After descending the city wall, we returned to the official office of the Andong Protectorate.
In fact, this government office is the former Huyi Duwei Office.
By the way, it is also the seat of the Huaihua County Sheriff’s Office and the Xinhua County County Office.
There are seven or eight plaques hung in front of an official office.
So much so that some new immigrants jokingly said: Governor Anton has authority in the four countries, and his orders are spread over three thousand miles, but he shares the same office with a prime minister, which is not as good as a post office in China.
But, actually, Bo Shi doesn't want this.
There is no way, the emperor's cousin Alexander.
He did not dare to disobey the order and built a governor's palace by himself.
And if he, the governor, doesn't practice it, who among the county guards, county lieutenants and captains below would dare to practice it?
Therefore, in the whole territory of Andong, even the northwest and west captain's yamen of Chen Jiao and Chen Xu brothers, there are county magistrates, county captains, captains, and governors living in the same yamen.
At first, everyone was not used to it.
But over time, this kind of co-building of many government offices in a city actually became a culture.
As a result, the immigrants from Anton and the local aboriginal nobles all said: Anton is bitterly cold and windy and snowy! A man who is a man has to work hard to open up a foundation and be the first king of the country. He keeps everything simple and only makes it convenient for the people.
When the scholar-officials in the world heard about it, they actually gave Bo Shi and the officials of Anton a high hat.
They were said to be 'incorruptible and powerful', 'restrain oneself and restore etiquette', 'follow the teachings of the previous kings' and so on.
But actually...
Bo Shi knew it in his heart.
The government offices and officials in Anton are not as clean as those in China.
Moreover, because the situation here is complicated, there are three religions and nine schools, princes and knights, all intertwined.
Many times, as long as you leave the cities, military-controlled areas, settlement areas and other populated areas, you will go to the wild mountains and wilderness.
Who cares if the rangers fight life or death?
Every year in the high mountains of Huaihua, hundreds of corpses of rangers who came with dreams of getting rich but got into trouble were buried.
Even in cities, dozens of corpses can always be found in dark corners and sewers every year.
As the governor of Andong, he holds the Emperor's Day and is the highest military officer guarding the entire territory of Andong.
Bo Shi actually has nothing to do about these things.
Fortunately, time can best temper a person.
In the past few years, Bo Shi has gained experience in dealing with these three religions in Anton.
The princes and nephews want to jump up and down?
It doesn't matter?
Whoever jumps will be sent back to Chang'an and to Tingwei Yamen.
No matter whose nephew he is, how close the relationship is.
In short, just send it to Chang'an and everything will be done!
Tingwei will naturally help the Anton Protectorate to 'educate' them.
As for the rangers?
That's even simpler.
Whoever's territory kills people, they go to the local boss to ask for their lives.
Not making friends?
Then don’t even think about surviving in Xinhua or even Anton!
Therefore, in order not to provoke the government, the rangers will be more active than the government in hunting down the criminals once a murder case is discovered.
After all, they are just here to seek money.
I don't want to attract the attention of the government.
With the help of these rangers who want to make a fortune quietly, the security of the entire Andong is instantly improved.
Not only have the number of murders in the city been greatly reduced, but the car gangs and road bullies that once flourished on the roads have also completely disappeared.
The rangers used their own order to help the Anton Protectorate, which lacked manpower and monitoring capabilities, stabilize order.
This made Bo Shi really not know whether to laugh or cry.
"Commander...Wei Bao and Cheng An have been waiting at the government office for a long time..." A subordinate came to Bo Shi and reported, "Would you please take some time to meet with me..."
"Are they two here for the security team?" Bo Shi only glanced at the subordinate and already understood what was going on.
Wei Bao and Cheng An are the two ranger leaders in Xinhua City today.
Each of his subordinates has hundreds of subordinates, all of whom are big men who are good at fighting.
Relying on these subordinates, the two men each controlled a section of the Jinsha River in Huaihua County that was very rich in gold.
The two of them made a lot of money from this.
The underworld has made money, what do they want to do?
Of course it’s a clean slate!
Nowadays, there are only two formal ways for Han Dynasty knights to clear their name.
First, if you join the Han army, serve the country, and make meritorious deeds, everything in the past will naturally turn over.
