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Chapter 154 Opening the House and Establishing Dentistry, A County’s Foundation

Perhaps it was because the court's orthodox name was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, or Gao Hu's attitude was too arrogant and domineering, which aroused everyone's disgust.

Several gentry officials immediately yelled, each one was filled with anger.

"What, Heavenly Court Sixth Rank Ancient Lord, General Subduing Demons?"

"What name is this?"

"Could it be made up at random and used to fool us."

However, Shou Heng was the county magistrate after all, and after half a year in office, he also promoted several sixth house officials as confidantes.

Seeing Shou Heng's silence and embarrassment, they thought it was because of the reckless man in the city, so they all cursed.

As a scholar, he has read a lot of "books of sages and sages", and he is not at all inferior to scolding Gao Hu and others.

"You bastards, you are extremely poor and dirty."

"You guys, don't make trouble!"

"My dear, how dare a reckless man fight with the imperial court..."

It's just that one side's vulgar language is flying all over the sky, and the other side is also cursing with a stick, which is quite elegant.

"Okay, stop!"

Shou Heng angrily reprimanded his subordinates to stop scolding and fighting, and then said with a gloomy face: "Hurry up and ask the Taoist official to come over, I know Tianjue, and I have seen this Tianting Gujue in a certain Taoist scripture."

"Yes, magistrate, I'll go right away."

There was a sudden silence on the top of the city. Among them, there were quite a few scholars, but the one who really understood the Daoist scriptures should be Shou Heng, a fellow Jinshi.

Could it be that there really is a so-called Lord Fumo General?
Why did the Heavenly Court violate the default rules of the upper and lower realms and intervene in mortal affairs like this.

Opening a mansion and building teeth in the name of Tianjue, how can they stop it!
To fight, or not to fight, they will be roasted on the fire.

Soon, the army was getting closer, and the Taoist officials who had been sent to invite them hurried to the head of Beicheng.

Shou Heng frowned slightly when he saw that the Taoist official who had rushed over was very young, and then he cupped his hands uncomfortablely and asked, "Is this Taoist official Xianyun here? Isn't Zhang Lingdao in the city?"

In the mortal world, although it is regarded as the orthodox mainstream practice path, it is to first follow the law, and to learn the scientific way.

But it is often the places where monks produce the most monks who travel alone and the big and small sects in various places.

During the course of the imperial examination, only those who have successfully passed the imperial examination have the qualifications to practice Taoism, but how many candidates can there be in one imperial examination.

Zhou Bai participated in the Dingzhou Township Examination in Xiangxing 46, a whole big state, and the number of applicants was only [-].

The provincial examination is only held once every three years, which means that in the 300-year dynasty, Dingzhou can only have [-] candidates.

Except for those who are dedicated to being officials and enjoying wealth and honor, there are no more than half of the five thousand people left.

How many of these half can really enter the Tao, and how many can make a breakthrough after entering the Tao and live to the present.

The world of cultivating immortals in Dingzhou is not considered prosperous, but there are only a few hundred orthodox Juren monks in the area, which is really only a minority.

It is too difficult for scattered cultivators to seek the Tao, and it is difficult to gather together to form a general trend. Zongmen monks are the ones that must be controlled by the heaven and the court.

All sects on the roster of the imperial court's Daolu Department must regularly send sect disciples, deacons and even elders to serve as imperial court officials.

It's just that the imperial court cherishes its own luck and is reluctant to give too much profit to the sect. The ranks of Taoist officials given by successive dynasties will be very low.

Generally speaking, one can be a ninth-rank ordinary Taoist official in the Taoist realm, and one can be an eighth-rank leader Taoist official in the Transcendence Realm, also known as the leading Taoist.

The leading Taoist official is usually the person in charge of the Taoist official in the county, who can handle extraordinary events within a county, and the imperial court will usually endorse him.

At the seventh rank, only the real Yinshen can act. A county is the political center of thousands of miles, and most of the time there is only one real Taoist official sitting in the town.

No matter whether Shou Heng is scheming or not, and he likes to drill camps, his background of the top three and Jinshi is solid.

For real people with the same life span as Guochao, even if they have the same official rank, he will treat them like a lower official.

And the Zhang Lingdao that Shou Heng said was the head of the Taoist officials in his jurisdiction, so naturally he should be respected.

As for Xianyun, an ordinary young Xiaodao, he probably just entered the Taoist realm for a few years.

