The Demon General who was enshrined in the Ancient Heavenly Court, as well as the other Heavenly Lords in the thirty-three days now, the regulations of the opening of the mansion are definitely not like those set by Zhou Bai.

At the very least, the official ranks he gave to his subordinates were also within the control of the Mortal General's Mansion, because the real subordinate officials of the Demon General's Mansion were all real celestials.

It's just that now that Heavenly Court is in the Heavenly Gong Monument, giving Heavenly Lord rewards and allowing him to open the mansion, there are some unreasonable practices that are also tolerable.

Otherwise, a general's mansion does not have a reasonable territory for development, relying only on the army and relying on itself, how can he have the confidence to destroy the warships that invade the mortal world.

When it came to spending this part of the official fortune, the Heavenly Court did not stop it.

Destiny of Heaven: Named the Heavenly Lord and the Demon General, in a short period of time, you will receive direct support from Heavenly Luck.

How long is the short time, Zhou Bai is not sure, so he can only hurry up and get some luck from Heavenly Court.

The township Haoqiang who agreed to set up the General's Mansion Township Office in the township, Qiu did not commit any crimes, and if he did not agree, then he went to be with the Zhao family.

Resolute and resolute, sweeping away all injustices.

Fortunately, the Inner Government had recruited thirty-nine talents and fifty-six children, except for some outstanding performers, who were directly retained in the sixth room of the center.

The rest of Xiucai and Tong Sheng were all sent to the township bureau as officials, the head of the township bureau is the township head, the official rank is the ninth grade, the township is the second official of the left, and the official rank is from the ninth grade.

In addition, the township inspection is also from the nine products, which is the position left by Zhou Bai for the meritorious wounded soldiers, and it is also to pave the way for the popularization of the militia system.

The township chief and the township chief are all appointed as Xiucai, and Tong Sheng serves as the township official.

If you want to ask these famous scholars if they are willing, it can only be said that they are grateful to Zhou Bai, in a central dynasty like Daxu, how can Xiucai and Tongsheng have the opportunity to become officials.

The lowest is from the ninth rank of the official, and it can only be done by lifting people, and the county officials, commanders, and show talents in line don't know how many.

In less than three days, the ten townships in the north of the county had been sorted out, and this side was all controlled by the original Cangshan Alliance family, so it was natural to support Zhou Bai's approach at this time.

The others don't understand the strength of the Zhou family, don't they understand that the little autonomy they lost is a floating cloud before the threat of strong force.

The Yan family, who used to be quite famous in the north of the county, did not keep up with the pace of Zhou Bai's development, and now it has completely declined, and can only live on a few manors and ancestral fields.

What's more, Zhou Bai is very good to his own people, and He, Lu, Kong and other hometown clans will have children who will serve as county south township officials.

Although it is a "non-local post", it is not an official awarded by the imperial court, but after all, it is an official and an official, and he has the luck and treatment he should have.

The various chaos coming from other counties has made many people in Pingcang County think that it is more secure to follow the Fu Demon General's Mansion.

In the past three days, the General's Mansion has also begun to get on the right track and gradually operate.

After Zhou Bai's resignation form was handed in, the county magistrate Shouheng honestly shrank in the "county office" to covet pleasure, and the door did not go out.

This also saves the general's office a lot of effort, and there is no way to do it to him, and he can keep it as a card if he doesn't make a fuss.

That night, Shi Hongmao and Yu Chang visited Zhou Bai together.

"Old Shi, Old Yu, the two of you still look old and strong."

"I heard that when the army was approaching the city, you personally went to the south gate and said that you would surrender to the guards?" As soon as they met, Zhou Bai talked very familiarly.

It's just the subtle connotation in the words, but it also made the two old foxes aware that this is a direct bargain.

Both sides understood what the purpose of the meeting at this time was nothing more than to continue to fulfill the previous agreement and at what cost to take refuge in the General's Mansion.

Or to put it another way, how much benefit to pay in exchange for Zhou Bai's blessing and get on this big boat.

