Zhang Lang stayed in Yongchang for three days, and then led the Blue Wolf Legion to leave Yongchang and go to Dianchi City. The armies of each tribe returned to their territories, and only Zhu Rong led the female soldiers and the wolf poison soldiers back to Dianchi City together.

The team returned to Dianchi City and rested for two days. The Blue Wolf Legion returned north first, Zhang Lang and the Tiger Ben Guards were still in Dianchi City, and Zhang Lang had to arrange some things.

Zhang Lang stood in front of a sheepskin map, Li Ji explained to Zhang Lang, accompanied by Zhu Rong, Wang Yi, Wang Kai, and Yang Kun. Li Jidao: "Now there are three to six county governors in each county in Nanzhong, and the county guards have all taken office, but due to the lack of manpower, some of the county commanders are temporarily filled by tiger officers. ”

Zhang Lang asked: "How big is the gap between the staff and officials of each county?" ”

Li Jidao: "The shortfall is about sixty percent, and many places completely rely on the tiger guards we sent to handle things. There won't be any problems for the time being, but it will definitely not work in the long run, after all, the Tiger Guardian is not good at governance. ”

Zhang Lang asked Zhu Rong: "Haven't the talents selected by the tribes arrived yet?" ”

Zhu Rong said: "Only part of it has arrived, and the others are still on the way, and it is estimated that they will be able to arrive within ten days." ”

"How many people arrived?"

"Twelve, six of them belong to my Zhurong tribe."

Zhang Lang said: "Call all the twelve people up." Zhu Rong promised and ran down. After a while, Zhu Rong led twelve people in, four women and eight men, all dressed in the traditional clothes of the Southern Barbarians. Zhu Rong said to the twelve people: "Meet the general." Twelve people hurriedly pressed their chests: "Meet the general!" ”

Zhang Lang glanced at the twelve people, "Get up and speak." ”

Twelve men stood up.

Zhang Lang said: "You are all the most knowledgeable and knowledgeable people in your respective tribes, so your leader will recommend you to me. When the twelve men heard this, they were all very proud.

Zhang Lang asked, "Do you know what I need you to do?" ”

A woman with a bit of a look said, "The general needs us to manage the place!" Zhang Lang nodded, "Yes, I need you to help me manage the place." Many of you may not be officials in Nanzhong, but depending on your ability and governance, I may promote some of you to high positions. Do you know what the duty of an official is? A young man said, "Loyal to the general." ”

Zhang Lang smiled and nodded, "This is only one aspect, on the other hand, it is to be diligent in government affairs and not to be corrupt and pervert the law." If anyone is not up to his or her duties, he may be demoted or even dismissed, and if he is corrupt and perverts the law, he will be punished by the law of the country and will not be tolerated. I want you to know in your hearts. The crowd answered.

Zhang Lang said: "You will be sent to various places to study, and then you will be assigned jobs according to the table during the study period, some people may come back to take up the position of county commander, and some people may stay in the Central Plains to serve." Once you get into office, you have to follow orders, you know? ”

Everyone: "Understood. ”

Zhang Lang nodded, turned his head to Li Ji and said, "Lead them to the Xichuan Thorn Mansion." ”

Li Ji promised and said to everyone: "Come with me." Then he led the twelve out of the hall.

Wang Yi said: "I thought that the general would let them go to various places in Nanzhong to serve, but I didn't expect that they would be allowed to study first." ”

Zhang Lang said: "Although they are all heroes of various ethnic groups, but after all, they have not been in contact with the government, and rash use not only does not know the depths, but also may harm them, so they must be trained first, so that they can understand the laws and regulations, understand the rules, and know how to be officials, and then arrange positions according to their talents and characteristics." Wang Yi felt that what Zhang Lang said made sense and nodded.

Zhang Lang said to Zhu Rong: "In the future, the talents sent by various tribes will be sent to the Xichuan Thorn Mansion. ”

Zhu Rong hugged his fists and promised, and then said with some concern: "Now that all counties and counties are in urgent need of talents, how to solve this matter?" ”

Zhang Lang said: "I have already thought about this matter, I will order the Xichuan Assassin Mansion and the Jingzhou Assassin Mansion to send officials to serve in Nanzhong, as for the ordinary officials, they can be recruited on the spot." ”

Zhu Rong felt that Zhang Lang's arrangement was very proper, and nodded.

Zhang Lang said to Zhu Rong: "The queen's responsibility is the heaviest, the standing army of Nanzhong will be led by the queen, and the safety of Nanzhong will be handed over to the queen." Zhu Rong hugged his fists and said: "Don't worry, general, I will definitely protect Nanzhong!" ”

Zhang Lang smiled and said, "I believe in you." ”

Zhu Rong's heart jumped for no reason, and he lowered his head.

Wang Yi looked at the expressions of the two of them in his eyes, and couldn't help but be suspicious.

……

Early the next morning, Zhang Lang left Dianchi City and returned north under the escort of the Tiger Ben Guard, and Zhu Rong, Li Ji and other handsome generals and staff went out of the city to see them off.

Zhang Lang and his entourage traveled all the way north and arrived in Chengdu three days later.

As soon as he arrived in Chengdu, before he Fazheng could say a few words, the doorman came to report: "General Qiqi, the messenger of Xiangyang wants to see the general." ”

Zhang Lang and Fa Zheng were both a little surprised, and Zhang Lang said, "Let him in." The doorman answered, and ran down, and a moment later led in a dusty officer. When the officer saw Zhang Lang, he hurriedly bowed: "The villain greets the general!" ”

"Get up and speak."

The officer answered and stood up. took out a letter from his arms, stepped forward, and presented it to Zhang Lang with both hands: "This is what Lord Zhuge ordered the villain to hand over to the general." Zhang Lang took the letter, opened the envelope, took out the letter, shook it open, and read it. Zhang Lang showed a look of surprise, and said to Fa Zheng with a strange expression: "Sun Jian and Zhou Yu actually want to give me the second and second Qiao?" The envoy Lu Su has already gone to Luoyang. ”

Fa Zheng was stunned for a moment, and then frowned and said: "This is the plan of Gou Jian to offer Xi Shi back then. First, he intends to resolve the hostility of the protagonist to Jiangdong, and secondly, he hopes to use this pair of naturally beautiful beauties to consume the will of the lord in order to plot misdeeds. He hugged his fist at Zhang Lang: "The lord must not be fooled!" ”

Zhang Lang said with a strange expression: "But Kong Ming tried his best to facilitate this matter. ”

Fa Zheng was stunned, "Why is this?" ”

Zhang Lang shook his head, "The letter didn't explain it. I guess Kong Ming should have something to think about. He glanced at Fa Zheng and said with a smile: "Xiaozhi doesn't have to worry about my fighting spirit being worn out, although the big and small Er Qiao is beautiful and fragrant, it is equivalent to Diao Chan at most, not to mention that if you want to talk about style, Er Qiao must be much inferior." Zhou Yu: The idea that they want to use Er Qiao to kill my fighting spirit may have miscalculated! ”

Fa Zhengdao: "There is another possibility that we have to guard against, Er Qiao's purpose may be to ask the driver to assassinate the lord!" So it's better not to touch Er Qiao. ”

Zhang Lang smiled: "Filial piety, don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who gets carried away by beauty!" ”