Hefei city.

Zhang Liao slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity.

He was covered in blood, and his chest rose and fell violently after a day of fierce fighting, but although his body was tired, his spirit was good.

"Repair the city, collect siege equipment, house the wounded, report the number of casualties"

Although Hefei is now a lonely city, under Zhang Liao's management, it is like an iron bucket.

The defenders of the city were fearless, and the whole army, like a sophisticated machine, was quickly moving again.

After all

Before Sun Zhongmou sent 100,000 troops, his own main generals could break it with 800 elite soldiers, but now in the cold winter, it is not easy to attack the city, so the Jiangdong rats want to knock Hefei City down?

It's not that easy!

What are they afraid of?

The military heart in the city is available, and Zhang Wenyuan is very happy in his heart.

But after he arrived at the General's Mansion in the city, his face was not so good-looking.

Not long ago, Li Dian contracted an illness and died in the city, and now there are even fewer people available to him.

The three generals Wei Xu, Song Xian, and Hou Cheng are still on the stage.

After all, back then, they all followed Wenhou Lu Bu together.

"Hey~"

Zhang Liao sighed, and in front of him, Song Xian, a burly military general about the same age as Zhang Liao, said, "Why did the general sigh? ”

"The king died, the messenger went to Xudu for a month, and there was no news, the grain and grass supplied by the land of Qingxu had been cut off last month, and the news of the turmoil in the land of Qingxu must be true, the new King of Wei, I don't even know who it is."

Zhang Liao guarded Hefei, so he naturally kept in touch with Xu Du.

But these days, the news from Xu Du was cut off all of a sudden.

According to the speculation in Zhang Liao's heart, it must be Zang Ba in the land of Qingxu who has bad intentions and wants to take advantage of this sensitive period of the death of the king to stand on his own feet and block the road.

He originally wanted to personally lead the troops to Xudu, but he didn't dare to move without a military order, and secondly, Jiangdong had been in Hefei for a long time, and he couldn't get out.

As for sending the rest of the generals and sending hundreds of people over?

I'm afraid that I won't be able to break through the blockade.

Bringing thousands of people over, although it broke through the blockade, but if it makes the new king jealous, what should it be?

Now, I am afraid that it is a critical moment to succeed to the throne, and he has not been ordered to send troops to Xudu, what does this mean?

If it is under the operation of someone with a heart, if the new master does not trust him, I am afraid that his life may not be guaranteed.

War kills people with the sword, but politics kills generals who win a hundred battles with a few words.

Zhang Liao is contemptuous on the battlefield, and politically, his sense of smell is even keen.

But now the keen sense of smell has also made it trapped in Hefei and has become a battle for trapped beasts.

Although the Jiangdong rats are not worried, that is the idea of the soldiers.

Before he was able to defeat Sun Quan, he had no internal worries, and the second was that he was caught off guard by Sun Quan.

Right now

But there is no such a good opportunity for him to create a miracle of 800 people breaking 100,000 again.

"Why should the general be worried? The new lord is about to be established, and Hefei has not been in contact with Xu for a long time, and he will know it early, and we will hold on for another ten days and half a month, and the support will come. ”

Zhang Liao nodded lightly.

"How much grain and grass is left in the city?"

"It's enough for three months."

Trimester?

Zhang Liao's eyes flickered, and he said: "Five days later, let the leaders of the city prepare a sumptuous meal for the soldiers to celebrate the New Year!" ”

Naturally, three months of grain and grass is not much.

But.

If the morale in the city is gone, what is the use of more food and grass?

Have a good meal for the New Year, and grow morale!

After that, when the country is settled, we will be able to come to support.

It's better to focus on the things in front of you and think about the long-term things.

Under the city of Hefei, the flames of war are flying.

In Gangneung City, however, there is a different scene.

The long river of time is mighty, and it will soon wash by.

In a blink of an eye, it is the first day of the Lunar New Year.

New Year’s Day.

The whole Gangneung Fortress is very lively.

First of all, the prince of Hanzhong, Liu Gonghei, feasted the ministers and generals, and all kinds of rewards went down, which was visible to the naked eye, and the morale and military spirit were raised.

His prestige and favor in the hearts of his ministers and sergeants have also risen a lot.

Spend money to buy wind reviews, spend money to keep safe.

The money is well spent.

Early in the morning.

Liu Chan got up from the bed.

As for the scenery from the bed, it goes without saying.

When he got up, he was quickly awakened by the movement outside.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed the Taichu calendar, there has been a custom of New Year's Day.

The bustle outside the county guard is naturally also a custom on New Year's Day.

Drama and exorcism.

New Year's Day is the beginning of the new year, and at this critical moment of the alternation of the old and the new, there are some activities to exorcise evil spirits from the official to the people, hoping to leave the bad luck in the old year and have good luck in the new year.

When Liu Chan walked out of the mansion, the opera was already at the end.

