webnovelfull Chapter 463: One person can take on so many people from the Xin family
Chapter 463: One person can take on so many people from the Xin family
Time flies.
Two years have passed since Xue Wei arrived in Jingshui County.
Lingchuan City, the largest city in the northwest.
The governor's palace of the newly appointed Northwest Governor Xue Wei was built on the most prosperous and spacious street in Linchuan City.
Xue Wei has now been promoted from Jingshui County Magistrate to Governor-General of the Northwest, in charge of Northwest political affairs, and Tiger General Yao Chengping is in charge of Northwest military affairs. The party members are equal in official status, but in reality Yao Chengping still has to cooperate with Xue Wei.
In the late summer and early autumn two years ago, Xue Wei arrived in Jingshui County with a "bodyguard group" of nearly a thousand people. The ruffians on the border of Dasheng were terrified and did not dare to show their heads for fear of being drafted.
Hou Xiaoxiao's laborers and He Lin's merchant caravans also arrived one after another, planting trees to control sand, managing wasteland, and promoting the planting of sea rice...
Houses and workshops were built one after another on the land of the Northwest, and the originally desolate and uninhabited Northwest gradually became popular.
With stable public security, more job opportunities and good remuneration, many people naturally came to the northwest.
Under Xue Wei's leadership, the situation on the northwestern border improved day by day. Not only did the court no longer have to pay money, but war horses and cattle and sheep were also regularly sent to the court.
If the imperial court needed to purchase war horses from Bol, there were also people from the imperial merchant He family who would buy from the Bol people. The price could be bargained down to the lowest by the merchants of the He family, and the quality of the war horses purchased was pretty good!
Emperor Qingning even picked a Ferghana horse as his mount. He highly praised the He family's merchants' sharp vision and bargaining skills, and gave He Lin a plaque with the words "Abundant Wealth"!
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Two years later, the northwestern laborers recruited by Princess Hou Xiaoxiao of Jin had built post stations along the northwest roads. The goods produced in the northwest were also exported to friendly countries, and Dasheng's goods had an excellent reputation.
Emperor Qingning was very satisfied with his capable daughter-in-law. He was not worried that the Princess of Jin's family was so powerful that the Prince of Jin would have the intention of rebelling.
Because Prince Jin's leg had not healed since his eldest son Prince An became lame at a palace banquet during his rebellion three years ago, he also sent people to test it, and it turned out that his second son's leg was really disabled.
Moreover, there are more than thirty concubines in Prince Jin's Mansion, but no good news of the birth of a new life has ever been heard.
It is obvious whose problem this is.
It is better not to publicize the royal secrets. It will only bring shame to yourself if you tell them.
Emperor Qingning said nothing, but just sent some aphrodisiac supplements to Prince Jin's Mansion, and asked the Empress Dowager to comfort Hou Xiaoxiao, his unfortunate son (grandson)daughter-in-law.
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Xue Wei worked very hard in the Northwest. His image of being dedicated to the people and upright has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the Northwest. He is regarded by the people in the Northwest as the parent official of the people.
This situation made Yao Chengping, the tiger general stationed in the five cities in the northwest, a little uneasy.
After all, he had been stationed in the five cities in the northwest for nearly two years, and the bandits who had long been entrenched in the northwest were eradicated by Xue Wei, a civil servant, in less than half a year, and he also won the respect and admiration of the people in the northwest.
As for Yao Chengping's Tiger Army, the people secretly called them the "Sick Tiger Army", saying that Yao Chengping could not even deal with the herdsmen from the border Gada area of the Bol Grassland who often came to Dasheng to harass and cause trouble, and that he was not even a finger as good as the previous Xin Family Army stationed in the northwest.
He is not even as good as a county magistrate!
Prime Minister Yao couldn't save face!
He originally wanted to send a team under his command to find trouble with Xue Wei and prevent him from clearing out the bandit problem in the northwest.
However, after hearing that Xue Wei had incorporated Fuxin Village, a tough nut that even their Tiger Army had failed to crack, they became hesitant again, fearing that they would end up losing more than they gain.
So Yao Chengping thought about it and wrote a letter to Emperor Qingning to complain.
He fiercely accused Xue Wei of being so arrogant on his way to the northwest. He said that a small county magistrate had great power and arrested people at will, causing panic among the people. His Tiger Army had to clean up Xue Wei's mess and prevent these bandits from gathering together to retaliate against the government.
Yao Chengping originally thought that if he exaggerated these things to the suspicious Emperor Qingning, the Emperor would be furious and ask Yao Chengping to destroy Xue Wei's prestige. However, after waiting for several days, he only received a letter from the Emperor Qingning.
Emperor Qingning asked Yao Chengping to fully cooperate with Xue Wei.
This made Yao Chengping so angry that he vomited blood.
In fact, Xue Wei had already reported the plan to eliminate the bandit problem in the northwest to Emperor Qingning before setting out.
Under the influence of the modern family environment, Xue Wei has long mastered the working rule of "reporting anything in advance and leaving records of everything".
Emperor Qingning was very supportive of this, but he thought Xue Wei was just talking and didn't expect him to actually do it!
If it was Xue Wei who wrote the letter himself, Emperor Qingning might not have believed it so much, but Xue Wei's effectiveness in clearing up the bandit problem was noticed even by the Tiger General Yao Chengping. Doesn't this indirectly prove that Xue Wei was very effective in this matter?
So after receiving Yao Chengping's letter of complaint, his first reaction was not anger or suspicion, but surprise. He saw hope in Xue Wei.
After dealing with the Xin family, Emperor Qingning had placed high hopes on Yao Chengping, whom he had personally trained. However, the situation on the border became more and more tense day by day, and the lives of the people were no longer as peaceful and prosperous as when the Xin father and son were alive. The northwest was becoming more and more depressed.
Although Emperor Qingning did not want to admit that the affairs of the northwest had never given him a headache when the Xin family was around, that was the fact.
However, it was indeed because the Xin family's prestige and influence were deeply rooted in people's hearts that he couldn't sleep day and night.
Ever since the Xin family was exiled, Emperor Qingning had a headache whenever he received a letter regarding Northwest affairs, and he always felt a little regretful in his heart. However, Xue Wei had just arrived in Jingshui and he had successfully taken the first step in controlling the bandit problem in the Northwest, which made Emperor Qingning feel that he was capable again!
Without the Xin family, there is still Xue Wei!
With Xue Wei, he won't have to regret getting rid of the Xin family!
Xue Wei is more powerful than the Xin family. Xue Wei is alone, while the Xin father and son are three people, and they also have the Xin family army under their command!
Xue Wei can take on so many people by himself, what a profit!
The old will not go, and the new will not come!
Emperor Qingning was naturally overjoyed.
Moreover, after Xue Wei arrived in Jingshui, at first some herdsmen from Gada came to show off their might. However, after the bodyguards from Yuelai Escort Agency hired by Xue Wei caught a few troublemakers and invited them to the Jingshui County Government for tea, the herdsmen from Gada district no longer dared to harass them!
Yao Chengping didn't know how Xue Wei managed to keep these grassland people in line! He sent people to inquire around, and only knew that Xue Wei had a friendly discussion with these grassland people, and also negotiated to reopen the northwest border market for mutual exchange of goods.
Yao Chengping didn't believe in the idea of "friendly conversation" at all. He just thought that Xue Wei must have promised some benefits to the grassland people, causing Dasheng to suffer a loss.
So he wrote another letter to Emperor Qingning, accusing Xue Wei of secretly communicating with the enemy camp.