On 17 May, Governor Lei Haomiao announced that the foreign generals blew themselves up, capturing nearly half of their bodies, and regaining the prestige of the state government.

For a time, the magistrates of various counties and counties sang congratulations one after another, and many of them expressed their loyalty.

There were 30,000 troops in Ranzhou, and at the junction of Chen Bing Ruinan and Longfeng counties, the governor's envoy strongly questioned Yan Luo, the envoy of Ruinan, and the war was about to break out.

All forces in Dingzhou, including Yan Luo, Lu Ding and other large and small forces, are all silent, and they don't want to rashly stimulate Lei Haomiao.

But at this juncture, on May 18, Zhou Bai communicated to all parties in an official document, and the Anbei Governor's Office was officially established.

What is this for, a blatant provocation?

Yan Luo, who had just stood on his own and had not yet gained a firm foothold, scolded loudly, it wasn't you in front, why did you jump like this if you had nothing to do.

The governor of the family is the loyal and righteous uncle of the new emperor, who has received the great favor of two generations of emperors and is loyal to the court.

Now that he is suppressing the situation in Dingzhou with the power of a great victory, you have to provoke.

In fact, who doesn't know, the governor is most likely to be a show, and if he continues to fight, he will not be able to please anyone.

In order to exterminate the extraterritorial general ship in Longfeng County, how many manpower and material resources were invested.

Shaoyuan Zhenjun, as a major cultivator of the Yang God Realm, is an existence that can suppress a sect and suppress the luck of a large state.

Even he was seriously injured in this battle and could not be retreated, and it was difficult for the state army, including the Taoist regiment, to please him.

The huge number of dead and wounded in the battle, not to mention for the time being, the state army is tired, and the members of the Taoist regiment urgently need time to recuperate, which can be seen on the surface.

So why did Yan Luo lower his eyebrows and pleasing his eyes after he became self-reliant, because he knew that the governor would not do it easily, at least not now.

As for saying that Zhou Bai took the initiative to provoke, it was really not.

When I received the news that the state army was heading north, it happened that the county dynasty was over, and it was really just a coincidence.

He still did not expel him, nor did any of the ministers of the imperial court in the Anbei Governor's Mansion prohibit any official dealings with the imperial court, this was just a declaration.

Of course, Zhou Bai did not explain it to the governor.

You are willing to acquiesce, then there is nothing to do for the time being, if you have to suppress it, then fight a dozen.

The main thing is that, combined with the news from all sides, there are really no conditions for war on the side of the state government.

Eight counties of Dingzhou: Biancheng County, Pinghe County, Xingyun County, Yongquan County (Dingxi), Bei'an County, Ruinan County, Longfeng County, Dingzhou County (Dingdong).

The other belongs to Dingzhou, but Cangbei County, a military state directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, now only exists on the map.

In the four counties of Dingxi, Lu Ding's family is dominant, and now basically controls the two counties of Pinghe and Xingyun, but there is still an extraterritorial warship entrenched, which is difficult to eradicate.

Yongquan County is the richest in Dingxi, but because it was affected by the Daizhou rebellion, the county was also quite chaotic, and all forces were involved, and the state government could only maintain basic control over Yongquan County.

Border towns, as the name suggests, are located on the borderlands, surrounded by grasslands or deserts on three sides, and are extremely barren.

The four counties in the east, Zhou Bai in Bei'an County, Yanluo in Ruinan County, and Longfeng County are mostly eroded because of the existence of generals.

At a cursory glance, you can see that the original impression is that the governor, who is extremely powerful and difficult to resist, can only barely grasp half of the territory.

And among them, Biancheng County is an "enclave", Longfeng County still needs the support of Dingzhou County, and only Yongquan County can be self-sufficient.

It is equivalent to saying that Lei Haomiao can completely control and suppress the local area, and only Dingzhou County, the largest and richest basic plate.

