Northern Dynasties

"Li Changshi, if you go a few miles further, you will arrive at Kuomagou. But it will be almost evening when you arrive, and I'm afraid you won't be able to return to Zhoucheng before dark."

On the dirt road in the countryside, a group of hundreds of knights rode on horseback. A middle-aged man in the group said to Li Tai while driving.

After Li Tai heard the words, he said with a smile: "Please rest assured that Zhao Canjun, all the tents and camps in the team have been prepared. Even if you sleep in the wild, you won't be exposed to the moon. It's just that Zhao joins the army and has to share the camp. suffering."

"Wherever it is, it is a humble honor to be a guide and inspect the village with Li Changshi."

After hearing the words, the middle-aged man hurriedly said again, this person's name is Zhao Yan, and he is Cao Canjun, who helped Li Tai sort out the warehouse affairs book before.

After experiencing the previous incident, Zhao Yan saw Li Tai's extremely efficient ability to process complicated data and information with his own eyes, and couldn't help but worship him as an idol. When he learned that Li Tai would choose a guide to accompany him on inspections in the city, Zhao Yan went Hastily volunteered.

This Zhao Yan, like Zhao Gui, was born in the Zhao family in Tianshui.But unlike Zhao Gui's family living in Wuchuan, Zhao Yan lived in Tianshui for the rest of his life, and was a genuine member of the Zhao family in Tianshui. Because of this background, he was recruited by Duguxin to join the army.

On the way, Li Tai asked again: "Zhao Canjun, this Kuomagou is indeed the deepest crux of grievances on the surface. As long as you touch it, it can attract the attention of the masses?"

"I have lived in the countryside all year round. Although I don't know everything about the village, most of the experiences I have heard and heard are in my heart. If you talk about the hatred of the family and the country for many generations, it is really hard to say. But if Chang Shi asked It’s only limited to the enmity between a few households in the village, and Kuamagou is indeed the place where the village fights have been the most vicious in recent years!”

After Zhao Yan heard the words, he said in a serious tone: "The Li family and the Quan family are both big families in the county. They gathered their relatives and friends Zhuang Ding. There are almost thousands of people from each side. They gather near Kuomagou and fight each other. Hundreds of people were killed or injured each afternoon.

If it hadn't disturbed other residents in the left and nearby who rushed to report to the officials, and Hanoi Gong dispatched troops urgently to calm down like this, there would have been more casualties.The blood feud between the two sides has thus been forged, and Rao Hanoi's prestige is hard to justify..."

Talking about the rural fight that shocked the village and even the whole Longyou a few years ago, Zhao Yan was also full of sighs, and Li Tai couldn't help but widen his eyes after hearing it.

After a little understanding of Qinzhou's state affairs, Li Tai felt that although Duguxin was arbitrarily determined in Longyou, his control over the rural situation was not deep enough, so he wanted to use some methods to make this strengthen.

If you want to increase your influence in the village, you must first of all increase your sense of presence.If everyone doesn't know that there is someone like him in Longyou, or if they deliberately ignore him, even if they have the best ideas, what can they do?

He knew about the rich families in Longyou. Since the Han Dynasty, several rich families from Guanzhong moved here to guard the country's borders.Coupled with the hierarchical planning among the Di and Qiang ethnic groups, there are more than twenty families in Tianshui County alone that are famous for their reputation.

So many powerful families with various influences have lived here for generations, and the connections and frictions between them must be indispensable.Therefore, Li Tai intends to use an old grievance from the family to attract the attention of the masses, and then properly resolve the matter of the vendetta by himself. Quickly gaining a foothold here and cultivating one's own power can be achieved in one fell swoop.

He thought it was a good idea, but he didn't expect that Zhao Yan, who joined the army, would pick him a village struggle involving thousands of people, but Dugu Xin couldn't get it done, and one of the parties was surnamed Li.

"May I ask Zhao Canjun, is the Li family participating in the battle..."

Li Tai hesitated for a while before asking Zhao Yan again.

Zhao Yan nodded after hearing the words, and replied softly with some embarrassment: "It's one of the folks from Li Changshi's family..."

After hearing this, Li Tai's mental activities suddenly became richer.The Li family in Longxi has many ethnic groups, even in Wuchuan, Monan, there are members of the Li family in Longxi, so the local surname Li in Longxi naturally disappeared even more.

