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Chapter 191 Canglan recovers, the whole county deploys weapons

On May [-]th, Governor Lei Haomiao announced to Dingzhou that the generals outside the territory blew themselves up and captured nearly half of their bodies. The prestige of the state government was restored.

For a while, the chief officials of all counties and counties played congratulations one after another, and there were many words of loyalty among them.

With [-] troops in Ranzhou, Chen Bing at the junction of Ruinan and Longfeng counties, the governor's envoy forcefully interrogated Yan Luo, the governor of Ruinan, and the war was imminent.

All forces in Dingzhou, including Yan Luo, Lu Ding and other large and small forces, kept silent and did not want to rashly provoke Lei Haomiao.

But at this juncture, on May [-]th, Zhou Bai circulated an official document to all parties, and the Anbei Governor's Mansion was officially established.

What is this, a blatant provocation?
Yan Luo, who had just stood up on his own and hadn't gained a firm foothold, yelled, "It's not that you are in the front, why are you jumping like this when you have nothing to do?"

The governor of the family is a loyal uncle conferred by the new emperor. He has received the great favor of two generations of emperors and is loyal to the court wholeheartedly.

Now that he is carrying the power of a great victory to suppress the situation in Dingzhou, you have to provoke him.

In fact, who doesn't know, the governor is most likely just pretending, and if the fight continues, no one will be able to please anyone.

In order to destroy the foreign general in Longfeng County, how much manpower and material resources were invested.

Zhenjun Shaoyuan, as a major cultivator of the Yang God Realm, can suppress a sect and suppress the existence of luck in a large state.

Even he was seriously injured in this battle, and he couldn't retreat. It's hard for the state army, including the Taoist regiment, to please him.

The number of dead and injured in the battle is huge, not to mention, the state army is exhausted, and the members of the Taoist regiment urgently need time to adjust their breathing and recover. This can be seen on the bright side.

So why did Yan Luo lower his eyebrows after he became self-reliant, because he knew that the governor would not take action easily, at least not now.

As for Zhou Bai taking the initiative to provoke, that's really not the case.

It was just a coincidence that when the news of the state army's northward march was received, the county dynasty had just ended.

He still has not expelled any court officials in the Anbei Dudu Mansion, and there is no prohibition on official exchanges with the court. This is just a declaration.

Of course, Zhou Bai did not explain to the governor.

If you are willing to acquiesce, then everything will be fine for the time being. If you insist on suppressing it, then hit it.

The main reason is that, based on the news from various sources, the state government really has no conditions to start a war.

Dingzhou eight counties: Biancheng County, Pinghe County, Xingyun County, Yongquan County (Dingxi), Bei'an County, Ruinan County, Longfeng County, Dingzhou County (Dingdong).

Another military prefecture, Cangbei County, which belongs to Dingzhou but is under the direct administration of the imperial court, now only exists on the map.

Among the four counties in Dingxi, Lu Ding's family is the dominant one, and now basically controls the two counties of Pinghe and Xingyun, but there is still a foreign warship entrenched, which is difficult to eradicate.

Yongquan County is the richest in Dingxi, but because of being affected by the Daizhou rebellion, the county is also quite chaotic, and all forces are involved. The state government can only maintain basic control over Yongquan County.

Biancheng County, as the name implies, is located in a border area, surrounded by grasslands or deserts on three sides, extremely barren.

As for the four counties of Dingdong, Zhou Bai of Bei'an County, Yanluo of Ruinan County, and Longfeng County, most of them were corrupted because of the existence of generals.

At a cursory glance, one can see that the Governor, who was so powerful and irresistible in the original impression, can only barely control half of the territory.

And among them, Biancheng County is an "enclave", Longfeng County still needs the support of Dingzhou County, and only Yongquan County can be self-sufficient.

It is equivalent to saying that Lei Haomiao can completely control and rely on to suppress the local area, only Dingzhou County is the largest and richest base.

This is also similar to the pattern in Zhou Bai's memory in his previous life. The governor of Dingzhou, Lei Haomiao, followed the imperial court's policy, sticking to the foundation and waiting for the right time.

As long as your court wants Zhongyu, or even Zhongzhou, then he can only want Dingzhou County.

Knowing the inside story, Zhou Bai really didn't worry about Lei Haomiao going crazy, unless he suddenly changed his personality.

On May [-]th, when the state government still had no response to the public statement of the Anbei Governor's Mansion, Zhou Bai wrote a letter to Lei Haomiao, reminding the state government to pay attention to the drought and not to resort to violence.

Lei Haomiao actually took advantage of such a light and flimsy letter, without any signs of giving in, to step down.

On May 23, [-] state soldiers withdrew from the border of Ruinan County, and the state government issued a message to all counties to pay attention to protecting people's livelihood and resisting severe drought.

Zhou Bai's letter really reminded Lei Haomiao that after a severe flood, there must be a severe drought. In Dingzhou this year, it has not rained for two consecutive months.

When planting in the spring, it was Ningjiang Dragon King who helped to divert the water vapor from Ningjiang to rain in Dingzhou, so that the spring seedlings could survive.

