Chapter 26: The Prefect Comes
The Cangyue Empire is divided into fourteen prefectures, each of which ranges from four to six counties, and Tangting City is the southernmost city of Nanyu Mansion in the southernmost part of the Cangyue Empire, and the south of the city is bordered by Tangting Mountain and adjacent to the Ziwei Empire, and three hundred miles to the east is bordered by Qiyang Mountain and adjacent to the Xixia Empire.
As the junction of the three kingdoms, Tangting City relies on the water and jade in the mountains to become famous for the three major empires, all of which want to take it for themselves, but the Xixia Empire is unable to pass through the army because of the evil spirit of Qiyang Mountain, and if you want to occupy Tangting City, you can only detour, but this Qiyang Mountain is a large mountain range that is thousands of miles long from north to south, and if you want to bypass this mountain from the north to occupy Tangting, it will inevitably cross the two mansions of Cangyue, even if you can rely on the army to fight all the way to Tangting, but because the battle line is too long, once the supply is cut off, the army that enters Cangyue will inevitably become a turtle in the urn, so this is the reason why the Xixia Empire has been standing stillγ
Besides, although the northernmost county of the Ziwei Empire is also at the foot of Tangting Mountain, it is unfortunate that the south of Tangting Mountain is a steep cliff, which is where Mu Yuze practiced spiritual energy attacks day and night, and below the cliff is the Ziwei Empire, and the Ziwei Empire can only take a detour if it wants to occupy Tangting City, but the Ape Demon Rebellion ten years ago dispelled the idea of the Ziwei Empire.
And Liu Baoyu escaped from Tangting City overnight with a group of people, and went straight to the prefect's mansion to tell him what happened in Tangting City, of course, he didn't say anything about Fengluan's freezing, after all, no one would believe this kind of thing, and if even the prefect was afraid, no one would help him re-instate as a county magistrate.
Seeing that the prefect was silent, Liu Baoyu then offered all kinds of precious water jade, plus 300,000 taels of silver tickets. The prefect of Nanyu is also a greedy and womanizer, seeing Liu Baoyu so good at doing things, he changed his frowning brows and said, "That's easy to do, remember that I don't want to collect your money, just use your money to do your business! β
"Thank you, Lord Prefect, thank you, Lord Prefect!" Liu Baoyu was overjoyed when he heard the prefect's answer, and hurriedly thanked him!
And the prefect looked embarrassed again, and said, "It's just... β
Seeing this, Liu Baoyu hurriedly said: "What do you want, but it doesn't hurt to say it, the villain will do my best!"
"Alas~ It's not my difficulty, it's just that the yard is not big, I heard that you brought three ladies are the colors of various countries, I'm afraid I'm going to be wronged. The prefect sighed as he spoke.
And how could Liu Baoyu not know what this meant, he clearly wanted his wife to go to the prefect to play with, thinking that he had robbed it by himself anyway, and he would be re-appointed in the future, and there would be a lot of beauties. Then he smiled and said, "Hey, my lord is too worried, those three beauties are originally dedicated to adults! I will arrange for them to serve your adults tonight!"
"Haha, so good, so good!" At this time, the prefect was already smiling, looked at the big sun outside, pretended to be tired and said, you go back first, I plan to rest.
"Okay, the villain quits, and immediately order the three of them to go to the adult's room!" Liu Baoyu forced to leave with a smiling face.
Early the next morning, Liu Baoyu was waiting for the prefect in the living room. When he saw the prefect coming, he immediately ran to him and asked, "My lord, you rested well yesterday, when will we leave for Tangting City?"
"Don't worry, I'll go to the lord of the country first, and say that the ape demon is messing up the people, apply for the mobilization of the army, and wait for the army to press the border, and I won't be afraid that the group of people will make trouble again! As soon as the approval arrives, we will go over. After speaking, he waved his hand to signal Liu Baoyu to leave, and then turned around and returned to the room. Before Liu Baoyu walked to the door, there were a few screams of women!
Time passed day by day, during this time Liu Baoyu and his subordinates were spending time in the Qinglou every day, and the city had already taken on a new look, and the people were engaged in business, and soon everyone became rich, and at the same time, it also attracted a large number of businessmen from the surrounding prefectures and counties to open branches here. In just over a month, the richness of Tangting City shook Jiuzhou.
At the same time, the lord of Cangyue also heard that Tangting City was suddenly rich, but he looked at the prefect's invitation to ask for soldiers and doubted it, and immediately vetoed the prefect, and ordered the prefect to personally investigate and report truthfully, and only to bring guards and officials, not to mobilize troops.
After getting the approval, the prefect had no choice but to lead his guards to the Tangting City to meet this Li Yuanwai for a while!
