In the inner hall of the Ya of Fushi County, dozens of soldiers surrounded the courtyard outside the second hall with knives in their hands, and the officials in the county were pushed aside one by one, and their faces were all angry and did not dare to speak. In the courtyard, there was a person sitting firmly on a comfortable chair, with a calm look on his face, but it was Gao Shaoji, the son of Gao Yunquan, the commander of Yanzhou Jiedu Ya, and the envoy of Yanzhou Jiedu.

Gao Shaoji came today to find the bad luck of Qin Gu, the commander of Shi County.

Bordering the party's territorial boundaries to the north, the problem of displaced people in Yanzhou has always been a long-standing problem that has plagued the military and political authorities in Yanzhou. Since the time of Gao Yunquan's father, Gao Wanjin, the aborigines of the Yinxia region began to flee south to Yanzhou, and during the Tongguang period of the Later Tang Dynasty, there was even a large-scale famine in Yanzhou, and nearly 100,000 people died of starvation at one time.

For Yanzhou, the problem of displaced people is as serious as the threat of the party's problems, and these displaced people continue to consume Yanzhou's resource reserves, so that Yanzhou's economic situation has never been able to get a chance to breathe, and Yanzhou has always been in a state of crisis. Gao Wanxing is like this, Gao Wanjin is like this, Zhou Mi is like this, and when it comes to Gao Yunquan, the same is true.

Before the famine in the Later Tang Dynasty, Yanzhou received displaced people from the north almost every year, and these displaced people were stationed in Yanzhou because of the official relief policy for them, so that a large camp of displaced people gradually formed in the north of Yanzhou. These out-of-town exiles brought not only hostility from the party, but also disease and pestilence. So it didn't take long for Yanzhou to warn the refugees that they had to leave Yanzhou.

As a result, the displaced people rose up under the leadership of a few stalwarts and attempted to besiege the city of Yanzhou for a time, resulting in the robbery of Fenglin County near Yanzhou, and then scattered in a hurry.

After that lesson, the military authorities in Yanzhou began to disfavor the displaced people, and for many years, the civilian system in Yanzhou had hoped to use the cheap labor of the displaced people to promote the agricultural and demographic development of the state; The military, on the other hand, has been driving and killing new displaced people who have entered Yanzhou.

This policy dispute between the civilian and military authorities in Yanzhou over the issue of displaced people has lasted for decades. The two sides have not been able to reach a compromise on this issue for decades. Logically speaking, the issue of displaced people involves a wide range of civil affairs and belongs to the realm of civil affairs, which in turn is precisely the sphere of power of civil officials. However, in the special historical period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the civil government system of the whole country was replaced by one hundred and eight jiedu envoys, and the result of the numerous warlords was that the civil official system based on the imperial examination system, which had been established under the careful care of several generations of monarchs and ministers since the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, was greatly damaged and attacked, and it still has not recovered to this day.

However, there are two sides to everything, and even if they are warlords, there is no way to truly govern the army and the people. After all, the military is best at destroying rather than building, so it is impossible for any feudal town to be completely free of civilian officials, and it is a different matter for a rogue like Huang Chao who does not think about construction and political stability at all. In such a situation, a power struggle between the military and civilian groups has become a common occurrence. This kind of power struggle existed within any small feudal town, but it took on different patterns and degrees of intensity.

As long as the feudal towns appointed civilian officials to preside over civil affairs within their jurisdiction, it was inevitable that the authority of the civilian officials would be expanded, and this would inevitably lead to a challenge to the interests and power of the military. Once a contradiction arises between the two sides, it will not be easy to resolve. In this struggle between the two sides, the military has a natural advantage because it has the most powerful army of state apparatus. Whenever the contradictions between the two sides intensified to a certain extent or even irreconcilable, the feudal towns would often accommodate the attitude of the military at the expense of civilian interests. At this time, the civilian clique faced the fate of compromise or extinction.

At least in the special historical period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the vast majority of civil officials will choose to compromise and survive in the future at this time, and Feng Dao, who has hung the seals of the four dynasties, is an outstanding representative of these civil officials.

