Chapter 357: Guangling
It was an early autumn morning, the thin autumn mist made the heaven and the earth poetic, Xu Youran stood outside the gate of Guangling City and looked far away, just looked into the distance in a daze, and was in a daze for ten minutes. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Little uncle, are you okay?" followed Xu Youran by a delicate-looking little bun, he was carrying a small luggage, and asked worriedly by pulling Xu Youran's clothes.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Xu Youran said, clutching his chest.
The little bun's name is Xia Junmo, and his nickname is Mo Mo, who is seven years old this year, and is the child of Xu Youran's third sister Xu Ruge's family.
That's right, Xiao Baozi's father is Xia Shufeng, the phoenix man who wants people to die a hundred times. After Xu Ruge and Xia Shufeng left, the child followed Xu Ruge, although this is not in accordance with the rules, but the Xia family has been squeezed and can't even eat, and now they are honest, and they don't dare to come to the Xu family to ask for someone, so Xiao Baozi has been growing up in Xu's house.
This time Xu Youran was thrown out of the capital, and Xu Ruge gave Momose to Xu Youran, because of the environment when he was a child, this child is too well-behaved and sensible, and he studies hard and is serious and motivated, which can be called a model child. But Xu Ruge felt that he had treated the child badly, and the child should grow up happily, and although the Xu family was very good to Momo, Momo was still cautious, and did not dare to take a step beyond Lei Chi, and there was always some inferiority complex between actions and words, which made Ruge very distressed, so he asked Xu Youran to go out of Beijing with him, see more about the outside world, and follow his little uncle to do nonsense, maybe he can be more open-minded and thick-skinned.
Mo Mo looked at his little uncle, although Xu Youran said that he was very good just now, but just by seeing his little uncle's expression as if he had been struck by thunder just now, he knew that his little uncle was in a very bad mood now.
Momo's child guessed correctly, Xu Youran now has a feeling like being struck by thunder in the sky, she came to Guangling with great ambitions, but looking at the dilapidated and dilapidated city gate that can be climbed over almost without effort (barely a city gate), Xu Youran felt that all her money was wasted, she decided to talk to Xia Xixing and ask how much of her money was withheld by this guy.
This money-greedy guy, if she doesn't spit out all her money this time, she will have to beat Xia Xixing into stuffing!
Xu Youran rolled up her arms and sleeves, holding Momo's children in her hands, and regardless of the group of Nether Sect people who were following her, she rushed directly into the city gate.
There were no guards at the city gate, and all I saw along the way were dilapidated houses and ragged people with vegetables on their faces.
The county government was even more dilapidated, and Xu leisurely rushed into the county government to find out Xia Xixing, who was taking a nap.
"Say, are you greedy for my money?" Xu Youran shouted angrily at Xia Xixing.
"Who is greedy for your money? Who is greedy for your money? Virtue, am I that kind of person?" Xia Xixing's nap was woken up, and Xu Youran was also angry with his collar, so he yelled back.
In fact, this time Xu Youran really wronged Xia Xixing, Xia Xixing's plan written to Xu Youran in the letter he also had to implement, and the two of them had no problem imagining it, but they ignored one thing, that is, there were horse bandits next to Guangling, and they were extremely powerful, so Xia Xixing's poverty alleviation plan had not been carried out for long, and the horse bandits learned that there was such a big fat sheep as him.
Xia Xixing worked hard for more than half a year, and was directly snatched back by this group of horse bandits before liberation, if it weren't for Xia Xixing's fast running, he might not be alive now.
"Horse bandits, don't you care about the local garrison?" asked Xu Youran in surprise.
There are a lot of mountain bandits and water bandits in various places, even in Rongcheng, and he even wiped out two gangs when he was a child! But Xu Youran, who was so rampant, didn't see it, which made her extremely puzzled.
"it!" Xia Xixing became even more angry when he said this.
Guangling has a city and twelve counties with a wide area, but it is very remote, Xia Xixing just came here and felt that it was rich in products, fertile land, and a treasure land, so he was very active in pouting Xu Youran to vigorously develop this place, he could also get a piece of the pie, but after the last horse bandits, he understood why Guangling was so poor.
It turned out that Guangling was in Shu, there were many historical problems here, and it was a lonely place, and the imperial court could not send troops to garrison for such a place, so the emperor of the previous dynasty came up with a bad idea, that is, to divide Guangling as a fief, if the people who were sealed would also worry about the court, if they were not governed, the court would not matter.
At the beginning, Guangling was still managed, but later because of the remoteness of Shu, no one cared about this place anymore, plus the last few Guangling uncles siphoned off a lot of funds here, so Guangling couldn't even afford to raise the county officials, and the horse bandits became more and more rampant, coupled with the oppression of some large households, the people couldn't live happily.
"I went to the nearest garrison to ask for help, but the commander of the garrison said that he didn't dare to bring troops to come without permission if the court did not make a decree, and fortunately I didn't take out all the silver at that time, although I was robbed of some, but the big head was still kept, but this horse bandit is really powerful, I didn't dare to make any more moves, I heard that you were coming over, so I waited for you to come to discuss, but I didn't expect you to wronged me when you met, are you still human?
In view of Yu Guangling's current situation, Xu Youran gathered in the lobby with the provisional administrative team of Guangling County, and started a meeting with one person and a small bench.
"I think it's better to build the city wall first, this city wall is too broken, the last time the group of horse bandits came, they didn't need to attack at all, and the higher the horse jumped, he could jump in!" Xia Xixing said with palpitations.
Although the reality is much worse than the two of them thought, but since they came, they can't retreat casually, the key is that a lot of silver has been invested here before, if you give up halfway now, then the silver will be wasted, for the loss of business, Xia Xixing has always resolutely disagreed, so Xia Xixing put forward his own opinions on the failure last time.
"But the repair of the city wall is too slow, and the group of horse bandits will come before the city wall is repaired, not to mention that there are not many young laborers in the city, and all of them are thin and weak, so it will be even slower to repair!" said an old man, shaking his head.
The old man who spoke was the county magistrate of Guangling, he had white hair, and the official uniform on his body was patched with countless patches, but it is said that this old man had been sticking to Guangling for many years, and before Xia Xixing came, he was the only one in the county government of Guangling, but he never arrived late and left early, and he was an admirable old man.