In addition, he had also heard that he was from a bad background, he was a core disciple of an ordinary small sect, and he couldn't even squeeze out a man who could serve as a Taoist official for a few years.

Outside the city, the demon army is about to arrive, but the leader who can really relieve his worries is not there, how can he have much patience with Xianyun.

Xian Yun seemed to see Shou Heng's attitude, and handed out the seal of the eighth-rank Taoist official in his arms, and replied neither humble nor overbearing: "Zhang Lingdao has left the seal yesterday, and his whereabouts are unknown."

"What, why didn't I, the county magistrate, get any news? Isn't he afraid that the Daolu Division will question him?!" Shou Heng's face became more and more ugly, and the veins on his forehead were bulging, obviously extremely angry.

That leader is from the second realm of Pingcang, well-informed, probably because he has learned of the news in Hongni Township, and doesn't want to get into trouble again.

Dong Yi, the county magistrate next to him, received the seal of the Taoist official. After inspection, it was indeed the official seal made by the imperial court's Daolu Department.

"Scholars from other places are not to be trusted! I must read him a book!" Shou Heng slapped the battlements, and the severe pain could not cover up his panic at this moment.

The leaders all ran away, and there was a high probability that Zhou Bai had the Tianjue story that it was true.

Shou Heng's attitude did not make Xianyun feel uncomfortable, but continued: "Xiao Dao studied the history of the sect, and the handbook I sent to Kaishan Patriarch did record the matter of Tianjue. Tianjue's decency deceives everyone."

The last sentence is a very concise truth, as a heavenly being, how dare you act in the name of a noble in the heavenly court.

There were no really stupid people present, they didn't want to believe Gao Hu's words, just because they were too unbelievable.

How long has Zhou Bai been a genius, how can He De achieve such a genius? !
Some officials and gentry were still struggling, but the representatives sent here by the historians and the Yu family quietly left while taking advantage of the confusion.

They were not the only ones who were wise. The county lieutenant Xu Yun rolled his eyes, and suddenly clutched his stomach and yelled of abdominal pain. Then he left the city with the support of his own soldiers.

The incident happened so suddenly that even Shou Heng had no time to stop it.

The master who had been silent all this time couldn't sit still anymore, and quickly whispered in his ear: "My lord, you should choose trustworthy soldiers to defend here."

Shou Heng looked around, except for the three classes of yamen servants he could control, they were all county soldiers and inspectors.

While sweating coldly on his forehead, he ordered loudly: "Order, Captain Yitu's battalion will guard the north gate, and the rest of the soldiers will withdraw first."

Since the last time he found out that Xu Yun didn't listen to his call, Shou Heng spent a lot of money to buy this battalion of county soldiers.

Regardless of loyalty or not, Tu Xiaowei, the county barracks officer, was very cooperative because he wanted to follow the footsteps of the sixth prince and was transferred to Lingzhou for promotion.

In the noisy and chaotic change of defense, I don't know how many powerful gentry left, and even the chief secretary Chen Gu was mixed in with the soldiers in the lower city.

When the battalion of county soldiers had just taken control of the walls and gates of the northern city, the subduing demons led by Zhou Bai arrived slowly.

At noon in mid-autumn, the sun was shining brightly, and five thousand subduing demon troops stood under the city of Pingcang, orderly and silent.

Everyone wears black armor, sharp equipment, swords, guns, shields, bows and arrows and other weapons are complete.

The Yidu vanguard horse army who rushed to the door first, all of them were brave and elite, already made Shou Heng and other officials feel very dangerous. The three capital horse troops in Pingcang County's soldiers were all on board, and it would be difficult for them to win a big victory.

Now the Demon Subduing Army below is a strong army!
A whole ten battalions of infantry, fully equipped with armor and equipment, how did this do it?
They couldn't understand how the Zhou family, who was a villager half a year ago, could support five thousand troops.

The people in the frontier are fierce, and it is possible to force five thousand warriors into an army, but where do these weapons come from.

Especially the five thousand sets of Xuanjia, could it be that they are supported by the Kingdom of Jin?

Shou Heng was only an elite class of Daxu, and he realized that it was impossible after a little thought. Five thousand armors were also an extremely large number for Jin Guo.

So far, only the core infantry of the Kingdom of Jin has iron armor.

The higher-ups don't understand, so how can the soldiers guarding the city understand, and people will have invisible fear of things they don't understand.

Just standing there, the dark demon subduing army made many county soldiers fear in their hearts.

