Zhao Qian thought for a moment, his face was full of doubts, "What kind of deficit can make the emperor forcibly ask for it regardless of human morality?" Xu Yuan asked unhurriedly: "Your Highness, since we started to flee from Gyeonggi, it took a total of three days to get here, before leaving, I gave you the bag where the silver taels were placed, this way, can you see how much is left?" Zhao Qian untied the money bag, shone it into the moonlight, counted it, and then carried it and said: "Among them, there are thirty wen of money, half a tael of gold, and one tael of silver." Xu Yuan said: "When we set off, I brought five taels of gold, Your Highness, do you know the proportion of gold and silver exchange?" Zhao Qian shook his head, "I'm ashamed, Qian only knew about Jinglun when he was young, but he didn't know how to exchange gold and silver." ”

"This tael of gold can be exchanged for ten taels of silver, which is fifty taels of silver, and I went to Gyeonggi, one time and one back, for a total of 11 days, and I did not dare to stop at all, but I spent more than 40 taels of silver, which shows that the price of grain and grain today is unimaginably high." Zhao Qian nodded thoughtfully, "What Xu Qing said is good, we only eat dry food day and night, and the cost is like this, not to mention the palace and officials, I am afraid that we will collect more in the name of it." You can see the suffering of the people. ”

Xu Yuan reported to Shanyuan what had happened along the way by packing up firewood and going into the woods, and Shanyuan nodded: "The world suffers for a long time, the more beneficial it will be for you, remember, don't be a bird, this little lord is smart, but he has less concentration." In this way, you go down the mountain, find a place to stay, and when Xiangrui appears, you come to me again, by the way, take Meng Jia. Xu Yuan asked, "Master, if disasters are frequent today, how can there still be auspicious beings?" Shanyuan smiled coldly: "Xiangrui? It's just their self-deception, that's all, never believe that the heavens will bring you any good news, the heavens are always thinking about how to sacrifice you to make the overall situation stable. Xu Yuan withdrew from the house, but found that the entire entrance house seemed to be not as cold as before, and if you looked closely, there seemed to be small flowers growing on the ground, which was crystal clear, which was really beautiful. It's a pity that Xu Yuan didn't look closely at the moment when he had something on his mind, otherwise he would have found that there seemed to be a pair of curious eyes looking at him in the center of the stamen.

Out of the woods, Xu Yuan saw that the three of them were sitting there waiting for him, and he sighed in his heart, and rushed to the three of them: "What are your plans next?" Meng Jia said: "No matter what, I will follow the general, now Mongolia and Zhou are at peace, there will be no more war in a short time, if you go to join the army at this time, I don't know when it will be to take revenge!" Xu Yuan nodded, and Sister Ting said: "My lord is not yet a weak crown, so I have to obey the princess's edict and take good care of the lord." Xu Yuan nodded, looked at Zhao Qian, he thought for a while and said: "If everyone knows that the emperor treats the clan harshly, I will definitely not be able to defect to the imperial brother again, and now I want to seize power." ”

Xu Yuan did not ask him to silence again this time, but asked him: "Your Highness wants to raise things to seize power, what is the barrier?" Zhao Qian's head was bruised: "They killed my parents, treated the clan harshly, and caused disasters widely, and the people were not able to make a living, why can't they do anything?" Xu Yuan asked again: "Who will help His Highness?" Zhao Qian said: "The world is looking forward to people of insight for a long time, if you call, there will be a hundred responses, why worry about no one to help?" Xu Yuan replied: "There are disasters in the world, but the officials are harsh, and they may not have the courage to help you." The officials only have short-term profits in their eyes, and they will not give up their immediate comfort to find a deed that may kill their heads, so that the news that His Highness wants to start an incident will reach His Majesty's ears, Your Highness, can you still live? ”

Zhao Qian frowned, "I'm already at this point, will I still be afraid of the historian's pen and scolding by future generations?" Xu Yuan said: "Your Highness still doesn't understand?" Now that we have everything in place, we only lack an east wind. "How?" "That is the auspicious rui that fell from the sky and wanted to deceive people's hearts." Zhaoqian stood up: "Xu Qing, I will believe you once, the incident is suspended, so what should we do now?" Xu Yuan looked at it: "Now we are afraid that we are going to find a place to live temporarily." ”

