Luo Youdu hotly pulled up his sleeves and legs, revealing a pair of yellowish arms with a skin color unique to yellow people and long legs covered with fine black hair.
Although unsightly, it is comfortable.
He was fanning himself with a cattail leaf fan in one hand, and looking at the official documents of Lu, He and Shu in the other hand.
Although it is wartime, the livelihood of the people within the territory cannot be compromised.
Ancient times were no better than modern times. Most people lived from year to year. Under all kinds of exploitation, they could not save any money or food.
Therefore, whenever a disaster occurs, it is easy to provoke rebellion.
This is how the white-armored soldiers around came to be.
Luzhou, Hezhou, and Shuzhou were relatively stable, with the support of the gentry and the support of the people. But after all, they were newly annexed places, and the current momentum of the Great Zhou Dynasty was not as good as before. All the state capitals on the four sides were recovered by the Southern Tang Dynasty, so it was inevitable that there would be uneasiness.
If this uneasiness is not appeased, it may cause panic once something happens.
Faced with this situation, Luo Youdu could only put down his military affairs temporarily and put the government affairs of the three states first.
As for the front line of Haozhou and Shouzhou, which have been beaten to a terrible state, it has nothing to do with Luo Youdu.
In this southern expedition, he had made enough achievements. He had already eaten all the beef and mutton, so he had to give others a chance to drink soup.
Besides, there are still pebbles in the soup that can cause teething, so there is no need to fight with them.
"gentlemen!"
Dou Yi strode into the government office and saw Luo Youdu stretching out his long legs and exposing his arms. He was so surprised that he turned his back.
Luo Youdu reluctantly pulled down his sleeves and trouser legs.
The governor of Lu whom he appointed was good at everything. He was honest, honest, calm, loyal, and talented. Not only could he help him in government affairs, but he could also appease and unite the gentry.
As the eldest son of the Central Plains Confucian Dou Yanshan, Dou Yi still had some prestige among scholars.
But he is a bit rigid and doesn't know how to deal with things flexibly.
At the beginning, Luo Youdu was topless and backless, as a grown-up man has nothing to be ashamed of.
It's hot enough to squeeze oil, and there's no air conditioning, so it's no big deal to go shirtless.
As a result, Dou Yi started to argue with him about his manners.
The etiquette and rules were just one set after another, with all kinds of quotations from scriptures and scriptures, but they did not give him any chance to recruit him, and the navy and the army were all in trouble.
Luo Youdu defended himself in his heart that he was magnanimous and did not care about him, so he was not afraid of him.
After tidying up his clothes, Luo Youdu said, "Is something wrong?"
Dou Yi then turned around, bowed and said: "There was a fire in Wuwei County yesterday. The fire burned the houses on three streets. The magistrate of Wuwei County came to Luzhou in person, intending to report the situation to his husband, hoping that he could allocate property
, to help the people in Wuwei County."
Luo Youdu frowned and said: "How could it be so serious? Are there any casualties?"
Seeing that he wanted to answer, Luo Youdu said: "Forget it, you invite the county magistrate and I will ask him personally."
The magistrate of Wuwei County is called Hongbo, and he is from the Hong family in Luzhou.
In order to appease the gentry, Luo Youdu asked each of them to select an official from their clan.
He also explained at that time that this was an exceptional move during wartime. He would become an official directly without paying attention to family background or passing any assessment. It would never happen again in the future. Let them seize the opportunity and don't arrange for a mediocre person to come over and become an official after only a few days of work.
Dismissed.
There are more or less capable people among the wealthy families in such places, and Hong Bo was recommended by the Hong family.
His ability is acceptable and he can be called Chinese material, so he is very suitable for being a county magistrate.
It just so happened that the magistrate of Wuwei County asked Hong Bo to take office because their army had fled.
"I've seen the messenger!" Hong Bo respectfully saluted Luo Youdu and said hello.
Luo Youdu asked impatiently: "Have the fires in the county caused any casualties?"
Hong Bo rejoiced: "God blessed Wuwei. It was noon when the fire burned, and the people all ran out. Only when putting out the fire, more than 20 people fainted. They are now out of danger, and there were no casualties. Only the houses were destroyed."
For the ashes, the residences of more than 40 households were burned down and are now placed in pavilions outside the city."
Luo Youdu breathed a sigh of relief and then said angrily: "Since it happened at noon, why didn't you put out the fire in time? The fire spread to three streets? How did you become the county magistrate? The weather is so hot and there are no fire prevention measures at all?
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Hong Bo said with a mournful face: "The official was wronged. It was not because he was slacking in his administration, but for other reasons. As soon as the fire broke out, the official had already arrived at the scene with the county government officials and directed the people to get water to put out the fire. Who knew the source of the fire?
There was a large amount of stone paint. The more the water poured out, the more the fire spread. In addition, the weather was dry and hot, and the fire was unable to be contained by the wind. The official had no choice but to move the people first to avoid causing casualties in order to save their property.
casualties."
Stone paint?
Isn’t it just oil?
Luo Youdu suddenly stood up and asked: "Where did you get the large amount of stone paint?"
Do nothing?
Wuwei County?
A city of inaction?
A memory suddenly appeared in Luo Youdu's mind.
Once he went to Anhui to discuss business.
I was chatting and bragging with an Anhui coal boss at the wine table, and I mentioned the situation in Wuwei City in Wuhu, Anhui.
In his words, he regretted that he had been too small-minded and only invested in inactive minerals and did not dare to get involved in the oil and natural gas industry.
He said that he never expected that Xiao Wuwei, in addition to more than 70 million tons of coal mines, also has more than 200 million tons of oil reserves and 35 billion cubic meters of natural gas.
It is said that if he had been bolder back then, he would not be worth what he is now.
Isn’t the Wuwei City of later generations the current Wuwei County?
Luo Youdu has some understanding of the technology of this era, and oil has been around for a long time.
There are records of oil in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Western Han Dynasty, "Gao Nu had water, which was flammable."
It was also recorded in the Jin Dynasty: The spring water coming out of the Nanshan Mountain in Yanshou County, Jiuquan, is as big as a river and pours into the ground into a ditch. The water is as fat as meat juice. When you take it in a vessel, it will turn yellow at first and then turn black like gelatin, but it will be extremely bright and no different from cream.
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However, there is a lack of correct usage of oil in this era, and it is also limited by mining technology. Almost all oil comes from above-ground oil.
Therefore, they were rare and expensive, and their uses were not great. Only a few were controlled by the imperial court.
But how to use it, the court officials themselves didn't know.
It was not until the Song Dynasty, just a few decades later, that military workshops developed "asphalt production" and "fire oil production" using petroleum as raw materials, and used them on the battlefield.
Especially eighty years later, Shen Kuo, a great man from Qiantang, Hangzhou, began to predict in "Mengxi Bi Tan" that "this thing will become popular in the world."
Luo Youdu suppressed his excitement and asked: "This stone lacquer has always been scarce, how come someone is hoarding it in large quantities? Who is this person? Has he been captured and interrogated?"
Hong Bo bowed and said: "This man is a medicine collector in the county. After the fire broke out, he tried to escape and was captured by the government officials. After interrogation, it was found that he was collecting medicine on Sangong Mountain and accidentally found dark rabbit footprints. Out of curiosity, he followed the footprints and found them.
Found it in the mountains. He knew the stone lacquer was valuable, so he secretly took it home with the intention of selling it, not wanting to cause a big disaster."
Without any hesitation, Luo Youdu said: "Ke Xiang, the affairs of Luzhou Prefecture will be handled by you first. I will leave for Wuwei immediately."