Yang Er's eyes turned around with the shaking of the dust, and slowly walked back to the desk, thinking to himself: No wonder they all say that fortune tellers are liars, I see that this dusty girl has gone astray and has not studied well. Anyway, the words are really out of the way, if others live a long life, it will be a later opportunity to change their life. Well? Wrong. Yang Er suddenly woke up, and the words of the dusty girl seemed to be all correct, extremely correct. Didn't these people all meet themselves? Don't you know the lives of several of them? Isn't he the "chance" that changed their lives? Yang Er's eyes suddenly lit up, and he took two steps back and forth.

"Sister Izuma, oh no! Sister Fairy, if something happens to Xiaosheng, I hope that Sister Fairy will continue to live for Xiaosheng. Xiaosheng is not very demanding, and it is enough to borrow 500 life from Shangcang! After that, Yang Erxu gave a big gift to the dust like a matter. Frightened, he retreated again and again, and said, "Brother Shi can't, Brother Shi can't." As long as the little sister does not die, she will ensure the longevity of the younger brother. ”

Damn, it's a two-sided talk, this has become a way for me to ensure your longevity, Yang Erxin said.

No matter what he does, these generals who are used to fight the world will definitely not have any short-lived words.

"Let's go, go out with my brother and find someone to drink." Yang Er was in a good mood, so he invited Erzhang to go out. In fact, he had already planned to go to Chai Shao in Beijing, hoping to learn more about the situation in Jinyang under Li Yuan's rule and the recent movements and combat strength of the northern Turks, so as to prepare for the expansion of his sphere of influence.

Out of the mansion, Yang Er instructed Zhong Jian to go to the official post house to find Chai Shao, and he took the dust path to Wufeng Tower.

Yang Er leaned against the window and stood looking at the streets of Chang'an, imagining that the city of Datang would be the center of the world in 30 years, the most prosperous pilgrimage place for all nations, and China would become a superpower for the second time in world history. He imagined that when the rings of time advanced to 618, whether the Great Sui would still be doomed like history, and he himself would be dead at that time. Yang Er, who was shaking the folding fan, now has the confidence not to let the tragedy of history repeat itself. Since my arrival is equivalent to giving Da Sui another chance, and it is an opportunity to hang up, how can I repeat the mistakes of the past? On the contrary, the history of reshuffling will surely be the beginning of a great prosperity.

"Your Highness, Chai Sichang is polite." A voice behind him pulled Yang Er, who was still in the fugue, back. Yang Er looked back and saw that Chai Shao had already arrived.

"Brother-in-law doesn't have to be polite, just be casual between our brothers, please sit down." Yang Er hurriedly returned the salute and beckoned everyone to take a seat. It was still young, and this time it was not among Yang Er's invitations. Zhong Jian and Izuchen also attended the banquet.

"Is my brother-in-law still used to being in Beijing?" Yang Er asked casually, filling the wine glass for Chai Shao.

"Huh! Jingshi, I Chai Shao also often come on business. During the New Year's holidays, Tang Gong was inconvenient to come to Beijing, so he asked Chai to bring gifts to visit friends in Beijing, so Chang'an was quite familiar to Chai. It's just that this time I obviously felt different from usual. Chai Shao raised his glass and drank a glass with Yang Er, and then hurriedly took the initiative to take the wine jug and filled Yang Er with his own hands.

"I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain. Brother, I haven't felt that there has been any change in Chang'an for a long time, so I dare to ask my brother for advice? Yang Er was not in a hurry to drink, and gently shook the folding fan to ask Chai Shao for advice.

"Huh! My cousin has only learned people, and it is better to have more than that! The most obvious change in Chang'an City is that there are many people and there is no chaos, each of them is in peace, there are few prodigal sons on the streets, even beggars are rare to see, orderly, prosperous than in the past! After Chai Shao finished speaking, he raised his glass and motioned for Yang Er to continue drinking, and Yang Er took the opportunity to accompany him. Zhong Jian's hands were fast, and he hurriedly took the wine jug and poured wine.

"Huh! The elder brother only saw the appearance. For the people, this capital can be said to be prosperous, but in the eyes of the foolish brother, this capital is indeed full of dangers, fortunately, my father is still in good health, and all kinds of forces dare not surface. Yang Er took a bite of the dish and said with a wry smile.

Chai Shao naturally knew what Yang Er's words were referring to, and it was inconvenient to say it, so he picked up the chopsticks and ate them.

