380: A young man in bright clothes and an angry horse (Part 1) [2-in-1]
"Did I commit any evil in my previous life?"
Shen Tang wants to doubt life every day.
I can't even concentrate on my work.
Qishan came over to deliver something and happened to overhear her murmurs. He thought she was troubled by something, so he expressed his concern - her lord was still a developing seedling. As her subordinate, she had to care about her family from time to time. The master's physical and mental health cannot be changed without saying a word.
Shen Tang looked at Qi Shan with resentful eyes. His eyes did not blink for a moment, and he looked at the latter confused. He asked doubtfully: "My lord looks at Shan like this, but what is wrong with him?"
Could it be that he didn't wash himself thoroughly in the morning?
Appearance damaged?
Without waiting for Qi Shan to speculate more, Shen Tang said quietly: "I'm thinking about how many years of life I have left on the Lord of Hell's list. Or, if I encountered a strong enemy and was forced to a desperate situation in the past, would I be able to let you guys pretend If you surrender, you may be able to fight back and turn defeat into victory. Oh, how sad."
Pray for good: ""
He suppressed the slight trembling at the corner of his mouth, couldn't help but laugh and said helplessly: "My lord, don't make such unlucky jokes. Besides, whether they are literary scholars or others, when there are too many people, there will inevitably be one or two special things. My lord is just"
Should I say that she is just too lucky?
Or is she just too unlucky?
To be honest, Qishan has never encountered such a "luxurious" lineup that would make the lord pale after hearing it. He has been running around and taking the heads of seven lords over the years, but he has never encountered it once. From a certain point of view, this is also a kind of An extraordinary talent that cannot be copied.
From the side -
Doesn’t it also prove the excellence of my lord?
Shen Tang was not comforted at all and became even more emo, but she was not someone who would be defeated easily.
Hey, think of the best in everything.
Everything has pros and cons.
It is true that several Jiang Shengs cost the master, but the value they can create is also considerable. One can support several labor forces, and each person is "both internal and external", able to govern internally and fight externally. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses and complements each other.
In today's chaotic world where status, origin, and heritage are all important, if it weren't for the fact that their scholarly ways were too troublesome for the Lord to find offers for jobs, and Shen Tang was tough enough, how would it be her turn to bring them back to their nest?
It's not that Shen Tang is belittling herself, but that her starting conditions make it difficult to find good enough and hard-working workers, let alone manage a small territory and build good relationships with several neighbors to lay a solid foundation for future development.
After so much self-comfort.
Shen Tang figured it out and stopped emo.
Reinvigorate your mood and start working at your desk.
Qishan's mission this time was to deliver food. After finishing the accounting and handover work, he had to take people back. The reservoir on the Heyin side was under construction in full swing, and the river channel was dug for several miles. It was very busy up and down. .
"Going back so soon?"
Shen Tang still wants to keep Qi Shan to work.
Qi Shan said: "If the master wants to keep someone, Shan will not mind. It's just that Wang Chao might cause trouble."
Shen Tang: ""
He Yin now only has Gu Chi as the chief executive.
She smiled awkwardly when she thought that the workload of the entire Heyin County was on him and a group of government officials. Gu Chi was kidnapped by herself after being drunk. She really annoyed him and gave up the job. She didn't care what they said. .
Qishan took the people away at noon.
In fact, there was one more thing he didn't say.
It is true that He Yin only has Gu Chi, a scribe in charge, but there are also foreign aids such as Qin Li. If he is really too busy and overworked, it would be a good solution to bring them over to help him. (:3)?) Yes. Yes, because of their own boss style, they follow the example and follow the example. They don't care whether they are their own people or not. As long as they can do the work, they can be used.
As for how Qin Li and the others cursed?
As long as you don't hear it, you can pretend not to know.
Although the Luxia County Government Office was recaptured, all the counties and towns outside the Government Office were harmed by the refugees and bandits. Although Shen Tang immediately organized the opening of warehouses to provide food relief after coming over, more than half of the grass was still lost, or burned, killed, and looted. , rob homes and homes, or gather people to go into the mountains to become bandits, or follow the refugees and bandits to other enemies. All living beings are suffering, just for one bite of food.
Shen Tang sympathized with them, but for the sake of the peaceful people, he worked with the other three families to allocate part of their troops to wipe out the bandits in Luxia County.
Propaganda and appeasement are the top priority, while strangulation and silencing are the bottom priority.
If they are willing to lay down their weapons and become ordinary people again, give them this opportunity. If they are unwilling to resist and use violence, they will be killed directly. They must not be driven to neighboring counties to harass the enemy's common people.
Shaochong and others naturally had no objections.
In fact, they were waiting impatiently for Shen Tang's words. They were busy with boring trivial matters all day long, and their excess energy had nowhere to vent, and their muscles and bones were too lazy. Shen Tang asked them to allocate troops to suppress the bandits, which was exactly what he wanted. .
