Chapter 77 I Believe You Will Do It Well
"I remember that the defense officer of Yinghe Fort was Zhang Zhongxiang!"

"I fired him!" Zhou Lan said nonchalantly.

Domineering!

Yang Zhengshan secretly gave Zhou Lan a thumbs up.

"I will take up my post at Jianning Guard tomorrow. I will send you the official uniform and seal in two or three days, and you can take up your post at Yinghe Fort!"

"By the way, lend me a few of those guys you have!"

Zhou Lan said.

Yang Zhengshan blinked and borrowed the young man!

General, young men are not good at borrowing!

"What does the General want them to do?"

Zhou Lan noticed the strangeness in his eyes and said unhappily, "What else can we do? Train the troops!"

"They are all soldiers trained by you. They should have learned some skills from you! I want to use them to train the soldiers of Jianning Guard!"

Originally, she valued Yang Zhengshan because he was good at training soldiers.

And Yang Zhengshan did not disappoint her. It took him only two months to train a group of refugees into an elite force that dared to fight.

In fact, she wanted Yang Zhengshan to train the soldiers of Jianning Guard, but this was unrealistic.

Jianning Guard was not the Zhenbiao Zuoying. The soldiers of Jianning Guard were stationed in various garrisons, responsible for guarding the garrisons and keeping watch. They could not be gathered in one place for training.

Since Yang Zhengshan was going to serve as the defense officer of Yinghe Fort, he naturally had to train the soldiers of Yinghe Fort, Sanshan Fort and Xiangyuan Fort, so she could only borrow people from Yang Zhengshan to train the soldiers of other garrisons.

"Their official positions!" Yang Zhengshan wanted to fight for Yang Mingwu and Yang Mingzhi.

"You can arrange the official position in Yinghe Fort yourself. I'm just lending people. It's not like I won't return them to you!" Zhou Lan said.

She has decided to hand over Yinghe Fort, Sanshan Fort, Xiangyuan Fort and Linguan Fort to Yang Zhengshan. As for other positions, she also has her own people who need to be arranged, so naturally she cannot let Yang Zhengshan occupy too many official positions.

"Okay, I'll arrange for a few people to go with the general later!"

Yang Zhengshan was naturally satisfied with Zhou Lan's arrangement.

There are quite a few official positions in Yinghe Fort, including two deputy thousand-householders, two pacification officers, and ten hundred-householders, which are enough to accommodate Yang Mingwu and others.

As for the original officials of Yinghe Fort, it depends on whether they know what is best for them. If they do, they will be kept. If not, they will all be thrown to Zhou Lan.

He believed Zhou Lan would be willing to dispose of a batch of waste.

No, Zhou Lan should have dealt with a batch of waste, otherwise he would not have been able to become the defense officer of Yinghe Fort.

Afterwards, Yang Zhengshan started thinking about who to ask Zhou Lan to help.

You can choose between Yang Mingzhi and Yang Mingwu.

He thought about it and decided to let Yang Mingzhi go. It was not because he cared about his son, but because Yang Mingwu's personality was too straightforward and he was not suitable to be with Zhou Lan.

In comparison, Yang Mingzhi is smart enough, so if he really gets into trouble, he won't suffer too much.

For the rest, just pick the five older ones.

It is said that a man with no hair on his face cannot do things well, so if he wants to be an instructor, it is naturally better for him to look mature.

After Zhou Lan left, a burst of joyful cheers immediately broke out in the government office.

"Dad, I got a promotion!"

"Haha, your Excellency is so mighty!"

"Congratulations, sir, congratulations, sir!"

In the courtyard of the government office, Yang Minghao, Yang Mingwu, Yang Chengze, Yang Chengxu, Lao Li and others were all joyous and in high spirits.

When Yang Zhengshan gets promoted, their positions will naturally rise as well.

Especially the children of the Yang family, didn’t they follow Yang Zhengshan to Chongshan Pass just to make a name for themselves?
Not to mention them, even Yang Zhengshan couldn't help but feel a little excited.

Got promoted!
He is still a fifth-rank captain.

Although it can't be considered a quick success, it is still a step forward.

Before, he was just a trial centurion, serving as the deputy commander of the left camp of the town, at most a small follower, but now, he is a big follower, or a small leader. After the joy, Yang Zhengshan quickly gathered his thoughts and said, "Chengze, after I take office in Yinghe Fort, you will serve as the garrison officer of Linguan Fort. You should get in touch with the affairs of Linguan Fort in the next few days to avoid being too busy!"

