Waiting for Fang Xin to go back, another half a month passed, and now it was the middle of August, one day, just after having dinner in the yamen, Zhang Yang hurried to the inner courtyard, and shouted as soon as he entered the door: "My lord, my lord!" ”

Fang Xin had already washed his feet and was holding a book, browsing under the lamp, when he put down the book and asked, "What's the matter with you?" ”

Seeing his expression, he already expected it in his heart.

Zhang Yang hurriedly saluted and said, "My lord, the barbarian division has rebelled!" ”

Fang Xin was shocked, put down the book, and said, "You sit down, speak slowly!" ”

"Yes, three days ago, the barbarian rebellion, is taking the king of Anchang as the number, gathering tens of thousands of people, besieging Wuzhu County, Wuzhu County has sent an urgent report, up to the province, and in the vicinity of our county, there are also Tusi riots, and now the contact has been cut off, it seems that there are thousands of people."

In Fang Xin's mind, a simple map of the province suddenly appeared, and after thinking about it, he couldn't help but gasp, this Wuzhu County is an important checkpoint in the province, if it falls, the whole province will immediately be cut in half, and it will be impossible to communicate, and the western half of the province will immediately fall into the point of fighting for itself.

In this barbarian, there are still capable people!

Zhang Yang saw him thinking, but said again: "My lord, the province has already sent an envoy down, do you want to greet him immediately?" ”

Fang Xin was startled, woke up, and said, "Yes, have you summoned all the adults?" ”

"The lower official has already announced." Zhang Yang said.

"Very well, let's go."

At this time, it was a drizzle in the night, Fang Xin didn't even wear an oil coat, braved the drizzle, and rushed to the outside hall, at this time, the house was already full of people, and when Fang Xin came in, they all bowed and saluted. said, "My lord! ”

Fang Xin looked at it and saw an eight-rank military attache there, tall and tall. Black and red-skinned, energetic, and his eyes were faintly shining, when he saw Fang Xin coming in, he also bowed: "Xiaguan has seen Lord Zhixian!" ”

Fang Xin hurriedly stepped forward. Helped up: "This lord doesn't need to be polite, is he a messenger from the province?" ”

"Exactly, the lower official Qi Zhiqing, the captain of Xuanjie. Brought provincial Chinese books. The man didn't say much. Said directly and frankly.

"Please also read it out to Lord Qi!"

It's not a holy decree, of course, you don't need to kneel down to read it, it's okay to just take it like that, but it's ready for everyone to hear, so Fang Xin said so.

Qi Zhiqing was stunned for a moment, opened the official document, and read it aloud: "Life, Guming County ordered Li Rui to have a meritorious alarm, and the record should be filed." At this time, the thieves rose up, the county was uneasy, and the camp was Qi Zhiqing, and led the troops to guard it, hoping that you could guard the county seat. Don't lose an inch of land. Reluctantly! ”

"The subordinate obeys!" Fang Xin said with a deep bow.

After receiving the official documents, this battalion is Qi Zhiqing. It was under Fang Xin's temporary jurisdiction, this was not a box soldier, but an army, although there were only two hundred and fifty people in one battalion, but it also made the officials present breathe a sigh of relief.

Then all the officials saluted: "Please know the order of the county lord." ”

At such a time, the magistrate naturally takes over the power, gives orders, and of course bears all the responsibilities.

At this time, it was already early autumn, Fang Xin sat down, and said directly to Song Wenchen, the clerk of the signing room: "You are in charge of the warehouse now, and the situation of the warehouse will be told to all the adults." ”

"Yes, it is a matter of shame." Song Wenchen, the scribe of the signing room, got up and said.

"My lord, the grain for the second time a year, the grain for the first half of the year, has been collected, and now in the county treasury, there are a total of 8,961 stones of coarse grain, and the total amount of money is 2,665 yuan, and the inventory is as above!"

"Lord Zhixian, in the county arsenal, there are one thousand and twenty-one weapons, counted, only about a hundred are left to use, and now they have been rebuilt, and two hundred and fifty have been produced, which are just used on the van soldiers, as for the others, they will all be remade in the last two months, so as to use a thousand people." Zheng Yongze, the county magistrate, waited for him to finish speaking, and then said directly.

"Master Qiao, you will wait for a while, and you will directly report to the townships and villages, and say that the thieves have come, if they take refuge, they can go to the county seat, and if they don't come, they will defend themselves." Fang Xin said.

The county lord Bo Qiaojie bowed down and answered "yes"!

If there are thieves in chaos, even the imperial court can't prohibit those local wealthy clans from defending themselves, you can't force them not to resist, so the big clans in the township will automatically call on the village Ding people to defend, and some big clans also have some earthen forts, which can be defended.

