I’m The King Chapter 372: : Baokang County

Hejian Prefecture, Baokang County. This is a county bordering the grasslands under the control of the Huns. Although it is called Baokang, it is actually a place full of disasters. In the past, the Huns always came here once a year, just like harvesting a village. Over the years, the area of ​​nearly a hundred miles along the border of Baokang turned out to be uninhabited, and the good fields were completely deserted. Only a few dozen miles around the seat of the county seat could one see one village after another. Once something happened, here The people can go straight to the county seat to seek refuge.

However, for many years, the Huns only harassed the border, but did not raid hundreds of miles to attack the seat of Baokang County, which also made the surrounding area of ​​Baokang County present a scene of prosperity. It would never have occurred to him that outside this circle was a desolate and uninhabited place.

This autumn, the situation is much better. In the summer, the Huns fell for the tricks of the Qin people and were defeated. Even the king of the Huns was beheaded. A large number of people began to expand outwards. After all, the land around the county government is already expensive, and it is more and more concentrated in the hands of some rich and powerful people. Don't look at the densely populated villages, but in fact In fact, most of the people here are tenants who rent other people’s fields. After working hard for a year, after paying the rent and paying taxes, there is not much left. If there are too many people in the family, they will definitely not be able to eat enough of.

The increasing concentration of land in the hands of a few people is against the growing population, and troubles often occur. It is not uncommon for the tenant family to take risks when they are forced to do nothing, kill the owner and take the money and then run away.

In this context, Wu Ci'an, the county magistrate of Baokang County, issued an order that anyone willing to reclaim wasteland within 50 miles from the border with the Huns. Whoever reclaims the land will belong to him, and the county government will give him a new title deed to recognize his ownership.

Those lands have been barren for many years, but they used to be good fields. As long as you work hard, at most one year, you can turn them into fertile fields again.

With this order, the landless tenants in Baokang County became excited and dared not go before. That's because the Huns keep coming to plunder, and wherever they go, it's basically a life-saving business. poorer. It was a bit bitter, and I didn't dare to go anywhere, but now it's different, the Huns have been defeated in a mess. There will be no more large-scale looting.

But just when countless tenants were packing up their belongings and preparing to reclaim wasteland and change their own destiny at the same time, a bad news came that the three thousand Hejian elites led by General Chen Ying of Hejian County were wiped out on the grassland. Everyone was killed, and no one came back. This news is like a bucket of cold water. All the enthusiasm of these tenants was extinguished, the packed salutes were scattered again, and the packed luggage was put back to the original place. It turned out that those vicious Huns on the grassland had not completely perished.

When the news came, Wu Ci'an jumped three feet in shock, but what happened next was far beyond expectations. The mysterious team that wiped out Chen Ying's 3,000 troops disappeared without a trace. Whether it was him or the special envoy sent from Hejian County at the end, they didn't find any clues, only from the analysis of the wounds on the dead soldiers, it was the hands of the Huns.

Although that force never appeared again, Hejian County still sent 3,000 soldiers to be stationed in Baokang to avoid fatigue. Half a year later, nothing happened. , Therefore, for this reason, Yan Shenghao, the owner of Hejian County, already has a new goal. He needs to concentrate his elite to demonstrate against someone.

But after such a toss, Wu Ci'an's painstakingly contrived plan to calm the people has come to naught. No matter how much he persuades, no commoner is willing to take risks. Seeing that winter was approaching and there were more and more refugees in the city, the wrinkles on Wu Ci'an's face became deeper and deeper.

He can't drive these people out of the city, because these people are also his subjects, but when winter comes, they have nowhere to escape from the cold, no place to beg for food, so they can only come to the more prosperous counties to survive.

When they have something to do, these people will go to do odd jobs to earn some food. If they have nothing to do, they will naturally sneak around and extort money. Therefore, this time of year is when the law and order in Baokang City is the worst. This situation will continue until tomorrow when the spring weather warms up.

But this year the situation is different, because there are still a thousand soldiers in the city.

Baokang is a border county, and the city is built tall and tall. Like Fufeng, it is unlikely to attack hard. Baokang originally had 500 county soldiers, plus 1,000 county soldiers stationed in Baokang. Kang is safe in terms of safety, not to mention that the Huns are in danger now, even when the Huns are strong, it is impossible to attack the city without paying a huge price.

