The Infinite Heavens Run Away

Chapter 255 7.11 Tian Feng refuses to recruit for half a year of development
Chapter 7 I forged the soul of Han in the Three Kingdoms
7.11 Tian Feng refused to recruit and developed in half a year

"Gongtai, have you finished dealing with the Xu family?" It was just a small subordinate family, so Deng Feng easily arranged it, leaving some finishing work to Chen Gong.

"Replying to my lord, everything has been dealt with. It just so happened that Wenyuan sent back another group of prisoners, so I arranged for the manpower to set up a third army farm. This is the staff arrangement of the farm." Chen Gong handed over a scroll of bamboo slips as he spoke .

"Just look at the arrangements for this little thing." Deng Feng really didn't care about this nonsense, "In just the past few days, Wenyuan wiped out another copycat?"

"Actually, there are two." Chen Gong also expressed his admiration for Zhang Liao's ability to lead troops, "He was killed along the way, and there were basically no casualties.

But in this way, it will be difficult to deal with the prisoners in the future, and they cannot all be killed. In fact, they are also innocent people.

Many of the so-called 'bandit villages' are actually a group of ordinary people who form an army to protect themselves. They rarely even collect tolls on weekdays. It is inhumane to kill them too much. "

"This is not simple. Every time we clean out a few cottages and see that the prisoners are almost enough, we can just get some evidence and give it to a subordinate force or family of the Zhang family. We should follow the principle of proximity. Don't worry about whether it is reasonable or not, just do it.

If the Zhang family wants to cause trouble for me through the capital, I can only say that they are overthinking it; if they dare to play tricks outside the market, then I hope they will do it as soon as possible. "

Deng Feng sneered and said his strategy, which was cruel and effective, "If they do nothing, that would be better. Let me see who else dares to cooperate with their Zhang family in the future!"

"Yes, lord!" Even though he knew that this method was the most suitable, Chen Gong still felt a little cold. He quickly saluted and accepted the order, and handed over a roll of bamboo slips. "One more thing, my lord went to Hebei to recruit Tian Feng. The messenger has returned, and this is the reply."

"Rejected?" Deng Feng asked while opening the bamboo slips.

"Tian Feng is also a famous person in Hebei. It's not surprising that he has a temper." Chen Gong said with a wry smile.

"It's really no wonder that he only has fame and nothing else." Deng Feng finished scanning the reply and threw it on the case with disdain, "This talk is so crazy that it has no limits."

To put it simply, Tian Feng's reply means that I won't go, and I don't like you, the bought prefect, and don't come to me in the future. Not only that, this Tian Feng Yuanhao's tone and attitude when he spoke did not hide anything. What you say is so infuriating.

In the original book, he was almost Yuan Shao's chief counselor, but he ended up in prison and being killed, and almost all Yuan Shao's factions didn't speak up when he had an accident. Deng Feng thought he was just speaking too bluntly. Looking at it now, he is really pitiful. There must be something hateful about people.

"This Yuan Hao may just be - well, not good at socializing with others." Chen Gong awkwardly explained forcefully that he was also a scholar and at least wanted to say a few words to Tian Feng, who was also a well-known scholar.

"Not sociable? Forget it." Deng Feng curled his lips disdainfully, "If you don't want to come, don't come. There's nothing to say. How can I force him? But what did he say?
'You are a person who bends your knees and eunuchs, a person who buys official positions with wealth, I disdain to associate with you.'It would be fine if he was really in a high and powerful position, or even in a noble place. However, he is a white man and is so poor that he can only support himself. Would he still have the nerve to treat me with disdain and play the role of 'proud prince in white' for me?

It's good for me to buy an official position, and I earned the money myself. If he wants to do this, he has to wait until he can really look down on the prince.

It is useless for people like him, no matter how powerful they are, they will always look down on this or that. No matter what kind of force the world is, it must first be a whole, and then it can develop externally.

But as long as he is around, it will at least cause internal discord among the civil servants. Having him with him will do more harm than good, and may even outweigh the gain.I was really blind to waste a call-up on him. "

"Lord, this -" Chen Gong broke out in a cold sweat. He really didn't expect it to be so serious, because celebrities in this era are so pissed off, scolding this and scolding that. If you want me to do things, you have to provide for me well. .

