Guo Song led his soldiers into Jiuyuan County from the East City Gate, and four months had passed since a major battle, and the people were gradually recovering from the shadow of the war.

Winter is the calmest season in Jiuyuan County, the vast wilderness outside the city is covered with heavy snow, the weather is cold everywhere, more than 10,000 people can only live in the city, every day each tavern is full of guests, play a corner of wine, order two side dishes, brag and chat, you can spend a day.

The simple life is repeated day by day, monotonous and calm, and occasionally there will be people doing happy events, blowing and blowing across the streets, adding a lot of color to the calm small county.

As soon as Guo Song entered the county seat, he met Xue Changshou, who had joined the army on horseback, and Guo Song saw that he was carrying a little medicine boy and carrying a medicine box, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "Someone is looking for you again?" ”

A war has also played out the reputation of Xue Changshou's miracle doctor, and none of the wounded soldiers rescued by his hands have been killed, which has caused a sensation in the entire Jiuyuan County, these months, almost every day, someone has invited him to see a doctor, if he is not responsible for dispensing medicine, several small medical halls in the city will be closed.

Xue Changshou smiled bitterly, "Today is the old lady of the Leng family who fell ill, and their family is sitting at the door of my official room and refuses to leave, if it really doesn't work, I'll still do my old job!" ”

Guo Song smiled slightly: "Those who can work harder, as long as it does not affect official business, you can go to see a doctor." ”

"It doesn't affect now, and I don't know if it will affect me in the future, let's talk about it!"

Xue Changshou sighed, bowed his hand to Guo Song, and left with the medicine boy.

Guo Song turned around and ordered: "Send the silver fox to my house, and you will share the other prey by yourself." ”

After explaining, he urged the horse to go to the official office.

Guo Song's official office is the original Fengzhou Thorn History Yamen, located opposite the county government, the previous Fengzhou Thorn History is Shuofang military commander Shi Li Hui concurrently, Fengzhou is two counties, the state government has almost nothing to do, Li Hui never came, there are no officials in the state government, it is a deserted yamen.

After Guo Song concurrently served as the history of the Fengzhou Assassin, he took the Fengzhou Prefecture as his own official office, and renovated it, including the official office of the soldiers and horses of the three towns, the deputy envoy of Shuofang Jiedu and the official office of the Fengzhou Thorn History, a yamen, three signs, and there were more than a dozen officials in it, not only in charge of Fengzhou affairs, but also in charge of all the military and political affairs of the three surrendered cities.

Guo Song walked into his official room, their official room was a small courtyard planted with two big trees, and there were three or four rooms in the small courtyard.

Joining the army in the clerk's office is equivalent to the position of confidential secretary, sorting out documents for Guo Song, writing various reports, not only to Shuofang Jiedu Mansion, but also to the imperial court, every morning is very busy, but in the afternoon it is almost fine, Cao Wannian concentrated on reviewing his homework, and in the evening, he also had to go to the home of an old man in Jiuyuan County with more than a dozen scholars who were interested in the imperial examination.

Guo Song walked into the courtyard and saw Cao Wannian burying his head in copying homework, he smiled, did not disturb Cao Wannian, but entered his official room.

The official room was large and simple, with only a couch, a table, a cupboard and a row of bookshelves, and he did not come back for two days, and the room was not lit with a brazier, and it was very cold.

At this time, the two little servants carried into a large brazier, the charcoal inside was burning vigorously, Guo Song dragged a small stool, sat by the brazier, while roasting the fire, while flipping through an annual report on the table, before the end of March every year, the state assassin history must report to the imperial court in writing on the various situations of the previous year, and then the imperial court will call part of the assassin history into Beijing according to the situation to report on work.

The report was written by Cao Wannian, and it was written in the format of previous annual reports, including people's livelihood, government affairs, officials' affairs, agriculture, taxation, and so on.......

Cao Wannian's handwriting is very good, his writing skills are very strong, he can explain things clearly in the shortest few sentences, the content is detailed, the data is rich, and the writing is very good.

He put down the report and shouted, "Cao joins the army!" ”

After a while, Cao Wannian walked briskly and said apologetically: "When will the envoy come back, I don't know if I am lowly." ”

"I also just came back, and I'm reading the debriefing report you wrote, you take a stool and sit down, and we talk while we roast the fire."

Cao Wannian took a stool opposite Guo Song, rubbed his hands and roasted the fire, "Do you feel that the envoy has not finished writing his humble duties?" ”

Guo Song nodded, "The front is well written, but the last part is this year's plan, but you didn't write it, why?" ”

Cao Wannian scratched his head and said: "The things in front are actually all kinds of reports sent by Liucao, and the lowly position is just an excerpt, which is relatively simple, but the final plan for the next year, it should be decided by the envoy, not the lowly decision." ”

Guo Song smiled: "You can put forward your own opinions!" It's another thing to adopt or not. ”

"Wait a minute, I'll go get a proposal."

Cao Wannian ran back to the official room, and after a while, he took a proposal and handed it to Guo Song.

