Yanzhou is located in a remote area, and both the gentry and Li Shu have limited loyalty to the Later Zhou court, which was established not long ago, but even so, it is not entirely impossible to refuse to sign the "Feudal Shu" because of disagreements, and Lu Duan, the Ma supervisor of Yanzhou who knows the power of Taifu Temple, is one of them. This scholar, who belongs to the official system of the imperial court, does not have much criticism of Li Wenge's insistence on appointing a woman as an official, after all, in his opinion, Li Wenge, a warlord in nature, has done too many shocking things, and it is only enough to do such a thing. But for the fact that Yanqing officials jointly asked the court to invite feudalism, Lu Duan was heartbroken.

At that time, the scribe of the Prime Minister's Mansion took this document and asked him to sign it, in front of hundreds of civil and military officials, Lu Duan stood with his hands and looked up silent, and even until Li Bin opened his mouth to ask for his opinion with the respect of the Prime Minister, he was still in this demeanor, but the words in his mouth were as sharp as knives: "The king founded the country, the power of the Son of Heaven is also, with the respect of the three princes, there is no right to put the beak, and the Qin and Han Dynasty put the six seals, specially for this matter!" In today's service, the envoy suddenly practiced feudalism, where is the king? Sifang Festival Town, if the bee follows suit, then my Chinese China, is not to reproduce the image of the troubled times in the Spring and Autumn Period? ”

For his attitude, both the civil and military sides in Yanzhou are very dissatisfied, for this outsider, Yanzhou is not very cold, not to mention that this person dares to do such a battle at this critical moment?

Therefore, since Li Wenge returned to his home to take care of the matter, he privately wrote a letter to persuade Li Taiwei to find a book for this person to be repatriated to Bianjing, and sent it to Changshi's study like snowflakes. Even Qin Gu was forced to privately persuade Li Wenge to send Lu Duan back to Beijing--- in Qin Gu's opinion. This is actually a disguised protection for Lu Duan himself.

In the attention of the entire Yanzhou officialdom, on August 11, the Eighth Route Army Jiedu Mansion issued a proclamation against Lu Duan---- removing the chief of Xiazhou and pacifying the summer order. Quan Zhiyu Xia Ma political affairs.

As soon as the proclamation came out, everyone from the government to the county, from the government to the military, was in an uproar.

The Xiazhou Jiedu Judge's Office is still an empty shelf. Most of the chief officials of the three Cao administration, the inspection and the transfer of the three Cao chiefs and the county magistrates were vacant. Lü Duan was appointed as the chief of the political department, and at the same time concurrently served as the commander of the prefecture and the county, and was actually the second-in-command of the Xiazhou governor. ^^, UC e-book, first published ^^ Li Wenge's hatred of the local political system in the interior is not only not discriminatory and jealous, but has been greatly promoted, which really makes a considerable number of people in Yanzhou find it very difficult to understand.

Although everyone was dissatisfied, everyone below Shi Qingu, the governor of the state capital, was helpless about this appointment, because the manuscript clearly had the countersignature of Xiao Yali, the judge of the Xiazhou Festival of the Eighth Route Army.

According to the new official system established in July, the Governor of the Governor of the Governor of the Prefecture of the Prefecture of the Governor of the Prefecture of the Governor of the Prefecture of the Prefecture In the same way, the festival envoy appointed the judges of the state of the festival. It also needs to be countersigned by Li Bindi of the Shizhong Mansion to take effect; The appointment of local state and county and even state bureau officials requires the countersignature of the local governor to take effect.

From Li Wenge's return to the house to the announcement of his appointment. There was an interval of about ten days, and it was enough for the horse to run back and forth between Pingxia and Yanzhou during this time.

There is Li Wenge's nomination, and Xiao Yali's review, the procedures are completely in line with the rules, and at this moment, it is Qin Gu and Li Bin, and it is not good to make irresponsible remarks about this appointment.

Unless the imperial history observation officials in charge of Li Bin impeached Lu Duan.

It's a pity that although Lu Duan is debauched, Yanzhou is a bitter place after all, and there is not even a decent brothel in Qinglou, which makes Lu Duan have no chance even if he wants to commit style problems.

There is no reason, and there is no real evidence. facing Lu Duan, a magistrate who had just been appointed and had not yet taken office. What can those inspectors say, even if they hate it so much? Even if they say it hard, there is nothing to support it. This kind of impeachment has almost no value in Li Wenge, and a scheming man like Li Bin naturally will not take such an unreliable impeachment document to Jiedu Mansion to hit the nail.