Among them, Shangnan Shaochong was the most active.
At dawn, he hurriedly led his people out, over mountains and ridges, up mountains and into water, and chased the bandits on horseback. Jiang Sheng took this opportunity to make suggestions to Shen Tang, encouraging the common people to report the whereabouts of the bandits to the government. He was the first to come and report. , and the common people who provide true information can receive a pound of corn as a reward from the government!
As a member of the Lu family, he knew very well the local customs and the village clans would protect and conceal each other. Many of the bandits were their relatives who had gone out among them. When they saw Shaochong and others leading troops there, they would even tip off the news.
The efficiency of suppressing bandits is not high.
Hearing this, Shen Tang felt that it was reasonable, and made modifications on this basis - depending on the scale of the bandits reported, the first common people to report could get different levels of rewards. The rewards were not many, but they were fatal to the common people. Attractive! In addition to the administrative center, other counties and towns in Luxia County have been ruined, and the food harvested by the people in the autumn has also been robbed.
Without food, many of them would not be able to survive this cold winter, and even a little bit of food is precious.
It was precious enough to betray the bandits from the same village and clan who they had tacitly helped hide before.
First, the government has also said that it will keep the secret and will not disclose the identity of the person who reported the secret. Second, this move is not to betray the same people, but to protect more good people of the same people who are keeping their own laws and protect them from bandits.
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Through a combination of hard and soft tactics, the bandits in Luxia County disappeared within seven days. In the end, it even developed to the point where four brave warriors competed for a task of suppressing bandits. The bandits were gone, but the mess left behind did not end there.
Letters sent to the other three companies also received responses.
Members of the four families jointly governed Luxia County.
Until the royal court of Zheng Qiao sent a new county governor.
But everyone knew in their hearts that this possibility was unlikely. They were busy fighting against the Pig King faction and had no time to care about such trivial matters. As everyone knew, someone actually noticed it, but it was not Zheng Qiao.
It's Zheng Qiao's senior brother, Yan An.
Yan An did not agree with Zheng Qiao sending troops to drive away the homeless bandits. He would either suppress them completely, or use them for his own purposes and drive the anger elsewhere. Not only would it harm the people in other places, it would also allow this group to expand, which would eventually lead to catastrophe.
But Zheng Qiao didn't listen.
Yan An was so angry that he didn't order Mao for half a month.
"Hey, Xingning, why are you doing this?"
The outside world said that Yan An was so angry that he lost his temper with Zheng Qiao. Others said that he was heartbroken by Zheng Qiao's absurd behavior and was ready to take this opportunity to retreat. Only his wife knew that Yan An was really in poor health.
Got it
In anger, the cold wind filled his body.
He actually lingered on his sick bed for half a month.
At this time, Yan An seemed to have aged by more than ten years. His black and smooth black hair had become a lot grayer, and there were thin wrinkles on the ends of his eyes. His complexion was sallow, his eyes were black, and his breathing was sometimes slow and sometimes rapid, which was heart-wrenching to watch.
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Yan An sat up with the help of his wife.
Drink today's portion of the decoction.
He suppressed the lingering bitterness on the back of his tongue, which penetrated into his heart like a thin needle, and said quietly: "Some things have to be done by others. Not for your husband, but also for others."
After hearing this, the lady said nothing, but her young eyes were stained with deeper melancholy, and she helped him put on his cloak.
The air was quiet for a long time.
Yan'an suddenly let out a chuckle.
The lady looked at him doubtfully.
Yan'an said: "It's the news from Zixu."
Hearing that it was "Zixu", the lady spread her eyebrows and said, "Oh, it must be a happy event to be able to make you laugh out loud now."
Yan'an lifted up the cloak that had fallen off his shoulders with some difficulty, and said, "Whether it is a happy event or not, it is hard to say." Zixu received news that the common people who were driven away by his junior brother passed by Luxia County and kicked a piece of iron.
plate."
The lady thought about it carefully and was surprised: "Didn't Xingning say before that the governor of Lu County was fierce, aggressive, courageous, nepotistic, and useless? He was actually able to defend Luxia County? He defeated enemies many times his own.
Deflated?"
Yan'an's scribe's method is quite useful.
Basically, she has found out all the famous people in various places. Madam and he have been childhood sweethearts since childhood. They are also from the same family and have a close relationship. Yan'an basically has no secrets from her. Madam naturally also knows Yan'an's evaluation of those characters.
He didn't have a high opinion of Governor Lu. He said that if a person has bad taste, he would definitely fall into trouble with his relatives.
Is it possible that the situation has turned against the wind?
Yan'an said: "The man named Lu is dead."
"Dead? How do you say that?"
