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In the study room of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the chief clerk, Fu Kuang, is earnestly persuading Xiao Jie.

"Your Highness, you must think twice. Jiaozhou is not comparable to the Central Plains. It is densely covered with mountains and forests, and there is very little arable land. The food production is not high. Back then, His Highness burned a lot of food from the Yue people in Feihu Gorge, and now he has taken away 10,000+ Yue people. People’s land, forcing them to mine, may cause a large-scale reduction in food production, and even a large-scale famine in severe cases, and the entire Jiaozhou will be caught in endless civil strife.”

Faced with Fu Kuang's persuasive persuasion, Xiao Jie was neither moved nor angry, but just smiled lightly and asked: "Then according to Fu Changshi's intention, what should Gu do?"

Fu Kuang said without any hesitation: "Since ancient times, if you want to rule in peace, you must take agriculture as the foundation, encourage farming and mulberry, and reward farming and weaving. In this way, everyone has no worries about food and clothing. If you have enough food and clothing and know honor and disgrace, Jiaozhou will naturally be governed."

Xiao Jie shook his head when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "I wonder how the previous Governor Li did in persuading farmers and mulberry and rewarding farming and weaving?"

Fu Kuang didn't react for a while, and nodded, "Since the day Governor Li took office, he has always upheld the principle of putting agriculture first..."

"Did Jiaozhou achieve great governance under Li Dadu's tenure?" Xiao Jie asked with a smile.

Fu Kuang was speechless for a moment.

Xiao Jie looked at Fu Kuang calmly, smiled lightly, and said, "Since Governor Li is so devoted to farming and Jiaozhou has not achieved great governance, why does Fu Changshi still have to go on an old road with no future?"

Fu Kuang pondered for a long time before he said: "During Li Dadu's tenure, he used the power of the people of Jiaozhou to let every common people have a bite to eat. If His Highness does not pay attention to farming and does not insist on farming as the foundation, he will instead promote industry and commerce. , I am afraid that it will cause a severe famine now, and the consequences will be disastrous."

Xiao Jie still shook his head, and said with a smile: "Fu Changshi, since I dared to take this step, I have already made complete preparations. I still say that under my governance, Jiaozhou will only get worse and worse. It will get better and better, and one day it will definitely become the most prosperous and richest state in Daning."

Seeing Xiao Jie speak so easily, Fu Kuang's mood became more and more heavy. These nobles, who have been in Beijing for a long time, do not touch the spring water with their fingers, and do not know the sufferings of the people at all. to the actual situation.

For example, His Royal Highness King Qi in front of you keeps saying that he wants to govern Jiaozhou into the most prosperous and richest state in Daning, but he is completely aware of the difficulties Jiaozhou is facing. Now, after the locust plague, the Jiaozhi rebellion and the Yue chieftain rebellion, the damage to Jiaozhou has been done. It can be said that the treasury is almost bottomed out, not to mention anything else, it is still difficult to supply the 10,000 Jiaozhou army with food in the Jiaozhou treasury, let alone support the [-]+ homeless Yue people.

Once the food in the Jiaozhou government treasury is exhausted, I am afraid that not only the 10,000+ Yue people will rebel, but even the [-] Jiaozhou soldiers who have worked so hard to recruit may mutiny.

Seeing that the matter has reached such a critical point, Fu Kuang no longer concealed it, and said bluntly to Xiao Jie: "His Royal Highness, to be honest, it's not that I, a long history, don't want to believe you and support you, but everything must be done slowly. , step by step. Now our Jiaozhou government has not much food in stock, and I am afraid that we will not be able to support those 10,000+ Yue people for a long time, please think twice, Your Highness."

Xiao Jie smiled. As the governor of Jiaozhou, how could he not know the situation of Jiaozhou's treasury? Since he insisted on going this far, he naturally had already thought about how to solve the current food problem.

Although he has sent officials to instruct the Yueren villages on how to cultivate terraced fields and make fertilizers, it will take some time to grow food. He has a faster way to get food, and that is to grab it!

However, it is naturally inconvenient to tell such a good old man like Fu Kuang, so Xiao Jie can only ask Fu Kuang to go back first to avoid any twists and turns.

Fu Kuang only thought that Xiao Jie was perfunctory to him, but he had already reached this point, he couldn't say anything more, so he had to leave worriedly.

If Fu Kuang had been more careful, he would have found that Ye Qiu, General Ying Yang who had been following Xiao Jie, had disappeared for several days, and there were more than 2 Yue soldiers who had lost contact with him for many days.

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Jiaozhi County, Shenglong City.

An uninvited guest came to the prefect's mansion—Ye Qiu, General Yingyang.

The imperial court had already officially appointed Chen Shan as the prefect of Jiaozhi County, with a fourth-rank official residence, while Ye Qiu was just a fifth-rank General Yingyang, but Chen Shan didn't dare to put on the airs of an official in front of Ye Qiu. He was so humble that he was afraid that he would accidentally neglect the other party.

Chen Shan knew very well in his heart that Ye Qiu was the general of Qi Wang Xiao Jie, representing Qi Wang Xiao Jie, and Chen Shan would never dare to offend him.

Chen Shan specially hosted a banquet for Ye Qiu in the prefect's mansion, and ordered a large table of good wine and food from the best restaurant in Shenglong City. The favorite concubine of the rebel leader Ruan Nan personally poured wine for Ye Qiu, which made Ye Qiu a little embarrassed.

After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Chen Shan carefully asked Ye Qiu why he came to Shenglong City.

Ye Qiu wanted Chen Shan to dismiss everyone, including Chen Shan's concubine, so he took out Xiao Jie's autographed letter from his bosom and asked Chen Shan to read it himself.

Chen Shan stretched out his hands and took the letter respectfully, opened it and looked at it, his face changed drastically in an instant.

In the letter, Xiao Jie asked him to start a war with Lin Yiguo.

Linyi Kingdom is in the south of Jiaozhou, and most of the people in the country are Yue people. The customs are the same as those of Jiaozhi. It used to be the Rinan County and Jiuzhen County of the Central Plains Dynasty. It has always paid tribute to Daning and is a vassal state of Daning.

Chen Shan knew in his heart that although Lin Yiguo was a small country, instigating a war with Lin Yiguo would involve diplomatic relations between the two countries, and it was definitely not something that a mere cochin prefect could afford.

Ye Qiu seemed to have known the contents of the letter a long time ago, and after Chen Shan had read it, he took the letter from Chen Shan, held it to the candle and burned it.

"General Ye, is this difficult to handle?" Chen Shan said cautiously with a look of embarrassment on his face.

Ye Qiu glanced at him, smiled faintly, and said in a deep voice: "I think you should be very clear about your Highness, Prefect Chen. Since he wrote you this letter, he is asking you to help him with this matter. It's not asking if you can help him."

Chen Shan bowed his head and remained silent for a moment. Although he could hear some threats in Ye Qiu's tone, he also knew that what he said was the truth. Xiao Jie was not the kind of person who could bargain and negotiate.

Seeing that Chen Hao was silent, Ye Qiu smiled coldly: "If the prefect Chen finds it difficult, then I will reply to His Highness truthfully, and His Highness will send someone who can help him to Jiaozhi to help him with this matter. "

"General Ye is serious. Since His Highness has ordered, I, Chen Shan, will help him complete this matter even if I go through fire and water."

Having said this, Chen Shan also knew that he could no longer refuse. If he was of no use to Xiao Jie, he might lose his position as Cochin Prefect. Once he lost the amulet of Cochin Prefect, those who hated him The remnants of the old Cochin aristocrats who are deeply rooted in their bones will never let themselves go.