Chapter 45: A man should be treated with new eyes after thirteen days of absence [Seeking follow-up reading]

Recently, Yu Fan came back.

Yu Fan was not bragging. At least he managed the four townships of Jinyun Mountain, Lizhou, Yao and Songgu without any pressure.

For the first time, Jinmao witnessed the wisdom of the ancients.

In this way, Jinmao feels much more relaxed and can think and do more things.

However, Liu Fang, who is temporarily in charge of industry, has recently encountered difficulties.

He seems to have lost interest in his present life.

To be precise, if Jinmao did not have anything new and novel for him to create and just kept making the same things over and over again, Liu Fang would find it boring.

This is extremely fatal for the technology geeks of this era.

Because when everyone is hungry, who can afford to support a tech geek to invent things?

That day, Liu Fang followed Jin Mao aimlessly all day long.

Finally, Jin Mao couldn't help asking, "Are you free? Have you finished making the farm tools?"

The agricultural tools in the Eastern Han Dynasty were very advanced, even there were seed drills!
Of course, a couple plow for tilling the land requires two oxen, and is not as efficient as a curved plow in any other way.

This is very fatal for areas like Kuaiji County that are short of cattle.
Therefore, under Jin Mao's guidance, Liu Fang has also invented a curved plow, and now one person and one ox can plow the land.

Even if there are not enough cows, horses and donkeys can be used instead.

Facing Jinmao's question, Liu Fang said gloomily: "I don't want to build it."

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Jin Mao realized something and put down his work. "Bo Wu (Liu Fang's courtesy name), your work is very important."

"Look at you, big guy. He doesn't have your young body and strong physique, but he can use the farm tools you made to complete such heavy work as plowing the fields."

“So, you need to make more farm tools so that more people can have enough food to eat, and you can have the strength to plant more land and save more people.”

“Isn’t this a very meaningful thing?”

Liu Fang's eyes sparkled, and he knelt down excitedly, bowing deeply to Jin Mao: "I understand! Thank you, sir."

Seeing Liu Fang going to work with great enthusiasm, Jin Mao smiled with satisfaction.

Jin Mao was in a good mood for a second before he started shouting with a loudspeaker: "What are you looking at? Work for me!"

"If you don't hurry up and miss the late rice planting time, you will have nothing to worry about!"

In the fields, both Han people and mountain people started laughing. These were the first group of people who got along with Jin Mao and were already familiar with his temper.

If Jin Mao was cruel and ruthless to the gentry, he was very kind to the common people and never killed them at will.

Even if someone makes a mistake and asks for forgiveness, as long as the victim forgives him, Jinmao will only give him a labor reform package instead of killing him directly.

Of course, he will not show mercy to those who deserve to be killed.

After completing his daily sampling inspection of agriculture, Jinmao hurried to the training ground.

Nowadays, there is no shortage of food, oil and salt, so physical training, which we dared not think about before, can now be put on the agenda.

According to Jin Mao's idea, the Baiyue Army has experience in surviving in the mountains and forests, so they can definitely carry out weight-bearing cross-country training.

It can not only increase physical strength, but also increase long-distance combat capabilities, killing two birds with one stone.

As for the county troops, the focus was on developing infantry, including sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, archers, etc.

Naturally, the county troops also had to undergo long-distance training.

As a result, the mountain people and Han people who showed signs of integration would have to be separated, which went against Jinmao's original intention.

A dilemma.

"Zhongxiang, what do you think we should do in this situation?"

"In that case, why don't you train through fighting?" Yu Fan put down the bamboo slips. After finishing his work, he liked to take some time off to read.

"How do you use fighting as training?"

Yu Fan took out four bamboo scrolls and placed them on the table separately. "These are the four county branches of the Jiao family."

"This is the Zhuji County branch, which is the closest one to me."

"We cannot eliminate all four at once, but we have the ability to eliminate any one of them."

Jin Mao was puzzled: "I know this, but if I move one of them, wouldn't it be like alerting the enemy?"

"What if Jiao Jiao runs away?"

Yu Fan asked impatiently, "Do you want to wait for me to finish speaking? Or do you want to speak first?"

Jin Mao retorted: "I can't possibly adopt your last strategy!"

