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Chapter 566 The Difficulty Encountered by Huang Zongxi
Women are sometimes very strange. They are all kinds of hypocrisy in front of men, but they are very real in front of similar people. Li Chaosheng went to invite Song Sanniang but was directly rejected, and the next day Princess Changyu went to Song Sanniang's other courtyard in person. Li Chaosheng thought It would be Mars hitting the earth, and the fight was fierce, but it didn't.

In the afternoon, the two women returned to Li Chaosheng's mansion talking and laughing together. Song Sanniang also officially entered the West Courtyard. When Li Chaosheng came back from the county government office, he was startled, and saw the two women sitting in the courtyard talking and laughing. , and the girl Nian Sheng even ran around in the yard, and she also called Princess Changyu a mother.

When Li Chaosheng curiously asked why Nian Sheng was called the mother of Princess Changyu, Nian Sheng said innocently: "Mother told me to do this. Mother said that she is also Daddy's daughter-in-law, so I will call him Mother."

Li Chaosheng was very surprised. Why is this girl in his family so sensible? Thinking of Li Chaosheng, he was a little curious. Looking back at the two women who had such a good conversation and didn't even have time to talk to him, Li Chaosheng asked questions. Are people so nice?

In fact, Li Chaosheng didn't know that the two women also saw Li Chaosheng, but both of them deliberately ignored Li Chaosheng, and when Li Chaosheng turned around, Song Sanniang said, "I know you did everything for him."

Princess Changyu smiled and said, "Aren't you the same?"

Song Sanniang said: "Well, I agree with you, we all love him deeply, we are willing to make concessions for him, what you said is right, he will be the emperor in the future, there must be countless women staring at him outside, If the two of us fight each other, we might be taken advantage of by other women in the future, and you and I don’t know whether other women have ulterior motives, so it’s better to know each other well, be optimistic about him, and help him block the temptation from the outside.”

Princess Changyu said: "That's right, as the ruler of the county and the future emperor, his existence is extremely dazzling. Now we can get his heart, which is our blessing, and we must guard this blessing well." , unite, build a line of defense for him, and prevent the demons and ghosts outside from destroying him."

Song Sanniang heard the words and said: "Okay, I agree with you, we should be his help on the way forward, not a stumbling block, so I will act according to the plan you proposed. If there is any conflict between us, we will resolve it internally. But in principle, it is unanimous to the outside world, and absolutely no one is allowed to use us as a breakthrough, thereby endangering him."

The two girls looked at each other and exchanged glances tacitly, but Li Chaosheng still didn't know anything about it. He didn't know that for him, the two women who were going to be strong all their lives would compromise with each other, and finally reached a cooperation and made concessions to each other.

Facing the reality, Huang Zongxi was shaken in his heart. In fact, this was the reason why Li Chaosheng asked him and Gu Yanwu to come to Gansu to govern a county. After all, they would only do it when they faced problems that could not be solved by relying on the Confucian classics they trusted. Is it right to reconsider your point of view?
Huang Zongxi rode his horse and followed the team, and suddenly saw a corpse on the ground covered with emerald green locusts. The locusts were sucking on the corpse, as if they were eating people.

The deputy said with a smile after hearing this: "Master Zhongli, what kind of hell is this? The people here are pretty good. Back then, Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi were much more miserable than here, and they have reached the point where people cannibalize people. Now at least the common people can dig some grass roots and tree bark to eat, otherwise the corpses on the ground will be the turn of the locusts, and they will all be eaten up."

The credibility of the government is severely lacking in Gansu. The common people don’t trust the government. The locust plague has pushed the people’s sentiments in Gansu to an extreme.

Huang Zongxi remained silent, and said with his assistant: "Master Zhongli, there is a forest five miles ahead of us, where we can rest temporarily, eat something, and discuss the next countermeasures."

In this way, the days are quite comfortable.

After all, if you send your beautiful daughter to the bandits, you can exchange ten catties of millet. The bandits really give it, but the government has pure red mouth and white teeth, which makes the people of Gansu regard the government as a bandit.

Huang Zongxi rode on a horse and watched the newly grown crops being eaten by locusts in the distance, but the common people didn't come out to take care of them, as if the common people here had already resigned to their fate.

