Due to Xu Sheng's sudden attention, those light heroes were once again aroused with great enthusiasm, and they came to report their names one after another, asking if they were "on the star". And in order to leave an impression of "Corporal Lixian" around him, Zhang Qiang had to be patient and receive them one by one.

This toss did not end until the evening. Even if he was arrogant and had the world's first-class "Taiping True Qi" protection, he secretly complained to Zhou Cang afterwards that he couldn't bear it. However, this little hard work has been exchanged for the rural light heroes of Xu and Yan, and everyone knows the name of arrogance, and no one knows it, and it can be regarded as a lot of fame.

As for He Man, the "Flying Daoist" who was sent out to reconnoiter the surrounding area, he did not return to Wubao until the next day and pleaded guilty to Zhang Yan. Fortunately, because of the light heroes who defected to the Tianping Army with Zang Ba, there were more than 20 people. After this conflict, the Tianping Army not only replenished all its losses, but also added more than a dozen skilled martial artists.

As for the other heroes, they spent a day outside the dock fort and then scattered home. Mi Zhu, taking advantage of the night, secretly visited Zhang Madness and reached a tacit understanding with the Tianping Army.

The Mi clan would regularly deliver a batch of military grain and grass to the Tianping Army, and the Tianping Army needed to ensure the safety of the Mi clan's smuggling team within dozens of miles around. This kind of good thing of sitting at home and counting banknotes, of course, Zhang Qiang couldn't ask for it, and he happily agreed.

The next month or so was the most relaxing day since Zhang Madness arrived in this troubled world. With Wubao as a stronghold, the Tianping Army expelled several powerful families around it, occupied parts of Fei County and Nanwuyang County, and relied on Mengshan Mountain to prepare to lurk down to meet the upcoming defeat of the Yellow Turban Army.

For this kind of layout, the generals under Zhang Qiang naturally couldn't understand it, and they asked many times openly and secretly. Zhang Mad didn't want to be said that he cursed the elders and betrayed the Yellow Turban Army, so he didn't say much about it, but only pushed it as the guidance of the "Nanhua Old Immortal". Fortunately, most of the generals have been "ignited" by insolence, and blindly worship insolence and the "Nanhua Old Immortals", which can be regarded as suppressing the commotion of the military spirit.

And in order to let these energetic and ambitious guys under his command settle down, so as not to think carefully in the dark every day, he arrogantly ordered Wang Guo to formulate a comprehensive military drill plan.

After the military advisor Wang Guo came up with the drill plan, because Wang Guo's drill plan was too easy, he was arrogant and stipulated that before the drill every morning, he should first run ten miles on the surrounding mountain roads in full gear.

Anyway, in his impression, the mobility of the army is a key factor in determining the outcome of the battle. Don't you see, when the Red Army marched 25,000 miles, it was impossible to eliminate the bald brothers who were in absolute superiority in military strength with all their might?

This hand was for the preparation of the Tianping Army and the Han Army to fight guerrilla warfare in the mountains in the future.

Of course, Zhang Qi is also a person who has watched "Stealing Ming" on the Internet in later generations, and knows that training with a large amount of exercise requires a lot of supplementary nutrition. Therefore, although a group of subordinates were trained to complain, they were full of complaints about the military advisor Wang Guo. However, since there are large pieces of meat saturated with rice tubes in the army every day, most of the resentment among the generals due to hard training has been dissipated.

Subsequently, the consequence of this is that the money and food in the hands of the arrogant are consumed extremely quickly. In order to hoard a batch of rice and grain in order to survive the hard years in the future, Zhang Qi also took the initiative to participate in the illegal salt trafficking organized by the Mi family, and made a lot of profits from it, which was regarded as a slight subsidy for some expenses.

By the way, when leading his subordinates to familiarize themselves with the terrain of Mengshan and Mount Tai, Zhang Madness also annihilated several authentic bandits entrenched in dangerous places in the mountains. In doing so, the army not only gained experience in mountain warfare, but also captured a large amount of money and food. Even the powerful families around them who were harassed by the bandits also had some changes in their perception of the Tianping Army.

Of course, this little benefit is still not as bad as the bad feeling brought by the arrogant leading the team to the door and extorting grain and grass. However, because Zhang Qi was very measured in blackmail, and there was no lion to open his mouth, the surrounding heroes knew the strength of the Tianping Army, and they pinched their noses and endured this blackmail.

And the officers and soldiers of Taishan County, I don't know whether they are not strong enough, or they don't look down on the size of the Tianping Army, or they are afraid of the combat effectiveness of the Tianping Army, so they didn't react when the Tianping Army landed in the county. Along with the many powerful people around them, they also slowly accepted the fact of the existence of the Tianping Army because of the principled actions of the Tianping Army.

After the situation roughly settled down, Zhang Qiang couldn't help but carefully consider the next development idea.

Since it is going to lie dormant for several years, the yellow scarf wrapped around the head must be removed at the right time. There's no rush on this for now. However, if we want to lay a stable territory in the tide of the resurgence of the Yellow Turban Army uprising in the future, and carry out effective rule and development, we must reserve enough talents in advance.

Military talent is not too lacking at the moment. The Tianping Army has been fighting for several months, and has initially established a shelf of elite divisions. As a result of the useful experience gained from the military system of the Han army, the combat effectiveness of the army reached the level of ordinary county soldiers. In the future, with a little training, it will be possible to meet the needs of tens of thousands of people.

