Chapter 67

"Lord Wang, this piece of glazed jade, half glazed and half jade, has both the warmth of jade and the clarity of glaze, it is the boutique of our store, and it is only sold for ten gold."

It was Wang Jing who received Hua Wu at this time.

Wang Jing played with the piece of glazed jade, his face did not change, he had no intention of putting it down, and he did not open his mouth to finalize the purchase.

"If Lord Wang likes it, you can also exchange it for surplus grain at home, whether it is old grain or brown rice, you can use it to exchange, the price is the same as that of the rice shop, exchange it for grain, this piece of glazed jade is only sold for eight gold, and Lord Wang can save two gold." Hua Wu said.

Now the city is full of displaced people, the price of rice is rising, many shops even limit the amount of rice grain sold every day, there is a group of long-term workers to support in the Dark Fragrance Pavilion, there is a group of children in the academy waiting for food, and the soldiers of the Jingwang Mansion also point to the Dark Fragrance Pavilion to eat, Hua Wu can only make this decision, and use jewelry to exchange food from the nobles.

When Wang Jing heard this, he suddenly raised his head, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Yi Yu with grain?" Is this what your princess means? ”

What a shrewd person Hua Wu was, at that moment, he appropriately concealed the surprise on his face into a daze, pretended to be puzzled, and said, "Which princess is the princess that Lord Wang is talking about?" There are many princesses who come to me to buy jewelry. ”

Wang Jing obviously got the answer, put down the glazed jade in his hand, and he smiled meaningfully: "Jade is good jade, but unfortunately the old man has neither gold nor grain, only this mouth, I'm afraid it will be difficult to persuade the flower shopkeeper to give me this glazed jade...... But wait for your princess Jing to come back, maybe the old man can persuade her to give me this piece of glazed jade, which is also possible. Leave! ”

Although the flower dancer was calm and calm in front of him, a cold sweat broke out behind him, and he didn't expect that he was cautious and subtle everywhere, and someone still discovered the relationship between the dark incense pavilion and the princess.

Who is he? What's the conspiracy?

Hua Wu turned around and glanced at Xiao Jiu, who was pretending to be a waiter in the store, Xiao Jiu understood, put down the work in his hand, and followed.

As soon as Wang Jing's carriage left, Han Shi Niang's carriage came, and Han Shi Niang, who had turned into a servant, entered the Dark Fragrance Pavilion through the back door.

In the secret room, Hua Wu waited for Han Shi Niang to sit down, and said, "You came just in time, I was about to send someone to find you." ”

Han Shi Niang also looked worried, and said: "I also have an urgent matter to find you, I am afraid that this Dark Fragrance Pavilion will be closed for a while." ”

The two looked at each other and told each other what had happened in the academy and the Dark Incense Pavilion one after another.

This is definitely no coincidence. This is the consensus of the two.

"I'm afraid that someone already knows the secret of the academy, but for the time being, I haven't been able to judge what the other party's purpose is." Flower Dance Road.

Han Shiniang said: "Now I can only guard the academy and wait for the princess and princess to return to Chang'an tomorrow to make plans." ”

At this time, Xiao Jiu came back from outside and reported: "That Lord Wang went to the mansion, and his subordinates also saw Lord Ge Liuyuan Ge who entered the mansion with him. ”

Hua Wu and Han Shi Niang were both surprised, and said in unison: "The Mansion of the Three Princes!" ”

When did the third prince also have the leisure to take care of such a trivial matter as opening a academy and opening a shop? Or do they have something else going on?

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The next day, Tang Xiaoshi's carriage drove to Chang'an City.

When she left, it was a cold winter, and the snow was covered, but when she returned, it was already early spring, and although the weather was still cold, there were already signs of warming.

What puzzled Tang Xiaoshi was that this was supposed to be the early spring of pulling branches and spitting green, why there was no green on the trees outside Chang'an City, and after a closer look, Tang Xiaoshi found that all the green shoots that grew from the trees were taken away.

That piece of cultivated land that was obviously very wet, and no one planted millet seedlings at this time, Tang Xiaoshi wondered, isn't this the season for farming? Why is there no one plowing the fields?

Waiting for the car to approach the city gate, Tang Xiaoshi realized that a group of homeless people who were blocked out of the city gate like ants were enough to explain a thing.

When people are hungry, they will even peel off the bark and chew it, let alone the young seedlings that have just grown? When it was time to cultivate, none of the tenants in the city dared to plant seedlings, probably because they were afraid that the homeless people would pull out the seedlings in the fields and eat them.

Chu Ming also lifted the curtain and looked out, and frowned when he saw the homeless people begging on the street.

Tang Xiaoshi didn't have an idea for a while, so many homeless people were really not something that her small academy could take in, and at the moment, she had just returned to Chang'an, and she didn't know what kind of countermeasures the court was.

