Speed ​​Pass starts with choosing a hunter

Chapter 286 Recruitment
Lingzhou government office, in the lobby.

A group of Xuanyang bigwigs sat in it, which really made the humble place glorious. The Lingzhou provincial government had never seen such a big scene since its establishment.

The person sitting at the top is naturally Xuanyang Taibao Yan Shaoan.

A young man led Bai Yuan into the lobby.

Everyone who was discussing matters in the hall turned to look at Bai Yuan.

"Lingzhou Tongzhi, Bai Yuan, greets Lord Yan and all the lords."

Bai Yuan spoke in Kyoto's elegant language.

Each place in Xuanyang has its own dialect. In order to facilitate communication, the imperial court asked Wenyuan Pavilion to formulate an official elegant language.

Most officials in Kyoto used elegant language.

Therefore, some local officials who came to Beijing and could not speak elegant language would be ridiculed.

Everyone was a little surprised to see Bai Yuan speaking fluent Kyoto dialect.

These people are all extraordinary and naturally well-informed. They know very well that Bai Yuan is just a local official who has never left the north.

They unconsciously looked up to Bai Yuan.

Yan Shaoan nodded: "Did Lord Du leave any instructions?"

Bai Yuan shook his head: "Mr. Du died calmly without leaving a single word."

As soon as these words were spoken, the hall fell into dead silence.

When Bai Yuan left Dingzhou, Du Qinghui did not give much instructions. At most, he asked Bai Yuan to take care of his son and daughter.

Du Qinghui had many political enemies in the court, so Bai Yuan did not tell this matter.

Yan Shaoan sighed softly: "Please sit down first."

As the Grand Tutor, he was naturally familiar with Du Qinghui. In fact, Du Qinghui was even his disciple, because he was the one who presided over the imperial examination of Du Qinghui. At that time, he served as the Minister of Rites. According to the tradition of Xuanyang, all the tribute students of that session were naturally his disciples.

Du Qinghui was not surprised either.

It’s just that Du Qinghui was too old-fashioned. When he was the censor in the Censorate, he impeached most of the people in the court in one breath.

But such a nearly paranoid young man unexpectedly took the position of the second-rank Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate.

When Du Qinghui took this position, the first person he impeached was Taibao Yan Shaoan.

In the end, if the emperor had not explained it himself, Du Qinghui, who had an unstable foundation at the time, would have been sent to the Heavenly Prison for forming a clique to attack dissidents.

It is precisely because of this incident that the relationship between Taibao Yan Shaoan and Du Qinghui has not been very good.

Yan Shaoan did not let Bai Yuan go out, but continued to stay in the lobby, which in itself showed his attitude.

Everyone present was a smart person, and of course they knew that Yan Shaoan did not target Du Qinghui just because he was optimistic about Bai Yuan.

Bai Yuan sat in the last seat.

He didn't say a word the whole time, just listened quietly.

What followed was nothing more than how to establish a defense line on the border between Lingzhou and Dingzhou and destroy the blood sacrifice formation set up by the Demon Sect in Dingzhou.

Xuan Yang sent out Yan Shaoan, so the Demon Sect would naturally take action against him.

It is not easy to destroy the formation of Yuquan Mansion.

This matter was so big that many bigwigs discussed it for two hours and still could not come to a conclusion.

In fact, it was nothing more than divided into two factions. One faction advocated steady and cautious progress and gradually conquering Dingzhou, while the other faction advocated a surprise attack and directly breaking through the blood sacrifice formation first.

There is no right or wrong between the two factions; they just have different views on war.

Yan Shaoan hardly spoke either. He listened silently most of the time, only occasionally scolding the arguing parties not to go too far.

Perhaps he was tired of listening, Yan Shaoan finally raised his voice: "That's all for today, we'll discuss it again tomorrow."

After saying that, he walked out of the lobby first.

Then everyone followed him out.

Bai Yuan consciously stayed at the end.

Most of the content of this meeting had nothing to do with him. The only relevant thing was that the Lingzhou provincial government was requisitioned by Yan Shaoan, and the Lingzhou provincial government was moved to Huanglong Prefecture, and would be moved back to Lingzhou City only after the Demon Sect rebellion was quelled.

As the co-governors of Lingzhou, Bai Yuan and Chen Danian do not need to participate in the war between Xuanyang and the Demon Sect. They only need to ensure the stability of the rear of Lingzhou.

When Chen Danian heard the news, he couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

Everyone knows that the closer you are to your boss, the easier it is to get promoted. If he went to Huanglongfu, his dream of becoming a prefect would be completely shattered.

But this was all Yan Shaoan's arrangement, and he dared not disobey.

Day two.

Bai Yuan and Chen Danian went south and returned to Huanglongfu.

Perhaps he was disheartened, as soon as Chen Danian arrived at Huanglong Mansion, he bought a large house and hid in the courtyard, not caring about state affairs.

Bai Yuan had no objection to this.

We are not afraid of officials being incompetent, but we are afraid of officials being too micromanaging.

Without Chen Danian, things would be much more convenient.

Huanglongfu is Bai Yuan’s base camp, and it is easier to do things back in Huanglongfu.

As for Lingzhou, it has now completely become the frontier territory for Yan Shaoan to fight against the Demon Sect.

Many residents in Lingzhou City heard the news and quietly moved to Huanglongfu. After all, Lingzhou was too close to the battlefield.

Yan Shaoan did not stop this.

For a time, Huanglongfu became the real economic center of Lingzhou, and it was said that housing prices in the city had also risen a lot.

In the government office.

The civil servants in Huanglong Mansion were extremely busy.

The movement of such a large population is no trivial matter, and just changing their household registration is an extremely difficult task.