This is also similar to the pattern in Zhou Bai's memory in his previous life, Lei Haomiao, the governor of Dingzhou, imitated the policy of the imperial court, stuck to the foundation, and waited for the time.

As long as your court is in the middle region, or even as long as Zhongzhou, then he can only be in Dingzhou County.

Zhou Bai, who knows this inside story, is really not worried that Lei Haomiao will go crazy, unless he suddenly changes his personality.

On 20 May, when the state government still did not respond to the public statement of the Anbei Governor's Office, Zhou Bai "wrote" to Lei Haomiao, reminding the state government to pay attention to the drought situation and not to use troops without permission.

With such a light and fluttering letter, and there was not even any sign of softening, Lei Haomiao really took advantage of this to step down.

On May 23, 30,000 state soldiers withdrew from the border of Ruinan County, and the state government sent a message to all counties to pay attention to protecting people's livelihood and resisting the drought.

Zhou Bai's book really reminded Lei Haomiao that there must be a big drought after the flood, and this year's Dingzhou has not rained for two consecutive months.

At the beginning of spring planting, it was already the help of the Dragon King of Ningjiang who appropriated the water vapor of Ningjiang to rain in Dingzhou so that the spring seedlings could survive.

The successive military disasters have led to the great drought that is of most concern in peacetime, and people have also deliberately ignored it.

But the hero who really has the heart to run the place can't ignore it anyway.

The summer harvest is imminent, and it seems that the output will be reduced again, and if the fight continues, the consequences of the depletion of grain stocks will ......

For a time, fighting drought and saving grain has become the main theme on the land of Dingzhou.

Bei'an County is not connected to the Ningjiang River, the drought is more obvious, and the reduction of summer harvest should be a foregone conclusion, but who made Zhou Bai have long expected this drought and dug countless weir ponds to store water.

The former county Shouyin Mu is a persuasive person, even if other counties do not do a good job, it can be regarded as a great water conservancy construction.

Originally, people like Lei Haomiao and Lu Ding knew it in their hearts, and they felt that even if there was a drought, they could survive it with Yiningjiang.

But the rules of heaven and earth are automatically balancing water vapor, and during this period of time, the heavenly court cannot intervene in the rain law.

The water in the Ningjiang River is evaporating much faster than before, and the water level has dropped by 10 zhang before June.

In order to protect the source of water veins from serious loss and successfully survive the drought, the Dragon King of Ningjiang no longer unconditionally supplies water vapor to the outside.

There is a quota for the amount of water flowing out of each branch, which cannot guarantee the basic irrigation of all fields, especially in areas far away from the Ningjiang River and cannot be radiated by priests.

This can make the government, big forces, and families all anxious, and while sacrificing to the Dragon King Temple, they are searching for other water sources everywhere.

Like Lu Ding, he even directly offered a reward, and those who provided water sources such as springs, underground dark rivers, and nameless streams and rivers would be rewarded with silver.

After the summer harvest is over, there is still an autumn harvest, and the entire first year of Tongzhi should be a big drought, and Zhou Bai will not sit and eat empty.

The water storage in each county will definitely not be able to support the autumn harvest, and at that time, it will be difficult to ask the dragon king for help every day?

The water system is not passable, and in the absence of the Heavenly Court's rainfall decree, every time the Dragon King of Ningjiang comes to rain, he will spend a lot of divine power and the origin of the water veins of the Ningjiang River.

It's okay to ask Him to help you once or twice, but if you have more, you just don't know how to do it.

However, the Dragon King can't help, and there are gods in Bei'an County who can help Zhou Bai.

At the very least, it should not be a problem to ensure the water supply of the fields in the core area of the vast plain around the county town.

On May 28 of the first year of Tongzhi, Zhou Bai led the civil and military officials of the Governor's Mansion to Tingshan to worship the gods.

One is dedicated to the god of the mountain, and the other is sacrificed to the god of water.

At the top of Tingshan Mountain, Zhou Bai climbed the stairs alone.

