Li Hanlu is right, this Lao Guo is not old-hearted, many times he does seem a little childish, and he is always willing to try some new things in person, such as the motorcycle that has just been developed, it has won Lao Guo's love, and even, now it has become Lao Guo's car, compared to horseback riding, riding a motorcycle is too windy, and the feeling is not comparable to horseback riding.

In addition, when Lao Guo was riding, he also wore a new type of armor, this newly developed armor is not only lighter, but also has better defense, and the appearance is cool enough, it looks like a mecha warrior, not to mention how cool it is, and after riding a motorcycle, it feels more sci-fi, in short, galloping on the grassland, it is definitely a beautiful landscape, and people can't help but take a few more looks.

Lao Guo's motorcycle speed is much faster than the speed of riding a horse, so it was about the same distance just now, at this moment, Lao Guo has already arrived in front of him, and the rest of the Xia Prefecture officials are still dozens of steps behind.

"Li Shilang, you're really here! Look at my old Guo's motorcycle, how is it riding? ”

Guo Ziyi's handsome parking posture immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"Haha! General Guo is really a jade tree in the wind, majestic and majestic! I don't look like a person in my fifties or sixties! There is no one riding this motorcycle, which is very good! ”

Li An opened his mouth and praised.

"This motorcycle is easier to ride than a war horse, and if you practice more, you will be familiar with it, and it will run faster than a horse, and you will never want to ride a horse again if you are used to riding a motorcycle, haha!"

Guo Ziyi opened his mouth and said what was in his heart, and it could be seen that Guo Ziyi really likes motorcycles, and he likes this feeling of pulling the wind very much, and this feeling of pulling the wind will give him the illusion of returning to his youth.

As he was talking, many officials from Xiazhou City arrived, and they dismounted in turn and saluted Li An, with a respectful attitude.

Among all these officials, Guo Ziyi's position is the highest, he is not only the commander of the local garrison, but also holds several official positions, and is the real power of Xiazhou City, however, not everything is up to him, in terms of mobilizing military forces, Guo Ziyi has absolute authority, and the military attaché of the state city must also obey his dispatch, but in terms of economy and trade, no one listens to Guo Ziyi's words.

Xiazhou City can also be regarded as an important city on the northern border of the Tang Dynasty, and Xiazhou is not a state and county in the general sense, but a frontier governor's mansion, and it is also a relatively important administrative unit.

The Governor's Mansion set up in Xiazhou needs to manage Xiazhou, Suizhou, Yinzhou, and Youzhou, four prefectures and counties, a total of 12 counties, 215 miles from east to west, 70 miles from north to south, and the population is not very large, only 6,132 households, and the population is only tens of thousands.

There are four counties in Xiazhou, namely Shuofang, Dejing, Ningshuo, Changze, there are mountains and rivers in the territory, among them, the most famous mountain is Qiwu Mountain, when the Xiongnu leader Hao Lian Bobo visited Qiwu Mountain, saw the beautiful scenery of Qiwu Mountain, and sighed, said, "Beautiful, near Guangze and with clear streams." I have traveled a lot, from the north of the horse collar to the south of the big river, and there is no more! It can be seen that Qiwu Mountain is a very fascinating and beautiful mountain.

It's just that with the annexation of the nomads and the continuous expansion of the gap between the rich and the poor in Xiazhou, Qiwu Mountain has become a world of horse thieves at this moment, and there are a lot of horse thieves hidden in it.

Wuding River, also an important river in Xiazhou, also called Shuoshui, this river passes through Xiazhou City, is the daily source of drinking water for the people of Xiazhou City, and there is a tributary in Wuding River, that is, Wushui, is a short river, but because it originates in Qiwu Mountain, the water quality is very clear, and it is the main source of irrigation for the local people.

In addition to these natural scenery and cities, there are many places of interest in Xiazhou, such as the ancient city of Shiben, in the northwest, that is, the former city of Shuofang County in the Han Dynasty, which is now in ruins.

Therefore, Baicheng, also called Qiwu City, is in the Qiwu Mountain one hundred and twenty-five miles north of Xiazhou City, it was Hao Lian Bobo who sighed that this place was too beautiful, so his son built a city here and set up Hao Lian Bobo Temple.

