In mid-December, all the local officials and their families who participated in the secret discussion in Luobai County were sent to Taiping County. Except for Huang Zhixian, who first complained, the rest of the participants were all sent to the state prisons on Jinghu Road, and their families were arranged and managed. Huang Zhixian assigned the Kangzhou Prison City on Guangnan East Road, which did not involve his family, and his wife voluntarily followed, informing Connecticut to allow him to move freely.

This kind of big case is not something that Xu Ping can decide alone, it is still retried by state officials, and the judges of Linzhou and Pennsylvania come to try it again, and it is settled. In addition to the results of Xu Ping's judgment, another article was added, except for Huang Zhixian, other people and their families were not allowed to return to their hometowns even if they were amnesty, and they were forever driven out of the Yongzhou area.

Finally, there was a reason to abolish these local officials, and the local area was placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Yongzhou government. The original Siming Prefecture was revoked, and Ningming Town was set up, which was intended to be peaceful in the Mingjiang area and was under the jurisdiction of Taiping County. After the original Shangsi Prefecture was revoked, Shangsi Town was set up and was under the jurisdiction of Guo Xuanhua County. Luo Bai set up a patrol village, Jiangzhou was too close to Taiping County, and it was simply placed under the direct management of the county.

This result is not that Xu Ping is soft-hearted, one is that these people are just planning and not putting it into action, and the most important thing is that the local government is initially determined to deal with this matter in a low-key manner so as not to make waves again.

The prison city belongs to the Xiang army, and it is actually the command number, but it is a prisoner who is accepted here, and is engaged in all kinds of miscellaneous work in the state, which was available in most states in the Song Dynasty.

The arrangement is residential surveillance, and they must report their whereabouts to the yamen regularly, and they are not allowed to leave the city gate without asking the government for trial. Of course, with the different identities of the prisoners, the measures of management are also different, the officials are much more relaxed, and the senior officials are very free, and they do not need to report to the yamen, and they can go out of the city at will, but they cannot move at will. This group of local officials sentenced them to death on Jinghu Road.

Zuojiang Road was pacified, and Xu Ping's eyes were set on areas beyond the Mingjiang River, and the first to bear the brunt was Jiatong.

On the third day of the tenth year of the Lunar New Year of Tiansheng, the war between Jiaozhi and Guangyuan Prefecture finally came to an end, Jiaozhi was defeated and withdrew from Qiyuan Prefecture, and the momentum of the Nong family in Guangyuan Prefecture reached its peak.

The battle report was in Xu Ping's hands, and after reading it, his face turned pale.

The reason why Guangyuan Prefecture was able to win was completely because it copied the number of roads that Xu Ping had in Zhongzhou back then, and slightly changed it in combination with the actual situation there. First, the Jiaozhi soldiers and horses were released from Qiyuan Prefecture to penetrate into the territory of Guangyuan Prefecture, and then they built a hard village to defend it, and then sent people to blow up the retreat of the Jiaozhi people with gunpowder, cutting off their food and grass supplies. The mountains and valleys in that area are high, the terrain is even more harsh, there is no rear supply and you can't find anyone to raise on the spot, the Jiaozhi people have to retreat, and they are chased and killed by Guangyuan Prefecture along the road, and Qiyuan Prefecture is also re-occupied.

This trick is not new, but there was only one road there before, and you can't bypass it if you want to cut off the back road, but now you can cooperate with a small group of gunpowder people, as long as you find the right terrain, how many soldiers and horses will starve to death if you blow up a few times.

This battle ended, and the situation around Yongzhou became delicate again.

As soon as the Jiaozhi soldiers and horses retreated, Xu Ping immediately ordered Zhang Zhizhai of Yongping Village to take his soldiers and horses and An Yuan's army into Luzhou, and set up a hard village there as soon as possible, preparing to move Yongping Village from Siming Prefecture there. Luzhou and Jiaozhi are only separated by a water, and the opposite side is Jiatong, which can be regarded as a clear knife and a gun.

At the same time, he also ordered Zhang Rong to take the township soldiers to enter Siming Prefecture, that is, Ningming Town after the renaming, and make every effort to build the avenue to Pingxiangtong. Once the road is repaired, the newly built Yongping Village in Luzhou will be abandoned, and all the soldiers and horses will be stationed in Pingxiangtong and enter Menzhou.