Zhou Bai came up and went straight to the point, pointing to the core problem of the Shi Yu family, you have no successor, think about how to speak.

"Where does the general say, this is the benefit of the old, but the old and unblessed."

"It's because we weren't firm before, and we should pay the price, so you watched the hair fall?"

Shi Hongmao and Yu Chang had already thought of this situation before they came, but they were very frank at this time, with a posture of letting Zhou Bai slaughter.

When he was young, he was a fellow jinshi, and then he was in charge of the county order and the Beijing official, and the scenery was infinite.

But for the sake of the continuation of the family, now that he is old, he has to be cheeky and whisper to Zhou Bai, a "young descendant".

Zhou Bai was quite emotional, and he no longer took it, and said directly: "Although the weapons created by the two families for my demon army are a little expensive, they are still meritorious. In addition, when the army entered the city, you defected in time and cooperated to pacify the people, I saw it all. ”

"So the General's Mansion gives you two choices, the first is to hand over fifty percent of the family property, and in the future, the General's Mansion will ensure that your two families will continue to inherit, and each generation of the head of the family will give a nine-grade job to support."

Shi Hongmao and Yu Chang glanced at each other, this condition is actually very good, because judging from the current situation of their respective families, as long as they die, no one will provoke the beam.

The first generation fell into the family style, the family power shrank in an all-round way, and the industrial assets declined significantly; The second generation became a villager, and they can still support the seeds of fame and fame in reading; But in the third generation, if there are not more than a dozen talents, or a person, then the township may not be able to keep it.

This is fundamentally determined by the foothold of the two families, the historian is forging inheritance and farming heirloom coexist, but Wenhua seeds are very few, and they are forced to be helpless, and the root of their family industry is back to forging.

The situation of the Yu family is similar, there is a fault in Wenhua seeds, and they can only rely on the industries of prospecting, buying, and mining to support a large family.

"The first choice is already very suitable, so dare to ask the general what is the second choice?"

They are all Zhishi officials, and they know the importance of official status, and each generation has a nine grades, even if it is a false position, they can keep a villager and pass it on.

This is the beginning of Zhou Bai's foundation, and then they also made a lot of efforts, which gave a chance to spend money to buy "hereditary".

Zhou Bai smiled and glanced at the second elder deeply: "How much money you donate depends on yourself, and you will not have an honorary position in the future." ”

"The Shi family selects a master craftsman to join the workshop, and then I will appoint the young patriarch of your family, Shi Changxing, as the head of the eight-grade workshop, and there are other outstanding clansmen, who can also be officials and officials."

"The foundation is grass-roots, the financial gap is huge, and in the future, the general's government will implement the salt and iron monopoly. On the Yu family's side, I will give a salt and iron house owner, which is also a positive eight products, as far as your family's Yu Wang, I think it is very suitable. ”

The direction of the two choices was suddenly clear, and the two old foxes knew what Zhou Bai meant after a little thought.

The first choice is a pure transaction, even if Zhou Bai becomes a big career in the future, the Shi Yu family will hold a nine-grade hereditary position.

The second option is for them to work hard for the General's Mansion and put the two current main elites into it, in exchange for two important chief positions, to catch up with Zhou Bai's current core subordinates.

The first choice is to be stable, and the second choice is to exchange a generation for a chance to take a boat.

"General, let's choose the second one." Shi Hongmao and Yu Chang replied firmly.

Last time, they didn't give it a go, which led to the lack of two positions in the core of the General's Mansion, and this time they had to gamble thoroughly.

Zhou Bai bowed slightly, and then handed the two of them a list of talents needed by the General's Mansion.

The master craftsmen needed by the Tiangong Academy, the management talents needed by the salt and iron houses, and the official positions obtained are all indicated.

Including Shi Changxing and Yu Wang's eight chiefs, two township chiefs, township officials, and more than ten officials and officials.

Although Shi Hongmao and Yu Chang are old foxes and have deep thoughts, they are still ecstatic when they see the treatment given by Zhou Bai at this time.

