Governor please stay

Among Liang Guo's heavyweights, Liu Yishou is the only one who supports the descendants of the former prince.

Xiao Yan didn't care about Xiao Gang's small thoughts. In fact, the similar imperial power struggles have been within the tolerance range of all dynasties, and the winners and losers can be regarded as a kind of "survival of the fittest".

And Xiao Yi's attitude made people a little puzzled.

Xiao Yi had nothing to do with Liu Yishou before, and it seemed that it was not his turn to sit on the throne, but this guy actually got deeply involved in it.Xiao Yi even sent the head of the guard directly to support the private army of those powerful people, which was a great effort.

Regarding this matter, Xiao Yan's attitude was to pretend not to know, and he did not deal with these two sons, but just transferred Xiao Yi to Xiangzhou (Changsha, Hunan), probably because he was a little afraid of Xiao Yi's displayed strength, Send it away.

In other words, this wave of unlucky bastards who have been cleaned up will die as soon as they die.Whether it's Liu Yishou, who killed the killer, or Xiao Gang and Xiao Yi, who are secretly doing things behind their backs, on the surface, there is nothing wrong with them!

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that the imperial power itself has a natural conflict of interest with the local wealthy and aristocratic families.Xiao Yan's principle is also very simple and rude: if you win, you take all, and I recognize your interests.If you lose, don't blame me for not showing affection, after all, dead people don't have any interest feedback.

A month later, spring plowing is almost over.Because there are too many local powerful families involved in the assassination of Liu Yishou this time (some of them were too late to mobilize), various liquidation tasks are still advancing steadily.

For example, handing over excess land, distributing acres of land to tenants in the form of military settlements, liberating tyrants to hide their household registrations, and so on.Liu Yishou was so busy that he went from morning to night every day, more tired than fighting.

That night, Liu Yishou was discussing with Yang Min about running a school in Shouyang City, when he saw Chen Yuankang walking into the study with a thick stack of papers and a strange expression on his face, as if he had something to discuss.

Seeing that Yang Min wanted to leave, Chen Yuankang patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's listen to Zun Yan, it's not a secret, anyway, everyone will know sooner or later."

ha?

Liu Yishou and Yang Min looked at Chen Yuankang together, not knowing what this old and unscrupulous buddy wanted to say.

"Changyou, let's just say it, no matter what kind of crap it is, I can bear it."

Liu Yishou said helplessly, as if there was nothing left to love.Recently, there are a lot of people who give women, give money, and borrow money. People are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. It's true.

"The lord told me to find out why Xiao Yi participated in this matter before, so I went to investigate, and now the reason has been found out."

Chen Yuankang handed the stack of papers in his hand to Liu Yishou, saluted and then dropped his hands in silence, seeming to be holding back a smile.

"Is this horse rider sick?"

After seeing the summary of the information sent, Liu Yishou was shocked, and couldn't believe that Xiao Yi was such an absurd person!

"At first, I also found it difficult for Xiao Yi to do this, but look at that Yuan Xiu, who knows that Yuan Mingyue is already Wang Changshi's favorite concubine, doesn't he often pester him unreasonably?"

Chen Yuankang spread his hands and said that there are really many sand sculptures in this world. There are so many people in the world, so why not allow a few sand sculptures?

"Princess Xiao Yi, Xu Zhaopei, has a very bad relationship with Xiao Yi. Every time Xiao Yi meets her, she will put on half-face makeup to mock Xiao Yi's one-eyed dragon. There are also many sarcasm in her words on weekdays.

Xu Zhaopei once witnessed the heroic appearance of the lord when the lord entered Jiankang parade, and was shocked by heaven.He also heard that the lord must win the battle and must take the attack. He is already a prince of one side, and he admires him very much.

In recent days, I heard Xu Zhaopei say to the left and right and the maids: "The concubine serves the king with the posture of a willow, and she sleeps in the morning, and she can die in the evening."This word reached Xiao Yi's ears, making him jealous.

Xu Zhaopei learned that Xiao Yi was jealous, not only did not restrain himself, but deliberately said in front of Xiao Yi that the Lord's eyes are like lightning, piercing, like stars in the sky, not like someone with one eye.

So... that's it. "

Chen Yuankang laughed and recounted the whole thing. Not to mention Liu Yishou, even Fatty Yang sitting next to him was too shocked to speak!

Xiao Yi participated in this matter because Liu Yishou was too handsome?

"However, Yang Xiuzhi's flattery can guess the root cause, which is amazing."

Yang Min muttered to himself.

Xiao Yi may not have the intention to deliberately oppose Liu Yishou, but it is true that this person acts insanely and impulsively, regardless of the consequences.Liu Yishou sighed helplessly and said, "I'm not like that Cao thief who only targets other people's wives. Xu Zhaopei said this and that, and I'm also very helpless."

