When Tang Jiyao came to Huaiyuan to take office, he had several old soldiers around him. At this time, he also brought these old soldiers to pack his bags and tied them to the horse's back. He rushed to the front yamen to find Xu Huai. Cheng Yi said goodbye. After that, he asked for a book from Xu Huai, and then he completed the handover.

Seeing Tang Jiyao leaving on a horse, Cheng Yi had not come back to his senses for a while and said to Xu Huai in a daze: "Are these edicts true?"

Cheng Yi and Deng Gui are not stupid. In the later stages of the bandit suppression, how could they still not see clearly whether Xu Huai was a fool?

The problem is that Cheng Yi is very clear about Xu Huai's style of conduct, and he is so unique and unpredictable.

If the crime is committed, it is not tolerated by the court, but it is bold and arbitrarily forged a letter of edict, taken over the inspection department, and then occupied Tongbai Mountain to become king and dominate. In Cheng Yi's view, this is something Xu Huai could have done!

Besides, in the past year, how many people have Xu Huai sent back to Tongbai Mountain?

Cheng Yi also heard about Xu Huai as the son of King Xiaocheng. How could he not be nervous: Isn’t this guy trying to rebel in Tongbai Mountain?

"What? If this edict is fake, Cheng, you should also learn from Tang Jiyao to escape?" Xu Huai asked with a side face and looked at Cheng Yi.

"I said Mr. Xu, don't scare me," Cheng Yi shouted with a sad face, "I can't hear any news in this remote countryside. You suddenly ran back with a hundred people and said you wanted to take over the inspection department. Why did you call me no idea? Besides, the Chihu people just captured Yanji, and all the towns in Hebei are still there, and I haven't heard that Taiyuan is in danger, so why is Bianliang in danger?"

"Tang Jiyao didn't care about it and left directly; if you have to worry about the letter of edict, you can also learn from Tang Jiyao!" Xu Huai said with a smile.

Cheng Yi sighed and said, "Tang Jiyao is a military official in the Ministry of Deployment. He walked out of Huaiyuan, went to Dong Zhizhou to explain, and went straight back to Xiangyang. No matter how much shit there is left here, he doesn't need to wipe it. I want to escape, at most I will escape back to Biyang City, but I know that something really has to happen. This small Tongbai Mountain cannot withstand your big stick, and you won't be able to stab the Biyang in the end?"

"The letter of edict is not false, Bianliang is not false, and Huaiyuan has established a county and renamed Chushan. If you are willing to stay and serve as the chief clerk, I will tell you what's going on?" Xu Huai said.

"Old Cheng, you have a pot of wine in the morning. You probably haven't drunk it yet, so you are too brave! I'll go to drink a pot with you. I'll talk about these many things in detail!" Zheng Tu hugged Cheng Yi and said.

Xu Huai waved his hand, and Zheng Tu and Cheng Yi explained everything, so he could save his words and talk. Otherwise, how many words would he have enough to keep the guards of all the clans of the major families and the elders coming?

No matter what, Xu Huai would not let Cheng Yi leave, and he would be kept by tied with a rope.

Tongbai Mountain covers too wide a land, and even if it is divided separately from Biyang, it can be enough to have a county; and in addition to the magistrate or county magistrate, the court will also appoint county magistrate, county magistrate, chief clerk, and other officials in charge of county affairs.

However, everything was in a hurry, and the Ministry of Personnel could not find a few suitable and willing low-level officials to come to Huaiyuan at this critical moment. Hu Kaize asked Xu Huai to find a few people to use first, and then he would recommend them together.

Xu Huai used Xu Wujiang, Su Laochang and others to build the framework of the county government and the inspection department, and Tongbai Mountain was definitely not short of capable people.

However, let alone Xu Wuqi, Xu Xin'an, Guo Junjue, Pan Chenghu, etc.

As a result, Xu Wujiang and Xu Wuliang have all made contributions. Even if they do not pass the imperial examination, they can still be recommended to serve as low-level officials such as chief clerks and county magistrates.

However, in Tongbai Mountain, apart from Cheng Yi, there is no other person who is proficient in documentary affairs; even though Xu Huai knew that Cheng Yi was better at craftsmanship.

On the way from the Rolling Stone to cross Dafu Mountain and Beiling to Huaiyuan, Xu Huai discussed the personnel arrangements of the county government office with Xu Wujiang, Su Laochang and others.

Although the sparrow is small, it is fully equipped with all internal organs. Huaiyuan has officially established a county, and the population must be within 100,000. There will definitely be no shortage of business work. In addition to the magistrate of the county, county magistrate, county magistrate, and second-rank officials, officials, households, rituals, punishment, soldiers, and engineering are specifically responsible for the criminal prison, grain, horses, land tax, anti-smuggling, land acres, construction, recruitment and other matters. There must also be three yamen runners, swords and archers guarding the city gates, patrolling the streets, and prison guards guarding the county prisons.

Although Su Laochang was capable in his work, he was not familiar with the imperial prefectures and county governments.

Xu Huai took over the power in Huaiyuan and could do anything, but if he didn't want to be criticized in the future, he had to do all the work in the documents properly. Therefore, he needed to be proficient in documentary documents and documents, and could also ask someone they trust to serve as the county magistrate or chief clerk.

No one is more suitable than Cheng Yi.

In addition to Cheng Yi, the six-bedroom and other complicated matters of the county government will be specifically responsible for Su Laochang, Xu Wujiang, Zheng Tu and others. For a long time, Xu Huai and most of the people will focus on training and commanding troops, and do not have much energy to take into account the county government.

There are two most urgent matters:

The first is to recruit rural soldiers.

This is the responsibility of the military garrison.

