Duan Ling originally thought that Wu Du would scold him when he found him, but he was too careless, and he was shot by an arrow.
"I'm sorry." Duan Ling said, "I was careless."
Wu Du replied, "Just be careful next time. I didn't think highly of you, but fortunately you're fine."
When Wu Du said this, Duan Ling felt even more guilty. After thinking about it, he leaned over and kissed Wu Du again. Instead, Wu Du laughed, patted Duan Ling's head, and handed him the porridge. At that moment, Duan Ling felt that sometimes he looked like his father.
"You ride to the sky." Duan Ling said, "They don't look at me..."
"Shh." Wu Du motioned to lower his voice.
Duan Ling took a mouthful of porridge and said in a low voice, "Aren't you saving people for the sake of the late emperor's love for horses?"
"I was almost stabbed when I entered the city." Wu Du replied, "Ask me where I stole this horse."
Duan Ling put one hand on his forehead, completely speechless, Wu laughed alone: "It was rumored that I killed the late emperor before, which is notorious."
"I'm sorry." Duan Ling said.
What Duan Ling thought in his mind was that the Zhengbei Army was his father's old subordinate, and in a sense he was also his subordinate. It was too much to treat Wu Du like this. Wu Du naturally couldn't have the same knowledge as these ruffians, so it was okay to wave his hand.
"What's your business?" Wu Du said, "Just beat them all down."
He rode both the late emperor's horse and the late emperor's son, and naturally he didn't take a group of ruffians in his eyes.
Duan Ling drank three bowls of porridge made with old ginger and tender chicken, and immediately felt much better.
"Are you full?" Wu Du asked, "A little more? I'll have someone kill a chicken. Everything is expensive here. It's like only chickens can afford food right now, and every household has them."
"Don't eat it." Duan Ling noticed that Wu Du's cooking seemed to have made a qualitative leap. Wu Du smiled and said, "Zheng Yan taught it."
"This prefect's mansion is very beautiful." Duan Ling said, "The city is so poor, only the mansion uses such good wood."
"There was a mutiny before." Wu Du said, "After the prefect was captured by the Yuan people, the soldiers, led by the generals, looted the valuables in the house, and most of them were taken out to exchange money for the army's pay."
Duan Ling: "..."
Brother Duan Ling Xindao was right, Yecheng was indeed a wolf's den.
"What should I do when I'm full?" Wu Du looked at Duan Ling and said.
"I want to take a bath." Duan Ling said, "I feel uncomfortable after the rain."
"Master, I'll wash it for you." Wu Du stepped forward and hugged Duan Ling, about to kiss his neck, Duan Ling's face immediately flushed red, thinking about how you were going to "wash", he hurriedly said: "Your injury is not healed yet! Don't mess around!"
"Hurry up and eat something." Duan Ling said.
Wu Du smiled and went to drink porridge. Duan Ling was watching him. Wu Du glanced at Duan Ling inadvertently and said, "Prefect, you are like a puppy.
"Forget it, don't bother people." Duan Ling found a damp cloth to wipe his body, Wu Du put down the bowl, took off Duan Ling's clothes, and while wiping him, stretched out his hands and touched him, and the two kissed lingeringly. For a while, Duan Ling asked repeatedly, Wu Ducai had to endure it and wait until the injury healed.
It was dawn, Duan Ling hadn't sorted out his mind yet, Wu Du's arrow wound had not healed, and there was a lot of trouble waiting for him in front of him.
On this day, when he took office, he was confronted with things beyond his ability. One thing was outrageous. The first thing he had to do was to compensate the 120 cows of the common people.
The second is to beware that the people of Batu and Yuan may come at any time to tear down his city walls, kill his people, rob his wheat, and burn his villages.
The third is to prepare 18,000 taels of silver and give money to my father's old men, otherwise they will overthrow his rule, level the prefect's mansion, demolish his beams and move his pillars, and use wood to make a fire, maybe He will also be captured to reward the army.
Finally, prepare 50,000 shi of food, otherwise this winter will not be able to survive, and when the refugees from the north arrive, everyone will starve to death in the cold wind.
Of course, Duan Ling himself will not starve to death. Wu Du will go and grab something for him to eat. If there is nothing to rob, he can still eat Wu Du...
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the newly arrived prefect and captain, one inside and the other outside, to see what they were going to do. The warehouse was empty, and the city wall was in urgent need of repair. The Yuan people abandoned the camp and their whereabouts were unknown.
