Zhuge Jin also hoped that after he had just finished boasting to Gan Ning and Chen Heng, Chen Dao in front would be able to cooperate a little and send back the good news immediately.
But unfortunately, such a dramatic development does not exist in the real world. The environment is not suitable for Zhuge Jin to pretend to be such a big boss, so he can only endure it for the time being.
After taking care of the distribution of rewards and punishments and prisoners, and explaining the training tasks to the generals, Zhuge Jin finally had a little leisure and could free up his hands to handle the reception of Chai Sang.
From the moment the soldiers and horses entered the city, less than half a day has passed until now.
There are thousands of messy things piled up there, enough for Brother Zhuge to drink a pot.
Zhuge Jin drank a bowl of hangover fish soup, left the celebration party, drank some hot water to rinse his mouth, and took a few deep breaths.
Then he took the treasury accounts of Chaisang County and began to formulate a reception plan.
Zhuge Liang also had no experience in this area. He was asked to help his elder brother for only eight days in total. Most things were new to him, the first time he tried them.
After Zhuge Jin made the plan, he ordered: "A Liang, you will go to the treasury to check these money and food accounts. You will also do the work of checking Jialan and registering the bronze statues.
As for the work of counting the losses of households and pacifying the people, I will handle it personally - you are still young, you are only smart in calculation, but you are not good at dealing with others. So I'm in charge of people's affairs, you're in charge of money, and it won't be too late to get to know the rest later. "
Zhuge Jin pays great attention to step by step. He knows that people are more complicated than numbers. Let A Liang use his strengths first, and go from easy to difficult, which will also help him build confidence.
Zhuge Liang also knew that his eldest brother was doing it for his own good and immediately accepted the task.
He turned around and was about to go out. Zhuge Jin remembered something again and called his brother to ask: "By the way, have Azhi, Alan and the others finished studying in the past two years? I will give you those secret scrolls. After you finish studying, have you asked them to come together?" Do you see it?"
Zhuge Liang responded: "How can the eldest sister and the second sister bother to learn these things? They are only interested in the recipes and health regimen mentioned in those scrolls. They took a few glances at the secret arithmetic scrolls, but they didn't understand them at all, so they went back to refresh the basics. .”
Zhuge Jin shook his head helplessly: "How can our Zhuge family be ignorant? From now on, they don't need to worry about housework and daily life. Our family will have more maids, and we will leave it to the trainer to keep an eye on.
Azhi Alan should have some talent, it would be a pity to waste it. Let them start with you from the basics. Just don't do anything public, and focus on dealing with the accounting books. It will be easier for you. As long as you have a rough look at these money and food accounts and know how they work, you won't need to take care of them personally in the future. "
Zhuge Jin's position for his younger brother is very clear. Zhuge Liang cannot have never seen those routine tasks and doesn't even understand the principles of operation, otherwise he will be easily deceived by others in the future.
But repetitive work definitely does not need to be handled by Zhuge Liang himself, even repetitive mathematical calculations. After a month or two at the entry level, you won't need him anymore.
Money and food have their own owners. Historically, Zhuge Liang later used people like Yang Yi to manage the logistics money and food accounts.
Zhuge Liang took the order and left. From this day on, the happy and happy life of the Zhuge sisters was put on a tight leash. The eldest brother would set the target progress for them and what staged mathematics learning goals they needed to complete.
After all, Zhuge Jin still has some modern views and habits. In his opinion, it is very normal for a woman to set her sights on the accounting field as her first step into the workplace or even officialdom. These positions can deal with fewer people and only deal with account numbers, and there will be fewer opponents.
And if he can train his sisters, Zhuge Jin will be able to save more time fighting wits and courage with his subordinates in the future.
After all, biological sisters are generally not greedy for family money, so each other can spend less energy on guarding against each other.
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The time during the day passed quickly in the busyness.
The Zhuge brothers also roughly completed the corresponding statistics and appeasement work.
On Zhuge Jin's side, the people in Chaisang City finally accepted the new ruler again, at least on the surface they settled down and suppressed all kinds of commotion.
Everyone was also confused and knew that the rebels had been driven away. The troops of Lord Zhuge Mansion who came back this time were serious kings.
At least the occupying forces specifically emphasized this distinction in their propaganda.
This must also be emphasized, because Zhuge Jin knew that the people of Chaisang had been coerced by Zuo Rong into fighting Zhuge Xuan for a year in the name of seeking refuge with Zhu Hao.
In Zhu Hao's propaganda during his lifetime, it was emphasized that he was the prefect appointed by the emperor, and Zhuge Xuan was a fake. This impression has been more or less accepted by the people. Now it will take time and energy to reverse it, otherwise the people will lose their support. It's chaos.
In order not to confuse the people's minds, Zhuge Jin did not take any action to defeat the old man during his propaganda. He only focused on emphasizing that Zuo Rong was a traitor and that he had killed Zhu Hao.
As for the dead Zhu Hao, Zhuge Jin did not say that he was a complete bad guy. He was dead anyway and there was no threat.
