Transmigrating Through the Heavens: Starting with the Silly Pillar of the Courtyard

Chapter 339 Annual Meeting and Appointment Ceremony

Wu Tao did not choose to go back with the others, but returned alone.

Apart from the people led by Commander Guo Wei, no one in Cangzhou Prefecture knew.

They thought Wu Tao was a cowardly centurion, but little did they know that Wu Tao had long since turned the area outside the city into his playground.

Even that farm was personally approved by Wu Tao after he had investigated it multiple times.

Here, the fertile land is all unclaimed. As long as the farm is well-built and has sufficient self-defense capabilities, the produce of this land will belong to you.

Wu Tao directly arranged for Qian Hu to bring eighty able-bodied men out of the blacksmith shop, and they left Cangzhou Prefecture.

Upon arriving, they found that Wu Tao had already prepared various supplies, including stones and timber for building the farm, as well as weapons and food.

Eighty able-bodied men worked together and in just half a month, they built the farm into an impregnable fortress.

At the same time, Wu Tao also led Qian Hu and the others to launch a surprise attack on a Tartar tribe.

Besides several hundred Tartar warriors, there were also more than two thousand Han slaves inside.

Apart from more than a hundred women, the rest were all able-bodied young men.

After being rescued by Wu Tao and his group, these people were brought to the farm.

After Wu Tao provided a large amount of food, the young and strong men quickly regained their strength.

Wu Tao selected 300 of the strongest young men to form a guard team, while the others became farmers on the farm.

Here, everyone has food to eat, clothes to wear, and houses to live in; they can simply focus on farming.

Of the eighty people Qian Hu brought, fifty became managers of the farm.

Thirty men were assigned to the guard team as squad leaders, company commanders, and battalion commanders.

The guard consists of eleven people in a squad, with a squad leader.

Five squads form a company, with a company commander appointed.

Two squadrons are combined to form a battalion, with a battalion commander appointed.

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Qian Hu, as the farm manager appointed by Wu Tao, was in charge of the overall operation.

Three brigades of more than 300 guards are responsible for protecting the safety of the area around the farm.

They don't need to farm; they just need to train every day and protect the surrounding thousands of acres of land.

When the Royal Guard was first established, each member had his own mount, and this time there are four hundred more horses.

Wu Tao instructed Qian Hu to continue scouting the nearby Tartar tribes.

Next time, he plans to find another tribe to wipe them out, which will give the farm several thousand more laborers.

Wu Tao plans to expand his guard to a thousand people, or rather, only when he reaches a thousand people can he feel at ease.

A guard of over 300 men is still too small to handle a large Tartar army.

After all, the Tartars often came to the border in large groups to raid, and if the guards were too small, they would easily be surrounded and killed.

Each of the 1,500 people was responsible for cultivating five acres of land, and there were also more than 100 women who were responsible for cooking and cleaning the farm.

What Guo Wei and his comrades saw was a vibrant scene, but they didn't know that it all belonged to Wu Tao.

This counterattack against the Tartars not only resulted in the acquisition of over four hundred horses, but also several thousand taels of gold and silver valuables.

Wu Tao took half, and the rest was distributed by Guo Wei, the head of the company, to the people under his command according to their rank.

This matter was unknown to outsiders, but it became an open secret within the Hundred Household Office.

Only then did everyone realize that the usually elusive centurion was actually so formidable.

They thought the centurion was slacking off at his residence, but in reality, he had been out alone for quite some time.

After a year in office, Wu Tao returned to the Songjiang Prefecture Thousand Household Office.

This is an annual reporting procedure, where officials from the centurions who are stationed elsewhere must come to report to the commanders of the thousand-households on their work over the past year.

As Wu Tao stepped into the Thousand Household Office once again, he was filled with mixed emotions. Five years after he transmigrated, things were finally starting to look up.

Now he has not only become a centurion in the Embroidered Uniform Guard, but also owns his own farm.

Qian Hu has now developed tens of thousands of acres of land.

The farm has nearly five thousand young and middle-aged farmers.

The guard team finally exceeded one thousand people and formed ten brigades, with Qian Hu becoming a regimental commander.

With a number of over a thousand, Wu Tao was finally able to reorganize the guard team.

He divided the 1,000 men into three battalions: ten men per squad, three squads per platoon, three platoons per company, and three companies per battalion.

Qian Hu, as the army's commanding officer, was promoted to regimental commander.

Meanwhile, Wang Liu, whose real name is Wang Xiaolong, who used to follow Wu Tao, has now been appointed as the person in charge of the farm.

Although it was just a farm, Wu Tao still insisted on separating military and political management.

Qian Hu was in charge of the armed guard team, while Wang Xiaolong was in charge of the farm's production, management, and finances.

Qian Hu and Wang Xiaolong had no objection to Wu Tao's arrangement, as they were originally Wu Tao's own protégés.

Wang Xiaolong became the person in charge of the farm.

Chen Chao was a junior officer in Wu Tao's personal guard.

Even the other two, Zhao Si and Niu Er, have each found their own fortunes.

Zhao Si is now in charge of managing the blacksmith shops in the city.

Niu Er, being good at teaching newcomers, became the new instructor of the farm's guard team.

It can be said that the fates of these five poor boys were completely changed after they met Wu Tao.

With them around, Wu Tao can confidently step back and take control of everything from behind the scenes.

Qianhu Niu Mang was also very happy to see Wu Tao, after all, Wu Tao had never been short of filial piety in the past year.

As a superior, as long as your subordinates don't cause you trouble and pay their dues in full, that's enough.

More than twenty centurions sat together on the horizontal chairs on both sides of the main hall of the thousand-household office.

Commander Niu Mang sat in the high seat, with Deputy Commanders Chen Xiao and Liu Zhenyun sitting on either side.

"Excellent. Everyone has worked diligently throughout the year, and I am very satisfied with your performance. I hope you will continue your efforts. As long as you work together, our Songjiang Prefecture Thousand-Household Office will naturally earn the appreciation of our superiors."

More than twenty centurions sat there with solemn expressions, listening to their superior's instructions.

After Commander Niu Mang finished speaking, Deputy Commanders Chen Xiao and Liu Zhenyun also gave everyone some words of encouragement.

A banquet was naturally held that evening, and everyone drank to their heart's content.

Wu Tao appeared to have drunk a lot, but in reality, it was all poured into his personal space.

In these situations, everyone is actually acting; who would show their true self in front of their boss?

I spent three days at the Qianhu Office, which marked the end of my year-long work summary.

On the fourth day, they each led their men away and headed towards their respective encampments.

For three days, everyone seemed happy, but in reality, a shadow of gloom hung over each of them.

In the past year, the imperial court has become even more dangerous, and among these twenty-odd centurions, there are several new faces.

Songjiang Prefecture is close to the border, and the White Lotus Sect has been frequently active there recently.

The officers of the Imperial Guard in Songjiang Prefecture were also frequently attacked. Following the killing of the former officer of the Cangzhou Prefecture by the Tartars, three more officers of the Songjiang Prefecture died within a year.

Although everyone was prepared to sacrifice themselves for the country at any time when they became members of the Embroidered Uniform Guard.

But with so many colleagues dying in such a short time, wouldn't anyone feel uneasy?