The government and court officials will also be very understanding and will not come to trouble you again.
The second rule is to join the sect of the noble princes with two thousand stones and serve as their hawks and lackeys. In this way, as long as the master behind him survives, he can basically be cleared.
But, if the master falls...
hehe……
That is naturally a dead end!
But in Anton, the rangers still have a way to clear their name.
This is the security team!
Security team, security team, as the name suggests, means bodyguards and guards.
This is also a special establishment unique to the Anton Protectorate.
The security team is a private armed force.
It can legally possess various irregular army ordnance, and even, upon application, can possess an armed cavalry with a number of less than thirty.
The security team engages in a wide variety of transactions.
In name, it is a Han civilian armed force under the supervision and supervision of the Andong Protectorate, and can engage in many services such as escort, escort, security, and transportation.
The appearance of this security team was widely praised by merchants and nobles from all walks of life.
Merchants hired security teams to protect themselves and their goods.
Lords and nobles hired security teams to inspect their territories, protect themselves on patrols, show off, and build momentum.
But, these are all superficial things.
Bo Shi knows very well, what is the real way for this security team to make profit and make big money?
That's slave catching!
On the Xianbei Mountains, Wuwan Mountains and the vast frozen soil north of Raoleshui, there are countless savages and humans living.
These savages are from the Shengfan tribe, ranging from more than a thousand to as few as a dozen.
They are scattered across the vast ice sheet and are very cunning.
As soon as there is any disturbance, he immediately runs away.
Many people can't do anything about them.
However, the security team seems to be born to be the nemesis of these savage tribes.
These guys who go out to fight for money can rely on a bag of dry food to track Ban Yue on the ice sheet, and finally find the nest where these savages breed, and then sneak in at night...
The captured slave workers can be sold if they need money urgently.
But the best way is to go gold mining.
Now, Anton's four security teams have made an eye-watering amount of money in the past two years!
Even if they captured the fewest slaves, they still captured thousands of savages to dig for gold for themselves.
The ranger forces that belong to the security team only need to supervise these slave workers, and then they can harvest countless gold.
This naturally triggered the imitation and admiration of countless people.
However, I want to go out of the Han Dynasty to capture slave labor.
Without the approval and recognition of the Anton Protectorate, who can go out?
Even if I go out, can I come back?
Even if everything goes well and the safety of the trip can be guaranteed, how can we get the slave workers to go gold mining?
You know, Han law stipulates that even slaves must be registered.
Unregistered slaves are illegal.
The government can confiscate it directly or impose a fine.
What's more, this security team is not only related to money and status, but also related to the whitewashing of the ranger leaders themselves!
Among those who work as rangers and can join the big boss, who doesn’t have many lives?
Who has not been wanted by the government?
However, the nature of this security team is a semi-official establishment.
Directly under the jurisdiction of him, Governor Anton.
In other words, the rangers can actually whitewash themselves by transforming into a security team.
With the name of Governor Anton, how dare that blind official arrest anyone?
Therefore, now, in this Xinhua City, all the capable ranger leaders are racking their brains to become members of the security team.
This kind of thing where you can make money, you can show off, and you can even hug someone's lap.
Who doesn't want that?
In fact, even Bo Shi had the idea of just accepting everyone as his younger brother.
You know, there are as many as hundreds of thousands or even two hundred thousand Anton Rangers!
They control huge wealth, human and material resources.
Without their help, what would the ancient Mengchang Lord be?
However, Bo Shi can only think about it.
In this matter, he is just a puppet.
Whatever the Emperor of Chang'an told him to do, he had to do it!
Because he is a relative!
The characteristics of a foreign relative determined that he must follow the rhythm and footsteps of the emperor of Chang'an.
The emperor told him to go east, but he would never dare to go west.
The emperor told him to die, but he would never dare to live!
In the past two years, he has released four security team licenses.
According to the emperor's wishes, he can only give at most three more security team licenses this year and next year.
This is not only the need to control the rangers, master and guide their behavior, but also the necessity to whet their appetite.
Things are rare and valuable.
If everyone has a security team license, then who is willing to pay hundreds or even thousands of gold in license fees every year?
"The emperor ordered me to experiment with the Han's 'East India Company' model on these knights..." Bo Shi thought in his heart: "Although I don't know what the so-called 'East India Company' is, I will follow the emperor's will."
