"Did I do something wrong in my previous life?"
Shen Tang wants to doubt his life every day.
I can't even concentrate on my work.
Qi Shan came to deliver something and happened to hear her mumbling. Thinking that she had encountered some troubles, he casually expressed his concern - his master was still a growing seedling. As her subordinate, he should occasionally care about his master's physical and mental health, and could not be abnormal by not saying a word.
Shen Tang looked at Qi Shan with resentful eyes, his gaze never blinking, and the latter was confused. He asked in confusion: "My Lord, what's wrong with looking at Shan like this?"
Could it be that he didn't wash thoroughly in the morning
Disfigured
Without waiting for Qi Shan to speculate further, Shen Tang said quietly: "I wonder how many years of life I still have on the list of the King of Hell. Or, if I had encountered a strong enemy in the past and was forced into a desperate situation, could I have asked you guys to pretend to surrender, and maybe I could have fought back and turned defeat into victory? Oh, I'm worried."
Pray for goodness: ""
He suppressed the slight tremor of his mouth, and couldn't help laughing and said helplessly: "My lord, please don't make such an unlucky joke. Besides, whether it is a scholar or others, there are bound to be one or two exceptions when there are so many people. My lord is just..."
Should I say that she is just too lucky
Or is it that she is just unlucky
To be honest, Qishan has been traveling around for years and has killed seven lords, but he has never encountered such a "luxurious" lineup that makes the lord pale. From a certain perspective, this can also be regarded as an extraordinary talent that cannot be replicated.
From the side -
Doesn't it also prove the extraordinary qualities of our lord
Shen Tang was not comforted at all and became even more emo, but she was not someone who would be easily defeated.
Hey, always think positively.
Everything has its pros and cons.
Jiang Sheng and his men are indeed a waste of the Lord, but the value they can create is also considerable. One can replace the labor of several people, and each person is "both internal and external", able to govern internally and fight externally. They each have their own strengths and weaknesses, and they complement each other.
In today's chaotic world where status, origin and background are important, if it weren't for the fact that their shortcomings as scholars were too troublesome for their lord and it was difficult for them to find job offers, and if Shen Tang was not lucky enough, how could she have picked them up
It’s not that Shen Tang underestimated herself, but her starting conditions made it difficult to find workers who were good enough, diligent and hardworking, let alone manage a small piece of land and establish good relationships with a few neighbors to lay a solid foundation for future development.
After some self-comfort.
Shen Tang figured it out and stopped being emo.
Re-energize yourself and start working.
Qishan's mission this time was to deliver the grain. After finishing the accounting and handover work, he would take his people back. The reservoir on the Heyin side was under construction in full swing, and the river channel had been dug for several miles, so everyone was very busy.
"Going back so soon?"
Shen Tang also wants to keep Qishan to work.
Qi Shan said: "If the lord wants to keep them, I don't mind, but Wangchao might cause trouble."
Shen Tang: “”
Now He Yin only has Gu Chi as the person in charge.
When she thought about the workload of the entire Heyin County being placed on him and a group of officials, she smiled awkwardly. Gu Chi was kidnapped by her after drinking. If she really pissed him off, he would just quit the job. She didn't care what he said.
Qishan took his people away at noon.
In fact, there is one thing he didn't say.
It is true that there is only one scholar left in He Yin, Gu Chi, but there are also external aids like Qin Li. If he is really too busy and overworked, it is also a good idea to pull them over to help. (:3)?) Yes, because of the style of their own lord, they follow the example of their superiors, and they are not restricted to whether they are their own people or not, as long as they can work, they can be used.
As for how Qin Li and the others were cursing
As long as you didn't hear it, you can pretend not to know.
Although the seat of Luxia County was recaptured, the counties and towns outside the seat were all plagued by refugees and bandits. Although Shen Tang immediately organized the opening of warehouses to provide food relief, more than half of the people still became bandits, some burned, killed, looted, robbed homes, gathered in groups and went into the mountains to become bandits, or followed the refugees and bandits to other enemy areas. All living beings suffer, just for a bite of food.
Shen Tang sympathized with them, but he also had to consider the common people who behaved themselves. He discussed with the other three families and allocated some troops to wipe out the bandits in Luxia County.
Propaganda and appeasement are better, while strangling and silencing are worse.
If they are willing to lay down their weapons and become ordinary commoners again, then give them this opportunity. If they are unwilling and still resist and use violence, then kill them directly. They must not be driven to nearby counties to harass the enemy's commoners.
Shao Chong and others naturally had no objection.
In fact, they were getting impatient waiting for Shen Tang to say this, busy with boring trivialities all day, with no place to vent their excess energy, and their muscles and bones were lazy. Shen Tang asked them to allocate troops to suppress the bandits, which was exactly what they wanted.
