Chapter 509: Shannan County

Shannan County was a new administrative county established by the Qin State after defeating the Xiongnu. Its location was very clever. It controlled the Holan Pass, maintained an offensive and defensive posture against the Xiongnu on the prairie, and firmly blocked the Dai County of Zhao State.

The Xiongnu had been defeated. The greater purpose of Shannan County was actually to open up another offensive route to conquer Zhao State. After several years of operation, this desolate land has now become a medium-sized city. The high city walls and fluttering military flags proclaimed the sovereignty of the Qin people over this place.

Every moment, new immigrants arrived in this place. Outside the city, new residential areas were forming. In the Qin State, the taxes that the people needed to bear were extremely heavy. In order to make this barren county system prosper as soon as possible, the Qin court specially formulated a new policy for Shannan County, obtaining land for free and exempting taxes for three years.

No other stimulation is needed. This alone has caused many Qin people to leave their homes and come to this completely unfamiliar land to start their struggle.

The scale of Shannan County's conquest is a county, but its current scale is at most the size of a county, but because of its special importance, it is specially upgraded to a county.

The land that has just been reclaimed does not have a high yield and cannot meet the consumption of the people and the army here. It still needs to transport a large amount of grain from the inland to make up for the shortage here.

Moreover, because of the insufficient population and extreme poverty here, there are very few caravans coming here to trade, because the income from one trip is often not enough to cover the travel expenses and consumption, which also makes the daily necessities here extremely scarce.

In short, it is very poor here.

The governor of Shannan County, He Yangguang, is a military general. Because of the special nature of Shannan County, the highest officer here can only be a general who leads troops. He Yangguang is a pure warrior. Leading troops to fight is his specialty. As for how to govern the people's livelihood, he is completely an outsider, so the Sima assigned to him is an official who is good at governing the people's livelihood. This official was Gao Yuan's acquaintance, Lu Chao from Yan, the only son of Lu Hong.

After the Qin people completed the centralization of power under King Wulie of Qin and established the real county government, although the hereditary nobles still occupied most of the high positions, some useful talents also began to come or were dug up by the Qin people to be reused. Compared with these people, although Lu Chao from Yan had an advantage that these people could not compare with, his teacher was Li Ru, a person who was generally respected among the Qin people.

Lu Chao, who was just 24 years old this year, took office as the Sima of Shannan County. He was a real talent. At the age of more than 20, it was extremely rare for him to sit in this position in Qin.

At first, when He Yangguang saw this young kid, he was very skeptical. If Lu Chao did not have the aura of Li Ru's disciple, he would almost ask his boss to replace him. But after the two worked together for a while, He Yangguang had to thank his boss for finding a good partner for him.

Lu Chao is a good hand at managing people's livelihood. He grew up in the county government office since he was a child, and he was familiar with the affairs of the county government office. Shannan County is called a county, but it is actually the size of a county, and the population is not large. Li Ru's academic work is not just theory, but also a lot of practice. Lu Chao followed Li Ru for two years and traveled all over the world. He not only inherited Li Ru's theory, but also perfectly integrated the knowledge he learned in the county government office since he was a child into Li Ru's theory.

Handling the affairs of Shannan County is just a piece of cake for him.

After cooperating with He Yangguang for half a year, He Yangguang handed over the logistics and distribution rights of his army to Lu Chao, and he completely got out of these affairs and concentrated on training his army. He knew very well that once the war broke out, his army would definitely be the vanguard.

Two months ago, a new army of 5,000 people was transferred to join his command. Seeing the arrival of this army, He Yangguang understood that there might be a war in the spring, and this battle would undoubtedly be against Dai County of Zhao State.

He Yangguang did not care too much about the 5,000 new soldiers. At present, Qin State was at war with South Korea. General Li Xin took away the main force. The defense of Hangu Pass was never relaxed because he was facing the most important opponent of Qin State. Zhao Mu and General Wang Xiao of Zhao State were stationed here. These two places almost concentrated the most combat-effective troops of Qin State. Shannan County, from the beginning, had thousands of cavalry and nearly 10,000 infantry stationed there, led by Ying Ying. After the Xiongnu on the grassland was completely defeated, they began to gradually withdraw troops to supplement these two places. In the end, He Yangguang's men were only left with 1,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry. However, these two thousand soldiers were veterans of the Jiuxi battle formation. Now there were five thousand new soldiers. By dispersing these veterans and assigning them to the new soldiers as grassroots officers, He Yangguang was confident that he could turn these new soldiers into an elite force this winter.

After two months of training, the new soldiers had begun to take shape from the initial awkwardness. He Yangguang even began to consider whether to take them to the grassland to find one or two unlucky Xiongnu tribes for them to practice their skills.

