"Bold!" Seeing that Yang An was actually disrespectful to Yang Yun, Chen Shan shouted, pulled out the short knife on his waist, and quickly stood in front of Yang Yun.

Seeing this, the other guards on the side also hurriedly drew their waist knives and quickly stood in front of Yang Yun, waiting for his order.

And Chi Mu'er, who had been standing behind Yang Yun, saw that there was an opportunity to fight, so he immediately came to his senses, and was about to walk forward in a frame pose, but was stopped by Yang Yun.

Yang An saw that Yang Yun's guards were lined up neatly, the short knives in their hands were shining, and the eyes of the guards were cold, and they looked energetic.

Looking at Yang Yun's side again, the tower-like Chimu'er was staring at him deadly. Yang Anxin felt frightened, and suddenly retreated.

"His Royal Highness King Wu, bullying my Yang family in Yang County like this, my family master will definitely come to ask for an explanation, let's go!" After finishing speaking, Yang An turned around and left with the people.

"Engong, my father is still in their hands!" Zhu Xiaohan saw Yang An and the others leaving, and said a little anxiously.

"They don't dare to do anything to the old man, now we are not familiar with this situation, wait until the county seat asks the people of the county government, and we will think about it in the long run." Yang Yun comforted Zhu Xiaohan and said.

Due to the sudden occurrence of such a thing on the road, Yang Yun no longer had the mood to investigate carefully, and hurried to the county seat of Wuxian County with people.

On the way, Yang Yun asked Zhu Xiaohan about it, and only then did he know the ins and outs of the matter.

It turned out that after Zhu Lao took Zhu Xiaohan to send Yang Yun and the others away, he helped Yang Yun and the others because he was worried that Chu Bing would find out that it was their father and daughter. So he hid for a while in a nearby temple.

Later, Zhu Lao saw that the rumors gradually subsided, and thought that the Chu soldiers were not investigating this matter, so he took Zhu Xiaohan and crossed the border of Chu to the territory of Dafu.

The father and daughter followed Yang Yun's instructions and came all the way to Wu County. Because of the entanglement given by Yang Yun, the two did not suffer much, but because they didn't know the way, they took a lot of wrongful roads.

The father and daughter asked as they walked, and before they knew it, they came to the territory of Yang County. When he was asking for directions in Yang County, he happened to be met by Yang An and coaxed to his home by Yang An.

When he arrived at Yang An's house, Yang An showed his true face, and he wanted Zhu Xiaohan to marry his stupid brother. The father and daughter escaped more than twice without success, so they had to make a false appointment and agree to Yang An's request.

In order to find an opportunity to escape, Zhu Lao deliberately set the wedding date several days later.

Who knew that Yang An's marriage of Zhu Xiaohan to his younger brother was fake, in fact, he had always coveted Zhu Xiaohan, but he was afraid that there would be a tigress at home, so he never dared to take action.

It just so happened that today, Yang An's wife returned to her parents' home. He tricked Zhu Xiaohan into his room and wanted to be rude, but Zhu Xiaohan desperately resisted.

The sound of the battle alarmed Zhu Lao next door, Zhu Lao picked up a stick, and rushed to fight with Yang An, Yang An resisted while calling the family to subdue Zhu Lao together.

And Zhu Xiaohan took advantage of the fact that these servants didn't pay attention to him, and secretly escaped from Yang An's house.

After Yang An found out that Zhu Xiaohan had escaped, he immediately chased him out with someone, so there was a scene that Yang Yun saw.

With doubts in their hearts, Yang Yun and the others came to the county government of Yang County, the simplicity of the houses in the county government and the old furniture in the house were not much better than those in Shidong County, which Yang Yun did not expect at all.

When I came to the county office, I saw Yao Xia who was busy. The moment he saw Yao Xia, Yang Yun almost didn't believe his eyes.

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After only ten days of not seeing each other, Yao Xia looked dark and thin, and his expression was very haggard. This is very different from the previous appearance of being energetic and seemingly unable to overcome him with any difficulties.

Seeing Yao Xia's appearance, Yang Yun's mood was a little sad, it seemed that he must have encountered huge trouble here. Yang Yun understands Yao Xia's personality, no matter how hard it is, he will not complain to himself.

"Brother Yao, it seems that things here are really difficult for you, if you have any difficulties, just tell me, if you are not happy here, I will give you another task." Yao Xia didn't even care about his life for himself, and lost an arm for himself when he was wandering, Yang Yun came from the bottom of his heart. I don't want to embarrass my subordinate like my big brother.

"If there is anything difficult, it's okay, I can still bear it." Yao Xia smiled faintly, but he couldn't hide the sadness on his face.

Sitting down in the county government together and gathering the existing officials of Yang County together, Yang Yun knew the ins and outs of the whole thing.

Yang County has a population of more than 38,000 people, although it is not as good as the current Wu County, but the population is not small.

At the same time, Yang County produces salt, and the amount of salt is not small. this era. Salt is a very important thing, and merchants from all over Dafu and even some nearby countries come to Yang County to buy salt.