There is also the tomb of Hao Lian Bobo, in the position of twenty-five miles west of Xiazhou City, in addition, there are the ruins of the Great Wall of Qin in the west of Dejing County, there is Helan Mountain in the northeast thirty miles of Ningshuo County, and there is the Great Wall of Qin ten miles north of the county at the same time.

As for Changze County, there are also many places of interest and historic sites, such as in the southwest of the county twenty miles, there is the ancient city of Xixi, eighty miles south of the county, there are hundreds of wells, in the north of the county fifty miles, there is Huluo salt pond, can produce salt, however, the output is really not high, it is a small salt pond.

In short, there are really a lot of interesting places in the Xiazhou area, if you don't go shopping, then I'm sorry for yourself, this time since you came, you must take a good look and relax.

After many officials came over, Guo Ziyi introduced them one by one, because there were too many people, Li An could only remember a rough idea, anyway, Xiazhou's assassin history, long history, Sima, record to join the army, record affairs, Si Gong, Si Cang, Si Hu, Si Bing, Si Tian, justice, Si Shi and other officials are all here.

There are also county commanders, county lieutenants, county magistrates, chief bookkeepers and others who are adjacent to Shuofang County are also present, in short, almost all the real power figures are present to show the importance of Li An.

After a period of greetings, Li An left the relevant technical personnel in the coal mine, and asked the local officials to prepare basic needs such as food and accommodation for these people, in fact, the coal mine originally had enough accommodation houses to accommodate hundreds of people, but these houses were too simple, they were all for the coal digging manual residence, the grade is conceivable, and the people under Li An's command are all senior talents, how can they live in a simple house, even if it will be a little, it will have to be slightly improved, and the interior must be at least renovated, Food and water are transported from the state town to ensure cleanliness and hygiene so that they can better devote themselves to the survey.

And Li An naturally will not stay here in the coal mine, he will go to Xiazhou City with Guo Ziyi and others, and live in the best house in Xiazhou City, so as to meet Li An's noble status.

There is not much distance from the coal mine to the state city, and it will arrive soon, as for the residence where Li An stays, it has already been arranged, next to Guo Ziyi's residence, the house level is the same as that of Lao Guo, this is already the best class level, there are more than 20 houses, it is a three-entry yard, there are separate kitchens and bathrooms, and there are places to meet guests, and even, there are rockeries and pools in the backyard, which have a lot of goldfish, which is a good place to recuperate.

Of course, such a building is too different from Li An's mansion in Chang'an City, in a remote place like Xiazhou, such a building is already the best, but after all, it cannot be compared with the high-end buildings in the capital.

Although the quality of living has declined, Li Ang has been mentally prepared before going north from the capital, and his life after going north must be much more difficult than his home in the capital, which is unavoidable, so naturally he will not have any opinions, others have given you the best, what else can he say?

Because Li An's trip north from the capital was sudden, and he did not notify any officials in Xiazhou in advance, that is, Guo Ziyi probably knew that Li An was coming, so until the moment these officials saw Li An, they couldn't figure out what the purpose of Li An's trip was.

And after Li An said that the purpose of this was to investigate the coal mine, there were still many officials who could not rest assured, because they were not stupid, and they felt that a small coal mine did not need a heavyweight official like Li An to come and take charge of it personally, and just send someone over casually.

Li Anke doesn't care what these people think, and whether they are afraid or not, playing with themselves is the most important thing, where do you need to take into account the feelings of these officials.

A long journey is certainly hard, even if you lie in the car and don't move, it can't avoid the hardship, and the long journey itself is a kind of hardship.

After resting for a few hours, in the evening, Guo Ziyi brought more than a dozen people who looked like ordinary people to send ingredients to Li An, which were contributed by officials at all levels, and they knew that Lao Guo and Li An were most familiar, so they all sent them to Guo Ziyi's house first, and let Lao Guo come forward to give gifts, which could be regarded as giving Lao Guo, a big leader, a face.

"Lao Guo is really polite, so many ingredients are enough to eat for a month."

Ang Lee said with a smile.

Guo Ziyi didn't look for it, and said: "These are all sent by Xiazhou City and officials at all levels in Shuofang County, only these jars of old wine were sent by me." ”

"With so many ingredients sent at once, it seems that Xiazhou City is very rich! Officials at all levels are also very rich, right? ”

Li An said.

