Baili sent people to Xuanming Prefecture to inform the state official Jiang Wanjiang and Xuanming Guard General Zhou Hanxiang that he had been appointed as the magistrate of Xuanming County.
The current situation here is not very clear, but we cannot rule out the possibility of a large-scale war. Please prepare for support.
Now Xuanming County is a relatively special independent county and has no direct affiliation with Xuanming Prefecture. Chen Xiaohu's five hundred soldiers are not in the Xuanming Guards, so Baili does not need to go to Xuanming Prefecture to report on his duties before taking office.
The Xuanming Guards had just been established, but their structure was already quite complete. In Xiao Chen, Zhuge Xiaosheng and the others' strategic planning, the Xuanming Guards were a very important part, but the focus of their defense was not on the north, but on the south.
Because once there is a war with Dazhou, the area from the south of Xuanming Prefecture to Yanyunguan will be tactically abandoned in the future...
But if the Xianhe tribe brazenly invades Xuanming, then Xuanmingwei may face the dilemma of being attacked from the north and the south in the future, so Xiao Chen must first solve this big hidden danger.
Of course, Xiao Chen could directly send troops to start a war with Xing He, but for now, the Xing He tribe is still in an alliance with him.
If he starts a war just because of a small friction on the border between the two sides, he will probably be in vain, and it will also affect or even destroy the good relationship he has finally established with the entire northern Xinjiang tribe.
Besides, war alone cannot fundamentally solve the problem. The Xianhe tribe covers a vast area and is thousands of miles deep. Once defeated, they can shrink back, but it is difficult to completely annihilate them.
Xiao Chen cannot station too many soldiers and horses in Xuanming, and if he withdraws his troops here, Heihe will inevitably rebound, so there will never be peace in Xuanming.
Therefore, war with Xianhe is only a means, and stabilizing the situation on the Xuanming border is the fundamental purpose. In other words, if we can avoid a war, we will not start a war.
Even if a war breaks out, it must be controlled on a small scale and the conflict must not be expanded. How to control this specific degree depends on Baili.
Li Tanhua decided to stay and lend a helping hand to Baili, and ordered Huitong and others to go back to Niutoushan first, leaving Tanma along the way to keep communication open. If there were any major changes here, Niutoushan could quickly come to help.
The first thing Baili had to do when he took office was naturally to conduct a census of the population. The county magistrate is an official of his parents. As a parent, don’t you know how many of your subjects are decent?
Chen Pin took out a pornography book and patted it a few times. The dust flew up, which showed that it was an old thing and had not been updated for a long time.
In fact, it wasn't long ago. After Wanyan Pingqiu withdrew his troops the year before last, Chen Ping thought that the imperial court would send someone to take it over soon, so he spent half a month compiling it. Unexpectedly, it was useless at all and had been kept in the warehouse.
Eat ashes.
"You are an old almanac." Baili flipped through it a few times and frowned, "Where is the new population in the past two years?"
"Good Lord, don't you even look at what this situation is like? Who dares to give birth to a child? Will the child come to suffer hardships with us? I don't want to be a low-ranking official. The tigress in the house always wants to show off its power.
, I didn’t even dare to disobey, but by accident, I got that little girl Yan’er..." Chen Ping said with a bitter face.
"These names marked in red are all deserters from the past. They are all bachelors. They don't even have wives. How can they have children?" Chen Ping pointed at the yellow book and introduced to Baili, "These are
Craftsmen, there are blacksmiths, coppersmiths, and silversmiths, but where do we have gold, silver, copper, and iron here? Now we all grow vegetables and herd sheep."
"There are also those who farm, but the weather here is too cold and we can only harvest one crop of grain a year, and we are plagued by those nasty hares, jumping rabbits and mice. If one acre of land can yield forty or fifty kilograms, it is considered a good harvest.
Oh! We don’t have any farm tools, the plows are all made of wood, and we don’t have any sickles, so we can only use our hands.”
"When the Moji were here, they made tents for the soldiers and sewed clothes in exchange for some food. When they left, many people lost their livelihoods. When those hateful bastards left, they took away all our iron tools.
It was swept away, not even a few sewing needles were left, and the iron pot was even taken away, you can say that!"
Why am I angry when Yan'er throws that big iron kettle? Don't be afraid of my joke. It was the only iron kettle in our yamen. Back then, when I was still a low-ranking official, I had to hide it in the well to keep it...
But speaking of it, we really don’t have many old, weak, sick and disabled people here. Why? After two years of hard work, those who couldn’t bear it all died, and the rest were all those who resisted!
Master, please don’t laugh at the tigress in my family. All the women in our city are tigresses. Otherwise, how could I have survived to this day?
If the imperial court doesn't give you any salary, we workers also need to eat, don't we?
So every year we collect some taxes per capita, and we don’t convert the money into money. If we have money, we have nowhere to spend it, right?
I'm not afraid of your jokes, I haven't seen silver in many years...
In the spring and summer, there are fresh fish, wild roe deer, yellow sheep, hares, and rabbits. In the autumn, we collect some grain, and in the winter, we collect some dry firewood. This year after year we can survive.
There are quite a few cattle and sheep, but they are only raised for their own consumption. Why not sell them? If they cannot be sold, who should they be sold to?
How many people were there in Yanyun County in the past few years?
The wars were going on at high prices all day long. Today the Moji soldiers came, tomorrow the Xianbo people left, and from time to time the Xinhe people came over to plunder...
It's settled now, but how many cattle and sheep are coming over from Bailong City! The price is also ridiculously cheap. We can't even afford to drive the cattle and sheep to sell them!
Besides, the family has a lot of wealth, not counting those with fur, these beasts are very delicate, they will freeze to death when the rain is heavy, starve to death when the snow is heavy, freeze to death when the weather is cold, and in winter, those wild wolves will pay exorbitant prices for their money.
Miles!
These wolf cubs are very hateful. If you can only eat one or two of them, it's not worth it!
You can kill all the sheep in your pen in one breath.
Sometimes there are dozens or hundreds of wolves, and none of us dare to move forward to catch them! Last year, we suffered a heavy snowstorm that had not been seen in decades...
Why are there no horses? My lord, what’s the use of keeping those big guys?
It's fine in the summer, so don't worry about it. But in the winter, when it snows, they can't get a few bites of grass roots out, so they can only be fed with hay. How much hay is enough for it to eat?
It’s not as good as raising cows and still milking them…
There are only a hundred or so horses in the city, and they are all used for sheep herding. If we can't get grass this year, we may not survive the winter, and they will have to be slaughtered for meat.
"How many people are there on errands in the county government office?" If you want the horses to run, you have to give them grass. The first thing Baili has to do is to repay them.
"There are not many. Counting the upper and lower officials, there are seventeen people in total. These are all compiled. There are also dozens of scribes and government officials, as well as a city defense team I organized with a total of more than one hundred people. They usually
Everyone is doing their own thing, and when something happens, they will be called together. They are all soldiers who have served in the past." Chen Ping said hurriedly.
According to the Han regulations inherited from the Zhou Dynasty, even the smallest county town had at least 200 officials.