Chapter 027: Heart's Eye

When Liu Huang returned home from Wei Wangxing, it was already dark, and when he finished washing up, dinner had been prepared, and there were six dishes on the table, including roast mutton, steamed crab, crispy chicken, plus three plates of seasonal vegetables and a pot of fish spicy soup and a pot of wine, the style was not different from usual, but he did not put down the chopsticks for a long time after he sat down.

"Husband, only these things are delivered today, even if they are vulgar, they need to be used." Mrs. Liu was stunned when she saw her husband looking at the food, so she picked up the wine jug and poured him wine.

"Slow down, Madame said that these meals are brought every day?" Liu Huang frowned when he heard this, and reached out to hold the wine glass.

"What's wrong with my husband today, do you care about trivial matters?" Mrs. Liu chuckled, "This wilderness town doesn't even have a grass market, even if you want to buy it, there is no place to buy it, and now the rice, grain, and meat are all uniformly rationed by the imperial court, and I am afraid that it will have to be deducted from the salary in the future." ”

"Does everyone in every family have these?" Liu Huang pointed to the dishes on the table and asked again.

"How can it be, they are all distributed according to the rank of the lord, there are fewer people at the bottom, and there are more people in the palace and Zaizhi." Mrs. Liu poured wine for Liu Huang and put down the wine jug and said.

"Is there more of it than there for His Royal Highness King Wei?" Liu Huang asked.

"Is the husband confused? There are regulations in the official family and the Niangniang Palace, and His Royal Highness King Wei will naturally not be less. When you see Your Highness today, you haven't seen your concubine for many days, and you still miss it very much. Madame Liu sneered, feeling that her husband was a little different, and she and His Highness had been on the boat for many days, and suddenly they felt empty.

"This morning, Niangniang asked me to inspect His Highness's mansion, and His Highness left me for lunch, but there were only two dishes, just a plate of vegetables and vegetables, a plate of dried fish, and the rice was only white rice, which was worse than when it was on the boat." Liu Huang thought for a while and said.

"It's really hateful, they dare to withhold His Highness's supply, and the husband will definitely punish Ming Niangniang severely." Mrs. Liu listened and said hurriedly.

"I'm afraid that there is something strange in it, His Royal Highness is deeply loved by his mother, and the people below don't dare, and His Royal Highness is talented and smart, and he will never give up easily if he suffers such a big grievance!" Liu Huang shook his head and said.

"It's not that group of people who deceived His Highness, so why?" Mrs. Liu asked suspiciously.

"Oh, yesterday Niangniang heard that King Wei had brought a group of homeless people into the mansion and was going to make a mess, she was worried that His Royal Highness was being bewitched and used by the gangsters, so she sent me to investigate." Liu Huang took a sip of wine and said, "Do you guess who His Highness took in?" ”

"It can't be the patients who are in the same boat as us, right?" Mrs. Liu immediately thought of it.

"That's exactly what Madame said." Liu Huang nodded and said, "After we got off the ship, the people on the same boat were relocated to other places, but the imperial court refused to provide them with food, clothing, and food, so that they were no different from the homeless people. There are also those volunteers who escorted His Highness to break through from Quanzhou, they were also deducted from their salaries, and they were hungry every day, and there was no shelter from the wind and rain. After His Royal Highness heard about it, he put all the people in the mansion to settle, and suddenly 2,000 people came, how could there be so many reserves in the mansion, and he thought that His Highness would share his own supplies with everyone. ”

"Your Highness is kind-hearted, affectionate and righteous, who doesn't want to seize so much gold and silver when you are on the ship, but Your Highness has shared it all with everyone, and now it should not be false to share your supplies with everyone." Mrs. Liu gave Liu Huangbu a vegetable way.

"Yes, when I went, His Royal Highness was ordering people to erect a spiritual shed to prepare for the ceremony, and to pay tribute to the officers and soldiers who died in the Battle of Quanzhou and the volunteers. Liu Huang sighed and said, he knew that what His Royal Highness did was exactly what the imperial court should do, but no one mentioned it.

"Husband, Your Highness has a life-saving grace for us, and you have a teacher-student relationship, now Your Highness is in trouble, we can't let it go!" Mrs. Liu was very dissatisfied when she heard that someone in the court suspected that such a good child was misbehaving, but because of the rule that women are not allowed to interfere in foreign affairs, she could not say much, so she could only remind Liu Huang euphemistically.

"Hmm!" Liu Di glanced at his wife and said no more, hurriedly finished eating and went to the study to prepare to report the recital to the mother......

The candles in the study were dim, and the drum had been struck three times, but there was still a blank piece of paper on the bookcase in front of Liu Huang, and he had lifted the pen several times and put it down, and the scenes in the Wei Wang's Mansion flashed in his mind. But he always felt that something was wrong.

Through the time spent on the ship, Liu Di knew that His Royal Highness must not be treated as an ordinary child, and what he did seemed to have another meaning. It seems that today, His Royal Highness asked those volunteers to report the casualties in front of him, but now that he thinks about it, it seems that he deliberately said it to him, and at that time, he was also sad and indignant, and at the request of everyone, he also inscribed a banner of 'Loyalty and Righteousness', and His Highness immediately ordered someone to frame it and hang it in the main hall of the mourning hall.

