Just when Second Sister You, Jin Chu'er, and Xiangling were about to arrive in Lulong County, Mandarin Duck had already set off from Jingshi City to Yongping Mansion with a lot of heart.

However, at this time, Feng Ziying was not in Lulong City, but had already arrived at Santun Camp.

Santun Camp is the location of the Jizhen General Military Office, which was originally a small place that is not even a small market town, but due to the important geographical location, it has gradually developed into a town of considerable scale, and around the town there are also a large number of surrounding households and displaced people attached to it, and quickly formed a market town that is prosperous because of the soldiers served by the Jizhen General Military Office and the mobile guerrilla troops under its command.

Jizhen General Military Mansion was moved from Sizi Valley to Santun Camp during the previous Ming Shun period, more than 100 years from now, the Great Zhou Dynasty followed this pattern of the former Ming Dynasty, and did not make major adjustments and changes, but in the Guangyuan period, with the increasing threat of Chahar, the Great Zhou began to set up the left guerrilla office and the right guerrilla office in the town of Santunying, and later formed the former guerrilla office in the Yuanxi period.

In the twenty-eighth year of Yuanxi, in view of the large number of soldiers in the town, it became increasingly cramped, so the then general army of Jizhen demolished the south wall of the old city, expanded outward, and expanded the Santun camp city on a large scale, and built the current pattern here.

In addition to the Jizhen General Military Mansion, there are also three guerrilla battalions stationed here, as a mobile emergency force to respond to the various roads along the border wall of Jizhen.

Feng Ziying took up the post of Tongzhi of Yongping Mansion, in addition to reaching an agreement with Zhu Zhiren and gaining the recognition and support of the other party, it can be regarded as laying a good foundation for his future work in Yongping Mansion.

But getting Zhu Zhiren's support is only the first step, if you really want to do good things in Yongping Mansion and turn Yongping Mansion into your ideal base, you can not only rely on some connections or the support of the prefect.

He has to show decent skills to be recognized and convinced by his superiors, colleagues and subordinates, including Zhu Zhiren, and only in this way can he talk about his future command in this land.

Zhu Zhiren had already announced in the palace that he knew that Feng Keng would be in charge of the Qing army, coastal defense, and public security affairs, which was also what he should mean.

Judging from Zhu Zhiren's arrangement of Feng Ziying's work affairs, it can only be said that it is decent, like some places who know the trust of the government, in addition to the Qing army, defense, and public security, they are also responsible for finance and taxation (except for Tianfu).

In addition to the field tax, the local taxes in the Great Zhou Dynasty also include mining taxes, commercial taxes, and miscellaneous taxes, such as salt taxes, which are directly collected by the imperial court, and the local government has no right to interfere, for example, the salt department of Yongping Mansion is in charge of the Changludu Salt Envoy Division, and the mining tax must be handed over to the Ministry of Industry Jieshen Treasury, which is the main income of the emperor's inner treasury, so it is also not touchable.

However, a considerable part of commercial taxes (customs duties, municipal taxes) and miscellaneous taxes will be retained, so in a sense, this is actually the small treasury of each prefecture, and the size of this income will directly determine the daily expenses of the government, and even include some hidden benefits, so unless you know the trust of the government, you will not be able to get involved in this work.

For Feng Ziying, he has no time to take care of finance and taxation for the time being, as a fellow intellectual, the Qing army, and Jizhen to coordinate the relationship, and at the same time solve the problem of public security in the entire Yongping Mansion, this is his top priority, and it is also the key to whether he can gain a firm foothold in Yongping Mansion.

For Feng Ziying's visit, You Shigong was also prepared, as the new chief soldier of Jizhen, he also knew the current situation in Yongping Mansion very well, and even knew Feng Ziying's intention very well.

"Ziying, it's not a matter of a day or two that the army and the land are not harmonious, I haven't taken over this Jizhen for a long time, and the Governor has ordered me to make some adjustments to the situation of the armies in Jizhen, but it hasn't been completed, the third came back a few days ago and told me, I guess you also know that the Chahar people are ready to move, and the foolish brother is also under a lot of pressure,......"

You Shigong is not tall, but he is a very strong man, and there is still a rough and fierce wilderness from the northwest wind and sand baptism between his eyebrows, but he can rest assured that Feng Tang will put him in the position of the general soldier of Jizhen, and he is naturally a trustworthy person.

The two of them sat in the hall and talked, and there were no other outsiders.

"Brother You, even if Lin Dan Batur wants to come south, it will take a few months, you can apply to my father to replenish the fire gun battalion, I estimate that the target chosen by Lin Dan Batur for the southern invasion is Jizhen here, after all, you have only taken over not long ago, and you are adjusting the deployment, the Chahar people must also have eyeliner here, so they naturally understand the situation."

Feng Ziying nodded calmly: "I also told the third brother last time, the Chahars have eyeliner on our side, then we can also use our caravan to spy on the Chahar side, if the Chahars are wary of us, we might as well use some of the relations between the Trans-Khalkha tribes and the Tumuts to find out the movements of the Chahars,......"