However, talents in the administrative sector are extremely scarce.

At present, there is an extreme shortage of people in the Tianping Army who have experience as officials. No, strictly speaking, there is not a single person who has ever been an official. The highest position is only a small official with 200 stones.

In the Han Dynasty, the grade of officials was not the nine-grade and eighteen-level official rank that was popular in later generations. The germination of this set of things will have to wait for a few more decades, until Chen Qun formulates the "Nine Grades in the Positive System". The official rank of the Han Dynasty was directly marked by the income of the officials.

Do not enter the stream, fight food, 200 stones, 300 stones, 400 stones, 600 stones, 1,000 stones, than 2,000 stones, 2,000 stones, true 2,000 stones, medium 2,000 stones, 10,000 stones......

It is said that the most detailed rank in the imperial court once reached the twenty-second level. The above list is the more common rank of the current Han family.

Usually only a person who has a salary of 600 stone or more is considered an official. And these people who became officials generally had a certain amount of room for improvement, and they belonged to the vested interests at that time, so they naturally avoided the Yellow Turban Army, the destroyer of the existing order.

Only those who served as petty officials, had low incomes, and had no hope of rising in this life, would join the ranks of the Yellow Turban Army with the intention of gambling, hoping to get ahead of this uprising.

Therefore, the administrative talents in the hands of Zhang Qi are actually quite limited. Even if the Tianping Army was given a territory as large as a county now, the Tianping Army would not be able to achieve effective rule over it. Gathering all the literate and hyphenated people in the Tianping Army, plus the Taiping Dao system headed by Master Tai, can probably handle the civil affairs of two or three counties.

So, what to do?

Zhang Mad is not too worried. In his heart, there is already an example of his predecessors to learn from. As for the means of learning, it is nothing more than that: literacy, learning.

In the past few years of dormancy, in addition to training military talents, Zhang Qiang also has to find ways to let his subordinates learn more ways to govern the country. At the very least, if you occupy a county in the future, you will be able to have enough officials to handle the government affairs of this county in an orderly manner.

Only by building the base well, in the future campaign, can the Tianping Army maintain a strong stamina, gradually develop and grow, and finally seize the world.

For this reason, Zhang Qi is now in the army, and has launched a preliminary literacy eradication for those illiterate and semi-literate people who are illiterate or do not have much literacy. Although many soldiers felt that learning literacy was more difficult than going to the battlefield to fight, since Zhang Qi had made up his mind, he would not easily waver.

In order to ensure the effectiveness of his studies, he not only personally served as an enlightened teacher, teaching those illiterate and semi-literate in some positions, but also set up strict rules of reward and punishment, stipulating that anyone who failed to pass the inspection would be punished with different punishments, ranging from no meat to hungry food. Those who excel or are active learners will receive additional rewards. For example, large pieces of meat or coins and cloth.

However, the so-called "plan cannot keep up with the change". In many cases, this is the case.

On this day, Zhang Madness was running among the hills with two hundred-man teams as usual. Suddenly, several pedestrians in the distance caught his attention.

The reason is simple. If someone sees the Yellow Turban Army running over, not only does not dodge, but catches up without attracting the attention of others, then it is called strange!

The arrogant footsteps stopped, and after more than ten steps, the soldiers of the Tianping Army stopped the comer.

"Who?"

The comer did not answer, but asked in a loud voice:

"Which part of Taiping Road are you brothers?"

However, it is said that the internal organization of Taiping Dao is still quite tight. Headed by Zhang Jiao, the "Great Virtuous Teacher", the organizational structure below is divided into eight systems according to Zhang Jiao's eight disciples. The name of the system is named according to the eight directions of the eight trigrams. For example, the "square" of the arrogant, at the time of the incident, according to the direction, belongs to the part of the "Gen" position.

However, since the defeat in the first battle, the Daoists who originally belonged to the "Gen" department are extremely limited in number in today's Tianping Army. However, with the addition of the remnants of Bocai belonging to the "Li" department, the number of Taoists in the "Li" department has exceeded that of the "Gen" department. Therefore, if you really want to say which part of the arrogance is located, the choice can be varied.

Of course, after careful consideration, Zhang Qiang has his own plans for this, and he is not ready to play the banner of any part of the gossip.

"We are the 'Tai Chi' department, not the eight!"

The person who came was stunned and showed a surprised expression.

Only the Taiping Taoist congregation, which is personally led by Zhang Jiao, the "great sage and good teacher", can be called the "Tai Chi" department. This is Yanzhou, shouldn't it be the territory of the "Tai Chi" department?

He reacted and asked:

"Isn't the 'Tai Chi' department in Jizhou? How did you get to Yanzhou? ”

The fifty people who answered with the person who came to answer was also a "Taiping Dao" Taoist, and when he heard that the other party was knowledgeable and knew that it was his own person, his expression became gentle, and he explained:

"Our Qu Shuai is the nephew of the 'Great Sage and Good Teacher'! It's not the 'Tai Chi' department, but which one? ”

The person who came wanted to ask something, and at this time, among the several people who came, the person who was really in charge spoke:

"Mowgli! Old friends are here, can't they all recognize them? ”