After autumn, Luyang ushered in the winter of that year.

During this period last year, Luyang and Yexian counties were the most volatile, because a large number of refugees from Wannan and Wanbei poured into the country, which caught the two counties off guard, so there were many conflicts between refugees and locals in both counties, including many casualties.

This year, Luyang and Yexian have gained experience in cash-for-work, and even because of the war, there are still refugees in Nanyang County who continue to flee north to the territory of the two counties, and the county orders of the two counties can quickly resettle these refugees in various work sites, giving these refugees hope to live.

If the refugees had any hope of survival, there would be no chaos, and the two counties were able to continue to maintain a stable situation.

Of course, the arrival of a large number of refugees is not all a burden, these people are also excellent laborers, greatly strengthened the construction capacity of Luyang and Yexian, such as Luyang, under the leadership of the county commander Liu Wei and Luyang Xianghou, Luyang completed the cultivation of the county in early April, and then while digging the Jinggong Canal, he successively reclaimed thousands of dumps of wasteland, so as to grow beans in June and July.

The yield per mu of bean is better than rice, and more importantly, bean can be planted on barren land, and even improve the soil, under the persuasion of Zhao Yu, Liu Jian tried to plant bean on a large scale this year, if the effect is really good, then I believe that this Liu County Order will not refuse to use bean as one of Luyang's cash crops.

Not to mention the bean mushroom, which can not only be eaten by people, but also fed to livestock and war horses, which is an excellent feed.

All in all, Luyang gradually became more and more energetic, and many people believe that in the near future, Luyang will gradually catch up with Shangye County and become a prosperous county no less than Ruyang and Yangcheng.

At least that's what Zhao Yu thinks: What Luyang is lacking at the moment is time.

Given that Lu Yang didn't need to worry about anything for the time being, Zhao Yu began to think about his future.

What to do in the future

To be honest, since coming to this home, Zhao Yu really hasn't thought about it.

At this time, there are actually three ways out in front of him.

At present, the best way out is naturally to defect to the lonely general in Wancheng, Wang Shangde.

Although according to Liu Wei, the commander of Luyang County, the reputation of the Wang family in the government and the opposition is not very good, and he is a little opposed to Zhao Yu getting too close to the Wang family, but at the same time, Liu Wei must also admit that Wang Shangde is indeed one of the top generals in the Jin Kingdom, and those who can reach his height in the country can be counted with one pair of hands.

Therefore, defecting to Wang Shangde is indeed a good way out for Zhao Yu, not to mention that Wang Shangde also admires him.

But Zhao Yu personally doesn't like that kind of life of fighting and killing, in contrast, he actually prefers the life of his uncle and second uncle who he has never met, being a businessman who travels all over the world, when he is tired, he will find a county with good scenery to live for a while, and then go to other counties after recovering his energy.

But unfortunately, Shang Jia's status in the Jin Kingdom was low, and Zhao Yu didn't dare to mention it in front of his parents.

As for the third way out, that is what Liu Wei suggested, that is, to go to the royal capital to study, the kings of the Jin Kingdom are in Handan, that is, the area of Handan, which was the capital of the Zhao State in ancient times, where the high-ranking officials and celebrities of the Jin State gathered, Liu Wei believes that with Zhao Yu's talent, as long as he goes to Handan to study, he will definitely be favored by those high-ranking officials and nobles.

This suggestion made the Luyang townsmen and the Zhou family hesitate.

Compared with defecting to Wang Shangde and joining the army, the couple naturally leaned towards Liu County's third suggestion, after all, the army is too dangerous, look at Wang Shangde, in early May, he sent troops to crusade against the rebels in Nanjun, and now it is October, this General Wang is still fighting with the rebels, according to the grapevine, the casualties of the soldiers on both sides have already exceeded thirty or forty thousand.

It's horrible.

As long as parents have a choice, they will not be willing to send their sons to war

But when it comes to going to the royal capital to study, Handan is too far away from Luyang, whether it is the Luyang townsman or the Zhou family, they are very worried that after sending their son to Handan, their son will be like Zhou Yun, Zhou Fu, the two sons of the old man Zhou, it will be difficult to see each other for a few years Of course, the two Zhou brothers are purely afraid of seeing the old man, and the reasons are still different.

Fortunately, the youngest son Zhao Yu is only 11 years old now, and even after this year, he is only 12 years old, and he still has at least three years to accompany his parents at home.

In mid-October, because the weather gradually turned colder, Zhao Yu gradually stopped running to Zhengxiang.

Although the relationship between father and son has become closer and closer with the dissolution, the Luyang townsman still treats his two sons strictly, especially his youngest son Zhao Yu.

No, every morning at about midnight, the Marquis of Luyang ordered Zhang Ji and Ma Cheng to go to Zhao Yu's house to report, and then teach Zhao Yu to practice martial arts, he didn't want his son to practice martial arts and go to Wang Shangde, but he felt that his son must at least have the ability to defend himself, after all, what if he encounters any emergencies when he goes out in the future

So, Zhao Yu was woken up by Jingnu every day when he was still dozing, and then in front of his hut, while listening to the recitation of his eldest brother Zhao Yinlanglang, he followed Zhang Ji and Ma Cheng to practice martial arts.

Zhang Ji and Ma Cheng are the best guards in the Xianghou Mansion in terms of martial arts, especially good at spears and swords, strictly speaking, in fact, the guards of the Xianghou Mansion are good at these two weapons, because they are all taught by the guard commander Zhang Chun and other people who have been soldiers.

