Guangyang County, located in the northeast of Zhuo County, between Zhuo County and Yuyang, there is Shanggu in the north, Bohai Sea in the south, more than 40,000 households, more than 280,000 population, the ancient Yan country.

Liu Cang and the three of them came on horseback, and a gray stone city wall spanned the three of them far away, which was the Ji County of Guangyang County, and it was also the location of the Youzhou Thorn Shizhi.

To put it simply, Guangyang Taishou and Youzhou Thorn Shi are both cats in this city on weekdays, and it is probably a bit aggrieved to be Taishou here.

Today, there is no state pastor in the Eastern Han Dynasty. That is to say, now there are only counties in Youzhou, and there is no herding in Youzhou.

That's right, the establishment of the state pastor was abolished as early as the time of Guangwu.

And there is a more special existence here, which is the history of thorns.

Different from the original Assassin History, after Liu Xiu abolished the state pastor, the Assassin History, which originally only had the function of supervision, was given some implicit local administrative functions.

The reason why it is implicit is because this function is not explicitly delegated, and it is entirely up to the individual's ability.

That is to say, if you are equipped with twenty or thirty secretaries, and if you have the ability, you can also obtain the military power of the state and seal the frontier with one assassin. You don't have the ability, you're just a small report. The Emperor will not restrict you, nor will he support you.

Nowadays, there is no state pastor, the emperor rules the central government, and the local government also has its own local functions and operations.

In contrast, the essence of the existence of the state pastor is that the local power is returned to the royal family, to put it bluntly, the whole world, the emperor Lao Tzu has the final say.

I don't comment on the pros and cons of the two, and those who understand it will understand, and those who don't understand it will not understand it.

Today, the Han world can be described as the co-governance of the local government and the central government, and it can also be understood that the family and the royal family jointly govern the world.

And a few years later, Liu Hong moved out of the state pastoral system again, and at that time, the children of the world's families left home one after another, and the heroes seemed to be inspired overnight, so everyone should be able to understand it more clearly, right?

To get back to the point, now Liu Yu of the Han Dynasty is the assassin in Ji County, this guy is relatively capable, relying on donating materials, mediating conflicts and other means, he has won a lot of support and prestige from foreign clans such as Xianbei, Wuheng, and Fuyu near the border of Youzhou.

Through the support and praise of these foreigners, Liu Yu has gained quite good prestige among the people of Youzhou.

Because of the reduction of the border war, and deeply loved by the people of Youzhou, although it is a history of assassination, but the families in Youzhou do not dare to use it as an ornament.

Slowing down the speed of the horse, Liu Cang and the three of them approached the gate of Jixian County, and the wall of more than ten meters high was thick and extended, which far exceeded the garrison specifications of the normal county seat, and also indicated the vastness of the Jixian County Pool.

The reason why the city is not called a county town is that it has many large-scale buildings, and the pavilions in the courtyards of some rich families are even enough to be crowned with the title of lord castle in some countries other than the Han Dynasty.

This involves knowledge and technology in surveying, mapping and engineering, as well as a large investment in human and animal power.

From a distance, in addition to the soldiers standing on the city wall, you can also see some cloth clothes that have been repaired and strengthened on the city wall. The repairers and soldiers would communicate from time to time, but there was no atmosphere of cruel oppression.

Conscription can be seen as a manifestation of taxation in ancient times, and in the Han Dynasty, it was mainly for adults over the age of twenty.

Regardless of family status, under normal circumstances, adults have to spare about a month of military service each year, either in hard labor or in the military.

When modern people mention ancient conscription, they can't wait to describe it as the sky has no day, and it often collapses. In fact, at least as Liu Cang saw in this historical period, forced labor was a very ordinary alternative tax.

Regardless of whether they are taxed or forced labor, many of them can be seen suspiciously in modern or modern society in the future, and the Han Dynasty also had some policies that exempt them from taxation and forced labor.

The cloth clothes in the city in front of me should all be people with household registration in Jixian County, just like clocking in at work, they take time out every year and finish early.

The soldiers in the city are obviously also locals, and they are basically villagers, if it were not for those with extremely bad personalities, it would be impossible for the so-called oppression and abuse.

The prosperity of the Eastern Han Dynasty must have come through the perennial work and construction of countless people, and the continuous conscription of the prefectures and counties made the development and prosperity of the prefectures and counties steady.

Local conscription is a part of normal life, usually in the county, doing some work such as repairs and construction, city patrols, etc. If the wife and concubine in the family are pregnant, the child's father will be exempted from forced labor this year. (Encouraging childbearing is different from not having children and raising taxes, right?) It should be different, right? ）

Compared with normal conscription, the conscription ordered by the emperor is more terrifying.

Most of the conscription is to go to a distant place, the journey along the way is not time, and the place of service is uprooted from the hometown, and the month of conscription turns into a year and a half in minutes, and without the care of the village soldiers, it is not uncommon for anything to happen.

This is also why Liu Cang has never understood why so many people advocated killing local families in his previous life, and why so many people praised the emperor who wanted to seize power alone, even if the emperor usually plundered the wealth of Kyushu to support a few pieces of the place he valued.

Or is it the same cognition of the 'landlord and old wealth' through the ages?

Civilization Fault? The family is no more, and the family thinking is no longer there. The rest is probably only the old wealth of the landlord, and people can only recognize the old wealth of the landlord, right? It's a bit of a grievance.

"Soldiers! Are the fleeing Huns coming? Near the city gate, near the city gate, a group of soldiers in armor were doing their daytime work, Liu Cang rode on his horse and asked a soldier.

There were a lot of pedestrians around the city, some carrying firewood, some driving, and the soldiers looked up at Liu Cang and waved their hands impatiently.

"I didn't arrive. Don't let the horses go when you enter the city. The soldier said to Liu Cang.

"When will it arrive?" Zhang Fei asked again.

"I didn't know it in the house.,How do you know.,You... Hey, boy, who beat you up? The soldier said casually, and suddenly saw Zhang Fei's blue nose and swollen face, but he grinned.

"Laugh very much, you have a lot of things, guard your door." Zhang Fei retorted and beat the horse into the city.

Liu Cang and others communicated with the guards at will, and the folk customs were like this at this time, and the guards listened to Liu Cang's questions about the Huns, and they thought that they were also well-informed people.

The guards were not regular troops, and they did not usually come into conflict with well-informed travelers.

Liu Cang and a few people entered the city, and the guards shook the bamboo armor on their bodies, carried their spears, and did not forget to explain to a few people from afar.

"Don't let the horses go in the city!"

But seeing that Liu Cang and Zhang Fei were young, I was afraid that they would not know the importance and run horses in the city, causing riots.

"Yes!" Liu Cang didn't look back and waved his hand.

The Han army has armor, and this tube armor is a bit like a bulletproof vest, made of iron, leather, and bamboo, and ordinary soldiers will also be equipped with this relatively simple tube armor.

Of course, there are many styles of armor, and most of them can only be assembled by people with some family backgrounds.

The armor made of iron is multi-standard to go out to the army, and the leather armor doped with iron belongs to the relatively elite local defenders, and the low-level soldiers will make some bamboo armor to fill the number.

Heavy bamboo slices are soaked in oil and burned, or directly cut into pieces of bamboo and threaded ropes, and those with animal tendons are used to wear and weave nails, and there are also old rattans, which are usually woven by their own mother-in-law.

Most women in the Han Dynasty had a certain degree of knowledge of armor, and the armor on the soldier was not painted earlier, so Liu Cang and several people were able to confirm that he was only a conscripted soldier.