100 teenagers in soap suits, holding big moles; There are masks and bearskins, dancing with the twelve beasts, etc., and finally the cavalry drives the statue representing the epidemic and throws it into the river to burn, in short, the scene is very grand.

On both sides of the gate of the county guard's mansion, wooden signs of gods and yulei are also hung.

The legend of Shen Tu and Yu Lei originated in ancient times, and it is recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" that they grew on a large peach tree, guarded the ghost gate, used reed ropes to catch harmful ghosts, and then fed them to tigers.

Later, when people made doors out of peach wood, they were decorated with images of gods and gods, believing that this would ward off evil spirits.

"It's a bit of life."

I have been fighting a war before, either killing people or on the way to killing people.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to live in such peace forever?

pity

In this world, it is always necessary to compete for a high and low, and today's peace is only temporary, not waiting for the unification of the world, and the so-called prosperity of Jiangling is just a passing cloud.

"Your Highness, the Zhengdan Conference has been prepared, and the military advisor asked me to invite Your Highness to go."

"I'll go."

Liu Chan nodded lightly, naturally knowing about this New Year's Day Conference.

Yesterday's feast was just a ceremony for Liu Chan's meritorious ministers.

If it is pushed forward for several decades, when Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, the Han court will also hold a large-scale court meeting, called the "Zhengdan Conference", and all civil and military officials will congratulate the Son of Heaven at the court meeting. The location of the Zhengdan Conference was in the Deyang Hall of Luoyang City in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Today's Zhengdan Conference is naturally not so grand, but the officials from all over Jingzhou went to the palace to congratulate and present the local revenue and expenditure documents in the past year.

It can be seen that this New Year's Day Conference is not exactly a ceremony, and there is a little bit of political affairs in it.

Especially now that Liu Chan has decided on Jingzhou, this Zhengdan conference is more like an assessment of the work of officials in the past few months.

Some affairs are naturally not assessed in more than a month.

However, such as the resettlement of displaced people, the reclamation of land, and the dredging of water conservancy, these can still bear fruit within a few months.

Soon, Liu Chan went to the hall of the mansion.

In the lobby, the military generals of Wenchen sat second.

Everyone has food and wine in front of them.

Liu Chan sat down, and everyone got up and bowed heavily to Liu Chan.

"I'll wait to see Your Highness! Congratulations to Your Highness! ”

Everyone saluted and shouted.

"No need to be polite, on the New Year's Day, I congratulate you with you! Sit down. ”

"Your Highness."

After everyone sat down, Liu Chan gave Pang Tongyi a look, and the latter immediately got up.

"When His Highness arrives, the ceremony begins, and the officials from all over the country go to the temple to congratulate them, and present the documents of the local income and expenditure for the past three months, as well as the books of all things that have been made."

Nine counties of Jingzhou.

First of all, the county officials of the first county of Nanjun came forward to congratulate them.

"Gangneung County congratulates His Highness!"

The official of Gangneung County knelt down, holding two watch books in his hands and holding them above his head.

Fei Yi stepped forward and took the two watch books in the hands of the Jiangling County magistrate and handed them to the case in front of Liu Chan.

Liu Chan opened the March income and expenditure papers.

October and November are average, and in December, the income skyrockets, of course.

After yesterday's reward, the money and grain in the treasury bottomed out for a while.

But

The money is given to the heroes, and the people will definitely spend it.

At that time, the money and grain will still return to the government.

It's just a cycle.

Then open the list of things.

I found that Gangneung County has done a lot of work.

Repair cities, ferry crossings, resettlement of displaced people, migration, reclamation of fields, repair of water conservancy.

The work in Jiangling County is done under the command of Pang Tong, and if it can be done beautifully, then there will be ghosts.

"Jiangling County is doing well, the superior evaluation, giving wine, if the upper position is vacant, the Jiangling County Order can be promoted as appropriate."

The excitement on the face of the official could not be suppressed, he took the wine handed by the waiter, drank it in one gulp, and then bowed to Yousan, and said sincerely: "Thank Your Highness for the wine, Your Highness is blessed with Jin'an!" ”

After the Jiangling County magistrate bowed and retreated, behind him, another official dressed in the robes of the magistrate entered.

"Dangyang County congratulates His Highness."

The governor of Gangneung County knelt down, holding two watch books in his hands and holding them above his head.

The process is the same as that of the previous planner in Gangneung County.

When Fei Yi took the document book to the case, Liu Chan did not have the slightest impatience, and opened it to read it carefully.

On the whole, the magistrate of Dangyang County has done okay.

But if you want to say that there is merit, then you can't say it.

No merit.

"Dangyang County is doing a decent job, with a middle and upper evaluation. Wine! ”

Middle-class evaluation, I won't worry about demotion, but if you want to be promoted, unless everyone else is middle-class, as long as one of the others is superior, he will be promoted first.

Next.

