Chapter 10 Possessed by Wen Chou
After everyone in the hall dispersed that day, the entire Gaoyi County entered a rapid operation. Although the cooperation between them would not be very tacit, there would be mistakes, I believe that they would become more and more comfortable with the work at hand as time goes by.
Furthermore, at the beginning, people from Gaoyi County and Shahe Township were somewhat awkward, but after seven or eight days of cooperation and living together, everyone quickly adapted to each other. The people who came with Wen Chou also officially gained a foothold in Gaoyi County.
In the fifth year of Zhongping, April 20th, the weather is clear and the spring breeze is shaking the world.
If we included the agency period in March before, this was the second month when Wen Chou took charge of Gaoyi County. During this period, Gaoyi County was managed in an orderly manner. Not to mention the post-war Guizhou comfort, wheat harvesting, and corn sowing, the matters going very smoothly.
First of all, it is not difficult to support the appeasement work of Qianshou in Gaoyi County. With the tens of millions of wealth brought by Wen Chou from Shahe Township and the tens of thousands of stones of grain transported there one after another, it is naturally not difficult, but it cannot be handed over to these Qianshou's hands free of charge. Every household and every family still have to force the army to join the army.
——Because Gaoyi County has experienced battle formations, there are only 30,000 to 40,000 Guizhou heads, most of whom are old, weak, sick and disabled. If you really can get the strength of Wen Chou, then only 30,000 people! Most of them are not very interested in joining the army, so there is such a regulation.
Since we do not want Gaoyi County to be in trouble with the enemy, then strong military construction is necessary. Even though Gaoyi County’s strong quality is not very high, Wen Chou still decided to arm them, at least it is good to be a county soldier who has more than enough guards. Then we draw excellent and strong people from it to form a strong brigade like Taolinsai soldiers, and use it to conquer the enemy. Isn’t that great?
After two months of comfort and selection, the Qianshou, which was originally living in Gaoyi County, has basically returned to the place where they lived before the war. Whether it is the Jihe River, Daying and Guishou, which was previously moved by Wen Chou to Shahe Township, or the Qianshou in Daying Township, being defeated and fled, fled, scattered in the countryside, or the Gaoyi County households who were hidden in the mountains earlier, they have already made arrangements for a new group of county officials such as Wen Chou, Cheng Qi, Liu Zhong, Lu Liang and others to strive to stabilize in Gaoyi County.
These people established two township systems again, to be precise, the two township systems were restored. Because several township systems were abandoned in Gaoyi County because they avoided the invasion of the Black Mountain bandits, and only the two townships were left. At this point, there was no threat from Black Mountain bandits, so some of the Qianshou was willing to return to their homes. In this case, Wen Chou approved the establishment of the two townships and reported it to the counties and states.
At this point, Gaoyi County has 3,000 households, 20,000 households, and 4,000 strong people in one county; more than 4,500 households, more than 30,000 households, 5,000 strong people in four townships, 5,000 strong people, and 6,000 strong people. Of course, this strong person refers to adult men in a broad sense. If you plan further, there will be only three or four thousand young people. That is, those who Wen Chou has drawn into the army.
One of the townships was specially designed for more than 10,000 thieves who turned into prisoners of Qi from Gaoyi County. Now they have moved from Shahe Township and have gained a good harvest for a season. They did not delay the farming season in Gaoyi County. Although they have complained about Wen Chou's move from Shahe Township, there is no major chaos, because they have seen hope under Wen Chou's rule.
When it comes to the good harvest of Shahe Township, it is necessary to talk about the current situation of Shahe Township.
Shahe Township was originally a town under Pingji County, with a total of 30,000 Guizhou heads and about 50,000 households! However, due to Wen Chou, there were Jie Wang Chong and other township officials in Shahe Township. They did not report the harvest and current situation to Pingji County as soon as possible, but chose to send people to ask about Wen Chou's meaning! This is a bit interesting.
Not to mention that Wen Chou has been transferred to the township, he is not an official in Pingji County, and as a county magistrate of Gaoyi County, it is not easy to interfere in Pingji County's affairs! But Wang Chong first sent someone to report.
First, it shows Wang Chong's respect and gratitude to Wen Chou, second, it shows that Wen Chou's influence on Shahe Township will not be eliminated in a short time, third, it shows that Wen Chou has a deep understanding of Wang Chong with the order of Shahe Township, and fourth, it shows that the lower ruling class of the Han Empire no longer has the deterrent power of the Han Dynasty.
Wen Chou was very satisfied with Wang Chong's behavior, so that he could indirectly take charge of Shahe Township. Wang Chong was just an agent of Shahe Township. The same situation was also reflected in Jiang Xuan of Taolinsai. Wen Chou would not let go of the base camp he had built for a year, the basic Qianshou Community, so Wen Chou was appointed and transferred when he left Shahe Township and was appointed as the Taolin Captain.
