Yuan Shao, the father of Fanghua in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 293 Was Forgotten
Hou stretched out her hand to open the window, and a gust of cold wind suddenly came blowing in her face. The unique piercing cold in the morning in the Northland made her groggy and drowsy after getting up, sober up a lot.

She felt the warmth rushing out of the room, and quickly pulled the window back, leaving only a gap.

She turned her head and saw that the child on the bed behind her was still soundly asleep, and she was relieved a little.

She supported the window sill with her hands and looked out through the gap in the window. From top to bottom of the window, the upper part is a line of sky, and the lower part is the snow scene of the house.

There has just been a light snowfall in Beixincheng. The snow came very late because it should be the last snow before the weather gets warmer, and it came very early. It was early spring at this time, but because of the late spring cold, it became the first snow of this year. Field of snow.

However, just after the snow fell, the weather began to warm up again, and the snow powder covering the branches on the wall turned into trickles, dripping everywhere.

Seeing that the ice in the pond in the yard had melted, and a fish jumped out of the water, Hou felt that spring was coming.

Outside the courtyard wall, there were vague voices of people, and it seemed quite lively. Hou knew that this was the refugees who had been waiting outside the city gate to pour into the city after the city gate opened early in the morning. They all escaped from Montenegro.

It was bustling outside the wall, but deserted inside. Hou felt a little uncomfortable, because the owner of the mansion had been away for more than half a year and hadn't returned.

In her spare time, she often listened to the chats of the dozen or so girls who stayed in the mansion, talking about the deeds of the owner of the mansion after Yuan Xi left. These girls often regretted, why didn't they go with the young master?

Now that the son is married, he has become the governor of Youzhou!
Hou also felt a little uncomfortable. After meeting Yuan Xi in the small building before, the feeling left in her hands was like what happened yesterday.

However, Hou had a feeling that Yuan Xi might never come back.

What Yuan Xi has done in the past six months, the Hou family has heard the little girl say that he is familiar with it. The other party is now a prince, and he has laid down a large area in Youzhou and Xuzhou. Now he has returned to Guangyang County, which is adjacent to Zhuo County. Jicheng.

Mrs. Hou listened to the little girl muttering that Yuan Xi had stayed in Jicheng for a month, and it seemed that he didn't intend to leave, because he might have forgotten about Beixincheng a long time ago.

When Gongsun Zan was still alive, the Hou family had been to Jicheng. No matter the size of the population or the convenience of water transportation there, it was not comparable to Beixincheng. This is the proof that Beixincheng will be abandoned.

Speaking of the fleeing Heishan people, Hou heard that Yuan Xi issued an order in Bingzhou, Youzhou, saying that there were refugees from Heishan who went to Youzhou to farm and work.

Hou thought that although Yuan Xi was young, he did things with a sense of sophistication that did not commensurate with his age, and his actions were decisive, no less than when his late husband was the most popular in the past.

This pair of Montenegrin Army drew their salaries from the bottom, showing their style of conduct.

There are tens of 10 people in the Taihang Mountains under the rule of the Black Mountain Army, but there are dozens of forces scattered in it. In order to suppress and annex each other, the leaders of the Black Mountain bandits used the young and strong under their rule as soldiers.

This certainly guarantees its own military strength, but under the means of fishing in the dry lake, the labor force engaged in production has been reduced a lot, which has caused Montenegro to be in an embarrassing situation where there is no food, no food, no food and no food.

Especially last year, the disaster was even worse. The locust plague and drought that spread to all states in the world made it difficult for the Montenegrin forces to move forward at the back door of Nederland.

Yuzhou and Yanzhou were also hit by disasters. Yuan Shu and Cao Cao had a lot of food shortages, the intensity of expansion was much lower, and there were almost no decent wars.

On the contrary, it was Hanoi County, which was mixed between Bingzhou and Sili, because Zhang Yang had no intention of expanding and devoted himself to farming, but the harvest was good.

The Black Mountain Army once sent people to Hanoi to borrow food, but the answer was that there was nothing they could do, because Lu Bu's army was stationed in Hanoi, and the Baibo Army in Hanoi in the east of the river was also short of food.

Under such circumstances, the farmers and common people in Montenegro ushered in spring plowing.

There was already a shortage of food for the winter, and most people even ate the seeds. Not to mention the half a year between farming and harvesting, many people couldn't even survive the spring.

However, in order to maintain the military affairs, the leader of the Montenegrin Army forced the people to surrender. After all, the soldiers will not wait until the autumn harvest to eat, 10,000+ mouths, but they have to eat food every day.

But food will not be transformed out of thin air, so what should we do?
When the people of Montenegro were in despair, a message spread secretly.

The governor of Youzhou came to office, and he will not blame the people of Heishan. As long as he goes to Youzhou to join him, he will be allocated a piece of wasteland, and open up wasteland on it, and the land will be his own!
This is certainly a great temptation, but it still hasn't solved the most troublesome problem of eating.

Then came another news.

The people who escaped could owe food on credit first and pay it back after the harvest, or they could also work as apprentice craftsmen to earn food, work part-time on the same day, and get paid for food on the same day.

As for those who can join the army, the treatment is even more generous. As long as one person joins the army, the whole family can be exempted from hard labor and can get rations to feed at least two people.

When the news came out, many people were immediately moved. They couldn't survive in the first place, so why not find a way out?
Some people also doubt that Youzhou can really support so many refugees?
Wouldn't it be to lie to them and then be caught as slaves to work!
In the hesitant wait-and-see, some people couldn't bear it any longer, and began to try to escape and went to Youzhou.

