Chuansha Fumin Hall, a quasi-county-level unit, under the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture, is now occupied by the Little Knife Society.

Liu Lichuan sat in the hall of the county government, looking at the row of knife generals in front of the hall with a blue face, and it took a long time to spit out three words.

"What should I do?"

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, they all shook their heads helplessly, the previous rebellion was all impulsive, relying on a stream of blood to catch the Qing army off guard, plus the Qing army's eight banners had no combat effectiveness at all, which made the knife club achieve a few small victories, but they didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, and finally ran into a hard stubble, and was defeated by the Li Jiajun, and there was no way to fight back.

Now the generals of the Knife Society are all depressed and demoralized.

Liu Lichuan saw the expressions of his father who had died one by one, and his heart was even more depressed.

At this time, Tanma returned, and Li Weiguo personally led a large army to cross the Huangpu River.

Liu Lichuan knew that this was to attack his Chuansha County, so he discussed with his subordinates, but the result was no confidence.

Liu Lichuan sighed helplessly and immediately decided to evacuate Chuansha.

However, before evacuating, the knife society ransacked the county seat of Chuansha as usual, taking away a large amount of gold and silver treasures.

When Li Weiguo's army resisted Chuansha County, the Little Knife Club had already evacuated, leaving behind a group of landlords and old wealth who cried for their fathers and mothers, as well as a large number of homeless people.

Li Weiguo immediately assured these bitter masters that he would take revenge on them by destroying the knife. The landlords and old fortunes who suffered the most were all human spirits, and they knew that if they wanted to take revenge, they had to befriend Li Weiguo, so they ordered to donate generously and donate money and food.

This kind of good thing is exactly the result that Li Weiguo is looking forward to, and what surprises him is that those landlords and old fortunes can still come up with hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and hundreds of thousands of stone grains, and he has to admire the methods of these landlords and old wealthy.

When someone sent money and food, Li Weiguo was naturally happy, and there was no reason not to accept it. It happened that there were still many people in Chuansha County who were affected by the disaster, so they used the money and grain to help the victims.

The common people hated the Little Knife Society before, but now they see that Li Weiguo's army has entered the city without committing any crimes, it is a disciplined army, much stronger than the Little Knife Society, and it also distributes relief food to the people, such an army is worthy of support.

As a result, a large number of ordinary people enthusiastically signed up to join the army.

This situation was rare in the Qing Dynasty, usually the Qing army caught strong men, and then the government recruited soldiers, and now it is the first time to take the initiative to sign up for the Li Jiajun.

In the study room of the county Yahoutang, Wu Yong said to Li Weiguo with a smile: "Congratulations, my lord, the people's will is available, as long as it is managed properly, the business of the king can be expected in the future." ”

"Come, have a cup of tea first! Thanks to Wu Yong's guidance, I'm really tired these days. Li Weiguo said with a smile and poured Wu Yong a cup of tea in person.

It's no wonder that Li Weiguo is really unavailable at the moment, so he can only let this Wu Yong work hard.

This Wu Yong has been running back and forth in Chongming County, Baoshan County, and Shanghai County recently, handling the official affairs of various counties, and the original county yamen has fled from death and death, and the entire yamen has fallen into a state of paralysis, so Wu Yong has to deal with them one by one.

Although Wu Yong felt very tired, he was very happy, he knew that he was not wrong, Li Weiguo was really a character, in just one and a half years, he was promoted from a county order to the prefect, with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the military equipment of Su Songtai and the three mansions was in charge, which was equivalent to the territory from a county to the land of three prefectures, and the territory was expanded more than ten times.

Thinking of his promising future, Wu Yong was happy no matter how hard and tired he was, seeing Li Weiguo personally pour him tea, Wu Yong was happy in his heart, and hurriedly said: "Thank you for your concern, you are not tired at all, and it is an honor to be able to do things for adults." ”

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "Who made you the only cadre in my hands, if there are more capable officials like you to help me, you don't have to work so hard." ”

After speaking, Li Weiguo's expression was a little depressed, he was thinking that his reputation was not prestige enough, and there was no decent person to come to him until now.

Wu Yong observed the words and immediately understood, so he said: "My lord is now promoted to the prefect of Songjiang, and he is also in charge of Su Songtai's military preparations, and is in charge of the military affairs of the people's livelihood and the three governments, so there should be a staff group." ”

Staff group?

