A few days later, Yuan Yao led his army back to Shangliao City.
Since the siege of Chaisang had been resolved, Yuan Yao ordered his troops to rest and reorganize in Shangliao City and replenish their forces. He led dozens of light cavalry to Chaisang to comfort the guard general Lu Su and others.
Accompanying Yuan Yao was Zhuge Liang, a young man who had long admired Lu Su's reputation.
When Yuan Yao and Zhuge Liang arrived at Chaisang City after a long journey, they saw the city gate crowded with people.
"Could it be the hungry people making trouble?"
"Young master, wait a minute, let me go and find out something."
The speaker was Yuan Yao's third personal soldier commander named Yuan San.
Yuan San was also one of the very few Yuan Yao's soldiers who survived that encounter.
Like Yuan Bao and Yuan Er, Yuan San is also a family soldier sent by Yuan Shu to Yuan Yao. His ability is average, but his loyalty can be learned.
Because he could not find a suitable bodyguard for the moment, Yuan Yao could only promote Yuan San as his bodyguard leader.
At least he can protect himself at critical moments.
As soon as Yuan San slapped his horse and left, the young Zhuge Liang said: "Young General, although these people are gathered here, they don't seem to be angry and angry. They should not be hungry people."
"drive!"
Yuan Yao nodded, urged his horse forward, and said, "I guess these people were summoned by Lu Zijing."
"Maybe after being besieged by the army, they wanted to repair and heighten the city defense."
Zhuge Liang blinked twice and said with a smile: "It seems that the young general and brother Zijing have thought of getting together."
Yuan Yao looked back at Zhuge Liang and said slyly: "Little Zhuge, aren't you determined to 'know astronomy from above and geography from below'?"
"How about I give you geography questions for your debut?"
Zhuge Liang urged his horse to follow Yuan Yao and said, "It seems that I still underestimated the young general."
"The young general doesn't just want to repair the defenses of Chaisang City, right?"
"Hehe!" Yuan Yao looked at little Zhuge and smiled knowingly.
It's so easy to talk to smart people.
"Just tell me whether you want to accept it or not?"
Zhuge Liang smiled bitterly: "The young general seems to be able to read minds, as if he already knew that I have some knowledge of hydrology and geography."
Yuan Yao put on an expression that you thought he would, pretending to be proud and said: "What does this mean? I have opened my eyes!"
Yuan Yao pointed to the center of his forehead.
"Would you believe me if I said I knew each of your talents?"
When Zhuge Liang heard this, his first reaction was to shake his head: "I don't want to say anything about my strange power and chaos!"
But when his eyes met Yuan Yao's, he didn't know why his inner belief was shaken again.
"The Major General survived a thunderstorm without dying. This is something I have never heard of... Perhaps... the Major General is really the chosen one!"
In the second half of the sentence, Zhuge Liang's voice was so quiet that only he could hear it.
The long-term education he received still made it difficult for him to believe that Yuan Yao could still be alive and kicking after being struck by lightning.
These visions are similar to the great ancestor Chidi killing the white snake and the whole hall filled with red light when Guangwu was born.
They are all visions accompanying the birth of the chosen one!
"Maybe what?" Yuan Yao didn't hear clearly.
"It's nothing," Zhuge Liang prevaricated, "I said the young general has the appearance of a man from heaven!"
"Oh" Yuan Yao said without caring, "I thought you said I was the chosen one!"
The time-travelers have all been updated to 3.0 and 4.0. The truly chosen ones will have their own systems as soon as they time-travel.
What kind of sign-in system, what kind of summoning system, what kind of upgrade system, invincibility system, etc.
Why is he still version 1.0, only retaining the memories before time travel?
Too OUT!
Yuan Yao has also imagined countless times that as soon as his domineering spirit is revealed, famous ministers will bow to him.
But it's obvious that he doesn't have this kind of aura. Although being in a position of power for a long time has allowed him to develop more or less a certain aura, he is still far away from the aura of a true king.
Yuan Yao even tried in various ways to activate the systems that might exist in his body, but found nothing.
When they walked to the city gate, several officers stood on a high platform and read out the results to everyone, which also confirmed Yuan Yao and Zhuge Liang's suspicions.
It was Lu Su, the magistrate of Chaisang County and the captain of the Jianzan Military Academy, who was recruiting civilians to prepare to heighten and widen the walls of Chaisang City and dig a moat.
And the common people did not have any resistance, because Lu Su adopted a recruiting system instead of a drawing system to recruit young men this time.
The draft system of labor service is to use copper coins, grain, cloth and other cash items as remuneration for labor service; or the policy of exempting from military service and reducing or exempting land rent and taxes is used in exchange for labor service.
