Although Huan Yi has no experience in the ruling party, he has walked in front of the Hebei Formation in the past few months, and he has also read some letters and codexes of the first arrival of the Pavilion, which have a lot of experience, so he is not afraid of the situation he will face next.

On the political side, especially in places like Quzhou, where the system is barren and still in wartime, there is actually no fixed law, and each has its own subtlety and varies from person to person. But there are also things that do not deviate from their origins, one is in money and food, and the other is in people, as long as these two can be controlled, no matter how complicated the situation is, it will not be too out of control.

In terms of people, Jin Xuangong has helped lay a foundation, and the reorganization of household registration has been preliminarily completed. Of course, this result is certainly not the final result, there are still a large number of dead people scattered in the suburbs, and effective integration has not yet been carried out, not to mention that Xingtai also has requirements for a county's population, and if the number of households is less than 3,000, it will not become a county.

Therefore, if Huan Yi wants to retain the governance of Quzhou County instead of a temporary structure, he must also find a way in terms of population. He was new to the city, and this kind of thing definitely needed to rely on the help of the locals.

So after dinner, Huan Yi was not in a hurry to rest, and summoned several county officials appointed by Jin Xuangong to learn more about the details of county affairs.

Jin Xuangong appointed a total of five county officials, and except for one who happened to be sick, the other four all came. What's more interesting is that these five temporarily appointed county officials are all surnamed Pan, not only that, but Shicai Huan Yi looked through the registration books sent by Jin Xuangong and found that most of these registered villagers were surnamed Pan, and it was obvious that this Pan family should be a big family in the county.

This phenomenon is a very normal thing in Hebei, where large ethnic groups live together, with a population of thousands or even tens of thousands, and the scale of the township is far greater than that of Jiangdong. Compared with the real wealthy families such as the Xue clan in Hedong Fenyin or the Zhang clan in Dongwu City, the Pan clan of Qu Zhou is not worth mentioning.

Several Pan's county officials entered, although they were surprised by the youth of this county lieutenant, but they did not dare to be rude, and their performance was also a little restrained, and it was difficult to say a word.

"From now on, I will work with you to guard the countryside and abide by the decree of the station, so that there will be no more disasters in the county to disturb the people."

Huan Yi motioned for a few people to sit down, chatting as if they were ordinary and asking about some things and people, and from time to time he picked up a pen and marked it on the paper. Seeing that the young county lieutenant appointed by Xingtai was not arrogant, the restrained posture of those people gradually subsided, and their speech became fluent.

Through the conversation, Huan Yi learned more about the situation in the county.

Although Quzhou is not a thoroughfare, it is located in the heart of Jizhou, and it was quite large-scale in the old years. The county originally had Pan, Zheng, Meng and other large groups inhabited, last year the lord Shihu moved the capital, and ordered the counties to follow the large groups, so seven or eight out of ten villagers in the county were killed or expelled or plundered to the north, leaving only some remote suburbs wild people.

As for the households that remain in the county at present, they should also need to move to Xindu, but when they were driven from their respective villages to the county seat, there was no follow-up. This is not surprising, the countryside of Hebei has long been out of control, and the means of maintaining the system of governance under the state of Qian are nothing more than strong soldiers, and the military orders are already chaotic, and it is not surprising that a group of villagers are lost in the opposition.

What's more, Wang Shi went north in May, which naturally made the internal turmoil of the kingdom even more chaotic.

According to the accounts of these county officials surnamed Pan, after the country forgot about them, they were also at a loss and didn't know where to go. The original cottages and villages have been destroyed, and there is little livelihood to return home, but it is much safer for a group of people to gather together, at least they will not be easily harassed by thieves.

Originally, there were thousands of households gathered in the county, but the materials and grain were taken away by the army, and under the difficulty, friction was inevitable, and there were several vicious fights in the middle, which were naturally based on the surname. In the end, the people surnamed Pan won, and the villagers with other surnames were unable to gain a foothold, so they were expelled from the city, because the county town of Quzhou became the land of the Pan clan.

This situation continued until the Wang Shi forward arrived here, and the villagers of the Pan clan naturally did not dare to resist stubbornly and obediently sacrificed the city.

After understanding these situations, Huan Yi lowered his head and groaned. Qu Zhou's situation is also good and bad for him, almost all the big families and villagers have been taken away by the Qianguo, and there is almost no rural situation, it seems that the surname Pan is big in the city, but in fact, even these county officials surnamed Pan, Huan Yi can see that they are not very familiar with each other.

