At the beginning of June in midsummer, corn, rice, and winter wheat are all harvested, and the grains are returned to the warehouse. The counties under the rule of Yanzhou successively sent messengers to send the tax grain for this summer, which was counted and received by the people of the prefecture and the army, and the Sicang was arranged to be put into the warehouse.

If part of last year's old grain is moved out and escorted to the Yongxing Military Government for verification together with the new grain, the tax amount will be completed. In previous years, the Gao family would always withhold delays, but this year, Zhang Yue was in office, and as soon as the taxes and grain were collected, he immediately issued an order; In the future, the full amount will be escorted to the Yongxing Military Government for verification.

As a result, the state officials were busy, and on the one hand, they had to urge the counties under their jurisdiction to complete the registration of the dismissed tenants as soon as possible, and count the dictation of the fields; On the one hand, it is necessary to arrange for state soldiers to escort the tax grain south.

But who to bring the troops? In previous years, it was a matter of Gao's big hand, but this year he had to ask Zhang Yue for instructions, because he took care of the affairs of the army, and others could not be dispatched. The eight divisions of the state government sat together to discuss, and finally unanimously decided that Ma Xuanming, who was the secretary of the army, would go to ask for a meeting, because he was the eighth rank and was currently the biggest official of the state government.

Ma Xuanming went to Xicheng Shuaifu to ask to see, and it happened that Zhang Yue was there, and he had ordered everything in the past few days, but he was very idle, so he met Ma Xuanming in the side hall of Shuaifu.

"How's the camp going?" Zhang Yue didn't wait for Ma Xuanming to salute, so he asked.

"The other counties are almost finished, but Fenglin and Jinming counties near the state city have recently been plundered by robbers, and they are busy with the repatriation of refugees to their hometowns, which is expected to be completed by the end of this month." Ma Xuanming replied truthfully.

"Then what do you expect the number of household registrations in Yanzhou to increase? Has cultivated dry land increased, or decreased? Zhang Yue knew this in his heart, but he still wanted to see the efficiency of the state officials.

"After the completion of the camp affairs, the number of households is estimated to reach 20,000, which is only a lot more, and the number of households is about 250,000. As for cultivated land and dry land, the number of registered land naturally increased accordingly, but in fact, there may be no surplus land in the hands of the officials of the following counties. ”

"If you don't have it, then you can reclaim the wasteland, Yanzhou is so big, and I'm afraid that there will be no land, so you can't let the wealthy families annex it." Zhang Yue said murderously, thinking of the face of the old man in the countryside, he was angry.

"Yes, yes...... We will do so in the future! In addition, the tax and grain have been collected, and the general is asked to send troops to escort him south. Ma Xuanming finally found a chance to get down to business.

"You don't have to worry about this, I'll send someone to handle it!"

"Then the lower official will rest assured, if there is nothing else, the lower official will retire!"

Zhang Yue waved his hand, too lazy to pay attention to the matter of collecting taxes and grains in the summer, he sent a letter to Jingzhao Mansion to Bian's grain store and Han's firm, the two families had already paid taxes for him, and they were on the way to Yanzhou with tax documents. This not only saves the need to send troops to escort people all the way to eat and chew, but also prevents the state officials from being greedy for ink.

As for the grain in the official warehouse, Zhang Yue planned to transport it to the Zhang manor under Fenglin Mountain, where there were dozens of acres of fertile land nearby, and Zhang Yue took the initiative to hand it over, after all, it was his order, so he naturally had to lead by example. In the future, the manor will be used to specialize in winemaking, granaries, wine cellars, and warehouses can all be there, and the location is remote, and the troops can be garrisoned on Fenglin Mountain, so as not to leak the secrets of shochu.

The two caravans naturally came here to want green salt, and among the trophies captured in the previous battle, the amount of green salt was very small, and there were not many grains, grasses and groceries carried by Chengtong, mainly the batch that Xue Wenqian intercepted Zhang Kuangtu, plus the storage part of the manor.

