Wen Chou's request was not excessive, Cen Zhu gladly accepted it, and immediately led the way, taking Wen Chou and the others to the county

He didn't have a horse, so Wen Chou ordered Li Dian and Dian Wei to ride on the same horse, and gave up a mount for him to ride

Everyone held the reins and walked slowly

While walking, Cen Zhu pointed along the way, introducing the local surname of the township pavilion on the side of the road, encountering rivers and distant mountains, then detailing their source length and size and the allusions that occurred in it, although he spoke slurred, he could talk about some of the people and things in these counties, but it was eloquent and colorful, unconsciously, more than ten miles passed in a flash, and the south gate of Shiyi County appeared in front of him

Wen Chou and Xun Yu looked at each other, and they both saw each other's thoughts from each other's eyes: "Although I don't know what this person's other abilities are, just because he knows Shiyi so well, he must be used in the mansion."

Peeping at the leopard, although Cen Zhu has only led the road for ten miles, it can be seen from his familiarity with the surrounding areas of the ten miles that he is familiar with the county, which seems not difficult, but it is not

Needless to say, farmers in the countryside, many from childhood to old age have only been in one acre and three points of land, and even the county people who have never been to the county seat and live in the county are the same, even if they are literate scholars, such as the usual accumulation, they only know the first case and bury the scriptures in their daily lives and rarely go out to be pragmatic, most of them cannot be like Cen Zhu who knows the situation of the county well, and comes at hand

Thinking about it, it is not surprising that Cen Zhu can do this

His mother had high hopes for him, and it was very unlikely that he would one day be able to restore the family's glory by making a silver seal of 2,000 stones, like his father. On weekdays, he will naturally be educated and spurred in many ways, and his mother has followed his father as an official in various places and has seen the world. His vision and insight are different from ordinary people, and with such a tutor, he is familiar with practical things

Entering the county, Cen Zhu said: "You wait for the micro-service, it is impossible to live in the post office in the county, and there is a reverse brigade in the county and city, and Zhu takes the gentlemen to the past." It is a private inn, some in the bazaar and some in the middle

Wen Chou smiled: "It's still early. I won't live in your county if I wait."

"Don't live in the county?"

"It's seeing that the autumn japonica stays until the cold winter, and the bandits will be raging, I have to arrange the defense of the country before the winter comes, and the time is very urgent. I already know everything about the geography of your county. There's no need to stay in your county any longer."

"You want to go to Luancheng?"

Luancheng is the first county in the north of Shiyi, and the distance between the two counties is the farthest between the neighboring counties of Changshan Kingdom, about 100 miles

"However, Jun has been away from home for many days, and Jun's mother must be very concerned if she wants to come, so please go home, after returning home, Jun will ask what Jun's mother means, and see if Jun's mother is reluctant to leave home and go to my lieutenant's mansion" Wen Chou smiled, "If Jun's mother is willing." Please wait for the return of our county, and I will return to the house together; If the monarch is not willing. ......, haha, I'm going to come to the door to invite it myself."

On the way to Shiyi County, Yuan Shirong asked Cen Zhu's family where Cen Zhu's family was, Cen Zhu replied that his home was in the county seat, he went out to visit friends a few days ago, and he returned today, Wen Chou said that he was "away from home for many days", and said that his mother "must be very concerned"

Cen Zhu is not good at answering words, he doesn't know how to answer Wen Chou's last sentence, he just bows down and promises, but he doesn't return home first, takes Wen Chou and others out of the county, sends them outside the north gate of the county, and sees Wen Chou and others go away, only then he turns around and goes home Wen Chou said that his mother must be concerned about him, although he has only been away from home for a few days, he is also very concerned about his mother, and trots all the way home

The topography of Changshan country can be summarized in three landforms, the west is divided into mountains, the middle third is hills, and the east third is plains, and the counties in the country are all in the plains

Wen Chou's trip to the county this time is mainly in the plain area, taking into account the hilly area, and the mountainous area is rarely going to this is due to two reasons: first, subjectively, Huangfu Song's text did not ask him to take the initiative to attack, but only asked him to guard the Zhao realm, but to guard, you have to understand the situation of the counties; Secondly, he does not have the ability to take the initiative on a large scale at the moment, winter is coming, and the objective situation also requires him to be prepared to defend the border, so his trip to the county this time is mainly to understand and familiarize himself with the plain area where the counties are located

