My clone is on the other side of the starry sky

Chapter 137 Jiang Shu breaks the situation
Jiang Shu's biggest problem now is not actually stuck in a quagmire and unable to move as Li Xingzhi said. Although this is the core problem, it is not the most urgent.

Shangyang County, Cui Mansion.

"Master Jiang, please have some tea." The young maid handed Jiang Shu a cup of tea and then bowed and left.

Jiang Shu nodded slightly, and after the maid stepped back, he looked at Cui Yuandao beside him: "Shibo, I will move the administrative center to Shangyang. There are enough experts around me, so Shibo can rest easy."

"Thank you, sir." Cui Yuan sighed a little tiredly: "It's just an official matter, please don't mention it again."

"Shibo, there's no need to worry about the traitor!" Jiang Shu stood up and frowned.

"It's not that I don't want to, but I'm just asking you to take pity on us and the difficulty of living." Cui Yuan smiled bitterly and said: "According to Lu Xuan's words, a family with thousands of fertile fields can be considered a wealthy family. According to this statement, at this time last year, this Shangyang There were 89 wealthy families in the city. When Lu Xuan first attacked Shangyang, eight families were wiped out. When he conquered Shangyang the second time, 26 families were wiped out due to poisoning. After Lu Xuan entered the city again last time, now there are no more wealthy families in the city. There are only 25 left among the thousands of beautiful families in Yangcheng.”

Cui Yuan said it very calmly, but Jiang Shu only felt a little chilled.

In fact, the Qianqing family is not considered a big family in the eyes of a big family like his. Jia Youdao and Pei Ruhai in Sanyang County are just wealthy businessmen, and the family's land holdings are Qianqing.

Shangyang City is the seat of Shangyang County. Large households not only have more land, but also the property they hold. However, Lu Xuan came three times, and 89 of the 64 households were lost.

How many people are behind these 64 households?He didn't even dare to calculate. Even if it was a county town with a much larger population than an ordinary county town, with this killing method, the population of Shangyang County would be reduced by at least [-]%!

Although he had long known that Lu Xuan took pleasure in killing wealthy gentry, when Cui Yuan put the data in front of him, he was still shocked by Lu Xuan's cruelty!In Lu Xuan's eyes, big business owners feel as worthless as ordinary people. They kill them whenever they want. Aren't you worried about provoking the big family behind them?

Can rebels do whatever they want?
Cui Yuan looked at Jiang Shu and said: "My lord, please forgive me. It's not just me who is unreasonable. I'm really... I'm scared. I'm really scared. I have eight children and 37 grandchildren in my family. It's not easy to send them away now." , Your Excellency, you can go to the city and have a look. How many former Zhongding houses have now become abandoned ghost houses? I really don’t want to see the Cui Mansion in such a state. How can I have the face to see it under the Nine Springs in the future? Ancestors?"

Seeing Jiang Shu's ugly face, Cui Yuan hesitated and said, "Sir, don't be anxious about plowing the fields anymore. We are not in a hurry now."

"Understood, my nephew has to go to Wu's house, so I won't disturb Uncle Shi's rest." Jiang Shu nodded, stood up and said goodbye with an ugly face.

"I'll see you off, sir." Cui Yuan stood up and personally sent Jiang Shu to the door. Watching Jiang Shu's back disappear, he just returned home and sighed with some regret.

To be fair, Jiang Shu is indeed considered a young and talented person, both in terms of knowledge and ability.

It's a pity that he met Lu Xuan.

He still lacked understanding of Jiang Shu, but based on the brief contact, Cui Yuan felt that Jiang Shu was not as good as Lu Xuan. He had worked under Lu Xuan and knew Lu Xuan's style very well.

This person is not only good at killing people, Lu Xuan can solve many things with ease, and directly points to the problem itself, and even if he encounters a problem, Lu Xuan's eyes have never shown such entanglement as Jiang Shu's. To be precise, Jiang Shu has a framework for doing things. Within this framework, Jiang Shu can do very well, but if he leaves this framework, Jiang Shu will be at a loss. However, when Lu Xuan encounters this framework, he will directly break it.

What Jiang Shu Shao has is precisely this kind of courage to break the framework.

"Husband, you didn't agree?" When she returned to the main hall, Mrs. Cui was instructing the maid to pack the tea sets. When she saw him coming in, she quickly asked.

"How could you agree?" Cui Yuan said with a bitter smile: "He's late!"

If Jiang Shu had set his base in Shangyang when he arrived, there might not have been so many things later. Unfortunately, Jiang Shu settled in Sanyang for unknown reasons, causing Shangyang to be massacred by Lu Xuan again.

The biggest problem for Jiang Shu now is not that he is stuck in a quagmire, but that he has no one available. He brought [-] Confucian scholars, and now there are only [-] left. But for a county to function, it is impossible to have only the county magistrate. Cooperate in all aspects.

After this incident, who would dare to come out to help Jiang Shu again?
Even the Cui family chose to compromise with Lu Xuan, let alone other families?

As for those wealthy businessmen in Sanyang County, even if Jiang Shu wanted to use them, who would be willing to come out with Jia Youdao's lessons learned from the past?
The person who killed Jia Youdao's entire family was not Lu Xuan but Jiang Shu. Even if Jia Youdao was at fault, just kill Jia Youdao. Killing all the people in the family is incompatible with both emotion and law. You, Jiang Shu, are not Lu Xuan. , if Lu Xuan does this kind of thing, people will come out to help, but if you do it, people will just hide and walk away.

