"Lord Wang, after passing this mountain, you will enter the territory of Wu County!" Liu Yuan ran back from the front and said happily.

Finally arrived, thousands of miles away, the whole team traveled for several months, experienced the hardships of a long journey, and finally arrived at his fiefdom, Yang Yun's heart had a trace of joy.

Along the way, looking at the terrain becoming more and more treacherous, the living conditions of the people becoming more and more difficult, and getting used to seeing the prosperity of Xijing City, Yang Yun didn't expect that there were so many desolate places in Dafu, Yang Yun felt extremely uncomfortable.

Entering the boundary of Wu County, the mountain is obviously higher, and the road is much more rugged, because there are many bandits here, the whole team is nervous, and the team's defense level has increased a lot.

As soon as he walked forward for a while, he heard the sound of horses neighing and talking in front of him, and many people in the team changed their faces, could it be that they had just met bandits in Wu County?

"Excuse me, is it His Royal Highness King Wu in front?" Someone shouted from the front.

Hearing this shout, everyone in the team breathed a sigh of relief, it shouldn't be bandits. Sure enough, when this team approached, they learned that it was the county commander and the county lieutenant of Wu County who brought people to greet Yang Yun and his party.

Wu County is located in a remote area, and the local area is relatively barren.

Many people don't want to be here as officials. Therefore, the only official officials with grades in Wu County are the county commander and the county lieutenant, and the rest of the officials are the official masters appointed by the county commander himself.

And after Yang Yun arrives this time, these officials will be transferred to other places, because according to the regulations of Fuguo, all officials in the fiefs of all royal relatives and nobles have their own fiefs determined by the owners of the fiefs rather than appointed by the imperial court, and all local taxes are owned by the owners of the fiefdoms, and they do not need to be handed over to the imperial court.

After Yang Yun arrived, these officials would return to Xijing, the capital of Fuguo, with the thousand soldiers who escorted Yang Yun, and other appointments. But this is fine, Yang Yun can put these subordinates he trusts the most. Arrange to a position suitable for them, so as to facilitate their own management in Wu County.

On the way, Yang Yun asked the county commander and county lieutenant of Wu County about the situation of the local bandits. The county magistrate and the county lieutenant of Wu County told Yang Yun and others. There are more than a dozen bandits in Wu County, and the largest has four.

They are Zhang Kainiu of Phoenix Mountain, who has more than 2,000 people; Yan Xiong, who is a rhinoceros bone, has about 1,500 people under his command. There are also two bandits. They are the Liuhai Tower of Saojiaogou and the Wulaoqi of Niubei Mountain, and they all have more than 1,000 people.

And Wu County only has more than 2,000 county soldiers. Of course, such strength cannot support the suppression of bandits. It's good to be able to guarantee that the county seat is not occupied by bandits.

I listened to the introduction of the prefectural order and the prefectural lieutenant. Yang Yun and the others looked at each other, this bandits in Wu County were rampant to such an extent.

"Then these bandits, together there are five or six thousand people. How can a poor county without a county be able to feed so many bandits? Ju Yuanguang asked strangely.

The county lieutenant of Wuxian, a thin man of about 40 years old, told the crowd that in addition to plundering grain grown by merchants and peasants in Wu County and several nearby counties, these bandits also occupied some mineral resources such as iron ore and copper ore. There are also mountain resources in several nearby prefectures, such as the purchase of medicinal materials.

Several nearby counties once joined forces to suppress these bandits, but these bandits were very cunning, and when the officers and soldiers came, they hid in the mountains. Relying on familiarity with the terrain and the officers and soldiers to play hide and seek.

When the officers and soldiers retreated, they came out again and chased after the officers and soldiers. The officers and men of several counties suffered heavy losses, and they did not organize a large-scale crackdown on bandits after that.

Hearing this, Yang Bin couldn't help but smile in his heart. These bandits are quite cunning, and they use the guerrilla tactics first proposed by the great man to the fullest.

The local government could not afford to offend these bandits, so they simply had to pay them tribute from time to time and give the bandits "protection money".