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the style was open, and it was no secret that women would openly "exchange feelings" with monks in temples.From time to time, there are husbands who feel ashamed and ask someone to assassinate the "adulterant".

None of this is unusual.The strange thing is that Liu Yishou didn't do anything, and Xiao Yi actually sent people to participate in the rebellion of the local nobles out of jealousy. It has to be said that all of Xiao Yan's sons lack the overall situation.

None of them are made for great things.

"Hey, it's more than that!"

Chen Yuankang likes this kind of bloody thing the most.With a smirk on his face, he took out a piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to Liu Yishou, only to see the words "Slut/Woman Qiu Sifu" written on it, and a long string of text below.

"Xiao Yi has quite a talent for writing. He specially wrote a fu to mock Xu Zhaopei. It's amazing."

Killing people and killing people's hearts, Xiao Yi's doing so can be said to be extremely hateful.Liu Yishou nodded slightly, and finally realized why Xiao Yi was so stupid to get involved in the assassination.

"It's not easy for you to find out about this." Liu Yishou said with emotion.The spread of the intelligence network has a focus. Xiao Yi had not entered Liu Yishou's field of vision before, so the information was very scarce.

"not easy?"

Chen Yuankang was stunned for a moment, then he laughed and said, "It's not easy to inquire about these things. We sent people to ask the locals for inquiries, and after spending a little money, there were people scrambling to inform. You can get a lot of information with just a little money.

And Xu Zhaopei's things are really too much, so much that I spent a lot of time to identify whether those things are true or spread rumors.

For example, I find it incredible that she had sex with twenty men in one night.But she has been secretly murdering Xiao Yi's other concubines, so it should be true. "

Sighing and shaking his head, Chen Yuankang said solemnly: "Liang Guo is really rotten. Those soldiers under Xiao Yi's command are living in a worse life than ordinary tenants. Our people almost caused trouble because of too many people who took refuge there. Xiao Yi's vigilance can be said to be another kind of difficulty.

Because when we ransacked the powerful in Huainan, many of the military households on Xiao Yi's side wanted to be our internal support. "

Is this the case?It seems very unexpected!The three of them looked at each other in blank dismay, no one thought that Liang Guo's country had become so rotten.

"My lord chose to go south instead of north to Luoyang and Hebei. It was indeed a wise move. Gao Huan and Er Zhurong fought bloody in Hanling Mountain. Tens of thousands of elites on both sides died in battle and countless wounded.

If we also want to go north, similar fierce battles are inevitable.Compared with those over there, the power around Shouyang is simply not enough. "

This is true. Including the "River God incident", everyone felt that these big families in the south were really stupid.

There seems to be no sense of accomplishment in playing with these people.

"If possible, purchase grain on a large scale. The big families like to store grain at a low price for a good harvest, and sell it at a high price for a bad harvest, taking the opportunity to occupy acres of self-cultivated farmland.

We just want to go their way, so that they have nowhere to go.The south will not be stable for a few years, and the matter of storing food must be done.The alcohol, porcelain, colored glaze and other things we sell in Jiankang are all replaced by grain and transported back to Shouyang by water. "

Yang Min was very good at managing money, Liu Yishou was afraid that he would be obsessed with money, so he specially emphasized it.People in the south still don't realize that chaos is not far away, and those who plan ahead can take the lead.

"Understood, the subordinates will keep this in mind."

Yang Min said humbly that sometimes he has to admire Liu Yishou's forward-looking approach to things. They have made it to this day because of Liu Yishou's layout.No one doubts that.

He guessed that Chen Yuankang seemed to have something to say, so he left knowingly.After he left, Chen Yuankang said in a deep voice: "Yuan Quan has been in poor health, I asked Cui Jiong to take a look, and he won't live until next year.

And Yuan Xiu, who is lustful and unscrupulous, also has no self-knowledge, so he even planned on Wang Wei's concubine Yuan Mingyue.From my point of view, Wang Wei must take revenge, and the reason why he doesn't do anything now is because the lord didn't speak, but this guy will die sooner or later.

What's more, he is always staring at his cousins ​​and so on. How can such a smelly person be a banner to appeal to people's hearts?

Once these two die, what banner will the lord use to rule the north?It can't be said to straighten the lord and Yuan Juli's children, that would be too childish. "

People without long-term concerns must have short-term worries, and what Chen Yuankang said is indeed a major event.Yuan Quan is more honest and winky, so it doesn't hurt to let him be the nominal "Emperor of the Wei Kingdom".

But this guy is old, and his health is not very good, so we can't expect him to be able to stand up.

