yingchuan County Army to 'borrow the corpse to resurrect the soul'.

What the? You say Zhou Hu may not know?

『……』

Qin Wei glanced at the two black tigers standing in his room.

These two people were the ones Zhou Hu sent to protect him - in fact, they were the people who monitored him.

How could you say that Zhou Hu didn't know about their small movements?

"Is it really like Ju Sheng said, that Zhou Hu is also a righteous man who is dissatisfied with the politics of the Jin Kingdom?"

Thinking of this, Qin Yu couldn't help but laugh.

That Zhou Tiger? Righteous man? Well, he really can't see it.

Either he was blind, or that Taishi Chen was blind.

"Then again, Guantian...... How many official fields are there in Wuyang?'

Leaning back, Qin Yu sat on the seat with his back on his back, secretly thinking in his heart.

In all fairness, he is not very clear about the situation in Wuyang, especially the Guantian, after all, this piece was managed by the county order and the county in the past, and he is not familiar with the two of them, and he has little contact with them on weekdays, so he naturally does not know the specifics.

But as one of the former Changsha Yishi Qu generals who captured Wuyang County that year, and the military attache stationed in the county who was in charge of Wuyang County's agricultural affairs last year, Qin Yu also had a rough idea in his heart.

According to his estimates, the fields in Wuyang County should be between 150,000 and 200,000 mu, of which nearly half of them once belonged to the local families, which is roughly the number of official fields to be confiscated by the county government now, which is conservatively estimated to be between 70,000 and 100,000 mu. 『…… Even if it's 80,000 acres.'"

Qin Wei took a compromise number.

And now the official land that the county lieutenant can control is half of it, that is, 40,000 mu.

As for the value of 40,000 acres of land, Qin Yu couldn't estimate it.

And in this regard, Zhao Yu has already calculated an account.

Take the 40,000 mu of land in Wuyang's 'half of the official field' as an example, if these 40,000 mu of land are used to grow grain, it is conservatively estimated that the annual grain output will be more than 40,000 stone.

An adult man needs to consume about four stone of grain a year.

In other words, the 40,000 acres of land in the hands of the county lieutenant can probably support 10,000 county soldiers.

Of course, this is a theoretical number, far from the reality, not to mention anything else, you can't let your subordinate county officials eat white rice all year round, right?

Besides, the county magistrate wants to pay money, right?

Counting these, the number of county officials who can be supported by these 40,000 acres of land will be greatly reduced, and the '3,000 establishment' drawn up by Zhao Yu is a relatively objective and easy to achieve number.

As for whether the stripping of 40,000 mu of official land will affect the local rice price in Wuyang County, forcing the rice price in Wuyang County to rise due to the lack of local rice and the need to buy from other counties, Zhao Yu is not worried.

Because it is impossible for the county army under the county lieutenant to eat all year round, when the time comes, a part of the 'official grain' in the county lieutenant's hands will inevitably flow into the local rice market in exchange for money to buy meat and vegetables, that is to say, even if 40,000 mu of official land is stripped away, it will not affect the price of rice in Wuyang County.

Even, the official grain in the hands of the county lieutenant can also stabilize the price of rice, crack down on the black market and illegal effects, so that the price of rice in each county is doubly protected - on weekdays, the official grain in the hands of the county lieutenant gradually flows into the local market to stabilize the price of rice; In case of danger, the 'county warehouse rice' controlled by the county order and the county will also flood into the market to further stabilize the price of rice.

Under this double protection, the price of rice in places such as Wuyang will be more stable than at any time in previous years, which can be regarded as an additional benefit.

For these, Qin Yu naturally didn't see it as thoroughly as Zhao Yu, but the only thing he could understand was that the power of the county lieutenant had been greatly improved.

On the contrary, the binding force of the county order and the county commander on the county lieutenant is weakened - will the county lieutenant who has both military power and official land to raise the army still be constrained by the county order and the county commander?

In the long run, the county lieutenant may gradually break away from the 'county administration' system, leading to the 'separation of military and government' - that is, the county commander and the county official are in charge of civil and internal affairs, while the county lieutenant is in charge of the military and public security, and the county lieutenant is still nominally subordinate to the county commander, but the county commander can no longer restrain the county lieutenant.

What the? The county order has the right to remove the county lieutenant?

Although that is the case, but now the county lieutenants of the counties in the southern part of Yingchuan County are all appointed by Zhao Yu, who served as the captain, and you dare to remove a county commander?

If you dare to remove a county lieutenant today, Zhao Yu will dare to promote the latter to be a non-commissioned officer of the county army, and then let this person return to the county garrison, and then nothing will change the situation, on the contrary, the county order has lost the power to revoke the person again - because the county lieutenant is already a county sergeant, and the county order has no right to revoke it.

As for complaining to the county, I'm sorry, the Jin State is not allowed to report to the higher levels, and the text submitted by the county order will only fall into the hands of Chen Lang, the county leader, considering the relationship between Chen Lang and Zhao Yu, it will undoubtedly be detained at that time, and it is almost impossible to send it to Li Junshou's hands.

It is even possible that due to the 'negligence' of the county officials, it may be 'accidentally' sent to the Governor's Office and to the Governor Zhao Yu.

