Huo Bao and his party came out of Quyang County and went to Chuzhou Prefecture.

If Quyang County is the "cradle of the general", then Chuzhou Prefecture is the "center of civil servants" in Chuzhou's army.

Today, among the dozen prefectures occupied by the Chuzhou Army, except for a few who were surrendered to power, the remaining half of the prefectures came from Chuzhou Prefecture, and most of them were the first batch of prefecture clerks to surrender to the Chuzhou Army.

It was not that the Chuzhou army "reserved nepotism", but that they had the luck.

The officials in Chuzhou were the first to take the exam, and they had more qualifications than others.

In addition, they are different from candidates from poor families. They have had the experience of being an official in the prefecture government office, and most of them have done very well when they sent errands.

When they are promoted, they will be faster, faster, faster than others.

Now Chuzhou magistrate is still Bizhou, and the commander is Wang Duwei.

Bi Zhizhou was originally the magistrate of Chao County, Luzhou. Because he had an old age with Chaohu Navy, he joined the Baishan Army when Chuzhou Army entered Luzhou, which was considered to be the early one to be demoted to the official position.

However, last year, Quyang County launched a "tax increase case". Not only did Wang Duwei be implicated, but also Bi Zhizhou, the Shangguan, also had a "missing" mistake.

Although the two were not demoted, they also stopped being promoted.

By the beginning of this year, the Chuzhou army won Changzhou Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, Shouzhou and Shuzhou. When the manpower was arranged, there would be no king or Bi.

Seeing Huo Bao and his party coming, Wang Duwei and Bi Zhizhou were both a little nervous, fearing that there would be any mistakes that would not be paid attention to.

Huo Bao looked at the two chief officials and felt speechless.

The biggest mistake is that the severe drought in Chuzhou was not reported.

This is not the people's livelihood of a state, but also involves the subsequent strategic arrangements of the Chuzhou Army.

This Bi Zhizhou is mediocre, but he is really not outstanding.

Wang Duwei is the Yue family of Huo Bao. If he continues to be confused like this, he will destroy everyone.

After the reception banquet, Huo Bao met Wang Duwei alone.

"Uncle Wang, this spring has a severe drought, so why can't I repay Jinling?"

Huo Bao said bluntly.

Wang Duwei was stunned and said for a while: "Although there were signs of severe drought, there were only Lingshui and Quyang counties, Binjiang and Yongyang, the prefecture of the prefecture, which was still good. Most of the harvest was just a bad harvest..."

"What about Bozhou? What about Chuzhou? What about Huai'an? What about Taizhou?"

“…”

Wang Duwei couldn't speak and felt a little embarrassed.

People's livelihood economy should have been the business of Bi Zhizhou. Wang Duwei was not shirking responsibility, but he also felt a little wronged.

This military officer is also a taboo to interfere in local government affairs at will.

"If this is the case in Huainan, what will happen to Henan Road?"

Huo Bao continued to ask.

“…”

Only then did Wang Duwei understand Huo Bao’s intention to ask about him.

If the drought in one state and one county is a matter of people's livelihood; if there is a large-scale drought, the people will become refugees, and the world will be even more chaotic.

He is from Quyang and a subordinate of Deng Jian.

The chaos in Quyang County last year was a man-made disaster caused by natural disasters.

As a result, Quyang County can be said to have "changed the world".

Then Chuzhou Army came into existence.

He couldn't help but sweat. If they followed their previous plans, they only treated drought as people's livelihood affairs, opened canals, etc., and did not strengthen local defenses, and they would not say that they would be turbulent when they were swept by refugees from the south.

Wang Duwei stood up and bowed solemnly to Huo Bao.

Huo Bao hurriedly avoided and said, "Uncle Wang, don't be polite... Whether it's from the leopard or from the cousin, whether we are outsiders... It's also because Uncle Wang was implicated, otherwise he wouldn't have been detained in Chuzhou..."

In Chuzhou, compared with the three places of prefecture and Luzhou Prefecture, Chuzhou, as the old nest of the Chuzhou army, was very important, and Chuzhou commander was also incapable of being a confidant.

After all, many families in Chuzhou's army are still in Chuzhou.

But Chuzhou now has more than a dozen prefectures, including Yangzhou Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture, and Changzhou Prefecture, Chuzhou is nothing compared to them.

Zhang Duwei, who was previously comparable to Wang Duwei, was the Taiping Prefecture Commander, and then followed Deng Jian to Yangzhou. This spring, he followed Deng Jian to "East Expedition" and is now a general of ten thousand people.

