I am not a deposed emperor of Han Dynasty

Chapter 72
Without waiting for Zhen Fu to ask, Wang Ji explained the reason.

"Da Yezawa is vast and the water is deep. Before attacking Guo Kai, we made sufficient preparations, and even used the middle school's material officers and Lou Chuanshi."

After Wang Ji only said these few words, Zhen Fu, who asked the question, suddenly realized, and became a little embarrassed.

There are many soldiers in the county, but there are very few "country soldiers" with strong combat effectiveness.

So to put it simply, the soldiers in the county cannot all be called the soldiers of the county.

The army in the county is divided into two types. Although they are all regular soldiers who served in the year, their combat effectiveness and nature are very different.

One is the regular field troops such as material officers, boatmen, light vehicles, and knights. Those who can be elected are all young and strong laborers.Within a year, they not only had to receive training in using various weapons, but also had to perform a rehearsal under the leadership of Chancellor Changyi and the lieutenant, so their combat effectiveness was extremely high.

The second type is a variety of pawns, which can be divided into three types according to their duties.

The first category of soldiers shouldered the responsibility of guarding the government office, including gate pavilion soldiers, street soldiers and city gate soldiers.

The second category of soldiers is responsible for serving officials, including Lingyi, servants, Cangtou Luer, and cooks.

The third type of pawns are responsible for protecting property and catching thieves, including pavilion pawns, archers, and begging thieves, etc.

No matter what kind of soldier's service it is, its combat effectiveness cannot be compared with that of the county soldiers.

However, among the soldiers of the county and state, the soldiers who have no combat effectiveness accounted for the majority, while the officers and others were only a minority.

Take Changyi Kingdom as an example, there are only more than [-] Caiguan and Lou Chuanshi combined, while there are more than [-] other soldiers.

The number of people is small, and the root cause of Wang Ji's embarrassment is that although the county has the right to command the troops, it does not have the right to deploy troops: to mobilize the military officers and other county soldiers, it is necessary to ask the central court for instructions in advance.

Even if there is a reason for deploying troops without authorization, they will be held accountable in the end.

Zhen Fu may have forgotten this restriction just now because he was too busy.

"When we were attacking the Guo bandits, we asked the imperial court for instructions in advance, and the county magistrate also gave us tiger charms. Now that we want to mobilize the county soldiers, I'm afraid we have to ask for tiger charms again."

"However, Changyi City is thousands of miles away from Chang'an, and it will take more than half a month to go back and forth by fast horse. Even if the Tiger Talisman is really invited by then, the Song bandits will have sold their stolen goods long ago, and they will go ashore to be good."

Wang Ji has a gentle temperament, and he explained the reason to everyone slowly.

Cai Guan and Lou Chuanshi can't count on it, and what An Lexiang and Wang Ji can use is soldiers.

"That depends on whether the Tingzu, Qiubao and Facao pawns in the country can fight against each other?"

Zhen Fu asked again in a hurry, this Changyi County was the first county he was sent to govern.

Before that, he had been an official in Chang'an, so he didn't know much about many things in the place.

In particular, Changyi County is the first county of Changyi Kingdom. Three government offices, Xiangfu, Lieutenant's Mansion, and County Temple, are stuffed into one city. No matter where you look at it, the County Temple is the smallest one.

This made Zhen Fu inevitably dismissed, and it is not surprising that some military and political affairs are not well understood.

That's why Zhen No asked the question just now.

"Changyi State has nearly 5000 soldiers who can participate in the robbery, but they are divided into more than a dozen counties like sand. The number of people who can be gathered in a short time is not many, and I am afraid that there are only 500 at most."

Onozawa is as vast as the ocean, there are no boatmen and material officers, and these 500 people alone can only catch thieves and seek thieves on the ground, which is similar to finding a needle in a haystack.

After Wang Ji finished speaking, the main hall fell into silence again.

Time passed without waiting for anyone, His Highness's 200 million rich man was getting closer and closer to Onozawa, but they seemed powerless.

The whole thing seemed to be in a deadlock.

An Le is the prime minister of a country, and everyone looked at him in unison.

After contemplating for a long time, An Lexiang finally spoke.

"As I said just now, this matter is indeed difficult, but no matter how difficult it is, it must be done."

No one answered in the hall, and none of them knew that An Le was not a domineering person, and it was impossible to force them to do things they couldn't do, so they must have something to say.

"We may not be able to recover the money, but we have to give His Highness an explanation."

This sentence has a lot of meaning. The so-called confession does not mean solving the problem.

Zhang Wuji was the chief secretary, he guessed Dong Xi's thoughts most thoroughly, when he thought for a while, he said cautiously: "I don't know if I should say something or not."

"The hall is full of humerus bones, the pillars of our Changyi Kingdom, so just say what you have to say."

"The official has three strategies. Although it may not be possible to recover the 200 million yuan, at least it will let His Highness see that we have indeed done our best."

Zhang Wuji's words made everyone sit up straight.

"The first one is to speed up the speed and intensity of the inspection of the houses of corrupt officials, and dig out as much money as possible. If you can collect 800 million yuan, your Highness may not pursue too much."

"But the difference of 200 million yuan is probably not easy to find out. These corrupt officials are not high-ranking, and it is impossible to save so much family wealth. It is estimated that if they dig out their ancestral graves, they will only be able to search for 100 yuan at most. Thousands of dollars."

An Le made a rare joke that didn't make much sense, which made the atmosphere in the hall a little looser.

"Those filthy officials are certainly guilty of capital crimes, but aren't those businessmen who did not hesitate to do business in Hetian innocent?"

Zhang Wuji said something wrong in answer to the question, but everyone already understood what he meant.

An Le nodded, approving Zhang Wuji's first strategy.

"Okay, this first strategy is very good. The corrupt officials will be handed over to the county prison and Facao to dig; and most of the merchants are in Changyi County, so Zhen Qing will dig. Don't show mercy to these rat moths. Dig the ground three times." The ruler must also dig out all the floating wealth."

"only!"

With this strategy in place, the situation suddenly became brighter, and even the flickering flames became much cuter.

"The second point is to rectify the pavilion. After all, such a riot will cause a lot of chaos in the middle school. It may not be successful, but we must be careful of thieves who take the opportunity to make trouble."

"Then Wang Shijun will handle this matter." An Le nodded in agreement.

"only!"

"Jane You has to pay for the third article."

Jian Kou's rank is low, and he is the last one in the hall, but everyone knows that he is very capable and has fought against the Huns, so they respect him a lot.

"Master, but it's okay to say."

"Jian Youjiao will immediately take people to Onozawa to search for news about the gang of thieves as much as possible, so that His Royal Highness may inquire. The money may not be recovered, but His Highness must know the final whereabouts."

"I'm leaving tomorrow."

At this point, most of the people's hearts have been relieved, and this should be able to give His Highness an explanation.

But unexpectedly, Zhang Wuji had something to say.

"However, there is one more thing that must be done by An Lexiang himself."

"Huh? What's the matter?"

"Personally go to the palace to report to His Highness, and report our plans for today to His Highness in detail."

Everyone was taken aback, they didn't understand why they did this.

(End of this chapter)