Chapter 101: Lou Fu County
Li Yin's first task now is to organize the people to reclaim wasteland and cultivate crops. No matter how much money he has, it is limited, and he can't always buy food to feed those displaced people, and if he wants to fundamentally solve their food problem, he still has to give them arable land to settle down.
The cultivated land in Yanmen County has not been fully developed, and many basins in Wutai County have good soil quality and many mountain streams, all of which can be reclaimed as fertile land.
And what about the other half? Li Yin looked at Loufu and Taiyuan in Linjun.
At this time, someone reported to Li Yinyu: "Lord Lang, Ma Shangtian Futong asks to see." ”
Li Yin was slightly surprised and said, "Let him come in!" ”
Tian Futong then walked in, and after a false salute, he said with a bitter face: "Since I offended Ge Dong, the son of Loufu County Taishou in Fanzhi Racecourse that day, he seems to be determined to get along with me, not only confiscated the goods of my Tian caravan, took all the racecourse for himself, but also seized a lot of people, I don't care about the money, but can Master Li help me put those people back?" ”
Li Yin said: "The reason why you offended Ge Dong is also related to me, so leave this matter to me!" ”
Tian Futong was overjoyed and said: "So much of the Lord Lao, after the matter is completed, I am willing to give the Lord 500 good horses!" ”
A good horse costs three or four hundred taels of silver, Tian Futong promised Li Yin five hundred horses, which is indeed a blood capital, and Li Yin naturally will not refuse this.
After Tian Futong retreated, Li Yin called Fu Ying, "You take someone to Loufu County now, investigate the situation there clearly, and pay special attention to Taishou Geguan and his son Ge Dong." ”
Fu Ying didn't say much, and immediately took the order and left.
More than ten days later, Fu Ying returned and brought Li Yin detailed information about Loufu County, and finally whispered a few words in Li Yin's ear, Li Yin smiled after hearing it: "This Geguan can do such a beast thing?" ”
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Ge Dong hurriedly returned to the Taishou Mansion, walked through the back hall, and walked straight to the middle courtyard, where he saw his father Ge Guan slowly dancing his long sword in the courtyard, "Dad, I heard that Li Yin is back, when will you help me teach him a lesson?" ”
Ge Guan said: "Li Yin is strong and strong in Yanmen County, how can he be so easy to deal with? Allow me to think of another way. ”
To the north of Loufu County are the two counties of Mayi and Yanmen, which are not considered to be the places of border fortresses, there are not many garrisons, and the population in the county is not large, with three counties under its jurisdiction, and 24,427 households, so there are not many county soldiers and government soldiers, so Ge Guan is not capable of confronting Li Yin.
What Ge Guan could do was to make some small reports and spread rumors to the imperial court, saying that Li Yin intended to rebel and so on, but now the imperial court is focusing all its energy on conquering Goryeo, and no one pays attention to his twists and turns.
Ge Dong seemed to be very dissatisfied with his father's answer, "You've been thinking about it for so long, why haven't you come up with a way yet?" ”
Ge Guan put away his sword, took the towel from the maid's hand, and wiped the sweat, "That's not as good as this, I sent someone to invite Li Yin to meet us on our chassis, and then you personally led someone to ambush him in advance, and Li Yin killed him in one fell swoop after he came, how about it?" ”
Ge Dong said with a happy face: "Yes, this plan is good, you send someone to deliver the letter quickly, and I will organize people immediately!" ”
Ge Dong said that he was about to go outside, but Ge Guan shouted: "Your wife is sick, why don't you go to see her?" ”
"Minor illness, you can't die!" Ge Dong said that he had gone away.
Ge Guan sighed and said to the maid: "Change clothes!" After he changed his clothes, he went to his daughter-in-law's house.
After arriving at the residence and letting the maids retreat, Ge Guan asked the people in the house with concern, "Yue'er, how do you feel now?" ”
A boldly and scantily dressed woman came out of the inner room and pinched Ge Guan's ear with one hand, "Old thing, are you finally willing to come?" ”
Ge Guanlian claimed to be in pain, and then asked, "You are not sick?" ”
The woman said, "I'm not sick, can you come?" What has no conscience is the same as your son, but you don't want to be like him, and after going to my bed, he will abandon me! ”
As she spoke, the woman took Ge Guan's ear and walked to the inner room, and Ge Guan touched his old waist with a sad look on his face......
Not long after, Ge Guan started from the bed panting, and the woman on the side was dissatisfied, and was about to scold a few words, when she suddenly heard someone on the hanging beam snorting a few words.
"Who is it?" Ge Guan shouted angrily.
Two figures jumped down from the beam, and one of the young men smiled and said, "I've seen Ge Taishou, I'm Li Yin, the Yanmen Lang general you have been trying to calculate today." ”
"What, you...... Are you Li Yin? What did you just see? Ge Guan said in horror.
Li Yin pulled over a chair and sat down, "I have seen everything that should be seen, and I have seen what I should not see, you said that if I pass on what I shouldn't see, what will happen?" ”
"If you want to say it, just say it, the old lady is not afraid!" The woman shouted.
Li Yin said: "I admire your courage, but I don't know if Ge Taishou also thinks so?" ”
Ge Guan calmed down a little, "What do you want me to do to keep this matter?" ”
Li Yin stood up, "Ge Taishou is really an acquaintance, let's go out and talk!" ”
A few days later, more than 8,000 displaced people entered Xiurong County, which borders Loufan County, from Yanmen County, and the food and money that Ge Guan had saved during his years as an official in Loufan County also began to be transported to Yanmen County......
Jiangnan since the rebellion of Liu Yuanjin in July of the ninth year of the Great Cause, there has been continuous war, Tu Wanxu and Yu Juluo two generals have killed Liu Yuanjin several times, and there are only a few people left around him at the worst time, but Liu Yuanjin can soon kill officials and release grain, regain his strength, and the momentum is bigger and bigger.
In the winter of last year, Liu Yuanjin led his army to retreat to Jian'an, and Yang Guang ordered Tu Wanxu to continue the march and crusade, and Tu Wanxu thought that the soldiers had been fighting for several months, and although they had won repeatedly, they were exhausted, so they asked to stop using troops and wait until the spring of the following year to fight again.
Yang Guang planned to let the elite led by Tu Wanxu and Yu Juluo go to Liaodong in the coming year, how could he agree to Tu Wanxu's request? So he strictly ordered the two of them to fight as soon as possible.
Yujuluo's thoughts were the same as those of Tu Wanxu, and he also thought that it was not appropriate to continue the war, and his sons were all in Luoyang, and seeing that there were more and more rebels between Jiangnan and Luoyang, he was worried that the road would be cut off in the future, and it would be difficult for father and son to see each other.
So Yu Ju Luo sent someone to secretly bring his family to his side, and after Yang Guang was told about it, he suspected that Yu Ju Luo had a rebellion, so he sent someone to investigate the matter.