In the first year of Chengtian and the entire April of the first year of the republic, Zhang Chong stayed in Handan, on the one hand, he presided over the spring ploughing work in Handan, and on the other hand, he dealt with the personnel construction of the team returning to his hometown.

Because of the composition of the population in the army, Zhang Chong currently only regards Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Jizhou, Youzhou, and Gyeonggi as the target at this stage, and the rest of the places are still beyond the reach of the whip.

But Rao is so, and it's also a lot of work.

Just when Zhang Chong was nervously engaged in this work, he flew from the northern region of Zhao and rode into Handan, breaking the silence of the military government.

However, there was a civil uprising in Fengshan in the north of Zhao State, and a person called Zhao Xin quietly pulled out a team of people here and raised a flag to rebel.

Zhang Chong didn't expect that there would be people who would rebel against him, and he was surprised, but soon figured out the identity of this person named Zhao Xin.

It turned out that this person was a native of Fengshan, also called Zhao Zhong, an ordinary farmer, who lived in the Zhao family and knew two or three words. In addition to farming, he also sells firewood in the mountains. There are eight brothers in the family, and there is no doubt that they are a big family in the Zhao family. He also has a cousin, who is a small official in the mountains, who is not in the stream, but he is also a local power figure.

Looking at this information, Zhang Chong roughly summarized the background of this thief, that is, a generation of quasi-countrymen who made a fortune.

But Zhang Chong couldn't figure out his innocence, how could this person have the courage to rebel.

So, Zhang Chong asked Meng Fu, who was in charge of intelligence:

"Find out why this person is opposed?"

For Zhang Chong, why it is more important than how to calm down now, because these thieves do not need to be dispatched by the Fifth Military Academy Captain Department at all, and can be captured and destroyed only by the local garrison.

Meng shook his head, indicating that there was no accurate information yet.

Zhang Chong is not surprised, after all, Zhao Xin was a small person before, how could there be too detailed information.

But without waiting for Zhang Chong to continue asking, Yifei Jun hurriedly entered with his flag on his back, first handed over a piece of information to Meng Fu, and then took out a transcription and waited on the side.

Meng Fu glanced at the information, his face was shocked, and then reported to Zhang Chong:

"Qu Shuai, I just got the information from Fengshan. This is Zhao Xin, not only began to besiege Fengshan City, but also shot a letter to the city."

Zhang Chong was puzzled:

"Books?"

As he spoke, he took the book in his hand and read it.

At the beginning of the book, it is said that the righteous army of Zhao Guo worked together to kill thieves in order to broadcast the same hatred.

Then he began to scold them for the Taishan Army, saying:

"The Tao is sufficient, and the traitor has the reason to die; People's hearts are difficult to ignore, and all husbands will take revenge. Stupid ears and thieves, evil and Lutai, inciting cults, and entanglement of bandits. In the past, it was a disaster in the Central Plains, and now it is poisoning two rivers. Murdering fathers ****** daughters, taking money and property, and burning houses."

Then he began to slander them against the policies of the Taishan Army:

"Regardless of whether they are industrial, commercial or agricultural, they shall be taken captive as soldiers; There is no difference between the baby, and the encounter is killed. fake An Min as the number, torture and plunder; By setting up cards to prevent female cadres, they will plunder."

Zhang Chong has always felt that he has a good temper, but he is still so angry that his brain hurts when he sees this book.

He read it patiently, counted it again, and probably accused them of the twelve cardinal sins of the Taishan Army.

One is to incite cults, the second is to kill innocents indiscriminately, the third is to kill women, the fourth is to loot in Sogon, the fifth is to burn houses, the sixth is to wantonly kidnap soldiers, the seventh is to extort and extort tyranny, the eighth is to punish harsh laws, the ninth is to exterminate famous religions, the tenth is to usurp the name, the eleventh is to mutilate the loyal and good, and the twelfth is to trample on customs.

Some of these are indeed committed by the Taishan army, such as the so-called Sogon looting in the Taishan army, which is torture.

The first thing the army did after entering the city was to surround the powerful families who participated in the resistance of the city, and then torture the ransom. In Zhang Chong's view, this is already an extrajudicial grace.

You are brave and brave enough to defend the city, and if you lose, I will keep your life, which is already a hundred times stronger than the Han army.

Why, do you think there will be no price for raising a knife against my Taishan army?

There are also harsh laws, arrogance of names, trampling on customs, Taishan army has done it. It's just that Zhang Chong's side is called the rule of law, the establishment of the government, and the change of customs.

But as for the rest, Zhang Chong him

It is denied by all of them.

For example, indiscriminately killing innocents, female cadres, looting, burning houses, wanton abduction, and rampant conquest, isn't it your Han army that did it? There is also the extermination of the famous religion, which is also the work of the Taiping Dao, what does it have to do with their Taishan army.

And more importantly, this kind of inscription can be written by a peasant who only knows a few big characters?

It's getting more and more interesting.

After learning that there was someone behind Zhao Xin, Zhang Chong specially transferred a song of soldiers to Fengshan Ping.