In this way, Lu Duan, who had already packed his backpack and was about to leave Yanzhou, inexplicably went to Xiazhou to take up his post.

It wasn't until the so-called Xia County of Xiazhou Prefecture that Lu Duan knew how heavy the appointment Li Wenge gave him. ^^^^

The so-called Pingxia County is purely imaginary!

At the beginning of his appointment, Lu Duan took the wrong road, plunged into the empty city of ten thousand cities, the scene in the city was very terrifying, the whole city out of the four sides of the broken black city wall passes, there is no longer half of the appearance of a town, standing at any point in the city to look around, can see in addition to the city wall is a flat ground, all the houses, courtyards, lanes, roads, buildings and other buildings in the city have disappeared. If the walls were to be torn down at this moment, there would be no remnants of the town......

Ten miles east of Tongwancheng City, Wuding Henan, a circle of fences was erected with wood, and simple houses were set up in the fence with earthwork and timber dismantled from Tongwancheng, and a group of people with ragged clothes and vegetables lived here, which is now the location of the Xiazhou Jiedu Judge's Office, and it is also the "first county" of Xiazhou, Pingxia County.

The total number of people living in the small village is more than 18,000, including 9,300 men, 5,000 women and children, and 3,000 old people. Basically, all the population of the Tuoba clan in Pingxia was originally landed, except for the more than 2,000 captives and nobles who were escorted to the Kanto region, and all of them were concentrated in this small village with a radius of only four miles.

Li Wenge's method of dealing with the Tuoba family land is not unkind, basically he did not kill any of these surrendered aliens, but handed over all these people to Zhecongruan to take to Beijing.

He did not move the slightest trick, nearly 5,000 sturdy war horses, 800 pairs of various iron armor, more than 2,000 infantry cavalry armor, more than 700 foreign clan soldiers (most of which are fine seal family soldiers), more than 100 harrier warriors, Li Taiwei unceremoniously intercepted, these people and equipment have been transported back to Yanzhou headquarters at this moment, leaving behind 1,500 horses and 3,000 cattle---- this is the stallion cattle left by Li Taiwei to Xiazhou, Li Wenge issued a sheep ban proclamation almost as soon as he returned to Yanzhou. The four prefectures of Yanqing and Youxia were not allowed to raise sheep for five years, and the existing sheep herds were handed over to the merchants of Yanzhou to exchange grain for the Tang Dynasty and Houshu in the southeast of Guandong.

The war horses of this era were mostly geldings, in order to have a docile temperament and easy to control, and only those warriors with extremely skilled horsemen in the party tribe disdained to ride geldings on the battlefield. And there are not many such warriors, except for those harriers who have been trained for a long time, there are only more than 100 people, so although there are tens of thousands of horses captured by Li Wenge in the first battle of Pingxia, geldings account for one-third. The rest, except for the mares, can be used as stallions for only about 2,000 in total. This one-time allocation of 1,500 horses to Xiazhou is already a big deal.

It was only after Lü Duan took over the seal that he learned that there was a camp of 13,000 displaced people stationed in the northeast of Pingxia City, who were working in shifts day and night on the Wuding River--- building dams and reservoirs.

These are also his people.

A non-existent Pingxia city, a settlement with a population of nearly 30,000......

On a town scale, this is not a county at all; In terms of population size, 30,000 people are enough to be called a large county even in the Gyeonggi region of the mainland.

At the time of Lu Duan's arrival, the 18,000 aliens were still in a state of being guarded on the spot. Thousands of Han Chinese slaves were simply armed to guard over their erstwhile masters. These people get very little food every day--- which means that they don't do anything else every day except sleep, so that they have nothing to do but be woken up from hunger from time to time.

As a direct side effect of this situation, there were many fights within the ---- community over rations, in which the elderly, weak, women, and children were clearly at a disadvantage, and the number of party members who died of infighting and starvation had risen to double digits before Lü Duan's arrival.

No matter what kind of ambition Lu Duan has, he must quickly solve the current predicament, otherwise he, Bu Zheng and Xiao Yali, the judge, will always have to sit on this powder keg that will suddenly explode at any time.