In the civil and military disputes in Yanzhou, the only time the civil official group occupied a relative advantage was in the Tianfu period of the Later Jin Dynasty, the famous emperor Shi Jingjiao was in charge of the country for a relatively long time among the emperors of the five dynasties, plus Shi Chonggui's years before and after ten years, the situation in the Central Plains was relatively stable during these ten years, the authority of the central government was increasing day by day, and the control of the border areas was also strengthened, and the nature of the Tianwen official group was more stimulating the enhancement of the civil power within the Yanzhou Domain. At that time, the Yanzhou Jiedu made Yanzhou, which was unfamiliar with the people, adopt the strategy of forming an alliance with the civil official group to strengthen its own power, which led to the power of the civil official group in Yanzhou in the Later Jin Dynasty. At present, all the county commanders and county governors of the nine counties of Yanzhou were appointed at that time, and the civil official group controlled the real power of the local government.

However, this situation directly violated the interests of the Yanzhou military, and the disgruntled army launched a mutiny, seized Xicheng, and brought Gao Yunquan, the new patriarch of the Yanzhou Gao family, out to take the lead, and drove Zhou Mi to Dongcheng. Originally, this kind of behavior, which was almost equivalent to openly gathering people to rebel, would inevitably lead to a crusade against the Later Jin court, but at that time, the Later Jin court, which was facing a powerful military invasion of the Khitans, simply did not have the strength to send troops to quell the rebellion. When the mutiny broke out, Shi Chonggui's regime had already collapsed in front of the Khitan, which was also the premise for the soldiers of Yanzhou to dare to openly confront Zhou Mi.

The result of this mutiny was that the Yanzhou civilian clique represented by Li Bin once again compromised, and after secret consultations with Gao Yunquan, the Yanzhou civilian clique gave up their support for Zhou Mi in favor of Gao Yunquan, and at the same time, Li Bin used his ability to operate within the Central Plains regime to establish contact between Gao Yunquan and the emerging Central Plains overlord Liu Zhiyuan, and successfully resolved the legitimacy of Gao Yunquan's regime. In return, Gao Yunquan confirmed the political status achieved by the civil official group in the Later Jin Dynasty, and no longer carried out the post-autumn accounting.

Gao Yunquan lives in Yanzhou and has a clear understanding of the situation in Yanzhou, and he himself is not good at the army, but more like a civilian official. Therefore, Gao was actually a product of a compromise between the Yanzhou military and the Yanzhou civilian officials. On the one hand, Gao Yunquan carefully maintained a delicate balance between the Yanzhou military and the Yanzhou civilian clique, and on the other hand, he gradually squeezed some veteran military generals out of the army and replaced them with his own relatives, friends, and even family members. On the other hand, while respecting the interests of civil officials, they cultivated some cronies and civil officials in their own Jiedu Mansion as reserve resources, and supplemented these young civil officials when the county magistrates were vacant, and seized the actual control of Yanzhou step by step.

Therefore, Gao Yunquan gradually controlled the military power in his hands through his son Gao Shaoji, and at the same time vigorously reaffirmed Li Bin's important position and irreplaceability in the Yanzhou Festival from time to time, and strictly forbade anyone in the Yanzhou military to dare to offend Li Bin's authority. In fact, it is true, Gao Yunquan knows very well that the reason why the Gao family can be recognized by the emperor of the Central Plains is not because of how strong the Gao family is, but because Li Bin's existence has always reassured Bianliang. The warlords who controlled Bianliang changed one after another, but the civil official group that controlled Bianliang was untouchable, and in this chaotic era of princely disputes, the vitality of the civilian official group was significantly stronger than the feudal town to which they were loyal.

Therefore, Gao Yunquan knows very well that offending the military will lead to immediate disasters, but offending the civilian clique is even less cost-effective for the Gao family in the long run.

He tried to find a balance between this, that is, to turn both the military and civilian officials into his own private forces, and this means would ensure the continuation of the Gao family's power in Yanzhou.

Gao Shaoji is the highest representative of the Yanzhou military in Gao Yunquan's mansion.

And Qin Gu, the newly appointed county magistrate of Fushi for less than a year, is a young civil official representative personally cultivated by Gao Yunquan.

The dispute between the two actually stemmed from a document called the "Yanzhou Displaced Resettlement Notice".

Generally speaking, it is the responsibility of civil officials to draft notices for the resettlement, and the notices for the resettlement of displaced persons should be drafted by civil officials.

