In the newly completed Lintan Academy, craftsmen were specially invited to build a Confucian temple to worship Confucius. In addition, many Confucian sages such as Mencius also sculpted statues.

Because Lintan Academy was built, county schools and prefecture schools will not be built for the time being. Zhang Chao planned to wait for Lintan Academy to be saturated, and then county schools and prefecture schools will be built. Now, they will be concentrated in Lintan Academy to study.

The academy has begun to recruit teachers. It is more difficult to recruit teachers in the border areas than in Chang'an. It has not yet recruited enough people. He wondered whether he should send people to Chang'an to recruit some teachers.

In a blink of an eye, it was almost July and the heat was very hot.

Many construction projects avoid the hottest time at noon every day, and at this time, Zhang Chao received good news.

Chang'an finally sent the first batch of military supplies, food and food, and also sent the first batch of immigrants.

Su Dingfang personally brought a thousand soldiers with food and grass.

"Dad is here? Chumo's four trolls are here together?" Zhang Chao was very happy when he heard that they were here. "Where have you been?"

"I have arrived in Minzhou, and I can reach Taozhou in a few days."

Zhang Chao is not very interested in the money and food from Chang'an. He can be self-sufficient, but he attaches great importance to the family members from Chang'an. Thousands of people miss their family members very much. Their family members can also stabilize everyone's emotions as soon as possible.

Besides, Zhang Chao himself misses the people at home very much.

I heard that Thirteen Niang was here too, and Zhang Chao was even happier. Taozhou was actually quite good, but unfortunately he was a little lonely. If all the family members came, even if the court threw him here for ten or eight years, Zhang Chao wouldn't mind too much. Stay away from the court and the prince, and it's quite comfortable.

"I'll go to greet you in person!"

Zhang Chaoxing hurriedly ordered two hundred people and rushed to greet him.

On the Minzhou border, Zhang Chao only waited for a day before we welcomed a crowd. Because he was the governor, he was not allowed to leave the state without authorization. In this era, everyone has an identity and is then bound in the framework.

"Last general Su Dingfang, pay homage to the governor!"

Su Dingfang saw Zhang Chao from afar, got out of the horse, and strode over to salute.

Since he parted in Hebei, Zhang Chao hasn't seen Su Dingfang for a long time. After Hebei surrendered, Su Dingfang came to the King of Qin to serve as a deputy guardian. Later, the King of Qin's guardian's mansion was disbanded. He went to the Twelve Guards to take up a general position, but he has never had a real position. After sitting on the bench for a while, the King of Qin specially transferred him to escort food and grass to Taozhou.

Su Dingfang was always grateful to Zhang Chao. If Zhang Chao hadn't persuaded him, he wouldn't have been as relaxed as he is now.

"Thirteen Niang and the others are right behind, and the journey is going well." Su Dingfang said with a smile.

Su Dingfang gave Zhang Chao a letter, Li Shimin wrote to Zhang Chao. In the letter, Li Shimin told Zhang Chao a message that he would write a letter to the emperor. Now the emperor has agreed to withdraw the states of Min, Fang and Dang, and all of them were merged into Taozhou.

Fangzhou and Dangzhou are both southeast of Taozhou, which is already the southeastern part of Longyou Road. Further south is Jiannan Road, which is blocked by mountains.

The imperial court merged the four prefectures of Tao, Min, Fang and Dang into one prefecture, with a territory equivalent to those of Shanzhou, Lanzhou and Qinzhou.

"The King of Qin said that the population of Taomin prefectures was originally small, and the population was even more declining after this war. Therefore, Your Highness's memorial was that combining the four prefectures into one prefecture is also conducive to overall management. I will not go back this time, Your Highness asked me to be your Sima of the Governor's Office and Xu Jingzong as your Chief of the Governor's Office. The thousand people I brought would not go back, and they would be combined with Minfang's original garrison."

After the merger of the four states, the governor was still Zhang Chao, and the governor was still Zhang Chao.

However, it turned out that there were two brands of one yamen, including Chief Shi, Sima, and Cao Shenjun, who basically had two positions. For example, Ma Zhou was both the governor’s secretary and the governor’s chief. However, now, Su Dingfang will serve as the Sima of the governor’s office, and Xu Jingzong will serve as the chief Shin-chan.

However, in order to distinguish it from the bureaucrats of the state yamen, the chief of the governor's office and Sima Tejia's march.

Su Dingfang was the marching Sima of the Taozhou Governor's Office, and Xu Jingzong was the chief of the army.

This time, the court also established many new official positions for the Governor's Office, such as the marching of Sima, including judges, chief secretary, procurator, inspector, record officer, army officer, army officer, six cadres, and medical officer.

The imperial court has officially improved the system of the Governor's Office.

It used to be four prefectures and eight counties, but now it has been changed to one prefecture and five counties. Taozhou originally had two counties, and the other three prefectures were only merged into one county. There is such a small population, so it doesn’t make sense to set up too many counties.

Under the new Taozhou Governor's Office, there will be 10,000 soldiers and four field troops.

Zhang Chao, the governor of Taozhou and the governor of Yaozhou, was in charge of important towns on the border, and Li Yuan also specially added the title of pacifying the governor to Zhang Chao. With this title, when dealing with the affairs of the Han Dynasty on the border, there is no need to request the court in advance, and he has the right to take action first and then report it directly.

