Chen Chu and Zhang Liao were waiting in the lobby, and the minor official named Cai Jun stood aside. The yamen runners outside the lobby did not disperse because there was no Chen Chu's order.

Taking advantage of the moment when Wang Han was imprisoning people to the prison cell, Chen Chu asked Cai Jun about Wang Han’s situation.

According to what Cai Jun said, combined with Wang Han's previous performance, Chen Chu analyzed that Wang Han should be trusted. Of course, Cai Jun may tell lies, but Chen Chu is not worried about this, because these things are easy to verify.

Soon, Wang Han returned to the lobby.

"Sir, all the people have been taken to the cell to take care of it."

Chen Chu nodded, then signaled Wang Han to sit down aside.

After a pause, Chen Chu asked Wang Han: "Wang Han, are there any corpses who colluded with the former county magistrate among the yamen outside the lobby?" Chen Chu asked this very skillfully, and he did not ask, "Is there still the former county magistrate's confidant?" This gave people the feeling that he was rectifying the county officials, rather than excluding dissidents.

Sure enough, Wang Han showed a joyful and excited expression, and after thinking for a while, he replied: "Sir, there are three people in the yamen runners outside who are usually in love with the former county magistrate."

"Okay, Wang Han, you go and bring those three people up to me."

"Yes, I'll go now."

Shortly after Wang Han left the lobby, a noise came from outside the lobby. "Wang Han, what do you want to do? Do you want to take revenge on us?" A voice shouted excitedly and nervously.

"Stop talking nonsense! You three usually harm the people. In the past, because of the protection of the Qin County Magistrate, I can't do anything to you. Now the newly appointed Lord Chen wants to rectify the county officials, and I will not let you go!" Wang Han shouted excitedly.

Chen Chu, who was sitting in the lobby, smiled. The conversation clearly revealed a lot of information, and Chen Chu was even more certain of Wang Han's character.

"Wen Yuan, what do you think of Wang Han?"

"Brother, Wang Han should be an upright person." Zhang Liao seemed to admire Wang Han very much. Chen Chu nodded.

A moment later, Wang Handang walked into the lobby first, followed by more than a dozen yamen runners escorting three people.

"Sir, these three people are usually arrogant and domineering, and bully the people and businesses in the city a lot. Please decide." Wang Han knelt on one knee and reported.

While Wang Han was speaking, the yamen runners held the three men and knelt on the ground.

"Sir, we are wronged! Wang Han is retaliating!" The three people escorted shouted injustice.

Wang Han, who was standing by, was so angry that he heard this. These three guys usually do a lot of unethical things, but now they still have the face to complain about justice! And they even turned the raid!

"Sir!" Wang Han seemed very excited. Chen Chu raised his hand and signaled him to be calm.

Chen Chu looked at the three people, who were the strange people who had noticed outside the lobby before. He ignored the three people's cry for justice, and Chen Chu turned his eyes to Cai Jun who was standing beside him, showing the intention of asking.

Cai Jun immediately nodded to Chen Chu. Chen Chu immediately became scheming.

"Take the three of them down. As for how to deal with it, let's talk about it after the interrogation." Chen Chu told Wang Han.

"Yes." Wang Han then stood up and ordered his opponent: "Please these three people into prison."

Accompanied by begging for mercy, the three of them were taken down. Then Chen Chu ordered the yamen runners outside the lobby to disband and return to their respective positions.

Chen and Chu generals Wang Han and Cai Jun stayed and said to them: "The two people need to help each other in all matters in the county."

The two of them quickly knelt down on the ground and said together: "We will do our best to help the Lord."

Chen Chu nodded and said to Cai Jun: "Cai Jun, you have been with Qin County Magistrate in the past and have done a lot of bad things, but I can't help but think about you, so I don't pursue anything in the past. You are still in charge of documents and accounts and other internal affairs. I hope you can do it yourself."

Cai Jun was immediately grateful and saw him holding his fists with excitement and swore: "I thank you for your kindness, and I will definitely repay you with death!"

Then Chen Chu said to Wang Han: "Wang Han, I think you are upright and leave all the security affairs in the county to you in the future. I hope you don't let my expectations for you."

"Yes. The subordinates will definitely live up to the entrustedness of the master." Wang Han said with a loud voice with his fists, with a look of a soldier dying for his confidant.

Seeing the two people who swore to him in front of him, Chen Chu felt very accomplished. By this time, Chen Chu had completely taken over Leping County.

He signaled the two to sit left and right, and then Chen Chu explained one thing, that is, they must follow the laws when doing anything. This made the two respect Chen Chu more, and Zhang Liao, who stood behind Chen Chu, strengthened his determination to follow Chen Chu.

Afterwards, Chen Chu ordered Wang Han to take people to confiscate the Qin County Magistrate's home and asked Wang Han to send someone to monitor the Qin family.

After handling all matters, Chen Chu left the county government office. Zhang Liao was left by him. Because he took over Leping County, there must be a real confidant in the county government office. Zhang Liao was only temporarily in charge of the county government office. In Chen Chu's plan, Zhang Liao would be the commander of his first army.

Chen Chu rode his horse towards Longhu Village. He couldn't wait to see what his village had become.