But with this comment from Deng Feng, I can say bluntly that as long as Deng Feng's words are spread, they will spread all over the world within half a year. Don't forget, how many major county governors are there in the world?
And as long as these words continue to ferment, Tian Feng will definitely be completely useless in this life, and can only close the door by himself and play with his own bullshit "proud prince in white clothes"!

Will this word get out?hehe!

Chen Gong didn't dare to say anything more and bowed before retreating.

Although he failed to recruit Tian Feng, Deng Feng's messenger was not wasted. He brought back a dozen literati who were frustrated in Hebei. There were no great talents, but they could be used as makeshift ones. Deng Feng handed them all over. Chen Gong, let him make arrangements by himself.

He has never been a capable and ambitious person. If he was asked to manage, let alone a small town in Shangdang County, he would be able to work in the sewers.

Fortunately, it doesn't matter if you can't do it yourself, just leave the work to those who can. Fortunately, Chen Gong is a good civil servant, whether it is described in the original book or the current situation.

Since there is no hope of recruiting any great original writers in a short period of time, Deng Feng decided to give up these unrealistic plans and instead look for those low-level literati who are literate and arithmetic, capable but not outstanding, and arrogant but not stupid. .

Since there is no quality, just find more and pile it up with quantity, and you can still get by.

The importance of the next six months or so cannot be overstated for Deng Feng.

The first thing is to build the army.Deng Feng attaches great importance to the quality of the army. Anyone who is Chinese knows the basic common sense that "the quality of soldiers is more valuable than the quantity of soldiers."

However, it is not enough to focus on quality without quantity. In addition, under the current time background, it is impossible for Deng Feng to really expand the army at all costs, so it is just a simple expansion.

The first is the cavalry, which has been officially expanded to 1200 people. The calculation method of the number of cavalry is different from that of infantry. 600 cavalry can be counted as a unit, and 300 can be counted as a song.

In this way, Zhang Liao and Huang Zhong both had two troops. Deng Feng officially promoted them to school captains and reported them to the Ministry of War.

Not only that, but now these 1200 cavalry are all equipped with cavalry crossbows with an effective range of up to 40 steps, and they are truly "full-state crossbow cavalry".

The second is the infantry. In fact, there is not much change. It just expands the number of pure spearmen to 1200. The person in charge is still Gao Shun. Deng Feng naturally promoted him to school captain. There is nothing to say about these people. They still follow the original standards. Just expand.

The third is the crossbowmen. Deng Feng has expanded to 600 people, which is basically half the ratio of spearmen. During the battle for more than half a year, the lethality of these crossbowmen has been unanimously recognized by everyone. I also understood the reason why Deng Feng spent a lot of money to expand.

Shi A, the current chief of the crossbow corps, is also a school lieutenant.

The fourth is the professional arms, that is, engineering troops, medical troops, and baggage troops. Deng Feng only doubled the number of vehicle-mounted crossbows and medical troops, which can better ensure the combat effectiveness of the army.

The baggage and heavy troops remained the same, except that a certain number of people and carriages were added to ensure effective supplies when larger forces were dispatched.These professional arms are currently in charge of Zhao Feng, who is also a school captain.

Finally, there is a special establishment, which is the Guard Battalion, or the Youth Lecture Hall, led by Wang Yue. Deng Feng has expanded to 200 people and will continue to expand in the future, and there is no upper limit.

Deng Feng deliberately distorted the report of these troops. The explanation was roughly "adopting some orphans without fathers and mothers so that they can grow up healthily and they will all be considered servants by then."

Professional training and education have made their progress very obvious. At least Deng Feng finally has the confidence that there will be enough manpower to ensure the control of the troops when the world changes in two or three years.

Wang Yue had few people in his hands. Although he was very important, his abilities were limited. Even if Deng Feng thought he was just a song and granted him the position of military marquis, the old official was laughing so hard that he could hardly see his eyes.

Now, the number of main combat troops under Deng Feng has reached 3000, and the total number of professional troops has reached more than 600. As a county, even if Shangdang is a large county, the number of troops it can control has reached the upper limit. No matter how many more troops there are, , the capital should make arrangements.

Second is military action.In the past half year or so, something happened in Shangdang County, or something Deng Feng did that shocked the court, that is, there is no longer even a single family of bandits or bandits in the entire Shangdang County.

