Five days later, the team arrived at Shangluo County, and was greeted outside the city by the prefect Li Yi and a group of local officials.
Li Yi was also from the Li family in Longxi. In the Sui Dynasty, most of the governors and county governors came from the Guanzhong Group, and they would select left officials from the local wealthy families to facilitate local management.
For example, the lowest level of Xiangzheng and Lizheng are reserved for the most popular people in the village, that is, local snakes.
Only these people can control the people below, and the nobles in Guanzhong are outsiders. Without the help of locals, nothing can be done.
After a tiring journey, Yang Ming really needed to find a place to rest and rest.
That night, the team stayed in a place called Liyuan in the city. The mansion was quite large, comparable to the palace of the Jin Dynasty in Daxing, and could fully accommodate the two thousand of them, with plenty to spare.
Li Yuan's housekeeper, named Linghu De, is quite old. He stays here with more than a hundred slaves in this house.
That is to say, Yang Ming, if anyone else, would not be qualified to live here, including the county governor Li Yi.
Because the owner of this house is named Li Min, and Li Min's wife is named Yuwen Eying, who is Yang Ming's cousin and the daughter of Yang Lihua.
Li Min's father, Li Chong, once served as the general manager of Shangzhou, which is now Shangluo County. This house was Li Chong's residence when he was the general manager.
This is the most suitable place for Yang Ming to be settled by County Governor Li Yi.
After sending the other party away, Yang Ming handed over the security inside and outside the house to Pang Niu, while Chen Kui was responsible for the personal guard.
Don't think that since he is the king of the county, his personal safety is guaranteed.
Yang Ming knew very well that the Jingzhou area was far away from Daxing and was the old capital of Liang Dynasty. In the future, he would not be able to leave his guard for a moment.
There are many daring people in this world. Yang Ming had heard that a county magistrate in a certain place was stoned to death by a local nobleman. The perpetrator was even exempted from being held accountable by the government afterwards. Fortunately, Su Wei was ordered to patrol the country. When he passed by this county, he dug out the eucalyptus again and chopped the boy up in the street.
Don't be afraid of the common people. The common people have no intention of harming others. What they are wary of are the children of aristocratic families. These people have been pampered since childhood and have very impulsive personalities. They are used to being domineering in the local area and can do anything if they get in trouble.
This is why Yang Ming never described the troubled times in the late Sui Dynasty as a peasant uprising, but called it a great chaos.
Was that a peasant uprising? How many of the leaders are farmers?
Yang Ming had heard that in the early years of the founding of the emperor, Yang Jian transferred a large number of Guanlong disciples to other places to control the world. When these noble disciples went to their posts, they were accompanied by hundreds of thugs, just to cope with the unfavorable situation.
I think back then, when my father Yang Guang took office as the general manager of Yangzhou, he killed more than 2,000 people in Jiangdu on the first day. Sometimes fighting violence with violence is indeed the best way.
In the evening, Yang Ming and Yuan Wen both chatted until very late before letting each other go back to the house to rest.
After Yuan Wendu left, Yang Ming went to look for Yang Yinjiang. He heard that she couldn't bear the pain of running around and was feeling a little unwell, so he thought of going to visit her.
Yang Yinjiang eloped this time. In addition to a pile of books, she only had an old servant and a maid. It was equivalent to abandoning her family and career to follow Yang Ming.
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However, Yang Ming has allocated ten of his original maids to serve Yang Yinjiang full-time.
After entering the other party's dormitory, Yang Ming found several maids boiling water in the courtyard. After asking, he found out that Yang Yinjiang wanted to take a bath.
Why don't you take a shower if you don't feel well? Aren't you afraid that your condition will get worse?
In the room, Yang Yinjiang could not hold her chin up, staring blankly at the oil lamp on the table. After hearing the footsteps, she turned her head:
"I'm so tired... This is my first time traveling far away."
Yang Ming sat down and said with a smile: "I heard that you are not feeling well?"
Yang Yinjiang shook her head and stretched out her arm towards Yang Ming: "Can you touch it?"
What's the meaning? Let me take your pulse? I can't. Yang Ming tried to pinch his fingers on the other person's wrist, and then said curiously:
"Your pulse seems pretty stable?"
Yang Yinjiang
Silently said: "I didn't ask you to check my pulse. I asked you to touch my arm."
What happened to your arm? Yang Ming put his hand on her arm and asked doubtfully, "What next?"
Yang Yinjiang asked: "How does it feel?"
Yang Ming thought about the feeling: "It's a little cold, but also a little tender..."
"Don't you think it's sticky?" Yang Yinjiang withdrew her arm angrily, rolled her eyes at Yang Ming and said, "I haven't bathed for many days, my body is already sore, and I smell of sweat all over my body."
At this time, the hot water was ready, and two maids came in to help Yang Yinjiang bathe. Yang Ming planned to leave to avoid suspicion, but he was stopped by Yang Yinjiang: "Don't leave, I only know you. If you leave, I am afraid."
What's there to be afraid of? However, Yang Ming returned to his seat and sat down.
After all, apart from the sound of water, you can't see anything through the screen.
Yang Yinjiang comes from a top-notch family. She has never taken a bath by herself since she was born. She must have someone to take care of her. After washing, she still needs to knead her body before the bath is complete.
Across the screen, I heard Yang Yinjiang say: "This time you are going to Jingzhou, do you plan to hang out, or do you have other ideas?"
dawdle? Yang Ming was stunned: "Why do you have to dawdle?"