The reason for this is because although Luzhou is in the front, there are many mountains and streams, and it is extremely inconvenient for the team to move, and the road is difficult to repair, so it is only suitable for the passage of the team of horses. In the early stage, the village was built there, which was to attract the soldiers and horses of Jiatong to confront each other in the past, and take advantage of the situation to enter Menzhou.

During the Song Dynasty, the topography was not very clear about the place, and the relationship between the population distribution and the trade with Jiaozhi passed through Luzhou, and most of the smuggling horse caravans passed through there. Later, the site of Siming Prefecture was abandoned, and Yongping Village was rebuilt during the time of Shenzong, which was also built in Luzhou, and the Boyi Field of the two countries was also built there.

Xu Ping has the memory of his previous life, and the two place names of Pingxiang and Langshan are really memorable, so he abandoned Luzhou and changed the road to Pingxiang Mountain, occupied Pingxiang Mountain and then tried to plot Menzhou.

At the same time, Gao Daquan took his command of the township soldiers to rush to repair the road from Luobai to Qianlong, once this road was built, there was no major incident in Zuojiang Road, and Xu Ping was completely free.

Guangyuan Prefecture used gunpowder, clearly declaring that Huang Wei and Huang Shimi's brothers were there, but Jia Yu detained Ah Shen and refused to return it. Xu Ping hopes that during the remaining term of Lingnan, he will be able to pacify Guangyuan Prefecture and defeat Jiatong, not to do anything for the imperial court, but to give an explanation to the people around him.

At the beginning of the tenth year of Tiansheng, the situation between Yongzhou and the surrounding forces suddenly became tense.

Before you know it, it's February, the cold wind has gone away, and Yongzhou has reached the twilight of spring.

Cen Dalang and his son Dagui finally settled down in Taiping County, and recruited into the sugar business with their skills. Tong Tiju Han Zong also specially met with him, telling him that as long as he worked for a year and the people around him were satisfied, he would make up for an errand as a trick officer.

As a part-time doctor, Cen Dalang's monthly salary is also higher than others, and when it reaches 1,600 feet, the two of them eat and drink without worry, and live a life that he couldn't even dream of when he was in the mountains.

Early in the morning, Cen Dalang put on new clothes and shoes for his son Dagui, and cleaned up neatly and neatly. Cen Dalang carried a chicken in his left hand and a pair of fish in his right hand, and went out with his son.

Dagui took Daddy's hand, walked up and down, kicked a small stone on the road, and said: "Daddy, it's really comfortable to walk in shoes, and I'm not afraid of stones!" ”

Cen Dalang nodded: "Yes, we inferior people can also wear shoes." ”

Dagui asked again: "Daddy, why did you send me to the school?" What is Academy? ”

"The school is a place to read and write, and there is a gentleman to teach you. If you read well, you can go out and be an official like the officials in the promotion department, and go around the world. ”

"We barbarians can also be officials?"

"Yes, the official of the promotion department said that as long as you can enter Beijing, as long as you can pass the Jinshi, you can become an official. From now on, riding a horse and wearing an official robe is no longer the same as Daddy. ”

"Hey, then Daddy, can I be an official as big as Wei Zhizhou? In the past, at his house, I could only eat the leftovers in his family's small ya, and I was so grateful! I will never eat other people's leftovers again. ”

"What kind of official is Wei Zhizhou, there is not even a seat in front of the official. As long as you get the Jinshi, you can be an official like Duan Zhixian. ”

"That's amazing! What is Jinshi? ”

"Who knows, when you enter the school, there will naturally be a gentleman to teach you."

The father and son talked all the way, all the way to the school of cane sugar.

The state has a state school, and the county has a county school, but it is not common in this era, the state school in Yongzhou was built by Xu Ping, and the county school in Taiping County is still under construction. Tens of thousands of people under the management of the sugar cane business, of course, must also have their own school, Xu Ping established with one hand, and set the charter with one hand.

All the children of the cane sugar business, regardless of the Han Man, can be enrolled, with an annual tuition fee of 200 yuan, and food at their own expense. The reason for not exempting tuition is that it is not realistic to enter school for free in this era, and it is easy for parents to despise the opportunity for their children to receive education.