"Brother, the foolish brother has never been to Jinyang City, I don't know what kind of scene it is? I heard that the Turks have been disturbing the border many times in a row, but I don't know if there will be any losses? Yang Er began to bring the conversation to the point.

"Jinyang City is safe and sound, but the three counties of Yulin, Mayi and Loufu are frequently disturbed, and those who are slow to enter the city outside the city are all taken captive. There is no land in the three places, and the refugees in the city are congested, and more than 100,000 refugees are also collected in Jinyang City. Tang Gong was generous and benevolent to open a warehouse for relief, but the north was getting colder and colder, and the people lived on the streets on two meals of gruel a day, and they didn't know how many would die of cold and starvation. It's different from this Jingshi. Chai Shao said with a little sadness.

"Oh? It turned out that Tang Gong was facing such a dilemma. This year, the cost of the dry harvest is not good, and with the Turkic attack, Tanaka has no harvest. And winter is about to begin, the north is extremely cold, the people have no tiles on the top and no cone under the land, how to not be frozen to death in thin clothes. Alas! Yang Er couldn't help but sigh when he thought of the miserable situation of the people. Chai Shao was also helpless about this, and drank a glass of stuffy wine alone.

No one spoke for a while, and the scene was deserted. "It's better to go back to my uncle after participating in the royal autumn hunt, and under the friendship of my uncle who allocated Hedong to this king, my Hedong County is willing to support him with 500,000 stone of grain, which will be delivered before the first snow falls in early winter. I'm afraid this is just a drop in the bucket. Yang Er said slowly.

"That's true! These 500,000 stone grains are enough to solve the urgent needs of the people of Jinyang in March! For his brother, the people of Jinyang thanked His Royal Highness the King of Jin for his great kindness. With that, he immediately got up and gave Yang Er a heavy salute. Yang Er hurriedly held on to Chai Shao's seat again, and then continued: "However, this grain can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. ”

"Why did Your Highness say this?" Chai Shao asked puzzled. I thought that if we gave an extra 500,000 stone of grain to cure the root cause, the people would be able to survive the winter and return to cultivating the land in the spring.

"Brother! If the foolish brother's prediction is correct, this winter will be a great cold that has not been seen for decades, the Turkic steppe will be covered with snow several feet, the cattle and sheep will have no grass to eat, and they will die of cold and starvation. Few of the hungry people in the north can survive this cold winter, and when the ice and snow melt in the spring of the next year, there will be a miserable scene of thousands of miles of uninhabited people and frozen bones on the road. Alas! Yang Erqi walked to the window and said helplessly.

"If that's the case, what should we do?" Chai Shao stopped drinking, and hurriedly got up and followed to the window.

"There is only one strategy available, to move all the homeless and hungry people in the three border counties and Jinyang City to Luzhou, Beijing, Luoyang or Xiangfan to avoid the catastrophe." Yang Er said categorically to Chai Shao.

"The people of this ----, have been lost, so how should the three counties protect themselves in the future? Wouldn't it be even more desolate? Chai Shao knew that there were fewer people in the Tang Duke's jurisdiction, and his power was much weaker, and moving the people south was definitely a good strategy for Tang Duke Li Yuan.

"Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi. Today the people leave for their livelihood, and tomorrow they will come back for their livelihood. Who can see the general trend of the world! Yang Er shook the paper fan and said something philosophical, so that Chai Shao couldn't help but nod after hearing it. He also leaned over to listen to him.

"Otherwise, you can tell your uncle to recruit the middle-aged men from the hungry people into the Tang Army and militia. After the beginning of spring, it was ordered to implement military cantonment on uninhabited land, and the army could be exchanged for grain with the iron ingots in the treasury of Jinyang Mansion and Luzhou, east of our river. They can also ask people to buy cattle, horses, sheep, and other livestock from the Turkic realm in the north, and exchange grain and other goods with me. The elderly, the weak, women and children can be sent south to save their lives. This can reduce the burden of the Tang Dynasty and prevent a large number of starving people from dying, the second can enrich the strength of the army, and the third can also ensure that the fields are harvested. This is the general initial idea of the foolish brother, and the elder brother can think about it and report it to his uncle. Yang Er put his thoughts together, it depends on whether Li Yuan can be tricked, for Yang Er at this time, it is the visible growth of strength to contain more people. Besides, if your parents, wives and children move to Hedong, do you still have to worry about the men and sons who stayed in Jinyang not joining them in the future? This king is not idler, there are fields in the Taihang Mountains, and what is lacking is the people who go to plant.

