The outside world believed that Zhou Bai had received direct support from a hidden sect, which gave him enough extraordinary power to ensure that his rule could safely survive several Qingxu Realm invasions.
But now Yan Luo really sees how defiant this person is. It has been less than two years since he became a Jinshi, right?
He didn't even see Zhou Bai make any move. Xuanwu Zhenren, who had been so powerful in Ruinan for more than two hundred years, had already fallen down.
Yan Luo can understand at most one of the techniques of luck cutting and the actual application of the power of the Lord, but he knows nothing about other fighting techniques at the soul level.
It is said that the body will not die easily after entering the Yin Shen realm, but what if the Yin Shen escapes and travels immediately after leaving the body?
Squeezing a real person to death is like squeezing a chicken to death, so maybe it would be easier to crush him to death.
Yan Luo looked at the withered corpse that had no breath of life, his face was pale, and he didn't have the slightest bit of restraint to make him calm.
To be honest, he is not afraid of death, but he wants to honor his ancestors before he dies.
"The sinner Yan Luo, begging for five-color gold, is willing to help the governor build the country." Yan Luo held the treasure, his voice trembling.
Zhou Bai took away the five-color gold, glanced at Yan Luo, and responded calmly: "Well, get up, and go help outside first."
These words were a bit confusing, but Yan Luo understood and immediately got up and ran outside.
"Put down your weapons, put down your weapons, and surrender to the Anbei Governor's Mansion!"
The loyal guards who were still resisting outside the inner gate looked at each other and dropped their weapons upon command.
Of course it's better not to die if you can. Besides, the master himself has surrendered, so why bother to resist pointlessly.
Immediately afterwards, Yan Luo appeared at key points throughout the city to personally persuade people to surrender and appease the people.
Within a day, Ruinan City returned to calm, and notices for peace of mind were posted in the streets and alleys.
Although soldiers were still patrolling, sporadic people began to appear on the streets, and some brave ones took the lead in going to the food distribution points opened by the governor's government to collect food.
The Governor of Zhou Dynasty didn't even kill the Jiedushi. Could it be that he would embarrass common people like them?
In fact, Zhou Bai didn't know how to deal with Yan Luo now. Previously, he entered the city with the army as soon as possible and quietly hid outside Jiedu Mansion.
If a Yin Shen Zhenren who has perfected the three realms does not personally watch and intercept, he will definitely become a disaster if he escapes.
When he noticed that there was an internal conflict between Yan Luo and Xuanwu Zhenren, Zhou Bai sat back and watched, and even prepared to watch Xuanwu Zhenren kill Yan Luo to avoid any embarrassment in the subsequent handling.
There is no other way. Who asked you to surrender only when the city was broken? How can you scare the people who come after you if you don't die?
But who knew that Yan Luo was so smart, not only did he guess that he was there, but he also immediately offered the largest treasure, five-color gold.
In this way, he bought half his life, and then continued to appease the people for a moment. In addition, his previous "contribution" of clearing out the noble families in the county completely dispelled Zhou Bai's murderous intention.
Ruinan City was the seat of Ruinan Jiedu. After Zhou Bai took over, it was once again restored to the former Ruinan County headquarters. He has no plans to move the governor's office southward for the time being.
Yan Luo's favorite summer office, Liangxin Pavilion, Zhou Baigao sat in the chair and quickly reviewed the corresponding official documents after entering the city, while Yan Luo waited quietly at the bottom.
Of course, Yan Luo was a little confused when the host and guest changed positions, but he knew in his heart that his power had become a thing of the past, so he quickly adjusted his mentality and behaved respectfully and solemnly.
The conversation that followed could very well determine his life or death, his fate.
Originally, he thought that Zhou Bai would still need to work for a long time, so he deliberately left him alone and exerted power.
Unexpectedly, in less than half a quarter of an hour, the thick stack of official documents had been reviewed and handed over to the accompanying secretary for processing.
The efficiency is too high, and the political ability is so strong?
Yan Luo was a little dumbfounded, but he didn't dare to flatter him randomly. He just collected his thoughts and waited for questions.
Zhou Bai was not polite and asked aggressively: "You stubbornly resisted Master Wang and caused innocent people to die in vain. Do you know your guilt?"
Yan Luo knew this was gangster logic. If you hit me, I can't resist.
But he still knelt down and did not dare to argue at all: "If you know your sin, the sinner is willing to spend the rest of his life to pay for it."
"Hmph, tell me, why did you still refuse to vote after losing all the surrounding cities?" Zhou Bai snorted coldly and continued to ask.
"Xiaguan came from a humble background and received financial support from his family... I understand that the Governor is a real dragon..."
After a long speech, Yan Luo explained his unwillingness and the reason why he finally refused to escape with Master Xuanwu.
The reasons are sufficient and detailed, and Zhou Bai feels that they are blameless. This is the characteristic of the times. How many outstanding people have grown up under the support of their clans, and how many clans have risen because of one outstanding person.
