Ouyang Shuo formed five brigades at one time, added 18 battalions, and recruited more than 9,000 soldiers, basically depleting all the reserve troops accumulated by the Military Affairs Department since the siege of the city. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Ouyang Shuo roughly calculated that this expansion of the army would cost 10,000 gold coins for the transfer fee alone. He's making money at a rate unimaginable to other lords, and he's spending money at a speed unimaginable to other lords.

When he first entered the game, 100 gold coins was a huge amount of money for Ouyang Shuo. It has only been less than a year, and the flow of funds he has handled is already based on thousands.

Because the size of the armed forces has swelled dramatically, the average combat effectiveness of the armed forces will inevitably decline. In addition, the supply of weapons and equipment has also begun to fail to keep up with the pace of military expansion.

According to the standards of the Shanhai County Army, it is no longer possible to achieve a 100% equipping rate of field army bows. The main battle weapon of the sword, shield and cavalry, the Tang knife, and the weapon workshop could not keep up with the progress.

The 3,000 green worm horses in captivity in the pasture west of the city have been exhausted, and they are still not enough to fit the Praetorian Guard Brigade and the Fourth Brigade of the First Division, and there is still a gap of 1,500 horses. As for the cavalry battalions of the three city guard brigades, it is even more distant if they want to be equipped with green worm horses.

A huge army is also a huge burden on the finances.

According to the previously formulated military salary standard, a battalion, calculated according to the average rank of non-commissioned soldiers, is 275 gold coins per month. And so on, a brigade is paid 1,375 gold coins per month; The monthly salary of a division is 8,250 gold coins, not including the salary of the brigade commander and the division commander. Among them, the military salary of officers accounts for 35%.

With such a huge military expenditure, Ouyang Shuo no longer easily withheld the profits handed over by the Wolf Mountain Mine and the Beidui Salt Farm, and all of them were directly allocated to the Finance Department except in special circumstances.

Therefore, now is the strongest period for the army of Shanhai County, and it is also the weakest period.

Military affairs are only a prelude to this military-political conference.

Ouyang Shuo looked around and said, "The pattern of the Hou Mansion was still set when it was a first-level county town, and it has been more than four months ago. With the increase in the number of administrative staff in various departments, the Mandarin House began to look a little crowded. ”

Therefore, Benhou decided to officially start the construction of the official office area on the west side of the Hou Mansion in accordance with the county plan. The standard is that each department should build a separate office compound, and each department should form a courtyard group. Including the current Military Affairs Bureau, all of them were relocated to the government office area. ”

"As for the Hou Mansion, the front yard has been transformed into a pure meeting hall, and in addition to the main meeting hall, two side halls are arranged on both sides. The main chamber was renamed the council hall, which was only used for monthly military and political meetings, and was usually held in the side hall. The offices in the front yard were all relocated to the Mandarin Academy. ”

The essence of the change in the pattern of the Hou Mansion is the change in the positioning of the Hou Mansion. After the construction of the official office area, the Hou Mansion will be quietly transformed from the territorial government affairs center to the highest power center. This also means that Ouyang Shuo officially delegated the territorial affairs at the division level, only grasped the supreme power, controlled the overall situation, and no longer cared about specific affairs.

Ouyang Shuo felt that the number of external affairs had begun to increase, and he no longer had much energy to deal with the specific and micro affairs of the territory, so he took the opportunity of the congestion of the Wenhua Academy to drastically transform the structure of the territory.

This transformation is not as clear and clear as the previous establishment of a certain department or a certain agency, but its influence is better than any previous adjustment of the political structure.

This kind of internal profound change, Fan Zhongyan and Tian Wenjing must have figured it out thoroughly, and Yingyu and Ge Hongliang should also have some clues. As for these directors, they are purely glad that they have an independent courtyard and do not have to work under the nose of the prince. can see the deep meaning, it is estimated that there are only Xu Shuda and Xu Zhenchang.

Fan Zhongyan and Tian Wenjing glanced at each other, and the meaning in their eyes was self-evident.

Ouyang Shuo didn't care about the thoughts of the people below, and continued: "As the affairs of the territory become more and more onerous, there are more and more official letters that need to be approved by Benhou, and it is difficult to rely on the clerk alone. To this end, Ben Hou decided to set up a secretariat to be responsible for handling official documents. The chief officer of the Secretariat's office is appointed as the secretary, who is the same as the director, and Pak Nampo serves as the secretary, and recruits four to five clerks to assist the secretary Lang in handling official letters. ”

"Xie Junhou promoted!" Pak Nampu finally got ahead and got a formal position.

Taking the opportunity of adjusting the secretariat, Ouyang Shuo announced the candidate for the director of the Construction Department to replace Zhao Dewang, who was Hao Jiancheng, who had been promoted to deputy director.

Ouyang Shuo originally planned to ask Sun Xiaoyue to take over the post of director of construction, but unfortunately Sun Xiaoyue's hobbies stopped at architectural design, and he had no interest in serving in administrative positions, so Ouyang Shuo could only give up.