Lü Duan's measure was to make a deal with Gao Shaoyuan in Gyeongju with 2,000 head of cattle ---- transport a batch of grain that was supposed to be shipped to Gyeongju to Haju by water, after obtaining this batch of grain reserves. Lü Duan carried out a simple and crude reform of the population management system in Pingxia.

He transferred 5,000 Pingxia Qingzhuang to the Wuding River construction site according to the simple unit of 100,000 as river workers. At the same time, 5,000 old and weak women and children were transferred back from the river workers along the Wuding River, and then with a stroke of the pen. The east of Pingxia City was divided into reclamation areas, and the west of Pingxia City was divided into pastoral areas, and 3,000 party members and young people were hoeing grass and cultivating land in the reclamation area, while the old and weak women and children of the Han people and the old and weak women and children of the Qiang people were mixed in the pastoral area for grazing.

At the same time, he selected 500 relatively strong men from thousands of Han slaves to fill the Xiazhou Public Security Section under Xiao Ya's divorce as a police officer to maintain the state security prison.

The embarrassing reality forced Lü Duan, a Confucian who had read the books of sages, to temporarily abandon all political ideals and impose severe punishments within the limits of his power. In Lu Duan's view, the most critical problem in Xiazhou at present is not how to deal with the descent---- in fact, this problem has been solved for him by Li Wenge, after all the nobles in charge were incorporated into the captive team and sent to Bianjing, the party members who are leaderless and facing the line of life and death can only obediently obey the arrangements of the Han people if they do not want to be physically eliminated. These disgruntled partisans have no other choice for the time being.

The most critical problem in Xia State at present is that it cannot tolerate the existence of any idle labor. Lu Duan once calculated the grain stocks and various resources in his hands, and the result was---- no matter how you look at it, it is a miracle to be able to support the first half of the year alone. In this case, Pingxia must not tolerate the existence of anyone who eats for nothing.

Therefore, old and young women and children go to graze, and young men go to repair rivers and reclaim wasteland, and it is necessary to make the best use of their talents. ^^^UC eBook ^Premiere ^^

In the long run, the participation of the Han people's old and young women and children in grazing has improved labor efficiency---- and these people are undoubtedly inefficient to work in the river and land reclamation---- on the other hand, they have cultivated a team of herdsmen of the Han people themselves. Over time, grazing will no longer be the preserve of the party, and the emergence of a reliable contingent of Han herdsmen is a matter of great desire for both Li Wenge and the Central Plains Dynasty.

Xiazhou is the new county of Xiazhou. The regimental training made Jing Hai stationed a regimental training battalion near the Wudinghe construction site, which not only had five full teams, but also an infantry subordinate to the Yan'an Infantry Regiment. But it is more than enough to suppress the unarmed and completely devoid of the establishment of the party.

For Lu Duandi's various initiatives. The county, the state and even the Jiedu Mansion are not unanimously supportive, and many officials from Yanzhou have also complained about this, in this regard, Xiao Yali once went to the Jiedu Mansion at the end of August to defend Lu Duan, and Li Wenge's final verdict on this is to send a handwritten letter---- do it yourself, and have enough food and clothing!

Looking at the crooked brush font, Lu Duan could be sure that this was indeed Lord Taiwei's handwriting.

After being busy for more than a month, Lu Duan finally sorted out the administrative affairs of the state agency.

"The road is blue, firewood, rice, oil and salt. If you are not an official close to the people, you don't know the hardships of the people's livelihood. It's true that it's also ......," Lu Duan, who was originally a celebrity in Bianjing, was black and thin at this time, wiping his face with a whitish linen towel and sighed.

The conditions are simple, the state and county government offices are co-located, Xiao Yali sat behind a simple wooden long-legged table to deal with official business, listened to Lu Duan's emotion, gently put down the pen, stood up and rubbed his wrist and said, "Yi Zhi has enlightened?" ”

Lu Duan smiled bitterly: "Enlightenment is such a leisure thing as Chen Lu's old bull's nose, I am a son of a saint, and I don't believe in that." However, since the Tang Dynasty, there is no Lizhou County. There is no such thing as a pavilion. This rule seems to make sense. If you don't have this experience, the pro-people officials are trivial. became the prime minister on a different day, and it is inevitable that he will mislead the country! ”

Xiao Yali smiled, but did not answer.

