(I'm sorry, there were originally seven chapters of the side plot with the warlord Chen, but when I looked back, I found that it had little to do with the main story, so I deleted them all on impulse.)

Now there is no manuscript of the chapter saved, so in the past two days, I have been allowed to update it singlely, re-sort out my thinking, and resume updating 6,000 words a day by Monday at the latest. ）

After the rain, the weather in June is hot and irritating.

But seeing the tragic situation outside the city, even the most ignorant sixth sister was well-behaved at this time.

Even Zhao Dezhao didn't expect that outside Kaifeng City at this time, it would be a human tragedy.

Out of the Great Liang Gate, it is also out of Kaifeng City, because of the disaster, refugees from all over the country know that there is still a chance to live in Kaifeng Mansion, and struggle to come to Kaifeng City.

When the affected people in an area come together, a tragic picture is formed.

Most of the people had yellow faces and thin muscles, weak limbs, and those who were able to move received the soup soup from Kaifeng Mansion and were organized to save themselves.

There are also some old ones, who seem to have exhausted the last shred of life force, and can only lie in the muddy water and wait for death.

Even if they have a bite to eat, they are reluctant to eat it anymore and give the food rations they have saved to the children.

There were cries everywhere, there was hunger everywhere, and the officials and forbidden soldiers numbly carried the corpses one by one and burned them together.

This was the beginning of the Song Dynasty, an era when there was almost no ability to save oneself and no ability to resist risks at all.

The autumn harvest has not yet arrived, but when large areas of farmland are flooded and grain is flooded, no one can take care of it so much.

All the flooded wheat fields around Kaifeng Province were requisitioned by the imperial court, and the organized refugees were driven into the fields, where they tore off the uncoated grains of wheat and gathered them together and cooked them into paste.

Not even a grain of salt, but everyone ate it so deliciously.

The sixth sister didn't dare to look at the miserable situation of adults, but whenever she saw a suffering child, she couldn't help but look at it secretly.

The fourth sister and the fifth sister are already sensible, and they burst into tears when they see it, and they discuss it with Zhao Dezhao. "Second brother, I still have three gold and 50,000 yuan in private money, can I also contribute to disaster relief?"

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the price of gold was high, one gold was ten thousand yuan, which was equivalent to ten guan, and five thousand yuan of three gold was almost equivalent to eighty thousand yuan, eighty guan.

Zhao Dezhao shook his head. "The fourth sister's money is kept as a dowry in the future, and now the imperial court is doing its best to provide disaster relief, and my father has approved a large amount of money to buy grain, which should be able to tide over the difficulties."

"I just want to do my part......"

"The imperial court has its own laws, and it is still bearable now, so there is no apportionment. If the fourth sister insists on paying the money, where will the ministers of the court be? Where is the father? Isn't it equivalent to blaming my father and the ministers? ”

The fourth sister's face was gloomy and she lowered her head, tears streaming down. "It's what I thought."

The rain and disaster are now only around Kaifeng Mansion, and for the imperial court, it is nothing more than a temporary difficulty in adjusting food, but the number of people affected will not be large, and it can be pacified in a few days.

If the situation is really serious, they will not be easily allowed to go out of town.

In other words, Zhao Dezhao's serious misery in the world is just the norm in this era.

If Zhao Dezhao and the others want to pay for disaster relief at this time, it will be another Shen Wansan, who is suspected of inviting a name.

In the feudal era, murder and corruption were not major crimes, but inviting names was the first major crime.

No emperor, including the ministers, would allow such a thing.

So Zhao Dezhao and they couldn't do anything, because they were young, they couldn't even urge, they could only pretend to turn a blind eye.

In another carriage, Pei Ge'an and Xu Yongchang sat opposite each other, looking at the refugees outside and asking questions one after another.

She doesn't know much about history, and she has an indescribable admiration for antiquity and a strong spirit of participation.

But seeing this scene in front of her made her know the cruelty of this era.

Human life is as cheap as a dog!

She pretended to be curious to ask everything about this era, wanting to know more about the world.

And Xu Yongchang has already bet on her, and he feels that she is not like an ordinary person these days. Let's ask, a nine-year-old child who has never read a book, but can write dense words in the study, is this still an ordinary person?

Because of this knowledge, he can say everything he knows, and he can say everything.

Zhao Dezhao's farm is located by the West Lake in the west of the city, because the terrain is not high, although there is a West Lake drainage, it also submerges a small half.

However, the farmer households in Zhuangzi lived on higher ground, and the houses they lived in were not flooded.

Nowadays, most houses are made of mud, and once the walls of the mud are soaked, they become dilapidated houses.

There are only three sets of large courtyards in the Zhuangzi, one is Zhao Dezhao's farm, one is the courtyard where the guards live, and the other is the courtyard where the inner servants live.

Each house is a large courtyard with a small courtyard and dozens of rooms.

Knowing that Zhao Dezhao was coming, the house had already been cleaned up, and Liu Xiao, who was "sent down" by Zhao Dezhao, greeted Zhao Dezhao and his party with the villagers and chamberlains.

His Zhuangzi is private property, and the villagers here also belong to him.

Since there is no need to bear taxes, such an opportunity is coveted by ordinary people.

Although he lost his freedom, he was not afraid that he would not be able to live.

Now that the disaster is being rescued everywhere, Zhao Dezhao asked the villagers to disperse and enter the courtyard where he lives.

