Fortunately, the most feared thing did not happen.

Four days after Bai Yunhang's visit, the merchant fleet had anchored in Chengshanwei.

Because Japan closed the country, the Japanese no longer committed crimes, and Chengshanwei has been withdrawn, but it has not been changed to Rongcheng, and it is still called Chengshan.

It was not a military port, so these merchant fleets could only stay there, and it was closer to Wendenzhou.

The recruits, according to the plan, will not be able to return for a few more days.

Liu Yu was also in a good mood because of the arrival of the merchant ship, so he went to Wendeng to do the next thing.

It is said that the cook will not die of hunger in the three-year drought, which is not wrong at all, Wendeng's restaurant is still open. Liu Yu chose a restaurant that was still open, asked for a few very simple dishes, and invited Bai Yunhang.

Outside is a group of hungry people who can't walk on the street to bask in the sun, and there is a small table of dishes in the restaurant, although it is just a few simple egg custards, bean curd and the like, compared with the cruel world outside, it is still luxurious.

Bai Yunhang has already roughly figured out Liu Yu's temperament, at least on the surface.

There are not too many politeness, and when I see a few simple dishes on the table, although I feel a little simple, it is not easy to say anything.

If it were someone else, he might say a compliment such as "thrift to cultivate virtue", but it was Liu Yu who was the east, and Bai Yunhang thought that it was purely uncomfortable to say this.

He had already heard that Chengshan had a fleet docking, but he was not sure what the situation was, so he had to wait for Liu Yu to speak.

Liu Yu didn't speak directly, but scooped a small spoonful of soft glutinous egg custard with a spoon and put it down.

"Lord Bai, when I saw this egg custard, I thought of something."

Bai Yunhang thought that this egg custard was ordered by you, but I was afraid that it was not that he thought of one thing when he saw the egg custard, but that he thought of the egg custard that he deliberately ordered.

He thought that Liu Yu was going to say something allusion, so he also scooped a small spoonful of egg custard with a spoon and put it in his mouth and sucked it gently.

"I used to read a book, saying that there was a dish when there was a great hunger and cannibalism during the Chongzhen period of the previous dynasty. What kind of dish? ”

"Cut off people's heads. Then find two sticks and stick grass blades and stick them in your eyes. And he put the head on the fire and roasted it. This roast, the brain pulp has to boil, so the wooden stick inserted in the eye will move because of the boiling of the brain. These two straw sticks are called 'vivid'. ”

"When it doesn't move, it proves that the brain is solidified, and the so-called vivid and ripe don't move, and it can be eaten."

Bai Yunhang still had half a spoonful of egg custard in his mouth, and when he heard this story, even if he knew that it was indecent to vomit in front of people, he couldn't help it anymore.

Vomit...... Vomit......

After retching a few times, I looked at the egg custard and bean curd on this table...... The vomit that was so easy to endure came up again.

"Big ...... Don't blame adults...... ...... vomit"

Half an hour later, the shopkeeper came to clean up the table and served some lackluster food, but Bai Yunhang couldn't eat at all.

The "dish" that Liu Yu described just now kept rolling in his mind, his stomach was churning, and his hands were trembling a little.

"Lord Liu has cut off people's heads and chopped off heads in Heilongjiang. The lower officials can't be compared, so please don't talk about it. I understand what Lord Liu means, which means that disaster relief should be done as much as possible. ”

"Lord Bai, I just felt it. I had a nightmare a few nights ago, and a lot of hungry and weak people surrounded me and asked, why did you only provide relief to Wendeng Prefecture when so much food was stored? If you take out all the food in the warehouse, you may be able to save Laizhou and Pingdu. ”

Liu Yu squeezed out a smile, clicked the wine in the cup with chopsticks, looked at the ripples floating above, and was silent for a long time.

It seemed that he felt a little guilty, but in fact, Liu Yu did not feel half guilty in his heart.

He had an account of his own, and he pushed back the account for 109 years. All the suffering and misery is a calculable number. It's a number, and you can compare the size.

Bai Yunhang doesn't know if Liu Yu really feels guilty and guilty? still pointed to something else, so he also accompanied Liu Yu to be silent.

In these days, he found that Liu Yu was not as rumored or as he imagined.

Somehow, a feeling swelled up, like Liu Yu's face was always separated by a layer of white veil, so that he really couldn't see through it.

For a long time, Liu Yu dropped his chopsticks, picked up his wine glass and nodded at Bai Yunhang, and said: "Lord Bai, in fact, I am relieving Wendeng, on the one hand, I can't catch the rest of the counties, and on the other hand, I also have other plans. ”

The wine glass in Bai Yunhang's hand didn't even move, as if he had expected it a long time ago.

If it's just for the food? Bai Yunhang thought to himself, if it was just to collect that little grain next year, there would be no need to be so troublesome: it is reasonable and legal to buy land with money, and if there is food and money in a famine year, there will be no shortage of land. If there is no shortage of land, now the tenants are all renting six buckets of rent for one stone, is there still a little bit of food?

If it's to get married? That's even more nonsense. He is just a small state pastor, in the eyes of this kind of noble son, but an official the size of a sesame seed, and the opposite side is still the dragon ban selected by His Majesty, that Lang official in the Han Dynasty is the Lang official who Huo Quzhi, Zhang Qian, Dongfang Shuo and others have all been.

It's hard to say that this Lord Liu is as good as Longyang?

Picking up the wine glass and quietly looking at his reflection in the wine glass, Bai Yunhang knew more in his heart, and was sure that he was thinking too much.

"Lord Liu, if you have something to say, it's okay to say it."

