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Chapter 352 A Hamster's Self-Cultivation
This year is already the fifth year of Zhongdatong in Liang State (AD 533). Gao Huan occupied Yecheng the previous year and set the year name as Jianming, so Wei State is the second year of Jianming.

With two era names, one south and one north, it seems that the situation has returned to the period of confrontation between the North and the South decades ago. However, looking around, everything is changing and people are changing.

Last year was a good year, no matter whether it was the Liang country or the Wei country, there were bumper harvests in different places, which was one of the important reasons why the Liang country and the Wei country fought in Qingxu.

However, this year, even before the autumn harvest, many discerning people can already see that in the second half of this year, everyone's life may not be easy, of course, except for those who don't know the five grains and are drunk and dreaming of death.

Because, the drought is coming!It's no ordinary drought!

In the sweltering heat of June, Zhu Yi, who was sitting in the center, received an urgent report from Xiao Ying, saying that Liu Yishou had sent people to build a dam on the upper reaches of the Shanyuan River (water system, more than one river) to intercept the water source!As a result, the water levels of many lakes and rivers in Matou County plummeted!

Zhu Yi really didn't want to see this kind of thing too much. What kind of big deal is it for neighboring counties to compete for water sources?It's just that Liu Yishou exaggerated a bit.The imperial court decreed to go to Shouyang and ask Liu Yishou to defend himself.

As a result, Liu Yishou wrote a letter saying that he was leading the men from Quanzhou to dig the irrigation ditches south of Shaopi, so the water on the other side of the Shanyuan River had to be blocked, otherwise the dikes on the Shaopi side would easily break and cause floods.

Zhu Yi didn't dare to bother Xiao Yan with such a trivial matter, so he could only perfunctory Xiao Ying and asked him to "dig ditches and dig wells for water by himself" to solve the urgent need.

Although Liu Yishou's eloquent words seem to be very reasonable, he is indeed sending tens of thousands of civilians to dig and build irrigation canals south of Shaopi.However, this action caused the water level of Matoushu in the lower reaches of the Shanyuan River to plummet, the local wealthy families lost their irrigation source, and the crops in the fields died in pieces!
These people came to Guoyang further upstream to find Xiao Ying to discuss countermeasures.

In desperation, Xiao Ying followed Chen Baxian's advice and blocked the Piyuan River (a water system, not a river) upstream of Shaopi. The river water was diverted and then flowed to some areas of Matou County to alleviate the drought. , it can be regarded as calming down the anger of the powerful families in the Matoushu (Whirlpool) area.

However, the water source of Shaopi comes from two water systems, one is the Shanyuan River and the other is the Piyuan River. Both sides are blocked, which suddenly caused the water storage in Shaopi to drop sharply!

Being ridden in the face by a flying dragon, Liu Yishou was furious, and decided to play a big one!
He ordered Hu Sengyou, who was familiar with the local people's conditions, to lead the army. With the county soldiers temporarily recruited in Shouyang as the main force, he attacked the Matou Garrison at the confluence of the Guohe and Huaihe Rivers in the dark!Xiao Ying's move can be regarded as stabbing a hornet's nest.

However, Liu Yishou was not happy for long. Chen Baxian, who had been waiting on the bank of the Wokou River not far to the east of this place, led Wu Xing's soldiers to fight fiercely with Hu Sengyou in Wokou. Both sides suffered casualties, and the battle was very fierce.

Although Hu Sengyou's subordinates were only county soldiers, those people knew that if they didn't fight hard, the crops in their fields would die from drought, so they all fought desperately.

When the two armies were facing each other on both sides of the Wokou, Liu Yishou ordered Yang Zhong to lead an elite surprise attack on the dam north of the Wokou, annihilating the few defenders, blocking the grain road, and cutting off the Wokou area and Guoyang City to the north. contact.

Xiao Yingzhen didn't expect that Liu Yishou would dare to fight for real. He never thought that there would be a fight before.For a while, the elite soldiers led by Chen Baxian were trapped in the triangular area of ​​the vortex and could not move!

