Humane Yongchang

Chapter 400
"Big sister, Ah Yu, I'm back."

Chen Sheng, who was on the next morning shift, pushed open the door and shouted habitually. As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zhao Qing and A Yu running out of the hall in a hurry and greeted with smiles: "Dalang is back!"

Chen Sheng looked suspiciously at the big and small crowded with his hands behind his back, and jokingly stepped forward and said, "What are you hiding? Are you stealing something delicious behind my back?"

Seeing that he was pulling Ah Yu's hand, Zhao Qing hurriedly smiled and said, "What delicious food, it's all personal belongings of my daughter's house..."

Before she could finish her words, Ah Yu, who had no resistance in the face of Chen Sheng, obediently let Chen Sheng pull her arm out, and saw that she was holding a palm-sized, green steamed pancake with wild vegetables and mixed grains.

He instantly understood what was going on, pursed the corners of his lips and looked at the big and small, forced a smile and stretched out his hands to caress their cheeks: "Look at what my king did... it's bitter. you guys!"

Seeing that he had already discovered it, Zhao Qing was no longer nervous, and gently wiped away the tears that overflowed from the corners of his eyes, "Who hasn't had a good year yet, just suffer, and the hard days will pass."

Ah Yu nodded vigorously: "Well!"

Zhao Qing took out the wild vegetable steamed cake hidden behind his back and handed it to Chen Sheng: "Aren't you full at the palace? Don't get up in the middle of the night and drink cold water when you're hungry in the future..."

Chen Sheng smiled helplessly: "You can't hide anything from Big Sister."

Zhao Qing crossed his hips and smiled proudly: "That's it!"

Song Yi's 50 stone fodder was secretly delivered to Chen Sheng a month ago.

However, Chen Sheng only left [-] stone grains to allocate to the counties with the most shortage of grain.

The rest were handed over to the Youzhou Army in batches...

At the beginning of June, he sent a spy to Youzhou to contact Chen Ao, and passed the situation of the Youzhou army back to Chen Sheng.

The situation of the Youzhou Army was even more rotten than he imagined.

No reinforcements.

No troops.

No supplies.

The soldiers of the Youzhou Army almost put down their blood-stained spears and spears, and had to pick up bows and arrows, fishing nets, hoes and sickles to fish, hunt and farm, otherwise they would starve.

Not to mention, like in previous years, organize one or two counter-offensive operations every year, enter the hinterland of the grasslands, and clean up the Quanrong tribes that endanger the Great Wall.

Now, even clinging to the Great Wall is about to fail...

After sending out most of the grain in his hands, the grain storage situation in Han land dropped below the red line again.

If it were distributed evenly according to the head count, each of the tens of millions of people in the Han region would not be able to receive even two taels of grain per day...

Although farmers who make a living by farming have not been able to eat food several times a year, most of the time they use very little food mixed with a large amount of wild vegetables to cook and eat. When it is abundant, it is not difficult to find wild fruits and vegetables that can satisfy the stomach.

But this amount of grain is still too dangerous. If you are not careful, the order of the Han Dynasty may be broken by starvation!

In order to call on the royal court to unite and overcome the difficulties together, Chen Sheng reduced his ration to three or two a day.

It is impossible to force the officials to starve. The officials of the royal court have not yet had such a high level of consciousness. If they are forced to reduce their rations by the king's order, it is very likely that the structure of the royal court is not very strong. , directly fall apart!
At this juncture, if the government agency falls apart again, there will be a big mess!
Therefore, Chen Sheng can only lead by example, hoping that the Han court will be more considerate of his difficulties and the difficulties of the king's court.

He can understand those who are inconsiderate, but in the future, this official position may have to be downgraded and not promoted.

As for those who are not only inconsiderate, but also secretly make a lot of money and waste, and fight against him, when he frees up his hands, one of them will be counted as one, and one of them will not be able to escape!
In order not to make Zhao Qing and the others starve with him, Chen Sheng has been home late for a while, and he only said that he had eaten when he got home.

But he never thought about it, and asked Zhao Qing to find out.

Chen Sheng didn't need to ask, she knew that she must have secretly distributed the rations sent by Wang Ting to the poor people in the county.

Although Zhao Qing was reluctant to go to the stage and be worshipped by thousands of people, she never shied away from the responsibility that she should take on.

With a wife like this, what can a husband ask for!
……

The family ate a large pot of wild vegetable soup and happily shared three slap-sized steamed pancakes with wild vegetables and miscellaneous grains, as if they were eating some delicacies from the mountains and seas...

Chen Sheng drank the wild vegetable soup with a bitter taste and said with a smile: "By the way, I went out to inspect the city today, and the rice in the fields has already begun to turn yellow. It is estimated that in half a month, we will be able to eat new rice. It's gone!"