"The man died, but he asked for help from the surrounding areas early in the morning. Shen Youli, whom her husband had never understood, actually asked for help from Nannan, Tianhai, and Yiru, and gathered troops to rush to Luxia. The man named Lu was on the day the city was broken. They were all killed, the whole family was killed by the villain, and there were only two left alive." Yan An felt a little sad.
"Just this thing can make Xingning so happy?" Since becoming an official of Zheng Qiao, she has never seen Yanan smile. The occasional smile is faint and fleeting, so fast that it makes people feel confused, "Is it because Shen What did Young Li do again?"
Yanan told everything he knew.
In this world, the two of them cannot see through each other.
One is Zheng Qiao.
One is Shen Tang.
If his junior brother Zheng Qiao is dark inside and out, paranoid and radical, cruel and bloodthirsty, then Commander Shen is the other extreme. If the latter is the same on the outside, it will be a great blessing for the common people, but he is worried that this is just an appearance.
There is another truth beneath the surface.
The lady said: "Isn't this very good?"
Yan'an sighed: "Maybe."
Seeing the inexorable tiredness on his brows, the lady asked him to lie down and rest for a while, so as not to worry too much.
At the same time, the inner courtyard of the palace.
Zheng Qiao was carefully looking at the information related to Yan'an.
The spy leader on one side looked puzzled.
Yan'an's loyalty is known to everyone in the court. Everyone is disgusted with Yan'an's foolish loyalty and stubbornness, and is so devoted to people like Zheng Qiao. At the same time, they sympathize with Yan'an for wasting all his knowledge on people like Zheng Qiao. This person is both pitiable and hateful. .
But Zheng Qiao doesn't seem to think so.
Seeing that the spy leader seemed to be hesitant to speak, he sneered and gently threw the report on the desk, and said softly: "If you have any questions, just ask them? Are you worried that I will kill you?"
"I do have something that I don't understand - Master Yan is obviously very loyal to his lord." The spy leader said more and lowered his head, fearing that Zheng Qiao would cut off his head if he got angry. Fortunately, this did not happen. .
He also heard Zheng Qiao sneer.
"Allegiance?"
It seemed like I heard some funny words.
He added: "You said that Yan Xingning is loyal to Gu?"
The spy leader was puzzled: "Isn't it?"
Whether it was him or other ministers, everyone believed that Yan'an was loyal to Zheng Qiao. Even though he knew that his junior brother was hopelessly dead, he never gave up on him. He helped Zheng Qiao clean up his mess time and time again, but Zheng Qiao couldn't help it. He was much faster at tearing down stalls than he was at repairing them, and he refused to listen to advice every once in a while, which led to the situation getting worse and worse.
I'm afraid Zheng Qiao is the only one in the world who can't see this.
Zheng Qiao shook his head and said with a sarcastic smile: "You guys still don't understand senior brother Gu."
The spy chief said nothing.
I just thought in my heart: One person may see it wrong, but how can millions of eyes see it wrong? Yan'an's loyalty still needs to be doubted? When Ling Ling was on the sickbed, would he have been heartbroken if he heard his junior brother's words?
Then I thought about it.
How often has Zheng Qiaoqian betrayed Yan Xingning and been heartbroken? Previously, he was suspicious and threatened, so he actually asked Yanan's wife and daughter to visit the palace for a day. They were guests in name but actually hostages. If Yanan hadn't been foolish and loyal to a certain level, he would have rebelled long ago. Already.
Zheng Qiao raised his hand and waved away the spy leader, and burned the memorial under the candlelight. Finally, he took out the sword from his waist and wiped it carefully. Looking at the sword body reflecting the cold white light under the candlelight, he pushed the sword back with a sneer. scabbard.
"Loyalty?" He murmured to the candlelight, "But there are only rebellious officials and traitors in this world who want to live alone!"
"Senior brother, don't let me down."
Within two days, Zheng Qiao urgently called Yanan back because he was busy with affairs in the DPRK, and the latter happened to recover from his illness.
Two flowers bloom, one on each side.
After the unremitting efforts of Shen Tang and others, Luxia County finally stabilized. Seeing that the time was almost up, Shen Tang was ready to go back. After all, she was the governor of Heyin County. The three Tianhai families sent people to take over, and the first seven guards of Lu County had already passed, so she continued to delay It doesn't hold well.
So she left Kang Shi and a thousand soldiers and horses.
Drag the remaining people back.
Hey hey hey, in a month or two it will be the first month again.
Shen Tang is planning to hold the second Fugu City New Year Games on a larger scale this time, and invites the three companies to send some "contestants" to compete with each other. Well, the real reason is to attract the culprits from these places to come from their home areas to consume.
(:3?)
On the way back, she hesitated.
The distance has been doubled.
Gu Chi and others were looking forward to it.
"Why did my lord come back so late?"
Shen Tang whispered his plan: "Isn't this just to delay for a few more days and let the three prostitutes work for us? As soon as I come back, they will definitely submit their resignations."