Chapter 024: Meeting

The two children, one older and one younger, sometimes hugged each other and cried, sometimes whispered intimately, sometimes comforted each other, cried and laughed. In this situation, he is a fool and can see that His Royal Highness and his feelings are not ordinary, and Wang De, who is standing on the side, is also very uncomfortable, but it is by no means jealous, but a little sour, he has served many masters in the palace for many years, but he has never experienced such true feelings. However, he also understood why His Highness showed great distrust of him, and was determined to find his former partner.

And Jiang Zongjie, who was shouting and shouting to kill just now, was silent, and the soldiers who chased in also put down their weapons and wept silently, they are also people who have experienced life and death, and they know that only brothers who have lived and died together will be like this, and they cherish and understand this kind of emotion that can only be understood and cannot be conveyed more than ordinary people. This reminds me of the dead brothers who were also so honest with each other.

Zhao Yu is also uneasy, in his previous life, he experienced too much deception, was used and deceived by the boss, until he was on his back with a black pot that could not be shaken off. It is said that he has done his best to be benevolent and righteous, but in the end he will inevitably be abandoned by him, it can be said that since then, Zhao Yu has had an insurmountable hurdle in his heart, and he no longer trusts people lightly.

But today's Ni Liang once again taught Zhao Yu a lesson, he didn't know him, but he gave up his family with his father to go to the disaster, rescued himself regardless of his life, and never gave up all the way to protect his safety, and now sending him back to the court is said to have fulfilled his father's last wish. But Ni Liang still followed here without knowing his message and attitude, Zhao Hao asked himself if he couldn't do it now, and the emotion in his heart can be imagined......

"Your Highness, do you have something to order?" Ni Liang changed his clothes, ate and drank enough, and his spirit improved a lot, but seeing His Royal Highness's sad appearance, he also realized that there was something in his heart.

"Oh, you haven't rested well in many days, so let's get some sleep first!" Zhao Yu pulled Ni Liang's clothes and said, he was tall, Wang De didn't find a suitable clothes, and found one from the guards and soldiers, but he was also one size smaller, as if he was hanging on his body.

"Your Highness, my body is very strong, and besides, I have taken a few naps, so it's okay, just tell me if I have something." Ni Liang patted his chest and said.

"Okay, do you know where Zhao Da and Zheng Hu live temporarily?" Zhao Yu thought about it and said, although he couldn't bear it in his heart, but now that he didn't know anything about the outside world, he was really uneasy.

"I know that they are encamped at the foot of the mountain less than five miles from here, and Your Highness wants to see them." Ni Liang replied.

"Okay, then you can go and summon them to the house, and inquire about the people who came with us from Quanzhou." Zhao Yu said.

Ni Liang took the order and left, and Zhao Yu instructed Wang De that Ni Liang could enter the inner mansion at any time if he had something to do, and he did not need to report it. But this place is not as good as a boat after all, after all, there are still female dependents in the mansion, Ni Liang can't always follow him as in the past, he can only arrange a residence in the front house, and he has the opportunity to carefully examine his 'mansion'.

Under the introduction of Wang De, Zhao Yu learned that this place was owned by the Zheng family in Jiazi Town, and his head of the family was promoted and famous, and when he learned that the emperor took refuge here, he vacated his house for the emperor to make a palace, and this outer house became the residence of His Royal Highness King Wei.

The whole estate is built according to the mountain, facing the sea, not square, covering an area of about 40 acres. As he originally guessed, it was a three-way and four-entry building form, with more than 100 large and small houses, stables, barns, etc. Zhao Yu and more than 50 chamberlains and palace maids who served him occupied the inner house of the main courtyard, and a team of forbidden troops in front of the palace was stationed in the outer mansion as guards. But at this time, the Zheng family did not live here, and it seemed empty, and the drizzle made more of a desolate taste.

After turning around, there was a small yellow door, and five people claiming to be Zhao Da and others asked to see them, and Zhao Yu immediately summoned them. When I entered the side hall, not only Zhao Mengjin, Zheng Huchen and Zhuang Shilin came, but even Zhou Xiang and Hao Yuntong also came! Naturally, it is indispensable for everyone to be polite when they see each other, but Zhao Yu is anxious to know the situation in the outside world, and after giving tea, he will send the little yellow door that is with him, along with the aggrieved Wang De, and no one is allowed to approach, and now he can't trust these people.

After listening to everyone's statements, Zhao Hao couldn't help sighing, the situation was even worse than he expected. Jiazi Town is just a town with a population of 20,000 or 30,000 people, and nearly 400,000 people have poured in at once. Xingchao wandered at sea for more than a month, and under the pursuit of the enemy, he has not been fully supplied, and the grain and grass he carried are basically exhausted.

You can think about it, if one person eats two steamed buns in a meal, he needs 600,000 steamed buns for one meal, which is nearly two million a day, and the pile is like a hill. But there are so many things, and the distribution is naturally divided into three, five, nine and so on. As the top princely ministers, they occupy the priority of distribution, not only to eat well, but also to eat well; Next is the most effective forbidden army and the Huai army; In the end, the rest of the local army, the box army, and the newly recruited militia and their families were obtained.

As the last to return to the team, Zhao Hao's group didn't even have a distribution target, and they ate all the leftover supplies on the ship, but they couldn't last a few days. As for the place to live, all the good places were occupied, and all that was allocated to them was a wasteland, and only a few grass huts that they hastily erected temporarily sheltered from the wind and rain. Although the people who lacked food and clothing used to be in the same boat, but now there are also disputes over stuttering food, if it weren't for Zhao Mengjin's efforts to maintain, I'm afraid they would have dispersed.