Yang Chengze was stunned for a moment, and said uncertainly: "Sir, can I?"

He was just a small flagman with only ten soldiers under his command. Now that Yang Zhengshan asked him to serve as a garrison officer, he was somewhat unconfident.

"I believe you will do it well!" Yang Zhengshan said with a smile.

Yang Chengze is only sixteen years old this year, just a young boy, but Yang Zhengshan thinks he can be a good garrison officer.

Because Yang Chengze is mature beyond his years, or perhaps because Yang Zhengxiang had too many expectations of him in the past. After all, he is Yang Zhengxiang's eldest grandson.

In the past, Yang Zhengxiang felt that his son was useless, so he placed all his hopes on his grandson.

Expectations and pressure coexist, which makes Yang Chengze's personality much more stable than his peers.

"My Lord, I will definitely do it well!"

Encouraged by Yang Zhengshan, Yang Chengze couldn't help but say with emotion.

Yang Zhengshan patted him on the shoulder and said to Lao Li, "You stay in Linguan Fort to help Chengze first, and then go to Yinghe Fort after some time!"

Lao Li is not a soldier of Linguan Fort, but he still keeps Lao Li by his side because he thinks Lao Li is very suitable to be a housekeeper.

With Lao Li around, he can worry less.

"Yes, sir!" Old Li smiled so hard that his teeth were showing.

Yang Zhengshan looked at Yang Mingwu again, "Mingwu will be the deputy commander of Yinghe Fort, Mingzhi will be the governor of Yinghe Fort, as for the others, we will make arrangements after we get to Yinghe Fort."

He must hold these two official positions, one as a deputy captain and the other as a pacifier, in his own hands.

As for why Yang Mingwu was appointed as deputy captain, it was because Yang Mingwu was stronger than Yang Mingzhi.

Besides, he didn't want to praise Yang Mingzhi too much and let Yang Mingwu put pressure on Yang Mingzhi. He also wanted to put some pressure on Yang Mingzhi so that Yang Mingzhi would not think that he could live a carefree life with him as his father.

After the affairs of Linguan Fort were arranged, Yang Zhengshan's mind also drifted to Yinghe Fort.

Yinghebao is different from Linguanbao. Linguanbao is a rebuilt tunbao and is not actually a complete tunbao.

The border defense line of Chongshan Town is one beacon every five miles, one tower every ten miles, one fort every thirty miles, and one city every hundred miles. There are several fire towers and beacon towers under each fort.

Strictly speaking, Yang Zhengshan, a thousand-householder, should have ten hundred-households under his command, but in reality, many of the garrisons in Chongshan Town were abandoned, and there were only three hundred-households under the jurisdiction of Yinghe Fort, with a total of no more than 500 soldiers.

And "a fort every thirty miles" does not mean that there is a fort every thirty miles. The forts are not connected in a straight line, but are built according to the degree of danger of each place.

For example, Sanshan Fort is located southwest of Yinghe Fort, less than twenty miles away from Yinghe Fort, while Xiangyuan Fort is located southeast of Yinghe Fort, farther away from Yinghe Fort.

There are also beacon towers and fire road blocks between the tunbu. The number of beacon towers and fire road blocks under the jurisdiction of each tunbu is also different, about three to five.

Each beacon tower and fire road pillar will have five to ten guards, who are responsible for both farming and vigilance and guarding.

Whether it is the beacon tower or the fire road pier, the guards’ families live there.

Yang Zhengshan served as the defense officer of Yinghe Fort, and actually was in charge of the garrison towers and forts over 30 miles around Yinghe Fort.

He had more than 400 soldiers and more than 400 military households under his command, with a total population of about two to three thousand people.

If he could recruit all the soldiers in the garrison, the number of soldiers could reach more than 1,100 and the population could exceed 5,000.

This also means that he has to feed these people, let them live a good life, and make them be on the same page with him.

Yang Zhengshan had some idea of ​​how the life of the military households in the garrison was like.

Far inferior to farmers.

Therefore, after he took office, the first thing he had to do was to alleviate poverty.

Fortunately, he now has some food, so he doesn't have to worry about food in the short term.

The most urgent issue is the drought.

I don’t know whether those garrisons have dug wells. If not, that would be troublesome.

Thinking of this, Yang Zhengshan couldn't help but want to go to Yinghe Fort to take up his post as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, his official seal and robes had not been delivered yet, so he was unable to take up the office.

(End of this chapter)