Many of them have participated in the suppression of bandits in Cangshan, and they understand that if the other party is the kind of village inspector, it will be easy to take down the county.

"Finally, let me declare once again that General Fumo is adhering to the destiny and preparing to wipe out the enemies outside the territory. Now, Pingcang County needs to be requisitioned as the place where the mansion will be established."

"Open the door within half an hour, otherwise my demon army will directly attack the city!"

With all the crouching demon troops in place, Gao Hu's voice became louder and louder, and the voice that contained the true energy of martial arts was rolling like thunder.

Ever since Zhou Bai was recognized as the master, his military star destiny gradually came into play, and he practiced the martial art of killing and defeating in the essentials of martial arts, and his advances made rapid progress.

Now Gao Hu is already at the peak of the day after tomorrow, only one step away from the limit of ordinary people's martial arts, a congenital master.

"Kill!" The five thousand Volunteer Demon Army yelled to kill in unison, and their blood surged up, shaking up the dust on the city wall.

Colonel Tu's face changed unsteadily. Looking at the Demon Subduing Army who immediately built ladders and battering hammers below, he realized that he seemed to have been fooled.

Pingcang lacks water all the year round, and even the county seat has no moat, so it is completely possible to attack the city directly.

Following Shou Heng now, not only would he have no future, but he might even lose his life.

Captain Tu felt that he couldn't wait any longer, so he hurriedly ran to Shou Heng to ask for orders: "Master Xu, I have dealt with Editor Zhou before, maybe we can negotiate terms."

What else can Shou Heng do at this time, civil servants like them in the peaceful and prosperous times naturally have high positions and powers, and everything can be settled.

But now that troubled times are coming, and there are no soldiers in hand, it's not just that we can only listen to the opinions of generals.

"Go ahead and tell Zhou Bai that he is still Daxu's Hanlin editor and Yunqiwei, and he wants to show respect to the court."

With the approval, Tu Xiaowei gritted his teeth and acted as the county magistrate's envoy, and actually went out of the city to meet Zhou Bai in person.

I thought that Shou Heng's concession would take a lot of time, at least back and forth, so that he wouldn't be able to attack the city again today.

As a result, without a cup of tea, Colonel Natu returned to the city in a disheveled basket.

"Xianzun, this is General Fu Mo's resignation form, which I told you to hand over to the imperial court."

Shou Heng took it over and took a look, and it was indeed Zhou Bai's resignation form compiled by the Hanlin. The content was extremely dry, with a few simple sentences.

The general idea is that since he is the general who subdues the demons in the heavenly court, he should concentrate on heavenly affairs, but he cannot perform his duties in the Imperial Academy, so he hereby submits his resignation.

This is shameless, Shou Heng has no more reliance, he can only ask in a daze: "Then the title of Lieutenant Yun, he has no resignation?"

Captain Tu replied in embarrassment: "General Fumo said that Captain Yunqi was the result of killing the Jinren, and it is proof that he has protected the country and the people, so there is no need to resign."

When Shou Heng heard this, he knew that Zhou Bai only wanted to get a position without responsibility.

Resigning from the official position, keeping the title of Captain Yunqi, maybe there is nothing to talk about with him, the county magistrate of Pingcang, but it happens to leave some room for maneuver in the court.

If he becomes bigger in the future, maybe the imperial court will confer some fifth-class nobleman on him.

Shou Heng already understood that he had nothing to do with Zhou Bai.

At the same time, he thought of the group of colleagues who were also under the command of the sixth prince, all of whom had found good positions in Lingzhou.

However, after coming to Dingzhou for more than half a year, not only did he achieve nothing, but he was forced into such a desperate situation.

It seems that if he can't open the city gate now, he doesn't have a good way out.

Shou Heng laughed angrily: "Hahaha, you are doing heavenly affairs and want to separate yourself from one side, do you think I can't see Zhou Bai's intentions?"

"Today, I want to see if this Heavenly Court's Demon Subduing General will attack the city!"

While Tu Xiaowei and Xian Cheng were still there to persuade Shou Heng, news from other places kept coming.

"Report, the historians and the Yu family have bought the guards of the south gate, and the south gate is out of control now."

"Xianzun, something happened to the east gate, the Master Registrar led the Chen family to seize the east gate!"

"Report, there was a fight in the city. It was because the houses of the Zhao family heard that the Zhou family's army was coming, and they wanted to escape from Pingcang."

"The gentry in the city don't want you to go to war with General Fu Mo, and now they have written a letter of guarantee, saying that they can explain the situation to the court for you."