Li Weiguo suddenly realized, thinking that he had read Zeng Guofan's book, and knew that the reason why Zeng Guofan was able to succeed was because he had a powerful staff group in his hands.

Li Hongzhang, Peng Yulin, Guo Songtao, Zuo Zongtang, Liu Rong, Luo Zenan, Li Yuandu, Ding Richang, these eight people made their fortunes because of Zeng Guofan, and also created the prestige of Zeng Guofan.

Li Weiguo was thinking that if he could get these helps, he would definitely be able to do the same as Zeng Guofan, and even surpass him, after all, Zeng Guofan would not betray the Qing Dynasty and establish himself as the king all his life, but Li Weiguo was not, he would not be a slave to the Qing Dynasty, his ambition was greater, but he wanted to be a master.

Wu Yong knew Li Weiguo's ambitions, so he said: "It should be easy for the adults to establish a staff group, after all, the adults are now in the four official residences, the court members who sit on one side, hold heavy troops, recover Baoshan and the two counties of Shanghai, and the celebrities and celebrities everywhere should know the prestige of the adults now, as long as the adults embody the virtuous deeds of Corporal Lixian, someone will come to serve." ”

Li Weiguo asked, "Then what should I do?" ”

Wu Yong said: "It's very simple, set up a recruitment hall to recruit talents." ”

Li Weiguo asked again: "What if the Magi don't come?" ”

Wu Yong smiled: "Why don't you come when you buy bones?" ”

Li Weiguo suddenly realized, immediately thanked Wu Yong for his advice, and then in the name of Songjiang Prefect and Su Songtai Bing Dao, in Songjiang Mansion, Taicang Zhili Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture issued recruitment notices.

The reason why the ancient scholars read was just to sell the goods to the emperor's family.

In the years of peace, scholars can only go through the imperial examination to enter the office, which has become quite difficult in Xianfeng, because the Qing court is the only dynasty that allows the sale of official porridge, and the system of selling official porridge for more than 200 years has made the Qing officialdom full of copper smell, so that many scholars have been buried and have no chance to enter the office.

With the rebellion of the Taiping Army and the Little Knife Society, the Qing court was powerless to suppress it and delegated military power to the localities, but anyone who has read history books, or those who have a little political mind, will understand that the central power is on the sidelines, and the era of local secession is coming.

In peacetime, because the power was in the center, scholars had to take the road of the imperial examination, because the imperial examination represented the imperial power. But in troubled times, the power was in the locality, so smart scholars naturally had to join the staff of local officials. For example, Li Hongzhang in history, there were more than 20 feudal officials in his staff group, and there were countless other local officials, just because the power was in Li Hongzhang's hands.

Today's Li Weiguo, as the prefect of Songjiang and Su Songtai, is in charge of military and political power, holds heavy troops, and has won many battles against the Little Knife Society.

Therefore, as soon as Li Weiguo's recruitment order was promulgated, a large number of talents came to defect.

Li Weiguo wanted to be angry with Wang Ba, and suddenly all the super talents from all over the world came to defect, and when the time came, there were countless spectacular scenes of ministers, strategists and generals.

It's a pity that the ideal and the beautiful, the reality is very skinny.

Most of these talents who came to defect were not the kind of talented people who governed the country and the country that Li Weiguo wanted, most of them were lifters, talents and martial artists who had landed in scientific examinations, Li Weiguo didn't want it, but thinking of Wu Yong's words, he had to accept all the orders and make a move of buying bones and using talents to look forward to the real talents coming to defect.

However, these people are not useless, although they do not have the great talent to govern the country and the country, but it is more than enough to be a small civil servant at the county level, and it just so happens that the civil servants of Shanghai County, Baoshan County, and Chuansha Hall have all escaped from the killing and fleeing with the knife, and there are a large number of vacancies.

With the staff group, although Li Weiguo was not very satisfied, he obviously felt that he was much more relaxed. Three cowhiders top Zhuge Liang, this is not empty talk, you must know the truth that everyone gathers firewood and the flame is high, a person's wisdom is limited, but the wisdom of the masses is unlimited, you say a word to me, there is always a good strategy will be studied.

Everything is too much, when it is gradual, Li Weiguo quickly calmed down, since there is already a junior staff group, will the senior staff group be far away?