I was engaged in infrastructure construction in the Han Dynasty [Transmigration Book]

Just like when he first arrived in the northern border country, Liu Tan had a great time killing chickens and monkeys, but corresponding troubles followed. Now there is a direct lack of a sheriff, so he has to choose one.

But now it's different from the past. Back then, the northern state was under Liu Tan's command, so he could actually choose anyone, as long as he liked it.

Now the people he selected still have to worry that if these people are loyal to him, will they be afraid of these people when Liu Ku starts to take power in Yan State more than ten or twenty years later?

Now that the country of Yan is short of two sheriffs, of course Liaodong County has not yet been defeated, so there is no need to worry.

According to Liu Tan's idea, he originally wanted to choose one of them in Yan Country to make a living, and it doesn't matter how powerful the other party is, as long as he is obedient.

His request to the officials of Yan State is to be obedient. After all, from the very beginning, he did not intend to treat Yan State the same as he did to the northern border country. He just wanted to lay some foundations, and then leave the rest to Liu Ku. Hard work can secure the seat of King Yan.

As a result, Liu Tan poked around in the country of Yan, but he couldn't choose a person who could be used.

He said to Dou Sibo with a very headache: "Is the country of Yan really down to this point? Doesn't there even have a person who can be a county guard?"

Dou Sibo said in a daze, "Nowadays, the Northern Territory is full of talents, why don't His Highness choose a temporary replacement there?"

Liu Tan frowned: "I selected someone from the northern border country, and when King Yan grows up, how will this person deal with himself?"

Dou Sibo felt that he vaguely understood the meaning of the King of the North, hesitated for a while and said: "Your Highness, even if King Yan grows up, it should not have any effect."

Liu Tan was taken aback: "Huh?"

Dou Sibo whispered: "Your Majesty will not let King Yan be like you."

He couldn't directly say that it is a special case that only the king of the northern border is the only prince in the whole Han Dynasty. The other princes and kings only collect money and ignore things. The big one may take over from the King of the North.

But if Dou Sibo works hard on his own, he may be able to be the master of the country of Yan in the future.

However, during the time he has been with the King of the North, he has already made up his mind that even if the King of the North returns to the Kingdom of the North, he will still be filial. It is enough for him to benefit endlessly.

Liu Tan also understood Dou Sibo's meaning after being half a beat too late. Think about it... It's true that he had ignored the fact that he was a strange flower among princes and kings before.

Thinking about it this way, he didn't have any worries, so he wrote a letter to Huo Guang very simply, calling for an obedient person to come over. If he had experience, he only had a little experience at the grassroots level, and he didn't need to be too strong.

After receiving the letter, Huo Guang let out a long breath, deeply feeling that the northern border country will probably provide all-round help to Yan country in the future.

If he had helped the neighboring country in the past, he would definitely strive for other benefits, but now... Although it is the country of Yan, but no matter how the king of the northern border is in charge, strictly speaking, there are still two families.

Huo Guang went through the situation of the officials of the entire Yan State in his mind. From Dou Sibo's point of view, Yan State should not need particularly powerful officials, only a little, obedient.

Then this candidate is very easy to choose. There are many suitable people in the academy in the northern border country. Because there is no age limit, some people were not young when they were admitted. In a few years, the official.

Before, Huo Guang was thinking about discussing the arrangement of officials with his highness. Those who pass the school examination can be entrusted with important tasks. If someone feels that the time is too wasted, then let them choose another way out - starting from low-level officials. .

But before he could perfect this idea, Liu Tan had already gone to the country of Yan. It just so happened that this time, the sheriff of Xinpinggang County sent him there.

And the selection of Huo Guang, the sheriff of Pinggang County, also got the true biography of Liu Tan-directly use the method of examination.

And limit the age under the age of 30 are not allowed to take the test.

For a while, everyone was envious of those who were qualified to take the exam. Although the country of Yan is not doing well now, where is the King of the Northern Realm? Even if the place with His Royal Highness the King of the Northern Realm is not very prosperous for a while, it will eventually develop up.

Liu Tan's ability to turn decay into magic has been deeply ingrained in everyone's hearts.

And even if they have worked hard to learn, how many of them will be able to become sheriffs in the end?

Now as long as you pass the exam, you will reach the sky in one step.

The older ones were very excited and geared up one by one.

They are all thinking about how difficult the exam questions will be this time. After all, the exam questions in the academy are often more bizarre than the last, and they are said to be to exercise their thinking ability-this seems to be the handwriting of the King of the North.

However, what surprised them was that the exam questions this time were quite satisfactory, and many of them used some previous policies of the King of the North as examples, allowing them to express their opinions.

For a while, everyone was a little confused, and they didn't know how to write.

Many people think that His Royal Highness the King of the North likes those who dare to speak and think, so they dare to write when answering the questions, and even dare to euphemistically express that some of the King's political actions are too radical.

