Du Wei, that is, the county lieutenant.

In a frontier or special period, a county may have more than one county lieutenant, and a county may also have multiple lieutenants, and these multiple lieutenants are generally 'special lieutenants' who are responsible for one thing.

For example, Li Junshou said 'the captain of the department', and then the similar agricultural captain, Guan commander, cavalry captain, etc., are all official positions that are less than the county captain, but more than the county lieutenant, and are in between.

The difference between a lieutenant and a county lieutenant is that a lieutenant has military power, while a county lieutenant does not.

Don't look at the 'county army and county army' in Kunyang, in fact, the county army is not an army in the real sense, it is just a county town and county anti-theft and security team, and there is no real establishment and number, and the most important thing is that the imperial court does not allocate military salaries.

However, the army led by the commander of the ministry was a real army, with a strictly regulated establishment and number approved by the imperial court, and the imperial court would also allocate military salaries, which were generally allocated by the local county town.

So, how much military power does the lieutenant have? Or how many troops can he lead?

In fact, it is literal: the commander of the department, the captain who leads 'a force'.

How many troops are in a unit?

According to common sense, 500 people are one song, and two songs are the department, in other words, the military power of the commander of the department is 1,000 people.

Of course, the term "troop strength" actually refers to the "establishment", not the actual strength that the commander of the ministry can command.

For example, in addition to 1,000 soldiers who can be used for battle, sometimes the 'first army' also includes two or three times the number of non-staff personnel of the 'baggage battalion', most of which are composed of civilians.

For another example, sometimes there is the phenomenon of 'dissatisfaction with the staff' and 'super-staffing', the former is about to receive the origin of the empty salary, and the latter, which generally occurs in the turbulent period of temporary expansion of the army, just like the current rebel army general counterattack on the Jin State, if Zhao Yu gets the establishment of this 'one department', even if he suddenly expands to three or four thousand or even more, Yingchuan County and the imperial court will not bother in a short time.

Of course, once the rebels are defeated and peace is restored in the country, then the supernumerary soldiers must also be disbanded, otherwise there will be a suspicion of 'bad intentions'.

In addition, the imperial court will never pay more than its original salary.

Considering the merits of a certain black tiger thief leader, Xun Yi, the governor of the western region, did not think that there was anything wrong with awarding him the 'Commander of the Division', and even preferred to award the 'Upper Captain' or 'Cavalry Captain' to the Zhou Tiger - the former is a strengthened version of the 'Lieutenant of the Division', while the latter allows the formation of cavalry.

Everyone knows that cavalry is the most 'superior' type of army, accounting for a very small proportion of all the armies of the Jin Kingdom, and it is easy to obtain the qualification to allow the formation of cavalry, and there is no source of high-quality war horses.

But what made Xun Yi unhappy was that Li Min, the commander of Yingchuan County, granted Zhou Hu the official position of lieutenant, and actually asked the latter to agree to 'aid Xuchang' as a condition, which made Xun Yi feel very angry.

You must know that Xun Yi has seen the tragic situation in Kunyang with his own eyes.

A small city, resisting nearly 100,000 rebels, continued to fight despite the loss of the city walls and the loss of half of the city, and finally fought off the rebels with great difficulty—if it weren't for Zhou Hu, it seems that this kind of small county would have been captured by the rebels long ago.

It is no exaggeration to say that Xun Yi believes that Kunyang has fulfilled the responsibility of 'resisting the enemy'.

However, now, Xuchang wants to 'force' Kunyang to send reinforcements, which in Xun Yi's opinion, is simply shameless!

Especially the officials who kept claiming that Kunyang had the obligation to rescue Xuchang, Xun Yi was ashamed to be with them.

But in the end, he didn't refuse, not for anything else, just because he was not Zhou Hu and couldn't make a decision for the latter.

On the same day, Xun Yi, who received the dispatch of the county guard Li Min, embarked on a journey to Kunyang again.

At this time, the heavy snow has been falling for a few days and nights but it is still falling, the road is full of thick snow, I can't see the road clearly, I don't know where there is a river, where there is a ditch, where is a swamp, therefore, the distance that can be reached in the past two days, this time it took more time, it took four and a half days, that is, on the afternoon of the fifth day of the first month of November, Xun Yi arrived in Kunyang with several escorts accompanying him.

Because he wanted to see the current situation in Kunyang, Xun Yi deliberately entered the city through the East City Gate this time.

The guard of the East City Gate is still Wang Qing, but because the war has ended, Wang Qing is not very concerned about the guard, and the people in charge of the shift are Shi Yuan and Chen Gui of the county army.

"Xun Du Post."

"Stone catcher."

The two saluted each other under the city gate, and immediately, Ishihara personally led Xun Yi into the city.

During entering the city, Xun Yi carefully looked inside the city.

He still remembers that when he left Kunyang a few days ago, Kunyang was busy with 'large-scale repairs in the city', and more than 2,000 Kunyang soldiers commanded more than 10,000 rebel prisoners to repair buildings in various streets and alleys in the city, plus the people who came and went, so that although the snow was falling heavily, there were still a lot of people in the streets and alleys.

But today, as far as he could see, there were at least two-thirds fewer people on the streets.

He asked Ishihara in surprise: "Shi Zhutou, those rebel prisoners have already repaired the buildings in the city?" ”

Ishihara chuckled and said, "Yes." …… Most of the houses repaired by those captives are for them to live in winter, so those people are still very attentive, and it will take about three or four days, not to mention, the county government does not require them to repair the site, they can make do with this winter, and when they come to the next year, most of the houses in the southern half of the city will be demolished and rebuilt......"