Xiao Ying hastily sent someone to contact Liu Yishou, and took the initiative to organize civilians to demolish the newly built dams and dams, and the water crisis in Shaopi was resolved!

Seeing that the other party was so understanding, Liu Yishou ordered Yang Zhong to withdraw his troops and let Chen Baxian and his troops return to Guoyang, but Hu Sengyou still occupied the horse's head and refused to withdraw his troops!He made it clear that he was reluctant to leave!
Blocking the river and building dams can only be regarded as "economic disputes".However, the occupation of land by the collapsed county is a proper political and military friction.Xiao Ying wrote a letter again, accusing Liu Yishou of plotting misconduct, seizing land, vainly trying to establish himself as emperor, and plotting rebellion.

Xiao Ying couldn't figure out whether Liu Yishou wanted to "make himself emperor".But he knows that the two sides are arguing and spraying each other, they must be throwing dirty water at each other, so why not be polite.

Sure enough, Liu Yishou also ordered Wang Wei to write a memorial and deliver it to Jiankang, accusing Xiao Ying of humiliating the clan, building dams on the river to compete with the people for profit, emptying the water source of Shaopi, and ignoring farming.He even colluded with Jiangyang bandits to plot rebellion.

It's making trouble again!
When the two documents of mutual accusation were placed on Zhu Yi's desk, the old bureaucrat and old coin who had served Xiao Yan for decades almost ran away.

There was no drought in previous years, and I haven't heard of any bird incidents with you.This year's severe drought, you have started to make trouble!Fighting for all water sources is on the line and has reached the level of "conspiring to rebel", it really treats the center as a fool!
However, Zhu Yi was angry because he was angry. One of these two was Xiao Yan's nephew and the other was Xiao Yan's son-in-law. They both had military power in their hands. Zhu Yi felt that he was unfair.

He had no choice but to find Xiao Yan again.In Zhu Yi's view, this matter is indeed a trivial matter, but it is also a trivial matter that is difficult to handle.

……

"Both of them have a common heart, no matter what, no matter what."

In the Golden Buddha Pavilion, Xiao Yan smiled and said to Zhu Yi, the latter heard that he was not well!
The two armies fought in Huainan, and there were even many casualties, but they still had a "common heart"?Zhu Yi really wanted to hit Xiao Yan's head with Xiao Yan's wooden fish stick!What kind of public heart is this!
"How about this, transfer Xiao Ying to be the prefect of Jin'an, and the governor of Dongyang Prefecture. Let him take Wu Xing's disciples to guard Jin'an, not in Huainan."

Xiao Yan sighed.I wanted Xiao Ying to restrain Liu Yishou, but unfortunately the difference in rank between the two is too great, Xiao Yingwen is not Liu Yishou's opponent in martial arts.

Jin'an is the Fuzhou that Liu Yishou knew in his previous life, and there is civil unrest there.From time to time, it was a battle of hundreds of people and thousands of people.

Minyue Qu Shuai Chen Cheng, Wu Man and others rebelled from time to time. The court recruited them to be honest for a while, and then rebelled again in a blink of an eye. The situation was very bad.Xiahou Kui had just pacified Yongjia County (Wenzhou, Zhejiang), Xiao Yan seemed to want to play a balance, and did not want Xia Houkui to suppress the civil unrest in the Jin'an area.

Because if Xia Houkui is really going to finish everything, then the Minyue chieftains under his command will unite and become a powerful force, and no emperor can watch this kind of thing happen.

What's more, in the last years of the Southern Qi Dynasty, the feudal towns in various places rebelled (Xiao Yan was also based in Xiangyang at the time, and belonged to one of the feudal towns), and the Minyue area was very restless, but the rebellion failed.Xiao Yan himself was a successful rebel in the feudal town, so how could he not see this clearly?

Letting Xiao Ying sit in Jin'an seems to be a good choice, lest he spend all his time and talent in Huainan fighting with Liu Yishou all day long.

Xiao Yan could see clearly that compared to Liu Yishou, who was flexible and cunning, Xiao Ying was really an honest boy, and had no place to reason when he was bullied miserably.