Yang Yinjiang said: "Now the world is at peace and the whole world is unified. Except for the occasional war in the south and the Turkic troubles in the north, the Jingzhou area is still stable. What I mean by hanging around means making friends with the local clans and stabilizing the situation in Jingzhou. , as long as it doesn’t cause chaos, that’s what His Highness the King of Han did in the first place.”
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Then what do you mean by other thoughts?"
Just hearing the sound of water splashing, Yang Yinjiang obviously turned over:
"The clan actually controls the place. Although there are twenty-two counties in Jingzhou, you can really control less than half. For the other half, you have to rely on the local wealthy families. But I think you can't tolerate them because of your personality, so you I'll ask you if you have any ideas to deal with them?"
You shouldn't be Yang Xuangan's daughter, you should be Yang Su's daughter. Yang Ming couldn't help laughing and said:
"The position of general manager is to control the local area and strive for stability. If I touch them, chaos will inevitably occur. I'm afraid I won't be able to explain to the two saints."
Yang Yinjiang said: "With taxes, everything can be easily handled by the court. Jingzhou is a prosperous place with two major water transport terminals, Jiangxia and Jiangling, with thousands of boats a day. It is connected to Sichuan in the west and Jiangnan in the east. It is the most prosperous water transportation. Land, a place like this really shouldn’t be controlled by those small families.”
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Yang Ming agreed with this. In the eyes of the Guanzhong Group, the wealthy families in Jingzhou are indeed considered small families.
In fact, there is really no clan that can be used in Jingzhou, although there are many big clans, such as Jiangxia Huang clan, Jiangxia Fei clan, Xiangyang Du clan, Xiangyang Xi clan, Wuling Gong clan, Changsha Wu clan, Liu clan, Luo clan, Wang clan, etc. and so on, but none of these work.
Yang Ming divided today's Sui aristocratic families into four classes. From high to low, they are political families, traditional families, scholarly families, and business families.
The political family is the Guanzhong aristocratic group.
Traditional families such as Qinghe Cui, Boling Cui, Taiyuan Wang, Fan Yanglu, these traditional families that have been inherited for a long time and also have political overtones, are still far behind the Guanzhong Group.
The scholarly family is a family like the Wei family in Anyi. They have profound cultural heritage and are respected by others. Most of these families are located in Jiangnan.
Most of the worst merchant families were gathered in the central and southern regions of the Sui Dynasty. The clans in Jingzhou were basically this type.
It seems that they are all small minions, with few serving in the capital, but in fact, this type of family penetrates deeply into the local area, and many policies of the Sui Dynasty can only be implemented well with the cooperation of these people.
Just like the division between prefectures and counties, many counties in Jingzhou have been converted into prefectures, but among the people, everyone still refers to them as counties. This is the consequence of policies that are not implemented effectively.
Why? Because of the Sui Dynasty system, state governors were directly appointed by the emperor, and county governors were directly appointed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Regardless of whether the state is upstate or downstate, Yang Jian's nod is required.
And Yang
Those sent to local areas by Jian were all ruthless people with very strong backgrounds. Basically, as soon as they took office, they suppressed the local wealthy families. But if they were assigned by the official department, they would have their own tricks to find.
After a long time, Yang Yinjiang finished her bath, put on a gauze dress and walked out from behind the screen. Two maids followed her and wiped her wet long hair.
"Before I left, I went to my grandfather's study to check the records about the Jingzhou area. Even though these small and small households don't have a chance to appear on the stage, most of them have a background behind them."
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Whose background is your grandpa?"
Yang Yinjiang was stunned, couldn't help but put her forehead on her forehead and smiled bitterly: "It's just the Jiangxia area."
Yang Xuangan, the current governor of Ezhou, is located in Jiangxia County, which governs four counties: Jiangxia, Wuchang, Yongxing, and Puqi.
But in the Jiangxia area, no one calls Ezhou, they all use the old name of Jiangxia.
Four counties? This should be Nakaxiashu, right? Yang Xuangan was doing too badly.
If it weren't for the fact that his father was Yang Su, this kid would never have had much success in the future. The title of Zhuguo was awarded by Yang Jian for Yang Su's sake.
But Yang Ming knew that Yang Yinjiang was being humble. Yang Xuangan's influence in Jingzhou was by no means limited to Jiangxia. He looked at the Buddha without looking at the monk's face. His own father was now Shangshu Zuopushe, the head of hundreds of officials. Who dared not to do so among the local wealthy give face?
Yang Su is a ruthless person who kills people without blinking an eye. He has killed the most people in the Sui Dynasty in his life.
This time on the way south, it takes a sixty-mile detour to pass through Jiangxia County. Yang Yinjiang has a chance to reunite her father and daughter, but she doesn't know if she dares to see her father in her current state of elopement.
Yang Yinjiang didn't seem to be sick, she just felt depressed because she was covered in smelly sweat. Now she was refreshed after bathing and looked in good condition.
"Okay, let's rest early. We will stay in Shangluo County for another day and set off the day after tomorrow."
After that, Yang Ming stood up and left, but was suddenly pulled back by Yang Yinjiang:
"I don't dare to sleep alone?"
Yang Ming was suddenly stunned, what were he thinking? I'm still a month away from turning thirteen.
However, Yang Yinjiang's next words made him blush and felt quite embarrassed:
"You can let Nuan Dong Liang Xia accompany me, or Chen Shuyi, I can't sleep alone."
The big guy with round disk is thick