The main general in charge of this song is Han Hao, who was promoted in the battle of Handan a few days ago, and he immediately presided over the work of encircling the mountain after arriving at Fengshan.

Baotou, the mountain where Zhao's Li is located, is in the middle of the Taihang Mountain. It is located on a large gentle slope that runs northeast on one side, and the remaining three sides are all inadequate, which can be said to be quite steep.

When Han Hao saw this terrain, he knew why this person had the audacity to make trouble.

But Han Hao's hometown is also in the mountains of Hanoi, and he has very rich experience in mountain warfare, so although Han Hao was surprised by the situation in the Zhao family, he had a great grasp in his heart.

Sure enough, within seven days, Han Hao cut off his water source and grain channel, and laid down the Zhao family.

After that, Han Hao took the thief Zhao Xin and returned to Handan overnight and handed it over to Zhang Chong for disposal.

It was also from Zhao Xin that Zhang Chong learned more information.

This incident was somewhat unexpected by Zhang Chong.

First of all, this Zhao Xin is indeed an ambitious person.

His person is like a trumpet Zhang Jiao, or rather, he just learned to do it.

This one named Zhao Xin has a hand of evil arts. But it is not new to use evil magic to organize the crowd, but it is strange that this person is actually stepping on the Taiping Road.

When Zhang Jiao stood in the yellow sky, Zhao Xin said that he should stand in the daytime and claimed to be the reincarnation of the Golden Emperor.

He also has a few evil arts, such as sprinkling beans into soldiers, making rice and turning water, so that the nearby Shanliao people in the Zhao clan regard it as a true god.

Later, after the Taiping Road Incident, Hebei was in turmoil. More and more people came to Zhao Xin, hoping for his magic skills.

Since the Yellow Turban is fighting the Han Army, isn't Zhao Xin's destruction of the Yellow Turban just right to restrain each other?

When Zhao Xin was interrogated, Zhang Chong was on the side.

When he heard what this man said, he sprinkled beans into soldiers, made rice and turned water. Zhang Ran asked this Zhao Xin to perform.

But this person, well, Abba for a long time, and he didn't see a miracle.

Of course, Zhang Chong knew that this person couldn't do it, and he was nothing more than a first-class folk witchcraft he had learned, and he had some acting talent, so he would be tricky.

Later, Zhao Xin talked about the book that Zhang Chong cared about the most.

It is true that the book was not written by Zhao Xin, but by the sons of Handan Haoqiang recruited by Zhao Xin.

Since Handan was broken, many people have gone to Zhao Xin in the mountains to give him advice.

This time, Zhao Xin got into trouble, that is, he listened to one of the staff, saying that Zhao Xin had a royal spirit and was prospering.

So the truth is different from what Zhang Chong thought, this Zhao Xin is not someone behind him, but this person is ambitious.

Those Haoqiang children also wanted to do a thing of borrowing chickens to lay eggs, but this Zhao Xin took the authority very firmly, and those children could be counselors, but only Zhao Xin could prohibit it.

And almost all the armed forces in the Zhao clan are based on the relatives of the Zhao clan, and even the logistics transfer has to pass through the hands of a Zhao clan.

When Zhang Chong heard this, he was surprised by this person named Zhao Xin, but he didn't expect this person to be a person.

He thought that there would be dozens of forces in Taihang Mountain in the future, and it was estimated that this person named Zhao Xin was one of them.

But Zhao Xin jumped too fast, and before he could achieve any climate, he was suppressed by Zhang Chong's backhand.

But Zhao Xin said another thing, which made Zhang Chong feel irritable.

It turns out that Zhao Xin is indeed ambitious, but he is also ***. And this official turned out to be him Zhang Chong himself.

It turned out that the reason why Zhao Xin rebelled in a hurry was because the township officials arranged by the Taishan army on the side of Fengshan asked him to pay twenty salaries

Gold.

Previously, a small settlement surnamed Fan was apportioned, and later forced to hang himself. And Zhao Xin saw that he was going to hate the township officials, so he simply raised the flag and rebelled.

The township official system of the Taishan Army was actually a less mature wartime system, which matched the current system of dividing the fields.

In the current grass-roots organization of the Taishan Army, it is based on ten settlements, and this government is the military name, and it is also called a township in civil affairs. And the township officials were the grassroots officials on the Han side in the past, and they were all responsible for the operation of the grassroots level.

As the Taishan army took root in Yecheng, the township official system was successively spread in Wei and Zhao.

On the side that Zhang Chong himself knows, the township officials have always been an important grasp of the Taishan Army in grassroots governance. It is precisely because of the township officials that the local division of fields, the establishment of field guards, and the spring and autumn harvests have been guaranteed. ap.

Like Zhao Xin said, Zhang Chong heard of it for the first time.

But Zhang Chong did not listen to the letter of trust, but left Zhao Xin to Fa Cao Si to act according to the law.

Then Zhang Chong called Dong Zhao, the military envoy of the Fei Army, and asked him to investigate the situation of the Fengshan Township Official.

