The Green Province in the game had six or seven commanderies and sixty or so counties under its jurisdiction. It was a vast territory. Even though Yang Rui was the Provincial Governor of Green Province, he had never been to Green Province to perform his duties. Thus, Yang Rui wanted to move Sun Qian's family to Big Mountain City. On the other hand, Yang Rui wanted to perform his duties as the Provincial Governor of Green Province.
The position of Provincial Governor in the game might not be much, and its authority was not even comparable to that of the commanderies. However, the position of Provincial Governor in the future would definitely be very popular. The prerequisite was that one needed to have enough power to control the situation. Thus, Yang Rui had the idea of establishing his own influence in Green Province!
Moving Sun Qian's family shouldn't be difficult. Even though Sun Qian didn't come personally, he wrote a letter. However, establishing his own influence might be a little troublesome. Before leaving for Green Province, Sun Qian had also explained the situation of the Provincial Governor to Yang Rui in detail.
From Sun Qian's introduction, Yang Rui learned that every province's provincial governor's office could establish a provincial army of 10000 soldiers. Of course, there was a difference in the number of soldiers between large and small provinces. After the provincial army was established, it was mainly responsible for patrolling the counties and inspecting the process. The Han Court wouldn't give them a single copper coin for every single use. All of this came from the provincial governor's office, and it was paid for by the county! Thus, there was a natural conflict between the Provincial Governor's subordinates and the counties. The actual number of Provincial Army was determined by the balance between the Provincial Governor and the counties.
The current situation of the Provincial Governor's Green Province was that the Provincial Army had a total of 3000 soldiers. All of them were Fourth Grade and above. As the Provincial Governor of Green Province was temporarily vacant, the Provincial Army of Green Province was divided into three people: the Middle Officer, the Clerk Officer, and the Military Officer. Each of them controlled a thousand soldiers. The three of them each had their own responsibilities, but they also had to help each other, because the scale of the provincial army was not even greater than the soldiers of a county. Only when the three of them moved in unison could they plunder some benefits from the counties!
And if Yang Rui wanted to gain the right to speak in Qing Province, or even further develop his influence in the entire Qing Province, he had to start with the provincial soldiers! The most important thing was that according to Sun Qian, these three provincial governors were not easy to deal with. Yang Rui was the provincial governor who came out of nowhere. An outsider might not be able to mobilize these three influential figures!
This was the difficulty of Yang Rui's trip. However, Yang Rui had already made up his mind. If there was an opportunity during this trip, he was prepared to try and control the provincial soldiers. For this, Yang Rui had also brought over 2000 infantrymen from his storage ring. They were fully equipped with sword-wielding, spear-wielding, and archers. Among them, there were also 50 beginner level generals. There were also Gao Shun and Cheng Yu who were traveling with him!
Zhang Ning was left behind by Yang Rui in Big Mountain City. While assisting Sun Qian, Wang Hai, and the others, Yang Rui also had her actively comprehend the method of talisman paper tents, as well as the special prescriptions in the 《Key to Peace》. Currently, Big Mountain City had already accumulated a lot of Lingzhi raw materials. Yang Rui hoped that Zhang Ning would be able to find a suitable way to make use of them.
On the matters of the Provincial Governor of Green Province. Directly using force to deal with the provincial governors was a measure that Yang Rui had no choice but to take. It would be best if he could use other methods to deal with it. If the time was not right, Yang Rui also decided not to take action for the time being. Otherwise, he would lose 800 men to kill 1000 enemies. Not only would he consume his own strength, the influence of the Provincial Governor of Green Province in the entire province would also drop by a lot.
Taking a step back. There were still 7000 soldiers in Green Province. At the very least, Yang Rui would pay for it himself and recruit soldiers to form it. At that time, he would not have to worry about not being able to have the right to speak! The cost of 7000 soldiers was almost impossible for ordinary players to bear. However, Yang Rui had enough strength to support it. Once it was established, would he still be afraid that the county officials would not pay for it?
It was just that in that way, the whole process would become very long. From recruitment to training to formation, who knew how much time would be wasted …
In addition to these two major goals, Yang Rui decided to fulfill the duties of the Provincial Governor of Green Province when the time was right. He would patrol some counties, especially famous people like Kong Rong. Yang Rui also hoped to visit them (At this time, Yang Rui did not know that Kong Rong had not been appointed as the North Sea Prime Minister). Maybe he could even dig out some people like Taishi Ci! There were also quite a number of talents in Green Province!
The administrative center of Green Province, Linzi, was also the administrative center of Qi. It was not very far from Big Mountain City and was about the same distance as Dong Ah County. In order to avoid attracting attention, Yang Rui did not go to Juping City to use the teleportation formation. Instead, he directly used the Flying Carpet to fly to Linzi City. In less than an hour, Yang Rui arrived at the inner city of Linzi City.