Moreover, the two daughters gradually have their own division of labor. Princess Changyu has excellent management skills, so the management work in the mansion is basically managed by Princess Changyu, and Song Sanniang is proficient in bows and horses. Some external affairs are managed by Song Sanniang.

And Yang Liu has also noticed this, but Li Dingguo said in the intelligence that these are not important. Yang Liu is now a fish on the chopping board. Just looking at it with a knife, let him know why the flowers are so red.

That is definitely at the crushing level. Li Chaosheng looked at the military report and nodded, "Order Li Dingguo's Ministry to continue advancing. Yang Liu is still valuable."

For Yang Liu, Li Chaosheng still knew that Yang Liu was considered as a remnant of the old age. When Wang Jiayin first rebelled, Yang Liu participated in the uprising, and soon became the leader of one side. At that time, he was almost the same as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others It was equal, but after Wang Jiayin died, all the rogues stood on their own, and those with strong abilities became Li Zicheng, while Zhang Xianzhong and those who were not capable became existences like Yang Liu. Find a place where the power of Ming Dynasty is weak to occupy the mountain be king.

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Li Dingguo was devastated in Gansu, and the accompanying administrators also began to gradually restore people's livelihood in Gansu. However, the current situation is not good, because the local people in Gansu do not trust the officials in Lantian very much. After the locust plague, the summer grain seedlings planted by the farmers in the ground will be eaten up by the locusts as soon as they emerge.

Then he distributed the seeds, cattle, and agricultural tools from Lantian to encourage the people to produce, and then Lantian was exempted from tax for a few more years, and the people lived the same life as Lantian.

After all, the military gap between the two sides was not so unreasonable at that time. Now the military gap between Li Dingguo and Yang Liu is equivalent to the military soldiers of the beautiful country entering the African indigenous tribes.

Huang Zongxi exclaimed in shock: "This locust is actually eating people?"

It has to be said that the confidence of a general is given by the forces behind him. When Li Dingguo was under Zhang Xianzhong's command, he was not so domineering.

After hearing this, Huang Zongxi looked at the deputy in surprise, only to see that the deputy was only eighteen or nineteen years old, Huang Zongxi couldn't help but said, "How do you know so clearly?"

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Zi and said, "By the way, how are Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu doing?"

After hearing this, Huang Zongxi looked at his assistant and said, "I never thought you would have such an experience, why didn't you tell me earlier."

In Gansu, there are thousands of miles of red land and dead bodies everywhere. The army has already passed here. This land will be his territory under Huang Zongxi's governance. But Huang Zongxi has encountered a disaster for the first time. He imagined the tragic situation here, and he overestimated the victims as much as possible. However, he never expected that the first problem he faced here was not how to rescue the disaster, but that the victims would avoid them. As long as they entered the village, the victims would leave their homes and run directly into the mountains , You can't even cry out.

Huang Zongxi said: "Soldiers are rampant, corpses are everywhere, and the people are like savages. Is this a hell on earth?"

The deputy said: "To tell you the truth, I used to be from northern Shaanxi. I have personally experienced what I said. When I was nine years old, I was put into an earthen jar and prepared to be cooked. Fortunately, The county lord sent someone to investigate the military situation in northern Shaanxi. They saw me and the children who were going to cook and eat together at that time, and replaced us with the adults with food. Compared with northern Shaanxi, this Gansu is nothing."

Huang Zongxi fell into deep thought. He found that the books he had read had nothing to do with the situation here. He used to call himself a learned man, but now he couldn't help but doubt himself. If you don't listen, it becomes useless. Can Confucianism really solve everything in the world as those old gentlemen said?A monarch, an official, who has learned Confucian classics, can he really be a good official, a good monarch?

The second daughter directly managed the entire county government in an orderly manner, so that Li Chaosheng could concentrate on handling political affairs instead of being distracted by the affairs of the government.

Upon hearing this, Gu Zi said, "It's still possible..."

"Why is it happening like that?"

In May, Li Chaosheng received Li Dingguo's front-line battle report. The content of the battle report was very simple. It indicated that since the army officially entered Gansu in April, it had been devastated all the way. I found the old lair of the big thief Yang Liu who was entrenched in Gansu, and attacked it, and during the attack, I deliberately released water to drive Yang Liu away, and wiped out all the bandits, large and small, in Gansu. Drive Yang Liu to continue walking to the interior of Gansu.