It's tired of tossing all the way, and it's a long-term plan when I return to the academy.

Back at the academy, Han Shi Niang, Hua Wu, Chu Xia Qiu, Uncle Fu and others were already waiting outside the academy.

Tang Xiaoshi just got out of the car, before he entered the academy, a carriage came from the east end of Beizhuang, and when he passed by the academy, the horseman shook the reins of the horse for some reason, and the reins were pumped on the horse, and the horse neighed in pain.

Tang Xiaoshi turned his head, just opposite the eyes of the people in the carriage, it was an old man with a somewhat protruding forehead, lifting the curtain of the car and smiling mysteriously at Tang Xiaoshi.

"It's the old punk who sneaked into the academy two days ago!" Han Shi Niang was surprised.

"Old splashy?!" Chu Ming was also surprised, but it was another kind of surprise, he seemed to have quite a problem with the word used by Han Shi Niang, and said, "That's one of the Three Princes, Lord Situ Ge Liuyuan." "Chu Ming naturally wouldn't fail to know the Third Prince.

Tang Xiaoshi secretly scolded in her heart, it seems that there are capable people in any dynasty, she is so deeply hidden, she was still discovered, it seems that it is not so simple to live a simple and happy life in the future.

"Sir, do you want to send someone to follow?" Han Siniang asked.

"No need." Tang Xiaoshi shook her head and said, "Didn't you see the envelope in the middle of the road?" ”

Only then did everyone notice that the carriage passed by and threw down an envelope.

Han Siniang picked up the envelope and asked, "What does this mean?" ”

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be an invitation." Tang Xiaoshi said.

When I opened it, there was only one word on the letter, "Min".

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Back at the academy, Tang Xiaoshi handed over the fat boy Mo Nian to Chunxiaqiudong, handed over the things that his uncle entrusted him with to his uncle, and asked his cousin Zhang Yulin to help arrange a place for Huang Yuan, and she herself, before she had time to drink hot tea, gathered Han Shi Niang, Uncle Fu, Hua Wu and others into the lobby.

Many times, Tang Xiaoshi will tell herself, even if she is from another world, even if she knows much more than others, but she is only one person, her ability is limited, and many things should not be too difficult for herself.

It's all about being happy.

But when it comes to the real critical moment, she often can't bear it, such as seeing homeless homeless people on the street.

Thinking rationally, she shouldn't meddle in this matter, such a tricky matter as a homeless person, even a court may not be able to handle it properly, let alone a person? Keeping your own small academy and living your own life is an easy and rational way to do it.

But she couldn't.

Because she knew that even if the imperial court distributed national grain, the national grain was not enough to help those displaced people wait until the next season to harvest grain, and the displaced people would run out of food, so they would steal and rob it, and the displaced people would become chaotic people, and since they were chaotic people, the imperial court would have a reason to besiege and kill.

With a knife, the chaotic people are gone, the displaced people are gone, and there is no need to waste the only national grain, which is the rational approach of a feudal ruler. After all, it only takes a military talisman to kill the rebels, and the displaced people have to empty the entire grain depot.

Han Shiniang and others came, Chu Ming came, and to Tang Xiaoshi's surprise, Mr. Han Ke actually came.

"Tell me, what happened to the Academy and the Dark Incense Pavilion?" Tang Xiaoshi said.

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In the end, only Tang Xiaoshi and Mr. Han Ke remained.

"Ge Liuyuan and I are classmates, yesterday he secretly asked me out to meet, and today, I am his lobbyist." Mr. Han Ke said frankly.

"Actually, although I was a classmate with him, we had a different way, when I was a teenager, we used to argue in class about 'what is more important in knowledge and strategy', and he laughed at me for throwing myself into the books, full of knowledge that is not good for the people, and I laughed at him for not knowing the value of books, tossing and turning, and full of copper smell, which is the shame of a scholar.

Neither of us could convince each other that he was his advisor, that I was his bachelor, that year, I won the top prize in the imperial examination, and he was a tanhua, and all these years, I used this as a basis to think that I had won this dispute.

Until we met yesterday, he took me out for a tour of Chang'an City, and asked me: 'With your knowledge, the Chu Dynasty is unparalleled, but in front of these hungry and cold displaced people, can your caregiver also exchange food for them?' You teach them the virtues of human beings, can they listen to them at this moment? You teach them that it is moral to rob things, but when they are very hungry, they will still rise up, and you teach them to be humble and polite, but no matter how polite they are, the rich and noble will not give them much to give them food. I'm not talking about learning and not using, I'm trying to learn and seek. ’

The poor old man has been drilling in the book nest all his life, and at this time, the arithmetic, morality, and literature in his head are useless, and there is no countermeasure at all.