As the administrative center of a province, county, and county, the inner city of Linzi's three prefectures was much larger than other ordinary cities. The division of the three prefectures was also not like the usual division of cities. Instead, it was divided into the Qi Manor, Prime Minister Qi Manor, and Linzi County Manor. The Provincial Governor's office only occupied a small courtyard in the Qi Manor. At this time, the awkward position of the Provincial Governor's office could be seen.
Of course, the Provincial Governor had the authority to open up a prefecture to govern. Most Provincial Governor's offices still had relatively perfect prefectures. The Provincial Governor's office in Green Province was also somewhat shabby due to the vacancy of the Provincial Governor's office. With regards to this, Sun Qian had already mentioned it beforehand. Therefore, Yang Rui was not too surprised when he saw it.
However, when Yang Rui arrived at the courtyard used by the Provincial Governor's office, the scene inside greatly surprised Yang Rui. In the entire courtyard, there were only three civil officials playing chess and chatting. There was not a single other person in sight. Of the three civil officials, two were old men with white beards while the other was a young man. No matter how one looked at it, they seemed to fit the situation!
"This subordinate greets Provincial Governor Blazing Sun. We respectfully welcome Your Excellency's arrival to perform your duties …"
Before entering the outer city of Linzi, Yang Rui had already released all the junior generals and soldiers from his storage ring. He wanted to build up the momentum for his first visit to the Provincial Governor's office. When they saw the civil officials of the Provincial Governor's office, his subordinates had already revealed Yang Rui's identity. The three civil officials who were chatting away respectfully greeted Yang Rui.
Afterwards, two of the three civil officials separately headed to the King Qi Estate, Prime Minister Qi Estate, and Linzi County Manor to pass on the news of the Provincial Governor's arrival to perform his duties. However, King Qi only sent a senior official over to greet him. Prime Minister Qi was not in his estate at all. It was said that he had gone to Luoyang Imperial City. As for Linzi County Manor, only a county officer came. He also said that the county magistrate was out on official business, while the county deputy was handling the affairs of the common people …
"Where are the three Provincial Governors?"
Although Yang Rui had already mentally prepared himself, he had not expected the Provincial Governor's office to be so devoid of personnel. He had not seen a single one of the three officials that Sun Qian had mentioned. After asking around, he learned that they had already gone down to the county to investigate. However, not a single one of them could say where they had gone!
Yang Rui felt like he had punched cotton. He had originally wanted to bring a few more people to raise his momentum. Perhaps he could have an immediate effect on those officials. However, in the end, Yang Rui had not even seen the shadows of those three. As a result, his preparations in this regard had not been effective.
Yang Rui had originally wanted to pay a visit to Kong Rong. However, after flipping through the list of officials in the Provincial Governor's office, Yang Rui discovered that the current Prime Minister of the North Sea was not Kong Rong. Instead, it was another unknown person! As a result, Yang Rui's planned trip to the North Sea was abandoned.
Yang Rui felt that it was a waste of time to go to other counties to inspect, or to look for the whereabouts of the three officials. He now had a lot of things to do. Moreover, Yang Rui did not have much free time to deal with the affairs of Qingzhou in one go. Therefore, Yang Rui planned to postpone the matters of Qingzhou for a period of time.
After making this plan, Yang Rui found Sun Qian's previous residence. He moved Sun Qian's family and all the supplies into the storage ring and moved them to Dashan City. With Sun Qian's handwritten letter, this matter did not take too much time as Yang Rui had expected. It only took a few hours for Sun Qian's family to pack their luggage.
Yang Rui's first trip to Linzi ended in less than half a day. Other than successfully bringing Sun Qian's family to Dashan City, Yang Rui's other plans did not have any results. Yang Rui's situation as the Provincial Governor of Qingzhou was even more ridiculous than previously imagined. In the future, it would take a lot of effort for Yang Rui to truly establish himself in Qingzhou.
However, Yang Rui was not completely empty-handed. As he did not use the teleportation circle to go back and forth, Yang Rui also had some understanding of the situation in Qingzhou.
In particular, the disaster situation in Qingzhou left a deep impression on Yang Rui. It was even more serious than the disaster in Yan Province. There were starving people everywhere, and the number of disaster victims and refugees was much higher. There were still remnants of the Yellow Turban in many areas. Although the various county soldiers and player forces participated in the clean-up, the living environment of the ordinary NPC soldiers was still very harsh. This was a far cry from Yan Province, where the Yellow Turban had long been eliminated.
The existence of a large number of disaster victims and refugees also made Yang Rui pay attention. If he could gather some disaster victims and refugees from Qingzhou to Dashan City, the population of Yang Rui's territory would inevitably increase rapidly, promoting the development of the territory and establishing a greater advantage.
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