Chapter 242 Candidates

At the city gate of Nancheng, Fang Xuanling, escorted by a team of Allied soldiers, finally stepped into the base camp of the Allied Army, Donglai City for the first time!

Eight days ago, under the prompting of his father, Fang Xuanling finally figured out his own situation, and also felt the other side of Corporal Su Shanglixian, he didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and in the afternoon of the same day, he personally came to the Licheng County Shoufu and agreed to join the Allied Army.

Su Shang was overjoyed, in order not to delay Fang Xuanling's father's treatment, Su Shang immediately decided to lead the fleet back to Donglai City as soon as possible!

His decision made Fang Xuanling's dissatisfaction with him a lot, and his unwillingness to join the alliance army in his heart also decreased a lot.

However, Su Shang still made a lot of arrangements before leading the fleet back.

In terms of the military affairs of Qi County, Su Shang handed over to Su Yu and Zhang Lihong, and asked them to lead 5,000 Allied Army soldiers to garrison Qi County, and to reorganize and train 20,000 rebel prisoners, and the remaining 100,000 rebel prisoners will be brought back to Donglai City for training.

In terms of government governance, Su Shang was temporarily handed over to Wei Yunqi to be responsible, and Su Shang had also notified Du Ruhui of Donglai City to transfer people over as soon as possible.

After some investigation, the four captured rebel leaders, including Shi Zihe, Shuai Rentai, Huo Xiaohan, and Lu Xingxing, were all found to have committed the evil deeds of arson, burning, killing, and looting the common people.

Su Shang finally decided to behead these four people with Lu Mingyue in Liyang City for public display, and send their heads to Luoyang City, the eastern capital! enjoys the same treatment, as well as Lu Mingyue's henchman, Bai Qin.

Subsequently, Su Shang took advantage of the fact that there were rebels in Jibei County to participate in the interception of the princess's wedding fleet and intended to rob the princess's dowry, and transferred Zhang Lichang, Luo Cheng and other generals from Beihai County, and asked them to lead 15,000 allied soldiers to enter Jibei County to suppress bandits and rebels and take over Jibei County.

At the same time, Su Shang sent an order to Xie Yingdeng and Li Jing, who had already made various preparations, and asked them to lead their troops into Lu County and Langxi County respectively to suppress the bandits and clear the rebellion for the same reason, and take over the two counties as soon as possible.

Two days earlier, the returning fleet had arrived at the Yexian Waihai Wharf, a newly built wharf that was close to Donglai City and less than 30 miles from the official road.

The fleet unloaded all its belongings and tens of thousands of prisoners here, and then returned to Qi County to transport the remaining tens of thousands of prisoners to Donglai City again, and these more than 100,000 rebel prisoners will be reorganized and trained in the boot camp outside Donglai City.

After landing on the shore, Su Shang did not personally lead the team back to Donglai City, but took his own soldiers and soldiers to send Fang Yanqian to the small temple in the mountains as soon as possible, and asked the master to heal him, which made Fang Xuanling very grateful, and the dissatisfaction with Su Shang in his heart disappeared from then on.

However, Su Shang's affairs were busy, so he didn't stay in the small temple in the mountains for too long, and returned to Donglai City with the team after more than an hour!

And Fang Xuanling was worried about his father's condition and wanted to see the effect of the treatment, so he stayed in the small temple for the time being. After two days of treatment, Fang Yanqian's condition improved, and Fang Xuanling was a little relieved.

At noon today, he temporarily bid farewell to his father and Master Kong Ming, and came to Donglai City with the guards and soldiers left by Su Shang for him, preparing to officially report to the garrison camp in the city.

People come and go on the street, the stalls on both sides of the street are stalled one after another, the shouting of small vendors, the sound of customers bargaining, overlapping, echoing the street, so lively!

Looking at the bustling streets in front of him, Fang Xuanling sighed in his heart, it is worthy of being the starting place of the Allied Army, no wonder it will be called a paradise, and it is no wonder that the people of Licheng, since they knew that Licheng was taken over by the soldiers of the Allied Army, they would spontaneously go to the streets to celebrate, such a living environment is indeed exciting!

Fang Xuanling arrived at the garrison camp and saw Su Shang, who was in the hall of the Chinese army, listening to Du Ruhui and others report on the recent military and political situation.

Su Shang introduced Fang Xuanling to everyone, laughed for a while, and then changed the topic and went back to business, "Brother Wei, tell me about the specific situation of the talent selection test!" ”

"Yes!"

Wei Zheng immediately took a few steps forward and cleared his throat, "Marshal, there are a total of 2,535 candidates who participated in this talent selection examination, and the proportion of the candidates in the East Lai County is the largest, with 1,130 people, 321 people in Gaomi County, 360 people in Beihai County, and a total of 393 people in the four counties of Langxie County, Qi County, Lu County, and Jibei County, and the remaining 300 people are from scattered sources, from all over the Great Sui, but the number of people in the counties that are close to each other accounts for a relatively large proportion!" ”

Su Shang frowned a little, excluding the number of people in the three counties of Donglai, Gaomi, and Beihai, which were already under the actual jurisdiction of the Allied Army before the exam, the remaining number of people from all over the Great Sui only accounted for thirty percent, and there were only more than seven hundred people in total, which was a little unexpected.

Before the exam, he estimated that the total number of people in this exam would be about 7,000 people, of which the candidates from outside the three counties of the actual management will account for more than seventy percent, but he did not expect the reality to give him a black humor, the number of candidates in the three counties of the actual management is about the same as estimated, but the candidates from all over the Great Sui are pitiful!

Du Ruhui seemed to guess Su Shang's thoughts, and said comfortingly: "Marshal, I think there are two major factors that there are fewer candidates from outside the three counties. First, the road is long, the transportation is inconvenient, and there are frequent rebels and bandits in various places, and it is not safe to travel between them. Second, the news is not smooth, although the scouts of the allied army have spread the news of the talent selection test in various parts of the Great Sui, but there are not many scouts after all, the degree of news dissemination is limited, and the proportion of people who know the news is not much! ”

Su Shang thought for a while, nodded and agreed with Du Ruhui's analysis, and then asked: "What is the proportion of candidates from prestigious families in various places, and are there any core clansmen from prestigious families who participate?"

"The identity of the candidates is mostly from small and medium-sized families, as well as from civilian families, accounting for fifty percent and three percent respectively, and the candidates from families above the county wang account for less than two percent, and most of these candidates from the county wang family are side clansmen, and there are only three famous families with core clansmen who take the exam, namely Qinghe Cui's family, Wenxi Pei's family and Jingzhao Su's family." Wei Zheng's answer is very detailed!

Except for the three own families, none of the other big families sent core clansmen to participate, Su Shang smiled a little bitterly, "It seems that these big families are very optimistic about our allies, and even the bets on the forces related to the survival of the family are just routine perfunctory!" ”

"Marshal, I don't think it's a bad thing!" Fang Xuanling, who participated in the meeting for the first time, suddenly spoke out to express his opinion.

"I want to hear and see!" Su Shang said with a smile.

Everyone in the hall looked at Fang Xuanling, and they all wanted to hear Fang Xuanling's opinions.

They all heard that Fang Xuanling was a classmate and friend of Changshi Du Ruhui, and he was also very talented, and the marshal attached great importance to him! Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Overlord Claw Book House at the End of the Sui Dynasty" for free for the first time.