Guo Song opened the proposal, there were ten articles written in it, each of which had hundreds of words, he only looked at the table of contents, pointed to the third and fourth articles and asked with a smile: "Increase the number of officials and clerks, improve the functions, and the fourth article, establish state schools and cultivate talents, the premise is that there need to be a large number of readers, do you think Fengzhou is realistic?" ”

"The humble post has been specially investigated for this, there are about more than 300 scholars in Fengzhou, the youngest is twelve or thirteen years old, and the oldest is more than forty years old, and now we are three governments in one, and the deputy envoy can not mention it, and there are not many things in the Assassin Mansion, the key is to pass through the embassy, the intention of the imperial court is very clear, let the envoy be in charge of military affairs, but now Liu Cao joins the army and only manages the army, and the government affairs are basically not involved, and I basically do not have the government affairs information of the three surrendered cities.

The city of Xishou is a commercial city, how many Han merchants, how many Hu merchants, and what are the children's education, almost nothing is known, and now the military affairs of the 6,000 troops of the 6,000 army are too busy to join the army, and they have no energy to take care of government affairs, so it is necessary to recruit new officials. ”

Guo Song nodded, "You are very reasonable, last year, the number of officials was determined according to the functions of the soldiers and horses, and only the army was not involved in politics. You make a plan, and after I approve it, let Xue join the army and implement it as soon as possible. ”

"Obey the order!"

Guo Song smiled again: "As for running schools, it is indeed necessary, but to increase Mongolian schools and county schools, you can't just consider state schools, and you can add a few more, one is to restore Fengzhou villages, the second is to encourage the army to tuntian, the third is to encourage immigration to Fengzhou, and the fourth is to develop animal husbandry, add these four to it, plus your ten, and it will be basically perfect." ”

Cao Wannian thought for a while and said, "Isn't it too urgent to immigrate to Fengzhou this year?" ”

"It's not what you think, this year I want to move the families of the army to Fengzhou, 6,000 soldiers will come to 3,000 households first, and that is also more than 10,000 people! If it's too late to migrate this year, at least make all the preparations in advance. ”

"The lowly position understands, and the lowly position will be written in detail in the report."

Cao Wannian bowed down to give a salute to leave, Guo Song said again: "You also have to recruit three people to engage in yourself, although the Fengzhou sparrow is small, but the five organs will also be complete, things will be very busy in the future, recruit three more people to reduce your burden." ”

"Thank you for your concern, and retire from your post."

Cao Wannian hurriedly went back to the room, Guo Song read the report carefully again, and proposed more than a dozen revisions, and then returned the report to Cao Wannian, and he went home first.......

Guo Song currently lives in the Thorn History Mansion, the Thorn History Mansion was originally an empty house, has been repaired, covers an area of about ten acres, is a three-entry courtyard, and there are two side courtyards in the east and west, there are more than a dozen domestic servants in the mansion at present, except for the little fish Niang is brought by Guo Song from the capital, the other dozen people are official slaves bought from the Lingzhou slave market.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was still a large number of personal dependence, selling oneself into slavery, not being an official slave, and keeping slaves on the manor were very common, until the Song Dynasty implemented the civilian system and strictly restricted the existence of slaves, and the situation improved slightly.

The slaves were three young men, seven young women and four children, and in fact, there were three families, three couples and four children, all of whom were implicated in the crimes committed by their families.

Guo Song is very good to them, giving them a house, including food and housing, and a monthly salary, so that they can do their jobs in the house, there are grooms, coachmen, cooks, handymen, and there is also an old housekeeper, the old housekeeper is also surnamed Liang, who was introduced to Guo Song by Liang Huihe, fifty years old, a native of Fengzhou, who has been a steward in the Liang family for 20 years, and wants to return to his hometown Fengzhou, Liang Huihe introduced him to Guo Song.

Although there are not many people, the house does not seem so deserted.

Guo Song returned to the mansion and came directly to his backyard study, the back house has four yards, Guo Song lives in one yard alone, Xiao Yuniang and the other two maids live in the next yard, but there is a small door to connect.

Xiao Yu Niang is responsible for serving Guo Song's daily life, but she is not a slave, she is a free body, she can leave Fengzhou and return to the capital at any time, Guo Song gave her a high salary of 20 yuan per month, although Xiao Yu Niang was a little reluctant at first, she was unwilling to turn her relationship with Guo Song into an employment relationship, but in the end she figured it out, she was still happy to accept 20 high salaries.

"Childe is back!"

Xiao Niangyu greeted him with a smile, took off his robe, and said with a smile: "That silver fox's fur is very beautiful, what should I do with it?" ”

"You give it to Steward Liang and ask him to find a good shop to tann it."

Guo Song sat down and took a sip of hot tea, and then asked, "Haven't I been doing anything in the past two days?" ”

"It's nothing, I just received a letter, maybe Sister Ling'er will come to Fengzhou in a few days, Brother Liang means to let her live with us."

Guo Song nodded, Liang Wu lives in the barracks, so he can't let Liang Ling'er live in the barracks too!

"Okay, you can clean up a room for her and let her live with you."