"Sir, you are a great talent!" Wang Junlin confirmed that Zhao Zhanpeng was indeed very talented. He stood up and bowed, "I would like to condescend to you as the general guard of the county. I hope you will not refuse!"
Although Zhao Zhanpeng knew that the prefect would use him in high regard, whether it was for the nobles of Fanyang County or to win over himself and the thirteen noble families behind him, he did not expect that the prefect would directly give him the position of general guardian.
You must know that this is the second in command of a county. In theory, there are hundreds of thousands of people under one person. In terms of ranking, he is still ahead of Du Ruhui. Of course, it is estimated that it will be difficult for him to face this powerful prefect.
He truly has the authority of second-in-command, but such a prominent official position is too rare.
Zhao Zhanpeng took a deep breath, quickly stood up and returned the courtesy: "I dare not risk my life to serve you."
"You are very familiar with the nobles and scholars in Fanyang County. Please select some virtuous and talented people for your official use." Wang Junlin helped Zhao Zhanpeng up and said with a smile.
"Don't dare to resign where your responsibilities lie!" Zhao Zhanpeng said.
On the same day, Zhao Zhanpeng brought several members of the clan to Fanyang County and took up the post of acting general guard.
The formal appointment will only be approved after Wang Junlin has completely reported the matter of the Lu family and the navy to Yang Guang, and will also report the new appointments of officials at the county and county levels and obtain the approval of the court.
Wang Junlin will hand over the specific official affairs of the county to Du Ruhui and Zhao Zhanpeng, Shan Xiongxin will select a thousand people to be incorporated into the government soldiers, and Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong will secretly train three thousand elite soldiers in the salt field in the name of saltmen.
The captains of the eight counties will be selected from Wang Junlin's personal guards. It won't take long for these 8,000 county soldiers to be truly controlled by Wang Junlin. Under his vigorous management and requirements, these 8,000 county soldiers
They will be trained into elite soldiers before Yang Guang goes to war against Goguryeo.
As for the 20,000 navy and 10,000 county soldiers, Wang Junlin would naturally not touch them, because only in this way, with Yang Guang's character, he would not doubt other things Wang Junlin did.
During the period when Wang Junlin stayed in Zhuoxian and took eight people including Guoyi Captain Zhu Yukun with him, with the cooperation of Huang Shaoqiu, more than 2,000 "remnants" of Dou Shihai among the remaining navy rebelled. These
People are treated as
Kill on the field.
These two thousand naval officers and soldiers, plus the prisoners who had been brought to the big ship by Nie Xiaoyu, a total of 2,500 naval officers and soldiers, as well as more than 2,000 Lu family rebels were secretly transported to Snake Island by Nie Xiaoyu, where they would soon be
Build a navy and weapons workshop.
While 5,000 navy officers and soldiers were withdrawing from Zhuo County to the navy camp, Dou Shihai's remnant captain Lu Shijun rebelled and led his subordinates to suddenly launch a sneak attack on Guoyi captain Zhu Yukun's subordinates, shot and killed Zhu Yukun, and then led his subordinates to defect overseas.
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According to Wang Junlin's arrangement, the navy on Snake Island will be commanded by Lu Shijun and will be drilled. As for the warships needed by this navy, Nie Xiaoyu will naturally find a way. A shipyard has been secretly built in the salt field, and the craftsmen have begun secretly
Recruitment and training. With Nie Xiaoyu personally in charge of this matter, Wang Junlin was not worried at all.
As early as when Wang Junlin returned to the county, General Li Zixiong, the general in charge of Youzhou in the north, sent over the family members of more than 500 cavalrymen. Wang Junlin arranged them all in the salt field and gave each of them twenty taels.
The settlement fee of silver was given to fifty acres of fertile land. At this point, the more than 500 elite cavalry led by Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong were completely convinced of Wang Junlin, and they would become the backbone of the 3,000 elite soldiers secretly trained in the salt field.
Three months later, when the spring flowers bloomed, all the county captains and captains in Fanyang County had been replaced by Wang Junlin's confidants. Although there were still six county magistrates and county magistrates retained by Wang Junlin, these
No one dared to disobey the Grand Administrator at all. So far, except for the 10,000 county soldiers who were waiting for Yang Guang to send a new Zhonglang general to command the navy and Xue Li, the rest of the military and administrative affairs of Fanyang County had basically been taken over by Wang Junlin.
Take control.
No matter who among the naval forces came to be the lieutenant general, Huang Shaoqiu, the lieutenant among them, was recommended by Wang Junlin as Captain Guo Yi because of his merits in staying behind in the camp to suppress the rebellion. He was regarded as having his own man. And Xue Li, the Yingyang general, because
Although Wang Junlin never said anything about the salt bank's dividends, when he knew that the salt bank had been completely controlled by the prefect, he knew that his control was in the hands of the prefect. Wang Junlin believed that in the days to come, as long as he
Xue Li would never go against any of his decisions unless he explicitly declared the rebellion. On the day Wang Junlin came back from Zhuoxian, he took the initiative to transfer the troops stationed in Yan to
It can be seen from the withdrawal of a thousand county soldiers outside the field.
With the cooperation of the Lu family and the local forces in Fanyang County headed by Zhao Zhanpeng, Wang Junlin quickly grasped the number of acres and dingkou of Fanyang County.
The eight counties of Fanyang County have more than 7 million acres of registered land, and there are still as many as 120,000 registered households in Dingkou. Although it cannot be compared with the prosperous Jiangnan and Central Plains, it is a truly large county north of the Yellow River.
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In the past, Fanyang County had to submit more than 600,000 shi of grain to the court, the salt tax was 200,000 taels of silver, and other various taxes were about 100,000 taels of silver. When Wang Junlin wrote to Yang Guang, he guaranteed that the grain in the coming year would be more than 800,000 shi.
After the salt tax was no less than 500,000 taels of silver and the other taxes were at least 200,000 taels of silver, Yang Guangma was overjoyed and sent Wang Junlin to Du Ruhui in Fanyang County, and all appointments from Zhao Zhanpeng were approved.
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"Sir, do you want to establish an academy?" Zhao Zhanpeng was greatly surprised, but he did not expect that the first job Wang Junlin arranged for him would be this.
Wang Junlin nodded and said: "I have issued a decree to establish Dharma. To this end, I intend to establish a college. All the people of this county, whether they are nobles, rich households or poor people, as long as they are able to read and read, can pass the academy I have set up."
If you take the examination and select, you can enter the college to study. I am busy with government affairs and have no skills. Therefore, I want to appoint someone to serve as the dean of this college and specialize in legal education. I will select those who have excellent exams in the school to serve as county officials. This matter is not trivial and must be done through common sense.
For someone who is knowledgeable and well-known in this county, and who also needs to be able to discern people, there really is no suitable candidate except County Prince Zhao."
Zhao Zhanpeng knew that Wang Junlin wanted him to serve as the dean of this college concurrently, and it was also a good job. However, he still had some questions and frowned: "What is the difference between the college established by the Lord and the Lu College?"
Wang Junlin smiled and said: "Of course there is a big difference. Lu's College trains scholars, while Fanyang College trains capable officials who can do practical things and are good at doing practical things."
As he spoke, Wang Junlin took out a bound book from his arms, and saw the eight characters "Fanyang Academy Teaching Syllabus" written on it. Judging from the thickness, it was probably no less than a hundred thousand words.