When Zeng Yu came out of Zhang's house, Zhang Nashan and the three of them were sent outside the gate. Zeng Yu walked down the steps, turned to Zhang Nashan and said, "Zhang Lao stays, it is my happiest thing to be able to get the Zhang family's followers today." You must also have something to do, so go back first, Fuguang, you remember to come to the county office tomorrow morning. ”

Zhang Fuguang was naturally full of promises, just now after the Zhang family worshiped Zeng Yu, he thought that the Zhang family planned to help him by doing business, so he had to plan in advance. And Zhang Nashan has said that in the future, the main affairs of the Zhang family will be handed over to Zhang Fuguang to be responsible, and he and Zhang Nahai will preside over the family's industry in Anping County in Anping County, so let Zhang Fuguang go to the county government as soon as possible, and Zeng Yu will call Yin Zhuo, Liu Neng and others to discuss the development direction of business together.

On the way back, Zhu Wen saw that Zeng Yu was in a good mood, and said: "Congratulations to the lord, among the major local families, the original three major families such as the Zhao family are the only survivors, but they are also separated from the core of power, and the Zhang family, the representative of the small and medium-sized families, is now a family with a similar family, and we can say that we have completely mastered Anping County." ”

"Haha, Chengyong, what you said this time is the truth, but what makes me happiest is not these, but the development of everything is implemented step by step according to the predetermined plan, and there are additional gains, such as Fengxiao, such as today's Zhang family, etc." Because Yin Zhuo is only serving in the county government now, and he has not completely served Zeng Yu, he is not a talent who really belongs to him.

"Lord, what should we do next, is it okay..."Zhu Wen asked tentatively, he himself had an idea in his heart, but he was afraid that Zeng Yu would refuse, so he stopped halfway through the conversation.

"It's okay to be honest and brave and speak directly!" Zeng Yu said.

Zhu Wen got Zeng Yu's permission, and after preparing the wording, he said to Zeng Yu: "I heard Brother Ziwu say that there are many people in Huanglongzhai, and the location is also dangerous. Now that we have controlled Anping County, can we dispatch officers and soldiers to cooperate with Brother Ziwu and them, and we can also take Huanglongzhai as soon as possible. ”

Zeng Yu stopped, looked at Zhu Wen with a smile, and said: "Chengyong, to be honest, did you see Ziwu leading the soldiers of the Ruishi Battalion to fight on the battlefield like bamboos, and you want to gallop on the battlefield with itchy hands." ”

Zhu Wen touched his head, pretended to be stupid, and said, "A little, hehe." ”

"Haha, you, Ziwu has already told me about the matter of Huanglongzhai, but Huanglongzhai is at the junction of this county and Yang'a County next door, and we rush to send troops, which will cause unnecessary misunderstandings. Although we say that we control the county, we must know that there is still the county guard Cui Ming on the head, although he will not deliberately trouble us because of Zhang's relationship, but if we bring troops into the territory of Linxian without authorization, it will give him a good excuse to deal with us, and because we are not reasonable, Zhang will not be able to say anything. Now in the court, the power of the eunuch family and the bureaucratic family are competing fiercely, and the two sides are evenly matched, what we can do as petty officials at the grassroots level is not to leave any handle to one party, so that we can develop silently with the help of the power of one party, and at the same time try not to offend the other party too much. ”

It turned out that Wang Qing had told Zeng Yu before that he would let Zeng Yu send troops to support, but Zeng Yu considered that he was now in the whirlpool of rivalry between relatives and eunuchs in the court, although he was far away from the center of the whirlpool, but a small county order could not resist a blow from any party at all, so he did not agree to Wang Qing's request at that time.

"Hey, I didn't expect us to master Anping County, but we had more concerns. In this way, even if our unclothed army breaks through Huanglongzhai, I am afraid that it will suffer heavy losses. Zhu Wen sighed.

What we can do is to take care of the aftermath of the victims, so that all the soldiers can fight in front with confidence. In addition, you don't have to worry too much, I'm going to ask Fengxiao if there are any good plans, maybe I can see the future. Zeng Yu patted Zhu Wen's shoulder, raised his head and said.

But what he said was also in his heart, on the road to hegemony since ancient times, which successful person did not step on the white bones of Kaikai to reach the top, even those losers, there are many dead souls behind them. But he knows better that in this era, the death toll directly caused by war is not many, but natural disasters are the real harvester of human life. Whether it is drought or flood, locust plague, will cause starvation everywhere, ten rooms and nine emptiness, coupled with the outbreak of plague, these together caused the period from the end of the Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms, the population of the Han Dynasty shrank by more than 60 percent, from more than 60 million to 20 million, for example, a basic family of five, there may only be a young couple left, and the rest of the old people and children died of disasters because of their infirmity.

Zeng Yu thought that it was precisely because of the decline in the population of the Han dynasty that he was unable to protect the splendid rivers and mountains that the ancestors of China began to fight from generation to generation, so that the barbarians from all over the world trampled on the land of the Central Plains, and countless Chinese people were slaughtered by foreign races, and the Han family moved south. The cultural tolerance and assimilation of the Chinese ethnic groups did not completely destroy their own civilization, but assimilated many foreign races with themselves, so that the Chinese civilization continued to spread.