All of a sudden, everyone felt that they were so different that His Royal Highness the King of the Northern Realm would definitely value him.

However, this time it was Huo Guang who chose the candidates. What he hated the most were those people who were full of unrealistic ideas, and he threw them aside.

In the end, the few with the most satisfactory answers were selected, and then a person who didn't express too many ideas about the policy, but just wrote about what he would do, was selected, and asked him to report to His Royal Highness the King of the Northern Territory.

When this person was selected, everyone was very surprised. When this person was in the academy, he was ridiculed all the time and only knew how to study hard. He never expressed opinions on the thoughts of the teachers and thought that people like him had no future.

In the end, how could he turn around and become a sheriff?

This person himself was also very sincere and fearful, so Huo Guang said very bluntly: "Nowadays, the country of Yan is full of chaos. What Your Highness needs is not someone full of unrealistic ideas. Your Highness only needs obedient people. What you need to do should be done in His Highness's heart." Naturally, do you dare to say that you are stronger than His Highness?"

Crowd: ...

Not only did he dare not, but he also felt in his heart that he was inferior to His Royal Highness the King of the North.

For a while, everyone was beating their chests and feet, and they were so stupid, why didn't they think about the situation in Yan Guo.

But no matter how much they regretted it, it would be of no avail. The candidate had already been selected and packaged to Liu Tan as quickly as possible.

Huo Guang has always been more reliable in doing things, so he directly reported all the process in the letter.

Liu Tan is deeply satisfied with Huo Guang's work, such a candidate is the best.

As for Huo Guang's question about the two choices of gongshi, Liu Tan thought about it and remembered that it seemed to be the same in the Ming Dynasty. If you didn't pass the Jinshi exam, you could go straight to the rank of officials, but you need to start from low-level officials, and the upper limit for promotion is lower than that of officials. Jinshi is low, but there are also many people who make this choice, and they have to queue up to be an official.

Liu Tan felt that Huo Guang's idea was good, so he asked him to plan in detail.

Then at the end, Huo Guang came up with a soul torture question: "Where did your Highness spend Zhengdan this year?"

Liu Tan's first reaction was naturally that he had lived in the northern border country, but he soon realized that he might really...not be able to go back.

There are too many things on the side of Yan State, especially he has to guard against Wuhuan's attack. Wuhuan seems to be very quiet now, but you must know that it is only a family of Wuhuan, the Bo Xi family, who occupies Liaodong County.

Recently, he also learned that Wuhuan is not actually a complete country, it is just a unified name for the people of that ethnic group by the big Han. In fact, they have always been divided.

The Bo Xi family has several clans with good relations and several clans with bad relations.

If it was in the past, Liu Tan would have chosen to make good friends with those clans to deal with the Bo Xi clan together, but now he also wants to understand that it is not worth making good friends with foreigners with different ideas. Only when the education they receive is the same can the big man be regarded as himself people.

Why did Liu Che accept Lu Xuan so happily?It's not because Lu Xuan let the Wusun people receive the education of the big man.

People in this land never rely on their blood to view their nation, but on their thoughts.

If you are consistent with our mainstream thinking, then you are your own person, and vice versa.

The Wuhuan people are doomed not to be friends, so they might as well just get along with each other.

Therefore, Liu Tan is doomed not to return to the northern border country this year, let alone Chang'an.

After thinking about it, he wrote a letter to Huo Guang, asking him to send King Yan over.

Although everyone knows that the King of the Northern Territory is temporarily acting as the agent of the Yan Kingdom, it is not a problem that the King of Yan will not be in the Yan Kingdom for a long time.

Moreover, Liu Tan reckoned that his next focus would be the country of Yan, and Huo Guang only needed to let Huo Guang develop the country in the northern border step by step. If he came up with something else, it would be prone to problems.

Thinking about it, he still felt a little boring before, but now he feels that the years are quiet and it’s pretty good. If you don’t fight wars, you don’t burn money. If you burn for a while, no matter how much money you can make, you can’t afford the consumption of the [-] troops. up.

After Huo Guang received Liu Tan's order, he quickly packed Liu Ku over.

Yan Wang Palace finally moved in the real Yan Wang.

It's just that after Liu Ku came, it was very difficult for Liu Tan to talk about where he lived.

Now Yan Guo has been beaten honestly by Liu Tan from top to bottom, especially the sheriffs of Liaoxi County and Guangyang County took the lead as Liu Tan's loyal younger brothers, and these two people did get benefits, which led to other The county guard also understood the taste - it might not be of great benefit to follow the king of the north, but a leak in the opponent's hand is enough for them to eat, and it must be of no benefit to fight against the king of the north.

Especially after the [-] troops moved into the newly built city, the imperial court sent a commendation, well, this is not unusual for everyone, even if Liu Tan does nothing on weekdays, his whole family will write letters to praise him for not messing around recently things come.