Chai Shao fell into thinking at this time, feeling that this was indeed an expedient solution to the current crisis. Tang Gong saw a lot of benefits after adopting it, and the only loss was the people, but if he didn't evacuate and let him go south, countless hungry people would freeze to death this winter, which was also a sin, and it would damage the name of Tang Gong's benevolence and righteousness.

"Well, after the autumn hunt, Brother Yu will quickly return to Jinyang to meet Tang Gong to explain this strategy. Whether it can be made or not should be decided by Tang Gong. Let's not talk about this matter here, come, let's have a drink. ”

Yang Er was secretly happy in his heart, in the face of major interests, he was not afraid that you Li Yuan would not let the people go to me. At that time, it was foreseeable that I would have hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people in my hands. What is the concept? As long as I want, I can build a country! During the Three Kingdoms, there were only 900,000 households in Shu, and there were less than 1.5 million households in Eastern Wu. At this time, the Great Sui was so similar to the late Han Dynasty in terms of the number of people.

On the way back to the house, Chuchen saw that there was no one around, took Yang Er's hand and said, "Brother Shi, what you just said is really for the sake of the people?" What is your intention to get rid of the hungry people that others can't get rid of, but you want to accept them all, and do the opposite? Tell my little sister quickly. ”

"Alas--, do you want my brother and me to watch the people freeze and starve to death? You see that you don't have a lot of clothes to protect you from the winter months, let alone the hungry people who don't even have shelter from the wind and snow? They don't have Taoism, but they don't recite the spell to ward off the cold, and it's no wonder if they don't freeze to death. By the way, speaking of which, my brother and I also have to put a few clothes to protect against the cold and winter. After Yang Er finished speaking, he ignored the dust and hurriedly walked home. At this time, there was only one thing in his mind, and he quickly made a few thick winter suits and came out, which seemed to be not difficult.

"Senior sister, you also have to ask this question, have you forgotten what the prince said yesterday, to increase the number of households in the newly attached Taihang Mountain to 800,000? I'm afraid it's not enough to count the hungry people in the north! After Zhong Jian finished speaking, he didn't care about the dust, and hurried to catch up with Yang Er.

Could it be that he is really a living bodhisattva? No wonder Master asked me to follow him. Out of the dust looked at Yang Er's back and muttered.

When I returned to the study in the house, I didn't care about the two, I sat straight in front of the bookcase, and picked up a fine pen from the pen stand. Alas, this era is backward, everything is a brush, and you have to inkstone first. Helpless, Yang Er had to drop a few drops of the cold tea from the teacup on the table into the inkstone, grind it a few times in a hurry, then spread out a piece of coarse paper, casually dipped the light ink in the inkstone with a pen, and began to draw after a little contemplation.

Not at all, Yang Er crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it aside. Reaching out and taking out another piece of paper, he was about to redraw it, he wanted to draw a modern close-fitting down vest, to draw a three-dimensional effect. When he took the pen to dip it in the ink again, he realized that Chuchen had been silently watching him from the side and helped him ink. From Yang Er's first picture, Izuku couldn't tell what he was going to paint. Yang Er didn't care about her, just drew the appearance of the down vest in his mind on paper. With the scrapped one just now, the drawing on the paper gradually became clearer this time.

"Brother Shi, are you a piece of clothing that you painted? What a strange design. Why don't you have sleeves and collars? Out of the dust couldn't help but ask.

"This is a close-fitting down vest designed for my brother, don't look like it has no sleeves but is very warm. Well--- if you want to add sleeves, it's not impossible, but the painting technique for my brother is limited, so I can't paint it for a while. Later, the tailor in the house will come, and I will tell him what his sleeves look like, and let him do it. Yang Er said softly to Chuchen, thinking that he could make a vest first, and then ask the tailor to add the sleeves, it seems that the sleeves are still indispensable, and it doesn't matter if the collar is there or not.

"Zhong Jian, you go and call the tailor in the house to the study for me, go quickly." Zhong Jian, who was sitting in the outer hall drinking tea, heard the order, and hurriedly went out to find Mr. Tailor.

Yang Er took advantage of the time to take out another piece of paper, and began to try to draw a down jacket with two sleeves, looking crookedly at something that didn't look like that, and then crumpled it and threw it away. Izumi covered his mouth and chuckled on the side.

Just as Yang Er was rubbing off the fifth piece of paper one after another, Zhong Jian took a white-bearded old man into the room.