Zhuge Jin also hopes that after he has just finished bragging with Gan Ning and Chen Heng, Chen Zhi in front of him will be able to cooperate a little and immediately send back the good news.

Unfortunately, there is no such dramatic unfolding in the real world. The environment does not cooperate with Zhuge Jin's pretending to be a big force, and he can only endure it for the time being.

After taking care of the rewards and punishments and the distribution of prisoners, and explaining the training tasks of the generals, Zhuge Jin finally had a little leisure and could free up his hands to deal with the reception of Chaisang.

From the moment the soldiers and horses entered the city, less than half a day has passed now.

Thousands of messes are piled up there, enough for Brother Zhuge to drink a pot.

Zhuge Jin drank a bowl of sobering fish soup, withdrew the celebration banquet, drank some hot water to rinse his mouth, and took a few deep breaths.

Then he took the accounts of the government treasury of Chaisang County and began to formulate a plan for receiving it.

Zhuge Liang also has no experience in this area, and whoever asked him to help the eldest brother do things has only been eight days in total. Most of the things were new to him, the first time he tried it.

After Zhuge Jin made the plan, he ordered: "Ah Liang, these money and grain accounts will be checked by you to the treasury." You also did the work of confiscating the garan and registering the bronze statues.

As for the work of counting the losses of the households and pacifying the people, I will handle it myself - you are still young, but you are only shrewd in arithmetic, but you are still a little short of dealing with people. So I'm in charge of people's affairs, you are in charge of money, and it's not too late to get familiar with the rest later. ”

Zhuge Jin pays attention to step by step, he knows that people are more complex than numbers, so let Ah Liang give full play to his strengths first, from easy to difficult, and it is also convenient for him to build confidence.

Zhuge Liang also knew that the eldest brother was completely for his good, and immediately accepted the task.

He turned around and was about to go out, Zhuge Jin remembered something again, called his younger brother and asked, "By the way, have they finished studying in the past two years?" I gave you those secret scrolls, did you let them read them after you finished studying? ”

Zhuge Liang replied in response: "How can the eldest sister and the second sister have the heart to learn this, they are only interested in the recipes and health care mentioned on those scrolls. They looked at the secret scroll of arithmetic a few times, but they didn't understand it at all, so they went back to make up the basics. ”

Zhuge Jin shook his head helplessly: "Our Zhuge family, how can we be ignorant? In the future, they don't have to worry about housework, and there will be more maids in our family, so they will be handed over to the trainer to watch.

Ah Zhi Alan endowment should also have a little, it's a pity to waste it. Let them follow you from the basics, just don't do anything to show up, and focus on dealing with the books, so you can be more relaxed. You only need to look at the general situation and know how it works, and you won't need to take care of it yourself in the future. ”

Zhuge Jin's positioning of his younger brother is very clear, Zhuge Liang can't be completely unseen of those transactional work, and he doesn't even understand the principle of operation, so it will be easy to be deceived in the future.

But repetitive labor definitely does not need to be done by Zhuge Liang himself, even if it is repetitive mathematical calculations. At the introductory stage, I saw him for a month or two, and I didn't need him in the future.

The money and grain have their own owners, and in history, Zhuge Liang later used people like Yang Yi to manage the logistics money and grain accounts.

Zhuge Liang took the order and left, from this day on, the good days of the Zhuge sisters can be regarded as being shackled, and the eldest brother will set the goal progress for them, and what stages of mathematics learning goals need to be completed.

After all, Zhuge Jin still has some modern people's three views and habits, in his opinion, it is very normal for women to step into the workplace and even officialdom to set their goals in the field of finance and accounting. These positions can deal less with people, only with the numbers in the books, and there will be fewer opponents.

And if his sisters can be cultivated, Zhuge Jin will be able to save more time to fight wits and courage with his subordinates in the future.

After all, my sister is generally not greedy for the family's money, and each other can spend less energy on guarding.

