There are money, people, and soldiers, and after taking Wang Zudao, Li Nan has gained a firm foothold in Guizhou.

Li Nan, who had already made Guizhou his home base, began to issue various decrees.

In the Song Dynasty, taxes were divided into land and conscription, and now Li Nan posted imperial court regulations all over Guizhou, no matter which ethnic group the people were treated equally, each household paid half a penny of conscription every year, and the existing fields were taken from 15 per mu in summer and autumn, encouraging the people to reclaim the land, and the first two years were exempted from the levy of field tax.

Li Nan then began to clear up the backlog of old cases, most of which were disputes between Han Chinese and ethnic minorities.

When the successive officials of the Song Dynasty decided cases, most of them would favor the Han people, and a few officials of the Song Dynasty would be extremely inclined to them in order to show favor to ethnic minorities, in fact, both of these methods would cause more and greater contradictions.

Therefore, Li Nan truly implemented the principle of handling cases regardless of ethnic groups and in accordance with the principle of public law enforcement.

Although this practice has attracted many people's opposition and protests, the current Guizhou City Li Nan can be said to be covering the sky with one hand, and he has forcefully implemented all the decrees.

The affairs of this state are extremely complicated, fortunately, Li Nan brought a lot of helpers this time, whether it is Hu Bing or Li Tian and others can help, even Li Shishi, the little Oiran, in addition to liking piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, also has some means to manage financial affairs, and is now mainly responsible for finance.

Half a month later, after the initial stabilization of things, Li Nan gathered many henchmen in the government and prepared a meeting to understand the situation.

Lu Zhishen, who has a heroic personality and is good at drinking, is more in love with the servants with a similar temperament, and after fighting with many warriors of the servants, he won the admiration of the servants, so Li Nan appointed him to control the three thousand sword soldiers.

Li Nan, as the pacification envoy of the Guangnan West Road, already had the authority to build the army, so he recruited some local ethnic minorities to form the 'Zhennan Army' with 5,000 militia as the team, Meng left as the commander of the new army, and Lin Chong, the head of the 800,000 forbidden army, served as the deputy commander and the chief instructor of the whole army.

Looking at the subordinates who had begun to take shape, Li Nan said with a smile: "Everyone has been busy and tired recently, let's sit together today and talk freely, who will talk first?" ”

After everyone looked at each other, Li Tian, who was in charge of taxation, arched his hand and said: "Master, during this time, the officials of the twenty-five prefectures and counties in Guizhou and the patriarchs of various ethnic groups have all come to the government to show their goodwill, only Zhang Fuhua, the governor of Yongzhou, did not come, and turned a blind eye to the decree issued by you, what should I do?" ”

Li Nan named and said: "Jin Lian, Sun Erniang, how many people like Zhang Fuhua are there in Guangnan West Road now?" ”

Now there are too few talents in his hands, so Li Nan also arranged a task for these two concubines, that is, to buy people around the officials of various states and counties to establish a pervasive surveillance network.

Pan Jinlian smiled, took out a piece of paper and said: "The highest official position is Zhang Fuhua, the governor of Yongzhou, because the official's decree has affected them to make money, so he is now contacting other officials everywhere, preparing to play the imperial court to punish the officials, there are currently Yongzhou Tong sentenced Zhu Si, Guizhou regimental training envoy Feng Chong and others, this is the list." ”

Meng Li's new official was angry when he took office, and when he heard Li Tian's words, he immediately got up and asked for battle: "My lord, my subordinates are willing to lead troops to deal with that Lord Zhang in Yongzhou!" ”

"Meng Li, don't be impatient."

Li Nan waved his hand to signal him to sit down, and said in a harmonious voice: "Zhang Fuhua was secretly planning to deal with me, if you take the troops away, he will definitely take the opportunity to make trouble, if he really attracts the attention of the imperial court, it will damage my future plans." ”

Meng Li whispered depressedly: "Don't you just care about him?" ”

Hu Bing, who was sitting in a wheelchair, looked at Li Nan and chuckled: "Brother Meng, the adults must have already made arrangements, you just listen to his orders." ”

"Hahaha......"

Li Nan said with a long laugh: "Bing'er still understands me, this matter does not need Meng Li to lead the troops to do it, I will write a letter in a while, you find a reliable person to take it to Daming Mountain, and hand it over to the black tiger thieves entrenched there, and then he will educate Zhang Fuhua and others well." ”

"Black Tiger Thief? Why do you know this group of fierce bandits who have been entrenched in the south for a long time? Meng Li and the others asked in surprise.