Successive military disasters have led to severe droughts that are the most concerned about the peacetime season, and people have deliberately ignored them.

But the hero who really wants to manage the place can't ignore it no matter what.

The summer harvest is just around the corner, and it seems that production will be reduced again. If we continue to fight, the consequences of running out of food reserves...

For a time, drought relief and food rescue became the main theme of Dingzhou.

Bei'an County is not connected to the Ningjiang River, and the drought is more obvious. The summer harvest reduction should have been a foregone conclusion, but Zhou Bai had already anticipated the severe drought and dug countless weirs and ponds to store water.

Yinmu, the former county magistrate, listened to advice. Even if the other counties did not do as well, it would be regarded as a big boost to water conservancy construction.

Originally, people like Lei Haomiao and Lu Ding knew that even if there was a drought, they could survive it with the Yining River.

However, the laws of heaven and earth are automatically balancing the water vapor, and the heavenly court cannot intervene by sending rain decrees during this period.

The water in the Ningjiang River evaporated much faster than before, and the water level had dropped ten feet before June.

In order to protect the source of water veins from severe loss and successfully survive the severe drought, Ningjiang Dragon King no longer supplies water vapor unconditionally.

The amount of water flowing out of each branch has a quota, which cannot guarantee the basic irrigation of all the fields, especially the areas far away from Ningjiang, where the clergy can't reach.

This made the government, big powers, and families anxious. While offering sacrifices to the Dragon King Temple, they searched for other water sources.

Like Lu Ding, he even directly offered a reward. Anyone who provided the location of water sources such as springs, underground rivers, and unnamed streams would be rewarded with silver.

After the summer harvest, there will be an autumn harvest. The entire first year of Tongzhi should be a severe drought, so Zhou Bai will not sit still.

The water storage in the counties will definitely not be able to support the autumn harvest, and at that time, would it be possible to ask the Dragon King for help every day?

The water system is blocked, and without the decree of the rain from the heavens, every time the Ningjiang Dragon King comes to rain, it will consume a lot of energy and the source of the Ningjiang water vein.

It’s okay to ask Him for help once or twice, if you ask him more, you just don’t know what to do.

However, the Dragon King can't help, and there are gods in Bei'an County who can help Zhou Bai.

At least it should not be a problem to protect the water for the fields in the core areas of the vast plains around the county and the city.

On May 28, the first year of Tongzhi, Zhou Bai led all the civil and military officials of the governor's mansion to Tingshan to worship the gods.

One sacrifices to the mountain god, and the other sacrifices to the water god.

On the top of Pavilion Mountain, Zhou Bai climbed up the steps alone.

Amidst the clouds and mist, the mountain god of Tingshan appeared for a while, and there was no need for a formal sacrifice to wake him up.

Because Zhou Bai couldn't avoid people when he came, the Qianlong Universiade who was accompanying him was too eye-catching.

"I didn't expect that little guy with a mean face and lack of luck to be a scholar, now he is the lord of a county, and he has also completed the most critical leap of the dragon carp." The amazing words of admiration were not stingy in the mouth of the mountain god.

Zhou Bo cupped his hands and bowed: "Thank you to the mountain god for providing the information, allowing our army to win a big victory."

The mountain god didn't take it seriously, he knew how much effort he had put in, the key was the person in front of him.

The more he observed Zhou Bai, the more he felt something strange in his heart, close?Even say awe?
I am an innate god, even if it is a Qianlong, what virtue can make him awe?

The mountain god suppressed his weird emotions, and asked with some doubts: "Why are you offering sacrifices here? It's not time to fulfill the agreement, right?"

With his hands behind his back, Zhou Bai bent down to look down the mountain, where the gurgling stream became smaller and smaller.

"I can't fulfill all of them, but I can fulfill some of them."

"Using the dragon soul from the same source as the Canglan River as a guide, and using the wishes of millions of people in Bei'an as a sacrifice, burn the Great Luck and revive the Canglan Water God."

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After the county was stabilized and the Anbei Governor's Mansion was in normal operation, Zhou Bai began to inspect the seven counties.

It is not only to familiarize themselves with their own territory, but also to see if there are any deficiencies in the local drought resistance. Well, by the way, we will eliminate some restless people.

In order to quickly unify Ruinan County, Yan Luo compromised with the power of the major families, which caused some people in the Dudu Mansion to despise them, thinking that such an unstable regime would make it difficult to fight tough battles.

However, Zhou Bai made a lot of compromises. He didn't make any big moves to cleanse the four counties in the south of the county and the Yuanmin county in the north of the county.

Even if there are a lot of complaints from rich families in many places, he is all-inclusive.

During this time, Xuan Yiwei collected a lot of "criminal evidence", including these people colluding in private, resisting government orders, disobeying officials, blocking the construction of the militia, and so on.

The imperial power going to the countryside, to some extent, did touch the fundamental interests of the local wealthy families.

For example, in the northern part of the county, many villagers had conflicts. First, they did not go to the local gentry, but went to the township office to report to the officials, asking the "government" to resolve the case.

Pingcang County, which has the most robust militia system in the Township Administration, no longer recruits squires to serve as food chiefs even for the most critical grain taxes.

