The grain in the northwest was piled up like a mountain, and Han Yuxi didn't need to borrow grain, and even asked the court to rescue him. For the first time, Meng Nian discovered that Han Yuxi's face was so thick.
This result was in Yan Wushuang's expectation, and he didn't feel that Yuxi was shameless. Because if they were to change it, he would do the same: "Han didn't say that. Could it be that he didn't borrow grain? If this is the case, the officials of the imperial court would have a reason to spray them."
Civil officials’ pens are sometimes sharper than weapons. Han Yuxi is not the kind of person who is willing to hibernate in the northwest, so naturally he won't let himself bear the notoriety of regardless of life and death in the world. This trick is to retreat into progress, and it works very well.
Meng Nian was speechless, and after a while he said, "Master, what should I do now? You can't really watch the refugees outside the city starve to death, right?"
Yan Wushuang looked down at Yuxi's reply: "Han said in the official letter that locust plagues usually occur after a severe drought. If this is the case, even if the court distributes grain seeds to them, they will still have no harvest."
With the lessons learned from last year, Meng Nian no longer dared to take Yuxi's words seriously this time: "Then what should I do?"
Yan Wushuang didn't have a better idea right now: "First squeeze out some money for disaster relief, and let Guo Zhong and the others transport the grain in Tianjin to Beijing." It really doesn't work, and then draws a batch of grain from Liaodong. However, he would not use Liaodong's food as a last resort.
In fact, Yan Wushuang regretted being the regent. He killed Zhou Jing and killed the Zhou family. To be the king of Liaodong, just take care of Liaodong. It's not like being scolded as dogs by those pedantic scholars who are tired every day, it's really thankless.
Meng Nian disagreed with Yan Wushuang’s words: “Master, Tianjin’s grain is not suitable for transport to the capital for the time being, otherwise more victims will flock to the capital.”
After a pause, Meng Nian came up with an idea. Given that there is so much food in the northwest, it is not necessary to disclose the news and let the victims go to the northwest. In this way, the pressure on the court can also be reduced.
After hearing this, Yan Wushuang looked towards Meng Nian, and said, "Do you know the consequences of doing this?" In the Northwestern Lien War, the population of many places was cut by more than half. Now letting the victims go to the northwest is like giving away people to Yun Qing and Yuxi.
Naturally, Meng Nian knew the consequences, so he lowered his head and said, "My lord, it is important to solve the current crisis." If all the victims flock to the capital, these people will probably rebel if they are out of food. Although they have more than 200,000 soldiers and horses enough to suppress these refugees, Yan Wushuang will definitely bear infamy in this way. Even the history books have to memorize a sum.
After Yan Wushuang was silent for a while, he finally agreed with this method of drinking poison to quench thirst. If you don't agree, it won't work. These refugees will definitely make trouble when they come to the capital. He is not afraid of killing, but he does not want to kill these defenseless people. Furthermore, if hundreds of thousands of victims flock to the capital, no one knows what will happen.
Seeing that Yan Wushuang was so labored that everyone was losing weight, Yuchen invited the wives of people who were numbered in the capital and the wives of wealthy merchants to share her worries. Of course, it was a banquet, which actually encouraged everyone to raise money. After a banquet, Yuchen also raised hundreds of thousands of taels.
"The prince, although there are not many, you can buy some food. The prince, one can save one." Today, the amount of food has increased twenty times last year at this time. Moreover, it is still rising.
A hundred thousand taels of silver is just a drop in the bucket. However, Yan Wushuang still said, "I'm interested."
After finishing speaking, Yan Wushuang leaned on the chair and said tiredly: "Play a brisk song for me." These days, I can't sleep well after being too busy.
After the news of food in the northwest was released, many victims began to flock to the northwest.
Not long after, Meng Nian got news: "Lord, Han Yuxi only accepts young and middle-aged people to enter the northwest." The family of these young and middle-aged people can also follow into the northwest, but the others do not accept it.
In fact, except for the places near the northwest, most of the people who fled to the northwest from rivers and other places are young and middle-aged. The old, weak, sick, and disabled, almost all died on the road.
"Han Yuxi is hoarding a lot of food, but he can't help all the victims in the world. However, there is a shortage of people in the northwest. Young adults can enter the northwest and they can directly enlist in the army." These people enter the army and can go to the battlefield after good training. I have to say that Han Yuxi's abacus is very good.
And these young and middle-aged, enlisting in the army can make a living for themselves and their families. And if you don't join the army, I'm afraid that winter won't pass. Therefore, with this news, only enthusiastic registrations will be made. I am afraid that I will not be able to enter.
Meng Nian smiled bitterly: "It's really good calculation." When Han Yuxi did this, the people below would not object. After all, they are not free to rescue these people.
Yan Wushuang said: "If there is no accident, Yun Qing is afraid that he will send troops next year." With soldiers and horses and food and grass, how can Han Yuxi's temperament be willing to guard the northwest.
"What does the prince mean, Han Yuxi wants to win the world?" If it were a few years ago, he would think this is a fantasy. But the current situation is really possible.
Yan Wushuang hummed, "Yun Qing is good at fighting, and she has the talent for ruling the country. It is not impossible for the husband and wife to join forces to win the world." As for success, it depends not only on strength, but also on luck.
