Dong Zhongshu is an old thief, Yang Chuan is a little thief, the two 'eagle skins' hit it off, and in a few words, the matter of Longxi County was finalized-

Eleven counties in Longxi County, Yang Chuan is responsible for taking care of Lintao and other three counties close to the northwest border, plus three counties in Longnan, Dong Zhongshu and his disciples are responsible for governing Qingshui, Didao and other five counties.

This time, don't say that the people of the Li family in Longxi didn't expect it, even Zhang Tang, Sima Qian, and Dongfang Shuo were confused, and they couldn't guess what Yang Chuan was going to do.

Only Pingyang Hou Cao Xiang was a little thoughtful.

That night, after Dong Zhongshu and the elders of the Li clan in Longxi had a banquet, they left Lintao with hundreds of their disciples and went to their respective places to become officials.

Cao Xiang and Huo Qubing quietly entered Yang Chuan's Taishou Mansion.

"Yang Chuan, what kind of medicine is sold in your gourd?"

As soon as they met, Huo Quzhi couldn't help frowning and asked: "You and Dong Zhongshu are people on the two paths, we have many young people under our own door, we can't say that we are full of talents, but we can give them a step to advance, let them be a county commander, a captain, a postal supervisor, don't drive or something, it should be no problem, right?" ”

"Look at you, your own people don't let you be an official, but you give Dong Zhongshu's old thief a lot of official hats......"

Yang Chuan was lecturing Huo Guang and Yang Yi, and after listening to Huo Quai's complaining words, he couldn't help but laugh and scold: "You are an iron man." ”

Huo Qu was not convinced, stiffened his neck, and drank a bowl of tea in one gulp: "Who, come, add tea to my brother." ”

Huo Guang stepped forward with his neck shrunk, filled Huo Qu's illness with tea, and said, "Brother, please drink tea." ”

Huo Quzhi looked his little brother up and down, his two sword eyebrows were about to twist, and he said angrily: "Look at your cowardly appearance, where is a bit of a man's temperament, this makes Yang Chuan teach badly!" ”

"Huo Guang, from tomorrow, you will come to my camp, and my brother will teach you martial arts in person."

Huo Guang arched his hand and said in a proper manner: "Brother, you can beat and scold your brother, but you can't complain about the teacher, in addition, follow the teacher, brother I can learn the ability of the Qi family to govern the country and level the world, and I can also learn the learning of agriculture and mulberry crops, in contrast, the so-called riding and archery martial arts, you have to wait for the brother's body and bones to grow up before you can learn, otherwise, the teacher said, it will hurt the muscles and bones and damage the origin......"

As soon as he opened his mouth, Huo Qu was half angry, and he couldn't help but kick it out, directly kicking Huo Guang out four or five feet, and falling into disgrace.

"Huo Guang, you kid can do it now, with Yang Chuan as a teacher, you think I'm useless as an elder brother?"

Huo Quzhi took a big step with a fist the size of a sandbag, and wanted to continue to teach Huo Guang a lesson, but Yang Chuan was stunned by a word.

"If you get sick, you will have the ability to beat your own brothers," Yang Chuan said slowly: "At the beginning, you were beaten half to death by your uncle, and you once told me in person, saying that you Huo Quzhi will never beat your relatives in the future......"

Huo Quzhi's eyes widened, and he muttered and scolded: "You fart!" ”

Yang Chuan chuckled, no longer paying attention to this fool, but looked at Cao Xiang and asked, "Cao Xiang, do you also think that the gamble between me and Dong Zhongshu is wrong?" ”

Cao Xiang shook his head, sat down, and said with a smile: "With your character, this time it is clear that you have the intention of tricking people, what else do you say?" ”

Yang Chuan smiled and asked, "My character is so bad?" ”

Cao Xiang nodded solemnly: "Hmm." ”

Yang Chuan scolded with a smile, turned his head to look at Huo Guang, who was patting the dust on his body, and casually ordered: "Huo Guang, give you an exam question, and give your brother and Pingyang Hou an analysis of the pros and cons of the bet between the teacher and Dong Zhongshu." ”

Huo Guang said 'um', shook his clothes, and began to speak: "The student thinks that the gambling agreement between the teacher and Dong Gong has disadvantages and advantages, and on the whole, the advantages should outweigh the disadvantages, so it is completely feasible."

There are three benefits.

First, without a trace, the military and political affairs of Longxi County were taken from the hands of the Li family in Longxi and handed over to the teacher and Dong Gong respectively, such as reclaiming wasteland, improving people's livelihood, building cities, and recruiting border guards to defend the army, all of which could be carried out according to the teacher's ideas.

