Zou Jing got off the war horse, walked to Lu Peng with a horse whip, looked left and right at this pair of loving people, Lu Peng smiled and his expression twisted, his niece's little face was red and full of happiness, and he couldn't help but be annoyed, stepped forward and gently whipped Lu Peng with a horse whip, and Lu Peng pretended to grin in pain.

"Don't pretend, I didn't really hit you."

Lu Peng immediately put on a smiling face: "Uncle, I-"

"Don't say it, my sister has a hard life, it's just a caring daughter who was spoiled by your bastard, this is really an immature girl, I can't hold it, so let's just go happy."

Receiving their uncle's recognition, Lu Peng and Wan'er were overjoyed, held hands and glanced at each other, and then bowed down.

"Don't be happy too early, you can't get married yet, you must wait until the stage when I pick up my sister to get married, in the meantime, you bastard dares to bully my niece, I will really break your dog's legs."

was said by Zou Jing, Wan'er's little face turned red, and Lu Peng was embarrassed and didn't know why.

Zou Jing ignored the embarrassment of the little couple, and pointed to the big cars behind him: "In the car, there is a wife book of one million dollars and two boxes of gold that I originally saved for you to keep, as well as 500,000 yuan of my congratulatory gifts, plus my sister's Wan'er dowry deposited with me, which are now returned to you." ”

Lu Peng opened his mouth wide in surprise, what Zou Jing said at the beginning was really serious, not only returned all of Zou Jing's wife, but also posted a lot, this uncle is really good to himself.

Just as he opened his mouth to thank him, Zou Jing waved his hand and interrupted Lu Peng: "Don't say the of thanks." Then he looked left and right, and saw that all of them were Lu Peng's cronies, so he said solemnly: "Once you go, don't think about going back to Youzhou, you can operate in Lu County, and it is only serious to consolidate your foundation." ”

Feeling that his uncle knew all about his plans, Lu Peng stopped doing it and nodded directly.

At this time, Zou Jing took out a warrant and handed it to Lu Peng.

Lu Peng took it and saw that it was a military order to send troops to recover the town occupied by the Wuhuan people, and Lu Peng was a little puzzled.

Zou Jing explained: "You are all young and promising, and they all have great ambitions, and a mere Lu County and Savage Valley cannot bind you. Then he glanced at Zhao Yun who was standing behind Lu Peng with deep meaning, and saw that he was also listening carefully, so he continued: "But now that you are already the army of the imperial court after all, the officials of the imperial court, you still have some scruples about doing something, as the so-called famous teacher, it is better not to be pinched by someone with a heart, this military order to send troops is very vague and arbitrary, after you stabilize Lu County, you can take this warrant at any time to fight to recover the city occupied by Zhang Chun and the Wuhuan people, whether it is Yuyang County or Liaoxi County, it depends on your ability and means." ”

Hearing such an order, Lu Peng and his subordinate soldiers were all enthusiastic, and even Zhao Yun's eyes lit up and he was eager to try.

"I'm old, and I'm not verbose, that's all I can do for you, and it's up to you young people to go how far you can go."

Looking at this old man who really cared for himself and was willing to shelter himself from the wind and rain, Lu Peng's eyes were slightly red, his lips trembled, and he gave Zou Jing a deep salute.

Zou Jing didn't look at him anymore, climbed directly on his war horse, and turned back to Youzhou with a full body of gloom.

Lu County is three hundred miles away from Youzhou, the army marched to the county seat for six days, Yang Feng, who occupied the county seat at that time, took his 700 brothers to meet at the gate of the city early, Lu Peng strode up, helped Yang Feng with both hands, and then the first thing to do was to order Xu Jie behind him to bring 700 sets of clothing of the officers and soldiers of the Lu family, and distribute them to the 700 soldiers on the spot.

This is a kind of expression, which means that these 700 original Yellow Turban Liukou have now truly become official soldiers.

Holding brand-new clothes, these 700 men who bled without tears trembled with excitement, and some of them even had red circles under their eyes and muttered in their mouths: "Daddy, you can look at it, the child is no longer a thief, the child is now an official soldier." ”

Then Lu Peng took out a bronze seal, held an officer's armor, put it on Yang Feng in person, and then solemnly announced: "Yang Feng is now the military Sima of the Lu family, and he is equal to Xi Zhen, Zhao Quan, and Zhang Yan." ”

Yang Feng, who had achieved his final wish, turned over and knelt down to Lu Peng after getting dressed neatly, and sincerely called Lu Peng the lord. In this way, Lu Peng has one more general under him.

The group got on the horse and entered the county seat of Luxian with the army, officially taking over Luxian.

Walking on the long street, for the re-entry of the army, the people not only did not panic, but had a welcoming attitude, the reason is that Lu Peng has led the troops twice, the Lu family army has strict discipline, two garrisons, there is no harassment of the people, forced businessmen to reward the thing, and the army needs to be a fair trade, one hand of money and one hand of goods, not only let the merchants increase their income, but also by the way let the people get a little benefit, after all, the people can also sell their own vegetables, firewood and grass to the army, in exchange for some pocket money.

The army was stationed, and the party came to the county office.