All the above personnel were either killed or captured and sent to establish military camps. This set a precedent in the entire world.

Not only that, Deng Feng also took advantage of the opportunity of cleaning up the place to clean up some small local families who were full of resentment and committed all kinds of evil. After their land was confiscated, they were all arranged to suppress the bandits' captive military camps.

Now, he already has ten large-scale reclamation farms with tens of thousands of acres. I dare not say anything else. At least the court no longer needs to worry about military rations.As for the various supplies, grains, and debts that were seized, Deng Feng handed them over to Chen Gong for disposal without asking any questions. This also made the chief envoy of the prefecture - Deng Feng had already promoted him - famous all over the world.

After all, a civil official who can be trusted by a prefect must first have enough ability. If he does completely rubbish, that fool dares to trust him so much?

Another hidden benefit of this incident is that it greatly improved Deng Feng's reputation. At least in the eyes of most people, Deng Feng's reputation as being able to know, train, and use troops was completely established.

The third is local governance.Deng Feng left all the administrative work to Chen Gong, but he didn't let it go. He would check on the situation and make suggestions from time to time. The most important thing was to pay close attention to public security.

The first is to establish a professional police team, which is different from the original government officials. The police are a purely violent unit, which is responsible for maintaining local stability and fighting various crimes.

The total number of people seemed to be about 300. For this reason, Deng Feng specially transferred two of Wang Yue's apprentices out of the army to be responsible for such work.

The number is not large, but considering the population of this era, it can be said bluntly that the number of police officers per capita in Shangdang County is almost close to that in real society.

Not only that, in order to forcefully attack the forces that undermine peace and tranquility in society, Deng Feng approved the use of county soldiers countless times, especially the concentrated fire coverage of cavalry and crossbowmen. Basically, after a salvo, there were not many people who would not surrender. .

Deng Feng did not waste any time. The arrested scum and a large number of prisoners in the prison were all organized and carried out various infrastructure projects under the forced supervision of the army. The most important thing was to build roads and bridges.

Although more than half a year is not enough time for Shangdang County to undergo any obvious changes, anyone with a little discernment can see that these developments are in the right direction. At least Chen Gong has thoroughly understood Deng Feng's operations. Kneel down.

Of course, someone has made great progress. According to the productivity level of feudal society, someone must have paid a price. Needless to say, it is the Zhang family in Bingzhou.

The first is the shrinking power.

Deng Feng's work of suppressing bandits has never been just for suppressing bandits. The real core work is to wipe out local powerful people and expand his personal strength.

Unfortunately, most of the local tycoons who were swept away were subordinates of the Zhang family. Although the forces of the Ding family, another wealthy family in Bingzhou, also suffered losses, they were the type that really could not keep them alive. Overall, the losses were Not big.

Especially when comparing the Zhang family, because Deng Feng has cleaned up more than half of the Zhang family's subordinate forces, and every family that has been cleaned up has iron-clad evidence, the kind of iron-clad evidence that does not leave any doubt, so that the Zhang family is There is no way to operate it.

Secondly, his status dropped drastically.

It's not that the Zhang family didn't think about counterattack and revenge. The problem was that the assassins they sent were useless in front of Deng Feng. Although they had military strength, they were almost wiped out in half a year.

Forget it, anyway, during this period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, although there were a lot of internal and external troubles, and the whole was a powder keg, just short of a spark, it was still in an overall stable state.

It was impossible for the Zhang family to really use military strength to deal with a legitimate governor of a large county. They used their own power in the court from the beginning.

Unfortunately, their strength was completely wasted.

On the one hand, Deng Feng secretly took care of Queen He and General He Jin, who openly belonged to Zhang Rang's forces. Over the past year, he had never failed to give confessions to these people in private.

Anyway, Deng Feng has a lot of all kinds of gold and jewelry, and he doesn't care about this consumption at all. He can get it back in the future while the world is in chaos, so why not do it?

On the other hand, the power of civil servants and literati in this era is far from what it was after the Song Dynasty. Generally speaking, the world is still led by the military and nobles.

Even if a few complaint memorials were successful, they would have limited effect on a large county governor or a governor who performed well in all aspects.

