Xu Youde panted and went to the compound of the governor of Luyang Mansion, saw Sun Zhaoyuan, immediately knelt down, gasped on the ground, and after the breath was smooth, he said: "Lord Sun, the next official is Xu Youde, a general under the command of the governor of Yong'an Prefecture, this time he was ordered by Lord Wang, and came to Yunxi Prefecture to buy grain and grass, but he didn't want to, when passing by Luwei Mansion, the local officials had to pay the toll before they could let go of the official pass, and the officials calculated, if they bought three or five million catties of grain and grass, they were afraid that the money on the road would cost thousands of taels of silver, and Yong'an Prefecture had no surplus wealth. How can there be money to pay for this passage? I also asked Lord Sun to mediate and see how to deal with this matter. Otherwise, Xia Guan really can't complete what Lord Wang Youming has entrusted him. ”

Sun Zhaoyuan listened to Xu Youde's intentions, pondered for a while, and said: "This matter is indeed not easy to deal with, just because those bridges and roads are built by big households, and people collect some money, logically speaking, it is also tenable." If the official forces these big families to let you go, it means that the official abuses the majesty of power in his hands and competes with the people for profit, and then the official is afraid that he will also be involved. ”

Xu Youde listened to Sun Zhaoyuan's difficulties, thought for a while and said, "Then there is no other way, but to obediently hand over this toll to them?" ”

Sun Zhaoyuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, "You guys are all sergeants? ”

Xu Youde said: "Most of them are sergeants, and only a few civilian officials follow to check the money and food." ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "Since the big families of Luwei Mansion can build this bridge and this road, why can't you build it?" If you want to come to the soldiers, you can open up mountains and build bridges when you encounter water, even if there is no road, you can think of a way to open up a way out. You can cross your own road and your own bridge as you want, so that no one dares to stop you. ”

Xu Youde slapped his hands and said: "Xia Guan also wanted to simply build the road and bridge by himself, but because it was not the boundary of Yong'an Prefecture, it was not easy to make a mistake. ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said: "This is very good, it is the correct solution." ”

Xu Youde had Sun Zhaoyuan's words, so he went back and took the sergeant to build a bridge and repair the road. When the local officials saw this, they came to stop them and said, "How can you outsiders build roads and bridges in the territory of Luwei Mansion?" Stop. ”

Xu Youde said: "These roads and bridges are also built by your big private households in Luwei Mansion, they can repair them, why can't we repair them?" ”

The official said: "It was these local households who reported to the prefect, and in order to facilitate the passage of residents, our prefect issued a permit for them to be repaired by the local households." If you outsiders want to build roads and bridges, you must report to the prefect's office, and the prefect's official examination officer has read your project brochure and determined that it can only be built and repaired after approval, otherwise if there is a fork in the road, the bridge collapses, and people die, it is not easy to play. ”

Xu Youde said: "If I report to the prefect's office, how long will it take to approve the start of the project?" ”

The official said: "The shortest is three or five months, and the long one is not easy to say, it is possible in one year or two years." ”

Xu Youde held back the heart of wanting to explode the hammer in his heart, so he had to rush back to Luyang Mansion to see Sun Zhaoyuan.

Sun Zhaoyuan heard this and said hatefully: "These officials really use any tricks. I went to see for myself what they were doing. ”

After speaking, he rode on the horse, and Xu Youde went to Luwei Mansion together, and when he got the Luwei Mansion Office, those disciples already recognized Sun Zhaoyuan, one person was busy welcoming Sun Zhaoyuan to the public office, and the other ran to the fireworks willow field to find Wu Jing, Wu Jing heard that Sun Zhaoyuan had arrived, and knew that Sun Zhaoyuan must have something important, otherwise how could he run to Luwei Mansion without posting a document, and he hurried back to the public office without even wearing his clothes.

Sun Zhaoyuan saw that Wu Jing was embarrassed and rushed back to the public office, and asked: "Master Wu, your Luwei Mansion is so powerful, why do you want someone to help build bridges and build roads, and also ask your Luwei Mansion Public Office to review the project brochure?" ”

Wu Jing didn't know why Sun Zhaoyuan asked so much, and quickly said the excuse he had thought of before to Sun Zhaoyuan: "Luwei Mansion is a very mountainous place, easy to landslide, all the prefectures and counties in the rainy season, the river floods, mountain floods, if the bridge and road are not built with complete consideration, it is easy to collapse the bridge and collapse the road, so the Luwei Mansion issued a government decree, if there is a civil project that needs to repair the road and bridge, it is necessary to send the project brochure to the public office, how high the bridge is built, how thick the road is repaired, and the official of the internal management project of the public office has reviewed and approved that there is no fork before issuing a permit, Permission to build. ”

Sun Zhaoyuan said in his heart: "This Wu Jing, although he is looking for a way to fatten their pockets, this reason is indeed very sufficient, and it is difficult to refute. ”

Sun Zhaoyuan thought for a while, and then said: "Since it is such an important matter, I am afraid that it is still a little unsafe for you to review and make decisions by Luwei Mansion, so it is better to put the audit matters in the state government office, and the officials in charge of the project in the state government will personally review it, so that it will be more stable." ”

Sun Zhaoyuan's move is to receive the audit right into his own hands, and Xu Youde can immediately build the road, and the grain transportation road to Yong'an Prefecture can be opened in less than a month. And later, as long as the people spontaneously build roads and bridges, he will issue a permit after the review, so that the harsh government of the road tyrants and bandits in Luweifu can be broken.

