Huaiyuan Town has always occupied an extremely important position in Tongbai Mountain, but it has long been subordinate to Biyang County. At the same time, Biyang is the seat of the prefecture of Tangzhou. Therefore, the big surnamed clans in Tongbai Mountain are either clinging to the powerful, running businesses, or having children.
Those who study in county schools or state schools, or who want to live a more comfortable and safe life, usually buy property in Biyang.
The Tongbaishan surname clan also has quite a few people serving as officials in Biyang, and even accounts for a large proportion in the prefectural and county government offices.
Because of these people, Bianzhou was in ruins and Bianliang was in danger. The imperial court sent a military commander to Caizhou to gather the troops of King Qin from all directions in the southwest. Huaiyuan County was placed under the jurisdiction of Caizhou. The news that Xu Huai, the wild tiger, came out to inform the new county soon
It quickly spread in Biyang City.
Naturally, the criticism of Xu Huai, Tongbaishan and others by Deputy Transport Envoy Ning Ci, Tongjian Gu Zhihui and others spread through various gossips.
When Ning Ci discussed with everyone, although he said secretly that Xu Huai and everyone in Tongbai Mountain had ulterior motives, and complained about the many decrees issued by King Qin of the imperial court, no one wanted to show the name of a person or the shadow of a tree in Bian.
When Liang was in a hurry, he took the initiative to provoke them.
Of course, Huaiyuan has been separated from Biyang County since then, and has no connection with Jingnan Road anymore. They think they don't need to be too worried about the people in Tongbai Mountain.
However, the mood for Tongbaishan people who are in Biyang, especially those who serve as officials in Biyang, is completely different.
Xu Huai, Xu Wujiang and others quelled the banditry. The initial gratitude of the big surnamed clans was also mixed with too much coercion - except for the Zhong family and the Tang family, the other big surnamed clans could not be said to have suffered losses in the Tongbai Mountain banditry.
It was tragic, but in order to maintain such a large-scale rural camp, as well as the subsequent construction of Huaiyuan City, the supply of soldiers, armor, and ordnance, they were forcibly apportioned a total of more than 200,000 guan in total.
This is definitely not a small amount of money.
After the bandit rebellion was suppressed, the Xu family and the Tang family both sold their land and houses at discounted prices because their heads, Xu Wufu and Tang Wenzhong, needed a generous burial, and a large number of young men and women were lost. The land conflicts in the mountains were alleviated, and the previously high land prices plummeted; various tung oil companies,
There is a lack of sufficient labor force in lacquer, timber and other businesses. Han descendants such as Xu Wujiang control the township government and suppress the monopoly of the big surname clan on various businesses and mountain forest mines. All of these things will inevitably lead to the big surname clan in another sense.
The vitality is severely damaged.
After learning from the painful experience, the clan with the big surname can be said to have a mixture of love and hate for the people in Tongbai Mountain, and as the bandits left, they gradually became more hateful and less loving.
The merger of Huaiyuan County into Caizhou had little impact on the small and wealthy households outside Tongbai Mountain, but it had a greater impact on the Tongbaishan clans who had bought property in Biyang and had taken root for many years.
As soon as the news came out, it was like a pot going crazy.
The head of the Jin family is the old lady of Jin who is over seventy years old. He is not only the head of the eldest branch of the Jin family, his son Jin Zhuangcheng passed the imperial examination in his early years and served in the Hanlin Academy, Jiangxia County Cheng, County Magistrate, and Xiu.
He was the magistrate of the state and went to Huangzhou three years ago to serve as the magistrate of the state.
In Biyang, the heads of the clan who were frightened after hearing the gossip came to Jinlongquan's house late at night. Except for the old lady Jinlong who was obsessed with eating fast and worshiping Buddha in his later years and did not care about worldly affairs, the main reason was during the period of suppressing bandits.
Jin Longquan is the backbone of the Da surname clan. He has also been working with Xu Wujiang, Xu Wukun, Xu Huai and others, so he knows the situation over there better.
After the bandits were wiped out in Tongbai Mountain in Jinlongquan, the county magistrate Cheng Lunying saw that the prefecture and county really had no way to support the people who had contributed to the suppression of the bandits. Cheng Lunying was specially transferred to the County Wei Division as a general to command the county sword archers, and the Huaiyuan Inspection Division
The post of military general was given to Xu Wujiang.
Tang Tiande also sneaked to Jin Longquan's house late at night. When he walked into the alley, he saw lights coming out of the courtyard of Jin Longquan's residence. He knocked on the door and went in. He walked past the hanging flower hall. The door of the living room was open. There were already twenty or thirty people there.
People gathered together to talk. Mrs. Jin, who I thought was indifferent to worldly affairs, sat in the hall and spoke with great energy:
"...Although each family has been rooted in Biyang for many years or even three or four generations, the ancestral houses are still in Tongbai Mountain. Now that Huaiyuan is separated from Biyang, it is not a separate county under Tangzhou——
If we really want to set up a separate county under Tangzhou, it will only be beneficial to each family, and there will be no disadvantages. After all, Biyang is always the state city, and everyone also has family business in Huaiyuan Town. It is the icing on the cake no matter what. But now,
What? Huaiyuan County was established, and it was separated from Tangzhou, and even separated from Jingxin Road. From now on, every family in Biyang will be a stranger. Each family has been doing business in Biyang for many years or even three or four years.
Do you think that if we don’t let go of the official positions of our generation, will they remain as peaceful as before?”
Tang Tiande stood quietly behind everyone, thinking that no wonder Old Madam Jin couldn't sit still. The whole matter had too great a bearing on every family in Huaiyuan.