The northern part of the Taihang Mountains controlled by the Black Mountain Army was originally at the junction of Youzhou, Bingzhou and Jizhou, adjacent to Zhuo County, and the northern pass of the Taihang Mountains was only a hundred miles away from Beixincheng.

Although Jizhou has a better climate and is more prosperous, but because the Yuan family and the Heishan army had a bad relationship, they were very wary of the refugees, so people wanted to flee, and now there is only Youzhou as the choice.

After more than half a month, the news came back that those who escaped, indeed, as long as they worked, someone would take care of their meals!

Combined with the real-life rumors that Yuan Xi spread in Montenegro, the people in Montenegro were already unstable, but now they heard that Youzhou can make people full of food, they were completely chaotic, and large-scale escapes began.

When Zhang Yan heard this, he was furious and ordered several leaders to loot near Beixin City.

As a result, they were ambushed by the Youzhou army as soon as they left the North Pass, and they were beaten into a panic. When the leader of the opposing army appeared, several Montenegrin generals who still wanted to resist turned pale with fright, turned around and fled in panic.

The general defending the Beixin City turned out to be Jushou, the supervisor of Yuan Shao's subordinates!

Speaking of which, Jushou and the Heishan army were also old enemies. In order to avenge the Heishan army's surprise attack on Yecheng, Yuan Shao's whole army attacked Heishan and beheaded Hu Shouyu Du and others. Everyone in Heishan was terrified.

At that time, Yuan Shao's men were the most ruthless in beating the Black Mountain Army, one was Lu Bu, and the other was Ju Shou.

Therefore, in the eyes of the generals in Montenegro, Jushou was a person who could not be offended, and no one wanted to face him head-on.

After Zhang Yan heard about it, he became even more irritable, and the one that gave him the most headache was Hanoi County in the south of Montenegro.

Originally, the relationship between the Black Mountain Army and Zhang Yang was good, and sometimes they echoed each other, but when Lu Bu, who had a better relationship with Zhang Yang, arrived, he couldn't handle Zhang Yan.

It stands to reason that Lu Bu and Zhang Yan were Yuan Shao's enemies, but when Lu Bu was under Yuan Shao's command, he killed many of Zhang Yan's subordinates, which made Zhang Yan very uncomfortable.

Both of them were entrusted by the imperial court, Lu Bu had a high status, and Zhang Yan was an old man, neither of them was willing to take the initiative to make friends, and the two sides have froze since then.

Zhang Yan gritted her teeth, this Lv Bu took good care of in Yanzhou, why did he come to Hanoi for nothing!
Hanoi is one of the two routes of retreat for the Montenegrin Army. If Lu Bu becomes an enemy of himself, if he can't resist, wouldn't he have to go to the territory of the Southern Huns in Bingzhou?
When Zhang Yan was indecisive and in a dilemma, Jushou in Beixin City felt a little at a loss.

It's nothing more than being assigned to Jizhou by Yuan Shao, but since I took office until now, I haven't met Yuan Xi yet, what is the other party thinking?
Jushou felt more and more that Youzhou, a rotten place, was not suitable for him. Yuan Xi put him alone in Beixin City to guard the city, and the dignified Jizhou Supervising Army, how could he be reduced to this point!
The key point came and came, and they had a falling out with Xu You in a blink of an eye, but the other party relied on his position in front of him, stumbling him everywhere, it was simply too deceiving!

But it is not without good news. A month ago, Yuan Xi led the army to inspect Jicheng, and found out that the county magistrate Xu Jie was corrupt, broke the law, opened the treasury privately, and robbed the women of the people. Order the whole city to hang on the top of the city to show the public.

I heard that this month has passed, Xu Jie's head is still hanging on the top of Jicheng City.

When Xu You heard about this, Ju Shou was also there, and he saw Xu You's face was pale, and he fell to the ground. If nothing else, the assassination of Yuan Xi was also very implicated, and Xu You couldn't afford it!
Seeing this, Ju Shou was secretly relieved. Taking advantage of the time when he was helping Xu You up with everyone, he secretly let go and fell Xu You into a somersault. The bad breath in his chest was relieved a little.

Xu You immediately wrote a letter to Jicheng pleading guilty, Yuan Xi replied with lenient words of comfort, only saying that Xu Jie was bewitched by others and had nothing to do with Xu You, so let him not worry.

Ju Shou was quite regretful when he learned about it, and thought why he didn't clean up Xu You easily!
In his heart, he always felt that Yuan Xi's plans were very big, but Yuan Xi was mysterious in Jicheng, and he hadn't contacted him until now.

This made Jushou a little depressed, did he not believe in himself, or did he feel that he was useless?
You can't stay in Beixincheng all the time, can you?
Do you want to write a letter and ask yourself?

In the courtyard of Jicheng, Cao Xian and Cao Jie, one holding Cao Hua and the other A Xiang, are teaching them how to play Wu Qin Xi.

Cao Hua and Axiang are about the same age, they are both toddlers. In line with Yuan Xi's idea that dolls should exercise from an early age, they are forced to do Wuqinxi gymnastics sadly.

In the room, Yuan Xi scooped up the thick concoction in the bowl with a wooden spoon, blew a few mouthfuls, and said to Mrs. Wu in front of him: "This is a bit bitter, do you want to add some sugar?"

Mrs. Wu's face was hot, and she thought to herself that you treat me like a child?
She whispered: "No need, I just drink it."

After hearing this, Yuan Xi said, "Very well, madam, open your mouth."

As soon as these words came out, Mrs. Wu's face turned red, she gritted her teeth and said, "I have hands, so I don't need you to feed me!"

(End of this chapter)