"Wu Gang, in the past few months, you have to cheer up and ensure the security of the city and the villages outside. This time of year is the most difficult time. When there is heavy snow, life will be sad. Those who can't make it through will take risks." Looking at his nephew, Wu Gang, who is also the county lieutenant of Baokang, Wu Ci'an urged.

"Uncle, that means you are too soft-hearted, catch such people, drag them to the gate of the city, chop off their heads and hang them up, and kill them as an example, to see who dares to take advantage of the fire?" Wu Gang said: "But you only need Catch them, lock them up for a few days and then release them, don't worry about food, after they get out, can't they commit crimes again?"

Hearing what Wu Gang said, Wu Ci'an couldn't help but lower his face and said: "You said it lightly, it's easy to cut off a head, but can it grow back after cutting it off? I can’t go on anymore, in order to have a way out, are you going to cut off someone’s head? If you can live and work in peace and contentment, who wants to commit crimes, mainly punishing, understand? Go on and do errands.”

Watching Wu Gang go down the hall dejectedly, Wu Ci'an turned around and looked at a general with a helmet and armor sitting on one side, "Wu Gang is young and reckless and ignorant, but General Zheng, you are laughing at me."

Zheng Shuang, who is in charge of the thousand people stationed in Baokang in Hejian County, listened to Wu Ci'an's words, and said with a smile: "I think Wu Xianwei's method is neat, but Mr. Wu, you grew up in this township, you are all Folks, it's understandable that you can't do it."

Wu Ci'an smiled wryly, knowing that this general would not have any good ideas. As far as they are concerned, holding a knife is the easiest thing to do, but what problems can be solved by killing alone? One batch will be killed this year, and a new batch will come out next year. It's a mess.

For the sake of long-term peace and stability, it is still necessary to find a way for these people to live and work in peace and contentment. Originally, going to the frontier to reclaim wasteland was the best way, but Chen Ying's death blocked his own way.

"Wu Gang has only a few hundred people under his command, and he still has to go to patrol the villages outside the city. The manpower in this city is unavoidably tight. I have to ask General Zheng to take care of you and help me!" Although he was upset, Wu Ci'an He had to beg Zheng Shuang humbly.

"This is no problem!" Zheng Shuang waved his hand, "I have taken care of the security in the city, and nothing will happen to the safekeeping, but Mr. Wu, my thousand brothers need to eat and drink. It's going to snow, and there are quite a few people who don't even have thicker padded jackets, so please take care of this, my lord!"

Wu Ci'an took a deep breath. The county has always been responsible for the logistics supply of the county soldiers. Originally, it was not his turn. Him, if the money is allocated to him, it will be in his own pocket in a blink of an eye. There is no way, even if you don't want to, you have to give it, otherwise this guy will indulge his soldiers to make trouble, and he really can't do anything.

"Please rest assured, General Zheng. Tomorrow, tomorrow, I will send all the necessary supplies and silver to your barracks." Wu Ci'an said.

"That's good, that's good!" Zheng Shuang was overjoyed, stood up and patted his chest, "Don't worry, Mr. Wu, with me around, nothing will go wrong in the city~IndoMTL.com~Zheng General, you must not kill rashly!" Seeing Zheng Shuang taking care of everything, Wu Ci'an felt relieved, but at the same time, he did not forget to tell him that if this soldier is violent, his painstaking efforts will be worthless. It's all useless.

"Naturally, naturally!" Zheng Shuang successfully succeeded in ripping off someone, thinking that it would not be easy not to kill someone, and if he arrests someone and sends them to your county government office, you will be relieved of your headaches. ? Immediately, he cupped his fists towards Wu Ci'an, and went happily.

Zheng Shuang was unwilling to stay and protect health. The other two battalions went back to Hejian County to stand by. Princess Ye Tiannan has gone. Ye Tiannan used to be the Prime Minister of the country and didn't dare to provoke him, but now that he has fallen, it is natural that the wall is overthrown by everyone, not to mention that when Ye Tiannan talked about mobilizing Yan Shenghao to support him in overthrowing Linghu, he promised Yan Shenghao Now Ye Tiannan has no power or soldiers, so he has to ask for it. A county in Langya is not comparable to a county in Hejian. When my colleagues went there, I thought they would all make a lot of money. I stayed in this bitter cold place and didn't try to make some extra money. I really felt sorry for myself.

This Wu Ci'an is quite sensible, since that's the case, he will send several teams of soldiers out to patrol every day in the future, so as to have an excuse to come to blackmail him again. (To be continued..)u