"A few days ago, I asked all the officials of Hailing Mansion to report to Chongzhou before the fifth day of the new year, but I couldn't leave here, I don't know how many people scolded my mother behind my back?"

Lin Wei took a porcelain chess piece, wrenched it on the head of the black dragon, and sealed Li Wei's chess position - Li Wei frowned, as if he didn't hear Lin Wei's self-deprecating words. Liang Wenzhan sat on the side and said: "The society is difficult, and the adults are running non-stop, which of the officials of the Hailing Mansion does not feel it?" ”

"Don't comfort me, I'm still a little self-aware," Lin Jian said with a smile, "Did Liu Tingzhou stop a little bit today?" ”

"I haven't seen anyone else yet!" Liang Wenzhan said, "The twelve battalions of the Northern Army of the Huaidong Infantry Army Division were given to him, and he was still not satisfied?" Liu Yefei and Gao Yi, I'm afraid they are suspicious of Liu Tingzhou! Besides, although the two cities of Suining and Suyu were lost, the situation did not collapse as expected after all. Chen Zhihu's forbidden policy in the west was originally unpopular, but Jiangning still supported him! ”

What Liang Wenzhan said is also the truth, and the government and the opposition have always been controversial about the policy of suppressing or appeasing the exiled people's army.

Even the officials who are in charge of the suppression usually can't accept Chen Zhihu's brutal forbidden methods.

Not to mention the Huaidong people, it is Liu Tingzhou, Li Wei and others, who are essentially moderate officials who are still monarchs and herdsmen, and are more inclined to take care of the policy and suppression as the supplement.

It's just that Chen Zhihu won all the battles, which made the situation in Henan seem to have a tendency to improve, and with the support of Ning Wangfu and Yue Lengqiu and other cadres, the opposition of Liu Tingzhou, Li Wei and others was suppressed.

Li Wei turned a deaf ear to the conversation between Lin Tie and Liang Wenzhan, and responded attentively to a son, Lin Tie took out another son from the chess box, and asked Li Wei: "Lord Li really made up his mind not to enter the ranks anymore?" ”

"No," Li Wei shook his head and said, "I lost Suining City twice, and I don't have the same face to see my colleagues and old friends again!" ”

"I have a naughty boy at home, and he is almost of the age of literacy, how about asking Master Li to deign to be Mr. Xixi?" Lin Jian asked.

"Adults are miscellaneous scholars, Li Wei is pedantic, where can he get into the eyes of adults?" Li Wei said coldly, "I'm afraid that I will delay the little boy's studies." ”

"It's not too late for that kid in my family to let him live happily for two or three years before he goes to school, and Master Li doesn't have to be busy rejecting me, now it's not bad for you and me to be chess friends......" Lin Jian responded and asked again, "It won't be impossible to even be a chess friend, right?" ”

Li Wei didn't say anything, just stretched out his hand to take the chess pieces from the chess box, which was regarded as answering Lin Bin's question with practical actions, a chess piece was held in his hand for a long time, and it didn't fall, and finally raised his head and asked Lin Bin: "The Huaidong cavalry also crossed the Huai to the north, General Xiao also held Shuyang, Liukou can't cross the Huai River for the time being, and he can't cross the Yishui River when he goes east, and Chen Hansan is blocking it in the north, but in Suining and Suyu counties, 8,000 households and 40,000 people finally returned to their hometowns and settled down, and the adults really watched them fall into great trouble again?" ”

After the Huaisi War, no one was willing to go to Suyu and Suining to serve as officials, and Li Wei knew the two counties at the same time, selected officials from the county people, and worked hard to appease the troubles. The two counties were extremely poor, lacking farm tools, no animal power, and very limited grain reserves, and it was under these circumstances that Li Wei successively recruited 40,000 people to return to their hometowns for resettlement during this period, which was extremely remarkable.

Four or five hundred thousand hungry people poured into Suining and Suyu counties, and everyone knew what the consequences would be. The biggest possibility is that the scale of the hungry people will be increased by 40,000 or 50,000 people.

If one of the roads in the south, east, and northwest cannot be blocked, four or five hundred thousand hungry people will be like locusts, plundering the territory. Even if the blockade is blocked, the four or five hundred thousand people who will survive in the end will not exceed 20%.

Lin Tie reached into the chess box to play with the chess pieces, but said with a wry smile on his face: "I want to send someone to appease me at this time, Chen Zhihu has ...... mind to swallow me."

"Could it be that if you put four or five hundred thousand people in, you won't have any back?" Li Wei asked.

Lin Tie was stunned, and his hand reached into the chess box and forgot to draw it back for a while; Liang Wenzhan was also quite surprised, he didn't expect Li Wei to be a county magistrate, but his eyes could see clearly, maybe he had been in Suining for a long time, and he could see it more clearly.

