Qin Feng heard Jia Xu say that his wife and children were still in Duan Ying's hands, and he was shocked: "What, Mrs. Sister-in-law and Little Son are still in Duan Ying's hands, it really makes no sense, Duan Ying is so hateful, wait for me to send troops to sweep away Beidi County and rescue Sister-in-law and Little Son!" ”

Jia Xu hurriedly said: "The lord can't, Neizi and Xiao'er are not treated harshly at Duan Ying's place now, I have sent someone to send a letter to Duan Ying in Beidi County, presumably someone will soon send Neizi and Xiao'er to Chang'an, the lord doesn't have to be angry about this matter!" ”

Qin Feng was a little worried about whether Duan Ying would send troops to escort people over, "Will Duan Ying obediently comply?" ”

"Don't worry, Lord Duan, Duan Ying will not embarrass me, forgive him for not daring to do this!"

Next, Qin Feng had a conversation with Zuo Ling, and when he talked about the world, many points of view made Zuo Ling refreshed.

The time is not early, Qin Feng proposed before saying goodbye: "There is no official in Chang'an City to preside over government affairs, this matter needs someone who is familiar with the customs of Guanzhong and is proficient in government affairs. ”

Zuo Ling said: "I heard that the general ordered that if any official wants to resign, he must ask the general in writing to resign, and he can only leave with approval. ”

Qin Feng hurriedly said: "Mr. is very comparable, if Mr. thinks that I am not good enough and not worthy of Mr.'s assistance, I can just hang the seal and leave, I will never leave difficulties!" ”

Zuo Ling thought about it for a while, he has resigned from Qing Xiu for more than ten years, and he does have the idea of thinking very quietly recently, and now he sees that Qin Feng still has a lot of appetite for him, Although his background is not good, but he is not as forgetful as Dong Zhuo when he gets a high position, and he is arrogant and brutal, he plans to do it for a while to see, if it doesn't go well, it's a big deal to hang up the seal and leave.

He got up and bowed to Qin Feng, "The general sincerely invites you, dare to disobey your orders!" ”

"Sir, please get up, I have to be Mr. Xiao He also!" Qin Feng immediately helped Zuo Ling up.

Zuo Ling hurriedly arranged for the little servant to prepare the wine and food, he had a conversation with Qin Feng and Jia Xu again, and after the wine and food, they chatted until late at night before arranging for Qin Feng and Jia Xu to stay.

Early the next morning, Zuo Ling packed his bags, put on his small house, locked the door, and followed Qin Feng and Jia Xu to Chang'an.

Qin Feng appointed Zuo Ling as the lieutenant of the division to assist him in handling the government affairs of the jurisdiction, but he, the lieutenant of the division, still beat Zhong Xuan away and appointed himself for himself.

Regarding government affairs, Qin Feng was completely handed over to Zuo Ling, Zuo Ling is indeed very good at handling government affairs, although the series of decrees issued by Qin Feng before were too unrealistic and forced the scholars too quickly, but he still tried his best to maintain them, after all, once the decree was promulgated, it could not be easily revoked, otherwise it would leave people with the suspicion of changing the decree overnight, and it would lose the prestige of the government in the hearts of the people.

After he took office, he sent people to carry out verification one by one, such as the first one, abolishing slaves, restoring the status of slaves as commoners, and if they continued to work in the original master's house, they would change to the status of hired workers, and the master's family would pay them regularly every month, and they were not allowed to set up private courts or beat hired workers.

Take this article as an example, many large scholars and landlords say that they will cooperate with the implementation, but in fact, behind closed doors, they still act according to the old system.

Zuo Ling sent a hard-line official to take people to the homes of these nobles and landlords to investigate, and asked the employees in their families whether the proprietors had carried out the decrees and whether they had beaten the hired workers and refused to pay them.

These landlords and scholars did not expect the government to send people to investigate, so they did not prepare in advance, and many hired workers broke the news when they were questioned.

The government immediately arrested several clan chiefs and landlords on the grounds of resisting arrest and cooperating with government decrees and resisting government decrees.

There were two landlords who gathered to defend the fort, resisted the government, and confronted the officials and the arresters, Zuo Ling was not used to them, and asked Qin Feng to send troops and horses to forcibly break the fort and arrest people, and some people were killed in the resistance, but it was inevitable.

Seeing that the government was so tough, other nobles and landlords did not dare to fight against the government anymore, so they could only follow the government's decrees and cooperate with the implementation.

Some slaves had been oppressed and cruelly treated by the master's family in the past, and when they saw that the government was so tough this time, they went to the government to report and complain to the master's family, and the government immediately dispatched officials to arrest and arrest people, and those who committed the most heinous crimes were sentenced to death by cane and imprisonment after trial.

On this day, Zuo Ling suggested to Qin Feng again: "General, for the sake of the stability of Guanzhong, the general should send an envoy to Liangzhou to meet Ma Teng and Han Sui, make friends with them respectively, and use the contradictions between them to sow discord between them, so that they cannot unite against our army!" ”

"Based on the principle of distant friendship and close attack, the lord should also befriend them, stabilize them, and prevent them from being co-opted and bought by the court represented by Cao Cao!"

"There are ten generals in the pass, in addition to Ma Teng and Han Sui, there are eight other people who have thousands of households under their command, these people are scattered between Liangzhou and Yongzhou, separated between our army and Han Sui and Ma Teng, their individual strength is not very strong, but if they can gather 100,000 horses together, they should not be underestimated!"

Hearing this, Qin Feng nodded and said: "What Mr. Yunyin said is very true, I will order the guards of Tongguan and all passes and city gates in the jurisdiction, so that they can strictly check the people from the eastern part of the country, and prevent Cao Cao's envoys from easily passing through our jurisdiction to Xiliang!" ”

"I will also select envoys to go to Xiliang to meet Ma Teng and Han Sui, and implement the strategy of dividing and provoking people, but how should our army act against these Xiliang warlords who are between our side and Ma Teng and Han Sui's forces?"

Zuo Ling asked: "These Xiliang warlords are Zhang Heng, Yang Qiu, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan, Hou Xuan, Li Kan, Liang Xing, and Cheng Yin, and together they can raise a maximum of 100,000 troops, I wonder how many troops the general needs to use to defeat them?" ”

Qin Feng pondered for a moment and said: "The men and horses of these warlords are not regular troops, but a considerable part of them are cavalry, coming and going like the wind, although the combat power is not as good as the regular army, if it is killed, the combat power will not be much weaker than the regular army, if our army wants to defeat them, I am afraid that at least 30,000 soldiers and horses must be prepared, but now I can't make up 30,000!" ”

Zuo Ling smiled and counted: "That's it, now the general's strength is not as good as people, you must not be brutal, you have to have a strategy to deal with these people, I heard that these small princes have more cattle, sheep, horses and leather wool, less grain, cloth and silk, why don't the generals do these transactions with them to get closer to them?" And then use this to sow discord between them, so that they can fight each other! ”

Qin Feng's eyes lit up when he heard this, this is a good idea, he has cloth and silk, Wancheng Textile Factory can appear thousands of cloth and silk every day, and there is no shortage of food now, if you still want to trade with grain, you can go to Hanzhong to find Zhang Lu to buy, and Hanzhong is also close to here, this is a good way.