After determining the status of the monarch and the minister, and setting the foundation for the future founding of the country, Lu Yuan suppressed the sentimentality in his heart and began to determine the governance of the three southern provinces with Sun Siwen.

"Brother Sun, now that the three southern mansions have been decided, there are many thieves in the place. Although I have sent troops and horses to suppress it, this is not a long-term solution. ”

Lu Yuan mentioned the collapse of the Miao people who had a headache now, and said a little helplessly: "Now I have mobilized 70,000 troops to guard various prefectures and counties, and the daily consumption of food and salary is incalculable. It can be supported in a short time, but after a long time, it is difficult to sustain finances.

Therefore, I hope that after Brother Sun takes office, he will quickly arrange officials, count household registration, collect displaced people, resume production, and establish local order.

At the same time, I will also leave soldiers behind to assist Brother Sun in establishing the county militia regiment to maintain local law and order.

For those Miao people who are defeated, they will be appeased if they can be appeased, and they will be suppressed if they can't. I can leave 10,000 elite soldiers behind to assist the three prefectures and eliminate the thieves. ”

Lu Yuan said his current needs.

That is to establish a stable order in the three southern provinces, so that the soldiers and horses at his disposal can be liberated.

After all, the places that need to use troops now are not limited to the three southern provinces.

In the Wuling Mansion in the north, and even the Yueyang Mansion, there is still a big war with a scale of 100,000 people.

Especially the Wuling Mansion side.

Now that the three southern provinces are peaceful, the news must have spread back to the Five Poisons Sect. Therefore, the reality on Zhou Qing's side should have been recognized by the other party.

In Zhou Qing's hands, there were only 30,000 new soldiers who had been trained for less than half a year, and about 70,000 people, enough for an army of 100,000.

This kind of power, although it looks good.

But you must know that over there in Wuling Mansion, the Five Poisons Sect still has an army of 80,000.

Although the combat power of those Miao people is just like that. But Zhou Qing's men and horses may not be much stronger.

If the Miao people are bold enough to dare to make a desperate bet at this time, they will fight Zhou Qing in a decisive battle.

So it's really hard to say whether this victory or defeat will be won.

Even Lu Yuan felt that maybe the Miao people's winning side was a little bigger.

The reason is also very simple, most of the Miao people are mountain people, who are in the company of wild beasts all the year round, and they are fierce by nature. In the past few years, he has followed the Five Poisons Sect to fight in the south and the north, and he still has some battlefield experience.

In contrast, the 30,000 soldiers in Zhou Qing's hands may be a little better, but they were also carefully selected in the end, and they were trained for a few months. But the remaining 70,000 militia groups are worried about their combat effectiveness.

Therefore, if it really starts, Zhou Qing may not be able to fight.

So hurry up and withdraw from the Southern Three Mansions, and take advantage of the fact that the Five Poisons Sect has not yet made up its mind to fight back and fight back.

Leading the troops north to reinforce Zhou Qing is already an urgent matter.

And in order to achieve this, the newly pacified southern three prefectures must establish their own defense forces and establish their own ruling order.

Only in this way can we ensure local law and order and ensure peace and tranquility here.

These need to be done by Sun Siwen.

Faced with the ardent expectations of both his friend and his monarch, Sun Siwen did not flinch in fear, but directly agreed: "The general has an order, and the minister dares not to obey." It is just to stabilize the place, appease the displaced people, and resume production, all of which require a lot of money.

Although the Luyang Treasury is abundant, the monthly balance is only more than 50,000 taels.

This amount of money is far from enough to supply the three provinces.

If you don't have enough money, then none of the above things can be accomplished. ”

It must be said that Sun Siwen is willing to do things, willing to do things, and able to do things.

But some things, especially government affairs, need to spend a lot of money to do things in this area, especially to get things done.

If you don't have money, what do you do to give money to local officials?

Without money, what do you use to appease the homeless?

Without money, what do you do to resume production?

If you don't have money, what will you do to establish a county militia regiment?

All in all, in this world, or in this society, you can't do anything without money.

You can't let others generate electricity for love, right?

And Luyang Mansion has no money, what about Lu Yuan?

The situation on his side, Sun Siwen also roughly knows that in order to support the army, he has almost spent all the money and food.

If it weren't for the fact that in the past two months, he had received funding from the imperial court and had the imperial court to help raise the army, Lu Yuan would have been financially bankrupt and unable to pay his military salary, and his morale would have plummeted.

So the ideal is very good, but if you want to do so many things, you can't do it without money.

"You don't need to worry about money and food."

Lu Yuan looked at the embarrassed look on his friend's face, and smiled: "This time, I pacified the Miao people in Sanfu, although I didn't get much grain and grass, but in terms of money, I gained a lot.