"The king does not support the people, the people support themselves, the world is big, and the life is the greatest-and he complains that he does not plunder the bandits, and eats when he is hungry, who still cares about etiquette and shame, loyalty and filial piety?" Li Wei continued.

Li Wei's words made Liang Wenzhan secretly moved when he heard it. Although he also followed Huaidong with an iron heart, he couldn't say this kind of unruly words without a king, fatherless, and rebellious, and secretly said: This old man has been stimulated a lot in Huaisi in the past few years.

The last time Suining City was broken, Li Wei couldn't bear to kill his daughter and wanted to hang himself, and after the war, Suining stayed for so long, if his thinking didn't change, it would be strange! Lin Jian came back to his senses at this time, pulled out his hand from the chess box, eased his face, and said, "Lord Li's words, I will treat you as if you didn't say it in front of me......"

Li Wei was not moved by Lin Bin's words, and continued: "If the adult has the intention of appeasing, Li Wei will fight this old bone and run to Suining for the adult......"

Lin Jian shook his head and said, "Chen Zhihu doesn't talk about him, Jiang Ning's level will never pass!" ”

Song Jia said beside him: "Zhang Gou and Chen Yan, it seems that they have been kneeling outside for a while!" ”

"Let them keep on their knees!" Lin Jian said impatiently, "Who here wants to see them?" ”

Li Wei said: "The past has passed, and adults don't need to avoid anything for the old man!" ”

Lin Jian raised his head and looked at Li Wei, and said with a joking smile: "Cheap grandfather also does it?" ”

Li Wei couldn't wipe his face, and his face was so ashamed of Lin Lian's words that he turned red; Even Song Jia, who was standing on the side, couldn't listen to it, and secretly kicked Lin Lian, asking him to accept it when he saw it.

Li Wei can say this here, even if he gets on the thief ship in Huaidong, he will never be able to jump anymore.

Li Wei was an official, he was honest and capable, and he was very popular in Huaisi, so after the exile army broke through the Huaisi cities, he was bent on recruiting him. Li Wei insisted on not being a thief, and after Suining recovered, he was freed from prison and insisted on staying in Suining to do the work of appeasing the troubles, and his reputation was even greater. In Shizi Qingliu, Li Wei also has a beautiful copy. He devoted himself to Huaidong, which is a good wedge for Huaidong.

Only then did Liang Wenzhan confirm that the rumor that Chen Yan had taken Li Wei's daughter as his wife and gave birth to a son was true.

Lin Jian sat up straight and instructed the guards outside the pavilion: "For the sake of Li Gong's face, bring those two in!" ”

After a long while, Li Wei's face returned to normal, and he watched the guards bring Zhang Gou and Chen Yan in.

Zhang Gou and Chen Yan walked into the courtyard and knelt down outside the pavilion, Chen Yan saw that Li Wei was also in the pavilion, he was slightly stunned, buried his head and kept silent. Zhang Gou saw Lin Jian and Li Wei playing chess, and said: "There will be something to do in the end......

"If you have anything to say, don't disturb us playing chess if you have nothing to do." Lin Jian said impatiently.

Song Jia explained beside him: "Gong Li is not an outsider, if Zhang joins the army and has something to say, just say it!" ”

Zhang Gou hesitated, not understanding when Li Wei of Suining Zhixian was no longer an outsider? What is the relationship between Shanyang Zhixian and Huaidong?

Although Zhang Gou has been in command of the Military Intelligence Department for some time, he has access to the most confidential military information in Huaidong in peacetime, but it is limited to this. Zhang Gou did not know anything about Huaidong's overall strategy for the Huaisi region, and only a limited number of people really knew about it within Huaidong.

Zhang Gou stubbornly said: "The last general will discuss with Chen Yan, Liu Miaozhen, Ma Lan and other thieves may have the possibility of appeasing Huaidong, please go to Suining!" ”

Lin Jian threw the chess pieces he was playing with into the chess box, and turned to look sideways at Zhang Gou who was kneeling on the ground: "Do you think that this can save Sun Zhuang's life and fulfill the righteousness of your brothers?" ”

"The last general is just thinking about Huaidong, and has no other thoughts!" Zhang Gou kowtowed and said.

"They have all learned to say beautiful things," Lin Lian sneered, "that is, Liu Miaozhen and Ma Lantou are willing to accept Huaidong's appeasement, so let me ask you, is it possible for Huaidong to appease them?" Yue Lengqiu, Chen Zhihu, and Chen Hansan made so much effort to encircle and suppress them, Sun Zhuang lost two cities, opened an opening, and let them breathe a sigh of relief, at this time they accepted Huaidong's appeasement, what do outsiders think of Huaidong? ”

“…… I don't know. Zhang Gou replied stiffly.