Among them, military armor and grain and grass, Zhang Yue confiscated and pulled out to the Zhangwu army, silk cloth, tea and porcelain are only valuable to be transported to Guanwai, and now it is too late to transport them to Gyeongju for salt, and the price will not be high. Zhang Yue thought about it like this, and suddenly felt that there should be green salt in the old nest that was dug up, and Hao Tianying never explained.

"Chen Jia! Go and find me Hao Tianying! ”

"General! Commander Chen has gone to Tokyo, and now I am on duty......" Deputy Conductor Yi Qian ran in and replied when he heard the voice.

"Oh...... Forgot! Hao Tianying seemed to be recuperating from his injuries, so he went to call Xuan Chongwen to come and go to the barracks to have a look. ”

Yiqian called a personal soldier to find someone, and he took a few personal soldiers to the stable to lead the horse, Zhang Yue took care of himself and went out of the Shuaifu, but saw Li Duofu wandering under the steps in front of the Shuaifu.

"Li Duhou! Is there anything wrong with you? Zhang Yue stepped down the steps and asked with a smile.

"The last general will meet General Zhang! It's a trifle...... I don't know if it's appropriate......" Li Duofu quietly observed Zhang Yue's face and said a little embarrassed.

"What are you doing? If you have something, just say it! Zhang Yue was slightly displeased, the soldier should be direct, and he was impatient.

"The last general has a brother named Li Duojin, Chinese New Year's Eve years old, in the state Yafa Cao is Zuoshi, and the younger brother is called Li Duoshou, twenty-three years old, in the county government for the head catcher, they don't want to live in the yamen, want to join the forbidden army, but the last general has just been promoted......"

"Oh...... I see, it's a good thing to be self-motivated! If you want to join the forbidden army, it's no problem, you send people to the Shuaifu, and I'll see you when I come back! Zhang Yue laughed and said.

This Li Duofu was recommended by Xue Wenqian, otherwise he would not be able to be the commander of the Zhangwu Army, I don't want this person to be really clear-minded, and send his brother and younger brother to his command, which can be regarded as repaying Li and following himself.

"Thank you, General! The last will bring someone right away! Li Duofu was overjoyed, turned around and ran.

At this time, Xuan Chongwen also arrived, the two took their own soldiers and rode to the military camp outside the city, the school field shouted and killed, the commanders of each battalion were leading the soldiers to train, seeing Zhang Yue coming, he ran over to salute, Zhang Yue waved his hand and sent away, there was no combat mission, or a special training subject, too lazy to see them.

Yiqian went to Hao Tianying's barracks to inform, but he didn't see anyone, so he ran out to ask the soldier on duty, and the soldier pointed to the roof. Zhang Yue and Xuan Chongwen were next to them, and when they looked up, they saw Hao Tianying lying on his back in the shade of a tree in the corner of the roof with his hands on his head, watching the soldiers training on the school ground.

"Hah! This guy really has some personality! Zhang Yue laughed unexpectedly, walked to the jujube tree outside the eaves, lifted his robe and tucked it under the belt, climbed up the treetops with the branches, and jumped across the distance to the roof.

Hao Tianying changed into a red military uniform, a short jacket and fat military pants, black cowhide boots and big feet swayed leisurely, but his face was a little pale, and he did look a little delicate, no wonder he could hook up with Feng Jiye's concubine.

"How did you get here? Healed from the injury? Zhang Yue asked strangely.

"Humph! Nai's hand is fine! Hao Tianying pursed his lips, looking very unruly.

"Grass! It's normal to be a little arrogant and conceited, don't really think I'm your defeat! You're not hurting, I'm not going to compete with you, I'm going to ask you something...... Dig into the road repeatedly looted, where is his goods hidden? ”

"Why should I tell you?" Hao Tianying turned his head, raised his eyebrows like a sword, squinted his eyes and looked at Zhang Yue sharply, and pursed his lips and sneered.