The absence of the existence of the countryside means that he has no constraints at all, and he is also unable to borrow strength. Of course, there are still Kim Hyun Gong's troops in the city right now, but maybe they will have to leave one day when the order is issued. Therefore, the top priority at the moment is first of all to organize the township righteous regiment training belonging to the county office itself, although it cannot be defeated by the soldiers, but at least it is necessary to prevent thieves and suppress the mob.

Huan Yi did not intend to remove these county officials, and it could be seen that Jin Xuangong chose to choose Kong Wu, give them a bite of food to appease, and avoid inciting public riots.

What was more surprising was that one of them was literate, and Huan Yidang even elected this person as the head of the official, and instructed him to inform the villagers to assemble outside the county office tomorrow morning, focusing on taking care of the rice.

The county official named Pan Jia was ordered to be diligently, and the other Pan county officials couldn't help but show envy on their faces, they may not know what this appointment meant, but the young county lieutenant appreciated Pan Jia even more, which was obvious at a glance.

There was nothing to say all night, and before dawn the next day, Huan Yi was woken up by the chaotic noise outside the county office, and when he learned that all the villagers had arrived, he lost his sleepiness and got up directly to wash.

The so-called county office, but the city is still well preserved a house, in addition to the basic living, there are chicken coops, kennels, vegetable gardens and the like in the yard, the so-called big households are only relatively speaking, born in such a world, everything has to revolve around survival, how can there be any leisure to raise.

The villagers responded enthusiastically to the decree of the new county lieutenant, and it was undecided whether they would welcome a bite of food. Most of the villagers who were abandoned by the state of Qian were extremely poor, and the township fought in the early days to occupy the county seat, and only planted a season of woad and miscellaneous grains in the city, and then Quzhou became the front line of the war between the two countries, and they did not dare to leave the city to forage in the suburbs.

Jin Xuangong also knew that Huan Yi's new official would definitely take action when he took office, so he sent soldiers to maintain order early in the morning, although the villagers were hungry and thirsty, but they didn't dare to be presumptuous when they saw those soldiers who were cold in armor and did not smile. Only a few hungry urchins leaned up to the wall and looked in, worried that the county lieutenant would not be able to speak.

"There's Brother Lao Xuangong."

Huan Yi changed into a new official robe that had been stacked in his suit, and thanked Jin Xuangong, who had already arrived, and ordered someone to open the door of the official office and invite Jin Xuangong to sit in the hall together.

"Make the king, make the king ......"

The head of the official, Pan Jia, trembled and walked into the court with trepidation, but the title made Huan Yi feel embarrassed, and he was ordered not to call him casually, just call him an official.

He instructed Na Pan Jia to first select a few diligent pawns to clean up the messy racks in the yard, he came to govern the people for the officials, but not to raise chickens and dogs.

After the courtyard was cleaned up, it was already three poles in the day, and the villagers outside the door were hungry and shouted, and even Wang Shizhuang gradually couldn't suppress the crowd's feelings, and at this time Huan Yi announced the start of the selection of the township.

Although there are many people who come, almost occupying several lanes around them, there are not many real strong soldiers, mainly old and weak women and children, purely to mix a bite of food, but refuse to come out.

To deal with this kind of little cunning, Huan Yi also has his own skills, and he does manage the rice, several huge bamboo barrels have been placed under the corridor of the main hall of the county office, and there is boiling hot inside, and a few big stoves are still cooking vegetable soup in the back house of the county office. Huan Yi only took office, and Wang Shi also gave 200 Hu rations to support, which was directly paid by Jin Xuangong's garrison.

The military rations of the Wang Division are quite distinctive, and they vary from place to place. The Yanzhou army grinds wheat and soybean into powder, sprinkles salt and bakes, stirs the broth, mixes minced meat and vegetables, and then dries the water and hammers it into bricks. If it can be stored for a long time, and it is convenient to transport, a grain brick can be used for a soldier for three days, and it is also convenient to eat, and the handle of the knife can be mashed with boiling water.

Huan Yi and Jin Xuangong dined in the main hall, and they ate this kind of military food soup, and they couldn't help but talk about the differences in military rations in various places: "A few years ago, the engineering institute had a wonderful method, the skin bag contained the pork and mutton soup, the cauldron was boiled violently, the miscellaneous gas in the bag was drained, the oven was baked in the shade, hard as a leather, and it did not rot in three months after storage, and it was cut and eaten as you go, and the soft fragrance in the bag still existed......"

Speaking of the logistics of the king division, especially the supply of rations, Jin Xuangong couldn't help but be amazed. In the old years, he was in the countryside of Liaodong, how could there be so many ingenious rations to eat, and it was common to kill horses and eat during military emergencies. The high morale of the king is also closely related to the superiority of this aspect.

If a villager wants to receive food, he must have a household to enter and then feed from each household. Then there was a series of shouts outside the door, and it was not until noon that the selection officially began.

