Chapter 178 The War Begins
Lu Shiyan arrested the Ying family with the account book in Takeda Nobunaga's hand, and then interrogated the Ying family to get more evidence that the Ying family colluded with officials to resell iron ore.
The officialdom in Lingnan is rotten to the core.
From top to bottom, there are few officials who are not corrupt.
After these officials learned that Lu Shiyan had arrested the Ying family, they anticipated that their collusion with the Ying family to resell iron ore would be exposed.
So he directly arranged people to assassinate Lu Shiyan in order to keep the secret.
Lu Shiyan is a martial arts expert, and he was well prepared, so these people were no match for him.
After he eliminated the assassin who was trying to assassinate him with lightning speed, he sent his confidant to quickly deliver the evidence in his hands.
When the Lingnan officials learned that Lu Shiyan had sent out evidence of their illegal sale of iron ore, they were suddenly panicked.
Putting aside other matters, the crime of illegally selling iron ore alone was enough to get them killed. Moreover, they had done many other things that could have gotten them killed over the years.
Which of them can withstand investigation, and which of them dares to go to court?
After a brief panic, some people suggested taking a risk, occupying the land and becoming the king, so that they would no longer be under the control of the Emperor of the Great Zhou.
In fact, Lingnan is 18,000 miles away from Beijing, which is really like being far away from the emperor. These officials in Lingnan are equivalent to local emperors, and some of them have long had disloyalty.
This proposal was quickly approved by everyone.
Although the proposal to rebel against the Great Zhou and occupy the land as king received unanimous support from all officials, there were still disagreements on who would be the boss and who they would listen to.
As the prefect of Lingnan, Xiang Wanlin felt that he was the highest official and that he should be the local emperor.
But how could the officers in charge of the troops listen to him?
Therefore, before the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty held people accountable, Lingnan fell into chaos. Several military officers who held military power refused to give in to each other and started fighting.
At the same time, the Nanyue Kingdom, which bordered Lingnan, seized the opportunity and launched a large-scale attack on Lingnan, hoping to get a piece of the pie.
Lingnan was a barren land in the Zhou Dynasty, but in the eyes of the Nanyue Kingdom, it was a big piece of fat meat.
Faced with foreign invasion, the officers in Lingnan schemed against each other, and no one wanted to lose the military power in their hands.
Lizhou was the first to be attacked. When the people of Nanyue arrived in Lizhou, they burned, killed, looted and committed all kinds of atrocities. Lizhou instantly became a hell on earth.
Seeing that the Nanyue people were about to take another step forward and attack Yazhou, General Song once again used Lu Shiyan and promoted him.
He also negotiated with the generals of the Raoxi and Raonan camps, and the three parties reached an agreement to jointly allocate a part of the troops to Lu Shiyan, who would lead the troops to guard the three passes and resist foreign enemies.
Naturally, no one was willing to part with their elite troops. The soldiers given to Lu Shiyan were all old, weak, sick and disabled.
But seeing the suffering of the common people, Lu Shiyan did not retreat or shirk responsibility. Instead, he took a group of remaining soldiers to guard the three passes, and repeatedly stopped the soldiers of Nanyue from entering the passes.
You can imagine how difficult this process is.
Fortunately, although the process was difficult, the people of Yazhou remembered Lu Shiyan deeply and praised him as the best official in the Great Zhou.
Some people even said that Lu Shiyan was originally the general of Dingbei Marquis Mansion. Several generations of Dingbei Marquis Mansion had been defending the border against foreign enemies, making the Western Rong people dare not enter for decades.
Lu Shiyan went to the battlefield when he was a teenager and defeated the Western Rong people, thus becoming known as the God of War.
The people don’t care about whether they are criminals or not. They only care about who serves the people and who allows them to live a peaceful life.
People cried out for justice for him, and for a time, Lu Shiyan's reputation in Yazhou soared, and his good reputation spread throughout Lingnan.
When the refugees in Lizhou heard the news, they all ran to Yazhou.
In addition to the refugees from Lizhou, people from several other states also fled to Yazhou to seek asylum.
The common people are not fools. They have seen what other military officers have done since the Kingdom of Nanyue attacked Lingnan.
Now, they only trust Lu Shiyan and feel that only he can protect them.
Although he is deeply loved by the people and his reputation in Lingnan is unprecedentedly high,
As refugees poured in, the pressure Lu Yan faced was unprecedentedly great.
With so many refugees, maintaining public order is not an easy task, not to mention that most of these refugees were penniless when they fled to Yazhou and were waiting for relief from the government.
The imperial reinforcements were slow to arrive, and there was no news of relief food at all.
The local officials had long been jealous of Lu Shiyan's good reputation. Not only did they not help with the resettlement of refugees, but they also added insult to injury and made things difficult for Lu Shiyan.
They used public opinion to elevate him to a high position and force him to pay out of his own pocket to solve the refugee resettlement problem. If he couldn't solve it, his previous good reputation would be destroyed.
Since the start of the war, grain prices in Lingnan have been rising day by day. Furthermore, those with ulterior motives deliberately cut off Lingnan's trade routes with the outside world. It was already difficult for Lu Shiyan to provide food for his own army, and now pushing so many disaster victims onto him was truly despicable.
Jiang Tangtang was immediately furious when she received the message from Lu Shili.
What a dog official, not only did he plot against her husband to resist foreign enemies, but when he saw that her husband had gained a good reputation for resisting foreign enemies, he felt unwilling to accept it and wanted to destroy his good reputation.
They haven't even driven the South Vietnamese away yet, and they're already starting to fight among themselves. Are these people all idiots?
Jiang Tangtang immediately ordered people to prepare boats and go out to sea to pick up the refugees. These refugees were considered a burden by local officials, but to her, they were a treasure.
The island is in need of manpower right now. Bringing him to the island at this time will not only solve the island's manpower problem, but also help Lu Shiyan maintain a good reputation.
As for the food needed to accommodate the refugees, Jiang Tangtang didn't care. As long as there was space, the amount of food was not a problem.
After the ship started moving, she closed the cabin door, entered the space, and went into the warehouse to count the food that could fill her stomach.
The growth cycle of plants in the space is much shorter than outside. Now, in addition to various fruits, there are also a lot of sweet potatoes piled up in the factory warehouse.
Jiang Tangtang had previously planted sweet potatoes in the open space in the space simply because she couldn't bear to see the land wasted, and sweet potatoes were the easiest to plant.
Simply plow the soil with a tiller and plant the sweet potato seedlings. When it's time to harvest, use a harvester.
These sweet potatoes can now be used to help refugees.
However, in case the sweet potatoes in the warehouse were insufficient, Jiang Tangtang took the corn to the field. After harvesting the potatoes, he planted all the corn.
Just after the corn was planted, there was a knock on the door. Yuan San, standing outside, said, "Madam, the boat has docked."
Since Jiang Tangtang's abduction, Guo Yu has also disappeared. Later, people were sent out, but they couldn't find her whereabouts.
The person who is now with Jiang Tangtang and responsible for protecting her is Lu Shiyan’s new bodyguard.
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