Although the blood and relationship between each other are already very distant, Li Tai is also quite upset when he hears that the clansmen who stayed behind in Longxi organized such a large-scale village fight without fighting against each other.

It is naturally not an ordinary family who can fight against the Li family of Longxi and still be evenly matched.The Tianshui Quan family is also a big clan in Longxi, who have served as the commander-in-chief among the Di people for generations, and often have clan members serve as governors of prefectures and counties. Even Daxingtai Yuwentai was born in the Tianshui Quan clan with a concubine.

Although the Li family in Longxi is well-known in the world and has a higher political status than the Quan family, the power of the people who stayed behind in the countryside may not be stronger than the Tianshui Quan family.It doesn't matter how famous you are in the struggle in the countryside, and you are absolutely unambiguous when it is time to do it.

After eating melons on the heads of his own family members, Li Tai thought for a while and asked again: "What is the unresolved hatred between these two families that they mobilized so many members of the clan to fight?"

Although the members of the Li clan in the village may not know him, but Li Tai still has a sense of approval in his heart, so he intends to ask carefully. If it is on his side, then he will show his kindness to these villagers.

"It's not necessarily about hatred, it's just a bad relationship..."

Talking about these gossips in the village, Zhao Yan was also very addicted, and he started talking non-stop, and gradually forgot that Li Tai was also a member of the Li family in Longxi, so he kept telling all he knew, and even added a little bit of his own understanding and comments.

Li Tai became addicted after listening to it. In fact, the inside story of this incident is too exciting, with all the elements of interest, ethics, suspense and so on.

The thing is probably that a son of the Li family in Longxi married a daughter of the Quan family, and the custom in Diqiang between Qin and Long is that women generally do not marry outsiders. Afterwards, Tianlei set off the fire, met directly and frankly, and decided for life in private.

Although this incident was a bit glamorous and unethical at the beginning, it was still within the normal style of painting. Although Diqiang women did not marry outsiders, there were special cases. The Li family in Longxi was definitely not a small family that did not match. After Li's family compensated the woman's previous marriage contract with the man's family for a sum of money, the couple married happily for life, and the woman was not underestimated for the sake of her own woman. Dowry.

But the bad thing was the dowry, which was a manor located in Kuamagou, the destination of Li Tai's trip.Because it was a dowry ceded directly from his own land, this manor was still connected to Quan's Manor.

When a couple were newly married, the relationship between the two families was extremely harmonious. They worked together to build a dike in Kuomagou for the cultivation of the land of the two families.But in the process of repairing the weir, a gold bran deposit was discovered in Kuomagou, which immediately made the relationship between the two families more delicate.

In the beginning, the two families could sit together to discuss and discuss, but they were unable to discuss a distribution solution that both parties agreed to, so the situation gradually became bad, and even affected the couple's love life.

The Quan family first took the girl back on the grounds that her parents were seriously ill, intending to take back the dowry given, but the Li family naturally disagreed, and went straight to the other party's door to snatch their bride back.

But during this back and forth, the poor bride died suddenly, leaving the two families without any family scruples, and each accused the other of harming the other in order to monopolize the gold mine.

The two families were at odds with each other, and their relatives naturally joined in one after another, so in the end it turned into a big fight involving tens of thousands of people, which shocked the entire Longyou.

Things have developed to this point, it is no longer about how much the gold mine is worth and who should belong to it. Neither of the two sides is good at the weak.

Although Duguxin came forward to stop this rural fight, he still had a headache when faced with this problem. He didn't know how to deal with it, so he simply ordered the gold mine in Kuamagou to be buried with earth and stones, and ordered the clansmen on both sides not to To enter the valley without authorization to mine is to put this matter down on the surface.

But leaving aside the disputes over the interests of the gold mine, how can the blood and hatred of hundreds of lives added by that melee fight be easily overturned.

Although the two sides were afraid of Dugu Xin's majesty and did not dare to gather crowds for large-scale fighting, private disputes continued. In recent years, some villagers from the two sides died violently in the wild.There are also two families who are not allowed to be officials in the same Yamen, which has become a consensus in Longyou official circles.

Li Tai felt speechless for a while after hearing what had happened. This frankly became a deadlock. The more he thought about it, the more he felt a headache. He didn't know how to deal with it so that he could show his level.