Wang Shichong breathed a long sigh of relief and said with a smile: "So I only need to give my money to those officials of the Assassin's Mansion." That shouldn't cost much. ”

Pei Shiju said with a smile: "Don't think too easily, then Yingzhou is the former Ezhou, in Wuchang Mansion around the two lakes, there are eight counties under its jurisdiction, there are more than 53,000 households, according to five Ding one household, the population is nearly 300,000 people, to manage such a large place, how can you do it alone?" ”

Wang Shichong scratched his head and said: "Then just take care of Yingzhou City, where this county is located, the eight counties below have their own county orders to govern, and I only need to manage those eight county orders." ”

Pei Shiju said: "Ying is the former capital of the Chu State, the population here is medium, but the place is not small, and there are some foreign nationalities living in the mountains of the land, it is not too easy to completely handle the internal affairs of this state. ”

"But on the other hand, this place is not like the wild places of Lingnan and Nanzhong, where the Han people are scarce, so you can't go out of the state and county administration, if you do things well, you can still govern here very effectively."

"So on the whole, being an official here can exercise your ability very well, and the difficulty is not too high, and this place is not a strategic place, so you can't be hegemonic, let you go here as an official, Yang Guang is still relieved."

Wang Shichong smiled slightly: "This time I became a prisoner, I am afraid that many of the generals in Guan Long hate me very much, Yang Guang put me in this place, it can be regarded as avoiding trouble for me, and he should use me again to clean others in the future." ”

Pei Shiju stroked his long black hair and said, "You must be all over the eight counties, and you can't just listen to the county orders." Eight prefectural orders. Which is more savvy. Which one is incompetent, which one is corrupt and perverts the law, and which one has a disobedient heart, must be secretly investigated, and when it comes to the annual urging of Ding Ding to collect grain, we must send competent people to the county to supervise, and the water in this can be great. ”

"The county officials can't support their whole family and the subordinates under them, and the county order is from the sixth grade. The middle county order is the seventh grade, and the lower county order is from the seventh grade, and there are only six or seven hundred stone of Yulu. ”

"Now the price of grain in the world is cheap, a bucket of rice is thirty catties, but it is only about ten yuan, and one stone of rice is only a hundred yuan, and the county order is 700 stones, and if it is converted into money, it is only about 70,000 yuan, but it is necessary to feed at least a few hundred people."

Wang Shichong smiled and asked, "Then how many of my Zhongzhou assassins are there?" ”

Pei Shiju said: "It's full." You should study the laws of this dynasty well, so that you don't even know the rules and regulations. When you go to the state and county, you will let your subordinates look down on you, and then you will have a contemptuous heart and start to take advantage of you. ”

"So it's like the kind of problem you just had, if someone asks you in public and you don't know, you have to talk about it later, go back and ask your subordinates for advice, and then discuss a solution, if it's really urgent, you can directly assign a deputy like Changshi to deal with this matter, you just need to manipulate it later."

"Sometimes you're a supervisor and you're not very good at the business, and the best thing to do is to let someone you rely on do it. It's like Yue Guogong is now being ordered to build the eastern capital of Luoyang, but he is not good at civil engineering, and he only adds chaos to the construction site, so this specific construction matter is handed over to Yu Wenkai and Feng Lun to be responsible, and Yue Guogong only needs to allocate money, food, and manpower. ”

"Another example is the Daizhou offensive and defensive battle you experienced last time, then Li Jing knew that Feng Xiaoci, Lu Yu and Hou Mo Chenyi under his command had their own strengths, some were good at fighting, some were defensive like copper walls, and some were good at repairing city walls and fortifications, so he relieved himself to delegate power to these three people, and he just sat firmly in the city and dispatched in the center, which is decentralization."

"Xingman, you must know that no one can be proficient in practice, most people are only proficient in one or two things, as an official, you need to learn to decentralize power, rather than do everything yourself, so in the end you will only work hard, and you will mess things up."

