After learning from Cui Yu about the payment of each county to Anping County, Zeng Yu and Wang Qing agreed to meet in front of Huanglongzhai after half a month. At that time, the new county lieutenant of Anping County and the head of the Zhao family, Zhao Dang, will lead people to pay the food and money for the first half of the year, and in the dark, the three major battalions of the Wuyi Army will wait for an opportunity to raid and ensure that a mountain peak on the front line is quickly taken.

In the next few days, under the handling of Liu Neng and others, all things in Anping County slowly went on the right track. In particular, Zeng Yu's public interrogation of the Wang family and the Sun family was all severely punished. As for the former county magistrate Cui Yu, he did not interrogate, but just let Cui Yu take the basic entanglement, rented two carriages, and left Anping County with his family, leaving Zeng Yu with more than 50,000 acres of fertile land and more than 40 million yuan, as well as grain piled up in the Cui family's warehouse. After Zeng Yu's interrogation, he announced to their tenant farmers that they were now employed to cultivate public land, and after three years, each family would be given a share of 50 acres of land, and only 60% of the harvest would be taken in the three years of cultivation. In the same way, after three years, a family will divide 50 acres of land, and if there is no house, the government can help build it, but it will have to pay an extra 10% of the harvest. The main concern of the people is whether they can survive and whether they will live better, as soon as Zeng Yu's notice of granting land came out, all of Anping County began to loyally support Zeng Yu, the new county order.

Therefore, the next conscription process can be said to be extremely smooth, not only the children of good families in the county want to make meritorious contributions and sign up for the army, but also the displaced people from other places are attracted by Zeng Yu's policy and are willing to join the county army to find a way out for themselves and their families. Of course, there are also some tenant farmers who now see hope of getting rid of their status, and some of them are young and strong enough to apply for enlistment.

Zeng Yu asked Gude to select from them to ensure that the number of county soldiers reached 3,000, and one thing that needs to be said is that there are also some young people in Lingyun Village to sign up, and Zeng Yu is very kind to them, letting them serve as grassroots captains or even chiefs in these county soldiers. In this way, the loyalty of the entire county soldiers can be guaranteed, and at the same time, through these people in Lingyun Village, everyone can know their attitude towards the grassroots people.

Of course, Zeng Yu knows that if he only relies on these, he can't keep everyone supported by the people. He read "Han Feizi", in which Han Fei told a story: "The husband sells the servant and sows the cultivator, the master spends the family and eats, and the person who adjusts the cloth and asks for money is not a philistine." Said: If so, the cultivator is deep, and the cultivator is familiar. The philistines are committed to the cultivators, and the ones who are dedicated and upright are not the ones who love the master. Said: If so, the soup is beautiful, and the money cloth is easy to cloud. This means that the hired peasants work hard, not because of any affection for their masters, but because they are rewarded more; The landlord treats the hired farmer better, not because they love the hired farmer, but because he wants the hired farmer to cultivate the land better.

Although it may be uncomfortable to say this, Han Fei, as the master of Legalism, what he said is the most true, whether it is now or in the future, this is the most essential thing in all interpersonal relationships.

Therefore, he needed to govern Anping County far better than in the Cui Yu period, and after discussing with Liu Neng and others, he formulated two major policies.

One is Tuntian, the private soldiers who rebelled between the two families of Wang and Sun have now all been arrested, because Zeng Yu issued a notice announcing that if these people take the initiative to surrender, he will let them go after participating in Tuntian for three years. In this way, many people, under the persuasion of their families or their own considerations, came to the county government to confess their crimes, and after Zeng Yu registered them, he asked He Yan to lead them to the Tuntian point arranged outside the county. For those who did not turn themselves in, Zeng Yu asked those who took the initiative to come to the county government to report, and promised that if the other party did participate in the rebellion that day, the whistleblower would be rewarded with 1,000 yuan, so everyone reported to He Yan one after another, and as a result, those who hid in the county and tried to get through the tricks were arrested one by one. And Zeng Yu did not break his promise, and issued the promised reward to the person who reported it on the spot.

After hearing about this incident, the people of Anping County recognized the credibility of the government even more. Don't underestimate the word letter, back then, Zigong asked Confucius, how should the country be governed? Confucius said, sufficient food, foot soldiers, the people's trust. ”

Zigong asked again, what if you have to remove two items and keep only one of them?

Confucius replied, go to the soldiers, go to the food, because if the people do not believe in their officials and monarchs, then the country will not exist! Therefore, the people cannot stand without faith! ”

And Shang Ying's change of the law back then was also the first to establish the letter, and then began to implement the specific measures of the change. If Zeng Yu is not governing a country, the reason is the same, and he now has the assets of the Cui family and the Wang Sun family, it can be said that he has a lot of money, enough food, foot soldiers, and the people's trust, all three of which have been satisfied, and he can now be said to be solid for the governance of Anping County, and it is time to implement some of his own ideas.