"Xiazhou City is naturally rich in this area, but it can't be compared with the capital, although it has changed a lot over the years, but the changes in the capital are too scary, I go to the capital once a year, I feel that I have gone to the wrong place, haha!"

Guo Ziyi said with a smile.

After chatting casually for a while, he began to pay attention to the horse thief.

"General Guo, didn't you say that horse thieves are quite rampant here? Why did you feel that the common people were living a stable life, and none of them were living in dire straits? Where are all the horse thieves hiding? ”

Li An asked curiously.

Guo Ziyi opened his mouth and said: "Li Shilang just came, I don't know very well, the horse thieves here are mainly hidden in the Qiwu Mountain, the Qiwu Mountain is a hundred miles in radius, the mountain roads are vertical and horizontal, the vegetation is also very dense, there are many caves, the north is also connected to the grassland, our department only has 8,000 soldiers and horses, and the mobile troops that can be drawn are up to 5,000, and it is impossible to encircle this area, even if the troops are increased tenfold, it is impossible to do it, and these horse thieves are also very clever, as long as our troops and horses are mobilized, they seem to be able to know in advance, and evacuate one step earlier, So, it's really hard to hit! Fortunately, these horse thieves only plundered the goods of caravans, and generally did not harm people's lives. ”

When Li An heard this, he felt that these horse thieves were simply sophisticated, and to be able to learn the news of the officers and soldiers in advance, it was obvious that someone had reported the news, which was enough to show that among the officials in Xiazhou City, someone was the internal response of the horse thieves, and was specifically responsible for providing intelligence to the horse thieves, so that the horse thieves could avoid the elimination of the imperial court soldiers and horses in time, and in addition, they could also give the horse thieves an accurate caravan passage schedule, so that the horse thieves could accurately rob the caravan.

In addition, horse thieves easily do not hurt people's lives, this is also a shrewd performance, you must know that robbing property and hurting people's lives, the nature is completely different, the social harm of robbing property is relatively much lower, and hurting people's lives belongs to the kind of particularly bad circumstances, it is easy to suffer serious blows.

Now the horse thieves here are robbing the caravan in the capital, and the court just sent Guo Ziyi, if it often hurts people's lives, the court will naturally pay more attention to it, it is estimated that it is not as simple as sending Lao Guo over, maybe more troops will be sent over, and moreover, Lao Guo will be given a death order that must be exterminated, so that these horse thieves will really suffer a catastrophe.

In the case of average harm, the retaliation suffered by the horse thief is naturally also very average, which is the survival strategy of the horse thief.

And Ang Lee also had to admit that these horse thieves were well versed in the essence of guerrilla warfare, otherwise, it would not have been possible for so long without being exterminated.

"Lao Guo! How much do you know about the horse thieves in Xia State, and how many people do they have? What kind of weapons are used, and how many merchants can be robbed in a month. ”

Ang Lee asked.

Guo Ziyi thought for a moment and said: "I've only been here for a few months, I have sent more than ten troops, and I have only encountered horse thieves twice, so I really don't know how many horse thieves there are!" However, there shouldn't be a lot, it's just that they come and go without a trace, it's too difficult, the weapons they use are mainly strong bows and crossbows, as well as close-fitting scimitars, and the combat effectiveness is not much worse than that of our soldiers, as for how many merchants are robbed in a month, each month is different, three or five times is the least, and more can have more than a dozen, now the situation is a little better, with the escort of a large army and patrolling back and forth, the loss of merchants is much smaller. ”

"After so many times, it seems that the caravan's losses are quite large! If a few more patrols were sent to cover all the passages through which the merchants passed, would it be possible to solve the problem of horse thieves and robbery? ”

Ang Lee said hypothetically.

Guo Ziyi shook his head and said, "The troops are not enough!" The caravan in Xiazhou City has five or six trade routes, not including the division of roads, each road is not short, it requires a lot of troops, even if it can deter horse thieves in a short time, it can dispatch four or five thousand troops without interruption, and the cost of military expenses to the imperial court is very large, so the merchants have no losses, but the losses of the imperial court are great. ”

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