Just when Lu Peng was preparing to make a big show in Changli and build Changli County into his own coal industry base, two key problems suddenly appeared, but they disrupted Lu Peng's planning and thinking, because, according to the intelligence transmitted by Jinyiwei, Xu Jie beat Wang Dong.

This is a big deal and should never be taken lightly.

Here's how it went.

Xi Zhen was sent to Quanzhou by himself, as a guard, in the face of the fierce Yuan Shao, it can be said that he is in charge, as his logistics supplement Wang Dong of Luxian County, is conscientious in logistics supply, dare not be a little sloppy, and the civil and military cooperation is also harmonious.

Originally, the two of them should have cooperated very well, but this time, one of Xi Zhen's centurions drank too much and fell in love with a woman in the station, and regardless of whether people wanted to or not, they wanted to force this woman to be his wife, and as a result, a bloody case was made, because the woman herself already had a man she liked, and she was unwilling to submit to this centurion, so the centurion took out a knife and cut the woman's man directly.

Originally, such a thing was nothing in this troubled era, even in the time of Chengping, a soldier killed a civilian, as long as he reported a thief, not only was there no fault but also meritorious.

But under Lu Pengdan's rule, such a thing must not be allowed. At the same time, the more and more perfect Jinyi Wei system also made such a good thing to hide, so it was poked out at this time.

In fact, this is a criminal case, and this case should be under the jurisdiction of local officials, and the military superiors have no power to intervene.

But as the so-called upward and downward effect, Lu Peng is a person who protects calves, and the soldiers he subtly influences, of course, follow his nature, as the so-called boss produces what subordinates, as a result, Xi Zhen of course has Lu Peng's temper, when the magistrate Wang Dong sent a group of officials to arrest the centurion, Xi Zhen of course rejected Wang Dong's group of officials.

According to the habit of the great chaos in the world, those who hold knives are always a few levels higher than those who hold pens, and anyone who has military strength will unconsciously become a warlord of greater or lesser proportions.

It is precisely this habit of thinking that Xi Zhen thinks that he is qualified to be born and fight to the death with his lord Lu Peng, so Xi Zhen not only beat the official sent by Wang Dong, but also directly led a group of soldiers to directly break into the Wangdong County Ya, beat the bitter master, and threatened that if the bitter master does not forgive like this, he will destroy their whole family.

In this era when power and military strength are the basics, Wang Dong can only swallow his anger, and has to use his meager money to compensate the bitter lord for some of the benefits, hoping to calm things down.

But this matter was still reported by the eyeliner Jinyiwei to Zhao Quan, who temporarily replaced Lu Peng.

Zhao Quan didn't dare to judge this matter, so he wrote the whole matter as it was, and reported it to Lu Peng using the merchant ships.

When Lu Peng held this paperwork, his cold sweat was gurgling down.

Not because of Wang Dong's cowardice, nor because of Xi Zhen's domineering, but because he saw a very fatal sign - that is, in his rapidly expanding territory, there are signs of a new warlord.

This is the most terrifying.

Throughout the history of the upper and lower dynasties for 5,000 years, the chaos at the end of the dynasty, the expansion of the population, the annexation of land, the lack of livelihood of the people, and the mediocrity of the emperor and the corruption of the bureaucracy are all factors.

But the biggest factor is the emergence of warlords and gatekeepers. For example, at the beginning, the Zhou Dynasty divided the princes of various places, and the princes of various places meekly obeyed the orders of the king of Zhou, so that the 800-year historical national fortune of the Zhou Dynasty was born, but later the princes continued to break away from the shackles of the royal family and began to attack each other, and finally maintained the collapse of the Zhou Dynasty.

The king of Qin unified the world and ruled harshly at this time, but he forgot to fight those original nobles, so that the warlords rose together, and finally Qin Shi Huang did not have eternity.

Until now, the warlords from all over the country rose up again, and finally destroyed the Huanghuang Han, and after hundreds of years of war, it was barely unified by the Western Jin Dynasty.

Even the later glorious Tang Dynasty, because of the warlord secession, buried the vitality of the entire Han nation, such examples are too numerous to mention, until the early years of the Republic of China, the warlords fought again, and the Japanese took advantage of the void to "enter" the decades of national suffering.

Such a lesson was bloody, and as a result, the signs of warlords appeared in the group that he had just gradually established.

The army must not be above the local government, and the local government must not be above the army, and the balance between civil and military forces is what Lu Peng has always wanted to do.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was not advisable to emphasize literature and light military force, but in the Tang Dynasty, it was even more important to emphasize military force and light literature.

Therefore, Lu Peng decided that the emergence of this warlord and the emergence of this indistinguishable civil and military force must be completely suppressed in the bud in the system.

There is another thing, which was also reported by Jinyiwei, which made Lu Peng feel more urgent and terrifying, that is, in the salt field of Lu County, his core economic lifeline, there was corruption.

This matter, the person who came up after Jinyiwei at that time, when he said this, he looked calm and indifferent, but he was just a small official who managed the sale of salt, and in order to make it convenient for some businessmen who were eager to get salt, he accepted a bribe of 1,000 yuan from the other party.

In his eyes, reporting to Lu Peng is just doing his duty, and there is no fuss.

But when this matter heard Lu Peng's ears, it was almost a bombshell.

A grassroots group, a thriving group, at this time, there is a situation of accepting bribes, which is really terrible.

If this trend is not stopped immediately, it will continue indefinitely! In the end, it formed a prairie fire, and finally completely burned down its own thriving group.

"It seems that his pace of expansion is too fast, it seems that his idea of dominating the Central Plains by force has misled his current subordinates, and the whole sign is urgent, and it is imperative to hold a conference and rectify the thinking."

Lu Peng made a heart-wrenching decision: "Let go of the construction of Changli County first, and let go of the construction of all places first, even if some places are seized by the enemy again, it is imperative to unify the thinking." ”

So, Lu Peng decisively issued an order: "Immediately order, the civil and military scattered all over the place, immediately rush to Benlu County, we will hold a conference." ”

Then he boarded the ship, took Changli Taishou Wang Zhi, and returned directly to Lu County.