As he expected, this year is really dominated by severe drought, with major floods and locust plagues taking turns.

But because he made adequate preparations in advance, no matter whether it was a severe drought, a major flood, or a locust plague, it failed to have much impact on this year's grain production, and even the major flood alleviated this year's drought to a certain extent. This allowed Chen Shengneng to focus more on the internal affairs of the royal court.

It is worth mentioning that this year's biological control strategy has played a big role!

Several counties in Yuzhou and Yangzhou, as soon as the locusts flooded, were wiped out in the bud by the army of chickens and ducks transported by Da Mao!
Among them, there is Lu Shu's research topic "On the Sustainable Development of Local Monster Race", which has made the greatest contribution!
He has cultivated several wise chickens and ducks. Although their strength is not worth mentioning, they all have the ability to command the group.

The food defense battles of thousands of chickens and thousands of ducks against millions of locusts are definitely worthy of the title of "magnificent"!
This also makes Chen Sheng more and more firm in the idea of ​​"man will conquer the sky"!

"Really?"

Both Zhao Qing and Ah Yu's eyes lit up, "Doesn't this mean that Wang Ting's food shortage is about to pass?"

Chen Sheng nodded heavily: "It's over, you won't have to go hungry in the future!"

He has seen all the rice in the field. The grains are large and full, and the expected grain yield is higher than Lu Shu's estimated yield of three stones per mu... but not too low!
One stone is 120 catties, three stones is 360 catties!

This has tripled compared to the previous yield of one stone per mu!
"Great!"

Zhao Qing and Ah Yu cheered, tears welling up in their eyes.

They are also like Chen Sheng, they don't feel that their life is hard, but they feel that other people who live the same life as them suffer...

"One more thing."

Speaking of this, Chen Sheng remembered something again and said, "The inner city of Jinling Xindu is about to be completed. After the autumn harvest, the Wangting Center will be moved to Jinling."

"what?"

When Zhao Qing heard this, most of the joy on his face disappeared in an instant, and he said at a loss, "So soon? Don't you say that the new capital will take at least a year or two to be repaired?"

"It's just that the inner city is built first, and the outer city may have to be built for several years..."

Chen Sheng smiled and said in a slow tone, "Don't be afraid, our family will all go together, it's the same wherever we go, and Dad has built a lot of big houses for our family over there, and our family can live there... It's just that we may only be able to live in the palace in the future."

Zhao Qing couldn't help but looked around at the seat doorman in the room, his eyes filled with reluctance.

In her heart, nowhere is home except this yard.

But when she heard that the Chen family were all walking together, her uneasy heart finally became much more stable: "What about the villagers and elders in the county? Will you also go together?"

After pondering for a few breaths, Chen Sheng sighed softly: "The living conditions in Jinling are definitely better than in Chen County, but the homeland is hard to leave, so I can't force my fathers and villagers to go with me, I will post a notice in advance, and those who want to leave can leave. Let’s go with the center, don’t force it if you don’t want to go, there will still be some soldiers and horses left here, and there won’t be any trouble…”

Zhao Qing nodded obediently and said no more.

Anyway, where is Chen Sheng, where is she...

"Brother."

Ah Yu, who was immersed in sucking the vegetable soup, raised his head and said, "I want to go to Kuaijichun."

Chen Sheng looked at her in surprise: "What are you doing back in Huiji?"

Ah Yu: "I have learned the Assassin's technique to the top, and I have to go back to Huiji to get the method of cultivation in the lower realm."

Chen Sheng raised his brows in surprise, looked at Ah Yu carefully, but still couldn't see why.

What he cultivates is the orthodox martial arts, which is completely different from the way of the assassin. In addition, the art of the assassin is known for being good at hiding. If he doesn't do it, he really can't see the current strength of Ah Yu.

After thinking for a few breaths, he said warmly: "Can I switch to other techniques? Anyway, the way of the assassin is not a good way. It hurts others and hurts ourselves. We don't need to kill people to make a living in the future."

Ah Yu shook his head seriously: "If I switch to other techniques, my hardships over the years will be in vain, and it won't pay off!"

When this girl first arrived at the Chen family compound, she was so reticent that it seemed like some kind of congenital defect. After years of teaching by the Chen family like a foster daughter, she was no different from an ordinary girl when she was in the Chen family, but when faced with outsiders At that time, she was still reticent, even in the face of Jing Ke, she said very few words.

Chen Sheng tried to make his little padded jacket give up this dark road, and said softly: "You can't say that, if you don't cultivate the assassin's technique, we can't become a family, how can this be said to be in vain? Since we It is already a family, then the art of assassination has lost its meaning, you only need to live a good life and be happy in the future, the rest is not important, it doesn’t matter whether you can do martial arts or not.”