Among them, Shangnan Shaochong was the most active.
At dawn, he hurried out with his men, crossing mountains and rivers, riding horses to chase the bandits. Jiang Sheng took this opportunity to give Shen Tang some advice, encouraging the common people to report the whereabouts of the bandits to the government. The first common people who came to report and provided true information would be rewarded with a pound of corn by the government!
As a native of Luxia, he was very familiar with the local customs and folkways, and the village clans would protect and conceal each other. Many bandits were relatives who had left among them, and when they saw Shao Chong and others leading troops over, they would even tip off.
The efficiency of suppressing bandits is not that high.
Shen Tang heard this and thought it made sense. He also made some changes on this basis - depending on the scale of the reported bandits, the first commoner who reported could receive different levels of rewards. The rewards were not much, but they were fatally attractive to the commoners! Except for the seat of government, all other counties and towns in Luxia County had been destroyed, and the commoners' autumn harvest food had also been robbed.
Without food, many of them will not be able to survive this cold winter, and even a little bit of food is precious.
It was so precious that they were betrayed by the bandits from the same village and clan who had previously tacitly helped to conceal the secret.
First, the government office also said that it would keep the secret and not reveal the identity of the informant. Second, this was not a betrayal of fellow tribesmen, but a way to protect more law-abiding fellow tribesmen from being harassed by bandits.
After a combination of hard and soft tactics, the bandits in Luxia County disappeared within seven days, and in the end, it even developed to the point where four martial artists competed for a mission to suppress the bandits. The bandits were gone, but the mess left behind was more than that.
Letters to the other three companies also received responses.
The four families sent people to jointly govern Luxia County.
Until the new county governor was sent by the royal court of Zheng Qiao.
But everyone knew that this was unlikely, as they were busy fighting the Zhu King and his faction, so they had no time to care about these trivial matters. Little did they know that someone had actually noticed it, but it wasn't Zheng Qiao.
It was Zheng Qiao’s senior brother, Yan An.
Yan An did not agree with Zheng Qiao sending troops to drive out the refugees and bandits. He either wanted to suppress them completely or recruit them for personal use. This would drive their anger elsewhere, which would not only harm the common people in other places, but would also cause this group to swell and expand, eventually leading to a catastrophe.
But Zheng Qiao refused to listen.
Yan An was so angry that he didn't report for duty for half a month.
"Hey, why is Xingning doing this?"
People outside said that Yan An was angry with Zheng Qiao, and some people said that he was heartbroken by Zheng Qiao's absurd behavior and was ready to take this opportunity to retire. Only his wife knew that Yan An was really in poor health.
In his rage, he was filled with cold wind.
He was bedridden for half a month.
At this moment, Yan An seemed to have aged by more than ten years. His hair, which had always been black and smooth, had become grayer, and fine wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes. His face was sallow, his eyes were dark, and his breathing was sometimes slow and sometimes rapid, which was heartbreaking.
Yan An sat up with the help of his wife.
Drink today's dose of medicine.
He suppressed the bitterness that kept lingering on his tongue, like a fine needle piercing into his heart, and said calmly: "Some things always need someone to do them. If not your husband, then someone else."
The lady said nothing more after hearing this, but her young eyes were filled with even deeper melancholy as she helped him put on his cloak.
The air was quiet for a long time.
Yan An suddenly let out a light laugh.
The lady looked at him puzzledly.
Yan An said: "It was the news sent back by Zixu."
Hearing that it was "Zi Xu", the lady's eyebrows relaxed: "Alas, nowadays, something that can still make you laugh out loud must be a happy event."
Yan An pulled up his cloak that had slipped down from his shoulders with some effort, and said, "It's hard to say whether it's a happy event or not. Zixu sent a message that the common people driven away by my junior brother passed through Luxia County, but they hit a wall."
Madam thought about it carefully and was surprised: "Didn't Xingning say that the governor of Lu County was fierce and aggressive, brave but not wise, and nepotistic, and was not fit for important tasks? How could he actually defend Luxia County? And defeat an enemy that was many times larger than him?"
Yan An's scholarly ways are quite useful.
He basically knew all the famous people in various places. Madam and him had known each other since childhood and they were from the same school, so they had a close relationship. Yan An had basically no secrets from her. Madam naturally also knew Yan An's evaluation of those people.
He did not think highly of the governor of Lu. He said that people with poor vision would surely fall into trouble with their relatives.
Could it be that the situation has turned around
Yan An said, "The man surnamed Lu is dead."
"Dead? How do you say that?"