As for the ethnic identity, even if it is a barbarian, as long as he has really studied, he will naturally transform and support the central royal power. As for the Ou Xifan incident that happened a few years later in history, the so-called Jinshi is boundless, just like there are people who say that Nong Zhigao has also been a Jinshi, and there are only a few Jinshi in the entire Guangnan West Road in recent years? Even those who have passed the Liberation Examination and participated in the Ministry of Rites Examination can come back to confer officials, how can they be snubbed.

Xu Ping has never heard of Ou Xifan now, even Feng Shenji has never mentioned it, so he has no impression at all, and he is probably just a local hereditary family. Since the Zhenzong Dynasty, the barbarians in the Yongzhou area of Yizhou have had more contact with the outside world, and the power of the imperial court here is weak. In history, Feng Shenji met a ruthless person like Ou Xifan, but he was unlucky, with Xu Ping here, his fate had already changed.

In fact, when the self-encapsulation method is really implemented, Xu Ping's headache is not this problem, but the large number of low-level barbarians who have no surname at all, and now they are included in the household, so they must have a surname and a name.

Among the new surnames taken by these people, the surname Xu is the first surname, the surname Zhao is the second, the surname Liu is the third, and the traditional surnames such as Huang, Wei, Nong, and Zhou are the last. The surname Xu comes from Xu Ping, the surname Zhao comes from today's son, and the surname Liu comes from Liu Xiaomei. pressed the national surname, Xu Ping's head was bigger, and he tried all kinds of means to let the Han officials under his command scatter the teachings and persuasions in various places, and let the surname Xu change to follow these surnames, so that the surname Xu was ranked behind the surname Zhao.

Cen Dalang has a surname, or because his ancestor was a small leader, and later he was annexed by Jiangzhou, and he became a slave of the Wei family, but his surname was inherited.

Dagui followed his father all the way to the stream where the school was located.

Two children about the same age as Dagui walked up, a man and a woman, the boy was bouncing in front, and the girl was walking behind with her head down. The boy ran and jumped, much faster than the little girl's, but he was always there for the girl.

Boys and girls are carrying schoolbags made of homespun cloth, the style of course comes from Xu Ping's creativity, in his previous life was a dirty cloth bag, but in this era it became popular, not only school children carry, and even people began to rush to the market to carry things, compared with the blanket looks novel. In addition to the schoolbag he was carrying, the boy also carried a small cloth bag in his hand.

Dagui was greedy and kept staring.

Cen Dalang sighed, there is no woman in the family, and he can't do these needlework, but he has wronged his son.

The boy who came over from the opposite side ran over, looked Dagui up and down, looked at the chicken and fish that Cen Dalang was carrying, and asked Dagui, "Are you a newcomer to the school?" What is your name? ”

"My name is Dagui, what's your name?"

"My name is Hammer." Hammer pointed at the girl who came up with her, "Her name is Qiao Niang." ”

Dagui asked curiously, "Can girls also go to school?" ”

"We can raise the school, but unfortunately we can only study until we are ten years old."

Dagui looked at Qiao Niang, and saw that she lowered her head and didn't speak, so he couldn't say anything, and still asked the hammer: "What are you doing with the small bag?" Aren't all books in your bag? ”

Iron Hammer smiled and raised the small cloth bag: "There are stones in here!" It turns out that you don't know, there are people in the lifting division next to the school who collect small stones and use them to build roads, which can be exchanged for money! ”

"So there is such a thing?"

Dagui looked curious, it turned out that small stones can still be sold for money, this is really a fun place.

When Dagui and Iron Hammer were asking and answering, the sound of horses riding was heard from a distance, and they turned their heads together to look.

I saw someone riding a horse in the distance, not in a hurry or slowly, walking under the peach blossom tree that was blooming on the side of the road, and his body was full of petals.

The people on the horse were dusty and full of vicissitudes, and they should have traveled a long way. On the left side of the saddle hung a long sword, and on the right side was an iron mace, which turned out to be a martial arts man.

Seeing a few people standing at the intersection, the people on the horse crossed their hands and saluted: "In Sang Yi, Xiakaifeng Mansion, dare to ask how to go to the Yamen of the Tiju Division?" ”

(Note: Ou Xifan's history was five years after Jing You's incident, and there were still six years before the time in the book, and Feng Shenji was transferred from Yongzhou to Yizhou at that time in history, just in time, and the historical line in the book has changed.) ）