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After more than ten days of busy work, the people of Marsh Mansion finally finished harvesting early rice. Next, they have to take a good rest for a few days, because by the end of the month, they will be busy planting the second season of rice.

This year's early rice harvest was bumper, with the overall output quadrupling that of previous years. Zhao Yao only needs to hand over one-third of the early rice harvest.

The imperial court stipulated that Lingnan must hand over grain to the capital twice a year. Once for early rice and once for second season rice. If there is third-crop rice planted, there is no need to submit it to the court, because there are relatively few places to grow third-crop rice in Lingnan.

The reason why one-third of the early rice production is handed over is not the one-third prescribed by the imperial court, but one-third of this year's early rice production is the amount handed over to the imperial court every year. It can be seen that this year's early rice harvest is impressive.

After the early rice harvest, Zhao Yao immediately sent the grain to the court this year to the capital. Keep one-third of the remaining two-thirds of the grain, and send the remaining one-third to the north.

In addition to sending part of the early rice to the north, Zhao Yao also spent his own money to buy a lot of foreign grain and sent it to the north.

Zhao Yao delivers food faster than the capital. However, before his food was sent to the north, the locust plague had already occurred. Grain dealers in the north took the opportunity to raise prices, which temporarily panicked people in the north.

Just when the people in the north were worried about having no food to eat, the food sent by Zhao Yao arrived in the north. The first batch of grain he sent weighed one thousand kilograms. When it arrived, he immediately suppressed the grain in the north and made the grain merchants in the north very angry.

Northern grain merchants want to take advantage of this opportunity to make a fortune. How can they allow others to destroy their opportunity to make a fortune this time? Just when they were preparing to embarrass the people sent by Zhao Yao to deliver food to the north, Chu Ying, who was staying in the northern military camp, led his soldiers to protect the food sent by His Highness the King of Han.

Zhao Yao was worried that the grain he sent would be destroyed by profiteers from the north, so he wrote a letter to Chu Ying and asked the grain sender to deliver it to Chu Ying.

After the food delivery person arrived in the north, he immediately sent the letter to Chu Ying.

After Chu Ying read Zhao Yao's letter, without any hesitation, he led his soldiers to protect the food sent by Zhao Yao.

Although Zhao Yao sent the food in the name of the imperial court, anyone with a discerning eye knew that the food was sent by His Highness the King of Han himself. Because Zhao Yao delivered food faster than the court ordered.

On the third day after Zhao Yao's food delivery team arrived in the north, the imperial court's order to deal with the locust plague arrived in the north.

The imperial court issued several imperial edicts in succession. An imperial decree asked the northern states to open their granaries for relief. An imperial edict is to severely punish those who take advantage of the opportunity to raise grain prices. An imperial edict is to let the northern states take the lead in catching locusts. An imperial decree asked the northern states to send ducks to eat locusts. An imperial edict is for the soldiers in the northern military camps to protect food and maintain order in the north. If anyone is found taking the opportunity to cause chaos, they will be killed without mercy. An imperial edict was to put King Han in charge of dealing with the locust plague. An imperial edict is...

When the imperial edict was delivered to the north, the imperial court also sent many people to the north, including the King of Chu. The King of Chu had two tasks. The first task is to deal with all matters related to the locust plague with King Han. The second task is to investigate who committed corruption and bribery during the disaster relief period, and who took the opportunity to cause chaos. The most important thing is to investigate whether the northern officials or the King of Han have colluded with the Huns.

After the King of Chu arrived in the north, there were three princes sitting in the north, namely King Han, King Dai and King Chu. Before the locust plague occurred in the north, the emperor sent the king to the northern military camp.

Previously, the Xiongnu harassed the northern border and had the intention of invading southward. After the emperor discussed with He Xiang and others, he sent the acting king to the north.

After King Dai arrived in the north, he worked with Chu Ying to solve the problem of Xiongnu harassing the north.