"The man is dead, but he had asked for help from the surrounding areas early in the morning. Shen Youli, whom I have never been able to see through, actually asked for help from Shangnan, Tianhai and Yiru, and gathered troops to rush to support Lu. The man surnamed Lu was killed on the day the city was broken, and his entire family was killed by the villain. Only two people were left alive." Yan An sighed slightly.
"Just this matter can make Xingning so happy?" Since she started working for Zheng Qiao, she has not seen Yan An smile. Occasionally, she smiles, but it is also faint and fleeting, so fast that it makes people dazed. "Could it be that Shen Youli did something again?"
Yan An told everything he knew.
There was nothing in this world that the two of them could see through.
One is Zheng Qiao.
One is Shen Tang.
If Junior Brother Zheng Qiao is completely black inside and out, paranoid, radical, cruel and bloodthirsty, then County Magistrate Shen is at the other extreme. If the latter is consistent inside and out, it would be a great blessing for the common people, but he is worried that this is just an appearance.
There is a truth beneath the surface.
The lady said, “Isn’t this great?”
Yan An sighed: "Maybe."
Seeing the fatigue between his brows, the lady asked him to lie down and rest for a while and stop worrying.
At the same time, in the inner court of the palace.
Zheng Qiao was carefully looking at the information related to Yan An.
The spy leader on one side looked puzzled.
Yan An's loyalty was known to everyone in the court. Everyone hated Yan An's blind loyalty and stubbornness, and how he was devoted to Zheng Qiao. At the same time, they felt sorry for Yan An for wasting his knowledge on Zheng Qiao, and thought he was both pitiful and hateful.
But Zheng Qiao didn't seem to think so.
Seeing that the spy leader seemed to be hesitant to speak, he sneered and threw the report lightly on the desk, saying calmly: "Ask whatever questions you have. Are you worried that I will kill you too?"
"There is one thing I don't understand - it is obvious that Lord Yan is loyal to the lord." The spy leader lowered his head as he spoke, fearing that Zheng Qiao would chop off his head in a rage. Fortunately, this did not happen.
He also heard Zheng Qiao sneer.
"Allegiance?"
It was as if I heard some funny words.
He then asked, "You said Yan Xingning is loyal to me?"
The spy leader was puzzled: "Isn't it?"
Whether it was him or other ministers, everyone believed that Yan An was loyal to Zheng Qiao. Even though he knew that this junior brother was hopeless, he never gave up on him. He cleaned up the mess for Zheng Qiao time and time again, but Zheng Qiao's efficiency in overturning the mess was much faster than his repairing it, and he would not listen to his advice every now and then, which led to the increasingly bad situation.
I'm afraid Zheng Qiao is the only one in the world who can't see this.
Zheng Qiao shook his head and said sarcastically, "You guys still don't understand my senior brother."
The spy leader said nothing more.
I just thought to myself: One person might be wrong, but how could these millions of eyes be wrong? Is there any need to doubt Yan An's loyalty? If that person who was lying on his sickbed heard these words from his junior brother, would he be chilled
Think about it.
How many things did Zheng Qiao do to make Yan Xingning feel chilled? Previously, out of suspicion and threats, he even allowed Yan An's wife and daughter to stay in the palace for a day. They were nominally guests, but in fact they were hostages. If Yan An had not been so loyal to a certain extent, he would have rebelled long ago.
Zheng Qiao waved away the spy leader and burned the report under the candlelight. Finally, he drew out the sword from his waist and wiped it carefully. Looking at the sword reflecting the cold white light under the candlelight, he sneered and pushed the sword back into the scabbard.
"Loyal?" He murmured into the candlelight, "But there are only traitors in this world who want to kill me!"
"Brother, please don't let me down."
Within two days, Zheng Qiao urgently summoned Yan An back due to busy court affairs, and the latter had just recovered from his illness.
Two flowers bloom, each showing its own beauty.
After the unremitting efforts of Shen Tang and others, Luxia County finally stabilized. Shen Tang saw that the time was almost right and prepared to go back. After all, she was the governor of Heyin County, and the three families of Tianhai had sent someone to take over. The seventh day of the Lu County Governor's death had already passed, and it would not be good for her to continue to drag it out.
So she left Kang Shi and a thousand soldiers.
Take the rest of the people back.
Hehehe, in another month or two it will be the first month of the year again.
Shen Tang planned to hold a larger-scale second Fugucheng New Year Sports Meeting this time, and invited the three families to send some "players" to compete with each other. Well, the real reason was to attract the suckers from these places to come to his territory for consumption.
(:3?)
On the way back, she dawdled.
The distance was doubled.
Gu Chi and others were looking forward to it eagerly.
"My Lord, why are you back so late?"
Shen Tang whispered his plan: "Isn't this just to delay for a few more days and get the three companies to work for us for free? As soon as I come back, they will definitely resign."