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Chapter 216: The Separation of Culture

One hour later, everyone arrived outside Wu'an City.

Li Xun stopped his horse and looked up. He saw dozens of heads hanging high above the city, bloody, and some even died with their eyes open. His eyes were staring at the boss, looking at the extremely creepy people. Some passers-by around him looked at the crowd of people, and the eyes were full of unconcealed hatred.

Li Xun frowned and said, "What's going on?"

Yuan He said: "The governor should have heard of the civil unrest in Wuzhou. This civil unrest was finally suppressed by me and arrested tens of thousands of people..."

Before Yuanhe finished speaking, Li Xun waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "Don't talk about these things, I ask you, are you doing the heads on the city?"

Yuanhe shook his head: "It was the order given by Lord Governor."

Li Xun was quite surprised and said, "Huang Sui returned to Beijing. As the deputy general, you will temporarily take over the power of the chief general. The army is controlled by you. What qualifications does the local governor have to order you?"

Yuanhe sighed and roughly told the matter.

The governor of Wuzhou was named Wu Heng. He was greedy and cruel. After the civil unrest in Wuzhou was suppressed, Wu Heng killed dozens of people every five days and hung their heads high on the city. This has lasted for several rounds. The reason why Wu Heng was able to command Yuanhe was very simple. After Huang Su was summoned back to Beijing, Zhao Zhi was worried that someone in the army would cause trouble, so he issued an order, giving Wu Heng a title of military supervisor, checking and balancing the generals under Huang Su's men.

"Such cruel means will only make the people hate us more. How can they truly surrender?"

Li Xun pointed at the heads with a horse whip and ordered: "Take all the heads away and give them the rest of their bodies to bury them."

Without waiting for Yuanhe to speak, a general said, "Governor, Wu Heng is the military supervisor, and he goes against his orders, I'm afraid..."

"I'm afraid nothing."

Li Xun said coldly: "I am the governor of Wuzhou, and I have the final say in military affairs. Although Wu Heng is the military commander, he cannot take care of the general's head."

"What the Governor said is that the last thing will be said."

The general who spoke out and persuaded him suddenly turned red and bowed his head and replied.

Everyone entered the city.

Li Xun leaned his head and whispered to Fan Zhongyun: "This person Wu Heng looks crazy!"

Fan Zhongyun smiled and said, "He is now in Wu'an City. Yuanhe also sent someone to inform you of the news of your upcoming, but he didn't know why Wu Heng didn't come."

Wuzhou is a major prefecture and a strategic location, so the governor is a fourth-rank official and is at the same level as Li Xun. Two people, one in charge of the people and the other in charge of the army. For a long time, both of them will be officials in the same place. Whether out of politeness or etiquette, or in terms of emotion or reason, Wu Heng should come out to welcome Li Xun, but until now, he has not seen Wu Heng's shadow, and none of the officials of the Wuzhou local government have come to welcome him.

Wu Heng's governor's yamen is in Shenchi County, but he is now working in Wu'an City. When Li Xun arrived, he happened to be here again, so there was no reason not to come and meet him.

Fan Zhongyun whispered to Li Xun: "Wu Heng is really crazy. The scepter and appointment documents you gave me are still in his hands."

Li Xun frowned and said, "What's going on?"

Fan Zhongyun talked about the matter.

Fake sacrificial sceptres are usually given temporarily and will be taken back soon. However, after the Battle of Longyou ended, Zhao Zhi did not take back the sceptres from Li Xun. Zhao Zhi did not speak out, and Li Xun would not take the initiative to hand over it. This time he went to Wuzhou to work, so Li Xun must of course take such an important thing with him.

Fan Zhongyun rushed to Wuzhou first, and Li Xun gave him the scepter and his governor's appointment document, and asked Fan Zhongyun to take him with him as a certificate.

Wuzhou has five counties under its jurisdiction. The capital is not Wu'an, but Shenchi County. After Fan Zhongyun entered Wuzhou, he did not rush to Wu'an immediately. Instead, he went to Shenchi first to pay homage to the governor Wu Heng. This was a kind of politeness, but Wu Heng was very arrogant and interrogated Fan Zhongyun by treating the prisoners. Although Fan Zhongyun's innocence was finally proved, the scepter in his hand and the appointment document of Li Xun were also detained by Wu Heng. Fortunately, Zheng Chun, who came with Fan Zhongyun, met Yuanhe, otherwise Fan Zhongyun would have been in vain.

After listening to Fan Zhongyun's story, Li Xun sneered on his face: "Wu Heng? I will definitely meet this person if I have the chance."

As the two of them spoke, they came to the gate of the Governor's Office.

Li Xun got off his horse, and Yuanhe stepped forward and said, "Governor General, I will prepare a banquet with you and my colleagues in the north of the city to watch the moon tower, and ask the Governor General to admire his face."

Li Xun smiled and said, "I, Li Xun, dare not ignore the kindness of Brother Yuan and all my brothers. But since I have arrived in Wu'an, it is a bit unreasonable to not go to the camp to meet my brothers. So, you arrange the banquet in the camp, I arrange some things and go immediately, just taking this opportunity to get familiar with my brothers."

Yuanhe nodded, it was not bad, so he bowed and said, "Then we will wait for the arrival of the governor in the camp."

Li Xun nodded with a smile.

"Let's go, Lao Fan, there are too many people just now, so it's hard to talk. Let's find a quiet place to have a good chat."

After sending Yuanhe and others away, Li Xun pulled Fan Zhongyun into the governor's office.

There were more than a dozen servants in the Governor's Office. When they arrived at a quiet room, the servants brought hot tea and charcoal. Li Xun waved his hand and asked him to go down.

"The weather here is much colder than Fengjing."

Li Xun rubbed his hands, picked up a small iron stick, fiddled with the charcoal in the brazier, making the heat more prosperous.

Fan Zhongyun glanced at Li Xun, smiled, picked up the teacup, and took a sip of hot tea.

Li Xun put down the iron rod, clapped his hands, sat down, looked at Fan Zhongyun, and said, "Old Fan, you come four or five days before us, but what do you see and hear? Tell me."

"I do see and hear some things."

Fan Zhongyun nodded and said softly: "The situation in Wuzhou is much more complicated than I thought."

Li Xun said: "What you are talking about is Wu Heng?"

Fan Zhongyun shook his head: "Wu Heng is nothing. If he cooperates, it would be fine. Everyone will not violate the rivers. If he insists on fighting for a high or low position, it will not be difficult to get him down with your ability and strength. What I mean is the civil affairs of Wuzhou."

Li Xun looked at Fan Zhongyun and did not interrupt and listened to his words quietly.
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