Ge Liuyuan didn't explicitly let me persuade you, I want to be this lobbyist myself, I don't have a countermeasure, but I think you will have a countermeasure. You are not only a bachelor, you are also a strategist, you are the same as Ge Liuyuan, you should stand up at this time. ”

Tang Xiaoshi understood what Mr. Han Ke meant, and said, "Mr. Han, I will go to the mansion tomorrow." ”

Even without Mr. Han's persuasion, Tang Xiaoshi would have got, but Han Ke made her more aware of why she wanted to go.

Learn and seek, seek and use.

Tang Xiaoshi said again: "Actually, Mr. Han doesn't have to be too arrogant, you are not wrong, and Master Ge is not wrong, it's just that your talents have to be used in different places, you are not a strategist, but you are a great gentleman, with your knowledge, you can teach many strategists who benefit the country and the people, and among their merits, you have a share." ”

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The next day, the Three Princes' Mansion.

"Princess Jing, Lord Ge and Lord Wang have been waiting for a long time." A small servant brought Tang Xiaoshi to the front hall.

Tang Xiaoshi was not polite, sat down and said: "If the two adults have anything to say, just say it directly, the way the literati go around in circles is not suitable for me." ”

Wang Jing was surprised that Tang Xiaoshi's aura came out, such a strong and tough, well-behaved aura appeared on a woman, which was too rare in a feudal dynasty like the Chu Dynasty.

But Ge Liuyuan was not surprised, he had explored what Tang Xiaoshi had done in the past year, which one was not shocking, so it was natural to have such an aura.

Ge Liuyuan said: "People have to eat when they are hungry, and if they don't have anything to eat, there will be big problems. ”

Wang Jing also said worriedly: "Today, the imperial court has begun to open a warehouse for grain relief, but there are too many displaced people in Chang'an City, originally we estimated that there were only more than 5,000, but now it seems that it is far more than that, I am afraid that the number of people will be tens of thousands, this year's harvest is not good, and there is not much grain in the granary, even if the emperor is generous, he can only give a month's rations to the displaced people." ”

In fact, Wang Jing did not finish speaking, even if the emperor was generous, those deep-rooted forces would not agree to distribute too much grain, because if you want to fight, you need food, and without food, what will you use to fight a war, and what will you use to open up the border land?

In their eyes, the army is much more important than the people.

Ge Liuyuan said: "The princess can make a Beizhuang eat a full meal in a year, there must be a different strategy, now the displaced people are suffering from hunger and cold, if the princess has any strategy, she should benefit the people." ”

"I have three conditions." Tang Xiaoshi said very directly.

When Ge Liuyuan and Wang Jing heard this, they were overjoyed, and they had the conditions to explain that they had a plan. Ge Liuyuan said: "Princess, please speak." ”

"First, I want you to help me rescue King Jing's biological mother from the palace, and I can't let people find out, if I'm not mistaken, the daughters of the two adults are the favored concubines around the emperor, and this little thing must be difficult for them."

If Chu Ming goes to save it, this matter is very difficult, after all, it is a harem, but it is rescued by two concubines, but there are thousands of ways, and there are thousands of ways to hide people's ears, but if any concubine who enters the harem, who will not leave one hand and two hands?

The first condition, Ge Liuyuan agreed.

Tang Xiaoshi said again: "Second, I want you to personally supervise the distribution of grain by the imperial court, and the grain sent down must be sent to the displaced people one by one, if the grain issued by the imperial court is not enough for the displaced people to survive for a month, even if I have a way against the sky, it is impossible to help them survive until the next season's grain harvest, if the two adults can't guarantee this, we don't need to talk about it anymore." ”

There are all kinds of people in the DPRK, and every time they distribute disaster food, they will be regarded as a good opportunity to make a fortune by people with bad intentions, Ge Liuyuan and Wang Jing have long been unaccustomed to such an act of making a fortune, so they naturally nodded in agreement.

"Third, north of Beizhuang, there is a large piece of flat dry land, no one cultivates it, and after the matter is completed, I want that piece of land to be included in the fiefdom of King Jing's Mansion."

After Tang Xiaoshi's last condition was mentioned, the two elders looked at each other, not understanding why Tang Xiaoshi wanted that piece of dry land.

The dry land was higher than the surrounding areas, so there was no river to flow through it, and there was no way to bring water up, so it was a worthless land that was left uncultivated.

No nobleman would want that piece of land, because it would only be a burden to them, and there would be no harvest. So Ge Liuyuan also agreed to Tang Xiaoshi's last condition.

But Tang Xiaoshi never buys and sells discounts.

After the conditions were discussed, Tang Xiaoshi didn't stay long, got up to give a salute, and said goodbye and left.

Ge Liuyuan asked, "Doesn't the princess need our help in anything else?" ”

Tang Xiaoshi was confident and said, "No need, you can watch it." ”