There is also Li Yao, the commander of Songjiang.

Songjiang Prefecture has salt and grain, and it also manages the waterways connecting the river and sea.

Both Zhang and Li are younger than Wang Duwei, but now they are one step faster than Wang Duwei.

Wang Duwei could only smile bitterly, who could know how his brother-in-law dared to do anything wrong?

Whether it is a civil servant or a military officer in Chuzhou, they have learned military rules and regulations before joining the office.

The word "greed" is absolutely unaffected.

Now that the brother-in-law and his family have been implicated, he has also been in a mess.

If it weren't for the marriage of Huo Bao, someone would have been involved in the wrong hands, and his position as the Chuzhou Chief Commander would not be stable...

In the four counties of Chuzhou, except for Yongyang, Quyang and Binjiang, the rest are Lingshui.

Lingshui was one hundred miles away from the prefecture, and the group walked for two days before they arrived.

The magistrate of Lingshui is Xiong Qianhu's cousin. He is in his twenties and was originally doing odd jobs with the Mazhaizhu, and he was very careful.

After arriving in Lingshui County for half a year, the magistrate seemed to have no achievements, but only by looking at the news about Lingshui Gold Mine, the news was hidden tightly and the slightest noise was not revealed, so I knew that the magistrate was a comprehensive one.

Because the Green Snake Army became an independent army, Huo Bao asked Qiu Wei to reorganize the right wing of the war soldiers, and this time he was left to train new recruits in Jinling.

Li Yuan and Zhu Qiang also asked Huo Bao to send Hou Xiaoming and Shi Sanliang to Xuanzhou to counsel military affairs and ensure logistics.

This time, the three people who followed Huo Bao were An Changsheng, Li Yu and Song Qianzhi.

Zhu Gang, the captain of the personal guard, has been in Jinling for more than half a year. Huo Bao did not promote the new captain of the personal guard, so he asked Zhu Gang's younger brother Zhu Qiang to temporarily serve as the captain of the personal guard.

Now that Zhu Qiang, the acting personal guard captain, is not there, Huo Bao asked An Changsheng to get a village chief and directly command dozens of personal guards.

Li Yu made up the numbers, while Song Qianzhi heard that there was a supervisory department accompanying him, so he begged Huo Bao to follow him.

Now that we have arrived in Lingshui, everyone has also met Zhu Gang.

Zhu Gang came to Lingshui in September last year, and it has been more than eight months, less than a year.

However, Zhu Gang looked like a huge change.

Shui Jin and the old boy soldier were familiar with each other, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but compare Zhu Gang's stature: "This is mostly a rush!"

Zhu Qiang grinned, his face dark and red, but his little white teeth were exposed.

Zhu Qiang has only become a child this year. In more than half a year, he has not only grown taller, but also has a lot stronger body.

He was originally tall and big, and he looked about the same size as an adult at the age of fifteen. Now he is even taller than ordinary people. He is not like a teenager, but like a young man.

Huo Bao's eyes also fell on his bulging arms and said curiously: "Has he practiced?"

Zhu Qiang nodded and said, "There is nothing else every day, so I practice carrying weights... and also changed to heavy swords..."

Speaking of the original old men of the Tong Soldier, Zhu Qiang treated Huo Bao as loyal as Hou Xiaoming.

Among the five firsts, Huo Bao and Zhu Qiang were both full of minds and minds, and he had the right idea; Hou Xiaoming was loyal, but sometimes he was a little paranoid when dealing with others; Liang Zhuang was not generous and had some small tricks.

Zhu Qiang also has a disadvantage here, that is, he acts too straightforward and does not use his brain.

The three children of the Zhu family, Zhu Qiang and Zhu Xiaomei, are not as jealous as Zhu Qiang.

However, people like Zhu Qiang have strong execution ability and are also reassuring.

Before, Huo Bao ordered Zhu Qiang to be the captain of the guard, which was also the intention of taking care of him.

Zhu Qiang is not suitable for leading troops, and his own skills are also at peace, so it is uneasy to be the general in front of the formation.

Turning to the staff officer, I don’t have that brain.

If you transfer to logistics, you will have to go to his younger brother Zhu Qiang, which is difficult for the two brothers to get along with.

Unexpectedly, in Lingshui for more than half a year, Zhu Gang was reborn, and looked much better than last year.
Chapter completed!