Diji Cultivation Manual

When he heard the sound of the door being pushed, Liu Chunian, who had been stroking his sleeves with his head down, immediately raised his head, frowned slightly after seeing Nan Qiao, and asked, "Why, did something happen?"

Nan Qiao stood at the table and poured a cup of tea, drank it in one breath before replying: "It's okay, it's just some trivial things, it's just a little troublesome. It's so late, you should rest first, don't worry about me , I'm going to take care of some things and I'll be right back."

She finished these words in one breath, turned around and left before Liu Chunian could speak, as if there was something urgent.

"Stop." Liu Chunian immediately stopped Nan Qiao, and then waved to her to come over.

Nan Qiao hesitated for a moment, then stood still and refused to go forward: "Master, please rest first, I really have something to deal with..."

Seeing her abnormal appearance, Liu Chunian knew that something must have happened, so he simply lifted the quilt and got out of bed, walked up to Nan Qiao without even wearing shoes and socks, wanting to see for himself.

Nan Qiao panicked when she saw her acting like this, she didn't care about leaving, and pushed her helplessly to make her sit back on the bed.

"What's the matter?" Liu Chunian smelled the faint smell of blood on Nan Qiao's body only when he got close, and pulled her directly in front of him to look up and down, "Are you injured?"

Nan Qiao didn't want her to worry at first, but she still saw it, and hurriedly explained: "It's nothing serious, it's just a cut on his arm, which has already been bandaged."

Liu Chunian was still worried, so he opened her sleeves and took a look with his own eyes, then looked up at Nan Qiao: "Just tell me exactly what happened today."

Nan Qiao moved his eyes away uncomfortably. Although he didn't directly refuse, the meaning of resistance has been expressed very clearly.

When Liu Chunian saw her like this, and smelled the bloody smell on her body, he was completely annoyed: "Nan Qiao, when is this already, why are you still at odds with me? Don't use anything that you don't want me to worry about." You are fooling me with nonsense, you ask yourself, why do you refuse to let me intervene?"

"Indeed, I admit that you have improved a lot now, even if I don't intervene in these things, you can still take care of them in the end." Liu Chunian frowned, with obvious helplessness in his eyes, "But you know that I can make you less Take some detours, why don't you ask me, or is it so difficult to get you to bow to me now? If it's something else, it's fine, now that you spend a little more time, Longyou will have to pay for it. Don't you know what is more important than the lives of the victims?"

Nan Qiao was still unwilling to compromise at first, but when she heard that her expression finally showed some emotion, she lowered her head and thought for a moment before finally saying, "I was wrong, I shouldn't delay the business because of my own selfishness."

Liu Chunian reprimanded her just now, but he couldn't bear to see her like this now, so he sighed and said, "Nan Qiao, I'm actually a few years older than you. I'm 15 years old. Time is not as good as you, and you don't have to worry about it."

"But when you were fifteen, you were not so eager to catch up with another person..." Nan Qiao smiled wryly and shook his head, "Forget it, let's not mention it."

Seeing this, Liu Chunian reached out and held Nan Qiao's hand, letting her sit beside him, wanting to comfort her but didn't know where to start.

"Today, I went to the northern border with Taoyuan county magistrate to meet the borrowed army. Unexpectedly, on the way, Taoyuan county magistrate suddenly launched an attack and wanted to put me to death." Nan Qiao changed the subject calmly, and Her attention was drawn to the business, "Fortunately, I was a little bit on guard, so I killed her and took over Taoyuan County."

What Nan Qiao said was very concise, as if it was an insignificant matter, but Liu Chunian knew that this matter could not be settled easily, and he didn't know how much effort she had spent to get back safely.

"The county magistrate of Taoyuan should belong to my faction, and he has done his best to me these few days. I might as well follow her way for a while." Nan Qiao gritted her teeth, feeling a little bit bitter about her mistake.

Liu Chunian played with Nan Qiao's fingers, gently pinching her knuckles: "I'm afraid it's not just the magistrate of Taoyuan County, but most of the officials in Longyou have already been 'instigated'."

As she said that, she sighed, telling the whole story of what she had seen and heard today and her own conjectures.

What Liu Chunian said was almost shocking. Nan Qiao thought she would be shocked and impetuous, but all the emotions in her heart were dissipated under Liu Chunian's comfort, and the rest was indifferent and stable .

Nan Qiao held Liu Chunian's hand back, and lay down on the pillow with her, pulling the quilt to wrap Liu Chunian tightly.

"How are you going to deal with this matter?" Liu Chunian raised his hand and pinned the broken hair on his forehead behind his ear, quietly watching Nan Qiao and waiting for her to make a decision.

"Relocate the victims and severely punish corrupt officials." Nan Qiao's eyes flashed with sternness, and he said coldly, "If you follow what you said, those people shielded each other's fish and meat people and made Longyou like this It's a miserable situation in hell on earth, and it really deserves death. Before I came here, I had a faint feeling that Longyou's officialdom was weird, so I specially borrowed a lot of soldiers from Sister Yanyu, and it was more than enough to deal with these people."

Liu Chunian looked at her expression, and said after deliberation: "What kind of situation are you going to do? You have to know that you are here mainly for disaster relief. If you start killing people, you may not be able to explain it when you return to the court. Ren Princess Jia has been staring at your mistakes."

"If the damned person is still alive, what should I explain to the people of Longyou?" Nan Qiao said firmly, obviously thinking it over, "If it is a last resort, I can only use some things that I don't need. The means on the table made them 'willingly' obey the law."

Seeing that she had made up her mind, Liu Chunian knew that he couldn't persuade her, so he simply let her do it.If she moved to a different place, I'm afraid she would make the same choice as Nan Qiao, killing corrupt officials to reassure the people and reassure them.

"How about resettling the victims, what can you do?"

Nan Qiao sorted out the methods she had thought about these days, and said slowly: "Father has sent people to escort the food for the disaster relief, and I am afraid that it will arrive in Longyou within a few days. It's just that there are too many monks and too little porridge. With that little food, it is impossible to support so many victims in Longyou. The so-called increasing income and reducing expenditure is no longer feasible here. We can only increase income, that is, "persuade distribution", and let those who have a large amount of surplus food Rich merchants open warehouses to release grain, or sell it to the government at a low price for disaster relief. In addition, the government provides porridge for disaster relief. On the one hand, it can save the victims, and on the other hand, it can also gather the victims and register them. Only by registering and making a book can we ensure that all the disaster relief items in the later period will be distributed to them. The last is to reduce or exempt taxes. The people are displaced for thousands of miles in Longyou Chiye, and it is determined that it is impossible to afford the corvee tax. , to reduce and exempt Longyou’s taxes for three years, so that the people can recuperate.”

Liu Chunian listened to Nan Qiao's opinions one by one, nodded and said: "You have thought very comprehensively, but there are still some shortcomings. You and I both know that most officials in Longyou are probably not innocent people. , if you dispose of them all, who will execute them for you, and how can you be sure that the newly appointed officials will not embezzle again?"