In the midst of the clouds and mist, the god of Tingshan Mountain appeared for a while, and he didn't need to be woken up by a formal sacrifice.

Because Zhou Bai couldn't avoid people when he arrived, the hidden dragon luck that he carried with him was too eye-catching.

"I can't imagine that the little guy who was mean-looking and lacked even the luck of showing off his talent is now the lord of a county, and he has completed the most critical dragon carp jump." The words of admiration and amazement were not stingy in the mouth of the mountain god.

Zhou Bai bowed his hand: "Thank you to the mountain god for providing information, so that our army can win a big victory." ”

The mountain god didn't think so, he made a lot of effort to know for himself, the key is the person in front of him.

The more he observed Zhou Bai, the more he felt a little strange in his heart, close? Or even say awe?

He is an innate god, even if it is a hidden dragon, how can he make him fearful?

The mountain god suppressed his strange emotions and asked with some doubts: "Why did you come here to sacrifice, it's not time to fulfill the agreement, right?" ”

Zhou Bai put his hands behind his back and leaned down to look down the mountain, where the gurgling stream was getting smaller and smaller.

"You can't fulfill all of it, but you can fulfill some of it."

"With the dragon soul of the same origin as me and the Canglan River as the guide, and the wish of millions of people in Bei'an as a sacrifice, we will burn the great luck and revive the Canglan Water God."

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After the county town was stabilized and the Anbei Governor's Mansion entered normal operation, Zhou Bai began to inspect the seven counties.

It is not only to familiarize yourself with your own territory, but also to see what the local drought resistance is lacking, well, by the way, to clear out some restless people.

In order to quickly unify Ruinan County, Yan Luo compromised with the forces of the major families, which made some people in the Governor's Mansion despise it, thinking that such a regime was unstable and it was difficult to fight a tough battle.

However, Zhou Bai didn't have a lot of compromises, the four counties in the south of the county, and the Yuanmin County in the north of the county, he didn't make a big move.

Even if many local wealthy families have a lot of grievances, he is also one and tolerated.

Xuan Yiwei collected a lot of "criminal evidence" during this time, including these people secretly colluding, resisting government orders, disobeying officials, and obstructing the construction of the militia team.

The imperial power went to the countryside, to a certain extent, and indeed touched the fundamental interests of the local wealthy families.

For example, in the northern part of the county, many villagers have conflicts with each other, and the first thing is not to find the local squire, but to go to the township office to report to the official and ask the "government" to decide the case.

In Pingcang County, where the militia system of the township bureau is the most sound, even the most critical grain tax is no longer recruited by the squire as grain chiefs, and all taxes are collected by the village chiefs and lieutenant chiefs who are retired militiamen, and cooperate with the militia.

Zhou Bai patrolled from north to south, followed only by the new Xuanyi internal guard commander Zhou Qi, and a group of soldiers who were selected from the army and had learned martial arts, per capita above the middle of the Heavenly Realm.

They followed Zhou Bai on this trip, not only to act as thugs, but also to stay in each county to serve as martial arts instructors.

Whenever he arrived, Zhou Bai sat directly in the county government and personally summoned the head of the county and township wealthy family on the file of Xuanyiwei.

Willing to come, and with a good attitude of admitting mistakes, Zhou Bai lifted it high according to the "crime" and put it down gently.

If not, they will send military soldiers to Sona, and if they gather a crowd to resist, they will directly send troops to suppress them, and the food and money obtained will just be filled into the treasury.

Cangbei County immigrated 300,000 people, and then went to several wars in the process of unifying Bei'an, no matter how rich the savings were, it was inevitable that it would be consumed too much.

Originally, when Sun Yucheng was fighting hard and took Bei'an City, the grain storage in the major warehouses was less than 20%.

In the first year of Tongzhi, it was impossible to buy grain on a large scale with silver money.

The merchants are willing, but the court and the envoys who rule the place will not be willing.