……

A day's time passed quickly in a hurry.

The Zhuge brothers also roughly completed the corresponding statistics and pacification work.

On Zhuge Jin's side, the people in Chaisang City finally accepted the new ruler again, at least on the surface, and suppressed all kinds of commotion.

Everyone is also ignorant and knows that the thieves have been beaten away, and the troops of Zhuge Fujun who came back this time are the royal teachers of the Eight Classics, and they are no longer the princes themselves, but have the edict of the Son of Heaven.

At least in their propaganda, the occupying forces specifically emphasize this distinction.

This must also be emphasized, because Zhuge Jin knew that the people of Chaisang had been coerced by Zhu Rong to fight with Zhuge Xuan for a year in the name of taking refuge in Zhu Hao.

In Zhu Hao's propaganda before his death, it was emphasized that he was the Taishou of the Son of Heaven, and Zhuge Xuan was a hypocrite, this impression has been more or less accepted by the people, and now if you want to reverse it, it will definitely take time and energy, otherwise the people's hearts will be confused.

In order not to let the people's brains turn around, Zhuge Jin did not defeat the old man with a single shot when he was publicizing, he only let people focus on emphasizing that Zhen Rong was a thief, and he killed Zhu Hao.

As for Zhu Hao, who is dead, Zhuge Jin didn't say that he was a complete bad person, he was dead anyway, and there was no threat.

On the one hand, Zhuge Jin let people publicize that Zhu Hao knew no one and didn't know anyone, drank to quench his thirst, used people indiscriminately, and lured thieves into the house.

On the other hand, it is emphasized:

Although Zhu Hao also had an edict from the Son of Heaven on the surface, that edict was issued two years ago when the Son of Heaven was still coerced by Dong Zhuo Yu of the Xiliang Army.

Therefore, it was not the original intention of the wise and wise Son of Heaven, but the traitor and thief who would hold the emperor hostage. Now this edict of Zhuge Xuan was issued after the Son of Heaven returned to the east, and it is the true intention of the heart after breaking away from the rebel thief. ”

This is very appropriate to say now, because Li Dao and Guo Yan were just designated as anti-thieves by the Son of Heaven not long ago.

As a result, the effectiveness of the edicts issued during the period of anti-thief blackmailing naturally plummeted.

Just two months ago, after Cao Cao stabilized Liu Xie in Xu Du, he asked for Liu Xie's will, and sent Pei Mao to Hongnong, the only one in the Xiliang army in Zhao'an who committed a lesser crime.

announced the pardon of all the mistakes of Duan Xuan during the period of the Xiliang Army, indicating that he was also coerced, and then ordered Duan Xuan to be fully responsible for the military affairs of Guanxi, lead General Anxi, and coordinate the action of crusading against the anti-thieves Li Dao and Guo Yan.

Before Zhuge Jin came to Yuzhang, he thought that this crusade order would be very valuable and could be used in a curve, so he copied a lot in advance.

At this moment, it can be used to crack down on the legal effect of Zhu Hao's original appointment and win the hearts of the people faster.

Of course, he also knows that this kind of propaganda work will not happen overnight.

Just in this Chaisang City, it can be done in ten days and half a month, and it is very good to ensure that the people's consciousness can be completely reversed before the Shangyuan Festival next year.

In the future, if it is to spread to all counties in Yuzhang, even if it is spread in those counties where there is no heavy garrison, it will take at least one or two months.

The two counties of Haiduan and Nanchang, because of the heavy defense of the thief army, are destined to be unable to carry out propaganda, and they must cooperate with the military progress to take their time.

……

After Zhuge Jin arranged the work of Anmin a little, Zhuge Liang also reported the actual figures of the latest money and grain inventory.

He hadn't had time to check the bills yet, but the actual inventory in the warehouse could be counted in one day.