Out of the north gate of Shiyi County, everyone continued to move along the official road

There are still many displaced people on the road

There are reckless and bold people among the displaced people, and more are good people, just like those farmers in Shiyi County who have never been out of their hometown in their lives, many of these displaced people have never been far away from home before The peasants love the land, or they really can't survive, they will never leave the land where their ancestors have lived for generations, and become the exiles of the homeless, lack of food and clothing, and are always in a strange environment, these homeless people who were originally good citizens walk on the road, with cowering and cowardice

In stark contrast to their cowering and cowardice, there is a suspicious and even hostile gaze from the local people

The world is in turmoil, every county is short of food, the county in the county cannot organize decent relief, the displaced people have to rely on themselves if they want to get some food, they are displaced from their homeland, they may bring some dry food with them when they go out, but when they finish eating, where does the food come from? You can only get honest or begging or find some wild vegetables in the field from the counties and townships you pass by, and those who are not honest will rob or steal, and when you are extremely hungry, I am afraid that even those honest will change their books and steal for a bite of food

There have been many such incidents in the local area, and how can the local people not be suspicious and hostile to these displaced people?

Xun Yu rode a horse to Wen Chou's side, and sighed: "The magistrate of Shiyi County is not good at helping."

Yuan Shirong thought so, and said: "The displaced people are in groups, wandering the counties and townships, just like the locusts in transit, the day is good, and when they come at night, there will be thieves who break the law and break the ban, and if they are not dealt with as soon as possible, sooner or later there will be trouble...... Wenjun, if you want to fight the thieves without worry, you must first rectify the displaced people."

"There are a lot of displaced people along the way, how can we rectify them? I wish to hear the lord and see it."

"Yesterday, Wen Ruo said: We should recruit displaced people to replenish the lost population of the county, weed and cultivate the fields, and prepare for the mother's dizziness and exhaustion.

"Why?"

"There is a shortage of food in the country"

Speaking of which, it's still a matter of food

He came to take office in the country of Changshan. There are many problems in front of Wen Chou, such as county soldiers, such as city defense, and so on. But these problems can be solved with some effort, and there is only one problem that really makes Wen Chou pay attention, that is, food

He said in his heart: "I recruit troops to ask for food, in today's view, there are more and more displaced people in Changshan country, the last time I went to the Yuan clan to take office, I have not seen these many displaced people when I passed by Shiyi. The resettlement of these displaced people also requires food ......, and the problem of food should be solved in a way."

Of all the problems facing Wen Chou, the issue of food is the most thorny. However, because it is the most tricky, it is the most unreckless

Thinking like this in his heart, he asked Yuan Shirong and said, "That's true. There is a shortage of food in the country. It is indeed not enough to provide relief to the displaced people with county warehouses, so how should the public deal with these displaced people? ”

"Two words"

"What's the word?"

"Recruit and chase"

"Recruit and chase?"

"Recruiters, you can recruit the young and strong people among the displaced people, and fill them into the county soldiers, since there is not enough food to help, they will ask xìng to expel all the remaining refugees, and save the time when the king fights the thief. They disrupted in the rear"

Yuan's Rong is strong and courageous, and he is loyal to Wen Chou. only considers what is beneficial to Wen Chou, and does not care about the life or death of these displaced people

Listening to his suggestion, Wen Chou was silent

Xun Yu disagreed with his opinion and said: "Mencius said: 'Beggar-thy-neighbor ,......, evil of the benevolent' is simple and convenient, but beggar-thy-neighbor" said to Wen Chou, "You think that you must not expel the displaced people from the country, there are two indispensables"

"Why not?"

Xun Yu held the reins with his right hand, stretched out his left hand, bent his thumb, and said: "This is the evil of benevolence, and spreading it will damage the name of Xiangjun and Jun."

"Second?"

Xun Yu bent his index finger again and said: "Looking around Changshan Country, there is nowhere to expel the displaced people" He said carefully, "First of all, the north of Zhao County is Chen County, and the state of this state is in Chen County, which is close to Zhao County, so you can't expel the displaced people to the state pastor; Speaking of the east, the east is Julu County, Julu is the place where Zhang Yan started, and the remnants of the party still exist, if the displaced people are driven into Julu, there will be chaos; Besides, the south, the south is the Zhao country, and the south of the Zhao country is Sili, if the displaced people enter the Zhao country, it is equivalent to driving the displaced people to Gyeonggi, and it is even more impossible."

