The couple in the last days traveled to ancient times, farming and storing grain and meat in the war

Dengping County now has another place to visit.

In October of the same year, every household in Dengping County lived in a house made of blue bricks and large tiles.

Even farmers live in houses made of blue bricks and tiles.

It even led to rapid development in several surrounding counties.

The county magistrates of several surrounding counties were also dedicated to serving the people, and naturally, they gradually became good friends with Xiao Yan.

In December of the same year, Dengping County became the number one county in Dayan and also the number one city that never sleeps in Dayan. It was as bright as day at night, with people doing business and sightseeing everywhere. The tax revenue of Dengping County alone exceeded that of a state.

Emperor Li was horrified.

If he had known that Dengping County would develop like this, he would never have given Dengping County's tax revenue to Jiang Ningning as salary.

He originally thought that since it was just a county, no matter how much tax was collected, it wouldn't be much, so he gave it to Jiang Ningning as a salary without thinking twice.

Jiang Ningning was already very rich, wouldn't this make her even richer?

Sooner or later, you will be rich enough to rival a country.

Emperor Li naturally did not dare to promote Xiao Yan to the position of prefect of Yuzhou.

However, in February of the following year, 90% of the southern region experienced heavy rains for a month, causing widespread flooding.

In the south, only Dengping County and several surrounding counties were not affected by the disaster despite heavy rains for several days.

While Dengping County was developing, it also made various preparations, including water control.

Therefore, even if there is a heavy rain, the water will flow smoothly and there will naturally be no flooding.

Several counties around Dengping County simply followed Xiao Yan without thinking. They would do whatever Xiao Yan did in Dengping County if they could. Therefore, they made a lot of preparations in advance, improved water conservancy, dredged all ditches, and dug a lot of new ditches for drainage, so they were naturally not affected by the disaster.

Because of this incident, several surrounding counties decided to follow Xiao Yan in the future.

But the situation was not the same in other parts of the south. They naturally suffered from disasters, and the food became soaked and moldy and could not be eaten.

The acting prefect of Yuzhou had no experience in flood control and was simply unable to resolve this issue. Furthermore, Dengping County had done such an excellent job in water conservancy, and the Emperor Li simply couldn't find someone capable of both flood control and disaster relief to serve as prefect...

There was no other way. Even if it might become dangerous in the future, Emperor Li could only promote Xiao Yan to the position of prefect of Yuzhou and order Xiao Yan to take office immediately to control the flood and provide disaster relief.

At worst, he could find a reason to demote Xiao Yan again.

Xiao Yan was just being the magistrate of Dengping County, so he even took care of the water and made preparations in all aspects to be prepared for any eventuality.

I really didn't expect that there would be such a severe flood this year.

As soon as he received the appointment, Xiao Yan naturally rushed to take up the post.

People in other states who were hit by floods are already carrying out disaster relief, but the areas affected by floods within Yuzhou are in chaos.

Even though he could secretly use his water control ability to reduce the spread of the disaster, he was still busy and overwhelmed.

Dengping County was built into the number one county in Dayan. As the county magistrate, Yuan County Magistrate naturally made a great contribution. In addition, with Xiao Yan's recommendation, and the emperor's desire to replace the county magistrate of Dengping County, even if Xiao Yan was demoted in the future, he did not want Xiao Yan to return to be the county magistrate of Dengping County.

In addition, Emperor Li also ordered a secret investigation and discovered that County Magistrate Yuan had no background at all.

Therefore, County Magistrate Yuan, who had no background, was finally promoted and became the new Dengping County Magistrate.

If someone else were to take on this role, perhaps many people in Dengping County would be dissatisfied.

But County Magistrate Yuan has always been by Xiao Yan's side, and together they have made a lot of efforts to develop Dengping County. They are always busy day and night. Naturally, the people of Dengping County have seen it, and naturally no one is dissatisfied. On the contrary, they are all very happy.

County Magistrate Yuan naturally cried with joy.

He originally thought that he would only be a county magistrate in his lifetime. After all, he had no background at all, which was why he could not get promoted.

Unexpectedly, he was not only promoted to county magistrate, but also the county magistrate of the first county in Dayan.

This is more honorable than being an official of the sixth or seventh rank.

Naturally, County Magistrate Yuan worked even harder in the future, focusing on the people of Dengping County and the development of Dengping County.

Because of Xiao Yan's iron-blooded tactics, and now that he is the top leader of Yuzhou, naturally everyone in Yuzhou will obey his orders and dispatches.

Therefore, the disaster was quickly brought under control.

His political achievements are even more dazzling.

Emperor Li began to think about what kind of excuse he could come up with, or what kind of trap he could dig for Xiao Yan to fall into, so that he could demote Xiao Yan again.

But before they could come up with a solution, the Beitan Kingdom actually invaded the north of Dayan again.

The soldiers on the frontier were defeated and two cities had been captured.

Emperor Li naturally had no mood to care about how to demote Xiao Yan. He summoned civil and military officials to discuss countermeasures on how to solve the problem of invasion by the State of Beitan.

A general said, "Of course we should fight. When Prefect Xiao took the palace examination, didn't he write down the method on his answer sheet? Why not give it a try?"

A civil servant said, "That method might work when we first invade, but Bei Tan has already captured two of our cities. How can we use it?"

A general complained, "Why didn't you use this method when you first attacked?"

Emperor Li remained silent.

The general currently guarding the border is his confidant, and he was also the general who replaced the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery. He had indeed sent Xiao Yan's method to this confidant at the time, but with the enemy pressing in, this general was very self-righteous and actually thought his method was better than Xiao Yan's.

Then not only did they lose the border, but they also lost two cities.

It happened in just a few days.

He also didn't expect that his trusted general would be so useless, like mud.

If the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery was guarding the border, he would never let this happen.

Once the generals understood the situation, they naturally requested that the general be executed.

Emperor Li said: "No, if we kill him, who will be the general? It is better to let him make meritorious contributions while serving his sentence."

The main reason was that he didn't want the military power to fall into the hands of others.

After all, this general is his confidant.

The generals all said, "Why not ask the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery to take command again?"

Before Emperor Li could even speak, an official objected: "Won't this make Bei Tan laugh at us, Da Yan, for having no one left and actually sending a cripple to the battlefield?"

"Who do you say is the cripple?" Suddenly, an extremely majestic voice was heard outside the hall.

The generals were all surprised: "My Lord!"

Some civil servants were surprised, while others were frightened.

Especially those who were frightened, they all opened their eyes wide and stared at Ji Wei's leg which was also completely healthy.

As soon as Ji Wei entered the palace, he wanted to punch the man who had just called him a cripple. Emperor Li hurriedly said, "My dear minister, stop!"

Emperor Li was also extremely surprised. If the military power was handed back to the loyal and brave marquis, he would be relieved. After all, the loyal and brave marquis had no descendants and he was the only male in the family.

Only then did Ji Wei stop beating him.

The generals seemed to have found their backbone. They straightened their backs and even raised their chins.

Ever since Marquis Zhongyong retired and no longer held military power, the civil officials have been suppressing them, making them extremely unhappy.