Wang Shichong couldn't help but nod his head when he heard it, and said: "Thank you Hongdae, then what do you think can be put and which ones can't be released?" ”

Pei Shiju pondered for a while, and said: "Your specialty lies in marching and fighting, that Yingzhou is on the Han River, surrounded by many mountains, and there are many fangs mixed together, among which there are some people who occupy the mountains as kings and do not obey orders, after you take office, you can kill chickens and monkeys, exterminate a few stubborn bandits, and establish military prestige, so when the time comes, the government soldiers in Yingzhou must firmly grasp the hands, and the hussar generals and chariot generals there must have a good relationship." ”

"As for finding men to serve every year, letting the counties pay taxes, persuading farmers to pay taxes, and organizing production, these things are not your strengths, and you can hand them over to your subordinate counties to do when the time comes."

"Just remember to be more mindful about taxes, you can't let people not be greedy, and you can't let them be too greedy!"

Wang Shichong was a little confused when he heard this, and said, "What does this mean?" Either let him be greedy, or he won't be greedy, why do you want to open the net? ”

Pei Shiju smiled and said: "Didn't you say it just now, the county order's money is only six or seven hundred stones, and now the four seas are peaceful, and the grain is also harvested year after year, one stone of rice is only about 100 yuan, and the county order is only 70,000 yuan a year, how many people do you think it is enough to feed?" In the past, when Yang Xuangan was playing in Daxing, he could give 50,000 yuan to the owner of the racecourse at one time, which was about to catch up with the income of a county order for more than half a year. ”

"Okay, since you asked here, I will also give you an account, within the county government, the county, the county, the county, and the lord are the three internal officials within the nine grades, which are officially issued by the imperial court, in addition, the county government also has six rooms for soldiers, criminals, workers, officials, households, and ceremonies, and each room has a warden."

"In addition, there is a signing room for sending and receiving documents, a treasury for managing the entry and exit of money in the county, a recruitment room for recording confessions and signing during the trial, a warehouse for managing the granary, a cell for holding prisoners, and a kitchen for cooking for the county government."

"Just these ordinary institutions, there must be one or two stewards in each room, four or five errands, plus three shifts of fast catchers, and there are always one or two hundred people in the soap office, these are all foreign officials, and there is no formal servant. Xuangan, do the math, is it a county order that has to support these hundreds of people? If you don't let him not be greedy for the court's taxes, he will only exploit the people ruthlessly, and then he will provoke a civil uprising. ”

Wang Shichong nodded: "That's indeed the truth. Hundreds of families divided these six or seven hundred stones. All down to a family three stone rice a year. That is, 900 catties, only enough for food and clothing, it would be good not to starve to death. But in that case, why not let them be more greedy? Maybe they'll be grateful to me. ”

Pei Shiju shook his head: "People's greed is endless, if you don't have moderation here, he will be more and more greedy, and in the end, it will develop to the point of disregarding people's lives and encroaching on people's land." ”

"If it gets to that point. It is bound to provoke a popular uprising, and then you are afraid that you will be dismissed, and the tax of the imperial court is visited by people in various states, counties and counties, sometimes in secret, if someone finds out about it, you will also be very troublesome. ”

Wang Shichong smiled: "Then how much can they be greedy?" ”

Pei Shiju closed his eyes, as if he was contemplating and thinking, and after a while, he slowly opened them and said, "You can control it yourself, generally speaking." It is the minimum to pay enough for the annual grain and tax collection tasks issued by the imperial court, as for the extra money. Thirty percent can be returned to them, five percent to the court, and two percent to themselves. ”

Wang Shichong saluted Pei Shiju: "Today, Meng Hongda gave such a teaching, Shichong has a sense of openness, if there is an urgent matter in the future, we will contact through the kind of secret letter contact we agreed before." ”

Pei Shiju smiled slightly: "Then I will wish you a smooth journey." ”

After sending Pei Shiju away, Wei Zheng walked into this secret room, Wang Shichong was still thinking about Pei Shiju's words just now, and he didn't come back to his senses until Wei Zheng called him twice.

"It turned out to be Xuancheng, how is the situation in Yingzhou?"