The north is the state rule, the west is Julu, the south is Gyeonggi, these three sides are not to the east, Xun Yu needless to say, everyone also knows that the east is the Taihang Mountains, there are enough thieves in the valleys of the western mountains of Heishan, and then drive the displaced people over, this is to add strength to the thieves

Xun Yu's analysis is reasonable

Wen Chou nodded yes

Yuan Shirong also agreed with Xun Yu's analysis

He felt that Xun Yu was right, so he immediately changed his opinion, and said: "It's me ......who didn't think about it, so, as Wen Ruo said, this homeless person can't be expelled!" Can't be expelled, in order to prevent chaos, you have to give relief" He pressed his sword, urged the horse to catch up with Wen Chou, repeated the old words, and said, "Wenjun, the county is not in stock, and Rong is willing to borrow grain from the local government for you!" ”

Wen Chou smiled: "Sooner or later, the matter of borrowing grain will depend on the public slaughter, it's just ......, but there is no need to worry now"

…… If we borrow grain from the local government at this time, it will definitely cause chaos Wen Chou Xun Yutian Yuanhao discussed this matter in private, and unanimously agreed: Although the matter of borrowing grain is very urgent, it cannot be done in a hurry

Before going out to the county this time, Tian Yuanhao offered a strategy to Wen Chou, saying: "The lieutenant borrowed the victory of the horse service mountain to successfully sand the county soldiers, if you want to borrow grain, you have to have another big victory, the lieutenant can not go to the county this time, although the main purpose is to be familiar with the people and geography of the counties, so as to be able to prepare for the defense of thieves this winter, but if you have the opportunity, you may also wish to ask the local commanders and officials to understand the thieves in the mountains in the counties, and it is best to set a target for an attack and wait for another big victory, and then you can start borrowing grain."

Regarding the situation of the thieves in the mountains, Tian Yuanhao has always sent people to reconnoitre, in fact, he has also preliminarily selected an object that can be attacked, but whether it is feasible or not, Wen Chou has to go to the field to investigate and understand

The way of using troops, can not be all defensive and full attack, but only for the good strategy of both offense and defense, before the winter, and then fight, not only to pave the way for borrowing grain, but also to deter the group of thieves in the mountains, this is the best of both worlds

…… Come out of Shiyi, check along the way, and walk until evening, and everyone stays in the wild pavilion

The second rì continued to cross a river,—— which was the southernmost of the four larger rivers in the territory of Changshan Province, passing through Tantai. Walk more than ten miles and enter Xiang

The county border, another twenty or thirty miles. There is another river in front of this water, which is also one of the four waters of Zhao Realm, that is, the Shahe River of later generations, the Shahe River of later generations is flat rì without water, it is the season xìng flood discharge river, but at the moment the river surface is turbulent, and the widest part is several miles

At this time, it is almost twilight, and the world is restless. There were no boaters on the river, and although there were bridges, they had to stay at Wenchou and gallop to the shore after crossing the river. Looking at the river to the west, it flows into the mountains in the distance, and when he looks to the east, he can't see the edge and says: "Although Zhao Jing has many mountains and many waters. Fortunately, the rivers in the territory are not too wide. The widest is a few miles, but it does not hinder the march."

Seeing that the water flow is wide and narrow, Wen Chou dismounted, and ordered Li Xuan to take the long cloth belt that he brought with him, tied it to Dian Wei's body, and let him go into the water to test the depth of the river and the turbulence Dian Wei tried, and then changed places, and Li Dian Wei went into the water separately to try to synthesize the words of the three of them. The exact depth and water conditions of the different sections of this river were obtained, and Li Xuan recorded that they had done the same thing when they crossed the previous river, when they passed through this river on their way to Yuan's inauguration a month earlier. I just crossed the bridge, and I haven't tried to go underwater, although the four waters of Zhao Realm are not too wide, it is dangerous to march and fight, but you also have to figure out the bottom of a few waters

Tried the river, the red rì sinks west, and the night is coming

Wen Chou got on his horse, raised his whip and pointed to a township pavilion in the distance on the west side, Gu and Yuan's Rong smiled: "Gongzai, Qing is from this county, you should know the origin of the name of this pavilion."

Yuan Shi Rong also got on the horse, glanced at it from afar, and said with a smile: "This pavilion is the Su Ren Pavilion, Rong heard the story of this pavilion from Jiajun when he was a child."

