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Chapter 170 0167 [Master of Micro Manipulation]

late at night.

The gate of Zhuolou was closed tightly, but the dim light could still be seen through the gap between the door and the window.

In the hall, Han Zhen and Xiao Chong are having wine.

How can I be full from the banquet just now.

So after sending Ma Yanmin away, they set up a table downstairs and called Nie Dong and Shi Wenhui over.

"The county magistrate did a good job. Relying on their reputation in the scholastic circle, these big gentry are confident and fearless. It's really hateful. The destruction of the Wang family this time has the effect of killing chickens and monkeys. In the future, those powerful families will probably be caught. Be a man with your tail up."

Shi Wenhui is a scholar himself, and he knows the virtues of these wealthy families best.

What Han Zhen did made him feel extremely relieved, and he picked up the wine glass and drank it down.

Hearing this, Liu Qi quit immediately, and retorted: "My uncle's family is different, they are very low-key, and never get involved in these messy things."

"Who is your uncle?"

Shi Wenhui couldn't help being taken aback.

Liu Kai replied, "Xie Ding."

"Xie Ding? Oh, so it's the Xie family in Fuyang. The Xie family has been poor for many generations, so it's really different. I'll punish myself for a slip of the tongue."

As Shi Wenhui said, he drank another glass of wine.

Han Zhen picked up a piece of sauced beef and stuffed it into his mouth, and asked, "Xiao Chong, what happened to what I asked you to do?"

Xiaochong replied: "According to Second Brother Han's request, we have adopted 23 children, all of them are around twelve or thirteen years old, and they are clever."

"Ok!"

Han Zhen nodded and ordered: "Take care of them first, and I will teach them personally when I am free for a while."

"it is good!"

Xiao Chong nodded.

Nie Dong and the other three on the side remained silent, pretending they hadn't heard.

Even if the curiosity is as strong as Liu Kai, at this moment, he immerses himself in the food without asking.

When he was full of wine and food, Han Zhen took the tea from Xiao Chong, took a sip, and ordered: "After you two go back tomorrow, start to organize the army, and send troops to Shouguang the day after tomorrow!"

Send troops to Shouguang?

Their eyes lit up immediately.

Liu Kai hurriedly asked: "The county magistrate wants to beat Zhang Wanxian?"

Han Zhen wrote lightly: "This person has been jumping around for a while, and it's time to clean up."

Zhang Wanxian will definitely fight.

To fight against the outside world, one must first secure the inside. He didn't want to have a rebel force behind him ready to move when he was in a decisive battle with the Western Army.

Moreover, Zhang Wanxian is entrenched in Shouguang and Changping counties, blocking the official road and preventing the refined salt business from spreading smoothly to Weizhou, Laizhou and Dengzhou.

Of course, these are not the point.

The most important thing is that Shouguang County is next to Guangling Salt.

Guangling is the largest salt-producing area on Jingdong East Road, surrounded by countless large and small salt households, who produce tens of millions of catties of sea salt every year.

Second only to Huainan Road.

Since ancient times, salt and iron have been the most profitable industries. Especially in the late Northern Song Dynasty, salt tax accounted for almost 40% of the tax revenue of the entire Song Dynasty!

The reason for such huge profits is because of the system of salt supervision in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The court of the Northern Song Dynasty did not produce salt, and did not set up any official salt-making workshops. Instead, it set up salt supervisors in various salt-producing areas, directly designated a group of salt households, and let these salt households produce salt, and then bought them from them at a very low price. The coarse salt was taken away, and then sold to salt merchants.

Zhu Ji went to New Town to discuss the coarse salt business some time ago, so he knew the cost of coarse salt very well.

According to him, the government Salt Supervisory Authority gives salt households in New Town more than 3 yuan in subsidies every year, but requires them to pay nearly 12 kilograms of salt, which is equivalent to a cost of only 0.4 yuan per kilogram of salt.After the government received the 0.4 cents, they simply sold it to the salt merchants for forty or fifty cents, making a profit of more than a hundred times.

In addition, Cai Jing came up with the salt introduction method a few years ago. If salt merchants want to sell salt, they must first buy salt at a high price.

In this way, he made an extra fortune from the salt merchant.

With this coming and going, the court has earned at least two or three hundred times the profit.

In contrast, the refined salt sold by Han Zhen, after excluding the cost and labor, only has a profit of only a dozen or twenty times, which is simply nothing.

As long as we win the Guangling Salt Works, build several salt factories, and adopt more advanced sun-drying methods to cooperate with assembly line operations, it is no exaggeration to say that the annual crude salt production can be increased by at least five times.

By that time, you can earn tens of millions of dollars just from coarse salt and refined salt.

Hearing that there was a battle to be fought, Nie Dong immediately cheered up and suggested: "County magistrate, why don't you return to the barracks immediately and send troops tomorrow."

"No hurries!"

