Chapter 212: Turning Point

At this time, the dozen or so people selected by Yao Xia had already come to the grain truck. Under the gaze of everyone, the grain bags were opened one by one.

Rice, millet, wheat, soybeans, beans and ......, bags of grain appeared in front of everyone. In order to see more realistically, some people also put their hands deep in their pockets, and they grabbed handfuls of fine grain, which made everyone stunned.

Yao Xia stood there, raising his eyes to look at the people around him. Seeing that their expressions changed from the initial surprise to the joy from the heart, its heart was completely relieved.

An instant later, Yao Xia broke out in a cold sweat again. Because according to the original plan, there is indeed no grain in the county government, so the only thing that can be packed in the grain bag is the grain grains. If that were the case, this might not end today.

At this moment, Yao Xia's heart was secretly glad that at this critical moment, the food finally appeared.

Where did this life-saving food come from? Of course, it was Yang Yun who asked people to send people back.

Speaking of which, Yang Yun is also quite unlucky, he left Yunzhou City and rushed to his fiefdom with grain, but it snowed even if the sky was not beautiful.

It is said that it rarely snows in Yunzhou, but God is like he wants to make a joke with Yang Yun, and it actually snows at this time. What's even more unfortunate is that the snow is not small, and the mountains are all over the white expanse, which looks very good.

But at this time, Yang Yun and the others, how could they be in the mood to look at the heavy snow, everyone cursed the ghost weather, and at the same time in the snow, they tried their best to rush in the direction of the fiefdom.

Heavy snow covered the roads, making it much slower. The grain transport team, which could have arrived in the fiefdom in more than 20 days, is now more than half the day as planned.

When I was about to reach the fiefdom, something went wrong again. The path they were on was either blocked by fallen trees, or a bridge that had been good when they came had fallen but now collapsed for no apparent reason, or a boulder rolling down the hillside blocked the way.

Everyone knows that this situation occurs because some people don't want to let themselves and others return to the fiefdom smoothly, but at this time, everyone has no other way.

Only while letting people clear the obstacles on the road, while hurrying to the fiefdom, as for these saboteurs, they can only be dealt with slowly later.

When the grain transportation team was still dozens of miles away from the fiefdom, Yan Xiong asked someone to send the news. It is said that someone has paid a lot of money to let them, the bandits in the mountains, harass the grain transport team, and it is best to be able to snatch all the grain.

In response to this situation, Yang Yun had a plan. Since you want the bandits to rob us of the food we transported, then do as you wish!

So, when the team was not far from the fiefdom, the "unfortunately" encountered "bandits", because the number of "bandits" far exceeded the team transporting grain. The other party was in a favorable position, and in order to avoid unnecessary losses, Yang Yun decisively ordered to give up resistance and let these bandits steal the grain.

Seeing everyone's frustrated expressions, Yang Yun said in public that he would organize a large team to go into the mountains to suppress the bandits and let them honestly hand over the grain.

The bandits snatched the grain, and the spies hiding in the mountains immediately sent the news to the fiefdom Yang Hong and others as quickly as possible.

Zhong Wentao and Yang Hong, who got the news, were of course ecstatic, and they immediately made a series of arrangements for this situation.

Let these angry people, who have not seen the food, directly riot, and let Emperor Fu, who is far away in the capital, see the fief he manages with his son, bandits are rampant, and the people riot.

Zhong Wentao felt that his plan was perfect, as if he had seen the bad luck of his enemy, Yang Yun. And because of his great contributions, he became a celebrity under King Xiang, and since then, he has been on the rise.

But what Zhong Wentao didn't expect was that he had planned it perfectly. But how did the grain pushed back by these servants suddenly turn into grain of grain, when it should be grains of sand?

At this moment, Zhong Wentao didn't know that not only the errands in Yang County sent back genuine grain, but even the county officials of Shidong County and Wu County received grain.

This situation made all of Zhong Wentao's plans fall through. He is also a decisive person, in order not to expose his own people, Zhong Wentao had to order everyone to evacuate quietly.

And this time Yang Yun's mood was much better, but he didn't expect that the grain transported by the bandits was much smoother than his own transportation, and the grain was quickly sent to the fiefdom counties.

"Ladies and gentlemen! His Royal Highness King Wu has already retrieved a lot of food for everyone. This is only the first batch, and there is still a lot of food coming in in a steady stream, so this year's food shortage has passed. Yao Xia stood at the gate of the city and shouted loudly to the onlookers.

Yao Xia's words were immediately exchanged for a burst of enthusiastic cheers and applause.

"Of course, this grain will not be distributed to everyone for free. Everyone, as long as they seriously contribute to the development of the fiefdom, can get the corresponding food. We decided that both the inhabitants of the former fiefdom and the people who moved from the state of Chu had the same opportunities. Yao Xia's words once again ignited the enthusiasm of the people.

