Shangdang County, Changzhi County.

This county town located in the southeast of Shangdang County is the county seat of Shangdang County, so the senior officials of Shangdang County are all located here, including the county magistrate and the county magistrate Juxin.

On this day, Ju Xin, who was covered in white hair, walked out of the county magistrate's mansion in a big stroll.

Just from his dark face, which was as dark as charcoal, it can be seen that Ju Xin was in a bad mood.

Not good at all.

From his own perspective, he was originally a powerful and famous official of Yan State. He assisted King Zhao of Yan to conquer a great prosperous Yan State, allowing Yan State to annex the land of Qi for a time, and even expected to become the overlord of the Central Plains.

However, with the death of King Zhao of Yan, Le Yi's resignation and Tian Dan's Jedi counterattack made all this absent.

Not only that, with the new king taking office, Ju Xin also became the target of being cleansed and stepped down in disgrace.

Ju Xin originally thought that this might be the case in his life, but he didn't expect that after years of seclusion, his old friend Pang Nuan, whom he had not seen in decades, brought him good news.

King Zhao wants to recruit Drama Xin!

Ju Xin was very hesitant at the beginning about this recruitment.

Although Ju Xin himself is from Zhao, he became famous in Yan State and made achievements. In terms of personal feelings, he still has to be more in Yan State. Otherwise, he would not have lived in seclusion in Yan State after being forced to resign.

But Ju Xin finally returned to Zhao State with Pang Nuan, because Ju Xin knew very well that if he still wanted to show his talents, only the young King Zhao of Zhao State could give him a chance.

King Zhao did give Ju Xin a chance.

Although Ju Xin did not get the position of governing and became a general, Ju Xin, the General of the Northern Army, is second only to Lian Po and Pang Nuan in the military of Zhao State, and is ranked alongside Le Cheng, the General of the Southern Army, which is not considered a disgrace to his talents.

Therefore, Ju Xin has always been conscientious and only thought about one day he would become a leader due to his merits and gain the same reputation and achievements as Yan in Zhao State.

However, a battle in Hedong County broke the dream of Old Ju Xin. Although Ju Xin's military talent was already outstanding enough, it could not be Bai Qi's opponent in the end. He was defeated by Bai Qi and almost threw away the entire Hedong County.

After this battle, Ju Xin once worried that he would be deprived of his post and imprisoned or even beheaded for his dereliction of duty. After all, the crime of losing his country is an absolute crime.

Fortunately, King Zhao showed tolerance and simply demoted Ju Xin to the county lieutenant and fined him several years of salary.

Ju Xin was actually very grateful for this.

This also aroused the arrogance in Ju Xin's heart. The old general was eager to cleanse his stigma and to make himself proud again.

It is precisely because of this that during the past two years, Ju Xin spent a lot of effort on the thousands of county soldiers under his command, and he wanted to improve the quality of these county soldiers.

What made Ju Xin satisfied was that since Shangdang County is located in the Taihang Mountains and has always relied on the mountain to earn the mountain, many of the county soldiers were able to plow and hunt, and the quality of the soldiers was even better than that of the Zhao Plain.

After two years of training, Ju Xin felt that although the Shangdang County soldiers under him were far from comparable to the Zhao Central Army, which was trained every day, they were at least quite well-like. If they were to go out to fight a few battles, they might become a good army.

According to the regulations of Zhao State, once the county soldiers of Shangdang County are summoned to the army, then the county lieutenant Ju Xin will automatically become a lieutenant (or may be promoted to a subordinate general), and the opportunity to regain his strength will come.

But what makes the opera sad is that in the past two years, the war in Zhao State mainly occurred in the east and north, and Shangdang County, located in the south, had no request to recruit county soldiers.

What made the opera even more depressed was that the county magistrate, who was twenty years younger than him and his generation, had just said to him: "Shangdang County is located in the hinterland of the country and has no risk of war. Why should he invest so much money, grain, soldiers and armor to increase the burden on the people and the treasury?"

The county magistrate's meaning is very obvious, that is, he will reduce the treatment of county soldiers. From next month, the money and food allocated to county soldiers will be reduced by 30%.

You should know that spring plowing has just ended, and now the county soldiers are gathered in Changzhi County, preparing to start a year and three months of training.

But now people who have no money and food can use to support soldiers and fight?

Thinking of this, Ju Xin, who was covered in white hair, couldn't help but sigh.

"Did I just end up in depression as a defeated general?"

The depressed old general took several of his personal guards and decided to go to the city wall for a walk. This is also the way he used to relax in the past two years.

When the old general scolded a few big-headed soldiers who were lazy under the scorching sun and whipped them down a few whips, the old general felt much better.

"Although Shangdang County has not had an enemy for a long time, you should not relax your vigilance and be prepared at all times. Otherwise, if the enemy attacks one day, how can you defend your country like this?"

The old general spoke harshly, but except for a few soldiers who were whipped and knelt on the ground and shivered, the other soldiers, including the personal soldiers behind Ju Xin, were a little dissatisfied.

Just like Shangdang County, there is Hedong in the west, Yanmen Dai County in Yunzhong, and Handan in the east, who can get here?

South Korea? Everyone knows that South Korea is Zhao's younger brother.

Ju Xin is also an old man, so how could he not know what the soldiers under his command think? Just as he continued to scold him, he suddenly stopped again and turned to look at the south.

On the road to the south, a horse came with a horse knight, stirring up a lot of smoke and dust.

Although Ju Xin was old, she was not as dazzling as ever. Instead, she saw a piece of ragged red cloth behind the knight. I don’t know if it was a wooden stick or something else.

"Is there any military information?" Ju Xin's body was shocked and he immediately walked down the city wall quickly.

After a while, the knight came on a horse, Ju Xin immediately greeted him and shouted, "I am the county magistrate Ju Xin, what military information do you have?"

The knight immediately rolled down and bowed to Ju Xin. He was about to speak, but suddenly he staggered and couldn't stand steadily. He was about to fall down when he moved forward.

Ju Xin reached out his hand in time to help the Knight, took out a kettle from his hand and stuffed it into the Knight's hand, and said in a deep voice: "Drink a sip of water first, and talk slowly."
Chapter completed!