Nan Chen has just occupied Jingzhou now, and has sent a large number of officials to it, and it can even be said that Zhou Qu and other Donggong officials have stayed in Jiangling City just to deal with the embarrassment of the shortage of Jiangling officials. Therefore, Li Xinchen stretched out his hand to ask for money and food, and Xiao Maha could still fully support it, but if he wanted officials, he really didn't, and Li Xinchen could only figure out a way to do it himself.

However, fortunately, Dai Cai in Yong'an, Cheng Feng in Fuling, and Tang Zhengliang in Ba County took refuge in Li Xinchen, at least he didn't have to worry about the chief officials of several county governments, and what he needed now was to make up for the officials below.

The Dong family's family of eunuchs for generations must have a lot of experience in how to govern the people, so taking the Dong family's people as officials can naturally help Li Xinchen rebuild a hierarchical management framework in a short period of time.

While arranging officials, Li Xinchen also had the intention of setting up an official school, thinking that he would train more young people to supplement the entire system. Of course, the gentlemen of official learning can also be drawn from among the children of these families.

"Brother Dong has volunteered, the Qin family can't fall behind, dare to ask if there is still a place for the Qin family under the general?" Qin Xi, the representative of the Linjiang Qin clan, also stood up.

"The talents under a certain command, of course, the more the merrier!" Li Xinchen couldn't help laughing and opened his arms, "As long as you don't dislike it, then so-and-so will definitely give you a place to use." ”

The eyes of the rest of the children of the family lit up, and now that the two leaders of Dong Mingzhi and Qin Opera have come forward, they don't have much room to choose, otherwise they will inevitably be suppressed by Li Xinchen and the Tang family, the Dong family, etc., so they have made up their minds to follow Li Xinchen, and Li Xinchen's promise is obviously to clearly express his attitude to the family.

"Willing to serve the general!" These young people of the family stood up one after another, although they were still young, but most of them were the eldest sons of the family, in other words, the heirs of the future family business, and of course they were able to make choices for the whole family.

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After discussing the matter of money and food with those enthusiastic young people in detail, Li Xinchen watched these people leave quickly, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, took a sip of the tea that was already a little cold, and suddenly squirted out a mouthful of water, and immediately coughed violently:

"W-what's this smell like?"

"Bashu's ginger tea, there are ginger and other things in the tea." Xiao Shilian had obviously tasted it a long time ago, so he had a gloating look on his face.

Li Xinchen has not drunk ginger tea, and he also knows that this is a very popular way of brewing tea in the western region, and even some ethnic minorities in later generations still maintain this tradition. But apparently this tea has not only the taste of ginger, but also the smell of green onion, dogwood and orange.

Suddenly Li Xinchen remembered that the development of tea drinking in China has gone through three important stages: "Tang decoction, Song point, and Ming bubble", and the sencha of the Tang Dynasty is the tea drinking habit of Guanzhong and Bashu.

In the Southern Dynasty, tea was boiled, in short, it was brewed with boiling water today or boiled with soup as a condiment. So when Li Xinchen drank tea in Nanchen, he didn't feel any difference between this tea and what he drank in later life, but when he drank this ginger tea, he finally couldn't adapt to this strange way of dealing with it.

In Li Xinchen's view, this undoubtedly covers the fragrance of tea, and the addition of ginger and oranges and other things certainly has dehumidification and other therapeutic effects, but when added to tea, it feels violent.

Of course, being in the same place, he should respect the local customs, and Li Xinchen didn't think about changing the eating habits of the Bashu people, but he didn't want to adapt to this habit.

It's okay to eat spicy, just drink tea.

After laughing, Xiao Shilian turned to a straight face and said, "Do you really plan to entrust these families with important tasks?" ”

Li Xinchen put down the teacup and bowed slightly: "I know what you're worried about, so I'm sure I have to take some checks and balances." ”

"How can this be checked and balanced," Xiao Shilian suddenly said dissatisfied, obviously he had been holding back these words in his heart for a long time, "We have too few people now, if you let these families get involved, Shizhong, you have to be careful that these families will take the opportunity to sit big, who can guarantee that there will not be a few more Zhang He among them?" ”

It is reasonable for Xiao Shilian to have such worries, and even Li Xinchen suspects that Chen Zhishen and Cao Zhong will have similar considerations. So he had to talk to Xiao Shilian first and explain it clearly.

"So I asked the hussar general for two people." Li Xinchen said with a smile, "It is estimated that you will be able to meet them in less than half a month." At that time, it is estimated that the personnel selected by these families have not officially taken office. ”

"Huh?" Xiao Shilian raised his eyebrows, waiting for Li Xinchen to explain.

Li Xinchen unhurriedly put up two fingers: "One is the current Xinzhou Thorn Shi Luo Ya, Xinzhou has a total of one Anshu City, let Luo Ya stay there and only be responsible for the transfer of grain and grass equipment, it is overkill, so a certain plan is to promote him as the Thorn Shi of Chuzhou, and take charge of the affairs of the county governments now." ”

"And what about the other one?" Xiao Shilian asked while pondering.

Luo Ya is a stable person, he has been in the loose cavalry for so many years, it is when the future is hopeless, Li Xinchen has promoted him as the history of the Xinzhou Assassin, and now he is promoted as the history of the Chuzhou Assassin, Luo Ya will definitely be grateful to Dade, so don't worry.

"The other one, of course, is Brother Dashi, let's fight in Bashu so happily, I guess Brother Dashi can't hold it anymore." Li Xinchen said as a matter of course.

"But ······" Xiao Shilian's face suddenly showed a worried look.

When he first entered Shu, Pei Zilie stayed in Jingzhou because Xiao Maha did not have enough cronies around him, and now Li Xinchen asked Pei Zilie to come over when Jingzhou was full of war clouds, wouldn't he be embarrassing Xiao Maha.

"Wei Chi Yu still had a chance to attack before, and now he will definitely not dare to attack." Li Xinchen couldn't help but smile and said, answering Xiao Shilian's question, "So the hussar general's side doesn't need to face such a big pressure, the rest of the old general Chun Yu and the old general Ren are all stable people, as long as they hold the city, Jingzhou will be fine." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Xiao Shilian frowned.

Li Xinchen smiled and stretched out his hand and knocked on the map: "Now our north is the upper reaches of the water, as long as we take Bashu, the upper reaches of Xiangyang will be dangerous." Do you think Wei Chi Hui will let us make trouble in Bashu at this time, and he himself will go to compete with the hussar general in Jingzhou? ”

"What do you mean, Shizhong······ Is it possible for Yu Chi to enter Shu next? Xiao Shilian suddenly frowned.

If that happens, Li Xinchen will face even more resistance.

This battle can be fought.