But this notice was concocted by Gao Shaoji.

Unlike the attitude of others in the military towards the homeless, Gao Shaoji also saw the value of the homeless as a potentially cheap laborer. From this point of view, Gao Shaoji's views coincide with those of the civil officials, but the difference is that the civil officials believe that the value of the displaced people should be integrated into the overall framework of Yanzhou's economy and people's livelihood, and that the food reserves of Yanzhou can be increased through the labor of the displaced people, and finally the goal of increasing the population base of Yanzhou and transforming the displaced people into aborigines.

However, Gao Shaoji's purpose was completely different, and the regulations he concocted for the resettlement of displaced people not only completely deprived the displaced people of their right to own private property, but also deprived them of their right to personal freedom, and these people would later exist as slaves of the Gao family and the Yanzhou scholars, who would cultivate a large amount of land for the Yanzhou scholars who had come from the war, and would become the main source of soldiers for the private armed families of the Yanzhou scholars.

Gao Yunquan has not expanded the army for this reason, he does not want Yanzhou to have an army that is not within the control of his own forces, his ultimate goal is to turn the armed forces of Yanzhou Domain into a real Gao army.

It's just that Gao Shaoji's plan for the resettlement of displaced people is too cruel, and it stipulates that all the elderly and children over the age of 50 and under the age of 10 who are unable to work will be directly slaughtered, that is, "filling in the trenches", which is a slightly better term than burying them alive.

As a result, this plan was implemented in the west of Yanzhou, but in Dongcheng Fushi County, in the remaining eight counties in Yanzhou, this plan was unanimously resisted by the civilian clique.

For Li Bin, who has the greatest opinion on this, Gao Shaoji does not dare to provoke it at present, but for Qin Gu, the county magistrate of Fushi who stood beside Li Bin and shouted for him, Gao Shaoji hated him to the core, the reason is very simple, Qin Gu was promoted from an ordinary copywriter next to Gao Yunquan to the county magistrate of Fushi. And Qin Gu's ungrateful behavior of a slave betraying his master made Gao Shaoji especially intolerable.

Originally, Gao Shaoji had no right to meddle in the affairs of Dongcheng, and Liao Jianzhong, the commander of the Zuo Battalion, the leader of the Dongcheng garrison, was an old fritter, who refused to offend him and did not dare to be rude in front of Li Bin. Therefore, although Gao Shaoji gritted his teeth at Dongcheng, he had nothing to do on weekdays.

However, a month earlier, Li * had suddenly led Team C out of the city to station, while Gao Shaoji had lost no time in sending two teams of soldiers from the middle battalion to the left battalion.

In the case that Liao Jianzhong did not help each other, the Chen brothers became a trump card for Gao Shaoji in Dongcheng.

Today, Gao Shaoji suddenly attacked, on the one hand, he ordered Chen Ye to lead the team to take over the defense of the city gate, and on the other hand, he personally led his own soldiers to Dongcheng, and with Chen Yao's cooperation, he suddenly broke into the Fushi County Ya, preparing to force Qin Gu to sign and seal the resettlement notice.

He thought very well when he came, it doesn't matter if Qin Gu doesn't sign it, as long as the big seal is in his hand, Qin Gu is not afraid if he doesn't admit it afterwards, anyway, the notice is sent out in the name of Fushi County, and the surrounding eight counties will get the news, he Gao Shaoji doesn't want Qin Gu's stubborn nerd cooperation, he just needs to cause this kind of impact......

Anyway, he is Gao Yunquan's son, no matter how angry Li Bin is, he can only go to his father to complain, and he is too big to be called by the old man to scold him, what else can he do?

However, what he didn't expect was that Qin Gu, a young man who was only twenty-four years old this year, would be so shrewd, and at the moment when he led the troops into the hall, the county lord took the big seal and returned to the second hall.

On the official case of the second hall, the big seal of the county order was wrapped in a blue leather bag, and Fang Fang was placed there, Qin Gu himself was wearing an official uniform and hat and sitting at the back of the official case, holding a sword in his hand, and the sword was straight across the neck of this handsome scholar.

Although he is facing great changes, this scholar does not have any anxiety between his eyebrows, but has a trace of pride; The corners of his mouth were not half anxious, but with a faint smile......