What made everyone jealous the most was that the names of Liaoxi County Sheriff and Guangyang County Sheriff were heard directly to the sky!

What does this mean? This means that if they are lucky and capable, they may be transferred to Chang'an in the future.

There are officials in the Northern Kingdom who were transferred in this way. As for the main officials there, it is said that it is because the emperor loves his son and does not want to transfer all those people away, so that they can assist the King of the Northern Region.

So all of a sudden, most of the county guards became smart and started flattering Liu Tan. At first, they just gave money and treasures as filial piety as before.

In the end, they were all sent back by the King of the Northern Territory, and Liu Tan didn't say anything noble to them. From the beginning to the end, it was very simple: I don't like it, and any one in my warehouse is better than you.

For this reason, Liu Tan even specially asked someone to change the furnishings of King Yan's palace, so everyone saw many imperial things, and they knew where these things came from when they thought about it.

Everyone immediately silenced their flags and drums, but the sheriff of Yuyang County was smarter.

He doesn't like to send treasures to the king of the northern border, and it is impossible to send money to the king of the northern border, but they can send money to the army as military expenses.

They also heard that the King of the North was also worried about military expenses. It was said that the money sent to the King of the North from the capital was enough to fill four warehouses. As a result, two warehouses were empty before the army was dispatched.

It is hard to say whether the remaining two warehouses can last until the end of the war.

Or basically impossible.

According to the past situation of the big man, the general should start asking the court for military expenses at this time.

You can’t wait until you really have no military expenses, because generally even if you submit the memorials, you may not really get the military expenses, and it is not easy for the court to pay for it, unless the ministers in the court think that the money should be paid.

But the King of the Northern Territory didn't seem to want to reach out to his father, and was thinking about getting these troops to do something that would generate economic benefits.

In the name of supporting the army, the governor of Yuyang County directly sent a bunch of money to the army, claiming that it was for the army's military expenses, in order to enable the army to drive Wu Heng away and give them peace.

Liu Tan couldn't help laughing after hearing this, but this time he was accepted, and by the way, he was also praised for the righteous deeds of the governor of Yuyang County.

When he heard that he had a conscience and was a good official among the people, the magistrate of Yuyang County couldn't help being very happy, knowing that he had found the right way.

The sheriffs of other counties had been staring at Liu Tan's place, wanting to see how they could make the King of the North happy.

After discovering that the governor of Yuyang County had done this secretly, they couldn't help scolding him for being treacherous and cunning, and then began to send money to the army one after another.

All of a sudden, the army's military expenditures were filled again, and Liu Tan spared no effort to write letters to them one by one to praise them, and he also asked people to publicize them.

How cost-effective it is to use some false names to get real money.

As for Liu Ku's problem, he simply let Liu Ku live in the main hall, while he went to the side hall.

Anyway, he is currently in the position of the regent in the country of Yan, so he can't take the lead.

And even if it is a side hall, it is also a side hall of the main hall, so it doesn't count as humiliating his identity.

These are small things, not to mention that apart from the New Year, Liu Tan guessed that he would not be able to stay in Jicheng for a long time.

The governor of Ji County was looking forward to Liu Tan's return with great difficulty, and finally found a chance to ask Ai Ai: "Your Highness, I have been to the new city in Liaoxi County before, and the new city is really well built."

Liu Tan watched Liu Ku play with toys and looked up at him: "If you have anything to say, just say it."

The governor of Jijun immediately apologized and said with a smile: "Your Highness, you see that Jicheng is a royal city after all, if it is not as good as a county city, it will be rumored that His Highness Yan's face will not look good, will it?"

In the past few days, he has also seen that King Yan may not be favored by the emperor, but the king of the northern border still cares about his younger brother, even if it is only superficial.

Liu Tan suddenly understood what he meant, looked at him with a half-smile and asked, "What? You want Xincheng too?"

The governor of Ji County immediately nodded frantically: "Yes."

Who doesn't want Xincheng?The Sheriff of Jijun even knew that His Royal Highness the King of the Northern Territory even had someone design the Sheriff's Mansion. Although his Sheriff's Mansion was not bad, the buildings of the Northern Territory Kingdom were famous throughout the Han Dynasty, and even the emperor was full of praise. , of course he was also envious.

Liu Tan's face darkened: "You dare to stretch out your hand before the king is held accountable? You don't want to see what you have made of Jicheng? Although the original county town of Liaoxi County is not as good as Jicheng, but the city is poor. The wealth gap is not big. Even if there is a new city, everyone has the money to move in. You can see for yourself what Jicheng looks like today? Even if a new city is built, can you guarantee that the people will have the money to move in? Can you guarantee it? Those wealthy households won’t wantonly buy houses and land?”