The selection criteria are also very simple, first of all, the physique is mighty, the appearance is good, holding the stone pier, pulling the string and opening the bow. The villagers of Quzhou are not the most miserable group of people, this situation is the heart of the country in the old years, and before the lord moves the capital, it can also ensure a certain degree of stability, because it is quickly selected nearly 300 candidates.

Anyone who participates in the selection can get a bite to eat, and those who join the selection are more generous. Huan Yi originally planned to select a few literate villagers as scribes to cultivate, but unfortunately, in addition to the official head Pan Jia, only a white-haired old man could barely recognize a dozen words, so he simply adopted the old man together.

I don't know that salt and rice are expensive, and this half-day noise alone consumes more than 40 yuan of rations, but I finally organized a team of township volunteers.

There are nearly 300 villagers, and Huan Yi selected more than 80 people among them, which can be regarded as formal members of the regimental training, and there are actually more than 20 hunters who practice archery, and Jin Xuangong generously supported ten bows and hundreds of waste arrows.

Although they are all on the front line at the moment, they belong to different parts of the country, and they cannot be used in terms of special assets, and there will be a big problem once they are found out by the military justice camp.

But it is not without flexibility, in addition to the more than ten regiments of the Bai training villagers, the rest of the township Yi was incorporated into the household by Huan Yi, and assigned them some military affairs, such as feeding horses, rebuilding weapons, repairing camps, etc., in exchange for work.

After that, Huan Yi began to really sort out the county affairs, the city of Quzhou is not large, the so-called city wall is only an adobe wall less than half a zhang high, and there is no strict division between the inside and outside of the city.

The villagers themselves have no assets, and the houses they live in are all seized by the township fighting earlier, among which the northeast of the city has been requisitioned by the garrison of Wang Shi, and the rest of the places Huan Yi has not made adjustments, but only announced the beginning of the curfew, and all kinds of order have been ordered to be maintained by the township righteous group training.

The so-called broken family is worth a lot of money, and the villagers are already so poor that they have almost nothing, and if they fight their meager family wealth again, it will force people to go crazy. If you want to make people obey the law, you have to consolidate it with interests in addition to the authority.

Huan Yi also lacked capital at the moment, so he simply took out the remaining rations supported by Wang Shi, stuffed weeds under hundreds of military rations, and loaded more than a dozen board carts around the city and transported them into the county office, so that the villagers could see that there was grain in the warehouse, and they would not panic, and they could eat with the county lieutenant.

After that, Huan Yi organized manpower to set fire to the surrounding areas of the county and near the hills and forts, opening up dozens of hectares of barren land. Although it is now late autumn and the cold winter is approaching, it is difficult to reclaim the land, but the acres of land mean hope, and these actions also give the villagers a faint hope for the future.

The barren land was opened up, but it could not be divided equally according to households, and the first thing was to satisfy the township and the county officials. Although they are still hungry in their stomachs, they have fields under their household registration, which also gives these villagers and officials a preliminary sense of identity with the so-called county office.

These chores are all done easily, and Huan Yi's most important task is actually to sweep away the evil hidden in the villagers.

Quzhou is only a few dozen miles away from Shangbai, and the army is riding, once you really want to attack Quzhou City, you can reach it in half a day. There are only a thousand defenders in Jin Xuangong City, even if you add the reinforcements who came with Huan Yi, it is far less than 2,000 people, and most of them are foot soldiers, the city is narrow, and there is really a vicious battle, but in fact, it can't be defended.

The reason why the army left Quzhou City not to attack, in fact, it was mainly greedy for the logistical supply of the royal division along the way. As long as there was a garrison in Quzhou, Wang Shi had to provide a steady stream of supplies, which provided an opportunity for the Qian army to plunder.

Previously, the general Hurun was greedy for merit, but after capturing Quzhou, he was weak under the suppression of the cavalry of the Qiang army, and the king of Quzhou was also in a dilemma, even if he knew what the idea of the Qiang army was fighting, he had to continue to maintain transportation, and there was a sense of shame of spending money to buy peace.

Although Jin Xuangong has not been a newcomer for a long time, he is also ashamed to talk about these situations.

"The army threatened the lives of thousands of people in the city, forcing the governor to repeatedly throw food. And as soon as our army showed signs of retreating, the army surged and forced me to return to the city. The former master of Zhou was fighting the way to break through and retreat without ......"

Wang Shi has an advantage in the overall situation, but it does not help to reverse the disadvantage in this specific battle situation. The Yanzhou army was short of mobility earlier, and even if it came to help in a big way, it would definitely be a foot soldier, and probably the Baizhou army also hoped that Wang Shi could reinforce it in a big way, and then attack it with its ranger advantage.

