Chapter 178 The War Begins

Lu Shiyan arrested the Ying family based on the account book in Takeda Nobuya's hand. Later, he interrogated the Ying family and found more evidence that the Ying family colluded with officials to resell iron ore.

  The officialdom in Lingnan is terrible.

  From top to bottom, there are few officials who are not greedy.

  After these officials learned that Lu Shiyan had arrested the Ying family, they expected that colluding with the Ying family to resell iron ore would be exposed.

  So he directly arranged for someone to assassinate Lu Shiyan, hoping to keep the secret.

  Lu Shiyan himself was very skilled in martial arts and had already taken precautions, so these people were no match for him.

  With lightning speed, he eliminated his assassin, and then sent his confidants to quickly deliver the evidence in his hands.

  When the Lingnan officials learned that Lu Shiyan had given away evidence of their private sale of iron ore, they suddenly panicked.

  Let alone anything else, the crime of privately selling iron ore is enough to make them lose their heads. What's more, they've done a lot of other things like losing their heads over the years.

  Which of them can withstand investigation, and which one dares to go to court?

  After a brief panic, someone proposed to take the risk and claim the land as king, so that they would no longer be subject to the control of the Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty.

  In fact, Lingnan is thousands of miles away from Beijing. It can be said that it is as far away as the sky is high and the emperor is far away. These officials in Lingnan are also equivalent to the local emperors. Some people have had different intentions for a long time.

  This proposal was quickly approved by everyone.

  Although he rebelled against the Great Zhou Dynasty and the proposal of occupying land as king received unanimous support from all the officials, there were still disagreements over who would be the boss and who would listen to him.

  As the magistrate of Lingnan, Xiang Wanlin felt that he had the highest official position, so it was natural that he should be the emperor.

  But how could the officer in charge of the troops listen to him?

  As a result, before the Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty could hold him accountable, chaos broke out in Lingnan. Several officers with military power refused to give in to each other and started fighting first.

  At the same time, the South Vietnam Kingdom, which borders Lingnan, seized the opportunity and launched a massive attack on Lingnan, hoping to get a piece of the pie.

  Lingnan was a barren land in the Great Zhou Dynasty, but in the eyes of the Nanyue Kingdom, it was a big fat piece of meat.

  Facing the invasion of foreign enemies, the officers in Lingnan plotted against each other, and no one wanted to compromise the military power in their hands.

  Lizhou was the first to be conquered. The South Vietnamese came to Lizhou, burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. Lizhou instantly became a hell on earth.

  Seeing that the South Vietnamese were taking one step forward and were about to come to Yazhou, General Song used Lu Shiyan again to promote him.

  He also negotiated with the generals of the second battalion of Raoxi and Raonan, and the three parties reached an agreement to allocate part of the troops to Lu Shiyan, who would lead the troops to guard the three passes and resist foreign enemies.

  Naturally, no one is willing to part with their elite soldiers. The soldiers given to Lu Shiyan were all old, weak, sick and disabled.

  But looking at the people in dire straits, Lu Shiyan did not back down or shirk. Instead, he led a group of remnant soldiers to guard Sandao Pass, blocking the South Vietnamese soldiers from the pass time and time again.

  One can imagine how difficult this process is.

  Fortunately, although the process was difficult, the people of Yazhou deeply remembered Lu Shiyan and praised him as the best official in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

  Some people even thought that Lu Shiyan was originally the general of the Dingbei Hou Mansion. For generations, the Dingbei Hou Mansion had been resisting foreign enemies at the border, making the Xirong people afraid to enter the country for decades.

  Lu Shiyan went to the battlefield as a teenager, and revealed his identity as the God of War, beating the Xirong people to pieces.

  The common people don't care whether they offend the people or not. They only care about who works for the people and who allows them to live a stable life.     People complained about him one after another. For a time, Lu Shiyan's reputation in Yazhou rose sharply, and his good reputation spread throughout Lingnan.

  When the refugees in Lizhou heard the news, they all ran to Yazhou.

  In addition to the refugees in Lizhou, people from several other states also ran to Yazhou to seek asylum.

  The common people are not fools. Since the Nanyue Kingdom attacked Lingnan, they have all seen what other officers did.

  Now, they only believe in Lu Shiyan and feel that only he can protect them.

  Although he is deeply loved by the people and his reputation in Lingnan is unprecedentedly high,

  the refugees are flooding in and Lu Yan is facing unprecedented pressure.

  With so many refugees, just maintaining law and order is not an easy task, not to mention that most of these refugees were penniless when they fled to Yazhou and were waiting for government relief.

  The imperial reinforcements have not yet arrived, and there is no news at all about the relief food for the disaster relief.

  The local officials had long been jealous of Lu Shiyan's good reputation. Not only did they not do anything to resettle the refugees, they actually added insult to injury and made things difficult for Lu Shiyan in every possible way.

  Use public opinion to elevate him to a higher position and force him to pay out of his own pocket to solve the problem of refugee resettlement. If he can't solve it, then his previous good reputation will be destroyed.

  Since the war, food prices in Lingnan have been rising day by day. Coupled with the fact that those who were interested deliberately cut off the trade routes between Lingnan and the outside world, it was already difficult for Lu Shiyan to provide food for his army. Now that he was pushing so many victims to him, it was really hard for him to punish him.

  After Jiang Tangtang received the news from Lu Shili, he was immediately furious.

  If he is really a dog official, he just wants to plot against her man to defend himself against foreign enemies. Seeing that her man had gained a good reputation by resisting foreign enemies, she was unwilling to do so and wanted to ruin the good reputation.

  Even before the South Vietnamese could be driven away, internal strife began. Are these people all pig-minded?

  Jiang Tangtang immediately asked his people to prepare ships and go to sea to pick up the refugees. These refugees are a burden to local officials, but to her they are an asset.

  Now is the time when the island needs manpower. Bringing them to the island at this time will not only solve the island's employment problem, but also help Lu Shiyan maintain a good reputation.

  As for the food needed to resettle the refugees, Jiang Tangtang didn't care. As long as there is space, it doesn't matter how much food you have.

  After the ship sailed, she closed the door of the cabin, entered the space, and went into the warehouse to count the food she could eat.

  The growth cycle of plants in the space is much shorter than outside. Now, in addition to various fruits, there are also a lot of sweet potatoes in the factory warehouse.

  Jiang Tangtang previously planted sweet potatoes in the open space of the space simply because he couldn't bear to see the land wasted, and planting sweet potatoes is the simplest.

  Just use a cultivator to plow the ground and insert sweet potato seedlings. When harvesting, just use a harvester to harvest.

  These sweet potatoes can now be used to help refugees.

  However, in case there were not enough sweet potatoes in the warehouse, Jiang Tangtang took the corn and planted it in the fields. After harvesting the potatoes in the field, all the corn was planted.

  As soon as the corn was planted, there was a knock on the door outside. Yuan San stood outside and said, "Madam, the ship has docked."

  Since the last time Jiang Tangtang was kidnapped, Guo Yu has also disappeared. Later, people were sent out, but her whereabouts were not found.

  Now accompanying Jiang Tangtang, the person responsible for protecting her is Lu Shiyan's newly recruited bodyguard.