After walking for a while, Chen Chu saw high fences standing in Longhu Village from afar, and he could vaguely see newly built houses surrounded by the fences.

Chen Chu was a little surprised and was moving faster without realizing it.

When I arrived at the gate of the village, I saw many people standing in crowds at the gate, and the number was probably more than one thousand. Chen Chu couldn't help but be a little shocked. In just one and a half months, why are there so many people in Longhu Village?

Chen Chu saw that Deng Gong and the energetic Zhang Rui were standing in front of the crowd. Chen Chu turned over and dismounted. At this time, Deng Gong came up in two steps. Following him were several young people from the village that Chen Chu had seen.

Before Mr. Deng came to Chen Chu, there was a man who was ahead of him. This man was no one else, but Zhang Liao's sister Zhang Rui.

"Brother, you're back." Zhang Rui jumped to Chen Chu and shouted happily. Then she looked behind Chen Chu again and asked in confusion: "Brother, where is my brother?"

"I asked Wen Yuan to stay in the county government for the time being and come back later."

Zhang Rui wanted to say something to Chen Chu, but at this time Mr. Deng and the others had already arrived in front of Chen Chu. So Zhang Rui stood behind Chen Chu very sensible and did not speak anymore.

"Lord!" Mr. Deng knelt down with excitement, and the others immediately knelt down and said together. On the empty field, the sound spread from afar, and the scene seemed quite spectacular.

"Mr. Deng, didn't I say not to kneel down?" Chen Chuyu helped Mr. Deng up with anger. Then he sang to the people around him: "Everyone should get up."

"Thank you lord."

Afterwards, Chen Chu and Deng Gong joined hands to enter Longhu Village. In fact, Longhu Village should no longer be called a village, and it is probably more appropriate to say that the town is. It turns out that the low and broken sheds are gone, and replaced by rows of newly built wooden houses. The area of ​​the village has also increased many times more than before.

Chen Chu also found that the spirit of the villagers in the village was completely different from that of a month and a half ago. Everyone's faces were filled with longing for the future, and when the villagers saw Chen Chu, they would show their sincere gratitude.

Chen Chu couldn't help feeling a little fluttered. He had never experienced it before when he was looked at by so many people with respect and gratitude.

Under the guidance of Mr. Deng, Chen Chu came to the center of the village. There was a two-story wooden villa that was obviously much larger and better than the surrounding houses. A circle of earthen walls surrounded the villa to create a yard.

"Mr. Deng, is this?" Chen Chu looked at Mr. Deng, looking at him with a look of inquisitiveness. In fact, he had guessed it was probably the case, just wanted to confirm it.

Mr. Deng smiled respectfully and replied, "Lord, this is built by the villagers for the lord."

Chen Chu nodded and walked in without saying anything. Mr. Deng, Zhang Rui and others followed him.

As soon as I entered the villa, I saw all kinds of furniture. The furniture was of very new quality, obviously it was made by the villagers for him.

Chen Chu nodded with satisfaction, and couldn't help but exclaim in his heart: Deng Gong is really careful in his work.

After a walk around the new home, Chen Chu, Deng Gong, Zhang Rui and others sat in the lobby.

"Mr. Deng, tell me the current situation in our Longhu Village." Chen Chu was somewhat expectant to defend Deng.

"Yes, lord." Mr. Deng agreed with his fists.

Mr. Deng took out a roll of bamboo slips from his sleeve and said, "The lord once told me to do two things, one was to build a large house and the other was to reclaim wasteland. It has been a month and a half since now, and 10,000 mu of newly reclaimed grain fields, with a total of 15,000 mu of grain fields; the newly built houses can accommodate more than 4,000 people."

Chen Chu nodded. It was already quite good to achieve such results in such a short time with complete self-reliance. It can be seen that Mr. Deng and other villagers worked very hard.

"Very good, Mr. Deng, you and everyone are doing a good job."

"Thank you, lord." Mr. Deng said with his fists, looking very excited and happy.

"Mr. Deng, when I came in just now, I saw that there were a lot more people in the village than in the past. Did I ask the shopkeeper Wei to help recruit all the refugees? "

Mr. Deng nodded, but his expression became a little bitter. He only heard him say, "Lord, what you just saw is only one-fifth of the population of this village, and the others are working outside the village."

Chen Chu was shocked. According to Mr. Deng, Longhu Village now has a population of 6,000.

"What's going on? I only asked the shopkeeper Wei to recruit 3,000 refugees with good physiques to enter the village. How could so many more people be?" Chen Chu frowned and said a little unhappy. This is not because he is unwilling to help displaced refugees. He is really limited in ability and cannot afford so much. Six thousand people! Chen Chu made it difficult for Weidu to purchase 700,000 kilograms of grain until the summer and autumn food matures. To bear these 6,000 people, it requires almost one million kilograms of grain, of which the gap reaches 300,000 kilograms.

Feeling Chen Chu's displeasure, Mr. Deng hurriedly said, "Lord, this is not actually the fault of Shopkeeper Wei. Shopkeeper Wei's people actually only sent more than a thousand people, and the rest came by themselves after hearing the news."
Chapter completed!