At this time, Qi Zhiqing stood and listened to the words of the county government officials with an impassive expression, he was a military general, although he was a positive eight-grade, but according to the imperial court system, he was actually lower than the civil officials of the same eight-grade, so he didn't speak, but when he heard that there were eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-one stones in the county treasury, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

With such a large amount of food, it can almost feed these hundreds of armies and a thousand troops for two years - this battle can be fought.

At this moment, I heard this Li Zhixian say: "Although this county has heard the news and has also rectified it, but after all, it is not as good as the army, has Lord Qi seen the box barracks along the way?" I wonder if we can unify the training and reorganize? Although temporary, it is better than nothing, and the county will double the food! ”

This double ration of grain and land is to the point, some people always like to rectify, and even kill people to establish authority, but they don't know that ordinary soldiers, every day they are barely enough to eat food, how can they still have the strength to fight? When training, the food can't keep up, but it makes people tired, and this is still clear to Fang Xin.

Qi Zhiqing hurriedly said: "If you go back to the county lord, the barracks here are already good, and they are several times better than the few camps that can be passed along the way." After a rough look, they are all young and strong, as long as the adults give them food and rectify them a little, they can be used! ”

When Fang Xin heard him say this, he just smiled and said: "The grain will always be given to you, you and Lord Gu will train soldiers together, and deal with them in accordance with military regulations and military laws, who can't stand it, at this time, receive twenty sticks, you can also get out, this county naturally recruits new soldiers, if you come to the thief, and then escape, you will be killed." ”

"This is the right reason, and the lower officials will definitely train well." Qi Zhiqing bowed his hand and said.

The county lieutenant Gu Qingbin was a little dissatisfied, but he also knew that this was not the time to make trouble, so he said: "Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely cooperate with Lord Qi and train this soldier well." ”

"Lord Zhang, how is the situation? Is there a disc report? ”

"My lord, in this county, on the side of Lianggou Mountain, is the place where the barbarian division lives, there are eleven tribes, the total is more than 20,000 people, since the barbarian division has rebelled, then they are expected to respond, the people we sent were originally reported every three days, but now on the fourth day, there is no news, it is obviously not good." Zhang Yang replied.

Fang Xin's face sank like water, nodded, and said, "What do you think?" ”

"My lord, Xia Guan expects that it will take time for the barbarian division to mobilize these tribes, and we just need to make some preparations, and there, the mountains are high and dense, the cottages are everywhere, the rivers are vertical and horizontal, the people are fierce, it is not easy for the officials and soldiers to fight there, and the meaning of the lower officials is to wait for them to attack!"

"Lord Zhang's opinion is good!" This opinion was immediately responded to by many people, and Fang Xin would not feel that he should rush into the unfamiliar jungle to fight, and said at the moment: "Very good, just decide, everyone can make some preparations!" ”

stared at Zhang Yang again and said: "In troubled times, you have to pay attention to the inspection department, there have been a lot of Han Yi mixed up in the past hundred years, maybe some people have reported to the barbarian division, you will arrest them for me, if there is resistance, kill them!" Moreover, this county is going to build a judicial Cao, and it has been reported to the county in the province, and you will now serve as the acting judicial Cao, and after this matter is done, you can naturally be in the right position, understand? ”

The county has the right to establish a judicial cao to manage public security and prison affairs, of course, the provincial government has to approve it, and now this opportunity to propose that there is no reason for inaccuracy, so in fact, it is equivalent to directly appointing Zhang Yang as judicial Cao.

However, Zhang Yang was originally from the Jiupin inspection, and at this time, Ren Zheng Jiupin Judicial Cao was also a matter of course, so everyone had no objections, and suddenly Zhang Yang knelt down with a "snap" and said: "Xie Zhixian is promoted!" ”

"Also, Liu Jueming!"

"Humble duty!" Liu Jueming hurriedly stepped forward and knelt on the ground.

"Since the establishment of the judicial Cao, the prison officer must also be established, you have always been the head of the team, and you have been the leader of the team for six years, there is no merit, there is also hard work, you go to be this prison officer, no matter what, it is also from the ninth rank official, it is a background, I will report you, in the matter of building the judicial Cao, to the county and the province."

Liu Jueming was first surprised, and then happy, he was the leader of the team, no matter how good he was, he was not an official, at this time, he got a background, it was completely different, although he was a little reluctant to be the head of the team, but he also immediately responded: "Lord Xie promoted!" ”

"Wu Jie, you will be the head of this yamen." Fang Xin said.

"Thank you, sir!" Wu Jie hurriedly responded.

Song Wenchen suddenly looked at it with a blank eye, but this is not easy, even if Fang Xin is the magistrate, there is no way to promote him to the position of the ninth rank Sicang Cao, after all, he was not even from the ninth grade.

Through this personnel adjustment, Fang Xin finally took control of himself after taking office for the second year.

"Then let's do it, the adults will go back and prepare first, and we will destroy the thief in one fell swoop on another day!" Fang Xin glanced around and said.

"Yes, sir!" And they bowed down and answered.