All of a sudden, the situation became tricky......

Forcibly going in to grab the seal, Qin Gu would definitely not be able to stop it, but Qin Gu really wanted to commit suicide, but Gao Shaoji couldn't stop it.

Originally, a seven-pin county order would die if he died, and Gao Shao basically didn't care.

But unlike him, the "commander of the Yanei", no matter how small the county order is, it is also an official of the imperial court, and it is filed in the official department of Bianliang.

Although Qin Gu himself is not a pity to die, the turmoil caused by this will definitely not end. Gao Shaoji can imagine that Li Bin, who was furious, is very likely to ask his father to immediately dismiss his military power, and it is impossible for his father to reject Li Bin's request under that circumstances, otherwise Li Bin will send a piece of paper to Bianliang and impeach himself for killing the imperial court and county order without permission by the generals of the Yanei army, and so on. Gao Shaoji is very familiar with Li Bin, although he is a gentleman, he is by no means short of scheming, he can be similar, no matter how Qin Gu died, as long as he died on the spot, Li Bin must be written in the bullet seal that he was killed by himself.

At that time, it is impossible for me to defend myself, and I can't go to the table like Bianliang for such a role.

Even if the father loved his son at that time and apologized for his injustice, without Li Bin's conveyance, the envoy of the house in Bianjing would never have submitted this letter of defense and injustice. When the time comes, I can only send my family members to send the watch seal to the Beijing Division, spend money and bribes to find out which of the princes in the country is willing to submit the watch seal to the Zhongshu for himself......

Even if the seal is submitted, it may not be a good thing for the Gao family. According to the practice of this era, this kind of errand is generally carried out by the imperial court's cronies and the commanders of the real power of the feudal towns, and as far as Yanzhou is concerned, the military power in the city will be reversed as soon as the envoy arrives, and his life and death will be in the hands of others......

Gao Shaoji figured out that he couldn't really force Qin Gu to death no matter what, otherwise his father would not be able to pass that level in the first place. Although his position as the commander of the government is already very stable, it is by no means without potential competitors, and the younger brothers in the family and the cousins in the clan are respectful to themselves on the surface, who knows what is going on behind the scenes.

Thinking of this, he sighed softly: "Zijian, what's the matter? You and I are fighting, but others are laughing ......"

The expression on Qin Gu's face was still indifferent, and his voice was very soft and pleasant: "...... Yanei's words are serious, who is Qin Gu, how dare he fight with the Yanei in the service? It's just that the world is chaotic, and all those who are in charge are guilty, so why is Li Shu innocent? Qin Gu just can't bear to see the people who betray their families have the pain of burying their bones in a foreign land, and their souls can't return to their hometowns, which is also to accumulate some yin virtues in the service and the ya, so as not to be disturbed by the trapped ghosts of the Gao family's ancestral tombs, and hinder the underground Qingning of the Gao family's ancestors......"

Gao Shaoji's eyes rolled: "Zijian is a kind heart, how can I not know?" It's just that this is not within the scope of your Fu Shi County Order, you are now holding a big seal and holding a sword to threaten your life, and you still have a little bit of the demeanor of the Ming Mansion, I am afraid that if it is spread out, it will be laughed at by the world......"

Qin Gu smiled: "Qin is not talented, he is willing to be laughed at by the world, and he does not want to stain the blood of innocent people with his hands, and be sick by the goodness ......of the world."

Gao Shaoji's face turned cold: "Zijian, don't be obsessed, Jiedu Mansion has issued a proclamation, you are no longer a Fushi County Order, you are now refusing to hand over the seal, you are already complicit in rebellion, I advise you to know each other, don't be obsessed, it's better......"

Qin Gu's expression did not fluctuate in the slightest, and said lightly: "Please show the proclamation in the Yanei, Qin Gu should hand over the county seal to the successor according to the regulations......"

He paused and added: "According to the system, the proclamation of the festival can only take effect if there is an observation judge to supervise the countersignature of the imperial history......"

Gao Shaoji's heart was on fire, and he was about to answer, when he suddenly heard a long laugh from outside the courtyard behind him: "What kind of proclamation?" Can Gao Yanei tell the old man? ”