At this moment, even if they die now, the family is a real county tycoon, and they are not bullied at all.

"My Shi family is willing to hand over half of the family wealth to support the general's mansion to defend against the enemy, and all the blacksmith shops of the family will give priority to creating the weapons needed by the demon army, with quality and quantity."

"Although I don't know where you learned about the name of Wako, since Kazumitsu is the owner of the salt and iron house, it is natural that he can no longer do the iron ore business. Therefore, the Yu family is willing to hand over the control of all the mines in the clan to the General's Mansion, and the Yu family can run it on behalf of me. ”

is worthy of being a Beijing official, knows how not to leave hidden dangers, and the benefits that are given up are what Zhou Bai needs at present.

"The second elder will not regret this choice tonight, and the Shi family and the Yu family will also rise in the hands of Shi Changxing and Yu Wang." Zhou Bai was in a good mood and made a promise to them.

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This is really not a scene or nonsense, there is no successor between the two families, it is just from the perspective of fame and personality.

Because the two best Shi Changxing and Yu Wang are only talents, not people, they are not even qualified to be elected as officials by the Ministry of Officials.

Shi Hongmao and Yu Chang's officialdom connections are not needed, and they want to have an active relationship, but none of the juniors reached the threshold.

But for Zhou Bai, the heirs of the two families happen to be suitable talents, and the natal life is also a red life that the county hao family can raise.

They couldn't pass the exam, they were purely distracted and didn't concentrate on the imperial examination.

Xuan Yiwei has conducted a detailed investigation on them, Shi Changxing likes to study the family heirloom forging secrets since he was a child, and he is a natural craftsman.

Yu Wang is also influenced by family education, Kanyu is quite proficient in mineral prospecting, and likes to participate in the management of the family business.

However, Yu Wang is talented in reading, and he can't pass the exam, because he likes to pick some taboo questions to write about in policy theory.

For example, during the Xiangxing period, the national financial revenue decreased year by year, but under the cover of Emperor Xiangxing, the imperial court turned a blind eye.

Yu Wang didn't know that he was worried about the country, and even answered the question of reform on the topic of "stability".

In the third township test, and the last time he took the township test, Yu Wang wrote the treatise on salt and iron, and was deposed as a waste paper.

Not only to reform, but also to compete with the people for profit, how can we not be deposed by the officials who know the major policies of the imperial court.

This matter was widely circulated in the Xiucai circle at that time, and it was necessary to take this as a warning and not to violate the bottom line of the imperial court.

And this is also the reason why Zhou Bai chose Yu Wang, Daxu does not do salt and iron franchises, but the General's Mansion does.

The salt and iron monopoly, which had been practiced by dynasties before, was a means of increasing fiscal revenue and achieving immediate results.

In addition, salt and iron are important military materials, and after the implementation of exclusive control, it can form a substantial weakening of the neighboring Jin State.

If you want to buy salt and iron, you have to buy it in a special market, and the price dominance will be in the hands of the general's mansion.

Of course, Daxu did not implement this system because of the lessons of the previous dynasty, and as long as the salt and iron monopoly lasted for a long time, disadvantages would emerge.

For example, iron tools are bitter, the price is uneven, the officials in charge abolish public laws, seek personal gain, and forcibly levy peasants to smelt iron and boil salt, and so on.

But what Zhou Bai wanted was the period when he started the foundation in the early days, and used the salt and iron franchise to enrich the finances.

After that, the new dynasty was unified, and then the salt and iron monopoly was abolished, and it was too late to give way to the market.

Even if the plundering of the money from the grassland has greatly enriched the treasury, when it is moved to Pingcang County and officially opened, this money is like flowing water that cannot be stopped at all.

The grain purchase that has not stopped, as well as the armor purchased from all over the place at a high price in order to gather the five thousand demon army, has already spent most of the treasury.

As soon as the stalls are spread, they have to spend money everywhere, and the daily consumption is a little unbearable, who called the general's mansion is actually performing its duties and powers in place of the Pingcang County Ya.

The establishment of 24 townships and townships, the initial investment, and the officials' salaries are all a huge expenditure.