The reason is that when Yang Feng pretended to be a yellow turban thief to occupy the city, he had completely expelled the old officials in accordance with Lu Peng's instructions, and completely eliminated the power of the old officials who held the power of the county government, waiting for the personnel selected by Wu Tao in the base area to take over, and then completely included Lu County in Lu Peng's sphere of influence.

A few entourages cleaned the hall, and then helped Xu Jie move into the back house, Xu Jie was single, and his belongings were simple, but he had already settled down in a blink of an eye, and then went back to the lobby, ready to listen to Lu Peng's orders.

Lu Peng smiled and asked Xu Jie to take a seat, Xu Jie didn't sit anyway, Lu Peng smiled and said: "As the so-called handsome does not leave the position, you are now the lord of this Lu County, of course you have to sit in the main hall, I am just a guest army, and it is enough to sit in the guest seat." ”

Xu Jie had to postpone it, so Lu Peng said with a straight face: "You sit down, the gentry and villagers in the city will come to visit in a while, if you don't show your prestige, how can you gain a foothold in this Lu County in the future?" ”

Thinking about it, the gentry and villagers came to visit the new county order, and Xu Jie did not postpone it, and sat in the first official position.

Yang Feng was careful and capable, and although he expelled the original county officials, he kept the Lu County classic household book intact.

Lu County is a large county, according to the original standard of the imperial court, there should be 20,000 households, more than 20,000 Ding (middle-aged men), and there are 10,000 salt households in the salt field, if according to this regulation, the county should have a registered population of no less than 100,000.

But after the Yellow Turban War, there are actually less than 50,000 mouths, which is already very good in the counties where the Han Dynasty has encountered wars, and it is not surprising that other counties are also common.

In Lu County, because of the salt farm, there are many big families, and there are ten large households headed by the Ding family, and it is reported that the Ding family alone has 7,000 slaves, 1,000 clansmen, and other large households also have slaves ranging from hundreds to thousands, but these slaves are not above the household registration according to the regulations, so that the entire Lu County still has no less than 100,000 mouths, in the face of such a population base, in addition to the 40,000 people in the original Savage Valley base area, the available population in the hands of Lu Peng is not less than 140,000, of course, The population of those big clans can't be used by Lu Peng for the time being, and they have to come slowly.

There were 120,000 mu of land in the hands of the registered people in the county, and more than 1 million mu of land in the hands of large households.

There are 50,000 acres of tidal flat salt farms, which is now the largest financial source foundation in Lu County, and it is also what Lu Peng deliberately pays attention to.

Now the official warehouse of Luxian County has grain - zero stone, the treasury has money - zero text, and the county government has chariots and horses and other things - parts.

In other words, the current Xu Jie is a thoroughly poor and white Guangzhu County.

Fortunately, at this time, according to Wu Tao's arrangement, Yang Fengyun came to confiscate the furniture that was originally seized from the county order, so that Xu Jie had a lot of money, so that Xu Jie would not starve to death on the spot.

After initially grasping the state of the foundation, the first thing to do is to recruit those big families, and everyone should talk about cooperation.

Now Lu County has become the foundation of Lu Peng, and the big families are ready to give appropriate restrictions and pleasant cooperation to the mainstay, and they can't be in a hurry, so Xu Jie wrote dozens of invitations, inviting all the big families to come to the county to discuss the restoration of Lu County's vitality.

In order to provide a platform for the future reception, Lu Peng specially transferred fifty strong soldiers to serve as Xu Jie's servants, standing on the left and right like wolves, and the generals and colonels of the army also gathered in the lobby to watch, waiting to give the local heroes a dismount.

As a result, everyone waited from noon to the afternoon, and then waited until the sun set, and everyone stood one by one with back pain, but none of the gentry came to visit.

Until the sunset, the messengers sent out to invite the local gentry and powerful came back to report, saying that the gentry and powerful families refused to come to meet at all, and some simply blasted the messenger out of the door.

The families in various places are deeply rooted, and one by one they have almost become a country within a country, and they don't put a small county order in their eyes at all, according to the convention, you should visit me first, and I want to visit you? The beauty you want.

As a result, Xu Jie was embarrassed, and Lu Peng pinched his chin and muttered to himself. "This is for me to wait for Ma Wei, this is the other way around, it seems that if you don't come up with some means, you really can't fully control Luxian, is this forcing me to amplify my moves."

At this time, Yang Feng was furious and stood up and said: "Lord, please give me a military order, let me take my seven hundred tigers and wolves, and now I will go to my own house and tie up those bastards." ”

Lu Peng patiently taught Yang Feng: "Yang Feng, you are not a thief or a kidnapper now, you are now an official army, and a dignified Han army Sima, don't take out your set to kidnap people at every turn, we, the big man, are a society with a legal system, we are all civilized people, civilized people can't be rude, we have to pay attention to the law." ”

Yang Feng said unwillingly: "Do you want to let those bastards be powerful?" Shall they despise us like this? And can't we have a solution? ”

Lu Peng smiled and said: "How can we take them and have no way, we will take up the weapon of the law and use this rope to bind them, what is this called?" This is called a reasonable and legal pit them, and our slogan is, take the law as the criterion, it's a big deal, it's a big deal, it's a big deal to pit them. ”

And all the heads in the hall immediately came together, and the hall became dark, very, very dark—because the sun had gone down.