In this way, when it was dawn the next day, Liu Rong went to find Shen Pei and the three of them, and said to them: "The three elders came to Hedong to worship Wenhou, and Wenhou has been buried at this time, and I want to go with the teacher to the rest of the counties in Hedong to check the folk customs of Hedong."

At this time, it is the middle of winter, I am afraid that there is something unusual about the three elders, and if they turn back to Chang'an, it will also make Wei Qihou feel at ease."

Shen Pei couldn't hear Liu Rong's meaning, and said as soon as he arched his hand: "When I come to Hedong, I am tired of His Royal Highness, and I will go back to Chang'an when I am old."

Hearing this, Liu Rong was naturally happy, and Liu Rong had never had any prejudice against Confucianism, but he brought three Confucian scholars on this trip, just for fear of letting the Empress Dowager Dou in the Changle Palace know that Liu Rong was mixed with a group of Confucian scholars, and he was afraid that he would be disliked.

And Tang Sheng had to reluctantly transfer fifty cavalry and send Shen Pei and the three back to Chang'an.

After the three of them left, Jia Yi asked Liu Rongdao, "Your Highness, where do we go first?" ”。

Jia Yizhi asked, but he asked Liu Rong, and he couldn't go there at will without a purpose, and he couldn't go to Anyi, the governing office of Hedong County, if he couldn't say it there, he would be recognized, and if he made the whole Hedong know that the prince was coming, it would be difficult to climb to the sky if he wanted to visit the truth about Hedong.

After thinking about it for a while, Liu Rong suddenly thought of something and said to Jia Yi: "Why don't you go to Fenyin?" ”。

"Fenyin County is on top of the mountain, only a day's road away from Dongyuan County, and Fenyin is the fief of the Marquis of Fenyin, and the Marquis of Fenyin is a famous minister in the world.

From the words of the teacher Jia Yi, Liu Rong naturally heard Jia Yi's admiration for Fenyin's mourning Hou Zhou Chang. Indeed, an upright and outspoken minister like Zhou Chang is naturally worthy of admiration.

Zhou Chang is extremely stoic and strong, and he dares to speak out.

And Zhou Chang once entered the palace when Liu Bang was resting, Liu Bang was hugging Mrs. Qi together, Zhou Chang looked up and saw this scene, turned around and ran, Liu Bang hurriedly stepped forward to catch up, and after catching up, he rode on Zhou Chang's neck and asked: What kind of emperor do you think I am? .

Zhou Chang straightened his neck, raised his head and said: Your Majesty, you are the monarch like Xia Wei and Shang. Liu Bang laughed when he heard it, but he was in awe of Zhou Chang the most.

dared to speak like this to the Son of Heaven, not to mention the rest of the courtiers, even Marquis Xiao He, Marquis Cao Shen of Pingyang and others were very in awe when they saw Zhou Chang, and they were afraid that they would be caught by this outspoken and outspoken "minister............

Later, in order to protect Liu Ruyi, the king of Zhao, from being persecuted by Empress Lu, Liu Bang even ordered Zhou Chang to serve as the prime minister of Zhao to ensure his integrity.

However, his arm still couldn't twist his thigh, and in the end, Empress Lu was ruthless, summoned Zhou Changxian to Chang'an under house arrest, and imprisoned Liu Ruyi in Yongxiang to kill him......

In the end, Zhou Chang was disheartened, resigned and returned to the fiefdom and ended up depressed..................

However, this time Liu Rong thought of going to Fenyin, not because he wanted to worship Zhou Chang, but because he thought that Sima Qian had recorded in the "Historical Records" that there was an artifact in Fenyin!

In this way, after the two decided to say goodbye to Zhang Feng the next day, they were going to leave by car............

Zhang Fengyuan still wanted to serve Liu Rong at home in the past few days, and he didn't want Liu Rong and the others to leave in less than two days.

"The angel is so anxious to leave, is it because the subordinates are not well entertained, if so, I hope the angel will not blame him!" , Zhang Feng saluted and said.

"Haha, how could the Marquis of Beiping have any inconsiderate hospitality, in the Beiping Marquis Mansion these days, but it is more comfortable than when I was in Chang'an", Liu Rong's words are not polite words, he has lived in the palace for more than ten years, and he has never slept on a bed covered with brocade and fox fur.

Before leaving, Zhang Feng took his son Zhang Yu to send Liu Rong and others to nearly ten miles away before turning around and leaving.

Zhang Yu naturally didn't know why his father was like this, the two walked side by side, and when they returned to the mansion, they asked: "It's just a messenger of the Son of Heaven, why does my father take such a fancy to him?" ”。

Zhang Feng said with emotion: "This person is so expensive, it is unspeakably expensive!" ”。

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stayed at Zhang Feng's house for a few days, but Chen Ajiao was suffocated, and she was even more unwilling to sit beside Liu Rong honestly in the car, and went straight to Liu Rong's arms.

In this way, Liu Rong had no choice but to put down the bamboo slip in his hand and said: "Gillian, don't mess around, how can a daughter's family drill into the arms of others."

However, Chen Ajiao didn't listen to Liu Rong's words at all, and still lay in Liu Rong's arms as she should......

But after a while, he listened to the words of the emperor outside the car: "Childe, we have entered the realm of Fenyin."

Hearing that he had entered Fenyin, Liu Rong pulled the eyes of the driver and looked at the scene outside the window.

However, it was winter at this time, and the fields on the side of the road were naturally people who had not worked.

In this way, when he arrived in Fenyin County, Liu Rong did not see a few people in the market along the way.

