Overlord's Road to Ancient Emperors

Back in the city, regardless of his exhaustion, Li Xu went to the manor first, and saw that the officials were distributing rice porridge to the victims. The strong rice fragrance wafted in the cold air, which made Li Xu's stomach growl. stand up.

Li Xu wasn't picky about food, so he asked someone to make him a bowl of rice porridge, and he drank it all the time.

To be honest, it’s really thin, and I’m afraid you can count the rice grains, but for the victims, it’s impossible for you to eat enough, as long as you don’t starve to death.

But going on like this is not an option. Li Xu also thought about using work as a relief, calling these victims to do coolies, but Yuhang is not his fiefdom, so can he still drag people to build the city wall on his own initiative?

That night, Qiao An put the written strategy in front of him overnight, and Li Xu took it in surprise. He thought that this little boy would drag on for two or three days, but he was quite proactive.

After looking at ten lines at a glance, Li Xu also saw the suggestion of "relief with work" in it, and there were several other suggestions about patients being isolated and treated individually.

"Very good." He praised, and then took a pen to delete a few unrealistic content, and detailed the content of his work-for-work, and returned it to him. "You are very intelligent, have vision and thought, but you lack a little courage. If you have connections at home, let them help you find a job as a county magistrate. Show off your talents and have a bright future."

Everyone likes to be praised, Qiao An thought that what he wrote would be criticized by King Shun as useless, because he mentioned these views with his mentor a long time ago, and later with Qiao Rui, but they were not adopted Unexpectedly, the person who understands him best is King Shun.

Qiao An's emotions were complicated, and her feelings towards Li Xu improved a lot, "Thank you, my lord, for your advice. I know what to do now. I heard that His Highness bought a lot of food today. I am deeply impressed by this. I had offended you before." I hope for your understanding."

Li Xu didn't take that trivial matter to heart at all, and it was his thick skin that got the food, so it might not be necessary to replace it with the original owner.

"But there is one more thing, the minister is not complaining."

"Go ahead."

"About Lord Wan, I heard that you have a personal relationship with him, but I think that you should not trust him completely."

Li Xu became interested and asked him, "How do you say that?"

"It's not good for a lower official, but Qiao Rui is Lord Wan's brother-in-law, and Lord Wan must know that he can assassinate the prince."

"Oh, they still have this kind of relationship." Li Xu didn't check Qiao Rui very much. In his eyes, Qiao Rui was already dead.

Qiao An explained the relationship between the two in detail. In order to make Li Xu guard against Wan Chunlin, he even said: "I and Qiao Rui are uncles and nephews of the same clan, but I was expelled from the clan long ago and kicked out together with my mother." The Qiao family, so I didn't deliberately deceive you."

After hearing this, Li Xu praised him even more, "Then it's not easy for you to survive under Qiao Rui for so many years."

Joan explained embarrassingly: "I was young when my mother and I ran away, and Jory was away all year round, so he didn't know me."

There are too many people with the same name in the world, not to mention that they only have the same surname, Qiao An just made up a reason to fool Qiao Rui.

Li Xu admired him very much, and wanted to win him over, so he tentatively asked, "Master Qiao, would you like to go to South Vietnam to develop?"

Qiao An was stunned, with a strange expression on his face, he said: "My mother and I have lived in South Vietnam for ten years, so it is natural to go back, but this can't help the officials to decide on their own." He is a small county magistrate, and he is going Everywhere is the final say.

Li Xu was even more pleasantly surprised. Along the way, he rarely met a Lei Yang who was from South Vietnam, and Qiao An was the second.

"Then you tell me something about Nanyue?" It's not that he can't trust Lei Yang, but Lei Yang is from Lei's family, and his attitude towards things must be different from Qiao An.

Joan looked at the clepsydra in the house, and said awkwardly: "It's getting late, look..."

It's only eight o'clock in the evening, and Li Xu doesn't think it's too late at all, "My king and Brother Qiao meet as before, how about talking at night while holding candles?"

The hairs on Qiao An's body stood on end, and he quickly retorted: "Your Highness can call me by my name, and I will be twenty and three this year."

"Hehe, I really didn't see it." Li Xu focused on inquiring about the situation of the Kou family. He was very afraid of the Kou family. He was a local snake in South Vietnam. The target he wanted to attack, whether he was a king or a worm in South Vietnam would not matter. Let's see if the Kou family cooperates.

I thought that Qiao An would say something bad about the Kou family, but when Li Xu mentioned the Kou family, Qiao An's eyes lit up, and he spit out a series of praises, describing Kou Xiao as a god descending.

