Huo Bao and his entourage came out of Quyang County and went to the Chuzhou Prefecture Capital.

If Quyang County is the "cradle of generals", then the Chuzhou Prefecture is the "concentration of civilian officials" in the Chuzhou army.

Among the more than a dozen state capitals occupied by the Chuzhou army today, except for a few who are demoted to power, the remaining half of the government comes from the Chuzhou state capital, and most of them are the first batch of state officials to submit to the Chuzhou army.

It was not that the Chuzhou army was "nepotistic", but that they had luck.

The officials in Chuzhou were the earliest, and they had more qualifications than others.

In addition, they are different from the candidates from the poor family, they have the experience of serving as officials in the state capital yamen, and most of the errands they send out are very good.

When it comes to ascending, they are one step ahead of others, one step at a time, step by step.

Now Chuzhou Zhizhou is still Bi Zhizhou, and Du Wei is Wang Du Wei.

Bi Zhizhou was originally the magistrate of Chaoxian County, Luzhou, because of his old relationship with the Chaohu Water Division, he joined the white-shirted army when the Chuzhou army entered Luzhou, which was considered to be a relatively early demotion among the officials.

It's just that last year, Quyang County made a "tax increase case", and not only Wang Duwei was implicated, but even Bi Zhizhou, a Shangguan, was also "negligent".

Although the two were not demoted, they also stopped being promoted.

By the beginning of spring this year, the Chuzhou army won Changzhou Mansion, Suzhou Mansion, Songjiang Mansion, as well as Shouzhou and Shuzhou, and when the manpower was arranged, there would be no Wang and Bi.

Seeing Huo Bao and his entourage coming, Wang Duwei and Bi Zhizhou were a little apprehensive, for fear that there would be any more mistakes that they had not paid attention to.

Huo Bao looked at the two chief officers, and was speechless in his heart.

The biggest mistake is that the Chuzhou drought was not reported.

This is not the livelihood of the people, but also involves the follow-up strategic arrangements of the Chuzhou army.

This Bi Zhizhou is mediocre and not outstanding.

Wang Duwei here, in the end, Huo Bao's Yue family, if he continues to be confused like this, he will wipe out everyone.

After the reception banquet, Huo Bao met Wang Duwei alone.

"Uncle Wang, there is a big drought this spring, why don't you repay Jinling?"

Huo Bao said bluntly.

Wang Duwei was stunned, and said for a while: "Although there are signs of a major drought, there are only two counties of Lingshui and Quyang, Binjiang and Yongyang, the state capital, which are quite good, and most of them are just poor harvests......

"What about Bozhou? How is Chuzhou? How is Huai'an? How is Taizhou? ”

“……”

Wang Duwei was speechless, and his face was a little embarrassed.

The people's livelihood economy should be Bi Zhizhou's business, Wang Duwei did not shirk his responsibility, but he also felt a little aggrieved.

It is also taboo for this military attache to arbitrarily interfere in local government affairs.

"If Huainan is still like this, what will happen to Henan Province?"

Huo Bao continued to ask.

“……”

Only then did Wang Duwei understand Huo Bao's intention of asking him.

If the drought in one state and one county is a matter of people's livelihood; If there is a large-scale drought, the people become displaced people, and the world will be even more chaotic.

He is a native of Quyang and a subordinate of Deng Jian.

Last year's chaos in Quyang County was a man-made disaster caused by natural disasters.

As a result, Quyang County can be described as "changing the world".

Then there was the Chuzhou Army.

He couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, if they followed their previous plan, only treated the drought as a matter of people's livelihood, opened canals or something, and did not strengthen local defenses, it was impossible to say that when the time came, Chuzhou would be in chaos......

Wang Duwei stood up and solemnly bowed to Huo Bao.

Huo Bao hurriedly avoided it and said, "Uncle Wang doesn't have to be polite...... Whether it's from the leopard's side or from the cousin's side, are we outsiders...... Speaking of which, Uncle Wang was implicated, otherwise he wouldn't still be detained in Chuzhou......"

Earlier, compared with Chuzhou, Hezhou, and Luzhou, Chuzhou, as the nest of the Chuzhou army, is very important, and the governor of Chuzhou cannot be a non-confidant.

After all, in the Chuzhou army, many family members are still in Chuzhou.

But now Chuzhou has more than a dozen state capitals, including Yangzhou Mansion, Suzhou Mansion, Songjiang Mansion, Zhenjiang Mansion, Changzhou Mansion and other densely populated and prosperous places, Chuzhou is nothing compared to them.