There are also 5,000 people in the Demon Army, not counting officers, ordinary soldiers are only paid one tael a month, which is 60,000 taels a year.

The logistical finance required to raise 5,000 people is not of the same order of magnitude as raising 500 villagers.

It was because Zhou Bai could only accept the silver offerings of the Shi and Yu families by default, plus confiscated the huge wealth of the Zhao family.

In order for him to promote what is currently imminent and needs to be done, the three battalions of county soldiers and the reorganization of patrol troops.

Those who are not qualified will be paid severance pay, and those who are qualified will be temporarily assigned to the garrison army and township patrol, and they will be paid according to the second-class treatment of the demon army.

The next day, Shi Yu's family handed over their family property and accepted the appointment of Zhou Bai, the demon general, in the main hall of the General's Mansion.

When the news came out, the chief bookkeeper Chen Gu left with the seal of the county office, and the Chen family announced that they would hand over the autumn grain produced by 25,000 mu of clan land.

Zhou Bai appointed Chen Gu as the deputy director of the Fu Demon General's Mansion, and Chen Yun, who had just passed the examination this year, was appointed as the head of Zhengjiupin Township.

If you hand over your property, you will have an official if you give food?

For a time, the gentry in the city and the villagers in the south of the county followed one after another, and large sums of money and grain flowed into the general's mansion one after another, and the long-vacant warehouse of the county government was actually filled.

On September 25, the 47th year of Xiangxing, the screening and streamlining of soldiers was completed.

The three battalions of the county soldiers were 1,500 people, which were reduced to 800 people, of which 300 cavalry were merged under the command of Gao Hu of the Fumo Army, and the other battalion of 500 people existed as the garrison of Pingcang County.

Duan Dehou, the former inspector, was appointed to command the Bapin garrison army, and Xu Yun, the former county lieutenant, was appointed as the logistics officer of the Fumo Army, which was his own request.

It turned out that his family was really a gate, and he had guarded the frontier for generations, and later the family was moved to Shenjing for resettlement, and it was not enabled until Xu Yun's generation.

Zhou Bai had a face-to-face conversation with Xu Yun and found that he was not only a person with a strong life, but also a rare Huang life, but also very familiar with military theory, but he lacked actual combat experience.

It's a pity that Xu Yun has exercised too little, and he is not willing to join the official battle sequence of the Demon Army for the time being, and only wants to become a logistics officer.

Zhou Bai was reluctant to force it, and after examining him on several problems in the calculation, transportation, and storage of military rations, he officially issued the appointment of a logistics officer.

However, in order to better cultivate and make better use of this slippery talent, Xu Yun was also appointed as the head of the military room, responsible for strategic and tactical planning counselors.

After the formation of the garrison was completed, the 700 people who had been reduced from the county soldiers and the county's patrol troops were screened again, and 500 of them were qualified and sent to the new barracks at the foot of Cangshan Mountain for training.

In addition, the township administration of the townships in the south and north of the county has all established the general's office and township office, and at least one of the township chiefs and township chiefs is in place.

Twenty-four disabled veterans of the former Zhuangding Battalion were appointed as inspectors of the Township Bureau, all of whom were in place, and the militia recruitment work was gradually implemented.

At this point, the whole area of Pingcang County was completely under the jurisdiction of the Fumo General's Mansion, and the county government only undertook the docking matters with the higher-level officials such as the state and county, except for some unimportant tasks arranged by the general's office.

When Zhou Bai stayed in the county seat to stabilize his foundation in the past few days, the fact that he was enshrined by the Heavenly Court to subdue the demon general to open a government in Pingcang County also spread throughout Bei'an and even other counties in Dingzhou.

However, whether it was the state government or the county government, after knowing that Zhou Bai did not erect an anti-flag, but only stationed in Pingcang County with the Demon General's Mansion, they did not show more concern.

There are only a few letters, such as Cai Feng, the left senator, whose words are all tentative, whether the alliance between the two is still effective, and wants to win over Zhou Bai as a political ally.

