"Damn, it's finally out!" Seeing the long-lost city again, even if it was just a small and pitiful earthen city, it still made Guan Ping and Zhang Bao feel an indescribable cordiality, they had been in the mountains for almost a year, either helping those barbarians build a walled city in the mountains, cutting down the woods, or on the way to do this.

Even if the walled cities are very good, it is very comfortable to live there, and the barbarians you meet along the way are very welcoming to them, but this does not change the fact that communication is difficult and you go back and forth.

Zhuti County as a county seat, the city is a little ashamed of its identity as a county, Mo said that compared with the county towns in other places, it is not even as good as many counties in Shu, the city wall is made of rammed earth, and the height is more than one person, absolutely less than two zhang, the whole city can see the bottom at a glance, and the length and width do not know whether it is enough for the kind of two miles.

Even so, seeing such a city again, there is still a sense of intimacy in my heart for no reason, the camps of all ethnic groups in Nanban have their own characteristics, especially after Liu Yi built, it can be called pleasing to the eye, if you see it occasionally, you will feel novel, feel beautiful, but after a long time, it will feel a little dull and even repulsive.

I used to hear that the barbarian women are full of wild charm, but when I really got here, I found that there are few really beautiful, and the aesthetics of the barbarians are different from them, in the eyes of the barbarians, the body is strong, both men and women are the same, which also leads to the women they see are also five big and three thick, and can even carry the prey all over the mountain!

Along the way, Guan Xing and Zhang Bao were even worried that they would be harmed by those beast-like women.

When Liu Yi's army of 2,000 people appeared in sight, the county soldiers who were responsible for the garrison suddenly panicked, and hurriedly blew the horn, and the soldiers responsible for collecting the city tax at the city gate returned to the city with rolling and climbing, and began to close the city gate with all hands and feet, and at the same time someone ran in a panic to report the news to Taishou Lu Yuan.

Lu Yuan got the news of Liu Yi's arrival in advance, and he was not too panicked, he took people up to the city wall, looked at the fluttering Han banner in the distance, breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and signaled that everyone did not need to be nervous, just looked at the barbarian warrior in the team, which made Lu Yuan's face not look good.

Reopened the city gate, and when Lu Yuan greeted Liu Yi, he put a smile on his face again, and smiled and saluted Liu Yi: "Xiaguan Zhu Ti is too protective of Lu Yuan, see Tinghou." ”

"Lu Taishou doesn't have to be polite." Liu Yi smiled and returned the salute, exchanged a few polite words with Lu Yuan, looked at the Tucheng in front of him, and asked as he walked inside: "Has the edict of the royal court come down?" ”

Liu Yi came this time, in addition to mining, he was responsible for the appointment and dismissal of personnel and the financial rights of the counties in Nanzhong, basically, as soon as Liu Yi came, it was equivalent to adding a general manager to the Taishou of the counties in Nanzhong, with these two rights, there was no difference from the actual lord of Nanzhong.

"I received it a few months ago, but the Pavilion Marquis didn't come for a long time, and the lower officials handled some things on their behalf." Lu Yuan can't see too much on his face, what officialdom pays attention to is a quiet look, if you can really see any information from the other party's face, it is also the other party deliberately showed you.

Liu Yi glanced at him twice and said with a smile: "It just so happens that in the past few months, this official has visited the various ethnic groups in Zhuti, and he also has some understanding of the people's situation. ”

"Whoa!" Lu Yuan agreed, and then said with a smile: "Tinghou really loves the people like a son, and it is also a blessing for the people of Nanzhong to come to Nanzhong this time." ”

Now even if you want to hide Liu Yi on some accounts, it is not easy.

"It's too much of a word." Liu Yi nodded, and it didn't take long for the process to arrive at the government office, the whole city was small and terrible, and there were not many pedestrians on the streets along the way.

"This Juti people are very afraid of us?" Liu Yi looked at Lu Yuan suspiciously, Liu Yi didn't advocate that the officials and the people were a family, that was, if the head of a county or even the head of a county really had no prestige at all, it would be even more difficult to manage, and the people would not take you seriously, but if the people took a detour when they saw the official errand, and were afraid of it like a tiger, it was not right.

Lu Yuan's face was a little embarrassed, and he shook his head and said: "This poor mountain and bad water are out of the people, and since the lower officials took office, they have imposed strict governance, maybe the people have some misunderstandings." ”

Saying that, in order to prove that he was not persecuting the people, he stopped a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy with a warm smile on his face: "Young man, you ......"

The boy rolled his eyes and fell straight to the ground.

Zhao Guang stepped forward, checked it for a while, and said to Liu Yi: "It's just that I fainted, and it's not in the way." ”

"It seems that the people have a deep misunderstanding of Taishou." Liu Yi didn't make trouble in this matter, and there was nothing to do, but the situation in Nanzhong was even more serious than he imagined!

Lu Yuan smiled and ordered someone to send the young man away, Zhao Guang on the side glanced at Guan Xing, Guan Xing nodded, and arranged for someone to go with him.