This courtyard is not big, there are three entrances before and after, the inner servant lives on the periphery, the palace maid and Zhao Dezhao live in the inner entrance, and there are a hundred forbidden troops next to it to protect it, and the safety is still guaranteed.

The yard is not far from the West Lake, and water is diverted from the West Lake to the back of the yard, forming a living water.

The pond is full of lotus roots, and by this time the lotus flowers have fallen away, leaving only the green lotus leaves.

Willow trees are planted around the pond, creating a beautiful farmhouse yard.

The fourth sister was attracted by this pond as soon as they arrived, and asked the attendant to arrange a boat to take them to pick lotus flowers.

Pei Ge'an was also very interested, but at this time, the "excluded" Liu Xiao brought her parents and brothers over, and she could only hold back her inner impulse.

Since entering Zhuangzi, Zhao Dezhao has not given Liu Xiao a good face, and Tong Liang has played the face of a villain with a hateful face.

Even if Liu Xiao got closer to Zhao Dezhao, he would be driven away.

Whether it was a guard or an inner servant, they all felt that Tong Liang was a little too much.

Zhao Dezhao said a few words to Liu Xiao, and asked him to go down to arrange lunch, but left the Pei family.

Pei Jia's image is that of a strong man who strikes iron, much burlier than his two sons, and his face has strong alien characteristics.

However, under Zhao Dezhao's inquiry, he didn't know which ethnic blood his family had.

He only knew that his ancestors came to the East at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, and the foreign bloodlines had already been fused and diluted in the past few hundred years, but there were some atavistic phenomena in his generation, and the characteristics of different races were more obvious.

It is also because of this bloodline, coupled with the ability to strike iron, not only was he not bullied, but he also lived a better life than ordinary Oriental people.

It's just that a person of many bloodlines like him, although he will not be bullied, has almost no chance of becoming an official.

Zhao Dezhao chatted with each of them for a few words, and then sent them back.

Pei Ge'an followed them home, which was actually a small courtyard in the courtyard next to it, not far away.

Zhao Dezhao will not directly talk to them about building a steel-making furnace, these things are not suitable for him to talk about as a prince, and they are even more eye-catching.

This time, everything was left to Pei Ge'an to prepare.

Nor did he need a large steel-making furnace, just an experimental ironmill that could make something useful and protect Peigan.

If you really want to build a blast furnace that can make thousands of catties of steel a day, I am afraid that it will be assassinated immediately.

There's a wolf on his side, and it's hard to sleep!

In the afternoon, I lay in the shade of the tree by the pond and slept beautifully.

After leaving Kaifeng Mansion, Zhao Dezhao was also in a much better mood.

It wasn't until after dinner that Pei Ge'an came to the dark, and Liu Xiao, who had been ostracized by Zhao Dezhao for a day, also secretly entered Zhao Dezhao's room.

As soon as he entered the room, he knelt down and said with a flattering smile: "The old slave has seen the second brother. ”

Zhao Dezhao hurriedly went over to help him up, and said with a smile: "The head of the palace bears the burden of humiliation for me, don't do this big gift." ”

Liu Xiao was in high spirits and said in a low voice: "The second brother expected that it was not bad, as soon as the old slave was degraded here, someone contacted the old slave and sent ten gold and the old slave. ”

"If you give it to you, you will take it, who contacted you?"

"At first, it was Wei Dalang, the director of Huangzhuang, the old slave pretended not to advance, and then Jia Yan Jia Jihua asked the old slave to go to Zhongshuling Farm to talk, and there was a lot of attraction between the words, and promised ten gold."

"Jia Yan......" Of course Zhao Dezhao knows such a person, he is more famous for two things, one is that as the youngest son of the family, he rescued the clansmen after he became prosperous, raised more than 100 people alive, and was praised by the world.

The other is that he was one of the actual military advisors before Zhao Guangyi took the stage, he was able to write and martial arts, and he was resourceful, Zhao Guangyi was the nominal Kaifeng Mansion Yin, but he actually didn't care about anything.

He is in charge of almost all the affairs of Kaifeng Mansion, and he handles them in an orderly manner.

The only pity is that he died too early, less than a year after Zhao Guangyi became emperor, he died of illness in the position of deputy envoy of the third division.

can let Jia Yan come forward, it is obvious that Zhao Guangyi attaches great importance to Liu Xiao's wooing.

Zhao Dezhao groaned and said: "You stay in the farm for half a year, help me hide some things, and I will let you go back to Kaifeng Mansion after half a year." Now I am seeking a foreign appointment, if I can succeed, in the future, the affairs of Kaifeng Mansion will all be entrusted to the head of the palace. ”

Liu Xiao was shocked. "Second brother, the center of the world is in Bianjing, and the 200,000 forbidden army is the first-class force in the world, why is the second brother willing to seek the near and far, and it is easy to do it?"

Pei Ge'an smiled: "Your Palace, do you remember that I once said that I could create a weapon that can take people's lives from a long distance?" In the face of that kind of weapon, today's elite soldiers are nothing more than chickens and dogs.

My second brother and I only need a hidden place with a river to make these weapons now. At that time, only our army was the strongest, and the forbidden army was also vulnerable. ”

"Then you can't leave the official family......" Although Liu Xiao knew this, he couldn't accept it. He bowed down again and said, "Second brother, it's better to let the old slave leave Beijing with the Pei family, how can the prince leave the official family!" ”

"Besides, it's not so easy to get a foreign appointment, everything needs to be planned."