"Hmm."

Xun Yi nodded slightly, because he had heard Zhao Yu mention it.

After a brief observation along the way, Xun Yi and his party came to the county government under the leadership of Ishihara.

At this time, Zhao Yu was no longer in the former yaya hall of the county government to handle affairs - after all, it was the place where the case was tried and judged, and the county government specially vacated a room for him.

After all, everyone knows that this Zhou leader and Zhou County Lieutenant is his real master of Kunyang.

When Xun Yi came to the county office, Zhao Yu was discussing the plan for the southern half of the city with Liu Bi, the county magistrate, and Li Xu, the county lieutenant.

Anyway, the southern half of the city was also in ruins, and Zhao Yu felt that it was better to take the opportunity to tear it down and start over, rebuild neat buildings on the ruins, ban all the original crooked alleys, and re-plan.

Generally speaking, this kind of operation is 'labor and money', and the income of the county government may not be able to rebuild, but now, the county government has more than 10,000 captives of free labor, which greatly reduces the cost of operation, so Liu Bi and Li Xu are very much in favor.

Just as the three of them were discussing, a county guard suddenly walked into the house and clasped his fists and said, "Three adults, Xun Du Post is here." ”

Zhao Yu, Liu Bi, and Li Xu glanced at each other, and they all felt a little puzzled, after all, Xun Yi only returned to Xuchang a few days ago, and no one expected this Xun Du Post to come again so soon.

So the three of them walked out of the room together and invited Xun Yi into the house.

As soon as he entered the house and saw the furnishings in the house, Xun Yi guessed that this was the party room prepared by the county government for Zhao Yu, so he smiled with a little ridicule: "It seems that this is the party room of County Lieutenant Zhou." ”

Everyone laughed.

Yes, who would have thought that the 'mountain king', who once occupied the mountain, would one day move to the county government to deal with affairs? Even, the county government accepted him.

When you think about it, it's incredible.

After the joke, Zhao Yu invited everyone to take a seat, and immediately with a little curiosity, he said to Xun Yi with a smile: "After Xun Du Post left, we also missed it very much, and I never thought that only a few days later, Du Post would return to my Kunyang ......."

Of course, Xun Yi could hear Zhao Yu's confusion and incomprehension, sighed when he heard this, and said, "This time, I am here on the order of Li Junshou...... to convey one thing and discuss it with Chief Zhou. ”

Seeing Xun Yi pause in his speech and hesitate, Liu Bi and Li Xu glanced at each other.

"Do you need me to retreat?" County Cheng Li Xu asked tentatively.

Xun Yi shook his head and said, "It's not a private matter with Leader Zhou, but ...... Anyway, the two of you can stay, and you can also come up with ideas and discuss them. ”

As he spoke, he said the meaning of Li Min, the county guard of Yingchuan: "Li Junshou asked me to tell the leader of Zhou that if the leader of Zhou can lead the Kunyang soldiers to support Xuchang in the coming year, Li Junshou is willing to promote the leader of Zhou to the rank of 'Captain of the Ministry'......"

"It can't be!"

Before Zhao Yu could speak, Li Xu, the county leader, interrupted Xun Yi's words with an eager expression.

I saw that he stood up in shock, and said with a look of alarm: "My Kunyang has suffered huge casualties this time, and I have no spare strength to help Xuchang ......."

"Ahem." Liu Bi coughed and reminded Li Xu: "Li County is not going to be convened, let's listen to Chief Zhou's opinion first." ”

Only then did Li Xu realize that he had 'trespassed' - although Kunyang is still in charge of his county government, the real person in charge has changed......

He looked at Zhao Yu with some trouble and persuasion, and persuaded in a low voice: "Leader Zhou, don't ...... I, Kunyang, can no longer afford casualties. ”

"Li County, don't be anxious."

Zhao Yu smiled and pressed his hand, persuading Li Xu to be restless, and immediately, he turned his head to look at Xun Yi, and said with a little apology: "Zhou knows that the postal supervisor has worked hard to come, but I am afraid that Zhou will have to refuse this matter......"

"Oh?"

Xun Yi, who was originally not in a good mood, heard that his eyes flashed a few different colors, and he deliberately said: "Doesn't Leader Zhou look down on the 'Captain of the Ministry'?" ”

Of course Zhao Yu can't look at it!

Not to mention that the commander has an army of 1,000 people, even if Li Min takes the lieutenant to negotiate with him, Zhao Yu has to consider it and see how to choose what is more beneficial to him.

What's more, in fact, Zhao Yu is also a little inclined to the north of Xuchang - after all, Xuchang is the county governor of Yingchuan County, and if it is captured by the rebels, then no one can control him.

Of course, with Xun Yi and Li Xu, the two upright officials, Zhao Yu naturally couldn't tell what was in his heart, he shook his head and said softly: "Li County Cheng also said that I, Kunyang, suffered heavy casualties in this battle, and I will not exchange my life for an official position." ”

"Leader Zhou......" Li Xu, the county leader, was moved.

Immediately, he arched his hand to face Xun Yi and was about to speak, but saw a slight smile on Xun Yi's face.

"I didn't misread you, Zhou Hu."

Looking at Zhao Yu, Xun Yi praised with a look of relief.