As for the matter of Batu, Wu Du didn't ask a word, and Duan Ling couldn't help but be curious. But at this point, Wu Du is still very smart, and he doesn't talk much about irrelevant people. Perhaps it is precisely because he rarely mentions Batu that Wu Du has yet to be wary.
Hoping that Badu would not come again, Duan Ling sighed, how did it end up like this
Lin Yunqi and Sun Ting each sat on one side, and the rest were Wang Zheng and Yan Di who followed him.
Wu Duze was wearing a blue robe with his chest open, as if he was in the prime minister's mansion, sitting lazily on the couch beside Duan Ling, looking at the rain outside and thinking about things, maybe he was thinking about how to clean up Yecheng 's army.
Sun Ting sat aside, looked at Wu Du and Duan Ling, opened his mouth, seemed to want to say something, but couldn't speak, his eyes showed obvious worry.
Even if this prefect cannot be said to be invited by him, he is also here because of him. Can he do things well? Duan Ling knew what Sun Ting was worried about, but he felt that he was too young to handle Yecheng's affairs at all.
However, being a government official is like learning martial arts and practicing boxing. Each has his own cultivation base and his own kung fu. A person who can become an official must know what to do first and what to do next.
Duan Ling started to do his first thing and said, "Wang Zheng, you go to the yamen, in charge of the punishment and trial, and let the rest of the people go to the yamen to do business, and go with the appointment letter. Let's go."
Although Lin Yunqi was a meritorious officer, he still had to listen to Duan Ling's orders for personnel appointments, so he took notes. Wang Zheng took orders from Duan Ling and went to take office.
"The person who manages the money hasn't come." Duan Ling said, "Yunqi will take care of the warehouse for me for a few days first, so that I can do an inventory. Over the years, the deficit and the balance will be doubled."
Lin Yunqi also took orders.
Duan Lingchao Sun Ting said: "Sun Ting, you and I are also considered to be destined, and the mansion will be handed over to you. You go and pick ten brothers and temporarily serve as guards in the mansion."
Duan Ling glanced at Wu Du, but Wu Du was still fascinated by the rain. Duan Ling knew that he heard it. In fact, Wu Du was there, and it didn't matter to him how many guards there were in the house.
Sun Ting said: "Sir, you don't know the temper of the veterans, so just bring it in like this, in case you bump into the lord..."
"It's not in the way." Duan Ling said, "Go ahead, those who are willing to serve in the manor will be paid twenty dou each month."
Sun Ting also took orders.
"Yan Di." Duan Ling thought about it and said, "I'll give you three days to see the city wall. Before the fall, it must be reinforced, and the trenches and horse-rejecting stakes outside the city must also be renovated. , the city gate, the watchtower, how to build it, how much it will cost, how many people, all of them will be listed and handed over to Yunqi. How many people will be recruited to build, how many people will be required, and the construction period will be several days, and handed over to Wu Du.”
Yan Di replied, "Yes."
Duan Ling said again: "Further find luck and ask for 10 taels of silver, but you can invite the soldiers in the city to drink."
Yan Di also took orders, leaving Duan Ling and Wu Du, who were silent for a while, only Duan Ling was turning over the political records recorded by the previous prefect. The administrative record was recorded by the prefect himself or by the criminal name, recording what he did every day and how the administration was. Duan Ling flipped through it for a while, suddenly remembered something, and asked, "Does this former prefect have no family?"
"I don't know." Wu Du said, "The husband and wife are birds of the same forest, so they should fly separately when disaster strikes."
Duan Ling didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but Wu Du recovered from his contemplation and said, "What are you going to do with your own soldiers? Twenty buckets of rice should be added."
Duan Ling replied: "When our new officials take office, people outside the mansion don't know what to do or say in the mansion on weekdays. I have ten personal soldiers who walk around the mansion all day. After knowing who I am, they will I will go out and talk. The news spreads quickly in the barracks, especially the ruffians, who will always tell them, so that we can avoid guessing."
Duan Ling knew that in order to win the trust of the Yecheng people, what he had to do was to let them come to see what he was doing, so that everyone could feel at ease.
"Yeah." Wu Du said, "But since the soldiers are here, it won't be easy to do anything with you."
Duan Ling jokingly said: "You really want to use your hands in front of your own soldiers. I can't beat you, and secondly, my personal soldiers can't beat you. No one in this whole Ye City can beat you. It's not up to you to decide who moves."
Wu Du was drinking tea when he spit it out with a puff, with a blush on his face. He wanted to make fun of Duan Ling, but he made fun of him instead.