"Your Highness, to be honest, if there is no news from you, we will not be able to hold on, and they will not be able to stop them if they are clamoring!" Zhao Mengjin looked at His Highness who was sitting on a high chair with his two calves dangling and his fingers tapping the armrests with a wry smile.

"Well, it's just that I can't go out at will, and the Queen Mother and the official family can't see it, and there is no news outside, but it hurts you." Zhao Yu nodded and said, expressing his understanding.

"Your Highness, remembering that we have shared hardships, I also ask Your Highness to say a few kind words to the Queen Mother and the official family, and allocate some food to us to tide over the difficulties temporarily." Zhou Xiang also said that he was expecting to climb to the high branches of His Royal Highness to change the situation, but he didn't expect that after coming back, he would become a grandmother who was not loved by his uncle and uncle, and the headquarters refused to accept them anymore, and he couldn't even eat and drink here.

"Well, this king knows." Zhao Hao nodded again and said, "We may not be able to leave here for the time being, and we need to think about it in the long run." ”

"Oh, Your Highness, now the enemy army is approaching step by step, although a few days ago I heard that Jiazi Haoqiang Zheng Fuweng led the people's army to raid the pursuing enemy, captured several ships, and killed thousands of enemies, so that the situation was slightly resolved. But the enemy army will come back at any time, and I have heard that all the forbidden armies are ready to go to sea to be crossed, should we also be prepared for the first priority? Zheng Huchen felt that what His Highness said was inappropriate, and hurriedly reminded.

"The situation is not urgent, if this king's expectation is good, the court will stay here for a while." Zhao said that in his memory, there was a rebellion within the Yuan Dynasty during this time, and Kublai Khan had to transfer troops from Jiangnan to quell the rebellion, so that the Song Dynasty could survive.

"Well, what will we do with Your Highness?" Zhao Mengjin glanced at a few people, and his doubts were slightly reduced, after all, in their hearts, the prince was high, and it was possible to get some inside information, so they believed it a little.

"The problem of housing is easy to solve for the time being, there are many houses in this manor, and it is not a problem to live thousands of people, but we still need to find a way to eat." Zhao Hao just turned around and made up his mind to place his cronies by his side, and he already had a final decision in his heart, "Now I am afraid that relying on the imperial court is only to solve a temporary need, and we mainly have to rely on ourselves." He looked at Zhuang Shilin and said.

"Your Highness, my subordinates have already inquired, and the imperial court has to get Fan Liangchen, a native of Jiazi Jinshiyi, to eat the labor army, so that he can temporarily tide over the difficulties, but now that he has written to collect grain and grass from various states and counties, it will not take much time to alleviate the food shortage." Zhuang Shilin said.

"Be prepared, and then the difficulties in front of you must be overcome first, you have to buy some first, you can't make everyone hungry!" Zhao Yu understood Zhuang Shilin's thoughts, he was a trader, and naturally he wanted to pay for it, since the imperial court supplied it, why should he pay for it himself. But he didn't know that the Mongols were advancing by land and sea, and the territory of the Great Song Dynasty was getting smaller and smaller, and it was more difficult to raise grain and grass. And Zhao Yu thinks more, who has it is not as good as himself, who knows how much his mother can get, and he has to rely on himself at the critical moment.

"Where there is so much nonsense, Your Highness will do whatever he wants you!" Looking at Zhuang Shilin's grinding and chirping, Zheng Huchen glared at him and said.

"Your Highness, how much do you need to buy?" Zhuang Shilin shrunk his neck and stopped talking nonsense, and asked cautiously.

"Have you ever used the money you have?" Zhao Yu thought for a while and asked, when he got off the ship, he didn't know what the situation was, and the other also in order to show his trust in everyone, he still handed over the gold and silver they respected to him for safekeeping, and did not carry it with him.

"Without the decree of the lord, how dare the small ones move lightly, and now they have a lot of money." Zhuang Shilin replied with a smile.

"Well, you're too stubborn, guarding a lot of possessions and going hungry." Zhao Yu also smiled, but he was very satisfied with this, "I give you the right to expedient, you can buy as much as you can, the more the merrier!" He thought about it and said ruthlessly, the small treasury he had just established was suddenly a lot less, but he also understood that who followed you without food in these chaotic years, if you want people to work hard, you must at least let you have enough to eat!

"Your Highness, this heavy sum can purchase at least 100,000 stone of grain, enough for us to eat for a few years?" Zhuang Shilin said in surprise, he roughly calculated that even if the food soared, the money allocated by His Highness could buy a huge amount of food, and the five hundred of them could not eat it would have mold, so that he wondered if His Highness had no concept of money.

"Not much, in addition, this king remembers that there are a lot of cloths and satins on the ship, and he also counted the money to make clothes and hats for everyone to change their clothes, and there are also commonly used medicinal materials to buy some more, so Hao Hanlin will worry more." Zhao Yu shook his head and said, not only did not reduce but added some needed daily necessities.

"Your Highness, let your subordinates go with you, lest he see the money and run away!" Zheng Huchen glared at Zhuang Shilin and said.

"It's okay, the road is not smooth, and County Lieutenant Zheng can rest assured with some brothers." Zhao Hao said with a smile, he knew that Zheng Huchen was actually worried that he would be seen through his true face after entering the mansion, so it was better to go out and avoid it......