In the months when Guo Jin successfully used the integrity storm and Liu Jian's death to divert the conflict, the economic crisis in the northwest gradually became eased.

The three prefectures in the Western Regions took the lead in stabilizing.

The population is small, the scale of business is small, but the scale of agriculture is still acceptable. Under such circumstances, the three Western Regions prefectures quickly survived the economic crisis and returned to normal life.

Cao Ang, Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang used their respective means and ideas to lead the three Western prefectures through the crisis in different ways. Although the scale of business has been reduced a lot, life can still be passed as usual.

The situation in Liangzhou is not that good. Many large-scale shops cannot be operated and can only go bankrupt, let alone small businesses.

Only the funds survived, or those who were more lucky were only those who did business with the Kushan Empire.

They survived and had the opportunity to persevere until the next prosperous period. Although they also suffered heavy losses, there was still hope. After the reorganization, the market experienced a wave of depression, consumption decreased, but the competitive pressure was also reduced.

But those who failed to persevere were naturally alas. They were heavily in debt, and many people really had the will to die.

If Lu Qian hadn't used the funds in his hand to help them eliminate part of their debts, the people who died now might have already made local officials anxious.

However, even if Lu Qian helped to eliminate part of the debt, some large merchants whose expansion was too severe still failed to hold on.

Their capital chain was still broken, so they went bankrupt and were heavily in debt. More than a dozen businessmen committed suicide because of this. Their debts left behind were a mess that made the local government feel embarrassed and a headache.

In the end, a considerable number of them also need to help the government wipe their butts.

Then a serious situation occurred.

Officials from the Ministry of Finance in various places are worried that too many people will repay their debts in installments, which will affect their year-end assessment, so they make things more difficult at the execution level.

They are unwilling to repay the debts in installments to those bankrupt merchants, and always ask them to repay the debts as soon as possible to reduce their administrative burden.

Lu Qian issued several decrees requiring local finance departments not to force bankrupt merchants to repay the money immediately, and must conduct research and evaluation to allow them to repay their debts in installments.

It was further announced that the number and scale of debt repayments in installments would not be included in the annual assessment standards of the Ministry of Finance.

Regarding this government order, Lu Qian still specially submitted a letter to ask Guo Jin to make a decision.

Then Guo Jin issued an order to the Ministry of Finance, ordering the Ministry of Finance not to use the number and scale of debt repayment in installments as a reference for the year-end assessment, so that the local Ministry of Finance has no relevant concerns.

Otherwise, once a situation where you are unwilling to give more deposits to repay your debts in installments because you are worried about the end of the year, you will undoubtedly force a group of bankrupt merchants to death. Instead of dealing with the matter when it gets bigger, it is better to prepare in advance to avoid public grievances.

The pressure from the court on officials always makes these officials skillfully move the world to the people with one trick, which makes the people very embarrassed.

They just blindly seek stability, and pursue the official philosophy of doing more, doing more, doing less, not doing less, not doing good officialdom, and thinking that as long as Xiao Gui and Cao Sui, they can do nothing except their jobs.

Lu Qian, who is very clear about this, cannot ignore it, otherwise a good policy will be issued to them and will cause them to be a bad policy that will disturb the people.

At the critical moment, Lu Qian could only ask Guo Jin to relax the pressure on officials and thus give the people a chance to breathe.

This is just one of his measures, and there are many other measures, which are aimed at requiring local governments to fully implement central government orders and not make small moves.

If the central government's policies can be implemented, the economic crisis in Liangzhou can actually be controlled. I am afraid that some bureaucrats will lie to disobey and mess around, and ignore everything for their own interests, which will be broken.

For example, Li Wei, a doctor in the Finance Department of Jiuquan County.

He stubbornly disobeyed Lu Qian's instructions, and on the surface he allowed bankrupt merchants to repay their debts in installments, but in fact he still required a considerable number of merchants to repay their debts as soon as possible and engage in a two-sided contract.

After the open installment agreement, he sent someone to threaten the merchants to repay the loan immediately, otherwise he would search the property at home, frightening a group of merchants. He really thought that the Ministry of Finance could search their property at home.

This forced many merchants to have no way out, or they had to spend all their money, and some of them were really helpless. They were forced to do so, so they made up their minds and ran to Lu Qian to beat the drums of the sound of the drum to petition.

The Dengwen Drum in Guzang County has not been sounded since its establishment in the third year of Yande, and this time it has been sounded.

It might not be effective in the usual situation, but it happened to hit Lu Qian at this moment.

Lu Qian personally received the complainant. After learning the truth, he was very angry and immediately ordered the Jiuquan County police to dispatch the police to arrest Li Wei and some officials from all over the country in the Finance Department of Jiuquan County, and take him to Guzang County for him to interrogate himself.

Li Wei was not afraid when facing Lu Qian's interrogation. He claimed that he had connections in the central government and said that he was very appreciated by the Minister of Finance, so he asked Lu Qian to be careful.

But how could Lu Qian care about such things?

"Don't say what Wangbutang has to do with you, you are a royal relative. Today, I will do you too!"

