Northern Dynasties Imperial Industry

"Li Changshi, if we go a few miles further, we will arrive at Kuamagou. But it will be almost evening when we arrive. I'm afraid we won't be able to return to the city before dark."

On a dirt road in the countryside, a group of hundreds of knights rode on horseback. A middle-aged man in the group turned his head and said to Li Tai as he hurried on.

After Li Tai heard this, he smiled and said: "Don't worry about this, Zhao Canjun. Everything in the tent camp in the team has been prepared. Even if you sleep in the wild, you won't be exposed to the moon. It's just that Zhao Canjun has to share this camping experience." "

"No matter where you are, it's a humble honor to be able to serve as a guide and inspect the countryside with Li Changshi."

After hearing this, the middle-aged man quickly spoke again. His name was Zhao Yan, and he was Cang Cao from the prefecture who helped Li Tai sort out Cang Cao's affairs book.

After experiencing the previous incident, Zhao Yan saw with his own eyes Li Tai's ability to process complex data and information with extremely high efficiency, and couldn't help but idolize him. When he learned that Li Tai was going to choose a guide to accompany him on an inspection tour, Zhao Yan He quickly took the initiative to ask for help.

Zhao Yan, like Zhao Gui, was born in the Zhao family of Tianshui. But unlike the Zhao Gui family who lived in Wuchuan, Zhao Yan lived in Tianshui and was a genuine member of the Tianshui Zhao family with upright roots. It was also because of this background that he was recruited by Dugu Xin to join the army as an assistant.

During the trip, Li Tai asked again: "Zhao Canjun, is this crossing across Magou the deepest point on the surface of the earth where the hatred between locals is deepest, and just touching 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 countryside, I have kept most of the experiences I heard in my heart. If it talks about the hatred between the family and the country for many generations, it is really difficult to say for sure. But the long history asked if It’s not just about the feud between a few households in the township, but Kuamagou is indeed the most violent place for fighting in the township in recent years!”

After hearing this, Zhao Yan quickly said seriously: "The Li family and the Quan family, both of whom are enemies of each other, are both wealthy families in the county. They gathered their relatives and friends, Zhuang Ding, and almost thousands of people from each side gathered near Kuaimagou to fight each other. In one afternoon, they suffered hundreds of casualties each.

If it hadn't disturbed other nearby residents who hurriedly reported the incident to the police, Duke Hanoi urgently dispatched troops to calm things down like this, there would have been more casualties. The blood feud between the two parties was thus forged, and even the prestige of the Duke of Hanoi would be hard to reconcile..."

When talking about the rural fight that shocked the village and even the entire Longyou a few years ago, Zhao Yan also sighed with sadness, and Li Tai couldn't help but widen his eyes after hearing it.

After having a brief understanding of the state affairs of Qinzhou, Li Tai felt that although Duguxin was dictatorial in Longyou, his control over the local situation was not deep enough, so he wanted to use some methods to make this happen. strengthen.

If you want to enhance your influence in the countryside, you must first enhance your presence. If everyone doesn't know that there is a person like him in Longyou, or deliberately ignores him, even if they have the best idea, what will happen?

He knew that there were many wealthy families in Longyou. Since the Han Dynasty, several wealthy families from Guanzhong had moved here to guard the country's borders. Coupled with the hierarchical arrangement among the Di and Qiang clans, there are more than 20 families in Tianshui County alone who are famous for their reputation.

With so many powerful and powerful families living here for generations, connections and frictions between them are inevitable. Therefore, Li Tai planned to use an old feud to attract the public's attention, and then properly resolve the incident himself, which would not only show his presence but also show his cleverness, and would also help him in the future. Quickly establishing a foothold and cultivating one's own power, this side can accomplish many things with one stone.

He thought it was a good idea, but he didn't expect that Zhao Yan, who joined the army, picked him a rural struggle event involving thousands of people. Dugu Xin couldn't even handle it even if he came forward, and one of the parties was named Li.

"I would like to ask Zhao Canjun whether the Li family participating in the fight is..."

Li Tai hesitated briefly before asking Zhao Yan again.

Zhao Yan nodded after hearing this, and replied softly with some embarrassment: "They are one of the folks from Li Changshi's clan..."

