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Later on, Yang Rui also told Gao Shun, Zhang Ning, and Cheng Yu about his encounter on the outer seas. According to their speculations, the island of the Penglai Region was most likely located in the outer seas, which was why there were so many powerful sea monsters around it.
There were civilization barriers between each civilization region, which were what players commonly referred to as national boundaries. Before the game progressed to the point where national boundaries were opened up, players could only reach other civilization regions by clearing certain national checkpoints, excluding subsidiary civilizations and associated civilizations. The outer seas were most likely beyond the national checkpoints!
Yang Rui only thought of this after hearing Cheng Yu and the others' speculations. In his previous life, there was a player from the Mexican civilization region who accidentally reached the deep sea region. When he tried to return, he encountered a national checkpoint deep in the sea. This Mexican player later called the place he had been to the outer seas.
Of course, the outer seas mentioned by the two places were not necessarily the same concept. However, Yang Rui knew very well that no matter where the island of the Penglai Region was located, the sea monsters in the surrounding seas were not something that they could deal with at the moment! In this regard, Cheng Yu also advised Yang Rui not to explore the surrounding seas for the time being.
In this way, Yang Rui did not have anything to worry about in the Penglai Region for the time being. Moreover, the outer circle of the Penglai Region was already under Yang Rui's control, so he could return at any time. Therefore, Yang Rui temporarily left the Penglai Region after arranging for the commanders to train. Calculating the time, Yang Rui had been here for quite some time. It was time to go back and take care of the various territories.
In fact, Yang Rui also had other plans. He was going to transfer some of the low-level soldiers from Mountain Town to the Penglai Region to train. On this basis, Yang Rui planned to further expand the number of soldiers under his command. If the number of Liegeman allowed it, he would increase the intensity of the recruitment to deal with the upcoming second system storyline.
The number of soldiers that the Penglai Region could accommodate was far from being saturated. Putting more soldiers in would be a good way to make use of the monster resources. Otherwise, it would be a waste to just leave it as it was.
Fortunately, Zhang Ning's Yellow Turban Class Change Order's cooldown was almost over. It could be used again immediately. As long as they found a suitable target to change Class, they could immediately increase the number of Yellow Turban Soldiers by 10,000.
If the Yellow Turban Soldiers were to train in the Penglai Region. Their leveling speed would definitely not be slow. Yang Rui had obtained quite a number of Yellow Turban Soldier Skill Books from the Yellow Turban Uprising storyline. Therefore, there would definitely be no shortage of Skill Books.
When Yang Rui returned to Mountain City from the Penglai Region, all the affairs in the territory were proceeding in an orderly manner. Even peripheral matters such as horse hunting in the Yue Capital were proceeding in an orderly manner. A large part of this was due to Sun Qian, who was overseeing Mountain City. With his two territorial support skills, the development of Mountain City could be said to be flourishing. Even the other territories had benefited greatly in terms of resources and manpower.
After spending about three to four days, Yang Rui checked all the territories and was completely relieved.
During this time, Yang Rui also asked Sun Qian about his views on the situation in Green Province and how to deal with it. After that, he left the territory once again. Before he left, Yang Rui took all the soldiers of Third Grade and below, excluding the Water Soldiers, into his storage ring. There were about 33000 people in total.
Meanwhile, there were about 12000 soldiers of Fourth Grade and above left behind to guard the territory. Among them, the cavalry soldiers still carried out their duties of patrolling the territory and searching for refugees and refugees. The Water Soldiers of various grades were also training, patrolling, and searching for Liegeman in the Wenshui Region. They did not retreat due to the lack of training resources in the territory.
The soldiers that Yang Rui took with him included the twenty thousand Yellow Turban Soldiers that Zhang Ning had used the Yellow Turban Class Change Order to change their class twice, as well as the Third Grade soldiers that Yang Rui had brought back from Wutun Town in Jiang Ji. With these thirty thousand soldiers taken away by Yang Rui, Mountain City and the other territories became much emptier. However, the defensive strength of the territories was generally above that of Fourth Grade soldiers. In addition, the Juping County Magistrate had taken care of everything. The safety of the territories was not a problem for the time being.
Yang Rui then returned to Penglai and placed all the soldiers he had brought with him into the map. Yang Rui had also entered Penglai through the stone pavilion in Huang County. However, he had used an array disc to open the entrance to the stone pavilion. This also proved that Yang Rui was no longer limited by the number of times he could enter and leave Penglai.
Two or three days had passed. Before Yang Rui came out from the Penglai Territory again, he divided his private soldiers and the new army of the West Park, which totaled more than 90,000 people, into groups. The soldiers with the talent for commanding would each lead them. After that, Gao Shun was the only one left in the Penglai Territory to watch over these soldiers while Zhang Ning and Cheng Yu were brought along by Yang Rui.