In teaching Zhao Yu's martial arts, Zhang Ji and Ma Cheng played a set in front of the hut, whether it was a sword or a spear, wielding it with a wide opening and closing, and making Zhao Yu, Jingnu, and Cao An stunned.

However, Zhang Ji and Ma Cheng taught Zhao Yu's first lesson, but it was Ma Bu.

This Zhao Yu understands that the most important thing in any bells and whistles martial arts is horse step, that is, to play steadily, otherwise you will cut it with a knife, and others will not do anything, but you yourself will stumble and fall, it will be purely a gift for nothing.

After practicing steadily, the second step is to make full use of waist strength, those fierce generals who have always been said to be extremely powerful, all have mastered how to use the strength of the waist flexibly, which is much stronger than simple arm strength.

I have to say that it is indeed a very boring thing to practice martial arts to lay a foundation, even if there are two good teachers Zhang Ji and Ma Cheng, even if Cao An, who volunteered to practice together, even if there is Jingnu who wipes sweat and hands water, it is very boring.

In this regard, Zhang Ji and Ma Cheng were very helpless.

They privately commented on the matter.

"The second son is too lazy."

"There's no way, the second son is too smart, generally smart people like to find shortcuts, but how can there be shortcuts to martial arts"

"The second son also knows that there is no shortcut to practicing martial arts, but as you said, the second son is too smart, can't bear loneliness, and is too active, if we follow Uncle Chun's requirements for us at the beginning, are we too low?"

"Okay, okay, just like this, the second son can't hold on, what else do you ask, I think let's let the second son master some self-defense skills first, lest you and I can't protect it in the future, and the rest will be talked about later."

"Hmm."

I have to say that with the contact during this time, Zhang Ji and Ma Cheng have no regrets about following Zhao Yu, but this second son is really impatient in practicing martial arts, which still makes the two a little distressed.

After an hour of morning exercise, Zhao Yu went back to the house to sleep and went back to sleep, and slept until he woke up naturally in the afternoon, got something to eat casually, and then read a book or something in the house.

These books were all taken out by Zhao Yu from the study of his father Luyang Township, most of them were incomplete and uneven miscellaneous books, Zhao Yu was purely to relieve boredom, after all, he really couldn't find anything to do.

Although for a while, Zhao Yu took the people around him out hunting with great interest, but since they chased a roe deer for several miles and finally returned empty-handed, he didn't want to go anymore.

If you think about it, it's not so easy to hunt in the mountains

Unless a large number of armies are sent to drive the prey to an area and seal it off, as the ancient emperors did in hunting, hunting will definitely not be easy to obtain prey on horseback, with a bow, and chatting and laughing with others.

Hunting is actually very hard, and people who like it enjoy it, but people like Zhao Yu who are purely curious can't hold on for a long time.

In the evening, according to custom, it is a time for the whole family to have a meal, and the township mansion is no exception, unless there are special circumstances.

Just like today, when Zhao Yu came to the North House with Jingnu, he didn't see his father Luyang Township Marquis coming.

He turned his head and asked his brother Zhao Yin: "What about Dad?"

Zhao Yin shook his head.

From the side, Zhou was looking at a stack of portraits of women sent by the matchmaker, obviously the mother had not given up wanting to find a marriage for her young son, and was still looking for a candidate for this.

To be honest, Zhao Yu has also seen those portraits, and he feels that no matter which one of them looks similar, it is even more excessive than the photo deception in his previous life, but Zhou seems to be very interested in this, and in the recent past, he has been looking at these portraits almost to pass the time.

may have heard his son's inquiry, Zhou casually explained: "Wait a minute, Yu'er, your father is receiving guests." ”

"Who are the guests," Zhao Yu asked curiously.

"I don't know if I'm a mother." Zhou shook his head.

As the two were talking, the Luyang townsman walked in from outside the house.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu asked curiously: "Dad, my mother said that you were just entertaining guests, who came?"

The Marquis of Luyang did not hide it, and after sitting down, he explained: "A person called Tong Yan. This person claimed to be from Liang County, and he didn't say anything, only that he was from the imperial court and was ordered to search for a person named Zhao Yu. This time he came to visit my house and wanted to know if my family had anything to do with this Zhao Yu. ”

"Zhao Yu" Zhou asked puzzledly: "Do we have this person in our family?"

The Marquis of Luyang shook his head and said, "No." From the beginning of me to push forward three generations, my family did not have"

Zhou nodded, and then asked curiously: "Is it possible that there are those two?"

Hearing this, the face of the Luyang Township Marquis suddenly sank, and he said after a while: "No." Although the relationship between the three families is bad, but the ancestral genealogy is with me, if someone from the two families gets married and has children, even if they are reluctant, they will inform me and let me add it to the ancestral genealogy, I have no impression of this Zhao Yu, it should not be my Luyang Zhao family, I will go through the family tree at night. ”

Zhou nodded slightly.

From the side, Zhao Yu asked curiously: "Dad, this Zhao Yu, what did he do?"

The Marquis of Luyang frowned and said: "According to the proverb, this Zhao Yu seems to be a rebel and a great crime."

"Rebellion"

Zhou, Zhao Yin, and Zhao Yu looked at each other.

After all, no matter what dynasty it is, rebellion and rebellion must be the most serious crime, the kind that cannot be pardoned.

"It's really annoying."

Zhou frowned and said, "Committing such a major crime under the surname of Zhao"

"yes."

The Marquis of Luyang nodded slightly.

Although this Zhao is not the other Zhao, a person surnamed Zhao commits such a crime, which will inevitably make the rest of the people surnamed Zhao in the world feel panic and uneasy, for fear of being implicated.