Hearing this, Meng Nian immediately said, "Then let them be distracted."
"Easier said than done." Yun Qing wasn't stupid, and he didn't want to win the world with Han Yuxi, even the northwest might not be guaranteed. Therefore, it is difficult to provoke the relationship between the two couples.
"Always give it a try."
Yan Wushuang said: "If I guess right, Yun Qing might send troops to attack Jiangnan next year. You send someone to Jiangnan and make arrangements." It is absolutely a waste of manpower that you can't make a beautification against Yun Qing in the northwest. financial resources.
Meng Nian nodded and said, "I will send someone to make arrangements." I only hope that this arrangement is useful.
The winter of this year was extremely difficult.
Yan Wushuang has done his best to help the victims, and even he himself has begun to save food and clothing, reducing from six dishes to one dish per meal. The saved money and food helped the victims. But the court had no money or food, and a clever woman couldn't afford to cook without rice. He alone could not save so many people.
Every day I heard from the ministers below that a large number of victims were frozen to death outside the city, and many people in various provinces also died of freezing and starvation. Every time Yan Wushuang saw these folds, he was in a bad mood.
Yuchen played a piano to Yan Wushuang who was exhausted, and when he fell asleep, he sat next to him and read a book.
When he woke up, Yu Chen said with concern: "Master, you have to be careful of your body too."
With a hum, Yan Wushuang said, "Take care of Abao and Achi, I don't need you to worry about it." After that, he went out.
Yuchen felt uncomfortable, but she endured not showing it in front of the maid-in-law.
After struggling through the cold winter, in March in Yangchun, the court advised the refugees who had survived to return to their hometowns.
But when the refugees return to their hometowns, they have to be entangled. Otherwise, he would have to starve to death on the road.
Yan Wushuang copied the former Royal Merchant's house, and the charges didn't need to be fabricated, there were a lot of ready-made ones. A large number of valuable items such as gold, silver, jewellery and antique porcelain were found from their homes.
Raised more than one million taels of silver, and then the court distributed the silver to the refugees for entanglement, and promised to return to the hometown government to give them food.
Last year, there was no way, these talents fled to the capital. Now that the imperial court has promised to grow the land, food is available everywhere in the spring. These people went home after receiving the money.
In May, Yan Wushuang got news that the North had taken out 500,000 soldiers and horses, and the soldiers were divided into two groups. Attacked Yucheng all the way and attacked the West Sea all the way.
Meng Nian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Master, it seems that Yun Qing will not attack Jiangnan and Shanxi for the time being." Yan Wushuang was afraid that Yun Qing would send troops to attack Shanxi, so he secretly sent a team of troops there.
Yan Wushuang also had the same idea. It didn't take long before I knew I was wrong. Yun Qing didn't care about the army of the Northern Captives approaching half a million, but instead divided his troops into three groups. Yun Qing brought 100,000 soldiers and horses to attack Shanxi, and Du Zheng and Xu Zhen attacked Henan and Hubei respectively.
Meng Nian was shocked by Yun Qing's boldness.
Yan Wushuang said, "Yun Qing dares to fight like this. It is the confidence of the opponents." Feng Dajun, Du Zheng, Xu Zhen, and Liu Yongnan are all generals who can fight well and stand alone. Moreover, these are still loyal to Yun Qing.
He had also sent people to contact these generals before, but all the people who had sent were folded in.
Meng Nian said, "Master, you can't let Shanxi and Jiangnan fall into his hands." Shanxi and Jiangnan are both in the hands of Yun Qing and Han Yuxi, so they can hardly compete with them.
Naturally, it is impossible for Yan Wushuang to watch Yun Qing occupy Jiangnan. Jiangnan is a land of fish and rice. If Yun Qing and Han Yuxi are to get Jiangnan, they are afraid that they will have to enter the capital within a few years.
One hundred thousand soldiers and horses were transferred to the south of the Yangtze River to support Yu Baojia, but most of the one hundred thousand horses sent were folded in.
When the news came back to the capital, Yan Wushuang smashed his favorite Moyu Tiger paperweight. After that, all the bad news came back from Hua. Yan Wushuang was so annoyed that he couldn't sleep well if he couldn't eat well.
Within a few months, Jiangnan fell into Yun Qing's hands. With the family wealth accumulated over the years, Yu Baojia fled to the capital for refuge in a hurry.
If it is possible, Yan Wushuang really wants to kill him. It was equivalent to Bao Jia dedicating most of his wealth to the imperial court when he arrived in the capital. With the grandfather of the Yu family interceding with many courtiers, Yan Wushuang could only endure the evil in his heart and temporarily let him go too far.
Meng Nian looked at his ugly face and said, "Master, let him be proud for two days. After a while, we will clean up him." If Yu Baojia is willing to follow the advice of his master, Jiang Nan cannot be so fast. It fell into Yun Qing's hands.
Yan Wushuang hummed and said, "When the wind passes, I will clean him up." After operating for so many years, he lost Jiangnan for more than three months. Not only is he useless, but all his subordinates are also useless.
Meng Nian nodded and said: "Okay." Yu Baojia has been domineering in Jiangnan for so many years, death will only make people applaud.
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