"Although General Kou is young, he is courageous, intelligent, and powerful in martial arts. He once wiped out a small tribe with his own strength and saved hundreds of people. Every time he leads troops out of battle, he always returns victorious. He is the invincible god of South Vietnam. .”

Li Xu wanted to cry after hearing this, it’s okay to ask him to attack a person, but it’s too difficult to ask him to attack a god. It seems that after he arrives in South Vietnam, he has to pay respects to General Kou. I don’t know what this god will do. He will not allow himself to dominate his territory.

Pity him for being a king, but he still has to look at the face of the local snake, and his life will be difficult in the future.

"Then what does he like?"

Qiao An blushed slightly, "How can I, a small person, know this, and General Kou took power not long ago when I left South Vietnam, and not many people outside know about him, if the prince wants to use gold and silver It will definitely not work to please General Kou."

After talking for about half an hour, Li Xu drove them away, nothing else, this Qiao An is simply Kou Xiao's fanboy, and he kept everything about General Kou, if he didn't know that he had a wife and son in his family, he would Everyone thought that Qiao An had a crush on Kou Xiao.

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After five days of calm, the victims settled in the city. Although those who were stopped outside the city were not reconciled, they did not cause any major trouble under the suppression of the soldiers, and they had food and drink outside the city. There are also medical craftsmen who treat them, and they can enter the city as long as they are cured.

On the sixth day, the guards came early in the morning to report that Wan Chunlin had arrived, and at the same time they brought ten carts of grain, saying they were here for disaster relief.

Li Xu was noncommittal about this, he "bought" more than ten carts of grain for any family, and these ten carts of grain were clearly for saving face.Moreover, Wan Chunlin brought [-] government troops here with just ten carts of grain, and he didn't know whether to escort the grain or himself.

The two sides met again, and the scene was a bit funny, Li Xu not only killed his brother-in-law Qiao Rui, but also killed all the servants he sent, Wan Chunlin got the news a long time ago, but pretended not to know it.

It is conceivable how good-looking the two people looked when they stood face to face. Li Xu, as the winner, said very generously: "Lord Wan, you came at the right time, and this king is frowning."

Wan Chunlin squeezed out an ugly smile, "I wonder what your Highness is worried about?"

"It's not that damned Qiao Rui. I don't know who is behind him to assassinate this king. Although he is dead, this case is not closed. This king dare not even sleep. I am afraid that someone will assassinate me. My lord Wan has come, and I have brought ten thousand government soldiers, so this king can finally sleep peacefully."

"My lord, where is Jory's body?"

"Eh, the corpse?" Li Xu said he didn't know, he found Lin Zhao, and asked face to face: "Commander Lin, is Qiao Rui's corpse still there?"

Lin Zhao glanced at Wan Chunlin, and replied indifferently: "Then Qiao Rui was beheaded, and then a wild dog came and took his head away at some point. His body was burned and buried in the back garden of his house."

Seeing Wan Chunlin wanting to get angry but not daring, Li Xu suppressed a smile and said, "I will leave this matter to Mr. Wan."

"This..." Wan Chunlin clenched his fists, and couldn't help but defend his wife and brother: "Could it be a misunderstanding? Magistrate Qiao has always been timid, how dare he do such a thing?"

"Master Wan has misjudged his eyes. This Qiao Rui is not small at all. The food, gold and silver confiscated from his house are enough to prove everything. Someone must have paid a lot of money to buy him. Master Wan, you should check his records. Where the money comes from, there will be clues."

Li Xu didn't wait for the other party to answer, and continued: "If the mastermind behind him only wants to assassinate the king, that's fine. I'm afraid. The people behind him have evil intentions and want to overthrow our Dayan Dynasty."

"That's impossible!" Wan Chunlin was taken aback, how could it involve treason.

You must know that the rebellion of the Han family left a deep shadow in the emperor's heart. Everyone in the court was in danger, and the family would be ransacked and exterminated. At this time, if someone impeached Qiao Rui for rebellion, the emperor would definitely be suspicious.

Li Xu slapped the table with his palm, and said fiercely: "How can it be impossible that this king is the prince, and also the king of Nanyue appointed by the Holy Majesty, who is in charge of everything in Nanyue, and Nanyue is the border of Dayan. It's colluding with pirates, wanting to mess with us in South Vietnam, and then step by step to plot the Great Yanjiang Mountain. This king has already reported this matter to his father, and I believe it will not take long for the decree to come down. If Mr. Wan can close the case before the decree is issued, Father will definitely look at you with admiration."