I have generally understood: I can use the hands of these rangers to clean up and take care of some things that are inconvenient for the government to do... and to hide troops among the people. In the future, when the Han Dynasty expands westward, it will protect immigrants and business routes!"
Now, haven't the four ranger forces that have obtained the security team license almost become an extension of the Anton Protectorate?
Not only do they have to pay huge fees every year, but they also have to bring their own dry food to help maintain order in the Anton Governor's Mansion, and even stop disputes in the wilderness.
You still have to work hard to catch slaves on the ice fields.
This is almost equivalent to thousands more grassroots organizations in the Anton Protectorate that do not require wages and bring their own dry food.
More importantly, the security team composed of its elite and backbone must accept the orders and supervision of the Anton Protectorate.
In addition to leaving the fortress, they had to explain themselves even if they pulled the crossbow once inside the Han Dynasty.
Although there may be some security team based troubles in the future.
But, overall, it does more harm than good.
After all, Bo Shi also saw that the emperor wanted to use the security team to be the vanguard of his external expansion and promotion of Wang Hua!
Thinking of this, Bo Shi remembered the background of Wei Bao and Cheng An.
That Wei Bao was from Hanzhong and was the leader of the Bashu Rangers.
He has about 500 backbones and 700 to 800 peripheral subordinates under his command. In this Xinhua City, he is the second largest force after Zhang Meng of Qi Ren, who has already obtained the license.
He has always been quite well-behaved and submissive.
Basically, if anything happens in his territory, it will always be handled internally and will not make it difficult for the government.
What's even more rare is that this person is also very good at being a good person.
Who among the officials in Xinhua City doesn’t give a thumbs up?
It's just that this person is too smooth.
It was so smooth that even Bo Shi was a little unsure.
That Cheng'an, on the other hand, is the ranger leader of Beidi County.
It is said that his father's generation was a gentry in the North!
Unfortunately, his father was a playboy and lost everything in the family, including land, reputation and connections.
He had no choice but to become a ranger.
Bo Shi met him several times and had a good impression of him.
He is like a husband from the North, with a fiery personality and his own principles and bottom lines that he sticks to.
The only flaw is that it is relatively weak.
Very few knights from Beidi County, Shang County, Daiguo and Yanmen would choose to come to Anton.
Especially the famous ones.
They preferred to stay there, wait for the Han-Hungarian war, and then surrender to the army as a matter of course.
By the way, the rangers in Beidi, Daishang, Yunzhong, and Yanmen basically have no cases against them.
In fact, many people are local wealthy people.
Rich and willful!
They become knight-errants just to spread their names to the ears of generals and princes.
For the rangers in these places, money is only an external possession, merit and martial arts are the foundation!
Therefore, in fact, when Cheng An brought his brothers to Anton, they were more likely to come here to find opportunities than to pan for gold.
Therefore, Bo Shi actually already had a dispute between Wei Bao and Cheng An.
Cheng An can get a license first.
As for health storms, we need to continue to observe and observe.
Having said that, things cannot be done directly.
Otherwise, if a ranger gang of hundreds of people just wants to make trouble with the government, they have plenty of ways!
Just at this moment, Bo Shi's deputy, the Andong Protectorate Chief Shi Xian'an Hou Qin Mu, who had just been transferred here from Chang'an a few months ago, came over.
Qin Mu was a rising military aristocrat from the Southern Army who made great achievements in the Battle of Mayi. He was also a talent sent here by the emperor to train and cultivate.
"Commander..." Qin Mu gave Bo Shi a military salute, then handed a thick bound book to Bo Shi and said, "This is the training exercise for all the armies in Andong that Xianguan has done recently.
As well as the drill plan, please correct it, Commander-in-Chief!"
Bo Shi took it, nodded, and said, "Thank you for your hard work!"
"I don't dare..." Qin Mu said quickly as he didn't dare to show off in front of Bo Shi.
"You go tell Wei Bao and Cheng An and ask them to wait a little longer... wait until Chang Shi and I have finished discussing the military affairs..." Bo Shiwei smiled and ordered the assistant, and then said to Qin Mu: "Your Majesty
, please summon all the yamen, including officers above the rank of captain, to the hall for a military meeting!"