There are two sayings about the name of the Su Ren Pavilion, one says that the word "Su" is derived from the Fang State "Su" in the early Yin Shang Dynasty, and the Fang State is the tribe, and the tribe called "Su" lived in Luancheng County at that time, and one said that this place was the place where Su Qin provoked Zhang Yi to go west to say Qin during the Warring States Period, because of the name "Su"

Wen Chou as a person who crossed over from later generations, he was most interested in two places in the world, one was a celebrity, and the other was a historical monument, as early as when he was the governor of the northern part of Yingchuan County, and took Li Xuan and other counties, he was in addition to inspecting the mountains and rivers along the way, often to the historic sites to hang, came to Changshan country, although he was busy with official business, but in Chongyang rì also took everyone out of the city to visit Wuling Congtai and other places, and now finished today's business, mentioning Su Ren Pavilion, since it is indispensable to explore with Yuan Shirong, a person from this county

He smiled and said, "The last time I passed by here, I stayed in the Su Ren Pavilion, let's stay there tonight!" Whipping the horse, when the pioneer galloped, everyone followed him to signal Yuan Shi Rong to approach, and asked with a smile while driving the horse: "I heard that there are two origins of the name of the Su Ren Pavilion, Gongzai, you are a local, you can tell me, which of the two origins is true?" ”

Yuan Shirong said with a smile: "The name of the pavilion is 'Su Ren', since there is this word 'people', in the opinion of Rong, it should be named after the 'Su Fang' of Yin Shang'"

"In this way, the statement that 'Su Qin is here to provoke Zhang Yixi to talk about Qin' is a false rumor?"

"It's not that Su Qin should have provoked Zhang Yi here, but this 'Su Fang' is not as good as this 'Su Qin' Yi Rong's opinion, although Su Renting may be named after 'Su Fang', it is thanks to 'Su Qin'" that it is famous abroad."

Li Xuan thought it was interesting and said with a smile: "Haha, Su Fang and Su Qin, both are 'Su', but it is interesting Since the reputation of this pavilion is thanks to Su Qin, why not simply change the name to Su Qin Pavilion!" ”

Yuan Shirong turned to the northeast of the river, and it was Luancheng County twenty miles away from the northeast He turned his head and said to Wen Chou with a smile: "Lieutenant, when you came to take office, you passed through here, can you enter Luancheng County?" ”

"At that time, I waited around the county and never entered the city"

"Do you know the Luancheng Order?"

"I only know the name of Luancheng Ling, I heard that his name is Li Fen, and he is Yangzhou Maocai a few years ago" Wen Chou replied to Yuanshi Rong with a smile on the corner of his mouth, it seemed that there was nothing unusual, but in fact, he was slightly envious in his heart and envied nothing else, it was "Maocai"

In the inspection of this dynasty, there are two important years of juju, one is filial piety, and the other is Maocai, and the two are more important than Maocai

Filial piety is mainly raised by the county, Maocai is mainly raised by the state, many people are first raised as filial piety and honesty are inspected as Maocai because of its high position, the number is less, such a large state as Yuzhou, dozens of filial piety and honesty are lifted in a year, and Maocai, according to the Han family system, a state can only raise one person a year, plus the three princes Guanglu Xun and the generals of the rank than the prince each raise one person each year, a total of the entire empire is only nearly twenty people every year, less than one-tenth of the filial piety that is lifted every year

There are few people and high positions, and Maocai is far more important than filial piety in the appointment, and filial piety is mostly worshiped as a Lang official, and then he may be released as the county commander, and Maocai started as a county order. Individual Maocai even started with 2,000 stones

Wen Chou heard that this Li Fen is only in his thirties this year, and he has been in Luancheng County for two years, which means that he was less than thirty when he was promoted to Maocai, which really made Wen Chou quite envious

Influenced by later generations. Wen Chou is very much of the Jinshi Hanlin complex, filial piety Maocai and Lang Guan are like the contemporary Jinshi Hanlin, and although he is now more than 2,000 stones, you can look at his past qualifications, but neither filial piety nor Maocai

Huangfu Song wrote to the court asking the imperial court to transfer him from Yingchuan to the army as a military assistant, and the reason was that he was "the strategy of the Ming Xi battle array", and the "strategy of the Ming Xi battle array" was not a regular department, but a special department. It was because of the Montenegro incident that the imperial court had to issue a special edict, which was the essence of it. Similar to the previous generation, whenever there was a war, the edict often cited "brave and brave knowledge of the art of war" and "martial arts and generals", as a "son of the Xun family", his family was not filial piety and honesty, but "brave and brave knowledge of the art of war", which he often regretted

He is now a ruler of more than two thousand stones. It is no longer possible to be held up by the county as filial piety or maocai. This regret can only be kept

Li Xuan was also very envious, he said enviously: "Yao Ling was promoted to the state Maocai before he was thirty years old, with a good reputation and a bright future."

