Several wooden houses were built in the open space outside Quliu Town and surrounded by a small courtyard. This was Yuan Qingyan's county governor's residence.
He was sitting in the main hall with a map spread out on the table and looking at it carefully. At this time, an attaché walked into the main hall and said: "Master Yuan, Xu Jingfeng, the head of the Xu family in Ningxi, asked to see you and sent a gift list.
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Yuan Qingyan said without raising his head: "How valuable is the gift?"
"Quite valuable."
Yuan Qingyan's face softened slightly and he said: "I accepted the gift and asked him to go back. Just say I'm not free."
The clerk knew his master's habits, so he was not surprised, so he left the small courtyard. In the open space not far away, Xu Jingfeng was standing waiting with more than a dozen followers, followed by some porters, picking
Carrying a dozen loads of various gifts.
The attendant called a group of officers and soldiers to carry all the gifts down, and then said to Xu Jingfeng: "Master Xu, please come back. My master said he is not here!"
Xu Jingfeng's smile froze on his face.
The attendant repeated it again, and Xu Jingfeng reacted and immediately laughed angrily. It was fine that Yuan Qingyan did not see him, but he also accepted all the gifts. This kind of showmanship is really ugly, and it is worse than a slap in the face.
It also humiliates people.
Xu Jingfeng snorted loudly and said coldly: "Sir Yuan is really cool! Since Mr. Yuan doesn't like me, let's go!"
"Master Xu, stay." The attendant called Xu Jingfeng.
"What else is there?" Xu Jingfeng's face looked as ugly as possible at the moment. It was good that he didn't fall out on the spot.
The attendant raised his face slightly, looked at Xu Jingfeng from the corner of his eyes, and said: "I dare you to say something more. After the Xu family returns, gifts must be given from time to time. Although my master will not see you if you give them to me, but
If you don't send it, it will be easy for the master to miss you."
Xu Jingfeng was so angry that he laughed and said, "Are you threatening me?"
The attaché gave a thumbs up: "That's what I meant. The head of the Xu family is really smart!"
Xu Jingfeng's face was as black as the bottom of a pot. He looked at the glaring officers and soldiers around him, swallowed his breath, returned to the Xu family's mansion, and slammed the door.
At this time, the sound of horse hooves sounded outside the town, and a scout horse flew in, rushing straight to the front of Yuan Qingyan's courtyard.
The knight immediately rolled off his horse, staggered into the small courtyard, and said: "Master Yuan, we have found out the whereabouts of the people in Quliu Town! They were robbed by horse bandits, and then they were all sold to the boundary. We followed all the way outside the boundary.
, but I was intercepted by horse bandits, and among a dozen brothers, I was the only one to escape!"
Yuan Qingyan stood up and said: "Have tens of thousands of people sold the realm?"
The scout said: "That's true. We looked at the traces left on the ground and found that there must be at least 30,000 to 50,000 people."
Yuan Qingyan's eyes showed murderous intent, and he said to himself: "Playing this trick with me, good, good! Come here!"
The master walked in and waited for instructions.
Yuan Qingyan said: "Send fast horses to Anbian, Qiao and Weining counties to issue a document, ordering them to confiscate all grain and grass within two hundred miles around the county, move all the people in the wild areas to the county, and at the same time set up traffic jams on the main transportation roads. A grain of grain will not be lost."
Don’t put it in the west!”
"Let me write to Master Chen and Master Yue again. I need reinforcements here. I need to send at least 20,000 more elite troops. With 30,000 troops in hand, I can seal off all the southern and eastern parts of the realm!"
The master started writing quickly, and after a while, all the official documents were written and presented to Yuan Qingyan. Yuan Qingyan took one look at them and said, "Okay, just send them like this."
Yuan Qingyan then called in the several generals and deputy generals who commanded the army, and ordered them to go out separately to build military forts at the main north-south traffic roads to cut off the north-south traffic. At the same time, he sent out reconnaissance cavalry to search the mountains and fields, and bring out those remote areas.
Find all the people who are living in seclusion in the countryside, collect all their food, and then drive them to the realm.
A lieutenant general asked: "Master Yuan, what does this mean?"
Yuan Qingyan said: "Don't Realm like the people? Then I will give them more! I have blocked all the food channels and let's see what they use to feed these hundreds of thousands of people!"
All the generals looked at each other in confusion, feeling that this move was somewhat inappropriate. However, considering Master Yuan's past reputation, they did not dare to say anything.
In the realm, Wei Yuan was holding a page of jade paper and studying it carefully.
The jade paper contains all the information about Yuan Qingyan, which is quite detailed. Yuan Qingyan comes from an ordinary family. He passed the Immortal Sect Unification Examination at the age of eight and entered the Third Grade Blessed Land to practice. At the age of twenty, he became a Taoist priest. At the age of thirty-seven, he was promoted to Jinshi. He transferred to Datang Taixue to continue his practice.
