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Chapter 264 Incomplete
"As long as we are officials, it is our personal responsibility to maintain peace under the administration, and bullies must not be allowed to run rampant. Illegal salts must be paid and murders must be investigated. This is my consistent position..."

Jiang Chun and Fang Yankai felt helpless when they saw Li Xia saying this sternly.

They had already seen the dozen or so bloody corpses, and they fully understood what Li Xia was doing.

But you can't say "Li Feiyu, you don't have to tell us these high-sounding things, your acting is very fake", you can only touch your beard with emotion.

"That's right, such a violent and tyrannical salt owl bully cannot be tolerated."

"Feiyu has done a good job. It's time to get rid of this tyrant and bring peace to the people. The county will help you to investigate illegal salt."

Jiang Chun said casually, thinking that this is the end of the matter...

The verdict was that Yan Xiao from Junlian Prefecture went to Qingfu to commit crimes. Fortunately, the county dealt with it in time and did not let these thieves from other places continue to make trouble.

That's fine, no merit.

Although Fang Yankai didn't like Li Xia's methods, he also felt that the result of the matter was not bad...

The next moment, the two only heard Li Xia say again: "It's a pity that Yan Xiao Wu Tong is still running amok in Yunlian Prefecture, but please rest assured that the county magistrate and chief bookkeeper, I will go to Yunlian Prefecture to destroy him tomorrow."

"No!"

Jiang Chun and Fang Yankai shouted in unison.

"Wu Tong is a military officer of the Song Dynasty, and he is in charge of the soldiers of Lianzhou in Lianzhou. You have no right to deal with him, and his teacher is unknown..."

"In case the barbarians in Junlian Prefecture are stirred up, it will get out of hand..."

Li Xia glanced at the two of them, and said, "Isn't it the county magistrate and master who have been persuading me to suppress Yan Xiao?"

Jiang Chun hurriedly dragged Li Xia into the public house, and stopped putting on airs, saying, "Can Feiyu stop making trouble? This matter is related to the conflict between the two places, and it is by no means a trivial matter."

At this point, he lowered his voice and said, "Let me tell you, there must be a backer behind Wu Tong. You and I can take care of him, why bother with him in Lianzhou?"

"I'm not arguing with the county magistrate or the director, just say one sentence."

Li Xia took away Jiang Chun's hand from her body, turned around and walked out, leaving a faint sentence.

"The soldiers are in my hands, you can't stop them."

In the public room, Jiang Chun and Fang Yankai looked at each other, but they didn't know what to say.

After a long time, Jiang Chun sighed.

"Let him go, he must have taken Wu Tong's money and wants to silence him."

Fang Yankai didn't speak, and sighed secretly in his heart: "If only this is the case..."

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No one in Qingfu County can influence Li Xia's decision anymore.Regardless of prestige, achievements, backing, etc., just saying that he has soldiers and money is enough to control Qingfu.

Talking to Jiang Chun and Fang Yankai is to tell them to save face, not to discuss with them.

After leaving the county government office, Li Xia went to the barracks, ordered Luhu, Xiongshan, Wu Ang, and Yu Chun to follow him to Junlian.

Now that the Chinese New Year has just passed, the number of troops has not yet been fully recruited, and there are only more than 220 people in the four centurions.

And Wu Tong brought 200 people to the Qingfu County town hall, and there was almost no advantage in comparison with the number of people.

Li Xia was not as excited as when he was fighting against Wu Liang.To know oneself and the enemy, to count with one's mind but without one's intentions, he actually didn't think this battle was very interesting.

Of course, he will still go all out, this is the mentality given to him by many years of competition, the lion fights the rabbit, and he also uses his full strength.

Speaking of it, the whole process of conspiring to smuggle salt is not too difficult for Li Xia, it's just too cumbersome.

So he wants to use Yan Yunyun and Jiang Fan to do things...

"Alang, we have taken over the Yin family's salt business; the Wu family's private salt in the county has also been confiscated; Lu Wenyang's widow has also promised to sell the remaining salt to us. In the Qingfu area, only our family has returned Selling salt."

At night, Li Xia came back from the barracks and saw Yan Yunyun and Jiang Fan. Yan Yunyun seemed very excited and kept talking.

"We spent less than [-] guan this time, and we have already obtained salt worth more than [-] guan from Lu and Yin. Please rest assured, Alang, there is no evidence left, we..."

Li Xia raised his hand suddenly, and said, "Sixty yuan a catty, sell at this price, and filter out the dust in the salt."

Yan Yunyun was taken aback for a moment, thinking that in this way, the salt would not be worth more than a hundred thousand guan.

"But we are official salt..."

"I don't care if it's official salt or private salt." Li Xia said, "In the future we will sell salt without sand, at sixty yuan a catty."

"Ah Lang, if this is the case, then when this batch of official salt is sold out, we will lose money in the future."

"Then no more official salt in the future." Li Xia said: "Tomorrow I will kill Wu Tong, Jiang Fan will follow me, and hand over all the salt wells that were explored last time."

"Yes."

"After the salt wells are confiscated, Yan Yunyun, you go to Junlian Prefecture and control them all. After the batch of official salt in hand is sold out, we will sell private salt."

"Yes." Yan Yunyun said: "We sell official salt and private salt together... But there is one thing, Lu and Yin's family bought salt from Wujing Supervisor. If this is the case, it will only offend the salt officer of Wujing Supervisor .”

Before Li Xia could speak, Han Chengxu said, "This is not something you should worry about."

"My daughter understands."

Yan Yunyun lowered his head, feeling very reluctant to sieve the dust from the official salt, it was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and lost tens of thousands of dollars a year.