Wen Chou knew that Yuan Shirong would not say Li Fen for no reason, and asked, "What?" Is the prince familiar with him? ”

Two years ago, he came to Luancheng to take up his post and went to Yuanshi to meet Wang Xiang, and Rong met him on the road. Had a long talk, because of our friendship"

"Have a long talk and make friends with each other?" Wen Chou laughed. "This hero cherishes the hero, in this way, this Yao Ling is not an ordinary person?"

"He is a native of Wucheng in Wu County, a family lineage, a county surname whose person is seven feet five long, and his appearance is very great to talk to, and he deeply feels that he is agile, meticulous and wise, although he has not served in a place before, but when it comes to civil affairs, it is clearly organized, after taking office in Luancheng, he has been in office for two years, and the county examination state class is always a leader, and it is even more rare that this person has great ambitions and strange festivals."

Speaking of this, everyone is close to the night sè coming from the Su Ren Pavilion, Yuan Rong Wang pointed to the Su Ren Pavilion at night, and said: "Correspondence with me, he often sighs at Su Qin's merits, every word: 'Su Zi brought the flies of the six countries to fight against Qin, and this great husband is also the hero! Before Montenegro started, he saw the signs of imminent chaos, and the letter said: "The state affairs are difficult, and chaos is gradually rising, this husband follows Suzi, carries a seven-foot sword, and establishes the autumn of meritorious deeds", lamenting that he is only a county order, and a county cannot do its best."

The state Maocai has great ambitions to sigh that a county can not do its best, these are irrelevant, first say Maocai, the inspection of bribery in this world is rampant, the government is **, the state and county inspection of filial piety Maocai is not useful; Speaking of ambitions, there are no ambitions but no talents, and there are many people with low eyes, but, if you add the sentence "I have been in office for two years now, and the county examination and state class is always the best", this Li Fen is a talent

Wen Chou suddenly became interested and said: "Luancheng has this virtuous order, but I can't go through the county anymore this time."

Yao Sheng is in Luancheng County, and he wants to wait until tomorrow, but tonight he has to stay overnight in Suren Pavilion

Entering the pavilion of the Sioux Pavilion, the night sè shrouded the earth

A cool breeze blows, the trees on the side of the road rustle Wen Chou looks up at the night sky, looks left and right at the fields near the water and distant mountains under the night, blurred, can only see an outline, the four fields silently fall leaves with the wind, some fall on the ground, some fall on the clothes of the nocturnal people, overwhelmed walking on the empty road, Wen Chou unconsciously remembered his youth, when he first came to this era, because of strangeness, uneasy, often sleepless at night, through the young clothes out of the room, under the trees in the courtyard of the wind and supper, and whenever this time, Tang Er will appear by his side, Soft-spoken, although it was difficult to tell her what was in his heart, it also gave him a lot of comfort

He smiled and said to Xun Yu: "Wen Ruo, in the dead of night, the sound of autumn wind blowing leaves is in my ears, I remember when I was a child, you always liked to listen to the sound of wind and leaves in the middle of the night, and I also asked my middle brother, asking if this is the ...... 'natural sound', do you still like to listen to it?" ”

Xun Yu laughed and said: "The day is noisy, only the night can be quiet, listen to the sound of the wind blowing the leaves in the quiet night, like a clear whistle, can calm people's minds, nothing more than this!" He sighed and said, "It's just that now that I'm older, I rarely have the leisure of my youth!" ”

Wen Chou said in his heart: "This is the pain of growing up."

In his previous life, such as Xun Yu, he had similar feelings at this age, recalling a good childhood, but he had to take responsibility, in the face of adult life Xun Yu is a masterpiece, smart and witty, but he is also a person, and he also has all kinds of emotions of people, especially when he is young, he is sometimes stronger than ordinary people in terms of delicate and sensitive, but he can restrain himself and not rebuke (to be continued. )