In front of Xiahe Village, thousands of households in the city, in the official hall of thousands of households.

Liu Yan stood in the bedroom in the backyard with an embarrassed face, looked at Wang Yunhe who was sitting opposite him, smiled wryly, and then said, "Eh, Madame, it's better to rest early." ”

"Hmph."

Wang Yunhe snorted and said, "The sun hasn't set yet, just want to rest?" It seems that our Lord Liu has a very comfortable life! ”

Liu Yan laughed a few times and said, "Those two women are not what I want, they were sent by Dai Deputy Qianhu. I'm new to ......"

"When you first arrived in the city of Qianhu in Xiahe Village, you need to have a reliable person here to help you, and the deputy Qianhu is eligible in terms of identity and ability, so you accepted those two women, right?"

Liu Yan looked at Wang Yunhe, sighed, sat down next to Wang Yunhe, and said, "It turns out that Mrs. knows, so I won't say much." I won't touch those two women, so I'll stay with my wife and be a maid. ”

"How bad is this, what is that word called?"

Wang Yunhe made a thinking motion, then clapped his hands, pointed to Liu Yan's forehead and said, "Violent Heavenly Things!" Yes, that's the word. Two teenage girls, used by the old mother on the spot, how bad it is. ”

"Hehe, madam, don't make trouble, just do it."

"No way!"

Wang Yunhe got up and said, "You, still listen to me." People Dai Deputy Qianhu sent two perfect maids, but you didn't touch them as old mothers? There are many people in these thousands of official halls, once the family knows, what will Dai Deputy Qianhu think? ”

Liu Yan got up suddenly, frowned and said, "Fortunately, Madame is careful, I was reckless!" ”

Then Liu Yan asked, "Then what to do with these two women?" ”

Wang Yunhe stared at Liu Yan for a while, then sighed slightly, and said, "The husband has accepted the house, and it can be counted as two concubines to warm their feet." ”

"In addition, I am already pregnant, and it is also a good thing to have two people to take care of my husband."

After speaking, Wang Yunhe turned around and left, Liu Yan looked at Wang Yunhe's back, but he was thinking in his heart: "This Dai Jingbin, give me this hand for a meal, and actually dress up two women as dusty women, it's really heartfelt!" ”

At the same time, Liu Yan also understood Wang Yunhe's thoughts, Wang Yunhe is now pregnant, and in this era, when a woman gives birth to a child, she goes to the ghost gate again, and the danger is very great, so Wang Yunhe can be regarded as arranging people around Liu Yan in advance.

Thinking of this, Liu Yan sighed in his heart, and couldn't help but pity and love Wang Yunhe even more.

Then Liu Yan put the two women into the room, one of them was called Shang Shan, and the other was called Ruoshui, which made Liu Yan laugh and secretly said that Dai Jingbin's vassal elegance was elegant.

However, although Liu Yan accepted the two of them, he did not have a happy event, but simply invited Dai Jingbin, Chen Xun, Wang Yue and a few hundred households, and signed a hundred households, which was regarded as giving Dai Jingbin an explanation and making him feel at ease.

Of course, Liu Yan did this to appease Wang Yunhe, and didn't want Wang Yunhe to have too much gap in his heart. This time, Wang Yunhe can have such insight and belly, which also impresses Liu Yan.

On October 14, Liu Yan summoned a group of generals in the city of Qianhu to discuss government affairs, and before that, Liu Yan had asked the official Zhang Xueyi to take the relevant documents for him to see.

According to the statistics of the booklet, there are more than 980 military households and more than 4,900 people in the city of Qianqian Xiahe Village. In the booklet, there are a total of 460 hectares of tun fields, 17 acres and 6 minutes and 5 centimeters, 736 stone and 3 liters of wheat in the summer grain, 1,619 stones, 4 buckets and 7 liters of rice beans in the autumn grain, and a total of more than 2,350 stones of summer tax and autumn grain.

In addition, there are more than 19,600 bunches of horsegrass. More than 2,400 catties of poplar firewood.

In the army, there were 1,237 officers and men, including 368 horses and mules. In terms of weapons, except for knives, guns, shields and spears. There are five iron cannons of the invincible general of Shenwei in the city of Qianhu in front of Xiahe Village, 40 pairs of copper and iron Franc machines, 85 small copper cannons and small iron cannons, and a large number of tiger squat cannons. Mouth cannons, etc.