In fact, there was not much population movement in ancient times. Even if there was movement, most of them were merchants and illegal residents.

The so-called black households are people whose lives are not listed in the official register. Most of these people are mountain dwellers who have fled to the mountains because they cannot survive. In addition, there are those swordsmen in the martial arts world, such as ghostwriters. Apart from this, most of the others will be listed in the official household register.

This was of course done to facilitate tax collection and conscription of soldiers for labor service.

Therefore, most of the time, the local government will not easily accept such a large-scale population migration.

Huanglong Mansion did this because of the war in Lingzhou, so it made an exception.

But this also made the chief clerks in the government office busy and sweating, fortunately there were people from the provincial government who could help.

Lingzhou is no longer under the jurisdiction of the Lingzhou provincial government, so all the officials from the provincial government were brought to Huanglong Mansion by Bai Yuan.

The prefect Yang Fangyu was nearly hit by an old clerk, but luckily he was agile and managed to avoid it.

"Master Yang."

When the old clerk saw that it was Yang Fangyu, he bowed hurriedly.

Yang Fangyu waved his hand.

As he walked into the lobby, he saw Bai Yuan sitting on the armchair.

Brothers are brothers, but Bai Yuan is his superior now. Now that he has come to Huanglong Mansion, of course Bai Yuan has to hold the biggest position.

Bai Yuan also happened to look up and saw Yang Fangyu: "Brother Yang."

Yang Fangyu strode into the hall: "A Yuan, Lingzhou has decided to build a military fortress to gradually defeat the Demon Sect."

Bai Yuan nodded.

He was not surprised by this result.

Although a surprise attack may have good results, the tolerance rate is too low. Once it fails, the situation will instantly become bad.

Even the Taibao Yan Shaoan could not afford the consequences of a major defeat.

So although it seems there are two choices, there is actually only one.

As expected, military fortresses were soon built on the border between Dingzhou and Lingzhou. There were dozens of them in total, connected in a line, which was similar to the Great Wall built by Xu Dingchun before.

Yan Shaoan, who was the most fierce opponent of Xu Dingchun back then, is now following Xu Dingchun's old path.

As for why he didn't just build another Great Wall, it was probably because he didn't want to give his political opponents any reason to criticize him.

The situation in Lingzhou became tense again.

Wars between Xuan Yang and the Demon Sect broke out continuously. This time, Yan Shaoan brought elite soldiers and generals, and they captured Huaiyuan Prefecture in just two days.

The haze that had previously shrouded Lingzhou due to the great defeat suddenly dissipated, and morale was greatly boosted.

Some generals even threatened to storm into Yuquan Mansion in one breath.

But Yan Shaoan was well versed in military affairs and knew that the strong men of the Demon Sect were all gathered in Yuquan Prefecture. Huaiyuan Prefecture had already been abandoned by the Demon Sect, so it was of course easy to capture it.

But if they let down their guard and expand their capabilities to attack Yuquan Mansion, they will surely be dealt a heavy blow.

Yan Shaoan decisively chose the tactics of building high walls and storing up food, and started a war of attrition with the Demon Sect.

This day.

A young man came to the outside of the Huanglongfu government office.

"A Yuan, there is a young man outside who calls himself Yan Lei and wants to see you."

Yang Fangyu walked into the lobby.

Bai Yuan raised his eyebrows when he heard the word "Yan Lei", because the young man who had asked him to enter the lobby of Lingzhou Prefecture Government Office was named Yan Lei, and was a close confidant of Yan Shaoan.

"please come in."

Soon, Yan Lei came to the lobby.

Bai Yuan did not sit on the armchair, but chose to stand up and greet him at the door.

The reason why he did this was, of course, not because of Yan Lei, but because of Yan Shaoan, the representative behind Yan Lei.

Yan Shaoan is a powerful official in Xuanyang, with many followers.

Not to mention that Old Man Dong’s boss Xu Dingchun and Yan Shaoan are sworn enemies.

Although Xu Dingchun has become the Minister of War now, his power has obviously been taken away from him and he is no longer able to fight against the Taibao faction.

If it weren't for the emperor's intentional balance of power, Xu Dingchun estimated that he might not even be able to keep his position as the Minister of War.

It was good enough that Yan Shaoan did not deliberately target him, and he certainly did not want to make enemies.

Yan Lei bowed to Bai Yuan and said, "Master Bai."

Bai Yuan: "Brother Yan."

"Master Bai, I came here this time because my grandfather asked me to invite you to go south to seek support from the major sects."

Bai Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly.

He didn't expect that Yan Lei came to him to ask him to enlist in the army.

Yan Shaoan said that he was seeking support from the sects, but in fact he just wanted these sects to send troops.

He originally thought that Yan Shaoan sent him back to Huanglong Mansion on purpose to distance himself from him, but he didn't expect that he would now give him such an important task.

It's really hard to grasp.

Otherwise, logically speaking, such matters should be left to trusted persons.

Recruiting soldiers is no small matter. If done improperly, it would lose the reputation of the Taibao, not to mention that the targets of the conscription are those large sects. It is bound to not be easy and it can easily lead to hostility.

Yan Lei saw Bai Yuan's doubts and said, "Don't worry, Lord Bai. This is a recommendation from the King of Qingzhou."

Hearing this, Bai Yuan suddenly understood.

I heard that the King of Qingzhou came to provide assistance on the orders of Emperor Xuanyang, and he just arrived in Lingzhou yesterday.

Yan Lei: "Tomorrow, the Ninth Prince of Qingzhou will also come to Huanglong Mansion. Then the three of us will go south together."

"Bai obeys your command."

(End of this chapter)