Chapter 63: A Land of Chaos and Confusion

There are more than 100 miles of road from the state capital of Xiaojinzhou to the county seat of Gumu County, and according to Xu Qingfeng's previous urine nature, it will take two days to get there.

He was quite reluctant to hold the position of magistrate of Gumu County, and wished he could delay it for a few more days.

But this time is different, this time it is in an unsafe area, and there is not even a market town in the middle, even if Xu Qingfeng doesn't care about safety, those who follow him have to care.

The day was quite fast, and the lunch was all on horseback, and he ate the dry food he had brought with him.

Liu Qing followed the team, but he was flying in the air.

Looking down from the sky, Xu Qingfeng's team marched on a plain, all the way through which it was gentle, with only a few small hills.

Scattered across the plain were straw huts, built by migrating sinners.

Most of the land has been reclaimed, and people can be seen working in the fields.

Still, there are some barren places.

Compared to the mainland, it is vast and sparsely populated.

Liu Qing didn't know how big this world was, he only knew that Gyeongju and Xiaojinju both belonged to the same latitude, although there were more than 3,000 miles of road from north to south, but the sunrise and sunset were basically at the same time.

The climate and products are the same.

It is a vast and sparsely populated area, not because of the barren land or the harsh climate, but because of the war.

There is a barbarian tribe in the eastern part of the northern part of Daqian, who always invades the territory of Daqian, and the big and small Jinzhou, as the border areas facing the barbarians, have suffered greatly, and the people who originally lived there have either died in the war or migrated to the interior.

It wasn't until more than ten years ago that the imperial court relocated the criminals and reclaimed this fertile land.

Prior to that, for decades, only the army was stationed here, guarding the gateway to the eastern section of the northern part of the Great Qian.

Past the plains, there was a rolling mountain range.

It is a branch of the Tibetan Gold Mountain Range that extends southward.

Those mountains are the hiding places of the bandits.

Liu Qing had read the map of Daqian and knew that the Zangjinshan Mountain Range was the dividing line of the eastern section of the northern part of Daqian.

To the south of the Tibetan Gold Mountain is the border of the Great Qian.

To the north of the Tibetan Gold Mountain, is a country that is no less large than the Great Qian, Ningguo.

The group called the northern barbarians by the Great Qian, which did not belong to either the Ning State nor the Great Qian, they were barbarians living in the Zangjin Mountains, who suddenly rose up a hundred years ago and fought in the south and the north, causing great disasters to both the Ning State and the Great Qian.

Some time ago, they sent envoys to the capital of Daqian to make Daqian recognize that they were one country, and then draw a border line and not invade each other.

Liu Qing did not know how long the Tibetan Jinshan Mountain Range was from east to west, but he only knew that it was more than 1,000 miles along the border line of Daqian, and the end of the west was in Dajinzhou.

If you go east after Xiaojinzhou, it will not belong to the Great Qian.

There are some branch veins that extend to the south of the Tibetan Gold Mountain, although they are not as tall as the main vein, but they are generally four or five hundred meters high, the mountains are high and dense, and the bandits are hiding in them, and it is indeed difficult to exterminate.

The official road from the small Jinzhou Prefecture City to the county seat of Gumu County is all in the plain area, and at most there are some small hills tens of meters high.

The closest place to the mountain is also a road of one or twenty miles.

This will effectively avoid being attacked by bandits on the road.

However, Liu Qing looked down in the air, and along the way, he saw three suspicious teams, all of them were teams riding horses with knives, hiding in the woods not far from the main road, looking sneaky.

Think of it as a bandit.

It's just that each of the three teams is a dozen people, and Xu Qingfeng's team has more than fifty people, including twenty people in armor.

The gang of bandits did not dare to rush over when they saw such equipment.

really wanted to rush, Liu Qing was not sure to deal with those people, so he could only rely on Xu Qingfeng to save himself.

- Now that his divine power has not recovered to the second day of the fifth month before he treats those people collectively, he will pick up at most twenty or thirty pounds of objects, which is inferior to most normal people, and he really can't do anything with those bandits.

If Xu Qingfeng knew this, I am afraid that he would scold in his heart: "Ma Maipi, I trust you so much, but you are a waste!" ”

This team did not arrive at Gumu County until it was almost dark.

Gumu County is not big, but it is very strong, the city wall is seven or eight meters high, and you can run horses on it.

This is to prevent barbarian invasion, and it is naturally built strongly.

There was a thousand households stationed inside, mainly to guard the granaries in the city.

There are hundreds of families living in this county, including merchants and craftsmen, and some of them are farmers, but their land is not in the city, but on the moat outside the city.

The city is not big, and there is no land in it, not even a land to grow vegetables.

They can only plant some land by the moat, and they dare not go too far.

When Xu Qingfeng's team saw this city from afar, they couldn't help but cheer.

Finally arrived.

At this time, the city gates are about to be closed.

There were dozens of soldiers guarding the city gates, and there were people watching from the city walls, and if they found that something was wrong, they immediately pulled up the drawbridge and closed the city gates.

Xu Qingfeng's team was escorted by Daqian's soldiers, and it was the banner of the garrison in Xiaojinzhou, and they saw it from afar, so they didn't close the city gate.

That's your own person, don't worry.

When they were still dozens of steps away from the city gate, the leader of the soldiers guarding the city recognized the leader of the other party's soldiers, who often sent people to Gumu County, so he greeted him loudly with a smile:

"Old Geng, why are you here again? Which guest is escorting this time? ”

The garrisons of the cities of Little Golden State often did some personal work to escort caravans on their journeys, and he thought that this time would be the same.

The other party's answer startled him:

"We are escorting the new county magistrate Xu Qingfeng Xu, as well as the Mingxiu Taoist priest from the Hongfa Palace."

It turned out that the new magistrate had arrived.

The leader hurriedly saluted Xu Qingfeng and sent someone to lead this team to the county government.

After the appointment of the previous prefectural magistrate came, he handed over all the accounts of the prefectural to the prefectural reciprocal in front of the prefectural chief bookkeeper, checked all the accounts, counted all the inventory, and then left Gumu County.

- No one wants to stay in such a hellish place forever.

Now Gumu County temporarily replaces the position of the county, and it is the county's Chen master book.

Due to the special circumstances of Xiaojinzhou, all the counties under its rule do not have county officials, and there are two official positions under the county, one is the chief bookkeeper and the other is the county lieutenant, and there is no canonical history.

When Xu Qingfeng was in the state city, he had already obtained the accounts of Gumu County from Zhizhou, and this time when he came over, the first thing he did was to reconcile the accounts with Master Chen here.

The accounts are correct, and this can take over the post of magistrate.