Chapter 210: Coveting Coal Mines

Xiong Kaiyuan's meaning is very clear, first stabilize the victims, and then wait for the opportunity to ask for reinforcements from the imperial court, and then annihilate them all. In his eyes, so many people who gathered to make trouble could no longer be called people, and only by relying on the army of the imperial court could they be dealt with safely and steadily.

The so-called plan to delay the army was completely Xiong Kaiyuan's wishful thinking, and Li Xin immediately agreed with the victims under the city that most of the victims would retreat to ten miles west of Yanghewei and wait for the city to send personnel to resettle. An hour later, tens of thousands of victims had receded. In this regard, Xiong Kaiyuan said that he was ready to go out of the city and go to the Xuanda Governor's Mansion to ask for reinforcements to suppress the thieves.

Li Xin resolutely did not allow it, how could so many people be killed indiscriminately? Xiong Kaiyuan reversed his previous fear, and his attitude was also extremely tough, thinking that he heard that these people were not thieves in the south, so he had confidence. In the end, Li Xin was impatient to be entangled, and directly ordered someone to drag him down the city and send him to the Weisi Yamen, which was an obstacle to the eyes.

With the precedent of Chaoyang Fort receiving disaster victims, Yang Hewei also has some experience in dealing with these disaster victims. When Li Xin ordered Mao Weizhang to assist him in relocating the victims, Mao Weizhang looked incredulous, and then he was moved, ensuring that the matter would be done successfully.

The punishment of the betrayer has always been severe, and Li Xin was obviously prepared to deal with the matter in a low-key manner when Gao Shiming made it clear that he would not intervene. Seeing Mao Wei and Zhang Luo busy running before and after, Shi Datuo, who had been following Li Xin's side, couldn't help but question.

"The surname Mao openly betrayed the adult, if the adult does not punish him severely, deter those small people at both ends of the first rat, lest there will be chaos in the future, and people will have no fear!"

Li Xin laughed, what did it matter if he was given a chance to make up for his mistakes?

The victims really promised to stop ten miles west of Yang Hewei, and now what they urgently need is food, which can be taken care of by Yang Hewei for the time being, but it is not a long-term solution. Li Xin decided to put this matter on Xiong Kaiyuan, and with the material reserves of Sanwei, he would definitely not be able to cope with the food of so many people.

Xiong Kaiyuan was not ambiguous, directly rejected Li Xin, and made sarcastic remarks, if he followed his strategy of suppressing thieves, why bother preparing food? Who knew that Gao Shiming knew about this, and immediately called Xiong Kaiyuan and scolded him as a lieutenant envoy.

Xiong Kaiyuan knew that he had made false accusations, and his net worth and name were all in the hands of these eunuchs, so he dared to say a word more, so he wrote a warrant in desperation and ordered someone to go to Datong to adjust grain.

Although it was a false alarm, the eunuch Gao Shiming said that he didn't dare to continue on the road, he had to wait for the situation to stabilize and become clearer before leaving, and now there is no safety and stability in Yang Hewei and Li Xin.

Gao Shiming didn't leave, Li Xin sealed the city, and Xiong Kaiyuan naturally didn't dare to mention leaving, but objectively restrained Xiong Kaiyuan's actions and paved the way for Li Xin's next move. The relocation of Chaoyangbao was carried out in an orderly manner, and in order to be safe, the more than 10,000 people will go to the site of the iron factory in batches according to the plan. As for the tens of thousands of victims west of Yanghewei, Li Xin also planned to follow the example of Chaoyang Fort for resettlement.

The question is where to move, Sanwei no longer has the resources to accommodate such a large number of victims. Li Xin looked up and down the simple map for a long time, and finally locked his eyes on the area around Datong Mansion City.

The east bank of the Yuhe River, which is separated from the Datong Fucheng River, is a radius of more than ten miles, and it is very suitable to settle the victims here, one is close to the Fucheng, which is convenient for grain dispatch, and the other is that the terrain here is open, which prevents them from making trouble according to the danger.

However, once this matter was implemented, it was strongly opposed by the acting king. This gave Li Xin a headache, the acting king and his family have been in Datong since the Hongwu period of the Taizu Dynasty, although they can't be as official as the yamen of the official office and Wen to govern the government, but if the acting king opposes one thing, this matter will have no chance of success.

In this way, Xiong Kaiyuan is falling into the arms of Xiong Kaiyuan, tying so many people to Datong Mansion, people eat horses and chew, and it won't take a spring to eat him up. Besides, tens of thousands of victims are like powder kegs, and a single accidentally stained with a little spark can be lit.

As long as he is a right-thinking official, he will definitely not accept this arrangement.

So, the role of the Chinese envoy Gao Shiming came again, and the eunuch Bingbi, the eunuch of the celebrant and the eunuch, heard that Xiong Kaiyuan did not accept refugees, and immediately entered a state of violence. If the refugees have no whereabouts, they will have to make trouble, and once they do, Datong Mansion will be turned upside down, and he will have to return to the capital in what years and months.

But the stake in this matter is too great, how can Xiong Kaiyuan loosen his mouth lightly. Although he has shortcomings, he is not a person who is willing to be taken lightly, not to mention that his backstage is Liu Yuliang, a cabinet scholar, and he doesn't believe that Liu Yuliang dares to protect him.

Soon, Gao Shiming deflated him.

