As of late April, the refugee resettlement work outside Anling City has almost entered the final stage.
During this period, Yan Yong, the magistrate of Anling County, was busy back and forth to implement Zhao Hongrun's plan, and he lost weight.
But having said that, it was not without gain. At least in the minds of the 50,000 refugees, Yan Yong had significantly risen from "the lackey of the Anling nobles" to "he might be a good official". In short, Yan Yong Finally he was able to undo everything he had been forced to do before.
But for Yan Yong, he finally realized the wonderful taste of being a local official. For example, just now, a little girl who was only a few years old came to him holding a bamboo jar and made a milky sound. Yan Yong said, "Thank you for your hard work, please drink some water." At that time, Yan Yong was almost moved to tears.
You must know that in all his years in Anling, he has never received such precious greetings.
"Damn Wang!"
Yan Yong cursed secretly in his heart, after all, it was those Anling nobles headed by Wang who coerced him and almost destroyed him.
"Master County, all the rice has been distributed."
Niu Zhuang, who is now the lieutenant, came over and said naively.
In fact, Niu Zhuang didn't need to say anything, after all, Yan Yong saw it, but he still nodded and let out a long breath of satisfaction.
"The next step is to deal with the conflict between An Ling and Yan Ling..."
Yan Yong muttered to himself, turned around and walked towards the county government office.
Seeing this, Niu Zhuang shouted to a group of newly recruited government officials: "It's done, it's done."
"Why……"
A group of government officials responded feebly. After all, during this period, they first had to resettle some refugees to live in Anling City, and then they had to go to Yanshui to load the grain that Zhao Hongrun had transferred from Shangshui to Anling. Finally, It also needs to be distributed to numerous refugees. More than just one word is enough to describe it?
Let’s not talk about these government officials gasping for breath and finishing their work and going home. Let’s talk about Yan Yong taking Wei Zuo Niuzhuang back to the county government office.
Arriving at the study room of the county government office, Yan Yong saw Zhao Hongrun standing at the window of the study room with his hands behind his back, seemingly worried about something.
Yan Yong guessed right, Zhao Hongrun was indeed worried, and when asked why, it was just because of Luo Yao.
To be fair, Zhao Hongrun really admired Luo Yao very much and hoped that Luo Yao would switch to his service. But unfortunately, Luo Yao was really foolishly loyal to the Prince of the East Palace.
But then again, this is the stubborn temper of contemporary Confucian scholars: once they decide to be loyal to someone, even if the other person is a puddle of mud that cannot stick to the wall, they will do their best to help until the candle turns to ashes.
It is no surprise to say that even if the prince of the East Palace met with disaster this time, I am afraid that Luo Yao would not leave him unless the former was defeated and died.
And this means that it is almost impossible for Zhao Hongrun to accept talents like Luo Yao as his disciple.
"I don't know if Luo Yao can fight against Zhou Min after he returns to Daliang..."
Thinking of this incident, Zhao Hongrun felt a little entangled. He didn't want King Yong to fail, but he didn't want to see Luo Yao being suppressed by Zhou Min.
What's worse is that Luo Yao has no advantage at all against Zhou Min, who is now highly regarded by the East Palace.
The real brilliance of the strategies for strengthening the country proposed by Zhou Min is that they are a conspiracy, and there is no fear of the shortcomings of the strategy being exposed.
If nothing goes wrong, the development focus of the Wang family in Zhengcheng should gradually shift to the upper party.
After all, Zhou Min is a member of the "Donggong Party", and so is the Zhengcheng Wang family. If the Zhengcheng Wang family does not take the lead in giving full support to the national policy proposed by Zhou Min, where will the face of Donggong be put?
Therefore, the Wang family in Zhengcheng not only had to contribute, but also spent huge sums of money to build a border guard force to achieve success in future wars with South Korea.
On the other hand, the uncle's family of Yongwang Hongyu, that is, the natal family of his mother's imperial concubine Shi, would also do the same.