Entering the government office, a roll of bamboo slips was brought to the table by Zhu Ti's main book.

Liu Yi looked at the mountain of bamboo slips, looked at the master book in surprise and said, "These are the files of Zhuti County?" ”

"Not exactly." The master bookkeeper smiled, and behind him, more than a dozen soldiers carried up the boxes one by one, and smiled at Liu Yi: "These are the files of Zhuti County in the past ten years, but they are a little messy, I don't know if there are any things that Tinghou is looking for?" ”

Behind Liu Yi, Ma Liang raised his eyebrows and wanted to speak, but was stopped by Liu Yi.

"It's okay." Liu Yi picked up a dossier casually, looked at the humble face of the main booklet with a smile and said: "The classification and screening of this dossier will be handed over to the master bookkeeper, and within three days, these files will be classified and sorted out for the official in chronological order, and the other ......"

Liu Yi shook the bamboo slip in his hand and said: "The age is far away, and the handwriting is sloppy, and many words are blurred, so I bother the main book to help the official transcribe it again, Ergou!" ”

"In!" Chen Ergou took a step forward and bowed.

"Looking at him, you can eat and go to the toilet, but you are not allowed to sleep until you finish transcribing, and of course, you are not allowed to leave." Liu Yi said indifferently.

"Tinghou, this ......" The main book was a little dumbfounded, looking at the mountain of files and the big box, his face was a little pale.

"Whoa!" Chen Ergou agreed, looking at the main book with fierce eyes.

"Tinghou, the three-day deadline is too short." Lu Yuan's face was a little stiff.

"It's not short." Liu Yi shook his head: "A month ago, I sent someone to talk about the appointment of this official, as the main book, but these files have not been processed, and they are also shown to the official. ”

The new official took office with three fires, and he definitely couldn't directly take Taishou to point it, and this master book collided with himself, which was in line with Liu Yi's intentions.

Lu Yuan was choked by Liu Yi, so he could only stop talking.

With the lessons of the main book, the rest of Gong Cao and Du Wei were much more normal when they reported their work, at least they didn't give Liu Yi anything like that.

Zhu Ti was used by Liu Yi as the foundation in Nanzhong, the city here is small and small, but it is also in line with Liu Yi's thoughts, at least the local barbarians have been subdued by Liu Yi, and there are not many wealthy families, in this case, it is not easy to contradict Liu Yi.

"Tinghou's method shocked this Zhu Ti official." After Nalu Yuan said goodbye and left tremblingly, Ma Liang smiled.

"One is for deterrence, and the other is to dig something deeper through this master book." Liu Yi played with his seal, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said: "In the past half a year, I have visited various ethnic groups, and these small clans in Nanzhong are all controlled by those wealthy clans, and in terms of taxation, they do not pay taxes directly to the government, but pay taxes to these wealthy families, and the taxes paid are as much as five to eight times that collected by the imperial court, and on the side of the royal court, not only have not received any taxes from Nanzhong over the years, but in order to stabilize the Nanban, a lot of money and grain have been invested here, not to mention this Zhu Ti, that money is enough to build a few more cities in this Nanzhong land, but what I see, But there is only such an earthen city, what is the reason? ”

"Tinghou wants to do it?" Ma Liang looked at Liu Yi and said.

"Well, what did you spend more than half a year doing with the barbarians in this Juti area?" Liu Yi nodded with a smile and said: "I hope to get their support, now these barbarians are directly under our control, at least the barbarians on the side of Zhuti County can be controlled as soon as possible, and the taxes are less than two percent of the original, plus the prestige and benevolence that I have been waiting for more than half a year to establish, this is not difficult to do, and the current problem is the rule of Zhuti's officials." ”

Ma Liang nodded silently, then looked at Liu Yi and said, "Did Tinghou ever think that these people have been rampant here for many years, but neither Liu Zhang nor Wang Shang in the past have been able to solve this trouble in Nanzhong?" ”

"There are people in the court who are sheltering them." Liu Yi groped his chin and said with a smile: "But I have discussed this matter with Kong Ming, and I will solve it quickly, first get rid of the root cause of the trouble, Nanzhong Dazhi, and then the matter, those people can't start it if they want to make trouble, but cutting off people's financial routes, such as killing their parents, this feud is settled." ”

This is also a kind of helplessness, in a large group, if you want to do something, there will definitely be resistance, if you want not to provoke the enemy, but also to do things well, it is basically impossible, what kind of person was Zhou Yu back then? Isn't it the same to be dragged to death by the people of Jiangdong?

Liu Yi asked himself if he didn't have Zhou Yu's ability, so he simply didn't care about this, and messed up the cards, so that there was a chance to reshuffle the cards, the current Liu Bei Group, can not withstand the toss of civil strife, these tumors, as long as there is a chance, they will be directly and completely eradicated, leaving no room for error, as for the future, there is really no way to predict now, you can only do things first, and the rest of the problems will be dealt with after you go back.