"Well, this matter has already been done, the Chahar people can't hide it if they want to move, tens of thousands of troops are going south, people eat horses, from troop affairs to logistics and supply, to how to coordinate, it's not that simple, Lin Dan Batur thinks these things too simply, thinking that he has suppressed the Khalkha tribes and the Korqin people, and thinks that our Great Zhou is also a soft persimmon?"

Although You Shigong's tone was cautious, he was full of confidence in his mentality.

"It's good that Brother You is sure, I have already sent a letter to my father about the Fire Gun Camp, and it is estimated that there will be a response soon, my father attaches great importance to the Fire Gun Camp, but the more attention you pay to it, the more you should let this army experience it, otherwise it will not be able to play at a critical moment, won't it become a joke? If you can't fight the Chahar people, how can you fight the Dongyu? ”

Feng Ziying's words made You Shigong also very happy.

If he can come to one or two camps to help, then his pressure will be much less, Taiping Road, Yanhe Road and Taitou Road are the ones that worry him the most, a little Chahar people break in, Qian'an, Funing and even Lulong will bear the brunt.

This area is also the current densely populated area of the entire Yongping Mansion, after the last time the Chahar invasion brought about by the looting has passed more than ten or twenty years, it is not easy to recover the vitality, if this happens again, history repeats itself, I am afraid that he, the general soldier of Jizhen Town, will not even sit on the butt and will be imprisoned.

"Ziying, thank you so much for the foolish brother, if you can come to the fire camp or two, the foolish brother will be at ease." You Shigong sighed, "I won't tell you, the thousand-mile defense line of Jizhen, if you want to say that you can completely prevent the Chahar people from breaking in, no one can do it, what we can do is to react in the shortest possible time when the Chahar people break in, block the opponent's southward passage, give the other party a heavy blow as much as possible, and force the other party to withdraw as soon as possible, of course, this heavy blow is best to give the other party a huge damage, so that the other party feels that the gains outweigh the losses,......

You Shigong's calmness made Feng Ziying very satisfied, the other party didn't hide anything, he also knew that from the west road of Shuntianfu to the east and east of Yongping Mansion, thousands of miles of side walls, countless paths, Chahar people can choose to break through at any time and anywhere, relying only on the little passes and beacons on the side wall, where can they resist?

It's nothing more than exchanging space for time, and quickly reacting on the second chain of defense to meet the enemy.

You Shigong should have been prepared for a long time when he said this, and if the Huogong Battalion could come, it would undoubtedly give it more room for adjustment and deployment.

"Brother You, if you say that, you will see the outside, not to mention that it is also helpless to resist the enemy inside, and my father must also know that the younger brother is just saying it truthfully." Feng Ziying smiled, "Besides, when the younger brother comes to the eldest brother, he really asks for the eldest brother." ”

You Shigong laughed, "The third child told me, the legacy of Xingzhou Youtunwei and Lu Longwei when they were abolished, right?" This is actually very simple, and now there are not many craftsmen left, I have already asked Xingzhou Youtunwei over there, but two or three hundred households, I will call the shots in this matter, and all the ,...... will be given to Yongping Mansion."

Feng Ziying seemed to be smiling, he knew that this Brother You was not a loyal and honest person, how could he be so straightforward and generous?

The problem left over from more than ten or twenty years ago, although the Ministry of War and Jizhen did have an agreement with Yongping Mansion at that time, and these craftsmen made up for the removal of Yongpingwei, but now people want to play tricks on you, this will be so generous, there are only two or three hundred households left, you must know that there were nearly a thousand craftsmen at the beginning.

"Brother You, I'm afraid there are more than two or three hundred households, right? In less than 20 years, as far as the younger brother knows, there are nearly 1,000 artisan households, how can they multiply in 20 years, according to the saying that there should be more than 1,000 households, why are there so many less? ”

Feng Ziying and You Shigong both began to enter the state, they used to talk about their feelings, but now they have to talk about business, and no one can easily give up their own interests.

"Hehe, Ziying, you don't know the situation below, you also know the situation of the craftsmen, there are more people fleeing every year than the homeless, and you can't prevent it, so you run away from the customs if you don't pay attention to it, like Guangning and Ningyuan, there are a lot of them, and the foolish brother is also worried about how to get these craftsmen back, but you also know that there are few people in Liaodong Town, and you want to get people back from them, how difficult is it,......"

You Shigong's flickering and prevarication made Feng Ziying speechless, and thought that the other party was Geng Zhiren, but now it seems that this Geng Zhiren does not exist in this world at all, at least don't think about it when you become the chief soldier of Jizhen.

"Brother You, you have also gone around in circles for your younger brother, two or three hundred households will definitely not work, you can tell the truth, this is the first time for your little brother, don't let your little brother be unable to go back to the errand." Feng Ziying also said with a smile.

"Ziying, foolish brother will tell the truth, there are only two or three hundred households, and many foolish brothers can't give it to you, Xingzhou Youtunwei is the most important armor, weapon and vehicle maintenance and production place in Jizhen Town, and it is very difficult for foolish brother to supply the logistics support of the entire east and middle roads such as Jianchang Battalion, Yanhe Battalion, Taitou Battalion, Shimenzhai Battalion, etc." You Shigong was also entangled: "If you give it to Yongping Mansion, the foolish brother in the military department can't make a difference." ”