"Liu Miaozhen is still guarding Huaiyang, four or five hundred thousand hungry people are pouring into the west of the Bianhe River like locusts, you can easily say a word to appease, how can these four or five hundred thousand hungry people be appeased?" Lin Jian asked again.

Zhang Gou was stunned again, he still couldn't answer this question.

After the Huaisi War, Huaidong accepted about 160,000 prisoners plus their families. In order to feed these people, the Huaidong Workers' Camp was expanded to 70,000 people, and they went to repair and defend the seawall, and they managed to raise so many people.

Not to mention the huge investment in repairing and defending the seawall, in order to settle the families of the workers, battalions, and soldiers, the four cantonments set up in Hecheng and Jiangmen have invested the most, and the scale of reclamation is only more than 200,000 mu today. In order for this group of people to reach the level of self-sufficiency, the scale of reclamation must be increased to at least 400,000 mu.

To appease four or five hundred thousand hungry people, even if there is enough land to reclaim wasteland, how much rice and grain will be put into it in two or three years?

If appeasement is an easy matter, how can Jiang Ning condone Chen Zhihu's tyranny of banning and killing all in Henan?

"Get up," Lin Jian waved his hand and said, "You escort Li Gong to the north, and go and tell Liu Miaozhen and Ma Lantou that Huaidong will lend them 40,000 stone grain every month." You have to make it clear to them that 40,000 stone of grain is lent to them every month, and one day, I will have to ask them back. Still, they are not allowed to fortify on the north side of Siyang and the west bank of Yishui - Huaidong will ignore everything else! Seeing that Chen Yan was about to stand up with Zhang Gou, he said with a straight face, "You knock Li Gong three times and get up again......"

Chen Yan knelt for a day, his mind was confused, and when he heard Lin Lian say this, he didn't ask anything, so he kowtowed three times to Li Wei. Li Wei's body stiffened sideways, and he didn't say that he was courteous, nor did he say that he was not polite, and he couldn't get his face down for a while. Even if he guessed that Lin Tie had a backhand, he was still shocked when he heard that Lin Tie opened his mouth and secretly borrowed 40,000 stone grain from the Red Jacket Army every month: 40,000 stone grain a month is 500,000 stone a year, and the tax and grain paid to the county department by the eleven counties of Huaidong last year was only this amount.

Huaidong has this ability, so it's no wonder that he no longer takes Jiang Ning in his eyes. At this time, if you don't directly appease, maybe you don't want to tear the last layer of your face, maybe you want to use Liu Miaozhen's power to hit Chen Hansan - after all, once Liu Miaozhen accepts the appeasement, there is no name for beating Chen Hansan.

"As for Sun Zhuang, as a general of the Huaidong Army, he fornicated with the rogues, and it was not okay to be punished for his crimes - the eleven members of the army who came with him to join the prison were all stripped of their generals and assigned to the first battalion of the Chongzhou Infantry Battalion as soldiers. If the first merit is less than ten and the number of grades is less than 100, these people will not be promoted! Lin Jian stared at Chen Zhen, "If you dare to pervert the law behind my back, be careful that I peel off the armor skin on your body!" ”

"The last general will not dare!" Chen Yan only wanted to save Sun Zhuang's life, and he was busy thanking Sun Zhuang.

"You go to Suining and bring their families to Huaidong," Lin Jian instructed Zhang Gou again, "You go and tell Sun Zhuang that his kindness to Liu An'er will be exhausted from today onwards, don't play the trick of being in Cao Ying's heart in Han with me......"

Zhang Gou and Chen Yan both knelt down and kowtowed to thank him: "The adult is as kind to him as a mountain, he doesn't know what to do, and I will never spare him!" ”

Lin Jian sighed secretly, killing people in this world is like a common thing, but he can't lose his kindness, righteousness, loyalty and filial piety. From Cao Ziang and Qin Chengzu to Zhou Pu and Ning Zechen, they all had to ensure that Sun Zhuang did not die, and even more so to ensure that the eleven members who came to prison with Sun Zhuang did not die.

In the eyes of the world, Sun Zhuang's abandonment of the two cities and the trapping of the people of the two cities in fire and water is a loss of small and righteous righteousness, and a loyalty and filial piety to the old lord. Just like Guan Yu letting Cao Cao go in Huarong Road, no one will feel that there is anything wrong; Only Chen Hansan's behavior of selling the old master clean and black to death is the one who has been spurned by the world for thousands of years - this is the morality of this world!

Think about it, like Fu Qinghe, Qin Chengzu, Cao Ziang and others would rather rebel against the court and not turn their backs on Sumen, but don't they insist on the idea of loyalty?

Lin Jian took the blank letter handed to him by Song Jia, signed the order, and threw it to Chen Yan: "Go down and get people, don't be an eyesore here." ”