/ Duan Dagongzi's expression couldn't help but stiffen, looking at the two boxes that bent the flat burden, he was extremely heartbroken. "These?"

"Yes, both." Chen Lushi nodded with great certainty, and said with a businesslike face: "Since you have taken over Changshi, then the next official will leave first." ”

"Eh, don't leave yet, who is that, you carry these two boxes of things in for me first, and Chen Lushi, didn't His Highness say that he would send me a helper, people?" Duan Shaojun hurriedly stopped Chen Lushi and asked.

"Oh, Xu Changshi will be here in a while, please wait for Duan Changshi with peace of mind." Chen Lushi patted his head, and then thought of another thing.

"Xu Changshi? What is that guy doing here? Duan Shaojun couldn't help but be stunned, didn't Xu Shizong's goods return to Beijing yet, but instead rushed to this place to serve Li Youwen?

Chen Lu was stunned for a moment, and glanced at Duan Shaojun, the Shangguan, with some confusion. "Changshi, do you know Xu Changshi?"

"What's the matter, isn't that Xu Shizong Xu Changshi of the Jin Palace?" Duan Dagongzi was instantly confused

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"Changshi, you are talking about Xu Changshi of the Jin Palace, and the Xu Changshi that the lower official is talking about is Xu Changshi of the Xu Right Army of the Zhaoyang Princess Mansion, and he is not a person at all." Chen Lushi grinned, coughed dryly, and explained helplessly.

Only then did Duan Shaojun understand that he had the same surname and the same position, but these two people belonged to the eight-pole and couldn't fight each other. Saying goodbye to this subordinate stupidly, Duan Dagongzi rushed back to the camp tent, and saw Qi Da opening the box, and took out an old booklet from the box, and even the pages had been yellowed and placed on the desk.

After a while, the book that Qi Da took out built a mountain of books about two feet high on the desk, Duan Dagongzi's scalp was numb and he hurriedly stopped, walked to the front, opened a book at random and glanced at it a few times, and couldn't help but shake his head, this is the household book of one of the counties in Yunzhou, and it was recorded fifty years ago.

When he turned to the last page, Duan Shaojun was stunned to find that the county was destroyed in the war because of the war, and finally abolished the county system.

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Seeing this account book, Duan Shaojun's heart was unprecedentedly heavy, and it can even be said that the county, which had thousands of households at the time of the initial record, only took less than fifty years to become a pile of paper that could only be found.

The people who originally lived there have either left their hometowns, or have disappeared with the county, buried deep in the loess, or even died under the soldiers, or were taken to the grassland by the Khihu people, and have already died in a foreign land.

This is just one of the counties in Yunzhou, there are five counties and eighteen counties in Yunzhou, who dares to say that the situation of other counties can be much better than this county that has disappeared?

Seeing Duan Shaojun's face so heavy, Qi Da couldn't help but relax the movements in his hand, and quietly glanced at the book in Duan Shaojun's hand a few times.

"Let's take a look." Duan Shaojun handed the household book to Qi Da with some embarrassment, and Qi Da only glanced at it a few times, and his face suddenly fell, one county, thousands of households, it was over, which made Qi Da, who was a member of the Tang Army, feel like a knife in his heart.

"I really didn't expect that Yunzhou would be so desolate...... Qi Da carefully put the household book back on the desk, as if holding a handful of ashes, both sad and heavy.

At this time, Xu Youjun and Xu Changshi finally came to Duan Shaojun's account. This Xu Changshi is a talent, about forty years old, it is when he is in the prime of life, after seeing Duan Shaojun, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute. "Xia Guan has seen Duan Beijia."

Duan Dagongzi has always respected me, I respect people, seeing that this Xu Changshi is so sensible, he naturally didn't bother to be hypocritical, and invited this buddy to sit down after returning the salute.

"Xu Changshi, don't be like this, my don't drive is just a temporary position given by Her Royal Highness the Princess, maybe as soon as the court's will comes, it will be withdrawn, and it should not be allowed, but you are a long history, and I am also a long history, so we don't have to see outsiders like this......"

Xu Changshi is also a happy person, and he has already learned from Li Youwen what kind of person Duan Shaojun is, so he naturally understands how to get along with Duan Dagongzi.

