"Li Changshi, if we go a few miles further, we will arrive at Kuamagou. But it will be almost evening when we arrive. I'm afraid we won't be able to return to the city before dark."
On a dirt road in the countryside, a group of hundreds of knights were riding horses. A middle-aged man in the group turned his head and said to Li Tai while walking.
After Li Tai heard this, he smiled and said: "Don't worry about this, Zhao Canjun. Everything in the felt tent camp in the team has been prepared. Even if you sleep in the wild, you won't be exposed to the moon. It's just that Zhao Canjun has to share this camping experience."
The suffering.”
"No matter where you are, it's a humble honor to be able to serve as a guide and inspect the countryside with Li Changshi."
After hearing this, the middle-aged man quickly spoke again and said that this man's name was Zhao Yan, and he was Cang Cao from the prefecture who had helped Li Tai sort out Cang Cao's affairs records.
After experiencing the previous incident, Zhao Yan saw with his own eyes Li Tai's ability to process complex data and information with extremely high efficiency, and could not help but idolize him. When he learned that Li Tai was going to choose a guide to accompany him on an inspection tour, Zhao Yan
He immediately took the initiative to ask for help.
Zhao Yan, like Zhao Gui, was born in the Tianshui Zhao family. But unlike Zhao Gui's family who lived in Wuchuan, Zhao Yan lived in Tianshui and was a real member of the Tianshui Zhao family with upright roots.
As soon as he was born, he was recruited by Dugu Xin to join the army as a Fuzuo.
During the trip, Li Tai asked again: "Zhao Canjun, this crossing across Magou is indeed the deepest crux of rural hatred on the surface. Just touching it can attract the attention of the masses?"
"I have lived in the countryside all year round. Although I don't know everything about the countryside, I have kept most of the experiences I heard in my heart. If it talks about the hatred between the family and the country for many generations, it is really difficult to say. But as long history asked, if
It’s just a feud between a few households in the township. Kuamagou is indeed the most violent place for township fighting in recent years!”
After hearing this, Zhao Yan quickly said seriously: "The Li family and the Quan family, both of whom are enemies of each other, are both wealthy families in the county. They gathered their relatives and friends, Zhuang Ding, and almost thousands of people from each side gathered near Kuaimagou to fight.
Hundreds of people were killed and wounded in one afternoon.
If it hadn't disturbed other nearby residents who hurriedly reported to the government, and the Duke of Heoi urgently dispatched troops to calm things down like this, there would have been more casualties. The blood feud between the two sides had thus been forged, and it would have been difficult for the Duke of Heoi to make peace despite his prestige..."
When talking about the rural fight that shocked the village and even the entire Longyou a few years ago, Zhao Yan also sighed with sadness, while Li Tai couldn't help but widen his eyes after hearing it.
After having a brief understanding of Qinzhou's state affairs, Li Tai felt that although Duguxin was dictatorial in Longyou, his control over the local situation was not deep enough, so he wanted to use some methods to make this happen.
strengthen.
If you want to enhance your influence in the countryside, you must first increase your sense of presence. If everyone doesn't know that there is a person like him in Longyou, or deliberately ignores him, even if you have a good idea, what will happen?
He knows that there are many wealthy families in Longyou. Since the Han Dynasty, many wealthy families from Guanzhong have moved here to guard the country's borders. Coupled with the hierarchy among the Di and Qiang tribes, only one county in Tianshui has a good reputation.
There are more than twenty families.
With so many powerful and powerful families living here for generations, connections and frictions between them are bound to be inevitable. Therefore, Li Tai planned to use an old feud to attract the attention of the people, and then he would take care of the incident.
Solving it will not only show his presence and his clever methods, but also help him quickly establish a foothold here and cultivate his own power.
He thought it was a good idea, but he didn't expect that Zhao Yan, who had joined the army, picked him a rural struggle incident involving thousands of people. Dugu Xin couldn't even handle it even if he came forward, and one of the parties was named Li.
"I would like to ask Zhao Canjun whether the Li family participating in the fight is..."
Li Tai hesitated briefly before asking Zhao Yan again.
Zhao Yan nodded after hearing this, and replied softly with some embarrassment: "They are one of the folks from Li Changshi's clan..."
After Li Tai heard this, his mental activities suddenly became richer. The Li family in Longxi has many ethnic groups, and there are people from the Longxi Li family even as far away as Wuchuan in Monan, so the local surname Li in Longxi is naturally also
What’s more, Tie Porcelain didn’t run away.