After a short while, Sun Ting brought ten people in and saluted Duan Ling and Wu Du. Wu Du just glanced at them and said nothing. Sun Ting arranged a shift for them, with five people changing day and night, two guarding outside, two patrolling, and one running errands outside the door. Duan Ling was very satisfied, and asked Sun Ting to find Lin Yunqi to keep a record.
After Lin Yunqi checked the inventory, he came back, and as expected, it was similar to what Wu Du said. There was no money left in the official treasury, and the officials still owed a lot of white notes from the people. All the valuable things in the house have been sold, and there are two tea cups left.
"Is the prefect a bachelor?" Duan Ling thought it was unlikely.
"The prefect has four concubines." Lin Yunqi said, "Three eloped with the soldiers. One rolled up and went with the bandit. The main house is from Qiongzhou, and when he heard that the prefect fell into the enemy's camp, he took his son with him. Let someone escort her back to her mother's house, there is no news on the way, and I don't know where she went."
Duan Ling said in his heart that the tree had fallen and scattered, and said, "It seems that when Lord Lu was in power, he looted a lot of people's fat and ointment."
Lin Yunqi never expected Duan Ling to tell the truth like this, and said embarrassedly: "Well, Mr. Wang... There are still a lot of IOUs here, but it was when Mr. Lu was alive... No, when he was in the mansion, the people looked for him. borrowed."
"It seems like this." Duan Ling said, "I owe money to the common people, and I have to lend usury loans. Tsk tsk, this business is done."
Lin Yunqi was a slick person, Duan Ling didn't say anything, and took the inventory, which was full of deficits written by cinnabar, and a stack of white bars.
Lin Yunqi said: "The loan is more than the white paper, so it must be worth it."
Duan Ling thought for a while and said, "The money we brought, according to the salary, there are also two thousand stone."
"It didn't cost much on the way." Lin Yunqi replied, "You and the Colonel General are of the fourth grade, with a total of 2,280 stone, which is 1,110 taels converted into silver."
The prefect and the captain are the four-rank officials. Duan Ling receives an annual salary of 1,110 shi. Because Wu Du is the general of the cadre, there is an extra item of depreciation for armor and weapons, and an extra 80 shi, and finally it is reduced to 1,110. One hundred taels.
"One thousand taels from the official middle branch." Duan Ling said, "First pay off the white note owed by Master Lu. As for the IOU..."
Duan Ling looked at Wu Du, Wu Du glanced at Duan Ling, and said inexplicably, "What do you see me doing?"
Duan Ling was speechless and had to say, "You all retreat."
As soon as the personal soldiers arrived, they were about to retreat left and right. Duan Ling had agreed to be open and honest, so he had to close the door and talk a few words. After a while, Duan Ling agreed, and everyone came in again.
"Sun Ting." Wu Du said, "Take these IOUs, go to the market entrance of Zhengjie, gather the people, and burn them in public."
Sun Ting was very surprised, and Lin Yunqi also guessed it, so he nodded with a smile.
Sun Ting said, "What do the adults eat?"
"Master has the final say." Duan Ling said, "Don't worry about him, remember that it was the captain's idea."
Sun Ting immediately said: "The villain thanked the general for the people of the whole city!"
After Sun Ting left, Lin Yunqi said, "Sir..."
"Eighty taels a year." Duan Ling said, "It's enough to save a little."
Lin Yunqi said, "No, my lord, the lower official just reminded me that we have to find a way to return the people's cattle."
Duan Ling almost forgot and said, "I'll think of a way."
Three thousand dollars for a cow, which is 228 cents of silver, Duan Ling had a headache and had to find another way.
Wu Dudao: "I borrowed the ox, and it's none of the prefect's business. I'll go and plough the land for them, call me when ploughing, and put the plow on me."
Duan Ling couldn't help laughing. Lin Yunqi knew that Wu Du was only joking, and said, "I think the Colonel General has a plan. Just a reminder."
Duan Ling knows that Wu Du suspects that Lin Yunqi talks too much
Wu Du asked, "Is it done?"
"It's over for the time being." Duan Ling said, "I have to think of a way."
"That's my turn." Wu Du said, "The errand outside, called the two generals in and reminded them to prepare the medicine for bruises and injuries. If they have any ancestral goggles and armor, they will greet you all the good things. It is rumored that two doctors who beat him, prepared a stretcher and waited in the yard. The general Mingren didn't speak secretly, and he was going to beat people."
Duan Ling; "… "