In just half an hour, the majestic majesty of a county fell into a situation of betrayal.

Time is fate, the right time, place and people have all been lost. He feels that Zhou Bai's rise of troops this time will happen naturally without any changes.

Shou Heng suddenly became depressed, his face looked haggard, and then looked at the eyes of Captain Natu and the surrounding county soldiers, he knew that if he persisted, his life would be in danger.

"Master, master, the lord is still up to you..."

The master who subconsciously called out was not around at this time, and he did not know when to abandon him.

"Forget it, let's open the city, I'll be at my mercy."

Then a dramatic scene appeared. When the county magistrate who wanted to hold on to the city gave up resistance and opened the north gate, the cheers far outweighed the pessimism and frustration.

There were no battles and no casualties, and it wasn't Jinren or other foreign enemies who came anyway.

The heavenly man Zhou Bai who was not born in this world is his own person in the eyes of his fathers and villagers, and he is the pride of Pingcang.

Such a person bringing his army to Pingcang will not only do no harm, but will make the county even safer.

Last year, a small group of Jin people crossed Cangshan Mountain, only the township patrol led by Zhou Bai dared to take the initiative to attack, and the county soldiers and patrol soldiers guarding Pingcang had long been hiding in the city for refuge.

What's more, the Heavenly Court has announced to the world that there are enemies from outside the territory invading. Now that the Fumo Army is stationed in Pingcang City, it is a blessing for the residents of the city.

Whether they are gentry or ordinary people, they all deeply understand the truth that whoever can protect them in troubled times can be their master.

No, the formal ceremony of welcoming the king's master, eating the pot of milk, is actually engraved in Pingcang.

The gentry brought a large number of people to welcome Zhou Bai's army of subduing demons into the city with rice baskets and soup pots.

No one dared to stand in front of this demon-subduing army full of black armor. Needless to say, the county captain Xu Yun had brought two battalions back to the barracks to wait for the result. Jump up and down at this point.

As for the other armed forces, inspector Duan Dehou was like a vassal of the Zhou family after a long period of "cooperative" communication, and the third class of government officials usually caught a thief, but there was no one in sight at this time.

In this way, with the powerful support of the historians, Yu family, Chen family and other families, within an hour, the Fumo Army had completed complete control of Pingcang County.

Important places such as barracks, government treasury, granary, Chenghuang Temple, official school, etc. in the city are all guarded by the subduing demon army.

Speaking of which, the only place where swords were used was the Zhao family's mansion. In view of the arbitrariness of all his family members annexing and threatening the safety of the demon army entering the city, Zhou Bai ordered the direct suppression and ransacking of the house.

All the servants of the Zhao family were paid severance pay. Those who had a hometown went back to their hometowns, and those who didn't went to Hongni Township to find Zhou's manor to work first, and take care of food and housing.

As for the hundreds of descendants of the Zhao family, as long as they participated in the fight, they were all driven out of the city and given a place to live in the original Zhao family manor.

In the future, they will be self-sufficient, and if they want to be lazy, they can only starve to death.

A small number of good people who did not commit crimes were left by Zhou Bai to temporarily manage the Zhao family's property that the inner government was not familiar with.

Hundreds of other properties in the Zhao family were converted into dormitories for officials of the inner government. His subordinates moved to the county with him, so they couldn't even have a place to live.

The largest and best Zhao family's ancestral house, Zhou Bai decided to temporarily set it as the office of the county government officials, because the real Pingcang county government has been requisitioned as the founding place of General Fumo.

The level of comfort and luxury of the Zhao family's ancestral residence is much higher than that of the county government. At least on the surface, Zhou Bai is giving dignity to the county government officials and the court.

But in the future, Pingcang will have the final say in the county government, or in General Fumo's mansion, well, anyone who wants to do something should know where to look.

In Zhou Bai's conception, the county government will help maintain the relationship with the imperial court in the future, and can usually do something to promote enlightenment and help the elderly and weak.

When the Anmin notices of the Fumo General's Mansion were posted all over the city, order was quickly restored, and the products of the inner mansion that had been blocked for a long time flooded into the market.

All kinds of wine, red mud, soap, perfume, and even Cangshan crops that contain aura are sold openly.

For a time, Pingcang County, which experienced a "chaos", became more prosperous than ever.

In the afternoon of that day, Zhou Bai received an official visit from the civil and military officials of the original Neifu at General Fumo's residence.