Counting the treasury of the three prefectures, plus confiscating the property of the Miao family, the total income was more than 8 million taels of silver.

There are also countless fields and homesteads.

With this money, I can leave five million taels of silver, as well as those fields and properties, which are enough for the use of the three prefectures. ”

Because they were listed as rebels by the imperial court, the Miao people in Dongting County, although they had a large amount of cash in their hands, it was always difficult to spend it.

Although there are not many national thieves and profiteers who want to eat the country's difficult wealth and risk high risks to sell weapons and food to the Miao people, the materials that can be transported by this kind of smuggling are only a small number after all.

Therefore, the Miao people of Dongting County, after collecting the three mansions, most of the silver and wealth obtained could not be spent, so they could only hoard it in the treasury and put raw ashes in their homes.

Therefore, this time the three southern provinces were laid.

In terms of food and grass materials, Lu Yuan had limited or even no access to them. But in terms of cash assets, there is a lot of it.

In this regard, it can be said that his financial problems have been greatly alleviated.

Therefore, after Sun Siwen heard that Lu Yuan had seized eight million taels of silver, and that he could leave five million taels of silver and local properties, his face immediately appeared happy: "If there are five million taels of silver to fund, then everything will be fine." ”

There are many things in the world that money can't solve.

If there is, there is a high probability that there is not enough money. Or the money you gave was greedy and didn't use it.

The money given by Lu Yuan is enough, and Sun Siwen is also honest as an official, and when the two are combined, things will naturally be easier to handle.

Even Sun Siwen exerted his subjective initiative at this time, and immediately made a suggestion: "The minister is from Luyang Mansion, all the way." In the Yangshan Mansion place, the people all have vegetables. It can be seen that under the rule of the Miao thief rebels, their lives have been so difficult that they can't be satisfied.

Now that the three provinces are in war again, there will inevitably be a famine this year.

Nanhai County has always been a granary, but it is located in the south, and it is not easy to transfer grain, so the price of rice here is very cheap. I heard that so far, it is only four dollars a pound.

Now that Yangshan Mansion has been opened, the communication with Nanhai County has been restored.

Therefore, in order to protect the people's livelihood, the minister proposed that since the three prefectures had been pacified, people could be sent to Lingnan County to collect grain.

In this way, the upper can be used for military supplies, and the lower can be sufficient for civilian use.

The army and the people all have food, and the place is naturally safe. ”

Faced with such a good suggestion, Lu Yuan naturally didn't have any opinions, and nodded: "This matter is okay." ”

After confirming the purchase of grain, Sun Siwen continued: "Now that the three prefectures are at the beginning of peace, if you want to restore local order, you need a large number of officials to rebuild the official mansion.

But the officials are just enough, and the three prefectures and thirty counties need hundreds of officials, and the difference is more than 400.

Although ministers can recommend some talents, they are at most dozens, which is far from enough to make up for these gaps.

But the lord had to think of a way to solve this difficulty. ”

According to the practice of the dynasty, if you want to be an official, even if it is the lowest from the ninth grade, you have to be a person.

Now that the three provinces have just been recovered, all the original officials are gone, and if you want to arrange enough officials in a short time, where can you go to find those more than 400 people?

If this problem is not solved, the counties of the three prefectures, let alone restore local order, will not even be able to build a framework for the government.

Of course, Lu Yuan didn't have enough government, in fact, he could have asked the imperial court for help.

The imperial court sits on the eight mansions of the world, and there are tens of thousands of registered scholars. Exams are also held every year, and thousands of people are added each time.

With such a large talent pool, not to mention more than 400 officials, even if it is doubled tenfold, the imperial court can easily fill it.

But Lu Yuan finally laid down the three mansions, and they were all ready to build a foundation here.

Then the official arrangement here, of course, must be their own people.

Otherwise, when the imperial court sends you officials, it deliberately arranges for some disgusting people to come over, and gives you a set of disobedience, isn't that asking for trouble for yourself?

Sun Siwen already recognized Lu Yuan as the master at this time, so when thinking about things, he naturally put his friends first.

Therefore, the method of seeking help from the imperial court was ruled out at that time.

"That's a real problem."

Lu Yuan couldn't help frowning when he heard Sun Siwen finish talking about the difficulties. Then after a little muttering, he said: "In this way, in the land of Shaoyang Mansion and Luyang Mansion, you and Governor Cui are discussing it for an assessment and selection."

Those who pass can be promoted to two levels and transferred to the three southern prefectures, and fill the official positions above the eighth grade.

