"If you were the governor of Shanhe County and a drought broke out, what would you do the first time?"
Su Jianyue thought for a moment and said, "There are two situations."
“I’m all ears!”
Su Jianyue sat cross-legged on the sofa and analyzed carefully.
"If I were a good official who was honest and upright, I would immediately send my trusted confidants to Jian'an City to report the disaster as quickly as possible and request the court to send money and food to alleviate the disaster."
"good!"
Xiao Yuqi affirmed Su Jianyue's idea.
"Secondly, if I were a corrupt official who only cared about my own pleasure and didn't care about the lives of the people, I would also send someone to Jian'an City to pass on a message as soon as possible, asking the court to distribute money and food to alleviate the disaster, so that I could benefit from it and fill my private treasury."
“That’s where the problem lies.”
Xiao Yuqi was puzzled.
...
...
"Xue Liangqi is not a good official. According to normal thinking, regardless of how he performs as an official, he will definitely report the disaster to the court as soon as possible to get money and food, right?"
"Yes."
This is how normal people think.
"But he didn't."
Xiao Yuqi said: "He chose to block the gate of Jing County. Jing County is the only passage connecting the Central Plains to the northern border. Once this gate is closed, not only will the financial path of merchants traveling between the north and the south be cut off, but also his own financial path will be cut off."
One has to pay customs fees to enter the city and pay taxes to do business. To him, those merchants traveling between the north and the south are not ordinary merchants.
But it is walking silver.
"First, he didn't ask for money from the court. Second, he destroyed the merchants' financial resources, which was equivalent to destroying most of his own financial resources. What exactly did he want to achieve by doing this?"
Su Jianyue asked, "Huh?"
"Yeah, what is he trying to achieve by doing this?"
Su Jianyue thought about it carefully.
"Wait a minute, I think I learned this part when I was in school!"
Su Jianyue picked up the phone and started typing.
Press the search button and many related entries about 'Tianyu Jing County' will pop up.
Su Jianyue slapped his forehead.
"Yes, that's it!"
Click on her most crucial answer.
Xiao Yuqi couldn't understand the words on it.
Su Jianyue explained to him: "There is a gold mine in Jing County!"
"Gold mine?"
Xiao Yuqi obviously didn't think of this.
He never expected it to be like this.
"Jing County not only has gold mines, but also hides the private soldiers raised by the late crown prince."
Xiao Yuqi took a breath of cold air.
"The North was originally the fiefdom of my father!"
"I know that!"
Su Jianyue flipped through the search results.
"Emperor Xianzu, your father, originally wanted to keep his old subordinates to continue to manage the northern border after he entered Jian'an again and ascended the throne. However, those old subordinates who stayed behind believed that your father brought all the useful generals back to Jian'an City, trained them, promoted them, and gave them titles. Those who stayed in the northern border were abandoned by your father."
Once such thoughts are formed, they are difficult to erase.
"Before Wei Xiang, he was a member of the prince's party. When the former prince was assassinated, he narrowly escaped death. He was the one who concealed the truth and secretly rescued the former prince and sent him to the northern border."
According to his thinking at the time, those who stayed behind in the northern border were all the former emperor's old subordinates, and the former emperor was most confident in the northern border.
He never expected that Wei Zhijiang would secretly send the former crown prince to the place where he felt most at ease.
It was because Wei Zhijiang understood the late emperor's thoughts that he was able to take advantage of this loophole.
"A group of people whose hearts have been shaken are naturally more likely to defect. They discovered gold mines in the north a long time ago, but never reported them to the court. Instead, they secretly smelted the gold and used it to raise a hundred thousand private soldiers."
"One hundred thousand?"
Xiao Yuqi's face froze and his scalp felt tight.
"Are you sure?"
"I am sure."
Su Jianyue nodded.
"This matter was not known to the world, but you should know that the largest uprising will take place in the northern border next year. This matter was first discovered by the rebels He Hu and He Bao, so they were able to quickly gather people and start the uprising."
That gold mine is huge.
It will be a great help to anyone who gets it.
Money makes the world go round.
Maintaining an army is extremely expensive.
As long as there is no worry about money, soldiers, horses, food and fodder can all be bought with money.
Who cares who is in power?
They only know that they will follow and listen to whoever can give them enough food to eat and warm clothes to wear.
“That’s how it is!”
So that's how it is!
No wonder anyone who knows the situation never mentions anything about what happened in Jing County.
It turns out that those people have already benefited from it.
After tasting the sweetness, who would be willing to suffer the bitterness?
"Don't be discouraged. I think that this battle can start with He Hu and He Bao."
Xiao Yuqi was not discouraged.
It’s just that there are too many messages to receive at one time.
It disrupted his whole plan.
Originally, he thought that relying solely on public opinion guidance and the inducement of food would be enough to change the current situation and create a breakthrough in the airtight Jing County.
If it concerns the interests of everyone, then everything else will be empty talk.
Once the floodgates of memory are opened, they will emerge continuously from the depths of the mind.
Su Jianyue recalled that when they learned about this period of history in high school, the history teacher asked each of them to write an essay.
The title of the composition is: If you were Emperor Zunsu and had a chance to live again, surrounded by tigers and wolves, how would you turn the situation around and extend the life of the Tianyu Dynasty when you were short of money, food and people?
Therefore, she had already imagined the answer to this question.
How could she forget such an important thing?
Su Jianyue slapped her useless brain hard.
"Speaking!"
Su Jianyue said: "In fact, the two brothers He Hu and He Bao may not have chosen to revolt because of ambition!"
A pair of country men who had never been to school and worked hard in the fields would not have had the talent and courage to fight against a dynasty that had lasted for hundreds of years, unless they had really lost their livelihood.
They just want to survive.
That's all.
However, they didn't expect that so many people would respond!
In the end, they were in a difficult situation.
How smart is Xiao Yuqi?
It gets understood in one click.
"Yes, I can start with them!"
As long as they know that the court has not abandoned them and has always cared about the safety of the people.
Let them understand that the reason why this natural disaster turned out like this is because there are evil people who are interfering.
With Su Jianyue providing logistical support, they will no longer suffer from water or food shortage.
At this time, as long as the gate of Jing County was broken, the soldiers wearing the royal army armor, under the leadership of him, the Emperor Tianyu, could enter the northern border and solve their predicament.
Xiao Yuqi suddenly stood up and walked in front of Su Jianyue.
bend over.
Hug her tightly!
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