"What kind of mess will there be?" Lin Haotian asked: "What kind of reason is it to remove corrupt officials and corrupt officials and send honest and capable talents to manage the place, but there will be chaos?"

"My lord, some things are not as simple as they seem. Chu Lianyu said urgently: "My Dajin's territory has expanded so quickly, but the counties and counties have been peaceful, and there has been no major turmoil, why? Are those people who have been conquered by my Dajin don't hate us? No, they hate our country, and they hate adults even more, and the reason why they don't dare to rise up to resist is because of these corrupt officials and corrupt officials in the eyes of adults!"

"What do you mean by that?" Lin Haotian stared at Chu Lianyu and asked suspiciously.

Chu Lianyu said: "Most of the local officials in our country are military generals, good at leading troops to fight, and their style is also vigorous and resolute, once there are signs of rebellion within their jurisdiction, they will send troops to suppress it, so the people of those other countries who have been incorporated into the Jin State certainly hate us, but they are also more afraid of us and dare not rise up to resist." Now the adults use these officials who have never fought to replace those generals who have been fighting on the battlefield for many years, I am afraid that it will cause rebellions everywhere, and the whole country will fall into civil war and internal strife!"

"If this is really the case, then the imperial court will directly send troops to suppress it!" Lin Haotian said: "Corrupt officials and corrupt officials are the root cause of disaster to the country and the people, maybe they can stabilize the situation in our country in a short time, but in the long run, the foundation of the country will be shaken by them, and it will never be kept." The long pain is better than the short pain, I have made up my mind on this matter, and I will not make any changes, and you don't have to persuade me again. ”

"My lord—" Chu Lianyu still wanted to persuade again. Lin Haotian waved his hand, interrupted him, and muttered, "Your worries are also justified. I had overlooked this earlier. ”

He pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Shao Lin, immediately send someone to summon Lu Kai, Jin Cheng, Mu Wu, Guan He, and Li Wei to come to see me. ”

"Yes, my lord!" Shao Lin agreed, and then conveyed Lin Haotian's order.

Now, the generals have not left the general's mansion, and Lin Haotian's summoning order has not been passed down for long. The five of them hurried to the room.

After seeing Lin Haotian, the five of them saluted together.

Lin Haotian waved his hand, signaling that they didn't need to be polite. Then he said urgently: "Lu Kai!"

"The last general!" Lu Kai stepped forward and intervened.

"You immediately lead the Third Legion back to Jindi, and if there is any rebellion, it will be destroyed. No toleration!"

"The last general obeys!"

"Mu Wu, Jin Cheng!"

"The last general!" Mu Wu and Jin Cheng both came out.

"The two of you immediately lead the Sixth Legion and the Huwei Army to Mudi. Mu Wu is in charge of the eight counties of Mubei, and Jin Cheng is in charge of the eight counties of Munan, if there is a rebellion, kill them all, and no one will be left!"

"The last general obeys!"

"Guan He, Li Wei!"

"The last general!"

"The two of you are responsible for the safety of Chidi, especially Li Wei, your Huwei army is the fastest, I want you to lead the whole army to be ready to send troops at any time. Once there is a rebellion in Chidi, give me the first time to take it! Don't show mercy to your subordinates just because the other party is a red man. You must know that the rebellion cannot be eradicated today, and that it will continue in the future, and there will never be a wooden day, and then there will be more dead and wounded, do you understand?"

Li Wei's face was straight, and he intervened and said: "My lord, don't worry, the general will never be merciful to the thieves of the rebellion, and he must make an example of him!"

"Very good!" Lin Haotian nodded with satisfaction, looked around at the generals, and said in a deep voice: "As long as you central army do your best, even if there is a rebellion in various places, it will be quickly quelled." Remember, after you go out, you represent the court, and your actions also represent the determination of the court and the commander. ”

"The last general understands!" all the generals intervened in unison.

"En!" Lin Haotian immediately looked at Chu Lianyu and asked with a smile, "Lianyu, what do you think of such an arrangement?"

Chu Lianyu smiled helplessly and said, "My lord, take precautions, such an arrangement, no matter how good it is, it will be foolproof." ”

Now he also sees that the adult is the king of the scales, and he is determined to change the local officials, when the adult makes up his mind, no matter what he says, it is useless, and he can't change the adult's mind at all.