Han Zhen scolded lightly, and explained: "This matter still needs the cooperation of the Wuwei Army, as a bait. Liu Kai!"

"The end is here!"

Liu Kai clasped his fists in response.

Han Zhen ordered: "Tomorrow you will lead the cavalry battalion, bring the state government dispatch documents, and go to take over the Wuwei and Zhenhai Second Army. If Luo Sha and the others cooperate, they will be spared. If they do not cooperate, they will be killed!"

"The last will obey!"

Liu Kai's eyes were full of excitement.

Han Zhen looked at Nie Dong again: "Nie Dong!"

"The end is here!"

"The day after tomorrow lead [-] infantry, go into battle lightly, lie down day and night, rush ahead of the Wuwei army, and go around to the rear of Shouguang."

Then, Han Zhen talked about the general plan again.

After listening, Nie Dong and Liu Kai pondered for a moment, then nodded in agreement and said, "This plan is very clever!"

Han Zhen warned: "Of course, the battle situation is changing rapidly, and the plan will never keep up with the changes. You can adapt to the situation when you wait."

He doesn't want to micromanage.

Don't use people with suspicion, don't use people who are suspicious.

Besides, one of them is a veteran of the Western Army, and the other is a future famous anti-gold general, so they don't need others to point fingers at all.

The army of the Northern Song Dynasty was spoiled by civilian officials in this way.

Every time the Song Dynasty sent troops abroad, a group of civil servants in the Privy Council would discuss the battle map and present it to the emperor.

The emperor selects a formation map and distributes it to the frontline generals.

The military officer leading the army must strictly follow the battle formation chart issued by the Privy Council, and must not change it without permission.

Isn't this fucking nonsense?
The battlefield is the place most affected by the butterfly effect, and often an inconspicuous arrow can change the direction of a war.

Therefore, generals must deploy different tactics at every moment according to changes in terrain and weather.

Formulating a battle formation in advance and requiring the army to strictly implement it is purely cerebral palsy.

Of course, there was a reason why civil officials in the Northern Song Dynasty liked to play this trick.

Its source is Gaolianghe Chariot God, the first master of micromanagement, Zhao Er.

Even in the fourth year of Yongxi's reign, Zhao Er gathered dozens of civil servants and together with him made the famous "Ping Rong Wan Quan Zhen Tu".

Look at the name of this formation, it's Pingrong and Wanquan, it's really mighty and domineering.

After Song Zhenzong succeeded to the throne, Zhao Heng carried forward micro-manipulation, and sent out dozens of array maps in Xianping years alone.

At this point, later emperors and civil officials were out of control.

Even Zong Ze taught Yue Fei a few formations from time to time, but Yue Fei picked it up clearly, accepted the formation with a smile on his face, and turned his head to arrange the formation according to his own ideas.

"The last will be saved!"

Nie Dong and Liu Qi agreed together.

Han Zhen called again: "Shi Wenhui!"

"What is the order of the county magistrate?"

Shi Wenhui hastily put down the teacup.

Han Zhen confessed: "You are a native of Shouguang County, and you are familiar with the Ganchi Army. This time, you will join the army as a recorder and go out with Nie Dong. After defeating Shouguang and Changping, you will temporarily serve as magistrates of the two counties to appease the army. People's hearts, gather the fleeing households."

"Subordinate to obey!"

Shi Wenhui looked solemn and stood up to bow.

He knew that his real test was coming.

These two days were just talk on paper, this time was the touchstone to test his talent.

"It's getting late, let's go."

After arranging matters, Han Zhen slowly stood up.

Nie Dong and the others followed him out of the restaurant and walked towards the mansion.

……

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The next day.

The news that the Wang family was exterminated spread throughout the county.

Although Zhao Ting put all the blame on the remnants of the Ganchi Army, it still aroused the suspicion of some scholars.

On the second floor of a teahouse in the north of the city, several scholars were sitting in front of the window, holding a tabloid in their hands.

A scholar with a thin face said indignantly: "What a dare to blame the rest, this must be Han Zhen's doing!"

"Brother Wen Yang's words, I dare not agree."

As soon as the words fell, another slightly rich scholar retorted: "I see that Han Zhen's actions since he entered the city can be called a wise lord, how could he do such a violent act."

"The affairs of the Wang family are full of loopholes. Let's not talk about how the remnants of Ganchi hid in the Wang family. It is obvious that since the destruction of the Wang family until now, not even one of the remnants of Ganchi has been caught."

"If you say so, why is there nothing wrong with the Su family and the Ma family?"

"..."

Such discussions are held everywhere in the county.

But it can't make any waves.

Zhao Ting's status as a governor of the state is still very useful after all, and Han Zhen's various behaviors after entering the city are extremely popular among the people.

Skeptics, after all, are only a few people, and the vast majority of ordinary people and scholars believe in the statement that dare to remnant evil.

Two bullock carts stepped on the morning light and walked slowly towards the Fuya.

(End of this chapter)