Two days later, at noon, outside Liucheng County, when Fuquan looked at the county town that was more dilapidated than Yangle, his face was gloomy. Since Zhao Bao learned of his situation, he came non-stop, just to prepare more, who knows when Xianbei will come again?

In the official office, Fu Quan, who had just arrived in office, ordered people to summon all the officials in the county for questioning, and he wanted to know all the things in the county as soon as possible so that he could deal with them.

After a long time, some people came back and forth, and after the county said that the people came, Fu Quan took out his "confession" and the copper seal and black ribbon to show his identity, and said: "I am the new Liucheng County Commander." ”

Everyone looked at it and saluted in unison: "I've seen the Ming Mansion." ”

Han Cheng Qin system, county commanders, chiefs, and Qin officials, in charge of their counties. More than 10,000 households are ordered, and the rank is from 1,000 stones to 600 stones. Minus 10,000 households is long, and the rank is 500 to 300 stones. But the two have different ranks, and the ribbon is also different, the county order is printed with a black ribbon, and the county magistrate is printed with a yellow ribbon.

Liucheng is a large county of 10,000 households, so Fuquan appointed Liucheng County to grant copper seals and black ribbons, and "sue body" is the document of his own office.

Fu Quan bowed his head, and after introducing to everyone, he asked suspiciously: "Where are Gong Cao, Ling Shi, and Wen harmless, why don't you see them?" ”

Zhou Guan of the county immediately said: "Back to the Ming Mansion, Ling Shi left with the previous county order, Gong Cao and Wen were harmless in the previous Xianbei Koubian, defending the city and dying in battle. ”

"How dangerous is the border?" Fuquan was shocked, Xianbei people are proficient in field warfare, but they are not good at attacking cities, but Liucheng is a large county of 10,000 households, and with the resistance of Gaocheng, the young officials in the county have killed two, which is not shocking.

"Xianbei Kou entered the Great Wall, all the way south, Liucheng is located in the western Liaoxi road, is its only way, so in recent years it has often been plundered,."

"In this case, I don't know how many soldiers are under the command of the military marquis?" Fuquan looked at a middle-aged general on the right side, whose name was Gaiyuan, who was the military marquis of Liaoxi County and was stationed in Liucheng.

"Back to the Ming Mansion, the county has gone through two major battles, losing nearly half of the soldiers, and there are three hundred and forty-seven people left."

"Can you make it up?"

"Not yet."

"Why?"

Gai Yuan's face was abrupt, his face looked around, and he didn't say anything.

Zhou Guan hurriedly said at this time: "It's not that you don't make it up, but you can't make it up." ”

Fu Quan's face changed, and he said angrily: "You bully my newcomer, dare to be crazy? ”

Zhou Guan hurriedly saluted and said: "It is not for the lower officials to deceive the Ming Mansion, but Liucheng is not a rich land, and Xianbei often enters the country, after two wars, the treasury is empty, and the soldiers' rations are insufficient, even the winter clothes have not been changed for three years, and the money and food for recruiting soldiers are quite expensive, so there is no money and no food to make up." ”

Listening to his words, Fu Quan's face softened slightly, Youzhou is not as prosperous as the Central Plains State, and it is located in a border county, often at war with the Hu people, and is not rich, so in previous years, it was necessary for the neighboring state Jizhou to receive money and grain to maintain, which is reasonable according to Zhou Guan's words. After thinking for a while, Fu Quan immediately said: "In this case, I and the Marquis of Gai Jun will go to the barracks to check, and the rest of the people will retreat." ”

Zhou Guan whispered: "When the Ming Mansion first came, I will rest first today, and the county has prepared a banquet to wash the dust for the Ming Mansion." ”

Fu Quan was about to refuse, but later agreed, this is the rule of officialdom, and he must not refuse.

The banquet to welcome Fuquan was hosted at the official residence of the county, and Fuquan, as the commander of Liucheng County, controlled the military and political affairs of Liucheng, so that not only the officials at all levels in the county were present, but also the powerful landlords in the county also came, which was quite lively.