This is covering the sky with one hand, and in today's Yingchuan County, Zhao Yu has gradually been able to do this.

"Qin Shizhi, Linying County Lieutenant Ju Sheng and Ju County Lieutenant ask to see you."

Just when Qin Yu was still carefully reading the decree in his hand, a soldier suddenly came to his room to report.

"Ju Sheng? What is he here to do?'

Qin Wei was slightly stunned, nodded slightly, and said, "Please let him in." ”

"Yes!"

A moment later, Ju Sheng came to Qin Yu's house under the guidance of a county official, followed by two black tigers with black scarves on their heads.

Qin Yu didn't get up to greet him, because his relationship with Ju Sheng was not good or bad - the two sides only had a friendship of 'once served as a qu general in the righteous master together', but they were not friends, after all, Ju Sheng was the only one among them who completely fell to that Zhou Hu.

Oh, and there's also a Cao Wu.

"What are you going to do?" Qin Wei asked with a slight frown.

Ju Sheng said with a smile: "I heard that Wuyang was harassed by the thieves in Woniu Mountain a while ago, let me take a look." ”

"It's just a bunch of rogues who don't enter the stream......" Qin Yu said disdainfully.

Hearing this, Ju Sheng said with a smile: "Don't underestimate the group of thieves in Woniu Mountain, this group of thieves, even Zhou Duwei attaches great importance to it......

“……”

Qin Yu glanced at Ju Sheng, and the corners of his mouth raised a little mockery.

At this moment, he saw Ju Sheng turn his head and say to the four black tigers in the room: "A few, how about I talk to Qin Shizhi alone?" ”

Hearing this, the two Black Tigers behind Ju Sheng turned around and walked out of the house, leaving only the two Black Tigers who were in charge of 'protecting' Qin Yu a little hesitant.

Seeing this, Ju Sheng stepped forward and patted one of them on the arm, and said with a smile: "It's just a casual chat, if the two brothers are in trouble, just report it truthfully afterwards, and the leader of Zhou Da won't care." ”

“……”

Hearing the words 'Leader of Zhou', the two black tigers glanced at each other and nodded slightly.

After all, they also knew that although Ju Sheng in front of them was a rebel general, he was extremely close to their big leader, Zhou Hu, so they didn't want to offend.

Anyway, just like Ju Sheng said, just report it truthfully - for example, on a few months and days, Ju Sheng asked to meet Qin Yu alone.

“……”

Seeing the two Black Tigers who were responsible for protecting themselves obediently walked out of the room, Qin Yu was slightly surprised: "There is a set, Ju Sheng, it seems that the Black Tigers are up and down, and now there is no one who doesn't recognize you." ”

"Huh." Ju Sheng smiled and said meaningfully: "If I treat them as my own people, they will naturally treat me as my own people." …… It's my own. ”

“……”

Qin Yu glanced at Ju Sheng playfully, and then spread his hands and asked, "Say, what are you doing?" ”

"Actually, it's nothing."

Ju Sheng stepped forward, leaned against the table in front of Qin Yu, clasped his hands, and said with a smile: "I just want to ask you if you plan to take over the position of Wuyang County Lieutenant." …… By the way, I passed by Dingling when I came and met Jia Shu, and he has decided to accept it. ”

"Yes."

Qin Wei leaned back, leaned back on the back of the chair with his hands folded, and said lightly: "I have no reason to refuse, right?" ”

"Clever." Ju Sheng nodded approvingly.

However, this compliment made Qin Wei a little unhappy, or he was simply unhappy with Ju Sheng himself.

However, Ju Sheng didn't care, and said to himself: "You are in Wuyang, Jia Shu is in Dingling, and Xu Ma is in Yuncheng...... In the future, in these counties, we have to do something, and it will be much easier. ”

"Why didn't you mention Wang Qing?" Qin Yu sneered: "Wang Qing can summon the tomb, right?" And the Legui who served as the county lieutenant under him......"

Hearing this, Ju Sheng shook his head and said: "The Black Tigers are not our fierce rivals, it is undeniable that Zhou Duwei trusts the Black Tigers more, but the Black Tigers have a fatal weakness, that is, there are not many talents, this time, Zhou Duwei appointed seven county lieutenants, and we account for five, and the Black Tigers are only two people, Le Gui and Chu Ben, it can be seen that the Black Tigers have nothing to do......"

"What do you want to say?" Qin Yu asked lightly.

"It's nothing." Ju Sheng shrugged his shoulders and said, "I just think that we should find a way to make Zhou Duwei trust us even more......"

"I'm not going to grovel like you." Qin Yu sneered: "Even under Zhou Hu, I will use my ability to do something, not ......"

"Okay, okay."

Ju Sheng smiled and waved his hand, then looked at Qin Yu Zhengse and said, "Then, let's talk about my true intention." …… Woniu Mountain group of thieves, don't pay it off so quickly, otherwise, many people will have a headache, including...... Zhou Duwei. ”

“……”

Qin Yu took a deep look at Ju Sheng.

He guessed right, that Zhou Hu really wanted to raise Kou self-respect.

“…… I know. ”