Yu Fan stretched out his hand and gestured, please show it.

"Okay, okay, you go ahead and talk." Jin Mao compromised: "I'll shut up!"

Yu Fan then pointed to a bamboo scroll and said, "This is the Zhuji branch."

Then he pushed him off the table and said, "Now that he has been eliminated, it means that the enemy has been alerted, right?" Jin Mao nodded.

"If Jiao Jiao were here, it would be a permanent solution."

"What if I'm not here?"

"Jiao Jiao will be scared. He will either try to escape or fight to the death."

Yu Fan told the whole plan: "Instead of guessing which family it is, why not startle the snake and lure it out of its hole?"

"and!"

"This can also test the attitudes of the powerful families and prefects in each county."

"If they neither oppose nor support it, that's great! You can force Jiao out one by one according to your original plan."

"If you cause them to be disgusted, that's easy. After a while, they will gradually forget about it, and you can use the same trick again to get rid of the second family."

"Zhongxiang, when a man has been away for thirteen days, he should be treated with new eyes!"

Jin Mao praised: "You have become a successful strategist."

Yu Fan smiled smugly at first, then suddenly realized something was wrong: "Wasn't I like that before?"

"Hey, it's all in the past." Jin Mao changed the subject: "Let's work out the specific details first."

Unexpectedly, Yu Fan ran away: "I have something else to do."

"Yu Zhongxiang!"

"Stop!"

...

It's August.

Shangyu County, Jiao family branch.

Jiao Jiao hid here, trying to accumulate strength to take revenge secretly.

However, the Jin family is not a monolithic entity, let alone the Jiao family branch, which has complex interests.

Jiao Shi is the head of this clan. He and Jiao Jiao have the same great-grandfather, and their blood relationship is the closest among all the branches.

But last time, Jiao Shi paid a huge price to help Jiao Jiao, and now he wants to ask Zhu Fu for help. But he is afraid that he won't even get to see him if he only relies on verbal promises.

Now, Jiao Jiao is like a stray dog, and he keeps talking about revenge.

"The older you get, the more confused you become!" Jiao Shi has become increasingly impatient lately and has begun commenting on Jiao Jiao in public.

"You can't live a good life, but you have to provoke Shanyue."

"Now it's good, our house has been confiscated!"

"Now you live in my house and eat my food, and you still want me to work hard for you?"

"When my grandfather was still the head of my family?"...

The more you curse, the worse it gets.

Jiao Jiao lives next door to Jiao Shi. What's the difference between these words and scolding him to his face?

Anger arises from the heart, and evil comes from the courage.

That night, the owner of the Shangyu Jiao family changed. The former head of the family, Jiao Shi, died mysteriously, and Jiao Jiao took over the Shangyu Jiao family "reluctantly".

The heads of the three branches of the Jiao family in Shanyin, Zhuji and Yuyao were all terrified and obeyed Jiao Jiao's orders.

"If I had known this would happen, why did I do it in the first place?"

When Jiao Jiao arrived in Shangyu, he was accompanied by more than twenty death warriors, and later more than a dozen of them died from their wounds.

Including the assassination attempt last night, there are only five assassins left by Jiao Jiao's side.

Even so, the heads of the Jiao families in the other three counties had lived a comfortable and safe life and had never seen such a scene.

Everyone is afraid that they will be the next one, so they can only obey and compromise.

Therefore, Jiao Jiao combined the financial and material resources of the four branches and began to recruit assassins again.

"Jin Mao, I will take back everything I lost!"

The ruthless Jiao Jiao became more and more brutal, and at first all the branches of the Jiao family suffered terribly.

When financial resources were about to be exhausted, the various branches would resort to more brutal methods to annex the land and population of the common people and small families.

I thought someone would step forward to stop it, but I never expected that the prominent families and powerful families in the counties did not want to intervene, the powerful were unwilling to intervene, and the county magistrate did not dare to intervene.

This seems to have opened the door to a new world for all branches.

“So it can still be like this!”

Gradually, the branches of the Jiao family in various places became more and more united and more and more arrogant, and even took advantage of the cake of other big and powerful families.

But still no one took action.

(End of this chapter)