The battle between the rice prices of the Ruyang Zhao and Zheng families soon spread throughout Henan, and the Zhao family became famous.

But on the whole, the struggle between the Zhao and Zheng families is like dropping a stone in a pond, which, although it stirs up ripples for a while, will eventually calm down, or rather, be overshadowed by a greater wave.

Perhaps some people would have thought it strange before, how could a realistic general like Wang Shangde turn a blind eye to the rice price war between the Zhao and Zheng families in Ruyang and even Rushui counties? According to the temperament of this General Wang, even if he admires Zhao Yu very much, he will not let go of this excellent opportunity, and will definitely intervene in it, and buy the rice grain of the Zhao and Zheng families at a low price, how can he not come forward from beginning to end?

The reason is very simple, because in May this year, Wang Shangde, as he said to Zhao Yu at the beginning, led the Wancheng army to launch a crusade against Nanjun, how could he have spare time to pay attention to the affairs of Ruyang and Rushui counties?

Nanjun, similar to Wannan, is actually not a difficult place to conquer, it is just the opening of Wang Shangde's crusade against the Jingchu rebels.

In recent years, whether it is Wannan or Nanjun, it is a buffer ground for Wang Shangde and the Jingchu rebels to attack each other, Wang Shangde, as the most talented general of the Wang family, although he has led his elite soldiers to defeat Nanjun several times, and even played a triumphant song all the way to the river, and confronted the Jingchu rebels across the river.

But unfortunately, it is this river that has become an obstacle for Wang Shangde almost every time.

Every time Wang Shangde led his army to this side, he was in a stalemate because he could not attack the opposite side, and he was in a stalemate with the rebels here for several months, and finally had to withdraw due to lack of food, and then the rebels took the opportunity to counterattack and occupy Nanjun again.

In this way, Wannan and Nanjun changed hands back and forth several times.

And this time, can Wang Shangde break through the dangers of the river and successfully attack Jingchu?

No one knows.

At the beginning of June, Zhao Yu returned to Luyang County with Jingnu, Zhang Ji, and Ma Cheng, and returned to his previous leisurely and comfortable life.

As far as he knew, the current situation of the Wancheng army was not optimistic to be honest.

The first battle, Nanjun, there is nothing to say, Nanjun, like Wannan, as a buffer between the Wancheng army and the Jingchu rebels, has almost been destroyed by the war, and Wang Shangde alone has to fight Nanjun every year or two, not to mention the counterattack of the Jingchu rebels.

Interestingly, if someone carefully divides the records, then it is not difficult to see that in fact, the number of times the Jingchu rebels counterattacked Nanyang County was more than the number of times Wang Shangde waved his army south.

Could it be that the Jingchu rebels were stronger than Wang Shangde's Wancheng army?

Of course, this is impossible, otherwise it would not be beaten to the banks of the river by Wang Shangde every time.

But the resilience of the Jingchu rebels is really not to be underestimated.

Although Zhao Yu didn't know much about the Jingchu rebels, as far as he knew, the Jingchu rebels were directly under the slogan of 'overthrowing the violent Jin', which alone was different from the vast majority of rebellions in the Jin Kingdom.

But about the Jingchu rebels, Zhao Yu really can't say much, the reason is that the position is embarrassing.

Think about it carefully, under the extremely serious land annexation of the nobles and family classes in the Jin Kingdom, the Jingchu rebels distributed the land of the nobles and families to the landless peasants, and from the heart, Zhao Yu actually supported it.

But the embarrassing thing is that he Luyang Zhao is the aristocratic class of the Jin State, one of the vested interests, don't look at their whole family is actually a family of four, but they enjoy the treatment of 'eating 2,000 households', not to mention that their family still has thousands of tilts of land - these fields are all resold to the township government by the locals for various reasons, and it is not an example of land annexation.

In other words, even if his family didn't do anything, it was almost impossible for a family to be richer than his family on the ground of Luyang.

It's embarrassing.

If the Jingchu rebels broke through Luyang, would they treat his family leniently for the sake of the Luyang Township Marquis's kindness to civilians on weekdays? No one can guarantee it.

In addition to paying attention to Wang Shangde leading the army to quell the rebellion, Zhao Yu still devoted the rest of his energy to paying attention to various work points in the county.

Speaking of Luyang County, in view of the resumption of financial and grain subsidies to Luyang County in Rushui County, Luyang's warehouses have become more abundant, and the county has made a lot of efforts to set up several work sites in one go to settle the refugees who have poured into Luyang one after another.

Even, he decided to join hands with Ye County to repair the official road to Wancheng to facilitate trade between the two counties and Wancheng Military City.

This decision was not only supported by Mao Jue, the county commander of Ye County, but also by the Luye Freemasonry.

However, what is most directly related to the livelihood of the people in Luyang and Yexian is that the two county orders of Liu Wei and Mao Jue vigorously support small families and small workshops, and at the same time require the Luye Freemasonry not to suppress them.

For example, the mulberry hemp, bean planted, hunted animal skins, animal bones, and even personal wooden tools, etc., etc., the county government came forward to encourage, and the Luye Freemasonry came forward to buy, get these scattered raw materials from the local people, make them into finished products, or simply purchase finished products, and after accumulating to a certain amount, they will be resold in Wancheng.

The price of rice in Luyang and Yexian was steadily maintained at the price of 200 yuan a stone because of the relationship between the Zhao family in Luyang, although many refugees poured into Luyang and Yexian one after another this year, which caused some impact on the local rations.

All in all, under the joint efforts of the county government and the Luye Freemasonry, the surplus money and surplus grain in the hands of the people in Luyang and Yexian gradually increased, and in this process, the Luyang Zhao family, or the Luyang Township Houfu, as the president of the Luye Freemasonry, can no longer be as low-key as that, and gradually became the object of discussion among the people of Luyang and Yexian after tea and dinner.

