Lin Ziran stayed in Sanyang Town for another two days, and then returned to Nanguang City, but he didn't stay long, and after only staying for three days, he set off south again, this time he went straight to Qingshan Town.

This time I came back mainly to train new troops.

With the arrival of such a huge batch of ammunition and materials, the formation and training of new troops will also need to enter the actual stage.

At the same time, it is also necessary to inspect the situation of Tsingshan Petroleum Company, although Ding Quankun is staring at Tsingshan Petroleum Company, but Lin Ziran is still a little uneasy.

Although Ding Quankun is loyal and qualified, he still lacks some ability, and when it comes to doing business, he is not as good as Sun Guan, the manager of the trading firm under Tsingshan Petroleum Company, or even Boss Wang, the manager of the machinery factory.

Therefore, when he came back this time, Lin Ziran would also inspect and convene a meeting with the heads of several branches of Tsingshan Petroleum Company.

I didn't say anything too important, after all, Tsingshan Petroleum Company has already embarked on a regular basis, and at present, all branches are developing well, and there is no big deal.

The purpose of the meeting was mainly to show their existence and let them know that their boss was Lin Ziran, Lord Lin, who held thousands of troops.

The person in charge of the subordinate branches of the subordinate branch has a mind that should not be in the way, so as to mess up.

After a meeting, Lin Ziran met another person, this person was not an outsider, but their old acquaintance, Cao Yuan, the town guard of Qingshan Town.

When Cao Yuan walked out of the town guard mansion, he felt that the sun outside was fierce.

Even when he was under house arrest before, he could get the sun on the balcony, and occasionally came out to hang out in the town guard's mansion, but he didn't say that he was locked in the room all the time and didn't see the light of day.

But I don't know why, after this came out, I always felt that the sun was too violent, and the dazzling sunlight made him cry involuntarily.

How long, how many days and nights, he dreamed of leaving the town guard's mansion.

Today, it has finally been realized.

Although there were soldiers guarding him in front of him and behind him, this day is still worth remembering.

But he didn't know why Lin Ziran wanted to see him.

When he came to Qingshan Town last year, he came with great ambitions, but within a few days, his plan was not implemented, and he was placed under house arrest.

He had only seen Lin Ziran once before and after.

But now, the soldiers guarding him told him that Lin Ziran wanted to see him.

Why?

He didn't know, but he knew it was his chance, a chance to get out of house arrest.

Sitting in the carriage, Cao Yuan kept thinking about what to do next.

Although he was under house arrest, the officers and soldiers guarding him did not hide anything from him, and he could still know some ordinary information from the guards and soldiers.

He knew that in the past six months, Roan County had changed dramatically.

First, the Luo'an army conquered Chongguang City, and then in the hinterland of Guang'an, it was ambushed by the Hexi Army's 8,000 iron cavalry and the Guang'an Army, and suffered heavy losses, and finally had to retreat to Chongguang City.

Later, the Jian family mutinied, Jian Minggang personally went out of the mountain to lead the troops to defeat Cheng Lingfeng, entrenched in the county seat, and the three generals declared neutrality, it is rumored that Lin Ziran took refuge in Feng Haozhong, and the militia under his command became the supplementary brigade of the third division, and Lin Ziran himself became the brigade commander of Shaoqing.

even took the opportunity to occupy the five towns in the north of Lianguan,

Again, it was Feng Haozhong who led the army to the south, announcing a crusade against Jianminggang, the Guang'an army went south, and Lin Ziran led the army north to Nanguangcheng to resist the Guang'an army going south, and it is rumored that a big battle was fought in Nanguangcheng some time ago, and the battle was extremely fierce.

However, Lin Ziran still led the supplementary brigade to block the Guang'an army, forced the Guang'an people to detour to the south of Pingdan County, and successfully kept Lianguan County, so that the people could avoid being devastated by the war.

These news are all public news, and ordinary people outside also know about it, and Cao Yuan also learned about these public news from the mouths of the guards and other people.

And after these news came one by one, it made Cao Yuan feel more and more that this Lin Ziran was not a simple person.

Let's not talk about the chaos in Luo'an County, but Lin Ziran was able to go from being the battalion commander of a town garrison battalion last year, to having thousands of troops in less than a year, and becoming the commander of the supplementary brigade, actually controlling most of Lianguan County.

This alone is enough to attract Cao Yuan's attention.

Not only Cao Yuan, but in fact, other people also attach great importance to Lin Ziran, whether it is Feng Haozhong or Li Kun, the commander of the Second Army of Guang'an, they all know that Lin Ziran is not small, but the speed of development is extremely fast.

However, now Lin Ziran's strength is still a little smaller, although Feng Haozhong and Li Kun attach importance to it, they don't put Lin Ziran at the level of the primary enemy, at most, they just want to wait for the overall situation to be stabilized, and free up their hands to clean up Lin Ziran.

Such a Lin Ziran, why do you want to see yourself?

Cao Yuan didn't know.

In fact, Lin Ziran wanted to see Cao Yuan, the purpose was very simple, that is, he felt that the territory he controlled was not small, and even the county seat of Guan County was taken down, and most of the towns in the central and southern parts were actually controlled or nominally controlled.

As for a county site, there are many civil affairs and many officials who need to be arranged, especially the selection of the county chief makes him a little embarrassed.

There is no suitable person under him to be the county leader.

He himself intends to appoint himself the county guard of Lianguan County, but he will be in control of the overall situation, and his focus will be on military affairs, and he will not have much time to deal with the messy civil affairs, so he needs a county official to help him handle civil affairs.

And his henchmen are either officers or bandits, and there is no decent civil official, and he can't be a county official at all.

There were many original officials in Guan County, many of them were officials of the Cheng family or the Jian family or other factions, and they were all very greedy, and the report sent by Scar said that a small county guard was corrupt by more than 100,000 yuan, and the county man who had a holiday with him was not only corrupt, but even wanted to roll away the taxes of the official warehouse.

It's not that these officials can't be used, but it's too troublesome to use, and Lin Ziran is too lazy to intrigue with these local officials.

When henchmen can't do it, and others can't do it, Lin Ziran simply plans to make a puppet county.

After having this plan, Lin Ziran remembered Cao Yuan, who had been under house arrest for half a year.

Lin Ziran felt that this person's ability was okay, and during his house arrest, even though he lost his freedom and could not communicate with the outside world, he still had to deal with daily affairs......

Who made him still the guard of Qingshan Town, he can't just get paid and not work!

This ability to handle government affairs is not bad.

It's better to use raw than cooked.

Now that he is a puppet guard, it is okay to let him be a puppet county magistrate.

Anyway, Lin Ziran will continue to send people to watch him to ensure that he can only do things and not mess around.

Even if he messes around, he is not afraid, if he dares to mess around, Lin Ziran will dare to shoot him directly on the spot.

Of course, it's best to let Cao Yuan be a good puppet willingly, otherwise there will be a lot of trouble.

This is the reason why Lin Ziran saw him.

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