In addition, in Chu Lianyu's view, the adult's approach is not a fundamental matter of principle, and it is not so much that he has to fight with reason, and even does not hesitate to tear his face with the adult, of course, there is still a crisis, but with the strong military strength of the Jin State, it is not difficult to suppress the local rebellion.

Seeing that Chu Lianyu finally relented, Lin Haotian was quite happy and proud, stroked his palms and smiled: "It seems that everyone has no objections, well, tomorrow, I will write this matter into a notice, post it, and summon the world." ”

"Your Excellency is wise!" everyone couldn't change Lin Haotian's determination, and they could only follow his words.

On this night, Lin Haotian's banquet in the General's Mansion caused an uproar in the Jin Kingdom, and the military and political leaders of various counties and counties were replaced one after another, which also triggered a series of chain reactions.

With the appointment of the new officials, they immediately began to drastically change the county, the officials in the county, and even the lords of the cities under their jurisdiction.

No matter who you are, you hope that the people below can be your confidants and right-hand men!

What's more, most of those local officials and city lords are official positions bought by gold and silver, and if they have to learn or not, they have no ability, and how can the new county heads and county captains look down on these mediocre talents.

In addition, their positions are only temporary and not stable, and people want to make achievements as soon as possible to show their lords and the imperial court, prove their ability, and remove the word temporary in front of their official positions.

It can be said that Lin Haotian's measures have made the chaotic and smoky officialdom in various parts of the country of Jin become new overnight, and of course, chaotic situations have also followed.

Chu Lianyu's concerns were not wrong, the Jin State was expanding so rapidly, but the situation in various places was very stable, and it depended to a large extent on the county head and county captains who were transferred from the army to the local positions.

Each of them is good at using soldiers, and they do things without delay. Resolute and decisive, as long as there is a rebellion within the jurisdiction, he will lead troops to encircle and suppress it as soon as possible. Suppressed with brutal and bloody wrists.

Now that new officials have taken office, and there has been a large-scale change of subordinate officials, the local government is in chaos, so that those who are dissatisfied and resentful of the Jin State see an opportunity to take advantage of it.

In the month that followed, there were as many as 100 rebellions in various parts of the country, some places. In a single county alone, there are as many as three or four rebel forces at the same time.

In this month's time, the central army of the Jin State was so busy that it hit the back of the head and ran around. Tired of conquest and suppression, I feel more tired than fighting in an enemy country.

In the territory of Jinguo, the most stable is Jindi, and there has not been a single rebellion. Gemdale is the foundation of the country. For Lao Jinren, it doesn't matter who is the head of the county or the county capital, it is a good thing to go corrupt officials and clean officials.

The most unstable and most rebellion in the Jin country is Chidi, but fortunately, the Jin country has a lot of garrisons in Chidi, in addition to the second army fighting in the western part of Chidi, there is also the Iron Lion Army. and the First Army Corps, which was sent later, these are the most elite Central Army Corps in the Jin Kingdom. Accustomed to confrontation with the regular army, they are not afraid to deal with local rebels.

As for Mudi, there were quite a few rebellions, but relatively speaking, they were not large-scale, and many of them were not so much rebel forces as a group of people with ulterior motives who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity.

They flaunted the banner of opposing Jin, but what they did was the work of bandits and bandits, robbing houses and houses, robbing people's money, killing people, setting fires, looting, and doing all kinds of evil, and their gold was even more barbaric than the barbaric Jin army in those years.

These rebel forces who took advantage of the fire to loot did not have the support of the local people at all, but still hated them to the core, and naturally they could not become a climate.

Lin Haotian sat in the general's mansion, and all he saw every day were emergency reports from all over the country, and he didn't know anything about the extent of the chaos in the Jin Kingdom.

On this day, Zhang Hui came to see Lin Haotian.

Seeing him, Lin Haotian asked: "Since a large number of local officials have been replaced, most of the reports from the local government are about the rebellion, tell me, what is the situation on the Mudi side now?"

"Lord Hui, everything is fine!" Zhang Hui said.

"Okay?" Lin Haotian patted the report on the table and said, "But that's not what the report from the heads of the counties in Mudi says. He picked up a notebook casually, opened it and said: "Xiaoling County, three counties under its jurisdiction, there have been five rebellions this month. ”

He picked up another newspaper and continued: "Yunkou County, four counties under its jurisdiction, there were three rebellions. Also, Huaiyin, Jiashang, Longshan counties, etc., I roughly calculated that in the eighteen counties of Mudi alone, there were no less than thirty rebellions this month!"