This is very different from the scene Liu Rong saw in Dongyuan County, only a few people are walking in the market, seeing this, Liu Rong should order the emperor to stop, he can get out of the car and walk on foot in the market.

"It's like this in the county, and I don't know what is going on in the countryside, it seems that something big must have happened in Hedong!" Liu Rong said secretly.

When Jia Yi saw this scene, he also frowned, leaned in front of Liu Rong, and said, "Your Highness, the difference between Fenyin and Dongyuan is so big."

At this moment, Liu Rong looked up and saw that the person carrying a bundle of firewood suddenly fell on top of the market.

Liu Rong hurriedly called the attendant beside him and said, "What are you stunned about!" Don't hurry up and save it."

Hearing this, the attendant reacted, and hurriedly stepped forward to see the woodcutter who had fallen to the ground............

When he was about to see him off, the attendant said, "Your Highness, this man must have fainted from hunger."

Looking at the man lying on the ground, his face was yellow and skinny, and he was still wearing thin tattered clothes in winter.

Liu Rong frowned and said, "Go and take the edible things from my car and feed them."

"No".

After feeding him half a corn cake and a few mouthfuls of water, the man woke up, but when he woke up, he not only did not thank the person in front of him, but snatched the corn cake from the attendant's hand and stuffed it into his mouth.

Before he could swallow it, he rolled his eyes in a choked manner, and the attendants on the side hurriedly handed over the water bladder and ordered him to drink it.

After a few sips of water, the man sat on the ground and gasped for breath, and then he noticed the number of people standing nearby.

Hurriedly knelt on the ground and cried bitterly: "Thank you for saving your life, thank you for saving your life!" ”。

"You are from Fenyin, how can you faint here?"

"If you go back to your words, the villain is naturally a person from Fenyin, but he is not a person from Fenyin County, but a person from a village more than ten miles away from here. Today, I cut some firewood in the nearby mountains, and I thought that I would sell it in the city, exchange some corn and return home, and make porridge.

I don't want to faint here because of hunger in my belly, thanks to the food given by the nobles."

After saying that, this person couldn't stop kneeling and kowtowing............

Hearing this, Liu Rong asked again: "But because of the drought in Hedong, the corn harvest is not good, and he is so hungry."

"What the noble man said is true, and it is because of this year's great drought that the corn in the fields has not been harvested, and after paying the taxes, there is not much surplus food in the villain's house. For months, the villain has not eaten corn."

Originally, Liu Rong still had some longing for the famous Wenjing rule in history created by his grandfather, and imagined that even if the people of the world could not eat enough at this time, they could still eat food in a day......

But at this time, looking at the person kneeling and choking in front of him, Liu Rong also had palpitations, "This is the scene of the first prosperous dynasty in China, and the people of the prosperous era are still so difficult to survive, if it is a troubled time, I don't know how to ......."

"I wonder if we can follow you to the village where you live?" , Liu Rong asked.

"This ...... The villain should obey what the noble man asks, but the villain must sell the firewood he has cut down and sell it for some grain to return home, so that his wife and children may eat it."

Hearing this, Liu Rongdang ordered the attendant to take out fifty yuan from the car and hand it over to this person, "This is considered as me buying your firewood, the money belongs to you, and the firewood belongs to you, as long as you bring us to your village, how about it?" ”。

When this person heard Liu Rong say this, he was naturally very happy, a bundle of firewood, sold for a few dollars at most, but today someone bought it for fifty yuan, and the firewood is not owned by himself.

It's like the smoke coming out of the ancestral grave for such a good thing to fall on my head............

After receiving fifty dollars, this person was even more respectful to Liu Rong and others.

"Can you wait a little longer and wait for me to buy some corn, and then I will take the nobleman with me."

Liu Rong nodded, and the man turned around to buy food, and Liu Rong pointed to the standing soldier in the chariot, and the man understood what Liu Rong meant, and immediately followed the man......

After a moment, I saw that the man was carrying half a bag of grain on his back and ran quickly to Liu Rong.

"Fifty dollars, you can only buy these corns?" , Liu Rong saw that this person was carrying half a bag of grain, but at most more than 30 catties of grain.

Liu Rong clearly knew that at this time, the price of grain in Guanzhong could buy one stone of one hundred and twenty catties of grain for less than 100 yuan, and how could these fifty dollars buy sixty catties of grain.

PS: One catty in the Han Dynasty is equivalent to two hundred and fifty grams now, that is, half a catty now.

"Back to the words of the nobleman, since the month before yesterday, the grain of corn in Fenyin City has risen sharply, almost one price a day, the villain's thirty catties of grain are still a robbery to get, if it is too late, the fifty dollars may only be able to buy twenty-five catties of grain."

Hearing this, Liu Rongzhi nodded, and the woodcutter didn't say much, so he immediately carried half a bag of grain and the bundle of firewood, led Liu Rong and the others, went out of Fenyin County, and walked in the direction of his home.

After more than an hour, I finally saw more than a dozen dilapidated houses at the end of the road.

The east of the river is one heaven and one underground than the border lands in the clouds and the north. To the east of the river, the soil is fertile, but the clouds are unusually barren.

Since the time of Emperor Xiaowen, nearly 100,000 prisoners and displaced people have been requisitioned to the fields, and to this day, the grain produced by the border counties is still difficult to support the people in the border areas and the soldiers in the border areas.

Otherwise, Chao Cuo would not have come up with the method of donating corn to the people, attracting people from all over the world to send surplus grain to the borderlands.

But in Liu Rong's view, the houses where the people of Hedong lived were much more dilapidated than the peasant homes he saw when he followed his grandfather to Yunzhong.