In this process, he was even more satisfied with Lu Chao, because Lu Chao arranged the logistics of the army of up to 7,000 people in an orderly manner, which completely freed him from worries.

What made He Yangguang sigh even more was that Lu Chao was always polite and courteous even to him, a guy who had not read much, and did not look down on him at all.

In this regard, he could only sigh that there is no false reputation under the great reputation. The disciple taught by Master Li Ru is indeed an outstanding person, and his future is limitless.

It is precisely because of the tacit cooperation between Yi Yi Wu, even though He Yangguang is higher than Lu Chao, he has extraordinary respect for Lu Chao. He knows very well that if Lu Chao had not worked hard, he might have messed up Shannan County. Now, in addition to the stationed troops, the population of Shannan County is increasing day by day, and it is becoming more and more prosperous day by day.

This makes He Yangguang very excited, because this will become his capital for future advancement.

The weather is very cold, and the annoying snow is always falling. He Yangguang walked into the county governor's mansion of Shannan County. The armor on his body jingled, and the snow on it kept falling. He had just completed a day's training with his soldiers.

He Yangguang is a general who has fought in battles. He has not learned much about military tactics, but he knows very well that if he can't even endure this kind of suffering, he can't be considered an elite.

As soon as he stepped into the county governor's mansion, he saw Lu Chao. Not long ago, news came from Liaoxi, Yan State, that Lu Chao's father Lu Hong died in battle. What made Lu Chao angry was that his father did not die in the battle with the Donghu people, but died at the hands of Zhang Junbao in the internal struggle in Liaoxi. This made He Yangguang, who was also a military general, sigh. This is probably the greatest sorrow of a military general.

Lu Hong was wearing an official uniform, but he didn't wear a jade belt around his waist, but a hemp rope instead. He Yangguang knew that Lu Chao was mourning for his father. Shannan County was so busy now. He Yangguang was worried that Lu Hong would leave here and return to Yan State to handle the funeral. Shannan County would be in chaos. Even if the superiors sent a new person to take over immediately, it would be impossible to get started in a short time, which would definitely affect the war against Zhao next year.

He admired Lu Chao's performance. This young official did not neglect his official duties because of this, but became more diligent. He Yangguang knew Lu Chao's thoughts very well. When the war against Zhao started next year, if Qin could defeat Zhao, then Yan State, which had lost the barrier of Zhao, would be directly exposed to the Qin army. At that time, Lu Chao's hatred would be easily avenged.

But the news from the Black Ice Platform later surprised both He Yangguang and Lu Chao. Lu Chao's enemy died, Zhang Junbao fell into Gao Yuan's hands, and a group of accomplices who plotted against his father were all beheaded by Gao Yuan, and Liaoxi City fell into Gao Yuan's hands.

He Yangguang didn't know much about Gao Yuan. He only heard about this person vaguely. For ordinary people in Qin, Yan was too far away. They didn't know much about Gao Yuan's glorious achievements in Donghu. But Gao Yuan and Ye Jing'er's legendary love was widely sung, but He Yangguang didn't care about these romantic things.

It wasn't until drastic changes took place in Yan that Gao Yuan took control of Liaoxi in one fell swoop and defeated tens of thousands of Yan troops under Jishi City, forcing the new rulers of Yan, Tan Feng and Zhou Yu, to sign a city alliance. He Yangguang began to pay attention to this person after receiving the situation report.

The superiors asked He Yangguang to send people to inquire about the matter of Jishi City. A city stood up in the depths of the grassland. This was not what the Qin people wanted to see. Because of this matter, He Yangguang found Lu Chao, because he knew that Lu Chao was also from Liaoxi and Fufeng.

When he heard about the relationship between Lu Chao and Gao Yuan for the first time, he really opened his mouth wide and was shocked. In fact, the relationship between Lu Chao and Gao Yuan was not particularly close, because Gao Yuan at that time was indeed a **, and Lu Chao was an outstanding young man. As an outstanding young man, Lu Chao naturally couldn't stand Gao Yuan. If it weren't for the special relationship between the two families, Lu Chao wouldn't even pay attention to this guy.

But four years later, when he left home, he was still a guy who was arranged by his father to live among the county soldiers, and he actually did a lot of big things that shocked the world. This really made Lu Chao a little jealous. In comparison, the things he was proud of before were nothing.

But Gao Yuan was able to kill the murderer of his father for him, and finally his father didn't love him in vain.

He told He Yangguang everything he knew, but He Yangguang couldn't connect the Gao Yuan he mentioned with the current Gao Yuan.

Four years is enough for a person to change a lot. He Yangguang sent some people to sneak into the grassland, but I'm afraid they won't be able to come back in a short time.

"He County Magistrate!" Lu Chao bowed to him.

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