Sima Zhen frowned and said: "Li Xun, you want to repair the city and build roads, this is a good thing, for the benefit of the country and the people, I shouldn't have objected, but you also have to prioritize, if you do things too quickly, you will only give up halfway, Wu Heng has a bad relationship with you, without the support of the local Assassin's Mansion, just with the money and food of the Governor's Mansion itself, it can't support the reconstruction of the city wall of Wu'an City at all, I suggest that you suspend this matter, and when you have enough money and food in the future, it is not too late to do it." ”

Li Xun waved his hand: "Senior, you don't need to worry about money and grain, I'll figure out a way, besides, Wu'an City has recently come to many merchants from the Western Regions, including many grain merchants, and I will buy grain from them." ”

The people who repair the city can not give money and only food, but now there is not much money and food in the governor's mansion.

"The money in the house, the next month's salary of the officials and the army can't be paid, what do you use to buy food?"

Sima Zhen's face was displeased, he didn't like Li Xun very much, he felt that this person liked to talk big, had a frivolous personality, and was not stable at all, so young was to become a high-ranking governor of a state, completely relying on the emperor's favor, and had nothing to do with his own ability.

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

Li Xun made a joke, glanced at Sima Zhen, and saw that his face sank, so he hurriedly put away his smile, stood up, and said with a straight face: "Sima don't drive, the bandits of Longyou Road, I have already explored almost, and I will send troops in the next two days to suppress this group of bandits, and I should be able to get a lot of money and food." ”

Sima Zhen frowned and was silent, two days ago, Wang Renzi also sent a private message to himself, talking about the severity of the bandits in Suzhou and the incompetence of the army generals, and the tone of the letter was quite worried.

Longyou West Daowu, Sha, Xia Sanzhou, Huang Yu served in Wuzhou for a lot of time, only a few months, but also did a few major things, externally, took the initiative to attack, a heavy blow to the other side of the Mulang River, Xizhou as the base of the Dashi Empire counterattack forces, so that the other party completely dispelled the idea of counterattacking Longyou, therefore, shortly after the war, the Dashi Empire sent an envoy to the Great Jin, the two countries reconciled, internally, with a lot of money to buy the local people, in order to be a guide, suppressed and used, just took more than ten days, It is to completely sweep away more than 20 bandits and the remnants of the Dashi Empire in the entire Wuzhou territory, so thunderous and decisive, so that the bandits in Sha and Xia states are extremely frightened of Huang Zhen, and they do not wait for Huang Zhen to lead the army, and several large bandit forces are all retreating to other states and counties, and they dare not stay within the military scope of Huang Xu, so it is said that the current three states of Longyou West Road, the public security in their territory is not bad, and there are very few bandits.

There is nothing wrong with Li Xun's side, but it is not the case elsewhere.

In order to strengthen the military strength of Hedong Province, the imperial court transferred 40,000 soldiers in Longyou Province, and now there are about 70,000 troops in the eleven states of Longyou Province, 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 location of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of Longyou Province, with 15,000 soldiers, Liangzhou as the logistics location of Anbei, 10,000 garrisons, Huizhou as the gateway to the Central Plains, equally important, 20,000 defenders, second only to Wuzhou, and finally the important town of defense of Tibet, Langzhou, 15,000 troops.

If Li Xun wants to make a difference in Wuzhou, the first thing he has to do is to hold on to military power.

Yuanhe did not take refuge in Li Xun, but he said that he would obey the orders of the Governor's Office, for this reason, Li Xun on the grounds of strengthening the security of Wu'an City, separated 200 people from his own personal soldiers, and transferred 800 people from Yuanhe's army, a total of 1,000 people, led by Zheng Chun and Zhao Wei, formed a patrol battalion, took over the patrol and security of the entire Wu'an City, Li Xun's move, Yuan He was very cooperative, without any dissatisfaction and opposition.

As for You Chong, his attitude towards Li Xun was tepid from the beginning, becoming more and more intimate, Li Xun was originally just tentative, half-truths and half-truths gave You Chong an order, asking him to transfer five hundred soldiers from the army to form a military discipline department, which was supervised by Shan Qiu, but I didn't expect You Chong to do it.

Li Xun's main opponents and obstacles now are Wu Heng and Wang Chengxi and Gan Tuyuan, Wu Heng let Wang Chengxi and his 10,000 soldiers stationed in Shenchi County on the grounds that the bandits in Shenchi County were not peaceful, and Wang Chengxi also ignored Li Xun's order to let him lead the army back to Wu'an City on the grounds of suppressing bandits.

Gan Tuyuan's attitude is more gentle, but he also obeys Li Xun's orders in the open, but secretly he is yang and yin, and he does not listen to the announcement, for these people, Li Xun has been patient for a long time, and discussed countermeasures with Fan Zhongyun several times, and finally had a plan.

The plan is a two-step process.

In the first step, Li Xun, as the supervisor of Longyou West Road, questioned Wu Heng several times, and Wu Heng naturally ignored it, but from some of the government affairs and civil cases he has handled recently, it can still be seen that Wu Heng is much more honest, and he does not dare to interfere in the government affairs of various counties and county orders as before, and he does not dare to mess around with the government affairs and cases in his hands.

In the second step, after Huang Xu's big sweep, the bandits in the three states of Longyou West Road fled in fear, where did they flee? After Wang Renzizi took office, the first thing he did was to order the army to send troops to exterminate the bandits in Suzhou, which had been going on for more than a month, and the progress was not very great.

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

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

"Brother Li, I'm here to bring you good news."

The officer walked into the room and shouted.

Li Xun turned around to look, and when he saw the face of the person who came, Li Xun was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "Li Xiao? Why are you kid here? ”

This officer is none other than Li Zhong's youngest son, Li Xiao.

Li Xiao said with a smile: "I just arrived in Longyou the day before yesterday, and I am currently serving under Wang Renzi, the governor of the Dadu Governor's Mansion. ”

Li Xun nodded, Li Xiao once told himself that he was likely to be transferred to Longyou, but now he is working under Wang Renzi.

Li Xun saw that he was in the dust, so he sat him down, poured him a cup of tea, and then asked out loud: "You kid hasn't entered the door yet, you are shouting some good news, what's going on?" ”

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

"Don't sell it, let it go if you have a fart."

Li Xun walked beside Li Xiao and scolded with laughter.

"Then let's talk about Wuzhou first."

Li Xiao smiled, then lowered his voice and said quite mysteriously: "When I passed by Shenchi County, I specially sent someone into the city to investigate, and Wu Heng, the assassin of Wuzhou, personally escorted his mother back to Fengjing yesterday. ”

Li Xun glanced at Li Xiao and said meaningfully: "It seems that you are very attentive to Wu Heng!" ”

Li Xiao said with a smile: "Of course, Wu Heng's return to Fengjing this dog day, I have made a lot of efforts." ”