Lu Xiangsheng suppressed the bandits......

In the bloody battle of Huanglongtan, the Tianxiong army showed great might, caught the rogues who returned to Yunyang from Sichuan and beat them violently, so that the rogues almost couldn't take care of themselves.

After the fight, Lu Xiangsheng led the army to pursue again, and chased the rogues until they were in Sichuan.

Now he can't chase anymore, and he returns from the army.

When I took it back, I passed through Shangnan County, and it had been several days.

Walking outside the South Mall, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but let out a "huh".

It turned out that after a few days of not seeing, the county seat of Shangnan has changed greatly, and the demolished city wall is now being rebuilt by a large number of people. The gate was also re-erected with a large wooden gate, which was clearly new, and had not yet been painted, but was still the color of the wood.

Lu Xiangsheng: "Huh? The reconstruction of the city wall has mobilized so many ordinary people to work together, doesn't this violate the article of 'prohibiting the disturbance of errands to ensure the people's livelihood' in the eight rules of the official? ”

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng was a little anxious.

Shangnan County has just been ravaged by the Liukou, the people are dead, the wounded are injured, and now the Liukou have just been driven away, so they have recruited these remnants of the common people to serve in the conscription, which is too hurtful to the people.

No, no, no!

That's nonsense.

Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly ran to the city.

As soon as he ran to the gate of the city, Lu Xiangsheng felt that something was wrong, these ordinary people who were building the city wall were actually talking and laughing, and their spirits looked quite full.

It doesn't look like "the suffering people who were arrested by the government and served as forced laborers".

Lu Xiangsheng stopped, grabbed a man who was working, and asked in a deep voice, "What are you doing?" ”

The man was startled when he saw an official in armor grab him, and he fell down with a pop: "Master Jun, the little one didn't do anything." ”

Lu Xiangsheng: "Don't be afraid, this official just asked, you were arrested to serve in the conscription and still laughed so happily?" ”

"Conscription?" The man shook his head: "Master Qiqi, the little one is not serving in forced labor, and the small one is a hired short-term worker." ”

A huge question mark slowly jumped out of Lu Xiangsheng's head, filling the sky over the entire Shangnan County: "Short-term work? What do you mean...... Someone paid you to repair the city walls? ”

"It's not money, it's three catties of flour, three catties a day!" Speaking of this, a smile appeared on the man's face: "Three catties, I came out to work alone, and the five members of the family can eat enough." ”

Lu Xiangsheng: "What? ”

In the year of the great drought in the world, three catties of flour are paid a day! So against the sky.

Since it is spending money to hire people to work, it is not considered a violation of the "prohibition of errands to ease the people's livelihood" in the eight rules, Lu Xiangsheng was not angry all of a sudden, but a little happy.

Lu Xiangsheng: "Who hired you?" ”

Man: "It's a young man...... Called......"

Lu Xiangsheng: "Li Yuanwai? ”

Man: "Ahh It's Li Yuanwai. ”

Lu Xiangsheng thought to himself: This Li Yuanwai has made a lot of money. So many migrant workers are building the city wall together, this is to hire all the young and strong male laborers in Shangnan County who were not killed by thieves, right? At least there are hundreds of people, and these people are given three catties of flour a day, and they have to spend thousands of catties of grain every day.

It's a nice person to take out so much food to build walls for the country to defend against thieves.

He was not in a hurry and slowly walked into the county seat.

I saw that the county seat of Shangnan was not only repairing the city wall, but also the buildings in the city.

When the rogues arrived, they set fire to large areas of the city, and now there are many migrant workers who are carrying them shoulder to shoulder, clearing the burned rubble and building new houses.

Lu Xiangsheng was very pleased, this is the practice of the eight rules of "diligent repair of the battle to lay the people's house", not bad, not bad! This Luo Xi and Li Yuanwai are really worry-free for their own officials.

When I walked to the north city gate, I saw that there was still a group of people building roads here.

There is an official road in the north city gate of Shangnan County, which leads directly to Wuguan, this official road has been uneven because of disrepair, and the road is difficult to travel......

Lu Xiangsheng thought again that they were "benefiting the people from the mountains and rivers to help the poor".

So happy!

He was worried that the magistrate would not cooperate and that the decree would not be implemented at the grassroots level, but he didn't expect that in this Shangnan County, his decree could be issued so quickly, which really made him so happy that he wanted to fly.

The local officials of the five provinces, eight prefectures and Kyushu should all come to study Shangnan County. Go back and tell them that they all come to Shangnan County to learn from them.

Lu Xiangsheng walked briskly towards the county yamen, wanting to find Luo Xi and Li Yuanwai and encourage them a few words, but he had only reached the halfway point when he saw a messenger running over and quickly reporting to him: "Report, a liukou is heading to Wulin Pass. ”

Lu Xiangsheng said "hey", it seems that he doesn't have time to chat with General Luo and Li Yuanwai today, or it's important to suppress bandits.

He hurriedly ran out of the city, took his Tianxiong army, and rushed straight towards Wulin Pass.

A few days later, when I arrived at Wulin Pass, I saw 10,000 rogues burning and looting in the pass.

Lu Xiangsheng waved his army to cover the past, and the Tianxiong army was mighty, and as soon as he made a move, he beat the rogues and fled in embarrassment. Lu Xiangsheng beheaded hundreds of people, captured the remaining thieves alive, and caught more than 3,000 people.

Again, these people can't all be killed, and they can only be brought back for resettlement.

He didn't know how to settle these people, he had no money or food in his hands, the finances were in a hurry, and the three thousand people were too hot in his hands, so he could only hold them and go back.

This walk took several days, and I passed through Shangnan County again......

When I came back this time, I saw a huge house being built outside the county seat of Shangnan, and a group of people with blue hats were in charge of commanding in it, and a large group of people followed the blue hats, building houses according to the blue hats.

Lu Xiangsheng leaned over curiously: "What are you doing here?" ”

When the blue hat saw him as a big official, he was not afraid at all, unlike other ordinary people who wanted to kneel when they saw the officials. The blue hat actually smiled and talked eloquently: "We are building the first commercial iron factory." ”

"What?" Lu Xiangsheng Daqi: "What is the No. 1 Commercial Railway Factory?" ”

The blue hat smiled: "It is the abbreviation of Shangnan Iron and Steel Plant No. 1." ”

Lu Xiangsheng was a little confused: "Steelmaking and ironmaking? ”

Blue Hat: "Yes! In the Tianzhu Mountain of Shanyang County in the west and the Lushi Mountain Area in the east, there is a large iron mine, and these two large iron mines are almost far away from the county seat of Shangnan. Therefore, we decided to build an iron-making plant outside Shangnan County, and in the future, the iron ore produced in Tianzhu Mountain and the Lushi Mountain area will be transported here for unified refining. ”