Yang Rui was going to forcefully reorganize Green Province this time. However, first, Yang Rui followed Sun Qian's suggestion and brought Zhang Ning and Cheng Yu to patrol the various commanderies and counties of Green Province. They had a rough understanding of the situation of the commanderies and counties, as well as their attitude towards the Green Provincial Governor.
Of course, it was impossible for Yang Rui to stay in a commandery or county for too long. It only took him 10 game days to complete the patrol. Basically, it was just a cursory observation and recognition. Yang Rui did not expect to get any results from the discussions with the local officials of these commanderies and counties. During the process, Yang Rui mainly did two things — pass on the intention of collecting military taxes and gathering refugees.
In fact, these two tasks were the duties of the provincial governor. For this reason, Yang Rui had also asked Cheng Yu to specially formulate regulations and pass them on to the commanderies and counties during the patrol.
The purpose of collecting military taxes was to establish and maintain the army of the provincial governor to ensure the normal performance of the functions of the provincial governor. Every commandery and county had the responsibility to pay a certain amount of military taxes every year for the maintenance of the provincial governor's office. Moreover, this amount of money was not very large. Every commandery had to pay 500 gold coins every year, and every county had to pay 100 gold coins every year.
However, it was this small amount of tax that most of the commanderies and counties had previously delayed paying. The provincial governor's office could only collect some from the commanderies and counties in batches under various pretenses. Most of them had to be coaxed and deceived. They even needed the provincial governor's office to put in a good word for them before they were willing to pay a portion of the tax!
However, Yang Rui did the opposite. He directly asked the commanderies and counties to pay back the tax that they had accumulated over the years. At the same time, he also collected a large amount of overdue taxes. After the two were added together, every commandery and county would pay 20 years of tax, which was 10000 gold coins for the commandery and 2000 gold coins for the county.
After hearing Yang Rui's words, many commanderies and counties could not help but laugh on the spot. They even thought that this new provincial governor of Qingzhou had a screw loose in his head. Not to mention 20 years of tax, with Yang Rui's method, they were afraid that he would not even be able to collect a single coin!
Even the provincial governor's civil official that Yang Rui had temporarily brought along to pass on this matter did not have any confidence when he passed on this matter to the commanderies and counties. He looked half-dead and could only endure the rolling of his eyes as he passed on the matter. As for the final effect, even he himself did not believe that it would be effective in the end.
One had to know that before Yang Rui inspected the counties and counties, he had already issued an order to remove all three of them from their positions as the Administrator of the Administrative Department, the Administrator of the Bookkeeper, and the Administrator of the Army! In this civil official's opinion, although the order to remove them from their posts might not necessarily be implemented, the three of them each controlled 1000 soldiers and horses. However, he himself did not have any trump cards. If he was removed from his post by the provincial governor, there would not be any leeway for him to maneuver.
Therefore, the civil official had always been following Yang Rui's instructions. Every time he went to a place, he would read out the tax matter. He would rather suffer the rolling of eyes of the commanderies and counties to protect his job first.
As for the matter of gathering the refugees, Yang Rui's method was also a little inconceivable. Gathering the refugees was originally a thankless task. Just settling the refugees would cost a lot of money. Therefore, although this was one of the most basic duties of the provincial governor, there was no provincial governor who was willing to take the initiative to do this in the past.
This was especially true for the Qing Province region. In recent years, due to the continuous natural and man-made disasters, the number of refugees and refugees was much higher than the other provinces. It was simply too much to take in. However, no one expected that Yang Rui would pick up this task when he arrived at the commanderies and counties. This made people feel that Yang Rui was not a wise person.
That was not all. Yang Rui actually combined the gathering of refugees with the collection of military taxes. He claimed that for every refugee he gathered, he would be able to deduct 1 gold coin of tax from their contributions. This was such an unimaginable action that many commanderies and counties felt that there was something wrong with this provincial governor, Yang Rui!
Yang Rui's inspection of the commanderies and counties was not welcomed in the first place. Many commanderies and counties only sent some insignificant people to deal with Yang Rui and the others. Even so, Yang Rui still passed down all the measures and urged them to do it as soon as possible.
During this process, Cheng Yu had been silently following beside Yang Rui, investigating the personnel and reactions of the various commanderies and counties in order to provide some basis for future actions. Cheng Yu had excellent detection skills, so he was naturally the most suitable person to do this. On the other hand, Zhang Ning was in charge of collecting military taxes and refugees. It was just that she was temporarily idle …
Yang Rui would definitely not let Zhang Ning idle for too long. After ten days of inspecting the commanderies and counties of Qing Province, almost the entire Qing Province knew about the unreliable past of Yang Rui, the provincial governor of Qing Province. At this time, Yang Rui decisively took action with A40,000.
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