In the blink of an eye, in August, the heavy rainfall in Gai County passed.

Because Liu Qi ordered all Cao to assist in helping the people prevent floods, and since May, the people of Changxi have been recruited to repair the dam, and then the flood of this year has had little impact.

After the autumn, the weather turned cooler, and with the assistance of Zhang Zhao and Fang Zhen, all things were carried out in an orderly manner.

After August, Liu Qi led some Cao Peng to inspect the townships.

To truly practice Tongfang Zhen, there was once a saying that "the people are the foundation".

Its purpose is threefold:

The first is to inspect the granary reserves established in various villages a few months ago in order to cope with future famines, but it is really a move for the benefit of the common people of Guizhou. After the promulgation of this decree, the ordinary people in the county should have cheered. For this reason, Liu Qi also specially wrote to the county government, citing the epidemic and the locust plague last year as an excuse, to reduce taxes again to build a granary.

The second is to look at the construction of water conservancy facilities, such as the construction of irrigation systems connected to water transportation.

Only by building and holding the granary in their hands can the local county government avoid the problem of food shortage under natural disasters. Over the years, due to various reasons, there have been few large-scale water conservancy roads in Chang Shui Zhuang, and the people have relied on the sky for food, which has led to frequent disasters and serious loss of personnel.

However, in fact, Chang Xi itself has a favorable geographical location, and Liu Qi has been to the countryside several times ago and has seen the infinite potential of the township. Since July, he has planned with Zhang Zhao and the support of the Mi family, so he has the heart of vigorously developing agriculture and economic industry.

Only when the people are rich and taxes are increased will the localities be stronger.

Third, according to Li Zhan and others, they explored the three townships of Chengping, Pingliang, and Wuliu by the way, the annexation of large clans and local land, and the private collection of soldiers, refusing to obey the county government orders, and disobeying the yang and yin.

Under the "Three Mutual Laws", the officials sent by the court and the central government were officials from other places, like him Liu Qi, as well as the county governor Zhang Zhao and the county lieutenant Dong Wei. As an outsider and a county magistrate, under the use of various powers, he will have conflicts with the powerful local hegemony.

Like the scales, if the two sides can maintain a good balance, then they will be fine. Once this balance is broken, one side is weak, and the other side will find a way to suppress it.

The previous Xu Hui and other county officials who should be selected locally, and even Dong Wei, who was bribed by the local wealthy family and had vested interests, united with the local clan to put pressure on Liu Qi.

Later, Liu Qi led his subordinates to exterminate the cold bandits, and Fang began to establish prestige, and then under the recruitment of homeless people and a small number of local hidden households, the power in his hands was further expanded, so that Dong Wei, Xu Hui and others were afraid, and the balance was formed again, and the two sides had their own compromises. In recent months, it has been the peace of the country, and the local governments have been in some government decrees, such as water conservancy and road construction, and the people have recruited various things, issued rural land, and cooperated.

However, after Zhang Zhao became the county leader, he took him as a local celebrity and cooperated with Liu Qi's behavior. Seeing that the power of the county government had increased, and even the local officials of Cao were unable to form effective control, and Liu Qi was becoming more and more strict with the officials of land and water merchants, and his interests were greatly damaged, the local big households, except for a few law-abiding people such as the Lu family, who maintained relations with Liu Qi, began to unite privately.

The decree of the past half month has made it even more difficult to go to the countryside. Especially when the news came from the county that Zhang Zhao, who also cared about local governance and was regarded as an ally who wore the same pants as the county magistrate Liu Qi, was about to be transferred, an undercurrent surged with him.

Liu Qi went to the countryside this time, in addition to inspection, he had his own temptation.

In order to prevent the squires from making trouble, in addition to taking Xu Case and Sun Guan to lead a total of 100 people and accompany them on the grounds of training, he also asked Sun Fu and Wang Wei to lead nearly 1,000 soldiers on land and water, and they were ready to respond at any time.

The three townships that went to this time are all the most powerful places in the six townships of Changxi.

Under the oppression of the Hao clan, and the ordinary people in the three towns, as well as a large number of hidden households, have long been miserable. Especially after the land was seized by the wealthy family, it still became an "independent kingdom". This is actually a common cause in counties and counties in Dahan. Taiping Dao, is it precisely because of the suffering of the people at the bottom that it can deceive people's hearts?

In the hundreds of years after the rise of Guangwu Zhongxing, although most of the old gainers were defeated by the new Han, under human nature, the new gainers, far less than 95% of the population of the Han Dynasty, occupied more than 90% of the resources, and the mediocrity of the Son of Heaven is not surprising.

And Liu Qi is not worried, these three township wealthy forces are guilty of chaos. If so, he can justifiably suppress it.

Good news, the wealthy family of Sanxiang is very restrained.

It was Liu Qi who picked out many county government orders during the inspection, and all kinds of places were not reached, and this group of people also had gloomy faces and did not say anything.

The more this is the case, the more jealous Liu Qi is of this local squire.

In addition, according to Li Zhan's investigation, this group of rural tycoons close to Taishan County is also related to the expansion of the big thief Changfeng in the past year and a half. Changfeng is now plundering the countryside, and his men and horses, it is said that there are nearly 2,000, becoming the first Kou of Taitai Mountain. Taishan County Government has no choice.

If he cooperates with the Chang Xuan Hao clan and secretly attacks Chang Xu, before he gets more information about Chang Xuan, it is difficult for Liu Qi to guarantee whether his subordinates will be able to win a big victory. But in the past few days, he has been prepared for Sun Fu and Wang Wei's letters, and he has also made a plan for the bandits to invade.

On the way back to the county seat, Xu Case and Sun Guan both saw that something was wrong, and in order to protect Liu Qi's safety, on the way, they mostly used scouts to investigate, and asked the sailor to come to answer early.

After Liu Qi successfully arrived at the dock outside Changxi City, he was accompanied by a group of people, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.

On the way back to the county government from outside the city, Xu Case constrained the department and returned to the Hanshan camp, while Sun Guan accompanied him to the official residence.

On the way, Sun Guan guessed based on what he saw along the way: "The county gentleman, Chengping, such as Wei's and other big households, when we pass by, their dock forts will be heavily guarded."

When Yu Xianjun stayed, I thought that in the dock fort, there were people in armor and training.

In addition, the Yan family, the Li family and other Sanxiang wealthy families everywhere in the dock forts, the same.

This time, the county gentleman came in person, but he did not act.

According to the view, when it is accumulating strength, if it is a rebellion, in order to kill the county, this should be a disaster! ”

It is not that the local tycoons, raiding the county and county, and coming to kill the local governor, have not happened, but there are many of them.

Since last year, it has become more serious. In particular, the place of Jingnan, as well as the land of merger and benefit, is the most serious.

But Liu Qi guessed that if the big families in Sanxiang really wanted to do so, they would not be so obvious, and they would cooperate with the bandits to hide their whereabouts.

On the way back to the county temple, no matter what Sun Guan said, Liu Qicheng made up his mind.