After Liu Ji gave Bai Jinxiu some more instructions, Bai Jinxiu said goodbye and left, and rushed back to Datong non-stop.

She came to Liaoyang this time, in fact, she didn't have to come by herself, she could just send a Black Lotus messenger. But she came in person, just to see a person she wanted to see, but she didn't expect him to be in Liaoyang.

Although she was a little disappointed in her heart, she could figure out which was more important.

When Bai Jinxiu left, he took Liu Ji's letter of seeking talent, which was also the meaning of Jiang Chuan's letter to him.

Jiang Chuan meant to let Bai Jinxiu and Datong prefect Mu Zuo do this. After all, the prefect of Datong is the local parent official of Datong, and he will preside over this matter, both in terms of publicity and credibility.

Bai Jinxiu left, Liu Ji wrote a letter to Jiang Chuan again, explained the matter in detail, then sealed the lacquer, covered his own private seal, and called a personal guard to send him to Guangning as soon as possible.

In Quang Ninh, the city wall of the west city that was collapsed during the siege is being washed and built, and the muddy water poured into the root of the city wall must be drained and the foundation can be re-tamped before it can be built on it.

The amount of work is not small, after Jiang Chuan's consent, the engineering battalion took the lead, and then a part of the troops were transferred to build together, and the speed of the project was not slow.

During the siege, the waterways and tunnels were refilled and tamped to prevent future natural disasters**.

Everywhere in the city, you can see the soldiers of the Jiang family army patrolling with stubbornness. Although there were not many pedestrians on the street, after the people found out that the Jiang family's army was strictly disciplined and had not committed any offence against the people, they gradually became bolder, and more and more people took to the streets.

Guangning is not as good as Liaoyang, and Jiang Jiajun is the first time to come, so there is no mass base. Moreover, Guangning was occupied by the Qing army for a longer time than Liaoyang, so Jiang Chuan did not dare to be careless, and directly announced that there was an army in the whole city to temporarily manage it after the city was broken.

He has no head now, and the few people under Liu Ji's Civil Affairs Department want to keep some people to maintain Erlong Valley on the one hand, and take care of Liaoyang's affairs on the other hand, so there is no manpower for Guangning at all.

In order not to cause other turmoil, Jiang Chuan did not make too many changes for the time being, except for the occupation of the treasury and the official warehouse, and the three chapters of the Anmin Notice.

However, the prison in Guangning Mansion was already full of people, mostly captured Qing Dynasty officials and petty officials. Most of these people were officials of the Ming Dynasty before, and later descended to the Manchu Dynasty.

The Manchus, like Jiang Chuan, were also unavailable, so they had to let them continue to hold their original positions, but with a different master.

However, for these spineless people, Jiang Chuan does not plan to use them again. So put them in prison first.

He was thinking that he was squeezing some benefits out of these dying people to send them on their way.

"Li Qian, don't do this with your own hands. Choose some of these people to do it. "In the second hall of the prefect's yamen, Jiang Chuan was giving a face-to-face lecture to the military commander Li Qian.

"What kind of people do you choose?" Li Jian still didn't seem to understand what Jiang Chuan meant.

"There are officials and officials in the prison, you keep those who are officials according to the roster, pick out all the minor officials, and let them do the rest. In order to survive, these people will definitely toss those who are in charge with their deaths. In order to save his life, the official will also go bankrupt to redeem his life.

You haven't heard a sentence: an iron-clad official, a flowing official. These officials have term limits and will be transferred elsewhere within a few years. However, these small officials and helpers in various yamen are basically local natives and are familiar with the local situation. Whoever is rich, who is powerful, who is a widow, these people have an account in their hearts.

After these officials took office, whether they issued government decrees or rectified local corruption, they had to rely on these local officials. These people can also take the opportunity to deceive their superiors and subordinates and profit from them, and they are the most cunning and mean. Therefore, there is also a saying that the officials are as cunning as ghosts, and they are talking about these people. ”

Jiang Chuan leaned back in his chair, took a sip of his teacup, and spoke carefully.

Since ancient times, it has been the king of Hades who has been good, and the little ghosts are difficult. From ancient times to the present, the yamen has been like this, and the officials have taken care of their own image one by one, and they are not too unbearable to do things. On the contrary, the errands below are greedy and shameless, eating the upper house and the next family, eating the plaintiff and the defendant, and can toss the people who go to the yamen to do things haggard and complain.

In the Dream of Red Mansions, after Jia Yucun became an official, when he tried the case of Xue Baochai's elder brother Xue Pan, the overlord of the overlord, who robbed a woman and beat someone to death, his subordinates presented him with an official talisman, and the lives written on it were all wealthy nobles who Jia Yucun could not easily provoke.

Jia Yucun was really frightened later, did not enforce the law impartially, and indulged Xue Pan's evil deeds.

After listening to this, Li Jian thought about it and then realized: "The lord means to let these local officials interrogate those officials, first, these people are locals, and they all know the situation of each family, and those officials can't hide it even if they want to." Second, these people are utilitarian, tend to be inflammatory, and under the threat of life and death, they will definitely do everything they can to persecute those officials in order to save their lives. ”

Jiang Chuan smiled, nodded with his finger void, and said, "That's right." In the future, the brain still needs to turn a few more corners. To deal with those who do not use, use different means. Try not to stain our own hands with this kind of dirty thing. Having someone do it for you is the best. Even if someone talks about it in the future, it won't damage our reputation. ”

Li Jian nodded to show that he understood, and after a pause, he said, "Lord, are we going to use such treacherous officials to do things in the future?" Wouldn't the use of such people be detrimental to the reputation of the lord? ”

Jiang Chuan stood up and stretched his arms for a moment before taking over the conversation and said, "I just have no one under my command to use, and I won't use these people." But even if it's a-stirring stick, he's useful. When we're done with it, we can burn this-stirring stick again, and we'll not be afraid of the stench getting on ourselves. ”

Li Jian suddenly came to his senses, bowed down and hugged his fists and said: "The lord is wise, and the general will arrange it." ”

Jiang Chuan nodded, and was about to ask him a few more words, when his ears suddenly moved, and he heard the horse's hooves outside the yamen, and his heart moved, knowing that something was probably wrong.

Soon, a guard commander who was on duty outside the yamen walked in with a person who was also dressed as a guard.

Jiang Chuan recognized that this person was the captain of the personal soldiers who he was transferred from the pro-guard battalion and sent to Liu Ji, his eyes flashed, and he asked, "But the military advisor has a letter to send it?" ”

The captain of the pro-soldier knelt down on one knee: "The last general will see the lord." The military division sent the last general to send urgent military information. After speaking, he held Liu Ji's letter in both hands.

The commander of the guard on duty took the letter with both hands and held it in front of Jiang Chuan, and respectfully stepped aside.

Jiang Chuan picked up the letter and checked the paint seal first, and after confirming that everything was normal, he lit the candle and melted the seal at the seal, and then picked open the envelope with a thin paper cutter next to him, and pulled out Liu Ji's letter from it, and read it quickly.

Looking at him, his face also became solemn, and after putting down the letter, he was already thinking urgently in his mind.