After announcing the new assessment method, Wei Chen asked his staff member Wei Shuping to distribute the account books that recorded their tasks for the month, and he withdrew from the second hall and went to the inner office.

The layout of the county government, the state government and the government of the Great Zhou Dynasty is much the same, the front office is the lobby, the second hall and the third hall, after the third hall, there is a moon door, and the door is the inner office.

To the west of the inner office is the flower hall for receiving guests, and opposite to the flower hall is a three-suite room, which is the signing room for the daily office of Zhizhou.

There are three five-room courtyards behind the signing room, which is where the staff brought by Wei Chen live, and it is also the destination of Wei Chen's trip.

Wei Chen went to the small courtyard where Gu Tingye was located first, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Gu Tingye dancing with guns and sticks in the courtyard naked, while Zhu Manniang on the side was packing up the clothes to dry, and looked at Gu Tingye from time to time, with a look of love in his eyes.

"Ahem!"

Wei Chen turned his head and coughed lightly, Gu Tingye noticed Wei Chen's arrival, his face flashed with joy at the moment, he threw the stick in his hand onto the weapon rack, and then pulled a clean dress from Zhu Manniang and put it on, and walked to Wei Chen excitedly.

"Xingyun, you came just in time, I was about to look for you! It's just that I heard that kid from Yuan'an said that you are doing things in the second hall, how about it, the matter is done? ”

Wei Chen smiled and nodded at Gu Tingye, Gu Tingye put his arm around Wei Chen's shoulder, invited Wei Chen into the house, and then turned around and told Zhu Manniang to go to the kitchen to prepare a few side dishes.

Sent away Sister Rong, who was writing in the house, and the two sat down at the table and chatted about business. Gu Tingye put away the cynicism on his face and reported to Wei Chen seriously:

"Xingyun, I have figured it out these days, there are 120 servants in three classes in the state, 200 white servants, 80 archers in the inspection department, 36 post guards in the post house, 60 soldiers in the express delivery shop, and 120 guards in the delivery station."

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"So many, more than six hundred people?" Wei Chen couldn't help but be slightly surprised when he heard the figures reported by Gu Tingye.

Gu Tingye pouted and said: "These are just shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and even the thieves in the state can't deal with them, so they can only shake their majesty in front of the people." ”

Wei Chen said disapprovingly: "Chengping has been peaceful for a long time, and it is natural that the soldiers are useless, not to mention this small Yuzhou, even the forbidden army in Bianjing is the same." ”

"Not really." Gu Tingye retorted: "There are 800 sharp soldiers under the command of the Yuzhou regiment, and I think it has a bit of the blood and courage of the Western Army. ”

"Western Army? Is Zhong Huai overrated? ”

When Wei Chen heard Gu Tingye's words, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, the Western Army in Gu Tingye's mouth was the border army stationed in the northwest region of the Great Zhou Dynasty to confront the Dangxiang people, this was the most effective army recognized by the Great Zhou, and the Yuzhou regimental training was just a township soldier recruited locally, so how could it be compared with the Western Army?

Gu Tingye smiled slightly and said: "Xingyun, do you know that there are eight commanders in the Yuzhou regimental training, among which Shen Congxing, Geng Han, and Duan Chengran are all from the Western Army. ”

I see, no wonder!

When Wei Chen heard this, he suddenly realized that he would be brave for the soldiers, and with these generals who had experienced the baptism of the cruel war in the northwest, the morale of the military spirit of the Yuzhou regiment was naturally different from that of other places.

However, since Gu Tingye could know Shen Congxing and them so well, he thought that he had already had contact with these people, which was a bit unexpected for Wei Chen.

After Wei Chen arrived, he specially instructed Gu Tingye to find out the situation of the officials in Yuzhou Prefecture, so that he could take over and bring them over, but the Yuzhou regimental training was not among them.

After all, although the regimental training is a local recruit of the villagers, it is barely considered an army, and it is relatively sensitive, Wei Chen originally planned to clean up the mess in the state government first, and then consider the regimental training after he freed up his hands.