If nothing else goes wrong, Shangdang will not only become a battlefield between Wei and Han, but also a place for Prince Hongli and King Yu Hongyu to compete and earn military honors.
This is no joke...
If the new army formed by the Wang family in Zhengcheng is destroyed in a war with the Korean army, it will be equivalent to indirectly destroying the wealth accumulated by generations, or even more than ten generations, of the Wang family in Zhengcheng.
Maybe, the glorious Wang family in Zhengcheng will be completely dragged to death in Shangdang.
"clever!"
Zhao Hongrun praised secretly, but then a suspicion arose in his mind: Maybe his second brother Yong Wang Hongyu had more than just Zhou Min on his staff. Otherwise, how could Hongyu dare to ask the Shi family to compete with the Wang family in Zhengcheng? You must know that the Shi family
The power of the Zhengcheng Wang family is not as good as that of the Zhengcheng Wang family. Why is Zhao Hongyu so sure that the one who will be destroyed will be the Zhengcheng Wang family and not the Shi family who supports him?
He didn't want to think about it carefully, but there was Luo Yao beside him in the East Palace. Zhao Hongrun didn't think that this confrontation between the Crown Prince and King Yong would end in a one-sided process.
But all this does not matter to Zhao Hongrun, because there is still his fourth emperor brother Yan Wang Hongjiang sitting in Shangdang Shanyang County, and there is also the Southern Yan general Wei Mu, so the Wang family and the Shi family will not fight for too much power.
Overdone.
As long as the two sides do not fight directly and simply compete with each other based on the military honors captured from the Korean army, Zhao Hongrun is happy to see this: because this is a matter of great benefit and no harm to the entire Wei State.
"Perhaps, my father also took this into consideration and deliberately pretended not to know..."
Zhao Hongrun had no doubt that his father would see through the whole thing. After all, even his Blue Crows could trace the details of Zhou Min. How could his father's informant, the "Internal Supervisor", be kept in the dark?
It's just that, in Zhao Hongrun's mind, his father is sinister and cunning, so he will most likely not interfere in this matter and just watch the wrestling between the Wang family and the Shi family.
"It is very possible that my father may be pushing this matter behind the scenes..."
Prince Su, who had been exploited by his father again and again, guessed with conviction.
"Your Highness, Magistrate Yan is here."
Wei Jiao, the head of Zong Wei, saw Yan Yong walking into the study while Zhao Hongrun was still standing at the window in a daze, so he came to the latter's side and whispered a reminder.
"oh."
Zhao Hongrun came to his senses after hearing this and turned to look at Yan Yong.
Seeing this, Yan Yong quickly informed Zhao Hongrun of the progress of the refugee resettlement he was responsible for.
When he learned that the resettlement of refugees had finally entered the final stage, Zhao Hongrun breathed a sigh of relief.
After all, it is not an easy task to resettle around 50,000 refugees so that they can find a safe home.
"You can slowly find people to repair the walls of the new city in the future. Although the Ministry of Industry of the Imperial Court is very busy at the moment, I believe they will still send some craftsmen to guide them. As for the corvees, there are hundreds of thousands of people in Anling now. You can slowly recruit them.
Bar."
"Yes!" Yan Yong bowed his hands respectfully.
Neither he nor Zhao Hongrun are in a hurry. After all, repairing a city wall is not something that can be done overnight. Even if all the manpower and material resources are in place, it will probably take two or three years to build. If something goes wrong in the middle, it will take two or three years to build a city wall.
It's not something that hasn't happened in the past ten years.
Didn’t you see that the four small affiliated counties in Shangshui County, known as XX City, are still bare without even a city wall?
"But Your Highness Prince Su, don't you need to report to the imperial court for a major event like building a new city wall?"
Yan Yong looked at Zhao Hongrun longingly and reminded him in a low voice.
