In the third year of Yanxi, in June, Guiyang County, Jingzhou.

After nearly two years of recuperation, Zhang Xi, the Jingzhou pastor, finally inspected Guiyang County for the first time.

It's not that Zhang Xi is lazy, he hasn't been to Guiyang for almost two years, but the road traffic conditions in Guiyang are too poor.

To go to Wuling County, Changsha County, and Lingling County, there are basically avenues that can pass through the counties, and it is very convenient to patrol.

But when you arrive at Guiyang County, there is only one avenue in and out of Guiyang County, and this avenue can only lead to two counties in Guiyang, one is Leiyang County, the other is Chenxian County, and the rest of the counties in Guiyang County, if you want to go, you not only have to take a small road, but sometimes you even have to take a boat.

You know, there are a total of eleven counties in Gyeyang County. When will this be patrolled?!

Therefore, this time Zhang Xi inspected Guiyang County, and he also planned to go to Leiyang County and Chenxian County first, and other places, depending on the actual situation, and then consider whether to go.

Speaking of this Leiyang County, well, in history, Pang Tong was still here as a county commander for a while, and then he was dismissed by Liu Bei for ignoring government affairs, and finally Lu Su wrote a letter to Liu Bei, showing Pang Tong's ability, coupled with Zhuge Liang's endorsement, which was reactivated by Liu Bei.

It's really not that Pang Tong is ugly, and Pang Tong in history is not ugly.

Of course, in this time and space, Pang Tong has never been to this place as a county magistrate, but was directly recommended to Liu Bei by Zhang Xi, and he was directly reused as soon as he came up.

Still. After arriving in Leiyang County, Zhang Xi finally understood why Pang Tong would ignore government affairs, and at the same time, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" would describe that Pang Tong spent an afternoon dealing with the backlog of official affairs for three months, which stunned Zhang Fei.

The reason is simple, in this poor place, it has no important official business to do!!

The total population of the entire county is less than 1,000 households, and most of the people living in it are scattered, and the scale of arable land adds up to three or four villages in Changsha County, so many people may not be able to support themselves if they dig in the soil for a year, who can have the heart to make trouble?!

Even if you want to survive by making trouble, in terms of the surrounding environment of Guiyang County, who is not poorer than whom, Leiyang County is already a big county second only to Chenxian County, and other places are poorer than Leiyang County!!

With that idle time, the people might as well farm honestly.

The biggest official duty of the county magistrate of Leiyang County throughout the year is probably to inspect the villages during the spring ploughing and urge the people of Guiyang to farm.

To a certain extent, whether it is Leiyang County, Chenxian County, or Zhang Xi, they can indeed be called "political and harmonious" along the way, but such a "political and harmonious people", not to mention Zhang Xi, even Guiyang is too guarded and Kuaiqi doesn't want it.

The purpose of sending Kuaiqi to the south is not only to bet on both ends, but also to hope that Kuaiqi can revive the past prestige of the Kuaishi lineage in Jingzhou. If you are trapped in Guiyang County for the rest of your life and can't make any achievements, then what else can Kuai Qi talk about reviving Kuai's family?!

Therefore, at least in the office of the Taishou of Guiyang County, Kuai Qi is still conscientious and wants to develop Guiyang County better.

It's a pity that this place is really too difficult.

Kuai Qi is not an incapable person, since he took office in Guiyang County, he has not rested much, inspecting the government affairs of Guiyang County everywhere, trying to find some ways to allow Guiyang County to develop independently.

Then Kuai Qi found a lot of problems.

There is too little arable land, the land is too barren, and the output of the land is simply not enough to feed too many people.

There were too few Dingkou in each county, and they wanted to mobilize conscription to build roads and improve transportation, but even the basic labor force could not be gathered, and the roads were impassable, which led to the inability of commerce to prosper and could not bring too much convenience to Guiyang.

The local resources of Guiyang County are also insufficient, and only placer ore is worth using, but it is also limited by the poor road conditions and the scale of Dingkou, and it is difficult to transport these placer ores that have been mined and smelted since the Han Dynasty, let alone bring benefits to the people of Guiyang.

Kuaiqi's depressed. It is no wonder that among the nine counties of Jingxiang, Guiyang County has the lowest sense of existence.

Even if it is Yidu County, there is a purpose for assisting in the defense of Gangneung County, in terms of the number of Dingkou in Guiyang County, the scale of cultivated land, and the traffic situation. Really, whether there is Guiyang County or not is really no different for Jingzhou.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Xi's inspection arrived in Chenxian County this time, Kuai Qi was busy complaining to Zhang Xi.

Guiyang County is miserable, lack of money, lack of food, lack of people. Zhang Yuanjun has to think of a way to save the people of Guiyang County!!

gave Zhang Xi a speechless really, for a moment, Zhang Xi wondered how this Kuai Qi became Zhuge Liang's brother-in-law.

Why is the gap between this brother-in-law and brother-in-law so big?!

But after Kuaiqi really finished complaining, Zhang Xi understood. Although there are gaps, they are really not that big.

Kuaiqi's complaint is true, but correspondingly, his complaint is his request.

Kuaiqi wants to ensure the life of the people of Guiyang. But he didn't have enough food, and he didn't have enough land to grow so much food.

Kuaiqi wanted to build roads, improve transportation, and develop trade roads, but he had no people, and by the way, he had no food.

Kuaiqi wanted to rebuild the sand smelting plant in the former Han Dynasty and extract placer ore to make money. He still has no people and no food.

Therefore, Kuai Qi actually has no way to develop Guiyang County, he already has a way, but the reality of the situation forced him to cry to Zhang Xi - others can be slow, but can you give Guiyang County a little bit of food and food.