After speaking, he squinted at Zhang Hui, with an expression of I see how you explain.

Zhang Hui smiled indifferently and said: "My lord is too worried, these reports can be seen or not, many of them are exaggerated, most of the new adults are first-time officials, and they have never seen the world, even if there are only three or four people in the jurisdiction who rise up to make trouble, it will also scare them into a panic, and it cannot be ruled out that some adults are deliberately exaggerating, so that it is convenient to invite merit to the adults and the court in the future. ”

Lin Haotian squinted his eyes and was happy, indeed, according to the information sent back by Mingying, some county leaders did write about the rebellion in their counties too seriously in the report, as if it had reached the extent that the imperial court could not save it.

He said quietly: "This incident can be regarded as a collective assessment of these new officials, Zhang Hui, you ask the Political Participation Hall to help me keep an eye on it, which officials are competent and which are incompetent, all the statistics will be counted and reported to me." ”

"Yes, my lord!" Zhang Hui Zhengse said: "Actually, the lower officials have already started to let their subordinates do this, after all, the new county heads and county capitals are elected by the Participation Hall, if there are indeed people who are not capable enough and are embarrassed by the heavy responsibility, the Participation Hall will make up for the loss and find another good talent!"

"Well, well done, you thought of me in front of me. Lin Haotian looked at Zhang Hui with a smile, and secretly admired in his heart, people like Zhang Hui are really getting better and easier to use, and he really did the right thing to put him in charge of the Political Participation Hall in the first place.

He said: "The local rebel forces should not be underestimated, and more efforts must be made in this matter." ”

When Zhang Hui heard this, he hurriedly bowed down and said, "Xiaguan will never let your adults down!"

Lin Haotian nodded and said, "Okay." If there's nothing else to do, just go back!"

"Yes, my lord!" Zhang Hui gave a deep salute this time. Take two steps back, turn and leave.

After Zhang Hui left, he sat in the room for a while before returning to the main hall.

At this time, Roland happened to be in the main hall.

Seeing this, Lin Haotian had a smile on his face and walked forward silently. He patted Roland lightly on the shoulder and asked, "These days, let's go out for a walk together, shall we?"

Roland's eyes suddenly flashed with light. Surprised and delighted, he asked, "I wonder where the adults are going?"

Lin Haotian looked up and smiled, and said, "Go to the south! Now the counties are not peaceful, and I don't know the specific situation just by listening to others." I'd like to see it for myself. Let's see what the situation is like everywhere. ”

Lin Haotian wanted to travel and go to the south, which was a temporary decision, and it was not announced to the public, but he only explained that Peng Qian, Chu Lianyu, Zhang Hui, and Gu Yuan, the important officials of the court, took care of the government on their behalf. As for him taking Roland with him, it can make it easier for him to contact Mingying when he travels, and since she is a woman, it is more convenient to accompany her.

There were only four of them. There were two carriages, and Lin Haotian and Luo Lan took one. Shao Lin and Tong Lei rode in the same car.

Jiankang is the capital of the Jin country, of course, there will be no rebellion near Jiankang, as far as the eye can see, it is completely a prosperous scene of national peace and security, peace and peace, but the further you go south, the scene you see is very different.

The Jin State did not manage the Chidi well, and a large amount of farmland was abandoned.

It is not that the population of the Chi people has decreased sharply, but that the taxes set up by the government are too heavy, and the people not only have to pay the taxes of the imperial court, but also have to pay the taxes set up by the county and the county privately.

It can be said that the economy of Chidi, which was ruled by the Jin State, has not only not been developed, but has been destroyed to a great extent.

The more he witnessed the hardships of the people in Chidi, the more Lin Haotian felt that his decision was not wrong, and it was not too early to remove the local officials now, but too late, and he should have replaced all the local officials who had been temporarily established in Chidi when the Jin-Chi War had just subsided, so that there would not be such a tragic situation as the Chidi today.

On this day, Lin Haotian and his entourage entered the territory of Liulin County, which is already the southern border of the Jin Kingdom, and further south, it is the Gurao County of Chidi, but now it belongs to the territory of the Red Kingdom.