"Your lower official, the last general, see General Fu Mo!" Chen Zhongbang and Zhou Yuan, each with their own papers and one weapon, led the crowd to kneel and pay homage.

The former county government hall has become the main hall of the general's mansion, and the former county seat has naturally become the general chair of General Fumo.

Zhou Bai hadn't removed his armor yet, Qing Juan's face was a little more resolute and murderous, and just sitting there, he had the temperament of a superior without anger.

He stretched out his hand, raised it slowly, and signaled everyone to get up.

"This is the first time to use a big gift, and you don't have to kneel at every turn in the future."

"Heavenly Court allowed me to open a mansion and build teeth. Now that the mansion is opened, it is natural to set up an official office."

"Decree, Chen Zhongbang, who was formerly in charge of the Yingtian Department of the Inner Mansion, was added to be the Chief of the Fumo General's Mansion, and was in charge of the government orders in the mansion, with a rank of seven ranks."

Secretary Luo Yan then walked out from under Zhou Bai. He held the long history in both hands and handed it over to Chen Zhongbang, who ranked first among civil officials, with a straight face.

Even though he was prepared in his heart, when Zhou Bai was officially appointed, Chen Zhongbang didn't hold back the self-cultivation he had honed over the years, his eyes were red and tears overflowed.

He disobeyed Zhou Bai's order for the first time, fell to his knees, and said in a trembling voice: "Shi Chen Zhongbang, the governor of General Fumo, thank you for your kindness, my lord!"

The civil and military officials in the hall did not despise or have bad thoughts about Chen Zhongbang because of his gaffe.

From a down-and-out happy household who couldn't even afford to support his family to the current seventh-rank long history, the journey has been too difficult.

In addition to Chen Zhongbang's own persistence, Zhou Bai's reuse and promotion are more important. Maxima is common, but Bole is hard to find.

Zhou Bai was also moved when he saw the true feelings of his most important minister, and he went down to help Chen Zhongbang himself before continuing to announce.

"Decree, Zhou Yuan joined the army for the Fumo General's mansion, ranked seventh rank, and added infantry control, the general is not here, he can take charge of the Fumo army; Gao Hu is in command of the Fumo army horse army, rank eighth... Qu Zhi is a tooth soldier The school lieutenant, who holds the tooth flag, is in charge of the defense of the general's mansion."

It is worth mentioning that Qu Zhi, besides Zhou Yuan and Gao Hu, is the only general who is born to be red, so Zhou Bai directly brought him along to train him.

There are too few generals.

"There are six houses under the general's mansion, which are officials, households, rituals, soldiers, criminals, and workers. The heads of the six houses are in charge of the eight ranks."

"The official office is in charge of the appointment, removal, performance appraisal, promotion, etc. of officials, and the long history Chen Zhongbang is temporarily concurrently the head of the official office; The main office is in charge of commerce; the ceremony room is in charge of ceremonies, selection, academy, etc., with Zhou Lin (the owner of the second house of the Zhou family) as the head of the ceremony room; the military room is in charge of military affairs, and the main thing is temporarily vacant; ; The workshop is in charge of engineering, construction, farmland, water conservancy, etc., and Tiangongyuan is accepted as the management of the workshop, and the principal is temporarily vacant."

Then Chen Zhongbang replaced Zhou Bai and announced the official positions at all levels below the head of the sixth house.

For example, Wang Liangtian works for the house and divides the land; another example is Ma Liang and Yu Ji, two destined scholars who heard that Zhou Baizhong had won a Jinshi, and came to join him.

In short, anyone who followed Zhou Bai and gained partial trust was awarded an official position this time.

Including the equestrian instructor Lao Huang as the owner of the carriage and horse house, Luo Yan is the first official secretary of the ninth rank in the secretary's cabinet, and the other two candidates are the secretary of the ninth rank. .

With the addition of destiny and the direct support of heaven's luck, if you don't hurry up and give your subordinates a title, it will be difficult to rely on the luck of the general's mansion in the future.

The next step is to bring the entire Pingcang County under the jurisdiction of the General's Mansion, including the 24 townships in the south and north of the county.

It is impossible for him not to let the imperial power go to the countryside. Starting from Pingcang, he will establish a sound grassroots management system.

The foundation of the first county cannot be sloppy.

The next day, the Fumo Army, which had just settled down in the county, was dispatched again in batches, either with one battalion of 500 men, or with two battalions of 1000 men, to patrol 24 townships.

(End of this chapter)