The work of compiling military registration in the Governor's Mansion was carried out very smoothly, and Ling Jingyang also learned about the main generals of the army for the first time, most of the generals were the middle and low-level generals of the previous Ming army, and a small number of them were generals of the Dashun Army.

At the same time, Ling Jingyang also began to update the pace of replacement, after the conscription of various departments, a large number of recruits were enriched into the army, and those who performed well were promoted to low-level officers such as Xiaoqi and General Banner, Li Ningyang thought that these low-level officers would be the new force of the Governor's Mansion in the future.

He deliberately recalled the two capitals and went to each army to compile the newly appointed small flags, general flags, and low-ranking officers of the general rank, especially the officers who knew some culture, and they should focus on training them in the future.

Soon it was the day of the New Year, Ling Jingyang gave the whole army a three-day holiday, Bai Lushui and Wen Yuanyang began to fight again, and sent a big pot of food to Ling Jingyang and the Governor's Mansion every day.

Ling Jingyang and the officials of the Governor's Mansion ate happily, and the entire Pingyang Mansion was full of joy, but only one person was very depressed, that was Wang Mu, he was fooled by Wang Chengen once before, and his heart was full of resentment, hating that he had no brains, and he was fooled by Wang Chengen.

In order to win Ling Jingyang's trust again, Wang Mu was more active in his work, and asked Ling Jingyang to go to various states and counties for supervision on the first day of the Lunar New Year to restore order in various places as soon as possible.

Because most of the officials in various places were old officials of the Ming Dynasty, Ling Jingyang did not have a good impression of them, but he had to use them, he and Wang Mu said: "You continue to garrison Yicheng, after the beginning of spring, spring ploughing will begin in various places, and after spring ploughing, all households in various places will begin to operate, and you are the governor of the right capital, and you must dig out the grain, grass and military pay that our army needs from the land every month." ”

When Wang Mu heard this, he felt that something was wrong, and he said to Ling Jingyang: "Governor, our army has three prefectures and two states, but most of them are deserted, and there are more than 1,000 households in the better counties, and most of the counties have only more than 100 households. ”

Henan, Shanxi and other places have long been destroyed, there is no one to two years, there is no way to recover vitality, the Qing army will not give the Ming army, the Dashun army has time to recuperate, Ling Jingyang must raise grain and grass

It is necessary to transport grain and grass from the south of the Yangtze River to the north of the Yangtze River to complete the optimal allocation of resources.

"Wang Mu, you can try to contact the people of the Great Shun Army and the Hongguang Dynasty to see if you can buy food from them?"

"Governor, it may be possible to negotiate with them, but what about the silver?"

To a certain extent, Wang Mu is the great butler of Ling Jingyang, and there are hundreds of taels of silver left in the entire Governor's Mansion, and he doesn't know how to pay the soldiers of the whole army next month's salary?

Ling Jingyang closed his eyes, thought for a while, and said to Wang Mu: "You go to Fenzhou Mansion to invite Lin Erle." ”

Wang Mu didn't understand what Ling Jingyang meant, and Ling Jingyang said: "Lin Erle is a local family in Shanxi, although he has taken refuge in us, but it is only in name, there are many things behind them that can be used by us, as well as commercial taxes, I don't care how far the front line fights, commercial taxes can never be stopped." ”

"The subordinate obeys."

The next morning, Wang Mu rushed to Fenzhou with Ling Jingyang's order, and soon after leaving the city, Ling Jingyang suddenly led Yue Ling and dozens of other personal soldiers to catch up and go to Fenzhou with him.

Ling Jingyang also wanted to understand the governance of the jurisdiction, and the group went to the state and county government offices for private visits, many local governments are popular, not as dilapidated as before, and the towns are sparsely populated, although most people are still unclothed, but they finally have vitality.

But there is also a state and county, the county seat is terrible in broad daylight, the towns under its jurisdiction are even more uninhabited, and the land outside the city has no official signs.

Wang Mu looked at the gazetteer and told Ling Jingyang that this is Fenxi County, and Ling Jingyang asked him who the current magistrate of Fenxi County was?

Wang Mu thought for a while, and Ling Jingyang said: "My lord, the magistrate of Fenxi County is Hu Jia, who used to be the warden of Wanquan County, the Dashun army attacked Shanxi, this person surrendered to Dashun, and was appointed as the chief secretary of Wanquan County. ”

Ling Jingyang, do you think Wang Mu did a good job and let Hu Jia go from Wanquan County to Fenxi County

, cut off the soil of the separating side, but this Hu Jia seems to have done nothing in Fenxi County.

Everyone rode into the city, but there was no one in the city, and Ling Jingyang asked Yue Ling to see where the county yamen was.

Yue Ling ran around the city with twenty personal soldiers, and after a while, he rushed back to report to Ling Jingyang, he found the location of the county yamen, which was on the main street in the south of the city, Ling Jingyang and Wang Mu said: "Go, go and see this Hu Jia." ”

The area of the Fenxi County government is very large, and compared with the surrounding houses, it is almost completely new.

The strange thing is that there is no one standing guard at the gate.

In the cold winter, no one stood guard, and Ling Jingyang did not blame, and walked towards them with his own soldiers, to everyone's surprise, there was no one inside.

The snow on the ground was up to his ankles, and the air was mixed with a biting cold wind, Ling Jingyang felt that this courtyard was very weird, he and Yue Ling nodded, Yue Ling and his own soldiers made a gesture, and more than seventy personal soldiers suddenly made a state of battle.

This sudden change made Wang Mu a little overwhelmed, and he and Ling Jingyang whispered: "My lord, could it be that there are thieves here?" ”

Ling Jingyang exhaled softly, signaled him not to speak, and then stepped on the snow and walked gently inside.

In the innermost courtyard of the official mansion, there were bursts of rough voices, Ling Jingyang couldn't hear it very clearly, but he could hear that the people inside were obviously very happy, and there were many women who screamed miserably.

Ling Jingyang and his subordinates finally walked into the backyard, the temperature here was much warmer than outside, there were dozens of people drinking and having fun, Yue Ling stepped forward and kicked over, but Ling Jingyang grabbed him and asked him to lead people to climb the wall and surround the yard.

Under the command of Yue Ling, the pro-soldiers unknowingly surrounded the courtyard, and after the pro-soldiers were ready, Yue Ling kicked over.

The gate was kicked open by Yue Ling, and he and more than 20 soldiers rushed in with big knives, and the scene inside shocked everyone.

A middle-aged man with a fat head and big ears, holding a frightened woman in one hand and a handful of silver in the other, Wang Mu looked at it, isn't it Hu Jia, the magistrate of Fenxi County?