Cao Liang originally made a long history in the state capital, but after Gongsun Jian and Qian Yan conspired to annex the three northwestern states, Cao Liang resigned and returned to his hometown in Linshui County. This time, I was ordered by Mrs. Cao to bring the children of the Cao family and the family to help. As for how they got the news, hehe, the Cao family has been able to take root in Linshui County for so many years and has not fallen, how can they not have any ability. And at this time, Gongsun Jian began to admire the wisdom of the ancients more and more. Mrs. Cao's views on the situation and her own interests are definitely among the best, and it takes a certain amount of courage and courage to dare to bet on yourself at this time.

However, later Gongsun Jian chatted with Mrs. Cao, and Cao Han told him that his family had lived in Linshui County for more than 100 years for five generations, and no one had ever touched the foundation of the Cao family, but Qian Yan turned his face ruthlessly when he came. wantonly scraped and blackmailed the Cao family, which was also his purpose of helping Gongsun Jian.

But no matter what, the Cao family is completely on the boat of Gongsun Jian. For Gongsun Jian, there are only benefits and no disadvantages to ruling the northwest in the future. Especially Cao Han is very knowledgeable about current affairs.

The battle lasted until eight or nine o'clock in the morning, and the result was naturally that Gongsun Jian led people to recover Linshui County. The whole county celebrated like a Chinese New Year, and although many people were sacrificed, no family wept because the man in the family died in the war. They understand that if they want to continue the good life they used to have, they must take up the sword and fight and defend it. This is also the result of Gongsun Jian's consistent letting Lao Qi and Huang Wenyuan go to publicity.

The news that Linshui County had been reoccupied by Gongsun Jian and his men soon spread to the Vietnamese army camp outside Zhenyuan Pass. After Qian Yan got the news, he immediately asked people to intercept those routs, prevent them from approaching his camp, and block all news from the outside world. At the same time, he also sent men and horses to attack Zhenyuan Pass.

I have to praise Qian Yan's military literacy here. Being able to make the best and most correct choice in the shortest possible time shows Qian Yan's ability.

By the night of the same day, Qian Yan took all the men and horses to give up part of the baggage and the entire camp, and retreated quietly. Those orders he gave during the day were to cover the retreat at night. Because he knew very well that once the Wu army in Zhenyuan Pass got the news, he was likely to be exposed to the enemy.

It wasn't until the turn of the day that the scout of the Wu army, who was in charge of the reconnaissance mission, told Sun Sheng the news of the sudden disappearance of the Vietnamese army led by Qian Yan. After being slightly stunned, Sun Sheng patted his thigh and said with some regret: "What a Qian Yan, he really has some ability." It seems that Gongsun Jian must have succeeded in Linshui County. ”

Sun Sheng immediately sent people to Linshui County to investigate the situation, and at the same time asked people to go out of the customs to take over the camp of the Vietnamese army, but there were still a lot of useful baggage that were not taken away, which became the trophies of the Wu army.

In fact, on the side of Zhenyuan Pass, Gongsun Jian had already sent people to keep an eye on it. The reason why he didn't let people inform Sun Sheng that he had taken Linshui County was actually because he was afraid that Sun Sheng would take the opportunity to defeat Qian Yan and turn around against him. Now this situation is the best, Qian Yan has preserved his strength and retreated, but it is not far away. In this way, the balance of power between the three parties is temporarily formed, and no one will launch an offensive against the other side at will, because they also have to guard against the existence of a third party. lest you work hard and end up taking advantage of others.

The current situation is the result that Gongsun Jian is most willing to see, he needs time to reorganize Linshui County, and strive to develop and strengthen his strength as soon as possible.

A few days later, Gongsun Jian went to Zhenyuan Pass again to meet Sun Sheng in person. The two again had a 'friendly and cordial' discussion. Everything has returned to its pre-war state and an alliance has been temporarily reached. Gongsun Jian would continue to open the trade market in Linshui County to provide the necessary supply of goods to the Wu State, and at the same time, it would also allow the goods of the Wu State to circulate freely through the Linshui County into the Zhou State. As for the issue of salt, even if the Liu family in Chaohai Mansion no longer supplies him because of Qian Zhuo, he still has a way to get the supply. Don't forget the Lee family in Jeju Prefecture, since they dared to help him when he fled, there was no reason not to cooperate with him after he recaptured Linshui County.