The officials of Huarong, Yan, Zhijiang, Jingyang, Zhouling, Jianli, Songzi, Shishou and other counties came to congratulate the New Year and played the table books.

Overall, the overall level of South County is good.

After all, it has always been occupied by Guan Yu, and all the officials are still diligent, and the people can also be said to be obedient.

"Nanjun is too guarded by Mi Fang, and he has meritorious service in governing the place, and he gives wine! Excellent review! ”

Mi Fang's face was full of spring breeze, he immediately came out of the ranks, knelt on the ground, trembled his hands, took the wine, drank it, and then looked at Liu Chan with a grateful face, and then bowed to Yousan, and said: "Congratulations to His Royal Highness!" Thank you, Your Highness, for the wine! ”

Now that Liu Chan is in charge of the major affairs in Jingzhou, his son Mi Yang is working under Liu Chan again, and the surrender has no effect, and now it seems that as long as he serves His Royal Highness desperately, although his political future is not better than others, at least there is a thought, right?

Isn't this high-grade evaluation the tone revealed by His Highness?

Next, it's Nanyang County.

Nanjun is the county of Jingzhou, and Nanyang County is the most important and most populous county in Jingzhou.

Wan, Champion, Ye, Xinye, Xi'e, Pheasant, Luyang, Li, Bowang, Wuyin, Biyang, Fuyang, Pingshi. and other thirty-seven county officials, one after another, came forward to congratulate Liu Chan and presented the paperwork and table.

Liu Chan knows the situation in Nanyang very well.

For more than a month, he has basically stayed in Nanyang, and it is the document book presented by Nanyang, and the data is good.

He immediately said: "Nanyang County is too guarded in Dongligon, and he has meritorious service in governing the place, and he will give wine!" Excellent review! ”

Next.

The county officials of Jiangxia County, Lingling County, Guiyang County, Wuling County, Changsha County, Zhangling County and Nanxiang County stepped forward to present their table documents.

After reading hundreds of table books and documents, Liu Chan was very patient, and he couldn't help but be a little bored in his heart.

However.

Dealing with political affairs is so boring.

Today's Zhengdan Conference is still an opportunity for him to systematically understand the nine counties of Jingxiang, so although the process is tedious and boring, Liu Chan still shows his patience as a sovereign.

Read them one by one, and then comment and give wine one by one.

The ministers in the hall, especially Pang Tong, couldn't help but nod their heads with satisfaction when they saw Liu Chan's appearance.

Originally, he was still a little worried about whether His Highness would not be able to endure the pain of this case.

After all, His Highness has never been bothered by such trivial matters since he was a child.

After arriving in Jingzhou, he also handled all kinds of trivial matters.

His Highness only needs to concentrate on fighting wars and buying people's hearts.

But looking at it now, it makes him know more about Liu Chan.

Your Royal Highness, you are still patient.

Although it is good to fight, it is a good woman.

But in the future, even after the death of the king, this political matter will not be wasted.

After reading all the tables and documents of Jingxiang Nine Counties, and commenting on them, the time was from morning to dusk.

Coo~

Even though Liu Chan had prepared and eaten a lot in the morning, his stomach still couldn't help but growl now.

"Your Highness, this is the end of the Zhengdan Conference."

Not only Liu Chan was uncomfortable, but also the people watching from the sidelines in the hall also suffered.

"There's no hurry."

Liu Chan shook his head lightly and said: "There are only a few counties, but they have not been done well, such as Qianling County in Wuling County, which not only failed to build water conservancy and reclaim fields, but even broke out several times of civil unrest.

And how did Nanxiang County of Nanxiang County do it? The geographical location is so advantageous, but there is no political achievement?

Whether it is a mediocre official or a corrupt official, I must check it out, and I will not tolerate it! ”

Wuling County is fine.

It's a barbarian land over there, after all.

There are times of turmoil, which is understandable.

He can only give the county Ling'an an an incompetent evaluation.

But in Nanxiang County, Nanxiang County, he Liu Chan couldn't understand it.

You're still in business.

What has Gangneung developed into?

What have you developed into?

Liu Chan has already decided.

In these counties, he will send people to investigate thoroughly.

Of course

For the rest of the counties, he will also send people to secretly search the data reported, so as not to be deceived by it.

in a word

Under his rule Liu Chan, the rulers did not say that there were no fish when the water was clear.

It is also necessary to achieve the point where there are no mediocre officials and no big corrupt officials.

Covet?

You can be greedy.

But you have to do things beautifully.

Vulgar officials?

That is even more intolerable.

Corrupt officials can at least do things, and you mediocre officials occupy the pit and don't.

The most hateful!

Punish someone as a warning to others!

Liu Chan was thinking in his heart at the moment, if he knew the evidence of the crime, what punishment would he use to punish these corrupt officials and mediocre officials?

In order to make an example of the chickens?

(End of chapter)