Of course, to kill a group of Liwei, you must help a group to appease.

Under Zhou Bai's order, many families on the white list brought their own children to meet at the county office.

The time was not ripe for the imperial examination, and he did not have time to talk one by one, and after only a natal inspection, a group of township officials and township officials were distributed.

Seven counties have come down, and Zhou Bai has really got a group of talents, and there are more than ten red lives he has hand-picked.

In addition, there are two real pearls in the sea, Zhao Xi and Wen Hongchang, one is a light yellow natal and the other is a red and yellow natal life.

The two of them definitely don't have to start as village officials, but were directly taken away by Zhou Bai and named the secretary of the secretary pavilion from Jiupin.

Is it fair? It's certainly not fair to anyone else, but it's treated like this wherever people with a lot of life are placed.

Zhou Bai does not have the ability to change the rules now, so he can only adapt to the rules and use the rules.

After a bloody crackdown without the use of a large army, all strange sounds disappeared, and confiscated food and money filled the treasury.

The amount of money is almost as large as the total profit since the control of the grassland trade routes, and the amount of grain is comparable to the total output of Pingcang County in a year.

This also made Zhou Bai sigh that no one is rich without a windfall, and the same is true for a force.

It is no wonder that Sun Yucheng was able to fight violently, because he occupied the county town, and the Qi family's property alone was an astronomical amount.

Historically, including the current troubled times, after many grassroots people rose up, their favorite thing to do was to raid their homes.

Robbing the rich and helping the poor is a slogan that will never decline.

It's just that the luck pattern of this world makes him destined not to go too far, otherwise it will be killing chickens and eggs, and it will be difficult to unify the world.

In early June, the inspection ended, and all the martial arts training in each county went to the counties and townships.

Zhou Bai ordered the establishment of martial arts official schools, which were divided into three levels: counties, counties and townships, and the higher the talent and the higher the martial arts cultivation, it was easier for them to enter the county-level martial arts.

In addition, in order to prevent the folk martial arts from losing control after the arrival of the spiritual tide, the martial arts official school also allows the art to be enrolled.

As long as the martial artist reaches the acquired realm or above, he can enjoy the treatment of county-level martial arts, including the simultaneous teaching of innate skills.

Of course, as long as he learns the innate skills, the warrior must choose to serve the governor, join the army, serve as a teacher, join other yamen in the governor's mansion, and so on.

Folk warriors have always loved freedom and don't like to be controlled, but after all the news that came out of the Governor's Mansion, all the warriors went crazy.

The exercises passed on by Wu Qixian? Straight to the innate one, and even hope to trace the path of the martial immortals and explore the scenery above the innate ones?

If this kind of talk is exchanged for other forces, the folk warriors will definitely not believe it, but who is the governor of Anbei?

It is a Jinshi celestial, the inheritor of the Heavenly Lord Fu Demon General, this kind of character who has a close relationship with the heavenly court, who dares to say that the news is fake.

What's more, the county-wide Buwu implemented by the Anbei Metropolitan Governor's Office has officially begun.

The third-level martial arts official school is free of charge on a large scale, teaching basic exercises to the people, and the main content is derived from the innate strength of the forging body realm method.

Anyone over the age of nine and under the age of fourteen who has successfully exercised within a month can be enrolled in the martial arts official school.

After the verification of some martial arts predecessors, the basic exercises passed on by the martial arts official school are indeed better than most of the exercises circulated in the martial arts, and the follow-up exercises are very worth looking forward to.

Congenital, martial arts immortals, can also be an official with martial arts achievements......

Soon, not only Bei'an martial arts, but also martial artists from other counties and counties in Dingzhou also poured into Bei'an County to report that they wanted to enter the martial arts official school.

The spiritual tide is approaching in June, and martial arts are becoming popular.

Zhou Bai really wanted to see which unlucky ones the extraterritorial demons who invaded his Anbei Governor's Mansion were.

(End of chapter)