My whole family was in exile, and I relied on my space to buy half of my country.

Chapter 364 Look at her world
Unlike the joy and warmth of the Lu family, the Xirong Palace fell into mourning.

Queen Xirong has been lingering on her sick bed for the past two years.

The Emperor of Xirong was worried that she would not be able to bear the news that his third son had died of illness.So he kept the news of Qi Hongshen's death secret.

But the news could not be concealed.

When Queen Xirong learned that her son had been killed by the plague, she immediately spat out a mouthful of blood and said, "Call Zong'er back."

Qi Zhuanyu hurriedly hugged Queen Xirong and almost begged: "I will call him back right now. You must hold on and wait for him to come back."

But Queen Xirong was speechless. When the imperial doctor tremblingly went to treat her, Queen Xirong was already dead.

Qi Zhuanyu was in great mourning, and before he could recover from the shock of the queen's death, he received an invitation from Lu Shiyan to send troops to attack the city they occupied in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Qi Zhuanyu thought about his beloved wife's last words before she died, closed his eyes in pain, and asked someone to pass on an order, asking Qi Hongzong not to fight, not to want to take the city he had captured in the Zhou Dynasty, and just to return to Xirong safely with his troops.

Qi Hongzong knew in his heart that compared with Lu Shiyan's military strength, Xirong had no advantage.

Although many cities in Da Zhou were deserted, Lingnan, Bohai County and other places were developing very well under the governance of the Lu family.

And their Xirong is devastated.

The whole country, even Xia City, was plagued by famine and plague.At this time, there is simply no energy left to fight against it.

Thinking about this battle, Xirong invested so much.In the end, no benefits were gained. Instead, the third brother died and their country was brought down.

He sighed in his heart. This battle between Xirong and Xirong was in vain.

However, he did not admit defeat, he only wished that even Heaven was helping Da Zhou.

In his view, if it had not been for the subsequent drought, Xirong might not have been able to finally conquer the Zhou Dynasty.

But at this time, it was too late to say anything.

In the end, Qi Hongzong lost nearly [-] troops before he fled back to Xirong in panic.Countries such as Rouran, which were smaller than Xirong, abandoned their cities and ran away as soon as they discovered that the wind was in the wrong direction.

At this point, the ownership of all the cities in Dazhou has returned to their hands.

It's just that although the city came back, it was completely ruined.

What was recaptured were basically empty cities.

The people who had earlier fled to Lingnan, Cangwu and other places stayed there and refused to leave.

As a result, a very strange phenomenon occurred in the land of Zhou Dynasty.

Most of the population is concentrated in Lingnan and other places.

And Datong, a once prosperous capital city, is now sparsely populated.

Regarding this situation, Jiang Tangtang was not panicked.

She decided to spend a week first, riding Gugu, to take a closer look at the rivers and mountains that would soon belong to her rule.

At that time, it was already February, and some places were still covered with ice and snow, but in some places, the ground was already covered with grass.

If it weren't for the war and the successive disasters, and the people hadn't fled in all directions, by this time, the local farmers would have already taken their farm tools and started preparing for spring planting.

Now, these lands are deserted.

Many houses in the village have also collapsed.

Looking at this land, Jiang Tangtang said ambitiously: "I want my people to live and work in peace and contentment, and no longer have to flee for famine."

Lu Shiyan held her hand and said, "Let's work hard together."

"Let's go! Let's go see other places." Jiang Tangtang deliberately let Gugu fly lower and then slowed down.

After seeing it with her own eyes, she realized how desolate it was outside.Sometimes there aren't even a few people in sight for most of the day.The village chiefs they passed by were all empty out of every ten households.

The bones of dead people lying on the roadside without anyone collecting them can also be seen everywhere.And many once prosperous capitals are now in dilapidated condition.

In the end, Jiang Tangtang had no intention of looking at it.

You can guess this without looking.

Wars, natural disasters, and later plagues caused a sharp decline in the population of the Zhou Dynasty.That is to say, most of the refugees previously gathered in Lingnan and other places, so the feeling was not that obvious.

She feels that given the current situation, there is definitely no way to quickly resume farming in all places.

Let’s recruit refugees first to farm in the Great Plains where grain production is higher!
Next, there is the question of how to coax these refugees away.

As the exam was about to start this month, Jiang Tangtang took how to lead the people to develop the northern plains as one of the exam questions.

In addition, Jiang Tangtang brought together people from the Ministry of Agriculture and encouraged everyone to use their brains, improve agricultural tools, and increase efficiency.

Jiang Tangtang did not put all his hopes in others. He took time every day to read books in the book bar and look for knowledge about farm tools.

Jiang Tangtang actually found a book introducing agricultural tools in the book bar.She immediately summoned the craftsmen, planning to take everyone to study together and make practical farm tools.

Farmers in Lingnan, Cangwu and other places have already taken advantage of the beginning of spring to go home and prepare for this year's spring plowing.

Although growing sea rice in the bay is a great job, most farmers still want their own land.

Just because of the drought, many people's land has been barren for nearly two years. Planting now is just like getting the barren land back then. Everything has to start again.

Many farmers went to the government to ask if there were any policies to benefit the people.

Jiang Tangtang is indeed thinking about how to help farmers resume farming quickly.

There was a drought in the past two years, and ordinary people basically couldn't raise cattle anymore. The breeding farm run by Jiang Tangtang bought all the cattle back to the breeding farm and tried their best to raise them.

With the fodder and Lingquan in Jiang Tangtang's space cheating, this batch of cattle survived well.

In addition, there are also cattle raised by Jiang Tangtang in the space.

These cows can be used.

Jiang Tangtang decided to send these cows out for business, charging a few cents per day for renting a cow.

As for how much it costs per day, you have to think about it carefully.

The price must be carefully considered and cannot be too high. If it is too high, no one will be willing to hire a cow.

However, because the price was really difficult to determine, and some extremely poor families were reluctant to part with even a few pennies, Jiang Tangtang finally decided to use the grain from the autumn harvest to offset the rent of the cattle.

Cows can be used without having to pay money first, which makes many families willing to rent cows to plow their fields, which also greatly improves the efficiency of farmers' work.

Soon, the countryside in Lingnan came back to life.

While Jiang Tangtang was busy preparing for the invention competition and helping the people resume farming and other things, some old officials from Dazhou were dumbfounded.

They had never seen such rebellion.

They were not active during the war and focused on developing local agriculture, economic development, and hosting refugees.

Now that the world belongs to them, they are not in a hurry.

If it had been anyone else, he might have impatiently ordered the Ministry of Rites to prepare for the enthronement ceremony.

But what about Jiang Tangtang and Lu Shiyan?

Not only did he not panic, he was also taking care of various trivial matters in Lingnan.

(End of this chapter)