In the battle of Longyou, Zhang Chao turned the tide with his own strength, saved Li Shimin and others, and ensured the safety of Longyou. He was a great hero. Li Yuan still admired Zhang Chao very much. What was particularly rare is that he was a civil servant, but he did extraordinary things when he came to battle in the face of danger.

Although some people say that Zhang Chao is named as the prince's subordinate, he is actually the King of Qin, and Li Yuan doesn't believe it or doesn't want to pay attention to this. The palms and backs of his hands are flesh. If He Chao is a prince's subordinate, he deliberately refuses to save the King of Qin, then he will not tolerate such a minister.

Whether it is the prince's or the Qin King's, first of all, he is a minister of the Tang Dynasty.

Zhang Chao's performance was very obvious.

The King of Qin was very responsible in this war and the prince performed well. However, in Zhang Chao's case, the prince obviously had some mishandlings. He knew the meaning of the prince's request to remove Zhang San from his position as the Eastern Palace.

For this reason, Li Yuan was willing to let Zhang San stay in Taozhou and not come back for now. Therefore, he rewarded Zhang Chaojing last time, and this time he added the title of Ono envoy.

"The King of Qin said that the prince was hindering everywhere, which made this batch of food and grass come relatively late. I hope you can understand. Is the situation in Taozhou okay now?"

"Okay, of course, good, and very good." Zhang Chao said with a smile.

Su Lie looked at Zhang Chao and thought he was slandering. There has been no supply of food and grass for so long, and how good can more than 5,000 people be?

However, he looked at the two hundred people brought by Zhang Chao, his armor was bright and his face was full of red, and he didn't look like a hungry soldier at all.

"I'm really good at this when I go back and tell you about it."

The first batch of soldiers and families who came with Su Dingfang had more than 5,000, which was also the reason why the team had been on the road for a long time. Zhang Chao came to the middle of the team and soon discovered the Zhang family and his party.

My father and Cheng Chumo were riding horses to protect the Zhang family, and Cui Yan was there too.

"father!"

"Sanlang is here." When the father saw Zhang San, he just said lightly, but there was a strong sense of concern in his eyes. Cui Yingying also quickly got out of the car and cried when she saw Zhang Chao.

Niu saw that the guy Hu was still on the side, and he interrupted very inappropriately.

"San brother, I want to die. I heard that you came to Longyou as the marching general manager. I was still worried about you at that time. Unexpectedly, you made a peerless achievements silently. It was really shocking. If I had known this, I would not have been to Hebei as a volunteer soldier. It would be great if I followed you to Longyou. Maybe I could have taken the opportunity to make a great contribution."

Zhang Chao ignored this guy, pushed him away, and walked to Cui Yingying.

"Sanlang, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, what about you, are you okay?"

"I'm very good too. Sanlang, I let Hongxian stay and guard the house. Si Niang helps her, Lan'er and Lian'er sisters are also staying in Bashang. I'll bring you both Shi Niang and the two beards."

Du Shiniang and the other two Hu Ji were bumpy all the way, their faces were not very good, they were a little pale, and they no longer had a rosy look. Standing behind Cui Yingying, they tried to squeeze out a smile with Zhang Chao as much as possible.

"Hahaha, our family is gathered again. Although it is far from the Central Plains and is located on the border, as long as our family is together, this is our family. Thirteen Niang, I tell you, this place is actually very beautiful, with rich and fertile river valleys, which can be reclaimed and farmed, and grassland herdsmen. It is really good. And I have already opened a border market here, and now countless Han merchants are coming here to trade, and this place is really good."

Cui Yingying nodded, she believed in her husband.

"I also distributed 800 acres of land here, and I paid for a whole valley, which could be reclaimed at least 3,000 acres of land." Zhang Chao said with a smile. In fact, the so-called land purchase basically did not cost money. They were all dividends after Jiangxin City and various taxes. Zhang Chao was the most, and of course he distributed the most.

Now Taozhou is particularly cheap, especially for Zhang Chao, who bought an unreclaimed river valley, which was originally just a pasture. However, it can be reclaimed into fertile land, but it is very cheap. A mu of land on Bashang is several chunks, and even if Zhang Chao bought a bathing ditch, it would cost about one acre of about a hundred yuan.

But if the entire valley area was calculated by Zhang Chao, it would be much more than 10,000 mu, and there were only three or four thousand mu of which could be developed, but it only cost one hundred guan. It was almost ten times cheaper than bathing ditch.

"So much land and so cheap, it won't be a problem, right?"

"Don't worry, this is a border. These places are taken out from Taozhou yamen and sold publicly. The prices are so cheap, but few people are willing to buy them!"

"How is this possible?"

Zhang Chao smiled and said, nothing is impossible. After the war, there were not many people in Taozhou, and they had their own land. For example, those tribes had a large territory, and they were all calculated by river valleys. New soldiers did not need to buy land. Zhang Chao distributed land to them. A soldier of 300 acres, and family immigrants could share many of them. They could not even plant them, so what else could they spend money to buy?

The extremely valuable land in the Central Plains is the least valuable in Taozhou.

But Zhang Chao spent money to buy a river valley because he thought it could be developed and gained something.

"Can you buy it again?" Cui Yingying heard that she bought a thousand acres of river valley by Baiguan. Her eyes couldn't help but shine, and her fatigue along the way was swept away.

"There is no need to buy so many. You have to cultivate them after buying them. But it's okay to buy them. You can buy a few more valleys and we can grazle cattle and sheep."

"Buy a few river valleys!" Cui Yingying's face turned red with excitement!
Chapter completed!