Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 160 Inaction County Fire
Hot summer.

Luo Youdu hotly pulled up his sleeves and legs, revealing a pair of yellowish arms and long legs covered with fine black hair.

Unsightly, but comfortable.

Holding the cattail fan in one hand, looking at the official documents of Lu, He, and Shu states with the other.

Although in wartime, the people's livelihood in the territory cannot be left behind.

In ancient times, it was no different than in modern times. Most of the common people lived year after year. Under all kinds of exploitation, they couldn't save money or food at all.

Therefore, once a disaster occurs, it is easy to stir up civil uprisings.

That's how the white armor soldiers around came.

Luzhou, Hezhou, and Shuzhou are relatively stable, with the support of the gentry and the support of the people.But after all, it is a newly attached place, and the current momentum of Dazhou is not as good as before.The state capitals on the four sides were all recovered by the Southern Tang Dynasty, so it is inevitable that there will be uneasy emotions.

If this anxiety is not appeased, once things happen, it may cause panic.

Faced with this situation, Luo Youdu could only temporarily put down the military affairs in his hands and put the government affairs of the three states first.

As for the Haozhou and Shouzhou frontlines that have already been beaten in the dark, it has nothing to do with Luo Youdu.

During this southern expedition, he has made enough meritorious service. He has eaten all the beef and mutton, so he has to give others a chance to drink soup.

What's more, there are teeth-cracking stones in this soup, so there is no need to argue with them.

"gentlemen!"

Dou Yi strode into the government office, seeing Luo Youdu stretched out her two long legs and exposed her arms, she turned her back in shock.

Luo Youdu reluctantly pulled down his sleeves and trouser legs.

The governor of Luzhou whom I appointed is good at everything. He is upright, upright, calm and honest, and also talented. He can not only help him in government affairs, but also appease and unite the gentry.

As the eldest son of Confucianist Dou Yanshan in the Central Plains, Dou Yi still has some prestige among scholars.

It's just that he is a bit rigid and doesn't know how to be flexible.

At the very beginning, Luo Youdu was bare-chested and bare-backed, all old men have nothing to be ashamed of.

It's so hot that you can extract oil, and there is no air conditioner, so it's nothing to be naked.

As a result, Dou Yi argued with him in terms of manners.

The rules of etiquette are set in one set, and all kinds of quotations are quoted, which does not give him the face of the recruiter and the navy at all.

Luo Youdu defended himself from the bottom of his heart that this was magnanimity, and he didn't care about him as much as he did, so he wasn't afraid of him.

After tidying up his clothes, Luo Youdu said, "Is there something wrong?"

Dou Yi then turned around and said with a bow: "A fire broke out in Wuwei County yesterday. The fire burned down the houses in Santiao Street. The county magistrate of Wuwei County came to Luzhou in person, intending to report the situation to the husband, and hoped that the husband could allocate property , to help the people in Wuwei County."

Luo Youdu frowned and said, "How could it be so serious? Are there any casualties?"

Seeing that he wanted to answer, Luo Youdu said: "Forget it, you invite the county magistrate, and I will ask him personally."

The county magistrate of Wuwei County is Hong Bo, a member of the Hong family in Luzhou.

In order to appease the gentry, Luo Youdu asked them to single out one person from the clan to serve as an official.

He also explained at the time that this was an exception during the war, and he became an official directly without paying attention to his background and without passing any assessment.There will be no more in the future, let them seize the opportunity, don't arrange for a mediocre person to come over, and be dismissed within a few days.

There are more or less capable heroes among the big families in this kind of place, and Hong Bo was recommended by the Hong family.

The ability is not bad, it can be called a Chinese material, and it is very suitable to be a county magistrate.

It happened that the county magistrate of Wuwei County let Hong Bo take office because they ran away under the pressure of the army.

"I've met the recruiter!" Hong Bo respectfully saluted Luo Youdu.

Luo Youdu couldn't wait to ask: "Did the fire in the county cause any casualties?"

Hong Bo rejoiced and said: "God bless Wuwei, the people ran out at noon when the fire was burning. Only when fighting the fire, more than [-] people fainted and are out of danger now, no casualties were caused. It's just that the houses were destroyed. For the ashes, the residences of more than forty households were burned down, and they are now housed in a shed outside the city."

Luo Youdu breathed a sigh of relief, and then angrily said: "Since it happened at noon, why didn't you put out the fire in time? The fire caused by the order spread to three streets? How did you become a county magistrate? The weather is so hot, and there are no fire prevention measures at all? "

Hong Bo said with a mournful face, "I am wronged. It's not that I'm negligent. There are other reasons. As soon as the fire broke out, I brought the county yamen servants to the scene and ordered the people to fetch water to put out the fire. How do you know the source of the fire?" There is a lot of stone paint, the more the water rushes, the more the fire spreads. In addition, the weather is dry and hot, and the fire can't be contained by the wind. The lower officials have no choice but to transfer the people first, so as to prevent the people from causing casualties in order to save their family wealth. casualties."

Stone paint?

Isn't it oil?

Luo Youdu suddenly got up and asked, "Where did you get a lot of stone paint?"

Inaction?

Wuwei County?
City of inaction?
A memory suddenly appeared in Luo Youdu's mind.

Once he went to Anhui to discuss business.

Chatting and bragging with an Anhui coal boss at the wine table, I mentioned the situation of Wuwei City in Wuhu, Anhui.

In words, he regretted that he was too small-minded at the beginning, and only invested in Wuwei's minerals, and did not dare to extend his hand into the oil and gas industry.

He said that he never thought that Xiao Wuwei, in addition to more than 7000 million tons of coal mines, actually has more than 350 million tons of oil reserves and [-] billion cubic meters of natural gas.

It is said that if he had been more courageous at the beginning, he would not be worth what he is now.

Isn't the future Wuwei City the current Wuwei County?

Luo Youdu has an understanding of the technology of this era, and oil came out very early.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a record of oil, and in Shangjun of the Western Han Dynasty, "Gaonu has water, which is flammable."

There is also a record in the Jin Dynasty: The spring water from Nanshan, Yanshou County, Jiuquan, is as big as a scorpion, poured into the ground as a ditch, and the water is as fat as gravy. When it is taken in a vessel, it turns yellow and then black as a gelatinous paste, but it is very bright, no different from the paste. .

However, this era lacks the correct use of oil, and is also limited by mining technology. Almost all oil comes from ground oil.

Therefore, they are rare and expensive, and have little use, and only a few are controlled by the imperial court.

But how to use it, the court officials themselves don't know.

Until the Song Dynasty, just a few decades later, the military workshops developed "asphalt production" and "fierce fire oil production" using petroleum as raw materials, and used them on the battlefield.

Especially 80 years later, a great man named Shen Kuo appeared in Qiantang, Hangzhou, and he began to predict in "Mengxi Bi Tan" that "this thing will be popular in the world."

Luo Youdu suppressed his excitement and asked: "This stone paint has always been rare, why is there a lot of people hoarding it? Who is this person? Has it been captured and interrogated?"

Hong Bo made a bow and said, "This man is a herb picker in the county. After the fire started, he tried to escape and was captured by the government servants. After interrogation, he was gathering medicine on Sangong Mountain, and he accidentally found a black rabbit footprint. Out of curiosity, he followed the footprint in the He found it in the mountains. He knew that the stone lacquer was valuable, so he took it home secretly, intending to sell it, not wanting to cause a big disaster."

Without any hesitation, Luo Youdu said: "It's like, let you handle the affairs of the Luzhou government first, and I will leave for Wuwei immediately."

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