Sima Zhong frowned and said: "Li Xun, you want to build cities and roads. This is a good thing and will benefit the country and the people. I shouldn't object to it, but you must also understand your priorities. If you do things too hastily, you will only give up halfway.

Wu Heng has a bad relationship with you. Without the support of the local governor's office, the capital of the governor's office alone cannot support the reconstruction of the entire city wall of Wu'an City. I suggest you suspend this matter until you have enough money in the future.

It’s not too late to make money and food.”

Li Xun waved his hand: "Senior, you don't need to worry about money and food. I'll figure it out. Besides, many merchants from the Western Region countries have come to Wu'an City recently, including many grain merchants. I just buy grain from them."

It is okay to give the people who built the city only food instead of money. Nowadays, there is not much money and food in the Governor's Mansion.

"The money in the government and the salaries of officials and the army cannot be paid out next month. How can you buy food?"

Sima Zhong had a look of displeasure on his face. He didn't like Li Xun very much. He felt that this person liked to talk big words, had a frivolous personality, and was not stable at all. At such a young age, he became the governor of a state and a high-ranking official, all because of the emperor's support.

Pampering has nothing to do with one's own abilities.

"Haha, if you don't have money, you can owe it first!"

Li Xun made a joke and glanced at Sima Zhong. Seeing that his face darkened, he quickly put away his smile, stood up, and said seriously: "Don't drive away, Sima. I have already explored almost all the gangsters on Longyou Road.

We will send troops in the next two days to suppress this group of bandits, and we should be able to get a lot of money and food."

Sima Zhong frowned and said nothing. Two days ago, Wang Renzhi sent him a private message. He talked about the seriousness of banditry in Suzhou and the incompetence of the army generals. The tone of the letter was quite worrying.

In Longyou West Daowu, Sha, and Xiazhou, Huang Zhen served in Wuzhou for a long time, only a few months, but he also did several major things. He took the initiative to attack the outside world and hit the other side of the Mulang River hard.

The counterattack force of the Dashi Empire based in Xizhou completely gave up the idea of ​​counterattacking Longyou. Therefore, shortly after the war, the Dashi Empire sent envoys to Jin Dynasty. The two countries reconciled, and internally, they bribed the local people with heavy sums of money to

As a guide and as a suppressor, it only took more than ten days to completely wipe out more than 20 groups of bandits and the remaining troops of the Dashi Empire in the entire Wuzhou territory. With such a decisive force, the Sha and Xia states were completely wiped out

The bandits were extremely fearful of Huang Jian. Before Huang Jian led the army, several large bandit forces all retreated to other states and counties, not daring to stay within Huang Jian's military range. Therefore, Longyou is now

In the three states on the west coast, the security within the territory is pretty good, with very few banditry.

There's nothing wrong with Li Xun, but that's not the case elsewhere.

In order to strengthen the military strength of Hedong Road, the imperial court transferred 40,000 soldiers to Longyou Road. Today, there are about 70,000 troops in the eleven prefectures of Longyou Road, mainly concentrated in four places.

One is Wuzhou, where Li Xun is located, with the largest number of troops, with 23,000 people.

Then there is Suzhou, which is also the seat of the Governor's Office of Longyou Road, with 15,000 soldiers. Liangzhou, as the logistics location of Anbei, has 10,000 troops stationed there. Huizhou, as the gateway to the Central Plains, is equally important, with two defenders.

Thousands of troops, second only to Wuzhou in terms of military strength, and finally Langzhou, the important defense town against Tibet, has fifteen thousand troops.

If Li Xun wanted to make a difference in Wuzhou, the first thing he had to do was to hold on to military power.

Yuan He did not seek refuge with Li Xun, but he said that he would obey the orders of the Governor's Office. To this end, Li Xun used the excuse of strengthening the security of Wu'an City to detach two hundred men from his own soldiers, and from Yuan He's

Eight hundred people were transferred from the army, a total of 1,000 people, and they were led by Zheng Chun and Zhao Wei to form an inspection camp to take over the patrol and public security of the entire Wu'an City. Yuan He cooperated very well with Li Xun's actions and showed no dissatisfaction.

be opposed to.

As for You Chong, his attitude toward Li Xun was tepid at the beginning and became closer and closer. Li Xun was originally just tentative and half-truthfully gave You Chong an order to join the army.

Five hundred soldiers were transferred from the army to form the Military Discipline Department, which was headed by Shan Qiu. Unexpectedly, You Chong actually followed suit.

Li Xun's main opponents and obstacles now are Wu Heng, Wang Chengxi and Gan Tuyuan. On the grounds that the banditry in Shenchi County has not been quelled, Wu Heng, as the military supervisor, asked Wang Chengxi and his 10,000 soldiers to

Stationed in Shenchi County, Wang Chengxi also used the excuse of suppressing bandits and always ignored Li Xun's order for him to lead the army back to Wu'an City.

Gan Tuyuan's attitude was milder, but he obeyed Li Xun's orders overtly, but secretly obeyed and obeyed the orders rather than the announcements. Li Xun had been patient with these people for a long time, and discussed countermeasures with Fan Zhongyun several times, and finally got it.

Planned.

The plan is to proceed in two steps.

In the first step, Li Xun, as the inspector of Longyou West Road, questioned Wu Heng several times. Wu Heng naturally ignored him, but from some government affairs and civil cases he has recently handled, it can still be seen that Wu Heng is honest.

I have learned a lot, and I don’t dare to interfere casually with the government affairs of various counties and magistrates like before. I also don’t dare to mess around with the government affairs and cases in my hands.

The second step is that after Huang Zhen's big raid, the bandits in the three states of Longyou West Road fled in fear. Where did they flee? They fled to Suzhou, so that the banditry in Suzhou was serious, among which the most serious ones were

Several large bandit forces numbered in the thousands. The first thing Wang Renzhi did after taking office was to order the army to send troops to exterminate the banditry in Suzhou. This has been more than a month, and the progress has not been very great.

.

Li Xun then wrote to the imperial court, requesting to send troops to Suzhou to cooperate in suppressing the bandits. However, he has not yet received a reply from the imperial court.

While several people were talking, a young officer walked in.

"Brother Li, I have brought you good news."

The officer walked into the room and shouted.

Li Xun turned around and looked. When he saw the face of the person clearly, Li Xun was stunned and said in surprise: "Li Xiao? Why are you here?"

This officer was none other than Li Xiao, the youngest son of Li Zhong.

Li Xiao chuckled and said, "I just arrived in Longyou the day before yesterday and am currently working under Wang Renzhi, the chief official of the Governor's Office."

Li Xun nodded. Li Xiao once told him that he would most likely be transferred to Longyou, but now he is working under Wang Renzhi.

Li Xun saw that he was tired from work, so he asked him to sit down, poured him a cup of tea, and then asked aloud: "You are shouting some good news before you come in. What's going on?"

Li Xiao drank the tea in one gulp, then stretched out two fingers: "Two good things, one is about Wuzhou, and the other is about us in Suzhou, which one do you want to listen to first?"

"Don't be so pretentious, let it go quickly."

Li Xun came to Li Xiao's side and cursed with a smile.

"Then let's talk about Wuzhou first."

Li Xiao chuckled, then lowered his voice and said rather mysteriously: "When I passed by Shenchi County, I sent someone to the city to inquire about it. Wu Heng, the governor of Wuzhou, personally escorted his mother back to Fengcheng yesterday.

Beijing."

Li Xun glanced at Li Xiao and said meaningfully: "It seems that you are very careful about Wu Heng!"
Chapter completed!