Second, you can take advantage of this opportunity to give some scholars from poor families a step forward, so that they can directly become officials in Longxi County without going through the recommendation of the Li family in Longxi.

At the same time, the official status of these people is a gift from the teacher, and in terms of academic system, they are still the children of Dong Gong's disciples, but in terms of human ethics, they have become the teacher's protégés.

Third, we can take advantage of this opportunity to let go of our hands and feet in Tuntian, train troops, build water conservancy and other matters, and even the imperial court is estimated to have the intention of watching the excitement, which can avoid some suspicion and trouble.

As for the drawbacks, students think that there is only one.

That is, after the Li clan in Longxi reacts, he may find a way to break the gambling contract between the teacher and Dong Gong, which will cause a certain disaster......"

Hearing this discussion, Huo Quzhi and Cao Xiang were dumbfounded, their eyes widened, and they looked directly at Huo Guang, who was harmless and unpretentious to humans and animals, and they couldn't speak for a long time.

This cowardice, it's been less than a year since I followed Yang Chuan, right?

Unexpectedly, the country boy who shy back and made promises at the beginning is now so able to pull it off?

Listen to it, listen to other people's little mouths, how can they talk.

It's clearly a very simple thing, Leng is to say a lot of pros and cons, it is clearly organized, and the head is the way, which actually made Cao Da Caobao and Huo Dahan speechless......

Yang Chuan was also very satisfied when he heard it.

He looked at Huo Guang and said with a warm smile: "Huo Guang, it seems that this period of study has not been in vain, and he is also very proficient in the judgment, analysis, induction, and summary techniques in arithmetic.

Merely. ”

He paused slightly, and continued: "It's just that the truths you said are a bit superficial, and you haven't seen the root crux of the problem clearly, for example, why do we want to target the Li family in Longxi?" Also, what means and measures should be used in our next strategy, you have to listen and see more. ”

Huo Guang hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Please also ask the teacher to teach." ”

Yang Chuan groaned a few times and said: "Why do you want to target the Li family in Longxi, the reason is very simple, that is, since we are here, we can't let the Li family dominate, otherwise, you say that we came to Longxi County to eat?"

As for the next strategic means and measures, I will arrange a task for you today, and you can implement it accordingly.

Remember, there are some things to say, when it's time to say them, only say three points, and swallow seven points.

If you shouldn't say it, you should say it for seven points, hide it in your belly for two points, and leave one point for people to treach. ”

Several people in the audience were a little puzzled.

Why should you say three points and swallow seven points when you should say what you should say, and say seven points instead of saying what you shouldn't say, hide two points, and leave one point?

As if guessing everyone's doubts, Yang Chuan thought for a moment and said with a smile: "The truth is also very simple, if you shouldn't say it, you have to earn to say more gossip and nonsense that has nothing to do with it, which is boring and doesn't like to listen, as for the core part, you just hide it deep in your stomach and let it rot slowly......"

……

After solving the most important matter at hand, he performed a 'double reed' with Dong Zhongshu, and removed the Li family of Longxi from the plate of county governance without a trace, and Yang Chuan's 'package plan' was officially started.

In the case of reclaiming wasteland, Yang Chuan still tried his best to use the infrastructure battalion, the Yulin Army and nearly 5,000 Qiang women and children to reclaim more than 200,000 acres of wasteland.

According to past practice, about half of these 200,000 acres of newly cultivated fertile land, both openly and secretly, must be handed over to the Li family to take care of.

Yang Chuan was not used to it.

He pretended to be confused, and directly confiscated these fertile fields and turned them into the 'public fields' of Longxi County, and divided them reasonably and handed them over to the infrastructure camp.

For this reason, he also registered all of them in the name of Taishoufu, compiled them into the book of the population of Longxi County, and reported it to the imperial court; After the imperial court filed and approved, he immediately issued these people with Han 'ID cards'.

This operation went smoothly, and without waiting for others to react, there were more than 10,000 more people under the rule of Longxi County out of thin air.

On the day when I got the Han ID card 'Bamboo Slips', there was laughter and laughter, singing and dancing on the Tuntian, and those Qiang women and children surrounded their Han men, and they were so happy that they didn't know what to say, so they had to knock the child unconscious in advance that night......

Behold, these are the people.

In the years of war and chaos, whether it was the Qiang, Di or Huns, the people of the Han Empire who could live and rest at sunrise were actually envious and liked in their hearts, after all, they could make people live and work in peace and contentment, and this was the real soft power of an empire.

Yang Chuan saw it in his eyes, and he was quite happy in his heart.

These nearly 5,000 Qiang women and children, in another three or five years, will have a field to plant, a food to eat, a warm and comfortable house to live in, and a fixed man scolding at home, where do they still remember that they were once Qiang and Di people?