Zhang Duwei, who was on a par with Wang Duwei before, was the governor of Taiping Mansion before, followed Deng Jian to fight Yangzhou, and followed Deng Jian's "Eastern Expedition" this spring, and now he is a 10,000-strong general.

There is also Li Duwei Li Yao, who is now the Duwei of Songjiang.

Songjiang Prefecture has salt and grain, and also manages the waterway connecting the river and the sea.

Zhang and Li are both younger than Wang Duwei, but now they are developing one step faster than Wang Duwei.

Wang Duwei could only smile bitterly, who could know how his brother-in-law dared to do anything wrong.

In the Chuzhou Army, both civilian and military attachés have studied military rules and regulations before joining the army.

The word "greed" is absolutely untouchable.

Now that the brother-in-law is implicated, not to mention, even taking him into disgrace.

If it weren't for Huo Bao's family affairs, someone would have fallen into the well a long time ago, and his position as the governor of Chuzhou would be unstable......

Of the four counties in Chuzhou, in addition to the state capital Yongyang, Quyang, and Binjiang, the rest is Lingshui.

Lingshui is a hundred miles away from the state capital, and the group walked for two days before arriving.

Lingshui Zhixian is Xiong Qianhu's cousin, in his twenties, he was originally doing chores around the owner of the horse village, and he is a very careful character.

After half a year in Lingshui County, this county seems to have no merits, but just looking at the news of the Lingshui gold mine, it is concealed to the death, and the slightest rumor has not leaked out, so I know that this county is comprehensive.

Because the Green Snake Army became an independent army, Huo Bao previously asked Qiu Wei to reorganize the right wing of the soldiers, and this time he also left him in Jinling to train new soldiers and horses.

Li Yuan and Zhu Qiang also asked Huo Bao to send Hou Xiaoming and Shi San to Xuanzhou to counsel military affairs and ensure logistics.

This time, Huo Bao was followed by An Changsheng, Li Yu and Song Qianzhi.

Zhu Gang, the captain of the pro-guards, has been in Jinling for most of the year, and Huo Bao did not promote the new captain of the pro-guards, so he asked Zhu Gang's brother Zhu Qiang to temporarily act as the captain of the pro-guards.

Now that Zhu Qiang, the captain of the generation of the pro-soldiers, is not there, Huo Bao asked An Changsheng to hang up a tun commander and directly lead dozens of personal guards.

Li Yu made up the numbers, and Song Qianzhi heard that there was also the Supervision Department accompanying him, so he begged Huo Bao to follow.

Now that they have arrived in Lingshui, everyone has also seen Zhu Gang.

Zhu Gang came to Lingshui in September last year, and it has been more than eight months, less than a year.

However, Zhu Gang seems to have changed dramatically.

Shui Jin was familiar with the old man of the child soldiers, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but compare Zhu Gang's figure: "This is half a head!" ”

Zhu Qiang grinned, his face was black and red, but he showed a mouthful of small white teeth.

Zhu Qiang has only become a Ding this year, and after more than half a year's effort, he has not only grown taller, but also has a much stronger body.

He was originally tall and tall, and at the age of fifteen he looked about the same size as an adult, and now he was a head taller than ordinary people, not like a teenager, but like a young man.

Huo Bao's eyes also fell on his bulging arms, and he said curiously: "Has this been practiced?" ”

Zhu Qiang nodded and said, "There is nothing else to do every day, so I practice weight-bearing...... I also changed the heavy knife ......"

Speaking of the original old men of the child soldiers, Zhu Qiang's loyalty to Huo Bao was no less than Hou Xiaoming.

Among the first five chiefs, Huo Bao and Zhu Qiang were all full of hearts, and they had the right ideas; Hou Xiaoming is loyal, but sometimes he is a little paranoid when he treats others; Liang Zhuang is not very generous here, and he has some petty calculations.

Zhu Qiang also has shortcomings here, that is, he acts too straight and does not use his brains.

The three children of the Zhu family, Zhu Qiang and Zhu Xiaomei together do not have as many eyes as Zhu Qiang.

However, people like Zhu Qiang have strong execution ability, which is also reassuring.

Before Huo Bao ordered Zhu Qiang to be the captain of the guard, it also meant to take care of it.

Zhu Qiang is not suitable for leading troops, and his own kung fu is also average, and the front of the battle will make people feel uneasy.

Transfer to the staff officer, without that brain.

If you transfer logistics, you will have to go under his younger brother Zhu Qiang, and the brothers will not get along well.

Unexpectedly, for most of the year in Lingshui, Zhu Gang was reborn and looked much more powerful than last year.

When Shui Jin heard this, he couldn't wait, and said: "Just say don't do fake tricks, let's go, let's practice in the school field......"