According to the actual inventory, Zhuge Liang was pleasantly surprised to find that there were at least seventy or eighty thousand stone of military food stored in Chaisang's military grain warehouse, which was enough for the original Chaisang garrison to eat for about a year, which was relatively wealthy.

Now that Zhuge Jun has also joined in, the total number of people is close to eight thousand, which is still enough to eat for nine months, so it is more than enough to eat until it is destroyed.

Zhuge Jin came from Guangling before, and the food he carried with the army was not much, which was enough for the troops to eat for more than a month.

Liu Bei was known for his lack of food in Guangling, and when he borrowed troops, he hoped that the troops would be able to eat on the spot when they arrived in Yuzhang.

Now, even if the military food crisis has been completely resolved.

"These dog thieves of the Zhen family, I don't know how many people's fat and ointment have been looted! So much food was hoarded! Thankfully, it's all ours.

However, Chaisang only had this little soldier, so he left so much food. Haidusk and Nanchang have more heavy troops, and I don't know how many will be hoarded. ”

When Zhuge Jin saw the number, he scolded with a fluke smile.

After looking at the stock of grain, he was in a good mood and went to look at the money, cloth, and other stocks.

It turned out that there were also a lot of cloth, including more than 60,000 pieces of worthless coarse cloth such as linen and kudzu cloth in the warehouse, and more than 14,000 horses of silk and silk.

It seems that the people of Chaisang have really been looted by the Zhen family in the past two years, and I don't know how many rich families have been robbed and saved.

The only thing that surprised Zhuge Jin a little was that there were very few copper coins in the warehouse, less than four million yuan - you must know that when Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, it cost four million yuan to buy a county order, and in fact, the term of office was not long, which was equivalent to the rent of the official position.

If the rent of the county order is 4 million, then the amount of people's fat and ointment collected by the county order after taking office must be far greater than 4 million, otherwise it will not be able to return to the capital.

Chaisang is also regarded as an important waterway port city on the Yangtze River, and the waterway communication channel between the entire Jiangxi region and the outside world is only 4 million in the treasury.

And Zhuge Jin's geographical knowledge in his previous life was good, he knew that Jiangxi was a rich place of mineral deposits since ancient times, and later geography textbooks said that Jiangxi "tungsten in the south and copper in the north, and rare earths everywhere".

Rare earths and tungsten were useless in the Han Dynasty and would not be mined, but copper could be mined.

Zhuge Jin was a teacher for many years, and glanced at the data on the teaching materials, as if Jiangxi's copper accounted for 20% of the country. Mainly in Shangrao Dexing County, on the border of Zhejiang and Jiangxi and on the bank of the Le'an River.

In addition, Dexing Copper Mine is a chalcopyrite mine, with associated gold and silver, and the reserves also account for about 10% of the country, so I can't remember the specifics. Anyway, you can dig gold, silver and copper together.

Although the place is located in a mountainous area and the transportation is inconvenient, the Le'an River will eventually flow into Poyang Lake. In the future, if the Zhuge family is free, they can explore the navigation conditions of the Le'an River, engage in water transportation infrastructure a little, and see if they can dig out the mines in Dexing.

However, now the rule of the government in Yuzhang County can only affect the county seat of Poyang County to the east. And Dexing should still be a mountainous settlement more than 100 miles east of the county seat, and the local people are all Shanyue people who do not obey Wanghua.

The local area is also bordered by the Shanyue Marshal Zulang of the neighboring county, and before they have the strength to deal with Shanyue, it is best for the Zhuge family not to provoke them, and first take all the mature Han territory.

Zhuge Jin messed up his brain, and it took a long time to realize that he was distracted.

Just now, he was just shocked by the small amount of copper money in the Chaisang Mansion, and he thought of these: a major commercial town, or a distribution center for a large county of copper ore resources, how could there be a shortage of copper!

So he quickly regained his mind and continued to check his brother's report, and soon found the problem:

The list reported by Zhuge Liang also shows that the three largest Buddha statues were found in the newly built Jialan and pagoda in Chaisang City alone, and they were estimated to add up to more than 100,000 catties, all of which were made of copper.