This question is really, Zhang Xi also wants to find someone to cry.

He also lacks it.

It is no secret that Jingnan lacks Dingkou, in the past two years, no matter how much Zhang Xi has thought of, he has not been able to bring too much Dingkou to Jingnan in a short period of time.

How can it be so simple to let the family release the hidden households, and it is not an overnight thing to guide the Wuxi barbarians to go out of the mountains to cultivate, and in two years, Zhang Xi has not even filled the transformed cultivated land around Dongting Lake to cultivate it.

These big families, that is really getting bigger and bigger, and the area of cultivated land to be exchanged for releasing the hidden households is getting more and more, and now Zhang Xi refuses to change, and he has fed these big families, and this Jing Nan doesn't know who has the final say.

As for the departure of the Wuxi barbarians, even if Shi Bao served as the governor of Jingnan as a guarantee, and the prestige of Pan Jun and Xi Hong as collateral, the mutual trust between the Wuxi barbarians and the Han people was far from being so easy to establish.

The matter of ethnic integration is not based on one or two years, at least in one or two decades, and in today's Nanzhong region, the barrier between the Yi and Han people has not been completely broken, how can it be expected that Wuxi can fully trust the Han now.

So, for Zhang Xi, he is also short of Dingkou now, Kuai Qi asked Zhang Xi to Dingkou, Zhang Xi also wanted to ask Zhuge Liang to ask for it, although it is very unrealistic, but Zhang Xi really thought so, can he migrate some Dingkou from Shu or Heluo area to the south, and come to Jingnan to enrich Dingkou.

Even Zhang Xi thought about it, he could not only give tax exemption to these Dingkou who moved south for three years, but also give each household at least ten acres of land. Generous enough, right?!

As a result, this notebook was handed to Zhuge Liang, and Zhuge Liang called Zhang Xi back directly, are you treating the people of Heluo and Shu as homeless, right?!

Well, it's no fun anyway.

Zhang Xi is also real, he didn't talk to Kuai Qi, but told Kuai Qi in front of Kuai Qi that he really couldn't get the ding mouth he wanted.

And at this time, Kuai Qi suddenly whispered a word to Zhang Xi.

"Jiaozhou is in turmoil. Do you care?! ”

"Well, gentleman, let's talk about it."

As a pastor of Jingzhou, it is impossible to have no precautions against the nearby Dongwuzhou County, so Zhang Xi has heard of the turmoil in Jiaozhou, but Zhang Xi actually doesn't know very well about the specifics.

But Kuaiqi knows.

On the one hand, Kuai Qi was in charge of Guiyang, and he, like Pan Jun of Lingling County, had a natural responsibility for the defense of Jiaozhou in the south.

On the other hand, although the Xiangyang Kuai family has declined a little over the years, it still has a lot of relationship channels, and it is not that there are no network channels in Jiaozhou.

Therefore, Kuai Qi knows a little bit about this matter.

And this matter, in fact, we have to start with the complete occupation of Jiaozhou by Soochow.

Back then, Shi Xie chose to surrender to Sun Quan, and Sun Quan also gave Shi Xie courtesy, allowing him to continue to serve as the assassin of Jiaozhou, and only nominally ruled Jiaozhou.

As long as Shi Xie could provide enough money and food to Sun Quan every year, then Sun Quan acquiesced to the Shi family to continue to rule Jiaozhou.

But with the death of Shi Xie, Shi Hui, the son of the Shi family, took over as the assassin of Jiaozhou, giving Sun Quan the opportunity to directly bring Jiaozhou into the scope of rule.

Shihui's ability is not good, but his heart is quite high, and he always feels that his father's surrender to Dongwu is a bit too much, so he plans to rise up. Then let Lu Dai rise up a little, directly quell the rebellion of Jiaozhou Shihui, and make him a marquis.

Originally, things had developed to this point, but in fact, it was nothing, and the heads of the families and barbarian clans of Jiaozhou were also ready for Dongwu to enter Jiaozhou. But at this time, Lu Dai did a brain-dead thing.

When the Shihui rebellion was quelled, Lü Dai did not directly attack Shixie, he sent Shixie's brother Shikuang to persuade Shixie to surrender, and promised to ensure the safety of the Shijia family, but in a blink of an eye, Lü Dai wiped out the Shijia.

At this time, the families and barbarian leaders of various tribes in Jiaozhou were directly given to the Ganmeng circle.

Although Shihui is a fool, Shixie has ruled in Jiaozhou for decades and has a very high reputation, and the leaders of the Jiaozhou family and the barbarian tribes have basically received Shixie's favor.

And Lu Dai's move to surrender and kill is unacceptable no matter where it is placed, even if it is on the side of the barbarians. But Lu Dai really did it.

At that time, the situation in Jiaozhou was a little unstable, but because Lu Dai easily quelled Shihui's rebellion, the army was in full swing, and the forces of Jiaozhou did not dare to act for the time being.

If in this case, Lu Dai can stay in Jiaozhou for a few years, re-establish the prestige of Soochow in Jiaozhou, and appease these Jiaozhou families and the leaders of various departments, then this Jiaozhou may not be able to cause chaos.

But at this time, Zhou Yu launched the Jiangling War, and there were not enough manpower, so Sun Quan could only transfer Lu Dai from Jiaozhou back to Jingnan.

Then, Lu Dai never went back to Jiaozhou.

And the Jiaozhou assassin Shi Dai Liang appointed by Sun Quan has neither Lu Dai's means nor Lu Dai's ability, so he can't suppress the major families and barbarians in Jiaozhou at all.

Jiaozhou once again fell into turmoil.

(End of chapter)