Datang: Acting as a celestial mystery at the beginning

Li Yian asked: "Why don't you know the evaluation?"

Fang Cheng scratched his head and thought for a while, and finally said: "Sir, I knew it when I saw it outside the city. There are some things that I really don't know how to say."

In other words, what Liu Tongfang did was wrong.

"Sure, I'll go out and have a look tomorrow."

Li Yi'an nodded slightly, knowing that there would be problems with what Liu Tongfang did, and wanted to use this opportunity to completely control Liu Tongfang and let him only do things for himself.

On the morning of the ninth day when the torrential rain continued, Li Yi'an called the two hundred soldiers back, changed into civilian clothes, took weapons, and took Chang'an Sihai and others with them, and walked out of the city together.

"Sir, I suggest going over there to have a look first."

Fang Cheng pointed to the north and said.

"You lead the way!"

Li Yi'an didn't refuse, everyone braved the rain and walked on the muddy road.

After walking for a while, they saw that the road was flooded. They had to walk in the water, and their speed slowed down a lot.

About half an hour later, Li Yi'an discovered that the flooded area was very large. Looking around, there was a vast ocean, and the water was flooded into the house. Li Yi'an almost felt that this was Venice.

"There are farmlands over there?"

Li Yi'an pointed to the water in front of him and asked.

"That's right, it's all farmland, but it's all flooded."

Fang Cheng said helplessly: "This is also a place that I don't know how to evaluate. The farmland here is all flooded, but the flood control in other places is very good. Liu Shijun also recruited most of the manpower from inside and outside the city to Water blocking and flood discharge have been quite effective.”

Li Yi'an probably understands that Liu Tongfang's approach is to concentrate his strength and only fight against the floods in some places, and let the floods in other places be left alone.

Fang Cheng really didn't know how to evaluate it, and even Li Yi'an was stunned when he learned the truth.

"Continue to visit the village."

After Li Yi'an finished speaking, he walked over cautiously.

"Catch people, they are here to catch people again!"

When the villagers who stayed in the village saw them coming, they couldn't help exclaiming, and then ran back to the house immediately, closing the door tightly, as if to guard against thieves.

There was an old woman who couldn't walk and fell into the water, but she still got up in a hurry and ran away.

"Old man, you don't have to go, I'm not here to arrest people."

Li Yi'an helped her up and asked, "Why do you say that we are here to arrest people?"

The old woman raised her head to look at Li Yi'an and the people behind her, her teeth chattered in fear, and she was speechless.

"Let go of her!"

An old man came out from the next room and shouted: "If you want to arrest me, then arrest me. I will go back with you, please let my wife go."

"What is arresting people, who can explain to me?"

Li Yi'an asked in a daze, really not knowing what happened.

"You are going to arrest us to fight the flood. You have captured all the young and middle-aged people in our village. They have been gone for four or five days and have not come back. I am afraid they will never come back. Now they still want to arrest us!"

An old lady poked her head out of the window and cursed, "If you do this, you will die!"

There was also an old man in the room, who quickly took her hand back and shouted, "Don't talk nonsense."

"Even if I was beaten to death by them, I still have to talk about it. You people really deserve to die!"

The aunt was so angry that her face flushed red.

Li Yi'an frowned slightly: "The Governor's Mansion recruits corvees, it is impossible to take away even the old and the weak, women and children, and the imperial court also has regulations, not all men will be recruited."

"What's impossible?"

The old man went all out and said loudly: "You have taken all the old people, women and children in the village to the north to build the embankment, even children aged seven or eight. The people in the Governor's Mansion only know that they are the fields of the aristocratic family. Water blocking and flood discharge, the fields of us ordinary people deserve to be flooded, right?"

"Family?"

Li Yi'an looked back at Fang Cheng and asked, "Where Liu Tongfang is going to fight the flood now is the family's field?"

Fang Cheng could only nod his head.

Let Liu Tongfang fight the flood, and Li Yian knew that he would not do it perfectly, and there would definitely be mistakes.

The effect Li Yi'an wanted was to catch his mistakes in the flood fighting process, and then control him so that he could implement the next plan, but he didn't expect that Liu Tongfang would be so wrong.

Abandon the fields of ordinary people and only go to rescue the fields of aristocratic families.

Ordinary people, even the old and weak, women and children, were conscripted into corvee labor.

Who gave him the courage to do this!

This kind of old and weak groups go to fight the flood, basically they never go back, even young and middle-aged people have the possibility of sacrifice.

Li Yi'an found that his thinking was too simple, and he also thought too simple of Liu Tongfang.

"Liu Tongfang, you are doing well!"

Li Yian gritted his teeth and said.

"You...are you really not here to catch people?"

The old man couldn't help being stunned when he heard that he dared to call out the name of Hangzhou governor directly.

After hearing this, the other villagers all looked at Li Yi'an.

"no!"

Li Yi'an shook his head and said, "I probably understand your situation."

After he read it all, he went to Liu Tongfang to settle the score.

The villagers didn't know why Li Yi'an said that. Finally, under their eyes, Li Yi'an was about to leave the village and decided to go to the village in the north to take a look.

"Here they come, they are here to catch people!"

I don't know who shouted, and everyone looked in the direction of the city.

Li Yi'an also slightly raised his head to look, but saw more than 50 people coming over there, wearing coir raincoats and holding weapons, walking towards them with big strides.

"Surround them all, and none of them can let them escape."

The leader shouted loudly, and the more than 50 people rushed into the village immediately. They saw Li Yi'an and others as soon as they entered.

"Are you all from the Governor's Mansion in Hangzhou?"

Li Yian asked coldly.

The leader only felt that the tone was colder than the rain, but seeing that there were so many young and middle-aged people here, he said, "That's right, who are you? We are recruiting corvees, anyone who dares to stop them will be punished."

Li Yi'an sneered: "Call for corvée, even the elderly are corvée? Who gave you this power?"

"It has nothing to do with you, get out of the way!"

The leader said again: "But... take them away and build the embankment!"

"Are you sure you really want to take us away?"

Li Dejian was already furious.

As soon as his words fell, the two hundred soldiers around him immediately dispersed and surrounded them, showing all their weapons.

Strange knife!

Those are Mo Dao!

The man in the lead had some knowledge and knew that the Mo Dao was equipment of the Tang army, but it appeared in the hands of these people. He was definitely not an ordinary person.

He swallowed his saliva and asked, "What is the name of this Shangguan?"

"Are you also collecting and taking away the elderly, women and children from the village to the north?"

Li Yi'an didn't answer, but instead asked the other party.

"Yes!"

The leader was unsure what Li Yi'an was thinking for a while.

"You come with me!"

After Li Yi'an finished speaking, he headed north.

The leader looked at the menacing soldiers, but he didn't dare not to follow, and followed behind cautiously.

The villagers of this village glanced at each other.

"How about we go and have a look?"

Someone suggested.

They felt that Li Yi'an seemed different, this time the village was saved, and they all followed.