The government can't do anything about them, and of course the people have nothing to do. In order to transport or bring in some goods, some local merchants hired local bandits as bodyguards with high salaries to protect the smooth entry and exit of their supplies.

In addition, Kure County and several surrounding counties. Hunters have to go up to the mountains to hunt, medicine farmers have to go up the mountains to collect medicines, and even woodcutters have to go up the mountains to cut firewood, and they have to pay a certain fee to these bandits.

Therefore, the vast area around Wu County has become a paradise for bandits, breeding a large number of bandits. Many poor people could not survive anymore and simply joined the camp of bandits.

Therefore, for the local people, the income they grow from food, their business, their hunting, their chopping of firewood, and other aspects not only have to pay taxes to the county government. I also have to pay protection money to the bandits, and life is even more difficult.

These core figures of Yang Yun's forces couldn't help frowning after listening to the introduction of the county magistrate and the county lieutenant of Wu County.

Before they came, they had fully considered the rampant bandits in this place. The hardships of the people's lives. But I didn't expect it to come to such a point.

These bandits around Wu County probably also knew that King Wu had brought a lot of soldiers this time. Coupled with the local county soldiers in Wuxian County, such a huge team is not something they can do.

Therefore, Yang Yun and others, during the journey from the border of Wu County to the county seat, did not encounter the harassment of bandits, and the group finally arrived in Wu County smoothly.

The dilapidated county seat of Wu County was expected by everyone. The city walls are low and crooked, the buildings in the city are dilapidated, and there are very few people in the city.

Yang Yun and others soon came to the county government of Wu County, and the county government was still relatively large. But the door was already mottled, and there were a lot of weeds growing in the county office.

The soldiers who escorted Yang Yun to the capital, as well as the county commanders and county lieutenants of Wu County, seemed to be unwilling to stay here for a moment. After a simple handover, they didn't stop at all, and immediately embarked on the road back to Xijing, which was completely handed over to Yang Yun's people.

This situation made Yang Yun and his subordinates feel very helpless, and there was no other way for the time being. I had to ignore the fatigue of the long journey, simply pack up the county government and stationed it in the county office.

As for the soldiers recruited from Xijing. It was temporarily arranged in the barracks next to the county office.

Next to the county office, there is a barracks, and the 2,000 county soldiers in the county government are stationed here. Some of the weapons of these county soldiers were rusty, and most of them were untidy in armor

The barracks were also dilapidated, but for these soldiers, they were satisfied with being able to get three meals a day. Of course, under such circumstances, the combat effectiveness of these county soldiers cannot be guaranteed.

Similarly, these soldiers recruited by Yang Yun from Xijing are all new recruits, and they have not yet entered systematic training, so of course their combat strength is not good.

The current Wu County is in ruins. Yang Yun knows that the most important thing now is to be familiar with the situation here and ensure that he has a certain ability to protect himself. It's a race against time, because it's impossible for the bandits here to give themselves much buffer time.

On the first night of coming to Wu County, Yang Yun barely fell asleep. His head is running fast, how to settle down here? How to quickly open up the situation?

Early the next morning, Yang Yun called the core personnel of his forces to the county government. A simple meeting was held to clarify the division of labor.

Longge, who was renamed Guo Long, was appointed as the county commander of Wu County, and Zhong Wenrui was appointed as the county governor of Wu County. Liu Yuan, who grew up in the military camp since childhood, was appointed as the county lieutenant of Wu County. Ju Yuanguang is the master of Wu County.

For these people, these official positions are indeed too small. But they knew that Yang Yun was a person who did great things, and they had the opportunity to follow Yang Yun to make contributions. So they don't care about their current official positions.

Like Qi Wei, Chimur, Yanqin, Liu Yue and others. They don't even have positions, and they don't care about them.

In this small meeting, Yang Yun told everyone. Now everyone must perform their duties, act quickly, grasp everything in Wu County in their own hands, and have a certain ability to protect themselves, so that there is the possibility of further development.

The people Yang Yun brought this time are all very smart people, and they all know that this is a critical moment. So from the second day of coming to Wuxian, a race against time began.