When he came to Pingxi City again, Yan Liqiang discovered that the martial law at the gate of Pingxi City had suddenly become several times stricter than in the previous few days.
The soldiers standing at the city gate were all wearing armor, holding swords and guns, and there were more of them than usual. They checked people coming and going, especially the Shatu people, more strictly.
Yan Liqiang certainly knew what was going on, because in the past two days, the powder keg in the Shatu people gathering area in the city had been ignited by Wang Jianbei.
The black four-wheeled carriage entered the city unhindered. On the streets of the city, those patrolling were no longer the city's criminal police, but teams of soldiers. There were fewer idle people on the streets, and most people were in a hurry.
The black four-wheeled carriage drove directly to the county magistrate's mansion. Yan Liqiang got off the carriage and was personally welcomed by the mansion's chief guest to the back garden of the mansion. Wang Jianbei, the county magistrate of Pingxi County, had already set up a banquet in the pavilion in the garden, as if he was waiting for Yan Liqiang's arrival.
"Hahaha, Liqiang, you've come just in time!" Wang Jianbei smiled, holding Yan Liqiang's arm, and enthusiastically led Yan Liqiang to the pavilion, "Even if I allowed you to come around this time, the wine and food have just been served, and we're waiting for you!"
"Your Excellency the County Magistrate is in a good mood!" Yan Liqiang said with a smile. If it were in his previous life, if a man always invited another man to have dinner in the garden, Yan Liqiang would definitely not come. However, Wang Jianbei seemed to like this style, so naturally he had no other intentions.
"The sky is high and the clouds are light tonight. We can treat Liqiang to a big show here in the evening. Hahaha..." Wang Jianbei said, and personally poured a glass of wine for Yan Liqiang.
"Tonight?" Yan Liqiang asked.
"Well, I have withdrawn the soldiers who entered the East City area to maintain order two days ago. Let them fight each other. It's been a bit lively in the East City these past two days. The anger of both sides has been getting higher and higher. It should be very lively tonight!" Wang Jianbei smiled slightly and poured a glass of wine in the glass in front of him.
"Haha, then this first glass of wine is to wish our Pingxi County good weather and a good harvest in the future!" Yan Liqiang raised his glass, and he and Wang Jianbei smiled at each other tacitly, clinked glasses, and then drank it all in one gulp.
"It's not easy to make this decision!" Wang Jianbei sighed, "If it weren't for the support of the governor and Li Qiang, I would have hesitated to make such a big fuss in Pingxi City..."
"Those people have become the cancer of Pingxi City. They usually bully people and make a lot of noise. They will make a fuss and resist the government if they are not satisfied with something. Once the situation changes, those people will be a big trouble if they stay in the city. The law of nature will come true. Retribution will come. Over the past few decades, those people have occupied an area in Pingxi City through all kinds of unscrupulous and shameless means. The people in the city are suffering and have no place to appeal. That gathering area has become a place for filth and corruption. The county magistrate has eliminated this hidden danger for Pingxi City this time. Even if he has to use some means, it is like scraping the bone to cure the poison and curing the disease to save people. It is really a great achievement. Li Qiang would like to toast the county magistrate!" Yan Liqiang filled Wang Jianbei and himself with wine, and then both of them drank it all again.
"That mess will be handed over to you, Li Qiang, from now on. Li Qiang, please don't let anyone poke my spine!"
"Hahaha, rest assured, Lord County Magistrate, when that place is handed over to me, I promise it will be ten times more prosperous than when it was in the hands of the Shatu people!"
"That's good, that's good!" Wang Jianbei nodded with a smile.
"The Shatu people are ambitious and have been tyrannical in the city. If they start tonight, the county governor will have to prevent them from having too many guards and will be desperate!"
"Don't worry, Li Qiang. I have made arrangements. The idea you gave me last time was a good one. Over the past year or so, it has become increasingly difficult for the Shatu people to run their business and live in the city. Many of them have already left Pingxi City. There are fewer Shatu people in the city than a few years ago!"
While drinking wine with the county magistrate and discussing the future planning of that area in Pingxi City, Yan Liqiang had the illusion that he was a black-hearted developer colluding with officials and businessmen to discuss land expropriation and forced demolition.
Of course, to the Shatu people in Pingxi City, Yan Liqiang was indeed cruel, and this cruelty was even a compliment to Yan Liqiang, because being evil to bad people was a kind of good. Only by driving away those Shatu people in Pingxi City could Pingxi City truly get rid of its major threat, allowing Yan Liqiang to sleep peacefully in the future. Otherwise, those Shatu people in Pingxi City were like a time bomb. Once the situation changed, the damage that those Shatu people could cause with the cooperation of inside and outside was really difficult to estimate. This kind of thing made Yan Liqiang unable to sleep or eat when he thought about it. This time when he returned to his hometown, driving away the Shatu people in the city was Yan Liqiang's predetermined goal.
If there had been no conflict between the Uli and Wumu tribes, it would not have been an easy task to move the Shatu people in the city. The method Yan Liqiang had thought of before was to cut the meat with a soft knife and stew the frogs in warm water, slowly consuming the strength of the Shatu people in the city. However, under the background of the incompatibility between the Uli and Wumu tribes, there was a better way to deal with the Shatu people in the city.
Because among the Shatu people gathered in Pingxi City, the largest number are those from the Uli and Wumu tribes. The Shatu people from these two tribes account for about 70% of the total number of Shatu people in Pingxi City, and the Shatu people from the remaining five Shatu tribes only account for about 30%. The number of Shatu people from the Uli and Wumu tribes in the city is roughly the same. The two groups of Shatu people also lived separately in their gathering areas before. The Uli tribe is slightly more powerful and is also the nominal leader and manager of the Shatu people in the city. If something happens, the people of the Uli tribe can gather all the Shatu people in the city and act together.
Now, as the conflict between the Uli and Wumu tribes in the Gulang grassland has intensified, the atmosphere in the Shatu gathering area in Pingxi City has long changed. The relationship between the Uli and Wumu people living in the city has also become tense, and there are often small conflicts. In order to maintain stability in Pingxi City, Wang Jianbei was afraid that the Shatu people would cause trouble in the city and affect innocent people, so he sent soldiers to patrol the Shatu gathering area, isolated the adjacent streets of the Uli and Wumu gathering areas, and set up an artificial "firewall" in the gathering areas of the two tribes. Now, that "firewall" has been withdrawn by Wang Jianbei, and the interface is that the situation in the Gulang grassland is unstable, and they need to assist in the defense of Baishi Pass.
Wang Jianbei not only removed the firewall, but also quietly added fuel to the fire - in the past two days, some Shatu people from the Wumu and Uli tribes in the city have disappeared inexplicably, which has made the atmosphere in the area where the Shatu people gather unprecedentedly tense.
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In less than an hour, before the wine was finished, the sky had already completely darkened. Not long after the sky completely darkened, a blazing fire rose from the direction of the Nine Dragon Bridge in Pingxi City, illuminating the sky red...
(End of this chapter)