Ah Yu shook his head stubbornly: "I don't!"

Chen Sheng looked at Zhao Qing as if asking for help.

Zhao Qing stroked the top of Ah Yu's forehead with a headache, and said softly, "Good Ah Yu, didn't you promise big sister that you won't practice any assassin skills?"

Ayu quickly defended: "I didn't promise the eldest sister, the eldest sister promised herself."

When Chen Sheng heard it, how could he not know that Ah Yu had been thinking about this for a day or two?

He pondered for a moment and said, "Then you don't need to go to Kuaiji yourself, just let Wu Mo send you the secret book of the next realm!"

Ah Yu shook his head: "Brother, the Assassin's technique is not rumored!"

"That's why I didn't speak."

Chen Sheng tugged her hair bun with a smile, and wrote lightly: "I opened my mouth, any secret method can be spread... Okay, don't worry about this matter, eldest brother will settle it for you!"

Ah Yu hesitated for a few breaths, and finally a smile appeared on his face: "Hey, thank you eldest brother!"

Chen Sheng pulled the wild vegetable leaves from the bowl into his mouth, and said with a smile, "The family said thank you."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Chen Feng, who was in uniform in the military, walking into the courtyard with a cloth bag, his face was about to collapse.

Seeing this, Zhao Qing smiled and stroked the messy sideburns around his ears, got up and greeted him: "The second child is here, have you eaten?"

Chen Feng lifted the cloth bag in his hand as if offering a treasure: "Sister-in-law, look, what good things have I brought you?"

Zhao Qing: "What good stuff?"

Chen Feng walked into the hall quickly, wrapped the cloth on the square table and opened it, revealing a cooked lamb leg: "Dangdang...grilled deer's leg!"

Zhao Qing said in surprise: "Where did it come from?"

Ah Yu also said with bright eyes: "Wow, I want to eat, I want to eat!"

Chen Sheng said sourly: "It must be the second uncle who got it near Panlong Village, how can he have such a skill!"

Chen Feng said with a "hehe" smile: "Big brother guessed right, it was my father who asked me to send it here."

Zhao Qing smiled and raised the roasted deer's legs: "I'll cut everything, you two talk... Ah Yu, come and help the eldest sister."

Ah Yu immediately jumped up: "Come on!"

Chen Sheng turned his face away and looked at Chen Feng angrily: "What's the matter? Tell me!"

Chen Feng neatly cleaned up the tableware and chopsticks on the table, took out a map from his arms and spread it on the map: "Brother, Ying Zheng has dispatched troops!"

Chen Sheng said with a "tsk": "He really can't stand it, is he going to Hedong, Pingyang, and straight to Taiyuan as we expected?"

"no!"

Chen Feng pointed at the map and signaled to Chen Sheng: "Ying Zheng worships Wei Liao as the commander, and the troops are divided into two routes, with Zhang Han leading the way, going east of the river to Pingyang, and defending the city. Plug in Dang County!"

Chen Sheng looked intently at the two places that Chen Feng had pointed out on the map, and saw the Yongzhou army, in the shape of an horn, from south to north to withstand the Han Xin army who had occupied most of Bingzhou.

The best part is that Shangdang is located north of Sizhou, where Yongzhou, Sizhou, Jizhou, and Bingzhou meet.

Occupying the Shangdang, Ying Zheng seized the initiative in the war. He could attack and defend, and he could block the westward road of Taiping Road!
"One child falls, and the whole plate is alive!"

Chen Sheng was suddenly enlightened, and couldn't help but exclaim, "This Wei Liao is an expert!"

He pondered in his heart that he Hanting was far away from Bingzhou, and he had no intention of mixing with the situation in Bingzhou.

It is not surprising that he failed to see the importance of the Shangdang area.

But with the schemes of Zhang Liang and Han Xin, why didn't they see the importance of Shangdang?
He pondered for a moment, and soon came to a conclusion: 'These two may be blinded by strategic goals! '

Under the current situation, Sizhou is a hot potato, whoever goes will die!

Even his Red Army captured Luoyi, and he had to spit it out.

Zhang Liang and Han Xin, of course, can understand this.

Therefore, they want to go west, fight Tong Bingzhou and Yongzhou, and form a north-south trend with him Hanting and Ji Zhou!

Their purpose is clear.

But just because of the clarity, the key position of Shangdang was ignored.

"Okay, just stay tuned!"

Chen Sheng only glanced at it, then withdrew his gaze and waited for the barbecue with peace of mind: "Ying Zheng's move is obviously ready for a protracted battle... This battle, they will have to fight!"

　Sorry for causing trouble to the gentlemen...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)