Then he took out the five-color gold from his arms. The five colors of green, red, yellow, white and black rotated in a radiant and colorful way.
A mere one or two may not seem to weigh much, but it has the characteristic that it cannot be stored in a magic weapon and can only be carried with you.
"To be honest, this five-color gold is enough to buy your life, but if Marshal Yan doesn't die, it will be difficult to intimidate the people who come after you. What do you think?" Zhou Bai played with the five-color gold in his palm and looked at Yan Luodao with a half-smile.
Cold sweat broke out on Yan Luo's forehead, and he replied calmly: "If you don't kill me, you can show the justice of the governor's dispatch of troops this time. Sinners will see that you act like a king and domineering, and you can also attract some real scholars by giving charity occasionally." .”
"Whether to kill or to stay depends on the governor's decision, but please believe that the sinner will definitely bring you greater value."
After Zhou Bai heard this, he stood up and paced back and forth behind Yan Luo, staring at him until his spine went cold.
After a long silence, he turned to him again and said, "You are a talented person. Your ability to govern and your breadth of vision are rare among my subordinates. Since you sincerely surrender, I will not kill you."
"There are two options. One is to give you a nominal official salary to prepare for political consultation; the other is to demote you to the bottom and become a rural official in the most difficult place."
Yan Luo was thoughtful and bowed his head and asked: "What the governor means is that the first choice is to be a wealthy and idle person for the rest of my life. The second choice depends on my own ability. But is there a chance that I can be reused?"
"Yes, you have to think about it yourself." Zhou Bai confirmed.
After receiving a positive answer, Yan Luo said without hesitation: "I will choose the second one."
Zhou Bai nodded slightly, as if he was not surprised at all: "I will stay in the county for now, helping to care for the people, and I will go to Baishazhou when the order comes."
"Chu Kai, the governor of Baisha Town, has no knowledge of civil affairs. You should be his deputy to follow Jiupin Dianshi."
Baisha Town doesn’t know, but Baishazhou Yan Luo still knows a little bit.
This place is a "wonderful place" with bitter cold. It is not only famous in Bei'an County, but he also knew about it when he was the governor of Ruinan County.
Connecting Bei'an County and Biancheng County, the land is barren, with mostly white salt soil on the surface, making it impossible to grow food and inaccessible...
Yan Luo smiled bitterly, he was really being assigned, but he still firmly accepted the appointment and had high morale at the same time.
Watching Yan Luo say goodbye and leave, Zhou Bai felt a little emotional.
This person's noble spirit has completely dissipated, and despite all the ups and downs, he still retains his green and yellow life without any loss, which is quite a bit indomitable.
If he can really achieve some political achievements, Zhou Bai will treat him fairly and promote him.
And the reason why such a "great talent" was placed in a bitter cold place was of course related to his next actions.
Chu Kai reported that after the spiritual energy of Baishazhou was revived, the environment changed drastically and it seemed that it had lost its appearance as a bad land.
This is not surprising. Zhou Bai had suspected that once the spiritual energy was revived, such bad places might become treasured places.
After Yu Yueyun led people to conduct field surveys, he confirmed that the saline-alkali environment in some areas of Baishazhou has improved, and that most areas are changing in a good direction.
The original salty material sank to form a salt mine, which contains rich spiritual energy and is considered spiritual salt.
The area of the salt lake where Zhou Bai rested has expanded dozens of times, its salinity has been greatly reduced, and it can be used as a water source for drinking and irrigation.
After investigation, it was found that there were dozens of water sources of various sizes near the ancient trade route alone.
This is one of the few water sources that has increased under the current severe drought. It can only be said that the water vapor is balanced, and the water from other places is balanced to the desert wasteland.
Across the vast white soil to the west is the border town in the west of Dingzhou.
Therefore, the strategic location of Baishazhou is actually extremely dangerous. It is the only connected land passage in the entire Dingzhou. In other counties, Dingdong and Dingxi can only be connected through Ningjiang River.
No one cared about this passage in the past because Baishazhou was too big and there were sand and salt soil along the way, making it too difficult to supply water and food.
Occasionally, a small group of merchants would push grain carts and water carts to push through without hesitation, but it would be extremely difficult to pass through a large army.
Now that Baishazhou has undergone a positive change and is no longer a barren land, it can be expected that its strategic status will improve.
There is water, land and salt mines. It is actually the Tianfu Plain in the north, and Zhou Bai must control it.
The direction of expansion in the future is most likely Baishazhou. Take this plain to use for military merit and farmland, and then continue to the west to take over the border county!
By crossing Dingdong and Dingxi and completely occupying the northern part of Dingzhou, we can start the matter of proclaiming ourselves uncle and establishing the country.
Of course, he also has to look at the merger and development of other forces, especially Lu Ding and Lei Haomiao.
It really depends on the geographical location, population density, and prosperity. It is definitely better to continue to expand southward.
