Baili sent people to Xuanming Prefecture to inform the state official Jiang Wanjiang, and Zhou Hanxiang, the general of Xuanmingwei, that he had been appointed as the commander of Xuanming County.

The situation here is not clear at the moment, but it cannot be ruled out that there will be a considerable amount of fighting, so please be ready to support.

Now Xuanming County is a relatively special independent county, and there is no direct subordination to Xuanming Prefecture, and Chen Xiaohu's 500 soldiers are not in Xuanmingwei's sequence, so before Baili takes office, he does not have to go to Xuanming Prefecture to report on his work.

Xuan Mingwei has just been formed, but the system is also quite perfect, in Xiao Chen Zhuge Xiaosheng's strategic planning, Xuan Mingwei is a very important part, and the focus of their defense is not the north, but the south.

Because once the war with the Great Zhou is fought, the south of Xuanming Prefecture to Yanyun Pass will be tactically abandoned in the future......

But if the Bao tribe blatantly invades Xuan Ming, then Xuan Mingwei may face the dilemma of being attacked by the north and south in the future, so Xiao Chen must solve this big hidden danger first.

Of course, Xiao Chen can directly send troops to fight against the Bao, but at present, the Baolan tribe is still in an alliance with him.

If he brazenly started a war just because of a little friction on the border between the two sides, he was afraid that the division would be unknown, and it would affect or even destroy the good relationship he had established with great difficulty with the entire northern Xinjiang tribe.

In addition, fighting alone cannot fundamentally solve the problem, and the Baolu tribe has a vast territory and a depth of thousands of miles, and once defeated, it can shrink back, but it is also difficult to completely exterminate it.

Xiao Chen can't keep too many soldiers and horses in Xuanming, and as soon as he withdraws his troops, the Xuanming side will inevitably rebound back, so that there will be no peace in Xuanming.

Therefore, fighting with the Xuanming is only a means, and stabilizing the situation on the Xuanming border is the fundamental goal, or if you can not go to war, you will not go to war.

Even if a war starts, it must be controlled in a small-scale category, and the conflict must not be expanded.

Li Tanhua decided to stay and help Baili, and ordered Huitong and others to go back to Niutou Mountain first, and left Tanma along the road to keep the communication smooth, if there is any big change here, Niutou Mountain can also come to help quickly.

The first thing Baili has to do when he takes office is naturally to search for the population, the county order is a parent official, don't you parents know how many people you have?

Chen Pin took out a yellow book of people, slapped it a few times, and the dust was flying, which showed that it was also an old thing, and it had not been updated for a long time.

In fact, it was not long ago, after Yan Pingqiu withdrew his troops and left the year before last, Chen Ping thought that the imperial court would soon send someone to receive it, and it took half a month to compile it.

"You're an old yellow calendar." Baili looked at it a few times and frowned, "What about the new population in the past two years?" ”

"Okay, my lord, don't you want to see what this situation is? Who would dare to have children? Do you give birth to a child and suffer with us? Xia Guan should not have been treated, the tigress in the house always has to exert power, and Xia Guan will not dare to disobey, and if he is not careful, this is the little girl of Yan'er......" Chen Ping said with a bitter face.

"These people with red names are all deserters back then, they are all bachelors, they don't even have wives, how can they have children?" Chen Ping pointed at the yellow book and introduced Baili, "These are craftsmen, there are blacksmiths, coppersmiths, and silversmiths, but where do we have gold, silver, copper and iron here?" Now they all grow vegetables and herd sheep. ”

"There are also those who farm, but the weather here is too cold, we can only harvest one crop of grain a year, and we are blinded by those hateful hares, rabbits and mice, and one acre of land can lay forty or fifty catties is considered a bumper harvest! We didn't have any farm tools to take advantage of, the plows were all cut from wood, and we didn't have a sickle, so we had to use our hands. ”

"In the past, when the Mo people were there, they made tents for those soldiers, sewed clothes and exchanged for food, but when they left, many people lost their livelihoods, and when those hateful bastards left, they swept away all our iron tools, and there were not even a few sewing needles left, and the iron pot was gone, can you say!"

Why did I get angry when Yan'er fell that big iron kettle? I'm not afraid of the master's jokes, it's the only tin pot in our yamen, and I can only keep it when I hide it in the well......

But to put it mildly, there are really not many old, weak, sick and disabled people here, because why? After tossing in the past two years, those who can't bear it are dead, and the rest are all anti-manufacturing!

Master, don't laugh at the tigress in my family, all the women in our city are tigresses, otherwise they can live to this day?

The imperial court doesn't pay silver, so a few of us have to eat, don't we?

Therefore, the tax is also collected every year according to the capitation, and it is not converted into silver, and there is nowhere to spend it, right?

I'm not afraid of your jokes, I haven't seen silver for many years......

In spring and summer, it is fresh fish, wild roe deer, yellow sheep, and hare, and some grain is harvested in autumn, and some dry firewood is harvested in winter.

There are a lot of cattle and sheep, but they are only raised for their own consumption, so why not sell them? If you can't sell it, who will you sell it to?

How many people were there in Yanyun County a few years ago?

It's a sky-high price and another war, and now the Mo soldiers are here, and the people are gone, and from time to time the people come over to plunder......

It's settled now, but how many cattle and sheep are coming over there in White Dragon City! The price is also ridiculously cheap, and we can't afford to sell cattle and sheep!

Besides, the family has a lot of money, and the hairy ones don't count, these animals are very delicate, they freeze to death when the rain is heavy, starve to death when the snow is heavy, freeze to death when the weather is cold, and those wild wolves come to dig for a sky-high price in winter!

These wolf cubs are very hateful, if they can only eat one or two, but they are not priceless!

In one breath, you can bite all the sheep in your pen to death.

Sometimes there are dozens or hundreds of wolves, and none of us dare to rush forward! Last year, it was hit by a snowstorm that had not been seen in decades......

Why are there no horses? Okay, my grandfather, what's the use of raising that big guy?

In the summer, it doesn't matter, but in the winter when it snows, they can't go out and gnaw a few grass roots, so they can only be fed with hay, how much hay is enough for it to eat?

It's better to have cows and milk cows......

The city is full of only 100 horses, all of which are used when grazing sheep, and if you can't beat the grass this year, I'm afraid that you won't be able to survive the winter, so you have to slaughter and eat meat.

"How many people are there in the county yamen?" If you want the horses to run, you have to give the horses grazing, and the first thing Baili has to do is to pay the big guys.

"It's not much, counting the upper and lower officials, there are a total of 17 people, all of which are being compiled, and there are dozens of scribes and servants, and a city defense team I organized has a total of more than 100 people, they usually do their own things, and they are all mobilized when they have something to do, and they are all soldiers in the past." Chen Ping said busily.

According to the Han system inherited from the Great Zhou, even the smallest county has at least 200 officials.