After entering Li Ji's handsome account, Sun Xiangfu knew what the specific situation was in Shuozhou now, simply put, it was chaos, and to put it more complicated, it was nothing.

When Liang Luoren killed Liang Shidu, he basically killed all his henchmen, these people were the main officials of Shuozhou at that time, and why Liang Luoren rebelled against Liang Shidu, in addition to seeing the general trend clearly, it was not because his subordinate soldiers couldn't live a poor life, so he drummed it out.

As for a traitor like Liang Luoren, Li Shimin naturally looked down on him, and it was impossible for him to lead troops in the border village, so he was given the title of a county duke and made him a general with no real power.

Then, the first situation that Shuozhou is currently facing is that there is no one for civil and military officials.

The second situation is that the grain and grass reserves in the government treasury are insufficient.

The grain stored here is used to feed the original thousands of horses in Shuozhou, and now there are more than 10,000 cavalry in the imperial army, plus infantry and people, there are more than 30,000 people, and the land of Shuozhou is less than 50,000 people, which has nearly doubled, and it is strange that there is enough food and grass to eat. As a result, there is a huge food shortage.

Not only that, judging from the public sentiment surveyed by Li Ji in the past few days, the grain and grass in the homes of the people in Shuozhou are insufficient, and it is difficult to support the melting of the ice and snow in March next year, not to mention the autumn harvest, if the imperial court does not give relief halfway, then more than 13,000 households, by the beginning of spring next year, there will be no 10,000 households, which is why Liang Shidu has been concerned about Shuozhou for more than ten years, but has turned Shuozhou from more than 30,000 households to more than 10,000 households.

Since Sun Xiangfu received the emperor's order, then these problems are the problems he faces, Li Ji doesn't seem to have the slightest intention of helping him share, but according to the territory of Shuozhou, he set up a unity battalion with a scale of 3,000 people.

The main general is an old soldier under Li Ji, named Guo Po. The lieutenants and brigade commanders, centurions, most of them were served by Guo Po's original subordinates, and as for the soldiers, most of them were drawn from Liang Luoren's old department, and the entire Shuozhou army, only 2,000 young and strong people were left as soldiers, and the rest will be returned to the people.

Sun Xiangfu felt that the name of the main general sent by Li Ji to himself was very unlucky, and read it in reverse, just like the current situation in Shuozhou, it was to break the pot and be carried by himself.

"What, go to the death row camp and get me a hand."

When it comes to politics, you have to rely on the literati, in this regard, Sun Xiangfu actually has a shortcut, as long as he writes to Wang Xu, Wang Xu can send him a hundred people who can read and break words in minutes, but in this way, Sun Xiangfu is in danger of being overhead, and he doesn't want Shuozhou to become the Wang family.

Therefore, the first thing he thought of was Tang Fengyi, who had been in Guangzhou for many years, Sun Xiangfu himself had never been a magistrate, and he didn't understand what the local officials' yamen set up, so he had to rely on Lao Tang in this regard.

In addition, Sun Xiangfu also thought of a way to make a list to recruit talents, as long as they can read and hyphenate, they can come to the government as officials, the more the merrier, and now they don't care about any talents.

"Captain Guo, the affairs of the unity battalion will be entrusted to you by this officer, and you can transfer the equipment of the three thousand soldiers to the arsenal, as for how to garrison it, get a charter for the official as soon as possible."

Sun Xiangfu is an idiot on the battlefield, he doesn't know how to govern the army, let alone command a war, but he knows how to hand over professional matters to professional talent officials, in addition to helping Xi Jun buy the back door to get a cavalry lieutenant position, for Guo Po, he is fully delegated.

"Qi Qi Sun Changshi, at the end of the past few days, there has been an inspection of all parts of Shuozhou, among the four counties, Shanyang County is all bordered by the Turks, and most of the area is grassland, the most difficult to guard against, yes, it should be equipped with at least three battalions of men and horses. There are some areas around the city that are adjacent to the grassland, but the city is strong, and two battalions of infantry can be sent to defend the city, and one battalion of cavalry is mobile.

As for Shanyin County, Huairen County, and Ying County, they were all within the defensive line, and it was only necessary to send a cavalry brigade commander to lead the troops to cooperate with the county government officials to arrest the bandits. ”

The establishment of the first battalion of Datang is about 500 people, and the first brigade is 300 people, of course, this is not an absolute value, Guo Po said this, Sun Xiangfu understood what he meant, the mobile troops were placed in Shanyang County, which was lonely, and the defensive troops were placed in Mayi City, as for the three counties within the defensive line, send a brigade of cavalry to patrol and arrest the bandits.

"Alright, do as you want! At the same time, let the people who do not have household registration go to the government to register their household registration, and tell them that the people who have registered will not only not have to pay taxes for three years, but also have to obtain the Yongye land divided by the imperial court, and starting this winter, each household will be given 100 catties of coal every month. ”

For the newly recovered places, the imperial court generally has a tax exemption policy, and the actual situation in Shuozhou Li Ji has made it clear to Li Shimin, yes, Li Shimin gave this place a three-year tax holiday, of course, he asked the eldest grandson Empress to ask for something from Sun Xiangfu here, which is not worse than the finance and taxation of a Shangzhou.

Sun Xiangfu's move was naturally to want the local people's hearts to settle down quickly, you know, they have been ruled by Liang Shidu for more than ten years.

And the so-called 100 catties of coal, but it is just a local material, Shanxi coal is everywhere, but the people do not know how to use, this thing is easy to poison people, the guards found a few large coal mines around Mayi a few days ago, organized people to mine some, at present, in the coal workshop in Mayi City, honeycomb coal has been made, as long as the craftsman team under Sun Xiangfu comes over, then, the safer coal stove will be manufactured in large quantities, after all, there are only more than 10,000 people in the whole Shuozhou, There is only one stove per family, and there are only more than 10,000.

However, food is the problem that must be solved, and in this regard, he has to ask Wang Xu for help.

hurriedly wrote a letter, and saw Tang Fengyi with his hands in his sleeves and arrived at the yamen hall.

"What is Sun Changshi looking for the old man?"

"Knowingly asking, of course it's helping."

"In what name?"

"How's the chief staff?"

"Yes, yes, can I make a request?"

"Say."

"Can you not let the old man live in the cave of the city gate, Master Liang has built such a gorgeous mansion, isn't it a waste not to let people live in it."

"You corrupt official, enjoy yourself, or inform your brothers, you will all move to Liangshidu today, no, go to my house and live! It just so happens that I am short of manpower, so everyone comes to help, not to mention that I can get rich and expensive! There is no problem in living well in this Shuozhou land. ”

Sun Xiangfu said that the palace-like mansion of Liang Shidu belonged to him, this is the benefit of power, but he did not forget the poor people in the death row camp, these people are the team he can use in Shuozhou.