Chapter 101: Flattery Before the Banquet
Nangong, Raoyang, Tangyang, Wuyi, Fucheng, and Wusui's county orders are all children of the scholar clan, and they are outstanding talents selected by major families, although they are a little dissatisfied with Fan Xiwen's strength, but on the surface, they are still flattering Fan Xiwen with a sunny smile, if other people are really dazzled by these people's sycophants, just like the Sun Moon Divine Sect and Ding Chunqiu's gang in Jin Yong's martial arts drama. But who is Fan Xiwen, that is a rare genius in a hundred years who has no teacher in thick black learning, and it is easy to act on the spot, and these nominal subordinates flatter one sentence, and Fan Xiwen will reply ten sentences. In short, the scene was quite harmonious, quite happy, and a group of smiling tigers were talking there.
"My lord, in the future, I will be on an errand under the hands of adults, and if there are deficiencies, please be able to Haihan." Nangong Ling Xiao Qing said to Fan Xiwen.
"Yes, yes, I'm stupid, if I do something wrong, please be able to Haihan." As soon as Xiao Qing spoke, the county orders of the other four counties echoed and said, this attitude is really embarrassing.
In fact, this sentence is a signal, a signal that the county commanders are playing a big name to Fan Xiwen. There is that family who is really willing to give up the interests in their hands, these families are very arrogant, Fan Xiwen was a small commoner before he was a county order, these families who have always been happy to oppress the people did not jump up and say that Fan Xiwen is not worthy of being the minister of Anping, it is because Le'an sent an army of 9,000 to wander around Anping. Although I didn't dare to jump out and say it, I still did it secretly to make difficulties and slack off work. Could it be that Fan Xiwen dared to send troops to arrest them, the five county orders sitting here represent the five major families of Anping, and the energy contained in them is not something that anyone in Anping can bear.
The five major families of Xiao, Li, Tang, Zhou, and Liu belong to the existence of behemoths in Anping Kingdom, and the more important thing for these five families is that there are a large number of small families at the bottom of the country in addition to their own strength. As long as these five families move, it can be said that almost all the families in Anping will follow suit, if ordinary people really can't withstand such a fight, but Fan Xiwen is an ordinary person?
If you don't accept it, then destroy you, just like Bump Man beating a little monster, it will always be a little monster that falls.
"You dare to be passive and slack off, well, this is a good excuse." Fan Xiwen listened to the words of a few newly recruited younger brothers, and suddenly secretly enjoyed in his heart, which just gave himself a chance to pull them off the horse. So Fan Xiwen straightened his body, put on a very serious posture, and pretended to have a serious expression.
I don't like to hear this, the clothes we wear are woven by the people with blood and sweat, the mirror on our heads hangs high, we read the poetry and books of the sages, and we learn to serve the country and the people. I think when I was in charge of Le'an for the first time, I didn't know where to start, and I could learn slowly if I didn't understand. As long as you are sincere for the people, the officials will naturally not care about small things. Although the county magistrate is a sesame official, after all, he holds the life and death of tens of thousands of people under his hands, and he can't be careless. If any of you really don't have the ability, you should tell the official in advance, the official can't treat the lives of the people as child's play. Fan Xiwen looked at the subordinates who obviously wanted to give themselves a dismount and said very seriously, what this means is that if you dare to be passive and slack off, you will leave me.
As soon as these words came out, the faces of several county commanders were not good-looking. What does this mean, people are simply afraid that they will not cooperate with him, and even want to use this to squeeze out the power of their families and occupy the entire Le'an alone. Fan Xiwen's ambition was undoubtedly revealed at this moment, and the battle between the family and Fan Xiwen would break out sooner or later.
"This, this, what the adults teach is that the subordinates must always keep it in mind." Now it is Fan Xiwen's territory, if there is really any conflict with Fan Xiwen, it must be himself who will be injured, so it is better to give in first.
"For this bandit incident, the counties are really powerless, but fortunately, the adults sent troops to rescue them in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable." Tang Yang Ling said.
"This official is the minister of peace, and he also governs the next peace, which is what the prime minister should do." Fan Xiwen put up his boss's shelf this time, and he talked in a set.
"It's just my lord, this army is the most likely to cause the people's panic outside, and I always feel a little unsteady, I don't know what the adults think about this?" Tang Yun made a start, and then it was time for the rest of the county commanders to speak. The new An Ping Xiang has made up his mind to control the entire Anping in his own hands, and the major families will lose some benefits, among which the interests of the five major families will lose the most. Therefore, without any communication, these foxes formed a united front, and the muzzles of the guns unanimously bombarded Fan Xiwen.