One was in a happy mood, the other was deliberately flattering, and he didn't work hard, and he was already called a good brother, but soon, when the attention of the two was focused on those account books, their faces were equally bitter and depressed.

"Brother Xian, this job is really not easy to do, our Yunzhou, although it is said that it is much better now than in the past, but the problem is that decades of military disasters have already made Yunzhou unprosperous, the population is withered, and the entire Yunzhou is combined, and the people are only 150,000 people......" Xu Youjun gestured and said with a wry smile

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Duan Shaojun couldn't help but gasp. "No, how can there be 40,000 people in this Yunzhou City alone, how can there be only 110,000 people in the remaining five counties and eighteen counties of Yunzhou?"

"The so-called counties and counties do have so many establishments, but the problem is that just like the county that was abolished before, mainly because its county seat has been burned to white land, it was only abolished, but there are still some places, such as Fuyuan County, which is one hundred and fifty miles north of Yunzhou, has three counties under its jurisdiction, but together with the county governance, the population is only more than 18,000, and the smallest Pingyun County, there are less than 5,000 people in the county......

Duan Shaojun pursed his lips, what the hell is this county? In later generations, a slightly larger natural village probably had more than that. And a county, with a population of less than 20,000 people, is not even a fucking town.

Think about Lanting County in the south of the Yangtze River, there are 70,000 or 80,000 people in a county, even if it is a surrounding county, the population of 10,000 or 20,000 is very ordinary, compared with this side, it is really a big difference.

But when he thought that this was a border place, after a long war, all of Duan Shaojun's emotions could only be swallowed back into his stomach.

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In the afternoon, Xu Changshi led the way and led Duan Shaojun into Yunzhou City, Yunzhou City was much more lively than when Duan Shaojun entered the city at the beginning, of course, if it was compared with Jiangnan Town, it was still not on the same level.

But at least, there is more vitality than in Yunzhou in the past, the merchants who come and go, and those who are of different races are communicating in Mandarin like sandwich rice, and the people in the city are also more means to make money in addition to farming, that is, to work hard for the merchants.

However, compared to the number of merchants, there are too few people who can get a job, and they often fight for the strength of carrying a bag, and even seven or eight strong men in border towns have to fight.

Seeing such a scene, Duan Shaojun could only secretly remember all this in his heart first, the country is not rich without industry and commerce, this sentence is very reasonable no matter what era it is placed in.

"By the way, Brother Xu, what kind of person is that Chen Tingshi, please tell me about it, save a while, between the words and deeds of the younger brother, offend people, it will not be good."

"Chen Tingshi, this person, is an old oilman in officialdom, and he laughs at everyone when he sees him, but in fact, this old guy is quite skillful as an official, and the heads and brains of the five counties and eighteen counties let him clean up well, but this old guy has a hand in being an official, but in terms of governance, ......" Speaking of this, Xu Changshi shook his head contemptuously and did not continue.

However, Duan Shaojun naturally heard the meaning of Xu Changshi's words, which was the same as what Li Youwen said. It shows that this Chen Tingshi is an old official, but when he handles government affairs, he has not taken a hand at all, no wonder he will be disgusted by Li Youwen, who is dedicated to serving the country and the people.

In the end, the mounts of the two stopped in front of the Yunzhou Thorn Shi Yamen, and naturally someone knew Xu Changshi, the chief butler of Princess Zhaoyang's Mansion, and the porter came over to lead the horse with a smile on his face.

"Dare to ask Chen Tingshi if he can be in the Yazhong?" Xu Changshi was not polite, threw the reins and horsewhip to one of the porters and asked.

"I'm afraid that this son Chen Tingshi should be taking a lunch break in the back office, if you want to see it, the little one will go and report to you now." The porter replied.

"That's okay, just bother this little brother, you go and talk about it, and say that Xu and Zuo Yu Lin Wei Duan Changshi are visiting together." Xu Changshi nodded and commanded the man.

Duan Shaojun followed Xu Youjun into the Yamen of the Assassin History, although it was the Yamen of the Prefecture Assassin History, it was actually not much more spacious than the county Yamen in the south of the Yangtze River.