Or some people talk about the struggle between the Zhao and Zheng families in Ruyang and Rushui counties......

Or some people talk about the various good deeds of the Luyang Township Marquis......

Or some people talk about the smart second son under the knee of the Luyang Township Marquis......

And so on.

The fame of the Xianghou Mansion seems to have returned to more than ten years ago, back to the time when the Luyang Township Marquis had just teamed up with Ye County Commander Mao Jue to expose the crimes of the former Luyang County Commander Kong Jian.

Under the reputation, it is inevitable that there will be matchmakers who will come to the door, after all, the Marquis of Luyang has two sons, and these two sons are not married.

Not to mention what the father and son of Luyang Township Marquis thought about this, the Zhou family really chose it carefully for the youngest son Zhao Yu.

Thinking about it, the Zhou family was originally worried about Zhao Yu's marriage, after all, Zhao Yu is the second son, and it is natural that she is not valued by the outside world, so she prepared for her son early, and cultivated Jing as her son's concubine in the future, no matter how the wife she married, at least she could let her son have a woman who could be trusted and trusted, but what she didn't expect was that her son's intelligence exceeded her expectations, so that her son was nearly eleven years old, and people came to the door one after another to talk about the matchmaker.

This made the Zhou family happy, not only did he personally meet the matchmaker who came to the door, but he even mentioned it to Zhao Yu at the dinner table every once in a while, saying that this girl is good, and that girl is also very good, which made Zhao Yu a little flustered.

He couldn't help but say to his mother: "Mother, the child is only eleven years old, and he will only be twelve years old after the New Year......

"yes, it's not too early." Zhou said with a smile: "Let's pick it first, so as not to be robbed by other families......"

Zhao Yu felt that his mother was ready to cast a wide net to see who was willing to jump into the net, and then she was slowly picking.

Zhao Yu did not dare to disobey his mother's opinion, so he had to turn to his father for help.

So once he complained to the Luyang townsman in private: "Dad, when my mother said that, can't you help the child persuade him?" ”

The Marquis of Luyang glanced at his son and asked strangely, "Since you don't want to, why don't you propose it to your mother yourself?" ”

"I don't want to make my mother angry."

The Marquis of Luyang nodded, and then calmly asked his son: "Oh." …… Then why do you think I want to? ”

“……”

Looking at his father, Zhao Yu was speechless.

If you can't afford to provoke it, you can only hide, so Zhao Yu took Jingnu, Cao An, Zhang Ji, and Ma Cheng to Zhengxiang every once in a while, while supervising the progress of the excavation of Jinggong Canal, and secretly hoping that his mother could gradually calm down, and don't rush to help him find a daughter-in-law.

In October, Luyang and Yexian were busy with the harvest, and at this time, a team came to the east gate of Yexian.

There was only one carriage in this team, but there were as many as ten guards in leather armor beside the carriage to follow and protect them, and the shocking thing was that these ten guards all had horses to travel.

At this glance, you can see that this is no ordinary person.

"Who is this, the townsmen of Luyang will not be so ostentatious."

The county guard on duty at the city gate couldn't help muttering a few words, and led a few people to stop the team and asked, "Where are you waiting to come from, show the way." ”

Hearing this, the guards all looked displeased, but none of them made any unusual moves.

At this time, the groom driving the carriage took out a road guide from his bosom and handed it to the county magistrate.

Maybe the county magistrate didn't know how to read, and he frowned and looked at it for a long time without seeing a result, so the groom explained with a smile: "This is a road guide issued by Yuncheng." ”

The county magistrate frowned and glanced at the groom a few times, patted the carriage with the spear in his hand, and asked, "Who is in the car?" ”

"It's my lord."

"What's it called?"

"My master's surname is Tong Ming." [PS: Book friends 'cut the window' cameo. 】

"Fairy tales?" The county magistrate muttered two sentences, and then lifted the curtain of the car with the spear in his hand, and sure enough, he saw a man in his thirties sitting in the car.

It may be that seeing the county guard rudely raising the car curtain, the man frowned, and an invisible momentum seemed to emerge from his body, which made the county guard startled: "You ......"

However, when the county magistrate took a closer look, he saw that the other party was full of smiles, and he no longer had the momentum of Fang Cai, and his eyes were not as sharp as Fang Cai.

"Well, what's wrong with the guide down there?" The man named Tong Yan asked with a smile.

The county guard stared at the man for a while, but he didn't see any clues, and after a few words of interrogation, he put the team into the city.

After entering the city, Tong Yan sent the accompanying guards, and only one guard came to a wine shop in the city, found a remote corner, and ate wine and food quietly.

At this time, the topic that the two drinkers were talking about caught his attention.

After a few words of advice from the guy in the store, he got up and sat down at the table, and under the puzzled gaze of the two drinkers, he asked with a smile: "When I first came to Guixian County, the two of you seem to be quite familiar with this place, can you talk to me about the local affairs?" ”

The two drinkers showed a little displeasure on their faces, and were about to speak, but they saw two men in the shop, putting a large pot of meat and a large pot of boiling wine on the table, and explained: "This wine and meat is what this guest invited the two of you." ”

Looking at the white flesh cut and the big pot of wine, the two drinkers swallowed their saliva, changed their unhappiness, and said in a loud voice: "Of course, of course, I don't know what I want to hear." ”

I saw the man's body slightly sideways, supporting the bench with one hand, and laying flat on the table with the other, leaning forward slightly, approaching the two.

"I just want to hear what the two of you are talking about...... Luyang Zhao. ”