The remaining petty officials from the ninth rank and the ninth rank can be selected for officials in the five prefectures under my rule, and some capable and talented people can be selected to be promoted and awarded official status.

In this way, it should be enough to gather the officials of the three governments. ”

The interior of Shaoyang Mansion and Luyang Mansion are both territories that Lu Yuan has been operating for a long time.

The officials in these two places are almost all his henchmen, and the lord can be trusted.

And the students in the two places, Luyang Mansion will not say it first, the time to win this place is too short, and the people's hearts cannot be said to be completely returned. But on the side of Shaoyang Mansion, Lu Yuan has been governing for several years, from the local gentry to the ordinary people, who doesn't say that he is good?

Therefore, the two internal and external exams are enough to be used to buy, and the hearts of the internal people and the hearts of the scholars in the three southern prefectures, as well as the two prefectures of Luyang and Shaoyang.

In fact, this method of selecting officials by examination is almost equivalent to the imperial examination.

But in the matter of the imperial examination, this is the power of the imperial court. Lu Yuan is not a local county guard, and second, he is not a central official, so he has no right to open the imperial examination.

Therefore, we can only engage in this kind of official selection exam, which is not correct in name and is not in line with words.

However, despite this, when the exam comes out, as long as he reports the list to the top, the imperial court can basically only approve it.

So even if the title is not legitimate, as long as you can be an official and can endorse it when you are in the court, then everything is fine.

And there's a bonus.

That is, all those who have become officials and been promoted will naturally regard Lu Yuan as their benefactor.

will be grateful to him for making him an official, not to the court.

There is such a layer of affection, and the land of the five southern prefectures of Dongting County can be regarded as stable from the bureaucracy.

After listening to Lu Yuan's method, Sun Siwen couldn't help but praise: "If this is the case, the land of the five prefectures in the south of the county, the gentry and students, will all admire the virtue of the general." ”

I mean it from the bottom of my heart.

What do people read books for?

Naturally, he became an official.

Take Shaoyang Mansion as an example, there are scholars in this mansion who are famous for their talents, but there are only more than 400. Among these people, those who can pass the county government examination every year and are awarded meritorious service are as few as five or six as many as more than ten.

In other words, among all the talents in Shaoyang Mansion, among forty or fifty people every year, there is only one who can become an official.

This kind of acceptance rate, although not too low, is definitely not high.

And the scope is enlarged to the entire southern five prefectures of the county, needless to say, the southern three prefectures needless to say, after the Miao people Huohuo, the population is withered, and it is estimated that there are not many scholars left.

But the volume is here, and there should be two or three hundred talents.

The situation in Luyang Mansion is better, and it is estimated that there can be three or four hundred talents.

In this way, the five mansions add up, and there are more than 1,000 talents.

Lu Yuan conducted an examination to select officials, and gave more than 400 official places, so that thousands of talents could be selected, and the probability of this selection was almost equal to choosing one of the two.

The probability of being an official has increased by twenty or thirty times all of a sudden, isn't it a blessing for those who read?

I'm afraid that after hearing the news, I will kneel down and sing praises to Lu Yuan's merits.

And those who can read, basically in the local area, also belong to the powerful and powerful. Isn't it true that the place is stable if you have their gratitude?

Therefore, Lu Yuan's move is really an excellent strategy to buy people's hearts.

However, while secretly admiring in his heart, Sun Siwen still put forward a little opinion: "General, the test of selecting officials is only carried out in the five prefectures in the south of the county, and the minister thinks that the scope is still too small.

In the five prefectures in the south of the county, there are only more than 1,000 talents, and only they participate in the election of officials. It will inevitably cause a large number of untalented people to obtain official positions and fill up their numbers indiscriminately.

And the general is interested in Dongting, how can your grace only be the five southern prefectures of Zebei County?

According to the minister's opinion, the matter of electing officials can be extended to the ten prefectures of the county.

Now in Dongting County, even after several turmoil, there are still three or five thousand remaining talents in various places.

The general's order to seek talents, so that he and others come to participate in the test, can not only spread his reputation, but also let the people in the county know the general's law and know where the orthodoxy is.

It can also be widely benevolent, so that the gentry and wealthy families in the county will return to their hearts.

If the general of the other day raises troops and goes north to fight for thieves, will the heroes of that place eat pot pulp to welcome the king's division?

Moreover, the county-wide examination is one out of ten, which can be selected among the best, so that talented people can be appointed. This is also a good thing for local governance.

Foolish opinion, please the general decide. ”

After speaking, Sun Siwen saluted, and then waited for a reply.

Lu Yuan listened, but pondered: "Expand to the whole county?" ”

In fact, it is not impossible to put the scope of the exam in the whole county.