This is the case of a thousand households alone, in addition to the registration of hundreds of households such as the Ancient Town Inspection Division.

On the bright side, the situation of the city of 1,000 households and the 100 households is optimistic, but who knows what the actual situation is. Ming officials have always been very good at making false accounts, just Wangjiazhuang, and the situation he saw when he took office was completely different from the registration in the book.

What's more, after the battle of Yaoshan Mountain Road, the soldiers and horses of the Qianhu Institute in front of Xiahe Village were seriously damaged, but the number of troops and equipment on the book has not changed, which shows that the accounts are not consistent now.

Compared with the 100 households in Wangjiazhuang, the lobby of the 1000 households in the city in front of Xiahe Village is much wider and more luxurious, in the lobby, a group of military attaches and generals in front of the 1000 households in Xiahe Village are gathered together, and the new defense adults are deliberating, everyone is cheering up and trying their best to show themselves.

Dai Jingbin, deputy Qianhu Guanguan of Qianhu City, took the Tuntian document and reported to Liu Yan: "My lord, the city of Qianhu has been sown in autumn two months ago, and there are more than 300 hectares of tuntian land, and there are several kinds of wheat grain, and in the summer of next year, the tun grain can be collected. ”

Liu Yan nodded, he knew that the number of tuntian and the number of military households in the city of Qianhu was definitely not true, but he just remained silent.

Tian Huixu, an official who is in charge of the operation of the city of a thousand households, seems to be the one who seems to be awake when he encounters something serious, I saw him yawning, trying his best to lift his spirits, and said to Liu Yan: "My lord, I have 1,237 officers and soldiers in the city of thousands of households, of which 977 are officers and soldiers, and the rest are all miscellaneous officers and soldiers. ”m.

Liu Yan took the military register, he was noncommittal, but said: "Soldier drills are related to the safety and security of my thousand cities. ”

Liu Yan said to Wang Yi, the magistrate: "Wang Zhenfu, you are responsible for supervising and enforcing military discipline, and after half an hour, this official will see all the officers and soldiers of Qianhu City on the school ground."

Tian Huixu still looked like he couldn't wake up, but Bai Hu Chi Xu and Bai Hu Huang Wenxian glanced at each other with Wang Yichuan, the magistrate, thinking that Liu Yan was the new official who took office with three fires, and now he is starting to light the first fire, fortunately, they have made corresponding preparations in these days, and if they are sloppy, they should be able to deal with the past.

Half an hour later, hundreds of officers and soldiers gathered in chaos on the school grounds, seeing that they were moving slowly, and they did not come out in formation for a long time. From these people, Liu Yan saw that their complexion and treatment were still better than those of the previous Wangjiazhuang, at least the old and weak did not account for most of them.

When it comes to equipment, everyone also has a half-new mandarin duck jacket on their bodies, and they also have weapons in their hands. In particular, the families under the names of each hundred households also have leather armor, cotton armor or iron armor.

Although they were negligent in practice, they finally made a sparse array and stood listlessly all over the ground. It is estimated that there are three hundred households in front of him, and Tian Hui of the hundred households controlled the hundred households Chi Xu and Huang Wenxian, and personally led the troops of a large hundred households, including hundreds of families. There are also hundreds of households Chi Xu and Huang Wenxian, and it is estimated that there is also a team of 50 people. Even Wang Yichuan, the town magistrate, is also a family member who has raised a team.

Liu Yan saw the problem of these family members, although most of them were young and strong veterans, but most of them were the kind of soldiers who were hanging, and most of them were angry soldiers, Liu Yan had seen a lot of this kind of people, and he couldn't fight a war, and he was a one-handed scourge to the people. The rest of the ordinary soldiers either looked left and right, or kept yawning, and did not look like soldiers.

In the twilight, can such a soldier fight? Chen Xun behind Liu Yan sneered, such a soldier is not as good as a young soldier in Wangjiazhuang.

Liu Yan watched it for a long time, and Tian Hui said that there were 1,237 officers and soldiers in the garrison army of Qianhu City, and there were not even 1,000 people here, so he said lightly: "Wang Zhenfu, you can name them according to the military register." ”

Wang Yichuan, the pacification officer, had been standing behind Liu Yan coldly, and at this time he answered, and named them one by one according to the military register, Chi Xu and Huang Wenxian glanced at each other, with an uneasy look on their faces, they thought that Liu Yan was just going through the motions, but they didn't expect it to be so serious.