This is the second policy he wants to implement, and its main implementer is Yin Zhuo, and the main player is currently only the Zhang family. First of all, the city tax was abolished in Anping County, but Yin Zhuo set aside an area in this county as an independent business district, all transactions to be carried out in Anping County, first of all, the trader must first register with the county government and obtain a certificate of trading permission, and all transactions must be carried out in the business district, and then the corresponding percentage of taxes and fees will be extracted according to the transaction amount, and the transactions in the business area are also protected by the government, and no one is allowed to disrupt normal transactions. If you plan to operate here for a long time, you can also rent or buy a house or a house as a storefront, of course, there is a certain fee for this.

But compared to other counties or counties in the Han Dynasty, this can be said to be an unprecedented thing, because Zeng Yu treated all merchants equally, and did not treat them as inferior like others, and Zeng Yu charged a transaction tax that was lower than other places. Businessmen are very profitable, when they see the notice issued by the government, many people are still worried that this is fake, the government is just talking, at this time the benefits of Lixin appeared, these businessmen inquired about the people in the county and knew that the government did what it said, so they came to the county government to register.

In the past few days, all the large and small merchants who have used Anping County as a trading point for a long time have registered with the county government, but because the transaction tax of Yin Zhuoding is not high, the money collected is less than before. This point has also been criticized by some people, saying to Zeng Yu that this is a disguised damage to public property, but Zeng Yu believes in Yin Zhuo, and also believes that Yin Zhuo and himself said before, he wants to build Anping County into the center of commercial circulation in the north and south of the Han Dynasty through these.

Zeng Yu is also a little worried about this, but what he is worried about is not whether Anping can become the commercial center of the north and south, but whether he can keep it. If Anping County develops in the future, there may be other people who come to pick their own fruits, then he will want to cry without tears.

Thinking of this, he asked someone to call Xie Jing and said to him: "Zhiyuan, I have something for you to do." ”

"My lord's command."

"You lead fifty personal soldiers, turn into a caravan, and go to Luoyang. I will ask the Zhang family to send someone with you to Luoyang, and you will select eight boxes of jewelry from the last Wang and Sun families and send them to Zhang Rang's mansion. I will also give you a letter, you can bring it with you, and hand over the jewelry and the letter to Zhang Rang's nephew, Zhang Yu. If the other party asks about our situation, you remember to say what you should say, and say you don't know what you shouldn't say. Zeng Yu said solemnly, he knew that if he wanted to keep the cake of Anping County and not let others interfere, he could only count on the eunuch forces led by Zhang Rang at this time.

Although he was distressed when eight boxes of jewelry were sent out, compared to Anping County, these are nothing. If there is no backer in the DPRK, no matter how low he is, no matter how good he does, the credit will go to someone else. Of course, this is just an expedient measure, and when he has enough right to speak, he will not need these at that time, and he himself must formulate relevant systems to prevent such situations.

However, after Xie Jing heard that Zeng Yu asked him to give Zhang Rang a gift, he was not very willing in his heart. As Zeng Yu's disciple in the actual sense, he couldn't hide what he had to say, and said directly: "Lord, I don't want to go, you let others go." ”

"Zhiyuan, do you look down on Zhang Rang's identity?" Zeng Yu smiled and asked.

"Hmm." Xie Jing snorted with a straight face, which can be regarded as a default.

"Hehe, you. Do you think I just want to stammer Zhang Rang, who in the world today doesn't know that the ten permanent servants are chaotic and have made the entire Han world a miasma. But we must still count on them, after all, they are like duckweed without roots, and at most they will ask us for some money. But if we go to make friends with the wealthy families in Beijing opposite them, these are the masters who really eat people and don't spit out bones, and we will definitely be left with no bones left by them, so now this is our best choice. If I choose someone else, I don't feel at ease, only you can understand this, so I hope you can help me get this done well, and buy me more time for everyone to develop freely. Zeng Yu looked at Xie Jing's eyes and said earnestly.

In fact, Xie Jing, who has studied with Zeng Yu since he was a child, also knows the truth of this, but the spirit of the ancient scholar in his heart makes him unable to pull his face to do this. Now when he heard Zeng Yu say this, and said that only he could understand, he sighed in his heart, hugged his fist to Zeng Yu and said: "Lord, if I go to Luoyang, I will definitely meet the requirements of the lord and not let outsiders interfere in Anping County." ”

"It's hard for you, I'll let Chengyong choose the soldiers, as for the people of the Zhang family, I will talk to Zhang Fuguang and let him arrange it. You go and prepare, and you'll leave tomorrow. Zeng Yu patted Xie Jing's shoulder and said to him.

"Yes, my lord!" After Xie Jing clasped his fists and saluted, he walked away, leaving Zeng Yu alone, silently thinking about when he would be able to make his own unique voice in the imperial court, without worrying about being attacked by others.

"It's fast, it should be fast, just three years is enough!" Zeng Yu looked at the back of Xie Jing walking away step by step in front of him, and said silently in his heart.