After saying this, Li Xu asked in surprise: "Lord Wan, why are you so hot? You're sweating all over your forehead even in winter."

"It's a bit hot, ha ha! My minister's body is hot, ha ha."

Li Xu burst into laughter in his heart, this man surnamed Wan was not a courageous one at first glance, but he had a lot of thoughts, how could he be worthy of what he had been through these days if he didn't scare him.

"Hey, there is one more thing. My king wants to accompany Master Wan. The people that Master Wan gave to this king also encountered an accident. At that time, Qiao Rui arranged for them to live in the backyard, but he had a vicious mind and set them on fire. The backyard, including the people and the courtyard, were burned to ashes." Li Xu had a sad expression on his face, as if those who died were his relatives.

Wan Linchun's expression twisted, and he said in a hoarse voice, "It's just a bunch of lowly servants. Your Highness don't need to be too sad."

Those who can be sent by Wan Chunlin to Li Xu's side are not ordinary attendants. These people are not only loyal to him, but also are dead soldiers who have been trained since childhood.

He is really heartbroken.

Li Xu admired his wonderful expression, and threw another bomb, "Besides, due to the need to resettle the victims, the food reserves in the city are insufficient, and this king is penniless, so I had to use the name of Lord Wan to buy a piece of food from a local squire. I have written down the batch of food and IOUs, Master Wan will send someone to deliver the money when you have time."

After Li Xu finished speaking, Liu Shu immediately sent a small wooden box, which contained IOUs written by Li Xu in his name.

Wan Chunlin shook his hand when he saw the wooden box. The box originally came out from him, and was delivered to Li Xu by Qiao Rui's hand. Unexpectedly, King Shun took the contents of the wooden box away. It was returned to him, and a large debt was attached.

Although Yangzhou Mansion is not poor and there is no shortage of these tens of thousands of taels of silver financially, Wan Chunlin feels aggrieved and cannot swallow this breath anymore.

Li Xu breathed a sigh of relief, and felt relieved. He was not afraid at all that Wan Chunlin would not admit it. The companies he bought grain from were all famous people. If it was just one family, maybe Wan Chunlin would dare to rely on it. , more than a dozen companies join hands, he also has to be scruples.

And Li Xu had already thought about it, once Wan Chunlin had any signs of defaulting on his debt, he would immediately get people to publicize it, and when the pressure of public opinion was suppressed, he would have to pay it back, unless he disregarded his own reputation.

Li Xu didn't want to quarrel with Wan Chunlin, he was angry and prepared to leave Yuhang.

Wan Chunlin didn't try to persuade him to stay this time, but asked him meaningfully: "My lord, why don't we start after the matter of these disaster victims is over, after all, you are the person in charge of the disaster relief. Once you leave, we will have nothing to do." It's the backbone."

Li Xu knew that his subtext was to say that he was acting on behalf of others, and he had indeed done a few things that were to be punished first and then played later. If the emperor blamed him, he would suffer instead if he stayed here.

"Before, Master Wan was not here, and there was no one in charge in Yuhang, so this king had no choice but to stand up. Now that Master Wan is here, it is naturally up to you to make the decision."

What can Wan Chunlin say? If he was here, it would be impossible to write tens of thousands of taels of IOUs in his own name, let alone serve a group of disaster victims like masters.

He tentatively asked Li Xu: "The new county magistrate of Yuhang won't be able to take office for a while. I wonder if His Highness recommends someone who can manage it on his behalf?"

Li Xu shook his head, "I'm not familiar with the officials here, Master Wan can make his own decisions, but well, you don't have to think about someone."

"Who?"

"The county magistrate named Qiao An, heh, is young, has little knowledge, and doesn't know the heights of heaven and earth. He is disrespectful to this king. It is really useless. Moreover, this king thinks that he has something to do with Qiao Rui. Master Wan, please be careful of him." .”

Wan Chunlin was overjoyed, and nodded obediently, already having an idea in his heart.

When he knew that Li Xu had sent other officials to help with disaster relief, but only let Qiao An go home to write an article, he was more sure about the candidate to act as the county magistrate.

When he summoned Joan, he saw that he was not flattering to himself, and he spoke sarcastically. In the past, this kind of person would have been dismissed by him long ago, but when he thought that he dared to offend King Shun, he felt a little more fond of him. As a county magistrate, he was giving himself a bad breath.