On the way down the mountain, they saw countless victims along the way, and Zhao Qian asked, "So many of them have no food, does the imperial court not care?" Sister Ting said: "The lord doesn't know, now the big and small officials will make a refugee fortune when they see natural disasters and man-made disasters, and fill their private pockets with the people's life-saving money. Zhao Qian was shocked: "Aren't the officials supervised?" How dare you be so bold? Sister Ting said again: "What if the inspectors are also bought?" Zhao Qian was silent and didn't speak, Xu Yuan patted him: "Your Highness, what you see is just a corner of the common people, disasters are frequent in the world, and it is no longer an ordinary thing to change children and eat, those corrupt officials have never put the lives of the people in their eyes, why do you want to look at it there and increase your sadness?" ”

Zhao Qian distributed the dry food in his hand to the disaster victim children in front of him, "I still have some food, you can eat first, I am bigger than you, I am not afraid of hunger." When the child saw the dry food, he pounced on it, and after eating it three times and two times, Zhao Qian spread his hand and said that there was no more, and the child hugged Zhao Qian's thigh and shouted to the victims: "Come on, he has food here." In an instant, more than a dozen victims surrounded Zhao Qian and asked him to hand over the food, Xu Yuan couldn't stand it anymore, and got into the crowd and grabbed Zhao Qian's wrist and brought him out.

After Zhaoqian was rescued, he was obviously shocked, and Sister Ting hurriedly came over to comfort him, "Those people don't know what to do, why should the lord bother with them." Xu Yuan said angrily: "How many people do you think your little kindness can save?" How many victims are there in the world? Zhao Qian looked at him, his eyes were extremely firm: "Even if I can only save one person, I will save it." Xu Yuan asked him: "The life and death of a person is on his lips, and a war is the life and death of tens of millions of people, just in a thought, you don't think that the rebellion is that you take a few people to the palace to say a few words to your imperial brother to make him give up, right?" You don't remember the tragedy of Prince Shen's Mansion after all! ”

Zhao Qian said: "They are different! They are my enemies, and the plague are my people, how can they be the same? Xu Yuan said: "The victims have long lost their identities and will be displaced. You have rewarded him with this meal, where will he find his next? Is this a problem that a little compassion can solve? Zhaoqian was speechless, turned his head and continued to walk down the mountain, only to see that most of the shops in the original town had closed, Sister Ting stopped trading, rented an ox cart, and the four of them walked to a village.

Sister Ting bought two high-lying fields and planned to plant some crops, Xu Yuan and Meng Jia saw this and were about to leave, when Zhao Qian asked: "Planting crops is such a tiring job, do you want a woman to do it?" Xu Yuan looked at him, "Your Highness can also go and help, if you don't want to starve to death, it's better to plant together." After speaking, he took Meng Jia and walked out. Meng Jia asked: "At this time, the world is in chaos, why did the general leave the two of them in their stomachs to find purity?" Xu Yuan said: "The sage smell on the little lord is too heavy, and he needs to do some tired grinding, otherwise it will arouse suspicion sooner or later." The two of us are farming in the neighboring village, and according to this day this year, it is estimated that we will not receive much of anything, so we can wait for Xiangrui. Meng Jia nodded, and they went to the village next to them and bought three acres of land.

Gyeonggi, Imperial Palace, Geonjeongjeongjeon

The chief attendant ran over out of breath, and at this time the emperor was having a headache about the earthquake in Zhejiang, so he reprimanded him: "What are you running in a hurry?" The steward prostrated and said, "Hooray!" Liu Huizu, the governor of Guilin, has paid tribute to a pure white elk for you! Auspicious! Your Majesty! The Emperor stood up and pointed to the chamberlain: "Where?" Fast... Take me to see it! "When he went out, he saw a snow-white elk in a huge cage, and when he saw the emperor, he suddenly raised his head to the sky and roared. The emperor was overjoyed: "That's it!" That's it! God bless me Da Zhou, come on! I want to give amnesty to the world, so that the people of the world can enjoy with me! ”