However, Gongsun Jian also put forward his own request, that is, Dingxi County between the two sides needs to be placed under the rule of Linshui County, and the boundary between the two sides is still bounded by Zhenyuan Pass. Sun Sheng did not refuse. Now, unless the Wu army has a large-scale supply of personnel and materials, it will not care to occupy a small Dingxi County. Even if it is occupied, it is not good, it is better to sell a favor to Gongsun Jian, anyway, Dingxi County is not in his hands, Qian Yan left more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Dingxi County when he retreated, even if it is given to Gongsun Jian, he needs to attack it himself. Such a favor Sun Sheng does not give away, and he does not send it in vain.

After talking to Sun Sheng about everything, when Gongsun Jian returned to Linshui County, he went to visit Cao Han, the head of the Cao family. The first is to express gratitude to the other party for their assistance, and the other is to reach a cooperative relationship with the Cao family again. The benefits given to the Cao family before remained unchanged, and the children of the Cao family were invited to join his camp to further tie the Cao family to his chariot. Cao Han did not object to this, the reason is very simple, it makes no sense for him to disagree now, since he has already bet on Gongsun Jian, he can only follow the footsteps of Gongsun Jian and continue to walk.

Three days later, the Cao family once again gathered their subordinates and the children of the clan to follow Gongsun Jian to lead people to Dixi County. It took almost no much effort to conquer the county seat in one fell swoop.

In fact, it was not that the defenders left by Qian Yan did not work hard, but that Xie Wu, who had disappeared for some days, had been hiding in the city. has long secretly mobilized many local poor people as internal responses. Dingxi County and Linshui County are not far apart, who can not know how the people of Linshui County live today, everyone was the same poor before, but now it is different, the reason is that Linshui County has a good official. Therefore, when Xie Wu secretly agitated, many people immediately expressed their willingness to work with him, and after driving away the Vietnamese army, he defected to Gongsun Jian.

In this way, under Xie Wu's internal response, Gongsun Jian easily took Dingxi County with 2,000 men. At this time, Gongsun Jian didn't need to cover it up anymore, and directly took Dingxi County as a demonstration point, that is, to fight local tyrants and divide the fields. In Dingxi County, except for the land that originally belonged to some yeoman farmers, all the others were taken from the hands of those landlords and tyrants, and those who dared to oppose it went directly to solve the problem. The land was then distributed to the landless peasants according to the number of capitators, and the county collected only 20 percent of the annual grain tax, and there were no other exorbitant taxes. As long as the land has been cultivated and taxed for more than five years, the permanent right to use the land can be vested in the individual. The right to use can be traded and sold, but the property rights still belong to the prefecture. The reason for this was to prevent the recurrence of land annexation in the future.

In addition, according to the local situation, Dingxi County organized some idle manpower to concentrate and reorganize, and began to organize some processing and production activities. Gongsun Jian has investigated and studied before, the situation in Dingxi County and Linshui County is not the same, Linshui County is poor because several major families occupy all valuable industries and fields, and Dingxi County is poor, which is really poor. Because it is not close to Fenshui, it is still more than 20 miles away. In addition, the land resource conditions are also average. So there is little other way out than farming. However, there are two important outputs that no one has discovered: local clay, which is an excellent material for firing bricks and tiles. There is also limestone, which can be used for many purposes, the most important of which is that it can be used as a raw material for firing cement. However, according to the current level of technology, I am afraid that it will not be possible to get it out for the time being, but it does not prevent Gongsun Jian from occupying and mining it first, and then let people slowly ponder and study it step by step.

