: Go with the flow

Standing at the entrance of the camp, Jiang Wan stopped, thought for a moment, and asked again.

"Yuanzhi, where is your uncle... now?"

“In Nanyang.”

Jiang Wan frowned. "In Nanyang? Didn't he go to the northern border?"

Zhou Buyi was puzzled. "Who did you hear? He is the Northern Chief Secretary of the Situ Mansion, and he assisted Situ in handling the documents and affairs of the three prefectures of Youbing Prefecture. There is no need to go to the northern border at all."

"That's right, it seems that I heard it wrong." Jiang Wan laughed silently and raised her hand to shake it. "Okay, you can stay and talk about it later."

Zhou Buyi was amused and crying, and couldn't help but say, "Brother Gong Yan, I'm going out for a walk and see the world with my own eyes."

Jiang Wan laughed and left with great strides.

Zhou Busi watched Jiang Wan leave, and a trace of inexplicable gratitude arose in his heart.

Compared to Jiang Wan, he is lucky.

Because of Liu Xian, the uncle, he was able to become an official at the age of ten, and became a boy around the emperor and was personally taught by the emperor. Jiang Wan's talent is not inferior to others, but she has not yet walked out of Quanling City or Lingling County.

His vision is always as narrow as a frog in the well, and he has no idea how big the world is.

Zhou Buyi turned around and returned to the tent. The emperor was looking at the map. Hearing the footsteps, he raised his head and waved his hand.

Zhou Buyi walked to the front of the case and leaned over to see that it was a map of Quanling.

Liu Xie asked: "Is there a mine around Quanling?"

Zhou Buyi scratched his head a little. "There is a mine, but I don't know where."

"Then you should know which minerals in the city are operating?"

"I heard from my elders that I have said this, but it's not very accurate. The gentry family prefers to study and has some contempt for operating industry and business. It's just news, so the details may not be clear."

"Tell me."

Zhou Buyi pointed to the names of several families. He really only heard that these families were richer, and it was said that they had minerals in the mountains. They could not tell what they were doing and how large they were.

Despite this, Liu Xie still asked Zhou Buyi to write a list.

In such a mountainous area, scholars have far less influence than those of the Central Plains. The real strength is the rich rich tyrants. Judging from the situation where Jiang Wan and others are preparing to give up Dou Fu, they are not very similar to Dou Fu's real

The reliance is at least not the only one.

If Dou Fu should have other supporters, the most likely one is the local mining business owners.

These people have money and miners under their command, so it is too easy to pretend to be bandits.

Dou Fu is a scholar and cannot cause any major storm. But those industrial and commercial households are different. If they don’t teach them enough lessons, they may come out again at any time. The court officials will either be with them or be driven away or even killed.

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The poor mountains and rivers are unlucky. The reason why mountainous areas are difficult to manage are because of the complex terrain, the limited control ability of the court, the strong local clan power, and the people and bandits are inseparable.

If he remembered well, Quanling was called Yongzhou and became a place where many literati and poets were exiled. Liu Zongyuan, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, was demoted here and wrote "Eight Records of Yongzhou" and the more famous article

"The Snake Catcher"

The reason why "The Snake Catcher" is more famous is that this article directly echoes Confucius' famous sayings and narrates it, telling this truth in the tone of a snake catcher, which is simpler than the Analects of Confucius.

The writing style is more contagious.

But what literati can do is just write articles.

As a child of the Liu family of Hedong family, Liu Zongyuan did not bring any real changes to Yongzhou except for leaving a few articles.

But Liu Xie is different. He is not interested in writing articles, but he wants to take this opportunity to rectify the people's livelihood in Quanling.

Since it is a poor mountain and bad water that produces troublemakers, then turn poor mountain into gold and silver mountains, turn bad water into gold and mercury water, improve the living standards of local people, and then use powerful means to curb local evil forces. The problem will naturally be solved.

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Can something like mine be controlled by the local clan?

The biggest disadvantage of literati's governance is that their practical ability is too weak. When encountering trouble, they either have a hot mind, roll up their sleeves and make a tough move, or they are calm and compromise with local forces, rather than finding ways to solve it.

There are very few scholars who can control local big households as hard as Zhuge Liang and obey.

Unfortunately, Zhou Buyi is too young and is not familiar with the situation.

Liu Xie called Ding Chong and asked him to select some people familiar with the local situation in Quanling from the army, especially those with mining experience, to prepare to arrange a mobilization of the local mining industry on the grounds of clearing out bandits.

If even the situation around Lingling County cannot be controlled, even if Jiaozhou is pacified and Shi Xie surrenders, what is the point?

Will another group of people become local emperors?

As for which department to be responsible after these mines are taken back, he has not yet decided.

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A day later, Dou Fu came.

He looked haggard, his eyes were covered in blood and his circles were a little dark.

In contrast, Jiang Wan, who accompanied him, was not only a little nervous, but was simply energetic.

Liu Xie didn't say much to Dou Fu. After a simple greeting, he asked straight to the point who supported him to defend the city.

Dou Fu was a little embarrassed, but under Liu Xie's gaze, he still explained everything.

After a comparison of the list provided by Liu Xie and Zhou Buyi, I had a general idea of ​​it.

The overlap rate is very high.

This shows that his original guess was reliable, and this was the cooperation they needed at once. Dou Fu became the Quanling Order because of his merits. The local wealthy families were protected and could then make money by mining more happily.

Liu Xie ordered people to record the list and said to Jiang Wan, please go there again and invite all these people to Xingzai.

Jiang Wan heard the murderous aura in Liu Xie's words, but did not dare to refuse, so she had to turn around and go.

At the same time, Liu Xie arranged for Ding Chong to take over the city defense, restore order in Quanling City, and further collect evidence.

Ding Chong understood it and left.

After all this was arranged, Liu Xie summoned Dou Fu to reply again.

"Now, you can tell the whole story." Liu Xie raised his finger and tapped the record on the desk. "Before others explained, you surrendered yourself, and the conditions I promised you were still fulfilled.

You can choose to go back to your hometown in Guanzhong, or stay here, or of course you can choose to go anywhere. If you still refuse to say..."

Liu Xie showed a slight smile on his lips. "Then I can't blame me."

Dou Fu's sweat was raining and his face turned gray.

After hesitating for a while, he knelt on his knees and pressed his head against the ground. "Thank you Your Majesty for your kindness, and the guilty minister is willing to say it."

"Then let's talk." Liu Xie crossed his fingers, placed them in front of his abdomen, looking down at Dou Fu.

Taishi, who was standing beside him, spread out the paper and pen, and prepared to record.

Dou Fu has a special identity, and the content he tells may be included in history in the future, as part of Dou Wu's biography.

Dou Fu calmed down his emotions and talked about the situation one by one.

Overall, it is roughly the same as Liu Xie's guess. The local wealthy household wanted to seize more benefits, so they ordered people to pretend to be bandits to attack the city, and supported Dou Fu to defend the city. After the two sides performed a play with drums and drums, Dou Fu

Successfully controlled Quanling City, an important town on the army's supply channel.

Due to the situation, even if Ding Chong had doubts, he could only accept the reality and appointed him as the Guardian Quanling Order.

The only thing that unexpected to Liu Xie was that Quanling Ling, who was scared away by the bandits, was not innocent.

He is Dou Wu's former official, Zhang Chang from Nanyang.
Chapter completed!