Only Momoeda Teruxu, rubbing his two big bubble eyes, still looking like he wanted to sleep, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

In the end, there were a total of 954 officers and soldiers on the school ground, including the family members, and the shortage was as high as more than 400 people, and Liu Yan felt that many of them were not the officers and soldiers of the city of Qianhu, but were temporarily pulled from the military households to fill the number.

Seeing this, Liu Yan was silent, Chi Xu and Huang Wenxian were both uneasy, and Baihe Tian Huixu felt the atmosphere in the field, and he didn't dare to yawn loudly at this time.

"Why is there such a serious shortage of officers and soldiers in the city of Qianhusuo?"

Huang Wenxian, a hundred households on the side, nodded and said: "My lord Mingjian, there is a shortage of pay in the army, soldiers are constantly fleeing, and there is no way to wait for the lower officials. ”

Liu Yan said: "Why don't you make up for the shortage in the army?" ”

Chi Xu kept looking at Liu Yan, and at this time he said: "My lord Mingjian, since the year of Xuande, the military households guarded by the thousands of households in front of Xiahe Village have fled year after year. ”

Liu Yan was silent, looked at the old soldiers on the school ground, and said after a long time: "No need to read, let the soldiers go back to the camp." ”

I didn't expect to pass the test so easily, which surprised Chi Xu and Huang Wenxian, and they glanced at Wang Yichuan, the calming officer, and Wang Yichuan's gloomy face also showed a smile. After that, although several people were respectful to Liu Yan, they unconsciously showed a contemptuous look. Only Momotoda Terusu returned to wanting to fall asleep.

"The government affairs of thousands of cities are so corrupt that there are more than 1,000 officers and soldiers, and there is no one available."

A light is like a bean, and in the official hall of a thousand households, Liu Yan let out a long sigh.

During the day, he inspected all parts of the city, where the defense was extremely lax, the barracks discipline system was almost absent, and the weapons were not in the same place as the number in the books, but even in terms of quality, which made people very worried.

In addition to the advanced artillery of the Ming Dynasty, some of the weapons used by the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were allocated by the Ministry of Industry, and some were made by the guards themselves. Liu Yan has seen the artisan camp in the city, which is full of the same drawbacks as Wangjiazhuang before.

There are a total of 165 military craftsmen in the book of the city of the first thousand households in Xiahe Village, and it is estimated that there are less than 120 households. After entering the artisan household, he has been a craftsman for the rest of his life, and he has served as a soldier. They are poorly paid. The official in charge of the manufacture of weapons deducted raw materials and embezzled the price of silver. Those raw materials that are insufficient, but also the craftsmen have to make up for themselves.

The craftsmen complained, there was no enthusiasm when they made it, and the quality of the weapons made was extremely paper-based, Liu Yan took a look at it, and knew that the knives, guns, and armor made by those craftsmen. Bows and arrows, three-eyed dysprosiums, birds, etc., are mostly unusable.

Only the artillery in Sennohe Castle will be in a better situation. Those artillery pieces were all weapons from the Daming Ordnance Bureau or the War Bureau. Da Ming when making all kinds of cannons. There are special blueprints. There are strict standard sizes for the length of the cannon and the thickness of the tube, so it is quite difficult for the craftsman supervisor to be shoddy. Unlike the fire, knives and guns, etc., there are gaps to wear, so the quality of these guns can be guaranteed.

It's just that the maintenance is not satisfactory, and many good guns are ruined due to improper maintenance. And the number of these artillery pieces is also wrong, the books do not match the physical goods at all, Liu Yan asked, and the answer he got was just war damage.

There should have been more than 260 artillery men in the city. Liu Yan estimates that half of them are missing.

Seeing Liu Yan sighing, Dai Jingbin lowered his head and stepped forward and said, "My lord, forgive the official for saying something that should not be said, the corruption of the city of a thousand households is unimaginable. Today, the adults are parading the soldiers and horses, and there are many shortages in the army, which is the result of the occupation and indulgence of the generals in the city. ”

Some people died, but not completely......