"Damn, we're finally out!" Seeing the long-lost city again, even if it was just a small city that made people feel pity, Guan Ping and Zhang Bao still felt an unspeakable intimacy. They have been in the mountains for almost a year, either helping the barbarians build cities, cut down forests in the mountains, or on the way to do this.

Even the built hamlets are very good and they are comfortable living there. The barbarians I met along the way are very enthusiastic about them, but this cannot change the fact that communication difficulties and running back and forth.

As a county town, Zhuti County is somewhat ashamed of its status as a county governor. Not to mention the county towns in other places, it is not even as good as many county towns in Shu. The city walls are made of rammed earth, and the height is only more than one person, absolutely less than two meters. The entire city can be seen at a glance, and it is not even known whether it is two miles long or wide.

Even so, when I saw such a city again, I felt a sense of intimacy for no reason. The camps of all ethnic groups in the Southern Barbarians have their own characteristics, especially after being built by Liu Yi, which can be called pleasing to the eye. If I see them occasionally, I will still feel novel and beautiful, but over time, I feel a little bland and boring and even rejection.

I used to hear that barbarian women are full of wild charm, but when I got here I realized that there were not many really beautiful people, and the aesthetics of barbarians were different from them. In the eyes of barbarians, being strong is beauty, both men and women, which also led to the fact that the women they saw were also big and thick, and they could even carry their prey all over the mountain!

Along the way, Guan Xing and Zhang Bao were even worried that they would be harmed by those beast-like women.

On the not-wide earthen wall, few county soldiers were listlessly responsible for the city patrol mission. When Liu Yi's army of two thousand people appeared in sight, the county soldiers responsible for the garrison immediately panicked and blew the horn. The soldiers responsible for collecting the city tax at the city gate rolled and crawled back to the city, and began to close the city gate. At the same time, someone ran to report the news to the prefect Lu Yuan in a panic.

Lu Yuan received news about Liu Yi's arrival in advance. He was not too panicked. He took people up the city wall and looked at the floating flag of the Han Dynasty in the distance. He breathed a sigh of relief, indicating that everyone should not be nervous, but just looking at the famous barbarian warrior in the team, Lu Yuan's face was not very good.

When Lu Yuan greeted Liu Yi, he smiled again and said to Liu Yi with a smile: "Secretary of Zhuti, the prefect of Lu Yuan, please see the Marquis of Ting."

"The prefect Lu doesn't have to be too polite." Liu Yi smiled and nodded and returned the favor. He made a few polite words with Lu Yuan, looked at the Tucheng in front of him, and asked while walking in, "Have Wang Ting's edict ever been brought down?"

This time, in addition to mining, he was responsible for personnel appointments and removals and the financial power of the counties in the South Central. Basically, when Liu Yi came, he added a general manager to the prefects of the counties in the South Central Central. With these two rights, it was no different from the actual lord of the South Central Central.

"I received it a few months ago, but the Marquis of Ting has not come for a long time, and the officials have handled some things on their behalf." Lu Yuan could not see much on his face. What is important in the officialdom is to remain calm. If he could really see any information from the other person's face, it was also the other party who deliberately showed it to you.

Liu Yi looked at him and smiled and said, "It just so happened that over the past few months, I have visited various ethnic groups in Zhuti and have some understanding of the people's sentiments. The prefect of Lu later sent me the file."

"Yes!" Lu Yuan agreed, then smiled and said, "Marquis Ting really loves the people as much as his son. This time, the Marquis Ting will come to Nanzhong, which is also a blessing for the people in Nanzhong."

Now it is not easy to conceal Liu Yi in some accounts.

"The prefect has a heavy word." Liu Yi nodded. He arrived at the yamen office shortly after the process. The whole city was terrible, and there were not many pedestrians along the streets. When he saw a group of people coming, he hid.

"The people of Zhuti are all afraid of us?" Liu Yi looked at Lu Yuan in confusion. Liu Yi did not advocate that officials and people belonged to each other. That was nonsense. If the head of a county or even a county was really gone, it would be even more difficult to manage. The people would not take you seriously, but if the people took a detour when they saw the official and feared him like a tiger, that was not right.

Lu Yuan looked a little embarrassed and shook his head and said, "This poor mountain and bad water have caused troubled people. Since taking office, the subordinates have imposed strict policies. Perhaps the people have misunderstood it."

As he said that, in order to prove that he did not persecute the people, he stopped a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy with a warm smile on his face: "Young man, you..."

The boy rolled his eyes and fell directly to the ground.

Zhao Guang stepped forward, checked for a while, and said to Liu Yi: "I just fainted, it's not a problem."

"It seems that the people have a deep misunderstanding of the prefect." Liu Yi did not attack this matter, and there was nothing to do, but the situation in Nanzhong was even more serious than he thought!