After Li Tai heard this, his mental activities suddenly became richer. The Li clan in Longxi has a large number of ethnic groups, and there are people from the Li clan in Longxi even as far away as Wuchuan in Monan, so the local surnamed Li in Longxi is naturally not gone.

Although they were estranged by blood and affection, Li Tai felt quite unhappy when he heard that the tribesmen who stayed behind in Longxi organized such a large-scale rural fight but did not stand up to each other.

Those who can fight with the Li family of Longxi and still be evenly matched are naturally not ordinary people. The Quan family of Tianshui was also a wealthy family in Longxi. For generations, they served as the chiefs of the Di people, and often had members of the tribe serving as governors of prefectures and counties. Yuwentai of Daxingtai even had a concubine who was born in the Quan family of Tianshui.

Although the Li family in Longxi is a famous family and has a higher political status than the Quan family, the power of the people who stay in the countryside may not be stronger than the Quan family in Tianshui. When fighting in the countryside, it doesn't matter how famous you are outside. You won't be hesitant when it's time to take action.

After eating melon and eating it on the head of his own family, Li Tai thought for a moment and then asked: "What is the irresolvable hatred between these two families that actually mobilized so many clan members to join the fight?"

Although the members of the Li clan in the village may not know him, Li Tai still has a sense of identity in his heart, so he plans to inquire carefully and if it is on his side, then he will try to show his kindness to the villagers.

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

Zhao Yan was also very addicted to talking about these gossips in the countryside, and he talked endlessly. He gradually forgot that Li Tai was also a member of the Longxi Li family, and revealed everything he knew, and also added a little bit of his own understanding and comments.

Li Tai became addicted after listening to it. In fact, the story was so exciting, with all the elements of interests, ethics, suspense and so on.

What happened is that a son of the Li family in Longxi married a daughter of the Quan family. The Di and Qiang custom between Qin and Longxi is that women generally do not marry outside the family. This woman of the Quan family has already been engaged within the clan, but she met the Li family by chance. After that, the thunder in the sky stirred up the fire in the earth, and they met frankly and made a private decision for life.

Although this incident was a bit glamorous and immoral at first, it was still within the normal style. Although Di and Qiang women did not marry outside, there were special cases. The Li family in Longxi was definitely not a mismatched small family, so After the Li family compensated the woman's previous engagement with a sum of money from the man's family, the couple happily got married. In addition, the woman also provided a generous gift in order to prevent her daughter from being looked down upon. Makeup dowry.

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

When a couple got married, the relationship between the two families was very harmonious. They worked together to build a dike in Kuaomagou for the two families to cultivate their land. It was a happy time. However, during the construction of the weir, a gold bran deposit was discovered in Kuanmagou, and the relationship between the two families suddenly became delicate.

At first, the two families were able to sit together and discuss, but they were unable to come up with a mutually agreed distribution solution. As a result, the situation gradually became bad, and even affected the couple's love life.

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

But in the midst of this back and forth, the poor bride died suddenly, leaving the two families with no worries about family ties. Each accused the other of causing harm in order to monopolize the gold mine.

The two families couldn't stop arguing with each other, and their relatives naturally joined in one after another. In the end, it turned into a large-scale armed fight with tens of thousands of people participating, which shocked the entire Longyou.

When the matter has 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 parties is a weakling. They do not fight for steamed buns and bad breath, but they have to defeat the other party as their own duty.

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 Kuamagou gold mine to be buried with earth and rocks, and ordered both tribesmen to Only by entering the valley to mine without permission can this matter be suppressed on the surface.

But leaving aside the entanglement of interests in the gold mine, how can the blood debt and hatred of hundreds of lives added to that armed fight alone be easily overcome.

Although the two sides were intimidated by Dugu Xin's majesty and did not dare to gather for large-scale fighting, private disputes have always been constant. In recent years, villagers from both sides have occasionally died violently in the wild. Without looking carefully, it is probably the revenge of blood relatives on both sides. It has also become a consensus in Longyou official circles that members of the two families are not allowed to serve as officials in the same government office.

After hearing what happened, Li Tai felt speechless for a moment. This had completely become a dead end. The more he thought about it, the more headache he felt. He didn't know how to deal with it so that he could show his level.