It's just that all kinds of sacrifices in this are unacceptable to Zeng Yu, whether it is as a member of Zhuxia, or because of the sentence of the ancestor "save China from danger", he is required to actively participate in the upcoming troubled times.

Zhu Wen fell into deep thought after seeing Zeng Yu finish speaking, and did not disturb him. He doesn't have Zeng Yu's experience, or that kind of memory, and he doesn't have the grief and anger of knowing that his compatriots were once called two-legged sheep by foreign races, he only knows to follow Zeng Yu closely and become his thickest shield. As for the spear, whether it is Zeng Yu or not, they all know that the sharpest spear in their hands must be Wang Qing.

Zeng Yu lowered his head and saw that Zhu Wen was looking at the Quartet vigilantly, and in the back, there were even more people sent by Zhang Nashan to escort Zeng Yu back, he called Zhu Wen, and the two continued to walk towards the county office, and several Zhang family guards behind them naturally hurriedly followed.

When the two returned to the county office, the other officials in the county had already gone back, and only Liu Neng and others were left in the county office, and of course there were a hundred of Zeng Yu's personal soldiers, but to Zeng Yu's surprise, he saw that Yin Zhuo had not left yet, and was sitting on the seat in the hall talking to Liu Neng and others.

He stepped forward, and everyone also saw him, and they all stood up and saluted him, Zeng Yu returned the salute and asked, "What are you all talking about?" ”

"Lord Qi, Yaozu has counted all the assets of the Wang family and the Sun family today, and is telling us how to deal with these." Liu Neng, as Zeng Yu's absence, had the largest position in the county government, and he replied.

"Oh, I wonder how many assets these two have seized together?" Zeng Yu was also interested and asked.

Liu Neng looked at Yin Zhuo and motioned for him to think about Zeng Yu's report, Yin Zhuo did not shirk it, this was originally his duty, he paused, and said: "The two families have a total of 87,000 acres of land, all of which are Shangtian, and there are also 500 acres of salt fields, which can make a profit of more than 100,000 yuan every year through salt production, and the money and grain hoarded by the other two families are about 80 million catties of money, 600,000 catties of grain, and 26 boxes of pearls, jade and gems. Yin Zhuo clearly reported to Zeng Yu the amount of assets of the two families.

Zeng Yu was also taken aback when he heard it, he didn't expect these two enclosures to be so much, he had seen the account books of Anping County, and the total number of registered acres of land was 640,000 mu, and now these two families accounted for more than one-tenth, if you take into account the land occupied by Cui Yu and the Zhao family, almost most of the land in this county is concentrated in the hands of these scholars.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, it was stipulated that a family of five should be raised in 100 acres, and now the population is growing, but in the end, these scholars occupy more than 200,000 mu of land, and may even reach 300,000 mu, and according to the remaining 400,000 mu of land, they can only feed about 4,000 households.

Zeng Yu thought of this, and only then did he know why the scholar clan Haoqiang in the late Han Dynasty had so much influence in the local area, just from the land, they controlled at least half of the local people, not to mention from other aspects. He took a deep breath and asked Yin Zhuo, "Yaozu, in your opinion, it is better to deal with the land of the two families. ”

Yin Zhuo looked at Zeng Yu, he also had an idea in his heart, so he said: "Lord Qiyu, the lower officials think that these lands should all be used as official fields, as for the original tenant farmers, they are still the land they were responsible for before farming, but they can be rewarded or punished differently according to their respective harvests. ”

Zeng Yu was silent for a while when he heard Yin Zhuo's words, not that Yin Zhuo's proposal was not good, this was the most routine treatment at present, he wanted to copy the model of Lingyunzhuang and distribute the land to those tenant farmers. However, he knew that doing this in Lingyunzhuang would not have much impact, but if he did so in Anping County, it would inevitably arouse the opposition of all the scholar classes, because his behavior had already violated the core interests of all the scholars.

Guo Jia knew the situation in Lingyunzhuang, he saw Zeng Yu silent, guessed his thoughts, he said: "Lord, Jia thinks that we can tuntian today, and not just simply land these tens of thousands of acres of farmland, but change the previous model, we can take sixteen of the harvest, let the people leave forty percent, so that we can better mobilize the enthusiasm of all tenant farmers." ”

Hearing Guo Jiayi's words, he glanced at Guo Jia deeply, knowing that this was a proposal to move the model of Lingyunzhuang to Anping County under a different name. At this time, Zeng Yu's eyes lit up, and he thought of going one step further, and he could change the identity of the tenant farmers in a different concept, he said: "Yes, and we can also encourage all the tenant farmers to open up the land as much as possible, and at the same time promise that after three years of cultivation, each household can get 500 acres of land." ”

"Good, the Lord is very good with this law, so that the arable fields will inevitably increase greatly, and more grain and grass can be provided for the county." Guo Jia clapped his hands and said.

"Then do it. Hongzhi, I appoint you as the Tuntian Cao of this county, responsible for all matters related to Tuntian and land reclamation, and it is under the jurisdiction of Yachuan. Zeng Yu said to He Yan.

"Yes, my lord!" He Yan stood up and hugged his fists in response.