A counselor ran in: "Sir, there is a young white man who calls himself Jiang Xuan, and he has a plan to offer!"
Lu Zhengyi looked impatient: "It's just a white body, what's your plan? Get out!"
"yes!"
Although Jiang Xuan was thin, he mustered up all his strength to rush in. He knelt down and kowtowed a few times: "Sir, you must not do this! Those skirmishers can only be outmaneuvered, not fought with force!"
Everyone scolded him for being bold, and several sticks were already attacking him.
Lu Zhengyi frowned, waved his hand to signal others to stop, looked at Jiang Xuan and asked, "How do you say this?"
Jiang Xuan was sweating profusely: "My lord, go ahead with your strategy and attack your heart first!"
"The chaos in Yangzhou city must be caused by the Liu family master! Yangzhou must not be fooled!"
Lu Zhengyi was furious when he heard this: "No one knows about this, but now, if we don't drive out the remnant soldier, what else can we do?"
He gets angry when he talks about this!
The Liu family father and son were really hateful. They conspired together and made the Yangzhou government unable to do anything. By the time they realized what they were doing, things had gotten out of hand.
Jiang Xuan mustered up his courage and said: "Sir, the common people believe that if you want to turn the tide of the current situation, just four steps are enough!"
The counselors' faces changed slightly when they heard this, and they all cursed angrily.
"Just a guy in white clothes, talking so boldly!"
"You mean, the county magistrate is not as good as you?"
The think tanks of these county magistrates have been busy these days, offering various suggestions, but there is no way. If you come to offer suggestions in vain, wouldn't you be slapping us in the face?
Lu Zhengyi continued to wave his hands and said calmly: "You can tell me!"
Jiang Xuan perked up and said: "Xuan has four strategies. One is to use heavy inducements to stragglers and capture Yinzhou! The second is to suppress the common people violently to make them fearful! The third is to deal with prominent families. , Collect his private soldiers and use them for our government. Fourthly, we will promote Yinzhou’s bad name, discuss its iron ore matters, Yangzhou will subsidize it, and also induce Young Master Liu to attend the appointment!"
As soon as these words came out, the whole crowd changed color.
"Be bold!"
"Who are you? You are committing treachery at that time!"
"My lord, you must not do this. If you follow this man's plan, Yangzhou's reputation will no longer be the same!"
Jiang Xuan's four strategies, in their opinion, are more cruel than the last! The first one is to directly gather all the forces in hand, especially in the name of the government, to hire skirmishers to capture Yinzhou at high profits. This is not legal and morally acceptable. It doesn’t make sense! By then, Yangzhou will inevitably suffer damage to its reputation and be in a passive state.
The second and third ones are even more ridiculous.
Aren't we afraid of popular chaos through violent suppression? People's emotions are already very high now. If this method is used again, it may lead to mutiny.
Under such circumstances, the weak county princes still dare to use the private soldiers of prominent families? It would be strange if they did not take advantage of the chaos and rise up!
The fourth approach is to negotiate the iron ore matter, even at the expense of subsidizing money. How can Yangzhou lose face with this approach?
Doesn't this mean that Yangzhou has been colluding with these stragglers from the beginning?
"You, you, you..."
Lu Zhengyi was also very angry.
But Jiang Xuan just knelt like that, very stubborn.
For now, this is indeed a four-step self-help strategy.
Jiang Xuan is good at using the art of war.
Therefore, his views are different from those of the sour Confucian scholars in front of him. He pays more attention to timeliness and purpose! Now, letting the scattered soldiers leave the city is the best outcome. He does not care about any means. It is best to leave the city so that he can attack Yin. State is the most ideal state.
And the current people have obviously been incited by someone with ulterior motives.
The people who are generally poorly educated themselves lack the ability to judge. They follow what others say and three people become a tiger. Now they are even more excited and lack reason. If they want to stabilize the situation, there is only one way, violence!
Do you still want to reason with them at this time? That is impossible and the least timely. In troubled times, heavy rules should be used. This Jiang Xuan was born in a peasant family, but he did not lose the overall situation due to hypocrisy because of his sympathy for the people. He can see through this.
One thing, the mentality is really unusual.
As for the noble families, let alone. In this chaotic situation, people's minds change, and these noble families bear the brunt. If we don't take them down with thunder, it will definitely become a big disaster!
And in the end, when dealing with Yinzhou, Jiang Xuan felt that since Yinzhou could cause so many troubles, why not treat others in their own way in Yangzhou?
You know, in the past few days, the people have been spreading the word about Mr. Liu's great power in defeating the bandits. In contrast, Lu Zhengyi colluded with the horse bandits to deal with Yangzhou's "benefactor"!
The good and bad qualities of one's character are clearly evident.
The people's shouts to welcome the new master to Yangzhou became more and more intense.
In this case, what moral dignity do you care about?