Zhou Bai patrolled from north to south, accompanied only by Zhou Qi, the new commander of Xuanyi's internal guards, and a group of soldiers selected from the army who had learned martial arts, and the average person was above the middle stage of Houtian.

They followed Zhou Bai on this tour, not only acting as thugs, but also staying in each county as martial arts instructors.

Whenever he went to a place, Zhou Bai directly sat in the county government office and personally summoned the head of the wealthy family in the county and township that was listed in Xuanyiwei's file.

Those who are willing to come, and have a good attitude of admitting their mistakes, according to Zhou Bai's "crime", he raised it high and put it down gently.

If not, send military soldiers to Sona, if you gather a crowd to resist, directly dispatch the army to suppress, and the food and money you get will just go into the treasury.

The 30 immigrants from Cangbei County, and the several wars in the process of unifying Bei'an, no matter how rich the savings are, it will inevitably cost too much.

Originally, when Sun Yucheng took over Bei'an City in a militaristic manner, less than [-]% of the food stored in the major warehouses was already in stock.

In the first year of Tongzhi, it was impossible to buy grain on a large scale with money.

Merchants are willing, but the ruling court and Jiedushi will not be willing.

Of course, if you kill a group of Liwei, you must help a group to appease.

Under Zhou Bai's order, many families on the white list brought their children to meet with the county government.

The time for holding the imperial examination was not ripe, and he didn't have time to talk one by one. After only passing the natal test, a group of township officials and township officials were distributed.

Going down the seven counties, Zhou Bai really got a group of talents, and there were more than ten of them hand-picked by him alone.

In addition, there are two real treasures left over from the sea, Zhao Xi and Wen Hongchang, one is the light yellow natal, and the other is the red and yellow natal.

The two of them definitely didn't need to start as country officials anymore, but were directly taken away by Zhou Bai, and they were appointed as Secretary of the Secretary Pavilion from the ninth grade.

Is it fair?It's definitely not fair to others, but this is how precious talents are treated wherever they are placed.

Zhou Bai doesn't have the ability to change the rules yet, he can only adapt and use the rules.

After a bloody suppression without the use of a large army, all the strange voices disappeared, and the confiscated food and money filled the treasury.

The amount of money is almost comparable to the sum of the profits since the control of the grassland trade routes, and the amount of food is comparable to the total output of Pingcang County in a year.

This also made Zhou Bai lament that no one is rich without windfall, and so is a power.

It's no wonder that Sun Yucheng was able to storm the army, because he occupied the county, and the Qi family's property alone was an astronomical figure.

In history, including the current troubled times, after many grassroots have gained momentum, their favorite thing to do is to ransack their homes.

Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor is a slogan that will never fade.

It's just the fate of this world that makes him destined not to go too far, otherwise he will kill the chicken and take the eggs, and it will be difficult to unify the world.

In the first ten days of June, the inspection tour ended, and all the martial arts teachings in each county were assigned to the counties and townships.

Zhou Bai ordered the establishment of official martial arts schools, which are divided into three levels: county, county and township. The higher the talent and the higher the martial arts practice, the easier it is for the martial arts students at the county level to enroll in the martial arts at the county level.

In addition, in order to prevent the folk martial arts from losing control after the arrival of the spiritual tide, the martial arts official school also allows students to bring their skills into the school.

As long as warriors who have reached the Houtian realm or above, they can enjoy the treatment of county-level martial arts, including simultaneous teaching of innate skills.

Of course, as long as he has learned innate skills, the warrior must choose to serve the governor, join the army, serve as an instructor, join other yamen in the governor's mansion, and so on.

Civilian warriors have always loved freedom and dislike being controlled, but after all kinds of news spread from the Dudu Mansion, all warriors went crazy.

The exercises passed down by Immortal Wu Banished?Direct access to Xiantian, and even hope to pursue the road of Wu Baxian, and explore the scenery above Xiantian?

If this kind of words were exchanged for other forces, civil warriors would definitely not believe it, but who is the governor of Anbei?
He is a Jinshi celestial being, the successor of General Tianjue Fumo, such a person who has a close relationship with the heavenly court, who would dare to say that the news is false.

What's more, the county-wide military deployment implemented by the Anbei Dudufu has officially started.

The third-level martial arts official school is on a large scale free of charge, teaching basic exercises to the people, the main content of which is derived from the method of body training of innate skills.

All teenagers over the age of nine and under the age of 14 who successfully exercise within one month can enter the official school of martial arts.

After the verification of some martial arts seniors, the basic exercises taught by martial arts officials are indeed better than most of the martial arts handed down, and the follow-up exercises are very worth looking forward to.

Congenital, Wu Baxian, with martial arts achievements can also be an official...

Soon, not only Bei'an martial arts, but also martial artists from other counties and counties in Dingzhou poured into Bei'an County to report and want to enroll in the official school of martial arts.

The spiritual tide is approaching in June, and martial arts are becoming popular.

Zhou Bai really wanted to see who the unlucky alien monsters who invaded his Anbei Dudu's Mansion were.

(End of this chapter)