Wei Zheng nodded and said, "Back to the lord's words." I have made a preliminary investigation of the situation in Yingzhou these days, and the governor there is named Hu Sizheng, who is the grandson of the famous general Hu Sichun of the former Northern Qi Dynasty, and later Hu Sichun entered Guanzhong and took refuge in Yuwentai, and the Hu Si family also began to take root and grow in Guanzhong. ”

Wang Shichong said: "I have seen this Hu Sizheng, shrewd and capable, decisive, may be of great help to us in the future, after we go to Yingzhou, we must have a good relationship with him." ”

Wei Zheng paused for a moment and continued: "Han Shige, the current assassin of Yingzhou, is also an old acquaintance of the lord, this time you go there, you will handle the handover with this person, lord, how many people are we going to take to Yingzhou this time?" ”

Wang Shichong's eyes flashed green, and his words revealed a firmness: "I don't need to bring too many people, you and Jin Cheng, Xiongxin four people are enough, but I want to find out the details of the local officials before going to Yingzhou, and hold their handles, so that as long as I take office, I can shake these things out one by one, so that these people will be afraid and dare not look down on me anymore." ”

"I know that the handle of these people is not to keep and blackmail these people, unless they are extremely heinous and unconscionable, I will directly report the crimes of such people to the court, if it is just some trivial matters, I will destroy the evidence in front of these people to show my sincerity."

Wei Zheng listened to Wang Shichong's words motionlessly, the smile on his face retracted, he nodded seriously, and said: "The lord is clever, and he really admires Cao Mengde's practice of burning books to appease the hearts of his subordinates. ”

"According to Wei, the lord's trick is more clever than Cao Cao, Cao Mengde was victorious and occupied Yuan Shao's camp at that time, and only then did he seize the letters written by those subordinates to Yuan Shao, but the lord was able to find out the bad deeds of those people first, and grab the pigtails, since he can find out about the past, he can naturally find out about the future, which will make those people both convinced and grateful, but also a little afraid."

Wang Shichong sighed "hmm" and said: "Since ancient times, it has been common for a party chief to pay a private visit to Weifu after taking office, but it is rare for us to send spies to inquire about the news first. But this takes time, now we only have a general impression of the information in Yingzhou, it is far from enough, Xuancheng, you work hard, go to Yingzhou in person, and you must find out the local forces there, especially Xiao Liang's forces. I have a hunch that in this Yingzhou area, there may be strong allies for us in the future. ”

Wei Zheng nodded, and said with a straight face: "I will pick twenty of the most capable spies in the next meeting, and I will set off immediately and sneak into Yingzhou, and the officials in the state and the county magistrates and county officials in each county will all inquire about the situation clearly, especially their illegal acts of corruption and bending the law, which must be completed within twenty years and reported to the lord." ”

After he finished speaking, he turned around in a dashing manner, and did not look at Wang Shichong. Hurried out.

Wang Shichong let out a long sigh of relief. Pick up the tea bowl. As soon as the bowl of warm tea soup was drunk, he muttered to himself: "Yang Xuangan, you really shouldn't marry the Li Yuan family at this time, I can't help you this time." ”

A month later, in the Yueguo Mansion in Daxing City, there were lights and lights, and the atmosphere in the mansion was jubilant, and it was strange. No one came to congratulate him, and the door was tightly closed, and there was a hint of strangeness in the cheerful atmosphere of the house.

Yang Xuangan was wearing a red groom's official uniform, sitting in his room, bored, and a group of brothers around him were giggling around him and saying this, that, that is not lively.

Dressed in blue cloth and silk clothes, the heroic Yang Xuan smiled and said: "Big brother is really magnificent today, and he is really in good spirits on happy occasions." ”

Yang Xuan, who was in yellow clothes on the side, immediately said: "Big brother has always been magnificent, and it's not just today. ”

Yang Xuanzong hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, yes." The little brother was speechless for a while, don't blame the big brother! ”

Yang Xuanting, who had already succeeded Yang Yue as his son, frowned. said: "Big brother, what do you mean by this Li family?" Isn't it okay to send the bride through the door, and I have to ask you to pick you up by name, isn't this a big move? ”

