After being divorced, my identity as a poet was exposed

Linshui incident broke out, and Li Chenan and his party left on the third day of September.

Walking along the official road, six days later we arrived at the foot of Yao Mountain in Yao County, Wan'an Prefecture, Jiangnan Road.

The convoy was not moving too fast, and it was still ten days' drive from Guangling City.

The sunset dyed half the sky red again.

Li Chenan's motorcade stopped here.

Standing beside a golden rice field, Li Chenan bent down and stroked a heavy ear of rice with a touch of joy on his face.

This is Jiangnan.

It is the most important granary in Ningguo.

Along the way, he rarely stopped in towns, but mostly rested in the villages he passed along the way.

The situation was different from what I saw when I left Kyoto and passed outside Guangling City a year ago.

Many villages outside Guangling City were deserted, and all the fields were naturally abandoned.

This is what worries him the most.

But during this five-day trip, the fields I saw were all very well cultivated!

In addition, this year is considered to be a good year with good weather and good weather, and Jiangnan Road's autumn grain harvest is a foregone conclusion.

I just don’t know if those abandoned fields in Huangping Town outside Guangling City are now being cultivated by people... Even if there are people cultivating them, even if there are bumper harvests year after year, Ningguo’s food is still insufficient!

Due to the land conditions of Lingdong Road and Beimo Road, the grain output of these two roads is extremely low.

In the past twenty years, Ningguo's treasury has been empty for a long time, and there is no extra money to buy grain from Wu or Yue.

If the people want to survive, they can only eat coarse grains, and even dig wild vegetables, eat grass roots and swallow tree bark during the lean years.

This is the main reason restricting the population growth of Ningguo.

In the current situation, Li Chenan vigorously promotes industry and commerce in order to allow businessmen to open more workshops and recruit more workers, and indirectly to allow some people to earn a few more taels of silver.

Although business has shown good signs, it will ultimately be difficult to cover the entire Ningguo in a short period of time.

There are many limitations.

Not just the inherent thinking of businessmen, but also this damn road!

Traffic is poor and it is difficult to transport goods. How can those businessmen invest in and open workshops in those places?

Therefore, in order to solve the food problem of the people of Ningguo, they will have to buy food from other countries in the short term.

The grain output of Yue State is still higher than that of Wu State.

But now the situation in the country of Yue is not stable. If you want to successfully buy back food from the country of Yue...

Li Chenan stood up, looking at the brilliant sunset on the horizon, and suddenly thought of the sheep Duoduo.

Back in Kyoto, it’s time to write a letter to Yang Duoduo.

Not far behind Li Chenan stood two men in shackles.

They are Yu Wengu, the commander-in-chief of the Second Eagle of the Wild Kingdom, and his chief military advisor Yuan Shi.

As a prisoner, I did not suffer any torture along the way.

Of course, the prison car was uncomfortable, but Yu Wengu found that these days, the people sitting in the prison car were actually used to it.

Li Chenan never interrogated them during this journey.

Not even a word was said to them.

Regarding life and death, Yu Wengu didn't see through it. He just thought that Li Chenan's move was just to use him to blackmail his cousin Yu Wenfeng.

However, he did see many of Li Chenan's actions along the way.

These actions greatly exceeded Yuwen Gu's expectations.

So much so that when he looked at Li Chenan's back many times, it was hard to believe that this man would be the regent of Ning State and the future emperor of Ning State!

Sitting on the edge of the fields and chatting with the old farmers.

Speak pleasantly to those merchants.

You can even have a few words with the vendors on the street.

Even those little kids with runny noses could bend down and ask kindly if they were in school.

This reminded him of his cousin, Yu Wenfeng, the founding emperor of the Wild Kingdom.

When he raised troops from the Xiushan tribe, Yu Wenfeng was also very kind to his subordinates.

But as the team gradually grew stronger as it swept across the entire grassland and annexed each tribe, although Yu Wenfeng would still appear in the sight of the soldiers, he seemed to have an extra breath. Military advisor Zhong Bo Zhong said that it is called the aura of a king!

Military Advisor Zhong also said that generals are chosen by nature, and are naturally different from ordinary people. This also allows generals like them to understand their identities earlier and stand firm in their positions——

The meaning is very simple.

That is, you can no longer call everyone your cousin, as before, but you must respectfully call them general!

I can no longer drink and eat meat unscrupulously with the general as before.

Especially after the founding of the Great Wilderness, the cousin became the emperor of the Great Wilderness, and the distance between them became even further.

Prime Minister Zhong set some new rules for them——

Kneel down when you see the emperor!

This is the difference between monarch and minister!

Not to mention speaking loudly in front of the emperor.

This is the etiquette of a minister!

You can only accept the emperor's reward. You can't leave the army even if the emperor doesn't call you!

This is the rule of being a minister!

rule……

The once free-spirited desolate man now has many more rules.

It is said that this is the civilization from the Central Plains.

It's called Confucianism!

Yuwen Gu doesn't understand what civilization is or what Confucianism is, but he just thinks these rules are really troublesome.

But the future emperor of Ningguo not far away in front of him seems to have no such rules!

For example, the young people around him who were similar to him in age had never been seen kneeling in front of Li Chenan, or even shown to be cautious.

Especially the one named Wang Zhenghaoxuan!

He even occasionally patted Li Chenan on the shoulder!

According to Prime Minister Zhong, that is the supreme dragon!

Even the dragon whiskers are untouchable, let alone the dragon body!

This dragon... seems very different.

Just when Yuwen Gu was thinking this, Li Chenan turned around and walked towards them, stood in front of them, and suddenly asked:

"How do you solve the food problem of the desert people?"

Yuwen Gu was startled, he didn’t know this!

So he looked at Master Yuan.

Master Yuan turned his head away, thinking, I know and won’t tell you!

But just when he turned away, his eyes tightened suddenly, and there was a hint of fear in his eyes——

He saw Wang Zhenghaoxuan walking towards him with a big knife on his back!

Following Wang Zhenghaoxuan was a beautiful girl wearing a white dress.

That girl is naturally Su Meng.

Wang Zhenghaoxuan was holding Su Meng's little hand and was feeling happy when he unexpectedly saw Master Yuan's face.

I don’t know why, but when Wang Zhenghaoxuan saw this face, he wanted to slap his ears.

"What are you looking at?!"

The smile on Wang Zheng Haoxuan's face suddenly disappeared. He glared at Master Yuan fiercely and said fiercely:

"Believe it or not, I pulled out your last few teeth?!"

Master Yuan trembled and quickly looked away. He swallowed a sip of saliva and bowed to Li Chenan and said:

"I know a thing or two about this matter..."

Wang Zhenghaoxuan said again: "What kind of old man is this?"

"The person standing in front of you is Ning Guo Shixian! He is the emperor of Ning Guo!"

"You old thief, you still dare to call yourself me in front of our emperor? I will rip off your skin right now!"

Master Yuan's legs went weak and he knelt down with a pop.

His face turned pale, "The villain, the villain will die!"

Wang Zhenghaoxuan suddenly became happy, but Su Meng pulled Wang Zhenghaoxuan's hand and asked in a low voice:

"Why are you so fierce?"

"...This old guy is a traitor! As a person from the Ning Kingdom, he has become the dog of the deserted people."

"Oh……"

Su Meng looked at Master Yuan who was kneeling on the ground and added:

"Since you are a dog, you should be cooked!" (End of this chapter)