"Hmph, don't think that our family doesn't know the twists and turns in your stomach, tell you the truth, Liu Yuliang has been dedicated to recuperating at home, where can I still take care of your thoughts......"

This sentence made Xiong Kaiyuan's heart tremble, there were all kinds of bad signs before, first the correspondence between him and Jingshi was suddenly broken, and then the sudden arrival of the envoy rewarded Li Xin, it seems that the impeachment not only did not work, but promoted the emperor's reward for Li Xin. Therefore, after Liu Yuliang's words of recuperation came out of Gao Shiming's mouth, Xiong Kaiyuan was not calm at all.

"This, this, this ......"

Gao Shiming looked at Xiong Kaiyuan with satisfaction and looked depressed, and said triumphantly: "Counting on Yuanshui to solve the problem?" Bear-sama, I'm naïve...... It's better to follow the path drawn by our family, maybe there is still a glimmer of life! ”

Under the battle between heaven and man, this prefect was covered with a thick layer of frustration in his heart, and a premonition arose spontaneously, falsely accusing Li Xin of the incident may be another big hurdle after he was implicated in the demotion of the Zhou Ruibao election incident in his self-sufficiency, and it may even fall worse than that time, and it is difficult to turn over.

"Kaiyuan is blunt, please teach me Gao Gong!"

Xiong Kaiyuan suddenly slammed to the ground, Gao Shiming squinted, he knew that this guy had completely surrendered.

Early the next morning, Xiong Kaiyuan personally promised to go back to persuade the acting king to agree to the resettlement of the victims on the east bank of the Yuhe River, and once again approved the document of grain transfer to help the victims and appease them.

Li Xin didn't expect Gao Shiming to accept Xiong Kaiyuan with just a few words, and it seemed that he had to reassess the energy of these eunuchs, and his heart for Gao Shiming's instructions suddenly put away a little. From the sudden change in the attitude of this high eunuch towards him, it can also be seen that this person is extremely aware of current affairs, and will not have half a ideological burden for the previous estrangement.

Gao Shiming has only one expectation for Li Xin, that is, to stabilize the situation, Datong Mansion cannot be chaotic, according to this situation, he judged that there will be disaster victims going north one after another, if Datong Mansion is not properly handled, it is not impossible to provoke a civil uprising.

Now he has a feeling that it is difficult to ride a tiger, and it is not to walk, nor is it to not walk. Let's go, the safety on the road is really a problem, don't go, once there is a civil uprising, he is the envoy who passed the decree on behalf of the Son of Heaven, and he will be responsible.

Therefore, as long as it is related to the pacification of the people, Gao Shiming fully supports him, which invisibly alleviates the huge resistance faced by Li Xin, and the forces of all parties in Datong Mansion have become cautious because of the intervention of the envoy, and they will not express their opposition lightly.

For several days, the construction of the new site of Chaoyangbao was in full swing, the first batch of 2,000 people had been put in place, and various infrastructure projects had begun.

Keyang and Weixi's tens of thousands of people have not yet been settled, and Gao Shiming is in a hurry, so he urged Li Xin to prepare quickly, and at the same time sent people to Datong Mansion to urge Xiong Kaiyuan to persuade the acting king as soon as possible. This is not at ease, and reminded Li Xin that he has the power to deal with the plague victims, and he does not have to be afraid, except for the Sanwei realm, he is also allowed to do it in places other than Sanwei.

This gave Li Xin a wake-up call, and he took out the map of Datong Mansion again, lay on it to study it, and made some changes to the previous plan, allocating 5,000 disaster victims to Hunyuan Prefecture for resettlement, 10,000 disaster victims to be resettled on the north bank of the Qianli River between Datong Zuowei and Datong Fucheng, and the rest of the disaster victims continued to be resettled on the east bank of the Yuhe River according to the plan.

Li Xin's purpose in doing this is obvious, that is, he wants to get involved in the coal mines of Datong Fucheng and Hunyuan Prefecture, of course, in the Ming Dynasty, the role of coal is far less important than that of later generations, and the only role is only for heating and burning fires.

If Li Xin wanted to mine coal, he would need a large number of manpower, and the local government would naturally not let a military attache requisition the locals, and free recruitment was not allowed by the Ming law, so the peasants and military households were firmly fixed on the land, and only the local government-run minerals would be supported by the government.

Under these circumstances, there is very little Li Xin can do. But after Gao Shiming's prompt, he realized that he could use the power in his hands to deal with the plague victims in disguise.

There is no acting king in Hunyuan Prefecture, who would dare to stop the decision of the envoy and the minister who was ordered to deal with the disaster victims? Besides, the local officials wished that Li Xin would wipe their buttocks, because the plague had tormented a Datong Mansion in Nuoda, and the people were struggling to make a living. Especially as spring is about to begin, once the temperature warms up in March, the outbreak of the plague will surely win another big peak, and who will be sure to clean up this mess at that time.

However, it had to be implemented under a different name, so the plan for the resettlement station for the victims was released, and Li Xin planned to set up resettlement stations in several important areas in the name of the imperial court to collect the wandering victims. The contact with Hunyuan Prefecture was extremely smooth, and when the local governor heard that the imperial court was going to set up a resettlement station for displaced people in his territory, he agreed to it and promised strong support.

In terms of Datong alone, there has been no news of Xiong Kaiyuan for seven consecutive days, and the grain allocated several times has been eaten up, and it seems that it is time to go to Datong to explore the truth!