Yuan Xiu, it doesn't matter if you don't mention it, it is a tool arranged by Liu Yishou to suppress Yuan Quan and prevent Yuan Quan from taking the lead.Since it's a tool person, it's common sense to throw it away when you're done using it, isn't it?

"Yuan Shanjian, the son of Yuan Quan, I think he is very energetic!" Liu Yishou laughed.

Yuan Shanjian?

Chen Yuankang was taken aback for a moment, wondering which brat Yuan Shanjian was, and there were quite a few members of the Yuan clan living in Shouyang now.Many of them migrated during the chaos in the north.

"Son of Yuan Quan, that seven or eight-year-old child."

Liu Yishou reminded.

Oh!Son of heaven, son of emperor!

Chen Yuankang realized in an instant that Liu Yishou was indeed a person who was afraid of trouble, even if he was a direct descendant of the Yuan family, what could a child do?

"Then Yuanxiu's words..." Chen Yuankang always felt that this was a ticking time bomb.

Liu Yishou waved his hand lightly, signaling him not to worry too much.Yuan Xiu is a good card, as long as you don't help him up, you can play this card well no matter what.

"Come, come, come and have a drink with me today. Sigh, we've been here for a while now, and now everything is on the right track, so we can breathe a sigh of relief. By the way, you can also call the young Condor Archer standing guard outside the gate, Last time he shot Xiao Yi’s head of the bodyguard to death, and he hasn’t rewarded him yet.”

"Indeed, after this person's death, Xiao Yi promoted his concubine younger brother, a young man named Wang Lin, to be the head of the bodyguard. Xiao Yi is a good-for-nothing, he is really nepotistic. He is better off having a beautiful sister than he is capable."

Chen Yuankang shook his head and said with a sigh.

"Wang Lin?" Liu Yishou was stunned for a moment with his flagon hand hanging in the air.

……

At the entrance of a certain village around Wuxing, the villagers are happily gathered around a long table.Large pieces of wild boar lay on the table.This is the result of the village organizing people to hunt wild boars in the surrounding mountains.

A well-built young man who looked strong and powerful was holding a shiny boning knife to separate the meat from the pig and then cut the meat into pieces.

"Chen Lichang's skills are really amazing. Not only did he take us up the mountain to kill wild boars, but he also divided the meat so evenly that each piece was about the same size."

A certain villager sighed in admiration.

Li Chang Chen, who was cutting the meat, heard it, threw a piece of meat over, and said with a big laugh, "It's as if you didn't eat when you caught wild boars, and you're excited to be flattering, so don't shut up!"

Everyone laughed, and the person who spoke just now didn't take it seriously, and smirked aside while holding the piece of meat in his hand.

None of them noticed that a luxurious carriage stopped at the entrance of the village.When Chen Lichang saw the style and ornaments of the carriage clearly, his pupils shrank suddenly, and the meat-cutting knife in his hand stopped.

A young man in brocade clothes came out of the carriage and walked up to Lichang Chen as if no one else was there. The villagers parted ways unconsciously.

"Chen Baxian, come with me, this place is too small, you should go to a bigger place to display your ambitions."

The young man smiled and nodded at him.

Chapter 296 I Seem To Understand But I Don't Understand

In the end, Chen Baxian was invited to the study of the government office in Wuxing City, because the young man in Chinese clothes was Wuxing prefect Xiao Ying, Xiao Yan's nephew, who had been an official in Wuxing for many years and had a good reputation.

Probably not because of Xiao Yan's own son, the inherent arrogance and self-righteousness of the Xiao family is not obvious in him.On the contrary, Xiao Ying has a lot of experience in knowing people with eyesight at a young age.

Chen Baxian was appreciated by Xiao Ying very early on, but Xiao Ying wanted him to be a political party at the grassroots level, to train a lot, and wait for a bigger stage.Xiao Ying had planned this wave of job transfers for a long time, and even bribed Zhu Yi, preparing to take Chen Baxian to fly together.

Xiao Ying has his sights set on Guangzhou, the southernmost point of the Liang Kingdom, and that is the stage for the future.Guangzhou is close to the wilderness, and there are many powerful and handsome people around. After he takes office, he will be in charge of the government, and he can make decisions on the fly without the constraints of the corrupt court.

However, many things are planned very well, and it is very gratifying to have seven or eight points of harvest.This wave of Xiao Ying's scheduling basically achieved his goal, including the power in his hands, the official positions he actually controlled, whether he could open a government office and recruit his followers, etc., all within his expectations.

Only the most crucial point is "missing the shot". The place he is going to is not Guangzhou, but Guoyang, which belongs to Nanyanzhou.

There are two biggest problems here, which make Xiao Ying worry about it.