Speaking of sacrifices, they are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and there are national sacrifices and village sacrifices. And although this sacrifice was initiated by His Royal Highness, but without the imperial court and His Majesty's edict, it can only be regarded as a village sacrifice, but he is not an ordinary person, but the right minister of the court came to inspect on the order of the Queen Mother. In the eyes of others, it is more like he is using this to express his dissatisfaction with the court's treatment of those who died and brave, and it is also the mastermind who secretly instigated His Highness to 'mess around'.

"Can Your Highness have such a plan at such a young age?" The more Liu Huang thought about it, the more he felt that today's events were strange, but a child could put himself in it without revealing a trace, which was too unbelievable, could it be that His Highness really had a master behind the scenes? But for so many days on the ship, he didn't find any strangers.

"Although there is something extraordinary about what His Highness did, he did not do anything that harmed the Great Song Dynasty." Liu Huang thought about it again, because of his mother's low status, His Royal Highness was only an unknown child in the palace, and after leaving the palace, he only showed his talent after he was separated from the brigade. And its medicine to help the sick on the ship, and the rush to retreat from the enemy, are all unexpected, but according to what he said, it is not impossible to get help from other people in his dreams.

In addition, His Royal Highness scattered wealth to everyone, took in the scattered volunteers, and paid tribute to the martyrs to protect the soldiers and civilians, which may also be suspected of 'buying people's hearts', but it is also reasonable, which is consistent with the righteousness and wealth squandering and benevolence he showed before. And he may not realize the complexity of the struggle between the DPRK and China, the sinister hearts of the people, and be suspected by the villain, not to mention how bad a child can be, is it necessary to subvert this stormy Great Song Dynasty, if he has that ability, I am afraid that he would have fled long ago, why stay in the Great Song Dynasty, which is about to sink!

"If His Royal Highness has the ability to turn the world upside down, turn things around, and save the people, what can I do if I help him, even if I help him to ascend the throne and add a dragon robe!" Liu Huang thought about it, the pen walked like a dragon, and the table was done in one go, and he reported what he saw and heard in the house truthfully, of course, there was no lack of beautiful words, and he tactfully defended His Highness's actions, and asked for some benefits by the way. When he put down his pen, it was already dawn and the rooster was dawning......

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Zhao Yu also couldn't sleep all night at this time, and he also had a heart for his daytime performance, he felt that he couldn't die in the late Song Dynasty so unknowingly, and in the current situation, even if the army was on the side, he was also uneasy, and there seemed to be only one way to protect himself, that is, to recruit a group of people to protect his safety, and he would be able to stay or escape in the future, so as not to be caught by the Song army that 'couldn't survive' and give it to Kublai Khan as a meeting gift!

And the knowledge of the two generations made Zhao Hao understand that the current dynasty seems to be maintainable, but in fact, there are many mountains inside, especially the generals in the army are divided into several factions, although they all support the court in name, but in fact, they also have their own thoughts and wait and see the situation. This point he thought was very similar to that of China in the early years of the Republic of China - various warlords were divided and went their own way; The center is weak and loses control. This result is very terrible - there are many external troubles, internal strife, and even President Sun Da has been assassinated repeatedly, so he can only win over the warlord to fight another warlord.

Similarly, although the Great Song Dynasty court claims to have 400,000 troops, there are a large number of palace maids, chamberlains, family members of officials, families of soldiers and soldiers, and a large number of civil officials. Excluding these non-combatants, the Song army had a combat strength of only a few tens of thousands.

The army controlled by the imperial court was only the forbidden army in front of the palace with 10,000 people, but it suffered heavy casualties in the continuous escape, lost all its elites, and its strength was not as good as before. And Zhang Shijie's Huai Army is his capital, and he will not let go if he dies, and borrowing soldiers from him is no different from cutting his flesh.

Another army with more combat effectiveness is the Governor's Army led by Wen Tianxiang, whose members are more complex, including the defeated troops from all over the country, the bandits who recruit An, and more of the recruited volunteers, and the number of hundreds of thousands, but now life is not easy, under the pressure of the Yuan army step by step, the army lost its generals, lost the city and lost the land, and was on the verge of collapse. In the case that he is unable to protect himself, even if he wants to help him, he is not enough, and his arrogance may not be able to look down on him as a 'child'!

Therefore, Zhao Yu can only choose people from those rabble who no one looks down on, and the Quanzhou Yiyong who has intersected with him and the sick patients on the ship are naturally 'near the water and the first to get the moon', and they have entered the eyes of His Royal Highness King Wei, and acquaintances are better than living people. Although this is a little helpless, it is also inevitable, he is 'born' to be their leader, and the 'caring' Ni Liang makes him feel a lot good about this group of people. Of course, they sacrifice their lives and deaths to save themselves, and they also make themselves grateful, hoping to do something for them, and one day 'share prosperity' with themselves.

Now Zhao Hao only hopes that Liu Huang can 'correctly understand' his thoughts, and does not ask him to add fuel and vinegar, but only hopes that he can report truthfully, so that he can win the 'bad card' in his hand......