As for now, Wen Chou's vision is still unique. At least these two places have not completely separated from his palms. This is also the condition for Wen Chou to take office for some Shahe Township people. It is just that what he said and done is very obscure. After all, the current empire is still quite influential, and Wen Chou will not take the blame for the world.
After hearing the report of the person sent by Wang Chong, Wen Chou issued a rather concealed report plan to reduce the discretion. First, he then implemented his policy of hiding wealth for the people during his tenure, second, to achieve the goal of hiding his own strength, and third, to show a little bit of development under the rule of the village.
This is very easy for Wang Chong, because thanks to the implementation of a series of policies in Wen Chou last year, Shahe Township has changed a lot now, not only with a rich population, but also with wealthy families.
Each family does not have a surplus of 10,000 yuan, so I feel embarrassed to say that they are Shahe villagers. Besides, when it comes to wheat harvest, don’t that family have a 400-500-stone harvest? The total output of more than 600,000 mu of land in Shahe Township is about 2.5 million stones! The average yield per mu is about four stones! This is a high yield, especially in this famine year when production is generally reduced in Jizhou, which is even more valuable.
This is due to the four-season canal excavated by Wen Chou before the New Year. This also shows Wen Chou's far-sighted vision. According to Wen Chou's idea, the harvest of this season should be better, reaching three million stones is no problem, but it will not go as expected.
But this is also the limit that Shahe Township can reach at present. Although through Wen Chou’s advice, the farming tools and farming in the village are more refined and efficient, the yield that can be increased by careful cultivation is also limited. At present, farmers in Shahe Township have reached the extreme.
One quarter of the 2.5 million stones of grain were collected by the village to supply the Taolinsai army. This was decided by Wen Chou when he was in office. Then the village invested a quarter to purchase it as the grain reserve for the village in case of emergency. This was what Wen Chou told the rank of Wang Chong and the leader of the caravan Chen Ming when he left office. It was Wen Chou as the reserve material for the army training. The remaining grain was preserved by the Guizhou head of the village and as private property. Of course, it is not ruled out that in extraordinary times, Wen Chou would be forced to requisition.
At this point, all the grain stored in Wen Chou reached a huge amount of nearly two million stones. At the same time, the wealth in his hands further shrank, and he was once again facing the dilemma of no money to be available. However, Wen Chou was still so happy about the storage of food and grass. Even after deducting the tens of millions of wealth in his hands, there was no more wealth available. Because he knew that the troubled times were coming!
In addition to the bumper harvest of food and grass, the military production performance of Shahe Township is also remarkable, with seven or eight hundred Liangdang Kaiser being made by blacksmiths! This can make Wen Chou's subordinates produce another powerful force! The arrival of these Liangdang Kaiser has solved Wen Chou's urgent need. For the bandits in Gaoyi County, the removal of small thieves is very beneficial, and can greatly reduce the casualties rate of Wen Chou's not-so-mature soldiers.
At present, there are not many iron ore left in the countryside, and at most four or five hundred armors were created. This is the result of the iron and knives obtained from Wen Chou's several battles being rebuilt, and the caravan also bought a large number of iron tools from neighboring counties. In this way, Wen Chou's Liangdang armor can reach 2,300,400. Although it is not a good armor protective gear, it is far better than ordinary county soldiers. Even for county and state soldiers, it can be slightly better.
As for the storage of other swords and weapons, Wen Chou's army had a lot of income. It was no problem to arm a team of six or seven thousand people. Four or five thousand ring-headed knives, two or three thousand spears and guns, more than a thousand bows and crossbows, four or five thousand wooden shields, one hundred thousand arrows, and more than a thousand war horses. This is the military supplies that Wen Chou could master after a year of struggle. Of course, there were nearly five thousand soldiers! Among them, there were six elite soldiers.
These materials, Shahe Township and Taolinsai people are moving towards Gaoyi County in an orderly manner to provide the construction of Gaoyi County. After all, Gaoyi County is the focus of Wen Chou’s current construction, and there is more development potential and room for maneuver, while Shahe Township is only the foundation of Wen Chou.
Wen Chou bid farewell to Shahe Township. After the envoy of Taolinsai, he breathed a sigh of relief at the clear sky outside the hall, and he had even more hope for the future. As long as Shahe Township, Taolinsai and others develop according to the following situation, Gaoyi County will step by step to gather refugees and train the military and civilians, and will definitely have a certain advantage in the not-far-distance battle, which will also give him a voice.
——Wen Chou, who came from later generations, agreed with and admired Taizu's "policy comes from the barrel of a gun".
Wen Chou's leisure time did not last long because his chief clerk Jiang Zhe came to discuss political affairs. This was the number of times that Jiang Zhe had come to listen to Wen Chou's instructions since he took office. Similarly, his mind became gradually familiar with Wen Chou's character and adapted to it.
Chapter completed!