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Before Zhu Susu could figure out a solution, the shopkeeper of Xinfeng Inn called her mother, You Qianniang, and said that the room they lived in was the upper room. The master introduced them here, so he gave them a discount, and temporarily stayed for a few days for free. Now that the discount period is over, let them pay the bill according to the market price.

Knowing that she still offended the Du family, You Qianniang regretted it for a while, she should not have listened to Su Su's words, and went to the door of the Du family to apply eye drops to the young lady of the Du family.

Back in her room, You Qianniang lowered her face and said to Zhu Susu: "Pack up your things, let's find another inn."

Knowing the whole story, Zhu Susu was also very speechless. While complaining about the Du family's small belly, she packed up her things and left Xinfeng Inn with You Qianniang to find another place to live.

In the end, after searching around for a long time, I realized that it was indeed "Chang'an Residence, it's not easy".Among the inns in Shengyefang, Xinfeng Inn is actually the cheapest.In other inns, even if it is an ordinary room, it costs one tael of silver a day.With the 100 taels of silver in their hands, even if they live there, they will not live for a hundred days.

After searching for a whole day, the mother and daughter came to the slums in the lower city of Chang'an City under the guidance of kind people, where 20 taels of silver could buy a small three-room yard.The two women didn't know each other well, so they either went directly to a middleman to make a deal, or went to Xiao Xiangsheng's shop and asked him to be a guarantee for them to buy a small yard in the lower city.

Xiao Xiangsheng didn't see them again, but sent a steward to help them buy a small courtyard.

It wasn't until the end of April, when You Qianniang and Zhu Susu finally settled down and did everything possible to find Xiao Xiangsheng, that they found out that he had gone to Jiangnan again.

This time, he went with Du Xiancheng.

Because last winter was too warm, at the turn of spring and summer this year, a huge locust plague broke out in the south of the Yangtze River.

The entire land of fish and rice will definitely have nothing to harvest this year.

When Xiao Xiangsheng and Du Xiancheng got the news, they rushed to Jiangnan again, transported half of the grain stockpiled in Jiangnan farms back to Chang'an, and distributed the other half to the tenant farmers on the spot, so as to prevent the victims from causing chaos and robbing their farms and granaries.

They traveled all the way and found that the Great Zhou was in chaos.

The news of the defeat of Da Zhou's army at the end of last year not only hit Da Zhou's morale, but also dealt a heavy blow to Da Zhou's national strength.The [-] good sons recruited for the second Goguryeo conquest are the mainstay of the national power of the Great Zhou Dynasty.As soon as they died, the national strength of Dazhou declined by half.

But Emperor Dezhen still didn't know how to repent, refused to withdraw his troops from Goguryeo, and was recruiting new Liangjiazi to join the army, planning to conquer Goguryeo himself.

In June of the fifth year of Changye in the Great Zhou Dynasty, the army was still gathering, and the Huaihe River in the north burst its embankment, flooding countless fertile fields on both sides of the Huaihe River.Just after the locust plague in the south, there was another drought. For a while, the entire Dazhou collapsed like a rotten embankment.

As the twelfth lunar month entered, the weather was severe and there was a shortage of food everywhere, and more and more victims fled to Chang'an City.

Originally, according to Dazhou's ten years of recuperation, a mere disaster year would not be stretched.However, Emperor Dezhen insisted on going his own way to attack Goguryeo, and he had already lost more than half of the wealth accumulated by Da Zhou over the years.

When the disaster year comes, there will be no surplus food for disaster relief.

In order to have a bite to eat, the victims fled everywhere, resulting in many refugees.Among them, many young and middle-aged refugees went up to the mountains to become bandits and thieves in order to avoid military service.

In the sixth year of Changye's reign in the Great Zhou Dynasty, as soon as the first month came, many thieves directly occupied the prefectures and counties, established themselves as kings, and rebelled against the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Qi Boshi, the Duke of Qi, was sent by Emperor Dezhen, who was in Goguryeo, to conquer the rebels in Dazhou, but he was also exhausted. He beat the east family, and the west family rose up again.

Xiao Xiangsheng's and Du Xiancheng's shops were more than half closed by the sixth year of Dazhou Changye.The two exchanged most of the gold and silver money for grain and cloth, half of which was secretly given to the Duke of Qi, and the other half was hoarded in the two families' villages outside the city and in the cellar inside the city.

At this time, Emperor Dezhen didn't care about it, and wanted to transfer Qi Guogong's army into Goguryeo to participate in the war.

The imperial decree was passed to Duke Qi's mansion, and Qi Boshi, the ambitious Duke of Qi, beheaded Emperor Dezhen's imperial envoy with a sword, officially rebelling against the Great Zhou Dynasty.Qi Boshi has always been a great talent, and after years of careful preparation, although he just announced the uprising, he has already managed the Taizhou area in an orderly manner, and has become the most powerful and most dazzling of the 72 road rebels in the Great Zhou Dynasty. power.

The news of Qi Guogong's rebellion against the Great Zhou reached Chang'an City. Only then did Xiao Xiangsheng and Du Xiancheng know that the chaos of the Great Zhou had just begun.

Chang'an City has the Prince, Empress, and Uncle Guo stationed with the Imperial Forest Army, and it is relatively stable for the time being, but Du Xiancheng and Xiao Xiangsheng feel very heavy when they see the increasing number of victims inside and outside Chang'an City.

It's not that Qi Boshi, the Duke of Qi, did not send someone to win over them.But they knew that if they agreed to Qi Guogong, they would go to the battlefield.They are people who escaped death from the battlefield. Naturally, they know that following Qi Guogong, there may be a great fortune in the future, but this great fortune must be sought from danger. It may even be that the two brothers will be reimbursed on the battlefield in a short time. On the road, two families of women, children and children are left behind, but it depends on whose face they live?