On the one hand, Zhuge Jin asked people to spread the word that Zhu Hao didn't know people well, drank poison to quench his thirst, used people indiscriminately, and lured thieves into the house.
On the other hand, it emphasizes:
"Although Zhu Hao was officially appointed by the emperor's imperial edict, that edict was issued two years ago when the emperor was still being coerced by the remnants of Dong Zhuo from the Xiliang army.
So that was not the original intention of the wise and wise emperor, but the traitorous traitor who would hold the emperor hostage. The edict that now seals Zhuge Xuan was issued after the emperor returned to the east. It is the true meaning of his heart after breaking away from the rebels of Jue Si. "
It is very appropriate to say this now, because Li Jue and Guo Si were designated as rebels by the emperor not long ago.
As a result, the effectiveness of the edicts issued during the period when the rebels held the emperor hostage naturally plummeted.
Just two months ago, after Cao Cao stabilized Liu Xie in Xudu, he requested Liu Xie's order and sent his servant Pei Mao to Hongnong to order Duan Xuan, the only one in the Xiliang army who had committed a minor crime.
He announced that he would pardon Duan You for all his mistakes during his time in the Xiliang Army, indicating that he had also been coerced, and then ordered Duan You to take full charge of military affairs in Guanxi, lead General Anxi, and coordinate the campaign against the rebels Li Jue and Guo Si.
Before Zhuge Jin came to Yuzhang, he thought that this crusade order would be very valuable and could be used in a curved manner, so he copied it a lot in advance.
At this moment, it can be used to attack the legal effect of Zhu Hao's original appointment and win over the people more quickly.
Of course, he also knows that this kind of propaganda work does not happen overnight.
Just in Chaisang City, it can be done in ten days and a half. It will be great to ensure that people's consciousness can be completely changed before the Lantern Festival next year.
It will take at least a month or two to spread the disease to all counties in Yuzhang, even those counties where Zuorong does not have heavy military garrison.
As for Haihun and Nanchang counties, they were destined to be unable to carry out propaganda because they were heavily defended by bandits. They had to take their time to coordinate with the military progress.
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After Zhuge Jin made some arrangements for reassuring the people, Zhuge Liang also reported the latest actual figures on money and grain inventories.
He hasn't had time to check the bill yet, but the actual inventory in the warehouse can be counted in one day.
Based on the actual inventory, Zhuge Liang was pleasantly surprised to find that there was at least 70,000 to 80,000 shi of military rations stored in Chaisang's military rations depot, which was enough to feed Zuo Rong's Chaisang garrison for about a year, making him relatively wealthy.
Now Zhuge's army has joined in. The total number is close to 8,000, which is still enough to last for nine months, so it is more than enough to kill Zuo Rong.
Zhuge Jin had come from Guangling before, and he didn't bring much food with him, which was enough for the troops to last for more than a month.
Liu Bei was known to be short of food in Guangling. When borrowing troops, he hoped that the troops would be able to eat on the spot when they arrived in Yuzhang.
Now, all of a sudden, the military food crisis has been completely solved.
"These thieves of the Zuo family have plundered so many people's treasures! They actually hoarded so much food! Fortunately, it all belongs to us.
But Chai Sang only had so few soldiers, so he only kept so much food. Haihun and Nanchang have even more heavy troops. I don’t know how many they will stockpile. "
When Zhuge Jin saw the numbers, he luckily laughed and cursed.
After looking at the stock of grain, he felt relieved and went to look at money, cloth and other stocks.
It turned out that there was also a lot of cloth. There were about 60,000 pieces of worthless coarse cloth such as linen and kebab in the warehouse, and more than 14,000 pieces of silk and silk.
It seems that the people of Chaisang have been plundered heavily by the Zuo family in the past two years, and it is unknown how many wealthy households were robbed and saved.
The only thing that slightly surprised Zhuge Jin was that there were very few copper coins in the warehouse. There were less than four million coins. You must know that during the reign of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, it cost four million coins to buy a county magistrate. In fact, The term of office is not long, it is equivalent to the rent of an official position.
If the county magistrate’s rent is 4 million, then the money collected by the county magistrate after taking office must be much greater than 4 million, otherwise the money cannot be recovered.
Chaisang can also be regarded as an important waterway port on the Yangtze River. The waterway communication channel between the entire Jiangxi region and the outside world only has four million in the treasury, which is too little.
Moreover, Zhuge Jin had good knowledge of geography in his previous life. He knew that Jiangxi has been a land rich in mineral deposits since ancient times. Geography textbooks of later generations said that Jiangxi has "tungsten in the south and copper in the north, and rare earths are everywhere."
Rare earths and tungsten were useless in the Han Dynasty and would not be mined, but copper could be mined.
During the years when Zhuge Jin was a teacher, he glanced at the data in the teaching materials and it seemed that Jiangxi accounted for 20% of the country's copper. Mainly in Dexing County, Shangrao, on the border of Zhejiang and Jiangxi and on the bank of Le'an River.
In addition, the Dexing Copper Mine is a chalcopyrite with associated gold and silver, and its reserves each account for about 10% of the country's total. I can't remember the details. Anyway, you can mine gold, silver and copper together.