After adjusting the territorial structure, Ouyang Shuo began to announce his territorial development plan: "It is gratifying to occupy five subsidiary territories at once. Next, it is how to make these five territories truly integrated into the Shanhai County system. There must be a priority and a priority for them. At present, the core is the construction of Tianfeng County. The strategic location of Tianfeng County is very important, and it cannot be overstated. The positioning of Tianfeng County should be raised to a higher standard, and it will be the central city of the future in the west. ”

"In order to support the construction of Tianfeng County, Ben Hou decided that all the captives who had been selected into the reserve of the Military Affairs Department to exterminate the bandits and bandits in the Evil Lion Ridge this time would be sent to Tianfeng County. What do you do with it? The time for farmland clearing and planting of the second rice crop has now been missed. The answer is to build walls. The existing city wall in Tianfeng County is too small in scale, and the number of people that can accommodate in the city is limited, which does not match its positioning. The outer city wall of Tianfeng County will be built according to the level of the county town, with a side length of 10 kilometers, a thickness of 30 meters, and a height of 10 meters. ”

The core task of Tianfeng County in the next half year is to complete the two mega infrastructure projects of the outer city wall and the official road. Ouyang Shuo sent Zhao Dewang to serve as the commander of Tianfeng County, which was based on such considerations.

Ouyang Shuo's idea was very simple, before the completion of Tianhai Road, outside the isolated territory of Tianfeng County, the Tiangao Emperor was far away, and there was no development at all.

Ouyang Shuo simply did the opposite, first building the city wall, and then carrying out territorial development and construction.

"In addition to Tianfeng County, the second priority for development is Gushan Town. Gushan Town is close to the mountain barbarian tribes in the central region, and the geographical location is also superior. Ben Hou decided to move all the residents of Gushan Town to Yishui Town in the north, and then guide the Shanban tribe down the mountain to build Gushan Town into a Shanman autonomous town. Speaking of this, Ouyang Shuo turned his head to look at Tian Wenjing, "Yangon, the construction of Gushan Town, I will entrust you with full authority to take the lead." ”

"Whoa!" Tian Wenjing nodded in response.

Compared with the Shanban settlements built in Xishui County, Gushan Town has its inherent advantages, its infrastructure is very perfect, there is no need for repeated construction, and it can accommodate more than ten or twenty Shanban tribes at the same time.

Gushan Town originally had contact with the mountain barbarian tribe, and the persuasion work should be much easier.

The only regret is that the second season of rice sowing has been missed, and after the mountain man descends the mountain, most of the rations for half a year need free assistance from Shanhai County, which is a lot of investment.

Reluctant to let the child trap the wolf, Ouyang Shuo still understands this truth.

After the aborigines of Gushan Town moved to Yishui Town, it can promote the development of Yishui Town, and it is expected that Yishui Town will be promoted to Yishui County. Before taking the easternmost Broken Blade Town, Yishui Town was the bridgehead of Shanhai County in the east, and there was no room for error.

Therefore, after starting the construction of Tianhai Road, Ouyang Shuo urged Yushui County to activate the official road between Lushui County and Yishui Town, including the official road together with Gushan Town.

Since the mountain barbarians who go down the mountain cannot be cultivated for the time being, it is undoubtedly the best choice to requisition it to build official roads, so as not to cause a waste of labor.

As for the task of sweeping away the rogues along the official road, it was naturally handed over to the camp in the east of the city to complete.

Ouyang Shuo finished explaining the half-year plan for the five affiliated territories in a few words, and pointed out the direction for the next work of the departments and departments of the base camp.

After the rapid expansion of the territory, another problem in Shanhai County was also exposed, that is, the extreme shortage of talents. The five subsidiary territories occupied are far from Shanhai Town in terms of talent reserves compared to Shanhai Town in the same period. The base camp of Shanhai County had to transfer a large number of grassroots government personnel to enrich the subordinate territory.

As a result, there is a shortage of talent in the base camp itself.

If it was just a shortage of grassroots government personnel, Ouyang Shuo would not be too nervous. After all, there is a Southwest University Hall, and after a little training, you can take up your post.

The crux of the problem is that in the current government affairs system of Shanhai County, there is a lack of talents who are in charge of their own affairs. Except for Fan Zhongyan and Tian Wenjing, there are no high-ranking officials who can handle it.

This is what Ouyang Shuo is worried about, the five subordinate territory lords are all barely strong, more than enough, and not enough to develop, so they can't reassure Ouyang Shuo at all.

Talent has become the main obstacle restricting the rapid development of Shanhai County.

The Southwest University Hall is taking a long-term plan, and the Shanhai County Office set up in the Wangcheng of the system is fighting a protracted war, and it cannot achieve immediate results for a while.

Historical talents are so rare. In the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods that have been unlocked now, there are not many famous ministers who can go down in history. The only thing that worried Ouyang Shuo was Yi Yin in the early Shang Dynasty.

It's a pity that the Battle of Makino has been over for a month and a half, and no one has found any trace of Yi Yin so far.

It is said that Shanhai County still has an advantage in attracting famous ministers of the Shang Dynasty, not only has the general at the end of the Shang Dynasty, but also has the Shang Ding presented by the Shang King Emperor Xin, and the relationship with the Shang Dynasty can be called close.

In addition, the architectural characteristics of Mazu Temple, Zhaoxian Hall and Yellow Emperor Temple have greatly enhanced the popularity of Shanhai County, so Shanhai County has a great advantage in attracting historical figures.

Even so, so far nothing has been found, in vain! (To be continued.) )