Lu Qian used his power to remove their official positions on the spot as the Liangzhou emergency response envoy, demoted them to common people, and was sent to the Shu Road construction site for forced labor for five months, and then sent back to their original home.

When Li Wei saw that his official body was gone, he was very frightened.

"Lu Qianer dares! I am a central official! If I want to dismiss me, only the Central Ministry of Personnel can do it! You are usurping! You are usurping!"

"I don't think you know what the emergency response envoy in Liangzhou means. Except for military affairs, I will be the one who is responsible for all government affairs and official appointments and removals in Liangzhou. I will handle the matter first and then report it! Even if I have to deal with me, it will be after I leave the post, but I can still handle it! I will drag it out!"

Lu Qian stopped shouting, and the surrounding police immediately stepped forward to drag Li Wei out, and forcibly stripped off his official uniform and carried him out of the official office.

Next, someone naturally put him in a prison car and escorted him to the construction site of the southern section of Shu Road in Yunzhou.

A central official was solved by Lu Qian like this.

When the news came out, let alone local officials, all the central officials who were disdainful of Lu Qian were shocked. They realized that if Lu Qian continued to do so, they would not be unlucky. They would definitely be unlucky first.

So they dared not act lip service any more.

Lu Qian's government decrees were implemented in the local area, and no similar situation had ever been heard of in Liangzhou.

Later, a series of Lu Qian's decrees were implemented, and no one continued to disobey.

Lu Qian implemented what he said before, and as long as he was still an emergency one day, he would exercise his power for one day.

If you want to take revenge on him, you can. After he leaves office, anyone can take revenge on him or even kill him. However, before he leaves office, whoever goes against him will take the lead in dealing with him.

Whether I am unlucky or not is still unknown, but you must be unlucky.

With such a variety of measures in more than three months, Lu Qian finally barely stabilized the economic situation in Liangzhou, regaining the stability of Liangzhou to a certain extent.

Although there have been continuous bankruptcy after that, the scale has been too small to affect the overall situation, and it has been so exhausted that Lu Qian has been so busy.

By mid-September of Xingyuan, Lu Qian spent all the money Guo Jin gave him, helping more than 800 large, medium and small merchants to forgive too much debt, allowing them to pay back the debt.

In addition, he also used his authority to strictly supervise the local finance ministry as the [Liangzhou Emergency Response Envoy], and personally tried the installment repayment accounts listed by the local finance ministry to ensure that the Ministry of Finance did not harm bankrupt merchants for their own political achievements.

Lu Qian worked day and night, worked hard to finally stabilize the situation in Liangzhou, preserved the vitality of Liangzhou's economy, and did not cause man-made disasters to break through Liangzhou's economy in one fell swoop.

The achievements of Liangzhou’s ten years of development and construction have been generally preserved.

The most dangerous Liangzhou survived the crisis, and the less dangerous Yongzhou naturally survived the crisis.

Yongzhou itself has a large domestic market, and a considerable part of the goods required by the Shu Road project are ordered from Yongzhou nearby.

Before the Shu Road project was completed, there would be no big chaos in Yongzhou's business. The disappearance of the demand for Anxie caused a group of merchants who specialized in Anxie's foreign trade to explode on the spot. They went bankrupt one after another, causing some trouble to Mao Jie.

However, this trouble is much smaller than that of the three Western Regions prefectures and Liangzhou, which rely deeply on foreign trade, so Guo Jin also clearly gave financial support to Lu Qian, not Mao Jie.

Mao Jie knew this very well.

He knew very well that the hidden dangers in Liangzhou were caused by the disorderly expansion of commercial scale when he was in office.

He led everyone to look at money and overcome all difficulties in developing the Liangzhou economy. Although it developed the Liangzhou economy, it also laid the hidden dangers today.

Once the Anxi Empire collapsed and the crisis broke out, the situation in Liangzhou was so serious that if we really wanted to investigate, he, the former governor of Liangzhou, had an unshirkable responsibility.

So Mao Jie was always very nervous and was always paying attention to Lu Qian's actions in Liangzhou. He was very worried that Liangzhou's economic collapse would cause trouble to Yongzhou. Then, let alone Lu Qian's political future would be gone, his political future would be gone.

When Liangzhou was at its most dangerous time, he even planned to write a letter to Chen Gong and ask Chen Gong to help him operate, so that he would not be affected too seriously.

As a result, Lu Qian really withstood the pressure and saved Liangzhou's economy.

Lu Qian was happy, and Mao Jie was even happier.

He has a strong economic strength in Yongzhou, and lacks a group of foreign trade merchants. Some workshops have lost orders and don’t make that much money, but it won’t be shocked to the full state.

So the situation in Yongzhou was quickly controlled by him, and he was waiting for Liangzhou.

After the news from Lu Qian came from Liangzhou that the situation was generally stable, Mao Jie breathed a sigh of relief. If Lu Qian had not been by his side, he would have even wanted to hug Lu Qian and kiss him fiercely.

So powerful brother!
Chapter completed!