Everyone's ancestral property, fields and houses are all in Tongbai Mountain. In the past, it was classified as Caizhou on the North Beijing Road. To pay and deliver grain and taxes, you had to deal with the officials there. They had no connections, so there was much less room for accommodation between the upper and lower levels.
But here in Biyang City, they have all become strangers. The benefits they enjoyed in the past are being watched by many people, and it is destined that many people will rush to snatch them away in the future.
Tang Tiande spent a lot of time living in Biyang in the past two years, mainly thinking about finding a job, but now he has completely given up hope.
"When a county is established in Huaiyuan, it is bound to have three offices (divisions) and six offices. Even if each office is only equipped with a managerial office and two or three clerks in charge of the year, there will still be almost twenty official vacancies - since
This matter cannot be changed by humans, should we go back and think of a solution?"
Tang Tiande peeked inside, but it was Ji Jiancheng, the second eldest son of the Ji family who served as secretary of the state government office. He used to show off his power, but now he was panicking.
Old Mrs. Jin said a little tiredly:
"Let's stop dreaming about these sweet spring and Autumn dreams. Not to mention that Xu Huai never treats us hypocritically. Xu Wujiang took the township camp commander from Longquan. In the past two years, the township camp has many levels and teams.
Which family can block people in? After the bandit rebellion was suppressed, they sold off the land and houses of Tang Wenzhong's family and Xu Wu's wealthy family. Who benefited the most? And who took advantage of the bandits' threat and asked us to give everyone
The families of the soldiers and their families have lowered the rent - why can't you understand that they are from the same people as us? Are we afraid of being blackmailed again if we come to the door at this time?"
"I'm afraid they won't be able to wait until we get back, and blackmail will come to our door——"
A middle-aged man walked in out of breath. He obviously heard what Old Madam Jin said and said,
"Huaiyuan has released news that each family must hand over the village soldiers within three days, and the Xin County Military House will select and recruit Qin Wang's rebel army. Anyone who violates the rules will be punished for resisting the order and rebelling. There is another matter, Zheng Tu
That meat seller, who followed that reckless guy around in the past few years, has become prosperous. He took in an Orchid in Shuozhou, which looks really greedy, but what kind of character is his mother-in-law, how could she be willing to do it?
At noon, they learned that Zheng Tu had returned to Huaiyuan without even returning home, so they went over and made a fuss. They grabbed Zheng Tu and were about to beat him, but somehow he collided with the fool. The fool kicked him, and Zheng Tu's wife
He had lost half his life. If someone hadn't stopped him, that fool would have drawn his sword and cut Zheng Tu's wife into two pieces on the spot. Even so, that fool didn't want to spare the woman lightly and put her in jail.
, we must gather a hundred criminals in Huaiyuan, and then behead them all to establish their authority!"
"Tian Xiong, aren't you spending all your time in Jingfang Building today? How do you know such details?" Jin Longquan sat next to Old Madam Jin and asked the middle-aged man curiously.
"Hey, my second brother's family has arranged a marriage for my daughter. It's Xu Xin, the grandson of Xu Qi Taiye Xu Zhongyu. This marriage was not bad at first. I heard that Xu Xin has made many military exploits.
He was even a general in the Forbidden Army, but Xu Zhongyu and his son Xu Wujun came to visit today and said that they would get married immediately. He also said that Xu Huai was a fool and gave him a three-day deadline. Tell me, how is this a marriage?
, isn’t this fucking bride-stealing? Even if you take a bitch from a bitch’s house to be your concubine, you can’t be so hasty and fool around with it. My dad almost fainted when he found out about this in his old house.
During the night, my second brother and his daughter fled back to Biyang. Even if he dies, our Tian family cannot afford to lose this man!" Tian Xiong, a middle-aged man, said incessantly.
"Look, who wants to go back to Huaiyuan?" Old Mrs. Jin trembled and poked the floor tiles with her crutch, shouting angrily, "Absurd, ridiculous, bandit style, this is simply bandit style!"
The group of people were angry, but they couldn't come up with a solution after discussion. They had to leave each other late at night. They only said that they would continue to inquire about the news and wait and see the situation. Tang Tiande also left with everyone first and hid deep in the alley to ensure that everyone
Everyone left Jin Longquan's house and ran to knock on the door. When they saw that Jin Longquan opened the door in person, he said awkwardly: "I seem to have left something in your living room. I'll go look for it..."
"But this jade pendant?" Jin Longquan handed a jade pendant to Tang Tiande and looked at his face for a long time, "Do you still want to come in for a sip of tea?"
"Ha, oh, my mouth is a bit dry. It's the Chinese New Year, and the weather is really dry!" Tang Tiande squeezed in, said haha, followed Jin Longquan, and walked to the living room.
The two sat down in the living room again. Jin Longquan did not ask the old servant to boil a new pot of water. He drank the remaining cold tea in silence for a while and then asked: "What do you think of this?"
"There are not enough people in the hall for Xu Huai to play alone, what can I say?" Tang Tiande said with a bitter smile, "But after talking for a long time, no one mentioned the matter of King Qin. Bianliang is really in such a critical situation.
Aren’t the Red Husbands still far away?”
"How did I know this?" Jin Longquan also shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"What did you say?" Tang Tiande asked.
"What did you say?" Jin Longquan asked.
"Can we stop playing riddles? Otherwise, no one of us will tempt anyone, and we will all write down the notes directly from our hearts. If we get it right, we will sit down and discuss it slowly. If we don't get it right, we will swallow the note.
Go down, Mr. Jin, do you think I haven't turned around a second time?" Tang Tiande said.
"Okay - don't use paper and ink. Let's sit on each side and write directly on the table with tea. If the tea stains, you can ignore it!" Jin Longquan said.