Even if you are forced out, do you still expect them to help you fight against Lu Xuan?
Jiang Shu visited almost all the families in Shangyang County in one day, but no one agreed to Jiang Shu's invitation. Naturally, he did not dare to neglect Jiang Shu, but those who refused were all firm.

Jiang Shu didn't return to the Yamen until late at night. The frustration and annoyance of finding nothing made him smash everything he could see.

"Your Excellency, you shouldn't kill the whole Jia Youdao clan." The Confucian scholar sighed, and wanted to persuade him at that time, but he knew the character of his young master and would not look back until he hit the wall.

"What's the use of talking about this now? I just want to know how to break the situation!?" Jiang Shu looked at the Confucian scholar with a fierce look. He was obviously the stronger side, why was he forced into this by the rebel Lu Xuan? appearance?

"Follow the will of the people." The Confucian scholar bowed.

"Follow the will of the people?" Jiang Shu looked at the Confucian scholar and understood somewhat: "You mean, follow the land distribution plan set by Lu Xuan?"

"Yes, the reason why your Excellency is struggling now is because the public opinion of Shangyang County is with Lu Xuan. However, Daqian has ruled Jiuzhou for 800 years. Even if the people are dissatisfied now, Daqian is still upright. I think your Excellency will travel around the world today. Although the family has not been able to get help from anyone, it is difficult for each family to force themselves to cultivate the fields." The Confucian scholar said with a smile.Jiang Shu nodded, this was the only good news.

"In this case, your Excellency acknowledges the matter."

"They don't want it for the time being, but that doesn't mean they won't want it forever. If I make this matter a foregone conclusion, how can they be willing to give in?" Jiang Shu frowned.

I don’t want to do it for the time being because I am worried about Lu Xuan, but if he completely confirms this matter, it will be equivalent to the imperial court recognizing it. For the people, since the imperial court has acknowledged it, there is no need to rely on Guiyi. Taught.

Da Qian is the orthodoxy. As long as Da Qian still exists, this is something that is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. No matter how good the promises made by the Gui Yi Sect are, for the people, the same conditions apply, whether they are willing to follow the Gui Yi Sect or the imperial court. ?

There’s no need to ask about this.

The advantage is that it can gather the green energy to protect the city. These Confucian scholars he brought are no longer useless wastes. At least the city can be saved and others can go out to do things.

But the disadvantage is that you are giving away all the land that people have temporarily lent you. Ask these families what they think?
Their money has to be handed over. Will the big family behind them be willing?

In order to solve the urgent problem and put the future on the line, Jiang Shu is not so stupid.

"We didn't say we were going to give it." The Confucian scholar laughed and said, "Your Excellency only needs to issue a notice, saying that the cultivated land that belongs to whom now will belong to whom from today on, and let people pass it to each county, saying that this year Tax-free, I think that’s enough.”

Although Jiang Shu was new to officialdom, he had been exposed to it since childhood and instantly understood what the other party meant.

The cultivated land belongs to whomever it belongs to. This is nonsense. At first glance, it seems to be correct. You can understand it as we will not take back the land in your hands now, and it will be yours in the future.

But it can also be understood that the land belongs to whomever it belongs to.

As for who it belongs to... of course it depends on the land deed. When it comes to investigating in the future, you can't use the Guiyi Sect's certificate to claim the court's land, right?
In fact, if you think about it carefully, you can understand the ambiguous meaning of this statement, but how many ordinary people are literate?Let alone figuring out its true meaning.

"Send someone to make a list!" After understanding the true meaning of the Confucian scholar, Jiang Shu nodded.

The Confucian scholar remained silent.

"What else is there?" Jiang Shu frowned and asked.

"I would also like to ask you to lend me your bodyguards. It's hard to recruit people in this county government office!" the Confucian scholar sighed.

Many county government officials were beaten to death by villagers on their way to the people. Later, Lu Xuan took action, and Shangyang County was not the only one. I ate most of it and stopped doing the rest.

After all, being a county guard or government servant is just a way of making a living. At most, you can bully ordinary people and make them lose their lives. Who would want to do that?

Now there are only two industries with the highest mortality rate in Shangyang County. The first is the gentry, and the second is the county government guards.

The magistrates of each county, the Confucian scholars who followed Jiang Shu, were basically mere commanders. The management system of each county was basically in a state of paralysis. The government orders could not even be issued to the county government, let alone the entire county.

If you want to do things now, you can only use the private soldiers brought by Jiang Shu. In addition, it is best to send in a group of people from Qingyu County. You can't let Jiang Shu's private soldiers do everything.

Jiang Shu felt a little tight in his chest. How had the grandson of the Jiang family ever felt this angry?

He took out a jade sign from his body and said: "Level [-] cannot be moved. You can arrange the rest. Is there any way this man can solve it?"

"You can find some idle people to join the government office. Firstly, these people actually know how to manage people better. Secondly, if problems arise in the future, you can use these people to vent the public's anger." The Confucian scholar suggested.

It sounds nice to be idle, but in fact they are those scoundrels who bully others all day long when they get together and do nothing serious. However, although such people are fooling around, when real problems arise, they are more effective in handling them.

"As you wish, go and do it quickly." Jiang Shu nodded.

"Yes!"

The Confucian scholar said goodbye and left, and most of the guards in the house were suddenly missing.

Looking at the empty Yamen, Jiang Shu let out a deep breath.

Lu Xuan, you really deserve to die!
(End of this chapter)