The first problem is that at the beginning of this year, Guoyang and its surrounding areas were ransacked by Liu Yishou's army.These people are very civilized but very barbaric. They don't kill people, they just rob tenants, and they take away everything they can.

The local powerful family was almost ransacked, and even the heirloom stone mill was removed!Similar deep-processing farm tools are an important means for the aristocratic family to exploit the owner farmers.Wheat cannot be sold at a price, but when it is ground into flour, the price soars.If a self-cultivator wants to grind flour, he must find a powerful family.

He is in a good mood, so he rents it out for you. You have to queue up to make an appointment, and you have to charge a high rental fee!Now, the tenants fled in large numbers to the territory managed by Liu Yishou, and some even killed the owner to take refuge.

The local spring plowing has been greatly affected, and there is a high possibility of a poor harvest this autumn.Xiao Ying found sadly that it seemed that as soon as he arrived there, he would face the dilemma of autumn harvest.

If the first problem can be alleviated after a year or two of painstaking efforts, then the second dilemma is even more depressing.Guoyang is too close to the domain controlled by Liu Yishou!Even if the opponent wants to capture Nanyanzhou, it doesn't take much effort.

Liu Yishou's army "patronized" Guoyang before, do you dare to say that they will not come again?The army at the center of the imperial court was too far away, and it was really difficult to rescue them.

Therefore, after taking office, if Xiao Ying does not have an elite army in his hands, Xiao Ying may feel chilly in his neck even when he sleeps.This is really not a joke!

Xiao Ying pondered for a long time, Chen Baxian, who was under his command, seemed to be quite capable, with the style of a general, he was able to take the lead early on, and he could definitely rely on him.That's why he drove to the village in person and invited Chen Baxian to Wuxing City to discuss important matters.

"Xingguo (Chen Baxian's word) you know what the center looks like. This king (Xiao Ying was named the king of Linchuan) wanted to go to Guangzhou this time to show his fists, but he was transferred to Nanyanzhou by the court unexpectedly. It is very close to the territory of Wei State, but you probably have heard of what Wei State looks like now, and it will not be a fear in a few years.

The only thing this king is worried about is Liu Yishou. "

After speaking, Xiao Ying let out a long sigh.

This trip seems to be free, and there is no need to be trapped in a cage like Wu Xing, but it seems easy to guess what the court is up to.Left and right are nothing more than driving tigers to eat wolves and balancing each other.

Because the big family in Huainan was too weak, almost comparable to Liu Yishou's all-in-one enemy, that's why the court let Xiao Ying go to "suppress the field".Of course, Liu Yishou did not intend to suppress Xiao Ying.Xiao Yan's sons were not successful, but his nephew was successful instead. Those things that Xiao Yan didn't think about, the courtiers would help him think about them.

"Your Highness, this subordinate feels that the locals of Guoyang are no longer usable. I'm afraid there are Liu Yishou's eyes and ears everywhere."

Chen Baxian's face was also a bit ugly, because he had inquired about Liu Yishou's various deeds when he was free, and then found that this person, or this group of people, behaved far better than the gangsters who only knew how to smash and rob!

In other words, this force is very difficult to deal with.You tell them the rules, they talk to you about fists, you talk to them about fists, and you can't beat them.What's more, the real truth is not in the hands of those wealthy families in Huainan.

That's right, the big families in Huainan really hated Liu Yishou and his gang, and they united to resist, as if they were very powerful.However, Chen Baxian had been the head of the village for several years, and had contact with the villagers every day.Deep down in his heart, he firmly believed that those villagers seemed to have completely different ideas from those of the wealthy families.

"how do I say this?"

Xiao Ying frowned slightly and asked, he also planned to form an elite private army with local wealthy families to protect himself after he took office.These days, as long as you don't get dizzy, you can understand that the army of the imperial court has been corrupted, and the conscripts have to bring ropes to the soldiers' homes to tie people up.

Only the private army has the fighting power!

"Your Highness, as the saying goes: Don't worry about the few, but the unevenness. Forgive me for speaking bluntly, after Liu Yishou and others caused trouble in Nanyanzhou, I am afraid that many people will celebrate behind their backs, applaud secretly, or even take the initiative to seek refuge. The situation is similar to that of Your Highness. It might be very different from what I expected.”

Chen Baxian said boldly.

He has been at the grassroots level for a long time, and he knows who those villagers are.The villagers are simple and honest, and the villagers are also cunning and philistine.Human nature is multifaceted. It is often biased to summarize a group of people in one or two sentences.

For example, in the era of Liu Yishou, if the country introduced laws, it would impose heavy taxes of more than 90% on people with a net worth of more than one billion, and block all means of tax avoidance.

Those who work hard at the bottom, who can only get enough food and clothing after a busy day, will they all cry bitterly?Could it be that they complained about these rich people?