I have been a county magistrate for ten years. My subordinates insist on giving me a yellow robe.

At the city gate, Jiang Yuan handed a sack of bamboo slips to two constables, then stood at the gate and watched the two men walk away.

"There are at least a hundred bamboo slips in this sack. I don't believe you, Tian Wen, can read them all without missing a single one!"

"As long as you miss one, hehe!"

"Why are you laughing so lewdly, sir?" Li Hu asked with a squint.

"Stop talking nonsense and take me to see the barracks. I haven't been to see it since we set up the barracks." Jiang Yuan kicked him without any hesitation.

Li Hu turned around and shook his head: "What's so interesting about that barren place?"

"Stop talking nonsense and lead the way!"

Not long after, at the barracks, Jiang Yuan looked at the five hundred people in front of him and sighed.

There were a total of 500 soldiers, and each of them had a weapon in their hands, but only less than 20 of them were wearing armor.

This ratio is incredibly low.

"Are we so poor? Can't we even afford to make a set of armor for each person?" Jiang Yuan turned and looked at Chen Qing.

Now all the infantry in Taiping County are under the command of Chen Qing, and the archers are naturally Hatu who is still working to pay off his debts.

As for cavalry, this thing is too expensive, and currently only Kong Xuan is a nominal officer.

"Sir, a set of high-quality armor will cost at least tens or hundreds of taels of silver. Let's not talk about these for now. The key point is that we don't have craftsmen, and we don't have much iron." Chen Qing said helplessly.

Jiang Yuan lowered his head and thought for a while. Indeed, in ancient times, no blacksmith would dare to make armor privately unless he met a soldier who was serving in the army.

Previously, Taiping County had no craftsmen, let alone soldiers.

"This isn't a difficult task. Once I've dealt with the iron mine outside the city, these will be minor problems."

"Sir, I have a question!" Just as Jiang Yuan turned around to leave, Hatu came up to him.

Jiang Yuan smiled. This guy was hired by himself. He didn't spend a penny and didn't even want a salary. He couldn't let him down.

"If Hatu needs anything, tell me and I will definitely help you."

Hatu walked up to Jiang Yuan and saluted, "Sir, the soldiers under my command have been trained almost completely these days, but they have no actual combat experience."

"So I want to take these soldiers and horses out to suppress the bandits."

Jiang Yuan nodded slightly, this really hit the point.

Soldiers who have never fought in a war cannot evolve into veterans after all, so this is still very necessary.

"That's right, Chen Qing. How about this? In a few days, when the weather is right, take them to fight the bandits."

"Yes!"

The two of them saluted quickly.

"By the way, if those bandits want to surrender, bring them back and incorporate them into our own army."

After explaining all this, Jiang Yuan took Li Hu leisurely back to the county government office.

Now that Taiping County's development has been put on track, Jiang Yuan is much more relaxed than before.

At least I don't have to do sneaky things like before.

"Li Hu, I remember your grandfather's memorial day is in a few days, right?" Jiang Yuan said softly.

Li Hu's body trembled, tears welling up in his eyes: "I didn't expect that the adults still remembered this."

"Don't cry like a woman. Remember to call me when you go." Jiang Yuan said, and rushed to the county government office without looking back.

Li Hu wiped his tears and went home.

Jiang Yuan hummed a tune from his previous life as he hurried to the county government office. It was already dark, and the doors of the houses on both sides were closed. Only Jiang Yuan was still walking on the street.

"When I was a child, I chiseled a hole in the wall and stole everything from someone's house..."

Just as Jiang Yuan was humming the modified version of the song, a figure suddenly came towards him.

From a distance, he looked tall and his pace was neither fast nor slow, giving people a sense of oppression.

Jiang Yuan's expression instantly became alert, not to mention that there were few people in Taiping County who had such momentum.

Just the few guys he had offended recently, none of them were easy to deal with.

As the distance between the two sides got closer, Jiang Yuan leaned directly against the door of a civilian's house, as if he was ready to knock on the door at any time.

The man glanced at Jiang Yuan casually, then walked straight past him.

It was not until the man walked more than ten meters away that Jiang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and continued on his way.

However, before he could take two steps, a sound of breaking air suddenly came from behind him.

What the hell!

Jiang Yuan screamed, fell to the ground, rolled over, and ran away without looking back.

"Wang Gang! Wang Gang!"

Jiang Yuan shouted twice with all his might, then gritted his teeth and ran away.

"You want to run away? It's not that easy. Just stay with me!"

The man sneered behind Jiang Yuan, pulled out a dagger from his waist, and waved it towards Jiang Yuan.

Fortunately, although Jiang Yuan is weak now, in terms of speed, he is no worse than a man.

Finally, when a burly figure appeared in the distance, Jiang Yuan ran towards Wang Gang with tears in his eyes.

The master didn’t raise you in vain!

Wang Gang, who had just arrived, took a closer look and was immediately furious.

Damn it! How dare someone try to kill my master? They're simply courting death!

"Master, get out of the way!"

After Wang Gang roared, he threw his arms wide and rushed towards Jiang Yuan.

When the two were less than ten meters apart, Jiang Yuan lightly tapped the ground with his feet, turned gracefully in the air, and landed nimbly.

The man behind Jiang Yuan was not so lucky. He was pushed dozens of meters away by Wang Gang's bull charge.

The man put one hand on Wang Gang's chest. The two sides were in a stalemate for a while. Wang Gang looked up and scratched his head.

"broken."

The man was startled and quickly looked down at Wang Gang's chest. It was bulging high, and it was clear that he was not hurt at all.

"I'm talking about your hand." Wang Gang spoke again.

"Ah! Ugh!"

The man finally reacted, quickly pulled back his arm, and looked at Wang Gang fiercely while covering his arm that looked like a dead vine.

"Who are you? How could there be a master like you in a place like this?"

"There's so much you don't know!" Jiang Yuan walked over cursing.

"Wang Gang, kill him! Break his legs and feet first!"

"You bastard! Don't even think about getting any useful information. I won't tell you. Forget it!"

"Also, you'd better kill me directly, otherwise if I don't die, you will be the one to die in the end!" The man still made cruel remarks without knowing the consequences.

Jiang Yuan looked at the man disapprovingly: "Yo yo yo, you're still pretty tough. Wang Gang, don't just stand there."

"Okay!" Wang Gang agreed and quickly crippled the man.

Then he dragged the man to Jiang Yuan.

"Master, what should we do next?"

"Come with me, I'll find him a good place."

Jiang Yuan nodded with a smile, turned around and took Wang Gang to Taiping County Prison.

The prison that originally held many people is now much emptier. I guess Prince Zhao must have taken everyone away.

When Jiang Yuan thought of this, he couldn't help feeling regretful.

Prince Zhao is a good man. He contributed hundreds of thousands of taels of silver without asking for anything in return, and there was no letter when he left.

It's really hard to find good people like this.