One catty and ten taels, one or two dozen coins, and more than 100,000 catties are equivalent to more than 10 million copper coins. After the Zheng family robbed a large number of bronze utensils and copper coins in the city, they were all melted and cast into Buddha statues.

Today's time is in a hurry, Zhuge Liang only counted the largest Buddha statues, which are already so heavy, and the other fragmentary small bronze statues have not been confiscated.

It is estimated that the bronze statue below 1,000 catties will also be hidden by the defeated thief army, and those under 200 catties can even be taken away when they escape.

"This work needs to be investigated for a long time. The bronze statues privately collected by the people of Chaisang are all the property stolen by Zhenrong, and they naturally want to return to the original owner, and if they dare to hide it, they are thieves! There are so many searches in this Chaisang City, Nanchang doesn't know how many there are. ”

Zhuge Jin sighed while instructing, and he also had a deeper understanding of the financial resources and potential of Yuzhang counties.

After the brothers chatted for a few words, Zhuge Jin had an idea and suggested:

"Ah Liang, I think we need time to transform the hearts of the people and win over the counties. It is also necessary to strictly train the soldiers who were captured in these two battles and defected to ensure loyalty and military discipline, and then they can finally fight the main force of Zhenrong, what do you think? ”

Zhuge Liang also thought so, nodded and said, "Indeed, it is not advisable to be impatient now." Zhen Rong has been entrenched in the local area for nearly two years, and if he is given two more months, his strength will not be significantly improved, and the people he can coerce are basically finished.

For us, one or two more months may be able to double our strength compared to now, and time is on our side. ”

Zhuge Jin finally made a decision: "I originally planned to go south to meet my uncle and Yun Chang, but now that I see Chai Sang's situation, I have changed my mind. Xi'an County is a poor and sparsely populated place, and my uncle had to stay there at the beginning, but because the rich and prosperous places were occupied by Zhenrong and homeless.

It is better to send someone to send a letter to his uncle immediately, asking Yun Chang to escort him to the north and come to Chaisang to rendezvous, and in the next two months, he can temporarily set up Yuzhang Taishou Mansion in this Chaisang County, and our army can also concentrate its forces to avoid being divided and surrounded by Zhenrong and forced to fight. ”

Zhuge Liang thought about it and felt that the eldest brother's thinking was very right, but he was still young and had more sympathy than the eldest brother, so he reminded:

"It's right to let my uncle go north, but Xi'an County and the other two counties on the banks of the Xiushui River, Ai County and Yongxiu, have been attached to my uncle for a long time, if they give up now, will Zhenrong's troops go to the local area to retaliate?"

Zhuge Jin frowned, took out the map and glanced at it: "Otherwise, when Uncle Zhi finishes the battle of Lushan, I will transfer him to Yongxiu County, which is the most downstream of Xiushui and directly confronts the enemy Haiyang County."

As long as the troops are left in Yongxiu and the water is stuck, Zhenrong should not go to great lengths to make a detour by land to take revenge on Xi'an and Ai County in the rear. The local area is so poor, he will lose money if he goes, how much benefit will it be to retaliate against the people?

Moreover, Shu Zhi only needs to defend the city, and he may not need to take away the three hundred white soldiers, even the Danyang elite soldiers can be brought less, and it is enough to give him more county soldiers.

The main elite should be concentrated as much as possible, and when the time comes, it will be handed over to Yun Chang for command and used for the final decisive battle. ”

Zhuge Liang felt that this idea was fine, so he was ordered to write a letter.

However, all this will eventually have to wait for Chen Zhi to free up his hands before it can be officially implemented.

Fortunately, Chen Zhi didn't let the Zhuge brothers wait longer, and the latest news of the Battle of Lushan was transmitted back that night.

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pS: There will be three more today, 10,000 words.