Finally, and most importantly, although the general He Jin and the eunuch Zhang Rang, or the Han Lingdi behind Zhang Rang, had conflicts in various aspects, the two sides had a tacit understanding when it came to fighting against powerful families.

Especially when there was no need to act by yourself and someone took the initiative to take the initiative, both sides suppressed these pressures naturally, so that Deng Feng did not feel the problem from the court at all.

My little brother can't defend, the enemy who cleans up his little brother can't be defeated, and his power keeps shrinking. With all these things added up, who would want to hang out with the Zhang family?
As a result, many forces or families that originally belonged to the Zhang family have chosen to join the Ding family or other big families.

The most direct manifestation of this is that when negotiating with the Ding family, the Zhang family's attitude is getting softer and softer, with fewer and fewer conditions, and now it has even begun to make concessions in many aspects.

There is nothing you can do about this, because the volume of your speech is directly proportional to the intensity of your strength. If you don't have strength in your hands, you will naturally have to speak softer.

Deng Feng also suspended the suppression of the Zhang family at the right time, because if the suppression continued, the Ding family would become the dominant family in Bingzhou, which would not do Deng Feng any good.

Perhaps realizing this, the Zhang family basically stopped tit-for-tat with Deng Feng, and even contacted Deng Feng through Zhang Liao, and the two sides reached a tacit understanding to stop confrontation and cooperate against the Ding family.

But it was just a tacit understanding. At least in the eyes of the world, the Deng family and the Zhang family were sworn enemies. The two sides fought for more than a year after Deng Feng took office. The Zhang family even got involved with a direct descendant of the young master. These news It is no longer a secret among the major forces in the world.

Regarding Deng Feng's attitude of resolute struggle with the Bingzhou family, Zhang Rang and the general He Jin who finally remembered to contact him all sent news to affirm and praise his performance.

Especially after Deng Feng increased his offer to Zhang Rang and began to provide a small amount of iron ingots to He Jin, both parties promised him that they would be responsible for the Zhang family's pressure on the court, and Deng Feng did not need to care.

The golden autumn season has arrived in the blink of an eye, and Deng Feng's power has been completely stabilized, and there is no possibility of his rise in a short time.

On the one hand, his official position was bought, so there is not much room for advancement; on the other hand, the strength in his hands has reached the highest level of the current name, and it is basically a type of conspiracy, there is really no way.

Deng Feng had no choice but to take the wrong approach and promote commercial development on a large scale in a timely manner so as to accumulate enough money and gain a better position in the great changes in the world in the future.

On the one hand, there is business on the grassland. The main method is to smuggle all kinds of bronze weapons into the grassland.

Most of them are the leftovers from the original county soldiers, the normal replenishment of the current imperial court, and new goods obtained through means. Ironware was still high-end goods in the late Han Dynasty, so Deng Feng was stupid to smuggle it to the grassland.

The goal is naturally to exchange for precious war horses, as well as leather, medicinal materials, cattle and sheep and other special products on the prairie. It mainly started after the army was formally formed, and the money earned by now is much higher than the tax revenue of the entire Shangdang County .

Not only money income, these prairie treasures can also be exchanged for many other things. For example, war horses can make friends with the court forces on a large scale.

In the past six months, he has secretly delivered more than 300 high-quality war horses to He Jin, which made the general's favorability towards Deng Feng soar. However, for some unknown reason, the abandoned military camp originally prepared for him is still in an abandoned state. .

On the other hand, caravans were formed to sell various local specialties in Bingzhou as well as a large number of leather goods and medicinal materials traded from the grasslands to various places, mainly trading with aristocratic families in various places, in exchange for massive amounts of grain, grass and salt.

This includes the Mi family in Xuzhou and the two big businessmen in Youzhou who appeared at the beginning of "Three Kingdoms"-Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang.

The three frontier states, namely Youzhou, Bingzhou and Liangzhou, are all short of these things. Deng Feng doesn't even have to hide it. He makes profit from buying and selling on the surface, but privately he secretly stocks up. At least with his current military strength, the inventory in hand can guarantee them for a year. You will never be hungry without supplies.

In the end, it is to use these business channels to set up an intelligence system with fairly good results, which is currently in charge of Cheng Lingsu.

However, Deng Feng did not wait too long, because the opportunity came.

(End of this chapter)