Pang Yue's expression looked hesitant, he wasn't sure if his complaint could have a role, but at this moment, he could only hope for Li Siye's suspicion.

After Judge Pang left the middle hall, Li Siye immediately sent someone to call Cen Shen over, Cen Shen was preparing for the tax collection in the Metropolitan Protectorate, and the Jiedu envoy suddenly invited him to go, which made him suspicious, and he thought that the matter discussed before had been overturned again.

Cen Shen stood at the bottom of the hall and saluted with crossed hands: "Zhongcheng called me to come, I don't know what happened." ”

Li Siye got up and invited: "Come to the great poet, please take a seat." ”

He sat cross-legged on the sheep felt next to him, feeling quite uncomfortable, Li Siye suddenly asked, "When did you and Judge Pang meet?" ”

Cen Shen didn't know why he asked this, and replied truthfully: "I didn't know each other before, but I just met by chance on the way to Beiting to take up my post, and we walked together for a while." ”

Li Siye was relieved, and said earnestly: "This Pang Yue is cunning, and he can't be sincere. ”

Cen Shen couldn't figure it out, but it was inconvenient to inquire in detail, and he guessed in his heart that this shaft had entered my slander in front of Zhongcheng? He hurriedly changed his knees to sit upright, and at the same time raised his sleeves and crossed his hands in front of his forehead: "Zhongcheng ......"

Li Siye waved his hand and said: "You are specially invited by me to Beiting, how can I not know your details, don't worry about some people's thieves shouting to catch thieves, you just have to prepare for the taxation." ”

"Xie Zhongcheng trusts me." After Cen Shen Shi Shi bowed, he turned around and left the middle hall of the Duhu Mansion.

Li Siye really alienated Cen Shen for the next period of time, and still put him in charge of the personnel arrangements for the taxation of the Metropolitan Protectorate, but he never went to ask about it. He also summoned Pang Yue to his side, and took him with him every day to inspect the military camp outside the city, or to inspect the tuntian in the military reclamation area.

This made Pang Yue happy in his heart, his complaint really came to fruition, even if Li Siye couldn't be sure that he was an insider sent by the right minister, he must be suspicious in his heart. He, the real insider, perfectly avoided the firepower, and Li Zhongcheng took him on his patrol every day, didn't it mean that he was reused?

As for whether Cen Shen was sent by the right minister or not, it doesn't matter anymore.

Pang Yue may not have really done anything since he was in the officialdom, otherwise how could he mistake following behind his ass as a follower? If this is also called reuse, wouldn't Yan Xiaosi, the captain of the Dental Army, become the pillar of Beiting.

On this day, Li Siye took Pang Yue and the tooth soldiers to Luntai County, which is under the jurisdiction of Tingzhou, to inspect the people's land reclamation, and interviewed the local customs by the way.

The aborigines in the area of Tingzhou and Xizhou are Gushi people, and the current people have more or less Gushi blood. Gushi people once established a country here for 600 years, that is, the Cheshi country of the Han Dynasty, the capital was located in Jiaohe, and the Cheshi country was destroyed by Rouran, and it was the Gaochang country in the early Tang Dynasty.

After centuries from the Han to the Tang Dynasty, the Gushi people have both the blood of the Xiongnu, Han, Turkic and other ethnic groups, and have become a microcosm of national integration.

When they rode through the village, they saw a peasant working in the field with a skull, the people here are wearing brown linen clothes with narrow sleeves and narrow trouser legs, the top and bottom are very loose, because of the strong sun, few people wear variegated clothes, and the head is wrapped in a white turban, which is used to shield the wind and sand, and the strange thing is that some people are left and some are right, it is difficult to distinguish between Han Hu.

Li Siye dismounted and chatted with the peasants, and learned that all they planted were wheat or millet from the Central Plains, which were relatively drought-tolerant crops, and they also planted some ramie, which was mixed with wool to weave brown hemp.

The people turned on their horses and continued their journey north, where they came to a place with abundant water and grass. At this time, the sun was in full bloom, and Li Siye led everyone to stand on a slope, and there was a cool breeze blowing, which made people feel refreshed. Looking into the distance, you can see the sand moraine in the distance, the sand dunes are endless, and the grassland here is only separated by a river. If Cen Shen were here, he would definitely be able to create a beautiful poem.