Sun Zhaoyuan had already said so, and Wu Jing was no longer unwilling and had no way to refute it, so he could only arch his hand and say: "But listen to Lord Sun's arrangement." ”

Xu Youde immediately ordered the soldiers to complete the survey of all the places where the bridge and road were to be built, compiled the project brochure, and sent it to the state government.

Xu Youde repaired roads and bridges, and since then he has slowly transported grain and grass to Yong'an Prefecture by using the method of ants moving.

When the people of Luweifu saw that Xu Youde had repaired all the roads leading to Yong'an Prefecture, they also pooled money from every household, invited craftsmen, surveyed the road conditions and rivers, and handed the project brochure to the state government.

The maladministration of Yunxi Prefecture, the land of Longdu Mansion and the roads and bridges of Luwei Mansion were overturned by Sun Zhaoyuan.

The rest is the buying and selling of human beings in Ziyuan Mansion and the most critical maladministration of Huating Mansion, Jinhe and Yuhe.

At that time, Yao Yungui and others were already hostile to Sun Zhaoyuan, no matter how clever Sun Zhaoyuan did, but since he came, the doorway to Yunxi Prefecture has been broken by two, and Yao Yungui and others want to treat Sun Zhaoyuan as their own person, but they can't.

On that day, Yao Yungui summoned Jiang Chao, Jiang Sheng, Long Jin, Wu Jing, Du Qiang and others to discuss how to deal with Sun Zhaoyuan.

Yao Yungui said: "This Sun Zhaoyuan, who has been here for less than a year, has quietly pushed Ma Rushan, Tan Jiaxing, Jin Fei, Jiang Fugui and others to a high position, and we were too careless before, thinking that Sun Zhaoyuan's actions were nothing more than wanting to install some henchmen to help him govern Yunxi Prefecture, but he didn't want to, in the future, he borrowed some cases one after another to make waves, but in a short period of time, he cleaned up the land of Longdu Mansion and the road, bridge and doorway of Luwei Mansion, and so on, If the fireworks willow field in Ziyuan Mansion and the doorway for Jinhe Yuhe to dig gold and jade are also found out, then what will we, the officials, eat and drink in the future? Therefore, I called you here to discuss how to deal with Sun Zhaoyuan, so that we can be invincible. ”

Long Jin said: "If you want me to say, I will gather those sergeants in the military battalion, cause a mutiny, and kill Sun Zhaoyuan, Jiang Fugui and others, but it will be a disaster, anyway, the emperor is far away, the law is not responsible, the emperor knows, and he will be punished by a few boards at most." ”

Jiang Sheng snorted: "Lord Long, don't forget, this Yunxi Prefecture general is now controlled by Sun Zhaoyuan's descendant Ma Rushan, if those people sent by Ma Rushan are firmly controlled by the soldiers in the military camp, how can you mobilize troops?" ”

Long Jin said: "Although Ma Rushan has mastered the right to transfer troops, those sergeant brothers who were born and died with me before can fight for me as long as I shout." I have already calculated that there are 70,000 soldiers in Yunxi Prefecture, and there are at least 30,000 soldiers who dare to disobey the general's orders. In addition, Lord Jiang has the Quanzhou Capture Fast in his hands, if the two places are combined, there will be at least 40,000 people, and Sun Zhaoyuan and others will definitely be able to fall to the ground. ”

Jiang Sheng didn't support this, and said, "If Sun Zhaoyuan is just a lonely man, and the military power in his hands is in our hands, Lord Long will approve of it." But now it seems that Sun Zhaoyuan has long prevented others from using soldiers to make trouble, and has already grasped the power of the army in his hands, and we will use force again, I am afraid that there will only be two defeats, and then, Sun Zhaoyuan and other traitors have not yet cleaned up, and the emperor's board will be beaten down, and we will all be dismissed. The so-called siege of the city is the bottom, and the attack of the heart is the top, in my opinion, this matter can only be outwitted, not strong. ”

When Long Jin heard this, he also felt that what Jiang Sheng said was not unreasonable, so he waited to see what others thought.

Jiang Chao said: "Now it seems that if you want to get rid of Sun Zhaoyuan, you can only start from political affairs, if you have Sun Zhaoyuan's handle in hand, if you threaten him to join our gang, accept a vote, or if you play the court, force the emperor to dismiss him, I heard that Sun Zhaoyuan has a bad reputation in the court, and there are many enemies. ”

Yao Yungui said: "This is very much in line with my wishes, I don't hide it from you, I have a plan in my heart." ”

The rest of the people hurriedly asked, "What is Lord Yao's clever plan?" ”

Yao Yungui said: "The big landowners of Longdu Mansion now hate Sun Zhaoyuan so much that they grit their teeth, if they cultivate grain next season, secretly contact these big households, and no longer grow grain, the court will not be able to collect grain and grass taxes, and then they can start to play to the court. ”

Du Qiang said with a smile: "Lord Yao is really clever, these big landowners, I heard that they want to rectify Sun Zhaoyuan, they will fully cooperate, at that time, the big landowners do not hire people to do long-term labor, the people have no way to live, and the court can't collect taxes, Longdu Mansion will inevitably be in chaos, how can Sun Zhaoyuan clean it up?" If you join him like this, even if the emperor wants to help him, he can't help. ”