Thinking of this, Wei Chen looked at Gu Tingye and teased: "Zhong Huai cares so much about Yuzhou's group training, does he want to learn from the class and devote his pen to Rong?" ”

Gu Tingye was pierced by Wei Chen's heart and smiled, but he had not yet made up his mind to abandon Wen Congwu at this time, and defended with a red face: "I just heard from the head of the official team that the Benzhou regiment practiced the school's fist and foot kung fu, and the skills were itchy for a while, so I went to them to learn from them, and then I got acquainted with Shen Congxing and others." ”

Wei Chen couldn't help but be interested when he heard this, and asked, "What is the result of the competition, did Zhong Huai lose or win?" ”

"Naturally, we won!"

Gu Tingye raised his eyebrows, and pretended to be determined: "Whether it is fists and feet or weapons, horse battles or foot battles, several of them take turns to challenge, and I have not tasted defeat." If it weren't for that, they would not have been convinced by their arrogance and would have called me a brother. ”

"It's worthy of being a tiger in the door, and it's really good!"

Wei Chen gave Gu Tingye a thumbs up in admiration, and then said with some emotion: "It seems that I arranged Zhong Huai for you to manage those shrimp soldiers and crab generals in the Zhou Ya, it is really too condescending, with Zhong Huai's ability, it should be to gallop the field and kill the enemy." ”

A hint of darkness flashed in Gu Tingye's eyes when he heard this, why didn't he want to do this?

However, the generals of the Great Zhou Dynasty are not welcomed, and only the roll call outside the Donghua Gate like Wei Chen is the only standard for a good man in the eyes of the world.

Therefore, Gu Tingye, who was born in Jiangmen, studied literature since he was a child, and then left his hometown to study at the White Deer Cave Academy for several years, and now there are less than two years left before the next autumn festival, how can Gu Tingye give up lightly, how can he have to take the exam once before he is willing.

Seeing the look of struggle in Gu Tingye's eyes, Wei Chen couldn't help but sigh secretly, of course he understood what Gu Tingye was entangled in his heart.

However, according to Weichen's eyes, Gu Tingye is not very suitable for taking the road of the imperial examination, even if he does not complain about Yang Wuun, he is at most a third-class jinshi.

Being able to get a top three jinshi is already a dream of countless scholars, but for Gu Tingye, who was born in the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion, it is unsatisfactory.

Sheng Hong is a third-class jinshi, and he has been climbing hard for more than ten years, and he still relied on the relationship between his wife and family to climb to the position of the general judge of Yangzhou Mansion, but even so, when Sheng Hong faced the Yuan family of the Earl of Zhongqin's mansion, he still unconsciously bowed his head to the other party.

And Gu Tingye is the second son of the Marquis of Ningyuan, the old marquis is old, and the eldest brother Gu Tingyu is frail and sickly, and his life is short, in time, Gu Tingye is almost destined to inherit the title of marquis.

Instead of working hard in Huanhai for decades like Sheng Hong, and still looking at people's eyes, it is better to wait for the inheritance of the family business in An An, maybe the latter is more promising.

Of course, after all, the imperial examination has a certain degree of randomness, Wei Chen thinks that Gu Tingye is at most a top three jinshi talent, which does not mean that the final result must be like this, and Wei Chen cannot make Gu Tingye give up the imperial examination road that he has insisted on for so many years just by his own judgment.

This kind of decision related to the direction of life must be made by Gu Tingye himself, and Wei Chen can at most explain the benefits and disadvantages for him and beat the side drum.

Seeing that Gu Tingye was in a bad mood, Wei Chen didn't mention this topic anymore, and said with a smile: "In any case, these shrimp soldiers and crab generals in the state government must have Lao Zhonghuai to gather them for me, so that I can return to the furnace and rebuild them, so as not to even be able to deal with a few thieves, provoke thieves in the state, and the people will not be able to make a living. ”

Gu Tingye smiled when he heard this, patted his chest and said, "This matter is on me, Xingyun can rest assured!" ”