In the Yali of Lingshui County, Xiao Jiu looked at Zhou Jin, who was not good-looking, and thought thoughtfully.

And Zhou Jin was also looking at Xiao Jiu in front of him, and was surprised that this mysterious county magistrate was so young.

"Mr. from Jizhou?"

Hearing Xiao Jiu's question, Zhou Jin nodded slowly and said unhurriedly.

"The grass people are from Jizhou, but they came to Qingzhou not to avoid trouble, but to find people."

Hearing this, Xiao Jiu felt a trace of interest in Zhou Jin, now that the army is in chaos, he didn't come to Qingzhou to avoid trouble, what relatives could he find?

Hearing this, Xiao Jiu did not continue to ask, but waited for Zhou Jin's next step with a calm face.

Who knew that Zhou Jin did not mention the matter of looking for people, but discussed some mysterious things with Xiao Jiu.

"I don't know if Lord Xiao can know the changes between the fish and the dragon?"

Xiao Jiu shook his head when he heard this, but a strange thought arose in his heart.

"What Mr. said about ichthyosaurs, but what does it mean in this world?"

Seeing that Xiao Jiu quickly understood the deep meaning of his words, the light in Zhou Jin's eyes flashed.

"Yes and no."

"It is rumored that dragons can be big and small, flying to the sky, and there may be a real dragon in a small pond, which can rush into the sea with the flow of water to drive away ghosts and gods."

"But if the real dragon can't hide himself when he is in the pond, and is caught and cooked, it is no different from a fish."

Listening to Zhou Jin's eloquent words, he knew that he was playing a riddle with himself, but Xiao Jiu didn't break it and continued to ask.

"In that case, how can the fish hide themselves in the pond?"

Hearing Xiao Jiu's inquiry, Zhou Jin looked calm and continued.

"Lord Xiao asked well, if this real dragon wants to hide itself, it only needs to follow the fattest fish in the pond."

"Because the fish can be the fattest, there must be a way to avoid the fisherman, and what he needs to watch out for is how not to be eaten by the big fish."

"That's why it's safest to hide behind the tail of a big fish."

After Zhou Jin finished speaking, he didn't say a word, stood aside and squinted his eyelids slightly and looked at Xiao Jiu quietly.

After a period of silence, Xiao Jiu didn't want to waste time with Zhou Jin, so he asked directly.

"You don't have to play dumb riddles with me, I know that Mr. has his own strategy in his chest, and he wants to choose a master to assist."

"But I may ask sir, what can you give me?"

Hearing Xiao Jiu's words, Zhou Jin smiled slightly and said to Xiao Jiu.

"What I have seen along the way, there has been a trace of troubled times in the world, Lingshui County is the most peaceful place I have seen, and there must be a reason why the people here support you so much."

"But Lord Xiao must know that it is simple to govern a county and a county, but it is not easy to govern a state and a country, as far as Qingzhou is concerned, the number of territorial personnel, the amount of grain levied, and how to compile the law, can these Lord Xiao manage it?"

Listening to Zhou Jin's eloquent words, it can be regarded as poking Xiao Jiu's sore spot.

At present, although his strength is getting stronger, his control is gradually declining.

Since the land reform, the amount of tax settlement in Lingshui County has become more and more huge, and it is definitely impossible to manage it all on its own.

Moreover, now the management under his own rule is the responsibility of the proletarian guilds and militia organizations in each village and town, and the laws of Bactria no longer apply.

Without an adequate monitoring system to ensure that those in power within the Proletarian Guild will eventually stage the tragedy of dragon slaying warriors turning into evil dragons.

Now this situation has not happened in the case of extreme poverty of all employees, but Xiao Jiu knows that with the continuous accumulation of wealth, corruption is inevitable.

What Xiao Jiu lacks most now is to have a logistics officer, or an archon, who can manage the county.

When he was a mountain bandit on Yetu Mountain at the beginning, the old horse who knew some words roughly could still be in charge, but since he took over Lingshui County, big and small things have basically been controlled by Xiao Jiu himself.

So at this time, after Xiao Jiu listened to Zhou Jin's words, he thought about how to keep this man who was so eloquent.

Subsequently, Xiao Jiu invited Zhou Jin to serve as the chief secretary of the Lingshui County Ya and the master, and Zhou Jin readily agreed.

Xiao Jiu arranged a place for Zhou Jin in the back hall of the county ya, talked with him for a long time, and specially sent the back kitchen to cook a few delicious meals.

After Zhou Jin left, Xiao Jiu looked at his back when he left and smiled slightly.

Through the conversation between the two, Xiao Jiu learned some of Zhou Jin's experiences, and Zhou Jin's views on the current situation also made Xiao Jiu feel novel.

When Zhou entered the court as an official, the official position he sat on was even higher than Xiao Jiu's current official rank in Lingshui County, and his knowledge was naturally much more far-reaching than that of Lao Ma and Li Gui.

In particular, the understanding and control of the political situation is far deeper than oneself.

For this self-recommended bookkeeper Zhou Jin, Xiao Jiu is looking forward to his performance.

……

Kyoto, the Imperial City.

Unlike Xiao Jiu, who was busy with the development of Lingshui County, at this time, Emperor Qin Yu looked at the stack of documents in the study, his face full of helplessness.

Now, in addition to the urgent reports from the six border states, rebellions have also broken out in the northern and southern states.

Since the occupation of Xuzhou Linjun by the Shenhuo Sect, various rebel armies have been established, and the ranks of disaster victims have grown with the blooming everywhere.

Although the states were trying to suppress the rebellion, they had little effect.

In fact, in the final analysis, these problems have always been inseparable from the word money, and most of the people in these rebel armies had no choice but to rebel because they couldn't eat.

If the government had done a good job of disaster relief, no one would have engaged in this kind of brainless business.

With the continuous rise of the rebel army, the biggest victims were the landlords and tycoons who owned a lot of land.

It's just that in the feudal era of Great Xia, these people's eyes are short-sighted after all.

They would rather spend a lot of money and food to recruit soldiers to resist the rebellion when disaster breaks out, rather than give their tenant farmers an extra bite of food on weekdays.

If we can't solve the problem fundamentally, everything will only lead to destruction in the end, and it is only a matter of time.

The county government could not effectively suppress the rebellion, and the pressure was all on the emperor of Kyoto, but what good way did he, the "lord of the world", have?

Qin Yu had already copied the homes of many corrupt officials in the court before.

But the little bit of food that these moths are greedy for ink is a drop in the bucket in the face of great natural disasters after all, and it is nothing at all.

The disaster relief was unfavorable, the people revolted in all directions, sent troops to suppress it, levied grain and taxes, and forced the people to rebel.

It's all like an endless loop, with the pinion of the pinion gradually pushing things in the bad direction.

Now in the entire northern border, the only one that has not had a civil uprising is Qingzhou.

Subsequently, Qin Yu issued an edict to Lu Yaoliang, the governor of Qingzhou and the governor of Sanzhou, ordering him to send the Qingzhou army to other states and counties to quell the rebellion.

In addition, he also separately invited Li Li to go to the inner garden of the imperial city many times to negotiate with him, and married the sixteen-year-old imperial sister to Li Li's son Li Yi, who was in his thirties.