Life soon got on the right track. There were a few more people in the family, but Li Chaosheng's life was not in a hurry. The two women who tolerated, respected and restrained each other made the family look orderly.

The deputy pointed to the corpse that had been wrapped in locusts just now. At this moment, he saw that the corpse was intact, but the corpse became shriveled, as if it had been sucked dry.

Huang Zongxi roared, and the locusts flew up in fright. The horse raised its hooves in fear and backed up a few steps. At this time, Huang Zongxi's deputy grabbed Huang Zongxi's reins and said, "Don't panic, the chief of the middle school, locusts don't eat people. They're just sucking the juices seeping out of the dead bodies, you see..."

When he got here, he realized that what he had thought was too beautiful. The first problem he faced was not the common people screaming in mountains and tsunami, but the empty village. The government, we came to distribute food, but no one came to say a word to him.

You can only see countless people staring at this place in the forest in the mountain village, but they are like frightened wild animals, ready to escape into the forest at any time.

"Hahaha, the head of the middle school is being humble."

It is true that no matter who will unify the world in the future, Yang Liu and his group will have a better life. If they surrender, they will be appointed as petty officials.

Li Chaosheng looked at the intelligence report on this aspect and nodded: "The government's credibility is accumulated little by little. Now that Gansu's credibility has been destroyed to the extreme, we have to rebuild it so that we can do a good job in Gansu."

Huang Zongxi smelled the fragrance, looked at his assistant and said, "Isn't this the delicacy you're talking about?"

The deputy said with a smile: "I, I have been a peddler here for two years, and I am very familiar with every plant and tree here. Otherwise, I would not be sent to be the deputy of the chief."

The deputy said with a smile: "It's not something worthy of publicity, so why bother to say it, if it wasn't for the inquiry from the Chief of the Central Literary, I wouldn't take the initiative to say it."

Therefore, the guidance given by the Political Department in response to this situation is: you can do government affairs in the name of bandits, and put the people first in everything, don't cherish feathers, and don't do practical things.

This was beyond Huang Zongxi's expectations. Huang Zongxi thought that his disaster relief would be the same as in the Central Plains. When the government came, the common people fell to their knees and shouted to the Lord, please, and then he waved his hand: "Open Grain was put in the warehouse, and then all the people cheered and called Master Qingtian."

After hearing this, Huang Zongxi said: "Okay, by the way, why are you so familiar with this place?"

Hearing this, Huang Zongxi became curious. He soon knew what delicacies there were in this remote village. He poured a little rapeseed oil on the red-hot slate, and then put the green locusts on the slate to fry. , and soon a smell of barbecue permeated the air.

Seeing this, the deputy said to his opponent: "Go find some dry firewood, find a stone slab, and catch some locusts. Today I will cook a delicacy for everyone."

But this will definitely not last long, so in the words of Li Dingguo, this kind of person is: "The county lord, I regard them as dead bones in the grave."

Huang Zongxi heard the words: "I may be far better than you in the Four Books and Five Classics, but in reality, I'm afraid I'm not as good as you."

The group soon came to the woods that the deputy said, said it was a woods, but there was no green leaf in the forest, the green leaves had been eaten up by locusts, and as soon as people came over, they would stir up a wave of locusts flying.

Gu Zi said: "What the county lord said is true, and the chiefs and middle chiefs sent to Gansu are very good."

This made Huang Zongxi feel at a loss, as if he had put all his energy into punching a cow, but in the end he punched the cotton, not only did he not vent his strength, he even felt internally injured.

The deputy heard the words and said: "This is it. The county lord invented it. Fried grasshoppers are delicious."

"Invented by the county lord? Has the county lord eaten it?"

"I've eaten it. Don't look at it. It's actually rich in nutritional value, especially for people who lack meat. It's a kind of high-quality protein, which can well supplement the protein and calcium needed by the human body. , and it is also helpful for us men to have sex, it is a rare tonic."

"Uh... how does the county lord know that it is helpful for intercourse, doesn't it?"

Huang Zongxi stared at his deputy with wide eyes?
(End of this chapter)