The idea just came up, and she only heard Li Xia say something lightly.

"If I find a grain of sand in the salt you sell, you know what will happen."

Yan Yunyun was startled, her hands trembled unconsciously, and she hurriedly said, "I never dare."

She glanced at Li Xia quickly, then lowered her head again, a little aggrieved.

If it were someone else doing this, and saying a few words such as "Let the people of Qingfu eat the salt of conscience", she would probably feel sanctimonious and hypocritical.

But Li Xia looked calm and handsome, which made her feel that her boss had a compassionate heart, and she also felt a little bit of admiration for a while.

"Okay, you can do business well in the future." Han Chengxu said: "For Alang, the people under the rule live and work in peace and contentment, and the population will prosper in the future. This is the most important thing, and you must not delay Alang's plan. "

"My daughter understands that she must not dare to falsify."

Han Chengxu nodded.

In his opinion, these are trivial matters. Li Xia is in power in Qingfu County, and there will be no major disturbances in the business in the territory.What he was worried about was Jun Lianzhou, so he waved his hands to Yan Yunyun and Jiang Fan, turned to Li Xia, and said, "Ah Lang, Wu Tong is not hard to kill, the hard part is how to ensure that we are in the salt field in Jun Lian after he dies. "

"It's not just the salt field." Li Xia said, "There's also the smuggling business route of Wuchidao. What I want is to control the entire Junlian."

"It's useless to kill Wu Tong, he's just a small inspector..."

When the two of them talked, Jiang Fan didn't dare to listen too much, and got up to go out, but saw Yan Yunyun still sitting there.

Jiang Fan winked hurriedly, as if to signal, "Aren't you going?"

Yan Yunyun ignored him and sat upright all the time.

Jiang Fan glanced at Li Xia and Han Chengxu, seeing that they didn't care much about it, he hurried out by himself.

"..."

"Take your time. The situation in Junlian is different from that of the provincial government. Zhizhou is just a supervisor and has no real power. The real powerful local officials are the native officials of various clans. This gives us a chance to secretly control the situation."

"Alang's intention is to support the village elders who obey our orders?"

"Well, let's talk about it after killing Wu Tong and handing over the salt well. Put your power in, there will always be a time for dealing...Let's do this first. I'll look at the map and determine the ambush point for tomorrow."

Han Chengxu was too old to stay up all night, so he stood up and glanced at Yan Yunyun.

Although they didn't care about her, they wouldn't talk about deeper topics in front of her.

"Do you have anything else?"

"My daughter still has a few small business matters that she wants to ask her father for advice."

"It's getting late, let's talk about it tomorrow."

"Daughter helping father..."

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Li Xia sat alone in the public room, picked up a pen and marked on the map a few times, the door was pushed open again, and it was Yan Yunyun who walked in.

"What's the matter?"

"A Lang." Yan Yunyun stepped forward and said in a low voice: "I see that the room is still lit, and I want to light a lamp for A Lang to serve tea."

"You will rarely come to the county government in the future."

"The doors are all ours..."

Li Xia turned her head to look at her, already displeased, with a serious look in her eyes.

Yan Yunyun lowered her head, she obviously knew that she had done something wrong.

But she still said softly: "Ah Lang will marry Qiaoer in the future, right? I recognized her adoptive father, who is her aunt... I am 11 years older than A Lang, and I have ruined my appearance, so I dare not think anything wrong... ...But Alang is so lonely now, maybe he needs someone to take care of him, I..."

The Caiyu mask she was wearing today had been specially dressed, and she turned her body sideways to Li Xia, showing a graceful figure.

But Li Xia said: "I will not have this kind of relationship with my subordinates. This is the principle. Don't let me hear such words again."

His tone was so serious that Yan Yunyun was a little scared.

But she was a little unwilling to give up, rubbing her legs lightly, biting her lips and jokingly said: "If the slaves knew that Alang had this principle from the beginning, the slaves might not..."

"enough."

Yan Yunyun buried his head even lower, and asked aggrievedly: "Does A Lang think I've disfigured my face?"

"I didn't see you when you were not disfigured."

When Yan Yunyun heard this, her eyes turned red.

She didn't know what she was thinking, maybe she felt that Li Xia was indeed worthy of her admiration, and wanted to take advantage of him when there was no one around; maybe she just wanted to have a good match with the best man after her disfigurement, to prove herself... …

"Go." Li Xia said: "You are disfigured and want comfort. I understand that, so I won't punish you this time, but there will be no next time. I won't give you the comfort you want. I am your boss. Not your man, all I can give you is stability and a future, if you don't want it, get out."

Yan Yunyun finally cried out.

"Aron..."

"I use you, what I want is your talent and loyalty. I don't care what you lost before, I only look at how much ability you have left."

At this point, Li Xia's tone slowed down a bit, and said: "Don't indulge in the beauty of the past, don't try to prove it to me. Everyone is incomplete these days, Bao San is blind, Jiang Fan lost his hand, Han Lao even lost half of his life... Be strong and go."

Yan Yunyun was still crying, and stretched out her hand, as if she wanted to hug Li Xia, but in the end she just prostrated herself on the ground and wiped the tears from her face with Li Xia's skirt.

After a long time, she finally calmed down, rubbed her face against his official boots, and stood up.

"Don't worry, Ah Lang, I really understand this time..."

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Leaving the county government all the way, Yan Yunyun sniffed in the night wind, and suddenly realized that he still got another kind of comfort from Li Xia.

That night, she didn't realize until before going to bed that she didn't ask A Lang what he lost...

(End of this chapter)