I remember before, when Zhao Hongrun learned that Anling could not accommodate the 50,000 refugees, he said without hesitation, "Let's build a new city and county." But in fact, building a new city and county costs a lot of money.
More than thousands?
In the past, this would have needed to be reported to the imperial court, or even approved by Emperor Wei, but it would never be as easy as what the King Su said.
Perhaps seeing Yan Yong's concerns, Zhao Hongrun said with a smile: "Don't worry, Yu Zao Bureau will provide you with the money for An Ling."
You know, once the "Anling Workshop" is completed, it means that at least tens of thousands of people in Anling County will work for the Yu Manufacturing Bureau, processing sheepskin, wool and other raw materials on behalf of the Yu Manufacturing Bureau. I believe that the officials of the Yu Manufacturing Bureau will not be happy in time.
Woolen cloth.
After all, how much money does the labor in the "Anling Workshop" earn? It cannot be compared with the future profits of Yu Manufacturing Bureau, it is just a drop in the bucket.
After giving Yan Yong a few words of advice, the latter resigned wisely.
At this time, Zongwei Zhou Pu stepped into the study, followed by five young people with wrinkled clothes and disheveled hair.
These five young men are none other than the third-generation descendants of the Anling Zhao family whom Zhao Laiyu entrusted Zhao Hongrun to sharpen. They are the third son Zhao Chengzhi, the fifth son Zhao Chengjiong, the eighth son Zhao Chengtang, the tenth son Zhao Chengcan, and the thirteenth son.
Young Master Zhao Chengxun.
Once upon a time, these young masters were the hegemons in Anling, and they called themselves brothers to the aristocratic children headed by the Anling Wang family. Even if Yan Yonggui was the magistrate of Anling County, he would have to address these people with the title of "young master".
But now, the five of them are standing timidly behind Zongwei Zhou Pu, not daring to breathe. It is not difficult to guess that these five people must have been "hardened" by Zhou Pu in the county jail, at least
No longer so arrogant.
"sit."
Zhao Hongrun spread his hands and gestured.
But none of the five Zhao disciples dared to move. In fact, one of them secretly glanced at Zhou Pu, who was smiling, with fear in his eyes.
Even when Zhou Pu said lightly, "Didn't you hear His Highness ask you to sit down?", Zhao Chengzhi, Zhao Chengjiong, and Zhao Chengtang were shocked, their faces full of fear and uneasiness, as if they might be paralyzed by fear at any time.
Sit on the ground.
Seeing this, Zhao Hongrun snickered a few times secretly, and then waved his hand to dismiss Zhou Pu. After all, he could see that these cousins of the Zhao family obviously had a psychological shadow on Zhou Pu.
Zhou Pu bowed and retreated. Seeing this, Zhao Chengzhi, Zhao Chengjiong, and Zhao Chengtang breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, Zhao Hongrun glanced around at these five distant cousins and said, "Today..."
After just saying one word, Zhao Hongrun saw Duan Pei from the Blue Crow Clan hurriedly running in. Without paying attention to the situation in the room, he whispered: "Your Highness, something happened."
Zhao Hongrun silenced his voice at the right time. After glancing at the five Zhao disciples, he frowned and asked, "Is it urgent?"
The implication is that if it's not urgent, we'll talk about it later. Didn't you see that this king is preparing to teach someone a lesson?
However, Duan Pei nodded and said seriously: "It's very urgent."
Zhao Hongrun frowned when he heard this and nodded involuntarily.
Seeing this, Duan Pei understood, walked up to Zhao Hongrun, and said to the latter: "Your Highness, the Wang family was attacked by a group of horse thieves on their way out of Anling and moved to Zhengcheng... This
The horse thief, various signs indicate that he is the "Huanhu Cavalry Bandit" that His Highness called the Qingya people to pay attention to a while ago!"
"..."
Zhao Hongrun couldn't help but widen his eyes with a look of astonishment on his face.