Although they were estranged by blood and affection, Li Tai felt quite unhappy when he heard that the tribesmen who stayed behind in Longxi had organized such a large-scale rural fight but still failed to stand up to each other.
It is certainly not an ordinary family to be able to fight with the Li family in Longxi and still be evenly matched. The Quan family of Tianshui is also a big family in Longxi. For generations, they have been the powerful chiefs among the Di people, and often have members of the clan serving as governors of states and counties, and even in great positions.
Taiyu Wentai also had a concubine who was born in the Tianshui Quan family.
Although the Li family in Longxi is a famous family and has a higher political status than the Quan family, the power of the people who stay in the countryside may not be stronger than the Quan family in Tianshui. The struggle in the countryside will not care about how famous you are outside, and you will never take action when it is time to do so.
vague.
After eating melon and eating it on the head of his own family, Li Tai thought for a moment and then asked: "What is the irresolvable hatred between these two families that actually mobilized so many clan members to join the fight?"
Although the members of the Li clan in the village may not know him, Li Tai still felt a sense of identity in his heart, so he planned to inquire carefully and if it was on his side, then he would try to show his kindness to the villagers.
"It's not necessarily hatred, it's just a bad fate..."
Zhao Yan was also addicted to talking about these gossips in the countryside. He talked endlessly, gradually forgetting that Li Tai was also a member of the Longxi Li family, and revealed everything he knew, and also added a little bit of his own understanding and comments.
Li Tai became addicted after listening to it. In fact, the story was so exciting, with interests, ethics, suspense and other elements all present.
The story is probably that a son of the Li family in Longxi married a daughter of the Quan family, and the Di and Qiang custom between Qin and Longxi is that women generally do not marry outside the family. This woman from the Quan family had already been engaged within the clan, but she met the Li family by chance.
Afterwards, the thunder in the sky stirred up the fire in the earth, and they met frankly and secretly for the rest of their lives.
Although this incident was a bit glamorous and immoral at first, it was still within the normal style. Although Di and Qiang women did not marry outside, there were special cases. The Li family in Longxi was definitely not a mismatched small family, so
After the Li family compensated the woman's previous marriage with a sum of money from the man's family, the couple happily got married. In addition, the woman also provided a generous gift in order to prevent her daughter from being looked down upon.
Makeup dowry.
But the problem was that the dowry was a manor located in Kuamagou, the destination of Li Tai's trip. Because it was a dowry directly ceded from his family's land, the manor was still connected to Quan's Manor.
When a couple got married, the relationship between the two families was very harmonious. They worked together to build a dike weir in Kuaima Gou for the two families to cultivate their land. It was a happy time. However, during the process of building the weir, a gold nugget was discovered in Kuaima Gou.
The mineral deposits suddenly made the relationship between the two families more delicate.
In the beginning, the two families were able to sit together and discuss, but they were unable to come up with a distribution solution that was mutually acceptable to both parties. As a result, the situation gradually became bad, and even affected the couple's love life.
Quan first took the girl back because her parents were seriously ill, intending to take back the dowry. Naturally, the Li family did not agree and went straight to the other party's door to snatch their bride back.
But in the midst of this back and forth, the poor bride died suddenly, leaving the two families with no worries about family ties. Each accused the other of causing harm in order to monopolize the gold mine.
The two families couldn't stop arguing with each other, and their relatives naturally joined in one after another. In the end, it turned into a large-scale armed fight with tens of thousands of people participating, which shocked the entire Longyou.
When the matter has developed to this point, it is no longer about how much the gold mine is worth and who should belong to it. Neither of the two parties is a weakling. They do not fight for steamed buns and bad breath, but they want to defeat the other party as their own duty.
Although Duguxin came forward to stop this rural fight, he still had a headache when faced with this problem. He didn't know how to deal with it, so he simply ordered the Kuamagou gold mine to be buried with earth and rocks, and ordered both tribesmen to
Only by entering the valley to mine without permission can this matter be suppressed on the surface.
But leaving aside the entanglement of interests in the gold mine, how can the blood debt and hatred of hundreds of lives added to that armed fight be easily overcome?
Although the two sides were too frightened by Dugu Xin's majesty to gather people for large-scale fighting, private disputes have always been constant. In recent years, villagers from both sides have occasionally died violently in the wild. Without looking carefully, it is probably the revenge of blood relatives on both sides.
It has become a consensus in Longyou official circles that members of two families are not allowed to serve as officials in the same government office.
After hearing what happened, Li Tai felt speechless for a moment. This has become a dead end. The more he thought about it, the more headache he felt. He didn't know how to deal with it so that he could show his level.