When the Huns saw Chu Ying and King Dai coming from the north, they looked down upon them at first. After all, neither Chu Ying nor King Dai had ever fought against the Huns.

Before King Dai arrived in the north, Chu Ying did not take any serious action against the Xiongnu. One is because he wants to see the true purpose of the Huns, and the other is because he wants to test the soldiers in the north.

Seeing that Chu Ying was no match for them, the Huns intensified their efforts to disturb the northern border. Just when the Huns were preparing to officially invade south, King Dai arrived in the north.

When Chu Ying and King Dai saw that the Huns were going south to invade, they stopped trying and took action directly. The Huns underestimated the enemy at first and did not take the two of them seriously. As a result, they lost miserably.

After seeing the abilities of Chu Ying and Dai Wang, the Huns did not dare to despise them anymore, but unfortunately they were still no match for Chu Ying and the others. The Huns were defeated again, even more severely than the first defeat. After losing this time, the Huns did not dare to act rashly.

Just when the Huns were preparing to attack the north for the third time, a locust plague broke out on the grasslands, which forced the Huns to abandon their plan to go south to attack the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Not long after the locust plague occurred in the Xiongnu, the locusts flew across the northern border and invaded the north of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

This locust plague dealt a fatal blow to the Huns, which directly caused the Huns to have no food for the winter. In order for the Huns to survive the winter, they had to go south to attack Dazhou. Only by attacking Dazhou and plundering Dazhou's food and money can they survive this winter.

During the locust plague in the north, the Huns launched fierce attacks on the Zhou Dynasty, each time becoming more fierce than the last. The soldiers in the northern military camp led by King Dai and Chu Ying not only resisted the Xiongnu attacks again and again, but also killed many Xiongnu soldiers.

The Huns did not expect that Zhou Dynasty could still resist them tenaciously despite the locust plague. During this period of attack, it can be said that they devoted 70% of their troops. Not only that, the Huns also sent out their ace cavalry. I thought they would be able to sweep across the northern border by sending out their ace cavalry, but I didn't expect that the northern soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty could resist their cavalry. Dazhou not only completely resisted the Huns' cavalry, but also destroyed most of their cavalry, causing them heavy casualties.

Half of the cavalry was destroyed, but the Huns did not give up. Just as they were preparing to launch another ferocious attack on Dazhou, their back garden caught fire. The Qiulin tribe once again united with the Han tribe to attack the Xiongnu royal court.

The Qiulin tribe and the Han tribe have been severely suppressed by the new Maodun Chanyu in the past few years. Even so, these two tribes did not surrender to Xinmaodun Chanyu and still resisted the Hun royal court tenaciously.

Xinmaodun Chanyu has always wanted to regain these two tribes. No matter how he threatened and induced them, these two tribes just refused to surrender. They would rather the entire tribe die in battle than submit to the royal court.

Seeing that these two tribes were so ignorant, Xinmaodun Shanyu was very angry and decided to destroy these two tribes directly. Two years ago, Xinmaodun Shanyu devoted all his efforts to annihilate the Qiulin tribe and the Han tribe. The total number of soldiers from these two tribes was only a fraction of the royal army.

In this battle, at first glance, the new Maodun Chanyu won, but unfortunately this was not the case. The Royal Court army was just one step away from defeating these two tribes. At that time, the two tribes were beaten and had no power to fight back. At this time, Shanyu Xinmaodun ordered to stop the attack and threatened the two tribes to surrender obediently.

Xinmaodun Chanyu did not really intend to destroy everyone in these two tribes. If he really does this, his status and reputation on the grassland will be greatly affected. Although the Qiulin tribe and the Han tribe have been separated from the royal court for many years, they are from the same clan as the royal court.

Being from the same clan, if the new Maodun Chanyu exterminates these two tribes, then other tribes will definitely turn against him.

The Qiulin tribe and the Han tribe used the new Maodun Chanyu to coerce and induce them to surrender. During this period, they recuperated their strength and then launched a fierce counterattack against the royal army.

