Due to the fact that he felt that the time was tight and the task was heavy, Geng Wu was light and simple along the way, and his actions were extremely fast. It took less than ten days for him to cross the rugged Taihang Mountain, from Jizhou all the way to Jinyang, the seat of the state.

Because Jinyang City was not baptized by the baptism of war in the previous war, the city is still tall and majestic, and the people in the city are still bustling. Except for the new "Zhang" banner at the head of the city, everything seems to be the same as before.

Zhang Qi is now staying in Jinyang City, and he is anxiously dealing with various matters after the war. He was very surprised when he got the news that Han Fu had sent his number one subordinate to visit him.

To tell the truth, if Zhang Qiang wants to clean up the newly acquired counties and counties in the state and sort out the government affairs of various places, it may not be a task that can be successfully completed. In this case, how could he still have the heart to fight Jizhou's idea?

However, when someone has to stick his head out, send it to the door, and knock himself on the bamboo pole, he is naturally extremely happy.

The more good things like this, the better.

When he met with Ji Governor Shi Gengwu, he was very polite. Geng Wu is a man in his forties, who has been a county official in Jizhou Prefecture for 20 years, and with his own ability, he has finally risen to a high position in the long history from the beginning of the fighting food official. He originally thought that the arrogance of the Yellow Turban would be a vulgar martial artist with a face full of flesh and rude manners. But in fact, the arrogance he saw was the image of a young man with a delicate face and polite manners.

Because it was too different from the prediction in his heart, Geng Wu once thought that the young man in front of him was deliberately faked. But as an old official with more than 20 years of experience in knowing people, when Geng Wu found that the young man unconsciously revealed a sense of slaughter and intolerance, he understood in his heart that the young man in front of him looked elegant. It should really be the new "Heavenly Master" of Taiping Dao, who relied on a group of defeated Yellow Turbans who fled to the mountains and forests in just two or three years, and pacified almost the entire Taiping Dao in one fell swoop.

Since the image of insolence was completely different from the legend, Geng Wu also gave up the contact plan he had originally formulated on the road. So, the next meeting process, in addition to congratulating Zhang Qiang on his new appointment as the assassin of the state. After expressing Jizhou Mu Hanfu's blessing to the arrogance, Geng Wu did not talk about other serious matters, but chatted casually.

Geng Wu didn't take the initiative to speak, and Zhang Yan was naturally not in a hurry. As the new assassin in control of a large state, arrogant time is precious. Geng Wu is also a person with eyes, but after a while, he took the initiative to retire. In the following time, Geng Wu temporarily stayed in the post house in Jinyang City. And Zhang Yan did not come forward to meet Geng Wu again, but only sent Guo Yi, who served as the chief of the state assassin history. Responsible for the reception of emissaries.

To say that Guo Yi is a very rare child of a family under the arrogant subordinates. His father, Guo Quan, served as one of the "Great Si Nong" of the Nine Qings, and he himself also became an official early, and he had some prestige in Bingzhou. Among the "hope stars" of the younger generation of officialdom in Bingzhou, Guo Yi is also the number one.

It's a pity that because of the decline of the strength of the Han family, the Southern Huns who have been sheltering in the Han court for many years. They all dared to take advantage of the chaos to raise troops. Guo Yi, who originally served as the "main Bo" under the command of the "Hun Zhonglang General", coincided with this turmoil. Unfortunately, he was imprisoned by the temporarily proud Southern Huns, and suffered some insults. In order to take revenge on the Southern Huns, when Zhang Qi conquered the Meiji royal court, Guo Yi had not yet figured out the essence of Zhang Qi's army, so he regarded the Taixing army as the official Han army of the Han Dynasty and looked for it. Duty.

In this way, Guo Yi got on the "thief" ship in a daze. Later, when he figured out the origin of the arrogant department, it was too late.

There is no regret medicine in this world. Because of Guo Yi's "slave thief", for a while, Shilin ridiculed him endlessly. A few of his former close friends also stayed away from him. But what made Guo Yi most depressed was that he was no wonder that he was arrogant about this matter, it was completely because he didn't find out the details clearly, and he was to blame. Even if he breaks away from the Taixing Army now, he will not be able to restore his reputation in Shilin.

Things have developed to such a point, Guo Yi no longer regrets it. He saw that he acted in a very orderly manner, which was completely different from the first-class thief, and the hope of a new future quickly rose in his heart.

I think back then, the ancestor of the Han family was just a pavilion chief, didn't he still get these thousands of miles? Nowadays, the world of the Han family is becoming more and more turbulent, and it is not the time for heroes to use force.

As long as the Tai Xing army can become stronger and bigger in the future, Guo Yi will naturally be able to restore his reputation and status in Bingzhou again. If he can get a 2,000 stone from the hands of Zhang Qiang, if he wants to come to Shilin, there will definitely be many people who envy his chance. If he can still use the power of the Taixing Army to get a higher official position, Guo Yi doesn't mind binding all the hopes of his clan to Zhang Qiang.

After making up his mind, Guo Yi began to work for Zhang Yi with peace of mind, and his behavior can be called hard work. With the Taimarching army's repeated victories, the territory is getting bigger and bigger, and the troops are getting stronger and stronger, Guo Yi's confidence is getting stronger and stronger. When Zhang Mad successfully occupied the two counties of Taiyuan and Shangdang, Guo Yi decisively sent his eldest son Guo Huai to Zhang Mad as an attendant to show his family's full support for Zhang Mad .