"Decree, let Liu Yishou draw up the candidates for the prefects of Matou County and Zhongli County. Liu Yishou will be in charge of the military affairs of the two places, and there will be no prefects in the counties where they are located."

Xiao Yan said with a sigh.

In Liang Guo's system, not every state has to have a governor.Because the trend of the Northern and Southern Dynasties is the division of states and counties, large states become smaller states, and some states are not even as large as the previous counties.

In some unimportant prefectures, the post of governor is not set up at all, and the surrounding areas are directly appointed, and the military governors of X prefectures are included and the work is over.

Now that Xiao Yan practiced Buddhism with peace of mind, he completely handed over the eastern section of the Lianghuai defense line to Liu Yishou.

As for the western section of the Lianghuai defense line, it has always been one of the areas where the rebellion is the most active and the two sides jump back and forth most frequently.Even if Xiao Yan handed over this piece of "Henan area" to Liu Yishou, Liu Yishou would not be able to manage it.

"Your Majesty, Liu Yishou is holding a heavy army now, I'm afraid..."

"It's okay, let him come to my birthday banquet this year. If he dares not come, it's not too late to say so."

Xiao Yan touched his long beard and said with a smile.A few days ago, Liu Yishou presented him with dozens of sets of fine tableware, all made of white porcelain, rich in Buddhist color, and various utensils with lotus patterns as the background.

Porcelain plates, porcelain jars, porcelain spoons, and porcelain plates are all systematic and each has its own merits. You can tell at a glance that the designer has extraordinary ingenuity.

Liu Yishou said that these things can be popularized in the major temples in Jiankang to promote Buddhism, eliminate hostility, and achieve great harmony in the world.He is willing to provide Jiankang Palace with this kind of tableware for the royal family free of charge, so that everyone in Jiankang City can feel the emperor's firm determination and superb taste in practicing Buddhism.

This move undoubtedly made Xiao Yan feel that Liu Yishou was a "reasonable boy". How could he take advantage of his son-in-law?Therefore, Xiao Yan did not go through Zhu Yi's court center, but found the abbot of Tongtai Temple, who was also the president of the "Buddhist Association" of Liang Guo.

Let Liu Yishou negotiate with him about the supply of exquisite Buddhist culture white porcelain tableware.What Xiao Yan didn't pay attention to was that someone opened a shop selling white porcelain in the north of Dongfu City along the Qingxi River, which was exclusively for dignitaries.

With Xiao Yan taking the lead, this kind of tableware has been spread in the banquets of Jiankang's high-level officials, and it has gradually become a fashion.

Liu Yishou is such a sensible child, how could he rebel?Xiao Yan felt that Zhu Yi was imagining too much.In the last years of the Southern Qi Dynasty, it was because the central government was suspicious of Fang Zhen and had no way to restrain it, which finally caused Fang Zhen's generals to rebel one by one.

But now, Fangzhen, the center of the imperial court, is more tolerant, and Liu Yishou is the son-in-law. If there is no prince to take the lead, he has absolutely no reason to jump out first.

Xiao Yan believed that Liu Yishou would rebel unless he died and the affairs behind him were not handled properly, which would cause those unworthy sons to compete for the throne.Only then was Liu Yishou able to make a move on "King Qin".

However, this kind of situation is unlikely to happen, because Xiao Yan feels that his body is quite good, and he has no worries about this for the time being.

……

The sun was scorching, and countless people were picking soil to dig the canal, and then laying stone slabs in the canal.Shaopi south of Shouyang, the southernmost end, is busy in full swing.

Standing under the parasol, Liu Yishou looked at the excellent progress of the canal opening project, and couldn't help but nodded in satisfaction.Fatty Yang is reliable in his work.The locations of these ditches are very good, and they are connected to the water source, so no smelly ditch will be formed.

Gao Huan has already received the full support of the Hebei family, and he can't count on Xiao Yan on his side. He has to do everything by himself and have enough food and clothing.