Because Liulin County is located in the southern border, it belongs to the far place of Emperor Tiangao, and this place is also the most depressed place that Lin Haotian has seen along the way.

In the afternoon of the same day, they went to Anseong, a small town in Liurim County.

The streets were deserted, not to mention not a single pedestrian could be seen, even the shops on both sides of the street were closed, and the whole city was eerily silent, as if it were a city with no one dead.

A burst of cold gold blew over, so that Roland, who got out of the car with Lin Haotian, couldn't help but shiver, and his little hand subconsciously grabbed his clothes.

She said in a trembling voice, "My lord, this is ...... Why can't you even look at anyone?"

Lin Haotian also felt strange, although it was a small city, it was not so much that even pedestrians and merchants couldn't see it!

At this time, Tong Lei and Shao Lin also got out of the carriage one after another, came to Lin Haotian and Luo Lan, and whispered while looking around: "Could it be that the city lord of this city is too cruel and scares the people in the city away?"

Along the way, they have encountered such a thing, but they have never seen such a serious thing as Anseong.

Hearing this, Lin Haotian's face turned cold, and he said fiercely: "If that's the case, I should have stripped off the skin of the city lord of Ancheng!"

Roland was taken aback by his words, and subconsciously held Lin Haotian's hand. The latter also realized that he was a little out of shape, put away the coldness and viciousness of his face, patted the back of her hand with a smile, and signaled her not to be afraid.

As he walked forward, Lin Haotian finally saw a teahouse open on the side of the road, he took a deep breath and said to Roland: "There is a teahouse over there, let's go and sit down." ”

"Okay!" Roland agreed, and walked over quickly with Lin Haotian.

When I came to the door of the teahouse, I raised my eyes and looked inside, okay, there was no customer in the huge teahouse, only a young man dressed as a shopkeeper was napping at the counter.

Lin Haotian walked forward, stood still beside the shopkeeper, and then cleared his throat. Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper didn't react, lying there and not moving, Lin Haotian knocked on the counter impatiently, and said in a deep voice: "Wake up!"

The shopkeeper, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly shook his head, sat up, and his eyes fell on Lin Haotian's face for a while before he realized that it was a guest, he stood up with a smile on his face, and said, "I'm really sorry, the little one fell asleep just now, what do the guest officers want to drink......"

When his eyes saw Luo Lan beside Lin Haotian, the whole person was stunned, in the teahouse, he had seen a lot of people, but it was the first time he saw such a beautiful woman in front of him, and he couldn't help but lose his mind.

Seeing this, Lin Haotian raised his eyebrows, and before he could speak, Shao Lin and Tong Lei walked in from outside, stood in front of the shopkeeper like two iron towers, and stared at him coldly.

The shopkeeper finally came back to his senses, and was frightened by the cold expressions of the two, and didn't dare to look at Roland again, and said with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, please inside, please inside!"

Shao Lin and Tong Lei stood up and didn't move, their four eyes were like four sharp swords, still staring at the shopkeeper, but Lin Haotian smiled indifferently, and asked as he walked inside: "Xiaoer, what about the people in the city?

"The guest officer doesn't know yet?"

"Know what?"

"Everyone went to Dongcheng to see the excitement. ”

"Oh, what's so lively and attractive?" Lin Haotian helped Roland sit down and asked casually curiously.

"Today is the day of the new county head beheading the city lord, and it will be cut at noon, and it is estimated that it will be done soon. The shopkeeper shrugged his shoulders and said disapprerovingly.

Lin Haotian asked, "Why do you want to behead the city lord?"

Dian Xiaoer said: "The new county head has listed twenty-three crimes against the city lord, all of which are capital crimes.

Lin Haotian raised his eyebrows and asked, "Did the original city lord really commit so many capital crimes?"

The shopkeeper nodded and responded: "This is all too little, it really has to be strictly investigated, and let him die a hundred and eighty times without wronging him!"

Lin Haotian said: "In this case, this is a good thing, it means that the new county head has helped Ancheng eradicate a big scourge." ”

The shopkeeper sneered and said: "The new official Ren three fires, I can only say that the city lord was unlucky, and he hit the hands of the new county head, actually, I see that the new county head is no different from the original county head, they are all golden people, the golden people are barbaric, brutal and greedy, look, in a few days, the new county head will be completely revealed!" (to be continued......)