And Zhang Qiang was naturally very satisfied with Guo Yi's expression. After all, he was the first high-ranking family to express his devotion to him! A few days ago, when Zhang Qi held an internal meeting of important ministers, Cheng Yu proposed to let Guo Yi be the Taishou of any county. Zhang Qi immediately disagreed. He said:

"How can I be a dignified assassin of the History Mansion, without a good history?"

Hearing this, Guo Yi, who was present, was moved, and bowed to Zhang Madman in the hall, saying that he would do his best for Zhang Mad's army and die.

Although Taishou is a 2,000-stone official, the long history of the Thorn History is only 400 stones, and it seems that there is a huge difference in status on the surface. However, if the powers of the two are compared, the Taishou can only govern one place, while the governor of the Thorn Prefecture can govern the entire state. It can be seen from this that the position of Changshi belongs to the first-class position of humility and power, which is similar to the position of Shang Shuling in the imperial court.

Since he is so valued by Zhang Qi, Guo Yi naturally works harder. He is also an old man in the position of the official, and he knows a rough idea of Geng Wu's intentions after a few days of side knocking.

After reporting his conjecture to Zhang Ma, Guo Yi was fully authorized by Zhang Mad to be responsible for negotiating with Jizhou. And Geng Wu finally couldn't hold it back, and tactfully put forward his own demands. Since both sides have no intention of turning their faces immediately, the negotiations are naturally quite pleasant.

It's just that since Geng Wu took the initiative to come to the door to be slaughtered, Guo Yi can't let him down, right?

In the end, Guo Yi gently cut Jizhou, and the benefits he got made Zhang Qi extremely satisfied.

Also satisfied is Geng Wu. He actually disagreed with Han Fu's rush to send him to the door to be slaughtered. Helplessly, the lord had an order, and Geng Wu had to obey. Therefore, when negotiating with Guo Yi, Geng Wu behaved extremely calculatingly, and blocked Guo Yi's conditions a lot at the beginning. So in the end, the price that Jizhou needs to pay is actually not big.

According to the practice between the counties of Dahan Prefecture, the annex state is bitterly cold, and it is an important border town, so the military capital required by the state cannot be fully supplied, and it has always been necessary to send a part of the supply from the surrounding states. Under normal circumstances, Jizhou needs to be responsible for transporting about 200 million to 300 million 5 baht to the state every year to subsidize the military needs of the border army of the state.

However, since the Kwantung princes launched a full-scale war against Dong, the states basically withheld the taxes that needed to be paid to the imperial court. Even the imperial court could not collect taxes, and the state naturally had no hope of receiving financial support from other states and counties.

Speaking of which, one of the important reasons why Zhang Qiang was able to defeat the county soldiers in Taiyuan so easily and recruit most of them was because, without the financial subsidies of other states and counties, those county soldiers had been for several months in a row, and they could only receive half of the original military salary. If a soldier is not paid, how much will can he have? If it weren't for this, those border soldiers who had fought old battles with the barbarians in the border areas would not be soft persimmons that were easy to pinch.

Now, Zhang Qiang occupies the state, and Jizhou Mu Hanfu is forced by his soldiers to restore part of the goods that should have been given to the state. It was only with Geng Wu's tough negotiation attitude that the value of the goods that could be obtained every year was finally reduced to 80 million yuan.

80 million yuan, if used to raise soldiers, according to the standard military expenditure of the Han Dynasty, can probably feed 4,000 regular Han army infantry. Of course, most of the soldiers recruited by Zhang Qiang came from poor areas, and the cost of raising soldiers was not so high. And with a huge amount of money left behind by Zhang Jiao, the "great sage and good teacher" back then, Zhang Qiang's need for money is actually not high.

For the state, the biggest problem at present is that they have money in their hands, but they can't buy enough food. Therefore, after Guo Yi asked for insolence, he put forward a condition for Geng Wu. That is: Bingzhou can use this money to buy grain freely in Jizhou.

For this request, Geng Wu thought for a while, then nodded and agreed. If there is a shortage of food in the state, Geng Wu estimates that these remnants of the Yellow Turban will never starve obediently, and will definitely loot grain and grass everywhere. Looking around the state, there are grassland deserts in the west and north, and there are many people and few places in the south, and there is also a shortage of food. In addition to Jizhou, where else do they have to grab?

Anyway, Jizhou is located on the vast plain, which can be called fertile for thousands of miles, rich in things and people, and is the most important granary of the Han Dynasty. Although Jizhou suffered great damage in the "Yellow Turban Rebellion" that year, in the following years, under the governance of the former assassin Shi Wang Fen, Jizhou's vitality has recovered a lot.

In the past two years, the value of grain and grass sold from Jizhou every year has been more than one billion yuan. As long as they are willing to pay a good price, the heroes will not care about the identity of the buyer. To whom is it not sold?

An agreement was reached on the sale of grain, and Geng Wu could finally embark on the return journey with satisfaction. However, when Geng Wu was in the car and left Jinyang City, he accidentally found an old man at the gate of the city.

This old man, whose surname is Xian Yu and whose name is assisted, is proficient in military affairs and the internal affairs of the northern miscellaneous Hu, and is now taking up a position in the mansion of Liu Yu, the pastor of Youzhou.

Since Dao Zuo met, Geng Wu naturally wanted to chat with Xian Yufu. It's just that the two sides don't have a deep relationship, and they each have their own tasks, so they talked about the old days and said goodbye. (To be continued......)