It's much simpler to draw cadres for labor. That is, according to the number of men to be drafted, they will be distributed equally to the households, and the strong men will be forced to serve in labor force unconditionally.
If there are not many strong men needed, then one strong man will be selected from ten or fifty households; if there are many strong men needed, then one person from five, two, or even every household may be required to serve.
In extreme cases, the lottery system not only does not give any remuneration, but also ignores food and housing. Those who work on the construction site must bring their own food and purchase their own tools; after a day's work, there is no dormitory to sleep in, so they must either go home or bring their own straw mats.
In short, two words stand out - free whoring!
It's winter, the slack season for farming. If Lu Su had sex for free at this time, no one would say anything.
Just treat it as a part-time job for the dog officials and the black officials, and be patient and get over it.
For hundreds or thousands of years, most people have lived this way.
As long as there are people who stutter, the people at the bottom will get by and will not easily become enemies of the government.
However, Lu Su adopted the recruitment system this time.
Not only did they adopt the recruitment system, but they also chose the most generous method - using food as a reward for service.
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, along with political corruption, the social and economic situation also became increasingly chaotic.
In particular, Emperor Ling and Dong Zhuo recast copper coins twice, leading to complete chaos in the currency system. In the Guanzhong area, millet that originally cost tens or hundreds of dollars per bushel actually sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars per bushel during the disaster years!
In these troubled times, the effectiveness of five baht is far less than the hard currency of grain.
What's the point of asking for money? What's the point of asking for money? They don't even have enough to eat, and their lives may be lost at any time.
It's useless to sell a handful of wheat for 300,000 yuan. Tomorrow the price of a bunch of wheat will rise to 500,000 yuan.
And at this time, no one dares to sell food.
What, your family has a surplus of grain that can be sold? Wouldn’t the hungry people swarm your house and eat all the people and bones in your house!
It’s useless for the princes to ask for money! Think about what the princes pay most attention to in troubled times?
army!
What is most needed to maintain an army?
food!
The ultimate purpose of collecting money is also to buy horses and food.
Therefore, Lu Su's method of raising men with grain is a rare sight for the majority of Chaisang people in decades!
Young and old men from all over the country came and queued up before dawn when they heard that there was a notice posted at the gate of the county town offering grain to recruit men.
The officers of Chaisang County had no choice but to go to work early in the morning, go out of the city to maintain order, and also quelled several fights caused by queue jumping.
Yuan Yao knows that Chaisang, Liling, Haihun and other counties will have a bumper harvest this fall.
Because the food left by the Peng family in Shangliao City has not been used up, and due to changes in the war, Yuan Yao has not yet collected food from various counties.
But Yuan Yao planned to send troops to Jiangdong in the spring of the new year. It would be impossible without sufficient food and grass.
Maybe, I want to give Lu Su a beating.
Yuan Yao avoided everyone and was about to enter the city.
When passing the city gate, I heard the chatter of the people in Chaisang around me.
"We don't want food. As long as Magistrate Lu tells us where to build it, our family of three will live on the construction site!"
A young farmer, holding a male doll on his neck and holding a woman in his hand, shouted while holding a hoe.
"Yes, we all came here voluntarily. When I heard that Magistrate Lu needed manpower, I asked the ladies to bake pancakes and carry them here in the middle of the night. We don't need Magistrate Lu to give us any more food!"
shouted a man carrying a bulging suitcase.
"No wonder I keep smelling something so good. It turns out to be freshly baked cakes!"
"I didn't bring much dry food, but I pulled all the vegetables from the vegetable garden at home. When I go to the construction site later, I can exchange my fresh vegetables for your cakes. How about that?"
An old vegetable farmer pushing a cart full of vegetables drooled as he stared at the man carrying the cake.
"Isn't this Uncle Cai from Shilipo? Why do you bring so many vegetables? Doesn't your family make a living by selling vegetables? How can you live with all the vegetables?"
Uncle Cai raised his neck proudly: "I used to have no choice but to sell vegetables. The brother-in-law of Cao County Cheng in the county took over my family's paddy fields, so I had to sell vegetables to make a living."
"Today is different from the past. A good official like Magistrate Lu has taken the initiative and brought all the corrupt officials in Chaisang County to justice. All my paddy fields have been returned to me. My old bones will never be the same again." No need to wake up earlier than the chickens every day, get up in the middle of the night to pick vegetables and transport them to the morning market to sell!"