.Ten years later, he served as an official in the Western Jin Dynasty for three years and gained a small reputation. He was admitted to the Hanlin Academy as an editor.
At the age of fifty-nine, Yuan Qingyan unexpectedly became a Dharma minister, which was quite a sensation at the time. He was later promoted to a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy and a censor, and at the age of sixty-three, he was sent to Ningxi County as governor.
Wei Yuan had a headache. This guy was actually a Dharma Prime! Although he might be the bottom Dharma Prime like the dean of Bai Feng Academy, he was still a Dharma Prime.
Yuan Qingyan has a paranoid personality and believes that the teachings of saints are timeless principles that cannot be changed or questioned. He has always been known for his daring speech and unscrupulous speech, and because of his cool sleeves and exemplary personal ethics, everyone in the court is attracted by it.
No one could catch him, so everyone felt extremely worried for fear of offending this mad dog.
This information does not use words such as "hatred of evil" and "uprightness". The wording of intelligence information of aristocratic families has always been extremely rigorous, comparable to history books. The absence of these words shows that Yuan Qingyan is not that kind of person in the eyes of the person who wrote this information.
After reading the information, Wei Yuan put the jade paper aside. King Jin put the mad dog in front of Wei Yuan, his intention was obvious. However, Wei Yuan had already taken action at this moment, and it was up to him to see how he responded.
There are now more than 200,000 people in Ningxi County, and Wei Yuan estimates that the number should fluctuate between 220,000 and 250,000. Now that Wei Yuan has 140,000 people in his hands, Yuan Qingyan can only be a
There is no more governor with no subjects.
Wei Yuan ordered his entourage to find Xiaoyu, and Xiaoyu appeared in front of Wei Yuan a moment later.
At this moment, Xiaoyu's eye circles were actually a little blue, and his eyes were full of bloodshot eyes. The dignified Xianji monk actually looked as if he hadn't had a good night's sleep in a few days. It's just that he was born extremely well, and his current appearance makes people pity him.
meaning.
As soon as he saw Wei Yuan, Xiaoyu said angrily: "If you have something to say, say it quickly, and if you have something to say, just say it! I'm busy!"
Wei Yuan put on the most sincere and warm smile, pinched Xiaoyu's shoulders, and said, "Junior brother, it's really hard!"
Xiaoyu knocked Wei Yuan's hand off and said angrily: "Take your paw away and don't touch me! Do you know how hard I work?"
"How could I not know?" Wei Yuan looked aggrieved.
Xiaoyu said: "I just made Yong'an look good, and you threw me two more cities! Do I owe you?"
Wei Yuan smiled apologetically and said: "No one else can do this! It's not me who talks about it. They are all just talking on paper. You see, I can't leave these things to them. If you don't pay attention, you will cause big troubles.
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Xiaoyu stared at Wei Yuan with a wary expression and said, "You don't want to give me those three cities in the west and north, do you? Don't even think about it!"
"Absolutely not!" Wei Yuan swore, and Xiaoyu's face looked better. Then he heard Wei Yuan say: "I will let Wang Yu and Xu Yi take charge of one of the three cities first, and then the last city will be managed by five aristocratic families.
Shared management.”
Xiaoyu suddenly frowned: "Those guys are ignorant and incompetent, how do they know how to manage a city of ten thousand mortals? They can't even manage a village."
Wei Yuan slapped his thigh: "That's right! But there is really no one available for me. After all, there are 80,000 more people. Otherwise, when you have nothing to do, go to those three cities and see where they are not doing well.
Can you give me some pointers?"
Xiaoyu thought for a while and reluctantly nodded.
Wei Yuan breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "The food has arrived, right? Is the quantity sufficient?"
"Are you talking about the batch from the east?" Xiaoyu shook his head and frowned: "The people we sent have bought out all the caravan stocks in that direction, but they only bought 1.1 million kilograms of grain.
It’s enough food for seven or eight days. I was just about to talk to you about this, but there isn’t much food left in the warehouse. It can only last for ten days at most, so we have to think of a way quickly.”
"It doesn't matter. I asked Xu Jingfeng to arrange for two large caravans to go to the pass to buy grain. They should have arrived at Hanyang Pass now and will be back in three days. With these two caravans back, we can survive for at least one more month.
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Xiaoyu's face looked better and he said: "Tell me when the grain team comes back. I want to see what varieties and quality they are, and then I can arrange how to distribute the grain."
"no problem."
Xiaoyu had a lot of things to do at this time, so he didn't stay much, so he went out and left. However, after flying for a while, he remembered that Wei Yuan himself didn't seem to care about a single city!
After Xiaoyu left, Wei Yuan continued to think hard about the map. At this time, a follower knocked on the door and handed in a letter, saying: "Boundary Master, a secret message from the Xu family in Ningxi."
Wei Yuan took the letter and opened it, his face gradually became serious.
Chapter completed!