Although Longfeng County has experienced the last siege of the generals and a series of natural and man-made disasters, it still has a population of more than 700,000 and has great potential.
You must know that Bei'an County is almost twice the size of Longfeng County, and it can barely exceed one million people, not to mention the gap in resource production and commercial trade.
In addition, before the unexpected change occurred in Baishazhou, Zhou Bai's general strategy was to unify the east first, vigorously develop the navy, and then use absolute military power to conquer the west.
On August 5, all the officials transferred from Bei'an County were in place, including the county team headed by County Sheriff Ji Hongzhe.
As early as when Lu Ding started to occupy Pinghe County, Zhou Bai wrote a letter to Ji Hongzhe, who was the chief official of Pinghe County at that time, urging him to come and serve at his side, at least he would not treat him badly.
However, Lu Ding took a strict view at that time, and the prospect of the independence of the Anbei Governor's Office was still unclear, so he was not in a hurry to set off.
Until this time before sending troops to Ruinan, Lu Ding was also leading his army outside. Ji Hongzhe finally, with the help of Xuanyi Guards, left Pinghe County with his family and successfully sneaked across the Ningjiang River.
The timing of coming to seek refuge was very clever. It was not after the successful attack on Ruinan, so he was appointed as the civil administrator of a county by Zhou Bai. You must know that the Anbei Governor's Office only has two counties under its jurisdiction.
With such an important task, Ji Hongzhe also formally pledged his allegiance to Zhou Bai, without any embarrassment of status reversal.
At the same time that Ji Hongzhe took office, all 35 local officials in the six counties of Ruinan had completed their work reports.
They will be sent to the government school in Bei'an County to study for three months. During the study period, the government affairs of the six counties will be handled by the chief official or the second official appointed by the governor.
If you pass the political review and study assessment after three months of study, you can be reinstated or even promoted.
This is also one of the measures Zhou Bai formulated before leaving Bei'an. There must also be a set of regulatory procedures for how to deal with prisoners who are demoted.
We cannot allow our territory to expand too quickly, causing our strength to decrease instead of increase.
"According to statistics, the current population of Ruinan County is more than 800,000. The county has less than 100,000 stones of grain stored in the county. The summer harvest grain has been reduced by 30% compared with previous years. It is currently being put into storage. A total of 3,250 pieces of low-grade spiritual stones have been obtained, and the gold Fifty thousand taels... The exact figure will take some time to be verified." Ji Hongzhe took office as a new official and quickly handed over the details to Zhou Bai.
Apart from the army, this is the general gain from capturing Ruinan County. It will definitely be a huge profit.
Just to reach the level of development of Bei'an County, it still needs time to govern, but at this time, even the people's support has not been fully recovered.
Looking at the luck of the new group of counties, it is not even as good as the luck of the Jiedu mansion when the city was besieged. All the scattered gas is white, and only a circle of red gas in the center stabilizes the overall situation of the county.
This is because the time is too short, the decree has not yet been passed, and the people have not yet recognized the system.
However, because Ruinan faced the Longfeng County controlled by the prefecture government and wanted to take root as soon as possible, Zhou Bai specifically ordered that half of the summer harvest grain be turned over, so that the people would have enough grain to last until the autumn harvest.
Ahem, he doesn't have the confidence to just waive it all, because judging from the current general trend, he will continue to expand non-stop.
Two days ago, on August 3, the first hero to establish his own country had appeared, and it was still in the north.
That is Zhao Qi, the king of Xiyuan County in Liangzhou next door, one of the few kings who has stayed in the territory since the founding of Daxu.
Zhao Qi took the title of King of Xiyuan County and raised troops to rebel on the grounds that Daxu was immoral and immoral.
He took Xiyuan County as his foundation, and on the seventh day he captured the other two counties in the northern part of Liangzhou, and fell wherever he went.
With a strong enough luck foundation, Zhao Qi was named Marquis of Liang and directly established the Northern Liang Kingdom.
Then dragons and dragons rose up all over the world, and from south to north, from east to west, there were vassal towns that responded to the founding of the country.
As of August 8, Zhou Bai returned to Bei'an County. In just five days, not counting other grassroots teams in one county and one township, there were fifteen famous independent countries in the world.
Of course, the foundations of these hidden dragons and heroes are not as strong as those of Liang Hou. Most of them are viscounty and barony kingdoms based on county dynasties.
Only Zhong Xiang of Jinghu Xiangzhou established the Chu Xiang Bo Kingdom on the land of three counties, and the Yuanlong of Xishu River suddenly appeared and established the Banan Bo Kingdom on the land of two counties.
In view of this situation, even if the Qingxu Rebellion in the Central Region has not yet been settled and Xuzhou is still under the control of the Qingxu Army, the Daxu royal family will immediately issue a vassal order.
Wang Xiu received news from Shenjing that at the latest in late August, before autumn, the imperial court would definitely issue an order to seal the country.
At that time, all nations will truly stand side by side and princes will compete for supremacy.