In this case, Hurun doesn't have a very good way to do it. And Huan Yi's arrival is to make up for Wang Shi's current incalmness.

Qu Zhouzuo is not only full of Ranger scouts from the Qiang Kingdom, but also has eyes and ears in the countryside, and it is difficult to hide any big moves from Wang Shi. If it weren't for the fear that too much coercion would make Wang Shi simply give up Qu Zhou, I was afraid that even a baggage team would not be able to transport it. As for sending the Quzhou garrison to sweep the surrounding area, it will inevitably be sniped by the rangers of the Qiang Kingdom.

"In order to ensure the clarity of the eyes and ears in this place, the army did not kill indiscriminately in the villagers. Using the township to spy on the surrounding area and sweep away the evil spirits, although it is helpless, it should also be able to achieve a few results. ”

At present, the military strength of the Yanping battalion has been replenished, and it has at least 5,000 elite cavalry mobile forces, of which more than 3,000 cavalry are already gradually replenishing some battalions in the rear of Quzhou, and have begun to prepare for a counterattack.

But the current situation is that due to the suppression in the early stage, Wang Shi is not clear about the infiltration of the Upper Baiqi Army into Guangping and the distribution of troops. Especially in Quzhou, the front-line city, since entering the country, Wang Shi has been hard suppressed in the city, and it can be said that after leaving the county seat, he is deaf and blind.

If the Qiang army has insight into the fact that Wang Shi already has the ability to fight back, then the existence of Qu Zhou's bait is not significant, and the Qiang army will definitely eradicate it as soon as possible. Therefore, even in order to save themselves, it is imperative to understand the situation of the enemy around Quzhou.

However, both Huan Yi and Kim Hyun Gong are young Junyan with lofty aspirations, and they will naturally not be satisfied with just being able to protect themselves in the later counterattack. Quzhou is very close to Shangbai, if you can reverse infiltrate and directly understand the situation of Shangbai, the base camp of the Qianjun army, then you can live up to the torture and depression suffered in Quzhou during this time.

In order to do this, it is important to inquire about the channels through which the army obtains information. Although the Qiang army has its own ears and eyes scouts, but if you want to control Qu Si Bian without leaking, especially to master the logistics and transportation routes, it is difficult to do it by scout patrols alone, unless the Jin army is so large that thousands of horsemen are laid around Quzhou, so there must be its ears and eyes around the countryside.

Every once in a while, the Qiang army would go to Quzhou City to show off their might, not only to undermine the morale of the Wangshi garrison, but also to break the hearts of the villagers, and instill in them the erroneous understanding that the southerners were weak and the Qiang army was strong.

At present, Huan Yi has a small team of villagers in his hands, and in order to encourage them to go out to visit the surrounding villages, Huan Yi is also doing everything he can, promising benefits and giving orders.

Compared with the neatly dressed soldiers of the king, these ragged and vegetable-faced villagers are more hidden. Even if the scouts found them, they would not chase them down.

Of course, there are dangers when you go out of the city, not only the scouts, but also the vicious bandits and wolves and beasts. It took a lot of effort for Huan Yi to organize the township to go out of the city to inspect once, and this time more than 30 people went out of the city, but less than 20 finally returned.

In addition to their own skills, the selection of township righteousness also has a complete range of doors for the old and young, which minimizes the possibility of them escaping. Nearly half of the losses are indeed distressing, and it is uncertain whether they escaped or were victimized by fierce beasts or evil spirits.

In order to maintain the enthusiasm of the villagers, Huan Yi naturally wanted to improve the various treatments of these villagers' group exercises, not only the preferential treatment of food, but also the proper arrangements for those who were lost in the wilderness, no matter what the reason, their families, wives and children.

Human life is precious but not valuable, and these villagers born in troubled times have even less expectations for life, and seeing that this is the case, some people are eager to participate in it.

If so, there will naturally be gains, these villagers are originally gathered from the surrounding suburbs, and their familiarity with the realm is far from being comparable to that of the king's soldiers who have crossed the strong dragon. Soon, the location of several livelihood strongholds in the suburbs outside Quzhou City was found out.

At the same time as Huan Yi organized the investigation, Jin Xuangong did not sit idle, and suggested to the surrounding strongholds that the transportation of supplies should maintain the frequency of less transportation and more delivery, choose different directions for transportation, and roughly lock the direction of the eyes and ears of the Qian army through the number of times the baggage was lost.

For example, after more than ten days of careful testing, with the cooperation of the logistics team, coupled with the investigation of Quzhou Xiangyi, it really locked the eyes and ears of a few soldiers placed in the suburbs.