What happened at the gate of Yang County also happened in Wu County and Shidong County. Soon, Yang Yun's policy of bringing back grain and fiefdoms reached the ears of all the people. Zhong Wentao's careful plan, but he shot himself in the foot, but it became the best opportunity for Yang Yun and his three county officials to promote themselves.

Under this circumstance, the people of Yang County became completely down-to-earth. They began to devote themselves to all kinds of labor, and they could not only get the corresponding remuneration, but also get precious food, so why not?

And this incident has greatly increased Yang Yun's status in the hearts of the people of the fiefdom, and many people are glad that there is such a wise feudal lord in the place where they live.

So a few days later, when Yang Yun and the others returned to the fiefdom, the people of the fiefdom spontaneously organized themselves and walked several miles out of the county seat to greet the wise King Wu.

And Zhong Wentao and Yang Hong and others. They can't even think of it even if they think about it, why is this grain stolen by bandits? magically returned to Yang Yun's hands.

But they don't have time to understand why this is happening. Because Zhong Wentao, Yang Hong and others, what they need to think about now is how to prevent Yang Yun from discovering what they and others have done.

"What? Du Heizi is dead! Yao Xia, who got the news, frowned, and heard that Du Heizi, this person grew up in Yang County. He made a living by catching fish, and his swimming skills were so good that he would now drown in the river outside the city.

This is not the first bad news Yao Xia has gotten, but on Yang Yun's orders, he is ready to find the person who led the trouble this time, but these people are inexplicable, and they all have accidents.

Some have left the fiefdom, some are missing, and some have died inexplicably like Du Heizi. With great difficulty, some people were caught, but these people were acting on orders, and the people who gave them orders could not be found.

This kind of thing happened at the same time in the three counties of the fiefdom, and Yang Yun gathered some of the main officials of the three counties together to discuss how to deal with this matter.

"It seems that this was a premeditated, organized sabotage operation, and there were not a few people involved. Since they deliberately eliminated the traces, it was still very troublesome to find them in a short period of time. After listening to everyone's story, Qiu Ze quickly made a judgment.

"Your Highness, you have done a lot of things in your fiefdom, and you must have offended many people, in fact, according to this clue, we can still quickly determine who was involved in this operation. But without evidence, it seems impossible to punish these people. Yao Xia said with a frown.

"Actually, if it's just a few people in the fiefdom who are sabotaging, this thing is easy to do. But this time they planned very well, if His Highness can't bring back the grain smoothly, it will be a catastrophe for our fiefdom. So I estimate that this incident is not just a spontaneous action of these people in the fiefdom. Ju Yuanguang said what he thought.

"I also estimate that those brothers in Xijing City should not be used to seeing me Yang Yun live a good life for a few days, so they deliberately gave me trouble!" Yang Yun said helplessly.

"However, these saboteurs are a minority after all. In the three counties of our fiefdom, the vast majority of the people hope that their homes will become richer and richer. So these saboteurs are not of much use. Zhong Wenrui continued.

"I think we should now take advantage of the craze that is happening among the people. The most important thing at present is to promulgate our decrees and realize the development of the back cover as quickly as possible. "This time it was Ju Yuanguang who spoke.

"So be it! The most important thing for our three counties at the moment is to seek development. Of course, we have to make these wreaking destructors loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and one day their fox tail will be exposed. Yang Yun made the final arrangement.

Now that he has food, Yang Yun has the greatest reliance, and he can also make many people in the fiefdom calm down and do all kinds of things according to Yang Yun's plan.

First of all, the county government offices, at first due to the lack of manpower, scarce talents. But now it is different, more than 100,000 refugees have come from the Chu State, and many of these refugees are scholars, and some are even famous in the Chu State.

In this case, the county magistrates quickly filled all the positions. Although the loyalty of these people is certainly seriously insufficient, they can only be used reluctantly at a time when there is a shortage of talent. But Yang Yun believes that as they continue to live and work here, they will love the land.

In addition to this, due to the exponential increase in the number of people. Some talents have emerged from all walks of life, so that the various undertakings of the fiefdom can be quickly brought into play.

The tax rate in Dafu is generally 1 to 1 1 tax of 15 to 1 of 20 taxes, and in order to encourage the people of the fiefdom, the tax rate of the three counties of the fief is only 30 taxes and 1. Unexpectedly, the tax rate was set very low, but it greatly mobilized everyone's enthusiasm for work, and in the month when Yang Yun returned to the fiefdom, the taxes collected by each county have increased significantly.

As a result, county officials were overjoyed, and their worries about the original low tax rate disappeared without a trace.