Take the earth to enshrine the gods

Chapter 38 The Mine Was Ransacked

The Lingshi Mine has been looted!
Just on New Year's Eve, a group of bandits broke into the mine, not only snatching the newly mined spirit stones, but also brutally killing all the miners left behind.

This is a provocation to the feudal palace.

"Your Highness, what happened?" Aning asked carefully.

"It's nothing." Qian Yuan's face returned to calm. No matter what happened, there would be no problems with the sacrifice in the morning, and he didn't want to worry the people around him.

Under the auspices of Yin Cao, the sacrificial ceremony went smoothly.

Because it was a public sacrifice, in addition to the civil and military officials participating in the sacrifice, a large number of ordinary people came to the Chenghuang Temple, and the crowds of people came to have a look at King Qingqiu.

The county government had to send a large number of servants to maintain order.

As soon as the sacrifice was over, the officials present saw Zhou Qing, the chief of the city defense camp, Cao Wen, the chief secretary, and Lin Rui, the county lieutenant, gathered around the prince and discussing something.

Everyone's expression is very dignified.

Everyone realized that a major event had happened, and some sighed in their hearts. Ever since the prince became a vassal, Yize County has never had a peaceful life. I don't know when it will be.

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The feudal prince's mansion, the meeting hall.

"Let's talk about this attack." Qianyuan was not in a hurry to express his attitude.

Zhou Qing, Lin Rui and others looked at each other and said nothing. Now that they had too little information, they couldn't speak out rashly, otherwise it would appear frivolous.

It was the first time for Cao Wen to participate in such a small-scale discussion. After thinking for a while, he said, "Your Highness, as far as I know, the biggest bandit active in Qingqiu Mountain is Qingfeng Village."

After speaking, Cao Wen briefly introduced the situation of Qingfeng Village.

Like most cottages, Qingfeng Village was also built in Qingqiu Mountain, an important pass that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is still a mystery how many bandits live inside.

Qingfengzhai robbed the passing merchants, it was a good way to steal, and the robbery did not kill people. In the back, some caravans simply offered protection fees on a regular basis to pass the border safely.

I don't know why I went crazy this time, and suddenly ransacked the Lingshi Mine.

Qian Yuan asked: "Did the yamen never think about suppressing them?"

Cao Wen smiled wryly and said: "There are only 100 troops stationed in Yize County. If you enter the mountain, you will be sent to death. The army stationed at Yize Pass is not under the jurisdiction of the county government, so they don't care about bandits."

Qian Yuan looked at Zhou Qing and asked, "Are you sure?" He managed to establish his prestige in Yize County, and he would never allow a gang of bandits to destroy him.

Now, I am afraid that many people are waiting to see his jokes.

Zhou Qing looked serious, "I'm not sure, I'll try my best to be sure." He doesn't know anything about the enemy now, so he doesn't dare to promise.

Qian Yuan nodded. If it was Xu Chu, he would have brought his bodyguards to kill him. Although Zhou Qing's character was a bit more cautious, he was a good quality general.

"Prepare well, within half a month, I will have results."

"Your Highness, don't worry!"

The city defense battalion has been training for so long, so it should be pulled out for a walk.

After the show ended, Uncle Zhong stayed alone, frowning, "Your Highness, this is a bit strange. The Lingshi Mine has been fine before, and the Zhang family had just handed over the mining rights. Isn't it a coincidence that something happened?"

"what do you mean?"

"I suspect that the Zhang family is behind this. With Zhang Huairen's character, he has no emotions at all after suffering such a big loss. This is very abnormal in itself."

In Uncle Zhong's eyes, Zhang Huairen probably belongs to the type who must take revenge.

A cold light flashed in Qian Yuan's eyes, and he said in a deep voice: "Don't rush to draw conclusions, and send people to investigate secretly. If they really do something tricky, they are really courting death."

"clear."

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Leaving the meeting hall, Qian Yuan was about to return to the back house to practice spells, when the sect came to report, "My lord, Chen Jiaoyu is here, and I'm waiting to see you in the side hall."

"Okay, I'll go right now."

He was in charge of the education and administration of a county, was in charge of offering sacrifices to the Confucian temple, and managed the county education and officials' housing.There are no Taoist monasteries in the county-level administrative regions, and the imperial examinations are not implemented in large cadres, so the sense of existence of teachings is actually very low.