He turned his head to look at Pang Yue behind him, but unfortunately it was a straw bag that didn't understand the ink, and he could only play tricks on his heart. Judge Pang noticed Li Siye's gaze, and immediately felt uncomfortable, and even a little embarrassed.

As they led their horses downhill, they heard a quarrel not far away, which seemed to be a clash between two groups of people, most of them holding scimitars on one side and wielding farm tools on the other, and their language was vulgar and foul and scolding.

Li Siye waved his hand: "Let's go, go over and have a look." ”

Pang Yue dragged the reins of the horse and strode to the front, revealing his official authority and shouting to the people: "What are you doing!" Put the murder weapon down for me! ”

Everyone in the quarrel turned around in unison, the fierceness on their faces had not yet escaped, and the farm tools and blades were still in their hands. Pang Yue is accustomed to being an official in Chang'an, and the people who are used to seeing them are reprimanded by the officials, they all hide and retreat, where do they know that the people in the northwest frontier are fierce.

Pang Yue couldn't be frightened when he saw it, so he hurriedly retreated, shrank half a body behind Li Siye, and then straightened his chest slightly.

Li Siye asked aloud: "Why are you fighting here?" ”

Everyone saw Li Siye followed by several Tang soldiers wearing armor and holding knives, and saw that the official uniform on his body was very dark, and judged that it might be a senior official of the Tang Army. But they still held their weapons in their hands, and the direction they were facing was still the right one, and they lowered their voices and said: "Since the official of the imperial court is here, I will ask the official to comment on this reason." ”

"I'll start with that!" One person put the scimitar back into the scabbard at his waist, turned around and bent down to Li Siye and said: "Guan Ye Rongyu, we are sheep herders in Luntai County, and this grassland by the river is the land where we live and graze. ”

Not to be outdone, Kentian's gang shouted and farted one after another, and they also elected a person who could speak well, threw the hoe on the ground, and forked his hand towards Li Siye more respectfully: "Official, these people say that this is their grassland, it's really nonsense, this is clearly an ownerless wasteland, and there is not a single grass planted by them in this ground." Why can they come and herd the sheep, but we can't come and clear the land? ”

"Besides, Li Zhongcheng, the new envoy of the Beiting Festival, has already issued a notice to encourage us people to open up wasteland in the state and county, and no one can stop it! Don't you foolish herdsmen know that food is the foundation of your livelihood? Preventing us from reclaiming wasteland is not against the imperial court, against the capital protectorate, and against Li Zhongcheng! ”

Ho, this big hat is buttoned, and he will use the decree of the Metropolitan Protectorate to suppress the opponents, and elevate the contradiction to the confrontation between the land reclamation system and the herdsmen, in addition to suppressing people with power, and also misinterpreting the content of the Metropolitan Protectorate's notice.

More than a dozen herdsmen suddenly became dumbfounded, they had never thought of going against the notice of the Metropolitan Protectorate, but they still felt very aggrieved.

After this finished speaking, he also proudly crossed his hands at Li Siye and said: "As an official of the Imperial Protectorate, you must also know about the recent announcement issued by the imperial court." ”

Li Siye did not answer his words, but turned to the herdsman and asked, "Where can you stand and see the grassland under our feet?" ”

The herdsman pointed to the northwest: "There is a ** mountain over there, which is the highest among the nearby mountains, and it should be able to see about the same." ”

Li Siye waved his horsewhip: "Let's go, go up the mountain." ”

When he was the town envoy in Shule, he encountered the problem of this kind of farmland competing for high-quality grassland living space, at that time it was the Shule army's tun cultivated fields that occupied the pastures on both sides of the Chihe River, and Li Siye immediately changed this practice after taking office, and the cultivated fields could only be in the marginal areas of the grasslands and mountains and forests, so as not to cause damage to the grasslands and forests, and the army naturally implemented them according to the rules. But whether in Shule or Beiting, he has not yet resolved the dispute between farmers and herders.