In the familiar backyard of the county government office, Chen Mengji had the illusion that things were right and people were different.

A general sat in the place that should have been his own.

A majestic voice sounded: "You are actually still alive!"

"I..., I originally wanted to live and die with Nao County, but I was unwilling to do so. I wanted to keep a useful body to put down the bandits and regain the lost territory!"

"Rogue bandits? Are you sure they are rogue bandits?"

"The people of Guo County are simple and honest. Of course, it was the gangsters who instigated and deceived them, causing them to lose their nature and engage in rebellion by robbing homes, robbing houses, and killing officials."

"It's useless for you to attribute the cause of the civil commotion to rogue bandits. If the court pursues it, you will inevitably be stabbed at Caishikou!"

At this time, Chen Mengji, who was born in the second rank of Jinshi, no longer had the reserve of a scholar when he met a military man, nor the superiority of a civilian official when he met a military officer. "Plop!" he knelt down.

He said with a cry in his voice: "General, help me!"

"Why should I save your life? Who deserve the tens of thousands of people who died in civil unrest because of your incompetence?"

"Only you, general, can save me. I originally offered fifty thousand. No, no, I am willing to offer all my savings for a total of eighty-three thousand taels of silver as salary!"

Originally, Chen Mengji wanted to offer 50,000 taels of silver to get rid of the crime. Who would have thought that Huang Yi would not talk about it at all, and the implication was that he was going to arrest him directly and transport him to the capital.

The county magistrate was immediately frightened and quickly knelt down to beg for mercy. Of course he knew how much gold and silver treasures were buried in the courtyard.

As long as the Qiu Ba people know the burial location, those things will definitely not belong to them.

So Chen Mengji was so cruel that he gave up everything and used it all to buy his life.

How many thousand taels of silver are there?

Huang Yi suddenly became energetic. It was not that he was greedy for money, but that he needed money to buy food. Taking advantage of the great opportunity of entering Shanxi and Shaanxi to suppress the bandits, he could gain tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people.

How many people can be raised depends entirely on whether you have enough food to sustain these people for a year.

As long as these people can be fed for a year, the harvest from the land cultivated and sown in that year will definitely be able to feed double the population.

In ancient times, it was basically possible to do it after farming. The fertilizer factories in Xinghe City and Dongshanbao were brewing soil fertilizers.

With this kind of high-efficiency fertilizer, one acre of field can produce at least 200 kilograms of wheat, which is more than 1.5 times the average yield per mu in the north in the late Ming Dynasty.

"Eighty-three thousand taels of silver? You, an official, deserve to have two sleeves of gold!"

Chen Mengji didn't mind Huang Yi's sarcasm at all, and said cautiously: "The atmosphere in officialdom is like this, but the lower officials are not greedy."

"The county magistrate who can make two to thirty thousand taels of silver a year has the nerve to say he is not greedy!"

"I'm ashamed of myself, but I'm really not a person who knocks bones and sucks marrow!"

Is it true that there were no officials and no corruption in the late Ming Dynasty? Huang Yi couldn't figure it out, and he didn't want to figure it out. He said:

"Since you promised to spend a lot of money to support your salary, I will reluctantly give you a hand. You can discuss it with the supervisor later."

Ah? Chen Mengji was sweating profusely. All his money was used to bribe Huang Yi. How could he still have money to honor the eunuch who was supervising the army? Isn't this still a dead end?

"General, I have spent everything I have and cannot impress the supervisor. Please give me some advice, General!"

"It would be a perfect match for you to cooperate with the eunuch in this matter of hiding things from superiors and bullying subordinates. I will not participate in it."

"General, I really have no money left!"

Only then did Huang Yi understand Chen Mengji's concerns, and he suddenly said with disdain:

"Don't worry, Wang Kun, the eunuch of the Xuan Grand Supervisory Army, is a good eunuch who refuses to be corrupted and will never be corrupted. He will enthusiastically help you get rid of the crime, and you don't need to give any favors!"

"This, this, this is absolutely impossible!"

"You'll know later, anything is possible!"

Chen Mengji was frightened and his head was dizzy.

He thought it was an illusion because he actually saw Huang Yi ordering two royal guards to take him to see Wang Kun, the chief eunuch of the Supervisory Army.

The two royal guards were respectful and looked like ordinary soldiers.

Feeling dizzy, Chen Mengji came to the courtyard where Wang Kun stayed and was immediately in awe.

Because the furnishings here are too simple, worse than a scribe's office.

The high-ranking eunuch of the Supervisory Army was actually approachable. He did not put up any airs in front of Chen Mengji, a seventh-grade county magistrate. Instead, he asked him his purpose in a friendly manner.

Next, he not only agreed to cooperate, but also took the initiative to discuss the wording of the victory report with Chen Mengji.

The capital, officials of various ministries, and eunuchs, in short, all officials and eunuchs in power received the ice respect.

Only the eunuch Xuan Eunuch didn't give up anything and only sent a good news!

However, none of the chief eunuchs dared to intercept Wang Kun's memorial, and submitted it to the emperor on the same day.

Emperor Chongzhen was in a good mood after seeing it, and immediately commented, encouraging Huang Yi, the counselor of Xinghe, to make new contributions. He praised Wang Kun for his courage in taking on the task, and agreed that the magistrate of Guo County, Chen Mengji, who had made great contributions, should stay in his post. He urged the people to pacify the victims as quickly as possible and resume production as quickly as possible.

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However, the most important food relief was not followed up.

The extermination of the rebels in the three counties was a temporary task assigned to the Xinghe Army. The main task was to go to southwestern Shanxi to fight against the bandits and regain Xizhou and Puzhou...

Huang Yi's idea was to publicize the Xinghe Army and strive to make it bigger. The common people in Shanxi knew that in this chaotic world, there was still an army that was invincible and had an invincible leader.

Along the way, the governors of the Xinghe Army helped the poor, the doctors accompanying the army treated the sick and saved people, and never harassed the local area, which won some people's hearts.

When the three counties were pacified, one or two thousand wounded people were treated. These people were basically young adults and were the main labor force of a family.

If treatment is not available, the survival rate may be only 20 to 30%.

The doctors accompanying the Xinghe Army have the most scientific wound treatment methods in the world today. With the help of military doctors, the survival rate is as high as 80%.

Except for Chen Mengji, the other two county magistrates of the three counties are missing. It is unknown whether they are dead or have escaped.

The rioters not only hate the rich, rob big households and kill landlords and their old wealth, but also extremely hate government servants and subordinate officials.

There's a reason for that!

Apportionment and fire consumption are all controlled by government servants and petty officials. These people are best at bullying good people. The day when farmers pay taxes is when these people get rich.

It was not because the time had not come for not reporting, but during the more than ten days of civil unrest in the three counties, almost all the government servants and subordinate officials were killed.

Many government officials were caught by hateful mobs and tortured until they could neither survive nor die.

In the Ming Dynasty, those who really governed and ruled a county were subordinate officials and government officials. These people were all sitting on the ground.

After the civil unrest, the rule and clan power in the three counties were completely destroyed. It was time to take the opportunity to establish a new order.

Therefore, Huang Yi enclosed the land and distributed it to the common people to establish large farms.

In order to better control the three counties including Guo County, each county left three elected governors, six musketeers and thirty auxiliary soldiers.
Chapter completed!