They know better than anyone.Qi Guogong valued them because he valued them being able to fight the world for him while they were alive. Once something happened to them, they didn't think that Qi Guogong would have the leisure to take care of their family members for the rest of their lives.

They don't have great ambitions, they just want to spend a lifetime with their families in peace, Feng Houbai is too far away from them, and they have never expected it.

Therefore, they are reluctant to be involved in this chaos.

But being here, it is extremely difficult to stay out of it.

I had no choice but to talk to Duke Qi's special envoy, saying that I would settle the family affairs, but I didn't refuse.

Qi Guogong's special envoy did not come here specifically to recruit these two people.These two people have some skills, but not to the point where they have to, so they didn't force much, just let them figure it out, and went to Taizhou to join the army.

The special envoy of Duke Qi left Chang'an secretly.

Du Xiancheng said to Xiao Xiangsheng: "Brother, we have to leave too. ——This big week is not a place to stay for a long time."

Xiao Xiangsheng glanced at Du Xiancheng, "Do you still want to go overseas?"

Du Xiancheng nodded, with a bit of fanaticism in his eyes, "Brother, do you remember the businessman from France years ago? He kept persuading me to do business with him in France. Of course I didn't want to leave before, but now Chaos is coming, shouldn't we make plans early?"

Xiao Xiangsheng remained silent.

Du Xiancheng continued to persuade: "Brother, Qi Guogong's side, the chances of winning are really not great. I heard that the emperor is already on his way back to Luan. As long as the emperor returns, the number of winners and losers is really unpredictable. I have suffered enough from the war. , I absolutely don’t want my family’s Shuang’er to grow up in troubled times. ——Brother, sister-in-law just gave birth to a daughter last year, can you guarantee that you can protect the family from the suffering of war in the days to come?”

The pain of war can only be experienced by those who have really experienced it.

Whether it is a winner or a loser, they are all advancing on the bones of the dead.As two ordinary good family members who have no family background and are not from the Guanlong wealthy family, there is a [-]% chance that they will become bones under the feet of others.

The two had had enough of the pain of war in Goguryeo, and absolutely did not want to repeat the same mistakes.

There is another reason why Du Xiancheng wants to go overseas.

After Fang Wuniang gave birth to her second daughter, Du Hengxue, she was no longer pregnant, so Du Xiancheng had no son.He was not in a hurry. The eldest daughter Du Hengshuang was the one he loved the most all the time. He had already made up his mind that if he was born childless, he would pass this family property to his daughter Du Hengshuang.He wholeheartedly wanted to go to Haixi Fransya, and it was the businessman who told him that in Fransia, men and women had equal inheritance rights.Even the royal family is now ruled by Her Majesty the Queen, unlike Da Zhou, who must have a son in order to inherit the family business.Otherwise, it will be taken back by the clan.

What he said made Xiao Xiangsheng nod frequently, "You are right. We should have a long-term plan."

The two went to talk to the high-nosed, blue-eyed businessman with Frans teeth who lived in Xinfeng Inn.

The businessman happened to be leaving for the country within a few days, so he made an agreement with Du Xiancheng and Xiao Xiangsheng to take Du Xiancheng to the first station first, and after the settlement was settled, he would pick up the two families together.

Du Xiancheng also negotiated with Xiao Xiangsheng that he would take a large number of followers, as well as the cloth and porcelain hoarded by the two families, go to sea with the merchant, and return in about a year and a half.Xiao Xiangsheng is entrusted to take care of the family affairs.Du Xiancheng deliberately left Qian Bo and a few particularly trustworthy family members to help him guard the house.

Xiao Xiangsheng was still a little reluctant at first, but when the news of Emperor Dezhen's return to Luan came, and uprisings happened one after another in various parts of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Xiao Xiangsheng nodded and took Du Xiancheng and a large group of bodyguards to board the big boat. Went to Haikou Quanzhou City.There they would embark on a ship for Hercy Fransya.

It has been half a year since Du Xiancheng left, and there has been no news from him.

Emperor Dezhen's Luanjia was also blocked in the north of Taizhou and was not allowed to return to Beijing.

Although Xiao Xiangsheng was worried day and night, he never said a word in front of the two families, only saying that everything was going well and there was no need to worry.

The weather was hot that day, Xiao Xiangsheng took several family members out of the city to see how the crops were harvested on the village outside the city.

When they came back, it was late, and several people couldn't help rushing to the city.

When approaching the ten mile slope outside the city, suddenly a carriage got out from the diagonal, almost startled Xiao Xiangsheng's horse.

Xiao Xiangsheng tightened his arms and reined in the reins, and the black horse under him screamed and stood up.

"Who are you? Do you know that you almost startled our master's horse, can you afford it?!" Xiao Xiangsheng's entourage yelled at the driver.

Inside the car sat a tall, veiled woman with a protruding belly.A guard beside her whispered: "Ma'am, the person outside seems to be Xiao Xiangsheng, a salt merchant from Chang'an City. Shall we ask him for help? - The pursuers are very close."

The woman pondered for a while, and said: "Go and ask." After a pause, she said: "Don't mention the master's name."

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The "good family son" here is borrowed from the class that has met the standards for military service since the Han Dynasty.Since the Han Dynasty, Liangjiazi can be regarded as a relatively general and specific class. They have certain assets, follow the principles of ethics, and engage in proper occupations.Liangjiazi is also an important source for the country to choose soldiers and generals.The Sui Dynasty implemented the Fubing system, and the Fubing was dominated by sons of good families.Traders, son-in-laws, criminals, beggars, etc. are not considered good family members, and are usually not accepted in the army. Even if they are accepted, they have much less chance of obtaining military merits and rewards than soldiers from good families from good families.

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