Another example is Dingzhou Inspector Yu Shi Pengli, who questioned Zhou Bai with a more formal official letter, why he resigned, and it can be known whether the court is righteous or not.

Finally, there was also a letter from Qi Hua, who first expressed his congratulations, and then mentioned that he was careful of foreign warships, these foreign enemies have amazing combat effectiveness.

The news about the several advent battleships in Dingzhou was also collected by Xuan Yiwei.

In order to prevent provoking widespread panic and to keep the local situation stable, the specific situation of the battle was closely concealed.

However, the state and county have already dispatched a large number of troops to encircle and suppress, and the Taoist regiment was also used at the critical moment.

There are countless dead and wounded, and there are many people, how to cover up and seal the mouth.

On September 11, five warships from the Qingxu Realm landed in Dingzhou, four of which were only in a concealed defensive posture on the first day, and only the Longfeng County ship began to invade and develop on a large scale.

Unfortunately, a general-class battleship landed in Dingzhou, and the general opened the hatch on the first day, sent the main force, and a county town fell in just half a day.

Most of the soldiers and civilians in the city were killed and wounded, and the rest were used as slaves to dig up resources for the generals under the leadership of the pioneers.

The next day, Longfeng County realized the seriousness of the matter and dispatched the main force of 10,000 county soldiers to speed up to the lost county seat.

The hundred-person Taoist group led by the Yin God True Person was one step ahead, and the two sides fought fiercely.

On that day, a fierce battle broke out between the two sides, and most of the 100-member Daoist Regiment lost most of them, and the Yin Shinto Daoist Officer was hit by the main artillery of the ship and was killed on the spot.

The death of the Yin God True Person is so unclear that it shook the whole of Dingzhou.

Before the 10,000 soldiers arrived at the battlefield, they were frightened by the news and returned the same way, and they did not leave the county town, and at the same time asked the governor for help.

When the news spread, the counties that originally wanted to take action against the warships in their jurisdiction were immediately frightened.

In this way, it was delayed for three days, and on September 15, the Yang God Zhenjun of Dingzhou Prefecture personally led the Taoist delegation to Longfeng County.

They carefully surrounded the ship, and the two sides began a small-scale tentative exchange of fire, and it was three days later that it was determined that the ship would not have a second gun for a short time.

Governor Lei Haomiao distributed the information of the soldier-class warships in the Tiangong Monument to all counties and counties, and strictly ordered the localities to destroy the warships at any cost.

If the hull energy system is repaired and the hull operation adapts to the suppression of world rules, it will be even more difficult to deal with.

However, in the past few days, the warship has preliminarily collected some resources, and the information on the landing location has basically been clarified.

Before the counties sent troops, the main force of the warships was dispatched to attack the county seat.

On 19 September, Yangyuan County, Bei'an County, fell, and more than 100,000 surrenderers were driven to the countryside to harvest autumn grain.

On September 20, the Taoist regiment directly attacked the warship itself, and as a result, the warship drove directly to Yangyuan City, using the county seat as a fortress and coercing the remaining people as a shield.

On September 22, 15,000 soldiers besieged Yangwon Castle but did not resist, and the two sides fell into a standoff.

In general, the warships did not carry enough sequences and ordinary soldiers to pose much of a threat to the superior strength of the county government.

But other careerists in Daxu are restless and take advantage of the turmoil to make trouble.

The bold ones rebelled directly, and the steady ones brought strong soldiers to the court to ask for their names.

On September 25, Sun Yucheng, under the strong recommendation of Bu Yuanzi and his staff Lin Ren, launched a rebellion and took control of the county government on the grounds that the county shou Yin Mu was unable to protect the territory and the people.

Half of the county town fell into the control of the Sun family in an instant, and the other remnants of the county soldiers united with county lords like the Qi family, and they could only hold two urban districts.

The front-line army in Yangyuan was in turmoil, and the county soldiers had no intention of fighting, and there was a lot of noise.

The situation was so bad for a while, what should you do with the Demon General's Mansion......