However, Chen Jiaoyu was specially invited by Qianyuan.

After exchanging pleasantries, Qianyuan explained the reason, but last winter, an orphan in Shantang in the county town froze to death. When Aning learned about it, he immediately sent clothes and food, and told Qianyuan about it.

While the rich wine and meat smell, the road with frozen bone.

It's the same everywhere.

Although Yu Yutian is a high-magic plane, it doesn't mean that the people won't go hungry.

A high magic plane is high in personal force, not technology. Dagan's agricultural technology level is similar to that of ancient Earth, barely enough for food and clothing.

Qing monks drank spiritual tea and ate spiritual rice. They had time to study piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and poetry, and gourmet food, but they had no time to care about how much millet an acre of ordinary people's homes produced.

That was too far away from them.

Although the existence of Erze Lingtian promoted the development of cultivation civilization, it also occupied the space of ordinary farmland to a certain extent, resulting in insufficient cultivated land area.

In the past hundred years, as the aura of heaven and earth has become more and more abundant, some ordinary farmlands have begun to be transformed into spiritual fields, which has further caused the area of ​​farmland to shrink.

Some people are eager for quick success and use formations to forcibly transform farmland into spiritual fields.

Today, the total area of ​​cultivated land in Dagan has dropped to an extremely dangerous level. If this continues, ordinary people will suffer from famine.

Although the imperial court was aware of the drawbacks, it was unable to do anything about it. The value of the spiritual field was too great, and it connected the interests of all parties and was an existence that could never be touched.

That's going against the entire aristocratic family.

The orphans in the shantang froze to death, which is just a small microcosm of the cold winter.

Qianyuan came to Chen Jiaoyu not just for this matter, but because he hoped that the county school could come forward and place the orphans from Shantang to the school to study, which would fundamentally change the fate of these orphans.

It is also a merit.

After hearing this, Chen Jiaoyu looked troubled, "Your Majesty, this..."

"Why, is there any difficulty?" Qian Yuan remained calm.

Chen Jiaoyu's heart trembled. To be honest, it still takes a lot of courage to refuse the prince's request, but thinking of the difficulty, he still gritted his teeth and said:

"My lord, the number of places in the county school is limited, and I'm afraid it won't be able to accommodate so many people. Besides, these orphans have never been to school. I, I think, it's better to send them to private schools."

Although Dagan is not fond of imperial examinations to obtain scholars, there is an unspoken rule in officialdom, that is, yamen clerks must at least graduate from county schools.Otherwise, even the children of aristocratic families cannot be hired.

That would be laughed at.

Therefore, regardless of a small county school, the actual power it holds is quite large.Moreover, the edict is not a county magistrate, but has the right to make decisions, so life is still very nourishing.

Now Qianyuan wants to send so many orphans to the county school in one go, whether it is out of sympathy or for other purposes, it is tantamount to smashing Chen Jiaoyu's job.

Only then can we argue with reason.

"That's it, that's fine."

Qian Yuan's eyes completely faded, and he picked up the teacup.

"Then, I will retire!"

Chen Jiaoyu bit the bullet and left.

Snapped!
Qian Yuan threw the teacup on the table with a gloomy expression.

"Your Highness, he refused?"

Ah Ning came in at some point and served Qian Yuan some hot tea.

"kindness."

"Your Highness, they don't teach, let's teach by ourselves, if you have money, you can't hire a gentleman." With several big properties in his hands, Aning speaks with confidence.

Qian Yuan just smiled, "That's a good point. A small county school, don't worry about it. Then, you go and clean up the front yard of the Li Mansion, transform it into a school, and put all the orphans there."

Setting up the school in Li's Mansion can just cover up the existence of the secret base. No matter how low-key the base is, it will still attract people's attention if it delivers rice and vegetables every day.

With the cover of the school, there is no hidden danger.

"no problem."

Aning smiled brightly.

"Go to work, the arrangement is settled, I still have arrangements."

If there are any good seedlings among these orphans, Qianyuan wonders whether to spread scientific knowledge from the earth to lay a talent foundation for future industrialization.

The system does not sell technical talents.

Of course, this will be a relatively long-term plan, so take your time.

(End of this chapter)