"Hmmm......"

Liu Yu thought for a moment and said, "Lord Bai, after this disaster relief, Your Majesty should be free of money and food, right?" ”

"Well, Your Majesty is merciful, and will be spared."

"After the abolition, it's time to start over. I want to take advantage of the disaster relief to help Lord Bai measure the number of acres of land in Wendeng Prefecture. All. Don't worry, Lord Bai, I've thought of all the reasons you can think of. First of all, I have a group of officers who have studied surveying and geometry; Secondly, I now have 10,000 people in my hands, and I am familiar with Wendeng in the past few years. ”

Hearing the topic of "measuring acres", Bai Yunhang felt as if someone had hammered him in his heart, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Since Lord Liu wants to help measure the acres of land, of course it is good." But...... But what to do? ”

"Of course, it is Your Majesty's exemption and disaster relief. It's convenient to distribute next year's seeds. ”

The flesh on Bai Yunhang's face trembled, and he said in his heart What I asked was what to do, not what you pretended to do.

Liu Yu knew that Bai Yunhang would not believe it, so he smiled and said, "I have an idea, say it and ask Lord Bai to evaluate it." ”

"Please."

"Inventory the acres of land and spread the tax on the acres. Taxes remain unchanged, reducing taxes and fees for the poor and increasing taxes for the rich. By the way, I helped Lord Bai to check the acres of land and increase the tax amount of 10,000 taels to Lord Bai. ”

Bai Yunhang was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked, "What is the purpose of helping me again?" ”

Liu Yu laughed and said, "Why, Lord Bai is not shocked by my idea of spreading the acre? Instead shocked by the purpose behind me? ”

"Lord Liu...... Forgive the officials for being stupid. The adults' idea was very good, and they took the opportunity to go deep into the village community during the disaster relief period to measure the acres of land and use the excuse of giving relief to the acres of seeds in the disaster-stricken areas, so that people would not be suspicious, and the timing was good. It's just that what is the purpose of the adults helping so much? ”

Liu Yu asked rhetorically: "Then what is Yue Wumu loyal to the country?" ”

Bai Yunhang was dull for a moment, then seemed to comprehend, and asked: "Serving the country with loyalty, is it to serve the country with loyalty?" ”

Liu Yu smiled, then nodded.

"Yes. What Lord Bai said is extremely true. That's what I do. Is it feasible for adults to just say that this idea is possible? ”

Bai Yunhang is an opportunist, but he is also a capable officer, he thought through it almost instantly, and said with a smile: "Isn't this just going down the road that went towards Zhang Taiyue?" ”

While laughing, he was covered in cold sweat.

Before Liu Yu helped himself, he really thought that Liu Yu was just "If it weren't for you Bai Daren to do the teaching plan, I, Liu Yu, would not have had a chance to stand out, let alone replace the missionaries in the north to expand the border for China for 3,000 miles."

After that, I felt that this reason didn't seem to be very reliable, and I thought that maybe Liu Yu really wanted next year's hundreds of thousands of stone grain, after all, this amount is really large, no wonder I have to accept gifts and not eat invitations, these hundreds of thousands of stone grain are at the level of 10,000 taels of gold, maybe it is really "I don't accept it, you really can't afford to give so much".

Waiting for today's dinner, waiting for this sentence to be said, all previous thoughts have been overturned.

Thinking about Zhang Juzheng's fate, Bai Yunhang and Liu Yu communicated for a long time, and they became much bolder, and said with a smile: "So adults don't want to be killed in a coffin after death, seeing that I have a wide waist and a wide back, just carrying this big black cauldron?" ”

After that, he smiled bitterly and said: "If you first meet, adults say this, I'm afraid I'll be scared and pretend to be stupid." And now the adults have given me a chance to 'stand out from the crowd', and let me see that I seem to be about to enter Beijing as a Beijing official, and even if I have a good career and become a scholar in the six governments in the future, it seems that there is a little possibility...... If I say this again, at least I won't be scared and stupid at once, and I'll have to think about it. ”

"If you can only be a state pastor in this life, you naturally don't even think about it. But now...... It's really worth considering. My lord, at the beginning of the disaster, began to calculate that I was someone in vain? ”

Liu Yu saw that Bai Yunhang did not pretend to be stupid, nor did he object, but smiled and gave an ambiguous attitude, and he understood a little in his heart.

"If Lord Bai says so, he will wronged me. I am a dragon ban, and I am a military attaché, not a county magistrate, nor a state pastor. The so-called, not in his position, not in his politics. I don't know much about local affairs, and even if I have this idea, is it a clever strategy? Or rhetoric, that's not knowable. ”

"It would be extremely difficult for this to happen from the ground. If there were no catastrophes, if there were no more than 10,000 garrisons nearby, and if there were no hundreds of people in their hands who knew how to survey and mapping and had nothing to do with the local area, it would not have been possible to do it at all. ”

"Now that Wendeng has all three, and it is time to prepare in advance. You're right? ”

On this issue alone, Bai Yunhang has to admit that this is indeed the case.

Without one of those three conditions, it is difficult to try. If you don't say anything else, let's talk about the third point, if you want to do it elsewhere, where can you get so many officials who have nothing to do with the local area, but are capable?

After carefully pondering what Liu Yu said just now, and making sure that there was no dangerous and deeper pit inside, he nodded and said, "What the adults said is very true." These three can indeed prepare everything like a thunderbolt. ”

"So at the beginning of the famine, Lord Liu thought of luring me into a wok, supplemented by sesame oil, so that I didn't want to escape. When the oil temperature rises, I can't escape anymore? ”