With this unique condition, the economy of Yang County is still quite good, and the people of many counties rely on this to get a relatively rich income every year.

It is said that Yao Xia should have a better time serving as a county magistrate in such a county. But the actual situation is different, his current situation is not even as good as Zhong Wenrui, who is the county magistrate in poor Shidong County.

The main reason for this situation is that there are two powerful and mutually intransigent interest groups in Wu County.

The reason for the name of Yang County is that there are many people with the surname Yang, and the number of people with the surname Yang accounts for nearly half of the county's population. Most of these people are related to each other and have formed a huge family.

Among the people surnamed Yang in Yang County, the patriarch is the most powerful person here. As for the county officials from outside, they didn't pay attention to them at all.

The Yang family here was originally very domineering, after the first emperor Yang Yuan seized the Sima family and established the Dafu Dynasty. The Yang family in Yang County has done everything possible to get involved with the royal family.

Since then, they have become more arrogant, and in the name of the emperor's relatives, they have been powerful in Wu County.

And some people with foreign surnames really can't stand the bullying of the Yang family. So they also united and formed a force, named "Unity Society", to fight against the Yang family.

Yang County produces salt, because salt is a necessary item for everyone, so mining and research is a profiteering industry, and money is not worried about sales.

So, all these years. In order to compete for the mining rights of several large salt wells in Yang County, there was no less friction between the Unity Society and the Yang family, and there were several large-scale battles.

In the face of interests, the two sides do not give in to each other and fight inextricably. In the end, many people died on both sides, and because they opened various joints in advance, the government also adopted a strategy of turning a blind eye.

Both sides lost a lot of manpower, and neither side took advantage of it. In the end, the leaders of the two sides saw that this was not the way to go, and sat down together for peace talks.

In the end, after some haggling, the two sides finally reached an agreement to divide the large and small salt wells here.

In this way, there are many salt wells in Yang County, and the salt mined every year is here

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Monopolized by two forces.

As the saying goes, "money can make the devil grind", driven by interests, more and more people have joined these two power groups, making them stronger and stronger.

Later, their strength far exceeded the number of county soldiers in Yang County, and they took the initiative in many affairs of Yang County, making the government an ornament.

They sent people to maintain law and order in the county, and in order to facilitate the delivery of salt, they also repaired the roads in the county. Later, these two forces used silver and the identity of the Yang family's royal family to make officials at all levels turn a blind eye to their actions.

Over time, the officials of the county government also adapted to this kind of life, and if they did nothing, they could get the money of the imperial court and the dividends given to them by the two forces.

When Yao Xia came to Yang County with people, the officials here reluctantly completed the delivery.

When Yao Xia completely took over the county government, he found that all their government decrees were not only ignored by the people of Yang County, but even the officials of the county government were unwilling to carry them out.

In the end, a teacher here told Yao Xia the unspoken rules of being an official in Yang County. That is, don't do anything, don't cause trouble, and have your own silver in your bag.

Such a situation, of course, is not what Yao Xia wants, after he took over the county government, he knew that the benefits generated by the large amount of salt here were extremely important to Yang Yun, who was eager to enhance his strength.

He tried his best to bring the strict control of these two forces back to the county government, but he found that this was like a sky.

As soon as he revealed a little idea, before he had time to negotiate with the people of the two forces, all the errand officers of the county government were terminated the next day, and Yao Xia became the commander of the light pole.

And the county lieutenant that Yang Yun assigned to Yao Xia was okay to lead the troops into battle, and he had no experience in dealing with these things, so he couldn't bring effective help to Yao Xia at all.

Not only that, but when Yao Jiajia came to the county seat with the people of the county government, the faces of the people in the county seat. All with undisguised hatred, as if Yao Xia and the others had taken away their most beloved things.

Therefore, in the past ten days of coming to Yang County, although Yao Xia and his subordinates have spent a lot of effort, there has been no progress in their work.

After listening to Yao Xia's words, Yang Yun finally understood why he and the others were entering Yang County. The faces of the common people will show that look of love and ignorance.

I thought that the situation in Shidong County was bad enough, but I didn't expect that Yang County, which was relatively wealthy, would actually be in such a worse situation.

For the situation in Yang County, even the well-informed Yang Yun thought of a good way for a while.

It is certainly not possible to negotiate and get them to hand over control of the salt well. If it is forcibly withdrawn by force. It's also a very troublesome thing.

According to Yao Xia, the Yang family in Yang County, and the Unity Association composed of foreign surnames, in order to defend their salt wells, have recruited and trained thousands of township soldiers, and the township soldiers of the two forces combined. There were fourteen or five thousand people.

And if Yang Yun wants to forcibly take back the right to mine salt wells, he can only transfer troops from Wu County. And the county soldiers of Wu County, in addition to those who want to stay in the county seat, can only send about 10,000 people.

The county soldiers of Wu County have undergone formal training, and some of them have even been on the battlefield, so their combat power is stronger, but they are not familiar with the terrain of Yang County.

Also, even if the county soldiers of Wuxian County can defeat the township soldiers recruited by these two forces, the price paid is very large. What's more, Yang Yun didn't want to get a devastated Yang County.

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