After Gongsun Xuan left, only Gongsun Ying was left in the hall who was sitting like a wooden clay sculpture.

Obviously he is nearly fifty years old and is the age of holding his grandson, and he is already a county guard.

But under the suppression of his father, even in the face of nieces and juniors like Gongsun Yan, he had no right to speak.

Gongsun Yan didn't know if this was the normal state of the Gongsun family or if Gongsun Jing deliberately asked him to lose face in order to punish him.

At this time, look at this uncle who is deeply courteous and graceful in his every move.

Without Gongsun Xuan as a companion, he sat alone in the hall, being a dumb observer, and his single figure only revealed a little pitiful.

Gongsun Yan couldn't help but hook the corners of his lips.

She is not a person who is good at observation and analysis, but she pays a lot of attention to Gongsun Ying.

Good at self-deception and self-indulgence, superficial thinking, selfishness, hoping to win the appreciation of others with their performances, even if the clumsy performance is full of flaws, such a person has a term called performative personality in later generations.

For such a group of people, how to care for him?

Naturally ignore him!

The more immersed you are in the performance, the more uncomfortable it is when you are ignored.

Thinking about it like this, her grandfather is really a top domestic violence player, and she completely grasps the method of making his eldest son miserable.

Thinking in his heart, Gongsun Yan ignored Gongsun Ying even more completely, only when the half of the hall did not exist.

She stood up and made a thoughtful gesture, easing her slightly numb legs by the way.

"What Grandpa just said is reasonable." She nodded, then shook her head again, "But that's not enough. ”

"I wonder how many people there are in Lulong County now?"

Gongsun Yan originally thought that Gongsun Jing would ask Gongsun Ying or call Cao Peng, the middle household of the Taishou Mansion, and take the slip to check.

Unexpectedly, Gongsun Jing only squinted and recalled, and then reported a number: "At the beginning of this year, there were more than 4,000 households and more than 20,000 mouths. ”

Gongsun Yan was stunned, she was surprised by this old man's amazing memory, and even more surprised by his control of this Liaoxi County.

If I remember correctly, her grandfather has been relieved of Liaoxi Taishou for nearly 20 years, but he can still be so familiar with government affairs, what a terrifying desire for control.

"There are more than 4,000 households, more than 20,000 mouths, and the population is too small.

At this time, it was Tian Kai who spoke, and he didn't know what Gongsun Yan's attitude was, but it was normal to reduce the price during the negotiation.

"Dare to ask the head of the family, how many people are currently wearing armor in the border guards of Lulong County? What about ordnance, commissioning, and horse administration? ”

Zhao Yun also leaned over slightly and asked.

Gongsun Jing's thin fingertips rubbed the beard on his chin, it wasn't that he didn't know the answer to this question, it was really a little difficult to speak.

After a pause, he said: "The Lulong border garrison has been abandoned for a long time, and there are more than 3,000 soldiers on record, and the armament is relaxed. ”

Gongsun Yan couldn't hear anything unusual about such an answer, but Tian Kai sneered, and Zhao Yun also frowned tightly.

"Anyone with a record?" Tian Kai asked rhetorically, "The head of the family still doesn't want to coax the little lady to not understand military affairs." ”

It is the practice of the army to eat empty salaries in all dynasties, and there are 3,000 people who have recorded this, and half of them can actually be regarded as leading generals who are not greedy.

It is normal for conscripted soldiers to be sold privately to the salt mines.

The generals who commanded the army only retained their military status, falsely signed up for the army's rations, and the actual soldiers fled, died, deserted, and were sold by the officials as subordinates.

Even though the Han law has strict legal texts, the local military and government collude, and no one cares about it.

"I heard that when Abuna was entrenched in Qian'an and Lulong, he used salt and iron to trade in the Wuhuan tribe outside the Saiwai, and controlled them from entering the customs by Lulong, as if he regarded Qian'an Lulong as his own territory."

"Also because of the shock of Abduna, Lu Long rarely invaded the outside of the Cypriot Islands, which caused Lu Long's military equipment to be abandoned for many years."

Speaking of this, Tian Kai sneered on his face, "If it weren't for the fact that Abdul was still the character of the Hu people, the military discipline was really poor, and he often harassed the Han people, but his ability to resist the invasion of Hu Lu was higher than that of many wine bags and rice bags in Lulong County." ”

Tian Kai's words were really a bit heart-wrenching, and he asked Gongsun Jing's hand to stroke his beard.

However, Gongsun Jing is old and spicy in the end, and this little embarrassment will not make him move his complexion.

"Lulong County is indeed sparsely populated and loosely armed." Gongsun Jing asked leisurely, "Does the Duke of Tian know where the large number of people in the county and the registered soldiers have gone?" ”

How could he know that?

Tian Kai didn't know why Gongsun Jing asked such a question, and sneered when he was about to answer.

Something suddenly occurred to him, and he coughed lightly, swallowing all the words that were about to come out of his mouth.

Gongsun Yan and Zhao Yun were stunned at the same time, and they didn't know why Tian Kai stopped talking.

"Huh." Gongsun Jing laughed, "Ah Yan knows where the thousands of shaded households in the Lone Bamboo Manor come from?" ”

Where did it come from?

Gongsun Yan pondered for a moment, and his face suddenly darkened.

Yes, Zhou Xing introduced that Guzhu Manor has a large number of shade households and armed forces.

She turned her head to look at Zhou Xing, who was standing next to the pillars in the lobby, as if she was tired of standing and looking for a pillar to lean onto.

Seeing Gongsun Yan looking at him, Zhou Xing immediately stood up straight, straightened his thinning hair, and then lowered his head with a little weakness.

Gongsun Yan wanted to raise his sleeves to cover his face for a moment.

No wonder Tian Kai stopped talking.

Eating melons and eating them on my head, it turns out that the moth is actually me!

In the Han Dynasty, the local government relied on the population for taxes, labor, and soldiers, and the local population directly affected the strength of the local military and government to a certain extent.

The operation of the large estates of the landlords required a large amount of labor, and the tribes, shade households, and servants were all related to the population.

However, the landlords and powerful have tax privileges, and the population they have robbed has become shady households, and they can no longer provide military service and military resources for the locality.

As a result, there was a situation in which local authorities and various landlords competed for the population.

Guzhu Manor is the largest manor in the Lulong area, and the owner is Gongsun Zhan of the Gongsun family of the Tu Overlord of Western Liaoning.

The output of such a large number of farmhouses and government treasury naturally depends on forcibly occupying a large number of people, making peace with border army generals and buying and selling soldiers as armed troops or labor.

If you don't make it good, the soldiers who are registered in the army, one out of ten can be pointed out from the roster of the tribe of the Lone Bamboo Manor.

Where Abduna has been plagued, the displaced people who have escaped but lost their homes have also been absorbed and become the nourishment of the lush branches of the Lone Bamboo Manor.

The local population has been plundered by local tyrants in large quantities, and the local natural finances are tight, and the government is short and the people are disadvantaged.

If Aduuna is a scourge on the surface, Lulong County is so withered, and it is not unrelated to the family's manor's efforts to dig up wool and dig the foot of the wall.

Among them, the entrenched behemoth - Lone Bamboo Manor is the first to bear the brunt.

"Has Yan figured it out?" Gongsun Jing looked at his granddaughter's fair face with a smile.