After taking office as county magistrate, Gao Cheng acted decisively and immediately sent Jiang Qin and Pei Yuanshao out of the city to wipe out the bandits in Huai'an. Both of them had the strength to practice above the seventh level and could easily deal with a group of mobs.

In less than a day, Jiang Qin and Pei Yuanshao led their men into the forest, captured all the bandits on the two hills, and killed the thief's heads. The other bandits were shocked and did not dare to do anything for the moment.

Under Gao Cheng's order, the two generals under his command made continuous attacks to clean up all the bandits in the county. The captured prisoners were somewhat difficult to deal with. County Magistrate Huang Zun neither wanted to let these people go easily nor was he willing to kill all of them in his hands. There was no good solution for a while.

Finally, Gao Cheng discussed with him and simply arranged all these prisoners and many refugees who came to Huai'an directly into the farm outside the city.

The 20,000 acres of land outside are lacking manpower to reclaim it. In addition, there is a small mine vein in Huai'an, which produces iron. All the captured bandits are arranged to serve as miners in the mines. The iron ore mined can also be used as weapons.

After this action, Huai'an's territory suddenly became much cleaner, with bandits extinct and the people's hearts gradually stabilized. Gao Cheng's reputation became more and more resounding with this action to suppress bandits and the people.

In the Three Kingdoms world, a good reputation plays a very important role. Liu Bei was born in a poor family and had no soldiers or money. However, with his good reputation, generals kept taking the initiative to invest. Mi even donated all his family business to help him succeed.

If Liu Bei had little reputation, he would never have been able to establish the foundation of Shu Han.

After the county was stable, Gao Cheng suddenly became extremely leisurely. In addition to occasionally processing documents, he began to practice innate skills. After reaching the extraordinary realm, this skill was gradually absorbing the innate energy between heaven and earth, slowly changing his body.

Let his strength, mental power and true qi be continuously purified and increased.

"The first level of the Gang Qi Realm is the Gang Qi Realm, and the first level of the Soul Refining is to nourish the soul with qi! This stage of cultivation is all about water grinding. Only when the Gang Qi and spiritual power reach the limit of the body can each advance to the next level! The innate qi combines the essence of the three rituals of martial arts, and is also at this stage at this time!"

Gao Cheng now has no enemies around him and has plenty of time, so he has been patient and constantly accumulating strength. While he was practicing silently, a large amount of goods hidden in Baima Lake began to be loaded onto merchant ships, and then transferred to Sishui through the Huai River, and came to the Mi family warehouse in Xiapi City...

The tens of millions of dollars of goods could not be quickly digested with the power of the Mi family. It took three months to transport these things to Luoyang and Jizhou and sell them to families that did not suffer much loss.

The goods continued to decrease and turned into a continuous stream of Wuzhu coins. With these wealth, Gao Cheng had the capital to gather refugees and mine and smelify iron. He continued to accumulate strength, and accompanied by the fight against bandits, he trained 300 county warriors in addition to the 300 elite family soldiers. Of course, these county warriors did not practice the exercises and their strength was far inferior to Gao Cheng's family soldiers.

As time passed slowly, more and more refugees poured in from the West and the North. When the Sun family in Huai'an saw what Gao Cheng did, they also recruited refugees, reclaimed wasteland, and barely gave these people a bite of food.

The refugees who came to Huai'an could survive, while the refugees in other places were in dire straits. Xuzhou and Qingzhou, and more and more refugees were flooding in Yanzhou. However, most of the wealthy families only swept the snow in front of the door, regardless of the frost on others.

In an increasingly chaotic world, the first thing they need to preserve is their own foundation. Of course, they will not just consume their own strength to help dissidents who have never met each other.

In their opinion, the matter of appeaseing refugees is the responsibility of the government.

Gao Cheng was in Huai'an City, but he kept collecting information from other places through his own merchant ships. After knowing this situation, he shook his head secretly. Unfortunately, he was not the prefect of Guangling, nor the governor of Xuzhou. Otherwise, he would have done something long ago and would never have watched the refugees starve to death or become bandits.

In the troubled times, in addition to food and grass, the most precious thing is manpower. A large population means a strong foundation. Whether it is the source of troops or money and food, they are actually collected from ordinary people.

The more refugees there are in the world, the weaker the power of the Han Dynasty. Gao Cheng can see this point, and those ministers with extraordinary wisdom can naturally see it. It’s just that the things in the court are complicated, and there may be many trade-offs and exchanges after a small matter.

Even if some ministers were willing to submit, two or three months passed after the court procedure. And at this time, the biggest enemy of the Han Dynasty was the Yellow Turban thief. The power of the entire dynasty was suppressing Taiping Road. Whether it was the emperor or the minister, in their opinion, the matter of refugees was secondary. After the Yellow Turban was destroyed, it would naturally be easy to solve it.

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At the end of the year, a sudden news spread throughout the Han Dynasty. When Zhang Jiao of Taiping Road was fighting with the imperial army, he continued to consume his life and used powerful magic to summon heavenly thunder and strong winds, and killed countless soldiers in the imperial court. Because he consumed his life too frequently, he could not support it and died in Guangzong City.

Without Zhang Jiao's powerful magic that shocked the world, the Yellow Turban soldiers in Jizhou could not resist Huangfu Song's Sanhe cavalry, and were killed hundreds of thousands, and countless Yellow Turban thieves scattered. At this time, Zhu Yan also pacified the Yellow Turbans in Nanyang.

The Taiping Dao uprising, which could almost shake the great man, was finally suppressed. However, as Gao Cheng expected, a large number of Yellow Turban soldiers and many heroes who surrendered to the Taiping Dao for their sake, rushed towards the land of Qingxu.

In order to eliminate the remaining thieves, a famous scholar was appointed as the governor of Xuzhou, stationed in Xia Pi, and prepared to eliminate the remaining thieves of the Yellow Turbans.

"The new governor? I wonder which famous scholar he is?"

In the county government in Huai'an, Gao Cheng and Huang Zun were idle, warming a pot of wine, kneeling on the soft collapse and drinking and talking to each other. These days, Gao Cheng heard a lot of news from the Han Dynasty from each other. This was information that merchant ships could not find out. After hearing this, Gao Cheng gained a lot.

Otherwise, Gao Cheng had already practiced at this time and would not be bored to talk to Huang Zun warmly.

At this time, the autumn wind was bleak outside. Huang Zun comfortably picked up the wine bottle, drank half of it, wiped his beard, and then replied: "I heard that he was Tao Qian and Tao Gongzu, who was once the governor of Youzhou! He is a child of the Tao family in Danyang, but his family is similar to you and me, and he is not very high! I have heard of his reputation before, and he is very capable!"

"Danyang has produced many elite soldiers since ancient times. Tao Gongzu is the Tao family with the highest official position and reputation in recent years. He has a great reputation in Danyang. If he sends people to Danyang to recruit soldiers, he will easily have a large number of elite soldiers! After this new governor takes office, he will never be as weak as the previous governor!"

Gao Cheng was stunned for a moment and frowned slightly. He knew Tao Qian's life and past. However, according to the original records, Tao Qian should have been called the governor of Xuzhou in the fifth year of Zhongping, right?

Now it's several years ahead of schedule.
Chapter completed!