Cultivating land is the first major event in Yangchuan, and it cannot stop for a moment.

He carefully calculated that with a three-year time limit, Longxi County would have an additional 800,000 mu of fertile land, and it was also some watered land in gentle rivers, slopes and river valleys.

Based on a rough calculation that 100 acres of land can feed a family, can these 800,000 acres of fertile land feed 8,000 to 10,000 households? Converted into a population, it is almost 50,000 or 60,000 people.

You must know that according to Yang Chuan's algorithm, this 100 acres of irrigated land can actually be worth thousands of acres of dry land, and if it is plain, there will be nearly 10,000 more good families!

Even in the rich land of Guanzhong, those who are officials do not dare to guarantee that within three or two years, there will be 10,000 more good families under their rule, not to mention Longxi County, which is located in the northwest borderland......

The second thing Yang Chuan has to do is to govern the officials.

It is often said that serving as an official will benefit one party.

But what kind of cowardice the officials of the Han Empire were, Yang Chuan knew better than anyone else, the better officials were just gold-swallowing beasts, but they were just corrupt for some money, grain and land, and occupied dozens of hundreds of good women;

But in fact, more officials in the Han Empire were not only gold-swallowing beasts, but also bloodsuckers, knocking bones and sucking marrow, fish and flesh people, deceiving and concealing them, almost a group of beasts inferior to things.

According to ordinary people's thinking, in the face of those corrupt officials who blow the ground, they should be caught, cut with thousands of knives, cramped and peeled, and cut the grass and eradicated the roots......

It doesn't work.

Yang Chuan clearly remembered that in a certain dynasty in later generations, a certain emperor once concocted and intimidated his own officials in extremely cruel ways, such as peeling skin and cramping, cutting with thousands of knives, cooking in hot oil, digging out intestines and adding grass, etc., only in the years of his old man's reign, there were as many as 150,000 corrupt officials slaughtered.

The methods are not cruel, and the criminal law is not severe.

And then the eggs.

None of the fart.

On the contrary, because the old emperor was too brutal and hated all the officials in the world, so that in the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, the royal family and the ministers were separated from morality, and no one birded anyone, and in the end, when the emperor's generation was greedy and weak, the courtiers were more and more black than the other, and when Li Chuang broke through the city of Beijing, he was tortured and tortured, and he squeezed out tens of millions of taels of gold and hundreds of millions of silver from the royal family and the ministers......

The root of corruption in the Han Empire is not in the hearts of the people, nor in human nature.

It's about the system.

Because, whether it is human heart or human nature, there is always the inertia of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, greedy for pleasure, no one can cure this, as long as there is such a position, there is such a system full of loopholes, who is not greedy or corrupt, in Yang Chuan's view, it is a stupid eagle.

How could Yang Chuan, who knew this, go to Longxi County like ordinary people?

So, what kind of means can be used to wrench the wrist with the intricate and deep-rooted Li clan in Longxi, but it will not be too ugly and will not provoke its fierce resistance?

Again, that's a problem.

Just when Yang Chuan was thinking hard about how to govern in Longxi County, Huo Qubing came to the door and brought an unexpected news-

The perpetrator was an orphan of Yulin under Li Dang's account, born in the Li family of Longxi, but his family background was not as solid and prominent as Li Kang, for his own future, he actually obeyed the arrangement of some people in the Li family, and became the first Erwuzai to be rescued in the Yulin army.

Hearing this news, Yang Chuan just smiled and didn't say anything more.

Huo Quzhi was already angry, with a gloomy face, saying that he wanted to find a way to kill a group of people surnamed Li.

Yang Chuan comforted him a few words, and arranged a banquet, which was regarded as to dissipate Huo Qu's anger, let him calm down for a while, and wait for him to come up with a good way to retaliate back.

"Yang Chuan, you hurry up and think about it, yes, I can't wait." Huo Qu couldn't stop urging.

Yang Chuan seemed unhurried, eating meat slowly, drinking wine slowly, and from time to time, he had to laugh with his three little women, which was almost a person in a hurry.

Before the meal was finished, Huo Qubing had to get up and leave, saying that he would go back first and whip the soldier who committed the crime into mud.

Yang Chuan finally spoke: "Okay, I've already thought of a way to cure them." ”

"Go sick, go back to the Yulin Army camp, don't make a noise about this matter, just pretend that you don't know anything, and at the same time, promote the miscellaneous who has done bad things to a petty officer."

Huo Quzhi's eyes widened: "Yang Chuan, do you have a sick brain?" He did bad things to exterminate the three clans, and he still wanted to promote him? ”

Yang Chuan nodded solemnly: "Yes, not only to be promoted, but also to make them rich......"

(End of chapter)