Soon, Dong Zhao handed over the results of the investigation to Zhang Chong, and the conclusion was that the Fengshan Township officials did indeed have the fact of apportionment and harsh government.

In the name of raising and distributing military funds, the Fengshan township officials unscrupulously and violently extorted the fat and ointment of the local people. And because the local capital of Guizhou had just been divided into fields, he consciously owed the Taishan army, so he blindly obeyed the tyranny of the township officials.

In the simple cognition of these Qianshou, the Taishan army can give them the land, and they must be repaid later, so these behaviors of them only being township officials are the meaning of the Taishan army.

Therefore, if they don't report and don't investigate, they let these township officials gain momentum, not only eating meat in fine clothes, but also rampant in rural songs.

After Zhang Chong learned of this situation, he was furious and called Guan Yu into the military palace for the first time and scolded.

Because most of the township officials in the Northern Expedition were appointed by Guan Yu, and the township officials in Fengshan were in this batch.

When Guan Yu heard this, his face turned red.

Because he really didn't know much about this matter, this matter was mainly done by the staff Feng Fangdian at that time. And Guan Yu just left these people in the camp for a while, inspected their character and grassroots work ability, and then released them.

After Guan Yu knew that he had made such a big basket, he took the initiative to invite Ying to participate in this investigation to make up for his mistakes.

Zhang Chong also knew that during Guan Yu's Northern Expedition, he was busy with the attack and was unlikely to pay attention to this matter. But since he is the chief general of the Northern Expedition, he must be held responsible for what happened.

Therefore, Zhang Chong ordered Guan Yu and Dong Zhao to take full responsibility for this matter with the internal army of the Fei Army, and investigated all the township officials appointed by the Northern Expedition this time.

Not only that, Dong Zhao also immediately led people to control Feng Fang, a staff member of these township officials.

Regardless of whether this person is involved in this matter or not, control it first.

After that, the cavalry of the Fei Army's inner army came out in all directions, and they continued to go out of Handan and began to visit and investigate the situation in the northern part of Zhao State.

It was also this time that the civil and military forces of the Taishan Army finally knew the strength of the internal army of the Flying Army, which was complicated.

Soon, the results of the investigation were sent back to Handan.

In this Northern Expedition, the Taishan Army appointed a total of 231 people.

Among them, there were 137 people who were originally local officials of the Han family. These people generally have experience in local governance, and have always been an important bridge between the court and the township.

After the fall of the Han Dynasty, they naturally threw themselves into the Taishan Army, continued to do the same work as before, and enjoyed the same status as in the past.

One thing to say, Zhang Chong was not surprised when he saw this ratio.

Because the Taishan army does not currently have the ability to effectively control the place. At present, the talent reserve of the Taishan Army is only enough to meet the needs of the army, not to mention the local community, even at the county level, it cannot be fully manned.

Therefore, Zhang Chong acquiesced in absorbing the grassroots officials of the original Han family, in order to use the experience of these people to quickly stabilize the place.

At that time, Zhang Chong didn't think that these people would be bad.

Because at the level of the most basic settlements, the control of the Taishan army is complete. There are field officials and field guards

Dual management is in, so in the township, there is more of a middle layer.

But I didn't expect that the bad was in the middle layer.

These people are accustomed to deceiving their superiors and subordinates, and they are familiar with the tricks of personal gain and fraud in the past, and they take advantage of the loopholes that the current officials of the Taishan Army lack, and even begin to corrupt and make money below.

However, the results of the final investigation did not make Zhang Chong angry, except for two people who were found to be corrupt for thousands of dollars, and the others did not commit any illegal acts.

There are all kinds of possibilities in this, maybe these people have just become officials of his Taishan army, and they still want to wait and see the situation. Maybe these people really want to work hard, and maybe they just haven't had time to be corrupt and lawless.

But Zhao Xin's mess still made Zhang Chong wary of the whole township official.

Because of this investigation, Zhang Chong learned that these two hundred and thirty-one township officials were really not good people.

In addition to a large part of the above-mentioned former Han dynasty officials, there are also some rangers, and the proportion of farmers from Qianshou is very small.

It's not that Zhang Chong has any prejudice against rangers, in the case of the Taishan Army, many generals in the army are from rangers, isn't Ru Dian Wei a good son?

But in terms of holism, the rangers generally have a social spirit. These people have a strong ambition to improve their destiny and have certain social connections, but few of them are pure.

Let's not talk about women, but at least the means are relatively spicy. These people do everything in order to climb up.

This is determined by their living environment.

Therefore, in order to prevent the slightest deterioration, Zhang Chong issued a new standard for the selection of township officials that night.

Under this standard, those who are born in the society and those who are disabled and retired soldiers in the army must account for fifty percent of the number, the old Han officials account for thirty percent, and the rest are two percent.

As soon as this order was issued, the northern region of Zhao State immediately rectified it.

In this way, a new round of township officials was selected in the northern part of Zhao State, and this time, everyone did not dare to slack off.