Yang Wanshi, who was dressed in dark purple silk, said with a smile: "Brother, you don't understand, the Li family is a general, and the ancestors can be traced back to the flying general Li Guang of the Han Dynasty, and even the wife of Tang Guogong, Dou Shi, was also married home by a martial arts competition, but I am afraid that the eldest brother will come to the door this time, and he will also pass the beauty pass once." ”

The youngest Yang Jishan was also a sixteen-year-old boy at this time, and he was no longer the little kid who dragged his nose and ran around behind his brothers' buttocks. Maybe it's because of his mother, Yang Jishan was born with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and his body is also a little thin, standing with a group of strong brothers with tigers and bears, it looks incommensurate.

After Yang Jishan heard this, he snorted disdainfully and said, "If you want to talk about heroes, who in the world can compare to my eldest brother." The Li family wanted to try the eldest brother's ability, and the eldest brother just happened to be obedient, so that the new sister-in-law would be convinced, and she would be obedient after passing the door. ”

Yang Renhe, who was standing next to Yang Wanshi, wore a green shirt, his face changed slightly, and said: "Okay, you don't have to tease the eldest brother, in fact, we all understand that the eldest brother is not happy now, or we will go to my father together to intercede, ask him to take back his life, and let the eldest brother postpone taking the bride of the Li family through the door." ”

When Yang Xuanzong and the others heard this, they all changed color, and you scolded Yang Renhe one by one.

Yang Xuangan was moved when he heard it, he thought of the story of Liu Bei marrying Sun Shangxiang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, plus Li Yuan's own wife was also a beauty after he overwhelmed the crowd, so if Li Yuan married his daughter and married the Yang family, would he also come to test his ability like this?

Yang Xuangan thought of this, a smile suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he thought of the wedding with Li Mi that made a big fuss about Wang Shichong, and the past when he stained his name, the lady of the Li family must not pass through the door now!

Yang Xuangan still has doubts in his heart about marrying the Guanlong military meritorious aristocratic group now, and marrying under Yang Guang's nose now will obviously be a stimulus to the new emperor.

It's just that Yang Su's repeated insistence makes him unable to argue, and today there is an excellent opportunity to continue to postpone this family affair justifiably.

Yang Xuangan thought of this, and smiled at Yang Jishan: "Jishan, do my brother a favor and go to the kitchen to find some crotons." ”

Yang Jishan was stunned when he heard this, and said, "Big brother, what do you want Croton to do?" ”

Yang Xuangan smiled "hehe" and said: "Ren He said just now, but he reminded my brother to find a way to pretend to be a bear today, so that this kiss can't get married today, brothers, my eldest brother has never asked you for anything since I was a child, and you must help me with this matter today!" ”

Yang Xuanzong was startled when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "Big brother, don't be joking, if my father finds out, he will beat you to death!" And Yang Jishan ran to the door alone and picked up the wind.

Yang Xuangan's eyes revealed a firmness, he grabbed Yang Xuanzong's hand tightly, shook his head, and said: "Brothers, I misunderstood as brothers, I didn't do this today for the reason of Hongfu, just because I always thought that I was in a hurry to marry the Li family now, that is, to openly demonstrate to the emperor, it is not advisable." ”

Yang Xuan said anxiously: "Didn't my father agree to do this marriage in a low-key manner?" As long as you go and bring people back, this is for those Guanlong nobles to see. ”

Yang Xuangan shook his head: "The emperor can see it, don't forget, he is Tang Guogong's cousin!" ”

When the brothers heard this, they all looked at each other, and the house fell silent for a while, which formed a sharp contrast with the noisy gongs and drums outside.

Yang Jishan, who was guarding the door, suddenly turned his head and said in a somewhat immature voice: "I'll help the eldest brother, even if you don't agree, I will do this with the eldest brother." ”

Yang Xuan glanced at his young brother gratefully, he had always regarded him as a child, and today he suddenly found out that he had also become a little adult.

Yang Xuanzong sighed and said, "Big brother, have you really made up your mind to mess up the marriage today?" You must know that this may offend the entire Guanlong family, so it's better to think twice. (To be continued......)