There were forty-six administrative units at the provincial level throughout the empire.

In addition to the four first-class cities, there are 42 real provinces.

Although in terms of administrative level, there is no difference between the forty-two provinces.

However, when it comes to the details of the economy, people's livelihood, education, and even the military, there is a cloud-like gap between the 42 provinces.

For example, purely from the perspective of economic volume, the best provinces can even reach the worst provinces by more than ten times!

Moxi Province is not the worst of the forty-two provinces in the empire, but if you have to classify it, it can definitely be ranked as one of the worst.

For all the administrative officials of the empire, if they are promoted from the lower level to the higher level, then it is still very happy to be promoted from the mayor of a certain second-tier city to the worst provincial high-ranking official.

However, if it is a flat transfer between provinces, from one economically developed province to another economically backward province, it is very disgusting.

Therefore, six years ago, when Lu Yuan, who was originally a senior official in the Far Eastern Province of the Empire, was suddenly transferred to the Moxi Province as a senior official by a holy decree of the Emperor, everyone thought that the Holy Dependent's Long Road must have lost the emperor's trust for unknown reasons.

Because the Far Eastern Province is among the forty-two provinces of the empire, its comprehensive strength is enough to rank in the top five!

Normally, with Lu Yuan's status in the emperor's mind, it doesn't take too long to serve as a high-ranking official in the Far Eastern Province, and he will be directly promoted and enter the center.

But he didn't expect that in everyone's minds, Lu Yuan, who had a bright political future, would suddenly be degraded by His Majesty the Emperor to a remote place like Moxi Province.

And a full six years have passed, and there is no sign of any repetition or resurgence.

So much so that in the eyes of some big people, the value of Lu Yuan has dropped dramatically compared to six years ago.

In their opinion, Lu Yuan could only spend his life in the position of a high-ranking official in Moxi Province, and it was impossible to go further.

However, such a view did not have any negative impact on Lu Yuan's leadership of Moxixing Province.

When everyone decided that Lu Yuan might always be forgotten by His Majesty the Emperor and always sit in the position of a high-ranking official in Moxi Province, the officials in Moxi Province were even more in awe of Lu Yuan.

The reason is very simple, although a superior who may be transferred at any time can still get the superficial respect of his subordinates, it is basically impossible to make his subordinates follow him sincerely.

Who makes your own position under the ass unstable?

The deterrence and benefits that can be brought to subordinates are naturally limited.

On the contrary, in the case of Lu Yuan, although the real upper echelons of the empire began to alienate and despise him, the bureaucrats of Moxi Province did not dare to have any other thoughts or ideas.

So much so that in this context, in the past few years, Lu Yuan has really established absolute authority in Moxi Province.

The degree of control over Moxi Province has also reached an unprecedented level that has not been reached by several high-ranking officials in recent years.

Despite this, Lu Yuan was not very happy.

The absolute control of Moxi Province can of course be regarded as a good political achievement, and it is enough to reflect its own ability.

However, the task secretly entrusted to him by His Majesty the Emperor has never made any clear progress.

For six years, even if some clues were found, these clues were scattered after all, and it was difficult to form a systematic discovery.

In Lu Yuan's eyes, it is equivalent to wasting time.

But things seem to have taken a turn for the better today!

A communication from the Imperial Palace made Lu Yuan, who had been a little sad recently, suddenly brightened.

Although it was not a direct communication from His Majesty, it was sent by Cao Deying, and it was no different from that sent by His Majesty.

Although the focus is on the new tasks assigned by His Majesty, at the same time, Cao Deying also mentioned that His Majesty has planned to transfer him back to the imperial capital from Moxi Province in the near future, but the specific time has not yet been determined.

This is of course great news for Lu Yuan!

And the first thing to consider now is, of course, to successfully complete the latest task arranged by His Majesty the Emperor.

was thinking about these things in his mind, but the door of the office was knocked directly, and after Lu Yuan answered, he saw his adjutant walk in with a bitter face.

"What's wrong? Didn't you contact Canglan City? What kind of expression is this? Does Canglan City still dare to refuse your order?"

Lu Yuan asked strangely.

"My lord, I ...... I didn't get in touch with the mayor of Canglan City. ”

The adjutant said with a wry smile.

"What do you mean you didn't contact the mayor of Canglan City?"

Lu Yuan was a little unresponsive for a while.

"This ...... My lord, Qiu Pengzu, the former mayor of Canglan City, and the former first deputy mayor have been escorted into the imperial capital, and now it is the second deputy mayor of Canglan City who is presiding over the work of the city government in Canglan City. As I understand it...... That age arrives at the station, and he will definitely retire at the end of this year. So for the work thing, it can always be delayed. ”

The adjutant said as he stole a glance at Lu Yuan's expression.

It's just that he didn't see any change in expression from Lu Yuan's face, and the adjutant continued helplessly: "I dialed according to the official number of the city government, but no one answered at all, including the mayor's office, and the corresponding secretariat, and even the mayor's private number, I also dialed, but ...... But no one answered. ”

Listening to the adjutant's narration, Lu Yuan was directly angry.

He smiled and said, "It's really amazing that the corpse vegetarian meal has reached such a point." Okay, since you can't get in touch, don't contact us! Contact the special train immediately, I want to arrive in Canglan City within three hours!"

"Huh, sir...... I can check the communication number of the subordinate units of the Canglan City Government again, since the city government can't be contacted, then it's okay to contact the subordinate units directly, right?"

"No need! If I still need to directly contact the lower-level units, then what should the Canglan City Government do? Just withdraw them all! It's only been about three hours, and the development of the situation will not be irreversible, and it is just this incident that I will make an example of the chickens and monkeys! Doesn't that acting mayor just want to get through the last six months? I don't want him to get his way!"

Lu Yuan waved his hand and said coldly.

"That'...... Do you need to make some other preparations? The investigators we secretly laid down have recently reported that there seems to be some change in Canglan City, this ......"

"No, the change is in the wilderness, and there are not many people in there to solve the problem. Let's go arrange a special train. ”

"Yes, sir!"