But in this way, it is almost clear to the imperial court that he wants to divide the entire Dongting County.

This kind of thing is naturally impossible for the imperial court to accept.

At that time, it is indispensable to clamp down and make the means messy.

Even to the extreme, maybe the court will directly regard him as a rebel and take action.

After all, unlike Xichuan County and Jiuzhen County, which have been destroyed, although Dongting County has also experienced war for a long time, it still has a large population and a lot of output.

How could the court cut out such a piece of fat?

But what Sun Siwen said also makes sense.

If he can take advantage of this election to buy the hearts of the gentry and strong people in the county, it will undoubtedly be of great benefit to him to rule Dongting County in the future.

How do you choose?

Winter Winter ......

Lu Yuan stretched out his fingers and tapped on the table, lost in thought.

After a while, he raised his head and said, "There is no need to rush about the election of officials in the whole county. So be it. The Xiucai exam was postponed to half a year later. Now let's hold the selection of officials in the prefecture first, and put together the framework of the various parts of the three southern prefectures. ”

Half a year is the time when Lu Yuan now estimates that he will break through the innate time.

As long as he waits for another half a year, he can become an innate grandmaster and become the apex of the world's martial artists.

At that time, he will have enough strength to negotiate more conditions with the imperial court.

And in half a year, I can also talk about the conditions more strictly. I don't believe that this old man really likes it, moving to a poor place like Xichuan County, and always facing the threat of the Zhou people.

Wouldn't it be better to stay in Nanhai County and be the lord of the country here than Xichuan County?

If I can win him over, then my bargaining chips with the imperial court will change a lot. Lu Yuan calculated like this in his heart, and gradually had some bottom.

And Sun Siwen looked at him, although he didn't understand why he had to postpone the election for half a year. But it can also be seen that the main friends of the family are considerate.

So he nodded and said: "This is okay, but if you can't choose officials immediately, and only rely on officials above the eighth grade to maintain local order, if the southern three prefectures want to recover, I'm afraid the progress will be much slower." ”

Lu Yuan waved his hand: "These are not in a hurry, I just need you to maintain the stability of the Southern Three Mansions." The restoration of people's livelihood can be done slowly. ”

Sun Siwen said: "Then it's no problem. ”

After discussing this matter, the local governance of the three southern prefectures was almost negotiated.

Sun Siwen wanted to leave, but Lu Yuan stopped him and mentioned another matter: "In this war, I killed 60,000 Miao people and surrendered 30,000. Now there are more than 10,000 Miao people who have been defeated, and they have to be cleared.

Needless to say, those Miao people who surrendered can pardon their families.

But those Miao family members who have been killed, as well as those who have been defeated, cannot be let go and need to be dealt with.

I now have 60,000 soldiers under my command, of whom nearly 50,000 have no wives.

In the past, when I was in the army, I promised that the soldiers would be rich and stable. Now that the moon is ringing, the soldiers have plenty of money.

But the stability is a little worse.

Therefore, I intend to give those guilty Miao wives and daughters to the soldiers under my command in turn.

In this way, the local population can be enriched, so that the families of those sinners will not be left uncontrolled and give birth to chaos. It can also let my soldiers have a family and a room, and fight for me with peace of mind.

After you go back, you can do the statistics, and then you can start to do it.

Let's first take the tens of thousands of soldiers I left in the southern three prefectures as a pilot and implement it from their heads. ”

There are 100,000 Miao soldiers in Nanshan Prefecture, not to mention 50,000 or 60,000 families, which is a population of more than 300,000.

With so many people, leaving it alone, facing Lu Yuan, who killed their father, son, and husband, will naturally have resentment.

But if you want to reward them with Lu Yuan's soldiers and horses, then everything will be fine.

There are those loyal soldiers watching, those Miao wives and daughters, and giving birth to a few children to the soldiers, they will naturally return to their hearts.

In this way, it can not only stabilize the place, but also enrich the population, and also solve the livelihood of the Miao people after losing the man, and it can also make the soldiers return to their hearts, which can be described as killing four birds with one stone.

Such a good thing, Lu Yuan naturally will not let it go.

Sun Siwen naturally could think of this, so after listening to Lu Yuan's words, he immediately said: "This is good governance, and after the minister returns, he will deal with this matter immediately." ”

"Okay, so be it."

Lu Yuan nodded in satisfaction, and then waved his hand to let Sun Siwen retreat.

After the others left, he continued to bury his head in the table and began to deal with government affairs hard.

There is no way, although Sun Siwen is here, but before the other party sets up a shelf, the government affairs and military affairs of the three southern mansions have to be handled by themselves.

Now, I still have to boil.