False Eunuch: With Many Children, I'm as Happy as a Fish in Water

Just as Lin Chen thought.

After listening to Lin Chen's deception, the Yulin guards had no doubt that he was there.

On the contrary, knowing that this matter was entrusted by the immortal, his morale was greatly boosted.

Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his military spirit was ready.

"This is the seat of surrounding towns."

Lin Chen had already sorted out the map near Emei before.

Nowadays, the land of Sichuan and Shu is in dire straits due to continuous wars, and it no longer has the reputation of a land of abundance.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Leshan, where Emei is located, was also called Jiazhou and was the gateway to Chengdu.

However, Lin Chen knew very well.

After the rise of Mongolia in the northern grasslands and the destruction of the Jin Dynasty, they will attack the Southern Song Dynasty with all their strength.

According to the original history, many places in Sichuan and Shu fell into the hands of the Mongols, and even Chengdu changed hands several times.

Finally, the Sichuan-Sichuan defense line collapsed, and the Southern Song Dynasty was on the verge of extinction.

Lin Chen still didn't know when the secret realm arrived.

If Mongolia had just destroyed the Jin Kingdom, he would have less than a year to prepare.

After Mongolia digested what the Jin Kingdom had gained, it would send troops to the Southern Song Dynasty in large numbers, and then there would be decades of fierce fighting.

You must know that Sichuan and Sichuan have been fighting with the Jin Kingdom for decades before, and a more ferocious Mongolia came again, without even a chance to breathe.

Because of this, even Sichuan and Shu, which are steep and have many passes, can no longer resist the footsteps of the barbarians.

Thinking of this, Lin Chen's eyes fell on a place on the map.

More than ten miles away from Emei, there is a county called Yizhong.

According to the system of the Song Dynasty, counties are divided into seven categories: red, Ji, tight, Wang, upper, middle and lower.

The capital is governed by Chi County, and the towns next to the capital are Ji County.

The rest were divided into five classes according to their land fertility and population.

If it is a Wang County, its population is about 7,000 households, or about 30,000 people.

As for the worst lower county, one thousand households can become a county, that is, five thousand people.

Nowadays in Sichuan and Sichuan, most of the counties and counties in various places are middle and lower counties. Only around the state capital, there are a few counties with a population of more than 20,000.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, in order to resist the barbarians, five states and three temples were set up in Sichuan and Shu.

This state is almost under the jurisdiction of a state capital, with a total population of twenty counties.

In other words, the population of each state is less than 300,000!

This is the land of Beichuan and Shu with less than two million people, but it has to support more than 100,000 troops!

One can imagine how exhausted Sichuan and Shu were after years of endless war.

Even so, the Southern Song Dynasty court asked Sichuan and Shu to present Shu brocade, horses, salt tea and other items.

Lin Chen looked at the nearest county seat on the map, thoughtfully.

The base area is very important.

It is impossible for three thousand people to sleep in the open all the time.

at the same time.

He also intended to test the armament situation of the Southern Song Dynasty in the secret world.

Yu Lin's horse guards are cavalry pawns.

When Lin Chen brought them in, he didn't let them lead the horses.

However, there are still a large number of Xiliang war horses in his system backpack.

Anyway, Lin Chen, who had let his subordinates see his miraculous powers, stopped pretending.

Under the astonished gazes of many Yulin guards, 6,000 Xiliang war horses were released by Lin Chen.

It is enough for one person and two riders.

Lin Chen asked the Xian family for help.

Jiachuan County is a middle-to-lower-income country with a population of only 2,000 households and more than 10,000 people.

Cao Ling was drinking wine in the government office, feeling very sad.

For him, what is the purpose of being an official? Of course, you're making money.

As the saying goes, if you clean up the prefecture in three years, you will get one hundred thousand snowflakes and silver.

As the county magistrate of Wanhuhou, although he is not as good as the prefect, it is easy to make tens of thousands of taels of silver in his office.

certainly.

It would not work well in the land of Sichuan and Sichuan.

Cao Ling didn't expect that the county magistrate he had spent thousands of taels of silver to jump in and get was actually in the land of Bashu!

As a scholar, how could he not know the situation in Bashu?

Not to mention making money, if you can't protect the barbarians, you can't even save your own life!

Therefore, when Cao Ling took office, he made up his mind to gather the local gentry and landlords and make a name for them to plunder.

The money he got by then would be divided equally between him and the local tycoon.

But when Cao Ling came to Jiachuan County, he realized how weak Bashu was as mentioned by Lin'an!

In Jiachuan County, which is as big as Nuo, there is not even a squire to be found.

There is no other reason.

No matter how big a country squire is, he can't resist the increasing taxes imposed by the court every year.

The wealthy gentry in Jiachuan County had long been exploited and had become extremely poor people.

In other words.

Everyone in Jiachuan County has become poor!

In such a situation, Cao Ling could only break the pot and huddle in the county government office early in the morning, drinking sullenly.

As for handling government affairs?

Stop it.

Last year, a group of remnants of the Jin soldiers passed by and looted the county office.

The county magistrate was hacked to death, and most of the county government office was burned down. It has not yet been repaired.

Cao Ling took this opportunity to report it and planned to ask the court to approve a thousand and eighty taels of silver for repairs.

But it’s been almost two months since the paperwork came up, and there’s still no movement.

In this regard, Cao Ling gave up hope.

Just muddle along.

If there is news of a barbarian attack, just run back to Lin'an.

He is not worried about being punished.

During the Southern Song Dynasty, a large number of civil servants who abandoned their jobs and fled were not punished in any way. They were simply no longer employed.

On the other hand, military generals who lose their territory almost always face death.

This damn Jiachuan County magistrate, whoever wants to be can be!

But just when Cao Ling was full of resentment.

Suddenly I heard a panicked cry.

"The county magistrate, something bad happened to the county magistrate!"

The person who came here was a member of the county government office. He was over sixty years old and his neck was buried in the ground.

"What's the matter?!" Cao Ling's face was full of displeasure.

Nothing can disturb him except the county magistrate's drinking.

But the next second, what the doorman said made Cao Ling break out in a cold sweat, and he was completely drunk.

"My lord, there is a large group of cavalry coming from outside the city. It looks like there are tens of thousands of them!"

Cavalry? !

Hearing this, Cao Ling jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on.

It’s broken, it’s broken!

It must be the barbarian army coming in person!

Before the doorman could say anything else, Cao Ling was seen running behind the county government office and disappeared.

Cao Ling was convinced that the troops coming to Jiachuan County were definitely not the Southern Song Dynasty army.

the reason is simple.

There were not so many cavalry in the Southern Song Dynasty.

indeed.

Even in the Northern Song Dynasty, the army was still in short supply of horses.

Not to mention the Southern Song Dynasty, which was beaten to the south and cowered.

Even if Sichuan and Sichuan can buy some horses by traveling to Xixia, it will only be a drop in the bucket.

Only the northern barbarians could produce this number of cavalry.

Therefore, Cao Ling ran away first.

I have to say, it's really ridiculous.

When the whole county was in panic, the county magistrate himself fled long ago after learning the news.

It can only be said that this is the style of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Lin Chen originally thought he would encounter some obstacles.

But he didn't expect that the gates of the county town in front of him were wide open and completely undefended!

Then look at the county residents who are all hiding in their homes, only daring to secretly look at the mysterious army in front of them.

Wearing black armor, the flag is clear!

Look at these soldiers, don't they look like barbarians outside the Great Wall?

But the Heixuan military flag held high was not the style of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Lin Chen glanced at the dilapidated county town and shook his head slightly.

It was so easy to seize this county that he couldn't believe it.

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