Traditional rural soldiers' training and other matters are mainly controlled by local clans of major surnames, and the leaders of rural soldiers are usually directly held by core figures of major clans; county corps usually only need to do some registration and registration work.

This time, Xu Huai naturally had to completely break the traditional rural soldiers' training model, recruit soldiers directly to the army, and even included all the military status management, merits and demerits rewards and punishments of the existing 2,500 regular soldiers in the military room.

The number of troops directly under the jurisdiction of the Beijing South Road Metropolitan Deployment Department is only 6,000 to 7,000 imperial guards. The Huaiyuan County military office will be directly responsible for the military status of 5,000 troops in the future, which is naturally much more important than imagined.

The military camps were equipped with left and right Jingcheng, and Xu Wukun and Fan Yong were respectively appointed.

The second is to select a place to build the Daying of the Capital Inspection Office at the foot of the Dafu Mountain in the western part of Queshan County, and to open a road directly from Huaiyuan to the Daying of the Capital Inspection Office from Daying of the Capital Inspection Office; at the same time, it is more complicated, cumbersome and troublesome, and the distribution of 5,000 people, food, fodder and military supplies.

Before finding a suitable and trustworthy person, Su Laochang was responsible for the workhouse, household house and official house.

In addition, the former Huaiyuan Inspection Office Wushu was directly transferred to the sword archer and the prison guard of the punishment room. Xu Wujiang also led the county magistrate and the Jingfang Jingcheng, and was actually responsible for the city defense, public security and criminal prison in the new county.

The Lifang is in charge of academic examinations, imperial examinations, education, sacrifices and other matters, and under the current circumstances, it is no longer important. Before there is no suitable candidate, Cheng Yi will take charge of it.

When Huaiyuan established a county, the matter of post-post was also the top priority. It not only included reception and resettlement of personnel exchanges, but also communication with various government agencies and document delivery. Xu Huai intended that Zheng Tu also led the post-post-post.

In addition to the six rooms, Xu Huai also planned to integrate the Jinshagou Mine, Zhufengtang's refining workshop, and the former Tang family, and later the Shibaliwu Iron Mine that Zhufengtang actually controlled, and set up three supervisors to merge into the county government office, which were responsible for Xu Wuliang and others.

In addition to the current soldiers,

In addition to supplying food and rewarding money, there is no fixed military pay at all.

Most of the soldiers at the bottom want to make a living, but they still have to rely on the generals and officials to not deduct them, so it is difficult for them to rely on the income from the army to support their families.

This has made the soldiers’ status in the clan, prefectures and counties increasingly less and less valued.

If Xu Huai wants to change this, no matter how many principles he says, can ordinary soldiers listen to it?

How many people in the countryside know the righteousness of their family and country?

Simply using the brotherhood of the villagers, they can gather them together, but the war that may last for more than ten or even decades will continue. How can everyone grit their teeth and persevere?

For now, the only way that can work is to pay military salaries so that the recruited soldiers can support their families.

Although the troops were set off and entered dangerous places, they could ask for various funds from the superiors, but to ensure that the military pay was paid on schedule, the gap was still huge.

The land tax and population tax in Tongbai Mountain cannot make up for this big gap.

After Huaiyuan County was under the jurisdiction of Huaiyuan County, the commercial tax on Tongbai Mountain Road will be incorporated into the tax, and Xu Huai can also use it to fill military use. At present, there are 20,000 to 30,000 yuan in taxes every year.

However, with the development of the war, as long as a small-scale Chihu cavalry arrives at Huaiyuanyanya and the business travel from Guangzhou to Tangzhou will be reduced sharply, and the commercial tax revenue in this area will be no longer expected.

At present, the relatively stable source of wealth in Tongbai Mountain is the gold mine in Jinshagou, the Shibaliwu iron mine, and the other is the smelting workshop in Zhufengtang. Currently, almost 30,000 to 40,000 jin of money and grain are provided every year.

As for the grasslands of Yuhuangling and Xu, there is not enough grazing military and horses in the later stage. There is also a need to open a new grassland. This is a big gap and a big hole that requires the county government to continuously pay for money and grain. Don’t expect any other benefits to it.

On the way back to Huaiyuan, Su Laochang and his friends estimated early that in addition to the construction matters, they only wanted to raise 5,000 elite soldiers, especially such a large number of military horses, in addition to the money, armor, and weapons distributed by the court and prefectures and counties, they also had to subsidize tens of thousands of stagnants of money and grain every year to be enough.

More critically, Xu Huai’s next real goal is to build Tongbai Mountain into a deep defense system.

In that case, in addition to the upcoming construction of the Metropolitan Inspection Office and the new county town, we also need to choose a key place in Tongbai Mountain to build a secondary level military camp.

Yushan Post is the only way to enter Tongbai Mountain from Biyang to the east; the eastern section of Tongbai Mountain Road and Zhouqiao Post on the south bank of the Huai River are the only way to enter Tongbai Mountain in Guangzhou to the west; and Shimenling on the north bank of the Huai River is the barrier to enter the valley between the northern slope of Tongbai Mountain and Dafu Mountain from the Huaibei Plain. A military camp is needed to not only protect the hinterland west of Shimenling, but also take into account the post road from Zhouqiao Post to Queshan County to the north.

In addition to the above three places, Yuhuangling needs to set up a military camp in the inspection department to protect the most dense military families and the Jinshagou Gold Mine Supervisor; Huaiyuan Old Village also needs to set up a military camp in the inspection department, in addition to taking into account the Shibaliwu iron ore and smelting farm; in addition, a military camp in the inspection department must be set up in Mopanling.

These three military camps are located in the deep hinterland of Tongbai Mountain and are also located at key nodes.
Chapter completed!