Lu Duan put down his handkerchief, picked up the herbal tea on the table and drank it in one go, wiped his mouth and asked, "When will the Cao Branch officials, county magistrates, and Ma Jian officials be able to come to politics?" With a huge Xiazhou and a population of more than 50,000, is it possible to point to Xiao Gong and the next two people? ”

Xiao Yali said: "At noon today, the envoy from Yanzhou came to report that the volume of Qiu Yu has been approved, and a total of 33 people from Jinshi and 172 people from Jinshi have been decided, and there are 18 scholars from a single subject, 9 economists from a single subject, 11 priests from a single subject, 3 scholars from a single subject, 21 scholars from a single subject, 5 scholars from a single subject, and 14 scholars from a single subject, a total of 282 scholars. Zhou Maosheng, a candidate from Jincheng County, Yanzhou, scored a total of 61 in the seven-subject test, and the first in the form of a circle; Linzhen County candidate Zhao Yuan scored 59 points, ranking and first, Gao Shaoliang of Yan'an Gaojia scored 51 points, ranking and ranking... Lu Duan was stunned, he had always treated Li Wenge's so-called imperial examination as a joke, and 282 officials to be elected in 28 counties in four prefectures were decided, and this result really confirmed his opinion.

He sneered: "Isn't this the crown of the monkey? That Zhou Maosheng was just a pioneer in the Yan'an Bazaar, and now he is ranked first. Such a round shape, doesn't it tarnish the name of Sandingjia? ”

Xiao Yali himself was not from the imperial examination, so he didn't think much of Lu Duan's words, and only responded lightly: "Yanqing people are short of officials, just from power!" ”

Lu Duan shook his head: "General Li's move violated the rules of the imperial court, corrupted the famous religion, and usurped the power of the emperor, if it weren't for the troubled times, he would have been punished long ago!" ”

Xiao Yali's face became solemn, he was silent for a long time, and asked: "Yi Zhifang just complained about the lack of manpower, and now the Taiwei has sent you manpower, but you complain that the Taiwei is poor, since ancient times, it is difficult for the superiors, but I am afraid that it is no more than Taiwei Li!" ”

The meaning of the sarcasm in these words was very clear, and Lu Duan couldn't help but blushed and defended: "Taking scholars is a national ceremony, and it has its own regulations......

Xiao Yali shook his head: "It has been nearly a hundred years since the rites collapsed, and hundreds of thousands of people are waiting to be fed, and this so-called subordination is also." Yi Zhi has been a pro-people official for a month, and it is not easy to do it in Daozhou County, is it possible to read poetry and books well and write beautifully, so you can know how to govern the Tao? ”

Lu Duan was speechless, and said after a while: "Since ancient times, the right to employ people lies in the country, and it is the act of the Son of Heaven to seek talent. What is a sage? There are 3,000 disciples under Confucius, and there are only 72 sages. There were nearly 300 scholars in Yanzhou at one time, four times the sages of Confucius. Knowing poetry and books is not necessarily a sage, but poetry and books are still scarce, the so-called sage, where to start? ”

Xiao Yali smiled faintly: "Guo Wei has never been able to make a subject, and he has not read poetry and books well, can he be described as unvirtuous?" ”

Lu Duan was speechless, and only after a while did he shake his head and said: "Xiao Gong can be called a capable official in criminal law, but he can't help but despise Gangchang's humility. The name of the Son of Heaven is not known, how can the ministers of the people be able to call it? Whether it is the imperial court, the state or county, there must always be a rule, without the order of respect and inferiority, Chen Shi can also be the king of the world, and the disaster of the Yellow Nest is not far away, how can it be forgotten? ”

Xiao Yali breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a solemn expression: "Chen Shehuang Chao, but the puppet advocates chaos, although Li Huairen was born in a martial arts, his actions are inevitably perverse, but his intentions are all dignified and upright, and he has not tasted the government that is harmful to the people, and it is easy to compare it with Chen Huang, which is really a loss to the gods!" ”

Lu Duan nodded: "Could it be that a certain person is worried about the general, whether it is feudal or open, it is all monarchy, and the monarch's power is sacred, and it is not allowed to be transgressed." The general steals the monarch's power in vain, and he is afraid that the disaster will affect the officials and people of Yanqing! ”

Xiao Yali looked at Lu Duan like a knife, and only after a while did he slowly say: "If Zhou Tianzi has no favor to the world, the monarchy will be attributed to Xianyang; Li Huairen has grace in the northwest, not to mention acting as the monarch, even if he is the king of his own family, it is not a big deal! ”