Among the people present, it seemed that only Pang Xiuxia knew the reason, and after receiving Li Nan's signal, the little beauty said in a coquettish voice: "Wang Hu, the bandit leader of the Black Tiger Thieves, is actually the brother of the official, and he came to the south to gain a foothold very early. ”

Everyone was stunned when they said this, but they were all very shocked and admired that Li Nan had taken precautions to send someone over a long time ago.

After solving this matter, Li Xuan and Li Huang, who were in charge of people's livelihood, said: "Master, the territory of Guizhou is now vast and sparsely populated, you let our brother lead the people to reclaim cultivated land and repair river dams, but now we really can't recruit enough manpower!" ”

Lu Zhishen said loudly: "Now that the people in the state capitals of Jiangnan are made unable to survive by those corrupt officials and corrupt officials, isn't it okay to recruit some homeless people there?" ”

Li Xuan, who was also a homeless person in the past, said with a wry smile: "Master Lu, this matter is not as simple as you think. In our eyes, this Lingnan is a borderless land, and the people don't have to worry about having no land to plant in their hands, and they can live a life, but those Great Song Dynasty exiles would rather go to Tokyo City to ask for food than come to us. ”

Lu Zhishen was surprised and asked, "Ah, why is this?" ”

Li Xuan only knew that there was this phenomenon, but after all, he was young and didn't understand the reason, so Li Nan explained for him: "The land of Lingnan, since ancient times, no dynasty has paid attention to it, they would rather go north and west to fight desperately to expand the territory, rather than come to develop here, mainly because there are many miasma diseases here, the weather is hot, there are many beasts, insects and snakes, and naturally no one dares to come in the past." ”

The people present, including Li Nan, are from the north, and their perception of the Lingnan region is indeed as these words say, with some discrimination and prejudice, as if they will get sick when they come to the south.

Since it was impossible to recruit people from the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, everyone was inevitably a little helpless, Li Nan couldn't help but shake his head when he saw their appearance and said, "Why do you have to work hard against the Great Song Dynasty, why don't you look to the south?" ”

Li Xuan said in surprise: "South? But we are already Lingnan here! ”

Li Nan stood up, came to the simple map hanging in the middle of the wall behind him, pointed to the southern zone and said: "The Lingnan region is only the south of the Great Song Dynasty, and further south, there are still Dali and Jiaozhi countries. ”

Hearing this, Meng Li, Zhang Hao, Lu Zhishen, Lin Chong and others, who were belligerent in their hearts, all came to the map to watch.

Liao, Western Xia and Jiaozhi and other countries have always been restless, and often come to the Song Realm to kidnap people, and the Great Song Dynasty has always maintained the rhythm of a gentleman who sends it away, so everyone didn't think of this for a while, but after being reminded by Li Nan, everyone woke up.

"Dali is quite peaceful, and the Bai people are inseparable from my Great Song and Han people regardless of their customs and language, so try not to disturb them for the time being. Meng Li first sent some soldiers to join Wang Hu's team, and asked him to go to Jiaozhi to arrest people, so as to arouse the vigilance of the other party. ”

Meng Li responded: "Yes, master, my subordinates know!" ”

After dealing with these two biggest difficulties at present, Li Nan discussed some other things with everyone, and everyone went to implement them after receiving the order.

A few days later, Wang Hu led a team of 500 bandits equipped with the ordnance of the Great Song Dynasty officials and soldiers to Yongzhou to raid and harass.

According to Li Nan's orders, he could not provoke the people and good people, but the wealthy families of the Han people in Yongzhou were all frightened and hid in the city after hearing the news.

Zhang Fuhua's mansion was surrounded by the people and various clans that poured in from outside the city, and all asked him to send troops to suppress the thieves.

Zhang Fuhua, who was forced to be helpless, had no choice but to lead his troops out of the city to suppress the bandits, but unfortunately, as soon as the battle was engaged, more than a dozen soldiers were shot dead in the first round of arrow rain.

Later, when Wang Hu charged with 500 bandits, 300 of Zhang Fuhua's 'brave' soldiers immediately surrendered on their knees, and the remaining 6 or 700 people fled......