After everyone went to Quyang County and inspected Quyang County, it was basically determined that Chuzhou was still in a major drought this year.

"There's no news from Bozhou?"

Huo Bao was surprised.

Since Huo Wu and his son won the Chuzhou Army in June last year, Huo Wu has successively sent people to various places to collect news.

There are people from all sides in Jinling City, and the eyes and ears of the Chuzhou army are also planted in the Quartet.

Song Lin was dealing with government affairs by Mr. Lin's side, and he also paid attention to the news from various places, and said with a wry smile: "I was staring at several white-shirt forces before, and the news over Bozhou is mostly a dispute between several white-shirted forces in Bozhou, as well as conscription matters......"

"I have to inquire carefully and determine the scope of the drought!"

Huo Bao thought for a moment and said.

In addition to guarding against the Bozhou and Taizhou white shirts, it is also necessary to strengthen local security and make preparations for the resettlement of displaced people.

At worst, sometimes, outcasts are equated with bandits.

It was Huo Bao who fled from Nanshan Village in March last year, and the first group of road bandits they encountered was the homeless people from Lingshui County.

On the bright side, the displaced are the population.

Chuzhou suffered a famine in the two years before last and last year, and the population lost several percent.

When Deng Jian was born, more than 20,000 soldiers were conscripted in a county town, that is, every family had men serving in the military.

The disaster in Hezhou and Luzhou was not obvious, but it was not light last year's conscription.

Who made the Chuzhou army have few soldiers at that time, and they can't wait to recruit more in Hezhou.

Even if the people of Hezhou are soft and a little less bloody, they are more used as logistics soldiers.

On the Luzhou side, it was made by the former Luzhou Zhizhou, and they were all levied to Shan Ding, which shows how powerful the levy is.

Later, the Chuzhou army picked up the cheap, except for some old and weak and single ding, the other Luzhou recruits took over.

The Chuzhou Army, which was dominated by Quyang soldiers, and the Luzhou recruits, became the main force of the Chuzhou Army after successive expeditions.

The soldiers who survived have now been promoted by two or three levels, to say the least; has good skills, and has become a thousand households, even if it is a deputy general, there is no shortage of them.

When the Chuzhou army crossed the river and the soldiers became rich, the conscription was not as ruthless as the conscription.

Nowadays, compared with Jiangnan, Chuzhou, Hezhou, and Luzhou all lack population, which is just enough to take in displaced people.

It's just that how to contain it, how to place it, still needs to be thoroughly prepared.

Otherwise, Chuzhou, which has just been relieved, will be chaotic again.

Hezhou and Luzhou, which have achieved initial results in Tuntian, will also suffer losses.

Specifically, it is up to Jinling to decide.

Fortunately, now the grass and trees germinate, even if you eat grass roots, you can be full.

There is also summer ploughing and autumn harvest to be counted on, and ordinary people will not leave their hometowns.

In autumn and winter, when everything withers, it is the season to escape from famine.

Huo Bao wrote a handwritten letter to his father, asking someone to send him back to Jinling, mentioning the strengthening of public security in Chuzhou, Hezhou, and Luzhou, as well as preparations to receive displaced people.

The officialdom of Quyang County was cleaned up once last year due to the private increase in commercial taxes, and it was also a long lesson, and now it is extremely responsible from top to bottom, and it does not dare to exceed it in the slightest.

Everyone knows that the so-called Chuzhou Army went out from Quyang County.

Two or three thousand people from the three stockades on the Black Python Mountain, plus more than 20,000 Quyang soldiers recruited by Deng Jianqiang, were the original Chuzhou army.

The foundation of several marshals, except for the staff of the Shuijin Department, which was recruited from the Chuzhou Prefecture Government, the other Deng Jian, Ma Zhai Lord, Du Laoba and other henchmen are mainly these old people in Quyang County.

Especially under Deng Jian, in addition to the old men who are in charge of Zhang Duwei, Li Duwei, and Wang Duwei, there are also a group of middle-level people, who are also coming out one after another.

These people all live in Quyang County.

There are also the 23,000 Quyang soldiers at the beginning, and the powerful ones have risen to 1,000 households.

In the Chuzhou army, among the middle and high generals, there are more than 100 people from Quyang.

Now attached to the Chuzhou Army, these families are also rising.

It's just that last year's "tax increase case" is enough to warn these "upstarts".

Even the in-laws of the Wang family have been disposed of, let alone others?

You must know that following Deng Jian's Zhang, Li, and Wang families, Wang Duwei seems to be inferior to Zhang Duwei and Li Duwei being reused, but the eldest sister of the Wang family is Xu married Huo Bao, and the Wang family has also become the in-laws of the Taiwei Mansion.