The person who asked the question slapped his head and said with shame: "How could I forget this? I remembered that that corrupt official named Cao took over more than ten acres of your family's good paddy fields, forcing you to live on the river beach." Planting vegetables…”
"Oh, more than ten years have passed in such a flash. I have forgotten the taste of the rice grown by Uncle Cai's family. The sweet and delicious rice grains. Speaking of which, who didn't envy your uncle Cai's paddy field at that time!"
Uncle Cai also seemed to be caught up in memories, and said with tears: "Old man, I never thought in my life that my ancestor's land could be returned to my hands in my lifetime... Magistrate Lu's great kindness, I, Shilipo Lao Cai The family is unforgettable!"
"This cart of vegetables is nothing compared to Magistrate Lu's merits."
Everyone around felt the same way: "Although Magistrate Lu has been in Chaisang for less than a year, he has done all practical and good things!"
"In the past six months or so, Magistrate Lu has treated our people with light corvee and low taxes, exempted and exempted taxes; he has opened charity porridge to help the poor; he has allowed us to eat during the lean years, and the harvest has left us with enough food at home. He is really benevolent!"
"Magistrate Lu is not only benevolent, but also has thunderous tactics! As soon as he took office, he punished corrupt officials and wiped out all the worms in the county. He was imprisoned together with the gangsters in the county who were bullying the market, and also took away those fish and meat. All the bullies in the village have been punished, so we, Chai Sang, can be clean."
"Yes, Magistrate Lu has done countless things in the past six months. It is more than the dozen or so magistrates we have done in the past few decades combined!"
"Those ungrateful and mediocre officials who are just looking for fame and reputation and are colluding with each other... don't even mention it!"
"..."
Listening to everyone talking and praising Lu Su, Yuan Yao also showed a satisfied smile.
"Let me tell you, we must not only remember the goodness of County Magistrate Lu...who sent Magistrate Lu to be an official here?"
"Young General Yuan is also a good man. Without him bringing us Magistrate Lu, we wouldn't know that there are really good officials in the world who care about our people!"
A young man wearing a turban expressed his opinion, which immediately aroused many echoes.
"That's right, General Yuan is really our Chaisang... no... he is a nobleman of our Yuzhang County!"
"Now that I think about it, at first I rejected people from Jiangbei...hey...now...don't care where they come from, the descendants of famous families are really more noble than people with our local clan names... ...Knowledgeable!" an old man with a donkey face said in shame.
"Young General Yuan is called the wise eye and the bead of knowledge!"
A scribe who looked like he had studied in school said in a eloquent manner:
"The county magistrates that Major General Yuan brought to Yuzhang are no better than those who used to sit on the corpses and eat nothing. They are real celebrities and have real abilities."
A fat man stood up:
"My uncle's family is in Liling. Although the tax reduction for his family this year is not much, the county saw that he was a bachelor and gave him a widow as his wife. Now he walks a head taller than before!"
Another person took over the conversation:
"I know that County Magistrate Liling is County Magistrate Zheng. I heard that County Magistrate Zheng is the great-grandson of Zheng Zhong, a famous Confucian in the Central Plains, and the younger brother of Zheng Tai, a famous scholar in the Central Plains. County Magistrate Zheng is also a great Confucian and has opened a charity school in the county. As long as you Your child has a talent for reading and reading. Not only did County Magistrate Zheng take no money from her, he also provided food, housing and accommodation for your child to go to school."
"If you can read, can you become an official? Why didn't I know about such a good thing? I will send my son to Liling County to try to become a disciple of Magistrate Zheng!"
A person next to him laughed and said, "Come on, your son is already thirteen or fourteen, he is going to get a wife soon and he doesn't know a single word, so you still want him to go to school?"
"Hey, it wasn't that my family was so poor that I couldn't take the blame. In fact, I always wanted my child to be literate and study. My old Li family is not like yours, so my family doesn't want to keep farming!"
"The county magistrate of Haihun was also appointed by Major General Yuan. He did a good job in Haihun County."
"I know, I know, Haihun Peng, isn't it..."
The topic was suddenly led to the first Qiangzong surname to be eliminated by Yuan Yao, the Shangxiao Peng family in Haihun County.
After all, for the three counties in the northwest of Yuzhang, the Peng family is a behemoth that everyone knows about and is unknown to ordinary people.
The power of the Peng family is something that even the county magistrate cannot afford to offend.
Even the previous governors of Yuzhang dared not speak out in the face of Peng's arrogance and domineering behavior.
Whether it was Zhou Shu, the former governor of Yuzhang, or Zhuge Xuan, the former governor, they all turned a blind eye to Peng's blatant and treasonous behavior, which was like a state within a state.
However, when it comes to the destruction of the Peng family, a clan of ten thousand households, Yuan Yao, as the protagonist of the story, cannot be avoided.
