081 Peishui is in turmoil
This time, Liuhuo returned to the Chu State, and still chose the sea route, or the white boat, or the housekeeper.
Poison knife Liu wanted to go back with Flowing Fire, but Flowing Fire refused. The poisonous knife Liu is too sensitive, the Li family is chasing him all over the world, if he appears next to Liuhuo, it can only intensify the conflict.
Daydream finally climbed up to the flowing fire, and accompanied the flowing fire to the Chu State together. In addition, Zhongli also gave two veterans of Liuhuo.
These two veterans are not simple, one is blind and the other is a nerd.
The king is blind. The years of being a soldier are longer than Zhongli's, and his hair is gray and he is still strong, but his eyes have been injured by the war, and his vision is impaired, which is slightly stronger than that of a blind man.
But Wang Blind is not a small man, he was born as a scout when he first became a soldier, and later served as a scout captain and a secret agent leader. He has been dealing with intelligence all his life, and sixty percent of the intelligence system of San'in Kingdom was set up by him.
Now that the blind man is old, he eats next to Zhongli, and this time he sees that Liuhuo is in trouble, and Zhongli is the first to recommend him.
Become a nerd, become a famous soldier, and is a military trainer.
This guy is unsmiling, iron-faced and selfless, and believes in pure military values, blood and fire. It is a talent promoted by Zhongli himself.
I remember that when he first trained recruits, many recruits made trouble because they couldn't endure hardship. This kid doesn't talk nonsense, and directly bets with a few pickers.
"The same training program, I practice with you, and I increase the amount to three times as much as you..."
The troublemakers believed his nonsense, and made a bet together to 'stand on the stake'. A group of people and a nerd just stood up in the poisonous sun.
One hour, two hours, passed, and everyone was persevering. But after standing for a long time, some of the troublemakers couldn't hold on, and they all confessed.
But there was one kid who had a lot of perseverance, and he stood for a day and a night before he couldn't stand it.
At this time, Cheng Jun spoke, "If you stand for a day and a night, then I will stand for three days and three nights..."
Cheng Jun just persevered, and the water and rice did not enter. By the evening of the next day, the troublemakers knelt in front of Cheng Jun and shouted that they were convinced, but Cheng Jun ignored them and still persisted for three days and three nights.
In the end, Cheng Jun woke up after a day and a night, and since then the nickname of Cheng Dudu in the army has been called, no one dares to disobey him, and the soldiers he trained are the elite of the elite.
Flowing Fire looked at the three treasures beside him, stood at the bow of the ship, waved to Zhongli in the harbor, and set off for the foggy harbor.
The journey was very smooth, and by the time everyone came to Wugang, the state of Chu had already entered the middle of summer.
When you arrive at Wugang, you must eat crabs, and Liuhuo took the three of them to the coastal building together, and ordered a crab feast on the top floor, and the four of them were gluttonous.
After eating for a while, the blind man suddenly spoke.
"From the moment we got off the ship, there were already people eyeing us..."
Liuhuo was a little surprised, could the blind man be pretending to be blind? What did he mean by this?
Before Liuhuo could ask, the owner of the coastal building suddenly brought a middle-aged man upstairs. When the middle-aged man saw the flowing fire, he quickly stepped forward and knelt down and said softly.
"Lord Driftfire, do you remember the swamp farewell?"
Flowing Fire recalled carefully, and suddenly remembered.
"You are Hou Wen's subordinate, the shopkeeper of that firm..."
"My lord has a good memory, and he is under the Hou family, who is in charge of the affairs of Wugang..."
The fire picked him up and asked, "Is there something wrong..."
"There's nothing to do, it's just that Hou Wengongzi is currently sitting in Daxue Mountain, and he wants to see the adults... Something happened to the water jade mine of my lord..."
From the middle-aged man's mouth, Liuhuo knew that Hou Wen had been looking for him.
Since Yun Shayue returned to the inner gate, everyone has indeed been quiet for a long time, but once people are idle, they have to find trouble. During this time, there were suddenly a lot of spies near the water jade mine, and although the shadow troops under Suzaku had wiped out some, there were still many fish that slipped through the net.
In just one month, there were many rumors on both sides of Peishui, all of which were aimed at the new managers of Liuhuo and Iron Abacus. Some rumors attack the character of Liuhuo, saying that he is a greedy and lustful demon who cares about people's lives. There are also rumors that the Flowing Fire wants to divide the two sides of Peishui into private territory and turn the people into slaves.
The people of Peishui will definitely not believe it, after all, everyone has personally experienced the good governance of Lord Liuhuo. But this year is different, a large number of displaced people from Yongning Prefecture do not know the details, and the frightened displaced people have clashed with the local people after being instigated.
Violent incidents of all kinds have emerged one after another, and the contradictions between locals and displaced people have become deeper and deeper.
Not only that, but there have been many thefts in the water jade mine, and the most serious one is that the displaced people have stormed the mine warehouse. Fortunately, Zuo Panyu and Yang Fan arrived in time and led the members of the Tongmasons to suppress everywhere, which brought the situation under control.
But just under control, the chaos has not been eliminated, and the people on both sides of Peishui are panicking.
Later, after Hou Wen learned about the situation, he sent 500 Blizzard internal guards to help maintain order in the mine, which stabilized the situation.