On this day, Li Yuanwai was discussing with Lu Yuchen the situation of the students of the Spiritual Academy. Suddenly, someone said, "The prefect has come to review the county chronicles." β
The two hurried back to the county office and sent someone to inform Mu Yuze and Rama.
"Grass people Li Wenxuan see the prefect. Li Yuanwai bowed but did not kneel.
Li Yuanwai, who was sitting in the carriage, said fiercely, "What a Li Wenxuan, since you know that you are a grass citizen, why don't you kneel down when you see this prefect? and why do you proclaim yourself a county order, do you still have me, the prefect, and this Cangyue country lord in your eyes?" My lord, Liu Baoyu is an unrighteous official, which makes people panic, especially the evil spirits who are haunted by inaction and almost wronged the ape god in the mountain, but fortunately, Li Yuanwai did not care about his own losses for the benefit of the people of the city, not only relieved the evil spirit crisis and resolved the grievances of the ape god, but also let us all live a rich life. Please be aware of it!"
It's okay for the people not to say it, but the prefect was furious when he saw this situation and said, "What ape god, it's clearly an ape demon, Li Wenxuan and the ape demon colluded to demagogue people's psychology and should be punished." Then he ordered his servants: "If there is any nonsense, I will be imprisoned!"
Hearing this, all the people got up but were angry and didn't dare to speak, and Li Yuanwai's guards drew their swords and confronted the prefect's guards. Seeing this form, the prefect was even more angry: "Why do you still want to rebel?"
Li Yuanwai was also afraid that things would get out of hand, so he angrily shouted at his subordinates to put away their knives and sticks. He said to the prefect's carriage again, "My lord, there must be some misunderstanding in this, so it is better to enter the inner room to solve the misunderstanding." The grass people are businessmen, and they have long heard that the adults are aware of everything and are honest and honest, and when they learned that the adults were visiting, I had prepared a thin wine, and the adults were angry and we sat down and talked slowly!"
Li Yuanwai went south and north to do business at the beginning, and he knew the nature of this Nanyu prefect. Therefore before he came, he ordered that gold and silver be prepared in the inner chamber.
Although the prefect was angry, he was also afraid of the appearance of the ape god in his heart, after all, once the ape god appeared, these guards of his own were not opponents at all, since they had already shocked Li Wenxuan, it was better to take advantage of the situation and see what Li Wenxuan wanted to say! Then he got out of the carriage and followed into the inner room.
When I looked inside, there was no wine and meat, and it was empty. Immediately furious: "Where's your thin wine?"
Li Yuanwai said with a smile, my lord, please look behind you, I saw eight people carrying four boxes, and when I opened them, I saw that they were all gold.
The prefect was speechless by the scene in front of him. Li Yuanwai then said, "My lord, this is 400,000 taels of gold, I don't know if my lord is satisfied with this little wine?"
"Satisfied, satisfied, very satisfied, I will say that Liu Baoyu must be reversing black and white, today, Li Xianling is really a good official in this court!"
And Li Yuanwai saw the state of the prefect, and his hanging heart could be regarded as letting go, after all, once the prefect reported to the empire, then taking office without permission would be like treason, although there was an ape god to support him, but if he was really convicted, it would not be of any benefit to himself. As a businessman, I have long known that harmony makes money, and now that I have bought off the prefect, my own county order can also be done safely.
After appeasing the prefect, Li Yuanwai came to the spiritual academy, Mu Yuze and Rama had been waiting for a long time! Hearing that he had spent 400,000 taels of gold, Mu Yuze stood up angrily, this kind of person, I will teach him a lesson, if you don't give him a little despair, he doesn't know what happiness is!
Rama, who was sitting on the side, hurriedly grabbed Mu Yuze, who was walking out, and said, "Boy, hold your breath! Listen to what Li Yuanwai has said!" At the critical time, it can still be seen that Mu Yuze is still young and vigorous, easy to be impulsive, and does not know how to be calm.
When Li Yuanwai explained the reason, this calmed Mu Yuze down.
The prefect was reluctant to leave when he lived in Tangting City, and as a corrupt official, he could naturally see the foundation of the richness of Tangting City.
How could Li Yuanwai not know his thoughts, and promised him that he would contribute 400,000 taels of gold every year before he was sent away from the prefect. Because Li Yuanwai knew very well in his heart that his current position was inseparable from Mu Yuze's support, and Mu Yuze could decide the ape god clan. Through this period of contact, we can feel that Mu Yuze's future is definitely not just a dignified city, and it is catching up with the resentful spirits of Qiyang Mountain, and the world will be shocked in the future, so only by constantly making layouts for the future can we go more stable.