It was Fucheng Ling Liu Ding who spoke, a middle-aged man about thirty years old, and the people in this period were mature and steady, so Liu Ding took out the stability of the people under his rule as a pretense.
"If the thieves are not eliminated, then the people's hearts will be unstable. At present, our army has been successfully suppressing the thieves, and has already arranged countless pockets for the bandits in the Fuliu area, as long as the time comes, the official will send someone to drive all these bandits into the pockets and solve them at one time. Fan Xiwen glanced at Liu Ding, and then said slowly, not knowing what he was thinking.
Guo Jia came up with the thief plan, in fact, the people who have benefited the most so far are not Fan Xiwen, but those big families. The sudden appearance of the bandits wiped out dozens of small clans, many of which were due to the contributions of those great families. This is a good opportunity for them to eradicate dissidents, and then the hands of the bandits will wipe out the little warriors who they can't see or violate their own interests. Some of those big families sent people to find bandits, and bribed some of the bandits with a lot of money to ask them to loot the rival families. Some are even more simply, directly asking the subordinates to pretend to be thieves to do something that is usually difficult to do.
The reason why the bandits will loot freely in the counties of Anping is because those big families need these bandits to cover for the disgraceful deeds they have done, otherwise these bandits will not be comfortable now. After three days, these great families were only a part of the obstacles. Now that Fan Xiwen has sent an army of nearly 10,000 people, there is not much possibility for those bandits to continue their activities, and these families who want to fish in troubled waters have little chance. Who is willing to let go of such a great opportunity easily, so now these families are probably further stepping up their contact with the bandits, and these families will definitely be able to cover things that belong to scouts, such as ventilating and reporting information.
They had only one request, and that was to loot some of the families again when the time was right. In this way, the army of nearly 10,000 thieves sent by Fan Xiwen will return in vain, and Fan Xiwen's prestige in Anping will drop to the extreme after a long time. It's killing two birds with one stone, such a good thing is really going to think, if these families knew that their conversation with those bandits had been reported to Fan Xiwen's desk intact, that expression would be quite exciting.
"Oh, hehe, it turns out that the adults have come up with such a clever plan, if there is any use to get the lower official, the lower official will definitely go all out, without ambiguity." Liu Ding was so scared by Fan Xiwen that he was so scared of his thief, and he suddenly felt as if he had been seen through, so he immediately expressed his loyalty in front of Fan Xiwen.
"If I ask you to hand over all the property deeds of the Liu family, I don't know if you will be ambiguous." Fan Xiwen thought mischievously in his heart, for this kind of loyalty, Fan Xiwen really won't take him seriously, if you really believe the words of this group of foxes one day, then you are not far from being stupid. But it's really impossible to say such things now, to put it bluntly, today this is a very unnutritious official drama, and almost all the words that everyone says can be counted.
"You just need to prepare for the city defense, don't let the bandits hurt the people, and leave the rest to the army." Fan Xiwen nodded and said.
"The head of the family, my lords, the time for the banquet is almost up, and I would like to ask the head of the family and all of you to move to Qingfeng Tower." Wang Fan came out and broke this extremely unnutritious conversation and flattery, if this person really made up his mind to do something, even if it was dark, it didn't matter, Wang Fan was really afraid that they would shoot until dark, and they planned to fight at night.
"Well, since it's about to start, let's go." Fan Xiwen stood up and made a gesture of invitation to several subordinates.
"Your Excellency, please." Among these people, only Fan Xiwen has the largest official position, Fan Xiwen didn't leave, how dare these people go first. Fan Xiwen knew this, so he nodded to everyone without pretentiousness, and then took the lead in front as a pioneer. As soon as Fan Xiwen came out of the county capital, he was surrounded by the crowd, and the congratulations sounded warmly, which shows how popular Fan Xiwen is in Le'an.
"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your congratulations to Xiwen." Fan Xiwen felt the enthusiasm of the people, and immediately burst into tears. Look at this group of poor people facing the loess with their backs to the sky, busy all day and night, but in the end, even feeding themselves is a problem, it is really sad for the speakers to cry. Fan Xiwen's ancestors are all rural people, and this sadness is naturally very clear.
Everyone is a flesh-and-blood life, why do some people have fine clothes and jade food and clothing without worry, why do some people have no food and clothing. All people are equal, but the world imposes an identity and a class on them, so there is oppression and resistance.
The people are real, they remember Fan Xiwen's kindness to them, so they use this most simple and pure situation to express their gratitude to Fan Xiwen.