After listening to the situation, Liuhuo couldn't eat it anymore, he didn't expect so many things to happen during this time.
When the four of them hurried towards the water jade mine, Zuo Panyu and Yang Fan were nervously patrolling on both sides of Peishui.
There is a large open space between Dawangzhuang and Xiaowangzhuang, where thousands of homeless people gather, everywhere is garbage, everywhere is a dilapidated shack, a team of soldiers is patrolling around the gathering place, countless homeless people look at the porridge pot in front of them pitifully, waiting in line for relief.
Children are crying, women are crying, and men are sighing. These thousands of displaced people are only a part of the southward migration of Yongning Prefecture, and there are 20 small gathering places like this on both sides of Peishui, and more than 60,000 displaced people have nothing to do but rely on the relief of the water jade mine to survive.
The villagers of Dawangzhuang and Xiaowangzhuang looked at these people vigilantly, the sympathetic eyes they had earlier were gone, and in just two months, countless conflicts broke out between them, if it wasn't for the soldiers sent by the mine to maintain order, I am afraid that Peishui would have been stained red with human blood.
"Damn, give these white-eyed wolves porridge to drink, the adults in the mine are too kind, they should have been driven away a long time ago..."
"That's it, Lao Tzu raised chickens for half a year, and he let this group of guys steal them, and when I saw that they were pitiful, we still made up food, but it turned out to be a group of thieves, a group of robbers..."
"Our two Zhuangzi are pretty good, the meadow village in the west has been robbed by this group of bastards, and several people have died..."
"If they dare to rob us, Lao Tzu will dare to kill people, and go back to the village chief to tell the village chief that our village has to organize a village protection team, issue weapons, and kill them when the time comes... The people of Meadow Village died in vain?"
"What about that... The mine adults led their troops to kill hundreds, and their heads were all full..."
"Well deserved...."
The words of the villagers reached the gathering place, and some of the homeless people lowered their heads and did not dare to say a word, but there were also unruly ones, staring at the village.
"The people here are so rich, I smelled meat last night..."
"The people here guard the mines, and every family has a job, and they are all very rich..."
"They eat meat, let's drink porridge here, and let people not live, my daughter-in-law is breastfeeding the child, and the child is starving to death every day when she drinks porridge..."
"You guys talk less, it's good to have porridge, everyone in my hometown eats human flesh, let's make do with it..."
The discussion between the villagers and the homeless people, Zuo Panyu and they all heard it. To be honest, the current situation is really tricky, although the water jade mine has money, but the grain reserves are not much, and the 60,000 mouths added are not so easy to fill.
A lot of money was thrown out, but the food purchased was limited, after all, it had to be brought in little by little, and no one had prepared it for them in advance, so they had to be made up from somewhere else.
Yang Fan looked at the chaotic situation in front of him and said with a long sigh.
"Don't suffer from widowhood but unevenness, they can drink porridge, they want to eat meat again, they all eat meat, they probably want money..."
Zuo Panyu shook his head.
"Don't blame the people, human nature is like this. If you want to blame the agitators, remember the people we interrogated?"
Zuo Panyu is talking about a few spies caught by Blizzard's internal guards a few days ago, and everyone knows their operation methods from the interrogation.
Stir up chaos first, anyway, a group of hungry red-eyed people, where there is food, rush there, and then these spies disguise themselves as homeless people to kill the people, and then turn around and disguise themselves as people to kill the homeless.
As soon as the blood began to flow, they quietly retreated, and this is how the bloody battle in Meadow Village was provoked.
These spies are ordinary mortals, belonging to the peripheral members of a certain force, they themselves do not know who they are working for, and the transmission of all orders is a one-line connection, and if a node is broken, there is no root at all.
But do you still need to check who is behind the scenes? I want to know who it is with my ass.
"There are so many displaced people that the water jade mine simply doesn't need so many people. They have nothing to do, their future uncertain, they live a life with no tomorrow, and they are very emotionally unstable, which gives those spies an opportunity to take advantage of..."
"Why don't we recruit a group of displaced people to fill the mine first, so that at least some of them can be stabilized..."
"Absolutely not, we can't take care of so many people, Zhang San was elected, what should Li Si and Wang Er Mazi do, this can only intensify the contradiction even more..."
"Then we can only raise it like this first, wait for the summer grain to come up, and let these displaced people return to their hometowns one after another, I heard that the situation in Yongning Prefecture has been much better"
Zuo Panyu and Yang Fan are not experts in internal affairs after all, and they can only come up with such a strategy for stability in the chaos.
Just as the two of them were about to inspect the next gathering point, a message came from the distance that Lord Drifting Fire had returned.
In the middle of the night, Liuhuo took Zuo Panyu and them to discuss nervously in the mine, listening to the detailed information during this time, Liuhuo's brows became more and more wrinkled.
Daydreaming against the sloppy and casual energy of the usual, I kept reading all kinds of information, including the situation of the mine, including the statistics on both sides of the Peishui River, and took the abacus from time to time.
The members of the Tongmasons looked at the few mortals brought by the flowing fire in confusion, knowing that the blind man and the nerd were both soldiers, and it might be that the adults were preparing to train the army, but what was the matter with that dirty scholar, he was too familiar.
Iron abacus is the most disgusted with daydreaming, and his heart said how can adults allow him to flip through the information, but I finally summed it up.
Isn't that a hub?