Lu Yuan smiled embarrassedly and ordered someone to send the young man away. Zhao Guang, who was beside him, gave Guan Xing a wink, Guan Xing nodded and arranged for someone to go with him.

After entering the yamen office, a roll of bamboo slips were brought to the table by Zhu Ti's chief clerk.

Liu Yi looked at the mountain-stacked bamboo slips and looked at the chief clerk in surprise and said, "Are these files from Zhuti County?"

"Not all." The chief clerk smiled. Behind him, more than a dozen soldiers carried the boxes one by one and smiled at Liu Yi: "These are the files of Zhuti County for ten years, but they are a little messy. I wonder if there is anything that the Marquis of Ting is looking for?"

Behind Liu Yi, Ma Liang raised his eyebrows and wanted to speak, but was stopped by Liu Yi.

"This is okay." Liu Yi picked up a roll of files and looked at the humble chief clerk with a smile and said, "The classification and identification of these files will be given to the chief clerk. Within three days, these files will be classified and sorted out for the officer in chronological order, and in addition..."

Liu Yi shook the bamboo slips in his hand and said, "The age is a bit farther away, and the handwriting is sloppy, and many of the words are unclear. So he asked the chief clerk to help me copy it again, Ergou!"

"Here!" Chen Ergou stepped forward and bowed.

"Looking at him, you can eat and go to the toilet, but you are not allowed to sleep before copying it, and of course, you are not allowed to leave." Liu Yi said calmly.

"Mr. Ting, this..." The chief clerk was a little dumbfounded. He looked at the piles of files and the big boxes, his face turned pale.

"Here!" Chen Ergou agreed and looked at the chief clerk with a fierce look.

"Mr. Ting, is the three-day deadline too short?" Lu Yuan's face was a little stiff.

"It's not too short." Liu Yi shook his head: "A month ago, I sent someone to talk about my official's appointment. As the chief clerk, these files have not been processed and they are still used for me to show them. Perhaps the chief clerk has misunderstood his responsibilities, so I will give him a memory this time."

The new official takes office for three reasons, so he definitely cannot directly take the prefect. The chief clerk himself bumped into it, which was exactly what Liu Yi wanted.

Lu Yuan was choked by Liu Yi and could only stop talking embarrassedly.

With the lessons from the chief clerk, the remaining Gongcao and the Duwei reported their work, at least they did not make any moves on Liu Yi or something.

Zhu Ti was used by Liu Yi as the foundation of Nanzhong. There were few soldiers in this city, but it was just in line with Liu Yi's thoughts. At least the local barbarians were subdued by Liu Yi, and there were not many wealthy families. In this case, it would be difficult to sing a counter-tune with Liu Yi.

"Tinghou's method shocked the official Zhuti." After Lu Yuan said tremblingly, Ma Liang smiled and said.

"One is to shock, two, I also want to dig something deeper through this chief clerk." Liu Yi played with his seal and narrowed his eyes: "In the past six months, these small tribes in Nanzhong are all controlled by those rich clans. In terms of taxes, they do not pay taxes directly to the government, but pay taxes to these rich clans. The taxes paid are as much as five to eight times the taxes collected by the imperial court. In the past few years, not only did they not receive any taxes from Nanzhong, but instead invested a lot of money and grain to stabilize the southern barbarians. Not to mention Zhuti, the money is enough to build several more cities in this Nanzhong area, but what I saw was only such a dirt city. Why is it?"

"Marquis Ting wants to do it?" Ma Liang looked at Liu Yi and said.

"Well, what is the purpose of having spent more than half a year to establish relationships with the barbarians in Zhuti area?" Liu Yi nodded with a smile and said, "I hope to get their support. Now these barbarians are directly under our control. At least we can control the barbarians in Zhuti County as soon as possible, and the taxes are less than 20% of the original ones. In addition, the prestige and benevolence I have been waiting for more than half a year to establish, this is not difficult to achieve. The current problem is the administration of Zhuti."

Ma Liang nodded silently, then looked at Liu Yi and said, "Marquis Ting has never thought that these people have been rampant here for many years, but neither Liu Zhang nor the king of the past could solve the problem in the south center?"

"Someone in the court is protecting them." Liu Yi groped his chin and said with a smile: "But I have discussed this matter with Kong Ming. I will quickly fight and eliminate the root of the disaster first. The Nanzhong Central Committee will be punished. Those people will not be able to initiate the incident after that. However, cutting off people's wealth, like killing their parents, this hatred will be born."

This is also a kind of helplessness. In a large group, if you want to do things, there will definitely be resistance. It is basically impossible to do things well without provoking enemies. What kind of person was Zhou Yu back then? Is it different that the people in Jiangdong dragged him to death?
Chapter completed!