"My lord, your previous move of Xiang Zhuang's sword dance was aimed at Pei Gong, it's really wonderful!"

Wang Wei beside him couldn't help admiring.

"Is there?"

Liu Yishou winked at Wang Wei.

"You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately. It was Xiao Yan who transferred Xiao Ying and Chen Ba first. What does it have to do with me, a great governor who concentrates on farming and pleading for the people?"

Liu Yishou said with a smile.

"That's right, that's right, it's my subordinate Meng Lang, it really doesn't matter at all."

Wang Wei laughed. There are some things that can be done, but they cannot be said.The ditches in Shaopi were built to intercept the dikes and dams, but it was enough to intercept them in Shouyang, and there was no need to go upstream.

Liu Yishou also deliberately provoked a military conflict with Xiao Ying by means of the "water source dispute".Unless Xiao Ying can win, Xiao Yan will definitely transfer Xiao Ying and Chen Ba first.

The reason is very simple, if Xiao Ying can hold Liu Yishou, then he is a suitable pawn, Xiao Yan will let him hold Liu Yishou's back in Guoyang.

But if Xiao Ying can't beat Liu Yishou, it means that this chess piece can't play a role.Xiao Ying is a "proper asset" in the clan, Huainan is useless here, Xiao Yan will not let him go to waste, he will only move to another place.

So when the two sides started to quarrel, Liu Yishou didn't worry about losing, and the only one who left was Xiao Ying.

"Look at how hard these people are digging ditches. We don't need to mobilize this corvee. The big households in every village have organized their husbands. The hearts of the people are like water, and water is soft but invincible.

There are so many people behind us who spontaneously open ditches, how could Xiao Ying beat me? "

Liu Yishou said disdainfully.

Building a dam on the Piyuan River was Xiao Ying's biggest failure this time, and it was also a loophole deliberately sold by Liu Yishou.The nearby counties are all his people, so it's not easy to guard against Xiao Yingxiu's dam!
"My lord runs a benevolent government. A large number of tenants from Xiao Ying's side fled to Shouyang. He probably won't be able to be the prefect!" Wang Wei sneered, although his words were harsh, they were telling the truth.The two Huaihe Rivers are located on the front line of the war between the two countries. No one managed them well in the past hundred years. Everything was mainly about squeezing, without any consideration for the future.

Liu Yishou's ability to take the initiative to repair Shaopi is a strong signal, implying to everyone around him that he will manage the site well.

Xiao Ying lost the battle with Liu Yishou from the very beginning.Not to mention that Xiao Yingyuan, who played tricks, was no match for Liu Yishou.

At this moment, a man and a horse came galloping in the distance, causing dust to fly.

With dozens of steps left, that man got off his horse, and it turned out to be Yuan Shikang!

"Shouldn't you be in the mansion? Could it be that something happened at home?" Liu Yishou looked at Yuan Shikang, who was sweating profusely, and asked doubtfully.

"Uh, everything is fine in the lord's house, it's just..."

Yuan Shikang glanced at Wang Wei, but said nothing.

"Say something!"

Liu Yishou frowned displeased.

"Well, Yuan Xiu sneaked into Wang Changshi's house last night with the intention of raping Yuan Mingyue. After being discovered by his servants, he jumped over the wall and fled. Before the general knew, he had already gone north on horseback.

Wang Sizheng gave Yuan Xiu the wind, has been arrested, and is currently being held in prison, how to deal with it is up to the lord. "

Seeing that Wang Wei seemed to be on the verge of getting angry, he quickly explained: "Ma'am is fine, she was just a little frightened, and the young master is fine..."

"Back to Shouyang!"

Liu Yishou sighed, turned around and left, feeling extremely tired in his heart.

"General Yuan, you are young, do you want a woman?"

Walking behind Liu Yishou, Wang Wei asked in a low voice.

"Want a woman?"

Yuan Shikang was stunned, a man has not yet achieved fame, what kind of woman do you want!

"General Yuan can't understand it, it seems that the next person can't understand it."

Wang Wei sighed, he was really impressed by Yuan Xiu.

(End of this chapter)