Chapter Seventy-Six: The Shadow That Lurks

Tong Yuan was extremely disgusted with Dong Zhuojun's atmosphere, as a good college student (keyboard hero) in later generations, he had an enmity with corruption.

However, Li Confucianism has a lot of Xiliang treasures, Li Ru dedicated to Tong Yuan and Weiyang Jun, and he gladly accepted it, after all, this war, why not do it if you get some military funds confiscated.

As for collecting and playing with these things, he didn't even want to think about it. In later generations, there is a saying called "prosperous antiques, gold in troubled times", which means that antiques are far less valuable and practical than gold in troubled times.

Now, as a prince, gold is not the most valuable, but only a strong army, abundant food, and the support of the people.

Due to a faint headache, Tong Yuan rested early. The shade in the fort is cool, not as hot as outside, and the mountains and houses are separated by walls and open spaces, and even the mosquitoes that are common in the mountains are rarely bothered.

Under the looming moon, a gray shadow flashed in the dark and quiet dock fort, the person stood outside Tong Yuan's house for a long time, and the strange silence set off the lying Tong Yuan and the standing man.

The breeze lifted the silk tent, and the figure disappeared.

Li Ru was still sitting in front of the bookcase with the lamp lit in the room, and he went to inform his wife, Dong Zhuo's second daughter, Dong Shi, in the evening.

When the Dong family heard about Dong Bai's deeds before, he had long wanted to see his niece and go to the grave of the whole family. However, the situation was chaotic, the news was not clear, and it was not done. This time, I immediately cried into tears.

After settling his wife, he was thinking about how to arrange it next. Since he went out of the mountain to assist the Dong family, he still had to visit Weiyang Jun, and his wife must also go.

The Dong family is now making a comeback, but the strongest is Li Dao. Li Dao, Li Zhiran, quite understands the art of war and strategy, but he is unpredictable.

The lights in Li Ru's house flickered slightly, and Li Ru's thoughts returned to reality and found that the window was shaking slightly.

He went to the window to inspect it, but found nothing, and when he was about to turn back, he found another slender shadow next to his shadow.

Shocked, after looking back and seeing the man's face, his heart was relieved.

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“…… I see. Then ...... A plan of light and darkness. ”

"Wonderful...... I will be able to revive my ......."

"But what can be done...... That's right, then let's ......"

"Very good, still ...... work"

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On the second day, Tong Yuan discussed some affairs with Li Ru, who said that he would bring his wife to visit Dong Bai in the near future, and arranged for Hupalaka to count the property, treasures, food, etc., and then transport them to Tong Yuan's army.

Tong Yuan experienced this trip to Liangshan in Haoyang, and when he saw such a mysterious dock fort, he felt that it was necessary to carry out an inspection within the three counties. For example, in May, he and the Dong family fled to Daling, and Xuejiabao had a little material but few people there, and this time he needed to send someone to contact and carry out trade.

Xiayang and Heyang are better, and the department has been stationed in the two places for a while. The Yaxian County to the west is an important area ruled by Tong Yuan, and he has not personally inspected it yet.

He felt the need to personally inspect the tuntian in the central area on the one hand, and on the other hand, to establish contact with the surrounding dock forts and carry out trade, so that the bandits who had seized the throne could be exterminated.

After handing over the new army to Xu Rong, Zhang Lu and others temporarily, Tong Yuan arranged for Geng Qing to inspect Xiayang County, where he had served for two years.

The Brave Barbarian Battalion is a direct combat battalion of the Third Guard of the Dreadnought Army. The battalion was based on the Ban Yu Man captured in the Battle of Chang'an, plus some of Xu Huang's own soldiers.

These Ban Yu barbarians were very good at fighting, among the old and wounded returned to their hometown of Bashu, and most of the rest volunteered to follow Tong Yuan, hoping to make more money so that their tribe could live a better life.

This brave battalion is the mountain special operations battalion of the third guard, which also serves as a guard battalion.

The Ya County they inspected was the most withered among the counties of Zuo Fengyi, and before Hu Zhen and others destroyed it, there were only more than 1,000 households. In a county of this size, there is no prefectural order, but a prefectural magistrate. Now tens of thousands of military tuns and mintuns have been settled, and they are a little more energetic.

Originally, most of the officials in the county were the sons of some poor families and strong people, but they were not recorded in the annals of history, and half of the families fled to Chu and Sichuan after the previous catastrophe, so they could only fill the vacant positions from the military tun and the people.

Tong Yuan inspected several tun conditions and found that as long as the people could eat enough, they could always give full play to their ideas and vitality. Some of the tunli have a few skilled craftsmen, they have abundant food, and their families can also take care of the fields with the tun people.

Most of these craftsmen make hoes, sickles and other tools, and it is not yet time for the waterwheel. As for those who can fight weapons, armor, and shields, they have long been concentrated in various tuntian lieutenant stations and set up separate workshops.

These arrangements were all discussed by Tong Yuan with the grassroots military officials before, but they were all implemented after the lower-level teams, tun, and qu had a material and personnel base, and they were not thought out by him in advance.

Some people say that this is his clever idea, but he says that it is the result of everyone's wisdom and hard work, and he has pushed the boat down the river to get results, and he can't think of these methods.

Juntun is similar, although it seems that the atmosphere is more serious, but they have many more sports competitions and other activities than Mintun, and the overall cohesion is stronger. In addition, the more professional animal husbandry, construction and other departments of various types of production are thriving, and there is even a spontaneous master-apprentice relationship to teach breeding, construction and other aspects of the craft.

Therefore, Juntun is quiet and serious on the surface, and there is no neighborhood lady who nagging all day long, but in terms of spiritual outlook, it is not lost to Mintun.

Tong Yuan is more satisfied with the fact that the people are full of spirit, and their eyes are shining with wisdom and joy. On the contrary, I am most afraid that their eyes will be dull and confused.

He also asked the county officials whether there were strong forts and green forest bandits in Yaxian County, and no one knew about them; I also asked if there were any remnants of the surrounding villages, and they were all fragmented, and they couldn't say anything specific, let alone the trade of the Hu tribe.

Tong Yuan was immediately annoyed, a group of local parents and officials didn't have a basic grasp of the surrounding situation. Immediately reprimanded:

"As local officials, you must not only do the tax collection and transshipment in the central area of a county, but also know the suffering of the people and the omissions and hidden dangers in the surrounding area. Some of you have served here for many years, some of you are followers selected by Zhang Derong, and some of you are shrewd and capable people in the army. ”

"At present, the development of Mintun is relatively smooth, and the relevant officials cannot be complacent, but must participate in the grassroots and even direct labor to understand the situation. The few others who don't have to work in Mintun must be worthy of your officials' salaries, and at least understand the situation in the county. ”

"No."

Tong Yuan then asked: "This is my first time inspecting Yaxian, and the current development of the county seat and Mintun is acceptable, but where are you going next?" The original plan was to contact the surrounding Wubao, villages and towns, and the Hu tribe, but now do you want to look for them one by one? ”