The people who can become Huo's in-laws are all figures like Deng Jian, the owner of Ma Zhai, and the old marshal Yu, and the fact that the Wang family can be among them is enough for people not to underestimate.

After Wang Duwei's brother-in-law took over as the commander of Quyang County last year, the reason why he dared to collect money in Quyang County was to some extent because of this.

As a result, he fell off the horse, recovered the dirty silver, and was fined and confiscated from the hard labor camp for five years, and was banned from entering the office for three generations.

Such a verdict did not cost a life, but it was more desperate than a loss of life.

Seeing that the imperial court was about to fail, white shirts flourished everywhere.

Even if the Chuzhou Army can't win the whole world, it still has the capital to seize Huainan Jiangnan, and these old people in Quyang County will follow the chicken dog to heaven.

There is only one family in the former county order, one person commits a crime, and the family has no future, only regret and hatred.

Subsequently, the Supervision Department also notified the state capitals of the "tax increase case" in Quyang County, and did not add much polish, and wrote it clearly from discovery to disposal.

Officials from all over the country saw it and were very vigilant.

It seems that this accumulation of wealth is unwanted, no matter what the excuse is, there is no room for maneuver......

Everyone stayed in Binjiang County for one day, and stopped for three days in Quyang.

Although Aunt Huo Liujie did not come back, Huo Bao still planned to go back to Nanshan Village.

In the courtyard of the Huo family's five rooms, there are still a few graves, and when they passed by last year, they didn't care about moving the graves, and Huo Bao only worshipped in the courtyard.

This year, the grave should also be moved, the yard should be cleared, and the Huo family will have a place to settle down when they return to their hometown in the future.

In addition to the courtyard of Huo Bao's family, the courtyards of the other Huo cousins either collapsed or were assigned by the government to the displaced people who settled in Nanshan Village.

After Du Laoba, Song Lin and others heard about it, they wanted to go together, but they were all rejected by Huo Bao.

In the end, Shui Jin took fifty people to accompany him on horseback and accompanied Huo Bao back to Nanshan Village.

Compared with last year, Nanshan Village is a little less angry now.

The sound of horses' hooves at the entrance of the village alarmed the villagers to visit.

It was the old man of last year who came forward, the Li Zhengniu abacus of Nanshan Village.

Recognizing Huo Baolai, Niu Abacus breathed a sigh of relief, looked behind Huo Bao carefully, and didn't see anyone else, so he couldn't help but be disappointed: "Just Xiaobao came back alone?" Didn't they say they came back and see? ”

Huo Bao said: "Brother Niu is in Raozhou, Second Brother Niu and Brother Qing are in Jinling, and they can't get out of their bodies when they have errands...... Kung Fu spoke, and asked someone to hand over something, which was four pieces of cloth and fifty taels of silver: "This is prepared by Brother Niu and Brother Qing, and I asked me to transfer it to Uncle Abacus......"

Niu Dalang, Niu Erlang, and Niu Qing were very happy when they learned that some people had returned to Nanshan Village last year.

Even if the relationship is farther away, they are still clansmen.

This time Huo Bao returned to Chuzhou, Niu Dalang didn't know, Niu Erlang and Niu Qing discussed preparing cloth and silver money, and asked Huo Bao to bring it back.

Niu Abacus looked at the things, with surprise, and some did not dare to accept it.

Huo Bao personally handed it over and said, "Brother Qing is talking about wanting to eat the pickles from our Nanshan Village, if Uncle Abacus has it, you can prepare a jar for me to take back......"

Niu Abacus hurriedly said: "There are miles and miles, and you will let your aunt prepare ...... when you turn back."

Huo Bao looked at the grave bag in his yard and said, "I came back this time to move the graves of the clansmen and villagers...... In March last year, in addition to the Huo family, the Niu family was the bad soldier...... Now that the camp is re-buried, how to distinguish the bones still needs to have a charter ......"

Huo Bao knew the classification of blood types, so he naturally didn't believe in the ancient saying that blood was used to identify bones, but there were many people who couldn't bear to believe it.

When it comes to re-burial, it is necessary to distinguish one or two in the same way.

In the end, there are two surnames, there were no conditions before, and now there is no need to continue to bury together.

When Niu Abacus heard this, his expression was gloomy: "Listen to Xiaobao...... When Xiaobao starts construction, I will call someone to ......"

Huo Bao looked up at the sky.

He set out from the county seat early in the morning and came by horse, but now it is not the beginning of the morning.

The villagers helped the handle, plus the fifty soldiers he brought back, and the day's work was almost the same.

"Hurry up or not late, let's do it now!"

Huo Bao Dao.