In this counterattack, the people of the two tribes had a death attitude and rushed forward one by one regardless of their lives. The soldiers of Wangting were shocked by their desperate momentum, and immediately lost to the Qiulin tribe and the Han tribe in terms of momentum.

Once they lose momentum, fear will arise in the hearts of the soldiers of the Royal Court. Not long after, they were beaten to a pulp by two tribes.

After losing to the Qiulin Tribe and the Han Tribe, the soldiers of Wang Ting completely lost their confidence. Xinmaodun Shanyu was naturally very angry when he saw that the soldiers of the royal court were afraid, but he also knew that the soldiers of the royal court were no longer suitable for fighting, so he had to give up attacking the two tribes and withdraw his troops and return to the royal court.

The Qiulin tribe and the Han tribe did not pursue the victory. If they continue to attack, it will arouse the morale of the soldiers in the royal court, and they will be the losers. Besides, they don't have the strength to pursue the victory.

After withdrawing his troops and returning to the royal court, Xinmaodun Shanyu originally planned to reorganize his troops before continuing to attack the Qiulin tribe and the Han tribe. However, internal strife broke out within the royal court, forcing him to abandon his plan to attack the two tribes. .

During the internal strife in the royal court, Xinmaodun Shanyu almost lost his position as Shanyu. Although he managed to retain his position as Shan Yu without any danger in the end, his power was weakened a lot.

In the past two years, the new Maodun Chanyu did not attack any tribes, and also harassed the Zhou Dynasty on the border. The Qiulin tribe and the Han tribe have not taken revenge on the royal court in the past two years. Their vitality was seriously injured and they need to cultivate themselves.

In the past two years, the Qiulin tribe and the Han tribe have been very low-key on the surface, but in fact they have been gathering momentum. They did not give up taking revenge on the royal court, but they never found a good opportunity. This time the Royal Court's attack on the Great Zhou Dynasty was their best opportunity for revenge, and of course they would not miss it. While Wang Ting's army was attacking Zhou Dynasty, they quietly attacked Wang Ting.

Xinmaodun Shanyu saw that the two Qiulin tribes and the Han tribe had recovered the Lang tribe while they were attacking the Great Zhou Dynasty. Naturally, he did not dare to continue to attack the Great Zhou Dynasty. He hurriedly turned back to the grassland to deal with the Qiulin tribe and the Han tribe. Once the Qiulin tribe and the Han tribe regain another tribe, the situation of the royal court will become dangerous. His position as Shan Yu will also become precarious.

After the Huns were driven away, the kings of Chu and Han could concentrate on dealing with the locust plague.

The acting king was not responsible for disaster relief. His main responsibility was to guard the northern border to prevent the Huns from moving south again. The kings of Chu and Han were responsible for dealing with the locust plague and could not interfere with the Huns.

The people in the north were frightened by the locust plague and thought they were going to starve. Unexpectedly, the court sent food so that they did not have to worry about starving to death.

During this period, the northern soldiers fought with the Huns, and then a locust plague occurred. The people in the north felt that God was going to destroy them, but they did not expect that the imperial court rescued them in time. The imperial court dealt with the locust plague in time and successfully resisted the Xiongnu invasion.

The people in the north were full of gratitude to the imperial court, and also to His Highness the King of Han who sent food as soon as possible. If His Highness the King of Han had not sent a thousand kilograms of grain in front of the court, they might not have been able to survive the court's rescue.

If you are full of gratitude to His Highness the King of Han, you will be full of dissatisfaction with His Highness the King of Han.

His Royal Highness the King of Han was in Youzhou. When a locust plague broke out in the north, he did not immediately provide food relief, and he did not even take care of his own fiefdom.

It was not until the emperor gave the order that King Han opened the granary in Youzhou to provide disaster relief.

The people in the north were dissatisfied with King Han, but King Han didn't care at all. This puzzled King Chu and King Dai.