The next day, Fu Quan rode to the barracks, followed by Huang Zhong, Xu Huang and Shi A, as well as a team of cronies, a total of more than ten people. Because the barracks was a place for the army, they could no longer wear robes, so they found a new fish scale essence armor from the treasury, and each person put on one. This armor is divided into body armor, Yong sleeves, hanging edge, placket wearing, it is said that there are more than 2,000 pieces of armor inlaid on it, weighing 68 catties, and the protection is extremely strong.

The camp was in the west corner of the city, and when everyone arrived, the chief officer in the barracks, Jun Hou Gaiyuan, led two false marquis and ten tun chiefs to greet them. The military system of the Han Dynasty was a five-binary system, with five people and a military commander; Ten people are the tithes, and the she's the chief; Fifty people for the team, set the team rate; 100 people are tuns, and there are tun chiefs; 500 people for the song, set up a military marquis; The second song is the department, exactly 1,000 people, mostly led by school captains and various Simas.

The two fake marquis are one tall and one fat, the tallest one is named Han Dang, more than 20 years old, and the fat one is named Du Mao, who is more than 30 years old. Fu Quan had already seen the two of them at the banquet yesterday, and he was quite interested in the high man at that time, and after some inquiry, he was sure that this person must be the loyal minister of the Emperor Sun Wu III.

It is rumored that Han was a young man in the army, and he was promoted to a false marquis at such an age, completely because of his military exploits in one battle after another, which can be described as bravery.

Fu Quan entered the camp gate and casually asked Gai Yuan: "I heard yesterday that the soldiers' rations are insufficient, how should you deal with it?" ”

Gai Yuan replied: "According to the regulations, the soldiers' rations are two stones per month, or three stones and three buckets and three liters of small stones, and now there are two wars, the treasury is insufficient, and the people are also suffering, and the autumn grain is probably not enough. ”

Fu Quan nodded, the exchange ratio of small stone and big stone is ten to six, and the small stone has three stones, three buckets and three liters, and two stones for big stone. In the Han Dynasty, there were many border army food shortages, so this strategy was used to solve the urgent need, the Liucheng treasury was empty, and this strategy should be used, but it was not a long-term solution, after all, in the long run, the soldiers had no food and morale, and the combat power would be greatly reduced.

Entering the school field, the team of more than 300 infantry had already been lined up neatly, and there were more than 20 cavalry on the side. Although their clothes and armor are old, they are very clean and tidy, and the soldiers' faces are also good, their eyes are blazing, revealing an indescribable spirit, the border army is the border army, and they are many times stronger than the soldiers who guarded the gate of Luoyang City that they often saw when they were in Beijing.

Fu Quan ascended to the school platform, and Gai Yuan asked, "Does the county order watch the soldiers drill the eight formations?" ”

Eight formations, Sun Tzu has eight formations, Sun Bin has eight formations, to the Han Dynasty, eight formations is an indispensable part of military training, the Han system of Beijing Division five battalions of soldiers every year in October to test, the main content of reading is "eight formations advance and retreat". Because the border army is facing the war, there must be a training every month.

Fuquan is good.

Gai Yuan turned around and got off the school platform, took the order flag and waved, the soldiers according to the flag, or divided or combined, running smoothly, from time to time there was a passionate shouting and killing, the atmosphere of the battlefield was permeated, obviously it was a proper practice on weekdays, and people who knew the soldiers could see at a glance that this was the elite undoubtedly.

Looking at the elite soldiers in the field, Fu Quan said in his heart, is this his own starting army?

It's just that now that the yellow scarves have not risen and the warlords have not come out, where is the opportunity for them to make contributions?

Involuntarily, Fuquan raised his eyes and looked to the north, where there was a Hu tribe named Xianbei.

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In the Han Dynasty, there were Cheng and Wei, with a rank of 400 stone to 200 stone, which was for the chief officials, and there were fighting food and the rank of Zuoshi below the 100 stones, which were for the young officials.

Fish scale armor is sixty-eight Han catties, or seventeen kilograms.