Cao Liang, the third son of the Cao family, who had served in the state capital for a long time, was appointed by Gongsun Jian as the new magistrate of Dingxi County, and Ma Teng was the county lieutenant of Dingxi County, responsible for recruiting people to form troops and defending the defense and daily security of Dingxi County.

Now it's on the bright side anyway, so it's no longer called the people's league, so it directly pulls the team. After studying this, Gongsun Jian and Qi Shi Ma Teng started a new reorganization of this team. The system of men, teams, battalions, and capitals, which had been used in various countries before, was abolished, and the three-three system, which he was familiar with in his previous life, was changed, and all newly organized units were changed to the squad, platoon, company, and battalion system. Each squad consists of 10 people, including a squad leader, and the three shifts are a platoon, with a total of 32 people including the principal and deputy platoon leaders. Three platoons, plus a guard squad and a cooking squad are a company, and there are a total of 118 people including the chief and deputy company commanders. By analogy, according to the current actual situation and the financial resources in his hands, Gongsun Jian decided to temporarily organize three new combat regiments plus a logistics reserve regiment specially responsible for baggage supplies. In this way, the total number of people is close to 6,000, which is also the largest base that Gongsun Jian can support at present.

Of the three regiments, one was garrisoned in Dingxi County by Ma Teng, and the other two were left in Linshui County by Tian Kuo and Ding Feng. Qi Shi was in charge of the logistics reserve regiment. Gongsun Jian's own personal guard was expanded to 100 people, led by Wei Meng, and Xie Wu was selected by himself among the three regiments to form a reconnaissance company, which was independent and independent. In addition to the above regular troops, Hu Tianyi and Zhao Changle began to secretly set up a spy system belonging to Gongsun Jian, which was responsible for collecting and spying on all intelligence work.

By the time all this was over, more than a month had passed, and the economy and trade of Linshui County had gradually begun to recover. The steel plant, which had been destroyed in the war, was rebuilt, and the brick and tile factory in Dingxi County was officially put into operation. At the same time, Gongsun Jian also did a big thing, sending someone to Qian Zhuo after cutting off the heads of Zhang Han and the court envoy surnamed Liu, and also brought a letter, in which he said that it was Qian Zhuo's words and the reason why he turned his face and turned his face ruthlessly to get to today's situation. But now he has only so much self-protection in this situation, if Qian Zhuo still wants to be his emperor of Zhou, then it is best for everyone to maintain the status quo as it is now, and his Gongsun Jian will not cause trouble for Qian Zhuo when he is in internal and external difficulties, but Qian Zhuo must agree to two conditions, one is to ensure the safety of his family, he can stay in Beijing, but he must no longer be embarrassed, this is also a hostage left by Gongsun Jian to him Qian Zhuo. The second is to ask Princess Ningguo's opinion, if Princess Ningguo does not object, then please send someone to safely escort the princess to Linshui County to marry.

After Qian Zhuo read the letter and got the head, it is said that he was furious in the palace of the Zhou State. But now he has no way to take the Gongsun sword, although the Qi State in the north has suspended the offensive, but the Southern Han State in the south is menacing, and Qian Tuan, the king of Chu, has already led his troops to resist. Because of his difficulties against several major nobles including the public family, the DPRK and China are now full of contradictions, and many nobles are now in danger of themselves, and they have the meaning of uniting. If there is chaos in the northwest again, then the Zhou Kingdom may really be finished.

Therefore, Qian Zhuo could only swallow his anger and agree to Gongsun Jian's conditions. This is a temporary exchange for stability and peace in the northwest region. However, Qian Zhuo also made a request to Gongsun Jian, that is, Gongsun Jian must ensure that he will hold the northwest and not let Wu have another chance to attack. In fact, even if Qian Zhuo didn't mention this request, Gongsun Jian would do so, after all, now he has used the Northwest Land as a base for his future development and growth, how could he let Wu Guo intervene again. At present, Gongsun Jian is focusing his main energy on developing the economy and strengthening his own strength. The reason why he made the request was actually to stabilize Qian Zhuo, lest this kid's head cramp and let Qian Yan attack Linshui County again.