Although that place is located in a mountainous area and has inconvenient transportation, the Le'an River will eventually flow into Poyang Lake. In the future, when the Zhuge family has time, they can explore the shipping conditions of the Le'an River, do some water transportation infrastructure, and see if they can dig out the Dexing mine.
However, the current government rule in Yuzhang County can only extend to the county seat of Poyang County in the east. Dexing should still be a mountainous settlement more than a hundred miles east of the county seat. The local people are Shanyue people who are not convinced by the king.
The area is also bordered by Shanyue Shuai Zulang in the neighboring county. Before they have the strength to deal with Shanyue, the Zhuge family had better not provoke them and take over all the mature Han territory first.
Zhuge Jin was thinking wildly, and it took him a long time to realize that he was distracted.
Just now he was surprised by the small amount of copper coins in Chaisang's treasury, so he thought of this: a major trading town and a distribution center for a large county with copper mineral resources, how could it be short of copper!
So he quickly recovered his mind and continued to check his brother's report, and soon discovered the problem:
The list reported by Zhuge Liang also showed that the newly built garlands and pagodas in Chaisang City alone, as well as the three largest Buddha statues, were estimated to weigh more than 100,000 kilograms in total. Made of copper.
A pound of ten taels, a pound of ten cents, a hundred thousand catties is equivalent to more than 10 million copper coins. After the Zuo family robbed a large number of copper utensils and coins from the city, they melted them all into Buddha statues.
Today, we were short of time. Zhuge Liang only counted the largest Buddha statues, which were already so heavy. He had not yet confiscated the other small bronze statues.
It is estimated that bronze statues weighing less than 1,000 kilograms will be hidden by the defeated bandits, and bronze statues weighing less than 200 kilograms or less can even be taken away when escaping.
"This work needs to be continued for a long time and thorough investigation. The bronze statues hidden among the people in Chaisang are all property stolen by Zuo Rong. Naturally, they must be returned to their original owners. If you dare to hide them, you are a thief! Everything in Chaisang City has been found There are so many, and I don’t know how many more there are in Nanchang.”
Zhuge Jin sighed while giving instructions, and he also had a deeper understanding of the financial resources and potential of the counties in Yuzhang.
After the two brothers chatted for a while, Zhuge Jin came up with an idea and suggested:
"A Liang, I think we need time to convert the people's hearts and win over the counties. We also need to strictly train the county soldiers who were captured and defected in these two battles to ensure their loyalty and military discipline, and then we can have a final decisive battle with Zuo Rong's main force. What do you think?"
Zhuge Liang also deeply agreed and nodded: "Indeed, it is not appropriate to be impatient now. Zuo Rong has been entrenched in the local area for nearly two years. If you give him two more months, his strength will not be significantly improved. The people he can coerce are basically It's all wrapped up.
For us, with one or two more months, we might be able to double our current strength, and time is on our side. "
Zhuge Jin finally made a decision: "I originally planned to go south to join my uncle and Yun Chang, but now after seeing Chai Sang's situation, I have changed my mind. Xi'an County is a remote place with a sparse population. My uncle had no choice but to He stayed there just because the rich and prosperous place was occupied by Zuo Rong, leaving him homeless.
It would be better to send someone to deliver a message to my uncle immediately, asking Yun Chang to escort him north and meet him at Chaisang. In the next two months, he can temporarily set up the Yuzhang Prefecture in Chaisang County, and our army can concentrate its forces to avoid being defeated by Zhe Rong. Divide, encircle and force a battle. "
Zhuge Liang thought about it and felt that his elder brother's idea was right, but he was still young and had more sympathy than his elder brother, so he reminded:
"It's right to let my uncle go north, but Xi'an County and the other two counties on the Xiushui River, Aixian County and Yongxiu, have been attached to my uncle for a long time. If we give up now, will Zuo Rong's troops go to the local area to retaliate?"
Zhuge Jin frowned and took out the map and took a look at it: "How about this? After Uncle Zhi finishes the battle at Lushan, I will transfer him to Yongxiu, the lowest reaches of Xiushui, where he directly confronts the enemy in Haihun County. County garrison.
As long as he keeps troops in Yongxiu and blocks Xiushui, Zuo Rong shouldn't have to waste a lot of time to make a detour overland to retaliate against Xi'an and Ai County in the rear. The place is so poor and he will lose money even if he goes there. How much gain can he gain by retaliating against the people?
Moreover, Shuzhi only needs to defend the city, and he does not necessarily need to take away the three hundred white soldiers. Even Danyang's elite soldiers can be taken less, and it is enough to equip him with more county soldiers.
The main elite forces should be gathered as much as possible and then handed over to Yun Chang for command for the final decisive battle. "
Zhuge Liang thought there was nothing wrong with this idea, so he took the order and wrote the letter.
However, all this will eventually have to wait for Chen Dao to free up his hands before it can be officially implemented.
Fortunately, Chen Dao did not keep the Zhuge brothers waiting, and sent back the latest news about the Battle of Lushan that night.
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pS: There will be three updates today, totaling 10,000 words.
